Benarian Airship 9:30 A.M

Hawk and Lynx arrived back in the Lylat system and headed to Planet Corneria. They didn't have to worry about landing on the planet or anything as their target was the Benarian warships. Just a quick refueling maybe get some money for Krystal's Arwing and they would be on there way out to a better place.

They sent out a hailing call looking Birch and permission to dock. With their request Granted both Hawk and Lynx flew in to one of the larger ships and docked before jumping out of the Arwing and space craft. Hawk smiled to Lynx and put his arm around her affectionately. He had only met her around one month prior but he really enjoyed her company. They waited until Birch walked in to the Hangar to greet them shaking their hands and saluting.

"Why did you come here Hawk?" Birch growled out as he didn't seem to be too happy that they were there.

"We got chased back this way by a couple of pests, hoping to refuel and maybe sell you a Starfox Arwing."Hawk smiled and waved a hand back to the silver and blue Arwing. "The best and latest the Cornerian engineers have come up with."

"You moron!" Birch pulled back and swung punching Hawk in the face with a lot of force. "Do you realize that the Stafox team will be looking for that? They can track it here if they know you have it."

"Hawk!" Lynx stepped forward to Hawk as he stumbled back. She turned her gaze to Birch. "With all due respect sir, we brought it here for you to have the upper hand. If you were flying that Arwing you will blend with their team and the Cornerian Arwings."

"Shut your mouth you mangy cat." Birch backhanded Lynx before growling. "The only reason you are still alive Lynx is not because you were useful but because it doesn't take a genius to pull the trigger of a gun and if you died we were not losing a valuable member of our military."

"Shut your mouth Birch." Hawk growled seeing that Lynx was hurt by what was said.

"You don't get it Hawk. She had a simple job go with you, kill you and bring the money back. But she failed, why I don't know but that's fine, just means I get the pleasure of killing you both myself." Birch pulled his Blaster out and aimed. "Sad part is Lynx, if you did as you were told, you wouldn't have to suffer."

"Lynx?" Hawk looked to her confused and enraged. "Tell me what he is saying is a lie."

"It's not but I didn't kill you now, did I." Lynx looked to him before looking back to Birch.

"How touching now, you both can die." Birch growled out and moved his gun quickly to Hawk before pulling the trigger

Lynx readied herself for the blast before she saw Birch's eyes move to his target. She moved rather quickly and shoved Hawk with all her strength to push him away from the blast. She managed to get him out of the way unfortunately for her she wasn't fast enough to dodge and hit square in the chest. She was thrown back a bit and she landed on the ground with a limp thud.

Hawk stumbled to the side before falling over when he was pushed. He looked up in time to see Lynx take the hit of the blaster. Looking to Birch he pulled his own blaster and fired it hitting Birch in the shoulder. Hawk knew he only has second before other shots would be fired and he was up and running to the Arwing.

He stopped and cursed himself before reaching to his belt and pulling out a small glass ball and throwing it at Birch and his guards. The ball broke and instantly filled area around them with smoke and dust. Stray shots were fired wildly in to the smoke one clipping Hawk in the leg and another on the side of his waist.

Hawk as quickly as he could turn and ran to Lynx, picked her up, dragged her to Krystal's Arwing and put her in the back seat. He himself jumped in quickly closed the hatch and spun the Arwing around to leave. Luckily with the laser field hangar doors he could leave quickly without having to fight his way out. He was off and running from the ship trying to figure out where to go for safety and to get Lynx treated if she didn't die as well as himself.

"Lynx stay with me. You got to live so I can kill you."Hawk growled before he flew out of the Benarian fleet and met the wall of Corneria.

He quickly flew in to the Cornerian side of the field. He looked around till he found a carrier ship and flew to it and sent out of an emergency request as he entered the Hangar and docked. The moment he docked and had the hatch open, there was a crew already there and pulling him and Lynx out rushing them to the medical bay. He knew what would happen to both of them after they were treated but living was definitely better than not. Plus he had a lot of information that hopefully helpful to the army.

10:15 AM Cornerian Carrier ship

"General Pepper we have a situation that needs to be dealt with ASAP."

"What is the situation, lieutenant?" General Pepper spoke as he was in a meeting hall with the Star Fox and Star Wolf team. "It better be important to be disrupting this meeting."

"Sir, A bird by the Name of Hawk just boarded the carrier with another and they are in the medical bay right now. We have a few guards stationed at their doors to keep them from leaving." Lieutenant spoke quickly and to the point. Wolf and Panther heard this message and both stood quickly before they were stopped by a glare from James.

"Good we will be down there once we are done here" General Pepper spoke sternly

"But sir, he requested an immediate conference with you. Saying its life or death."

General Pepper snorted a bit and stood up before looking to the others and nodded softly. They all stood up and waited till Pepper spoke to the other then closed the communication and left the room. He was followed by the two teams down to the medical bay. Both Wolf and Panther were on edge and ready to kill.

James stopped and grabbed them by their shoulders and stopping them. They looked back to him and he only smiled softly before he whispered to them to stay calm and wait to see what happened before they jumped to attack for revenge they both wanted.

Once they got to the room General Pepper stepped in and looked to Hawk who was sitting on a bed as a nurse stitched up his side. With a clearing of his throat the nurse looked over and quickly finished before leaving the room. Hawk looked over and saw Pepper, Falco, Slippy, and Fox. He could see the red in their eyes he knew they were going to be his nightmare.

"Good Morning Hawk. I was told you wish to speak with me." Pepper started off the conversation. "Please note that I am very busy and have very little time."

"Then I will get to the point. Birch is in the Ship with the number 48-27 on the side of it. I also brought back the Arwing that was taken from a woman in Sauria." Hawk was quick in his words.

"Really now." Pepper looked to Fox, and with a nod Fox sent Slippy to check the Arwing. Slippy quickly left to head to the Arwing. "You do know you are a wanted man, and even wanted dead. Do you have anything else to share with us?

"Yes, Birch paid me to take any and all lab experiments' that were available in the air base you tried to lock me up in. They reproduced all medication for enhancing combat abilities. He has also been working in secret under the Queens nose. All those ships out there are here without her knowing. Birch declared war on you first because with you not being able to leave your planet he can, and most likely will, send a war declaration to Benaria. The military on those ships are loyal only to Birch and he has about 80% of the Benerian Army as his loyal servants."

"How do you know all of this?" Pepper crossed his arms "Surely if you knew this you were close to Birch. And how do we know you are not planning something?"

"Easy I know this because I know how to dig for information, plus I have one of his militaries with me that he may have killed. I got information from her. He also planned to have me killed so he didn't have to pay me after I gave him everything he wanted. I don't take well to back stabbing."

"Nor do Wolf and panther." Fox snapped out at Hawk.

"Those idiots? I was never working with them those rumors of them working with me were just that rumors. Besides as for their base being over run with my men, well, that was simple. I got Leon to follow me and with that men followed him. I was planning on talking to Panther and Wolf in joining me but they came at me with guns and I could tell they were not going to follow after that. Leon wasn't very loyal anyways who ever had more money to give him he would go to them." Hawk was not going to argue but he did feel the need to clear some things up. "I only did what I did to ensure I got paid, and well I am stuck here as a prisoner."

"Hawk, you are placed under arrest until further notice, however If you have any more knowledge of what is going on please tell us. So we can inform all the right sources." Pepper spoke harshly he wanted all the info he could get. "Plus if what you say is useful we may go light on your punishment though I cannot guarantee anything right now."

"Ok, old dog. Birch plans to wait till you guys try to move out before attacking so your standstill right now is ok but with trade ships unable to move in and out your planet will slowly fall apart. While they can intercept those trade ships and keep going. As for going after the Benerian Queen, he is power hungry and that all he sees is power and taking over. Someone needs to tell the Queen to get her to safety." Hawk spoke very worriedly. "And if you try to evacuate the planet Birch has fighter on the other side of the planet ready to take out civilian ships.

"Thank you Hawk, the information you gave us will be a great help. Now to get plans going we need to get to that Queen, and get people off this planet to safety for the time being." General Pepper left the room speaking with Fox and Falco following behind.

"Don't worry Pepper, Peppy and Krys are working on evacuating just inform them of the issue with the ships." Fox spoke up before taking his chin in his hand. "But to get someone over to the queen will be hard."

"I will do it" Falco spoke up." I can get through that line with no problem."

"Yes but your never very stealthy. Not to mention your one of the best fighter pilots. If we start getting attacked we will need the best we got. We need someone that can get through, be quick, and not get caught."

"Leave it to me." Panther purred out as he stepped closer. "I was the one that broke Hawk out of prison. I am sure I can sneak into a palace and get a girl out a lot easier. Just need one person for backup just in case I need cover"

"Then it's settled. Panther you will go. Wolf you go with him because you know his fighting style better than any other. Get her out of there now, and bring her to the White moon. There is a base there that she will be safe." Pepper saluted them before dismissing them and headed off to revise battle plans with the rest of the team.

Wolf and Panther Both Saluted and ran quickly to the hangar they had to get to Beneria, get in to the castle get out and not be followed. This was the kind of missions Panther loved. It tested his abilities to the max. They jumped in to their Arwing and took off instantly not waiting any longer then they needed. This was a do or die job and they were not going to die, at least not that easily.

Fox, James, Falco, and Pepper went back to the board room to discuss plans. Their top priority was civilians. They needed to get everyone out that was not able to fight. This was going to be hard and they all knew it. Their first move was to tell Peppy and Krystal of the other ships so they didn't let others take off. The Screen come up with Peppy sitting peacefully reading a book.

"Peppy!" Pepper Barked scaring the old hare.

"Oh, good morning Pepper, evacuation is going as planned" Peppy chimed up

"That's wonderful Peppy but there has been a slight wrench thrown into the works." Pepper was not happy about learning the ships on the other side ready to shoot down any evacuation ships. "But we have been informed that the army outside the planets orbit has ships and fighters ready to shoot down any evacuating ships."

"Oh, well we can't have that can we." Peppy smirked. "I am sure Krystal and I can handle that problem. Do you know how many ships?"

"No we don't, all we know is they are there and if you try to leave you will be shot down. We have sent this word to every ship that was readying for evacuation. We are at a losing stalemate Peppy just be ready to get those ships out of there once we figure out what to do."

"Yes sir Pepper, I will be right on that then." Peppy smiled his usual smile and closed the communications before he got up. "Well Rob what are you sitting there for, you heard the old dog, there are ships in our way."

"Yes sir, what will we do?" Rob stood up from his chair.

"First we check on Krystal, than we get some tea while we have a little chat with James, and lastly we show those youngsters how to really fly a ship." Peppy laughed a bit as he left the bridge heading down the hall to talk to Krystal to inform her of what happened.

Peppy knocked on the door to Krystal's room and waited till he heard her call for him to enter. When she didn't respond he tapped the key panel to the side of the door opening it up. He looked in to her room and saw it was empty with a light on in her bathroom with the door slightly open.

"Krystal are you ok? Are you in the bathroom?" Peppy walked over to the bathroom slowly when he heard gagging and coughing followed by the sound of the toilet flushing.

He pushed the door open and looked to Krystal. She was wearing only a pair of pajama pants and a t-shirt, her hair was a mess having not been brushed. She glanced back and looked to Peppy as she was sitting on the floor in front of the toilet. She looked ready to cry. As long as she has been with the Star Fox team, Peppy always noticed she didn't take well to being ill. She would cry or be on the verge of it depending on how sick she was.

He smiled down to her and grabbed a paper cup off the counter and filled it with fresh water giving it to her before he got a clean cloth and soaking it clean water before he knelt down next to her. Once she rinsed her mouth out he reached over and cleaned her chin and mouth off.

"Not feeling well dear?" Pepper spoke softly trying to make her feel better. Now wasn't a great time to be getting sick but it couldn't be helped.

"Always better after right?" She chuckled and rinsed her mouth once more spitting in to the toilet before flushing once more. She started to get up.

"Alright then, up we go" Pepper stood with her and put an arm around her walking her out to her bed. "I am sure it will pass quickly. You were never one to stay sick for long."

"Peppy… Please don't tell Fox," Krystal looked to Peppy with pleading eyes.

"I won't don't worry, dear girl, I am sure he won't mind if I don't tell him your not well" Peppy spoke calmly.

"I hope not." Krystal grimaced and lied down in her bed as Peppy pushed her to lie down.

"I just came to let you know evacuation plans have changed because of the army around the planet are now aimed not just for fighters but for civilian ships as well. Do not worry my dear you rest up and get well. Leave everything to the others.

Peppy left the room making sure to shut the door as he was going to make something for her to eat while he made tea. After all being on an empty stomach was not good for anyone, even if they were sick. He was worried as he always did for all the team members. He was like a grandfather to all of the team members and made them all feel better when they needed it.

Krystal watched him leave as she slowly got out of bed and went to her desk. She lifted up her wrist com and moved back to her bed sitting down. She held it in her hands trying to figure out what she was going to do. She knew she had a few choices but her biggest fear was confronting what she was going to do when she figured out how she was going to do it.

"I guess I should do what Fox and Falco would do. Dive in head first and hope for the best." She mumbled to herself as she pushed a button on the com before hearing it buzz a few times.

"Hey Krystal, is something wrong?" the familiar voice of Fox rang out through the speaker. He looked to his wrist along with Falco, James, and Pepper.

"No, Fox I just thought you would like to know I am better. Peppy has been taking good care of me since I got back from Sauria." Krystal didn't know she was interrupting a war meeting

"Yea I am glad you are ok, but if that is why you called, you shouldn't have worried. I knew you were ok your with Peppy." He was still in the meeting and he only answered because he thought it was an emergency. But now they were all a little relieved.

"That's not why I called." She looked down.

"Krys, what's wrong? Do I need to come down? You don't sound like yourself right now." Fox was now getting worried again. She was sounding off a little too far off then he liked.

"Fox… I am pregnant…"