UPDATE!

Thank you very much to those people who reviewed. It was, of course, much appreciated, and your input kept me going the whole time.

This story is now completed, but the tale continues in the next book (see epilogue).

I'm currently working on some group pics of the squadron. I'll post them up with the rest of the images and bios on the website (see below).

Oh, and Merry Christmas to all! :)

The usual banter:

Some of the characters in this fictional tale are owned by Nintendo and are used in this story for recreational non-profit purposes only. This includes Bill Grey, General Pepper and Fox McCloud. Some of the locations in this fictional tale are owned by Nintendo and are used in this story for recreational non-profit purposes only. This includes the planets and sectors of the Lylat System. Some of the technologies in this fictional tale are owned by Nintendo and are used in this story for recreational non-profit purposes only. This includes the Arwing and the Great Fox. (But then again, you knew all of that, didn't you?)

Please ask my permission before using any of the characters I created (IE anyone in the story not aforementioned)

You can see images of Husky Squadron at http://geocities.com/doofusarcanine/squadron.htm

Contact me! doofusofdestiny@hotmail.com

Husky Squadron Part 1: Huskies Unleashed

Prologue:

Over the course of one year, the planets of the Lylat System were devastated by the forces of Andross, and suffered greatly while supplying his war machine. Only when the Allied forces spearheaded by the legendary Star Fox team made a dramatic counterassault did things begin to look up. One by one the planets were wrenched away from Andross' grasp, until finally Venom, Andross' base, fell to the conquering heroes.

Among those heroes was Husky Squadron, a CDF fighter squadron which contained some of Corneria's finest pilots. Assigned to Katina to help defend the colony there, it found itself fighting an overwhelming battle against swarms of fighters launched from a Venomian mothership descending on the planet. Its pilots, along with survivors from Bulldog Squadron, were able to hold on and keep the Venomians off long enough for the Star Fox team to arrive.

Lieutenant Bill Grey was one of those pilots. Serving as a flight commander during the defense of Katina, he was forced to take charge of the Squadron following the death of Captain Mitchell, and then take up the position of Wing Commander following the death of Commander Lee.

By the end of the war he had formally attained the rank of Captain and was a brevet Commander for the two CDF squadrons which had defended Katina.

What followed was seven years of peace, years in which Husky Squadron flew some 22 missions, though nothing quite as large scale as those they had fought in the war. Captain Grey was formally promoted to Commander, and Husky and Bulldog squadrons were attached to the newly-formed Katinian Defence Force.

Some of the old Huskies started their own squadrons, some transferred back to the CDF, one retired, one sought an easier job, but a few remained behind to lead the squadron in the event of another crisis.

Their chance to prove themselves was about to come.