Chapter 2 – Lylat's "Trump Card"

Andross' Insurrection HQ (before the kidnap of Prime Minister Abercrombie)

The eleven superiors of Andross' Insurrection met in their HQ in a planet barely known by man, which was why they chose this planet for their HQ. The superiors met around a table in a room, where they discussed their future plans.

"So far, we're being successful in our war against Lylat. We may have had a few losses, and our forces may be weakening, but nevertheless, we're still winning," announced Agatha.

"Yes, but I think that there is one problem, and I think this is Lylat's 'trump card.' It's Star Fox," said Girax Green, the youngest Andross' Insurrection superior who is a crocodile.

"Don't worry munchkin. I, myself, have seen our Xarviars take down Star Fox. In fact, I, myself, have taken down Fox McCloud himself," bragged Algy Sleezak, "And after they saw their leaders die, I bet the other losers of Star Fox ran away and are hiding their asses from us."

"I wish that would be the real-case scenario, but I know Star Fox more than any of you," said a superior who was hiding in the shadows.

Then the superior showed himself in the light, revealing himself to be Wolf O'Donnell, leader of Star Wolf. Wolf looked the same as he did two years ago, except now, he has a mechanical eye for his left eye. Around the table were the other five members of Star Wolf (they'll be mentioned later).

"My team has fought Star Fox three times, and, they're the kind of people who don't give up easily," explained Wolf.

"How do you know? They kicked your asses each time!" retorted Emory Sunders, the muscular lion.

"Shut the hell up!" shouted Panther Coroso, another member of the Star Wolf team. Panther Coroso was a panther with a scar over his right eye and he usually carried a rose around.

"Who are you to tell me what to do? As far as we all know, I'm bigger and stronger than the rest of you! I can kick your ass in an instant!" roared Emory in a loud voice capable of making people faint in shock.

"Oh yeah? Well, we also know that behind your muscles, you're the dumbest superior of Andross' Insurrection!" shouted Leon Powalski, another member of the Star Wolf team, only he was a member since the beginning of Star Wolf. Leon Powalski was a thin chameleon.

"You are right about one thing, I am all muscle, so I can rip you up into pieces, you filthy lizard!" retorted Emory before Agatha came up to him and slapped him.

"Enough of this! We're supposed to be discussing about our war plans! Not about Star Wolf's efficiency!" shouted Agatha, "Now, what do you think we should do to Star Fox? As Wolf said, they probably aren't going to let Lylat fall. They're bound to strike back."

"I have an idea. As we had discussed before, we're going to kidnap Prime Minister Abercrombie, right?" explained Tyrone Wong, "But when we kidnap the prime minister, we should leave a message for General Pepper, who will talk about the message to Star Fox. I should say that we should make the message lead General Pepper in leading Star Fox in a wild goose chase."

"Good idea, only that's what I was going to say. Now, what is an ideal planet?" asked Agatha.

"Katina?" suggested Algy.

"No, we should lead them to a planet they're not familiar with. Anyone know?" asked Agatha.

"How about Eldard?" suggested Wolf, "And we should send not one, but three superiors. But here's more. If one falls, then the other two can split up and lead Star Fox into deserted areas in the Lylat System. The Star Fox team is bound to split up, and therefore, they'll weaken their forces. The superiors can destroy the weakened teams."

"All right. So, who wants to volunteer?" asked Agatha.

"How about W…" suggested Algy when Agatha made up her mind.

"Perfect! Algy, you go and confront Star Fox in Eldard. And Girax and Emory, you be the ones to lure Star Fox away if Algy dies," ordered Agatha.

"What? Why am I supposed to die?" asked Algy.

"Because no one here likes you," replied Agatha before leaving the room, ending the meeting.

Location: Inside the Great Fox

The six members of Star Fox ran down a hallway. This time, there were two leaders. One of them was Fox McCloud. The other was Falco Lombardi. The other teammates were Slippy Toad, Krystal, and the new members: Bill Grey and Katt Monroe. As the former four members jumped into their Arwings (Slippy didn't land headfirst, which was a first), Bill jumped into his special white and dark green ship and Katt jumped into her white and pink ship.

"All right team. Do whatever it takes to save Prime Minister Abercrombie and defeat the enemy. Are you all ready?" Peppy asked through the intercom as the Star Fox members set up their ships, "Launch all ships!"

Then the six ships flew away from the Great Fox and to Eldard.

Location: Eldard

Eldard was a planet of wildlife. As the Star Fox members flew over a field, Fox began checking his wing mates, only; he checked only his part of the Star Fox team, mainly because the Star Fox team was split into two groups.

"Krystal, Bill, tell me of your status," ordered Fox.

"I'm all right and set. But don't go crashing on me, understand?" asked Krystal, remembering that battle two years ago.

"Don't remind me," muttered Fox.

"Hey Fox, I'm all prepped to win," reported Bill.

"Slippy, Katt, how are your ships?" asked Falco.

"My Arwing is okay!" replied Slippy.

"I'm all right. Are you?" asked Katt.

"All right, let's rock and roll!" shouted Fox as the six ships split up.

Fox's Arwing flew over the fields, which looked empty. Suddenly, a grey enemy ship flew in front of him, shooting red lasers at him. Fox knew that this was the weakest ship used by Andross' Insurrection, but he knew this was to let his guard down. Fox just shot at the ship. Then two more ships appeared. Fox shot them down easily with his Hyper Lasers, which was used by all six Star Fox ships (although Bill's and Katt's were different colored). Then Slippy flew by, being chased by a ship shooting at his Arwing. Unfortunately, Slippy was clueless.

"Corneria to Slippy, you've got a bogey on your tail," warned Falco.

"Yikes! I'm in danger!" exclaimed Slippy.

"I'll help," said Fox when Falco came and shot down the enemy chasing Slippy.

"Slippy is part of my part of the team," reminded Falco.

"Yeah, but do know we're in this together for now," said Fox as Slippy and Falco flew away.

"Fox, I'm detecting the brain patterns of the enemy to the west. That means you have to go over the sea," reported Krystal.

"All right," replied Fox as he flew over the sea.

Fox found himself fight some more weak ships, but he also fought enemy boats that shoot rapid purple lasers at him.

"Do a barrel roll!" said Peppy, but Fox was already doing that to deflect the purple lasers.

Meanwhile, Falco was shooting at the vessels with no luck, "Okay Peppy the Science Guy, what do I do here?"

"Were you insulting me?" asked Peppy.

"No, I was just kidding," replied Falco.

"Glad to hear that. Anyway, charged shots work best against those vessels," explained Peppy.

So, Fox and Falco shot charged shots at the vessels, sinking them. The other teammates helped out as well in the air. By the time Star Fox flew over land, the sea was practically empty of enemies. Then Bill saw something overhead.

"Fox! I think you've got company in the air! I think I'll need your help," reported Bill as the Xarviar appeared in front of Bill.

"A Xarviar!" exclaimed Fox as he flew towards Bill, "Shoot at the unarmored surface of the ship!"

So Bill shot lasers at the blue surface of the Xarviars that was shooting lasers at him. Then the Xarviar turned into its stealth mode.

"Bill, now it is indestructible. Wait for it to go back to its normal mode!" explained Fox.

"But what if it doesn't go back to its normal mode?" asked Bill.

"It's going to, trust me," replied Fox.

Soon, the Xarviar lost energy to be in stealth mode, so it commenced the battle in normal mode. Bill and Fox shot lasers at its weak surface, finally blowing it up.

"That's the spirit!" exclaimed Peppy.

"Detecting several other Xarviars ahead," reported ROB.

"Damn. And as if one Xarviar isn't enough," said Falco as three more Xarviars appeared.

Fox went after one Xarviar, Bill went after another, and Falco went after the last one. After shooting at the Xarviar a lot, the Xarviars blew up. Then Fox entered a canyon, where Krystal told him to go. In the canyon, turrets attached to the canyon walls shot at Fox, who barrel rolled, but his Arwing still received damage. Meanwhile, Krystal and Katt shot at the turrets, blowing them up. Soon, Fox got out of the canyon.

"Sorry Fox, I didn't know that canyon was a trap," apologized Krystal.

"It's okay. As long as I'm alive," said Fox.

"Fox! I think enemy robots are coming!" warned Slippy.

"Thanks for the bad news, Slip," muttered Fox as three enemy mini-robots with guns for arms appeared in front of Fox's Arwing, "Prepare to die, robot… Damn, I can't think of anything more to say."

So, Fox shot rapid lasers at a robot shooting energy balls at his Arwing. After getting hit by an energy ball, the enemy robot was destroyed. Meanwhile, Bill and Katt weakened the others before they were chased away by enemy ships. So, Fox just shot a Smart Bomb at the weakened robots, destroying them.

"Fox! The enemy is past those mountains," said Krystal.

So, the Star Fox team flew over the mountain range. After some fierce flying, they flew over the Eldard Ocean, where twenty Xarviars awaited them.

"Remember, they are more susceptible to Smart Bombs. FIRE!" shouted Peppy from the Great Fox.

So, Fox, Falco, Slippy, Krystal, Bill, and Katt all shot two Smart Bombs each at each Xarviar. There were four left after the explosion. Then Fox, Falco, Katt, and Bill shot Hyper Lasers at the remaining Xarviars.

"No wonder Andross' Losers resorted to kidnapping Prime Minister Abercrombie. They began to realize their forces sucked," remarked Falco as they fought more enemy vessels.

Then another Xarviar was sent to fight Star Fox. It began chasing Bill.

"Oh crap! This Xarviar is trying to take me down! I could use some help!" shouted Bill, whose ship was quickly weakening to the Xarviar's lasers.

So, Fox began shooting at the Xarviar's soft surface. Just then, the Xarviar shot an energy ball at Bill's ship.

"Fly out of the way now!" shouted Fox.

Bill suddenly swerved down just when the energy ball blew up in its seismic explosion where Bill was just seconds ago. Then Fox finished off the Xarviar.

"Looks like these guys still play dirty," remarked Katt.

While flying over the ocean, Star Fox continued shooting down enemies that proved of little resistance. Soon, there were no enemies at all.

"This is strange. It's like the enemy forces have given up right now," said Fox.

"Yeah, but I wish that's true," replied Slippy.

"Wait! Fox! I sense something that's going to appear right where you are! Get out of the way!" warned Krystal as Fox did a somersault.

At that instant, a large, cylindrical, brown ship materialized right where Fox was before somersaulting. Its wings were folded to make it look like it hiding something. Then two advanced Xarviars materialized besides the colossal ship. These Xarviars were heavily armored, leaving no weak spot exposed, but they were slower than the average Xarviar. Meanwhile, the pilot of the colossal ship began talking.

"Star Fox! Do you dare to fight me again?" Agly asked the Star Fox team.

"It's you!" exclaimed Fox, remembering that Xarviar that shot him down two years ago.

"I wish you were dead," said Algy, "But it looks like I get a second chance to kill you. DIE!"

"Fox! I've finished analyzing the enemy! But are you fighting the one that's not the Xarviar?" asked Slippy.

"That's the one," replied Fox.

"Okay then, here goes," said Slippy as Fox got an energy meter of Algy's ship on a screen in his Arwing.

"Let's go fry some monkeys," muttered Fox.

Suddenly, Algy's ship disappeared.

"What the… What happened?" exclaimed Bill.

"I wish I could answer, but I'm busy!" replied Fox as he flew out of the Xarviars' lasers' way while barrel rolling.

Fox tried shooting at the Xarviars, but they deflected the shots. Soon, they split up as Algy's ship rematerialized in front of Fox, only the ship's wings were open, revealing its four cannons. The cannons shot green energy balls at Fox, which he dodged the best he could, although one struck his Arwing.

"Shoot at the cannons!" shouted Peppy.

So Fox shot the area where the cannons were in the ship, damaging it, as shown on the energy meter given to him by Slippy. Soon, Algy's ship disappeared as the Xarviars fought him again. When Algy's ship rematerialized, Fox shot a bomb at the area where the cannons were, only the wings were still closed.

"Fool! You call yourself Star Fox?" asked Algy, "Let me show you the true ferocity of my ship!"

Then Algy's ship shot a beam at Fox's Arwing, or at least, it tried to. Algy saw in his systems that his ship was too damaged to release the beam.

"Damn!" shouted Algy before opening his wings again, shooting green energy balls at Fox's Arwing.

Suddenly, Falco flew to the scene and shot a Smart Bomb at the area where the cannons were, further damaging Algy's ship. Then Fox shot a charged shot at that area, shutting off Algy's ship completely.

"NOOOOOOO!" shouted Algy as his ship fell to the sea.

Then Algy remembered from physics class in his childhood that his ship was buoyant, so he wasn't dead, yet.

"Girax, Emory, take them down!" ordered Algy.

"No thanks," replied Girax.

"You're not worthy to Andross' Insurrection if you're defeated that quickly," said Emory.

"WHAT?" asked Algy.

Suddenly, the two Xarviars began flying away.

"WAIT!" shouted Algy.

Then, the two Xarviars shot two energy balls at Algy's ship, blowing it up, killing Algy in the process. During that time, the six Star Fox chased after the two Xarviars.

In space, the two Xarviars split up.

"All right. Falco, take your team and follow Girax's Xarviar. Krystal, Bill, and I will follow Emory. We have to capture them in order to find Prime Minister Abercrombie," ordered Fox.

"Roger," replied Falco as the team split up into two groups of three.

Then the two separate teams chased after their target Xarviars.

Character Analysis: Algy Sleezak

Age: 28

Species: Lemur

Algy Sleezak has been wanted as a criminal for 14 years. As a result, he now has a hook for a right hand, a scar over his right eye, and a metal jaw. He joined Andross after getting the metal jaw and having his family killed by Cornerian soldiers looking for Algy. Out of the superiors of Andross' Insurrection, Algy is the most hated, which was why he was chosen to go on a suicide mission first.

NOTE: His half-brother was the lemur who drove the Meteo Crusher in the Meteo Asteroid Field. Although most people think Algy wants vengeance on Fox for his brother, he doesn't, for he never liked his half-brother anyway. In fact, he'd rather thank Fox if he wasn't an enemy of Andross.

NOTE: He wanted to be a member of Star Wolf. Unfortunately for Algy, Wolf chose Andrew Oikonny over Algy due to Oikonny being Andross' nephew. Obviously, Algy detested Andrew Oikonny due to jealousy.