STAR FOX ATTACK

MISSION 1: ZONTAR'S FLEET

In the Lylat system, peace had finally been restored. There was no sign, over a great distance, of any more hostile fighters. Star Fox and the rest of his team had eliminated all of Andross' threats, Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Adventures and taken care of the aparoids. Star Fox Assault Everything seemed to be at ease.

Fox, Slippy, Peppy, Falco, and Krystal were all in the Great Fox. They were scanning the area outside of the Lylat system one more time to make sure they had no more enemies to defeat. The area had just been secured.

"The area is secure," said Rob.

"Yes! Now we can go home," said Falco.

"WOOHOO!" exclaimed Slippy.

The Great Fox turned around and headed back toward Corneria. The team was excited to finally be going back home.

Suddenly hundreds of red dots appeared on the radar screen. Rob saw this and immediately began to warn the crew.

"Warning! Warning! Enemies detected!" said Rob.

The Great Fox turned around. Seemingly out of nowhere, there was a space fighter squadron heading toward them. Without hesitation, Fox, Slippy, Falco, and Krystal went into their Arwings, and prepared to attack the new menace in front of them. Peppy stayed behind, because he had retired, as he'd promised.

The Arwings immediately went out of the Great Fox and onto the battlefield, where it appeared that the fighters were about to attack. The ships facing them were bigger and wider than the Arwings were, and they were green. All but one moved aside. The one that didn't move aside was twice as large as the other ships. Fox assumed it was the leader.

"Team Star Fox! You look surprised! Haven't you ever seen ships emerge from hyperspace before?"

"Hyperspace? That's not possible!" said Fox with surprise.

"Oh, but it is, Fox. The Lylat system seems to be a little behind if the best ship in the system doesn't even use hyperspace."

"So how come you know so much about us if we've never seen you before?" Falco questioned.

"You've met Pigma, haven't you? He was spying for us during the battles you have been fighting before you destroyed him. Too bad we couldn't get the rest of his team to do so as well, although they are still your enemies."

"Pigma was a spy! I can't believe it," said Krystal with shock.

"Pardon my manners, team. I've forgotten to introduce myself. I am Zontar."

"Okay, Zontar, either get your ships away from us or we'll destroy all of them!" Falco threatened.

"That's right. No one defeats Team Star Fox," Slippy said with confidence.

Zontar was getting angry. "I'll give you one chance to surrender, and..."

All 4 Arwings began firing their lasers at Zontar as fast as they could get them off.

"Shield analysis complete. I'm bringing it up on the monitor," stated Slippy.

Slippy did this as he was firing, which wasn't easy, but he pulled it off. Zontar began to fire back. Giant lasers came from his massive ship, labeled the Zontum. Zontar's shields were immediately down to 85. His other ships tried to get shots off, but couldn't because Zontar was in the way, and they didn't want to risk hitting him.

Zontar fired his lasers at the nearest ships. Fox was the farthest back, so he finally got an aim on Zontar. He charged up a laser, and blasted while Zontar fired at Falco. Falco dodged right and blasted back at Zontar. He got the ship in the front, which did about 3 damage.

Zontar attempted to blast Slippy next. Slippy dodged left the first time, and Zontar missed, then Zontar fired again, and Slippy dodged right. Zontar missed. Then Zontar fired a third time, and Slippy was hit on the left wing. Slippy's shield went down to 80, because Zontar hadn't gotten a square hit.

"Darn it! I've been hit! Now you're gonna get it, Zontar!" exclaimed Slippy.

Slippy fired back rapidly while Zontar moved on to his next target, Krystal. At this time, Fox had already charged and fired 2 laser bursts, which did 10 damage each. Zontar's power was down, after the firing from Slippy, Falco, and Krystal, to 52. Krystal kept barrel-rolling from left to right, firing often. Zontar couldn't get a good aim on her, so he just began firing as rapidly as he could, although in the time the Zontum fired one shot, an Arwing could fire 5 shots.

Zontar was getting desperate. He was down to a shield power of 39, and he couldn't hurt the Star Fox team very much, although he did make contact with Krystal's ship once, but only on the edge, so it did only 25 damage. Zontar turned around.

"Fox! He's going to use the hyperspace to escape!" yelled Peppy.

"Not if we can help it!" Fox replied.