It was 2:00 am.
Corneria night sky. Thunderstorms lighting up the sky.
The Great Fox. The sleeping corridors of the Star Fox team.
The camera zooms in on Fox's room.
Fox was tossing and turning, throughout the night having nightmares over witnessing Fay and Miyu's death.
"AAAAAAHHHH!" Fox shrieked.
"Fox, are you okay?" Krystal said, suddenly appearing by his bedside.
Fox's body was partially up, with the bed sheets covering his bottom torso and legs.
Krystal rested her hand on his shoulder.
Falco and Slippy, make his acquaintance as well.
"Guys...I don't want anymore of you to get hurt and dying out there at the cost of Bulletstrane." Fox said.
"We need to head to Macbeth, and see if there's remnants of a diary or if Bulletstrane's house...or anybody knows about her previous whereabouts before, going sinister like this." Slippy replied to the group.
"Fox and I will head down to the surface of Macbeth and see if we can find out where this Bulletstrane girl is..." Falco pipped in.
"Where, what, any kind of clue, I'm sure will give us some answers. We'll settle this out in the morning." Krystal responded.
Lombardi, Toad and Krystal - eventually leave Fox's bed side.
Fox struggles getting back to sleep, for the rest of the night.
Mission Briefing
"ROB, is there any confirmation that Bulletstrane is the last, left of her kind?" Fox asked the robot.
"Many of platypus's are listed as MIA. No confirmation of alive or dead." ROB 64 stated.
"Bulletstrane is hiding something from us." Krystal said.
"Point taken. Me and Fox will head down to the surface, and find out where this Bulletstrane person lives on Macbeth." Falco replied.
"Take the Landmasters." Slippy said.
"Will do." Falco responded.
Mission 8: Noxious Blood
Macbeth
Objective: Find Bulletstrane - or any of Bulletstrane's kind on Macbeth
"So, what exactly are we looking for, Slip?" Fox said to him, in the landmaster.
"Find an abandoned shack, maybe some deserted junkyard, maybe a house splattered to nothing, maybe a city dug beneath the surface..." Slippy thought processed.
"We'll trek through here in no time." Falco replied.
An undetermined amount of time had elapsed.
Fox and Falco had come across, a metal warehouse, fairly large in scope and there was no more pandering.
"This...might be something resourceful." Slippy said.
"Let's check it out." Falco said.
"We're docking the Great Fox, and we'll meet you boys inside." Krystal replied.
Cutscene
It was all but abandoned alright, the team had entered the premises.
Suddenly footsteps approached them.
"Who are you?" Fox demanded, turning around seeing a platypus like physique behind him.
"Hi, my name is Daffodil." The platypus said.
"Let's turn the lights on." Krystal said, beaming up the place.
Lights flashed a bright yellow/white hue, as the team got a good look of Dil.
A platypus like civilian, almost just like Bulletstrane.
"Daffodil." Falco remarked.
"Oh just, call me Dill." He replied to Falco.
An undisclosed amount of time had passed.
"So...let me get this straight, you and Bulletstrane are the ONLY TWO left still alive." Slippy asked.
"Correct. No plot hole. No further debate necessary. Just the two of us left." Dil replied.
"Why was it, in our records that everyone was just MIA and not dead?" Fox asked.
"Out of print records from years ago. Not that it mattered, because we we're best for our kind, to find a cure, on our own. Not that anybody else would bother, to help us exterminate this pathogen from us, anyway." Dil responded.
"Why didn't you follow suit and pass way, like Bulletstrane's parents?" Krystal asked.
"After the age of 40, my fellow friends and family succumbed to a disease that Bulletstrane proclaims. No vaccine, pill or medication can remedy it. We fell from 57 to 2 in a matter of time. I'm only 38 years old. So my time isn't up yet." Dil stated.
"How old is Bulletstrane?" Fox said to him.
"46." Dil replied.
The foursome, look with raised eyebrows.
"James McCloud, had surgery here before fighting Andross. The surgery was successful, and we lived on with our lives for 20 years, until we all died, one by one." Dil stated.
"Look at these pictures. Might I have a look at these?" Krystal said, holding up the pictures in her hands.
It was an Arwing blasting the platypus's hideout.
"I'm pretty sure, this couldn't be James McCloud that blew this hideout to kingdom come." Krystal said, looking at the pictures, more closely.
"So...James McCloud DIDN'T kill any of you, not after the surgery was successful. No way." Falco piped in.
"Bulletstrane refuses to believe that." Dil replied.
"Has she told you?" Slippy said to Dil.
"No. She said it's "completely confidential" and that'll she'll only reveal the truth to Fox McCloud and at the right time." Dil piped in.
"When will she get through her head, Fox's father didn't kill her family and friends?" Slippy sighed.
"He might of." Dil chimed in.
"Oh come on James McCloud wouldn't-" Falco said, getting interrupted mid-sentence.
Just then, a loud explosion was heard outside the warehouse.
A giant octopus monster appeared out of the ground, and destroyed Fox and Falco's landmasters.
"We'll deal out this scenario later. Falco, you're with me!" Fox said, getting out a rocket launcher, on the wall of the warehouse.
"May we?" Falco said, turning to Dil over the weapon cache on the side of the building.
"Go ahead." Dil replied.
"You two stay here for back-up, when we need you." Fox said to Krystal and Slippy.
"Be careful, Fox." Krystal said, with concern on her face.
"I will." Fox replied, nod talking to her in response.
"Let me help. I know the weakness of that thing." Dil said, hoisting a weapon in his hands.
"Let's go already!" Falco, said getting impatient.
McCloud, Lombardi and Dil race outside to deal with the monster.
Mission Update
Kill Octomay / On-Foot Battle
"It's Octomay!" Dill blurted out.
Fox and Falco battle Octomay.
Octomay entangles and captures Fox in her tail with Fox groaning in pain, electrocuted.
"Take this!" Falco, said launching his rocket launcher at the monster.
Fox immediately fell to the ground, as Falco and Fox regroup.
"Go for the eyes. She will squirm and fail to battle." Dil said to the pair.
"Right." Falco said, helping Fox back up to his feet.
Warehouse
"Slippy." Krystal nod talked to him.
"Yes, Krystal?" Slippy replied.
"These pictures are not James in the picture. It was Pigma that blew the hideout to smithereens." Krystal showed him.
The pictures were magnified and it clearly showed a pink silhouette, making an evil smirk in the photos.
"So James was not responsible for their deaths at all!" Slippy piped in with in approval.
"Why did Dil lie to us?" Krystal said turning to Krystal.
"Because he didn't." An unrecognizable gruffy, voice replied.
Slippy and Krystal turned around.