Author's Notes: I forgot to put a song in here that I believe suits the situation.

Song of the Day: Damage Inc. by Metallica

Star Fox: The Company of Strays

Chapter 1

"Does anyone smell barbeque?" – Bloodthirsty Kane's Musings

Time: 12:59 P.M.

Location: Cornerian Space Port – Downtown, Cornerian Capital

With lunch's end, the boarding and exiting of flights increased in pace dramatically. There was surprisingly little noise aside from the constant murmur of the passengers. Suddenly the beautiful silence was shattered by the loud, repetitive and annoying beeping sound of the metal detector. A security guard quickly ran over to the controls and shut the noise off. The guard looked up at the one who was standing in the metal detection gate, what he saw shocked him. There, standing before him, was a 6' 8" tall wolf, possessing a rather unusual fur color, it was Arsenic. The wolf wore what looked to be really heavy armored military boots and a pair of heavy duty desert camo pants, but no shirt. The guard slowly lifted his head and stared at the wolf's eyes. His eyes were also an odd color, they were Orange-Red. Even a moron could quickly tell that the eyes were synthetic, but what he didn't fully realize was that they were scanning him for something.

"Take a picture, it'll last longer." The wolf stated in a very deep, gruff voice.

"S – s - sorry about that sir..." The guard stuttered quickly, "The computer scans here are showing quite a bit of metal on you. Would you kindly remove any metallic objects you have on and place them in the bucket over there?" The guard said while pointing over to a bucket behind the very tall wolf.

The wolf took a quick glance behind himself at the bucket and then looked back over towards the guard and growled.

"I have a pacemaker."

The guard looked away feeling somewhat stupid; he then looked back to the wolf. "S-s-sorry sir, m-m-may I see your passport?"

The wolf let out an irritated sigh and stuck his hand into his pocket. He pulled out what looked to be a very dirty, old, ruined passport. He tossed it in front of the security guard, crossed his arms and began tapping his boot on the floor impatiently.

The guard carefully opened the passport, making sure not to rip it. He looked at the inside of the passport and read the wolf's ID. The first thing the guard noticed about the ID was that there was no picture of the wolf, only his name, age and birthplace. "Your name is Arson?" the guard asked in a very nervous tone of voice.

The wolf only nodded in response and then let out a metallic sounding yawn.

'Kind of an odd name if you ask me.' The guard thought to himself. He then proceeded to flip through the many pages of the passport only to find they were all blank except one. His eyes grew wide with fear. The page was filled with stamps and doodles from Titania. "Sir, would you mind telling me what kind of business you have had on Titania?" his voice becoming a bit more serious.

Arson looked straight into the guards' eyes and replied "The classified kind."

The guard tried his best to not blink or look away as he and Arson began to have some kind of staring contest. But if the guard wasn't so distracted with Arson he probably would have noticed the cloaked figure on the security cameras coming off of the shuttle carrying some kind of device and then heading down into the furnace room.

"I believe you have work to get back to." Arson said in his usual deep, gruff voice. And with that the guard gave Arson his passport back "Enjoy your stay on Corneria sir." Arson nodded, stuffing the passport back into his pocket before walking towards the building's exit.

As Arson made his way to the doors he got some odd looks from the other guards, the elderly, the children and even some females he found somewhat attractive.'Fucking Cornerians.' He thought to himself. Just as Arson got to the doors the cloaked figure limped over to him. "We've set the charges mate." The cloaked figure said in a really thick Australian accent. "I've also sent the location of the R&D building to your HUD but I'll leave the weaponry up to you." The figure assured Arson. "You do your job well Kane." And with that Kane vanished into thin air.

Arson began to calmly walk out of the space port following his NAV data. He then began to count to himself. 'One-one thousand, Two-one thousand, Three-one thousand…'

Time: 1:02 P.M.

Location: A random restaurant - a block down from the space port – Cornerian Capital

It had been a beautiful and fun day for Fox, Krystal and their 4-year old son Marcus. They had taken him to see what Downtown Corneria looked like; they visited General Peppy Hare, and were now having lunch at some restaurant with their good friends Falco Lombardi and Katt Monroe.

Everyone had been busy eating when Krystal shot her head up and thought she heard someone's thoughts, they were counting down. Fox looked at her and was about to ask her what's wrong when out of nowhere there was a slight vibration which caused everyone in the restaurant to stop what they were doing.

Suddenly there was an ear shattering explosion causing everyone to cover their ears and take cover. The explosion sent a massive tremor through the ground causing every window to shatter, tiles from the floor began cracking apart and even the road outside was beginning to crack, causing massive damage to traffic, innocent bystanders and nearby buildings.

Cornerians began to scream wildly and ran away in panic. Fox quickly picked up a fearfully crying Marcus and handed him to Krystal. "Fox! Where are you going?" Krystal cried out. "To check out what happened!" Fox replied and then he was out the now destroyed door with Krystal, Marcus, Katt and Falco following closely behind him.

When they got outside a Landmaster began to drive up in front of them but stopped to let people cross. As it was about to start moving again something fell from the sky and landed on the Landmaster, partially crushing it upon impact. Everyone covered their eyes and then looked up and saw a very tall wolf standing on the now inoperable Landmaster.

Arson looked down at them, brushed himself off and then dropped down from the wreckage. As he walked towards them, Fox pulled out his blaster and aimed it at Arson's face. Arson stopped and looked down at the very frightened Marcus. He knelt down in front of Marcus, not even paying attention to Fox as he was shouting at him to get away. "What's your name little guy?" Arson asked in a more caring, but still gruff voice.

"M-m-marcus…" he said in a frightened tone of voice.

"My name is Arson; I'm not here to hurt you. I just wanted to ask you something. Would you mind telling me where the tallest building is?" He asked.

"What kind of question is that?" Katt asked in a very rude tone of voice.

"Fine! If you want to be rude about it then don't answer my very simple question!" Arson shouted back at Katt. And with that Arson got up, crouched down a bit and jumped upwards, landing with a loud 'thud' on the roof of a skyscraper a block away.

Fox and everyone looked at each other, then they looked down the street to their left and saw the space port on fire. As Fox and Co. approached the burning space port, Krystal could hear the screams of people still trapped in the building being burnt alive. Suddenly a Cornerian firefighter began running out of the building with a few other firefighters following him "Everyone move back! There's another bomb!" he shouted.

But before he and his buddies could get far enough away there was another thunderous explosion from within the building. It began a chain reaction causing nearby fuel tanks to explode, causing more damage to the building. A number of the firefighters were engulfed by another massive fireball while the others were crushed as the building collapsed on them. Everyone was speechless at what they had just witnessed.

Time: 1:18 P.M.

Location: Atop a Building – Cornerian Capital

Arson began to walk over to the eastern side of the roof. Once he reached the edge he began scanning the buildings below him for the R&D building but he was interrupted by a message from Kane.

"Yeah what is it now Kane?" Arson asked becoming slightly annoyed.

"That doesn't sound very welcoming." Kane said but his Australian accent replaced with a stereotypical Texan accent.

"We're getting some readings from within the R&D building that I think you are just going to love!" Kane said sounding a bit excited.

"And what might that be you ask? Well apparently we have reports that a certain Toad is in the building." Kane said but with no Texan accent or Australian accent, instead it sounded rather raspy, almost as if he were choking on something.

With this news a very dark and cruel smile appeared across Arson's muzzle. He cut the link and knelt down at the edge of the roof. Suddenly there was a high pitched beeping noise, and Arson's smile slowly faded away. He blinked once, his fur vanished revealing a lot of metal covering every inch of his body except his back. Then a chunk of his left bicep popped up, grew small legs and crawled down his arm and into his hand. The small legs folded back into the metal chunk which now looked like a canister. Arson lifted the canister up and pushed a few buttons on it, the canister then began to transform into what looked to be a compact missile launcher, a handle with a trigger on it appeared near the front of the weapon. Arson lifted the weapon with ease as he plopped the butt of it on his right shoulder. The handle with the trigger moved back a bit to make room for another handle which extended to allow for better handling. A small scope appeared out of the top of the missile launcher.

Arson leaned his head against the launcher and looked into the scope. His eye making a 'click' sound as it connected with the scope. He uploaded his NAV data into the missile launcher and with a high pitched beep confirming it had locked onto its target. Arson grinned.

"I'M HAVING ROASTED, TOAD TONIGHT MOTHER FUCKER'S!" He yelled loudly as he squeezed the trigger.

Arson lurched backwards a bit as a surprisingly large missile was fired from the launcher. The missile flew around in the air performing a number of aerial maneuvers almost as if it was alive. As it neared its target, it flew upwards before it came crashing down into the R&D building.

Time: 1:26 P.M.

Location: R&D Department building – Cornerian Capital

Slippy was visiting his father Beltino yet again but this time he had brought his wife Amanda and their 3-year old son along with him. But just as they were walking towards the entrance Slippy heard the whine of a missile. He looked up and sure enough there was a large missile coming towards the building. There was no time to run away so he stopped, picked up his son, took a hold of his wife, and embraced them both.

The missile crashed through the roof of the building and lodged itself in the tiled floor right next to Beltino. Just before it detonated a fax machine voice came from it. "Have a nice day." The missile said in a synthetic feminine voice. The missile detonated, sending out a massive shockwave alongside the explosion, causing every building within a two block radius to completely disintegrate. When the shockwave and explosion were gone, all that remained was a beautiful mushroom cloud.

Time: 1:27 P.M.

Location: Atop the skyscraper – Cornerian Capital

The missile launcher quickly returned to Arson's bicep. Once it was locked in place Arson blinked and his Arsenic fur re-appeared. He stood back up 'mission accomplished'he thought. Suddenly the door leading to the roof he was on was smashed open and a squad of Cornerian soldiers came pouring out, aiming their blasters and rifles at Arson.

"Get on the ground!" One of them shouted.

"As you wish…" Arson said in a deeper voice than usual. He took a single step back and went right off the roof.

As the troops ran towards the edge to see if he hit ground, they were out of luck. Instead, a military grade dropship flew upwards, with Arson hanging onto its side. A doorway opened on the side and Arson climbed through it. Just before the dropship flew off, it swivelled around and fired a rocket at the building causing the very tall structure to go up in flames before it came crumbling down to the streets below.

Arson sat down inside the dropship and let out a heavy sigh of relief. He closed his eyes and pictured a list of results adding up to a score:

STARTING TIME: 12:59 P.M.

FINISHING TIME: 1:30 P.M.

KILL COUNT: 13, 394.5 "INNOCENTS"

SCORE: 100,000 POINTS….NEW HIGH SCORE!

The dropship flew into space, gave a violent lurch, vanishing as quickly as it had come.

Author's Comments: Finally! i cant believe how long this took me to finish. anyways Starfox characters, planets, ect... dont belong to me. they belong to Nintendo. but Arson and Kane belong to me. Also if you want to see my OC's Profiles go to my DeviantArt page. also before anyone asks, yes i despise Slippy like there's no tomorrow.