P.S. Need beta editor
Prologue: Four years ago, the conflict with Andrew Oikanny hit boiling point the butchers of Lylat on his side. He united them and struck at critical targets within the Cornerian Empire. Until StarFox quelled his rebellion, towards the end of the horrendous battle above the forest world of Fortuna a race of aliens thought to be extinct returned and annihilated Oikanny and the lion share of his fleet.
Aparoids, that's what they were called. They slaughtered millions in a vicious war with Corneria by infecting and controlling thousands of average citizens of the Lylat system. The government desperately tried to stop them. But they failed to do so, and even now the war continues people still die.
Before the full onset of the war, a desperate attack was unleashed upon the aparoid 'home world'. It was disastrous, StarFox lost its oldest member Peppy Hare, he sacrificed his life for Fox Mcloud, Falco Lombardi, Slippy Toad and Krystal to destroy the Aparoid queen, and it failed. But Fox, in spite of the loss married Krystal; the two had their honeymoon. However…
Lives are still ruined, only one force can save the Galaxy and still it remains undiscovered. This is the story, of how the phoenix sheds tears for the dead…
Chapter 1:Inferno"Damnit, urgh. Get em' off me!" A harsh voice surged through the comlink, "C'mon Falco nail his ass." Fox took a deep breath lasers surged past his cockpit; he looked behind and saw Falco pulling a hard turn to keep up. You're not killing me I'm killing you. Damn bugs.
Fox flew in the skies above Fortuna; the planet's surface was covered in a crisp green grass and other plant life. Fortuna had beautiful crystal springs and various wild animals. On this day, Fox took no notice he only saw aparoids dieing left and right. "Falco get this thing off me!"
Falco saw Fox fighting to get away from the aparoid, Falco matched the aparoid's movement but he couldn't hit him. "I'm trying Fox, I can't get a bead on him. He's too fricken fast!" Since when are these things so smart?
Fox continued flying in elaborate patterns to throw the aparoid raider off his tail. Fox's wing mate Krystal a blue vixen who had slight telepathic abilities and was his wife, desperately tried along with Falco to get a shot on his pursuer. He could feel his heart beating harder and harder.
"Almost, hold still and let me shoot you." Falco mumbled to himself as pulled the trigger on his control stick targeting the aparoid chasing Fox's Ar-wing. A missile fell from Falco's wing and it's engine ignited and rocket slammed forward cutting through the air. It soon impacted the aparoid, unleashing an explosion disintegrating the raider.
"Got him!" Falco shouted excitedly, turning his attention to an aparoid infected artillery gun throwing flak at the fighters in the attack group.
Fox breathed a sigh of relief, and fired his plasma cannon at a large aparoid missile frigate. It had large protruding spiked edges sticking out on all side of it's oval shape, the dark bluish purple carapace, his plasma pulses exploded into a spark shower of heated radiation. Scorching the outside of the gargantuan vessel.
"Fox, look down there! An aparoid is making a break for the bunker!" Krystal shouted over the com, she diverted from her run on the frigate. The vixen opened fire on the creature piercing its rear vertebra. The aparoids were attacking Fortuna, and the bunker, which was full of scientists working on ways to un-infect people and plants.
Fox grunted angrily, look out the canopy of his Ar-wing watching the aparoid fall helplessly. He quickly turned his attention to the missile frigate, strafing the sides of the behemoth with his cannon. "We need something more effective, my cannon's doing squat." Fox said while continuing his strafing run, "Rob, can the Antares get a lock on the frigate?"
Rob the team's robot and resident genius, calculated aboard the bridge of the C.E.S. Antares, "I am attempting to acquire a target lock, wait please…Lock achieved, firing ATS gun battery." The Antares let loose it's fury, the bottom guns on the hull of the cruiser roared. Pushing through the atmosphere, the air surging and crackling as the deadly beams of plasma tore the missile frigate to dust.
Fox sighed with relief, turning his attention to the aparoid swarms, "Thanks Rob, keep pounding their tanks."
Krystal flew in tight formation with a squadron of Cornerian, HE-72 Inferno dog fighters which looked similar to Ar-wings except there wings pointed upward and they two large facetted engines. She held a tight turn the fighters matching her maneuver, "Bravo lead, take the raiders on the right, Alpha and I will take the left." Krystal ordered her wing.
Bravo group turned off and flanked the aparoid raiders, Krystal led alpha group and punched through the enemy fighters. Krystal continued flying gracefully and ripped through fighters, she looked out her window seeing one of her group burst in flames. "Wha-" Before she finished her sentence she was hit.
The left engine on her Ar-wing was shredded; her left wing obliterated then the hull burst into flames. And in short order exploded.
"This alpha group leader we have cloaked units of some kind taking out our fighters." Alpha group's leader was a good pilot promoted several times in the last three months. He was assigned by Fox himself, his name Rhys Thastus a black panther, "Krystal's Ar-wing has been--" Rhys waited, taking a deep breath, "Destroyed." Rhys' stomach dropped as he spoke. "She didn't eject."
Fox's heart went cold, as heard Rhys' voice over the com. No, no, no, no. You won't get away with this you bastards. Fox shook his head and dove downward tearing through aparoids as he went. "Don't let any aparoids escape. Kill them all." Fox said coldly. He pulled up out of his dive and fired a smart bomb at an aparoid gun battery. "Antares, prepare an EM sweep."
Rob obeyed and began scanning the skies four red dots showed up. "The sweep has revealed four cloaked aparoids headed for Falco's position. Rob moved his hands around clicking keys and hitting buttons.
Fox uploaded the data and switched to his targeting computer he flew up behind Falco and kept scanning for the cloaked aparoids. And they came only to be shot down by Fox in seconds. "Cloaked units destroyed." Fox proceeded to shoot down aparoid after aparoid. His mind reduced to savage instincts of hate rage, he directed it all on the aparoids brutally shooting them out of the air.
I will kill you all, and then I will mourn. Fox thought, his heart slowed down and he focused again seeing aparoids flooding Fortuna. He flew low and raked the ground with his cannon, he killed an aparoid.
Falco watched Fox slaughter aparoids; he maintained focus on the battle. No one messes with StarFox you bugs got it? Falco joined the slaughter, mercilessly killing aparoids he looked down at the surface of Fortuna the green grass now covered in blood from aparoids and Cornerians. Debris covered the ground wherever the room and fire swept through the forests turning the lush green foliage into dust.
"Fox! Enemy reinforcements have flown in we're running out of time here. We have to evac' those scientists." Falco shouted as he watched aparoids swarm through the warp fields. He flew quickly to the mouth of the warp gate; several fighters followed and assumed formation with him. He looked out of his window spying three aparoid fighters closing in on him.
Falco grunted and pulled a somersault to get behind the aparoids attacking him, he locked on to the first one and delivered a rocket to it. The second fighter maneuvered behind him, but before it could attack Slippy took it out. "Thanks Slip." Falco continued shooting fighters down, drop ships descended beneath the chaos and rescued the scientists from their bunker. "Scientists are out. Fox I need help cleaning up these aps'."
Fox turned towards the flying swarms shooting an aparoid as he joined the fray, he turned again he activated his targeting computer locking on to an aparoid. The battle raged on for an hour Corneria drove back the aparoids but at great cost…