Starfox: The Savage Legacy
Chapter 4: Enigma
The Starfox team were now in the Great Fox, but there was no sign that Peppy was here, "I knew it!" Fox yelled, "We should have stayed with Peppy, now he's been slaughtered by this freak!" Falco walked up to Fox, "Don't panic. He's probably taking his time, he's not exactly known for his speed." Fox felt a little relieved, but stood his ground, "but we never did find the killer, and we would have found out for sure what happened to Peppy." Fox sighed. "But Fox, what if Peppy's already here?" Slippy suggested, Fox nodded, "That is a possibility, we'll have to check the Ship." They eventually decided to wait two hours before taking off for the night in case Peppy slipped through. They didn't feel comfortable with the ships doors open while they were searching for Peppy, so the decided to have Slippy guard it, and call for help if the killer arrived, "Why me!" Slippy complained, "What am I supposed to do!"
"Bait." Fox replied sharply, "WHAT!?" Slippy yelled, clearly worried, "You heard me, the killer won't take you as seriously as he would Falco or me, so he's more then likely to be a little careless!" Slippy shook his head, "For God's sake Fox! You've seen what that thing can do! He'll rip me limb from limb!" Falco smiled, "I'm starting to think that's not such a bad idea!" He joked. Fox nudged Falco in the arm, "Falco, that's enough, if you carry on, Slippy's going to have a nervous breakdown!" He warned. Falco shrugged, and eventually Fox got Slippy to calm down, "listen, as soon as you see the killer, just call us, we'll be right there." He ordered. Without delay, Fox and Falco set off, looking for any traces of Peppy.
"Where to now, Fox?" Asked Falco, walking down a corridor, "We've got to think of where Peppy usually hangs out." Fox responded, trying to concentrate, "The main deck, The Navigation room.he could have got tired and gone to bed I suppose." Falco nodded, "So what's the closest then?" Falco asked, "Probably the sleeping quarters, Fox said, turning right at the end of the corridor. "Ok, so we'll go to the sleeping quarters first, then the Navigation room, then finally the main deck?" Falco confirmed. Fox nodded. They carried on down the corridor. Eventually, they found the sleeping quarters. There was defiantly proof that Peppy hadn't entered this room. The bed was undisturbed; everything was clean, just like Peppy had it every morning. "Let's get to the navigation room." A couple of minutes later, they arrived at the door leading to the navigation room. Fox went to open the door. "It's locked!" Fox sighed, with some relief. "Peppy must be in here! No one has been in here today!"
Suddenly, a sharp thud rattled the top floor. Fox looked up. A dent marked the presence of a foot, a rather large foot. "Is that him- the killer?" Falco asked readying his blaster. "No doubt about it." Fox confirmed, looking at the dent. Many more thunderous steps followed on from the original, sending a chill down Fox's spine. The killer was big- very big. Suddenly, the steps stopped. It looked like the killer was right above Starfox. Then, the killer started to stamp repeatedly on the same area. "Fuck! It knows we're here!" Falco yelled, shooting the ceiling, aiming for the killer. "It's no use!" Fox said, "The blaster won't penetrate! It was only designed to for to pierce flesh" Falco sighed, and stopped firing. Both aimed their blaster at the killer, who was continuing to smash through the ceiling, they watched nervously as the floor continued to bend and warp under the savage stamping. Eventually, the whole ceiling caved in, leaving a mass of debris on the floor; however, the killer wasn't anywhere to be seen. "Just where the fuck are you!?" Fox yelled, firing his blaster in random directions, hoping to drop his target, "I know you're here! You might as well show yourself!" There was a brief silence. "hu-hu-hu." the killer chuckled sadistically. Suddenly, something dropped from the floor above. Fox shot it, only to realise it was Peppy's decapitated head. Blood leaked all over it, with claw marks on the back His eyelids were open, which revealed that his eyes had rolled to the back of his head. "Shit! Peppy! What the fuck did you do to him you bastard!?" He yelled. ".This." The killer replied. Suddenly, the rest of Peppy's corpse, it was masked in cuts; blood flowed through, creating a small puddle of blood around his body. "You evil demented bastard!" Fox shouted, beginning to open fire again. The killer ran off, leaving small dents in the lower ceiling, "Crap!" Falco sighed, "There's no use firing now, we're going to have to find him again" Fox nodded, then activated his wrist radio, "Slippy, meet us outside the navigation room! Seal all doors; the killer is now in the Great Fox! Over and out!" Fox cut off the communications before Fox had time to respond. "What now?" Falco asked, "We'll have to wait for Slippy, let's just hope he doesn't run into the killer.
After a couple of minutes, Slippy came, panting, "Did you see the killer!?" Fox asked, "N.no!" Slippy replied, catching his breath. "Good, now we're going to have to find him and put an end to this!" Fox ordered, "He was last seen on the floor above us, we're going to have to go up." Slippy shook his head, "That won't be necessary I uploaded a map onto ROB a while ago, if we can find him, we'll be able to find the exact location of the killer!"
"Great, so ROB's in the main deck then?" Fox replied, as the three set off towards the main deck.
The team headed towards the main elevator. Upon arrival, Fox pressed the switch to call it to their level. Suddenly, the whole elevator collapsed, "Shit!" Fox yelled, as the Great Fox emergency sirens began to activate, "He's really gone and done it this time!" As the sirens yelled, ROB's voice was heard explaining the emergency, "The main elevator has been destroyed by an unidentified perpetrator. Sealing all exits from the main elevator." Fox ran to the exit door, however, it was locked. "Crap! We're stuck!" Fox groaned. The team tried to think of a way out. "We'll have to find a way up!" Fox said, looking at the elevator. "But Fox, it's destroyed, we can't use it!" Slippy replied. "Tell us something we don't know." Falco grunted. Fox looked at the main elevator again, "there must be some way to get up there." he mumbled, "well," Slippy, "There is an emergency ladder, but it's broken in some places; when the elevator collapsed, it must have damaged it." Fox shook his head, "We have to try!" He ordered, as he walked towards the elevator.
Upon entering the elevator shaft, Fox took a look at the emergency ladder; it was mangled and warped beyond repair. "Are you sure about this, Fox? Falco asked, who had just walked into the shaft with Slippy, "Of course I'm sure!" Fox replied, "It's better then standing here, waiting." With that, Fox attempted to climb the ladder. He grabbed the sides, and stepped on the first rung. Suddenly, it snapped, and Fox fell down, "Fuck!" He yelled, falling down. He got up, and then tried once again to climb the ladder. This time, he held the sides tighter, and didn't put as much pressure on the rungs. He first stepped onto the second rung, since the first was now broken. He slowly climbed up, Fox was doing much better then his first attempt, and he signalled Slippy and Falco to join him, "It's not that hard!" Fox yelled, as he started climbing again, "Just don't look down this time Slippy!" Falco turned and smiled at Slippy, "Very funny Fox." Slippy groaned, as he started to climb. Fox continued to climb, he was getting higher and higher, eventually he got to part of the ladder where it was completely snapped in two. Fox looked at the ruined ladder. There was tall gap between the two sections, "Shit." Fox muttered, as he reached a dead end. Falco sighed, "I guess we should go back then." Fox didn't listen to Falco, but climbed so he was stood on the top rung, he had no support, and one slight sway would end up causing him to fall to his death. "Damn it." Fox complained to himself, "Why the hell am I doing this?" Fox jumped, and grabbed the bottom rung of the ladder, "Whoa!" He yelled, dangling in mid air, "Fox! What the hell were you thinking!?" Falco yelled, "You could have killed yourself!" Fox shook his head as he pulled himself up onto the second part of the ladder, "Falco, don't get so worked up, I made it." He replied, calmly. Falco sighed, as he and Slippy followed suit, both making it up. Eventually, the followed the warped ladder up to the top floor, where the main deck was located.
"Finally! My arms are aching like crazy!" Slippy complained. However, there was still the need to bypass the sealed doors, "What now Fox?" Falco asked, impatiently. "I guess we- what the Hell!?" Fox said, breaking off his own sentence, as he noticed a huge gaping wall carved open, presumably by the killer. "I guess.we go through there.damn.." They headed through the hole, reaching yet another corridor. "Where are we now?" Fox asked, "These corridors all look the same." Slippy nodded, "I think this will lead to the main deck, but if it doesn't- we're pretty much stuck" Fox sighed, he never really explored the Great Fox before, so he didn't exactly know how to get around without a map. Suddenly as they turned a corner, they saw a giant gap ripped through the floor. "It looks like he's down there!" Slippy said, pointing to the hole, "We've no choice other then to chase it; that gap's way too big to leap across." Fox ordered. They leaped down the hole, they were in another corridor, but Fox recognised this one, it led to the service elevator, which would take them right next to the main deck, "This way will take us to the main deck, and if we're lucky, we'll get another chance to put that bastard down!" Falco shook his head, "I'm not so sure anymore, that thing's not a normal killer, it's some sort of crazed beast!" Fox shook his head, "this thing is running away from us, it's trying to section us off; kill us one by one, we have to stick together!" Fox ordered. "Yeah but, if this thing gets cornered Fox, it's gonna bite, hard." Fox knew Falco was right; he was even cursing himself for being so reckless, there was now no doubt that this thing was perfectly capable of manipulating Fox's dreams, transforming them into twisted nightmares. He hid his fear, and responded to Falco, ".Maybe.But, I won't give up! This madness ends here!" Falco frowned, "I know you don't like this anymore then I do Fox, so you don't have to be so stuck up on it!" Fox grinned. They arrived in front of the service elevator; luckily this one was still operational. They got in, and activated it. "Well, I our targets gone the other way." Fox sighed, "This has gone on for too long. I want to end this." The elevator stopped, they walked out, seeing the main deck door to their right.
Upon entering, they saw ROB. "ROB! Have you identified the killer?" Fox asked, "Affirmative." Came the response, Fox smiled, and the rest of the team let out a sigh of relief, "Good! What are we going up against?" Fox continued. There was no reply, "Okay.where is he?" Fox asked, impatiently. Again, there was no reply, "ROB! What the hell is up with you!?" Falco asked, "Falco!" Fox warned, "Be quiet!" Slippy shook his head, "No Fox! Falco's right, this isn't ROB's normal attitude!" Fox slowly stepped back from ROB, "What is the matter Fox?" Fox shook his head, "You can't fool us. He's got to you hasn't he!? You bastard." Fox said, coming to a stand still. "You mean the killer?" ROB replied, Fox could swear he was subtly smirking, "Yes, he is here, however, you'll never get the chance to meet him!" ROB said, as he lunged at Fox...
Chapter 4: Enigma
The Starfox team were now in the Great Fox, but there was no sign that Peppy was here, "I knew it!" Fox yelled, "We should have stayed with Peppy, now he's been slaughtered by this freak!" Falco walked up to Fox, "Don't panic. He's probably taking his time, he's not exactly known for his speed." Fox felt a little relieved, but stood his ground, "but we never did find the killer, and we would have found out for sure what happened to Peppy." Fox sighed. "But Fox, what if Peppy's already here?" Slippy suggested, Fox nodded, "That is a possibility, we'll have to check the Ship." They eventually decided to wait two hours before taking off for the night in case Peppy slipped through. They didn't feel comfortable with the ships doors open while they were searching for Peppy, so the decided to have Slippy guard it, and call for help if the killer arrived, "Why me!" Slippy complained, "What am I supposed to do!"
"Bait." Fox replied sharply, "WHAT!?" Slippy yelled, clearly worried, "You heard me, the killer won't take you as seriously as he would Falco or me, so he's more then likely to be a little careless!" Slippy shook his head, "For God's sake Fox! You've seen what that thing can do! He'll rip me limb from limb!" Falco smiled, "I'm starting to think that's not such a bad idea!" He joked. Fox nudged Falco in the arm, "Falco, that's enough, if you carry on, Slippy's going to have a nervous breakdown!" He warned. Falco shrugged, and eventually Fox got Slippy to calm down, "listen, as soon as you see the killer, just call us, we'll be right there." He ordered. Without delay, Fox and Falco set off, looking for any traces of Peppy.
"Where to now, Fox?" Asked Falco, walking down a corridor, "We've got to think of where Peppy usually hangs out." Fox responded, trying to concentrate, "The main deck, The Navigation room.he could have got tired and gone to bed I suppose." Falco nodded, "So what's the closest then?" Falco asked, "Probably the sleeping quarters, Fox said, turning right at the end of the corridor. "Ok, so we'll go to the sleeping quarters first, then the Navigation room, then finally the main deck?" Falco confirmed. Fox nodded. They carried on down the corridor. Eventually, they found the sleeping quarters. There was defiantly proof that Peppy hadn't entered this room. The bed was undisturbed; everything was clean, just like Peppy had it every morning. "Let's get to the navigation room." A couple of minutes later, they arrived at the door leading to the navigation room. Fox went to open the door. "It's locked!" Fox sighed, with some relief. "Peppy must be in here! No one has been in here today!"
Suddenly, a sharp thud rattled the top floor. Fox looked up. A dent marked the presence of a foot, a rather large foot. "Is that him- the killer?" Falco asked readying his blaster. "No doubt about it." Fox confirmed, looking at the dent. Many more thunderous steps followed on from the original, sending a chill down Fox's spine. The killer was big- very big. Suddenly, the steps stopped. It looked like the killer was right above Starfox. Then, the killer started to stamp repeatedly on the same area. "Fuck! It knows we're here!" Falco yelled, shooting the ceiling, aiming for the killer. "It's no use!" Fox said, "The blaster won't penetrate! It was only designed to for to pierce flesh" Falco sighed, and stopped firing. Both aimed their blaster at the killer, who was continuing to smash through the ceiling, they watched nervously as the floor continued to bend and warp under the savage stamping. Eventually, the whole ceiling caved in, leaving a mass of debris on the floor; however, the killer wasn't anywhere to be seen. "Just where the fuck are you!?" Fox yelled, firing his blaster in random directions, hoping to drop his target, "I know you're here! You might as well show yourself!" There was a brief silence. "hu-hu-hu." the killer chuckled sadistically. Suddenly, something dropped from the floor above. Fox shot it, only to realise it was Peppy's decapitated head. Blood leaked all over it, with claw marks on the back His eyelids were open, which revealed that his eyes had rolled to the back of his head. "Shit! Peppy! What the fuck did you do to him you bastard!?" He yelled. ".This." The killer replied. Suddenly, the rest of Peppy's corpse, it was masked in cuts; blood flowed through, creating a small puddle of blood around his body. "You evil demented bastard!" Fox shouted, beginning to open fire again. The killer ran off, leaving small dents in the lower ceiling, "Crap!" Falco sighed, "There's no use firing now, we're going to have to find him again" Fox nodded, then activated his wrist radio, "Slippy, meet us outside the navigation room! Seal all doors; the killer is now in the Great Fox! Over and out!" Fox cut off the communications before Fox had time to respond. "What now?" Falco asked, "We'll have to wait for Slippy, let's just hope he doesn't run into the killer.
After a couple of minutes, Slippy came, panting, "Did you see the killer!?" Fox asked, "N.no!" Slippy replied, catching his breath. "Good, now we're going to have to find him and put an end to this!" Fox ordered, "He was last seen on the floor above us, we're going to have to go up." Slippy shook his head, "That won't be necessary I uploaded a map onto ROB a while ago, if we can find him, we'll be able to find the exact location of the killer!"
"Great, so ROB's in the main deck then?" Fox replied, as the three set off towards the main deck.
The team headed towards the main elevator. Upon arrival, Fox pressed the switch to call it to their level. Suddenly, the whole elevator collapsed, "Shit!" Fox yelled, as the Great Fox emergency sirens began to activate, "He's really gone and done it this time!" As the sirens yelled, ROB's voice was heard explaining the emergency, "The main elevator has been destroyed by an unidentified perpetrator. Sealing all exits from the main elevator." Fox ran to the exit door, however, it was locked. "Crap! We're stuck!" Fox groaned. The team tried to think of a way out. "We'll have to find a way up!" Fox said, looking at the elevator. "But Fox, it's destroyed, we can't use it!" Slippy replied. "Tell us something we don't know." Falco grunted. Fox looked at the main elevator again, "there must be some way to get up there." he mumbled, "well," Slippy, "There is an emergency ladder, but it's broken in some places; when the elevator collapsed, it must have damaged it." Fox shook his head, "We have to try!" He ordered, as he walked towards the elevator.
Upon entering the elevator shaft, Fox took a look at the emergency ladder; it was mangled and warped beyond repair. "Are you sure about this, Fox? Falco asked, who had just walked into the shaft with Slippy, "Of course I'm sure!" Fox replied, "It's better then standing here, waiting." With that, Fox attempted to climb the ladder. He grabbed the sides, and stepped on the first rung. Suddenly, it snapped, and Fox fell down, "Fuck!" He yelled, falling down. He got up, and then tried once again to climb the ladder. This time, he held the sides tighter, and didn't put as much pressure on the rungs. He first stepped onto the second rung, since the first was now broken. He slowly climbed up, Fox was doing much better then his first attempt, and he signalled Slippy and Falco to join him, "It's not that hard!" Fox yelled, as he started climbing again, "Just don't look down this time Slippy!" Falco turned and smiled at Slippy, "Very funny Fox." Slippy groaned, as he started to climb. Fox continued to climb, he was getting higher and higher, eventually he got to part of the ladder where it was completely snapped in two. Fox looked at the ruined ladder. There was tall gap between the two sections, "Shit." Fox muttered, as he reached a dead end. Falco sighed, "I guess we should go back then." Fox didn't listen to Falco, but climbed so he was stood on the top rung, he had no support, and one slight sway would end up causing him to fall to his death. "Damn it." Fox complained to himself, "Why the hell am I doing this?" Fox jumped, and grabbed the bottom rung of the ladder, "Whoa!" He yelled, dangling in mid air, "Fox! What the hell were you thinking!?" Falco yelled, "You could have killed yourself!" Fox shook his head as he pulled himself up onto the second part of the ladder, "Falco, don't get so worked up, I made it." He replied, calmly. Falco sighed, as he and Slippy followed suit, both making it up. Eventually, the followed the warped ladder up to the top floor, where the main deck was located.
"Finally! My arms are aching like crazy!" Slippy complained. However, there was still the need to bypass the sealed doors, "What now Fox?" Falco asked, impatiently. "I guess we- what the Hell!?" Fox said, breaking off his own sentence, as he noticed a huge gaping wall carved open, presumably by the killer. "I guess.we go through there.damn.." They headed through the hole, reaching yet another corridor. "Where are we now?" Fox asked, "These corridors all look the same." Slippy nodded, "I think this will lead to the main deck, but if it doesn't- we're pretty much stuck" Fox sighed, he never really explored the Great Fox before, so he didn't exactly know how to get around without a map. Suddenly as they turned a corner, they saw a giant gap ripped through the floor. "It looks like he's down there!" Slippy said, pointing to the hole, "We've no choice other then to chase it; that gap's way too big to leap across." Fox ordered. They leaped down the hole, they were in another corridor, but Fox recognised this one, it led to the service elevator, which would take them right next to the main deck, "This way will take us to the main deck, and if we're lucky, we'll get another chance to put that bastard down!" Falco shook his head, "I'm not so sure anymore, that thing's not a normal killer, it's some sort of crazed beast!" Fox shook his head, "this thing is running away from us, it's trying to section us off; kill us one by one, we have to stick together!" Fox ordered. "Yeah but, if this thing gets cornered Fox, it's gonna bite, hard." Fox knew Falco was right; he was even cursing himself for being so reckless, there was now no doubt that this thing was perfectly capable of manipulating Fox's dreams, transforming them into twisted nightmares. He hid his fear, and responded to Falco, ".Maybe.But, I won't give up! This madness ends here!" Falco frowned, "I know you don't like this anymore then I do Fox, so you don't have to be so stuck up on it!" Fox grinned. They arrived in front of the service elevator; luckily this one was still operational. They got in, and activated it. "Well, I our targets gone the other way." Fox sighed, "This has gone on for too long. I want to end this." The elevator stopped, they walked out, seeing the main deck door to their right.
Upon entering, they saw ROB. "ROB! Have you identified the killer?" Fox asked, "Affirmative." Came the response, Fox smiled, and the rest of the team let out a sigh of relief, "Good! What are we going up against?" Fox continued. There was no reply, "Okay.where is he?" Fox asked, impatiently. Again, there was no reply, "ROB! What the hell is up with you!?" Falco asked, "Falco!" Fox warned, "Be quiet!" Slippy shook his head, "No Fox! Falco's right, this isn't ROB's normal attitude!" Fox slowly stepped back from ROB, "What is the matter Fox?" Fox shook his head, "You can't fool us. He's got to you hasn't he!? You bastard." Fox said, coming to a stand still. "You mean the killer?" ROB replied, Fox could swear he was subtly smirking, "Yes, he is here, however, you'll never get the chance to meet him!" ROB said, as he lunged at Fox...