And reposting this to say that the sequel is now up under Star Fox: Restoration

I honestly thought the edit was going to take much longer than it did. I only really changed one scene, and that was the scene where Mira finds Will. And all I did was try to capture more of Will's confusion. Most everything else was consistency errors and typos. I thought I was going to be changing the end scenes but after re-reading them, I am actually quite happy with them. they really do a decent job of showing the desperateness of the pilots. Deception on the other hand is still being looked over again. I have modified the dialogue, but for those of you following this series already, the key events are not changing at all.

Well, first off, gotta say, this story went through a LOT of changes, so lets start with what never changed.

First, Fox and Krystal always was planned to break up and get married. Was the plan from day one for them.

Falco and Katt were always going to get together, and is why I did so in the Phoenix fire as well.

Will and Fox were always going to get into a dogfight, but the situation was extremely different.

Mira and Will. Come on folks, you coulda guessed that.

The Aparoids. Yes, they were a part of the plan from the start. I wasn't entirely sure exactly how the alliance was going to control them, that was a puzzle that took a good bit to figure out for me, and if you don't get it right now, don't worry, it will come up later tehe. I will say that both of the fleets that attacked earth and Corneria were aparoid controlled.

The framework for the final battle, barely changed from the beginning, aside from some obvious changes. Will's father always did sacrifice himself, Russian ships and whole civil war sparking was always there, the whole tunnel scene and Will ramming his fighter into the aparoid queen, and the whole final scene with Will and Mira. All been planned, roughly so at least, since the start.

Now the changes…. Whoa, too many to count…

For those of you have been around since the start, the obvious. About three, four some odd months in, I decided to do a rewrite a good chunk of the story, rearranging some events in the beginning of Deception. Originally, the opening fight was with the human escort carrier, the two pirate bases following. Other spur of the moment decisions were the exact timings of Will/mira's and Katt/Falco's relationships. Originally, they weren't starting until literal the end of the finally battle. (lol, I was a bit naïve huh?) funny, how characters can kinda rebel against ya, eh? Lol. Saber was a literal chapter before creation, designed entirely for adding tension between Fox and Krystal. Originally, he survived the war, but as more fresh characters got added, and I noticed too many characters were getting just roughed up. So he kinda ended up dead. It was in ways, a spur of the moment decision, plus, it helped drive Krystal and Fox back together. And I'll admit, good shock effect right at the end of deception. Will being captured was also something that took me a while to do, but I think that ended up a great decision. Using that, and the idea that there was still a Cerinian population, gave me the idea of how to add the Aparoids. Now, Sheila's addition, as well as the other characters of Star Fox: First Contact, I got the idea of adding when Shep threw a Cameo of Will in Veria, so I did my own much larger cameo of Sheila, Sabrina, and Dereck. Fara's death was something I had decided on almost right after I decided they were going to brainwash Will. Originally, when I added Fara, Miyu, and Fay, Miyu was going to gain a strong affinity to Will. She was also originally, not going to die.

Wills ring had always been in it, but I originally didn't know what I was going to do with it. I'll admit, I liked giving it to Fox. Was a nice touch to be perfectly honest.

So many of the changes and additions to this story were made as spur of the moment, including Fox's injury. I would start writing a scene, and it would just… flow into what ended up happening. And that happened more often than I care to admit.

Inspirations for this story? Lots of random pictures on the internet, boredom, my own personal writing (The UEC is almost directly ripped from it, as far as visual style, although the UEC tech of deception is very low compared to my own writing.) Other places I pulled inspiration from, the game Project Slypheed (Mix Star Fox, Ace combat, and final fantasy together, easiest comparison for that game) as well as Ace Combat 5 (Guilty!). I actually had story ideas, and character ideas, as well as ideas as far as the fight scenes from those games. Pulled from a few other games too, but it was mostly just conceptual stuff, like the layout of a fight or ways to create scenarios.

Also, I doubt anyone caught on, may have been too subtle with it, (More because I didn't what to go too overboard with the joke) but did you catch who Kyle was based on? Peg leg…. Long hair…. Squadron is named the Dragons…. Has a Nordic last name…. Always names his ship twilight's fire which is kinda reminiscent of Night Fury…. Tehe.

Well, that's it for now, and I am now moving on to work on the sequel, I'll throw up one more chap to this once its up! Catch you all again later!