Katina: Bill Grey was on the beach in front of his ship enjoying the view as the warm water lapped at his feet. He was tempted to go surfing, but decided instead to just enjoy the scene. Overhead, he heard the roar of several Cornerian fighters as they fly by. Bill then lay down on his towel and go to sleep when his intercom started beeping, he was tempted to let it keep beeping but it might constitute dereliction of duty so he hobbled over to the ship's cockpit and hit the intercom button.
"This is Bill, who's calling?" he
asked.
"This is Sanders from communications
back at the base, we have a secure transmission from General Pepper," came the
response.
"Hey, maybe I've been promoted," he
said.
"Yeah, right," came the
response. Bill and Sanders both started
laughing.
"Okay, I'm coming in," Bill
said. He ran back and folded up his
towel and tossed it into the fighters hold. Then he jumped into the cockpit and hit the ignition button. The engine roared to life and the ship took
off leaving the ocean behind. Bill
whistled as he passed the remains of the alien ship that his squadron and the
Star Fox team had helped defeat. (Okay,
while in the game you can't go to Zoness and Katina in the same game, but in
this story they did so don't complain about it) His ship continued on to the building the aliens had wanted to
destroy. Now there was a booming city
surrounding it and more squadrons of fighters to fight off almost any
opposition. Bill then landed his ship
outside while engineers came out and started fueling it up. Bill walked through the main entrance and
past the reception desk as he accessed the lift. He pressed his thumb to the lift button and it scanned the thumbprint
and compared to the files on record. When it matched up to Bill's thumbprint the lift took off. He then got off and headed to the
communication center. Sanders (a skunk
with no smell) greeted him there.
"We don't have any clue what it's
about, only that Pepper wants to speak with you," Sanders said. As they got to the door Sanders stood in the
hallway.
"You're not coming in?" asked Bill.
"Transmission is for your eyes
only," Sanders replied.
"Hmmm," Bill said.
"Anyway, I'll be down the hallway in
the lounge if you need anything," said Sanders walking off. Bill opened the door and went in. He walked over to the main terminal and slid
in a keycard and Pepper immediately popped up.
"General," said Bill.
"Bill I have some bad news. Two hours ago we lost contact with the Great
Fox and the Star Fox team," Pepper said.
"What?" Bill asked.
"It's true. Anyway
we need you to get here for briefing. I
know you're a valued member of the Cornerian Defense Force. You must maintain absolute secrecy of this. I await your arrival. Signing out," said Pepper. Bill swallowed hard and then shook his head
and walked out.
"Anything happen," asked Sanders.
"Nothing," Bill lied.
"Okay, adios," he said.
"Oh, wait. Tell
the commander Pepper recalled me," he said. Sanders nodded his head and walked off. Bill walked to his room and grabbed a few essential items before walking
out to his ship. Bill then activated
his fighter's engine and took off. He
wondered what he was going to do, but decided to think about what would happen
when the time came. In the meantime he
would just try to put himself together in order to properly meet the General
Pepper.
