Thanks for the reviews. A special thanks to ben mccloud for those ideas that I might use in the future :). I am planning to have a sequel to this story.

After the pickup on Fichina and the introduction of Justine, there was truly nothing to do. ROB watched over the lupine with care and a sense of urgency. Peppy was in his room, reading the Cornerian Times, skimming over the articles. Falco was watching the radar, sure to alert the others just in case of anything out of the ordinary or anything hostile. Slippy was making yet another adjustment to his Arwing, bending over the mass of knotted wires with a look of concentration on his face. He did this for several hours until it was time to leave the Great Fox yet again. Fox and Krystal were in Fox's room conversing about times before they met each other and current events. He even thought ahead and reserved a spare ship for Justine when she wakes up so the vulpine can give her some practice flying. He smiled when he thought of Justine; he briefly considered giving her a permanent spot on the team. He waved it off, meaning to ask her when she wakes up.

"Who do you think she is?" Krystal asked. Fox just sighed.

"I don't really know. The odd part is that we picked her up on Fichina, what would she be doing on Fichina?" That was a little hard to explain as he didn't know how she got on that forsaken planet anyway. They installed a climate control center but the employees must've had a vacation. Something about that struck a wrong chord with his reasoning.

Why were they gone when we went down to the planet? Yesterday it was fine, what happened to them? He thought about bringing that up with Krystal but was interrupted.

"That is the odd part," Krystal smiled. "The even stranger part is that I couldn't even read her thoughts, much less yours. There must have been something to interfere with my brain waves."

Fox frowned; leave it up to Krystal to find out another thing that is strange about the planet.

"When I was taught at Sauria, I was told that something specific does that but the name was not mentioned. When we get around to it, we must find out what it is and that means leaving Lylat."

Fox knew that, he remembered going to her homeworld before. It was a pretty place, no wonder the Lylatians called it the 'Dinosaur Planet' instead of Sauria. He remembered running when he saw the first dinosaur on the planet. He also remembered the Venom invasion soon after. His team plus Krystal was enough to take down their ground troops and save yet another planet from getting snared into Andross' evil grip.

"So leaving Lylat might be beneficial?"

"Yeah, we all heard about Andross getting banished to another, nearby system. He was then put in a prison facility with maximum security. If anyone tries to leave, they are stunned or shot, depending on what they did. I am surprised that he didn't get capital punishment yet."

"Does that rule follow in jurisdiction of that system if it comes from ours?'

"Depends if it was cleared by the General. It looks like Andross will spend the remainder of his life in the prison, slowly losing whatever shred of will he has left until he is nothing but a mere shell of who he was."

That was saying something, during the years before the war, it was all fine and dandy in Venom, Andross wasn't much of a threat until he snapped somewhere along the way. That sparked the Lylat War and numerous large scale battles leading up to the war and the final clash leading up to the capture of the ruler. Fox wanted to end Andross but he gave him a choice, to pay for his crimes or to die right there. That tactic was a diversion, Cornerian soldiers captured him and then got the hell out before the bomb was set and primed to go off. That destroyed his base and the resounding shock of the destruction rippled through the Venomians, crippling their potential forces but making them hold a grudge against the Cornerian Army.

That was the spark of another mini war, one that lasted for a week as their grudge lessened and disappeared eventually. As soon as they went back to Corneria, celebration was in place and the city was being rebuilt. That process took a month to clean up and a year to rebuild due to the sheer number of buildings to be fixed and reconstructed. They were reinforced by the latest shields that took a while to come in. Fox bought a few more ships due to all the credits he owned from the Lylat war and the conflict called the Venom Raid. Turning back to the conversation, the vulpine wrapped it up quickly and walked out of his room with Krystal following.

He checked up on his team members and gave them an update to the ETA which was about twelve hours. The duo then proceeded to their respective rooms and took a much deserved six hour nap.

Back in the medic bay, Justine snapped awake by the sound of footfalls coming in her direction. It was Fox, he took his time to get there and that planted the seed of respect inside of the lupine.

"How are you feeling?" He asked. All the tubes were gone and the monitor was unhooked and then carted away. There were green lights along the side of her bed, she was ok.

"Better, the hypothermia is gone and I can feel my arms and legs. I am a bit hungry though." Fox nodded and headed toward the kitchens where he could cook up something fast for her. And fast it was, the cooking time was an astonishing thirty seconds. When he came back, he had a heaping plateful of food. Her eyes widened and she asked how long it took. When the vulpine said it, her eyes widened further. Fox smiled, that was the normal reaction to those who never boarded his ship before. It amused him to no end seeing that it was from the government as a "gift" for his hard work and diligence after the war. It wasn't cheap either, when General Pepper told him the price, he couldn't fathom it one bit.

He left the lupine in peace as he checked the ETA, five hours and thirty minutes. Groaning, he checked on Slippy who was still working on modifying his Arwing. Falco finally got bored from watching the radar so he decided to get a cup of coffee.

"Must have coffee when I watch the radar," he grumbled as he walked by, mood taking a turn for the worse. Peppy was still reading the Cornerian Times this time getting to the editorials.

Five hours later, they were assembled on the bridge. Peppy came out kind of mad that he got his paper swiped, Falco finished the whole pot of coffee and Slippy came reluctantly. Fox convinced Justine to come out as well.

"Good news, we are thirty minutes off of Katina."

"It is about time." Falco quipped.

Disregarding that last comment, Fox led them into the control room and gave them the rundown of the events.

"First off, we need to get to the main base and announce ourselves to Bill. Once we got that done, we will ask him where we can find the infiltrated base. We go there, get clues and get out; we don't need blasters but bring them just in case we run in to any trouble." His team nodded in response. "Finish preparations and meet me at the hangar bay in five." Once his team left, he turned to Justine.

"Do you really want to go?" She nodded. Fox smiled and headed toward the hangars. He seated the lupine into her Arwing and showed her the controls. After five minutes, she had a basic understanding of how the Arwing worked and his team assembled for the pre-flight check. Fox fired up his ship and checked the short range radar, nothing but the Great Fox satisfied, he finished up his checks and his partners did the same.

"Com check," the vulpine stated.

"Hear ya," Falco responded.

"Hear you loud and clear," Peppy responded.

"Yeah." Slippy said.

"This is odd, but I like it," Justine remarked.

"Com system is online," Krystal said.

"Ok team, we are now ten minutes off of Katina, I put the ship in orbit and we are ready, ROB, open the hangar gate and unlock the locks." The robot beeped and the massive gate opened, spreading in light from Solar. His team blasted off toward Katina, the planets atmosphere was breeched within five minutes. They landed on the surface ten minutes later. The base doors opened up to them and they walked in the front door. Cornerian and Katinan soldiers saluted and Bill Grey greeted his team with a firm handshake. They followed him to the infiltrated base, leading toward the busted down back door.

"I have given you level two clearances, enough to get you to where you need."

"Thanks Bill," Fox said, holding out his paw for another handshake. Bill graciously took it and firmly shook it as before. They then crept into the bases innards. All their senses were fine tuned and Fox kept his paw on his blaster. Sure enough, some things were overturned in a hurry; the invaders must've been in a rush. They were amateurs as they quickly found out. They discovered two bodies near a steel door, Justine bent over them, studying them.

"They look like they knew what they were doing. What were they guarding?"

"Our clearance ends here though, we have what we need." Fox said, motioning for them to pull back and report to Bill. Harsh sunlight greeted them as they stepped out.

"Bill, we took careful observations about the condition of the room. It looks like they were looking for something due to the overturned furniture. The thing that disquiets me is that they were expert killers and they got the clearance card to go past that door. What was behind it?"

"It was a controversial weapon confiscated from the Venom Army during the Venom Raid. We took it and put it into documents after we no longer needed it."

"If they knew what they were looking for, did they make a run on the documents, taking them and running?"

"Most likely, I will look over the security tapes and contact you with the feed." Fox nodded.

"Alright, team; we got what we needed, let's go." And they went.

Fifteen minutes later, they were on the Great Fox, Fox seriously decided to give Justine a permanent spot on the team. He set the ships coordinates to the next possible planet they thought of.

"Justine yawned as she walked into the control room, "Where are we heading?"

Fox grinned, "Sauria."

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