Ch.2 The mission
Disclaimer-- I do not own any of the Starfox characters that appear in this Fanfiction. This story is not real and is not an official plot of the Starfox franchise. This is all of my creation and imagination.
"A mission?" Fox questioned, he shouldn't too picky they needed the money and things were boring but it seemed a little fishie. What could've happened the aparoids were decimated... right?
"Yes Fox," The dog spoke. "Corneria is under an attack." His voice was unusually stern, not the Bill Fox remembered. "It seems as one of our lovely neighbor planets decided to attack while our defenses are low."
"Those scum! Why'd would someone do this!" Peppy spurted, furious and for good reason. "What planet is the attack coming from?" He demanded the information from grey furred canine.
"Sorry Peppy, we do not know." Bill replied in disappointment. "Their ships is an undescribable... thing, were not even 100 sure they're ships. Their emblem is interesting to, it is one we've never seen before. It kind of looks like an eye of sorts, you'd have to see it yourself"
"Don't worry, we will." Fox boldly stated. "About how may ships are in the fleet?" He questioned Bill, his voice gone from relaxed to serious.
"About 300, not too many and they all seem like untrained grunts." Bill answered.
"Then why do you need our help?" Fox questioned. "Even with your weakened defenses you should be more than able to take them. So why call on us?"
"Simple, of course we could take them but we need as many soldiers spared as possible." Bill spoke, a sly grin stretched across his face. "Plus I thought you guys would be bored out of your minds by now."
"You did that for us? Thanks... I guess. But don't think you won't have to pay!" Fox scorned shaking a finger at the hologram head.
"Of course Fox, what're friends for? Be there as soon as possible, we're counting on you Starfox. Bill out... E'llo e'llo who's this I'll vixen? Where'd you been hiding this one Foxie boy?" Bill said in his best worst accent, giving Fox a wolfish grin when Krystal walked into the room. She was already in her daily uniform, the skin-tight blue uniform that nearly made Fox drool while he watched her. Her fur was still rumpled and she was holding a brush in her left hand. She stopped right as she entered the room.
"Um... hello..." She said shyly giving him a slight wave. "Fox who is this?" She asked trying to comb her hair with her hand, a blush was noticeable even through her thick white fur.
"Oh, this is Bill. One of my best friends from back at the academy." Fox said "Oh and Krystal you're going to have to take a rain check on that flying lesson, we have a mission." He added happily.
"Oh, so this is that Krystal I've heard so much about. Your right Fox she is." Bill said as he took off his shades and gave Fox a friendly wink. This caused so much blood to rush to Fox's face and made his look like it was about to explode.
"I'm what Fox?" Krystal asked with a look of innocence on her face.
"N-n-nothing." He managed to stammer.
"Aww.. Look Fox is blushing." A high pitched squeak piped up from the corner of the room. Fox gave a glare so evil it would pierce through your soul to the green little amphibian with a wrench. Peppy, Bill, and Slippy erupted in laughter while Krystal just stood there cluelessly.
"What's so funny! Am I gonna have to read your minds! Or will you tell me!" The vixen demanded.
"Sorry not enough time to explain it to you Krystal. Starfox hurry down here ASAP. Bill out." The grey dog barked and his hologram disappeared.
"You heard the man, ROB prepare the greatfox for take-off. Oh and Slip could you contact Falco for us, he seemed to have went joy-riding again..." Fox told the team.
"No need Fox boy, I'm already here." Said a deeper voice as a mass of blue feathers strolled in as if he owned the place. Falco in his red piloting suit with his tail feathers proudly protruding from the back of it.
"About time Falco, we have a mission." Fox said
"I know, I know." He responded.
"Just how long were you standing there?"
"'Bout five minutes."
"You could have came in, you know."
"And ruin you getting made a fool of? Never!"
Fox let out a heavy sigh and blatantly says. "Just get ready, will ya." He then slowly shuffled his way down to the hangar being passed by both Slippy and Falco. He entered the room and hoped into the middle arwing and hit a button on the side of the arwing causing the glass cover to come down. Dozens of flashing buttons littered the machine, most noticeable was a joystick type device with a button protruding upwards. He hit a button beside the joystick and said. "Fox, comm link open."
"Falco, comm link open." Falco announced.
"Slippy, comm link open." Slippy squeaked.
Krystal came rushing in, hair finally fixed, and hops into the remaining arwing. "Sorry I had to do something, oh and Krystal, comm link open."
Fox snickers and says "You mean fix your hair?" Fox looks around and checks several charts and gauges. "Fox, all systems green."
"Ha ha very funny Fox." She says bluntly. "Krystal all systems green."
"You two bicker like your married. Falco, all systems green"
"So true Falco. Slippy, all systems green."
"Just shut up guys," Fox sighs."Starfox prepare for take off." As he says this the large gate in the hangar opens revealing the boundless reaches of space. "Target, Corneria ETA 5 minutes. Ready team Starfox?' Fox speaks through the mike, all the captains nodded in their respected vessels. "Ok team Starfox. Takeoff!" The moment the word "takeoff" left his lips they all hit a button and took off to their target, Corneria.
After a few minutes of speechless travel they reach their destination, the small blue planet of Corneria. It's usually peaceful airspace, littered with hundreds of the most peculiar ships fox and his crew have ever seen. They were what seems to be a strange object floating in the center of a ring that circled the ship type object. The object was neither flat nor round it was in a non-existant plane in between the two, it was a shape impossible to be described almost like a circular square. It was truly a ship of impossibility. On the side, if it were to be called that, was similar to the eye of truth in old mythology. It was an eye-shaped oval with two lines outlining the edges a few inches out, a 3 small triangles surrounded it each if connected would make a larger triangle. Just looking at it made you feel uneasy, as if it was piercing your very soul. They could understand why Bill was unable to describe it. They were shooting a beam of blue energy from the large ring surrounding it but it traveled very slowly and in a straight line and when it hit it did minimal damage at most. It was clear these weren't war ships.
"Ok, lets take these weird things out." Fox spoke over the comm link. He shot a single beam of energy at a ship and it exploded instantly. The ships weren't even trying to dodge it, they just stayed there and shot there weak beams. Something... something had to be up it was way too easy. "Watch out guys, this may just be a trap" He announced.
"Ahh don't get your fur in a bunch Fox, maybe we're just lucky." Slippy's voice spoke through his radio.
"And I don't sense anything unusual either Fox" Krystal added
"I don't know, I agree with Fox. Something has got to be up." The aging hare shared.
Five shadowy figures are gathered around a purple crystal that is showing the battle. It is too dark to make out anything but the crystal itself.
"So, this is the infamous Starfox that defeated the aparoids and Andross? I refuse to believe it." A deep and evil sounding voice speaks with a hint of an unknown accent.
"Believe it, this is the only thing standing in our way to victory." Said another deep voice, but without an accent.
"If this is really them were in for a break." Said a screeching voice.
"Don't be so cocky, we don't know there true abilities. They may be more troublesome than we apprehend." Said a very maculine voice.
"Fools! Stop your bickering and take care of them!" Said the deepest voice of them all, it sounded as if it was being distorted and muffled but was still able to be comprehended.
"Yes master, I shall take of the Fox person." Said the deep no-accent voice.
"Are you going to... Oh, your so cruel Ryuu." Said the screech.
"But of course." Said the man now identified as Ryuu.
Back at Corneria the crew was alert for reinforcements after dispatching the weak enemies. "It's quiet... too quiet..." Fox says
"My lord Fox, that line is so cliched." Slippy squeaked.
"Fox! I'm sensing harmful brain waves attacking your mind!" Krystal shouts.
"What!" He shouts right back.
"Damn, no one told me they had a telepath!" Ryuu shouts
"Relax me and Nemo here will take care of her." Said the accented voice.
"Yes! Yes! She will burn! Do it Arc! Do it!" Said the squeaky voice now known as Nemo
"Calm down freak" Said the accented Arc.
"What?" Shouts Krystal.
"What's wrong?" Fox asks, concerned.
"Somethings wrong, the arwing won't move." Krystal says.
"Are you sure you just don't know what your doing?" Falco pipes in.
"I'm not jok.." she begins but is drowned out by a deafening explosion, all of her arwing desecrated in a pillar of flame.
"Krystal?" Fox says slowly, apprehending the tragedy that just occured. He slams his hands on the control panel of his high-tech mechanism as quick rush of warm salt water ran down his cheeks. "KRYSTAAAAL!"
A/N
I'm amazed anyone even read my first chapter, thank you so much. This chapter lays out the beginning of the plot, sorry if the story seems boring or stupid. I got a loss for ways to describe talking due to the amass of dialogue in this chapter. So I may have used the same ones to many times together. But I'll continue this no matter how little reviews I get, even if they're negative. I just wanna write a story for once (I have about 200 unfinished fanfics ; but this one I like so I'll finish it... eventually.)