Authors note: Will the races of the halo universe defeat the insurrectionists? Will lylat learn to accept the aliens? Will the insurrectionists reveal their plans for lylat? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON DRAGONBALL Z! What? Wrong show? Oops. Um…yeah back to the story.
"Will the apariods ever return?"
"Are we in dept to the aliens?"
"Can we expect to be integrated into the aliens society?"
The Star fox team was being bombarded with questions from the media. Ever since they returned to Corneria, after destroying the apariods, the media began swarming them. The aliens after winning, what they said was shortest war or largest skirmish in their collective history (they couldn't decide which to label it as), where allowed to land their ships in an uninhabited part of Corneria. There they allowed their crews to leave the massive warships and stretch their legs, tentacles, and other appendages. The Cornerian government figured it was the least they could do for helping them during the war. The area they were in however was a mere half a mile away from another city. This meant the citizens were swarming at their city's borders with cameras and binoculars to watch the many races of the New covenant and the UNSC wonder around, who were trying hard to ignore the populace. The Star fox team was on their way there to find Grave team and bring them to general pepper. Unfortunately while they were trying to get through the gathered crowd in their civilian clothes someone noticed them. It went from 1 person noticing them to half the crowd turning their attention to the team.
"Will you guys move? We need to get down there!" Falco yelled trying to force his way through the crowd, the rest of the team following closely so to avoid getting separated and engulfed.
Craig's POV
The warships had all landed in side by side. They're hatches and/or gravity lifts were opened and allowing the exhausted soldiers to leave the large ships.
The soldiers were all walking around the landing area, talking to each other, or driving around land vehicles (minus tanks for obvious reasons). Many people had drug out crates and chairs to sit on outside. A group of Sangheli and Humans where talking and laughing. A marine with an ipod walked by, being stalked by a huragok who obviously wanted to fiddle with it. He stopped abruptly and told it to "fuck off! Go fix something else!" The huragok simply made a half chirping, half purring noise and continued following the annoyed marine. A group of 4 grunts watching the exchange between the human and huragok chuckled. The marine stopped again but didn't turn around, resulting in the huragok stopping. He looked over his shoulder once then kept walking, the huragok kept following him, causing the grunts to openly laugh and an on looking Sangheli to snicker.
"Amazing is it not?" Nijon asked.
"What? The planet?" I asked having no idea what he was talking about.
"No. Us. Look around. Would you believe we were all at war with each other 20 years ago if you saw this?" Asked Nijon. He had a point. When UNSC and the New covenant first allied with each other, there was plenty of fear and distrust but no actual racism. The New covenant or at least the Sangheli and Lekgolo didn't show any racism because they were impressed by humanities will to fight and survive during the war. We didn't show any racism because were to scared to even be in their presence much less insult or try to attack the 8 and 13 foot tall aliens out of spite for their race. The other races, we gradually accepted them after a few incidents and fights.
"Your right. It is hard to imagine we were enemies only 20 years ago." I agreed. I then noticed that something else was grabbing our observer's attention inside the crowd. Since none of our guys are in that area, it had to be some sort of celebrity. I just ignored it as these lylatitions seemed to be easily impressed. That or we're more impressive than we give ourselves credit for.
Our squad was sitting on a bunch of crates. Muraka was standing, using a large chunk of flint he brought with him to sharpen his shield. Ki'thrathi was twirling around his plasma pistol, with his other hand behind his head, sitting on a helmet create, with his feat propped on another create. Nijon and I were simply sitting on our own crates inspecting and cleaning our weapons. We occasionally got looks from passing soldiers but that was to be expected. To them legionnaires were trained convicts and traitors with guns. If only they knew what really goes down during legionnaire training. Rehabilitation of convicts my ass.
"What's going on over there?" I asked, my curiosity getting the best of me.
"It seems as though some type of celebrity is coming. Either that or one of our troops is somewhere they shouldn't be." Nijon guessed.
"It appears Star fox has come for us." Muraka spoke.
"What makes you think that?" Ki'thrathi asked.
"The Star fox team is the only group I know besides any of us that could grab the populaces attention like that. Also the crowd is rushing toward them. If it were one of ours the lylatitions would avoid him or her like the flood." Muraka explained.
"Okay. I can see your logic, but what makes think they're here for us?" Ki'thrathi asked.
"Whom else would they come for? The demon is with the Arbiter. Cortana is with the demon, and no one cares for Kraiden." Muraka spoke calmly yet humorously.
"I can hear you Muraka Turok Korune." Kraiden scolded using his full name. Something Muraka despised. (Author's note: Hunter names have 3 syllables for the first name and 2 syllables for the middle and last. Most likely another 7 reference.)
"And what if you can? What can you do to me physically?" He asked, with a smug tone.
"I have control of an armed frigate that can crush you." Kraiden answered wit a smugger tone.
"An AI threatening to crush a hunter. Can someone say irony?" Asked Ki'thrathi. We were so rapped up we didn't notice 4 figures walking toward us.
Fox's POV
"F-f-f-f-fox? I'm scared." Slippy said as they walked through the aliens that kept glancing at them strangely, at least those that had visible eyes.
"Calm down Slippy we just need to find the legionnaires and go. Nothing too hard." Krystal attempted to console. "I'll ask if anyone knows were they are." She continued.
"Be careful Krystal. They could be dangerous." Fox said, earning a deep growl from a passing hunter pair. Fox nearly jumped out off his fur at the sound. Krystal saw this as an opportunity to get info and ran up to the hunters as they were walking.
"Hello!" She said getting the hunters attention. Those things spikes always twitch when they hear a noise. Are those what they use for ears? They turned around and spoke at the same time. Something none of us were expecting.
"Yes? What do you need?" They asked at the same time. Krystal was confused briefly before continuing.
"I wanted to apologize for what Fox said. He didn't mean it." She spoke.
"(chuckling) A fox named Fox how amusing. All is forgiven. Don't allow him to speak for you however. Some of the races here are easily angered, especially us." They spoke at the same time in the same voice again.
"I'll keep that in mind. Also would you happen to know where the legionnaires are?" She asked.
"They should be near the pariah, a frigate, the 8th ship in line." They informed.
"Ok. Thank you for your help." She called out as they turned to leave.
"That was weird. Do all those thin-" Falco stopped when he saw their spikes twitch. "Type of aliens speak at the same time?" He asked.
"Yes. Didn't you read the codex they sent us? It gives us information on all known their known races, friendly or otherwise." Krystal said.
"Those things were huge. If you put it in book form it would be over 2000 pages long. You read it all?" He asked.
"No. I only read on the races that made up the legionnaire squad. The large blue creatures we just meet are the Mgalekgolo. The tall split jawed aliens are the Sangheli. The avian creatures are the Kig-Yar, and the pale and dark skinned aliens are the Humans." She explained.
"So we need to find a group that has all those races?" Falco said looking around.
"Yep." I said before walking down the line of ships. I was taking in the shear size of the ships, and the aliens that inhabited it. Some resembled the races in lylat, while others where so strange it put the wild imaginations of most sci-fi movies to shame. I carried around my blaster under my jacket just in case. It took some damage from a lucky apariods shot but it still works.
(PURRRGGHH)
"WHOA!" I yelled, wiping out my blaster and spinning around. In front of me was the strangest looking creature I ever saw. It looked like a floating glow in the dark jellyfish with an eel's head. It had 6 eyes total. 3 on each side. It looked like it wanted something. I couldn't see any pupils just all black but somehow I managed to follow its gaze down to my damaged blaster.
"You want this?" I asked holding up my blaster. It reached for it, but I pulled back. "No you can't have it." I realized I was talking to an intelligent alien like a house pet, but didn't really care at the time.
"Just give it to him or else it won't leave you alone." A voice to my right said. I turned to see a dark skinned alien marine next to him. I tried to place the races name. Oh yeah, it was a human.
"Why would I give that thing my blaster?" I asked displeased at what was being asked off me.
"Don't worry. It's a Huragok. They're basically biological supercomputers. They only care about fixing things and tinkering with technology. Give it your gun." The soldier said.
"Okay but if it floats away with it, you owe me 1600 credits." I said before handing the thing my gun. It stared at it for 2 seconds before raising 2 tentacles over it. The blaster spontaneously began sparking and radiating with a strange energy and electricity. Before my eyes the blasters dents, marks, and any other damages disappeared. When the Huragok was finished, it handed me back me blaster, which to my surprise was in better shape than the day I got it.
"Thanks. I owe you." I said to the jellyfish alien. It cocked its head back like a snake ready to strike and nodded before floating off. The soldier walked off as well.
"Well that was interesting." Falco said from behind me.
"COOL! I could definitely use one of those in my lab." Slippy said looking like he was about to run after it.
"Come on guys. We came to find the legionnaires, not gawk at their friends." I said getting everyone back on track although I was tempted to ask if one of those could be transferred to the great fox it would save us millions in repairs.
"Now who's off track?" Krystal jokingly said when she read my mind. We began walking down the line of ships again, constantly stopping to ogle at some things. The main thing was a hanger that had two 4 legged, 200ft. tall war machines. A Sangheli who noticed our staring informed us that they were mobile bases/siege tanks, used for invasions and assaults. Needles to say, after seeing those, we were really hoping things didn't get violent with the new arrivals. In another hanger we saw an even larger one around 500 ft. tall with no AA gun on top. They must've been used for destroying bases or mining. At least I assume so.
After we got to the 7th warship in line we saw a group consisting of 1 Mgalekgolo, 1 Sangheli, 1 Kig-yar, and 1 Human. We recognized them even thought they looked exactly like the rest of their races save for the birdish alien with the hard to pronounce name. Time to go say hi.
Muraka's POV
"When do you think we'll get another assignment?" Ki'thrathi asked.
"We just ended a war less then 12 hours ago, and you're asking when we're going back into the fray?" Nijon asked in surprise.
"I think we'll be getting back into the fighting, very soon." I stated. Ki'thrathi looked strangely at me.
"How do you know?" Ki'thrathi asked.
"I know." I stated firmly hoping that would be enough to silence the Kig-Yar.
"I doubt it." Ki'thrathi stated just before a voice caught our attention.
"Hey guys. Remember us?" A familiar voice stated.
"Falco. I see your still as confident as ever." Nijon stated, slickly calling the bird arrogant.
"Hey I may not be a brainy guy like Slippy, but I'm smart enough to catch an insult when I hear it." Falco retorted.
Everyone shared a good laugh at Falco's expense.
"Well guys, I have some new for you. General Pepper and the Arbiter want you to report to Corneria city." Fox stated.
"When do we need to be there?" Craig asked. I just noticed how no one even stood up or changed what they were doing.
"Right now." Fox stated. That got our attention. I stood up and spread my arms, stretching. Although my squad wasn't fazed at all, the entire Star fox team backed up with their eyes wide. The rest of the squad chuckled at the reactions of the lylatitions heroes. They soon stood up and placed their items back inside the pariah.
"Lets go." Craig said motioning us to follow him into the pariah's hanger.
"Ooh! We're riding in your gunship?" Asked the toad named Slippy, excitedly.
"Yes." Nijon stated as Ki'thrathi entered the phantom.
"Oh boy! Um… where are all the seats?" He asked.
"There are none because they aren't needed." I said before climbing aboard the phantom myself.
"Why not?" Fox asked suddenly curious.
"Our technology fly by using artificial gravity instead of jet boosters and engines. Because of this are vehicles fly smoothly across space with little to no shaking. You can stand straight up in them while going hundreds of miles an hour, without fear of falling." Nijon explained leaving the entire Star fox team shocked and Slippy completely flabbergasted that such technology existed.
"We can talk about this later. The holy Arbiter awaits." I stated getting impatient. We all boarded the Phantom and let the hatches close. We waited for the ship to cloak before taking off, so the lylatitions wouldn't stop us and make us walk there or ride a train. We flew at full speed toward cornerian city. When we arrived Craig asked Fox what building general Pepper is waiting.
"The largest building in the city. It's kinda hard to miss." Fox said. We landed in the entrance and decloaked. All the civilians near the area gasped, back'd away, and so on. When us and the Star fox team exited all the females instantly went from terrified to fanatic and ran toward us, in an attempt to maul Fox probably.
Since we were in front of the building Star fox went in first, while we waited last, to go in. When I was the only one left, I stopped directly in front of the door. No one dared try to go through me just to see Star fox so they stopped. They didn't disperse however. I had to fix that.
"Us and Star fox are on official business. Return to your errands before I'm forced to remove you from existence." I spoke in my most intimidating voice. No one needed to be told twice and ran away as fast as their legs would carry them. I chuckled before turning to enter the building to my dismay the door was around 8 ft tall. I got into my battle stance, as it was the only way I could fit through door. 1. 2. 3. PUSH.
Craig's POV
We all watched as Muraka tried to squeeze through the door. He slipped his shield arm, and right foot through. After squirming for several seconds he popped through.
"I hate doors." He said flat out. Being big has drawbacks. One of them is not being able to fit through small places.
"Well let's go. General Pepper and the Arbiter are waiting for us, upstairs on the top floor." Fox stated before moving toward an elevator door. That door was the same size as the last door. We all stopped to look at Muraka.
"(Sigh) This is going to be a long day." He stated, his sigh sounding more like a low growl. He walked toward the open elevator and ducked down while striding forward. He just barely got through the door but he managed. The rest of us piled in. When the door closed we patiently waited for us to reach the floor. It took twice as long because Muraka was weighing it down however. When we exited we got looks from all the people who walked by. We just ignored it and kept moving down the hall to where our superiors were waiting.
"Here we are." Fox said stopping in front of a door. Finally. Fox opened the door and walked in, followed by the rest of his team. We followed behind him. Muraka almost got stuck again but made it through. In the room the Arbiter, general Pepper, and to our surprise Master chief were waiting.
"Grave team reporting for duty sir." I said snapping a salute, then went back to at ease. Technically I wasn't under either of their command but everyone obeyed the Arbiter without hesitation out of respect. As for General Pepper, well this is his planet.
"Good. You are familiar with what is occurring on the planet Kew correct?" The Arbiter asked.
"Yes. A stealth commando team was deployed there to hunt for insurrectionists and people who would threaten relations with the Lylatitions." Nijon answered.
"Yes. That is true. However, as of late they found a human speaking with a known mafia leader. It was confirmed that the UNSC had no operatives on that planet." General Pepper informed.
"The commando's confirmed there was going to be a heavily guarded meeting on the planet, in 3 days where a speaker for the insurrectionists leader would be present. We need your expertise in counter terrorism." The Arbiter said.
"So you want us and the demon to go down and bring the speaker back in hopes he leads us to the leader." Nijon finished.
"Yes, but Star fox as well as the forces on Kew will be there to lend aid as well. The Lylat system is finally experiencing a long period piece. We wish to preserve it by any means necessary." General Pepper finished.
"When do we leave?" Ki'thrathi asked.
"7 hours from now. And take heed, legionnaires. The insurrectionist and gang forces combined number very high. You may find yourself in a full-scale battle, when the fighting begins. Now go." The Arbiter commanded. Back to fighting space terrorist I suppose. Well fighting the apariod was fun while it lasted.