Fox and the team started firing at Zontar as fast as they could, not bothering to get a lock on him. Zontar sped his ship up as fast as he could. His fleet moved in front of him and started blasting at Team Star Fox. Zontar's shield was down to 14. Then his ship disappeared from view.
Fox, he's in hyperspace!" exclaimed Peppy.
"Dang it!" said Fox with dismay.
Then the Star Fox team focused their fire on the fleet, which was moving in closer to them.
"Rob, how many ships are there in his fleet?" Fox quickly asked.
"My censors indicate that there are 50 ships in the fleet."
Falco was not concerned about this. "That's no problem! We'll waste all of them!"
"Don't forget, these are tougher enemies than you've faced before," Peppy warned.
The fleet finally got close enough so that Fox and his team could start hitting them. Fox fired at the closest one he saw 3 times. All 3 landed directly onto the enemy ship, and the ship was destroyed.
"3 solid hits destroy these things!" he quickly exclaimed.
Five ships advanced towards Fox. Fox barrel-rolled to the right 3 times, and fired as he did. One ship was hit twice. The fire from the enemy ships didn't even touch Fox. Fox fired again at the damaged ship, and then immediately directed his fire on another ship. The damaged ship was destroyed. Fox barrel-rolled twice to the left, and dodged more lasers that were fired at him. Fox then fired at the ship he had just been firing at.
Then he realized he'd made a mistake. He'd started firing rapidly without moving very much. This gave the ships better shot at him. He was hit on the left wing. The ship was down to a shield of 90. Fox continued firing. He kept barrel-rolling from side to side, and firing as fast as he could at the same time. The enemy ships fired back. Fox got another ship destroyed. The evasive manuevers Fox was pulling made it nearly impossible for the enemy fighters to strike him again. Fox fired again, and again, striking the 3rd ship this time, getting hit 2 more times, bringing his power down to 70. There were now only 2 ships, which was easier than 5 ships. Fox finished them off in almost no time at all.
Meanwhile, Falco was firing at enemy ships that didn't come closer. It was a long-range battle, that Falco was winning. He fired repeatedly at a ship that was attempting to get an aim on him. The ship was destroyed. 2 more ships went where that ship was. He fired again and again at the enemies, then he rolled to the right and then back to the left. The ships lost their locks, and Falco hit the one on the left. He fired again, and the ship was severely damaged. It attempted to pull out, but Falco hit it again and destroyed it. The other ship began firing rapidly. Falco had no problem destroying it.
Slippy was just trying not to get killed. He dodged one shot from the one ship that was shooting at him. Then the ship hit him and got his power down to 70. He fired back several times, and the first 2 shots went wide, but the last 2 made contact. The ship fired back, and Slippy was missed by less than 2 feet each time. Slippy fired another 2 shots. The 1st one was dodged by the enemy ship, but the 2nd one hit squarely on the other ship. The ship was destroyed.
Then another ship flew toward Slippy. Slippy fired and kept strafing from left to right. He had done 1 hit when the ship hit him. Now Slippy was down to 60. Slippy fired again at the enemy ship, then barrel-rolled as a shot came at him. The shot ricocheted off his ship and went back to the other ship. The ship was destroyed.
Krystal was maintaining a certain camouflage, by flying her ship down really low and pointing the ship up, using the brake, and firing at the fleet. The fleet didn't know what had hit them. Krystal immediately hit home on one ship, and it exploded. The ships near it didn't know where the attack had come from. In the confusion, Krystal unleashed another burst of laser fire. Another ship was destroyed.
Finally, 3 ships looked down, and spotted Krystal. They began to fire, again and again. Krystal didn't attempt to return their fire. She used the boost, and got out of there. The ships followed her. She was hit only once, getting her shield down to 65. The ships continued to follow her, but they couldn't make contact. Krystal then did a loop, and the ships were in front of her. She fired repeatedly, and got hits. Once. Twice. Three times. Only 2 ships remained. She charged up a shot, and fired. One ship had moved out of the way. That ship attempted to get behind her. As it was almost there, Krystal did a brake and a barrel-roll, and the other ship went out of control as it ran into Krystal's Arwing. It wasn't able to control where it was going. Krystal finished it off.
Then the Star Fox team got into a line, and laid heavy fire onto the enemy fighters. The fighters attempted to regroup, but it was too late. Team Star Fox was already cutting through the lines of fighters. The 4 ships together began destroying one ship after another. 5 were immediately destroyed.
The enemy team began laying as heavy of fire as they could back at Team Star Fox, but there was no time to fire. Explosions roared on the battlefield. The enemy fleet continued attempting to get hits. Finally, one hit Falco. He was down to 90.
The accuracy and speed of the lasers fired overwhelmed the enemy fighters. Several tried to flee, and they were defeated before they had even turned around. The fighters couldn't hold out. They were over-powered. They had no chance of winning this battle. However, Fox wanted more than to just destroy all of them. When there were just 2 left, Fox got an idea.
"Team, hold on!" Fox stopped his team before they destroyed the fighters. "You two, come here! We won't destroy you if you will agree to our conditions."
The fighters flew in closer to Fox. Fox was now ready to give the conditions he had only thought of in the last 5 seconds.
"You, on the left, will stay as a prisoner. No torture. We will get information from you. You, on the right, will go back and tell Zontar that he'd better not mess with Team Star Fox, and tell him about the massacre here."
The fighters agreed. The one on the right began flying back to Zontar's home planet. The other one went with Fox and the crew back to the Great Fox. Once they were in the Great Fox, Fox decided to tell the others the reason he let the other ship go.
"Why did you let him go?" questioned Falco. "You know Zontar will be back whether or not this fool tells him."
"Peppy, why don't you tell them?"
"Alright. You see, when Fox got closer to that ship, he implanted a homing device on it. All we have to do is follow that ship, and it should lead us straight to Zontar's homeworld. Meanwhile, we'll need this one here, what's your name?"
"I am Zago."
"Yes, Zago, you will tell us all we need to know about the Zontons, right?"
"Very well. I was getting tired of Zontar anyway."
MISSION 1 COMPLETE!