The Story of Starwolf (longlong!)

[Guest Herostar]

I was wondering where starwolf came from, so I decided to write this. A work in progress though already ridiculously long already. If anyone dislikes it too much I'll ask for a lock, ok?

Chapter 1: The Story Behind the Eyepatch.

Wolf O'Donnel strutted through the school gate. He had recently started 9th grade, and evident by his walk, he had gained a lot of respect and knew it all too well. The wind swept his grey fur and gently flicked his tail about until he came to he went into the school building and reached his class room. Chatter met his ears as he walked to his desk and began to wait for his teacher.

The first lesson was Geography. Wolf hated that. He always just looked out of the window. As the teacher droned on, he began to feel hungry, and started counting the seconds until recess.

"...137...138..139..."

"Wolf O'Donnel!"

"wha-?"

"I'll ask you kindly to pay more attention. What is the answer to my question?"

"uh....um...49?"

"The answer is latitude. stop gazing out of that window and try to learn something for once"

Not a chance. the second the teacher went back to her book, Wolf went back to the window. He planned on failing Geography anyway. He'd care next year.

Recess rolled around, and Wolf was still hungry. He looked around until his eyes rested on Slippy Toad. That little frog in 8th grade. Wolf was a bit of a bully, and he noticed that Slippy had a small bag of cookies on the wall beside him.

"OK, Frog boy, hand over the cookies"

"what? these are my cookies"

"I said, hand them over"

slippy continued to eat them, faster now. when it came to the last cookie, wolf was getting annoyed.

"give me the cookie"

"no way"

Wolf was known for being a ruthless bully and easy to agitate. This was easy to see by slippy's defiance. Wolf grabbed slippy's ankle, still holding the cookie

"give. it."

slippy shoved the cookie in his mouth

"you don't want it now, do ya!"

"well, if you're so hungry. how about a five knuckle sandwi-"

"leave my friend alone!"

Wolf tuned in surprise. An angry looking fox was glaring at him. It was Fox McCloud. Slippy's friend. Also an 8th grader. Everyone knew Fox. as he took days off school for assesments at that Cornerian flight academy he went to after school.

"Return my friend to his upright position!"

Wolf looked straight through Fox, he saw his teacher a short while off. Without another thought, he dropped the frog and ran.

As soon as the teacher was well out of sight. Wolf had a new target. Fox boy. He was with Slippy, drawing something for an art project.

"come over here Fox boy!"

The startled young fox leapt up and ran. Wolf continued to pursue him, seething. Fox began to grow tired, and decided to stall him. He suddenly turned around and flung his pencil at Wolf.

"AAAH!"

Fox opened his eyes and gasped. Wolf was on his knees, a hand over the left side of his face. Fox didn't know where the pencil was, but he knew what he'd done.

Slippy ran to say that there had been an accident. Not mentioning fox as not to get his friend into trouble. Someone called for medical attention. Wolf refused to move his hand, though the pain was overwhelming, he would never cry. When an ambulance arrived, Wolf spoke the last words Fox heard him hear for a long time.

"I'll get you for this one day, McCloud. You WILL pay for this!"

Chapter 2: The ball gets rolling

"will I be ok Doc?"

"well, that's hard to say, Wolf. You may be alright. But your eye won't be. I hate to say it, but that's some bad damage. You won't be using that eye again."

That moment stuck with Wolf for a very long time. He sighed and twiddled with his cheek fur as he gazed out of the window of the bus, hiding his face. It had been a year since he had lost use of his left eye, and had transferred schools after leaving hospital, as he couldn't face them all again. Especially not Fox. A bitter hatred grew inside of him at the thought of him, but after hearing that he had dropped out of school, he felt slightly comforted.

As he got off the bus, he pretended to look in his bag, obscuring his eyepatch once again. Although he had grown used to having a single working eye, he couldn't say he was at all proud. He had stuck out because of it, and now he was starting high school, he was gonna have to start making friends all over again. A badger came over and tapped his shoulder, he turned around.

"hey, you're new-WHOA!"

Wolf had forgotten about the eyepatch, the badger stared before shouting

"HEY! The new kid has an eyepatch!"

All morning Wolf was poked and prodded by people asking the same question.

"where did you get that eyepatch?"

Wolf hated talking about it, so grunted and walked away every time someone asked. At lunch, he decided to escape to the edge of the grounds for some peace. As he walked under a particularly large tree, a chameleon appeared from nowhere and landed in front of him.

"Hey, nice patch"

Wolf groaned. All anyone ever talked about was that stupid thing

"I wore an eyepatch once, I had pinkeye and everyone laughed at me. I had to keep it on for two months!"

"...it's better than keeping it on forever..."

"oooh, I see. Well, I'm Leon. You?"

Wolf looked at the chameleon closely. He didn't look sarcastic at all.He was actually trying to be friendly about the patch.

"I'm Wolf."

"oooh, hi. So, mind telling me how you got that patch?"

Wolf eventually told him the whole story. about the fox and the pencil and everything. Leon seemed to be genuine, and the two soon became good friends. Leon would laugh at anything. Especially at himself. Telling Wolf about how he was the oldest in every class because he failed 10th grade the previous year. But their main common ground was their hatred for geography. So the two would spend all their geography lessons talking, doodling, throwing paper planes, or often in the the principal's office. Becoming inseperable.

Chapter 3:an Emperor to be

Wolf smiled, he was about to leave high school with a clean record. Except in his geography classes. But he didn't care about those. Leon was leaving with him, only his record wasn't as clean. But he was proud to have only been suspended 5 times. Wolf hadn't worried about making friends, he'd stuck with leon.

That particular afternoon, they were badmouthing some of their classmates.

"...and Mona, what a whinge! When Anthony threw that pencil at her in English she acted like she'd been stabbed!"

"and you know all about the dangers of projectile pencils, don't you?"

Wolf gave him a playful punch and laughed.Nobody in their classes talked about his eyepatch these days, they gave up trying to get it out of him. He still had numerous 10th graders asking about it, but he just said he'd had an accident.

"speaking of pencils, what happened to that fox kid anyway?"

Wolf hadn't spoken about Fox in a long time. He still had that bitter feeling, but at least he had leon by his side to laugh it off.

"a while after I left, he dropped out of education, and the cornerian flight academy. His dad died. Captured and murdered by some evil overlord"

"Called?....."

"Andross I think"

"Andross? isn't that the name of that guy's uncle?"

Leon signalled to a sullen looking monkey, sat on a wall by himself. As people passed they would call names at him or throw paper. Judging by the pile around his ankles, many people had resorted to paper throwing.

"his name's Andrew. He's in my math class"

"he doesn't look very popular"

"he isn't. Ever since Andross went into exile all those years ago, Andrew hasn't had any friends"

Wolf looked at the boy pitifully. To think he was related to an emperor

"maybe we should go talk to hm"

They went over to the boy on the wall, who hadn't noticed them pointing or talking about him. He didn't even know they were there.

"hi"

"GAH! What do you want?!"

"You're related to Andross, aren't you?"

"I am SICK of people asking me that! Yes I am! And no matter what people think of him, I-"

"whoa, that's awesome!"

"-and he is a- wha-?!"

"your uncle killed my enemy's dad!"

"Yeah! His enemy took his eye out!"

"he didn't take it out, Leon, he just gave me this"

andrew was getting confused. These boys were talking to him? Nobody ever spoke to him, but they were almost envious of his connection to andross.

"anyways, I'm Wolf O'Donnel, this is leon"

"Hi Andrew, you're in my math class"

The boys began to ask Andrew questions about his beloved uncle, all of which they seemed genuinely impressed by the answers. By the end of the afternoon, Wolf and Leon were walking around with Andrew as if they'd know him for years. Their classmates weren't happy about this, but they just ignored them, and laughed together as they counted the paper balls one by one.

Chapter 4: The final piece

A week later. The boys had graduated high school, and were sat in the local field together, final grades in hand. Wolf had just finished telling andrew about his eyepatch.

"How my uncle would love to hear that. Someone who actually knew McCloud before his dad died..."

Andrew suddenly went quiet, as if deep in thought.

"what's up, Andrew?"

"I need to speak to my uncle anyway. I'm his only living relative, so he does spare some concern for my grades in between all the evil emperoring. I don't think he even knows I've graduated yet. So maybe I could...take you to my uncle?"

"whoa, you'd do that?"

"sure, I need to go myself anyway, so why not? give me a second..."

Andrew picked up his cell phone and disappeared. Wolf and Leon began to talk excitedly

"wow, to think he'd tell an emperor about me."

"see. Good things do come with a single eye"

5 minutes later, Andrew returned, with a smile on his face.

"A ship is coming, it'll be here any second!"

Sure enough, a large ship soon landed before them. Andrew led them in.

Leon and Wolf looked around in awe, they'd never been in a space craft before.

"ok, I'm going to the cockpit. I suggest you look out the windows, just to remember the way"

Andrew went through to the cockpit, and the two boys laughed. They had a lot of experience of looking out of windows. the ship took off rather shakily, and threw them backwards until it left the planet. When the craft became stable, they took a look around.

"flashy ship, isn't it , Leon? Skylight, carpet.."

"it's even got cup holders!"

"what?"

Leon grinned and suggested that they looked outside. They went up to a window and looked out.

"hmm, star, star, star, planet, star....."

"...star, asteroid, star...wait a minute!"

"ASTEROID!!"

the ship jerked violently to one side and narrowly missed the collision.

"Andrew, sir, do you think maybe I should drive again?"

"Uncle andross wants me to learn, and the best way to learn is through experience"

The ruffian sighed and braced himself for more asteroids. He knew it was best to make Andross happy, but he wished that Andross had a more experienced nephew.

Every 5 minutes, the boys were thrown to another side of the ship as Andrew attempted to steer to the ship. They tried to look outside, but either lost interest by the 20th star or randomly hurtled to the opposite side.

Eventually, they landed on Venom. The ruffian scarcely believing he was still alive. The three boys left the ship and Andrew led them to a large base.

"bing. Andross is in a conference, but will finish shortly. bing"

They waited and waited until a large pig came through the door. Much older than them.

"oh great, kids. what are you doing here?"

"A more important question. What are YOU doing talking to my uncle?"

"uncle?...oh, Andrew! I hardly recognised you, it's been a long time. So who are these?"

"we're Andrew's friends"

a thought passed through Andrew's mind that made him smile. He had friends!

"well, Andrew, why don't you introduce me to these friends of yours?"

"uh, this is leon, and this is wolf. He hates fox McCloud because he took his eye out in middle school"

"he did NOT take it out, he just damaged it"

"McCloud you say? Son of James?"

"yeah, why?"

"I knew James! I betrayed him and his do gooder friend into Andross's hands, he died because of me!"

"whoa"

"Pigma Dengar's the name. Honoured. Andrew, Andross is busy, but should be able to spare some time for his nephew. You boys stay out here, and tell me more about this patch....."

Andrew went through the door, slightly nervous. His uncle was emperor after all.

"h-hi uncle"

"Andrew! My nephew, what brings you here?"

"well, I've graduated now, straight As in geography. But there's another reason I came here, uncle. concerning the people I brought with me"

"I don't see anyone"

"they're outside. Talking to pigma. They're my friends"

"I didn't know you had friends"

" well, I do now. well, there's this guy called leon. he knows a lot about torture"

"hmm, he could be useful..."

"but I'm here because of Wolf, he wears an eyepatch because fox McCloud almost took his eye out in 9th grade"

"McCloud!? Son of James?"

"the very one, uncle. He hates fox, and his frog friend"

"I belive this is the chance for you to do me proud. You and your friends, with pigma's experience, can help the venomian troops. That wolf may have useful background information. Run to him at once and get to the hangar. You will find something waiting for you....."

Chapter 5: We Meet Again.....

"Flashy suits, fancy ships, where does your uncle get this stuff?"

Wolf zipped up his suit, Andrew had taken them all to a Venomian hangar, four ships and some flight suits had been waiting for them. Being slightly bashful, Wolf had gone behind one of the ships.

"my uncle's an overlord, he gets what he wants. I can't believe we're doing this!"

"yeah. Hey Wolf! If we're gonna be fighting starFOX, why not make a cool name of our own?"

"nice idea, leon"

"you can be leader, as you hate fox so much, so we'll be called star WOLF!"

"I don't know how you make these up. still, you were always a daydreamer. what about the ships?"

"they have arwings...what about wolfwings?"

"I think wolfens sounds better" Pigma put in

"well, really they should be named after andrew or something"

"wolfen sounds better"

They all agreed on the ships and team being named after wolf. Wolf himself wasn't too sure but it was 3 to 1 anyway. Pigma had explained starfox to them, and it angered wolf that fox and frog boy were still friends. Pigma told them about each member at length, the team history, all their pros and cons that he knew of, and being a former pilot, had to take on the duties of training them. Wolf and Leon had to start from the very beginning, but it wasn't like Andrew was easy to teach either. instead of knowing nothing. He thought he knew too much and insisted he could do things properly, only for him to fail.

After months of training, Pigma said they were ready. Being lazy, he couldn't be bothered teaching them anymore, even though they had a great deal left to learn. He didn't think of the trouble he'd get into for sending the boys into battle unprepared, and it had slipped his mind that he would be in the battle alongside them, and they would be depending on his example.

"Recieving transmission!"

they ran over to where Andrew was stood, in front of a large monitor. A ruffian appeared on screen

"Gordon, what's wrong?"

"Andrew, sir, we need you to come from Venom. Starfox have reached Fichina and we need backup!"

there was a flash and the transmission broke. Andrew sighed

"shot down....never mind him now! Wolf, lead us to Fichina!"

"uh, I don't know the way"

"wha-? Leon?"

"nope, me neither"

"pigma?"

"my memory's rusty"

"you guys. I told you to look out of the window all that time ago, remember?"

"we did"

"then why don't you know how to-"

"we failed geography!" Wolf and Leon said in unison. Andrew rolled his eyes

"fine, I'll lead the way"

They leapt into the wolfens and left the hangar, following Andrew, they shakily made their way to Fichina.

"A bomb has been planted at the base"

"what? ROB can't be serious! I'll deal with the bomb, you guys stay here"

Fox swerved his ship in the direction of Fichina base, when a signal came through on his radar. one, no, two, what? four? then a message came on his intercom system that almost turned him to ice

"we can't let you do that, starfox"

It couldn't be the same wolf. but the eye patch, the voice, it could only be..

"surprised to see me after all these years? well I'm not surprised. At last, after all this time, I can make you pay for what you did to me! You too Frog boy"

Fox gritted his teeth, slippy made no attempt to remain calm, he was freaking out

However, it has starfox who had the last laugh. As sure enough, the boys watched pigma closely. that was when he remembered that for all of his battles, he had depended on peppy and james. But peppy was against him now, and his team mates were depending on him.Within about 10 minutes, a harsh exchange of laser fire had taken Pigma down. This led the boys into panic. Andrew had more experience, but wolf was the leader, and as much of a learner as the others. Soon enough, Andrew was shot down, and it left Leon and Wolf together. four experienced pilots against two young novices was hardly fair, for a second, fox managed to look into the two cockpits and saw in their eyes the fear that they were trying so hard to hide. He wanted to slightly easier on them, having no grudge against wolf himself, he actually felt guilty, but he knew his duty and what he had to do.

When Leon's ship crashed to the ground, Wolf's concentration quickly began to break. it was now 4 on 1, if his lack of experience even made him count as a single pilot. He targeted Slippy, but look through his cockpit to see a nova bomb headed in his direction that was too close to avoid. so he simply shut his eyes and looked away.

The starfox team flew away, fox looking regretfully at the ground beneath him. Starwolf were either out cold or unable to move.

"Pigma nonwithstanding, I feel kinda bad at doing that. Poor kids, led astray at such a young age. They look no older than you three, if not by a year or two" peppy sighed.

Wolf eventually gathered the strength to sit upright. He had landed in a bed of snow. they all had, as Fichina had plenty of it. He looked over at his team, also in bad shape, but at least able to sit.

Andrew pulled out a holographic transmitter.

"Andrew, what is it? How you taken down starfox?"

"I'm really sorry uncle, but they got through. We gave it our all uncle, we're really sorry..."

"being your first fight, I have to sympathise. What you need are ships with higher capabilities. head to fichina base, I will send over ships immediately. Heal yourselves. you never know when another mission will arise"

The transmission ended and andrew put the machine away.

"well, we need any form of ship at all if we want to get off this planet. the wolfens seem to no longer exist"

"come on guys. Uncle andross said go inside. apparently there's some supplies inside"

They all trooped into the base to heal their wounds. but that wasn't the last they saw of starfox.....

Chapter 6: An Empire Falls

Wolf winced as he dabbed at his arm. He felt slightly sick at being shot down by starfox, but his team didn't see it that way. They were slightly proud at still being alive after their first battle.

"so we're gonna get better ships, Andrew?"

"that's right leon. even stronger and faster than before!"

"hey wolf, new ships! what do ya think of that?!"

"heh, ok I suppose. Glad your uncle doesn't blame us for what happened"

Pigma listened to the boys chattering. He felt slightly responsible for what had happened. Of course, it was most likely entirely his fault, but he didn't want to think that.

"wait a second. Andrew. What did your uncle mean when he said 'another mission'?"

"I don't know, maybe he wants to pit us against starfox again"

"what? after we lost? They'll be laughing so hard we'd have to call the fight off!"

"Uncle andross blamed the ships.and it was our first try. At least we'll know what to expect"

Wolf looked over at Leon and andrew properly. they were sporting simple cybernetics now

"aaah!"

"hm, oooh don't worry about this, buddy. it's gonna protect my face and it looks good!" leon laughed.

Pigma had put on eye protectors.

"hey, pigma" leon pointed out "your eyes are red"

"it's a tint from the lenses"

Wolf was obviously least damaged, and aside from a few bandages here and there, had a little plaster on his face.

"Wolf.." Leon said quietly "..I was looking up at you guys before I passed out and, well, that Fox seemed kinda hesitant. That could count as a valuable weak point"

Wolf was slightly tired, and the boys decided to rest. the floor was comfortable enough.

Pigma laughed quietly and the now sleeping teenagers. Like babies having a nap. But they were exausted after their fight, and another could crop up at any given moment.

"Andrew? Andrew, sir. Come in!"

andrew was woken by a message coming through on the monitor. he scrambled to his feet and hurried to the monitor, poking his team mates as he went to wake them up.

"Reeve! what's going on? Where are you? It looks bad."

"Andrew sir, it's Venom!"

"VENOM?!" all of the boys yelled in surprise.

"starfox have penetrated out defenses.If they get past our final line...I won't say it.."

"My uncle's on Venom!" Andrew panicked.

"that's why I'm not saying it...."

another flash and the transmission halted.

"why can't they out a shield up before transmitting?"

They ran for the wolfens and Wolf led the way, aside from andrew having to give him occasional directions. Venomian lines looked badly battered already. Scrap metal was everywhere they looked, along with other debris from asteroids and such. They flew closer to the planet, knowing that it had to end and now.....

"what a deserted place"

"come on, we gotta go now, andross is down there and we have to stop him!"

"Not so fast, McCloud!"

Fox swerved and saw to his horror a squad of slightly different, yet overly familliar ships flying toward them. Fox felt bad already, but kept firm and pressed the button to talk to his team

"OK guys, hang tight. Remember the weak spot and go!"

As the words passed fox's lips, a ruthless barrage of fire flew straight at pigma. They had all seen the reaction from the boys once pigma was gone, as he was the only experienced pilot. Pigma realised just what he'd done, claiming the boys were ready, unfortunately he only realised when a nova bomb was seconds away from smashing his cockpit.

"ok, ok, guys, stay calm. Pick a target and give it your all!" Wolf panted. His hurried breaths were an obvious sign that he was far from calm himself, but they attempted to follow his word.

The boys split up and fired at their targets, wolf, attempting to fire at two ships at once, was having trouble. But the worst trouble had yet to come...

"aaaah! I'm down!"

Andrew's ship hurtled to the ground. Leon and Wolf became nervous, but as andrew fell, he used his last power to fire a nova bomb of his own, bringing slippy down and the nearest arwing, peppy's, with it.

Leon fired relentlessly at falco. but falco, being a ace pilot, cornered him and shot his ship down.

"hey, bird boy"

"wha-?"

"think fast!"

Fox and Wolf were left in the air, wolf's ship was in terrible shape. Fox's however, had barely a scratch. Wolf's lasers were almost out and his shielding was no more. He was maddened by this disadvantage, but knew he had no chance. Fox felt the guilt growing. as much as he didn't want to do it. he had to. As he charged up a nova bomb, fox spoke to wolf.

"..wolf?.."

"...yes fox?.."

"....I'm....I'm...sorry....."

Wolf gazed up at the arwings flying away, they were battered, but at least able to fly. he saw fox go inside the base. He wanted to shout, but felt too weak and the world was going black......

"Wolf? Wolf, are you alive?"

Wolf pulled himself up painfully and saw pigma and andrew. they had crawled over from another part of the battle field to see wolf and Leon, who was a matter of paces away, still out of it.

"ah, good, you are, and we know leon is, he's talking in his sleep. Me and andrew didn't know whether or not you were ok"

"ooooh" Andrew groaned "I haven't been in this much pain since the 10th grade routine physical"

"Leon?" wolf crawled over and poked his friend "wake up"

He sat up, looking dazed

"annoying bird....I am the great leon..."

"dude, wake up, quick. the ground's moving. I think it's coming from that big hole"

he pointed to the entrance of the base. they all edged away.

A huge burst of flames shot out from the base entrance, they saw a battered looking arwing flying away. An explosion followed and threw the boys at least another metre away. Andross was nowhere to be seen.

"UNCLE ANDROSS!"

Andrew was horrified.his only living relative, gone. Wolf and Leon both put an arm around their friend, who was trying desperately not to cry.

a ruffian flew down to the site, expecting it to be empty, but instead he found a pig and three frightened looking young boys.

"hey..you're related to the emperor"

"...former...emperor..."

"you look in awful shape"

the ruffian brought out a transmitter and spoke to another ruffian

"Bob, prepare Sargasso, we have visitors"

he shut the machine and turned to the boys

"you need to get off this planet before authorities arrive. and I know just the place for you. Will a cargo storage do for travel?"

"anything, we just need to get off this planet"

the ruffian helped them into the cargo storage of the ship and took off, wolf looked over at leon, comforting Andrew again.

"sargasso? life isn't making sense anymore..."

end of chapter 6

[Robotic Nightmare]

:P WOW COOOOOOOOOOOL

**> Please do not quote the whole story, it just wastes database space, as well as screen space. ~DZ

[TakeWalker]

*Mod-Edit*

*>Calm down, now. Don't know how I missed this yesterday... ~DZ

[Black-Cat]

*Tries to calm Takewalker*

[Robotic Nightmare]

*Mod-Edit*

eeep!!! ok

[DZComposer]

Please do not quote entire long posts like that just to say "cool."

It just wastes space. Not only on other users' screens, but on our database server as well since the story is essectially being stored twice.

[Sol-Ratcht Saporro]

*Mod-Edit*

What curse word starts with a "J"? Just curious....

[TakeWalker]

Actually, that editing was self-imposed. Let it not be said I am without propriety.

Also, check your PMs...

[Robotic Nightmare]

Please do not quote entire long posts like that just to say "cool."

It just wastes space. Not only on other users' screens, but on our database server as well since the story is essectially being stored twice.

ok sorry about that. :P

[Guest Whirlpool]

That was an awesome take on how StarWolf came together.

You could work on the capitalizations though, but other than that it's great. :D