Chapter 4
It's been two days since Falco and Fox joined the LCEF squad. After a successful two missions on Corneria, they both are being accepted as heroes again. But, the ultimate mission to reform the Starfox team was still in motion. Locating Slippy was easy, but retrieving him is the hard part. He is currently on Katina aiding Bill and his squad to defeat some rebels who had declared independence from the current government. The whole planet was a warzone, so an extraction was not going to be the easiest thing in the world. The LCEF is in the main Cornerian hangar bay, which was the biggest in the whole system.
"Alright boys, it's time to blow this joint," said Coyote. They walked towards the center of the massive hangar and found 4 black and red ships. They were shaped like arwings except the wings were bent back at the tip and the flaps were vertical rather than diagonal.
"Do you two have arwings left over?" Mark asked.
"Yeah, to the far left of the hangar," Fox replied.
"Good, we leave in 5 minutes," explained Coyote.
When they headed towards their arwings, Coyote walked up towards the shielded box containing their ships. A control pad popped out of a flap in the wall.
"Please enter a passcode," the pad said in the stereotypical female robotic voice. Coyote punched in the numbers 36629 and the pad moved back into the flap.
"Access granted, welcome LCEF," said the voice after it went in and the shield powered down. They walked in and hopped in their ships. They then activated their ships and set up everything.
"Comm. line is active, connecting to the two arwings," said Steven. After about 30 seconds, Fox and Falco's heads popped up on the communications screen.
"All set?" asked Coyote. "Good, tower, requesting permission for takeoff."
"You're green Foxtrot 6, go ahead," they replied.
As soon as he said that, the engines of the four ships roared to life. They then lifted off the ground and stabilized.
"Alright, let's punch it!" ordered Coyote. Just then, the six pilots shifted levers on their ships to the max and shot off towards the atmosphere. As soon as they escaped the planet, the six ships shot off towards Katina faster than the speed of light.
Things seemed to fall apart as soon as they got there, the warped right in the middle of the one of the biggest space battles they had ever seen. They had to dodge laser after laser just to get to the planet. Then, it got even worse, on the surface, there were two massive surface armies going at each other. At the same time, star fighters were also going at it.
"This isn't warfare, this is madness," said the shocked Rick.
"Bill, Slippy do you copy?" said Fox into a planet wide comm line. "Anyone?"
"Copy, this is Bill, Slippy is with me but we are pinned down and need assistance!" he yelled.
"Copy that, we are on the way," replied Coyote. "Alright, Falco, I want you in the air providing support from above. Mark, Rick head to the opposite side to flank them. Fox, Steven, with me."
At that moment they split off. Coyote and co. landed in the nearest bay. They hopped out and pressed the buttons on their packs to put their suits on. Their suits already had machine guns in their holsters, and had an H launcher strapped to their backs. They were both black and red. They then ran out towards the battle. Bill and Slippy were in the very middle of the cross section of roads. The three had to work their way to the middle. The three ran through the firefight. Lasers were absorbed into their suits for more power, so they were basically invincible. Coyote generated a blue sword that stuck out of his wrist device and cut down all opposition while Fox mowed down the stragglers. Steven had taken the high ground to their right using a sniper rifle. Without difficulty, and running, he dropped enemy after enemy. Then, a tank rolled up and fired at Coyote and Fox. Coyote rolled under the blast and kneeled while readying his H launcher. Fox swiftly dodged to the right and jumped behind cover. Then, Coyote fired, and blasted the tank. It took a direct hit and exploded. They then kept running, but instead Coyote generated a death machine and ran and mowed down ever enemy in his path. Then, out of nowhere, a bomb was dropped right next to them. It sent Coyote and Fox flying backwards and they slid back. They then witnessed a bomber flying up for another pass. They couldn't get up, their suits had powered down from the hit. It would take 5 seconds for them to power back up, but that was too long. The ship was already diving towards them as soon as their suits powered up. It was too late…