Star Fox:

War for Corneria

Chapter 9

I own an original story, this is not that story.

The next day, Fox woke up in his bunk, allowing his mind to replay the events of the last few days. He had over the span of a few days become close with his one time rival, and regained his long lost brother, regained memories of his youth once suppressed, and grown fond of his adopted brother's adopted son. On the downside, he had seen the true face of Corneria's chancellor, and seen that the peace he had lived in was a ruse to keep him quiet. He had seen an old friend get shot, then he realised, this was the mercenary life. This was the thrill he lived for.

Having made up his mind, he got out of bed, dressed in the Saggrasso uniform, and left his room. As soon as he opened the door of his room, the scent of Bacon and eggs assaulted his nose, and he followed it to the on board kitchen, where he found Wolf wearing a Black apron, baking breakfast for three.

"Never thought I'd be seeing you wearing an apron" Fox said with a chuckle as he walked in, "Or cooking for that matter."

"Well, you pick up a thing or two when you raise a kid" Wolf replied.

"And I think you did a fine job at that. He has our dad's sense of right and wrong."

"And your ability to sit still" Wolf joked back chuckling.

"I noticed. Remember all the times I ran away and you had to drag me back before dad got home?"

"those were good times." Wolf mused. He looked so peaceful now, cute almost, yet also so se... fox quickly cut off that train of though before it could go any further, He's my brother, damn it. I don't care that he has the body shape of a Lylat class athlete, or that he can dominate a room by merely being there. Bad thoughts, bad.

Then the door opened again, and James stumbled in, half asleep, trailing his nose. "Mornin'dad" he mumbled as he took a seat at the kitchen table.

"Good morning, son. Slept well?" Wolf asked, handing Fox a bucket and motioning for the water tab.

"Yeah, I did. I always sleep well on foreign worlds." James answered, still half asleep.

"And have you taken your morning shower yet?" Wolf asked as fox silently filled the bucket to the brim, before walking over to James like everything was normal.

"No" James replied, "Not yet." while Fox raised the bucket behind James' back.

"And what had we agreed?" Wolf continued.

"That I shower before breakfast." James answered without as much as a thought.

"Well, consider yourself showered." Wolf rounded up the conversation, which Fox took as his cue to empty the bucket over the hybrid.

James immediately shot awake, sitting up straight. "Taking a shower, Sir" he said before quickly sprinting off to do as he should already have.

Then wolf spun around with a plate of egg and bacon. "there you go, Sunny side up, as always" he said as he handed Fox the plate.

He remembered fox thought, smiling softly as he muttered "thanks" before snagging Wolf's glass of orange juice off the counter and taking a seat at the table across from the open kitchen. "you still drink this while cooking?" Fox asked, "You always used to when you helped dad out in the kitchen."

"Funny how us being together brings back memories, huh?" Wolf asked.

"Sure does" Fox replied with his mouth stuffed.

"And some things will never change" Wolf ended the conversation as he sat down, putting down a plate of food at James' spot while scribbling a barely readable note. "I doubt we'll need reinforcements today, so James is staying home to study."

"He won't like that." Fox replied, chewing the last of his breakfast.

"That's the idea." Wolf said as he got ready to leave, as fox quickly took his side.

Once they put the boarding ramp down, they met with a surprise. Outside, sitting on a duffel bag was a familiar looking husky that jumped into salute the moment he noticed the ramp coming down. "Eager, are we, cadet Ravis?" Wolf asked trying and failing to keep his surprise down.

"Yes my lord." the husky replied, wagging his tail.

"Well, I am pleased with your eagerness." Wolf replied, "Inside, you will find my son near the kitchen, he will do your introductory breefing."

"yes sir" Damien said before he close to ran into the ship.

"now let's go" Wolf continued, moving into a quick march to the train.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let us proceed where we left off yesterday, with a discussion on how to reform the military future of Lylat to best prevent a galaxy wide war to occur again in the future.

"if you will allow me" Wolf said as he linked his communicator to the projector, and it immediately lid up, projecting a life size monkey.

"This is Dash Bowman to Wolf O'Donnell for the morning report." the hologram spoke. "as I am talking to your communicator over the secure line I assume there are no prying eyes when you watch this. In a response to a false bomb threat, the senate declared martial law, which Arti used to disband the senate. Arti's troops have taken over the broadcast towers and studios, and have driven us out of the upper districts around which barricades are being constructed hastily as we speak. We have in response seized the southern space port. Open conflict is probably going to be inevitable, and there are many people who are gonna get caught in the crossfire if we are forced to fight a guerrilla war. We need more troops, for the future of freedom on Corneria."

Then wolf pressed a button on his communicator, and replied, "This is Wolf speaking. I have received reports all night of what happened. All of my resources shall be made available to you as soon as we breach the blockade set up by the Cornerian fleet in a response to the loss of a space port." then he released the button. "I know this is a meeting to prevent war, but it seems war is already upon us. I wish I could stay longer, but I need to leave. Any who would like to help are welcome to join up with my forces at Saggrasso." he said as he uncoupled his communicator, preparing to leave.

"Wait" Ex-general Pepper said, standing up and walking over to them, "I accept your offer. I may be fired from the military, but Corneria is my home. I have many eyes and ears there, I have heard what Arti is doing. I cannot allow him to overthrow the republic like this, and if that means working with you, so be it."

"Well then, welcome aboard general." Wolf answered as he held the double doors open for Fox, "we need your expertise right now." while he waved the general to follow. As they entered the elevator, he opened a communication line to Greatfox. "Slippy, get her up and running, we leave as soon as I arrive."

"Yes sir."

"And don't call me sir"

"Yes sir" Slippy replied as Wolf rolled his eyes, closing the communication line, while speed dialing Panther, who was left in charge of the space station.

"Panther, turn off the porn and zip up your pants. Man the ships for a space battle followed by a military insertion. Then gear up, Starwolf's flying out once again."

"Yes sir."

"General Pepper." Wolf continued as they boarded the train. "I want you to take command of the Greatfox and use it as our flagship. Fox, I want you and James to take over command of Saggrasso while I am gone. Make sure he does his schoolwork. And if there is a time for those qualls of yours, that would be now, and if you see my nephew, hand him this letter, will you?" wolf continued, handing over the letter and leaving absolutely no room to answer no. "you will use your arwing and the prototype to get to Saggrasso. Depart as soon as we are out of Zoness' atmosphere.

"But I can help." Fox argued, "I'm a better pilot than you."

"My presence will be a morale boost to the men, but I need someone I can trust to man Saggrasso while we do this." Wolf explained himself in a cold tone, but with eyes that begged Fox to understand, and he did.

"You seriously owe me for this" the vulpine said in grudging agreement when they entered the hangar where they ran into two enthausiastic canines talking about small fighter ships.

A/N and there went the script for the rest of the story. Curious how this will turn out though