Finally, one of the fighters swung his laser gun over the rock and fired several times at Fox and his team. At this time, Fox had already fired the laser sniper rifle, and got the fighter in the head. The fighter went down. No more fighters attempted that again. A few guns went up over the rock, and pointed in the general direction of Fox and his team, but none of the fighters raised their heads.

The lasers began coming in rapid bursts of energy. Team Star Fox dove behind the Arwings, because while the shots were not accurate, there was enough fire for an occasional lucky hit. Because the Arwings were shielded, the lasers bounced off them, and a few headed back toward the rocks. A few of the rocks were broken. Once this had happened, Fox and team began moving a little away from their Arwings, and aiming their sniper rifles at the broken rocks. They aimed, and 2 fighters were immediately locked onto, and taken out.

Then the fighters decided that their current strategy wasn't working, because Star Fox could aim and fire quicker than they could. The fighters, their number down to 25 now, began running and firing as fast as they could. Fox backed up near the shield, and the team didn't need to look at Fox to follow suit. Fox pulled out his machine gun laser, turned, and let out a few rounds of rapid laser fire before going back behind the shield. One fighter was taken out.

Falco had switched to his blaster. He fired. The shot just missed one of the fighters. He fired again, hit the fighter this time, and backed up while a laser was coming. He was barely missed. Slippy was using grenades. He tossed one above the shield, and watched as the grenade blew up harmlessly, for he had thrown it over their heads. Slippy tossed another one over the shield more lightly. He watched again, and this time he got 2 fighters.

Krystal was gathering fuel cells, because the shields would soon be down on their Arwings, and they would need a quick escape. She gathered a few, and tossed them inside each of the shields. The shield absorbed the cells, and the Arwings all recieved the cells.

While she was doing that, the fighters were getting closer to Fox, Slippy, and Falco. They continued firing, but the fighters were going to get too close. Fox and Falco did their laser and machine gun rounds at the same time, so they laid down a heavy wall of fire. They moved forward, and fired. Fox put 2 rounds into a fighter, and 3 into another. Falco hit one fighter twice, but missed with the other shot. They continued to do this as they backed up, and then moved forward again, and fired. One after one the fighters began to go down.

Slippy, however, was doing something completely different. He was taunting the fighters by jumping forward, challenging them, and jumping back as the fighters attempted to shoot him. This was proving to be very effective, as this drew the fire away from Falco and Fox, and allowed them to take out the fighters.

"Come on! Get me! I'm right here... whoops! Missed again! Ha!"

Slippy effectively kept dodging the lasers, and gave Fox and Falco more open shots. At this time, they were down to 15 enemies. Soon, however, the fighters were onto this little trick. The next time Slippy stepped to the side to taunt them, they didn't fire at him. Slippy was not to be discouraged. He stepped farther out and continued taunting them.

"Come on! Hit me! I'm an easy target! Come on!"

The fighters didn't fire in his direction. Instead they continued the firing against Fox and Falco, who continued destroying the charging fighters. However, the fighters were getting very close in their charges, being only 50 yards away.

Then Slippy went too far. He pulled out his blaster, and fired once at a charging fighter. The laser made contact with the fighter, and a few of the others turned toward Slippy.

"Uh-oh!" exclaimed Slippy.

Slippy ran back behind the shield, but he wasn't fast enough. He was shot in the back. The battle armor he was wearing prevented the shot from causing a lot of damage, but it did hurt. "Ouch!"

He stayed behind the shield while Fox and Falco continued their fire against the fighters. Krystal, having put enough fuel cells in all of the Arwings for them to keep going for a while, ran over to Slippy behind the shield.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah. I just can't move right now."

"Don't worry. I'll take over."

She took out her blaster. She moved Slippy a little bit so she would have a better position. She took aim, and fired several times. The first two made contact with one fighter, and the other one merely knocked a fighter down, for it was a leg shot. She moved back as Fox and Falco moved forward. This was confusing for the fighters, trying to look back and forth between what was now 3 defensive positions. There were only 10 fighters left, who were only 50 feet away.

Peppy sent a message. "The shields have only 10 seconds left! Prepare to get into your Arwings!"

The team continued to fire, waiting for the shields to go down.

"5, 4..."

Now the fighter number was 8. They fired once more, not hitting any fighters this time.

"1, 0!"

The team was ready when the shield went down. They quickly got into their Arwings. Krystal had to assist Slippy into his Arwing, but they got in just before the fighters began firing rapidly at the Arwings. However, the Arwings were already lifting off, so little damage was done by the firing. Had the enemy fighters had more powerful weapons than the blasters they were using, they could have done substantial damage.

The Arwings were well off the ground in no time.

"We lost 'em!" one fighter exclaimed."How are we going to explain this to Ruffian?"

All of a sudden, the Arwings came back and fired at the fighters on the ground. The fighters were unprepared for this, and they were destroyed in 3 seconds.

"Have we got enough fuel?" Fox asked.

"Yes," responded Krystal."This will take us a great distance before having to refuel. I took every last fuel cell that was in there."

"I think I'm going to have to stay out of the next mission," Slippy pointed out.

Falcogrinned."I think Frogboy's onto something. This will improve the battle outcomes. You should get injured more often, Slippy."

"Come on, Falco. It's not that bad."

"Yes it is. Hey, let's make a bet. How long will it take before Slippy gets bogeys on his tail the next time he goes on a mission?"

Peppy said,"Less than 30 seconds."

Krystal went down to20.

Fox said 15.

Rob suggested 10.

And Falco said, "I'm gonna go with pi. 3.14 seconds."

MISSION 2 COMPLETE!