Meanwhile At the Turric base, all soilders are in position and ready to deal with the CDF forces the moment they arrive. Vera is on the roof of the building manning a plasma turrent, but she has other plans in mind. As the other soilders on the roof are busy talking amongst themselves, she steps down from the turrent and walks towards a tall generator that powers all of the mounted guns on the roof. She kneels down and plants a device in a small opening, which shortly after attracts one of the soilders attention.
"Hey! The hell are you doing?" They shout at her, "Making sure these things are actually functioning, I'll be damned if I die because none of you assholes know how to calibrate properly" she says while standing back up. "Only thing that'll get us killed is you not being on your gun when the enemy comes through, the gen is fine...Leave. it." The soilder responds. Vera insults them under her breath and walks back to her assigned gun while holding a small detonator like device in her hand.
In the building, falco reaches the command center. Even though it appears to be empty, he still stays as cautious as possible. He walks up to the holo map and sees if he can find anything useful, "Cmoon Cmoon whacha guys holdin out on huh?" He says under his breath. Before he could attempt at getting any information, he feels something is off. He takes his blaster from his holster and immediately turns around to aim but gets met with a blaster aimed at him, with the panther that Vera talked to being the one behind the trigger.
"Falco Lombardi...how disappointing, I was hoping mccloud would show up" she says while sizing him up, "And I was hoping I could stop at my favorite food joint before havin to deal with you numbskulls..looks like we both didn't get what we want" he says with a faint smirk. "Oh, not entirely..." she says with a smile, the room door slides open as several Turric soilders run in and point there weapons at Falco. Falco slowly puts his gun down and drops it, but looks completely unfazed as if he knew this would happen.
Meanwhile, Nathan and kitman are riding the bikes they took in order to get to the Turric base as quickly as possible. Kitman speeds up so she can be on the opposite side of Nathan, "I know we're supposed to help the infantry, but how exactly are we gonna do that!? All we have are knives and these bikes, which I swear is falling apart as we speak!" she yells. "We can set some sort of distraction, that way the infantry ships wont take too much heat from the Turric's ground troops! Cant do much about the ships tailing them though!" Nathan responds.
The moment Nathan faces foward, he notices a Turric transport truck in the middle of the road as well as two soilders standing guard on the side of it. Him and kitman break immediately, getting both soilders attention. "You've gotta be kidding me.." kitman says as the two soilders aim their weapons and signal them to get off the bikes, "Well..so much for that plan" she says as she puts her hands up. Nathan looks at the truck and puts his hands up as well, "Actually...these guys just made it way easier for us.." he says as him and kitman walks towards the two soilders, keeping there hands raised.
Back at the base, falco is still being held at gun point by the panther and several solders, "Mccloud might not've shown up, but since you're here...I'm sure he's not gonna hesitate to come and look for you, and since our boss is only interested in him...I'm free to leave you in any condition I please" she says. "And who exactly is your boss? Maybe we can sit down talk things out, really get through there head on why you all're gonna end up like every other group we put in the fuckin dirt" Falco says in a slightly agressive tone.
"Cute, let's see how confident you are after I'm done with you" the panther says while jerking her head to the right to let the soilders know to detain him. The moment they get close, Falco puts his hands behind his head and grabs the handle grip of the mine rifle. He then proceeds to yank it out of the holster and aim it, causing the soilders to stop dead in their tracks and aim at him as well. The panther however is completely unfazed, " You just really dont known when to quit do you..." she says.
Back outside, the Turric sees the CDF ships approaching. The soilders on the roof as well as vera readies their turrents, while the soilders on the ground do the same with their weapons as well. As the CDF ships get closer, Vera notices partially cloaked Turric ships behind them; which makes her start to worry that her plan will change nothing. "Check fire, more of our guys are pulling up!" A soilder yells on the roof, vera looks down to see another infantry truck pull in; but the back doors do not open.
Back in the building, Falco responds to the panther. "Quitting ain't exactly in my to-do list today.." Falco says, "One trigger pull from that rifle, and you'll probably get one good hit before being gunned down to hell.." the panther says. Falco starts to smile, "I don't need to pull anything, cause this ain't no blaster. This baby here shoots highly explosive mines, which I took the pleasure of placin' nearly all of em in the main entrance" falco says.
Back outside, some of the ground soilders are eyeing the truck, wondering why the infantry truck hasn't open its doors yet to let the soilders out. "The moment our pilots hit the targets, open fire!" One of the soilders say on the roof, which causes all ground infantry to focus on the ships. As the Turric ships start to fully materialize, vera gets ready to activate the device she planted.
Back in the command center, the panther responds to Falco. "And how exactly is blowing up the main entrance gonna save you? Unless this is your pathetic attempt to able to say you died fighting..Regardless, You're out of options lombardi" panther says. "Out of options huh..guess you weren't listenin' when I said i planted nearly all of them there.." falco says as he presses a button just above the mine launchers trigger. A faint beeping noise is heard, the soilders look around the room confused. As for the panther, she looks straight up and notices the beeping comming from the ceiling.
Meanwhile outside, the turric ships start to charge their guns. Shortly after, both of them get shot in their thrusters; making them spiral out of the control. Vera looks up to see the starfox team in formation behind the CDF infantry ships. All of the Turric soilders look in complete shock, "F-FIRE NOW! NOW!" A soilder on the roof yells. The ground infantry starts to open fire at the ships, but as soon as the soilders on the roof try to aim their turrets; vera presses the button on her detonator which causes the generator to power down.
Shortly after, the infantry truck that recently arrived doors open suddenly. It gets the attention of one soilder, they are only able to see Nathan and kitman crouch out of it for a brief second before getting shot by both of them. The soilders up on the roof keep attempting to fire the turrents but remain unsuccessful, the CDF ships then shoot their heavy artillery at them; making them flee.
The moment the artillery hits the roof, falcos mine goes off above the controll room at the same time; causing cealing debris to fall. The panther as well as the soilders attempt to run out of the way. falco however is unable to know if any of them got hit by it, only that the debris has completely blocked the entrance; separating them and giving him the opportunity to check the holo map for any info. "Hows that for out of options, assholes..." falco says as he puts the mine launcher back in the holster and turn around to focus on the holo map.
When the mine blew up in the command center, the others from the main entrance detonated as well; knocking around a few Turric soilders inside. The CDF ships outside proceed to hover in place, letting their infantry jump off so they can engage the Turric forces. The starfox team then breaks formation to deal with any air support the turric may have. "Any sign of falco?" Peppy asks over comms, "Nothing yet, and hes still radio silent.." fox says in an annoyed tone.
Back in the building, the panther and a few soilders run to the main entrance. She looks around to see many Turric troops injured, then looks to her right to see the rest of the soilders fighting the CDF outside. A soilder runs up to her from the injured few, "Commander, our units are getting stomped, we wont be able to holdout much longer!" They say. She looks outside again then proceeds to shake her head in anger, realizing that theres no possible angle where she can turn this battle around.
"We'll have the remaining troops retreat, and eliminate the injured...the infantry outside will defend till their last breath" she says, "W-what? But-" The soilder says before getting cut off by the panther. "Do you really want me to repeat myself..." she says while giving them an intimidating stare, the soilder looks at there injured allies in the room before turning back to the panther. "No...commander" they say in a defeated tone. The panther pushes the Turric soilder out of the way and signal the rest to retreat, the soilder as well as a few others walk up to the injured and do what they were ordered to do. Some with hesitation, others without.