Chapter 6 – Flighty Planet
Location: Andross' Insurrection HQ
Agatha, Tyrone, and Wolf met in the room where the superiors always met. The room was more empty than usual. The other Star Wolf members were busy with recreation. Meanwhile, the three superiors were discussing their situation.
"It has been three days since we have explained our demands to Corneria, and we've got nothing in return. In fact, in that same day, three of our superiors were executed by Star Fox, who are still at large," explained Agatha.
"Wolf, why didn't your team take Star Fox down? That was your big chance!" said Tyrone.
"Shut up. They got lucky! I mean, just when I was about to take Fox down, Panther got in my way and took my charged shot! Now how unlucky is that?" asked Wolf.
"It seems that luck is not on our side. However, our client told us that his plan can finally exterminate Star Fox and bring us victory, and I'm sure that all of you know," explained Agatha.
"Just how are you so sure that this plan will work?" asked Tyrone.
"If Oikonny could do it, so could we," replied Agatha, "But we can do it more advanced than he could."
"And what if Star Fox finds out the client's identity?" asked Wolf.
"We will lure them to our trap then," replied Agatha, "Now Wolf, you say that you are hoping to lead Star Fox one, right?"
"Yes, we told Star Fox that they can look for the prime minister in either Macbeth or the Sector W Asteroid Belt. Both of those places are our territory, and if Star Fox is executed in both places, nobody will know, for only the enemy care of those places. So, if we send a superior to each of those places, then we can destroy them, since I know that you two are the two best superiors," explained Wolf.
"All right. I'll go to Macbeth. I can be sure that my advanced nuclear army can take them out," said Tyrone.
"Then I will go to the Sector W Asteroid Belt. Oh well, I guess I can use my secret weapon after all," said Agatha, "And now, the meeting…"
"But McCloud didn't believe my words. We need to find a way to lure them to those two places," added Wolf.
"We'll take care of that. Now, the meeting is over," said Agatha.
Location: Great Fox
The Star Fox team didn't believe Will's words about Prime Minister Abercrombie's location, so they used the Great Fox tracking system to look for him. There was no luck in the two days of searching.
"This is hopeless, we can't find him anywhere. He might have as well left the face of the Lylat System, or the whole universe," said Falco.
"He might have as well done that," muttered Bill.
"Peppy, ROB, do you have any leads on Prime Minister Abercrombie's location?" asked Fox.
"No, not entirely," said Peppy.
"Wait, I just got a message from the Prime Minister himself," said ROB.
"What!" exclaimed Fox, "How could he be able to transmit a message to us?"
"Maybe he's escaped from his prison cell so he could talk to you, and I think he's timed, so you…" began Slippy.
"Yeah, he gets the point, Slip," interrupted Falco as Fox began talking through the VAC.
"Prime Minister, is that you?" asked Fox.
"Fox! Hurry! I just escaped from my prison cell so I can talk to you," explained Abercrombie.
"See?" asked Slippy, but nobody heard him.
"Prime Minister, where are you?" asked Fox.
"I seem to be in a base in rocky terrain. I think I am either in Macbeth, or on a meteor," explained Abercrombie.
"Well, can you get any more details of your surroundings?" asked Fox.
"Well…" began Abercrombie before he was cut off by Agatha.
"Back off, prisoner. And Star Fox, if you're listening, try going to where we are and you'll die!" warned Agatha before she disconnected the VAC connection.
"So what do we do?" asked Krystal.
"Falco, take your team to Macbeth. I'll take my team to Sector W Asteroid Belt," explained Fox.
"Well, be careful. Remember the last time you split up?" asked Peppy.
"I don't think I'll need to leave my Arwing," replied Fox.
Location: Macbeth
Macbeth used to be the center of science in the Lylat System. But then the scientists of the laboratories began attacking each other (mainly due to industrial reasons) before Andross finished them off and replaced the laboratories with army bases. After Andross' bases were destroyed, Macbeth became a barren planet of science, but it seems like history is repeating itself. Andross' Insurrection's army bases were beginning to replace the laboratories while killing scientists.
Falco, Slippy, and Katt flew around the area, looking for Prime Minister Abercrombie using a tracking system. Falco picked something up that's related to the prime minister.
"All right, I'm going to look on foot," reported Falco.
"Why not use the Landmaster?" asked Peppy.
"All right, send it here," ordered Falco.
Just as Falco landed his Arwing on the ground, a blue beam from the Great Fox was shot onto the ground. In place of the beam, a Landmaster was materialized. Falco jumped into the Landmaster and began starting it up. Suddenly, a large beam was sent into the air from the complex of the army bases to create a shield around the whole area.
"Great, we're trapped. So I guess I have to attack these army bases, do I?" asked Falco.
"No, the complex is being guarded by another shield. In order to take it out, you must destroy the four generating towers around the area. And in order to take out the main shield trapping you, you have to defeat the Andross' Insurrection superior, Tyrone, for he is the one who activated the shield," explained ROB.
"Why do I have a feeling this has been done, for the third time?" asked Falco.
"Fourth. That's also Fox's team's situation in Antronica," explained Peppy.
"Thanks. I know now that Andross' Lunatics are also repetitive in their plans," muttered Falco as he began driving his Landmaster around, blasting at the enemy robots around the area, "Where did these robots come from anyway?"
Then Falco drove up to a generating tower and blasted the red orb off of the tower, disabling it.
"One target down!" said Falco.
"Way to go Falco!" shouted Slippy.
"Hey Slippy, Katt, why aren't you doing anything?" asked Falco.
"We're taking care of things in the air!" replied Katt.
"There's nothing above!" replied Falco as he crushed more robots before looking above to see a bunch of enemy ships, "Oh. I thought those were the scientists' ships."
Then more robots rolled towards the Landmaster. When Falco tried shooting at them, they created shields that deflected Falco's shots. Meanwhile, the robots had blasters for arms and they kept blasting at Falco.
"Damn, these goons have gotten smarter," muttered Falco as he sped the Landmaster into a boost, crushing the shield-generating robots.
Then Falco shot a charged shot at another red orb on top of a generating tower, disabling it. Just then, more robots arrived. Falco tried shooting at them, but they used their shield to deflect the shot. So, Falco tried ramming them, but what he got was like crashing a car into a brick wall. The robot he was aiming for was unharmed.
"Dang! This gets worse every time!" remarked Falco as he tried to start up the Landmaster again, only to see that its systems were down.
"Don't worry Falco, I'll help," said Katt as she flew by and shot a smart bomb at the robots, destroying them in an explosion that could have blasted the Landmaster as well.
"Jeez, thanks for nearly vaporizing me!" thanked Falco with some sarcasm.
"It's either that or being vaporized by the robots," replied Katt.
"Great, a Hobson's choice," muttered Falco as he got his Landmaster to start again.
Then Falco crushed some more robots using the barrel roll or just running them over. Then Falco disabled another tower.
"Just one more to go," said Falco as he looked at his radar for the red dot that shows the tower's location.
"Watch out Falco, enemy tanks straight ahead!" warned Slippy.
Tanks that were as large as the Landmaster arrived and began shooting plasma charged shots at Falco's Landmaster, who kept barrel rolling out of the way while shooting lasers or bombs at the tanks. At least he destroyed them all before they destroyed the Landmaster, which got damaged.
Then Falco drove the Landmaster northward. As he drove by the shield and a laboratorial warehouse, Katt picked up something on her radar.
"Watch out! There is a huge tank coming up!" warned Katt.
Then a tank almost as large as the warehouse (which was two stories tall) appeared and began blasting plasma charged shots at the ground, causing earthquakes.
"Uh-oh, this isn't good at all," remarked Falco as he tried hovering to avoid the earthquakes, but when he returned to land, the earthquakes were still caused by the plasma charged shots.
Then the large tank hovered over Falco's Landmaster.
"Watch out!" shouted Slippy.
So Falco barrel rolled out of the way just when the large tank landed, causing another earthquake. This made Falco's Landmaster topple over upside down.
"Katt, Slippy? Could you help out here? I'm a sitting duck!" shouted Falco as he looked for his blaster's charged shots in hopes of blasting a hole through the Landmaster, but he knew that was practically suicide.
So Katt and Slippy flew their ships and began shooting at the tank. However, the tank shot plasma charged shots at Slippy's Arwing, sending it flying away.
"No!" shouted Slippy as his flying Arwing was flying towards the last generating tower.
The Arwing was still flying after it lobbed the red orb off of the generating tower, taking out the shield. Soon, the Arwing landed in a lake where Slippy was knocked unconscious (the lake was in the shielded area).
Meanwhile, Katt tried shooting at the tank's turret, but it was doing nothing. In fact, it seemed like it made the attacks stronger. Finally, Katt's ship was shot down by the large tank. Then the large tank aimed its turret at Falco's Landmaster. Then the tank fired at Falco's Landmaster.
Just then, Falco just ran out of the way while the Landmaster was vaporized.
"Falco! You're alive!" exclaimed Katt.
What happened was that Falco used regular blaster shots at the top of the Landmaster, for charged blaster shots were deadlier. Doing that, he made a hole he went through to escape.
"Katt, where's Slippy?" asked Falco as he ran towards Katt's ship and dodging the tank's attacks.
"I don't know!" replied Katt as she got her ship to work again.
Then Katt flew towards the tank and shot a bomb into the tank's turret, blowing the tank up.
"I should have thought of that earlier," remarked Katt as another Landmaster was sent to Falco.
"All right, I'm going to destroy… Say, the last generating tower is destroyed. Anyway, I'm going in," said Falco as he drove the Landmaster towards the complex of army bases, blasting down the gates and soldiers in his way.
Then he was looking at his radar. He was looking for either Prime Minister Abercrombie or a superior, for he had to be with his captive, right? So, he found that the place where the superior was located in was a gigantic base. So, Falco just blasted the gates apart and ran over any enemies. Then he blasted open the gate, as well as parts of the wall.
"I'm going in," said Falco as he drove the Landmaster into the base, which was more of a warehouse.
Inside, he fought some more robots that could make themselves invisible and create shield generators. So, Falco depended on barrel rolling to crush any invisible and visible robots while shooting at the ones he could destroy. Then Falco drove the Landmaster onto where the superior could be. Just then, another tank that was as large as a two-story warehouse (this base is as tall as a three-story warehouse) arrived. It began shooting plasma charged shots at Falco again.
"Crud! Not again!" shouted Falco.
"What's going on?" asked Katt.
"I'm facing another one of those tanks again!" replied Falco.
"Shoot a really strong attack into its turret!" replied Katt.
So, Falco shot a charged bomb at the tank's turret pointing at Falco, blowing up the tank. Then Falco got out of the Landmaster to look for the superior with the prime minister. Just then, he fell down the stairs, for he wasn't looking.
In the basement room, he saw some robots that used nuclear weapons. Obviously, he was amazed. But the one that amazed him the most was the largest robot that was as tall as that tank Falco just destroyed. So, Falco got out a time bomb and was going to use it, when it was shot out of his hand/wing. So Falco turned around to confront Tyrone in his flight suit.
"Ah, so, you're the Lombardi of Star Fox. Well, it's nice to meet you," said Tyrone.
"Where is the prime minister?" asked Tyrone.
"I'm not telling you," replied Tyrone.
"Why?" asked Falco, pointing his blaster at Tyrone, who drew his own blaster, only it was more advanced.
"Because you're not going to live," said Tyrone as he nodded.
Just then, all robots in the room came to life as they shot nuclear energy balls at Falco. Falco hid behind the largest robot that wasn't activated yet.
"Dang! I don't have any grenades!" thought Falco when he looked around and saw a ladder.
Knowing that this was risky, Falco jumped up and began climbing up the ladder while the robots kept shooting at Falco. They kept destroying the rungs of the ladder, but luckily, Falco already climbed through those rungs. Finally, the robots shot at a rung above Falco, but that didn't stop him from jumping above and climbing to the first floor.
Then he ran to his Landmaster and tried driving away when he confronted more of those robots. So, he blasted them with his Landmaster while running some over, but the robots' attacks that struck the Landmaster did major damage. His Landmaster was starting to shut down.
So Falco jumped out of the Landmaster and began shooting at the robots with his blaster recklessly. Somehow, he managed to get outside when he was surrounded by the robots. So, Falco put down his blaster and put his hands/wings on his head.
"Don't surrender like that, Falco," said Katt as she flew to the scene.
Then she shot a smart bomb at the robots, blowing them up and again nearly vaporizing Falco. But he didn't have time to retract verbally, so he jumped onto Katt's wing and shot any other robots with his blaster, and they were shooting at Katt's ship, which flew away.
"Falco, use this," said Katt as she opened her ship's windowpane to give Falco a plasma cannon.
"Thanks," thanked Falco as he set up the plasma cannon before setting it on his shoulder.
Meanwhile, the nuclear robots turned into ships as they chased after Katt and Falco. Falco shot blasts at them with his plasma cannon, blowing them up, making sure they never get to touch Katt's ship.
"Falco! Some enemies on the ground have a lock on me!" shouted Katt as a laser struck Katt's ship, nearly sending Falco falling to the ground.
So, Falco shot at the robots below with his plasma cannon, destroying them. He did that with the tanks on the ground as well, although they took more shots than the robots. Then he encountered more nuclear ships that used to be robots, so he shot blasts at them with his plasma cannon.
"Good thing this has limitless ammo, or I'd be in trouble if it runs out," remarked Falco.
Then Slippy flew by with an Arwing with one wing lobbed off. Slippy was being chased by more nuclear ships.
"Falco! Is there anything behind me?" asked Slippy.
"Yeah, just make sure you don't do anything fancy," said Falco when Slippy flew upwards, making the nuclear ships follow him, "Perfect."
So, Falco shot plasma shots at the nuclear ships above chasing Slippy, destroying them.
"Thanks Falco. I thought I was done for," thanked Slippy.
"Haven't you heard of barrel rolling, somersaults, or U-turns?" asked Falco.
"I know how to do those!" retorted Slippy before flying away to blast some more enemies.
Just then, nuclear ships shot lasers at Katt's ship, and Falco was sent falling off of Katt's ship.
"Falco!" exclaimed Katt.
Then, Falco landed on a nuclear ship still flying. So, he shot plasma shots through the windowpane, killing the pilot and breaking the windowpane. Throwing away the pilot, Falco climbed in the ship, and getting used to the controls quickly, began shooting at the other nuclear ships, destroying them and causing havoc.
"Pilot of Ship773, what the hell are you doing?" asked a voice through the VAC.
"Shut up and go to hell," replied Falco as he turned off the VAC and continued shooting down nuclear ships.
So in order to counter this confusion, nuclear ships began shooting every ship in sight. However, that meant that they shot each other down. This caused huge confusion, and only Falco's ace experience in flying saved him from being vaporized. So after a few minutes, the enemy forces were reduced dramatically due to Katt, Slippy, Falco's ship, and themselves. Just then, Slippy shot down Falco's nuclear ship, so Falco had to jump off, and he managed to land on Katt's ship that came in time.
"Enemy ship down!" shouted Slippy.
"You dumbass! That was me!" shouted Falco.
Then he continued shooting down the nuclear enemies with his plasma cannon again. So basically, this is what happened to Katt, Falco, and the enemies. Falco blasted them with the plasma cannon on Katt's wing while protecting her ship to avoid Falco and Katt being killed. Soon, the large robot from the room with all of the nuclear robots flew to Katt, only the robot was being flown by Tyrone.
"I will destroy you!" shouted Tyrone as the robot raised its arms (which were guns) at Katt's ship and Falco.
"Falco! I'll give you the boss' energy meter!" shouted Slippy.
"I'm outside the ship, so I can't see…" began Falco when he looked at his handheld VAC, which also showed the boss' energy meter, "Nice inventing Slip."
Just then, Tyrone's robot shot nuclear blasts at Katt's ship, damaging it.
"Falco! Hurry up and destroy it!" ordered Katt.
"All right. Peppy, where is the robot's weak spot?" Falco asked through his handheld VAC while shooting with his plasma cannon at any spot of the robot.
"Try shooting at its arms," suggested Peppy from the other side.
So, Falco used the heavy plasma cannon and shot at the robot's left arm, causing it to stop from its attack. Then it flew away from Falco's range of firing to recharge. Then it flew back to Falco, who shot more plasma shots on the robot's left arm, this time, destroying it. So, Tyrone shot nuclear shots at Falco, who was nearly sent off of the wing, but he ended up having to hang onto the wing.
"Yes!" shouted Tyrone.
"Falco!" shouted Katt.
"Don't worry Katt, I'll take care of this creep from here," said Falco as he used his beak to trigger the trigger on the plasma cannon, but most of the attacks missed.
"Don't even try! You know that in your position, it is 100 impossible to destroy me," taunted Tyrone.
Then another nuclear shot was sent at the wing Falco was hanging onto, making Falco go falling.
"AHHHHHHH!" shouted Falco as he continued falling and holding the plasma cannon.
Then Slippy flew by and had Falco land on the wing of his Arwing.
"Thanks Slip, I owe you one big time," thanked Falco as he continued shooting at the robot's right arm.
"Grr… Why do these things always happen to members of Star Fox?" shouted Tyrone as his robot continued shooting at Falco, who continued shooting at Tyrone's right arm.
Soon, the right arm was lobbed off. Just then, the robot grew new arms.
"I think ahead when I'm in these kinds of situations," said Tyrone, but he saw that his robot's right arm was already lobbed off, "Crap, I think these are the weaker arms."
So, Falco easily shot the left arm off. Then as the robot tried to fly away, Falco shot plasma shots at the robot's jet pack, eventually destroying it. This made the robot fall to the ground.
"NO!" shouted Tyrone as the robot fell to the ground.
Then Slippy's Arwing flew towards the ruined robot.
"All right, where is the prime minister?" asked Falco.
"You want to know?" asked Tyrone.
"Slippy can destroy you with his Arwing," added Falco.
"All right, try looking in…," began Tyrone when Katt came and shot at the robot, blowing it up and killing Tyrone, "Katt! You're not supposed to kill him! He was about to tell us where the prime minister is!"
"He would have lied," replied Katt.
"But what if he's telling the truth?" asked Falco.
"It's better than another trap," replied Katt.
"All right," muttered Falco as Slippy flew him to Falco's Arwing, which wasn't harmed at all in the midst of the battle.
Character Analysis: Tyrone Wong
Age: 40
Species: Eagle
If he were a human in Earth, he would have been Chinese. But in the Lylat System, it doesn't really matter. Tyrone is the smartest and oldest superior of Andross' Insurrection and he provided most of the weapons for Andross' Insurrection, as well as Andross himself. In fact, it was Tyrone who made the Xarviars. The reason why Tyrone was Andross' servant was because he just thought that being with Andross was better than being with the Cornerian army.