As the battle between the CDF and the Turric continue, Fox notices a plethora of Turric ships heading to orbit. "There goes more of those bastards, looks like they're runnin scared!" Peppy says. "Should we pursue them?" Krystal asks, Fox looks at the fleeing ships once more before looking back at the ongoing battle. "Just leaving their own like this? They probably dont even know about the retreat..." Fox thinks to himself, "Let them go, we cover the CDF troops until the remaining Turric are down out" fox says to the rest of the team.
During the battle, a Turric lieutenant attempts to contact the panther. "Ma'am we are receiving heavy resistance from the CDF! We need to pull back, do you copy!?" They said, however; there was no response. "Ma'am we are getting slaughtered out here! We need to-" the lieutenant says but gets cut off by another soilder getting there attention, then pointing behind them. The lieutenant looks back to the see the Turric ships flying into orbit before disappearing.
Meanwhile in the Panthers ship, she is still completely infuriated. not only because of losing the battle so quickly, but also being outsmarted by Falco. She closes her eyes takes a deep breath, she then proceeds to slam her fist on her chair handle before contacting her home base through the ship. "Control this is commander Lithra, send and orbital strike to recent mission location...full bombardment" she says angrily. "Be advised commander, there are still units in the blast radi-" the voice on the other end says before getting cut off by Lithra, "Spare me the details and just do it!" Lithra responds before cutting the transmission.
Back on Titania, the battle lasts for a few more moments before the remaining Turric decided to surrender. As the CDF close in to restrain the soilders, Fox and the others land their planes to disembark. Peppy walks in front of the team and looks at the Turric soilders, "So that's what they look like huh...Reckon we'll get any information out of em?" he says to Fox. "from what i saw, I'm sure the only thing they know is to follow orders...speaking of following orders" Fox says as he looks to the main entrance of the Turric base to see Falco walking towards him, while moderately shoving some Turric soilders out of his way.
"Whoever these morons are working for sure as hell has a busy schedule, ain't gonna get nothin done if these are the kinda people they're sendin though" Falco says with a subtle laugh as he adjust his rifle strap, "Do you mind telling me what the hell goes on in your head half the time?" Fox says frustratingly. Falco rolls his eyes and turns his head away before looking back at Fox, "Aaah, what I do now ma?" Falco says sarcastically. "Orders, Falco. I told you to push with the CDF, not go In on your own.." Fox says.
"Everything worked out didn't it? Besides, if I didn't do what I did; they probably would've wiped everything we could know about em' the moment they realized they were getting there asses kicked!" Falco says. "And you couldn't inform that to anyone? Operating like this only puts our own in danger, I figured you would've learned that when you were out trying to be something your not with that last group you got together.." fox says.
Falco gets an offended look on his face, "Excuse me?" He says as he gets in Fox's face. "Hey hey! Cmon guys do we really-" slippy says before getting cut off by Falco. "Shut up slippy, Fox is a big boy...he can handle himself..go on flyboy; lay that on me ooone more time" Falco says without breaking eye contact with Fox. "You're not a leader, Falco. Your disregard for other people; your team...make you far from it" Fox says as he stands his ground. "You wanna talk to me about something I'm not? What about you huh? You try so hard to follow in your daddy's fuckin footsteps yet never seem to get at that level" Falco says angrily.
Krystal attempts to get in between them but peppy stops her, "Alright this has gone far enough you two, we shouldn't be doin this right now!" he says. Falco ignores him and continues to speak, "you know what? Maybe you should be honest with yourself, come to terms that your daddy is where he is now cause' he wasnt as good of a pilot as he thought he-" Falco says before getting cut off by a punch to the the face from Fox. Falco slighty stumbles back before recovering almost instantly, he grabs fox by the jacket collar in attempt to hit back; but peppy gets in between them which makes it miss.
"I SAID THATS EN-OUGH!" Peppy said as he shoves Falco away then Fox after, "Now we got a goddamn job to do and I sure as hell aint gonna let something like this get in the way of it, you two either squash this now or do these "turric" people a favor keep tryna kill eachother...save them the ammo why dontcha!" Peppy yells, straining his voice. Falco looks to his right to see the majority of the CDF soulders witnessing the commotion, he then spits blood out of his mouth and looks at Fox with a half smile that lasts only seconds.
"Alright old man...you made your point, we're cool..right Fox?" Falco says, "Fox..?" Peppy says, awaiting Fox's response. Fox doesnt take his eyes off of Falco while fixing his jacket, "...Sure" He says calmly. "Good, now for god sakes can we please find out who the hell is-" peppy says before being cut off by a loud thunderous sound that makes the ground lightly shake. The thunderous sound is then accompanied by repeated thumping, making everyone in the area look up to see an armada of flickering lights. "What the hell..." Peppy says.
"Hmph..Too little too late to call in there buddies, but if they want to get swept again that badly then hell...I'm all for another fight" Falco says while taking his blaster out of his holster, "Why are they sending so much of their own to rescue such a small group?" Krystal asks. Slippy takes out special binoculars from his utility belt to get a closer look, only to end up completely horrified by what he sees. "Thats..th-those aren't drop pods.." he says, falco grabs the binoculars out of slippy's hand and looks for himself. The moment he sees what slippy saw, pieces detach from the objects; making them fall even faster.
"Those are fuckin-" falco says but gets cut off by a CDF soilder, "AIRSTRIKE! AIIRSTRIIKE!" He yells. All of the CDF soilders rush back to their ships, while the starfox team does the same. Fox and his team manages to get in the air fast enough to attempt an escape, however due to the the weight of the CDF's infantry ships; its nearly impossible for them to do the same. Nathan and kitman run back to the infantry truck they stole from earlier and drive the same direction the starfox team is going.
At this point, the missiles are relentlessly impacting the ground. The two CDF ships get enough altitude to escape, one of them boosts foward but the other has a missile impact their wing; causing them to spin out of control and crash to the ground. The starfox team, Nathan, kitman, and the remaining CDF ship are now trying to avoid the bombardment as best as they can. "Christ this shit isnt stopping! What the hell has all this artillery to burn!?" Falco says while trying to maneuver the onslaught of explosives. "Just focus up! We'll be outta this soon" fox replies.
Meanwhile, Nathan and Kitman are driving behind the ships. kitman looks out the truck window to see how much destruction the bombardment is causing, "You mind tellin me how the hell we're gonna get outta this!?" She says. "Unless you wanna flag down the ships that cant see us, all I got is flooring this slow piece of shit and pray it doesn't run out of gas!" Nathan responds, kitman double takes at the trucks sideview mirror and sees a Turric ship behind them. "What about the one behind us!?" She says, Nathan looks at his side veiw mirror and sees the Turric ship as well.
"The hell is with these guys!? We're already dodging missiles they're still sending more infantry!" Nathan says, the ship boosts forward and descends in front of the truck; matching its speed. As Kitman readies her rifle, the ships back door opens; showing Sebastian holding his hand out. "You two better hurry up and get in here! I'm feeling more more selfish with each missile that almost kills me!" He yells. Nathan looks at kitman and jerks his head to let her know to go first, she nods and slides the front door open to position herself.
She gets on the hood of the truck and jumps towards Sebastian, having him grab her arm just in time to pull her in. The moment Nathan tries to open his door, a missile impacts the ground behind him; causing the truck to swerve far to the right. "Any day now pretty boy!" Sebastian yells, Nathan realines the truck and opens the door. Nathan Turns the truck slightly to the right so he's able to jump from the driver's seat while keeping the speed of the truck, the moment he jumps; another missile impacts near the truck causing it to flip over. Sebastian grabs Nathan's arm in time and pulls him In despite losing his balance for a split second, he then pulls a lever down on the side of the ship; making the door close.
The ship then speeds up and heads to orbit, the bombardment lasts for a few more seconds before stopping completely. Sebastian holds his hand out to Nathan to help him off the floor, "heh..looks like the weather cleared up, words cant describe how damn lucky you two are.." Sebastian says. "Yea, thanks..how'd you even know it was us?" Nathan says. "McBrine did say you drived like a godamn manic, so I put two two together.." a voice says, Nathan kitman look to the cockpit to see Risso turn the chair he's in to face them.
"Just cant seem to die, can you.." Kitman half jokingly says, "i know, I miss you both too.." Risso says as he lights a cigarette. "How'd you manage to snag one of their ships?" Nathan says. Sebastian walks over to a large storage closet near the cockpit and holds the door handle, "Had a lil help from uh.. my personal tour guide" he says. He then rotates the handle, as soon as the door slides open; Vera falls out with her hands cuffed and her mouth gagged. "Who..is that?" Kitman asks, "This, my friends..is someone I'm glad I didn't shoot In the head" Sebastian says as Vera angrily yells behind him, he turns around and kneels down to take off her mouth gag.
"Gah! What the hell is your issue!? Am I really that untrustworthy!?" Vera yells, "Trust kills in my line of work sweetheart, can never be too careful" he says while helping her up. Vera yanks her arm out Sebastian's grasp and sits down near a window, "This here is Vera, from what shes told me; I guess you can mark her down as "ex Turric" employee" Sebastian says. "All you need to know is that I need to speak with Fox Mccloud, at this point I'm fairly certain the person I work for is only really after him" Vera says to Nathan and kitman.
"You mean to tell me all that shit we just went through is because of one guy?" Risso says, "That's as much as I know, which is why I need to speak with him to see if he knows anything himself, so are you taking me to him or not?" Vera asks. "I'd be delighted too, but..I got a paycheck to collect; so you'll be seeing are CDF buddies before anything else..make sure you get comfortable" Risso says before he winks at her, "tch, Fuckin mercenaries.." Vera says under her breath as she rolls her eyes and looks out the window.