Star Fox: The War for Lylat

Chapter Ten: Enter Star Wolf

The crew of Star Fox quickly got to their Arwings, got the ships refueled, and set off towards the planet as fast as the Arwings could go. They still lacked knowledge of how long ago the message from General Pepper had arrived, and knew they most likely had no time to spare. Within a matter of minutes, the team arrived at the Defense Post. From the Defense Post came many enemy ships, all with one goal: To prevent Star Fox and any remnants of the Cornerian Armada from reclaiming the base. Of course, Fox, Peppy, and Falco were used to these kinds of situations.

Fox surveyed the surroundings, looking for a specific area to handle, one where they could take out many foes and hopefully install fear into other enemies. Unfortunately, the enemies were spread out all around the base, so that plan wouldn't work. 'Time for Plan B…' Fox thought, before giving a command to the team. "Alright, split up and take it to 'em!" Fox commanded. Falco seemed very pleased with this order, but he was planning on doing that anyways. Fox giving him the order just gave him an excuse to do so.

The team split up, shooting various enemies along the way. There was no real threat to the team. The enemies barely shot at all, and often missed when they did shoot.

"Bah, it's no fun when they don't put up a fight!" Falco scoffed, targeting multiple enemies without any enthusiasm.

'Funny how quickly he can lose interest in stuff…' thought Fox, blasting enemies that had snuck up behind Falco's Arwing. "I bet he'll never acknowledge I did that," Fox muttered under his breath, before laughing quietly. "He'll just say they gave up when they saw him and self-destructed!"

"Ya say somethin', Fox?" Falco asked. He had heard Fox, but wasn't quite able to understand what he was saying. It was like gibberish to him. But, he was surprised to hear another voice over the codec.

"I got one!"

That wasn't Fox responding… it was Slippy! Fox heard this too, and was relieved that they wouldn't have to return to Corneria just for him. "I'm glad you found your way here, Slippy," Fox said, but didn't get a response. "Uh… Slippy, is something wrong?"

"Hey, why are ships coming out of the base?" Slippy asked, noticing the hoard of ships leaving the base.

"You didn't hear? Those idiots thought they could just up and take a base that doesn't belong to 'em, an' now they're trying to fight us off, and failing horri—" Falco started, but was interrupted when he noticed a message from R.O.B. 64 had arrived. He opened the channel. "What's up, Rob?" He asked.

"A bomb has been planted at the base." Rob explained, who then closed the channel.

"Well… guess I was wrong." Falco mumbled. "That place is gonna blow if nothin's done 'bout it."

"Geez! Can anyone take care of it!" Fox asked while still fighting off enemies. The answer he got was far from what he expected, and it wasn't from a crewmate.

"Can't let you do that, Star Fox."

It was none other than Wolf. That could only mean one thing… Star Wolf was back already.

"Andross has ordered us to take you down." That one was definitely Leon.

"Peppy! Long time no see!" That had to be Pigma, as he was the only one to personally know Peppy outside of the encounter on the Great Fox… But it was also clear because of his stupidity. Pigma had seen Peppy on the Great Fox along with the rest of the Star Wolf crew, and he hadn't been sarcastic or joking with his comment.

"Andross' enemy is my enemy." That voice was unfamiliar to Fox and his crew. He must've been a new member to the crew, or maybe he had been the one to deliver Star Wolf the message from Andross, as unlikely as that seemed. But one thing was certain: He was now an enemy to Star Fox. They had no choice but to take him down.

Fox sighed, annoyed. "Just what I need to see… Star Wolf…" Fox thought about the bomb in the base, then to Star Wolf. He had to deal with one first, and it had to be Star Wolf. R.O.B. 64 would most likely warn them if the bomb was in danger of destroying them, and if they tried to go after the bomb, Star Wolf would likely try to shoot them down anyways. He issued the command to the rest of the team. "Let's take care of these guys first."

They would pay for what they did to the Great Fox. They hadn't gotten a good enough punishment previously, in Fox's opinion. The battle was on.