Okay, first of all, people from the IRC, stop being fags. Your comments will just get deleted anyway. The rest of you, ignore those kinds of reviews, they're all people I know and they act like asshats all the time.

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Fox opened his eyes and found himself staring up at a female with black hair and a headband and a male with glasses, green eyes, nicely trimmed facial hair and an orange HAZ-MAT suit.

"Falco, hurry! He's awake!" the female called out.

"Oh god… where am I?" Fox said as he rubbed his head.

"Welcome to hell, buddy." Falco commented as he walked to Fox and helped him on his feet.

Fox looked around and realized why he called it 'hell'. Buildings in ruins, bodies lying on the ground, gunshots in the distance and a huge tower with a red and black spinning cloud right above it.

"Holy crap..." Fox said as he looked around at his surroundings, "this is worse than all the damage Andross has caused put together… What happened here?"

"Well, it all started when…" Alyx began, but was interrupted by the citadel causing a small tremor. "Oh god… looks like the reactor's back on track for a meltdown. That transmission's going out after all."

The citadel let out one more tremor, this time a little bigger. "What's going on here?!" yelled out Fox as he regained his balance.

"Your guess is as good as mine," Falco responded. "But from what I can tell so far, we need to get as far from that thing as possible.

Alyx walked to a console of some sort. "I'd love to find another way around this building," she said as she held her EMP device to the console, "but we really don't have time! Oh, and I'm Alyx Vance by the way, and the guy in the HEV suit is Gordon Freeman."

"I'm Fox McCloud. We were sent to investigate a radio signal sent from your planet. "

"Oh yeah, that thing." Falco interrupted, "I took a look at it during out trip. It looked like chicken scratch to me. What I could make out was a two legged person and some spiral shape. Slippy said it was a double felix or something like that."

"Double Helix." Fox corrected.

"Whatever. Anyway, we were sent to-"

"The Arecibo Message." Gordon spoke up.

"… Holy crap, he just talked."

"The message was sent into space in the year 1974 to mark the remodeling of the Arecibo radio telescope. It was mostly meant for show and they didn't expect it to make it anywhere. It was pointed at a large star cluster about 25,000 light years away. By now it should have only gone 46 light years. It should also be weakened by dust and gas clouds."

"Hmm… strange, we were much farther than just 46 light years." Fox said, puzzled. "And it was also fairly strong."

The citadel then let out another tremor.

"Guys, guys," Falco interrupted, "I'd love to sit around and listen to all of this, but we gotta make like a banana or else we'll get blended. "

"You're right, let's move on."

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Inside the building, Gordon broke a few crates open for supplies. Gordon turned around and offered a med-pack to Fox.

"For your head. It's bleeding a bit there."

"Thanks…. How do I use it?"

"Just put your hand here. The nanobots will flow into your bloodstream and make repairs."

Fox put his hand on the med-pack and felt a cool rush come to him, and suddenly go away. He noticed that his head no longer hurt like it did before.

"Feeling better? Good, let's get going."

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Yeah, I'm still working on this. School just started, and it's SO hectic.

Also a little thing I've learned: it seems that a few voice actors for Starfox games have taken place in the making of Valve games. For example, the person who voiced Kristal is the model for the face and body of Chell in the game Portal, and the person who voiced Wolf (in the later games) also does the engineer in Team Fortress 2.