Notes: This is longest chapter by far, but that is because there was a lot of plot lines that needed to be resolved.
Chapter 28 A Slight Ray of Light
Falco and Slippy had made their way up the bridge and had token their assigned seats when had reached that area of the Great Fox II. Slippy took the seat that was attached to the science station and Falco took the seat that was normally reserved for Fox when he was here.
"Peppy, what is the status of Fox and rest of the team?" Asked Falco as he swirled the chair around to face the rabbit.
"Hold on," answered the rabbit as he tapped a few buttons that were on his holographic display.
"We don't have all day," snapped the avian.
"Hang on, you forget I'm monitoring several things at once, like the status of the signal, the seismic activity that is going on Fichina, the countdown to Mt. Chrono's eruption, and what is coming out of that Dark Void. So I'm sorry, that is taking longer than you expect it to take," answered the rabbit that continue to work on his computer terminal unit he got what he wanted, the location of where the rest of the team was. He saw that they had token of from the surface, but he found out that they were not heading back to the Great Fox II, like he thought they would and so Peppy dug a little deeper into this to see what would force then to take this detour. He found out that they were chasing down yet another Bacterian Core Ship that was revealed by the computer as the Crystal Core.
"Hey, old man, what is up with you? I told you we don't have all day with this, so where is Foxie and the rest of his team at?" Asked the annoyed avian.
"You want the bad or the good news?" Asked Peppy.
Falco just rolled his eyes at this for he knew that this was a rhetorical question and it didn't even matter what option he picked. "Dose it really matter?"
"Not really," answered Peppy. "But, if you wanted to know, they are off the surface of Fichina and before you celebrate this news, they aren't out of danger yet because they are still on that world."
"Why?" Demanded Falco that got out of his chair.
"Because they are chasing down another Bacterian Core Ship that is known as the Crystal Core," answered Peppy.
Falco didn't want to believe this, for this was out of character for Fox to do something like this, for knew as well as anybody that chasing after a signal rouge target, no matter who temping it was, was a sure way to get oneself into danger. So the avian briskly walked up where Peppy was sitting, looked at the same readout that Peppy was looking at and he also saw that the rabbit was telling the truth about what Fox's team was doing.
"Now do you believe me?" Asked a mocking Peppy that fought the urge to say to Falco "I told you so".
"I have to, but I would like to know more about this 'Crystal Core'," said Falco.
Peppy nodded his head and honored Falco's request to bring up the information that the Gradian had about the Crystal Core. The first thing he notice was the fact that the name "Crystal Core" was an apt name for this Core Ship for a majority of the ship was made out of something that look like a huge crystal. As he eyes got used to the image of the Crystal Core he found out that he was to see more details about the ship and the fact that the part of the ship that he thought was completely made out of crystal was in fact only a covering. For, he was able to see through the outer shell of the ship into to see that there was something that look like it was machine in nature. After noticing that certain trait about the Crystal Core, Falco looked at the other side of the core ship and he saw that there were two long tentacles that had a series of knobs that were of a lighter shade of blue, that were place at various points. The avian had no clue what these knobs were far and considering what James had said about the things that the Bacterian did were always done for a purpose, he knew that these things had a reason behind him beyond the point decoration for the core.
"So that what's the Crystal Core look like," mused Falco. "Look like it is quite an impressive craft."
Peppy said nothing at what the avian had said about that thing as he kept an eye out on several other things, unaware the fact that Falco went on to read about the history of the craft and how the thing had attack. In doing that he found out that the Gradian had first encountered this craft at the later half of the Second Bacterian War in an area of space that was full with fake crystals that the Vic Vipers had to blast through to get to this craft and the last time they had encountered this craft was at the time of the Third Bacterian War. This time it was part of a series of cores that acted as the last line of defense for the Bacterian Homeworld. After that he went to look at how this thing attacked, Falco found out that it attacked by using it tentacles like whips and seeing that he now knew why these knobs were placed on the ship, to increase the smash attack the craft. Then he found out that out of the tentacles there was yet another attack and this one came in the form of a raindrop shape bullet that was assumed to be some type of plasma. After that he found out that the thing had yet another attack and that came in the form of a series of twin lasers that it fired either in a signal shot or in a blitz style attack.
"And it also packs an impressive weapons," said Falco at the sight of this.
Seeing this, he now understood the reason why Fox and the rest of his team went after this thing, it was a dangerous craft that needed to be destroyed as soon as they could. But as he continue to read about the thing he found out that his first impression of the craft being a danger to them was unfounded for he read the notes about the craft and he found out that while the craft look impressive, it in fact was quite weak, despite the fact that the one that was used to defend the Bacterian homeworld had added moves. With that new bit of information about the craft he now was worry about Fox that he might be walking into a trap that was set up by the Bacterians.
"Peppy, that Crystal Core thing, while it looks dangerous, is in fact extremely weak and...," started Falco.
"He and the rest of the team might walking into a trap," finished the rabbit. "If that is so, we have to warm Fox about this before his finds out the hard way."
Falco nodded his head at this and Peppy took that as a sign that the avian understood what he was talking about. So without saying anything about it he open up a channel to Fox and preyed that he didn't walk into that trap.
"Peppy, what is it? Don't you see we are chasing a Core Ship down," said Fox.
"Yes, we know and according to what the Gradians have about the Crystal Core is that while it look dangerous is in fact extremely weak and this might be a trap," warmed Peppy.
Fox shook his head at this, he knew the same information about the Crystal Core that Peppy knew about the thing, but there was one thing that he knew about this craft that Peppy didn't know about the thing and that was the fact that this craft had pieces of the Bacterian crystals on that thing. "Peppy, I'm well aware of the weak nature of the Crystal Core, but what you don't know is the fact that parts of the Bacterian that is down there somehow found a way to survive the sound assault that we put on that thing and it merged with the Crystal Core."
"What? Are you serious about this? I thought that sound would destroyed all of that?" Asked Peppy.
"We thought the same thing, but it look like we are wrong about the thing and considering the fact that this Bacterian is the ancient form there might be things that this Bacterian knows that the Bacterians that is in this system doesn't know about. If that Crystal Core gets to the Dark Void and shares the knowledge that it has, who knows what twisted things it could create," answered Fox.
"Oh, then go after that thing," said Peppy.
Fox nodded his head at that and with that the image of vulpine leader faded away from the view of his team mates, replaced by the tactical image of the several ships that were flying in Fichina.
Then everybody that was on the bridge heard the alert echo throughout the bridge.
"Peppy was up?" Asked Falco.
Once again Peppy tapped a couple of buttons to see what was the caused of this alarm and in a matter of seconds the white rabbit got the answer that he wanted, but it wasn't the thing that he wanted to see, for the Bacterian Battle Cruiser that James had spoken about had fully come out of the Dark Void. "Oh, no, the Bacterian Battle Cruiser that James had warmed us about is completely out of the Dark Void."
Falco didn't have the luxury to spend time on thinking about what this was all about for the avian knew what this meant in their mission.
"Put it on the main screen!" Ordered Falco.
Peppy nodded his head at that and imputed a series of commands that put up the image of the cruiser, breaking through the thick gas of the Dark Void and when he did that, everybody that wasn't standing at this point, stood up in reaction to the sight of this craft. They all could see that it was duo leveled craft was green in color that look like that it was machine in nature that look like that it could carried up to thousand of people and/or craft. Seeing this the members of the Star Fox team wondered did they have to go into this craft and if that was the case, how would they have to get into the ship for the craft look like that it was completely sealed up. If they did fine a way into that craft, what would they have to targeted for it look like this ship had no typical engine that they could take out.
"Is that what I think it is?" Asked Slippy.
"Yes, Slippy, that is the Battle Cruiser that is from the Bacterian," answered Peppy that did a double check to make sure that it was the real deal.
"Is there anyway to get into that ship?" Asked Falco.
Once again the rabbit tapped a few more commands into his computer terminal to scan that ship and he found out that the green cladded ship was made up of some type of blended material metal that was neither in their nor the Gradian database was able to tell him what it was. Because of that Peppy doubted that any of their weapons would be able to break through the armor of this ship, but the rabbit wasn't defeated by the sight of this, for he knew that all things had some type of weakest that could be used against it. So he continue to scan the ship and then the rabbit was able to saw something that might be a weakest, a hatch that was in front of the ship that look like that it was made out of a different type of metal, a metal that they were able to discover that it was a metal that was something that they might be able to destroy and gain access to the inside of this ship.
"Yes, there is a way to get into that ship," answered the rabbit that caused the image of the craft to be enlarged and in doing that they were able to see more details of this ship, like the fact that there were numerous things that they could best describe as antenna that were placed throughout the hall of this ship. "Look there," said Peppy that pointed toward the center of the craft and Falco and Slippy were able to see that there was a huge circle shape door that was shut.
"Yes, I see it," said Falco.
"I also see it as well," said Slippy at the image of the thing.
"According to what my computer says about that is that it is something that we can break through," said Peppy.
"So what are we waiting for, let's get to it and take that thing out out our space," said Falco that started to head to the door.
"What a second, do you think we should tell Fox about this before we do anything that involves destroying that thing," advised Peppy.
That made the raptor stopped what he was about to do and think for a brief second and he found out that Peppy was right about this. They did need him if they had plans on attacking that thing. So Falco found himself stopped. "Yes, we should, but I think he would know about that thing coming out of that void and our plans on attacking that thing."
Peppy agreed to that and he once again open up a channel to Fox. "Fox, that Bacterian Battle Cruiser that was in that Dark Void has made its appearance and Falco has plans on attacking that thing."
"Yes, we are well aware of it and this is what I fear would happen," said Fox.
"What would happen?" Asked Peppy.
"That the Bacterian that were down there on Fichina would call on the Bacterian that is that Dark Void before we destroy it," answered Fox.
"What do you want us to do?" Asked Peppy.
"Stay out of its way, it might ignore you if you don't attack it. Let us finish up destroying the Crystal Core and we'll move beyond that," answered James.
"Are you okay with this?" Asked Peppy.
"Yes, I am," answered Fox.
"Okay, good luck," said Peppy.
Unseen by anybody that was on the Great Fox II, Fox nodded his head at that and was happy with the fact that Falco didn't rush into this battle, like he normally did. "You to, Fox out." Then the vulpine leader heard the channel that was between him and Peppy go dead.
After that Fox turned around his attention to the thing that was called the Crystal Core and how after numerous of attacks on their part had finally got that thing to think that they were wroth its effort to fight the three of them. Fox, the thing had twisted tis entire body around to face the trio of fighters and in doing that all three foxes were able to see more details about this ship. Like the fact that itself had a center core that was protected by a series of metal blades, much like its other kin. But, the one difference from this one from the other ones was the fact that this core was being protected an additional series of gun turrets that the core ships didn't waste anytime in firing at them in a rapid succession.
A series of blue twin laser beams came in the direction of the three of them and that caused everybody to break their formation to avoid the attack. After that all three of them return fire on the Crystal Core, targeting the center of the craft, forcing the core ship to stop its attack on these fighters, but even with that, the core ship wasn't stopped by this assault that was done by this group of fighters. So once again the Crystal Core open fire on the group of fighters with its twin lasers attack and it added a new trick to the mix, which was that it started to launch several tear drop shape piece of plasma that came out of its tentacles that it started to whip around as yet another way to protect its precious core.
Not amused by this new style of attack that it was giving to them, all three pilots open fire on the thing, to make sure that their weapon fire would hit the center of the craft. Like before their attacks hit, by not what they wanted, for they had hit the arms of the Crystal Core and unlike what happen, when their shots hit the center of the craft, which blew up the armor that was protecting the core, they did nothing.
Nobody said anything at this sight and went right back to work, targeting the center of the craft. But, unlike the pervious time, they all waited until the Crystal Core open up its arms, exposing its core to their weapon fire. Before the core ship could cover its core with its arms, all three vulpine pilots open fire on the center of the craft. With the help of the computer aided, lock on they all all hit their mark and like before parts of the armor that was protecting the core was torn of from the weapon fire before the Crystal Core was able to shield tis core from their weapon fire, thus preventing any of them from getting another shot off at the thing.
"You are only delaying your destruction," said Fox at the actions that the Crystal Core was doing at this time.
"You are right about that," said James. "Fox take a look at the Crystal Core's armor."
Fox did that and found out that all of the Crystal Core's armor was all gone, leaving its core exposed to their shots, but it seem that the Crystal Core wasn't working with them, for it still had its arms close, thus blocking them from shooting at its core. Before they knew it, it started to fire more of its blue twin lasers at them while moving up and down in a sweeping monition in a hope that one of its shots would it one of the three fighters. But, the monition of the core ship was slow and allowed all three pilots to avoid this change in its attack pattern.
"Yes, I see it," said Fox. "But, the dang core ship isn't working with us."
"Keep your patience my son, you will be able to shoot that thing," said another voice that didn't belong to any of the two people that were with him. Because of that he suddenly had to make sure that he wasn't hearing anything.
"James, did you say something?" Asked Fox.
"Yes, I did and that was to kept your patience with that thing for you will be able to shoot at thing thing," said James. "Why?"
Strange thought Fox, for he had clearly heard the voice of his father giving him similar words of advice about dealing with this Crystal Core and its stead fast nature of not dying for them. "Oh, nothing, I just wanted to make sure of what you said to me."
"All right," said James that took yet another look at the readout and he found out that the Crystal Core had once again open up its arms.
"Fox, its time, to shoot the core of that thing!" Yelled James.
Both Fox and Krystal saw that James had spoken the truth about the Crystal Core, for it had open up its arms, which would allow them to take another shot at the thing. Without wasting anytime, all three pilots locked onto the center of the craft, when they got the confirmation that the lock on was true, they all open fire at the center of the craft. Like before all of their shots hit the center of the craft, without its armor protecting its core, the shots hit the core itself, suddenly turning the blue orb into a red orb that would be destroyed in one hit, and that what happen to the Crystal Core's core it was destroyed.
Without the core, the powerhouse of this ship, it started to break apart as the machine portion of the craft started to fail and blow up. The smaller explosion that were contain within the crystal layers started to crack and before they all knew it, portions of the crystal shell fell onto the icy ground of Fichina, cracked and fragmented by the explosion, but even with that they all could see that the cracked reminds of he Crystal Core created a debris field on the ground. A debris field that they could an anybody else that was around watching the battle used to track down, this domed core ship. Which they did and while they were doing that they could see what the debris field was made out, for it was made out of different parts of the craft that contained piece of the broken crystal shell, burnt out pieces of the mechanical part of the ship, and the a complete arm of the ship.
"How in the world did pieces of that core ship survive?" Asked James.
"Why?" Asked Fox.
"Because whenever a core ship losses it core, the entire ship will be destroyed, with nothing left of the craft," answered James.
"Maybe that's the reason," said Krystal that saw at the end of the debris field was another thing that look like it was another piece of the broken crystal shell, but as she got closer to the crystal fragment, she found out that wasn't the case for this thing. For, it appeared that it was thick and had a much more darker color of blue when compare to light blue tint crystals that were once on the Crystal Core. "Look at the thing that is out the end of the debris field."
Both James and Fox took a look at the object that was at the end or the beginning of the debris field. At first, the two male vulpines thought that same way that Krystal did at the sight of this object, that it was just another random piece of the broken crystal shell of the Crystal Core. But, as they took a closer look at the thing they saw just like Krystal did, that there were things that made this thing different from the rest of the debris field. With that they all knew that this object was different from the rest of the pieces and with that they all knew that this was what reminds of the ancient Bacterian.
"Yes, that much be the reason why this core ship wasn't completely destroyed when its core was destroyed by us, for it has the strength that came from the ancient Bacterian and that is something that we can't allow the current Bacterian to have," said James.
"That's right," said Fox. "Let's blast that thing with that sound." After he said that, he started to key in the command that would allow him to transmitted that signal and doing that, James was also preparing his fighter to do the same.
"I'll ready," said James.
"Good luck boys," said Krystal.
So with that out of the way, the two foxes of James and Fox were about to transmit the signal, but when they were about to that they were alerted by yet another warning that was telling the two foxes that there was something that was rapidly approaching their location. At first they were not able to tell what it was only that it was some thing that look like that it was being controlled by some thing, or someone that was intelligent. But, as the object was getting closer to were their fighters were able to tell them what this object was, more and more of the details about this object became clearer for all of them to see. That this object wasn't a natural object, but an artificial object that took the form of some type of flying thing.
"What is that thing?" Asked Krystal.
"I don't know," paused Fox as he tapped in a command into his display that would at least tell him what this ship was. "But, I will soon find out." He waited for a couple of seconds and he got his answer, an answer that he didn't want to see nor expected. For the Vic Viper had pull up a shadowily image of an Arwing, a craft that he was all to familiar with, but one this Vic Viper wasn't. Because of that it give him a warring about this and it advise him to be careful of this thing.
This caused Fox to do a little grin on his face, for he knew that the Arwing wasn't a danger to anybody for it was an allied craft and he was about to throw up some banter to James for not updating this Vic Viper's computer about this craft. But, something told him to stop what he was about to do and take yet another look at the image to make sure he was right about this. When he did that he saw that this image that he first thought was the shape of an Arwing that they were currently using, but the shape of the older Arwing, the ones that his team had flown during the Lylat Wars. Thinking of that he thought back to his father and the fact that he had flown one of these Arwings before. With that he thought back at the time he saw this Arwing in the vision when he was on the converted twisted surface of Titania and when he saw ti come out of the Dark Void.
Putting two and two together, Fox knew that this Arwing wasn't from anybody that he would think of an ally, but from a person that he would consider to be an emery to everything that he had close to his heart.
"Hey, Fox are you okay?" Asked James.
The sound of James's voice brought Fox back to really and the reason why he was on this icy barren world in the first place, to destroy the ancient Bacterian that was down on this world hope that it would bring the Bacterian cruiser out of the Dark Void. "Yes, I'm fine, thank you James for asking, but that thing that is coming here is the same craft that came out of the Dark Void earlier."
"If that is true, then that thing is here for one reason and that is to get the remands of the ancient Bacterian," said James.
"Okay, let's hit the Bacterian that is down on the ground and let's hope that our combine signal is strong enough to destroy it before that craft comes here to take it away from us," said Fox.
Nobody wasted anytime in saying that they were going to do and just did it. Due to the fact that the signal was so high, none of the three foxes were able to hear it, which would of told all of them that the transmitters that were in Fox's and James's Vic Vipers were doing their jobs. The only way that they could tell that it was working was the digital readout that was blinking and counting down to the time when they would have to either voluntary shut down the transmitter or the computer would do it automatically due to safely reason.
"Is it working?" Asked Krystal that wasn't able to see nor sense anything that came from the ancient Bacterian that would of told her that their plan was working or not.
"It should be," answered James that was also trying to see if this thing was doing anything in the present of this signal.
"I think it is, look!" Exclaimed Fox as he took notice that small parts of the irregular crystalline object was staring to detached themselves from the whole and started to turn into blue dust, the very same way that the Bacterian that was in the lab did when it was exposed to this very same signal.
"I see, Fox, how long do we have before we have to shut down the transmitters?" Asked James.
"We have about 90 more seconds before we have to shut then down," answered Fox.
"Do you think we have enough time to destroy them before that craft comes or we are forced to shut down our transmitters? Because look at the process that we are making, it painfully slow," said Krystal.
Fox and James knew that Krystal was right about that one, they were making little process in destroying that thing in the limited amount of time that they had. If that wasn't something to worry about, it was the fact that they had that Arwing copy that was coming here as well. Speaking of that thing, both James and Fox did a quick check to see where that thing was at in relation to where the team was. Both foxes found out that the thing had stop dead in its tracks, and that it was just sitting there, waiting for the right time to act. Seeing that both James and Fox knew without a doubt in their mind that this thing was no way a real Arwing, due to the fact that they couldn't hover in the air like this thing was doing.
Now Fox and James were wondering what that Bacterian created thing was thinking or what was it waiting for. A sharp shrill of alert noise brought both Fox and James out of thoughts, to what was occurring in front of them, leaving their thoughts about that thing in the back of their collected minds. Then the two of them saw that they had 30 seconds left before they or the computer would have to shut down their transmitters and because of that both foxes did yet another check on the irregular crystal to see what had happen in the past 60 seconds. They found out that even the extra 60 seconds of the two of them hitting the thing with that signal wasn't good enough to destroy that thing completely, for there was still a good chuck of the dark blue crystal left on the ground.
"I hate to admit it, but we don't have the time nor the power to destroy this thing. I'm shutting down my own transmitter," said Fox while he tapped in a command that he knew would shut down his transmitter.
"I'm doing the same," said a somewhat defeated James, he clearly thought this was going to work, but clearly there was something that this ancient Bacterian had inside of it that had allowed itself to slow down the damage that the signal would do on it.
Now we have to wait another two whole two minutes before we have to power to blast this thing again thought Fox at what just happen. But, I don't think we have the time to do that.
Then Fox saw that the faux Arwing had came out of its waiting spot and was heading where they were.
"Look alive, that Arwing thing is coming," said Fox. "Don't let that thing near the ancient Bacterian."
"Right," said James and Krystal in unison.
In a matter of seconds after Fox had given the warring about the thing, it had appeared right ahead of them and like any foe of his, the Arwing open fire on all three of them with its laser or what the Bacterian thought were lasers.
But, the lasers beam did nothing to the shields of the three fighters and before they all knew it the Bacterian Arwing had passed right below them, using the attack as a way to kept all three of them busy while the Arwing would pick up the crystal.
All three pilots turned their fighters around in response to this latest development and fired on the Arwing in the hopes that it would do something to that thing. They hopped that their attack would force the thing that was inside of that craft to reconsider what it was doing and see that the three of them were a far bigger threat then what it first thought they were. But, their hopes where dash in the fact that Bacterian created Arwing had completely ignore that they were doing and continue on working on bringing up that crystal.
"Kept on attacking that thing, it can't kept on taking that beating without taking any type of damage or seeing that we are a threat to its mission," said Fox.
Nobody question Fox's orders and once again the trio of fighters fired once again on the Arwing that liked before was just sitting there, taking the damage and not showing any signs of damage from the assault that they were giving it.
"What is that thing made out of?" Asked James that was both confused and curious at this Arwing. For he knew that most stuff that came from the Bacterian was destroyed in either one shot or several shots, the only thing that he knew was impervious to weapon fire were the Shadow Dancers. Thinking about that he knew the reason why this Bacterian created Arwing was able to take all abuse that the three fighter were giving it, for it was made out of the same material that the Shadow Dancer were made out of. "Wait, don't answer that, I know the answer to that question and the reason why we can't seem to damage it."
"Why?" Asked a demanding Fox that was ready to fire at the thing again.
"Because, that Arwing-thing is made out of the same material that the Shadow Dancers are made out of," answered James.
"And that's means that we can't destroy the thing, that is just great," said Fox that took his finger all of the trigger, knowing that attacking that thing would be unless and that action would just repeat two more times, when both James and Krystal realized that was the truth about this thing.
They watched helpless as the Bacterian Arwing allowed the irregular crystal to attached itself to the haul of its fighter and then the fighter angled itself upward. Seconds after that the fighter blasted upward into the night sky, leaving a somewhat defeated trio of fighters in its mist. They had failed at this and nobody knew what would happen to the Bacterian that was in the Dark Void when this fighter got there.
"Fox, James, Krystal, can you read me?" Asked the slow drawn accented voice that everybody knew belong to Peppy.
"What the hell just happen down there? We saw that you destroyed the Crystal Core, after that we saw that you all stay down there despite the fact that the Crystal Core was destroyed," asked Peppy.
"It's a long story," started Fox. "By the way did you guys track anything that had entered or exited the planet?"
"No, why?" Asked Peppy.
"Because, the Bacterian object that look like an Arwing had come down here, and took the remanning ancient Bacterian crystals that had found a way to survive the destruction of the Crystal Core," answered Fox.
A disheartening sigh was heard from Peppy at the news of this, but with that the rabbit knew that this was something that couldn't set them back. Yes, it was a slight defeat at what they were doing, but they had bigger things to worry about and that was the huge Bacterian Battleship that was now fully out of its dark hiding place. "Don't worry about it, Fox. You got that Bacterian Battleship to worry about, we'll deal with this issue later."
"That's right, Foxie, and maybe that fake Arwing headed to the Battleship. If that is so, then we might be able to destroy that thing before anything could happen," said Falco.
Fox nodded his head at Falco's words of encouragement and he might be right about this, but even he doubted that the fact that the Arwing would be that dumb to do that. But, even with that it still felt good to attack something that came from the Bacterian after the defeat that they had just suffered.
"All right, Falco, we will meet up with you and Slippy in about two minutes," said Fox.
Unseen by the rest of the people, Falco nodded his head at that and as much as he didn't like the idea of having Slippy around to mess thing up. He was slightly happy with the fact the green guy was heading out in an Arwing instead of staying on the Great Fox II with Peppy. Because within an Arwing he would at least have a fighting chance against this thing, rather than on the Great Fox II. "We will be there."
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The Bacterian created James McCloud was glad with the fact that his Master had made his Arwing out of the same material as the armor that had covered a majority of the Shadow Dancers. For if it wasn't for that fact, he doubted that he would of survived the onslaught that the three fighters were giving him while he was extracting the crystal. How, he was heading back to the Dark Void were his Master and the majority of the Bacterian forces were at. By all accounts he should be pleased at the fact that he was able to achieve this goal for his side, but he didn't, for he felt disappointed at the fact that he was helping these creatures. He knew that he shouldn't be, due to the fact that they won't members of the Bacterians and thus didn't have the right to live in this universe. But, yet he did and he couldn't explain it, maybe it was the fact that the memories of James McCloud were starting to effect him once again or was it something else that his Master didn't account for that was doing this to him. He didn't know what to make of it and by all rights it was something that he should tell his Master about as soon as he saw him. But, something inside of him told him not to do this, due to the fact that he wanted to live. He might be a Bacterian creation of a thought dead Lylatian hero, but he still was a living self aware being and because of that he had the self preservation instincts that all living things had, so he made the choice that he would hide this doubt about himself. But, he wondered how he would be able to kept this away from his Master, due to the fact that he was telepathic and would be able to sense that about him. But, that was something that he would have to face when he got to that point, but right now he had to worry about flying this Arwing the right way so that he wouldn't cash into something.
He found himself passing the Cornerian Cruiser that the Star Fox team had called the Great Fox II and the "Great Fox" he saw that there were two more fighters that were coming out of the ship. These two fighters meet up with the other three fighters and he didn't need a message that came from his Master to tell him where these fighters were going to, which was the Bacterian Battleship. As much as he wanted to help this capitol ship, he knew that if he did that he risked the crystal that was on the underbelly of his fighter and so he pushed on, passing the Battleship, that would take him to the entrance of the Dark Void. Seeing that he knew that the next step that he would have to take was to go inside of the void and that what he did. Just like before his fighter slightly flickered as the effects of the cloak were interfered with by the entrance and if anybody was watching that, they would be able to see him enter into that void, but nobody was.
Inside of the void the Bacterian created James McCloud was able to see that the nature of the Dark Void didn't change from the last time that he had seen it, for it still consisted of black ribbons of dark gas that would turn anybody that was a non Bacterian into an organic goo that could be molded into anything. He could see that there were more Bacterian units that were waiting for the order to attack and since he was of that background these units paid no attention to him nor the waves of distortion that he made as his ship traveled through he void.
I see that you have made it said a voice that the Bacterian created fox knew belong to his Master and the sound of his Master voice made him experience a slight chill run down his back. He didn't know if his Master would be able to sense his feeling of doubt about what they were doing and if that was so, this might be the last time that he would be able to fly this craft.
Yes, I have and it is nice to know that you are doing fine thought James that was trying to hide his feeling about what they were doing.
Yes, I have and it is good to see that you have made it back as well said his Master. I was told by my feline agent that you were task with the mission that require you to bring back any piece of the ancient Bacterian that somehow found a way to survive.
Yes, that is true and I have managed to get a piece of that ancient Bacterian said James, that sensed that his Master wasn't able to tell about his sense of doubt about what they were doing. But he also knew that here was a good chance that he did and that it was hiding that fact from him. That only when he got on the surface of this world, would his Master tell him it was able to sense his feelings about what they were doing. So he mentally prepare himself what would happen to himself when he got to the surface of this world with the fact that this would be the last time that he would see all of this.
Good work thought his Master. Please come to the surface of this planet so that we all can see what type of secrets that it has that I can use to improve myself and our forces.
James nodded his head at what his Master told him to do. I will do that.
After he said that he felt the present of his Master out of his mind still unknown if his Master was able to sense what he felt about stuff and it was this face that made him a little nervous about heading down to that world, but he knew that he still had to head down to that world, due to the fact that he still had that crystal on his craft that needed to remove this stuff from his craft. So with some resignation at the fact that he was doing that, he put his craft into the position that would take him down to surface of this world still not knowing what would happen to him.
He reached the spot of the world where there was a huge metal door that was located in one of the polar region and when he reached that spot, he found out that the huge door had open up for him. Seeing that he fired up the thrusters that would give him enough speed that would allow him to travel through the hall. When he did that he found out that it was all mechanical and armed with various difference type of turrets that at this time were not hostile, for the fact that he was the same as they were.
Passing the various different gun turrets that were both on the floor and the ceiling of this long passageway, he found out that at the end of this long tunnel he found out that the tunnel had open up to a huge room that look like that it was devoid of activity. But, the Bacterian James McCloud knew that wasn't the case for there were things that were hiding from him. Even with that he still continue on his trip through this and in doing that he was able to see that there was more to this place then he first thought. For he found out that the open room was starting to narrow once again and that there were several obstructions that he would have to adjust his flight plan if he didn't want to end up hitting those walls. If that wasn't bad enough for anybody that was of non Bacterian that was either fool heartily or brave enough to make it here, there were two mini cores that were guarding the narrow passage, but once he was of Bacterian, those mini cores moved away from him and allowed him safe passage through this section of the tunnel. After that part he found himself, in yet another big room that didn't have much turrets and seeing this James knew that this part of the tunnel were full with moving parts that would try to crush anything that was non Bacterian. As he passed that room he found himself in another part of the tunnel that had several gun turrets and inactive laser beams that according to what his computer told him couldn't be destroyed by anything that the Vic Vipers could throw at it.
Passing through that room he found out that he was yet in another huge room that had two voids on both the top and the button of the room. James tried to look inside of either void to see what was place there and he couldn't see anything that would give him a clue what was place there. So knowing that he wouldn't get anywhere with this he decided that it was best for him to press on forward to where his Master was at and to see what other changes were made to this place from the last time he had traveled through this place. In doing this he found out that there were more changes that were put into this place like the fact that he was yet again in another huge room with a couple of small alcoves that were on both the ceiling and the floor of this place. Seeing this James wondered what was the point of this place, for to him it made no sense to make a room like this and then the Bacterian created James McCloud found the reason that was behind all of this, for he saw that there was a huge blue machine that was ahead of him.
Looking at that James knew he was looking at and that was a Shadow Dancer, a thing that couldn't be destroy machine, that would walk around this part of the base in an attempt to stop anybody from reaching their Master and while it was good idea to use, because of the thing being invulnerable. But, it didn't take in the fact that anybody with a good pair of eyes would be able to see that the thing did have one weakest, which was the fact that it did have gaps in the way that it walked, which a person could fly through. If they couldn't do that, they would use the various different type of alcoves that were located on the top and the bottom of the room to allow the machine's legs to pass over them while the thing would walk over them. He wondered why his Master would use this old method in protecting itself with the fact that it had failed in the past, he thought that it would of done something that was different that would through their Gradian ally off track and might be the key element on defeating them.
But, he didn't have the time to think about his Master's plans in defending himself for the Shadow Dancer lower its upper legs which open up a space that was wide enough for him to fly through without obstructing the way that it walked. After that he found himself inside of a room that look like that it was made out of dry rock and seeing that James knew that he was in his Master's inner chamber. So with that he knew that it would only be a matter of time before he would fine himself in the part of the chamber that would allow him to land his Arwing down on the rock.
In a matter of seconds he found that part of the chamber as it was flat section of the cave and so James tapped in a few buttons(he was starting to like this kind of interface) that told the Arwing to land down on the table-like formation of rock. Without thinking about it, James was able to land the craft down, after that he opened up the canopy of the craft, and then he got out of the craft.
He paused for a second to take a look around the place that he was in, to see if there was anything that was put into place while he was gone and at first he saw that nothing had change. So James thought that it would be best for him to get as the Lylatians put it "A move on" and get this meeting with his Master' over with. But, he was stopped by two things that caught the attention of the vulpine, one it was the entrance/exit of the mechanical part of this planet, for it appeared that there was a wall that look like to be made out of some type of organic wall.
That's new thought James at this and then he turned his attention toward his Arwing. When he did that he was stopped by the other thing that caught his attention and that the fact that he had almost forgetting about the Bacterian Crystal that was still attached to this Arwing. So without thinking about it he walked to the part of his fighter that had the crystal on it and gently tried to peel the crystal off of his fighter. He found out that the crystal didn't fight with him, while he was trying to get the thing off of his fighter. James didn't knew why this was and only assumed that because that it was in a pace that was considered by the Bacterian as safe and thus didn't feel that it's existence wasn't threaten by the things that were all around it. Even if that was so he didn't reject this blessing and accepted it with open arms.
After that he started to walked on the rough dirty surface of this place and while he was doing that he saw that nothing in this place had changed from the last time he had seen it. So he didn't take the time to look around the place and that would have been something that he would of done throughout this trip to where his Master was at. Until he heard the sound of something that sounded like a roar that was coming out of the magma pools that were of to his far right and that sound made him stop dead in his tracks to see what was making that sound.
At first James saw that there was nothing in that area and because of that he thought that he had only heard the sound. So James just shook that off and started to walked again and as soon as he did that he heard that roaring sound once again coming in the same general direction. Like before he stop, to take a look around out of the magma that might of made that noise. Seeing that, he was relieved by the fact that there was something physical that had made that noise and that he wasn't just hearing things, like he first thought he was. So with that out of that way he knew that it was time to take a closer look at what this thing look like and to see if it was something that he could recognize.
He narrowed his eyes on that thing and he saw that it was a thing that took the form of a dragon. Looking at that he knew what he was looking at. For it was the dragons that came out of the numerous suns that the Vic Viper had to passed through during the later half of the Second Bacterian War. Even if he knew what was that thing and what time it first appeared it still didn't explain the reason why this thing was here.
Forget about that thing said a voice in his head that the Bacterian created James McCloud knew was his Master and by the way that he sounded he was able to heard that he had received from the assault that took place on Fichina. You need not to worry about it, please come, I would like to see what you have managed to save.
Right way thought James and like before he hasn't sense that his Master was aware of his lingering questions about what they were doing. But, like before he still couldn't count on the fact that his Master was still hiding the fact that it knew what he was thinking and at the right time tell him about his questions on what they were doing.
Even with that on his mind he still headed to where his Master was, he still had to give the appearance that he was 100% loyal to what they were doing. For he knew if he had shown any signs of doubt about this, he would be casted back into that pit of magma without a second thought about the action and that was something that he didn't want to have happen to himself.
He made his way to where his Master was and saw that his Master looked the same way. He also saw that the feline Bacterian agent was there as well.
"Ah, it is nice to see that you have finally made it," she said.
The Bacterian created fox nodded his head at that. "Yes, I have and per your request I have managed to save some of the ancient Bacterian from that world."
"Good," said the feline agent. "Can we all see it."
Once again the fox nodded his head at that and without saying another world to any of them he produced a clunk of crystals that was made out of the blue fragments pieces.
At first nobody say anything at the sight of this and James started to wonder was this worth all of the efforts that he put into getting this thing, just for the two of them to said nothing about it.
I can see that you have down well but, thought his Master.
The pause in his Master's voice unnerved James for he knew that this would be the moment that would seal his faith and that his life would end at this time. So he braced himself for what he thought would happen, that he would be told that his thoughts betrayed his actions for that he would be denied the right to continue on living. But, lucky for him that wasn't the case for James for his Master's had other thing to talk about and that was the blue broken crystals that he held in his hand.
They aren't worth that much thought his Master.
The sound of those words brought a sense of relief on James, for he knew that he had avoid that bullet and that he would be able to continue on living as this form with these thoughts. But, how long James didn't know.
"Why?" Asked the feline agent.
For they have lost all of their intelligence, I think it might have been done as a way to kept itself alive when it was hit by that sound thought his Master.
"So, did I waste my time on this?" Asked James that choses his words in his question carefully.
Yes you have, I'm sorry about that answered his Master.
"So what do you want us to do with it?" Asked the feline agent.
Anything that you want said their Master.
So with that James took that as a queue to toss the thing into the nearby magma pit and so he walked up to the nearest one. Paused a little and dropped the chuck of blue crystal into the pool of magma without thinking about it. He was happy with the fact that he didn't have to deal with that thing again.
James, I have one more thing for you thought his Master.
With that he knew that this would be the moment that he would creased to exist and that the he knew that the only thing that he could do was to prepare himself for that news.
"Yes, what is it?" He asked hiding his fear about what would happen to him.
I need you to stay here his Master answered.
"Why? Wouldn't you need me to help defend the Battle cruiser that Andrew is controlling?" Asked James. "For the Star Fox team is about to attack the ship."
Yes, I well aware of what is about to happen to the Battle cruiser, but Andrew acted premature and didn't wait for me to tell him to head out of the protection of the Dark Void. Because of that, Andrew will have to deal with them all by himself answered his Master.
James nodded his head at that.
You can leave now thought his Master and with that James exited the chamber that his Master was in.
When James had exited that room his Master and his feline agent where able to see what was happening outside of the Dark Void. Both of them could see that James was telling the truth about the Battle cruiser and the Star Fox team, for they had quickly formed up in an arrow formation. But, there was something that the two of them took notice about the formation, for three of them were Arwings, but the one that was in the lead of the group was the blue Vic Viper. The Vic Viper that was piloted by Nick Viper, the Gradian that was controlled by one of its Zelos parasites and because of that was killed by this team. Now seeing this he wondered was that untrue and that they were able just kill the Zelos parasite without killing the host, he knew that was a possibly. But, if that was true, then there would be six fighters instead of the five fighters that they saw in front of him.
Even with that the two of them saw that the group of five fighters headed toward the battle cruiser and the battle cruiser reacted toward this offensive attack by slowly backing away from them toward the safely of the Dark Void. Despite the fact that Andrew had acted premature in the fight and exposed himself to this risk, he would so nothing to help him nor would he do again that would hurt him either.
Let's see how Andrew handles this thought the Bacterian leader.
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Everybody that was part of the Star Fox team had joined up with both Slippy and Falco taking their positions in the formation. Which was Falco took the spot that was on Fox's right side, while Slippy took that was one that was in the back of the formation.
"Is everybody here?" Asked Fox.
"I'm here," answered Slippy.
"That's goes the same with me as well," answered Falco.
"Okay, let's go and take that thing out," said Fox.
After that all five pilots made their fighters thrust forward the Bacterian battlecruiser and when all five of them did that they saw that the Bacterian battlecruiser started to back away from them. None of the pilots needed to be a genius to know what that thing was trying to do, for it was trying to escape to the safely of the Dark Void, knowing that they couldn't fight the thing for long while inside of that place. Because of they all knew what it was trying to do neither of the five pilots needed to waste anytime talking about what that thing was doing and thus they pushed their fighters to the max, in an attempt to catch up with the ship.
When they got close to the ship, they all saw that the ship had stop its progress and open up its huge circle door and with that James MacCloud knew what was about to happen, a huge core ship was about to come out. If that was the case it meant that they were about to enter into a Boss Rush, but if that was true, then where was the Zub Rush that took place before a Boss Rush. Then he thought about the Zub Rush that they fought with before they enter into that organic base, was that the Zub Rush that normally came with a Bacterian fleet. But, even with that he knew that he had to kept his eye forward, deal with what type of core ship they were about to face and warmed the rest of them about this.
"Look out, guys, that ship is about sent out a core ship," said James.
"If that is so, then it means..." started Fox.
"Yes, we are about to enter into a Boss Rush," answered James.
"Just perfect," said Falco. "Also, how long dose this 'Bosh Russ' last?"
"Most of the time, they will send out six to eight core ships at us and most of the time they are weak when compare to the other stuff that they have," answered James.
"Whatever type of core ships that come out of there, we will be ready for it," said Fox.
Seconds after that a huge circle object come out of the open door an seeing that James knew what he was looking at, for it was the Terran, the very same craft that had destroyed that group of Cornerian fighters. Even if he wanted to open fire on the thing before the craft could tell them what it was, he knew that it was something that he couldn't do to the fact that to core of the Terran didn't become active yet. Which, meant that he like the rest of the team would have to wait until that happen, which would only be in a matter of seconds, but that was to long, for the shape of the craft would appear before they would be able to destroy that thing.
Like James thought would happen with the craft, happen, its four braid-like arms came out, showing to the rest of the team what this craft was.
"That can't be," said Fox.
"Yup, that is the Terran, the very same thing that had destroyed that group of Cornerian fighters that tried to find more about the Dark Void," answered James.
"While, less not waste time talking about that thing and that it did to this system in the past. Let's waste our time in destroying that thing and preparing ourselves for the next fight," said Falco.
Everybody nodded their heads at that and all five pilots headed toward the Terran. Just like they thought, the craft didn't welcome them with open arms and allow them to fire at it now open core without putting up a fight. For the ship started swing its arms in a counter clockwise monition while it move toward the five of them in an attempt to ram them, but all five pilots were able to avoid the ramming attack and the swinging arms with easy. After that all five pilots were able to see that they had an opening that would allow them to take a shot at the armor that was protecting its core. Knowing that the time they had in that position was unknown, all five of the pilots locked onto the center of the craft, waited until they got a lock on from their computers, and when they did they open fire on the thing.
Seconds after that the center of the Terran was hit by a series of laser beams and charged shots that blew away two of the four armor blades that were protecting its valuable core. Not wasting anytime with this craft, all five pilots once again targeted the center of the craft before it would it try to ram them. But, they all found out that the time that they had on destroying it was up and it was once again trying to ram them either with its long metal arms or tis body. So like before they artfully avoided the arms of the thing and while they were doing that they saw that the monition that was on the arms got faster then the pervious time. If that wasn't bad enough to deal with, it was the fact that now the tips of the arms of this craft were coming more rocks, thus making the safe spots that they could use while in the battle, less and the odds of them getting hit by anything that came from the Terran greater.
"Hold together, team," said Fox as he made tiny adjustment on the controls of the Vic Vipers that allowed him to avoid anything that came from the Terran. "If we do what we did the last time we would be able to take this thing out in another pass."
Everybody nodded their heads at this and did what their leader said while trying their best to avoid anything that came from the Terran.
Once again all five pilots found themselves with the same spot before with the only exception was the fact that half of the armor that was protecting its core was gone. Like before they wasted no time in targeting the center of the craft, waiting for the confirmed lock that they got from their computers and open fire on the thing, blasting the thing with their weapons. Causing the two reminding pieces of armor that were protecting the core to be torn away, leaving its core unprotected from their weapons fire. Knowing that the thing would once again try to ram them in the same sweeping fashion, so without saying another word to each other, all five pilots locked onto the center of the thing. Like before the all waited when they received a nonfiction that they had a lock on the center of the craft they all fire at the target. With that a series of powerful laser beams and charged shots hit the center of the craft, without the protection of the strips of metal, the shots hit the Terran's core directly. At first the core withstood the blitz of weapon fire, but in the end the core eventually turned red and was destroyed. Without the core, the Terran exploded in a ball of flames that were quickly put out without the present of oxygen.
"Okay, what's next," said Falco.
Right on queue, Falco saw what was next and it look like that they were going to face yet another machine type enemy, but at the distance they weren't able to see all of the details that this ship had. But, as the thing got closer to them they were able to see more of the core ship and James was able to tell the rest of the team what type of core ship was.
"Guys, that the Roiling Core, a recent addition to the fleet of core ships," said James. "Before you ask, I'll be giving you the information about the thing." After that James tapped a few buttons that transmitted the data about the Roiling Core, that included the times that it appeared and the different attacks that thing had.
Everybody on the team saw the information about the Roiling Core and the different type of attacks that the thing had. While most of the attacks were things that they could handle it was the fact that there were two different versions of this core ship. There was the one that was from the most recent attack that attacked with laser beams that came from a bunch of regenerating gun turrets, a ramming attack, and a huge blue energy beam that it fire from the center of the ship. There was the other version that came from its first appearance that had two additional attacks that included an attack that consisted of homing missiles and another one that had the thing move up and down, sweeping the entire area with lasers beams that came from the same regenerating gun turrets. But, which version they would face in this battle it was a question that they would have to see when this core ship started its attack run on them.
"Hey, guys, do you see this?" Asked Fox.
"What is it, Fox?" Asked Krystal.
"This core ship there are two version of that thing," started Fox, that tapped a few buttons to see if the Vic Viper would be able to tell him what version of the Roiling Core that they were facing at this time. "And, I would like to know what version of the thing we are facing at this time."
"I see that as well," said Falco.
"But, I can't seem to tell what version we are about to face," said Fox.
"That's goes the same with me as well," said James.
"Just great, I would of liked to face the one that came from the last invasion attempt and not the one that appeared nearly 6 hundred years ago," said Fox.
"That's goes the same with me as well," said James.
But before any of the team could talk about the different versions of the Roiling Core, the ship started to attack them in the form of the nearly dozen laser beams that forced the Star Fox team to avoid the attack. While they wanted to return fire at the thing, they knew that they couldn't' due to the fact that the sliver core that was in the center of the craft was still sliver in color and that meant that they couldn't do any type of damage to the ship. Then they all saw that the sliver core had changed its color from sliver to blue and they all knew that was the time for them to start shooting at the thing, for they all knew that this was the time that their shots would do damage to the ship. So they all open fire at the core ship and they found out that while some of their shots did hit the center of the ship, a good majority of their shots had hit the various different guns turrets, the only came back after they were destroyed. If that wasn't bad enough, it was the fact that four of the regenerating laser turrets were attached to the part of the core ship that was moving, making even more of their shots hit either the metal shell of the ship or the laser turrets.
"This is going to be fun," commented James harshly as he found that his signal shot had only hit one of the laser guns.
"Tell me about it," said Fox that looked at the controls that would bring out the options. "James, we aren't getting anywhere with signal shots with this thing."
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Asked James.
"Yes," replied Fox.
With another word from any of the two of them the two foxes pushed the buttons that brought out the options for both fighters. As soon as they did that both of them got a readout that told them about the bug that was in the system that told them that they could only have four options out at the sametime and despite that they were ready for the fight.
"Let's see if this additional firepower, will help with the fight," said Fox.
"I hope so," said Falco that found out that even with a charged shot, he was only able to hit the gun turrets, only to fine out that they would only come back again to fire at the avian pilot. "Because, I don't know how long we can last in this fight, if the only thing that we can manage to hit are those dam gun turrets."
Then after he said that they all got a warring about the core ship, that it look like that it was about to ram them.
"Look out!" Yelled Fox. "That thing is trying to ram us."
Everybody listened to what Fox had yelled at them, for they quickly got out of the way of the wildly spinning core ship before the ship could ram into them. After that the Star Fox team found out that the core ship had slightly stalled and with that they all knew that this was the right time for them to take a few shots at the core of the ship before the thing would start up again. So without wasting anytime the group of five pilots took the time that they had and open fire at the center of the ship.
Seconds after that the center of the ship was hit by a series of laser beams and charged shots that broke some of the layer of protection that this craft had. Before they could get another series of shots off the core ship became active again and with a series of fancy moves of it own was able to take a few shots that only a few of its guns turrets that were quickly replace in a matter of seconds.
"It look like this one is going to be a little harder to deal with," said Falco.
"Tell me about it," quipped Fox. "But, even with that we will persist and that thing will go down."
Falco nodded his head at that and just like Fox the two of them fired a couple of computer aided shots at the thing only to fine that their shots only hit the regenerating gun turret. If this space battle was apart of a game, this would be a been a perfect time to milk for points and maybe get an extra life, but this wasn't the case with this thing. For, this space battle was the real deal and the longer the spent on taking out the gun turrets, the longer they would have to deal with this core ship and it would increase the chances that one of them would be hit by one of those core ship's laser or get hit by this ship's ramming attack. An attack that it did once again to all of them and like before the entire group of pilots were able to get out of the way before that ship was able to hit them.
Seeing this and knowing that this was the precursor before the core ship would temporality stall out leaving the ship, exposing itself to their weapon fire. It also showed to James that this Roiling Core was the one that was apart of the recently failed invasion attempt of Gradius and with that he knew that this version of the Roiling Core was slightly easier than its first incarnation, for it was that version it would done the other two attack at them with that he was happy. For, he didn't have to worry about those two attacks that came from this ship and if there was one less thing that he had to worry about the better.
"It seems that this version of the Roiling Core is like the second version of the ship," said James that targeted the center of the craft.
"Why?" Asked Krystal.
"For that thing didn't do the other two attacks that I talk about earlier," answered James.
"That doesn't mean anything, it could be holding them back," advised Fox.
James shook his head at that. "No, I don't think so, if that thing had then in its array it would of use them already on us."
Fox wasn't to so sure about this, his guts told him otherwise, but James in a sense was an expert on this thing and thus his words should be trusted 100%. But, Fox like the rest of the world knew that even experts could be wrong about something and it was because of that he still kept his guard up with this thing, just in case this craft pull something out of its mechanical hat. Despite his doubts about trusting James 100% on this subject matter, he still had to deal with this core ship that they were fighting at this moment and all of the tricks that this core ship had.
"Are you sure about that?" Asked Fox.
"Yes, I'm sure about it, these ships don't like to hide their attacks," answered James.
"Who cares? If it dose those attacks, we will just deal with it, like we do with anything else," said Falco.
He dose have a point with that thought James. Maybe, I'm getting to cautious about this and sometimes the best way to deal with things is not to think about it.
Even with that disagreement on the core ship, the five pilots open fire on the center of the craft and like the two pervious times they did this, they found out that the combination of the weapon fire that came from the five fighters torn more of the armor that was protecting the center of the craft before the Roiling Core reactive again. Preventing the five pilots from launching yet another assault on the center of the craft and once again putting the five pilots on the defensive, avoiding the numerous of laser beams that came from this ship.
"How long will it take to destroy this ship?" Asked Fox.
"By the look of things, if that thing make another run like that, we maybe able to destroy the core," answered James.
After James had said that the Roiling Core did something that was new in the battle, but not in the history of the craft. For it stopped firing its lasers at the group of fighters and at first the members of the Star Fox team thought that this was the end of the craft, but James on the other hand knew different, for this was the precursor of another attack, an attack that both version of the Roiling Core had. Which was a huge blue energy beam that would target the pervious location of the Vic Viper.
"What is that thing doing?" Asked Fox.
"Maybe, the thing realizes that is no match for us and is going to give up," answered Falco.
As much Fox and James wanted that to be true, the two of them knew that wasn't the case. In fact this might be a sign of something that was far more dangerous than the pervious attacks that it had down in the past and just like the two foxes thought would happen with this ship happen. For the craft fired a huge blue energy beam at them and because of the sudden attack that came from the ship, all of the pilots were forced to react simply by their gut reaction. Before anybody that was in the group could say anything about what just happen, the ship once again started to fire its numerous laser beams at the group. Even if this was still an attack and something that still could hurt them if they didn't paid close attention to the attack, but it was something that they could slightly let their guard down.
"What the hell was that?" Demanded Falco.
"If you read the information that I sent to you guys, you would of known about that attack and I'm surprise that it took this long for the thing to use that attack," answered James. "Even with that, I know that if that thing makes another run at us, we will destroy that thing."
Just like James had said about this thing, it once again tried to ran them and like before the entire group avoided the ram attack from the core ship. Like before the Roiling Core had stalled and thus allowed the group of five fighters to target the center of the craft. When they all received the notification that they had a lock on the center of the craft, they all fired at the center of the craft. Seconds after that a combination of laser beams and charged shots hit the center of the craft. Without the protecting of the armor, the core of the ship was hit directly and after a series of hits from the fighters, the core of the ship started to change color, from the blue to an orange, and finally to bright red that told everybody that one more shot from any of them would bring this ship down. So without wasting anytime on talking about it, Fox was the one that the honor as the person that would do that for all of them.
With a confirmed look on the core of the craft, Fox open fire on the center of the craft with the powerful laser that came from the Vic Viper and as soon as the weapon hit the gravely weaken care it exploded, shattering into a million tiny shards. Without the core, the rest of the craft exploded into a gas ball that was quickly put out by the lack of any type of gases that would be able to support an open flame.
After that the five pilots continue to where the Bacterian battlecruiser was and in doing that they were able to see more detail of the craft, like the fact that there was a huge metal door in the center of the craft. Before they could make any more progress with the craft, they all saw that the huge door had open up and out of the door came yet another thing.
At first nobody was able to tell if this thing was a mechanical thing or a biological thing, but as the thing got closer they were able to tell what that thing was. It was a biological thing and it was something that the Gradian had encountered before.
"What is that thing?" Asked Fox at the sight of this thing.
"Hold on," answered James that was tapping a few buttons that were on his display in an attempt to fine out what this thing was.
In a matter of seconds he found out that this thing was, it was the Wyvern, the three headed dragon that was at the end of the lava planet and while this thing on the surface look like that it was hard boss, but in fact it was easy one, even if the place that it was located at was a literally hell with a bunch of lava rocks that would break into a million tiny piece of indestructible rocks if they were shot by any type of weapon. Which, made James worry, for he knew that nothing was what it seem and that this thing could be hard just like the Roiling Core was. So James dug deeper into the thing and found out that thing had a second form into when the center core was destroy, which took the form of a long snake-like body with heads on either end of the body that would move around in a circle pattern. While it was doing that, either head of the dragon would spit out a lava rock that itself would self destructed in a star burst pattern of liquid lava.
Seeing this and nodded his head at the sight of this, he knew that it was time for him to tell the rest of the group about this creature and what it was capable of. But, he was stopped from doing this when he saw that there was s special advisory about this boss when it second form was destroyed, all of the pieces of the dragon would fly out and while it started that these dragon pieces wouldn't hurt one if they got near a person's fighter, but while his computer had been right during the entire mission, he knew that somehow it was wrong about this part of the dragon.
"I got it," said James. "That thing is called Wyvern and as you can tell that thing is a three headed dragon. Just like any type of dragon it dose breath fire and before you ask how it can do that, since it is in space and in space there is no oxygen that can support an open flame. I don't know how it can do that. In fact I don't know how that thing can even survive being in space, since it is a living creature."
"Who cares, if that thing is a living thing it can be killed," said Falco.
"Right and how do you do that?" Asked Fox.
"There is an orb that is in the center of that thing and if you want to kill that thing you shoot it there," answered James.
Unseen by James the rest of the team nodded their heads at what James told them and waited until the three head dragon open up its chest to all of them. Just like James said about the creature it did that for them expose its weak point for all of them and not wasting time on this creature, they all open fire on the blue orb that was in the center of the creature. Before they knew it the winged three dragon was engulfed into a fireball and four of the team started to celebrate this victory and make comments on how weak this creature was to be even thought to be a boss. But, James on the other hand knew that this was only a sign that the second form of this boss was coming out.
"It's not over yet," advised James.
"What do you mean? That thing is nothing, but a ball of flames," said Falco.
"Watch," said James.
After that, they all saw what James was talking about, for out o the ball of flames came another head that look like the ones that the thing had pervious fought. While the flames of the pervious explosion was being put out, another dragon head came out and after that the snake-like creature started to come at them.
"I should of thought that something like this would happen, since it was so easy to destroy," said Fox. "Okay how do we kill this thing?"
"By shooting it in the mouth, but this thing takes a lot of hits before that thing will go down," answered James.
"Okay," said Fox. "If we can split our forces, we can defeat this thing quickly and maybe able to get to that ship." The vulpine leader paused to think about the right people that would be able to kill this thing. "James, you are with me, we take on the first head. Krystal, Slippy, Falco, you take on the second head."
"Right," said James.
"That goes the same with me as well," said Falco.
After that the Star Fox team broke away from each other to form two groups that would take on the two heads of this thing. With James and Fox taking on the first head with Krystal, Slippy, and Falco taking on the other head.
Unfazed by this slight change of attack the worm-like dragon continue to slide toward the two groups of fighters, trying to encircle them, to trap them, and then it would split out its lava rocks that themselves would produced a shotgun blast of liquid lava that it hope would weaken the shields of these fighters to a point that a simple erroneousness mistake on the part of the pilots would caused them to crash into its body. But, the thing found out that these pilots won't fooled by this trick and that they stay out of the circle, which allowed them more freedom to move around its body and is various different shoots. But, while it wasn't able to get hits on these fighters, they on the other hand were able to score numerous of hits on both of its two heads. Even with that the thing knew that in this form it had a huge amount of health and that it would take a lot hits these fighters if they wanted to kill it. If they did manage to fine the endurance to that, it knew that it had a few tricks up its hat that might either take their victory away from them or make them lose their will to fight this thing any longer.
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"How are you guys holding up?" Asked Fox that found out more about the Vic Viper, that it was able to sustain long period of firing its powerful laser without overheating, unlike what happen with the Arwing's laser.
"We are fine, but this thing is taking a forever to take down," answered Krystal.
"Yes, I know and without anything that is like a core, we can't tell if we are even close to destroy that thing," said Fox. At least with Grave, it had a core and we were able to tell when that thing was going to be destroyed but this thing I have no clue how long we have with this thing thought Fox at the sight of this thing.
"Just kept on hitting that thing with everything that we got," said James that also kept on the continuous fire at the head of this creature."It will eventually fail."
The blue fox was about to say something else about this fight when he noticed that Slippy got stuck in the middle of the circle, the one place that nobody should be at.
Ah shit! Yelled James to himself at the sight of this, for the was the one spot that he didn't want the frog to be in right now, for that spot was dangerous even for the most of experience of pilots, never the less one whom skills were on pare of somebody that was just starting out.
"Slippy, what the hell are you doing there?" Demanded James.
"I don't know," answered the frog. "It just happen. I was staying close to both Krystal and Falco, until that thing fired out a couple of its rocks that I was forced to avoid and while I was doing that it must of saw me in my state, then it must of encircle me."
James let out a sigh of disgust at this, for he had thought that Slippy was getting better at this job, but now it seem that the frog was falling back into bad habits. As much as James and another member of the team wanted, to kept him in that spot without any type of advice about how to get out of this spot, for he was the type of situation that if he had found himself in, he would have to fine a way out of this. But, while James knew that Slippy was smart enough to figure this out, he was worry about the fact that he would panic at this and do something that might end up with him crashing into the body of the creature.
"Slippy, stay calm," said the calm, but stern worlds of Fox. "Don't panic, we will fine a way to you out of this."
"Yes, we will," said James that noticed that the circle pattern of the creature and saw that there was a small gap that was between the two heads, a small gap that Slippy might be able to used to get out of this trap.
"Thank you, but can you guys please hurry up," said Slippy.
"You don't have to wait long, for I have a way to get out of this," said James.
"What is it?" Asked Slippy.
Before James could tell Slippy about what he saw in the pattern, he got a notification that the second head, the one that the other were attacking had just been destroyed by them and that James wondered did this thing had less health them he first thought about the thing. But, right now that was something that he didn't have to worry about at this time, so he went back to helping Slippy get him out of this mess.
"First, you got to thank the rest of your team for they just destroyed the second head and second, there is a gap, a small gap, but if you are fast enough you can get out of there," answered James. "Do you see it?"
"There was a slight unnerving silence from Slippy and that could mean anything. It could mean that Slippy had snapped and was now in a cationic stage or he was busy checking the movement of the creature to see if James was telling the truth about this thing.
"Yes, I do," said Slippy that broke the silence and telling everybody that he was okay.
"Good," said James that kept a close eye on the movement of the thing to see if thing didn't want to pull a fast one on them and change up its pattern. He saw that the thing was doing that and the only thing that the frog had to do was to wait until the gap appeared for him. Slippy and when it did, he got of there as fast as he could.
In a matter of seconds he saw that the gap that he was talking about appeared for him. "Slippy, go now!"
Without another word from Slippy, the frog did what James had told him to do and then Slippy found himself out of the entangling body of this creature. Even with the fact that the frog had escape that trap, the creature still twisted around, unaware at the fact that Slippy was out of the there.
"Nice move, Slippy, got yourself caught in another trap while we do all of the work in helping you out and/or destroy the target," said Falco.
"Knock it off!" Yelled Fox. "I don't care right now about that. All I care about is the fact that Slippy is now safe from that thing and that thing itself is head dead."
The avian said nothing at the sight of this, for he knew that that Fox spoke the truth about this.
"Now, let's make this thing fully dead," said Fox.
Nobody said anything to this and let their action speak for themselves in the form of all of their weapons fire directed toward the final head of this creature. But, unlike the second one, this head still held strong and continue to shoot out of its lava rocks at them that forced them to break away from their formation to avoid the weapon fire. Even with that the Star Fox team was still able to regroup, wait until the first dragon head to come within range of their combine weapon fire, and when it did they once again open fire on the thing with everything that they had. This was the combination of weapon fire that had allowed them to destroyed this head once for all when that happen one of its nasty surprises showed its head, a bunch of dragon pieces went flying everywhere.
"Holy Solar!" Yelled Falco at that.
"Don't worry, they won't hurt you and before you ask, no you don't have to worry about them infecting the rest of this area," said James.
"Is that all of that thing?" Asked Fox.
"Yes, it should be," answered James.
But James like the rest of the team found out that he was wrong about this thing, for they all found out that there was still something of the thing was still alive despite everything that they had hit the thing with.
"Noway in hell, that's not possible," said James.
"Well, it look likes it possible," said Fox.
Before anybody could say anything to what Fox just said the vulpine pilot spread up his Vic Viper to meet up with this thing and when he did he saw that it was a signal dragon head without its body. The vulpine pilot didn't waste anytime on attacking the thing, for he assumed that the weakest of this thing was that of its pervious forms and that was its mouth. He found out that he was right about that, but the only different between this form and this form was the fact that he had hit the thing in the mouth while it was open, just like when he fought with the Giga thing. Just like with Giga he found out that this thing had an attack pattern, a pattern that Fox was able to see and used to his advantage in destroying this creature which he did in a matter of seconds. When he did that he saw that this thing had finally died and that the next thing that he had to deal with was what type of thing that this Bacterian battlecruiser would unleash onto them. But, whatever it might be, he knew from the two pervious fights it was going to be yet another long hard battle that would test his level of endurance.
"Hey, Fox, you better get back up here, for that thing is not done with us yet," said Falco.
"I'll on my way," said Fox. After that he brought the Vic Viper back to where the rest of the team was to see that they were able get closer to the battlecruiser, but like before they were stopped by the fact that the ship had sent out yet another thing to great them.
"What is the hell that thing?" Asked Fox.
Before James could get any information about the thing, the thing that they were fighting had showed to all of them that it was yet another core ship that they were about to fight and not just any normal one. For, this one had open up a pair of metal pillar on either side of its center and before they all knew it the thing started to launch a blitz of rocks. With that James knew what they were dealing with, the much feared Cannon Blaster Core and seeing the bullet hell that this core was pelting them with, he now knew why this core had that fearful reputation. The only good thing about this thing was the fact that it didn't have much health to it, but getting shots and surviving that up coming bullet-storm was a different story all together.
"That thing is called Cannon Blaster Core," answered James which was the only thing that the blue fox was able to get off before he was force to focus on the stream of bullets that were coming out of this core ship. Because of that he was totally unaware at how the rest of the team was firing against this thing.
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The Bacterian created James McCloud watching the battle on a screen with his arms folded up against his chest and seeing that every Bacterian unit that was sent out by Andrew, rather it be an organic creation or a core ship was defeated by them. It didn't matter to them, for they, the Star Fox team lead by the real James McCloud's son, Fox McCloud, had managed to fine a way to defeat them and it didn't matter how hard the core ships would be, it would go down, eventually. James should of known that this would of happen after, they had survived the bullet-storm that came from the Cannon Blaster Core and found out that despite its massive offensive measures, it lacked a strong defense that was quickly shredded with the combine force from all of the five fighters. Seeing this he knew it would only be a matter of time before the last core ship would fail under the pressure that these fighters were putting these ships under and it happen just like James thought would happen, the last core ship, Heaven's Gate was destroyed by them. With that he knew like the Bacterian units that were on that ship and the units that were on this planet that next thing that they were going to attack was the battlecruiser itself.
Even if the Bacterian part of himself was telling him that there was noway that they would be able to survive what was inside of that place and if this side of himself had said that earlier, he would of believe it. But, now, after seeing what the combine efforts of both the Star Fox and Star Wolf teams did in the past couple of hours ago, destroying one, recapturing the other one, and now destroying all of the eight Bacterian units, he had a sneaking suspicion that these five fighters would fine a way past all the different traps that Andrew had set for them, unless Andrew had thought of something difference, something that neither the Gradian nor the Bacterian thought of. If that was the truth, then he had hope that maybe Andrew would be able to stop these fighters, but that was a big if. For in all of the knowledge that he had about the pervious Bacterian fights they never changed their style of attack that they used against the Gradians, but the Gradians on the other hand had developed different type of counter measures to stop the Bacterians and maybe that was the reason why they had always won. But, even with that on the back of his mind he still found himself compile to watch and would be the outcome of this fight.
James said a voice that was inside of his head and at first he thought that it was the real James McCloud that was trying to get a hold of him much in the same fashion that he did earlier.
James, what is wrong with you? Asked the same voice again and with that he knew that it wasn't the real James McCloud that was talking to him at this time, but his feline teacher that was talking to him at this time.
Nothing he answered with. Why?
Because you seem to be so distance, even since you return back from Fichina I wonder is there something wrong with you she answer him with.
No, there isn't, but I'm wondering what dose our Master have plan for the two of us, if this battlecruiser fails? Thought James.
James, don't think like that, that ship will not fail she said.
James turned away from the screen, close his eyes, and shook his head at what she had just told him. He knew what he was about to say was going to shake her and might even make her run to their Master about this, by all accounts he knew that he shouldn't tell her what he was thinking about what was going all around them. But, he also knew that if he didn't tell her this, it would be something that would weight himself down to the point that it would consume all of his thoughts and that he might not be able to hide his feelings of doubt about this.
I don't know about you, but I don't think that thing will hold up. Look at what these Lylatians did in the past couple of hours ago, they destroyed one of our bases and reclaim the other one he paused and turned around to face the screen one again, open up his eyes to see if anything had changed from the last time. He found out that it did, for the five fighters that had destroyed eight of their capitol units were now gone and that meant that they were inside of the ship. Even with that he still wouldn't allow that to stop what he was trying to tell her and so he pointed to the screen. Look, at what these Lylatians did in the past a couple of minutes, they destroyed some of our hardest core crafts, Cannon Blaster Core, Heaven's Gate, and Roiling Core are all gone. If they defeat those things, there is no question in my mind that they are going to destroy that thing.
There he said it, his feeling about everything and with that out in the open he knew that all the emotional weight that he felt like a weight was lifted away from his shoulders. With that he knew there was nothing to fear in his life and what would happen next to him. He didn't fear it, in fact he embrace it knowing that there was nothing more left in his life that would want him to live any longer.
James what the hell is wrong with you? What happen to you? She asked.
I don't know he answered which was the truth, he didn't know what was going on with his head.
If that is the case, you should see our Master about this and maybe he might be able to fix you, so you don't think like this she said to him.
James knew what that meant, for it meant that he would be tossed back into that magma pit which would dissolved his body and that would mean the depth of his body as well as his mind. That was something that he didn't want to have happen to himself.
You mean as "fix", that I will be tossed back into that magma pit, that is something that I don't want to happen to me. I might be a Bacterian, but I'm still a living sentient being and I don't want to die said James.
But, with these thoughts on your mind, there is something that is wrong with you and it means that you need to be fixed she said. Pleading with him to see the error in his thoughts and if he continua to think like this, he would be killed by their Master for these type of thoughts. If you value your life, as you said you do, you will stop thinking like this and start to think in the lines of what our Master thinks.
Stop said another voice, a voice that the two of them knew belong to their Master and because of that both of them stopped what they were doing to see what he had to say about this. To see James was right about this or to see if the feline was right about this.
Yes, what is it said James.
I also must say, what is my Master said the feline.
I've heard what the two of you were talking about and there is nothing wrong with your thinking, James said his Master. I was thinking on the same lines that you are, these Lylatians are becoming quiet a problem and I was thinking that they might be able to destroy that ship. If that dose happen we will need to change our plans in dealing with them.
Hearing this, James was happy with the fact that he had once again avoided yet another bullet and that he would once again live to see yet another day even with these thoughts of doubt. But, with the feline she was quiet socked at what just what happen, for she had thought that his thoughts of the battlecruiser failing would caused him to be killed by their Master. She didn't understand what was going on with him at this time before she could even think about it, she felt that her entire body freeze and with that she knew that her Master had sensed her thoughts about what was going on. Then she felt that her body fly backward until it hit one of the rock with a sicken snapping sound when her body hit the wall.
I don't need to explain to you what my plans are he said. And while your pass successes have spare you from my range, this time it won't. After that the body of the feline was picked up by her Master and then it was throw into the molten rock, she let out a scream of pain as her life force was put out for the final time.
Now, that this business is over with he started. I would like to explain to you what is going on. As you can see, unlike my pervious forms, I have the foresight to see beyond the here and now. That the battlecruiser might fail and when that dose we will get a hold of the leaders of this world and offer than a false flag of peace, saying that the superior force of the Lylatian is greater than we thought.
James nodded his head about this. And to bolster yours words, you I bring you out and you will say that I found you and help you out.
That's right his Master said.
Once again James nodded his head at that. I understand and I will wait to see what will happen.
After that he no longer felt the present of his Master in his thoughts and once again he was able to freely think about anything that he wanted to. Which meant that he would be able to think more about things that where going all around him and one of them was his Master's plan. He wanted that it was pretty nasty plan to play on the hearts and minds on the Lylatians like this, but it was something that was different. Thus it was something that might work in the long run, but there was always that x-factor that nobody could think of and that was the one thing that worry him.
Do you think a copy of me will be able to fool everybody? Asked yet another voice, a voice that the Bacterian created James McCloud knew belong to the real James McCloud and as soon as he heard that voice a chill went down his spine. There are those that won't be fool by your present.
Yes, I know of them! Snapped James at the voice.
Who are they, then? Demanded the real James.
Your son, Krystal, James MacCloud, and your old rival, Wolf answered James.
Oh, is that what your precious Master told you and you believe it? Oh, how native you are really are, there are more than that said the voice.
Another chill went down his spine, as once again the voice had brought a cloud of doubt in what were doing and the fact that his Master was lying to him about the people of this system. Something that he had thought that he had overcome with the fact that his Master had thought the same way that he did, but it look like he was wrong with this.
What do you mean? Demanded James.
You will see answered the cryptic voice of the real James McCloud and after that he was left alone with his thoughts. Now, he wondered what did he mean by this cryptic answers and that wasn't the only other thing he had to worry about. Did his Master heard his brief conversation that he had and if he did, was he able to hear he was talking to another voice or not, if that was the later, did it mean that he was loosing his mind or was this a figure of his doubts about what they were doing. He just didn't know and that was the thing that he didn't like about the fact he was questioning his own grip of reality, but there was one thing that he know that would take his mind off of this and that was to look at the screen to see what was going on with the battlecruiser. He saw that the thing was still there and meant that Andrew was still putting up the good fight against this group of fighters.
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The entire Star Fox team had make it past the boss rush, the metal door, the various difference Bacterian units and traps that were put to stop them from reaching the end of the ship. But, right now they were facing down yet another objection that was put up to stop them and that took in the form of a gun wall that had two cores that were being protected by gun turrets and armor that was becoming hard to be destroyed with the fact that the gun turrets themselves were proving to be hard to deal with. For the entire team found out that unlike the pervious gun turrets that they had encountered these ones on with those shots, forcing them to avoid the shoots rather than hit the amour that was protecting the two cores.
"Jeez, this thing knows how to shoot," said Falco.
"Tell me about it," said Fox that avoided another shot from that gun wall. "Hey, James, can those guns turrets be destroyed?"
"I'm working on it," answered James that avoided a rock that came from of the duckers that were running across the ground and after that he locked on the thing, fired on the thing when he got a lock on the target. After he that the ducker was destroyed and with that out of the way he went back to what his computer had told him about the gun turrets that was on the gun wall. He found out that the gun turrets were giving them hell could be destroyed by them.
"Yes, they are," he answered.
"Good," said Fox that avoided yet another series of shots that came from this thing and in a matter of seconds locked on the gun turret that was protecting the top core. He acquired a lock onto the thing and open fire on the thing and seconds after that a series of three powerful blue laser beams hit the turret, completely destroying the weapon. But before Fox and the rest of the team could do anything to take advantage of this, they found out that as soon as the thing exploded it released a series of suicide bullets that had caught everybody of guard. Because of that everybody got hit by the bullets, but they did little damage to their shields.
"What the hell was that?" Demanded Falco.
"Suicide bullets, I shouldn't of expected that little dirty cheap trick," answered James.
"Is there anything else that we should expect from them?" Asked Falco.
"Outside of the old cliché, expect the unexpected, no," answered James that avoided more of the weapon fire that came from this gun wall, but as he was doing that he acquired yet another lock on yet another gun turret, which was on the bottom of the gun wall. Like before when he got the lock on the thing he open fire on the thing, destroyed it, and unlike the last time expected a bunch of suicide bullets, which did happen.
After that all of the suicide bullets went passed them, the entire team could how focus all of there attention on the armor that was keeping the two cores and when they went down they move onto the final part of this ship. That what they did and in a matter of seconds they were able to break through the protective armor all the way to the cores of this gun wall. Like before when they were able to get a direct shot on the cores they were able to take him down in a matter of seconds, leaving a charred out void that had allow them to progress further along in the ship and when they did they saw that the background was slowly changing from one that was mechanical to one that was biological in nature. Telling James that they were getting closer to where the brain of the ship was and that they would soon encountered another Shadow Dancer.
"Look alive, we are getting to the end of this thing, but that doesn't mean that we should let our guard down," ordered James.
Right on queue, the floor of this place started to suddenly thrust up, forcing all of them to travel through a bottleneck.
"That right there is a perfect example of what I was talking about," said James.
Nobody that was on the Star Fox team said anything to what James had said, instead they focus on clearing the tight bottleneck and as soon they enter into that place, they were targeted by a group of Zubs that tried in vain to ram them. But, even with that there was yet another wave of Zubs that tired to do the same and just like the ones that came before they were destroyed by the five fighters.
After they cleared that part of the ship they all found themselves in a huge open area that had no units of any type and all of the five pilots sensed that this was a bad sign. Before any of them could say anything about that they were once again ambushed by the Zubs again that like before tried to ram them and like before they were quickly disposed of by the team before they could do any serious damage to their ships. With the Zubs gone they found out that this was a trigger that had caused more Bacterian units to come and attack them with everything that they had.
"How, this is more like it," said Falco as he lock onto something that was jumping around and throwing out a shot-gun blast of rocks.
"Be careful," advised Fox as he waited for one of those things to come to him instead of chasing the thing down like what Falco was doing.
"Don't worry your tail off, this thing is nothing that Falco can't handle," said the avian as he chased down yet another one of those jumping units and destroyed the thing before the Bacterian unit could fire on his team. "Ha! Those things are so easy to deal with, I would of expected something a little hard to deal with."
Then the avian got a warring from his computer that he was about to run into something and on his guts told him to looked up to see what that thing was. That when he saw what his computer was talking about for he saw that he was about to fly straight into what he thought was yet another wall and so he put on the Arwing's breaks before his ship would crash into that thing that he thought was a wall, until he saw that it was starting to move almost like it was walking on the floor of this ship. But, that wasn't the only thing that Falco saw with this thing, for he saw that this thing had four of those legs, two on the bottom and two on the top of the thing.
"Jeez! What the hell is that thing?" Demanded Falco.
"That thing is the real Shadow Dancer and unlike the Ground Spider thing that we fought earlier, that thing can't be destroyed," answered James.
The Shadow Dancer walked closer to them, unaware or uncaring about the situation, it was doing what it was programing to do.
"If that is true how do we deal with that thing?" Asked Slippy.
"You have to just carefully avoided the legs of the thing while pushing forward," answered James.
"Perfect, just perfect," said a harsh voice of Fox, for this was the one thing that he didn't want to deal at this time.
"Don't worry, there is a pattern to how this thing walks," said James. "And if you see it, you can fly through it. You just have to wait to see it, just the same way we did with the Ground Spider thing."
After that the five pilots watched as the Shadow Dancer started to walked toward them, they were able to see that the thing did have gaps, areas that all five of them could fly into. They were able to fly into one of those gaps when the thing lifted on of its top legs, but they were stop in their tracks when they saw that the thing have changed up its pattern of walking, which took the form of the thing walking backward.
"Clever," mused James at this, but even with this change in how the thing was walking the thing still had the same walking pattern. "Don't let that thing fool you, it still had the same pattern in how its walks."
Seconds after James that he was right about that and because of that all five pilots were able to thread the needle in-between the top wall of the ship and the leg of the Shadow Dancer. But, that was just the first step or passing this thing, for now inside of this tight space they had little room to move just in case this thing thought that it would be cute and change up on how this thing would move.
"Kept it tight, we got a lot more of this thing to deal with," advised James that took a quick look at his RADAR to see how the Shadow Dancer was walking. He saw that the thing was still holding strong on the pattern and that meant they would be able to get past this thing real quick.
With another lift of its upper leg all five pilots were able to get past the second upper leg and when they did they were able to see that was yet another bottleneck that was up ahead of them. But, as they were about to head off in that direction, they got a warring that the Shadow Dancer was coming back at them for another pass on them.
"Look out, that thing is coming back for another pass," said Fox.
"Great," said Falco at the sight of this.
Once again the Shadow Dancer walked passed them, totally unaware that they were able to figure out the pattern that this thing had and because of that they were able to weave their way through the thing's legs. But, even with that they found themselves in front of the thing instead of the thing behind them and that meant that they would once again have to fly through the leg's of this thing when it would once again try to walk on them. So all five pilots braced themselves for another round of this thing trying to walk on them and when the thing started to move, they were ready to used the same tactic on how to deal with this thing. But, this style of attack never came, for the thing had once again change its style of attack on them and this came in the form of the thing ripping parts of both the floor and ceiling of the ship much in the same way that Grave did.
"That's now new," said Fox that artfully avoided the debris that the thing was tossing at them.
That went the same for the rest of the team that found out that this latest attack was a joke and after the thing got tried with this attack, it once again started to walk through all of them.
"Here we go again," said James.
Once again the entire team found themselves using the pattern on how the thing to avoid the crushing power of the legs of the thing to fly pass the thing. After that they all found out that the Shadow Dancer had continue to walk in the opposite direction, unaware or uncaring about the fact that these five fighters were about to enter in the inner chamber of its Master. But, even with that the five pilots paid no attention to what that thing was doing behind them, for they were about to reach their goal and being so close to their goal, they wanted nothing to stop them form reaching it.
"Here we go," said Fox as he followed his vulpine leader into the bottleneck.
Krystal and Slippy said nothing at this, but they still followed their leader into the bottleneck, leaving James all by himself. Knowing from the past reports about this structure that it would produced something that would block this part of the ship off from where the brain thing would be and not wanting these people to be uninformed about what may happen inside of there. James pushed his Vic Viper ahead into the bottleneck right before the thing would seal itself off leaving them the only way out of this ship, which was behind the brain that was controlling this ship.
"It look like the only way that we are going to get of her is behind that thing," said Fox.
"Just great," said Falco.
"Don't worry," said James. "These things don't put up much of a fight."
"As much as I would like to believe you I'm not going to fully believe you with this thing," said Fox.
"Okay," said James. For you will be only wasting your time with this.
"So you have made it this far," started a disembodied voice that seemed to echo throughout this part and this effect that made it had for all of them to pinpoint where the source of this voice was coming from. "I must congrats you on your efforts, but you will see that you will go no further for unlike my former selves I'm stronger that they were."
With that everybody that was on the Star Fox team was able to see how big this inner chamber was and what it really look like. For all around them they could see that the walls of this place was covered in some type of red organic material that look like that it was some type of brain that itself was covered in some type of liquid that was clear and glisten whenever it was hit by a light source. In the center of this chamber was the very thing that they were sent here to destroy a huge brain thing that look like that it was attacked by structures that look like they made out of dry spilt.
"Is that the Controller?" Asked Slippy.
"Yes, it is," answered James. "And you see the things that are attacked to it, you destroyed those things, you will kill this thing and destroyed this base."
"Sounds good to me," said Falco that found out that he was able to acquired a target a target lock on one of those things without the thing itself putting up a some type of defensive or offensive that would stop him from doing that. That was some thing that surprise the avian, for he thought that the thing would at least do some thing to stop the attack that he was about to put on this thing. He couldn't believe that this thing would just roll over and due without fighting for its life.
"What the hell with this thing? It is just letting us kill it?" Asked a puzzled Falco.
"I told you, this thing will not put up any type of fight," answered James that also acquired a lock on one of the attachments.
"That what you think," said the voice.
After that they all received a warring from their computers that told them that the walls was behind them started to move.
"What the hell?" Asked a stunned James that was clearly not expecting this to happen.
"You told us that those things don't attack? But, look this thing is starting to attack us!" Yelled Fox.
But even with that James quickly found himself switching from an offensive stance to one of a more defensive nature backing upward from the tentacles that were attacking themselves from the walls of this place. While he was doing that he had hopped that the rest of the team would do the same and he found out the rest of the team was able to do the same thing, but even that he found out that their victory was shorted lived due to the fact that on the ceiling of this place they saw that there were more of these tentacles like things that were reaching out like a million hands to pull each one of their fighters in.
"Look out!" Yelled Slippy.
Everybody heeded Slippy's warring as the top of this chamber open up and out of the opening came a long tube that quickly speared another part of the chamber causing something to yell out in pain. Once again the echo effect that was in this place made it hard for anybody to tell where that sound came from, but even with that they all could see that the long tube that tried to stab them was now stuck in the other part of the chamber, with some thing that look like that it was blood that was streaming out of the open wound.
"Hey, Slip, thanks for the warring," said Fox.
"Fox, look at the brain," said James.
For twisted his head around in the direction of where the brain was and he could see that thing look like that it was in some type of pain. Because of that they could see that the tentacles that were on the walls of this place were starting to go limp and that told Fox that the scream of pain that they heard earlier when that tube-like structure had stab the other part of the chamber must of come from that thing.
"Yes, I see it," said Fox. "And take a look at the walls of this place, they are starting to shut down."
James looked around the area and so that his fellow fox was telling the truth about the walls of this place. Seeing that he knew that this was the right time for all of them to attack this thing before the brain thing found the will or the inner strength to pull that tube out of the wall and start up yet another round of attacks on them. So James quickly flipped his Vic Viper around so that it would be facing one of the attachments that this brain thing had, he didn't care what one he would target as long as he was able to take one of those things out. When he got a target lock on one of those things, he fire at the thing, his shots were true to their marks as they hit the upper attachment of this thing, destroying it in a harsh manner. For the attachment was ripped away from both the ceiling and the brain itself, causing a huge cut to appear on the brain that as soon as it was open, more blood came out of the living structure. Like before the thing yelled out in pain at what just had happen to itself and unlike the first time a scream they knew were the scream came from. They also saw that the tentacles that were on the walls themselves were starting to lose their color, a clear sign that this thing was starting to loose its control on the functions that were in this ship, which meant that this thing was defenseless, just like all of the pervious forms of this thing were.
"Which means that thing is finally defenseless," said James.
"Good," said Falco that flipped his Arwing around to face the brain thing and with that he saw the damage that was done to the thing. He was unfazed by what happen to that thing, he wanted that thing gone and if that thing was gone that would mean that he would be able to get out of this place. So he also locked onto one of these remaining attachments and when he got a lock on one of those things, he open fire on one of those things. Just like with what happen when James had destroyed one of those thing happen when Falco had hit the thing. It was ripped away from both the brain and the wall of this place that caused yet another huge slash, but this time it was on the bottom of the brain, that itself produced yet another decent amount of blood to come of the thing.
Once again the walls of this place reacted toward this action and this time it took the form of pieces of the pale organic material started to fall from their location and making the job of destroying this biological creation that much more hard. But, despite that obstruction both Krystal and Slippy were able to take out two remaining attachments. Just like the two pervious time when this happen, a good amount of blood was produced at the sight of where the two attachment were once located.
Before anybody could savior in the light of this victory they were rocked by a series of explosion that toward down any of the organic structure that didn't fell down during the flight that only added to the multiple of objects that they had avoid while trying to get out of this chamber. A chamber that was how becoming a death trap for all of them.
"Let's blow this popsicle stand!" Yelled James that speed up his Vic Viper.
Not totally understanding what James meant by this term, the Lylatian only assumed that it was some type of human expression that meant to get out of this place as fast as they could, which they did, leaving a self-destruction ship behind them. Not before all five of them found themselves traveling through yet another tight bottleneck, a last ditch effort by the Bacterian to kept the fighter in this ship while it was going down. But, none of the five pilots were fooled by this and were able to quickly avoided this trick, before they found themselves in the open space, right before the ship was completely engulf by the internal explosions that themselves were put out by the vacuum of space.
"Whoa! We did it!" Exclaimed Slippy.
Unseen by everybody Krystal nodded her head at that and she didn't like the idea of killing another creature, no matter how twisted it was. She knew that it was something that was just like she was, a person that wanted to live in this place in peace without the threat of enslavement or death at the hands of their own kind or some type of outside alien force. "Yes, we did it, but, I wondered what type of poor Lylatian this thing used to be before it was turned into that thing?"
"I also wonder that as well, but whomever that person was I think we might of free them from this living nightmare that they found themselves in," answered Fox that also wondered who that person used to be. Was it somebody that he used to know, was it somebody that he didn't know, or it was a random person that he saw on the street while he was walking in Corneria City that he would say hi to. Quite, frankly, he didn't care who that person was, all he care about was the fact that it was gone, along with the threat that this ship had presented to this system. "But, as much as I would like to know who that person was, we can't worry ourselves with that, we need to worry about what is going all around us, like the fact that the Dark Void is still hanging around despite the fact that we destroyed their ship. James, I thought that once we destroyed the Bacterian battlecruiser it would eliminated that Dark Void."
"It should of," answered James.
"Hey, genius, it didn't," shouted Falco. "Now what?"
James didn't believe what he was seeing at this time, he knew that if they destroyed the Bacterian battlecruiser, that housed the Controller, and if they destroyed the Controller the thing that controls all of the Bacterian units, including the Dark Void, it should of gone away as soon as it the Controller was killed, but this wasn't the case. If that was so, it meant that the thing that they destroyed wasn't the thing that controlled all of the units in this place, in fact that it must have been a fleet commander and if that was the case, then the true thing that was controlling all of the Bacterian units was still alive, safe inside of that Dark Void, the very thing that they didn't wasn't go inside of. If that was the case they would of head inside of that place to destroy that thing if they wanted to rid this system of that thing and that was the one thing that he didn't want to do no matter what. He had hopped that the real Controller was on that ship and that they would be done with this, but it look like that wouldn't be the cause. So he mentally prepare himself for what he was about to say to Fox and the rest of the team about what just had happen.
"It seems that the thing that we destroyed wasn't the real Controller, but a fleet commander, the real one is somewhere inside of the Dark Void and if we want to completely remove the threat of the Bacterian from this system, we must head into that area," said James.
"What are you crazy? You know what happen the last time a group of fighters went into that area?" Asked Falco.
"Yes, I know what happen to that fighter group, but it is something that must be done and I found out that the things that must be done and they are some of the hardest things to do," answered James. "If you don't want to head into that place, you can sit by on the sidelines while the rest of us go into that place not knowing if we will live or not."
While James was talking with Falco, Fox tapped a few buttons that were on his holographic display to check out the status of the fighters to see if they ready to head into that dangerous zone or not. He found out that much to his disappointment, that none of their fighters would be able to enter into that place, due to the fact that none of their shields were at 100% and without that they had no clue how long they would be able to stay in that place. So he knew that they would have to head back to the Great Fox II to get them back to 100%.
"I hate to break it to the two of you, but we aren't going to head into that place anytime soon," said Fox.
"Why?" Asked James.
"Because of our shields, none of them are 100% and without that we have noway of knowing how long we are going to last in that place. Also we don't know what other nasty surprises might lurk in there for us," answered Fox.
For heard a sign of disgust from both James and Falco at the news of this, but on the other hand he heard a sign of relief that came from rest of his team, which was Slippy and Krystal.
"Okay, then," said James that knew that Fox spoke the truth about this and he knew that thing wouldn't be going anywhere any time soon. So he knew that he wouldn't lose a chance on taking that thing out, it was just put on hold.
After that all five fighters turned around and returned back to the Great Fox II.
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Wolf was sleeping in his bed, but not soundly for he found out that worries that he had about the system, the people that called it their home, and the Star Fox team were keeping him up. As much as he wanted to simply forget about them for a short period of time, he found out that they wouldn't go away from him. So he found himself tossing and turning in his bed as a mean for him to get some sleep, a half hour nap would be nice, anything that would refresh him, so that he would be able to deal with the issues at hand with a clear mind, not one that was cloudily.
After a series of countless tosses and turns on the part of the lupine leader, Wolf found out that he was starting to drift off to sleep, the one thing that he wanted no matter what at this point. All of the worries, considers, that he had, they would have to wait, until he had his sleep, but this worries they wouldn't wait for him to have some sleep, for they came to his room in the form of a loud bang.
The sudden and loud noise forced Wolf to pop up form his like figure that was in an old style paper pop up book, to see what had caused the sudden interruption. He found out that his bedroom was still the same as it when he had closed his eyes and because of that he had thought that it was one of the automatic functions that was kicking in that he hasn't heard before that had caused that noise. When there was no noise of the same nature, he guess that was the cause of the noise and so he went back down to his bed to see if he could get some sleep. But, as soon as he did that his ears were once again ringing with the same noise as before, forcing him to pop up again to investigate what was causing all this noise. Like before he found out that there was nothing in his room that was making that noise.
What the hell? Thought Wolf at this. So he got up from his bed and started to walked around to see if a closer look at this room would allow him to see where this noise was coming from. Like before he found that there was nothing in his room that was causing all of that noise and because of that he was starting to think that somebody was either playing a joke on him, if they were he would make them paid for doing that to him, or worst yet, he was loosing his mind. That this noise that he had already heard twice was something that was only in his head and that it wasn't real. If that was the case he didn't know what he would do if that was the case.
Once again he heard the same noise, but this time he was able to tell what direction that it come from and that was in the direction of where his door was. So he walked toward it, unaware if this was really happening or not and that the only thing that he would have to do to see if he was really going through this or not was to open up the door, which he did. Much to his relief the three loud bangs that he had heard when it fact the real deal and that the person or people that was behind all of this was in fact his own people.
At first he was happy with this fact that his mind was still stable and not wondering into the land of insanity like he had first thought, but with that out of the way, his thoughts went to the people that had to gaul to wake him up when he told them not to do, unless it was really important. But, whatever the reason that was behind this he had to kept up the appearance that he was not pleased at them for doing to him, even if they were doing to him, even if they were doing what he had told then to do. He didn't want to think that he was going soft on them in the past hours.
"What the hell do you want?" Demanded Wolf in a harsh tone of voice. "You know that was my orders, that I wasn't to be disturbed unless that it was really important. If that wasn't the reason you have already signed your depth warrant."
"Yes...we know..., but you see,...we are getting reports that a huge battlecruiser-like thing was recently destroyed," the peon nervously answered.
This got the attention of Wolf, for this was important news and and so this guy just stayed his life for a time being. If he was going to live through this he would like to know what type of battlecruiser was destroyed while he was trying to get some sleep. If it was an unknown one than that would be good enough for this guy, for this guy to stay alive, if not or worst it was one of his own ships that was destroyed it would mean two things. One, the Cornerians had lied to him about not attacking him or the idiots that were that was on that ship had somehow managed to fine a way to get themselves killed. "What type of battlecruiser was destroyed?" He asked.
"It was of unknown origins," the person answered.
That was the type of news that he wanted to hear at this time and because of that he didn't mind the fact that he had lost some sleep. For deep inside he knew that the unknown battlecruiser was of Bacterian origins and that Fox's team had done it.
"What about the Dark Void that is around Titania?" Asked Wolf. "Is it still there?"
"Yes, it is still there," answered the person.
Dam it! He said to himself, he knew that the battlecruiser wasn't the one thing that would remove this thing, which meant the one thing that was controlling all of this was still alive inside of the Dark Void. Which meant, that either Fox or himself would have to go into that thing if they wanted to remove this threat from their system. But, like the rest of he people knew what happen when a group of Cornerian fighters had enter into that thing.
"Are you okay?" The person asked.
"Yes, I am," he said.
"Good, is there anything that you want me to do for you?" Asked the person.
Wolf took a second to think about this and there was a ton of things that he wanted right now, but he knew that there were things that this person wouldn't be able to do at this time. "No, not at this time."
This caused this person to bowed his head at that and after that the person walked away from Wolf's room. After that Wolf returned back to his room, knowing that fact that he wouldn't be getting, any type of sleep after the news of this going down. So he went to his dresser that held his clothes and saw the ones that he wanted. He started to put them on when he saw something that look like it was a figure of a fox. Seeing that he went to the table that held his blaster and pointed the weapon in the direction of the figure.
"Who the hell are you and the hell did you get here, in this place?" Demanded Wolf.
The figure said nothing at what Wolf said and that angered the lupine leader. So in response to this he cocked the weapon to showed whatever this thing was that he meant business with this weapon and the fact that he didn't like the fact that there was somebody that was in this room with him. "I mean it, who the hell are you and how the hell did you get in this place?"
The fox-like figure fully materialized in front of him and when he did that, Wolf knew as soon as he saw this person was, it was James McCloud, Fox's father. When he saw that he uncocked and lower his weapon and the sight of this. He had thought that this guy was dead, but right now he was having second thoughts about his long held belief that this guy was dead and he also wondered why he was at this place.
"James is that you?" Asked Wolf.
The image of James McCloud nodded his head at Wolf's question.
Now with that out of the way he wanted to know why he was here and was he truly dead like he thought he was, but that was only a few of the many questions that he had about him. He wanted to ask all of them to him, but he knew that he would have a limited amount of time with him, so that it would because of him to only ask the questions that he thought were important at this time.
"James, what do you want of me?" Asked Wolf.
"To warm you, that while yes, my son's team have achieved a great victory, with the destruction of the Bacterian battlecruiser, but there is much more danger that is ahead of you and him," answered James.
"Like what?" Asked Wolf.
"The false prophet, the one that promise peace, the one that looks and sounds like me," answered James.
This caught the attention of the lupine leader for as long as he had known him, James wasn't that religious, the only thing that he was really passionate about was his family, anything else was second to that. Now, he wondered where did he fine religion all of sudden. "James, what are you talking about? I don't understand."
James looked up to meet his lifelong rival, eye to eye, something that he never got a chance to do when he lived in this level of existence and in doing that he was able to see that while he was a criminal that should be put to jail. He was still a living sentient being creature that was fully possible of emotions and that he wasn't a soulless creature that he first thought he was.
"You will and you might be my rival, but the one thing that I have learned from you it was the fact that you always fought with your own sense of honor. Because of that I want to you to kept an eye out on my son," said James.
Wolf was floored by this socking confession that James had about him, he never knew that James had that much respect toward him that he would put his trust in him to kept his eyes on his only son. He did have the same type of respect for James, but he never thought that he would go this far in their positions were reversed and the only thing that he was able to do at this was to nod his head at what James had requested on him.
Happy, with the fact that the his long time rival had accepted the request, James managed to do a smile at him and after that the image of James had disappeared from his view. When he did that he was overcome with an emotion that he never thought that he would experience in his life, sorrow that he had lost somebody that was the closest thing that was his best friend. A result of that he started to feel a tear to form up in one of his eyes and he instantly whipped it away from his face. Once again he didn't know what to make of this for he thought that he was a tough guy that could take anything that this universe could dish at him and give it right back at it without thinking about it. But, now he found out that he couldn't do that right now and the only thing that he could do at this time was to stand there in a state of sock at what just happen to himself. Not knowing what to think of what just happen, but the one thing that he did know for a fact was that he had to get himself dress as soon as he could, which he did.
While he was doing this his thoughts still lingered on what James McCloud had warned him about and even with a second look at what his rival had told him he still had no clue what he was talking about, which was something that he wanted to know so badly.
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The Bacterian created James McCloud had watch on the screen the destroyed battlecruiser, the very thing that he knew would happen and the only thing that he could do at this time was to sigh at the sight of it. Yes, it was a major blow to their efforts and would put them back on their heels for a time being before they would created another one that he had hope would be harder to crack open. But, it also meant that it was time for them to used a new style of warfare, one that the Bacterian had never thought about using, and that was of the mind. The type of warfare that would go to the heart and minds of these people to break them down to the point that they wouldn't want to fight.
That where he came into, for the Bacterian created James McCloud knew that he was in the image of much famed fox, that could used that to bend the Cornerians anyway that he wanted and the idea of that resonated with him. But, like so many other times he found himself drifting into the memories that the Aparoid Queen had about the real James McCloud and finding out that he loved this solar system so much that he would do anything that was within his power to kept it safe from harm. That was the type of loyally and devotion to a cause that he could understand and maybe in the long run respect. But, this wasn't the time nor the place to look into the part of himself for he knew that it was the type of route that would lead him away from the route that his Master had set for him.
I will not down that route, I know what I'm and what I was made for he said to himself to stomp out any of the remaining questions that he had about this thing.
Do you know really what you made for? Asked another voice, taunting him to give it an answer.
The Bacterian created James McCloud paid no attention to the voice, for he knew what it was, it was aphysical embodiment of his doubts and fears about everything. Something that he knew was something that he shouldn't paid any attention to, for they were two things that would kill anybody that was attempting to anything that was so dramatic in their lives.
But, it seem that his silence treatment didn't work on the voice for he found out that this only embolden the voice. Do you think that will work on m, ignoring me? Thinking that I don't exist, while in fact that I do exist, for a long as you have these fears and doubts, I will still be with you.
Once again James decided not to give the voice what it wanted in hope that it would go ahead for him and unlike the last time, it worked much to the relief of James. But, he didn't know how long it would last.
James, are you ready? Asked a third voice, a voice that he knew to his Master and something that he knew was real.
Yes I am answered James.
Good his Master said.
With that the Bacterian created James McCloud nodded his head at that and with another quick look at the viewscreen to see what had happen in the short period of time, to see if anything had changed from the last time he looked. He saw that things did changed and it took the form that the group of fighters had exited that area. Seeing that he knew that the only place that they had to go was inside of this Dark Void, knowing that the real source of all of this was inside of this place and so he closed his eyes to sensed if these fighters were inside of this place. He expected that there would be some and when he found out that there was none of them in this place, and because of that he was quite surprise that they didn't enter into this place. How, he wondered what was going on for he knew if he was them, he would of entered into that place, knowing that was the source of all things that came from the Bacterian. Unless there was something that they didn't plan on that forced him to change their plans and if that was so, then that would mean that his Master might have to changed what they were about to do.
Master, I think we should stop and take a look he thought. For the Cornerians and their Gradian ally didn't enter into the Dark Void.
Yes, I'm well aware of what they did and I'm little surprise by the fact that they didn't do that, but that dose not change anything. I still need you to pray on the hearts and the minds of these people his Master said.
Once again James nodded his head at that, happy with the fact that his Master was able to see what he was seeing and because of that, not kill him in the same way that he did with the feline. With that he went to his Arwing.
