The StarFox team had headed for Cape Claw early that day, but their trip was cut short by LightFoot. The scaly creatures stood all around them, they looked very intimidating as a whole, lining up around the valley with curious looks on their faces. The StarFox team was confused and did not know what move to make, but suddenly a tall LightFoot stood out from the crowd and walked toward them. It's steps grew louder as it approached them, and they stood frozen in their tracks.

"Who are you?" it tilted its head and scanned them over. Fox took a few steps forward and addressed the LightFoot.

"We are the StarFox Team. You might not remember me, but I've been here before, I'm Fox McCloud, I came to your planet before and and saved your tribe." the other LightFoot looked at each other quietly. Then the tall Lightfoot stood back.

"Well, as long as you're not dangerous, you can stay here, all of you." the StarFox Team all smiled in relief as there was no conflict. They spread out among the the tribe and tried their best to get comfortable, but the air was thick, and they felt endless unrest.

A great winged creature stood in a dark room, its wings were wilted, its feet chained. The creature, wearing reagal jewlrey, no longer looked like royalty. Sullen blue eyes looked upon the only window in the room.

"There is no hope for my kingdom...the CloudRunners will die out by the new leader..." the Cloudrunner Queen, now completley hopeless, thought of her life, and her family.

"I hope my children never see me like this..."

Blade was walking along the silver path leading to CloudRunner Fortress, the great structures and buildings she saw made her stop, this was her true homeland, and she didn't once forget what it looked like. there were various Cloudruner flying above her, and she felt relief...

But this feeling did not last for long, as she noticed that much had changed, and not in a good way. She glanced along the path, there were some CloudRunner working in labor tirelessly, other Cloudrunner weeping for their fallen society, Blade could not believe her eyes. The images of her people made her feel ill, and she literally had to sit down and try to take it all in.

"What is happening, have I really been gone for that long?" so what Scales said had to of been true, there was a new leader, and everything was going downhill. She tried to think of a way to help, but could find nothing in her mind of quick schemes.

Suddenly there was a noise, Blade looked around, and then she noticed some Cloudrunner were walking towards her. She didn't know what to do, she just sat there and waited. The Cloudrunner eyed her carefully, and then they looked surprised.

"Is this the one?" One of them asked.

"Yeah it has to be." they looked at each other and then yelled without warning.

"Here! The Thief has finally been found after all these years!" Blade's heart jolted, she forget that she was still known as a thief on this planet, her instinct took ahold of her and she darted past the CloudRunner before they could catch her. She kept running until she got to an old building. Her heart was racing as she heard the voices of the CloudRunners getting louder, she had to hide somewhere. She quietly walked behind the building and waited, but knew those Saurians wouldn't stop looking for her. She used her quick thinking and spotted a window, she extended her claws and jumped on the side of the next building, it was easy to grasp, so she held on, climbing up until she got to the window. The glass was dark, and she wanted to make sure where she was breaking into, but to no use, she couldn't waste time. She took out her gun, (out of bullets) and rammed it onto the glass, it shattered loudly and Blade cringed, surely the CloudRunners had heard that. She crawled through the window as fast as she could.

She landed on her feet, and sighed, she thought she heard another noise, and jumped again. She could hardly see a thing, despite her cat eyesight. She heard a voice.

"Who are you?" the voice was frail, and almost a whisper. Blade froze in place, she could not bring herself to answer.

"You are...a...cat?" The voice said.

"No...I'm sorry, this can't be..." The creature was A CloudRunner, but it held its wings over its face so Blade could not see.

"That voice..."

"Please tell me who you are..." Blade said. The CloudRunner slowly lowered its wings, Blade could see tears in its pained eyes.

"So it is...you don't even recognize me... very well..." It was then that Blade noticed the chains around the CloudRunner's feet. Blade was confused, but something in her heart made her stop and kneel on the ground, she was tearing up as well. She felt a new sadness.

"No...I don't want to believe that it is you... How can you even recognize me after all these years...? Blade put her paws on her face and cried.

"I really can't believe that...and after all these years...and here you are, imprisoned..." she now knew the scent of the CloudRunner, it was her mother's very same scent. She never forgot it.

"It is fate... that we should meet in such grim conditions...Daughter Blade." Queen CloudRunner managed a smile in this dark state.

"Hey Anoki, look at this blaster I got!" A blue and white fox shouted to the falcon-fox.

"Marcus, that's just a toy, you could never find a real one!"

"That's not true, I'm sure I can find something interesting around here." Marcus looked around and saw a small shed, his eyes lit up as he had an idea. He walked over to the shed and looked inside. There were very interesting things, and Marcus gestured for his friend to come see.

"Anoki, there's fireworks!" Anoki came in quickly.

"Wow, those are real fireworks?" Marcus nodded. He picked up the fireworks and stumbled outside with Anoki behind him.

"Ok, we just have to light them." Anoki said as he took out a match from his pocket. He carefully lit the match, the tiny flame flickered from the tip. Anoki laid the match down by the fireworks and backed away. The light got brighter and suddenly a loud sound went off. The fireworks burst into the air quickly and sent an amazing display across the sky. Marcus and Anoki both smiled and looked in awe, the lights were enough to keep them busy for awhile, untill...

"NO! WHAT IS GOING ON!" The LightFoot chief shouted and Marcus and Anoki both turned around, startled.

"There's a signal going off that I did not authorize!" The LightFoot stared at them angrily.

"We were just lighting these fireworks, we didn't think it would be a big deal..." Anoki said. The LightFoot still stared.

"Do you not realize what you have done? You've shot off a signal that will attract rogue CloudRunners!" Anoki gulped, he had not expected this to go so badly.

"You can't be serious!"

"But it's true, our tribe is going to be attacked once they know our location, we've been hiding here this whole time!" Marcus and Anoki both were shocked. Suddenly they made it so enemies would come?

It was about an hour later, and the LightFoot tribe and StarFox team were holding their breath in fear, there were loud warcries heard from afar, and a new battle was beginning. The CloudRunners flew overhead and surrounded the valley, no one had expected that it would come to this. It had all happened so fast, but it wasn't the end yet.

There would have to be prisoners, and the whole StarFox team fit the description.