The Elite squads general backed away from the garage door. He turned to one of his soldiers.
"Bring the bazooka forth." He ordered. As requested, a Monkey, carrying a bazooka gun over his shoulder, came forward and kneeled down. The squad awaited their leaders order. The general lifted his arm, waited a second, and then sent it down again. The monkey fired a rocket out of his bazooka. It momentarily flew through the air, before hitting the garage door, sending it flying into hundreds of pieces. The General laugh quietly and walked into the settling dust.
Inside the garage Peppy and Fox were running as fast as they could towards the Arwings. Neither had paid any attention to the explosion, but it had turned Slippy into a rambling mess.
"They're going to kill me! The price for this is death! Oh what do I do!" Fox rolled his eyes.
"Whiny pest isn't he." He muttered. Peppy paid no attention. Fox and Peppy were almost to there Arwings when Fox took a shot to the leg and fell over.
"Hold it right there criminals!" The General threatened. Peppy stopped and raised his arms in surrender. Fox turned to look at the General, who was holding a smoking gun. "Thanks for killing that prick Andrew, but you are still both being taken in." He walked over to Fox, and gave him a firm kick in the stomach. "So this is Fox McCloud. Amazing how people make a hero out of nothing in times of suffering"
"He's twenty times the man you are Lombardi!" Peppy shouted. Falco moved towards Peppy and hit him with his pistol.
"That's General Lombardi, old man." Falco corrected Peppy. Two of his soldiers walked forwards, holding Slippy. "Ah, we've been wondering who was providing the rebellions with ships. You know what the punishment for this is, don't you Froggy?" Falco asked.
"Death, like the punishment for everything else." Fox answered. Falco grinned slightly.
"Stops them committing any more." Falco aimed his blaster at Peppy's head. "Speaking of which, your time is up Hare." Falco squeezed the trigger. A shot hit Falco in the hand, making him drop the gun. Falco swore. Another shot barley missed him. Falco turned his blaster towards Fox, who was trying to get up while shooting at Falco. Falco jumped back while returning fire. "Fire you idiots!" Falco shouted. His squad responded and fired at Fox. Fox hobbled behind a near by box of components for cover. Slippy and Peppy both seized the opportunity and ran for cover. Falco snarled and watched his soldiers reduce the box of components into rubble. Fox rolled out of the way and behind a different box. In a matter of seconds the box was in the same state as the last. Fox once again rolled behind a different box.
"I'm running out of places to hide!" Fox thought out loud. Falco watched Fox struggle. It amused him. All fire was fixed on Fox's hiding place. No one saw Peppy sneaking around them.
"No one survives my squad. It is an impossibility." Falco announced. Fox rolled yet again away from a demolished hiding place, but had run out of places to run to. Falco's face curled in a smile. He raised a hand and held his gun at Fox. The squad stopped firing. "He's mine." Falco announced. Fox slowly got to his feet, his blaster aimed at Falco. Falco shot at Fox's hand. Fox reacted by grabbing his hand and dropping his gun. Falco shook his head. "There is no way of avoiding fate, and our fate is to be ruled by Andross." Falco aimed his gun at Fox's head again. A loud blast echoed around the garage. A group of Falco's soldiers fell down. Falco turned around. Twin laser blasts came out of one of the Arwings and killed another batch of the soldiers. Falco gritted his teeth. He fired at the ship, but the blasters weren't nearly enough to destroy it. "We'll get them with our ships!" Falco announced, retreating with the remaining troops. Fox sighed and turned to look at the Arwing. Peppy waved from the cockpit.
"State of the art!" Peppy exclaimed. Fox weakly smiled. He began to walk towards the Arwings, but fell on his shot leg.
"Ah!" Fox rubbed his leg. The blast had punctured the flesh and hit the bone. Fox tried to ignore the pain and continued to walk towards the ship, occasionally stumbling. "Lets try to get away while there regrouping." Fox suggested.
"What about Slippy?" Peppy asked. Fox turned to look at the Toad.
"What about him?" Fox replied.
"Andross's men will return and try to kill him!" Peppy explained.
"Well I'm afraid we only have two Arwings." Fox grabbed the side of the ships cockpit and pulled himself in. "So unless he grows wings, he's stuck here." Fox started the launch procedure for his ship. Peppy turned to look at Slippy.
"Well?"
The garage's roof shakily folded into itself. In a matter of seconds it had completely disappeared into the sides of the building. Shortly afterwards the two Arwings floated up and out of the garage. These were followed by a Wolfen, which looked like it was struggling badly. Fox shook his head sadly.
"Yeah, I'm sure he has a better chance against Andross's elite in that." Fox sarcastically remarked.
"Fox, we need as many allies to fight Andross!" Peppy argued.
"I just want to get off this planet." Fox sent his Arwing flying away from Cornaria. Peppy and Slippy followed. Slippy's Wolfen was repeatability coughing up smoke; nether the less it didn't fall behind. The three ships were half way between the ground and Cornaria's atmosphere when Fox's ship was fired at. On the Arwing's communicator appeared a picture of Falco.
"Leaving the party so soon Fox?" He teased.
"Sorry pal, I've better things to do." Fox replied. The picture of Falco disappeared. Fox looked to his right. A small army of ships were flying towards him, Peppy and Slippy from the planet. "Heads up." Fox warned them. The oncoming ships opened up endless fire on the small squad. Fox continued to lead them upwards towards space. The three ships were taking heavy damage.
"We can't keep this up for long!" Peppy shouted. Fox looked down at Slippy's ship. It was on the point of exploding. Fox sighed. They might as well go down fighting. Fox broke off his ascent and flew straight at the elite squad.
"What's he doing?" One of the monkey soldiers asked.
"Being a hero." Replied Falco. "Kill him." Fox's ship opened fire on the squad. The Arwing darted and weaved oncoming laser blasts. The Elite squads ships took damaged and exploded. Falco looked around. "Shot the single bloody ship!" He bellowed. Soldier's ships all around him blew up. Falco swore again and flew at Fox.
"Your ships have very little tolerance to pain." Fox claimed. Fox and Falco's ships flew directly at each other, dodging fire from the Elite squad. Fox fired rapidly at Falco. Falco did likewise. The ships were mere feet from each other. Falco flipped a switch near his seat and pressed it. The top of his ship burst open, then he and the seat flew out.
"Bye bye." Falco muttered, despite Fox couldn't hear him. Fox continued to shoot at the ship. The too were barley centimetres apart. Falco watched as an explosion occurred. A parachute sprang from the back of his chair. Falco laughed, positive in the knowledge that the two ships had collided and exploded. A look of confusion, then anger fell across his face as an Arwing flew out of the explosion. Fox had destroyed the ship before they had collided! "How the fuck!" Falco shouted loudly. Fox turned around, Peppy and Slippy had made it out of Cornaria's atmosphere. Fox tipped his ships nose upwards to follow. Falco curled his hands into fists.
"No one escapes me. No one." Falco claimed. He took out a small communicator, previously concealed in a pocket on the right of the chair. "Kill him! Kill McCloud!" Falco ordered. This order was rather unnecessary, seeing as all fire was fixated on Fox's Arwing anyway. Fox's Arwing was taking a pelting as it tried to escape.
"Shit, shit, shit..." Fox kept shouting every time he took a hit. There was no way in hell he could make it. He searched his control panel for something to use against the squad. "Well what do we have here?" Fox smiled and once again turned around. Falco watched this manoeuvre confused.
"What the hell is with this guy?" He muttered. Fox's ship, for a second time, zipped between fire to get close to the squad. "This is an attack of desperation!" Falco guessed. "Finish him!" Fox was a distance from the squad which neither qualified for near or far, but in between. Fox smiled and pressed a button. A small red device shoot forth from the ship. "That's a bomb!" Falco recognised the device. He watched angrily as it passed above him and exploded in the middle of his squadron. His seat landed and Falco ran a short distance to avoid the machine debris, which fell like rain. He looked up and watched as Fox flew off out of Cornaria's atmosphere. "You haven't won McCloud." Falco muttered. "You haven't won"
Fox spotted Slippy's and Peppy's Arwings and flew towards them. The three ships flew steadily away from the planet.
"You were right Peppy, these ships are state of the art." Fox claimed.
"Yes, but as well as they perform, they aren't nearly fast enough for us to navigate Lylat in." Peppy explained. "If we won't to free Lylat from Andross we need to reclaim the Great Fox"
"Peppy please, you're going to give him a big head." Slippy replied. Peppy slapped his own face.
"The Great Fox is a large ship idea for interstellar travel, not a nickname for Fox. It was Starfox's way of travel, before the Venom mission. Afterwards Pigma presented it to Andross. Andross used it as a means of spreading his troops even faster"
"So you want us to capture a ship holding the majority of Andross's army?" Fox questioned.
"Luckily, the ship took heavy damage from the Wolf rebellion. It is currently being given a touch up job." Peppy explained. "There are still a few of Andross's army hanging around, but not nearly as many as normal"
"Super." Fox sarcastically remarked. There was a short pause. "Listen Peppy. As much as I would like to kick Andross in his face, it's not going to happen"
"We can make it..." Fox cut off Peppy.
"All I want to do now is get out of this shit hole of a galaxy. Possibly settle down on somewhere like Sauria." Fox claimed.
"Well if this was to happen we would need the Great Fox anyway. Besides, do you really think those planets are going to be safe for long?" Peppy replied. Fox didn't reply.
"So where is this ship?" Slippy asked. Peppy boosted off. Fox and Slippy followed the old Hare.
"Just outside the asteroid belt."