Chapter 8: Ganondorf's battle in space

Ganondorf was in pain. He lay on a strange metal surface, and his arms were bound to the surface by an unknown energy force. There appeared to be strange creatures all around him. Each of them taking humanoid shapes, even though they were clearly animals. There was a bird, toad, fox and rabbit. Each of them was talking in a strange language that Ganondorf couldn't understand.

Quickly taking a few glances around the room he saw several crates, and machines. And in a strange barrier was his Dragon's Sword.

Across Ganondorf's body was several different wires that hooked up to even more machines. The frog tried to put something in Ganondorf's ear, but Ganondorf immediately began to squirm. Quickly reacting the bird drew a gun. He aimed it in between Ganondorf's forehead. "Barbaric monsters…" Ganondorf said. The frog suddenly put the object in.

Strange text appeared on a monitor a few feet away from him. Ganondorf couldn't understand it but the others did.

"Ancient Hylian?" The frog laughed. Ganondorf just lied down in shock, as he was now able to understand every single word that they said.

"Is he hostile?" The rabbit asked.

"No clue!"

"I say we sedate him!" The fox muttered.

"No we can't attempt that!" The frog said in defense. "We do not know that much about him! The food in his diet could cause him to react to the sedation and kill him!"

"Slippy you know that the sedation can't kill him unless we go overboard!" the bird laughed.

Ganondorf ignored the bickering frog who he guessed was Slippy, and the bird, and focused his attention somewhere else. He stared at Fox who was typing on the computer.

Fox constantly switched his focus from the monitor to Ganondorf, unable to shake an uneasy feeling. It was bugging him enough that he was thinking about reaching for his gun. He then turned to Ganondorf again.

"You're Ganondorf Draggmire, aren't you?" Fox asked.

Ganondorf laughed. "I haven't been called that in a good 7 years… Though recently I've been known as Ganondorf the Swine, or Ganondorf the King of Evil! But why do you ask?"

"We'll release you from your bindings if you help us with our small problem…"

Ganondorf was interested, as he had been struggling to get out, but to no avail. "Go on…"

"At this moment we are being chased by Andross, a galactic conqueror, and a small chunk of his armada. Currently we are hidden in the caves of a very large asteroid. They are after us because we have been a thorn in their side for to long, and now they want to finish us off! This war will continue on for eternity until one side is completely gone!"

"So you want me to end this war?"

"No… it is impossible, for one person to end the war!"

Ganondorf began to laugh. Everyone immediately glared at him.

"I think I missed what was funny," the bird said.

Gannondorf turned his head to the bird. "I've seen one person end an entire war!"

"Were you sure you weren't dreaming?" The bird laughed.

"Watch your tongue bird!" Ganondorf said rather manically "I might not be at full power, and I may not have an entire army to back me up, but I will let you know I have a rather big craving for stuffed duck…"

"I'm a falcon!"

"Why should I care?" Ganondorf shouted.

"AHEM!" Fox coughed ending the pointless bickering. "Falco I suggest you go scout the area!"

Falco walked off muttering under his breath.

"Now then Ganondorf in a previous battle we were able to down an enemy ship and take it aboard. Where Slippy has been working on it, so that it is drivable. But…"

Flaco suddenly came running in the room. Interrupting Fox. "Fox we have a problem!" He shouted. "We're surrounded by Andross's fleets!"

Fox closed his eyes. "How many are there?"

"I'd say ten thousand weaklings, then there is Star wolf and his lackeys!"

"Ten thousand minions…" Ganondorf muttered to himself. "Why didn't I ever use that many up against Link?"

"You say something Ganondorf?" Fox asked.

"No!"

"We don't have that much time… Slippy is the sixth arwing ready?"

"It should be… It just doesn't have one or two optional features!"

"Ok… We will have to time this attack perfectly…" Fox said hitting a button that released both Ganondorf's bindings and sending the Dragon sword out of the force field, and on to the ground. Ganondorf ran over and picked it up he then followed both Fox and Falco who seemed to be running down an endless hallway. Fox began to talk into a communicator. "All right once we get on the arwings I want a Hydra X formation, this should be a perfect time for us to test those remote controls so on the Landmaster Tanks, ROB 64 you control those, and the ship's main turrets, fire those once every 3 minutes!"

It was rather obvious that Fox was a good tactical commander and an expert at war. 'I could use someone like him…' Ganondorf thought to him self. However he was interrupted by a voice.

"Stop Star Fox!" a voice shouted. Fox, Falco, and Ganondorf stopped; there they saw a strange chameleon holding a gun up to a second fox's head. This one was dressed in rather revealing clothing, and it was apparent that the second fox was a female.

"He escaped, and I tried to stop him Fox!" She said. Fox just nodded and looked at the Chameleon.

"Leon!" Falco spitted to the side of the room in disgust. "He's mine!" Ganondorf backed away knowing that Falco was serious, Krystal was also able to escape from Leon's grasp. "Fox I'll end this, and you should go to the Arwings!"

Fox began to ran towards where ever they were going, and Krystal did the same. Glancing at the chameleon Ganondorf dashed away, following Fox. Ganondorf didn't dare look back, and Fox seemed rather confident in Falco. There were several blaster shots, followed by screams of pain, coming from Leon.

Soon they were greeted with rather big doors, Fox pushed them open. It was a rather big room, and it held 6 ships. At the far end of the room, was a giant hole for the ships to be launched into space. Falco walked into the room hardly looking hurt, or scratched up. Slowly everyone walked towards an arwing, and Ganondorf followed suit.

Ganondorf boarded the Arwing. He glanced at all of the controls and then at the other Arwings that were all ready in space. 'How do you drive this thing?' He thought to himself. He glanced down at the N-64 controller, which was used for steering. By pressing a red button in the center the ship's engine turned on, and the ship began to move forwards at a fast speed. The ship then went out in space. Taking a few seconds to learn how to drive the Arwing, he pressed the brake, and noticed that they were completely surrounded. Noticing a head set on the dashboard Ganondorf put it on.

"Star Fox you are completely surrounded!" A voice said. "Surrender or be destroyed!"

"Fat chance Star Wolf!" Fox's voice shouted. Obviously knowing who this person was.

"Attack full force fleet 1! And make sure they can't escape! Fleet 6 activate the shield!" Star Wolf's voice cried out. Instantly there were 16 white beams of light shooting out from around them, and slowly was enclosing them in a giant bubble like prison. The barrier spanned the length of a rather large planet.

5 strange large humanoid ships dashed towards Ganondorf attacking with a blaster. Hardly having any time to dodge Ganondorf flew downwards. The aimed their blasters and shot. Quickly Ganondorf did an evasive maneuver known as a barrel roll, where the ship turns rotates a full 360 degrees, and is able to dodge an attack. Getting rather frustrated they chased after Ganondorf. Noticing that they were catching up Ganondorf accelerated as far as he could. Rushing towards one of the space stations that were creating the barrier he accidentally hit a button that sent a strange glowing light shooting out towards the ship.

With luck the light hit what was sending out the energy and exploded, causing the ship to stop sending out energy, and the barrier weakening. Ganondorf quickly did a U-turn and shot several lazars at the 5 pursuing enemies. Each of them hit the intended target, which was the boosters, sending them down towards the ship, moments later the ship exploded and took a small piece of the armada with him.

"Good shot Ganondorf!" Fox's voice said. "But there are still 15 more!"

"I'm on it!" Ganondorf laughed.

"And to fire normal shots you press the blue button!" Fox added on quickly. "You're on your own for the rest!"

Ganondorf nodded and accelerated towards a second tower.

"I'm picking up several unknown ships on radar!" a robotic voice said.

"Thanks Rob64 will keep our eyes open!"

"Hang on, guys, help is on the way!" A new voice said through the intercom. Ganondorf didn't recognize it.

"Are you going to hog all the fun?" this time a voice came from a female.

"Bill, is that you? I don't believe it!"

"Katt, what're you doing here?" Falcos voice shouted surprised over the intercom.

"Who is the other ship with you?" Fox asked.

"No clue! Who ever or what ever it is, it was trapped in the barrier with us!"

"Rob try and analyze that ship!"

"Affirmative!" There was a 3 second pause where no sound came through the intercoms. "It belongs to the bounty hunter Samus Aran! The profile says that she was hired by the galactic federation to check out some strange activity in this neck of the woods…"

"Good to know that we have one more professional on our side!" Falco laughed.

"It also says here that her ship is unarmed!"

"Crap…"

There was a long pause, and Ganodorf began to wonder what was going on. Fox's voice then came on the intercom. "Rob send a message for her to land on the Great Fox!"

"Affirmative!" Ganondorf decided to ignore the intercom as he was now being blasted by several enemies. Looking ahead he realized that the second shield generator was in front of him. Quickly he fired the bomb and blew up the second one. The loss of the second generator seemed to weaken the shield. To compensate the shield surrounding space suddenly became smaller.

Ganondorf sped up and glared at a new space craft that was following him. "Your becoming quite the nuisance!" Wolf's voice barked over the intercom.

Ganondorf smiled. "Really…" Off in the distance there were 6 explosions of bright lights.

"WE'VE LOST HALF OF THE SHIELD GENARATORS!" Wolf barked, rather mad.

"All right everyone were going into hyperspace while the shields are reforming!" Fox's voice went over the intercom. Ganondorf watched as his Arwing automatically was set into hyperspace. There suddenly was a thrust of pressure on Ganondorf. He cringed at the unpleasant feel of going into hyperspace, which felt like your whole body was being squished. Ten seconds later the sensation stopped and they were floating in space. Slowly all of the arwings went back to the Great Fox.

"Where are we?" Ganondorf asked. No one replied. Ganondorf docked the Great fox, and there waiting for him was team Star Fox. "Where are we?" Ganondorf asked again.

"We're trying to figure that out as well…" Fox replied rather calmly. "Looks like in our haste there was an error in our calculations and we were set off course!" There was a sudden beeping and Fox hit something on his watch. "Rob any ideas where we are?"

"Location confirmed!" The robotic voice responded. "We are near the planet where Princess Peach resides! Estimated time to arrival is: 2 days!"

"Why will it take that long?" Falco asked.

"Our hyperspace driver was sabotaged by Leon, and is damaged. The parts necessary for repair are at the mushroom kingdom! And if we send out a distress signal there is a strong chance that Star Wolf will receive it first, and stop General Pepper from finding out!"

"That long…" Fox sighed. "Oh well… might as well get comfortable… anyways Rob you should show Ganondorf to his room!"

"Room 336 is free!" Rob said. "Ganondorf please follow the lights on the walls to your room!"

Ganondorf walked down several hallways and then up a few stair cases until he came across his room. He opened the door and walked in. The room itself was fairly big. There was a desk, and a computer. On the other side of the room was a bed. Slowly Ganondorf walked towards the computer and sat on the wooden chair. Quickly he turned it on and watched as it booted up.

Ganondorf just looked at his hand, and slowly typed in "Seal of Smash" He watched as some information popped up on the screen.

'I will use these facilities for my purpose… finding out the weak point, and how to defeat Master Hand!' Ganondorf thought to himself while reading everything on the screen. 'Two days should be long enough!'

Meanwhile:

"Fox why did you want us to meet you in the meeting room?" Falco asked. Most of the meeting room was covered in shadows, and was the same metallic grey tinge as the rest of the ship. In the corner there was a coffee machine, and Falco was drinking a warm cup. Fox paced back and forth across the meeting room floor like he always did when he was nervous and uncomfortable.

"There is just something about Ganondorf…" Fox began. "I just don't trust him!"

"But he helped us big time in that space battle!" Falco blurted out. "We would of all been toast if he didn't help us!"

"But his skill doesn't come naturally! It took me years to learn to pilot an Arwing like he did!" Fox shouted out rather angry.

Slippy found this a good time to interfere with the conversation. "Well I have been reworking the controls so that even a two year old could use them!"

"Well I still would like for him to have 24 hour surveillance! And hourly reports!" Fox sighed.

"Would you like one now?"

"Sure why not…" Fox sighed rather bored

"Ganondorf is currently using our network to read a piece of information on the relics that was recently found in the tunnels of Corneria!"

Everyone stopped immediately what they were doing. Each of them looked at Fox. "This just doesn't add up…" he muttered. "We confirmed that he was the Ganondorf Dragmire! Yet he is able to cope with technology!"

"That's right!" Ganondorf's voice shouted. Ganondorf walked slowly through the door and everyone stared. "I don't know how or why I am able to do this! Everything just seems familiar to me! Even to the extent that I have met you all before, but I'm not sure!"

"Since when have you been getting these feelings?" Slippy asked, as though he were a psychiatrist.

Ganondorf just looked into space. "I don't know… I think just recently…"

To be continued…