"...approaching Sector X... Fox, wake up!"

"Wha, huh?"

"Fox, what are you doing? You need to exit hyperspace in a few seconds or you will crash!" Peppy announced angrily.

"Ahhh, um, yes, uh, OK, done!" Fox was panicking, he had been sleeping.

"Don't scare us like that, Fox!" Lucy said.

"Phew, it was just a dream!"

"Well, don't let it happen again! We can't let you take those kinds of risks! That's why you don't fly a small craft like an Arwing through hyperspace for that amount of time!" Peppy recited.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Slippy, are you OK?"

"Yeah, my new Arwing has a feature that let's me program when to exit hyperspace, so I don't need to manually exit like your Arwing."

"Eh, OK, Slippy. ROB, we are going to scope out the area. Peppy, would you like to come along?"

"Of course I would, Fox!" Peppy walked down the the flight deck, quickly started an Arwing, and met Fox and Slippy outside.

"Man, this place gives me the creeps. It used to be a base, but it was wiped out years before the Lylat Wars." Peppy stated.

"Well, at least we won't see anyone from Corneria here; it's been marked as abandoned; and all the major warps, gates, and hyperspace paths cross closer to Solar, so Sector X has been nearly taken off the map." Fox mentioned.

"So, what are we looking for?" Slippy asked.

"A good place to hide, just for the night. We've got about 30 hours left before the conference, so, in the morning, we'll drop off Peppy at Titania. That could take a few hours because we need to do it without being detected."

"Hey, Slippy, remember when you got your Arwing tossed towards Titania from here?"

"Did you have to bring THAT up?"

"It's OK, Slippy, it worked out fine in the end."

"Yeah, I guess..."

"Hey! Look at that!"

"Hey, Peppy, looks like you found us a good place to rest!" Peppy had pointed out a mostly enclosed area of the destroyed base. It had walls on all sides, and an opening just large enough for the Great Fox.

"The radiation in this sector should prevent radio detection of us – let's get back to the Great Fox and get some sleep!"

"That sounds like a good idea, Peppy!" The team traveled back to the Great Fox. Afterwards, ROB piloted the ship to the area Peppy had determined. They shut down the Great Fox's main engines and went to bed.

The next morning, the team had breakfast, and they proceeded to drop Peppy off on Titania. They helped him find an abandoned underground shelter. They set up a long range radio tower above so that he could listen and talk to the team until they returned for him. They also left another radio so that Peppy could connect to Macbeth's broadcasting network and listen to the media's coverage of the conference.

"Well, Peppy, we'll see you again in a week or so."

"Alright, take care, I'll stay in contact."

"OK, Peppy, thanks." The remaining team returned to the Great Fox.

"ROB, prepare to enter hyperspace, set course for the gate."

"Affirmative, approximate arrival time, 45 minutes."

"Thanks ROB... Team, that will give us a chance to use a public warp gate – we're doing this for the media, it will look like we took a normal route to Macbeth. Hopefully, nobody will be suspicious that we're arriving at a public gate coming from a remote planet like Titania."

"Sounds like a good plan, Fox." Bill said.

"I don't want anyone to know where we've been – I want our entrance to be as normal as possible."