Twisted Shadows:
A New Star Fox SagaBeat Hit!
Miyazaki Ayumi
Falco flew his Arwing carefully towards the oncoming Usurper
Jets.
"Alright, let's take these guys out," he cried out in his usual manner. He closed the channel to his com-link, before he pulled his trigger. Lasers flew from his cannon and hit an advancing Usurper Jet. Seconds later, it burst into flames and exploded. His ship suddenly shuddered and he watched as the shield gauge dropped. That could only mean one thing. He looked around him wildly and then he saw it. There was another Usurper Jet behind him.
"Damn, these guys are persistent,"
exclaimed Falco out loud. He performed a somersault and then
checked his sensors. "Still behind me. Am I getting slow?"
Five of them were now flying towards him in
a V-formation, each of them firing at him furiously. Using all
his flying skills, he piloted his Arwing in and out of the
oncoming lasers. He performed a barrel-roll, deflecting as many
of the lasers off of his Arwing jet as possible.
A green laser suddenly flew overhead and
smashed into one of the Usurpers. The machine burst into flames
and then exploded.
"Thought you needed a little bit of
help," said Fara's voice over his com-link.
"A little help would be rather nice,"
said Falco in such a way that made it sound as if he didn't
need any.
"More of them are coming in from the
right," said Slippy's squeaky voice.
"Don't worry, we can take them out,"
stated Falco confidently.
"We sure will," agreed Peppy, as
he turned his Arwing round and fired at the oncoming Usurper Jets,
reducing them to scrap metal. "Nothing to it." Out of
the corner of his eye, he saw another three Usurper jets flying
straight at him. He fired his boosters and flew ahead, avoiding
their laserfire. He U-turned sharply, firing back at the enemy
jets, destroying them all with one well-timed shot. "Bill,
you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," replied Bill. He
pulled back on his control stick and somersaulted over his
pursuer and then opened fire on its tail, shattering its engines.
It burst into flames and careered out of control into another
Usurper Jet. "These guys are no different from the Venomians
we once fought."
Dr. Kano grumbled, as he tapped the soldering iron against
the solder lightly, making the stuff melt into a fine little line
on the green circuit board. It gave off a nasty smelling fume
that he enjoyed very much. The smoke made him relax a bit and
forget about his small trouble with McCloud. Suddenly, his ears
picked up the sound of footsteps. He stopped his work, placing
the soldering iron down and then turned round.
"What is it?" he asked sternly.
"Sir, we now have twice the number of Kimonos we started
off with," replied the soldier in front of him.
Kano remembered ordering this soldier to come to him, when
that target had been met and to report it to him.
"Good," sighed Dr. Kano, as he got up from his seat. "Then let us head to Titania."
"Sir, there's something else I have to report to you,"
began the soldier. "There's some sort of battle up ahead
between Lord Jingoist's Usurper Jets and the Star Fox Team."
A frown appeared on Kano's furry face.
"Between the Guild and Star Fox?" echoed the rat in surprise. "I would have thought that Lord Jingoist wanted me dead." He thought about the entire situation carefully, leaning against the opened-up head of the robot he was working on.
The soldier, a lizard, looked at the robot nervously. It
looked so life-like, so much like a living being and so much like...
that wolf that still inspired fear into the soldiers of the Trade
Guild to this very day. It gave him the chills just looking at
the thing lying on the table like that. He wasn't sure why, but
that thing seemed to be... He didn't know what, but he was sure
that building it was the biggest mistake Dr. Kano would ever make.
"Let's go and join in the fight," said Dr. Kano with
a smile on his face. "My new Kimono II Jets will defeat both
the Usurpers and Star Fox." Sure, the Kimono II Jets still
did not have the skill of Fox McCloud programmed into them, but
they had some of the moves that Fox had once performed,
programmed into their circuits, all thanks to the black box that
had survived the explosion. "They won't know what hit them."
An Usurper Jet was hot in pursuit, firing furiously at Slippy's
Arwing, as he tried to evade it. The frog couldn't believe
it. There were so many of these Usurper Jets swarming all around
them. It was if he were facing against Andross' Invader Jets
all over again. He couldn't help but feel incredibly helpless,
like a rack of lamb in front of a hungry wolf's nose, as he
dodged the lasers that shot towards him.
He jerked his control stick to the right, and the Arwing
banked to the right, avoiding the shots of an oncoming Usurper
Jet. Slippy watched, as the one that was behind him and the one
in front scraped past each other, tearing off their wings and
flying out of control into other Usurper Jets.
"Ha! Take that!" cried Slippy triumphantly.
Falco found himself being tailed by two Usurper Jets, much to
his disgust.
"Geez! Bogey behind me!" exclaimed Falco. "Am I getting slow?" The lasers began to sear through the wings of his Arwing, almost blowing them off with their force. He pulled the control stick backwards, letting the nose of the Arwing rise. Falco somersaulted over the Usurpers, and then he aimed at them. He pulled the trigger; the lasers screamed towards the jets and hit them. "Cowards!" he exclaimed with joy, as he saw the Usurpers flee.
"Whoa! Kimono Jets! Incoming!" screamed Slippy,
before a laser smashed into his Arwing, tearing off the left wing
of his Arwing. His ship shuddered violently, as two Kimono jets
flew behind him, firing at his tail. He pulled back on his
control stick, somersaulting over them. He shot at one and then
another, but was horrified to see them pulling off barrel-rolls,
deflecting his shots. "Whoa! These new jets are pretty good!"
he exclaimed.
The Kimono II Jets performed a somersault, ending up behind
the amphibian pilot once more, firing at his jet.
"Hold on, Slip!" cried Bill. "I'll help you!"
A Kimono II Jet flew straight at him, firing at his jet. He
pulled off a barrel-roll, deflecting as many shots as possible,
firing back at the Kimono. To his dismay, it veered out of the
way and then back towards him, still firing at his jet. It
shudded violently, as laser after laser hit his ship. "That's
it! I'm fed up of you!" he exclaimed angrily. He charged up
his lasers and locked on to the Kimono, firing a ball of green
energy straight at it. "Ha! There's one down!" he cried
triumphantly, as the Kimono was blown apart.
The two Kimono Jets were now in front of Slippy's Arwing.
He breathed in deeply, bracing himself, before he pulled the
trigger and let rip with a barrage of lasers. The two enemy jets
shuddered violently, as the lasers pummelled into it. Suddenly,
they both went up in flames.
"Yes, I did it!" cried Slippy in joy. "Never mind about giving me that help, guys. I don't need it!"
"Good," replied Falco over the com-link, as he fired
furiously at the Usurper Jets that darted out in front of him.
"Cos we're all too busy to help you." ´So many jets
just to kill us` he thought. ´Talk about overkill.` He barrel-rolled
deflecting a laser from his ship and then fired back at the
Usurper Jet. Much to his surprise, a Kimono Jet also fired at the
Usurper, destroying it, before it turned its attention towards
him. "Geez Laweez! We've got two enemies to fight here!"
he exclaimed, as he suddenly realised the truth.
Peppy fired furiously at the Usurper in front of him. The
lasers seared through the wings of the enemy aircraft like a hot
knife through butter. They broke off, as the vehicle burst into
flames. Bill fired another laser, towards the quantum reactor,
the engine of the Interceptor. The thing burst into a ball of
flames.
"That's another one down!" exclaimed Peppy, as he banked to his right.
"Is that all you could manage?" joked Falco, as he
dodged the lasers from two pursuing Kimono Jets. "Even
Slippy could do better than that!" He pulled the control
stick back, letting the Arwing somersault and letting the
pursuing unmanned fighter jets pass by underneath. He dived down
and fired at them mercilessly. The lasers hit them precisely in
the rear. Each Kimono Jet veered off in different directions.
"Damn it!" exclaimed Falco, as he saw four Usurpers
group together behind him on the sensors. "These guys are
nothing but cowards!" All the Usurpers opened fire on his
Arwing. ´Looks like they're quite some distance away,`
thought Falco, as he looked at the sensors. "Perhaps, if I U-turn,
I can take them by surprise."
He pulled the control stick back, letting the Arwing do a back-flip.
He rolled the Arwing so that it was upright compared to the
pursuing and now oncoming Usurpers. He pulled the trigger and let
rip with an intense volley of green lasers. Two of the fighter
jets were destroyed, while the other two banked off to the left
and towards Slippy's Arwing.
"Slippy, behind you!" warned Falco.
The remaining Usurpers fired at Slippy's Arwing with
cruetly, both targeting at the engines.
"Whoa!" Falco heard Slippy exclaim. "I need some help over here!"
"Sure thing," came the reply from Fara. Falco was
relieved; he didn't have to bother with Slippy. Fara's
Arwing closed in on the two enemy fighters and she fired at them.
Both of them burst into flames, before they were ripped apart by
the force of their engines exploding.
"Thanks, Fara," sighed Slippy.
"That's okay, just make sure it doesn't happen
again, okay?" said Fara, as she flew off to aid the others.
"Is that the enemy battleship that Fox was taken to?"
asked Bill, as he looked to his left.
Falco looked to his right and saw the very same battleship
that Bill was looking at.
"Yep, that's the one," replied the avian.
"Looks like the Usurper Jets and Kimonos are too busy
fighting each other," said Peppy, as he looked around him.
It had been five minutes so far, and not a single jet had
bothered attacking him. "I'll go back to the Great Fox and
get it out of here. You go into the battleship."
"Don't worry, Peppy," said Fara's voice in a
comforting tone. "We'll save Fox."
Peppy smiled.
"I know you will," said the old hare in agreement. "Don't you worry about me, one bit. Go on and free Fox." He turned tail and headed straight for the Great Fox's hangar, as the others flew straight for the battleship.
"Hang on, Fox!" cried Falco. "We're coming
for you!" He was determined to save his friend, and he would
let nothing get in his way. Nothing.
"I'm waiting for you, Star Fox."
A New Star Fox Saga
By Wolf O'Donnell
Author's Note: Here goes! It's another one of my What-happens-next-after-Andross-dies' fic. Once again, it's set in a different dimension from the other of my fanfics. The swearing has been censored, once again, with little asterisks that hides the second and third letters of the f**king swear word! Please send comments to me at w_donnell@hotmail.com.
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Chapter 6: Devil's Melee
Hikari to kage ga aru kokoro ni mo sekai ni mo
Sore wa kimi wo tameshite iru kesshite
Owaru koto no nai tatakai
"Alright, let's take these guys out," he cried out in his usual manner. He closed the channel to his com-link, before he pulled his trigger. Lasers flew from his cannon and hit an advancing Usurper Jet. Seconds later, it burst into flames and exploded. His ship suddenly shuddered and he watched as the shield gauge dropped. That could only mean one thing. He looked around him wildly and then he saw it. There was another Usurper Jet behind him.
"What is it?" he asked sternly.
"Good," sighed Dr. Kano, as he got up from his seat. "Then let us head to Titania."
"Between the Guild and Star Fox?" echoed the rat in surprise. "I would have thought that Lord Jingoist wanted me dead." He thought about the entire situation carefully, leaning against the opened-up head of the robot he was working on.
"Ha! Take that!" cried Slippy triumphantly.
"Geez! Bogey behind me!" exclaimed Falco. "Am I getting slow?" The lasers began to sear through the wings of his Arwing, almost blowing them off with their force. He pulled the control stick backwards, letting the nose of the Arwing rise. Falco somersaulted over the Usurpers, and then he aimed at them. He pulled the trigger; the lasers screamed towards the jets and hit them. "Cowards!" he exclaimed with joy, as he saw the Usurpers flee.
"Yes, I did it!" cried Slippy in joy. "Never mind about giving me that help, guys. I don't need it!"
"That's another one down!" exclaimed Peppy, as he banked to his right.
"Slippy, behind you!" warned Falco.
"Whoa!" Falco heard Slippy exclaim. "I need some help over here!"
"Yep, that's the one," replied the avian.
"I know you will," said the old hare in agreement. "Don't you worry about me, one bit. Go on and free Fox." He turned tail and headed straight for the Great Fox's hangar, as the others flew straight for the battleship.
Star Fox and all related
characters and places are copyrighted by Nintendo Ltd.
Jingoist, Dr. Kano, Kofu, Miasma and Kappa are copyrighted by me.
