Somewhere in the space, there was a large, white and armored ship flying through the galaxy. It was the Great Fox. It was a huge spaceship that belonged to James McCloud and when James died during a mission, his son Fox McCloud inherited his father's ship.
Inside the Great Fox, in one of the rooms at the front of the ship, there were 5 people including a humanoid robot. This robot was called ROB and he too had owned by James McCloud but now ROB belongs to Fox because it was a part of his father's inheritance. Among the remaining 4 people, there was a fox, a falcon, a frog and a hare.
The fox was called Fox McCloud. Fox was the leader of the Star Fox team and he got on well with his team. Fox even had a girlfriend named Krystal but even though Fox had met and saved Krystal during one of his missions and that Fox and Krystal had fallen in love with each other, Krystal had finally loved someone else and she had to leave the Star Fox team for good. Because of this, Fox had fallen into grief because Krystal was very precious to him and he refused to forget her despite the fact that Krystal had been gone for 2 months. His teammates did everything to cheer Fox up but to no avail, and Fox spent a lot of time crying in his own corner than having fun with his friends.
The falcon was called Falco Lombardi. Falco was an arrogant and sarcastic avian but, besides being the bravest and being a good friend of Fox, he was the best Arwing pilot in the Star Fox team. The frog was named Slippy Toad. He was Fox's childhood friend and was the Star Fox mechanic and the youngest on the team. Finally the hare was called Peppy Hare. Peppy Hare was a friend of James McCloud but now he was Fox McCloud's mentor and he gave advice to the team on everything he knew. Peppy was the oldest in the team and he had not yet retired.
Today the Star Fox team received a new mission from the General Pepper from Corneria. The Star Fox team had learned that a group of women who would work for Andross were in the jungle of Fortuna
and, according to rumors, they would have a secret base and a powerful weapon capable of destroying a good part of any planet while killing the inhabitants who were hit. The mission is to find this hidden base and see if this famous weapon exists and, if so, they will have to destroy it with the secret base. The Star Fox team will have the choice between trying to find the plans to bring them back to General Pepper or destroy it at the same time as the secret base. Finally, the Star Fox team has the permission to do anything in this mission so, if the women are very dangerous, the Star Fox team has the authorization to kill them.
"We have 10 minutes left before arriving around Fortuna." ROB warned while being at the controls of the ship.
"Well, let's get ready!" Fox said sighing still thinking of Krystal.
"Are you sure it's going to be okay, Fox? You're still so sad." Slippy asked worried about his friend.
"If you don't feel good, you can cancel the mission and let Corneria's troops check Fortuna for us and I'm sure that the General Pepper will agree." explained Peppy.
"No. The Star Fox team never turns down a mission to do good and then I'm fine." Fox replied, looking at his teammates despite knowing deep inside him that he was not doing well.
"Good because, despite our enemies are women, we will still kick their ass." said Falco, banging one of his fists in the other hand, which was open, impatient to be in action.
"Unless it is they who kick our ass if they are armed to the teeth." Slippy answered.
"The best thing we should do is not to be spotted to neutralize them in discretion until the last one or we can kill them all at the same time by blowing up their base. There should be a self-destruct button
and Slippy may be able to hack the data so that an alarm will not alert everyone in the database." Peppy advised.
"Yes it seems like a good idea Peppy, we stick to your plan. Let's go Star Fox! All to the Arwing!" Fox said before his team and him go to the hangar where their ships were waiting for them.
Once installed in their Arwings, a large door on the other side of the shed opened to view space and the planet of Fortuna which was very large in front of them.
"Guys, are you ready?" Fox asked as he watched his teammates appear in the small screens on the dashboard.
"Yes Fox!" Slippy answered.
"I'm ready !" replied Peppy.
"It's when you want!" Falco replied.
"Perfect! Let's go!" Fox said starting his arwing at the same time as his teammates before being quickly in space thanks to a thruster.
In a few minutes, Fox and his teammates found themselves over the huge jungle of Fortuna.
"It's very big here, I don't thing if we'll be able to find anything with all these trees." Slippy was saying, looking below him.
"It's not for nothing that's called a "secret base" Slippy." Falco answered, temporarily raising his eyes in up.
"Come on Falco, let me go a little bit." Slippy replied a little upset by the arrogance of Falco.
"It's enough both of you, you'll argue later, we have a mission to accomplish." Peppy said to Falco and Slippy.
"Well, I think we should land in a clear place so we..."
While Fox was about to finish his sentence, a missile had come out through the jungle trees and hit the Fox's arwing.
"Argh, I'm hit and the engine doesn't work anymore, I'm falling!" shouted Fox, who was losing altitude.
"We ended up finding her this secret base." Peppy said looking down where a missile had come out.
"Oh no, Fox will crash!" Slippy said as Fox's arwing lost altitude before his Arwing disappeared into the giant vegetation in the distance.
"I'm taking care of Fox and you two are going to this base." said Falco, who had seen where Fox's arwing crashed.
"I hope Fox has nothing!" Slippy said worried.
"Don't worry, I'm sure he's fine." reassured Peppy while Slippy and Peppy had found a place to land.
As Slippy and Peppy landed, Falco continued to fly with his Arwing in search of Fox. In the end, he had managed to find where Fox had crashed and how Fox's arwing had ripped off several trees when he crashed to the ground, it had created a small area where Falco could land without risk of damaging his arwing because of all the trees there were. When he started to land, Falco had looked at Fox's arwing and his natural look had turned into a look of terror as Fox's arwing was burning and
Fox still had not come out of the arwing.
"Shit, Fox's arwing is burning and he's still not out, I have to save him before it's too late." Falco thought without leaving his eyes from Fox's arwing.
When Falco's Arwing hit the ground, Falco ran out and ran towards Fox's arwing.
"Fox, tell me you're still alive!" shouted Falco as he climbed Fox's Arwing.
Falco could see Fox watching him with terror.
"I'm stuck! The window refuses to open!" Fox shouted, punching the glass.
"Let me do it and protect your head." Falco asked before Fox did what he asked when he saw Falco raise his foot and hit him hard against the window.
The window had broken while dropping pieces of glasses on Fox.
"Give me your hand !" Falco shouted, extending his feathery hand to Fox.
Upon seeing Falco, Fox took his hand and he was out of his Arwing then Fox and Falco ran as fast as he could until Fox and Falco fell to the ground because of the explosion of Fox's arwing.
"My ship..." Fox said, looking at what was left of the arwing that was still burning a bit.
"It's nothing!" Falco said looking at Fox's Arwing.
"How can you say it's nothing? This arwing cost me a fortune." Fox replied angrily.
"Maybe but the most important thing is that you're still alive." Falco answered, putting his finger on Fox's chest.
After hearing Falco's words, Fox said nothing, then he looked down and said "You're right, I'm sorry Falco for pissing me off."
"There is no harm, I know it's not easy for you at the moment because I went there too when I broke up with Katt before I joined your team. It was not easy at first but I ended up forgotten and turned the page. I'm sure your couple problem will work out. I don't know when but I'm sure you'll find
the real person for your life." said Falco calmly.
"Maybe you're right. We're going to join Slippy and Peppy, they have to worry a lot about me." said Fox, who had risen at the same time as Falco.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the jungle, Peppy and Slippy were trading.
"Are you sure that's where all the trees are alike and I think we lost." Slippy was saying, looking around him.
"I know where I'm going because the missile that hit Fox came from that direction so the only thing we have to do is go straight ahead until we find something that will tell us that we have found the secret base." explained Peppy.
As Peppy and Slippy walked, neither Slippy or Peppy realized that the two of them were going to walk on a trap hidden by the dead leaf and when they walked in, a net lifted them up and trapped them in the air. Following this, a alarm went off and some women arrived by pointing their rifle straight at them. In the seers, they saw that they were all goats.
"I suppose I owe you a apology Peppy, you were right. We ended up finding something that proves we found the secret base." Slippy said looking at Peppy.
"What do we do chief? Should we kill them?" asked one of the women in the direction of their leader who wore a long red cape and a black helmet with horns.
"No, because according to the description of Lord Andross, they look very much like those called Star Fox and Andross wants to capture the Star Fox mercenary group alive to deliver them to Lord Andross as a person." explained the leader to the woman who had asked the question.
"However, only two were captured while they are four. Where are the fox and the bird?" the leader asked, pointing at Slippy and Peppy.
"We don't..." Peppy began before being cut by Slippy.
"They stayed in Corneria because they had an important mission so we came here both." Slippy lying to the women, which surprised Peppy.
"So, how do you explain that our radar has detected four ships instead of two?" asked the chef who was looking at Slippy and didn't seem to believe it.
"Well, we came here with two old friends who are not part of our team and had to find a friend somewhere on Fortuna that they have not seen for 3 or 4 years, so like they know how to fly ships, they've been given the Fox and Falco arwings." Slippy replied, continuing to lie.
"Mhh... And which one of you did we hit with our anti-aircraft missile?" asked the leader who was beginning to believe Slippy's lies.
"You had the Peppy arwing right in the middle so I asked our two old friends to continue their way without stopping while I helped Peppy. Then we wanted to see who shot us and we accidentally stepped on a trap and then you knew the next of the stories." Slippy replied, continuing to lie.
"I see, well, we'll keep you prisoner in our secret base but you'd better do your prayer because I doubt that Lord Andross will be kind to you, especially for the number of times you thwarted his plans." explained the leader.
"Come on, take them!" added the chief, making a sign with one of her hands.
Slippy and Peppy walked with their hands tied behind their backs with the women who distrusted them and continued to point their weapons at them.
"Why did you lie Slippy?" Peppy whispered confused of what had happened earlier.
"Because if we had told them the truth by telling them that we are on a mission here to destroy their base and that Fox and Falco are here too, it would ruin the surprise effect for Fox and Falco." Slippy explained, whispering.
"In addition, I hid the emitter of my arwing in my boot for Fox and Falco to locate us when we are in the secret base because, as we are in a vast jungle, I'm sure Fox and Falco are going to want to locate our arwings." Slippy added, whispering.
"I see, well done Slippy." replied Peppy, whispering.
Meanwhile, back with Fox and Falco, the duo had walked in the jungle for long minutes.
"Are you sure that's the right direction Fox? I don't want to live all my life in this jungle!" Falco said.
"Yes because when I looked at the radar, the arwings of Slippy and Peppy were in that direction." Fox replied pointing fingers forward.
"If you say so !" Falco replied.
A few minutes later, Fox and Falco had found the arwings of Slippy and Peppy but there was nobody.
"It's weird." Fox said looking at the radar at Arwing.
"What's weird about?" asked Falco, who was approaching Fox.
"The radar tells me that Slippy and Peppy's arwing are apart and yet, they are there both. Plus, I noticed Slippy's arwing emitter keeps moving slowly." Fox said, pointing at Falco's radar.
"Probably because Slippy has shipped the transmitter with him because he's afraid of getting lost in the jungle so we can locate him." Falco replied, rolling his eyes and folding his arms.
"Unless Slippy and Peppy have located the secret base and took the emitter from one of the arwings with them to locate and find them. Slippy or Peppy has a great idea to do that." said Fox.
"Well then, let's go!" Falco was saying before walking next to Fox and with Fox holding his radar in his hands.
After walking for several minutes, they finally found what they were looking for. Fox and Falco could see in front of them a large ancient temple with dark green color.
"So that's the secret base?" said Fox, who was hidden in a bush with Falco by his side when he saw an armed woman at the entrance of the temple.
"Charming!" Falco said as he saw the doorkeeper scratching his buttocks with his left hand before resting his hand on the weapon.
"How are we going to enter discreetly?" Fox asked, still looking at the woman.
"I have an idea!" Falco replied.
"What is it?" Fox asked, looking at Falco.
"You're going to see. Don't do nothing and you stay hidden okay?" Falco answered before leaving his hiding place, heading straight for the guard while raising his hands in the air.
"Falco, what are you..."
Before he could finish his sentences by being shocked at Falco's attitude, he could see the guard who had noticed Falco and she pointed her gun at him. Fox could not risk being spotted in his turn so he preferred to stay hidden in case he would be the last person on the team not to be captured despite
that he didn't know that Slippy and Peppy were captured.
"Who are you?" asked the woman heading for Falco while keeping her weapon pointed at Falco.
"Me? My name is Falco and..."
"Falco? Falco Lombardi that it? Your Star Fox friends are trapped in our cellar and you're going to make a pleasure to..."
Before the woman finished her sentence when she was in front of Falco, the falcon had punched the woman's face before turning it over and kill her by making him a break-neck under the Fox's eyes.
"Falco! Whow! It was dangerous but you were impressive." Fox said as he left his hiding place as he approached his teammate who was crushing the guardian.
"You'll throw flowers at me later, we have a mission to finish." Falco answered taking the body and hiding it in the bushes while throwing the unloaded weapon into the bushes as well.
"Well, you take care of Slippy and Peppy while I'm taking care of the powerful weapon." Fox explained as he stepped inside with Falco while holding their weapons in their hands and aiming in front of them while seeing that there was no one at the entrance.
"Good luck Fox!" replied Falco, seeing an open door on his left and descending below.
"Good luck to you too, Falco!" Fox answered as he saw Falco walk out the door before walking down the hall in front of him with stairs down the hall and a few doors on the sides.
Fox had noted that although he was in a ancient temple, the interior was different and looked nothing like a real temple. Fox had tried all the doors of the ground floor but they were closed.
"Well, we're going to need Slippy and his lock picking skills." Fox thought before heading for the stairs.
Meanwhile, Falco was coming down the stairs cautiously and when he heard voices, he was hiding in a recess of a wall, in the shadows, not to be spotted. He had seen three armed women walking down the stairs in front of him.
"Man, I'm wondering how many they are here. The goats are not my girlish style." Falco thought before going down the last steps before turning to his left, in the opposite direction of the women he had seen past.
As Falco continued to walk down the hall without a door and without a hiding place, he had heard familiar voices a little further away.
"Let us go ma'am, it's not very nice to lock up a person who is soon retired in a cage." ordered Peppy who was locked in a small cage.
"Yes he is right." added Slippy, who was also locked up in a small cage.
"Shut up there, both of you!" shouted the woman towards the prisoners.
"I know that Andross wants you alive but that will not stop me from having fun with you." the woman added while taking an iron bar that came out of the fire.
"What are you going to do with that?" Asked Slippy who started to panic knowing that she was going to torture them.
"I'm going to have fun torturing you, after all, as long as you're alive but with several burns on your face, it should not be a problem, and I'll start with you the frog." the woman replied with a cruel smile on her face as she approached Slippy.
"Please, don't hurt me!" Slippy begged, seeing the iron bar move toward his face.
While the burning iron bar was about to hit Slippy's face, Slippy and Peppy could hear the sound of a weapon being hit hard on someone's head and they saw the woman falling unconscious to the floor with the iron bar and Falco was in front of Slippy and Peppy holding his weapon.
"Falco, I was sure you would come and save us!" Peppy said with joy.
"Thanks Falco, even if we fight, you're still good." thanked Slippy after Falco had fired his blaster at the locks on Slippy and Peppy's cage door, allowing the two prisoners to be released.
"Thanks for the compliment, little tadpole." Falco replied, crossing his arms.
"Hey, it was not nice!" Slippy replied a little pissed off, picking up his blaster on a table with Peppy's.
"Where is Fox? He's not with you?" Peppy asked, picking up his blaster that Slippy gave him.
"Yes but he's looking for the powerful weapon and I doubt he'll be able to do it alone." explained Falco.
Meanwhile, Fox was climbing the stairs. He had looked all the rooms up to the third floor and found nothing until he reached the fourth floor. As he entered the door on the landing, he had seen a large dark room. As he entered the room, Fox had searched for a switch and when he found one on the right side of the entrance, Fox had pressed it and the light had come on. Fox was now seeing what was inside. What he could see were wooden boxes tucked against the walls and something that drew his attention to the center of the room. He saw a weird machine with a keyboard, a screen and a kind of big point that was lowered.
"I don't know why but I feel it's the weapon, I should take a look on it." he thought as he walked towards the machine.
While Fox was on the verge of anaylyser while in front, he could hear the sound of a loaded weapon and when he turned around, he could see the woman leader who was working for Andross.
"Don't have fun trying to get your gun out, otherwise I'll spray you with my plasma6300 so put your hands up." warned the woman, keeping her gun pointed at Fox.
Fox was in shock because, despite being a goat, the chef looked a lot like her ex-girlfriend Krystal but he knew it was not her. By dint of being shocked on the spot, he ended up taking a hit of plasma6300 on his head before falling to the ground on his back.
"Are you deaf? I told you to lift your hands up." the leader was saying aggressively after hit Fox's head.
"It's good! It's good!" Fox answered, raising his hands in the air.
"You should never have come here and discover Andross's weapon, we've just received new orders from the lords Andross and it's killing you with your entire team, so pray for a few seconds you still have to live." explained the woman before firing her 9600 plasma at Fox's head.
While the gun was about to fire and Fox had lowered his head to the ground and closing his eyes because he knew he was going to die and didn't want to see death in the face, Fox had heard a blaster shot followed by a weapon falling to the ground with a sound of a falling body and someone running towards him.
"Fox, are you okay?" asked Falco, who was coming next to Fox.
When Fox opened his eyes, he saw Falco looking at him before Fox stared at the corpse of the leader who had died on the ground with a hole through his head, spilling blood on the ground.
"Decidedly, it's like you can't go from me anymore because it's the second time that I save your life today." said the bird who was amused.
"It was a good shot Falco!" Fox said looking at the corpse of the leader who still reminded him of Krystal.
"Let me get you back on your feet!" Falco said helping Fox get up.
While Fox was standing up with Falco's help, he felt something inside him as he watched Falco but he didn't know what it was.
"Where are Slippy and Peppy, are they okay?" Fox asked worried about his other friends.
"Oh yes! Don't worry, I'll explain everything that happened while you were here, because Slippy activated the self-destruction of the base and turned off the alarm so as not to bring up enemies so that they all die together since there are so many here." Falco explained when he saw Fox touch his head because he was hurt by the gun who has hit his head.
"How long are we left?" Fox asked before Falco took his hand and started running toward the exit.
"If I counted well, we have 1 minute left before we die here!" Falco answered without letting go of Fox's hand so he could continue running.
"And what about the plans?" Fox asked.
"Peppy managed to find them in a poorly closed safe." explained Falco.
While Fox and Falco had just come out of the base, a big explosion behind them had knocked them down, being a little far away from the blast while the temple old had been destroyed and collapsed on the ground. Fox and Falco were lying on their chest on the ground and Falco was standing up while Fox was still lying on the ground putting a hand on his head since he had hit his head again but this time he was bleeding.
"Come on, get up lazy man!" Falco said amused as he helped Fox get up.
While Fox saw Falco helping him, Fox felt again a strange feeling inside him and he finally knew what it was. Fox realized that he had feelings loves for his best friend Falco Lombardi.
"Damn, I never noticed he was even cooler and nicer than before," Fox thought about Falco.
"It's okay, can you walk?" Falco asked worriedly, noting the blood on Fox's head.
"Yeah, that'll be fine!" Fox answered before Fox and Falco had heard a familiar voice called them.
"Fox! Falco! How are you?" asked Peppy, who was heading to the duo, accompanied by Slippy.
"I'm fine but Fox needs nursing care." Falco replied, pointing the feathery thumb to Fox.
"Well, now that we've finished the mission, we can call ROB to bring the Great Fox here to retrieve the destroyed Fox Arwing, heal Fox and warn General Pepper about the success of the mission." said Peppy.
"Fine, so let's go to our Arwings." Fox said.
While Fox, Falco, Slippy and Peppy were walking in the jungle with Peppy holding the radar while Falco and Slippy were bickering as usual, Fox was still watching Falco. Fox had finally found the love of his life but there was a problem that worried Fox: Will Falco Lombardi be able to accept his feelings in love or will he hate him because he wants to become gay and will leaving the team for good as Krystal? Fox didn't know the answer to his questions and hoped that everything would be fine.