Author's Notes: Sorry for being late with updating this story. but I had massive amounts of homework and writers block.

Also, again Star Fox is not mine it's Nintendo's, but The C.O.S. is mine and so are the characters in the C.O.S..

Also, I feel like putting names of songs at the beginning of chapters because thats the song that helped me write the chapter or I just think the song suits it in some way.

Song of the Day: Halo by Machine Head

Star Fox: The Company of Strays

Chapter 2

"Bloodbath, Definition – A ruthless slaughter of a great number of people. These Cornerians brought this upon themselves." – Spyke's Musings

Time: 7:00 A.M.

Location: The McCloud Residence – Cornerian Countryside

Five days have passed since the deaths of Slippy Toad, his wife Amanda, their son, and Beltino. Fox and Krystal were in their kitchen eating breakfast while Marcus was playing with a toy Arwing in their living room.

Krystal called to their son in her very familiar British accented voice. "Marcus! Come and eat your breakfast before it gets cold!"

Marcus joyfully walked into the kitchen and sat down next to his father. He put his toy next to his plate of toast and began to play with the toast.

Fox chuckled to himself as Marcus began to pretend that the toast was Andross and whenever Marcus took a bite he would make a *pew pew* noise. Fox then decided it was time to watch the morning news which he and Krystal made a habit of doing every morning.

Fox thought to himself. 'Thank god we have a TV in here.' Krystal looked at Fox and whispered to him. 'I heard that, you lazy bum.'

Fox gave Krystal a grin before picking up the TV remote, and clicking the power button. As the television screen came to life, it showed one figure sitting at a desk in a news room. The grey furred raccoon adjusted his tie as he stared at the camera. After shuffling his papers he looked at the camera and spoke in that stereotypical, over the top male news caster voice.

"Good morning Corneria! I'm Buck Jenkins with your morning news." Buck began to shuffle in his seat nervously. "Five days have gone by since the deaths of hundreds in the horrible terrorist attacks on the Research Sector and Spaceport. Police still have been unable find the perpetrator, but it is likely he had accomplices. In other news, yesterday, Lieutenant Falco Lombardi was sent to Titania with some of Corneria's best soldiers to help protect the scientists at the newly built military base and research centre..."

Fox and Krystal glanced at each other quickly before looking back at the screen, suddenly very interested in what the news reporter had to say. The news reporter continued to speak for a little bit. "And as a special treat we just happen to have our field reporter, Olivia Harrow, on Titania. She is currently at the base interviewing Mr. Lombardi..." With that Buck turned his head to the left.

Time: 9:00 A.M.

Location: Cornerian Military base and Research centre – Titania

A green light came on a camera-woman's camera as she counted down for the female avian news reporter to begin. The camera-woman pointed at the news reporter, she took a deep breath and began to speak.

"Thank you Buck! I'm here right now, standing in the newly completed Cornerian military base and research centre where it looks like soldiers are busy with morning routine tasks and engineers are busy doing morning maintenance."

As she said this, the camera began moving around the area, quickly showing the soldiers performing morning patrols before turning to the engineer's who were all sitting around two Landmaster Class tanks.

The camera came back to focus on Olivia as she began to speak with Falco; "So Mr. Lombardi what do think of this base?"

Falco straightened up, cleared his throat, and said; "I believe it is a great accomplishment for Corneria."

"Can you tell us what exactly the scientists here are researching?" She asked in a very curious voice.

"From what I understand, the scientists are studying new minerals they've found, new ruins, and other stuff I probably shouldn't be talking about in front of a camera without their permission."

"Fair enough. Another quick question, if you don't mind, what kind of fortifications does this base have?"

Falco looked at the news reporter, wondering why she wants to know but dismissed the thought, quickly answering; "This is the most heavily fortified base Corneria has built to date. The walls are made of multiple layers of the strongest starship armor available, making it nearly indestructible, and atop the walls are four sniper towers, one at each corner. Inside the walls are multiple Anti-Air gun emplacements, along with barracks at the Far East side of the base, and a hangar at the back of the base, and there are two..."

Falco's sentence was cut off by a large explosion causing him and the news reporter to flinch. He looked over at what happened and saw that a Landmaster apparently combusted. Sitting about the fiery remains were the engineers, all of them staring at the remains with wide eyes. One of the engineers put his hand to his muzzle as he began snickering to himself, obviously trying to hide it.

Falco, getting very annoyed by the inappropriately timed snickering, shouted over to the engineer. "Hey what the hell is so fucking funny!?"

As he yelled at him, another engineer walked up to him, appearing as if he could burst into laughter at any moment. It looked like he was about to say something, but instead simply turned around and walked towards the barracks, soon being followed by the other engineers who had been sitting around the debris.

Falco turned around back towards the camera and was about to finish talking until he was once again interrupted by the sound of bones cracking. He made an annoyed face and turned towards the North West sniper tower, but didn't see anyone in it. Glancing to the ground beneath it, he saw the crumpled up corpse of a sniper, lying in a large pool of his own blood.

Falco quickly pulled out his radio and spoke into the receiver; "Syd, What is your status?" *static* *static* "Syd? Syd?! You there man?!" Falco stuffed his radio partway into his vest pocket and looked up towards the towers. Surely enough, one by one each sniper fell out and hit the ground with a nice bone shattering impact.

Suddenly everyone stopped what they were doing. The soldiers pulled out their weapons and began nervously aiming them all over the place. Falco pulled out his blaster as quickly as possible, but froze in fear when he heard a low metallic hum, followed by the sickening sound of flesh being torn coming from Olivia's direction. Both he and the camera woman turned their heads to see what had happened.

There, sticking out of her rib cage was a long, metal spear or javelin of some kind. One end stuck out of her rib cage sickeningly, while the other gore covered end was stuck into the ground, causing Olivia to slowly slide down the spear and onto the dirt and sand. Blood flowed freely from both her entry and exit wound, the blood pooled about her body as she lay dead.

Right at that moment static screeched from the intercom speakers causing Falco and the soldiers to cover their ears in pain until the sound stopped. Quite suddenly, a very cheerful voice, with a thick Australian accent came on; "Goooood morning Titania! Time to have a little fun!"

Just as the voice stopped every single piece of radar technology began going crazy. The AA guns began to come out of the walls and go back in over and over again. Satellite dishes began to extend upwards, go back down, up again, repeating the movement, but constantly getting faster. Until finally every single piece of technology just fell apart, exploded or collapsed.

Falco was about to issue an order to everyone, that is, until the camera woman smashed her camera across the side of Falco's head, causing him to spin about and land flat on his back. He looked up at the woman, trying to see through his now blurry vision. Finally the blur cleared and he saw what looked to be a female wolf wearing a black combat vest topping light desert camo, along with camo pants and army boots. The she-wolf looked down at Falco and placed the camera on a ledge.

Suddenly Falco could hear the loud whine of a dropship and sure enough, a massive beaten up dropship came down over the horizon and hovered over the centre of the base. The Cornerian soldiers began to make a perimeter around the area beneath the ship, aiming at the ship in a panic.

The bottom of the ship opened up allowing 20 or so heavily armed and armored soldiers to come rappelling down thick steel cables, each of them wielding some kind of assault rifle, pistol or shotgun, though they all looked deadly. Even before they hit the ground they open fired on the Cornerians, causing most of them to scream and fall down to the ground. Just then a figure jumped out of the side of the dropship and landed perfectly on his feet wielding two flamethrowers. He looked around and grinned as he began to set fire to vehicle, soldier, and scientist alike. The dropship flew away as the group of engineers from before pulled out grenade launchers and began firing them, seemingly at random.

Right at that moment the bases metal gate was blown open allowing a huge group of wolves wielding shields, spears, maces, swords, and almost any other melee weapon you can imagine, to come rushing in, trampling the fleeing Cornerian soldiers before beating them to death.

Falco got up slowly, still holding his blaster. He looked about at the chaos, wondering what the hell was happening, until he felt something hard hit him in the back of the head, causing him to fall unconscious. The she-wolf from before looked down at Falco's unconscious body, then back towards the camera, still on its ledge. She took out her Desert Eagle type pistol, took aim at the camera, and pulled the trigger...

Time: 8:00 AM

Location: The McCloud Residence – Cornerian Countryside

Fox, Krystal and Marcus were looking at their television in pure shock, not believing what had just occurred.

The picture on the television changed back to Buck's horrified face. "Oh my god..." He said quietly to himself, placing his hand over his mouth. The picture on the TV slowly went to static before shutting itself off. Fox looked to Marcus and said; "Marcus go to your room for a little bit ok?"

Marcus nodded and ran upstairs and into his room. Fox and Krystal were about to get up when the TV turned itself back on. They both quickly sat back down and saw that the screen was static free. Instead, the TV showed a pitch black screen, except for a dark yellow eye with a small black "X" shape where it's pupil should've been.

The Dark yellow orb began speaking in a distorted, high pitched, but clearly insane voice. "Hello citizens of Corneria. It seems that the studio is experiencing some technical difficulties. But don't worry about them though, because we will. I mean that's our job. To fix the problems you make. Man they need better security on those bases.... anyways we'll see you all very soon", The orb laughed psychotically as Fox stood up, turning off the TV manually. Despite it being off, there was text blinking on the screen, it read; "Until next time… Fox..."

Author's Comments: So, again i'm very sorry about the massive delay with the uploading of this chapter... but if you still need a visual of what the C.O.S.'s armor looks like, it's a mix between the armor from Section 8 and ODST armor.