Chapter Nine:
Redemption of Star Fox
I walked into the bridge where the rest were waiting, the hologram of Peppy was there too,
"Nice of you to show up Reece." Peppy scolded,
"Sorry, I guess I like my sleep." I replied,
"Anyways lets get this done quickly, this mission is of critical importance. Our recent scans have detected that there is massive human numbers around Solar, upon further investigation we see that there is a satellite that appears to have a weapon on it, and it is pointed directly at Solar. You destroy the fleet and the satellite, we win this war, you don't, then everyone in the Lylat system is dead."
"So how do we win the war if we destroy this?" I asked,
"Well our investigations have found that the human leaders are aboard that satellite, if you destroy the satellite, then the humans will be without a leader and crumble which means victory for us." We all nodded in conformation, "Then hurry Star Fox, stop them and win this, remember, it is do or die." With that said we all dashed to the hanger.
I was awaiting the order of Fox to launch inside my cockpit. I rolled my shoulders; I hoped that if we did save the system then I would be accepted as apart of it.
"Okay we are launching!" announced Fox, I pulled the hair out of my eyes and took one more breath before we were launched into space.
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"Get into formation!" ordered Fox, I think the pressure was getting to him a little bit as well, we got into the box style formation,
"Sir, intruders!" announced someone, our radio systems must have been upgraded, this is the first time I have heard humans over the communication system,
"Oh for god's sake!" cursed another human, "Get out there and screw them over!"
"Come on Hawk unit, let's tear them up." Another human ordered, I recognized that voice, I didn't want to but I knew who it was,
"Just wait…wait… wait…" ordered Fox, the human fleet was getting closer and closer, "NOW!" he yelled, we all broke up and begun laying siege to each part of the squadron, I flew right threw the middle of the one thousand strong fleet, luring them to chase my tail, I got a few dozen after me, they could not even hope to catch up to the speed of my new craft, or even do anything to rival my new ship,
"Krystal now!" I yelled, Krystal boosted right towards me, she lobbed a Nova bomb at my tail, although it was locked onto me it wasn't going to hit me, the poor humans behind me got hit taking out all of my enemies,
"Oh you guys are flying like pieces of sh…" he didn't get to finish his sentence thanks to me; I shot the engine of his ship which caused it to completely explode.
"God damn it, bring out those new cruisers!" cried one of the humans, well at least I was going to get a taste of their new ships. Those new ships came out a lightning fast speed,
"Holy crap!" I yelled, there was now way in hell I could shoot them or even lock onto them, they were that fast, "How the hell do I take those bastards out?" I yelled angrily,
"I'll deal with them, I am always one step ahead on these guys." Krystal replied, with that she took off towards them, she fired some shots at nothing and begun taking them down,
"Oh my god…" I mumbled quietly to myself, she performed very well to take out those crafts.
"Bring it out now!" cried one of the humans; I noticed a rather large object fly out towards us. It got close enough for me to interoperate; it was sort of like a prism with a small head and arm extensions,
"Since when have humans had AI of this level?" I yelled questioning the robot in front of me,
"Hey didn't we destroy that over ten years ago?" Falco asked,
"Yeah, it looks almost exactly like it." Slippy added,
"Where the hell would the humans have gotten access to that?" yelled Fox, Krystal and I were left with no idea with what the robot had to do with their past (well Krystal probably telepathically saw what it had to do with their past).
The robot shot its arm's at us; rockets that gave them incredible speed propelled them, but the turning capabilities of my ship made them easy to avoid, but then it shot a massive bolt of electricity at me that caught me off guard, the electrical currents caused my ship's engines to stall, Fox and Falco were laying siege to the head of the robot while I desperately tried to restart my ship. Fox and Falco were flying overhead of the robot, blasting its head with a storm of shots that seemed to distract it, they distracted it long enough for me to restart my engines and resume flying. I hah just about lost my patience with this robot; it was time to end it. I told Krystal to see what I was planning, she agreed to it, we both flew out to wide corners of the robot, I dived down underneath the robot while Krystal flew above it, we then flew right towards it's head, we both launched simultaneous nova bombs, they hit the head of the robot at the same time, the blast took out the head of the robot, shutting it down,
"Don't lose focus, this thing may still be active." Fox warned, we flew around cautiously for a whole minute, it was destroyed there was no question.
Now the human leader swore heavily over the radio,
"I'll deal with these filthy animals myself." Another growled, it was that voice again, I knew it belonged to some one from my past and I dreaded the confrontation. The massive warship that we had seen on MacBeth two days ago begun to fly towards us, "Let's see how you deal with this!" the human growled,
"You have got to be kidding me." I moaned, how were we going to take something out of that size?
"What the… Is… Is that you Reece?" the voice asked,
"Nice of you to realize Jake." I replied,
"Ha! This is going to make my kills all the more honorable, just imagine what Janice will think of me!" That hurt, it had been a whole year but it still hurt, that made me angry, made me thirsty for revenge, vengeance for everything that had happened, I will get it now!
"Reece don't let him get to you." Krystal warned in an attempt to keep me focus, she had no success; I was purely motivated by my anger and thirst for vengeance.
I boosted towards him, the warship's guns were firing rapidly, I didn't care if I got hit, as long as I took him out, which was the main thing. The shots had no chance of hitting me, my ship was too fast, I located the location of the bridge on the ship, I found it, I dived down and fired shots and a nova bomb at the window of the ship, the shots and nova bomb were destroyed by a force field that showed up as it blocked the incoming assaults,
"What the hell!" I growled,
"It is amazing what the people in the labs can come up with, actually it was your old friend Josh that came up with the invention, shame you guys don't have this technology." Jake laughed, I swore and hit my fist onto the dashboard,
"Hey, I got an idea," Slippy claimed, "Reece, shoot it again." I did so; it was just blocked by the shield, "Got it, Krystal, can you read me and scramble this message?"
"Will do." She replied, I noticed the main turret of the ship, the same one that destroyed the base on MacBeth,
"Oh crap, scramble, he's trying to lock onto us with the canon!" I warned, we all did so,
"Damn it!" yelled Jake,
"Incoming message." Krystal noted, I looked down to the computer, a message appeared on it, it had some sort of coding, it read:
"Kxo wodohukehj ev kxo jxoactj uho cesukot idtohdoukx kxo muad kihhok, kxo k0fo ev jxoact wodohukaed kxo0 uho ijadw aj giako noub, av Reece, Fox, Falco udt A vaho u delu remr uk ak, kxod Krystal jxeict ro urco ke kubo eik kxo wodohukehj nxaco kxo jxoactj uho tend komfehuhac0." I had no clue what this was,
"Message intercepted sir, it appears to be in some form of coding." Announced a human,
"Decrypt it quickly!" Jake ordered, my computer it had just about finished decoding the message,
"It is unknown to our systems, it could take days before the computer can figure it out."
"God damn it!" Jake yelled frustrated, I laughed, the message had finished decrypting, it read:
"The generators of the shields are located underneath the main turret, the type of shield generation they are using is quite weak, if Reece, Fox, Falco and I fire a nova bomb at it, then Krystal should be able to take out the generators while the shields are down temporarily."
"Understood." I confirmed,
"We do this on the count of three, we need to do it at the same time or it won't work." Fox warned, the three of us grouped up,
"Keep them separated!" Jake yelled desperately, the ship fired their canon we split up temporarily to avoid the beam, I hoped that the beam would eventually wear out before it hit something. We flew towards the generators of the shields and regrouped,
"One," Fox started,
"Do something!" Jake yelled,
"Two,"
"What the f…"
"Three!" Fox interrupted, we all fired our bombs simultaneously, Krystal flew in and fired at the generators, they blew up much to Jake's displeasure who swore like it was going out of fashion. If we eliminated the bridge, then there would be nothing the ship could do it would be useless. It was the beginning of the end of this war; we were going to win,
"Sir! Start it now!" Jake yelled desperately,
"It already has." I looked over to the satellite, it was slowly beginning to build up a massive ball of energy, I desperately tried to think of a solution, what could stop it, there was no way we were going to pierce the armour of that thing, I looked at the warship in front of me, the weapons were still working, I had a plan, time to execute it.
I boosted towards the docking bay of the warship,
"Reece! What are you doing?" Fox yelled,
"Trust me, I know what I am doing." I replied, I flew into the docking bay and landed, I fired my turrets at the nearby soldiers; they were either killed or ran fled in aircraft I hadn't managed to destroy. I pulled out my blaster, opened the cockpit window and jumped out, I dashed to the door, the ship was on an evacuation setting so no doors were locked. I turned around the corner and fired, just in case there were people running, unfortunately there weren't anyone around the corner I continued doing this until I was at the bridge.
I walked through the double doors, wielding my blaster, Jake was there in the middle of the bridge still swearing at his men (who I believed had all abandoned ship), Jake turned around to face me,
"You!" he growled, he pulled out a pistol and aimed at me, I already had my blaster in my hand so I shot him the upper leg first, he collapsed to the floor, howling in pain, he dropped the blaster as well,
"Your time is up, my time is now!" I growled, I walked up to the pistol and kicked it away, I took the handcuffs off of his belt, I kicked him in the chest, winding him, I dragged him to the railings of the bridge, I handcuffed his wrist in one cuff and the railing in the other cuff as tight as I could, he was still moaning. I walked up to the control panel of the bridge, I turned the ship to face the satellite, I begun to charge up the canon,
"Captain Hark, what are you doing?" Yelled an angry human; I picked up a microphone,
"This is Lieutenant Reece Kilza and I am stopping your operation."
"Kilza, are you mad?"
"If saving a whole galaxy is madness then I guess I am."
"I will have your head for this!"
I fired the now half charged canon, the beam travelled directly to the satellite, since it wasn't fully charged it destroyed only the bottom half of the satellite, which was the part posing the threat,
"Heh, no you won't." I laughed. I heard Jake moaning, I looked over at him,
"What are you going to do with me?" he asked,
"I'm leaving you here." I replied, as I changed the direction of the warship,
"That's a little easy don't you think." The ship had fully rotated and was now facing Solar, I then activated the autopilot, I set it to a low speed so I could get out safely,
"I don't know, what do you think?" I replied with a smirk, I heard him swore in panic as I jogged back towards the hanger.
I flew out in my ship from the warship; I happily watched it plummet onto the surface of Solar,
"I think we are even." I mumbled happily.
"We did it! We won!" Slippy cheered,
"We took out their leaders and stopped their operation." Krystal added,
"And we all got our redemption." I added,
"What about the remainder of the satellite?" Fox asked,
"I say we leave it, there is no way it will make it through the night." Falco added. We all agreed to the decision, but before we flew off we noticed a massive blip appear on our radar, we turned around to investigate, as it was not recognized by our ship's scanners, all I could make out were three separate objects moving together,
"You humans have failed me for the last time, our deal is off, you can't even take out five mangy pests with all the technology I provided you. Your time is up, I will have to deal with things myself." The voice growled, two of the objects moved then clapped together, destroying the rest of the satellite, the three objects faded into nothing,
"You have got to be kidding me!" Fox yelled,
"What… how…" Falco stuttered,
"Oh no no no no no no." Slippy cried,
"Not him again." Krystal added with fear,
"Who are you talking about?" I asked, everyone was silent, "Who?"
Fox hesitated before answering,
"Andross…"
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A/N: Well I gave some hints to show you this was coming, and to those of you who thought that this would be the end from the beginning of this chapter, then Lol.
Thanks to you who are R&R. ;-)