The Lylat Chronicles

Special Thanks:

Destructor- For writing "Starfox: Phoenix from the Ashes" inspring me to write on a story on the next game in the series: Starfox 64.

Shigeru Miyamoto- For the idea of Starfox.

Nintendo- For making it.

I hate paragraphs. Why can't people be happy with the story and not complaing about why is the story a block of text? But I guess this won't be as professional as I want it to be without them. So sorry if where I end paragraphs is weird. And I use alot of commas, its just how I write. I can't help it because it just doesn't seem right, like the sentence is just going on, and on, and on, ect. I also write really short chapters but I'll try to make them a normal length.

Legal Stuff:

I don't own Starfox, Nintendo, or anything else. I'm just an author and a Nintendo fanboy.

Prologue

Battle on Venom

The slim, elegant ship was being buffeted by winds. The pilot shielded his eyes with one arm while flying with the other. He had been saved by his ship's, the Arwing, G-Diffuser system. It created a shield around him but it didn't protect him from the force of the balst.

He made it through the missile's explosion and continued pursuit of his target. "Peppy? You with me?" He asked. A pilot flying behind him on port side answered.

"I'm fine, but be more alert next time. I've got a bad fealing about this. Should we speed up and make this alot quicker?" "Negative. I don't want to fall for another trap. I want to see where he's taking us, too." The hare, Peppy, nodded his head in agreement. The minerals in the rocks of this planet were screwing up their radar. Perfect for an ambush. Those turrets had almost finished them and he didn't want to experience that again. The ship they were pursuing speeded up.

"Here it comes... check your shields and get ready for a fight!" The lead pilot advised. His wings moved forwards into all-range mode. It increased the wing span giving them increased manueverability but reduced speed. A blue blast hit Peppy's ship, an ion blast. Almost all his computer systems were down. Luckily he still had engines and life support. "I have to get out of here! I think I can make it back to Corneria. I'm just gonna hold you back." The leader responded immediatly, one of the reasons why he was a good pilot. "Get out of here while you can. I've got a score to settle."

4 fighters approached the pilot. One of the fighters was firing ion blasts. "This is for Peppy!" Peppy's leader shouted as he spun his ship. His G-Diffuser created creating a barrior between him and the electric blast. It ricocheded off and hit the original target. "Augh!" Cried Pigma Dengar as he tried to regain control of his doomed ship before it crashed against the hard rock. Then the pilot swung his ship to starboard lining his crosshairs up in between 2 of the 3 remaining ships. He hit a button on top of the triggers and a glowing sphere hurterled towards the enemies before exploding in a blast of red light. The ships knew they were finished and fled. "Just one to go." He said. The other pilot wasn't intimidated by the loss of his team-mates. "You might as well be facing an army!" He taunted. He fired a few shots then flew down into a tunnel leading to the center of the planet. Peppy watched before limping back to Corneria. That was the last anyone saw James McCloud or the Starwolf unit for 10 years. 10 years later Fox McCloud awoke with a jolt.

Chapter 1

Call from Corneria

"Something tells me my father is alive and I wont stop hoping until I find him" -Fox

An alarm went off on the table next to Fox's bed. He slammed the top of his clock with his paw to turn it off. Yesterday he had woken up early from that dream about his dad but today he had slept in. He walked into the bathroom and poured some water into the sink before splashing it into his face. He shook it and blinked drops of water out of his eyes. "I wonder if today is the day..." Fox thought to himself as he got his pilot clothes on just in case. He walked to the door but stopped before opening it.

He turned and looked at the holopic on the table by his bed, one of the only decorations in his room. It was a picture of his father, James McCloud. "Dad, I'll continue what you started. I'll defeat Andross. I will liberate this system or die trying." He vowed.

Now he felt ready to jump into his Arwing and take on the Andross Empire by himself, but he knew that was suicide. And he had a huge bill to pay for the contruction of his mothership and home: The Great Fox. Unfornatly his father died before it could be payed so the Starfox team would take almost any job to pay off the huge loan. After all, giant, armored, death bringing battleship don't pay for themselves. He checked the screens on the doors of his team-mates. Peppy Hare had already left his room 11 minutes ago. Slippy Toad and Falco Lombardi were still inside their rooms.

Fox continued through the hall ways past the entertainment room (containing a giant plasma TV, flight sims, and 2 holopro systems), the indoor garden (it was an addition suggested by Peppy and it helped calm Fox after a rough mission, something he was gratefull for after this stress of a dogfight or other near death experience), and finally the small kitchen where Peppy was inside with a cup of cofee.

"Thought I'd find you here." Fox said to his life long friend. Peppy was in his mid forties, but was still an excellent pilot. Of course the Fox and Falco's youth gave them quick reflexes and more out of the box ideas. But youth can't always beat experience, proved by Slippy. He is much more at home in his workshop tinkering with gadets than in the air shooting down enemies. But that didn't mean he was a bad pilot. Just a little accident prone.

"Still no calls Fox." Peppy said, reading Fox's mind. "You do it again. Reading my mind. Are you sure you're not pyschic?" "No, but I know you well Fox. I've been watching you all my life and it helps me predict what you're going to do but its not psychic." "Still, it has the effect."

Fox walked to the cabinet and got out some cereal. "You eat like a kid" Peppy remarked. Fox looked at Peppy's coffee. "You are what you eat they say." Peppy was confused, "What do-" Then he noticed where Fox was looking. "Just wait for when you have to put up with what I do."

Fox thought for a second thinking of a comback. "When you put it like that. I almost hope for a blast up my engines." "Fox, what would your father say?" "Well if he was here, he'd tell you to lighten up."

A frog walked into the kitchen. "Are you two going to keep trading insults all day? Falco's enough and we don't need you to, to contribute to the chaos." Said Slippy as he took the cereal from the table since Fox had set it down after the 'You are what you eat' joke. "And while we're on the subject, what's Falco's problem? He always looks for the bad in things."

"Well its probably because he was in a street gang in the alleys of Corneria. What? You didn't know?" Fox said after seeing Slippy's strange expression. "There wasn't alot of good in those alleys so all there was to look at was the bad. I should have known Falco wasn't one to share his past."

After breakfast (which Falco ate a few minutes after everyone left) everyone went to the enertainment room except Peppy, who had bridge duty along with ROB, the robot connected directly to the bridge. Peppy sat in the communications chair and picked up the book he had left there earlier. He was flipping through the pages when ROB picked up an encoded transmission.

"Sir, incoming transmission from General Pepper, Priority 1." "Put it on the bridge screen as well as the rec room plasma screen."

Fox looked up from the movie he was watching on a small personnel screen to see a dog in a control room. Many personell are rushing about in a panic in the background. The general waited a few seconds, then started his message.

"We need your help Starfox! Andross has declared war and is taking over Corneria! Our army can't do it alone! Help us Starfox!!" "Well you heard him!" Fox said, barely keeping the excitement out of his voice. "To the Arwings!"

"The Arwing." Said Slippy. "Tight control, excellent engines, strong shields. There's nothing I'd rather fly in." Falco wasn't quite as impressed with the Arwing (like almost everything else except blasters). "Well as long as it has blasters and plenty of targets to shoot at, I'm happy."

Once again, the Falco and Slippy argument was about to start. Or almost started except for the fact that Fox reminded them they were in a war and Corneria was one of the only free planets left. "We're not gonna get payed, let alone survive unless we get there ASAP!" Falco and Slippy gave one more glance at each other then got into their Arwings.

Fox pushed a few buttons and the HUD appeared. He checked engines, fuel, shields, and weapons. Everything was 100%. A beeping noise indicated a private communication was requested. It was Peppy. "I'm here, Peppy. What is it?" Peppy answered, "Fox, are you sure Slippy and Falco's arguing won't interfere with their flying?"

Fox smiled. "Peppy, I guess you don't know them like I do. Whenever Falco flies, usually the only thing on his mind is which target to shoot next. I don't think it'll be a problem. Besides, we need all the help we can get so we can't have two of our team mates stay here through the whole war." "I guess you're right..."

"Hey McCloud! What's the holdup?!" Falco shouted way too loud into his comm system. "All right, Falco. Payback begins now!"

Four glowing blue engine trails sped towards Corneria, finally freedom might be brought to the Lylat System.