A/N; the final chapter for Star Fox: Perfection of Evil. It took a while but in the end it was worth it. And I want to thank those who took time to read it.
"Peppy, what are you talking about!?" Fox asked,
"Get back to the Great Fox and I'll explain" Peppy said in a sad tone.
The two arwings landed in the hanger, Fox was the first out of his arwing. "Ok someone better explain what is going on Now!" Fox was quickly losing his composure. Peppy was the first to say anything.
"While you and Krystal were planet side we received a distress signal from corneria." Peppy pulled out a com device on it displayed the sadden face of General Pepper.
"Fox… Corneri… Andr… Xeon… set up…" on the com someone in the background yelled to the general "hostiles have broken through our orbital defenses. " Fox there's not mu… time… hurry…" the distress signal ended abruptly. Fox could hardly believe what has just seen.
"Peppy, set coordinates for Corneria I want to be there within two days."
"But Fox it would take four days just to reach." Before Peppy could finish Fox was already heading toward the bridge.
"I don't care if it takes days to get there but we need to get there now!" Fox shouted.
"But Fox we need a plan before we go chagrining in" Falco responded.
"I'm way ahead of you, Peppy set up a wide band signal I want everyone's com system light up while we're heading toward Corneria, Which should get the remaining Corneria forces riled up. Slippy repair the arwings and over stock them with every piece of ammunition available." Fox ordered.
The Great Fox entered slip space. "Fox you should rest, It will be a while before we get to Corneria" Krystal said, trying to comfort the stressed leader.
"Yeah I should, I need to think for a while" Fox sigh.
"Think, About what?" Krystal asked.
"The distress call, It didn't make sense." Fox said.
"You mean the general?" Krystal questioned.
"Yeah, even with the majority of Corneria's fleet dispatched through out the Lylat system Orkonny's forces would still have to deal with the general's flagship and the Cornerian reserve forces." Fox pondered.
Fox thinking was interrupted, when Peppy's voice came over the inter com. "Fox we're getting some responses from near by allies in response to our wide band signal. Hold on, yes they wanted to now what's going on."
"Peppy, tell them that Corneria is under attack by Andrew's forces and we need every ship to converge onto the planet." Fox ordered.
"Okay, Peppy out."
"Fox, there is one other thing you should keep in mind." Krystal commented,
"Yeah, what is it?" Fox asked.
"During the distress call someone in the background said that the hostiles have broken through the orbital defense. We might be going on a liberation mission instead of a defend and repel mission." Krystal was telling Fox what he was already thinking.
"Let's try to keep this as positive for now." Fox said…
"We are entering the edge of Katina; Fox we are getting another transmit. It's from a Cornerian ship." Peppy exclaimed.
"Bring it up on screen." Fox ordered.
The face of Bill Grey came up on the screen. He had a couple of stitches on his left cheek.
"Fox, Thank god you have arrived it was horrible, there were so many of them, so many, I didn't think there could be so many." Bill seemed to be in a state of disbelief.
"Bill what happened." Fox asked, worried that things are far worst than it seems.
"Fox, it's him it's"
"we already now it's Andrew" Fox interrupted.
"No, it's much worst, Fox Its Andross" Bill said in a depressed tone.
"What!" Fox couldn't believe what was going on.
"Andross, it seemed like he was leading the aparoids" Bill continued on with what happened on Corneria.
"Bill is the general ok, what about the citizens" Fox asked.
"The General is ok but his flagship was destroyed, the majority of the citizens managed to get off the planet before the aparoids hit the space port… Fox they are infecting everything and everyone, they are turning Corneria into their world." Bill's sad state of despair was apparent now.
Fox didn't like what he was seeing and hearing what happened to his home world didn't help either. "Slippy, are the arwings stock?" Fox asked.
"Fox I know what you are thinking and it's insane, from what I know we're going to need the entire fleet to launch a liberation attempt."
"Do we have the arwings ready or not?" Fox asked again
Slippy sighed he knew he couldn't persuaded Fox not to go "Yes."
"Great, I'm going to Corneria while you, Krystal, and Peppy wait here for the Cornerian forces to show."
"Are you insane? 1. You alone against the Apariods and 2. Andross is probably expecting you to come so he already set up a defense grid around the planet." Peppy said.
"I'm not alone, Falco will be coming with me and I'm willing to bet Star Wolf will be coming to." Fox said with a confident smirk.
Before anyone could disagree with Fox he was already heading toward the hanger.
Fox saw Falco standing next to his arwing. "I'm coming with you." Falco said as if nothing could persuade him other wise. "I knew you would." Fox said with a smile.
Falco had a bewildered look on his face. Fox jumped in his arwing and took off with Falco close behind.
"Fox you better have a good plan for this I don't plan on dying today or any time soon for that matter." Falco joked put had a serious tone underling it.
"Falco, since when did you start worrying about whether I have a plan or not." Fox joked.
The arwings were nearing Corneria space when a familiar looking spacecraft fell in line behind them.
"Well, well, well, look if it isn't the Star Fox team or at least halve of it."
"We don't have time for formalities Wolf if we plan on taking out the aparoids then we have to work together." Fox said.
"Whoa, who said anything about working together?" Wolf was caught by surprise to see that Fox was expecting him.
"You and I both know what needs to be done Wolf, If you're scared just say so." Fox baited.
"What! I'm not scared where do you get the." Wolf was interrupted when anti air craft guns started firing.
"Seems like the party just got stared." Fox barrel rolled out of the way.
"Star Wolf Gamma formation and hit those guns hard." Wolf shouted over his com.
"Falco, lend Wolf's team a hand I see if I can cut off their reinforcements." Fox ordered
Fox sped off in a different direction from a distance he could see his home world Corneria, the aparoids wasted no time in spreading over the planet. Purple and blue vines covered one fourth of the planet. The site sickened Fox to his stomach. The aparoid were well on their way on trying to stop Wolf's team from attacking the anti air guns. They were emerging from a near by tunnel, Fox launched a bomb into the hole effectively cutting of the reinforcements. While Wolf finished off the guns Falco cleaned up the rest of the aparoids with Star Wolf.
"Well, that was easy." Leon said "Too easy."
"Sometimes I wish you'd shut up" Falco signed,
"Quit it you two" Wolf ordered.
"Sir, the aparoids are falling back, But there is something big coming up on radar" Panther informed.
"Uh, that a cornerian assault ship" Leon said with uncertainty.
"Correction it was a Cornerian assault ship, now it's a aparoid." Wolf corrected.
"Looks like we have our own problems." Falco added.
Fox could see the former assault ship, it was the size of the Great Fox times two.
"Fox you go after Andross while we handle this." Wolf came over the com
"Fine, but you might want to listen to Falco he knows how to take it down." Fox advised.
"Just go already" Wolf yelled,
Fox punched in maximum burn and headed toward the one place Andross would be. The Cornerian academy, Fox manage to get to the academy but it barely resembled anything. Fox landed in a clearing and geared up.
"Strange there seems to be no aparoids here, which could only mean." Fox thought as he headed into the academy. The whole place was covered in vines it reminded Fox of the shield generator bunker on the former planet Xeon. Fox proceeded toward the bottom of the academy were the information on the defenses of multiple planets were stored.
"If he gets hold of them he could launch assault after assault on every planet in the Lylat system." Fox thought.
"Fox McCloud, leader of the Star Fox team and hero of Corneria," the voice startled Fox but he knew that voice. "Andross, show yourself you ape freak."
A hologram of Andross stepped from the shadows, Fox sneered to himself thinking the mad scientist would show himself, especially if he no longer has a body.
"It's been a while Fox. It seems you've beaten general Scales, no matter. he wouldn't have seen the end of the day any way, he had out live his usefulness".
"Andross, it figures an evil monkey with no body is behind all this, so why use a hologram. Is it because you have the infection too?" Fox question the hologram.
"An infection he says, It is a blessing, a second chance, a chance for revenge. After you blatantly destroyed my brain and leaving my conscience to drift in space once again I had time to think of how I will make you suffer. There I drifted for days on end till the apariod queen came to me, she offered me this second chance in exchange for my loyalty, I rose in the ranks to the point I was second in command, when you destroyed her and the planet it was I who thought of the planet Xeon and the plan to finally destroy you."
The hologram turned into a map of the Lylat system and showed the position of the Great Fox and the Conerian ship with the survivors on board, Andross continued "I've kept track of the fleet that left; an armada is coming to destroy them, and the assault ship your teammates are battling will soon signal an orbital strike missile, I'm sure your friends will try to shoot it down thus leaving you by yourself." The hologram reverted back to Andross this time with a twisted smile on his face. "Oh, have I've waited for this Fox McCloud, now the thing you've been waiting for. My true form!!!" the hologram faded out. Fox looked around trying to determine where he was going to come from, but instead there was a rumbling sound, the sound of thousand of apariods burring underground.
"you've got to be kidding me" Fox thought to himself, he turned and started toward the exit, as he made his way outside he saw the orbital missile fly overhead, it looked like the ones at the orbital gate, and close behind was Star Wolf and Falco trying to shoot it down. Fox jumped in his arwing and took off.
Falco came up on the com display "Fox, what just happened?"
"Right now Falco just concentrate on the missile" Wolf interrupted,
Fox was too deep in thought to notice he separated from the group "what form was that mad ape talking about?" Fox came back to reality in time to see that the aparoids were clustering around something, "I got a bad feeling about this" Fox thought,
The cluster started to form a face and seem to completely melt and mend it self till it was one whole face, one face Fox could do without seeing, Andross' face resembled only apart of himself, his left eye held the infection and the veins flowed over his face like vines.
"Tell me how does it feel to know that death has his sights set on you?" Andross said, "never has such a combination of two evils create such a perfection. Prepare yourself Fox McCloud for death has finally come for you!"
"Well I didn't think it was possible but you got even more ugly. Guess I owe Falco twenty bucks." Fox joked.
"You'll regret ever saying that!" Andross yelled, another group of apariods form together and formed andross' hands and lunged at Fox, Fox dogged and blew a hole in one of Andross' hands only for it to completely heal as if nothing ever happened. Andross lunged again Fox dodged and fired a missile this time nailing him between the eyes revealing his reformed brain this gave Fox his target. The wound healed just as quickly as it was caused.
"When will you learn Fox that you can't win" Andross sneered knowing he had an advantage "Give up now and I'll make your death quick and painless."
"Fat chance ape freak I'll beat you blindfolded" Fox taunted, the taunt only made Andross angrier, Fox shot at Andross hands and fired a missile the shots hit but the missile missed. "What's wrong Fox, losing your touch?" Andross laughed, "No but you've gotten careless" Fox said as the missile made a U-turn and hit Andross in the back of his head. Andross turned to face what he thought was another pilot. Fox saw the hole and shot a missile into the ape's cranium. Andross bellowed and turned back toward Fox.
"You got to love this new technology thing" Fox laughed.
"Laugh while you still can" Andross threatened, lets you try this! The bluish purple vines that held his mouth shut began to stretch.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Fox yelled,
"I kid you not! Good bye Fox McCloud." Andross laughed.
Fox immediately hit a U-turn and punched in Maximum burn to rear thrusters, Andross mouth was fully open and a wind like a black hole began to draw the small Arwing towards it. Fox was trying to maintain distance but was quickly losing ground. Suddenly Andross hollered in pain releasing the arwing from the black whole grasp. Fox saw that the cornerian fleet has showed up and were commencing fire on Andross. Fox let out a sigh of relief when Krystal's voice came over the com.
"Sorry we were late, but it seems you had everything under control" Krystal joked,
Fox knew he'd be a goner if they hadn't showed up.
"Thanks for the assist, but we still have a mad ape to put down." Fox said.
"Way ahead of you Fox" Slippy said, "I've manage to recalibrate the same virus we gave to the aparoid queen and it should do the trick."
"Slippy, I like the way you think. So what's the plan?" Fox asked,
"Same as last time, create an opening and fire." Slippy said.
"Leave it to me" Fox said,
"Hey, who said you get to be the hero" Fox was surprise to hear Wolf's voice; the Wolfen was coming from an explosion planet side with Falco in tow.
"What did you guys do?" Fox asked,
"You be surprise what an orbital missile does to an Cornerian assault ship." Falco joked.
"Never mind that we need to create an opening and I got just the thing." Wolf said as he took off toward Andross.
"Hey, who said you take point." Fox yelled,
"Because I'm older." Wolf yelled back,
"Well that's one thing we both agree on." Fox thought.
The three spacecraft headed for Andross who was starting to recover from the surprise attack, "Do you really believe you can defeat me, I have unlimited power, I'll destroy you and your pathetic fleet." Andross swung his hands in a wide arch the three pilots easily dodged and each fired a shot at his forehead the shots didn't seem to bother him at all. He took another swing this time with his right hand and again he missed.
"We aren't getting anywhere near him" Falco commented,
"There's no need to we just need to distract him while your toad Slappy gets that thing-a- ma-gig ready." Wolf replied.
"his name is Slippy" Fox corrected, "and we need to make an opening."
"May I suggest the eye." Krystal's voice came over the COM link. Krystal fell in line behind Fox, as they launched a counter against Andross.
Peppy and Slippy couldn't believe what they were seeing Andross was swinging at the fighters like flies and like flies he couldn't hit them. Pepper came over the COM "Is it ready yet?" "Almost there" Slippy said, "Just need to recalibrate the…" "Just do it Slippy, Fox and the others needed it like yesterday!" Peppy shouted. "calm down it's done contact Fox, we've only got one shot at this."
"That's great Slippy, what do you need us to do?" Fox asked
"Take out Andross' eye like Krystal suggested this should give us an opening that we need." Peppy said.
"Say no more leave it to me." Falco said.
"Everybody wants to be a hero now." Wolf sighed.
"Cut the chatter we have our target anyone that has the shot take it, though I must say it'll probably be me so I'll be the hero." Fox joked.
The fighters flew in V- formation toward Andross. Andross open his mouth and let out a stream mixture of aparoids and asteroids catching the team by surprise, "Everyone evasive maneuvers NOW." Wolf yelled, dodging a asteroid and blasting an apariod.
Everyone took off in different directions.
Fox tore through the aparoids and asteroids with Krystal covering him, Falco and Wolf had teamed up and were concentrating on the apariods.
"bet I'll blast more than you old man." Falco taunted,
"Bring it on bird brains" Wolf responded, it was obvious to Fox that they were having fun despite of the situation. "Okay Krystal look likes it's up to us I'll draw Andross attention you take the shot, Understand?" "Got it Fox." Krystal said,
The two arwings flew out of the field of apariods and asteroids toward Andross. Krystal was following the exact same flight pattern as Fox making it hard to see the two. Fox fired two shots to get Andross' attention, as planed Andross turned trying to grab Fox.
Fox dodged revealing Krystal behind her and behind her was the bomb needed to take the mad ape down. Andross didn't have time to react, Krystal fired a missile into his eye taking it out and barrel rolled out of the bombs way giving it a clear shot into the opening. The bomb detonated inside Andross, he screamed in pain as the explosion has taken nearly half of his face. You could see the millions of aparoids that made up his face started to die, he was literally deteriorating from the inside out.
"What a way to go." Wolf said,
"I'm not going to be able to eat lunch maybe dinner but definitely not lunch." Falco said.
"I'm not finished yet you fools I'll destroy you all, Operation Death Blast." Andross said through his remaining mouth.
"What the heck is that?" Fox asked,
"Oh, you'll see soon enough." Andross laughed.
"It's a self destruct sequence from the sound of it" Krystal commented.
"Every one maximum burn, evacuate the surrounding area NOW!" Fox ordered.
"You can't outrun it, you will die and I will win!" Andross started to light up, it reminded Fox of the planet Xeon just before it exploded, "Every one increase you energy shields and get as far away from this freak as fast as you can." Fox didn't need to explain himself every one including the fleet started to retreat. "So long Fox I'll see you in…" Andross didn't get to finish what the statement before he exploded, an enormous wave of pure energy rip throughout space Krystal, Wolf, and Falco were way ahead of Fox, clearing their way through the apariods. Fox was doing his best avoiding them he flew past them, any aparoids that were to slow were quickly destroyed by the wave and it was closing in on Fox. Everyone made it through and were building distance, Fox could almost hear Andross screaming for him, he peeked behind himself to see a sight he never thought he'd see in his life time. A figure that oddly looked like Andross was casing him. "I told you will die!" it seems to scream, "Not today ape freak!" Fox put all power to rear thrusters and manage to put enough distance between him and the destructive wave and cleared the range. "Nooooo" the figure screamed before dissipating into nothingness.
"Whew, what a day." the leader of the team known as Star Fox sighed.
A/N: this is by far the longest chapter and fitting for an ending and I wish to thank all who have read and reviewed I'll be writing more stories. See if you can find them. ;)
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