Chapter 1

Corneria Park…10:21pm

Late one night on the planet of Corneria, the hub of galactic peace, the stars shined brightly in the night sky as it's people enjoyed the night while others were home in bed sleeping. In the local park, couples were walking together while others stared out at the lake. But out of all the couples, there was a single man looking out to the lake. He was a light brown fox. This was Fox McCloud, the former leader of Star Fox. As he stared out at the lake, he couldn't help but think about the woman he was once in love with many years ago. All he ever wanted was to keep her safe but instead he lost her. After several minutes passed, the young vulpine began to walk away in order to head home but he hears a sound causing him to stop dead in his tracks.

"GET OFF OF ME!" a feminine voice screams.

Hearing the sound, Fox follows the sound all the way to a bush not far from the entrance to the park. He stops by the bush and quietly peeks through, seeing a male German Shepard pinning a female cheetah with a ponytail to the ground. "Shut up and hold still!" he shouts. Staring at the sight causes Fox to become angry until he finally hits his boiling point thus making him charge at the dog and tackle him to the ground away from the girl.

"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?!" Fox growls.

The girl crawls away toward the tree and uses it to stand herself up. She turns and looks over at the struggle between the vulpine and her attacker. The dog pushes Fox off of him and then charges at the vulpine to the ground. He then began to punch the vulpine repeatedly. Before delivering another right hook, Fox counters with an uppercut shouting, "Get off of me!" The fight continued as the young girl watched thus causing her to relax seeing that she had help. Fox delivered several more punches to the dog but he counters with a powerful head-butt dazing him. Taking advantage, the dog reaches into his back pocket and pulls out a knife but the girl spots the knife and shouts, "Watch out! Fox regains his senses, turns toward the dog, and stops the dog thus the two struggle for dominance but the dog was pushing the knife down further until it was nearly on the vulpines throat.

"You should've walked away while you had the chance." the dog growls. "Otherwise, see you never, asshole."

But out of nowhere, the dog tumble forward, causing him to drop the knife. Fox looks and sees that it was the very girl the dog tried to rape was hanging off his back while scratching his face thus giving the vulpine time to recover. But, the dog manages to throw the girl off of him and backhands her, sending her face down to the ground.

"Stay out of this, bitch!"

Taking advantage, Fox jumps to his feet while the dog picked up his knife. He turns toward the Fox to finish the job but is met with a straight left hook. Fox delivers several more punches until finally, he delivers a massive spinning back kick, sending the dog into the tree knocking him out in the process. Fox the turns his attention toward the unconscious girl, kneels right down next to her and lifts her up slowly.

"Unh. What happened?" the girl asks. "How did I get here?"

She looks up at Fox and she saw his very green eyes while the vulpine stared back at hers. The vulpines heart began to race very fast. He even began to wonder, was this fate? Was it an accident? He wanted the answers to those two very questions except he couldn't find them. Eventually, he snaps from his trance and soon afterwards the police and ambulances arrived on scene. The medics saw to Fox and the girl while at the same time police arrested the rapist and proceeded to escort him away. After begin examined, Fox looks over at the other ambulance and sees the girl he saved. Being a gentleman, Fox decides to go over and talk to her, see how she was doing.

"Hey, how're you doing, miss?" Fox asks.

"I'm alright. Aside from a splitting headache I have. Other than that, I'll live." she replies.

"Perfect. Anyway, I'm going to be headed home now, miss. Will you be alright?"

"I'll be fine. Thanks anyway."

Right. Well, uh, good night."

With that, Fox begins making his way to his car and proceeds to head home for the night. Meanwhile, on the other side of Corneria city inside a house, two figure were sitting down together on a couch watching tv. The first was a male black panther and next to him was a blue vixen. This was Panther Caruso and his girlfriend Krystal. Panther is a member of the Star Wolf team along with Krystal. Krystal was once a member of the Star Fox team and also n a relationship with Fox McCloud but due to circumstances, she started a new relationship with Panther after the Anglar war. But, as the months went by, Krystal couldn't help but think about Fox such as how he was doing and where he was. This was her conscience talking to her about her mistake of leaving him but she ignored it. Several minutes go by as the two continued to watch tv until finally Panther breaks the silence by reaching over to the side table drawer and pulling out a small red box.

"Krystal?"

"Yes, Panther?" Krystal replies curiously.

Answering her question, Panther stands up from the couch and then drops down to one knee thus making Krystal a little confused. He then pulls out the box and opens it, revealing a diamond ring. He then asks her, "Krystal, will you marry me?" Hearing Panther's question left the vixen completely speechless because Panther was ready to take the next step with her. After a few minutes, she replies, "Yes, Panther. I will. I will marry you." This may have been a happy moment for both Panther and Krystal, but fate was going to change for them.