MISSION 2: PIRATE BASE

The team was heading in the direction of the ship that had the tracking device on it. They were moving at high speeds while in communication with General Pepper.

General Pepper was proud. "Congratulations on defeating the first wave of enemy attack. However, the fleet you saw there was probably only a small fraction of the fleet Zontar has back at his home planet. So be careful."

"Do you think Zontar has any ships in hiding along the way?" Slippy asked.

"It's a possibility, but I doubt that there would be any at first, unless he brought them along when he attacked. Nonetheless, watch out. Pepper out."

"Will do, General," Fox replied.

Falco looked at the fuel gauge.

"Uh, Fox, I think we're running out of fuel."

"Great. Now we have to refuel. It must have been all the laser fire that we took. Rob, can you...'

Before he even finished his request, Rob replied, "A refueling station is at Gargon Prime."

Slippy wasn't very enthusiastic. "Oh no, not Gargon Prime! That's a well-known hideout for space pirates!"

"All right!" exclaimed Falco. "That means we'll probably take some of them down!"

"Don't get carried away, Falco," warned Krystal. "There aren't that many pirates on Gargon Prime."

Soon, they arrived at Gargon Prime. The Arwings stayed high while Rob found the exact coordinates of the refueling station. There was no sign of any pirate activity on the ground. They began their descent when Rob found the location.

"The station is 1.2 miles ahead."

The Arwings continued their descent until they arrived at the station. The fuel cells could be activated by hitting a red button. The team got out of their Arwings when they were right next to it. Fox hit the button, and a fuel cell came out. He popped his Arwing open, and put the fuel cell in.

Then, all of a sudden Rob detected a large group of space fighters.

"Warning! Space fighters approaching! They are approximately 5 miles away."

"Just what we need." Foxsighed."Another attack force out of nowhere."

"They must have been hiding until we came out of our Arwings," suggested Slippy.

"Rob, activate the Arwing shields!" Fox ordered without hesitation.

Falco had a question. "Oh yeah. Fox, I've been wondering, why can't we just be inside our Arwings when the shield is activated?"

"The force of such a shield would be too great for us to be inside of. The only one who can survive it is Rob, but he's a robot."

The team prepared their blasters. Fox handed Falco a sound piercing megaphone. It could be set to travel for miles. When the fighters were close enough, Falco yelled in the megaphone at them.

"Yo, fighters! Stop right where you are if you don't want your heads blown off by Team Star Fox! That's right. It's us. If any of you boneheads needs to know how how to spell that, too bad."

A space pirate on the other side had a device that was similar to the megaphone.

"The pleasure's all mine. I've been wanting to destroy you for a long time!"

As the fighters got closer, Falco groaned.

"Oh no, not these idiots again!"

It was Ruffian. "Yes, you remember us! You defeated our space fighters when you searching for that pig."

"Some of the fighters must have escaped somehow," said Krystal.

"In case you're wondering how we escaped, you'd need to understand hyperspace!"

"What is this hyperspace travel everyone keeps talking about?" Slippy asked, being very confused.

"Zontar mentioned that you were a little behind technology-wise, but I had no idea you were so clueless!"

"Zontar?"Falco caught the name immediately."He put you up to this?"

"Yes. We are one of Zontar's squadron. Now enough talk. Let's fight!"

At this point the fighters were about 100 yards away. There were 28 in total. They prepared their lasers while Ruffian left. He ran into a tank, and began increasing the speed until the tank was moving too fast to see.

Falco was impressed. "So they can install the hyperspace stuff on the ground too? Dang. We gotta get that."

The fighters went behind several giant rocks and then the Star Fox team waited for one of them to make a move. They went for their sniper laser guns. They aimed for the rocks.