M O M E N T O

Star Fox, its characters, names, etc. all belong to Nintendo. Any stuff that has already had a specific media is not mine! Galaxy Wulf, its characters, trademarks, names, etc. all belong to me!

Notice: This is a PROLOGUE of THC, meaning it happened before the events of Two Heroes Collide. I've taken the first few parts of my story from the official Star Fox manga entitled "Farewell, Beloved Falco" in the Japanese site of Nintendo. Luckily, there's an English version that you can get at [www.arwinglanding.tk]. Oh, I will temporarily stop Two Heroes Collide: Juniors if I am making this. Don't worry! I think this will only take 20 chapters or less!

Oh yes, thanks Yurachan (Wolf Urameshi, fellow author and friend)! I have to agree, my stories are getting a little bit tense. I'm sorry! I'll keep my PG-13 rating in my story and correct anything that violated the law.


Chapter 12, Real or Fake?

     Falco is caught within a dilemma. He doesn't want to join his corrupted father, a traitor. However, Ellie's life is in danger, and he doesn't want any harm to be put upon her.

     "Shit! This is just a total SHIT!" Falco moaned as he looked at his father.

     "Your friend won't be touched, I assure you." his father grinned. "But Samson doesn't care whether it's a man or a woman he's going to use as a punching bag!"

     "Darn it!" the blue bird replied with anger. "All right, I'll help you fuckers out…"

     "Good…" Harold grinned. "Of course, I have to do something about your beak, my son. Filthy words are coming out from it."

     "Where's the father I once knew?" Falco asked while tears started to drop on his eyes. "You were never like this, dad! Mom loved you so much as well as I do, but… why?!"

     "Oh there's a simple reason for that, Falco!" the scientist replied grimly. "I married your mother Shira Airborne and have a son namely you for one simple thing… The Genetic Probe!"

     "What the… you fiend!" Falco yelled back.

     Suddenly, two soldiers entered the room along with Ellie, cuffed. While the two troopers brought in the girl, Scythe walked away. Falco tried to disassemble his shackles as soon as he saw her.

     "I'll get our prize later," he said out, "I don't want to hear screams and yells."

     "Very well…" Harold replied. He then looked at the struggling female ice wolf. He then spoke to her. "So, you must be Ellie, my son's fiancée! I'm Harold Lombardi, Falco's father!"

     "Falco never has a father like you!" Ellie shouted back. "He never has a father who would treat him like that! You're not the kind of man he once told me!"

     "Ellie…" Falco sighed roughly.

     "Humph… I never was his father in my whole life!" the scientist mocked out. "How ironic for everyone of you to think of that! Can't you see? I only married his mother just for the formula! I tried everything that I could, but she didn't spat it out!"

     "Then why did you have to make Mom bear a child like me?!" Falco asked out fiercely. "If you were after only that shit, then you could've stolen it many years ago!"

     "Hey, I'll do anything to get that formula! I don't know where it is, since your mom is a very tricky falcon. My only way on getting it to her is to do her favors. She asks for money, I give her. A motor-jet? I'll build her one! A child? I'll give her!"

     "But… according to Falco… you two used to have family times…" Ellie debated.

     "Well, my sweet, that is very simple. My son and wife are the only ones getting so close to each other very much, I believe he is the only one who knows where the formula is!"

     "Mom never tells me anything about a formula!" Falco protested.

     "That's an old shit, as what you're trying to say to many, Falco…" He then pressed a button, giving Ellie sudden bolt of electricity. "I also know that you'll be as hard as a damn rock to comply to my request, so a quick softening will have to do!"

     "AAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!! FALCO!!!" Ellie screamed out in pain, as electricity electrifies her.

     "NO! ELLIE! DAD!!!" Falco shouted out having a deep concern for her. "SHE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS! STOP IT!!!"

     "Oh, she HAS something to do with this! She's your friend!" Harold devilishly laughed.

     Falco couldn't bear to see Ellie in pain. His own family feud will cost his love's life. He doesn't want that to happen.

     "FALCO… DON'T!" Ellie painfully warned. However, the blue bird is about to give in.

     "DAD! Stop it…" he shouted. "I'll… I'LL GIVE YOU THE FORMULA!"

     Harold pushed a button, stopping the intense voltage from shocking her. She was then released from her electrifying cuffs, and fell down. Falco immediately caught her as soon as she fell. Crying, he embraced the poor ice wolf.

     "Now Falco, a man doesn't cry!" his father shouted. "Whether it's money, object, or a girl, our prides still looks down on to them." Those words made Falco look at him fiercely.

     "BULLSHIT! You're such a bullshit!" Falco angrily yelled as he grabbed a small covered test tube from his belt and throws it at his father, who caught it simply by his palm. "How could you be so heartless, killing everything just for a stupid chemical?!"

     "You need to use your brain, Falco!" he scoffed out. "There's more to this world than love and life! POWER! Lord Andross will give that and much much more once I developed the special formula for his army!"

     "You… DAMN YOU!" Falco furiously screeched as he rushes forward to his father, going for a thrust. However, he suddenly stopped. His father hit him to the side of his neck with some syringe within a nick of time. A powerful punch he then delivered to the blue bird, knocking him down. He slowly fell down to his knees, then slowly dropping down.

     Harold sat at the floor and placed his son's head to his laps. He touched the blood drooling from his mouth, and then tasted it. Yet a mere disgusting act for many gave him an idea. "My son," he whispered to Falco as if he was listening, "I'll need your cooperation here. Your body will serve as a powerful house for a warrior waiting to be unleashed."

     A few minutes later, after the bodies of Falco and Ellie were taken back to prison, Harold entered his laboratory for his research project. If you would look around, you'll see Garou, Frigi, Cold, and Glacier unconscious and are kept in different capsules filled with chemicals. An oxygen mask allows them to breathe, but the special downer injected to them made them unconscious for a long while, and they only wear trunks, making their bodies groggy from the chemicals inside the capsule and disable any wild reactions.

     "How's the research going, Garnet?" Harold asked the female greyhound. "Did you find anything?"

     "Nothing unique in their genes, sir." she stated. "However, you would find this interesting." She then pointed something on her monitor and a new screen opened up. "We found out that the ice wolf species have special cells that can change the temperature of the air inside their respiratory systems. That allows them to breathe out ice or frost air and since their cells are adapted to cold, they can withstand climatic temperatures."

     "Amazing! They are the perfect guinea pigs for my experiment!" he laughed out. "Garnet, analyze this formula's composition and make lots of it. Combine it then to our serum for our elite soldiers."

     "Yes sir," she answered back, "but as I have discovered, even with any other agent mixed with the serum, it doesn't affect X-chromosomes. It can only enhance and manipulate genes with the Y-chromosomes. Only male are preferable subjects."

     "I see…" Harold thought. Then something came up. He quickly ordered her to create the formula and mix it quickly. He grinned, "It will be such a waste if I bless these ice wolves with my serum without being sure of what will be the result. Perhaps I shall test it to someone else…"