Chapter 3: Loyalty and Defiance
Pigma waddled into Wolf's quarters. His gigantic pink carcuss blocking the intire door as he stood at the freshold.
"Hey Boss, we've received transmissions from Wing Cmmder Caiman. He said he'll be with us in the hour!", the Pig snorted out.
Wolf, still studying the logistics of the operation paid no real attention to the overweight hog that stood at his door, "Good Pigma., very good."
"Boss!" the pig asked, "when can we fly the new Wolfen's? I can't stand seing them just sitting in the hanger!" Pigma, trying to convince Wolf to allow him to "test fly" on of the new ships.
Wolf, looked up with a glare in his eye, he obviously did not like to be side tracked from his thoughts
"When I say you can fly them, I will tell you! Understood?! I see you put your trotters on those things, I'll make sure the crew have bacon tonight, got it?!"
Pigma, feeling threaterned by Wolf, quickly left,
"Yes Sir!"
Wolfl carefully studied the plans for the kidnapping and planed attack. Leon idly sat in a big comfy chair, his thin scaly body almost becoming lost in a chair big enough to hold even Pigma. He smoked his cigar. The smoke produced filled the small room and was irritating Wolf as he tried to think.
"Why the heck do you smoke that crap! What the hell does it do for ya, apart from poisoning you and me!" Wolf glared at Leon with eyes of ice.
Leon replied in his calm, cold voice, "It calms me down, I dare say you need a whole packet of them by the way you are."
"Yeah. well if you'd go and smoke them somewhere else then maybe I wont get stressed and might be able to concentrate on my work with out choking to death at the same time.!" Wolf's patience was once again wearing thin. Sensing this, Leon stubbed out his cigar in the ashtray next to him.
There was eerie quietness for a few minutes while Wolf finished his plans. This was even more uncomfortable for Wolf than the smoke. Leon was first to break the silence.
"So.. what have you got?", wanting to know of Wolf's plans.
"Well." Wolf started. "With our own ships, plus that of Caiman's wing, gives us a total of probably 40 ships. Most of Caiman's ships are old Invader II's. Needless to say they'd be dead meat to the new Arwings. So I plan to use Caiman's wing as a decoy for other Cornerian forces that attempt to help Starfox, that gives us the opportunity to dogfight Starfox, one on one."
Leon listened to Wolf's plan with a sceptical face. "And what makes you think this plan will actually work and they wont beat us this time? We have gone one on one with them before and they've always won.!"
"Well this time we're be ready in ambush and they will fight in our sky of choice!" replied Wolf.
Leon pondered, "I suppose so! But what about the girl!" We still have to get her first!"
"That is our job Leon!" Wolf again answered his wingman's questions with complete confidence. "We will have to knock her out and bring her back here, to Titania."
"May I ask how? McCloud guards her like a dog!" Leon criticised, laughing at himself for the use of the word "dog", a word he felt appropriate for her.
Wolf answered, "I searched her profile earlier, her father's birthday is tomorrow. She'll most probably be going to see him.. I sense an opportunity. Once we have her, we can use her as bait to lure McCloud to us."
Leon, impressed with the amount of thought and preparation taken, complimented Wolf, " Not bad Wolfy!"
Wolf gave Leon a icy stare for his reward. He hated nicknames.
The cold atmosphere was shattered when Pigma came running into the quarters.
"Can't you knock like a normal person!" Wolf shouted at the hog.
"Boss, Caiman is here! He's arrived early!" Pigma said, trying to get his breath back.
"He's Wing Cmmdr Caiman to you!" Wolf quickly corrected him.
"Yes Boss" Pigma replied, not wanting to get in any trouble.
The three of them walked down towards the docking bay. As they reached the hanger, they were greeted with the sight of thirty-four Invader II's. Their red paint coating them, shone like Solar in the artificial light. The veteran green crocodile talking to Andrew, infront of the array of ships. Both Caiman and Andrew turned to Wolf as he lead the other two members of the Starwolf team towards them, Caiman quickly saluted Wolf, Wolf doing the same but in a more casual fashion.
"Wing Commander Caiman reporting as ordered sir." The crocodile spoke with great strength and perpose in his voice.
"At easy Commander. This is no time for formalities." spoke Wolf idly.
"As you wish sir." The crocodile replied with great speed.
"How many many pilots have you with you Commander?" asked Wolf.
"Thirty-four sir,"
"And are they battle hardened?"
"Yes sir, they have met and fought Starfox in Area 6 and Venom."
"That doesn't answer my question commander!" snapped Wolf.
"Yes Sir, they are battle hardened. They were Andross's elite Venomian pilots. Now they fly for you, sir, and for the cause of Andross!" Caiman turned his head to look into Wolf's eyes.
Wolf looked behind Caiman at the pilots that were assembled in no particular order, most of them were lizards, but there were some crocodiles and apes as well.
Wolf was sceptical of the skills of the pilots. They looked like the ordinary Venomian rookies that Andross threw in front of Starfox time and time again during the war. He looked behind him to see Leon lighting up another cigar, shaking the match to kill the flame, before returning it to the box of matches he had in his pocket.
Wolf jumped onto the wing of his Wolfen III, he looked down at his subjects.. they looked young. He told the pilots to gather round him. He started his speech,
"Why is it you have decided to fight with the Starwolf team?"
There was a series of mumbles between the pilots, they all looked at each other and shrugged. Some of them actual not knowing why, apart from that they had been ordered by their Commander to.
"You have decided to fight for the Starwolf team for the name of Andross!" Wolf dictated to the pilots.
"So what shall you do with yourselves for that name? Will you run away, will you be cowards and disgrace the name of your Emperor." Wolf attacked the pilots loyalty, wanting a vocal response, he got one.
There was dissertation in the crowd as Wolf spoke.
"NO!!" several shouted.
"Then what shall you do?
Again there was mumbles and again their was no response from the crowd.
"Here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna destroy Starfox!"
More mumbles were heard.
"We're going to destroy Starfox and replace pride for the Emperor Andross!"
"YES!!" The crowd shouted. The crowd started chanting the name "Starwolf!"
Wolf look down at Leon, with Andrew and Pigma right beside him. They nodded at each other. They nodded to each other. Now they knew, they could start the fight!
Pigma waddled into Wolf's quarters. His gigantic pink carcuss blocking the intire door as he stood at the freshold.
"Hey Boss, we've received transmissions from Wing Cmmder Caiman. He said he'll be with us in the hour!", the Pig snorted out.
Wolf, still studying the logistics of the operation paid no real attention to the overweight hog that stood at his door, "Good Pigma., very good."
"Boss!" the pig asked, "when can we fly the new Wolfen's? I can't stand seing them just sitting in the hanger!" Pigma, trying to convince Wolf to allow him to "test fly" on of the new ships.
Wolf, looked up with a glare in his eye, he obviously did not like to be side tracked from his thoughts
"When I say you can fly them, I will tell you! Understood?! I see you put your trotters on those things, I'll make sure the crew have bacon tonight, got it?!"
Pigma, feeling threaterned by Wolf, quickly left,
"Yes Sir!"
Wolfl carefully studied the plans for the kidnapping and planed attack. Leon idly sat in a big comfy chair, his thin scaly body almost becoming lost in a chair big enough to hold even Pigma. He smoked his cigar. The smoke produced filled the small room and was irritating Wolf as he tried to think.
"Why the heck do you smoke that crap! What the hell does it do for ya, apart from poisoning you and me!" Wolf glared at Leon with eyes of ice.
Leon replied in his calm, cold voice, "It calms me down, I dare say you need a whole packet of them by the way you are."
"Yeah. well if you'd go and smoke them somewhere else then maybe I wont get stressed and might be able to concentrate on my work with out choking to death at the same time.!" Wolf's patience was once again wearing thin. Sensing this, Leon stubbed out his cigar in the ashtray next to him.
There was eerie quietness for a few minutes while Wolf finished his plans. This was even more uncomfortable for Wolf than the smoke. Leon was first to break the silence.
"So.. what have you got?", wanting to know of Wolf's plans.
"Well." Wolf started. "With our own ships, plus that of Caiman's wing, gives us a total of probably 40 ships. Most of Caiman's ships are old Invader II's. Needless to say they'd be dead meat to the new Arwings. So I plan to use Caiman's wing as a decoy for other Cornerian forces that attempt to help Starfox, that gives us the opportunity to dogfight Starfox, one on one."
Leon listened to Wolf's plan with a sceptical face. "And what makes you think this plan will actually work and they wont beat us this time? We have gone one on one with them before and they've always won.!"
"Well this time we're be ready in ambush and they will fight in our sky of choice!" replied Wolf.
Leon pondered, "I suppose so! But what about the girl!" We still have to get her first!"
"That is our job Leon!" Wolf again answered his wingman's questions with complete confidence. "We will have to knock her out and bring her back here, to Titania."
"May I ask how? McCloud guards her like a dog!" Leon criticised, laughing at himself for the use of the word "dog", a word he felt appropriate for her.
Wolf answered, "I searched her profile earlier, her father's birthday is tomorrow. She'll most probably be going to see him.. I sense an opportunity. Once we have her, we can use her as bait to lure McCloud to us."
Leon, impressed with the amount of thought and preparation taken, complimented Wolf, " Not bad Wolfy!"
Wolf gave Leon a icy stare for his reward. He hated nicknames.
The cold atmosphere was shattered when Pigma came running into the quarters.
"Can't you knock like a normal person!" Wolf shouted at the hog.
"Boss, Caiman is here! He's arrived early!" Pigma said, trying to get his breath back.
"He's Wing Cmmdr Caiman to you!" Wolf quickly corrected him.
"Yes Boss" Pigma replied, not wanting to get in any trouble.
The three of them walked down towards the docking bay. As they reached the hanger, they were greeted with the sight of thirty-four Invader II's. Their red paint coating them, shone like Solar in the artificial light. The veteran green crocodile talking to Andrew, infront of the array of ships. Both Caiman and Andrew turned to Wolf as he lead the other two members of the Starwolf team towards them, Caiman quickly saluted Wolf, Wolf doing the same but in a more casual fashion.
"Wing Commander Caiman reporting as ordered sir." The crocodile spoke with great strength and perpose in his voice.
"At easy Commander. This is no time for formalities." spoke Wolf idly.
"As you wish sir." The crocodile replied with great speed.
"How many many pilots have you with you Commander?" asked Wolf.
"Thirty-four sir,"
"And are they battle hardened?"
"Yes sir, they have met and fought Starfox in Area 6 and Venom."
"That doesn't answer my question commander!" snapped Wolf.
"Yes Sir, they are battle hardened. They were Andross's elite Venomian pilots. Now they fly for you, sir, and for the cause of Andross!" Caiman turned his head to look into Wolf's eyes.
Wolf looked behind Caiman at the pilots that were assembled in no particular order, most of them were lizards, but there were some crocodiles and apes as well.
Wolf was sceptical of the skills of the pilots. They looked like the ordinary Venomian rookies that Andross threw in front of Starfox time and time again during the war. He looked behind him to see Leon lighting up another cigar, shaking the match to kill the flame, before returning it to the box of matches he had in his pocket.
Wolf jumped onto the wing of his Wolfen III, he looked down at his subjects.. they looked young. He told the pilots to gather round him. He started his speech,
"Why is it you have decided to fight with the Starwolf team?"
There was a series of mumbles between the pilots, they all looked at each other and shrugged. Some of them actual not knowing why, apart from that they had been ordered by their Commander to.
"You have decided to fight for the Starwolf team for the name of Andross!" Wolf dictated to the pilots.
"So what shall you do with yourselves for that name? Will you run away, will you be cowards and disgrace the name of your Emperor." Wolf attacked the pilots loyalty, wanting a vocal response, he got one.
There was dissertation in the crowd as Wolf spoke.
"NO!!" several shouted.
"Then what shall you do?
Again there was mumbles and again their was no response from the crowd.
"Here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna destroy Starfox!"
More mumbles were heard.
"We're going to destroy Starfox and replace pride for the Emperor Andross!"
"YES!!" The crowd shouted. The crowd started chanting the name "Starwolf!"
Wolf look down at Leon, with Andrew and Pigma right beside him. They nodded at each other. They nodded to each other. Now they knew, they could start the fight!
