Star Fox:

War for Corneria

Chapter 26

I own an original story, this is not that story.

James woke up to the smell of eggs and bacon. The first thing he noticed was that his pillow being fluffier than usual. Then he felt a wet sensation around his tailhole. "Oh, please don't tell me." James muttered, as he leaned up, waking Damien cause he pressed down on his chest.

"Hey love?" Damien said, before feeling a wetness down below. "Gods no." he said, searching his memory for any hint as to what had happened as he slowly cranked his eyes open. Clue number one, a panicked looking hybrid on top of him. Clue number two, a hell of a lot of empty bottles of alcohol around where they was playing their game. But we didn't drink. Is what went through his head, coming to the logical conclusion it was a set-up. "So, James" he said with a soft smile, "how was your first time as a sub?" James flew up like he'd burned himself. "Shall we take a shower?" he asked as he got up, not at all bothering to get dressed yet. James was staring at him wide-eyed on the other side of the room, and simply pointed to a door to the left, Damien walked up to James, gave him a quick kiss, and walked off to the bathroom, exaggeratedly swaying his hips, and his tail raised high before leaving the door open as he started up the shower.

While Fox cooked, Wolf set the table, before grabbing the chair at the head of the table, putting it off to the side, and placing a wider chair in it's place. Then he grabbed the other chairs and put them away, leaving only the opposing pair to his left and right. Then he sat down in the wide chair, just as Fox came in with the pans of eggs and bacon. He set them on the table, before taking a seat in Wolf's lap.

As James walked in, he looked rather distraught. Damien was way closer behind him than a normal friend should. "Damien?" Fox said, freigning surprise, "Been able to find a bed?"

"Yeah," Damien answered, "A good mattress and a nice, warm blanket too, right, James?" James turned his head away to hide the blush he was sure would be visible through his fur. They took their seats as Fox fed Wolf a piece of Bacon. While James plated some food for his guest and himself, Damien slid a foot out of his boots and started playing with James' package under the table, extracting a groan from James.

"You alright, son?" Wolf asked, acting like a concerned father, "You look warm, are you ill?"

"I think he just needs some light pain-killers," Fox said, 'comforting' Wolf as a malacious grin spread over his face, "hung over, poorly prepared or both?"

"Just hung-over" Damien filled in before James could reply, "I took plenty of time to prepare him. He doesn't seem to remember it though due to the alcohol."

"Have you been snooping around in my liquor cabinet again?" Wolf reprimanded his kid, chuckling before feeding Fox a piece of egg, clearing their plates, "you should get going, love. I'll do the dishes."

James took that as his cue to get up and away from the molestation under the table. "Okay team, regroup at Greatfox in 10." Fox said, "See you soon, Wolf." He slipped off of Wolf's lap, letting his tail brush over Wolf's crotch, before turning around. he kissed him on the cheek, then walked out the door, over dramatically swaying his hips as Wolf and James stared him out the door, before James snapped back to reality. He dashed into his room and started packing his clothes.

Fox, as he walked out the door, Grabbed his communicator, and dialed up Panther. "Panther, could you get to the Greatfox right about now? I got some things I wanna discuss."

As Fox crossed the boarding ramp, he saw a black blur approaching from the corner of his eye, so he turned to see Panther approaching, pulling a trunk. Fox rushed up to him, and together, they managed to get the heavy thing inside. Fox pressed the button to the bedroom floor. "Panther, the reason I called you here is that I want to know what we're heading into. I've got some special ties to Sauria."

"I was told as much." Panther said, "King Tricky specifically requested you for this mission." they were breathing heavily when they reached the guest room with the heavy trunk. "Something about disconnected chunks of planets?"

"Long story short, Andross was controlling the Sharpclaw and using them to gather some magical energy to fully revive himself." Fox explained, Me and Tricky cut our way through the sharpclaw to restore the planet, but in doing so we restored andross, who I fought and defeated."

"King Tricky is now the ruler of all of Sauria," Panther explained in return, "From the Cloudrunners to the Sharpclaw. We made a deal to deliver them modified versions of technological comforts the rest of Lylat is used to, including a full space port, and modified versions of other comforts to fit their unique build. We have recruited some Sharpclaw for our army recently, they are currently in training. The Sharpclaw are an army, King tricky made them his army, an army of peace and protection. Someone is sabotaging the construction of the port, and thereby threatening the deal we made with the Saurians. That's one of the reasons you were assigned this job, to prove to Tricky you are in fact one of us. That would secure the deal. He trusts you and Wolf does too."

Just as James and Damien opened the door, a blue and gray blur passed between them. They just shrugged and walked off, shutting the door behind them. "Uncle" Wave called as he came to a stop in the living room.

"Yes?" Wolf called from the kitchen.

Wave walked over to him. "Soul's been kidnapped."

"What?" Wolf growled.

"Shut up and let me finish." Wave cut off any further comments, "He's been removed from the base in a Bloodfang ship."

"I'll send a recon team after them immediately." Wolf said, then in a friendlier tone, "Leon and I'll go after them as soon as we know where they're held up. Don't worry. We'll bring him back. By the way, shouldn't you be in the hospital wing by now?"

"No, I had one minute to spare." Wave answered as he ran back out, psyched to be getting his vision back in a few.

"You're late." Fox told his team as they made their way to the top of the boarding ramp, where Fox was standing, impatiently tapping his foot. Panther stood off to the side

"Sorry sir." Damien said.

"Next time, when I call everyone on board in 10, I'll be departing in ten, with or without you. Do you understand?" Fox told them, as he turned towards the elevator, and panther joined up with him.

"Yes, Fox." James said as the youngsters trudged behind them to the elevator.

"As for your punishment for being late, You'll be having the second and third night shifts until we get back here." Fox said, earning him a double WHAT!? from behind him. Fox was positively beaming as he muttered, "and there goes my hero reputation." under his breath, then a lot louder, "Welcome to boot camp Hellfox. Don't expect to enjoy your stay before you're up to our standards cause you won't."

"You're worse than Wolf, you know that?" Panther said.

"He picked his cruelty up after something happened between him and father, but I have simply inherited it." Fox explained, "You can't learn those higher subtleties of being cruel with the same voice you use for compassion. Not that I use if for THAT often. I'm a closet sadist after all."

"Remind me never to get on your bad side." Panther said, "If McClouds are really that evil."

"Of the last two who got on the bad side of a McCloud, one lost an eye, and one was blown to pieces." Fox said idly as he walked onto the command bridge. "Buckle up everyone." then he pressed a button on his desk. "This is Starfox," he told the control tower, "departing for Sauria. Requesting permission for take-off."

"Starfox, this is control tower." a monkey replied over the radio, "Please stand by for departure. The zone is currently too crowded for departure of the Greatfox. We're clearing the departure line … path is clear. Please follow the projected hoops to the designated path through Meteo."

"Yes, Sir. Starfox moving out." Fox called as he activated the hover thrusters to get off the hangar floor, as well as started up the main engine. "ROB, take over" he said, leaning back in his chair, "Follow the path outward, then set course to Sauria."

Meanwhile, Wave laid passed out on a bed, having been sedated twice before he passed out. Two surgeons were busy cutting away the flesh to expose the optic nerve, so that they could start building the socket for the implant.

- Coordinated unknown, somewhere near Zoness-

In a dark room, there stood Shade in a black cloak, face hidden. One by one, four projectors came to life, showing unrecognizable silhouettes in black cloaks. "General Hound," He called, "I thought I was our diplomatic leader on Corneria. Why did our order support my main rival?"

"Your progress has been lacking." one of the four replied, "besides, it is best for our order if we were took no chances and had both contestants for election under our control."

"Why are you not heading back for Corneria?" another asked, "My family has been murdered. We've never tolerated the murder of our own, and I'm not gonna start now."

One of them took off the top of his cloak. It was an arctic fox, green eyes looked straight at him. "You're right. We do not tolerate the murder of one of our own, regardless of who ordered it. Dismissed." he said, waving at the other three, and their projections went off. The arctic fox' projection flickered for a moment before it solidified again. "This line is now secured." he said, "Thread very carefully, but follow this trail. Even if it points back to our order see it through till the end. There is treason afoot. Don't trust anyone. Not even one of the other three. There will be more attempts on your life, and I suspect one or more of them has betrayed the principles of our order. The only reason I trust you is that someone wanted to get rid of you for some reason, so you're not in the plot. Normally I trust my students, but at least one of them is planning betrayal. Don't fail me, my child."