The resistance of both medium and high grade demons and Venomian elites were no match towards the four preternatural fighters. They were all slain in battle. Now that there was nothing to stop them, the four entered a still working elevator to the top floor.

The end of the battle was closing near. But there was a problem when it can to fighting Andross: The Hell Gate, a demon portal that can provide a demon with limitless power was still open. They had to distract Andross somehow, and shut the portal down.

Falco's katana had that power, so maybe if Fox could distract the ape whilst Falco took care of that business, they'd be able to overpower him. No doubt however that Andrew Oikonny would be of heavy resistance since he was embedded with similar powers. Frost would handle him, and make sure he dies as he should've in Fortuna.
Krystal unloaded her handguns and replaced the drained aura magazines with new fresh ones. Chambering the round, she held tightly on her firearms. "We're almost there…"

Just as she said that, the elevator stopped prematurely. Something was wrong…

A demonic hand tore through the ceiling and tried to claw at anyone in the elevator but the four was quick enough to dodge it. Frost was first to draw his handgun and retaliate. His magnum was fairly powerful and it tore through the ceiling as effectively as the arm that clawed through it. The arm retracted but then tried to make the hole it left behind bigger.

Big mistake. The 'Rage' demon shouldn't have made itself an easy target. Frost shot it down and as it fell in to the elevator, Falco finished it off with his shotgun. "Stay dead." Seeing that his Galleria was empty, he started to load more shells into it.

A group of Hell pride demons tried to jump on to the elevator and overwhelm the four, but as they landed on the roof and around it, rapid gunfire shot them down as Fox and Krystal sprayed with their respectful weapons. More Hell pride demons attacked but as the four were fully loaded with firearms, they had no chance at all.
As they died, they turned into sand. Frost wasn't too pleased with the fact and tried to dust off his coat of all the sand. "This is my bloody favourite coat!"

The elevator continued to move again. Dusting the sand off of himself, Fox holstered his handguns. Everything that has happened led to this…

The elevator stopped at the designated floor, which although was below the intended floor that Andross was in; they had to stop here and continue on foot. The vulpine sighed to himself to feel a little more calm. With the need to hear someone's voice, he asked: "Is there anything we should say before we go?"

Magilligan threw aside his cigarette and spun the chambers of his revolver. As it locked to one of the rounds, he smiled. "Crush your enemies. See them driven before you… Then hear the lamentation of their women."

That sounded fairly familiar from a film he watched some time ago. Falco couldn't put his finger on it but he disregarded this fact. Pushing the button that opens the elevator doors, he pointed his Galleria shotgun to the door along with the others pointing their firearms to the door as well. "The welcoming party is waiting for us. Let's appreciate their surprise."

As the doors opened, Hell prides, Stygian and other demons were in fact waiting for them. As they saw the four Preternaturals, they charged towards them with their rusty scythes and arm blades. None of them could even get close enough as the guns the four used kept a fair distance between them.

Clearing another crowd of weak demons, the crew exited the elevator. One more figure entered the empty floor, armed with only his sword; Andrew Oikonny wanted to even the score with Magilligan. The ape chuckled as he pointed his sword to the four. "You cannot stop us now. You're too late. Hell is now unleashed!" Throwing away any firearms and left only with his sword in hand, he challenged Gabriel to a duel.

"Hah. You've become fairly honourable, guts and honour. I like that." Throwing aside his handgun and coat and drawing his combat axe but turning it to a sword, he accepted the challenge. "It's a shame you serve Andross." He pointed his sword at Andrew.

Oikonny laughed. "I serve him because his power is beyond anything you have ever seen!"

Sternly, the hedgecat replied: "It's not his power. He's just borrowing. And he hasn't paid the rental fees." His black Angelic wings sprung out from his back, and a dark aura surrounded him. "Are you afraid of the dark?"

Though intimidated, he still tries to intimidate Gabriel as he unleashed the pinnacle of his power given to him. "You still talk big after seeing this!?"

Frost wasn't shaken… And only smirked. "Come on."

Oikonny was first to strike, trying to cut his opponent with a powerful strike. It was merely deflected by Gabriel's blade held by a single hand. Andrew had been taught to fight with disciplined swordsmanship, but never particularly practiced them.

In contrast, Frost actually was strong in his swordsmanship due to his continuous training with different melee weapons. His skill with a sword was strong and he could even fight with just the use of a single hand. Leaving gashes and cuts on Oikonny, he was merely toying with his opponent. "You call this power?" Blocking another attack, their blades were locked. The smooth steel was close to his face, but he liked that feeling of danger.
Throwing him off, Gabriel charged and continued to harass Andrew.

Oikonny was becoming desperate as the pain of each gash, despite the relatively fast healing, was intensifying. At this rate, Frost would be able to wound him more seriously as he continues. Summoning as much power as he could, he launched an energy ball at Gabriel.

Frost barely dodged the attack as he rolled out the way but was partially disoriented. Oikonny chuckled and taunted him. Standing on his feet, Frost was again ready to fight. "Is that the best you can do?" He taunted back.
Andrew summoned crystals to burst from the floor, and tried to encase the hedgecat. The mercenary kept moving about, and eventually led the crystals around. Forcing to dodge, he instead summoned energy swords and threw a barrage of them at the hedgecat. None of the swords struck or even scratched the hedgecat. "Stay still so I can kill you!"

Angered, the ape charged at Frost directly, and they both swung their swords at each other. The both of them had caught the other's blade with their hands and struggled to overpower the other. But Frost's strength was far superior and eventually Andrew strained himself. "You bastard... Scum like you ruin the worlds!"

Gabriel held on tightly to the blade that struck his palm. "Scum? I'm a bastirt, not a fockin' bastirt." Throwing off Oikonny, he jumped back. His hand healed as he looked at it. "People like me protect the Lylat system from monsters like you. A real, feral demon has no goal other than to be aggressive to anything it sees. A demon that thinks, demons that were once human but threw their humanity away are the scum."

"Demons and Angels are not human, and don't have any form of humanity within them!" He angrily shouted. "Fox is a demon!"

Frost silenced him: "Wrong! We have emotions, we have the ability to cry. If you cannot cry even as a Guardian Angel, then you are just an empty shell. A Demon or Angel that can cry and feel emotion towards others are as human can be." Standing tall with blade at hand, he pointed with his left hand. "And devils... Never cry..." And Fox had cried. He trusts Fox to be able to live much like other humans.

Andrew charged again. He tried to drive his weapon into the hedgecat, but he was deflected again. "It's not over!"
Finishing the fight, Frost stabbed his own sword into Andrew. "Now it is... Andross' empire of hypocrites will fall." He allowed the ape to fall to the ground... Pulling his sword out from the body, he swung to his side to throw the blood off of the steel. The fight was not over yet, and it was Andross' turn to fall.

Andross stood in his room, awaiting his archnemesis... Footsteps sounded behind him but stopped moments after. He turned around to see that it was Fox, holding a disfigured sword, stood before him. He looked as young as he did back in Sauria, but a change in style. "It had been a long time since we've last seen each other, both ready to kill each other." Their last encounter in the lab was one-sided as Fox couldn't do anything and wasn't motivated enough to want to kill Andross. Now that he sees a powerful and angry Demon behind those eyes, he smirked. "Look how strong you've grown."

"Not a lot of thanks to you." The vulpine responded. "So here we are again. It's you and me Andross. And I have a score to settle."

"Still raw aboout me killing your father? And your mother?"

Fox understood why Andross killed his father, but still was pretty raw about it. The fact that Andross killed his mother made him even more raw. His mother was never involved in the Lylat wars, and yet he had the guts to kill her. "Why kill my mother?"

"Your mother? Hmph. To show authority... To show that anyone that fucks with a God like me, will die." He smirked, remembering that day he shot down McCloud's mother. "But you killed my army, so in a way, it eventually would become even."

The vulpine growled. "I don't like being even, especially with any of my enemies." He approached the slightly taller and bulkier Venomian. He had to get Andross' full attention, and he knew how. "I think you should know that it was a pleasure to see your army go down one by one..."

With a quick burst of energy, Andross angrily unleashed it and threw Fox a long distance away. It left the vulpine disoriented, and even more so, vulnerable... But this was the same for the Hell Gate when he noticed Andross rushing towards him.

Krystal and Falco saw their chance. Falco drew his sword and began to close the Hell Gate. The cobalt vixen provided him with extra Angelic aura to speed up the process.

Andross however had already crashed through the window of the skyscraper, with Fox in his grip. Falling through debris and eventually landing on a rooftop of a building, Andross threw Fox to the ground and then pulled him to his feet. The ape held the fox over the edge of the rooftop and then started to claw at McCloud's chest.

Fox felt nothing but excruciating pain. In this situation he couldn't hold back the ape from trying to pull his heart out. "Nooooo!"

The ape laughed manically. "I'm going to eat your beating heart! And I'll make you watch as I do so!"

Krystal looked out from the window to see that Fox was at the verge of death. "Falco! How long!?"

"Just get him! I got it!" Lombardi responded.

With no time to think, she threw her coat aside and jumped out the window. She saw that the Sparda sword was lodged into a floating rock. Obtaining it during her free-fall, she threw it to Fox. At the same time he was able to catch it despite his pain, she was able to strike Andross with a powerful blow behind his back.

This released Fox from his grip, and the vulpine kicked him back. His wounds healed instantanously with the presence of the sword. But the relief was to be shortlasted as Andross' unlimited power and direct link to the Hell Gate allowed him to easily overpower both of them. He held Krystal and Fox by their necks.

Fox used his Sparda to cut Andross' arms off. "Hands off!"

Angered but also in pain, Andross called fourth the full power of the Hell Gate. "Hell, lend me your power!" The power of the demon lord Mundus had fully transferred into Andross. Now turned into a giant statue like creature with wings, he was full of anger, rage and evil beyond all they have ever seen.

Just as the power of the demon lord transferred to Andross, the portal to the Demon world was closed by Falco. Frost and Falco quickly joined the other two.

The sword of Sparda reacted powerfully to the transformation of Andross. Falco and Krystal saw that Demonic forces were crawling up the building. "We'll handle it here. Fox, Krystal, finish it!"

Both foxes were a little overwhelmed with the responsibility. But they both had a bone to pick with the ape, so there was no turning back as they agreed.

Fox felt a power within him, stronger than anything he had ever felt... The sword... It granted him power to rival Andross. His form was changed when large Demonic wings sprung from his back, his fur becoming almost red as blood and bits of armour was formed around some of his limbs from the fur. With Krystal by his side, he didn't care if he was a Demon... Both of them flew into the air in pursuit of the Venomian dictator.

"The fabelled power of Sparda!?" Andross knew of the sword's origin through the many stories of a 'Legendary Dark Knight'. He did attack Cerenia to obtain the beacon but was unsuccessful in doing so.

Gabriel took note of the pillar that errected from the ground. It sent energy to Andross' heart, which stored the rest of the energy. The pillar would consistently power Andross until they're destroyed, which would leave Fox and Krystal to finish it. But it won't be easy as many feral demons roamed the land. "Fox, Krystal, you fight Andross head on. We'll disable the energy pillar!" Frost and Falco quickly jumped from the rooftop and started running towards the pillar.

It was Krystal, Fox and Andross left to each other. Andross chuckled as he showed off his new, and ultimately grusome form. "How do I look Fox? Big?" The ape laughed manically, feeling pure power surge through him.
"It's like staring into a backed up toilet!" Fox retorted. "And I thought you looked ugly but you are something else."
Andross smiled. It had been a while since they fought each other, and now they'll fight once again. This time, this will be the end of one or the other. "How strange fate is..."

"Strange and ironic that it'll end the same way as last time!" Krystal deemed.

Fox held Sparda and pointed it at Andross. "This will be for my mother and father. And for the life ahead of me, that you'll not be a part of."

The stone demon laughed. "Why, I can make you another set of parents, just as I made you what you are!"

"SILENCE!" The vulpine boomed with authority. Stepping over the edge of the rooftop, he dug deep into his heart to find absolute power. "How long are you gonna keep zappin'? You want to fight? We're waiting!" As he said so, Andross took off in flight. In fashion, Fox and Krystal pursued.

All three of them few as far as in to deep space, even passing the mothership that was still in orbit of Venom. However, even though Andross was not as big as the mothership, had he set his sights to attack it, the ship wouldn't be able to defeat him. But his attention was on Fox and Krystal. He channeled his power throughout his body.

Summoning powerful energy, he launched many different elemental projectiles such as fireballs and concentrated light at the two. Though he wasn't precise, the beams and projectiles forced the other two to keep moving around these attacks and dodge.

Fox wasn't finding it hard to fly, neither was Krystal. But their new abilities would have to be put to the test. McCloud himself was granted the ability to launch powerful Majin projectiles at Andross at rapid-speeds with his hands. "We have to hit the heart hard!" While his projectiles didn't do a large amount of damage, it kept the larger demon busy. Another advantage was the fact that Andross was not able to dodge as fast due to his large body and weight, and the continuous barrage of energy continued to chip away at Andross' stone shell.

Krystal flew ahead of Fox whilst he distracted Andross. The vixen still had Sparda, and if she was close enough she can break Andross' reserve energy in his chest.

"The last time we fought, it was ship against my giant head. But now, it is demon on demon!" He fired a large burst of energy at the vulpine. Though it was powerful, he still dodged the attack but barely. There was nothing that Andross wanted more than to wipe the McCloud bloodline out of existence.

The vulpine continued to throw projectiles. "And I'm still gonna win this fight!" He claimed. It was always good to have help from others. Even better, help from your lover.

A surge of power had built up within him. Instinct told him to unleash it, and he trusted them very much. Still believing his father's words to trust them, he tapped into the built up power. As he did, he unleashed a powerful beam of energy that struck Andross hard.

Stumbled, the large demon was vulnerable. Krystal took the chance to strike deep into the evil demon's heart with Sparda, and crashed through its chest. It didn't kill him, but weakened him severely.

Meanwhile on Venom; Falco was covering Gabriel as he attempted to destroy the pillar. They were close but the feral demons were starting to swarm. Borrowing Gabriel's revolver and his own lever-action shotgun, he kept the creatures at bay. "We're running out of time! Hurry it up!" He shot a demon that climbed the rooftop of the pillar. Looking over, he saw many climbing and clambering up towards them.

Frost was beating it senseless. It couldn't handle any more stress. "Don't worry! I got it!" He punched the pillar again, and cracked its surface.

The pheasant handed the guns to Gabriel and took his sword. "Switch places!" He took the hedgecat's place in attacking the pillar. His sword won't be better or inferior to Gabriel's fists, as the pillar was resistant to both of their attacks but not immune. The avian slashed at the demonic pillar continuously.

It wasn't long before it was finally broken as a powerful slash with the Angelic katana penetrated through.
With that sorted, Andross fell from space and back down to Venom, but not without taking both Fox and Krystal with him. Random launches of energy caught both canines off guard and they were downed along with him as Fox.
Fireballs rained down upon them, though not wounding them by a large factor. Both of them stood relatively still able to fight their opponent. Fox's demonic form however had faded away and he was not powerful enough to fight Andross, even with Krystal by his side.

Frost and Falco quickly caught up to the other two. Now the odds were even.

Andross landed in lava, but stood as if it didn't matter. His waist was submerged in the hot and thick liquid and its light gave reflective shade of red upon the insane dictator. "You!" He cried out, pointing at Fox. "I created you, I made you what you are now! How can you not follow what you are meant to be!?"

The four looked at each other, all with cocky smirks upon their lips. Fox stepped forwards first. "Devils never cry."
The four all rushed the giant demon, using platforms floating around him and slashing multiple times at him. Andross couldn't keep up with neither of them and he was overpowered. Swinging and flailing his arms aimlessly, he tried desperately to sweep them off like bugs stuck on clothing. "No!"

Falco used his katana to slash at Andross' left arm, before he finally severed it. Krystal used her staff to smash at the right arm before it was useless. Frost and Fox attacked from both sides, whilst Fox repeatedly slashed at Andross' torso whilst Frost was able to use his hatchet to chip away at Andross' stone face.

Falco threw his katana to Frost so that he could deal a powerful blow. Together, Frost and Fox stabbed the weilded swords at the stone demon's torso. "Let's finish this lad!"

The hedgecat and vulpine with great strength hit the handle of their weapons to smash it through. The blades passed each other and screetched against one another before Fox caught the katana and Frost caught Sparda. Repeatedly they cut and chipped through at the demon's torso as it was helpless against them. Frost with dicipline, swung with technique, whilst Fox swung with improvised, dynamic attacks.

They both jumped away from Andross and reunited with the other two. Fox threw the katana back to Falco, whilst Frost threw Sparda back to Fox. "That was for Delta AWAL 29 you bastirt." All four of them drew firearms, and the four aimed at the critically weak Andross.

"It cannot end this way!" He cried out, but still helpless.

"Hey guys. What do you say when you win the Cornerian Lottery?" The four looked at each other with a smile, before closing in together. In sync, they said: "Jackpot." And fired...

The charged shots was able to slay Andross, and with the destruction of the powerful demon, energy blasted everywhere. "No!"

After the blinding light faded, the four were able to see again. The world had returned to relative normality. "It's over." Fox said in relief. He turned to Krystal and pulled her in to a hug. They both embraced each other, and now there was nothing to worry about, at least not for a long time coming. "I'm glad we were able to finish the job together."

She kissed him. "Glad I can help."

As the world had turned back to normal, his sword had changed shape to a normal broadsword. However, he knew that when the time comes, its true power can be unleashed. In its normal form, an amulet that can be split in half spawned from it. This, combined with the sword would allow him to tap in to its power.

Gabriel lit himself another cigarette. "Alright. Let's go."

Before they could leave, the ground shook. Startled, the four quickly looked around for anything dangerous. It was only when a black furred hand popped from the ground did they knew who it was. Pulling himself up and standing tall, the scar around his eye and the rose engraved on his coat... Panther Caruso.

Krystal thought that they dispatched him a while back. Even Falco couldn't believe it. "How... We subdued you!"
"It didn't take long for Panther to get back up." He said.

The vulpine, upon seeing him, stepped forwards with a piercing glare. Krystal stopped him for a moment. "Fox... Be careful."

None of the others could interfere, it was a personal fight that Fox had to deal with himself. The hedgecat however chuckled. "Hey. You got anything to say."

The serious glare on Fox's face turned into a smirk. McCloud knew that if he can help defeat Andross, there was no way he could lose to Caruso. "Now... This is what I live for!" He shouted before drawing his guns. "I'm absolutely crazy about it!"

'There'd be a lot of you wondering... What happened next? Well. Not a lot of you asked me. For starters, Star Fox had come back together with all the old gang, besides Peppy who still had a job to do as the Cornerian Military's General.

With Preternatural creatures of all sorts now starting to appear in every different planet of the Lylat System, business for the newly appointed Demon hunting Star Fox crew was great. Speaking of which, Frost did pay me. He's a man of his word.

And he and the family joined the crew. Even though he was stronger than Fox, he wasn't the type to be the leader. Deep down in his heart, he still yearns the feeling of being a soldier. But even more so, he was content with his family. His wife brought him happiness every day and his child was just a beautiful gift that he finds precious.
Falco and Katt got married. It was a small wedding, but nonetheless it was a celebrated one. It might be so that he and Katt would have kids eventually...

Well... As for Kursed... That's me... She's already expecting. The baby is no doubtedly a boy, so I'm going to call him Marcus. Fox did propose after everything in Venom happened, and we'll be marrying soon. There was nothing that could've been better out of all this... But whenever business calls...'

"It's a customer with the password. They're nearby. What should we do?"

'Fox, Gabriel and Falco would always be the first to smile whenever there was the oppurtunity'. "Do you need to ask!?" 'Life's perfect this way.