Chapter 4: The Base

The ships had begun to enter the atmosphere. As they were going through the atmosphere they could seen flames forming around the outside of there ships shields. After a few minutes Fox then said "Slow up a bit." All the ships adjust there G-Diffuser system output and begin to lower there speed. The flames begun to disappear and the planets surface became visible. "Hey Fox were is this base located?" Fox answers Falco's question by saying "it's about 50 miles west of our current position. We should find a area that is a few miles from the base to land." Falco agrees and they begin to fly slowly over the desert landscape of Katina. When they got into the range of 15 miles they began to fly lower to be sure that they were not spotted. After they were about five miles away from the base they landed there ships behind a large rock formation.

After they landed they jumped down from there arwings. They grouped up and started to discuss a plan. Falco was the first to speak. "so Fox how are we gonna do this." Fox replies "we have to find any weak spots on the base and also how well the guards are armed and what kind of numbers they have. It would be best if we split up into groups that way we can see all ends of the base." Falco then says "ok, sounds good. So what are the groups?" Fox could tell that Falco did not want to be with Katt. He was about to speak but before he could Katt had said "ill go with bird brain. What area you want us to check?" Fox answers by saying "You two take the west side and Krystal and I will take the east." Falco then says "whatever. Anything else?" Fox said "take sniper rifles, we cant afford to be noticed so if you have to engage ether snipe them from a distance or take then out quietly." They nod and then go retrieve there sniper rifles from there ships. Fox and Krystal do then same and both groups leave the area.

(Fox and Krystal)

They had been walking for about 13 minutes when they had spotted a guard. They quickly take cover behind some rocks. "Damn it. I was hoping we would get a lot closer to the base before we would see any guards." They both readied there rifles and looked slightly over the rocks. Fox then noticed that the rocks that they were behind went along to were the guards were patrolling. He turns to Krystal and says "be ready to shoot, I'm going to go along the rocks and take one of them out leaving the other distracted. Take him out when he looks over at me." Krystal nods as Fox puts down his bag and pulls out a small knife. He began to move along the rocks making sure he was quite and low so the guards would not notice him. When he reached the area were the guards were and waited until one had gotten close to the rock he was behind. When the guard had moved into the position Fox had wanted Fox quickly jumped up and stabbed the guard the in side of the neck. They guard then fell over and the other one pointed his blaster at Fox. At that moment a laser had hit the guard in the side of his head. He looks over at Krystal who was moving towards his location. When she got over to him they began to look over what the guards had with them. They both had rapid fire blasters and a few grenades. They decided to take the grenades and move on.

(Falco and Katt)

Falco and Katt had walked about a mile and a half when they had first spotted a couple guards. They took cover behind a rock and Katt had opened a communication line with Fox. "Fox we spotted some guards and were still a few miles away from the base." She heres his voice over her com devise. "what do they have with them?" She looks over at Falco who was looking at the guards with binoculars. He says "just some rapid fire blasters." Fox says "same as the ones we spotted. See if you can line up shots . If you cant then try to sneak around them." Katt closes the communication line and Falco readies his rifle. Katt does then same and they both take aim. They both shoot almost simultaneously. Katt hits her guard right in the forehead. Falco's shot missed because his guard had moved slightly to the left. After the guard fell the other guard had walked over to his fallen partner. After this Falco had already charged another shot and fires this time hitting his target in the side of his head. They then scan the area for anymore guards. After they were sure there were none they continue in the direction of the base.

(Fox and Krystal)

They had walked for about 19 minutes and had not seen any other guards since they had taken out the two they spotted. After a few more minutes the base came into view. They had taken cover behind some rocks and Fox took out his range finder. He looks over at the base through the range finder. It was about a mile away but he could see it very clearly since there was nothing blocking his view. He looks over at Krystal who had been observing the base through her rifle scope. She then said "I've spotted an entrance." Fox looks in the direction that Krystal was looking. He observes the area noticing that the guard were better armed then the others they seen. Fox continues to look and he sees something that worries him. "Shit, they have a photon cannon." Krystal then looks over were Fox had been looking and saw a large mounted photon cannon. "That will certainly make it difficult for us to enter this base." After Krystal said this Fox heard a voice over his com device. "hey Fox we spotted an entrance but it has a lot of guards and it had a huge photon cannon." Fox presses a button on the com device and begins to speak. "Yeah, same thing over here. See what you can find out and meet us back at the arwings." He ends the transmission and begins to observe the guards. The guards patrolling farthest from the base had rapid fire blasters. The guard just outside the base also had rapid fire blasters but they were much larger and obviously more powerful. He looks on top of the base to see that there were several guards with sniper rifles. After they saw everything they could about the guards and the base they began to head back to the arwings.

(Back at the Arwings)

Falco and Katt had arrived before Fox and Krystal. When Fox and Krystal had arrived Falco asked Fox what they were going to do. Fox answered him by saying "We will camp here and strike early tomorrow." Falco then asks "and what are we going to do about those photon cannons. I don't think that any of our fire will really phase it and I doubt we will get close enough for grenades." "Well have to do an air strike when we are going to enter." Katt had then said "then well have all the guards heading at toward that entrance." "yeah you make a good point. Maybe we should..." He cuts himself off. He twitches his ears and says "shh we have company. Don't move. I can hear one at the other side of the rock and I don't want to alert him. They all draw there blasters and Fox moves to the side of the rock formation and begin to move towards the end of it. When Fox went to rush around it he was quickly disarmed and a figure gave Fox a strong knee to the stomach. Fox's eyes nearly fall out of his head because of the blow. The figure then gives Fox a strong punch to the side of his face and Fox falls over unable to get up. At this time Falco, Katt, and Krystal all pointed there blasters at the figure. The figure quickly draws a rifle from a holster on his back and points it at Falco. At this moment Katt and Krystal both felt something against there backs and they turn to see to more figures holding odd looking weapons to them. The figure with the rifle then says "drop your weapons and get on your knees." They do as they were told. Falco looks at the figure with the rifle. The figure looked odd to him. The figure had no fur and had blond hair. Both were uncommon in the lylat system. He did not look like any animal he had ever seen. He was wearing camouflage pants with a tan shirt with a large vest with two holsters holding his larger weapons. His attention then turned to the rifle which also seemed to be odd. Its stock was wooden instead of the synthetic material used in there rifles. It also had a piece of metal sticking out of the side of it. The figure did a hand signal and one of the two figures behind them switched from Krystal to Falco and the other switched his weapon for two odd looking hand weapons and he then pointed them at Katt and Krystal. The figure then put his rifle back on the holster on his back. He then went and picked up Fox and slams him into a rock and takes a large knife out of its sheath and puts it to Fox's neck. The figure then says "who are you?" Fox answer "my name is Fox." The figure then says "I think that your lieing to me." Fox then says "why do you say that?" The figure answers "a fox named Fox. Thats not very believable." Fox then says "my name is Fox McCloud." The figure then says "ok fine. So Fox, why are you hear?" Fox then answers "me and my team have been sent to take out a base that is producing a massive amount of weapons." "you mean the base that a few miles west of here?" Fox then answers "yeah." The figure lets out a slight chuckle and says "you think a small team like yours can take out that base. It has photon cannons on both entrances." Fox then said "yeah we noticed." The figure then removes the knife from Fox's neck and sheaths it. He then pulls out a hand weapon and points it at Fox. Fox then says "what kind of blasters are you guys using?" The figure answers "there not blasters there guns." Falco then says "what kind of animals are you?" The figure looks over at Falco and says "were not animals. Were humans." Fox then asked "are you with the base?" The figure answers "no." Falco then says "well then can you let us do our jobs?" The figure looks over at Falco and says "cocky aren't you. You think you can beat me in a fight?" Falco answers "not with this gun to my head." the figure moves Fox over to were Falco was and allowed Falco to get up. The figure that had been guarding Falco put his gun to Fox. The figure that had so easily beaten Fox then removed his vest that had both of his larger weapons on it, his knife, and his two hand guns.

The figure then took a stance and waited for Falco to attack. When he did the figure had quickly dodged Falco's attack and delivers a strong kick to the side of Falco. This kick nearly made Falco fall over but he regained his balance. By this time the figure charged Falco and delivered a strong knee to Falco's stomach. Falco having the same reaction as Fox as he fell to the ground. The figure then says "two hits and your down. Pitiful."

The figure had retrieved one of his guns and pointed it a Falco. Fox had begun speaking."If you not with the base then why are you detaining us?" The figure then says "who do you work for." Fox then answers "The planet of Corneria." The figure then says "from what I've heard Corneria is the capital planet of this system. Is that correct?" Fox answers "yes." The figure then gives a hand signal and the other two figures remove there weapons from Fox, Katt, and Krystal. The figure then says "sorry about that. We are new to this system and we are being cautious." The three got up and retrieved there blasters putting them back into there holsters. The figure then helps Falco get to his feet. Falco then says "yeah its great that you just realized were the good guys." Fox then walks over to the first figure and says "so whats your name." The figure answers "its Charles Abrams. My friends over there are Lukas DuFar and Adam Isac. Hope we haven't messed up any chance for an alliance with Corneria." Falco then said "don't worry. I don't think anyone needs to know we got our ass's kicked before we even got into the base." Charles then begins to speak "I really don't think you would have made it into the base. At least by yourselves." Fox then says "are you willing to help us?" Charles then said "well our mission in this system is to get good relations with the capital planet. So I guess we could help." Katt then said "so what do you have that can take out a photon cannon?" Charles answers by saying "well the best technique would have to be to throw a flash bang to disorientate the guards and throw a few grenades underneath it." Katt give Charles a confused look as she says "I'm not sure what a flash bang is but I hope it works cause we don't have anything that wont alert every guard in the base." Charles then says "I'm sure that it will do the job." Fox then says "we need a plan of how were going to not only get into the base but also to destroy it." Charles then says "I'm sure Lukas has something that will destroy it." He looks over to at Lukas who says "a few C4 on the power supply should do it." Charles then says "the best thing would be to split up into groups and enter each entrance so that the guards are not swarming us. Then meet up in a group after we are in."Falco says "sounds good. Now what are the groups?" Charles then said "I can take two of you and Lukas and Adam can take the other two. So just figure out who's going with me and who's going with them." Fox then says "then me and Krystal will go with Charles. Falco and Katt you go with them." Lukas then said "sounds good. When are we going?" Fox then said "sometime tomorrow." Adam then said "are we camping here?" Fox said "yes." Charles then threw something at Krystal. "here you and Katt can use this. Its a self inflating air mattress. It should fit both of you. When your ready to use it just pull that string." Krystal then says "thanks. But then what are you going to use?" Charles answered "I'm going to stand guard. The guards patrol near this area." Adam then throws one of the mattresses at Fox. "You and Falco can used that one." Fox then said "what about you, what are you going to use?" Adam answers by saying "ill share with Lukas."

(An Hour and a Half Later)

It had begun to get dark. Everyone had begun to talk. Krystal could not shake the feeling that she has seen Charles before. She doesn't remember ever seeing a human, but in the back of her head she thinks she had met him before. Charles, Lukas, and Adam had begun explaining how they got to the lylat system. "so your telling me that humans don't exist in this galaxy?" Fox had asked. Adam then said "actually its more like humans don't exist in this universe. We kinda are here by accident. Once we found it we were given orders to investigate any planets and contact the capital planet." Charles then began to speak. "we began to investigate many planets. We landed our ship on a planet called Sauria and I was able to learn a portion or there language." Krystal then says " 0ei couhdot ke jfoub Saurian? Charles answers "0oj, rik loh0 cakkco." Falco then says "English please." Charles then says "sorry, but the only reason I was able to learn it was because I figured out what each letter in there language was to ours." Krystal said "that pretty impressive. It took me a long time to learn even a small portion of it." Fox then said "did you make contact with any of the locals." Charles answers "not really, the only time we did was to figure out the name of the capital planet. We try to keep ourselves hidden. He make frequent jumps with our ship to avoid being detected." Fox then looks at the member his team. He then says "well it good that you guys are on our side. The higher ranked officials were concerned that it was an enemy ship." Lukas then said "well don't worry we wont attack you again."

It had gotten dark and everyone had grown tired. They inflated there mattresses and Charles climbed to the top of a rock formation to get a good view of the area around him. Fox climbed up after and asked him "are you sure you don't want to sleep." Charles answers "it's fine. I like standing guard. It gives me a lot of time to think." Fox then says "ok, well if you get tired just wake me and I will keep guard." Fox hops down from the rock formation and gets onto the air mattresses. It was large enough for both Fox and Falco to sleep comfortably. It was not long before Fox fell asleep.

Before Krystal fell asleep she looks up at Charles as she hears him say "nxoho uho 0ei mekxoh."

Authors Notes: Well a longer chap. It was about 3000 words. This also means that I have reached my 10,000th word on this story. YOOT. Well anyway if you choose to translate any of the saurian please keep it to yourself. Don't put the translation in a review. Speaking of reviews please give me reviews of what you like and dislike about the story so I can improve.

Next Chapter: Infiltration

Well they are finally going to get into the base. Expect update soon.