Chapter 5 – Stopping Andross' Rebirth

Fox ran into the research station, taking out the guards with his tranquilizing blaster. Meanwhile, the real Star Katt used their weaponry to create a lot of noise and a battle against the guards.

Inside the research station…

"Sir! Our enemies are attacking the research station!" reported a dog soldier.

"What?" asked Captain Shears before thinking, "Can it be? They've actually struck back? And are they using Star Fox? I can prove that with our captive," before saying, "Release the Goras!"

Fox was running through some hallways, listening to Peppy for directions to Slippy's cell. Suddenly, a guard saw him.

"There he is!" shouted the guard before Fox shot him with the tranquilizing blaster.

Meanwhile, Star Katt found themselves fighting Goras. Their weaponry proved to be ineffective against the Goras.

Soon, Fox reached Slippy's cell. Fox used a Grenade to blow up the door, nearly incinerating Slippy himself.

"Fox!" shouted Slippy in delight as Fox freed him from his binds, "I knew you would come to save me!"

"Of course Slip," replied Fox as they exited the cell, "Now we need to get out of here."

"But Fox! The research…" began Slippy when Fox replied with, "I know Slip, I know."

So Fox and Slippy tried to leave the base, but they found themselves fighting more guards. Then Slippy brought Fox into a room, where Fox locked themselves in for safety purposes.

"Glad we don't have to deal with them anymore," said Fox.

"Yeah, but why is this room so dark and scary?" asked Slippy.

Then they looked around, and they saw a test tube that Slippy remembered seeing before being knocked out.

"It's ANDROSS!" shouted Fox.

Inside the tube was Andross (the brain) with his eyes, floating in a reviving liquid. Then, Captain Shears came. And with him with a mechanical hog.

"Ah, McCloud. Glad you could join us. It's too bad you won't meet my master," said Captain Shears.

"I've already met him," replied Fox, looking at Andross in the test tube.

"No, I mean, the other master, the one responsible for the actual resurrection of Andross, but as I said, you won't live to meet him," Captain Shears said before taking out a machine gun.

Then he rode on the mechanical hog, which was shooting lasers at Fox, who dodged them all. Then Fox took out his blaster and prepared to shoot, when he saw it didn't work.

"Damn! The batteries have run out," muttered Fox before throwing the Blaster away and running away from Captain Shears' attacks.

While Fox and Captain Shears were battling, Slippy found some computers and decided to abort the resurrection of Andross. But then, he saw that was useless, for Andross was already alive.

"I… am… Andross. Emperor of the Lylat System!" shouted Andross in his test tube before looking at the people in the room, "But who the hell are you?"

"Yes! He doesn't have complete memory! He's not complete! Maybe I can still abort him!" said Slippy as he rapidly typed on the computer.

But he saw that was useless, again.

"I… I know you," Andross said to Fox, "You're Fox McCloud! AND I… HATE YOU!"

Meanwhile, Star Katt was still fighting Goras. After using their toughest weapons, they didn't even leave a scratch mark on the beast.

"Oh my god! We can't win!" exclaimed Felix.

"So are you saying we should give up?" asked Katt.

"Face it. This thing can't die or even get a paper cut! We're unable to destroy this thing!" shouted Wyvern.

"I just wish Falco is here," muttered Katt, "You know what? Leave. Leave to save your butts. I'm taking it on alone."

"What? But…" said Jerome when they heard an aircraft flying, so they looked above to see Falco's Arwing flying towards them.

Then Falco, remembering what Fox did four years ago in Titania, shot lasers at Goras' heart, damaging him.

"Yes! Way to go Falcon!" shouted Felix, "And that's his name, right?"

Just then, Goras began charging up a beam in its mouth.

"Oh rats," muttered Falco before Goras shot its beam.

Falco, while doing a barrel roll, dove right into the beam, deflecting the beam right at Goras' heart.

"Whoa! I never knew I could do that," exclaimed Falco as Goras blew up, its body parts landing all over the place.

Soon, Falco landed his Arwing in front of Star Katt.

"Falco! I knew you would come!" exclaimed Katt.

"Are you all right?" asked Katt.

"We're always all right, are you?" asked Katt, seeing the bruises on Falco from his fight with Fox.

Fox continued evading Captain Shears' attacks. Then he got tackled by the mechanical hog, and he was sent flying through double doors. Then Captain Shears and his mechanical hog moved towards Fox.

"Now, you have reached your end," said Captain Shears, drawing a sword and pointing the blade at Fox.

Just then, there was another Titanian earthquake with a slightly larger magnitude than the last one. That distracted Captain Shears. Then Fox ran away and hid in the next room, which was Captain Shears' bedroom.

"You can run, but you can't hide!" said Captain Shears as he got off the mechanical hog and went into the next room.

Then he found Fox hiding under the bed covers, although he wasn't completely covered by them. So, Captain Shears ran to the bed and sliced with his sword. Suddenly, Fox came from under the bed with another one of Captain Shears' swords hidden under the bed.

"What the…" exclaimed Captain Shears.

Then Captain Shears saw that he attacked a pillow with Fox's vest-like shirt on, making the pillow look like Fox's top half. But then he barely dove out of the way as Fox swiped with his sword. Then Fox held the sword over Captain Shears' neck.

"Now, is it possible to abort this project?" asked Fox.

Just then, the mechanical hog ran into the room and tackled Fox, knocking him away.

In the room with Andross, Slippy was trying his best to either abort or delay the reviving of Andross.

"Please, oh please work!" pleaded Slippy as he furiously typed.

Just then, the façade of Andross (his head) was formed over the actual Andross. Then his hands materialized.

"Yes… Yes… This is all going my way. And as for you, you failed. DIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!" shouted Andross.

Then, Andross used his powers to break out of his tube, spreading the liquid in the tube everywhere, including Slippy and the computers, frying them.

"Aw…" sighed Slippy as Andross floated to where Captain Shears and Fox went while completely ignoring Slippy.