Chapter Nine: The Victims

I don't own Star Fox, but I own my characters. Using my characters means you have to ask me for permission and giving me credit. I would be delighted then when you do! This is probably one of my long-running stories, so bear with it!

"Hey, we can't communicate to Falco or to anyone else!" Fox shouted as he tries to mash to the buttons on a console. "What's keeping them out? We have to know what bitch is happening right now!" Peppy patted his back to calm him down.

"We just have to wait for them," Peppy told him, "it seems that the dam has signal blockers that prevent any kind of communication. I wonder why, though, since after all, it's just a dam."

"We have to get them!" he yelled back. Fox then tried to stand up from his seat. However, thanks to the injury Wolf gave to his body a little while ago, he limped and fell back to the seat. "Fuck that Wolf! He jeopardized their lives by injuring me!" A thought then appeared in his mind, so he told them, "Maybe he's responsible for the lack of communication…"

"Impossible, my friend," Leon snickered, "Wolf doesn't have anything that could do such thing. Also, he has very little knowledge of making such device from scrap, so it's next to impossible." However, Fox was not convinced.

"Maybe he's sided with the enemy," Fox growled again, but he was then stopped by Bark.

"All we could do now is to wait," he concluded.

Inside the Cornerian Defense Center, the main establishment where pilots and soldiers of Corneria are trained and readied, fighters just landed from the hangar of the base. The captain of the group, mainly Bill Grey, together with his teammates, Husky and Bulldog, left their ship to take a break from their training.

"Whew! What a hot day!" Bill smiled as he takes off his scarf and helmet. "I never knew things would be boring after the Lylat Wars! I mean, there won't be any more battles for us and we might lose our jobs!" Husky laughed from his statement.

"I don't think so. I fact, I am happy the war ended," he replied. The three headed to the nearest drinking fountain. After a hot day, nothing would be better than a cool drink.

They took turns in drinking from the water dispenser. After that, everyone's relieved from their thirst. A few minutes though, Bill felt his head aching.

"Um, I'll be taking an aspirin," Bill told them as he heads to the nearest bathroom. "I kinda feel achy. It's probably from work." Husky and Bulldog nodded, and so he went in the lavatory.

Inside the room, his head ached a lot more. When he tried to take the aspirin, he dropped it as his head gave more aches. He dropped to the floor, feeling pain inside his body. His shades dropped from his head, and he took his jacket off. Pain kept on growing in his body, and his anatomy starts to increase in size. Is he evolving?

A few hours later, inside the hidden base under the dam, Wulf's simply seated on a jail-bed where he is locked in. When he and Wolf were caught, he was taken to the cells instead to the evolution chamber, where Wolf evolved just a few hours earlier. It seems that Kane has other plans for him…

"Darn it. I guess I won't be able to contact Space Den in this place," Wulf sighed after he tried many times to contact base. He then heard footsteps coming towards him. He looked to the cell door, and was surprised to see a robust wolf with many piercings wearing only underwear. The fur of the creature is well combed, and has bulky-looking body. A scar on his left eye is visible, giving an idea who the wolf is.

"W-wolf, is that you?" he asked with skepticism. He couldn't believe his eyes. "What happened to you? What have they done to you?" Before he could say more, he was stopped by him.

"I've never felt great like this!" he growled back as he shows his body. "I have to thank Kane for enlightening me to his dream. You have to stop your foolish mission! Join us, along with the others who have evolved…" Wulf was surprised to hear this.

"Hey, are you out of your mind?" Wulf yelled back as he grips the jail bars. "Why would I join him? Besides, I know you're under a mind-control drug, and I hate to turn into the likes of you. Can't you see? He's using you and everyone else as pawns! Imagine, no one would disobey him, and with you and everyone he evolved, he'll rule everything!"

Wolf became quiet. He had never seen Wulf reacted like that. He then figured out something to change his mind. In his new evolution, he developed the ability to control metal. He focused hard on the jail door of Wulf's cell. It slowly opened, making Wulf move back and gasp from what he saw.

"If you agree to join me, you won't get killed by the evolved ones," the wolf told Wulf. "Can't you see I'm trying to help you? I'm not being controlled or anything, since I'm still concerned about you. Evolve, Wulf. That's the only way you'll see that Kane's ideals are right."

"This is madness!" Wulf howled, and then, he sees Kane approaching Wolf.

"Nice try, Wolf, but I guess he can't be changed, such as I told you," Kane smiled as he pats Wolf's back. The lupine leaves, turning the cell door back to its original position, and feeling disappointed. The rex then turns to Wulf, who was simply listening. "You should've listened to your friend. If you have joined me, you could still be alive! You could have developed powers that you can only have when you evolve. You muscular strength and anatomy will be greater! But since you reclined, you'll die with your mission!"

"Even if you kill me, my mission will be fulfilled by many others too!" he shouted back. "There's Galaxy Wulf, Star Fox, and the Cornerian Defense Force backing me up!" Kane then laughed from his sentiments.

He told him, while smirking, "Oh, those useless back-ups won't fulfill your goal, especially the defense force of this planet! You see, I did something in their water system about an hour ago… Now how do I explain it? Oh, let's just say I've used my microbes in that place to cause some evolutions to begin! I think at this hour, I have the whole defense evolved!"

"Impossible! You haven't gotten the microbes yet!" Wulf yelled back as he rushes towards Kane.

"I have no need for that! I was able to copy the remaining microbes in this place, allowing me to culture more of them, giving me an almost infinite amount of supply of these little viruses! But because I was unsure, I used the defense force as a test for my experiment, and now it's successful!" He then left Wulf from his cell, waiting for the moment when he'll face Wolf and the other evolved Cornerians. He's in deep thought.

"The team must get out from that place!"

Bill, now wearing only a loincloth, yelled as his eyes started to change. He then glanced to the mirror. His normal brown irises of his eyes turned to red. He then realized something strange. He focused to the mirror, and all of the sudden, a beam was fired from his eyes towards the mirror, melting it down.

"Not only I have the perfect body," he laughed as he flexes his bicep, "but I also have deadly eyesight! I must thank who ever did this to me…" He then walked out from the ruined lavatory, seeing everyone in the base changed as well. The evolved Husky and Bulldog dashed towards him.

"I… I can control the ice!" Husky howled as he breathes an ice beam to a post, making it freeze in ice. "I have a strong body and a cold personality!"

Bulldog posed with his body, having four muscular arms. "I have four arms now! I can't believe it! I have changed!"

Bill then walked forward, followed by the other evolved pilots, now moving towards the city…