Dead Starfox Rising 1 (Rated M for Blood, Violence & Some Language)

[Guest Mr. Mario]

but anyways, how is he?? I always loved when he would go

[glow=BLUE,2,300]FIRE THE HYPER CANNON!!!!!!!![/glow]

He is all right, right now we can't guarantee he'll be here soon.

i read a bit of the first part of this fanfic... i thought "hmmm,,, woa.. wat???" (zombies) i hadn't read any more because i hadn't gotten a chance to read it, but i say, its good anyways.. i hope i could read it all in at least a week

Glad you like it.

As for everyone...sorry for the hold up, I wasn't feeling very well to write the next chapter, but now you should see chapter 9 soon this week.

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Chapter IX

                                                        Time until Helicopter arrival:

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“Fox…where are you taking me?” Krystal asked while she groaned in pain when she held her arms tight around my neck to make sure she didn’t fall off of me.

“I’m taking you somewhere safe; you will not be left alone.” I said while exiting the nearly-empty store that was near a camera store in North Plaza. The zombies were growing in huge groups by now, I’m not even sure how the zombies keep coming back after I killed thousands of them...since I’m doing Krystal a friendly favor by taking her to the security room, I will be limiting my attacks on the zombies so that way I don’t let Krystal fall off of my back, instead of using my blaster or bare hands, I had to use my red boots I have worn since the Aparoid invasion, I cannot tell if they are still clean or have some blood marks on them, it’s like using a paintbrush with red color on the tip and painting something that already has red but…if someone with eagle eyes can identify a spot, they could be lucky to have that special ability…unfortunately, I am not one of them that has the power, I am just a normal vulpine.

There were no zombies in the way for me to get to the exit of North Plaza and get out to Leisure Park; it was a good thing since I am carrying somebody in need of safety before becoming a snack for the hungry zombies. No matter what the consequences were, I had to make sure to not release Krystal off of my back or else there would be a possibilty of death to her which...if she died, not only will the truth disappear but...my heart for her would go away.

"Doing all right there, Krystal?" I asked her while running in a big pond to avoid zombie contact.

"Yeah...I am..." She answered.

The entrance to Paradise plaza is not too far from where I currently standing, the edge of the pond. There weren't any signs of the convicts I saw eariler right now but I bet they're at the other side of the mall. Trying to forget the convicts, I stumbled to the entrance to Paradise Plaza, I carefully pushed the door open while I felt a grip coming from Krystal's hands, probably is holding on to me tight.

The mall was always packed with the usual big groups of zombies, I didn't have much weapons on me now but my blaster, if I can somehow find a queen, I can take out those groups of zombies. Suddenly I halted when I saw a group of people dressed in some orange raincoats along with somebody wearing some chuch clothing and also carrying a sword.

"Fox...what are you doing?" Krystal asked.

"Shh, I want to know what they are up to." I said, watching the raincoats.

"Behold! The end of the world is upon us!  Death itself has overflowed upon this world, defiling us all!" The lizard in some chuch clothing said while holding up a sword. The members of the raincoats putted something in the box, I couldn't tell what it was though.

"The only path to salvation of the soul is the purging of the tainted blood!!" The lizard said.

I watched the box get closed up and as I really couldn't do anything since I have to take Krystal to the security room, I was about to walk off when...

"Ahh... A nonbeliever in our midst!" The lizard pointed his sword at me while the raincoat members turned and looked at me, this doesn't look good...zomibes PLUS raincoat members, how bad could it be?

"If we are to achieve salvation, his blood must flow! He must be purged! Spill his blood! The blood of the hetric!!" The lizard than ran away to a movie theater, leaving the raincoat guys in groups to go after me. Looks like I've got myself a date!

"Hold on tight, Krystal!!" I said in a loud tone.

Assuming she heard my command, she gripped her arms tight around my neck and I quickly ran away from the raincoats. I need to get back to the warehouse before I lose her or get capured.

"Take him down, don't let him get away!!" One of the raincoats shouted while walking slowly to me.

Too busy to turn around and react, I quickly entered the warehouse so now no raincoat could get me and also get to the security room...

*  *    *

"Man, Fox sure does take a long time to get here..." Falco groaned while losing his patience.

"Just wait, Falco. There could be a chance Fox will be here. He is not dead." Katt said while watching the monitor screens.

The door opened after a short time of waiting, Falco jumped a little bit in surprise and watched me get to the janitor's room along with Krystal.

"No way, that's Krystal?! Is she hurt?" Falco asked while he watched me put Krystal on the mattress.

"Yeah...you're looking at Panther's asisstance." I responded.

"Panther? The one who caused all of this zombie outbreak?" Katt asked.

"Righty-O. The a**hole that caused this outbreak." I responded again.

"Krystal...is Panther's asisstanc? What the hell is going on here? I mean does this have anything to with the announcement eariler?" Falco asked.

"Sorry I didn't really pay attention to the announcement eariler. I don't know much more than you at this point, ok. But...Panther shot her, I can tell you that. And just so you know, that would be the same guy who shot you." I explained a bit while I was about to exit the room.

"What is Panther after? What is his ultimate goal?" Falco asked again.

"I don't know but according to Krystal...his plan isn't over, not yet at least." I said.

"Fine, consider Krystal in my custody. I'll question her when she wakes up." Falco told me and stood next to a doorway near a closet to where Peppy was. I left the room and got to do a few things to kill some time...

The words keep chanting in my head: Krystal...Krystal...Krystal...

*  *  *

"Fox, you may..." Katt was about to finish.

"Yeah, I know." I said while wiping some blood off of my face.

Krystal's eyes slowly opened a bit, her ears twitched twice on each side. She got up from the mattress and noticed Falco was staring at her, I on the other hand was paying attention to the closet.

"Now let me guess...you're still the Krystal we know, right?" Falco asked her.

"Yes, yes I am, don't be a idiot." She responded.

"Well then Krystal...this is a emergency so we'll skip the formalities and cut to the chase. Consider this an offical interrogation. Tell me everything that you know right now." Falco said, waiting for Krystal to explain.

"Fine, I'll tell why all of this is their fault. There is no drug trade in Cerinia, nothing was at Cerinia. Over at Venom there is a research facility. They were doing research on some sort of parasitic insect. Like a wasp, a wasp that turns living things to zombies. If you don't believe me, not only should you ask Andross but also the rabbit who was in charge of the research, the head of the research facility...Peppy...Hare!!" She explained to all of us.

A noise was made inside the closet door, leaving us what that could be. Katt decided to get up and see for herself...she placed her hand on the doorknob...then came Peppy out of the closet, he started to hold Katt.

"Katt!!" Falco shouted, taking out his blaster. Peppy turned his attention to Krystal.

"It's started! He's turning!!" She cried.

Peppy got on top of Katt while Falco was charging up his blaster.

"Hey, don't shoot!" I said, running close to Peppy and Katt.

"Oh no you don't!!" I shouted while kicking Peppy off of Katt. He manged to fall againest a cabinet and slide down to the floor. We all stared at Peppy as he lied down motionless. Then Peppy got up and started to fall back down as I approched him.

"I...I'm a...zombie?" Peppy asked, he coughed a bit.

I leaned down next to him and said "Tell me the truth Peppy, were you conductin experiments with zombies?"

"Zombies? Yes...we were...conducting...experiments to...reduce the costs of breeding... we accidentally...made zombie livestock." Peppy explained and coughed again.

"So what? The whole story about Cerinia was a cover-up?" I asked.

"What do you know?!? We were trying to mass produce products. Do you have any...idea how much food...everyone in Lylat consume...in a single day? That research... was absolutely necessaryyyyyyy. I...haven't done anything.......wrong....." Peppy said, then he fell down to the floor and has a spaz attack, then he died shortly.

"One day...in Cerinia...the people turned to zombies...those damn wasps...they escaped from Venom. It wasn't long before they got to work...the zombies spread...something was called in...they killed everyone and blew up Cerinia...and I'm the only...survivor...my parents were killed..." Krystal started to cry shortly, I went over to her and patted her back with my right hand.

A sound was made behind me, Falco pointed his blaster behind me and said "Move..."

Too late. I couldn't move at all. Peppy by now turned to a zombie and was coming to me, Falco quickly shot down Peppy.

"So the terrorism is a retaliation for a cruel cover-up? Sounds plausible...or it could be some serious bullsh*t. In either case, we have to get out of here alive if we want to find out for sure." Falco said, he checked Katt.

Krystal pushed me back a little bit and got up to go near Katt, where Falco was. Krystal said "We have to check if she's been bitten. Let me take a look. I'm a telepath with some pyschic powers. I could be useful if you let me do my job. I kow I have no right to ask but...please let me help. If you don't get out of here, the truth of the outbreak dies with you."

Falco rolled his eyes for a bit and said "All right, if allowing you to atone for you and Panther's schemes makes things go more smoothly for us...I'm all for it." He said. Then a announcement came over the intercomm:

"Krystal...I'm so sorry! I never ment to shoot you...now I've gone and hurt you...Please..forgive Panther...Please come back to me. I know you can hear me, Krystal!! I'm sorry you had to get wrapped in all this...but you know...you know Panther is right! Come back to me, Krystal!! There are still things you need to do...Panther can't do this without you...please..."

"Who was that?" Falco asked.

"It's Panther, pretty obvious since he speaks 3rd-person." I responded, we waited a bit more time...then another announcement came:

"Krystal! Panther doesn't know if you're listening to this or not but...he's made up his mind. This is the last resort. Panther is going to end it all. Panther is sorry that he got you involved in all this..."

Now what Panther said over the intercomm didn't sound good at all, especially with the word 'last.'.

"Exactly what is this 'last resort' talk all about?" Falco asked, getting his equipment ready.

"Panther said...that he'd blow up the mall if he were cornered." Krystal answered. I laughed a bit.

"Damn! We've got a regular suicide bomber on our hands!" Falco cried out.

"It's worse than what you are thinking...the explosion would send the parasitic larvee into Lylat." Krystal said.

"What?! He plans to spread zombies outside of Corneria?! Is he insane?!" Falco yelled.

"If that bomb goes off, there'll be nowhere to run. The zombies will be everywhere." I said, my ears twitched slightly.

"Panther is planning to flood the area underneath the mall with flammable gas, then set it off. If you could take care of the bombs while the gas concentration is still low..." Krystal was about to finish...

"There's a chance we could stop the explosion." Falco said, then he looked at me and said "Come on, we've got a mission to do!!" He then exited the janitor's room without me.

"I'll wait for you here, Fox. I'll tell you the locations of the bombs when you get underneath." Krystal told me while she took out her walkie-talkie and winked at me. I couldn't reply to her now since...oh crud, almost forgot again. I've got a score to settle with Ryan!!

*  *    *

I quickly arrived at Columbian Roastmasters to see Ryan this time not only use his camera but...his gun, he was pointing it at a survivor tied up 9 feet away from me. Ryan took notice of me and said "Ah, Foxie! Good timing! I was uh...just about to shoot my..."

Ryan kissed his handgun and said "Piece de resistance!! I'm gonna capture on film the exact moment that a animal crosses into zombiehood!!" He then threw the larvee right next to the tied up survivor, I had to act fast or else the survivor would die. I decided to quickly stomp on the larvee and watched Ryan change his expression and mood

"My shot...y-you ruined my perfect shot!" He stammered and acted quite like a crybaby. He then pulled out his gun and aimmed it at my face, looks like the battle begins.

I ran away from Ryan and hid in a shoe store until he found me, once he setted his foot in the store, I jumped out of action and started throwing some punches at him. He then tried to push me off but he was getting weaker and weaker until...

He laid down on the floor, on his back. He struggled to get up from the ground. He then took out his camera and said "Do it, Fox...take my picture...It'll look great on your mantle." He then handed it over to me.

I looked at his camera for a bit and I thought at the first moment when I looked at it 'Your camera sucks, mine is better cause it has HD.'

I tossed his camera aside of Ryan as he watched it crashed, he then didn't say anything and he shutted his eyes slowly, assuming that he is dead. Now with nobody in my way to stop me or waste time, I've gotta take care of the bombs before this whole place blows up...I promise Krystal, I will NOT let you down!!

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Chapter X

                                                        Time until Helicopter arrival:

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I arrived in the parking lot at Leisure Park outside of the mall, doing a risky task of taking out Panther's bombs he placed underneath the mall of Corneria, if I failed to collect all of them on time, the mall would blow up and also send those nasty larvee all around Lylat, spreading very quickly and killing all of the living things. There weren't any zombies in the parking lot, just a motercycle that almost looked like the one Krystal rode back when I...had to fight her at North Plaza. Seeing as if I didn't use the motercycle and I only ran, time would already be up and I would take a long time to recover my speed, so I hopped on to the motercycle and turned on the engienes. I gripped my hands tight on the wheel and began to drive to the underside of the mall.

Once I got inside, there were loads of zombies wandering around, the only choice I had was to run them over but I need to be careful though cause if I run over too many of them, the motercycle will lose speed and break. So I had to do my best to avoid the zombies while collecting the bombs located throughout here. I swerved left and right to avoid colliding with zombies and looked around the underground area for the bombs. I heard a truck honking behind me, so I turned around to see that Panther was driving the truck and that he was about to kill me if I was too slow to get the bombs or keep away from him, I'll probably have to avoid at all costs.

I quickly drove to the left side and kept avoiding the colliding with zombies while I drove forward up the hill. There were 2 trucks I could see that didn't move, one was just parked and the other had a flat tire. I decided to park near the truck with the flat tire and get off my motercycle...Panther was nowhere to be seen.

I quickly walked to the back door of the truck and opened it to see some stacks of some suitcases with some timer ticking on the front of them, only 75 seconds remained from the explosion so I had to hurry and find a nearby shopping cart to take these out of...once I found myself a cart, I carefully stacked the bombs together onto the cart and I hurried down the hill and running out to the park, now only 30 seconds remain until exploison....

*    *    *

Panther got out of the truck and escaped in the warehouse with his blaster, Falco soon caught noticed of him and chased after Panther.

They both went inside the warehouse and they together began firing their blasters at each other. Both Panther and Falco hid behind a shelf and took another shot at each other...

"We got rid of your bombs, this is as far as you go today. Just give up and surrender!!" Falco said. A zombie crept up to him and was about to have a feast on him until he quickly shot his blaster to the zombies head. Falco then leaned againest the shelf and paused for a moment, he then dashed around the corner and fired more of his blaster at Panther as they both jump. The plasma ball hitted Panther in the chest as Falco fell down, Panther then dropped his blaster and slid toward Falco. He walked towards Panther with his blaster raised.

"Your days are over Panther, you're finished." Falco said again.

Panther letted out his knife and charged to Falco, they both came in contact together as Panther pushed his arms closer to Falco to stab him with the knife, Falco used his strength to keep the knife away from him before he could get killed. They both struggled againest each other and continued to push and pull away the knife Panther had, he thought of something clever, he stabbed Falco in the back and kicked him out of the warehouse to the underground area. Panther walked to the opened door, gave a smirk to Falco and closed it. Falco moved around in the dark then turned on his flashlight to see nothing but a horde of zombies in front of him.

"Well sh*t...I'm done for." he said.

*  *  *

Back at the parking lot, I quickly ran away from the shopping cart that was full of bombs. The timer on the suitcases went to 0 now, so now they were ready to explode, only the larvee wouldn't be spread all around Lylat. The cases quickly exploded and within some impact sent me flying away from it, I crashed to a wall near the entrance to the underground access. It didn't hurt that much on me but I had a little bit of trouble getting back on solid ground. Once I landed my feet back on the ground, my walkie-talkie went off, so I answere it before it would leave a message...

"Fox, sounds like you took care of the bombs. How is Falco?" Katt asked over the line.

"The bombs are over and done with, Falco...probably went after Panther." I responded.

"Ok, report back at the security room, Fox." Katt said and hung up.

"Yeah..." I said. Before I needed to head back to the security room, I went back to the underground access of the mall to see if Falco was still down there taking care of Panther... I heard someone coughing up ahead in my path, I didn't know who though so I took a flashlight out and shined around myself, I saw a blue bird leaning aginest the wall coughing...looks like it is Falco.

"Falco? Falco?" I called out to see if he responded.

"Fox! Don't get any closer!" Falco cried and slowly backed up from Fox. Falco resumed "Stay away Fox! Don't get near me!"

"What's the matter Falco? Are you hurt? I'm comin over there... we'll go back together, if you are hurt, I'll patch you up." I said while getting closer to Falco. I shined my light down on him and noticed that in the area of Falco's stomach it was open revealing some...nasty things. I knelt beside Falco.

"Look I'm screwed...it doesn't hurt...not even a little...I'm already dead. Fox...don't tell Katt about this." Falco said and pointed his blaster at me. I stood back and decided to leave the underground area of the mall and head to the security room, I also can't tell Katt about Falco's death though...if I hide it from her for long, she'll...probably flip.

*  *  *

I arrived in the security room, leaving only me, Katt and Krystal the only people inside the Janitor's room, Slippy was outside the room.

Katt saw me enter the room and asked "As soon as Falco gets his hands on that cat, I guess it'll be case closed huh?"

I nodded my head and kept the secret on Falco's true fate on what really happened to him, I turned my attention to Krystal and asked "You know of anything else Panther could be planning?"

Krystal looked at me with her eyes glittering at me, she said "No...nothing but the bombs. He's got his computer hidden away. I'm sure there's plenty of information on it."

"Can you take me there to his hideout?" I asked.

Krystal answered in a sedcutive tone "Yes I can."

She then got up from the mattress and exited the Janitor's room and out to the rooftop, I assumed that I needed to follow her so I said to Katt that "I'll be right back." and went out the door to see Slippy snickering a bit near the ducts. I decided not to talk to him and got inside the duct that led me to the rooftop.

Once I arrived, the sky was sunset...it was almost night-time. The orange-pinkish clouds were so beautiful to look at...my attention to Krystal was losing so I had to look at her insted of the clouds that were reflecting the light.

Krystal then took out her blaster and said "Let's get moving." She then walked to the elevator on the right side. She waited for me to get near the elevator. Once I quickly caught up with Krystal, she pressed the down button on the side and the elevator doors slid open, she got inside and waited for me, when I got in, she pressed the button that would take us both down to the warehouse near Paradise Plaza...and we waited until we heard a 'ding' and saw the doors slid open again to the warehouse.

Krystal got out of the elevator and walked to the entrance of Paradise Plaza, she opened the door and closed it when I got out of the warehouse. The numbers of the zombies now didn't seem that many as the last time I saw them but I still have to be careful not to get myself tied up nor Krystal.

She then ran to the entrance doors that led outside to Leisure Park, she got outside and fired her blaster a couple of times at some zombies that were blocking the doors for me to use, once it got cleared up, she opened the door for me and ran quick to find the entrance to North Plaza, I made sure not to lose her trail and also not get near a zombie.

She went up the stairs and waited for me to catch up to her, I quickly ran to her and stopped to catch a few breathers. Then I was ready to go. Krystal opened the door to North Plaza and walked inside, holding my arm tight with her hand that she used for her blaster. She walked to a gap with a sign that pointed out to a store located there and walked striaght foreward until she came upon 2 sides each with a stack of boxes. She took the left side and released me from her hand. She climbed up to the stack of the boxes and opened a hatch that led possibly to Panther's hideout.

"Here it is...let's go." She said and went up in the hatch. I went inside the hideout as soon as Krystal got in, she walked over to a laptop that was sitting on top of a wooden box. She sighed a bit and started typing on the laptop, I looked around the hideout.

A few moments or so, she grunted and said "It's no good, it's password protected. I'll try words we both might know....not sure what though."

I looked at the laptop for a bit and noticed a cord connected to the laptop. I asked "What's this cable?"

"It looks like part of jamming device. I won't be able to disable it unless I log in." She answered and resumed typing. My walkie-talkie went off, so I answered again...

"Fox, you can hear me can't you? Well on one of the monitors, I am seeing a cat or whatever being dragged by some fat frog...I think the cat is Panter." Katt said over the line.

"Where is this?" I asked.

"In North Plaza...right in front of the butcher shop in the supermarket." Katt answered.

"Darn...a butcher shop. Guess I'll order a Panther burger with a side of Krystal and something to drink..." I chuckled a bit.

"Fox!!!" Katt shouted over the line and hung up. I putted away my walkie-talkie and looked at Krystal.

"Fox, what did you say about me being some side order?" she asked me while she raised her eyebrows in concern.

"I was joking man, don't take it seriously." I said and exited the hideout to get to the supermarket where Panther and that fat frog was...I know Slippy may be over-weight but I know he doesn't have the guts to fight Panther.

*  *  *

The butcher dragged Panther over to a meat hook and placed him on it. He then took 2 meat cleavers and started to chop some meat up that was near Panther. I could probably say that the clothing the bucther wore probably has loads of blood stains on it, I could also say that he was probably hungry to try out some fresh meat.

I pushed the door open to the supermarket and noticed Panther was hanging by a meat hook, if I letted Panther be stuck on the hook forever, the truth will die...

I carefully walked to the butcher shop and the frog noticed me, he said "Ah, a customer!' He then laughed and watched me, he held on to his meat cleavers on both his hands.

"That guy, over there...I-I mean, uh...that meat...um..." I couldn't really say much.

The butcher looked at Panther and faced me again, the butcher asked "Oh...this is good meat, huh? I just got it in here. It's fresh!" he laughed and resumed "You just wait right there sir. In a moment, you can try the best ground meat you've ever tasted!"

And this was the idea of the joke I said eariler when Katt called me, but seeing as this is a rather dangerous situation and a crazy talk, I said "Whoa...ground? Wait minute, listen. I had something else in mind..." I was about to finish...

"Zombies are no good!! I can't serve my customers spoiled meat like that. I...have a reputation to uphold!" He then raised his right hand and laughed again. He resumed "Trust me, I'm a butcher! I've the best meat in Lylat!" He then walked over to turn on the meat grinder. Panther's meat hook starts to move toward the conveyor belt. Now was a moment I had to act before Panther gets finished.

I quickly found some other kinds of knives and quickly started to throw at the frog, he felt the pain when they pierced in his stomach and then fell down to the gorund...laughing and dying.

I quickly needed to find that button that was pushed to stop the conveyor belt and Panther's meat hook. Eventually Panther fell down to the ground and started coughing out while looking at me.

"You're finished. It's over." I said.

"What about Krystal?" He asked me.

I kneeled down a little closer to him and said "She is on my side now. She is checking your computer out right now."

Panther's looks changed when I told him about Krystal checking his computer, it was like he was saying 'Oh great, now she'll find out I have been looking at some bad stuff.'....Panther said "My purpose in life...has been to get revenge for what those people did to Cerinia...Krystal's homeworld. Why...why is your meat so much more important to you than life? Why...why did those Cerinians have to die to feed your bellies?"

I grabbed Panther's shoudlers and I said "That doesn't excuse what you've done! You don't even live on Cerinia. You only did this to cheer up Krystal which I don't see any improvement on. I promise though the Cerinia story will be told...but I need the password..."

Panther to close his eyes for a bit, I shooke him and said "Hey...hey! Hey! Stay with me! Give me the computer password!!"

He started laughing at me and said "Hey...aren't zombies great? I mean all they do is eat and eat and eat. Growing in numbers...just like those people in Lylat...It's not over. Not yet..."

I shook Panther again and said "Speak! Speak damn you!! What do you mean it's not over?!"

"I'm sorry Krystal..." Panther removed his locket and gave it to me and said "Give this...to her..." He then passed out.

"Hey...we're not done talking....sh*t!!" I groaned and got out of the supermarket leaving Panther by himself with the butcher. I headed back to see if Krystal cracked the password...

I walked up to Krystal and tapped her on the shoudler, I said "He's dead. All he worried about was you in the end. But he died without telling me a damn thing!!"

Krystal quickly turned around to see me, her tail flicked about 2 times when I told her about the death of Panther. She didn't respond.

"You know I thought he was some terrorist scum. But...in the end all he really cared was you...just you....that cat is a jerk!! Here, he wanted you to have this." I said, handing Krystal the locket I obtained from Panther back at the butcher shop.

She took the locket from my hands and opened it up, she looked at a picture that contained Starwolf with her, Leon, Panther and Wolf together. She started to cry with the locket in her hand...I quickly patted her back to calm her down.

"That word..." She whispered to herself and typed it on the laptop...access was now granted to her.

"So you figured it out?" I asked.

"Yeah I did...but...I honestly don't see what it has to do with Starwolf..." She said, wiping off her tears off her eyes.

The walkie-talkie vibrated in my pocket again, so I answered again and waited to see who it was...to be honest, I don't think Slippy has ever used it since my arrival in the mall...but who cares?

"Fox! The emergency line's been fired up! I'll give headquarters a call. Hold on." Katt said and hung up.

*  *  *

Katt picked up the phone and started to dial the number to contact headquarters and waited on the mattress....a person at HQ picked up the phone and said

"DHS headquarters."

"This is agent Katt Monroe, we have a emergency situation..."

And she talked more about the zombie outbreak here...

*  *  *

"So now what?" Krystal asked me while putting away the laptop.

"I don't know about you but...my ride will arrive here soon. I'm going to leave this mall...and tell them about the outbreak and unfotunately Cerinia too." I said.

"Could I come with you when your ride is here?" She asked me and got a little closer to me...

"Your choice, and this time I mean it. I don't care..." I said, feeling a little bit sorry...

"So if I say yes...we're both leaving this place?" Krystal asked while she kissed me on the lips.

"I guess...since I now have 4 hours remaining, let's head over to the security room." I said, kissing Krystal back.

"What about Falco, Katt and Slippy?" She asked.

"Slippy is coming with too, we both already know about Peppy. Katt is probably going, Falco..." I couldn't finish.

"What happened to Falco? I can tell from your mind you are trying to hide something." Krystal raised her eyebrows at me.

"Falco...is dead. He's a zombie now...he was my best friend, ever since we met..." I started crying thinking about Falco.

"Look I'm sorry I made you-" Krystal was about to finish.

"It's ok. I didn't want to keep it a secret..." I said, I couldn't stop my crying....until the walkie-talkie started to vibrate.

I answered the phone and said "Hello?"

"Fox...it's over...HQ's decided to ignore us." Katt said in a sad tone.

"What?!? What do you mean ignore us?" I shouted over the line.

"I contacted headquarters but...the Cornerian defence forces has decided to deny all knowledge of what happened here." Katt said.

"So you're saying the CDF is responsible for this...aren't you?" I said.

"Possibly...the crew will arrive for cleanup now. They'll take everyone out...zombies, people, everyone..." Katt said and moved to the corner of the mattress, hanging up after that.

It was slightly debatibiltle on who was really responsible in my mind, Panther or the CDF. I was shocked to hear about how Katt mentioned the Cornerian Defence Forces denying what happened here, and to think that the CDF would trust Starfox....

"Now what happened?" Krystal asked me.

"Well...Katt is a DHS agent. She tried to contact HQ to help us out of here but...now they decided to ignore her and now the forces will arrive here any moment now..." I said.

"So we're screwed?" Krystal asked me.

"No...we have my helicopter. Bill will arrive at noon soon and pick me up. And Slippy and you."

"All right." She said and started playing with my fur, kissing me again while closing her eyes. I pushed back a little more and said

"Look, the ticket to pleasure criuse will have to wait, we need to get to the security room now." I said while I got up and decided to get out of the hideout.

"Ok, as you wish." She said in a seductive tone and followed behind me.

[Guest Mr. Mario]

I managed to get out of hatch and climb down the stack of boxes though I probably had one time I was going to slip and break one of my bones. Krystal got out and started to jump onto my back, she wrapped her warm arms around my neck.

"Are you all right?" I asked.

"Yes, I would love to have some company though." She said.

"Whatever..." I responded and headed out to get to the entrance of Leisure Park, the zombies were already dead, I spotted none moving at all. It looked like the military is here now...I'll need to be careful of myself and Krystal now.

I got out to the park and still saw many zombies that were dead on the ground, still none were moving. I could assume that the military's weapon just wipes out the whole zombies but I wonder what weapon they use...probably a firearm. I walked to the right side of the park and entered Paradise Plaza.

By now I had to admit that any zombie that was still living here would already be wiped out by a soldier or maybe a ruffian, it was the only time that I wouldn't go debating on myself on wether to believe what I am seeing or not...

I walked to the left side with Krystal still holding on to me and made my way to the warehouse and eventually the security room....

*  *  *

A sliver-furred monkey dressed in some camoflague uniform looks at the picture of Katt and noticed her sitting on the mattress in the Janitor's room. The monkey putted the picture away and said "Katt Monroe? Talk about your close calls...you contacted us just in time. Your boss thought we should have a talk with you. We'll be taking you into custody. If you sign a agreement to keep your mouth shut about all this, you're free to go."

Katt didn't answer or even look at the monkey at all, she didn;t bother moving at all.

Another soldier was outside the janitor's room where Katt was, only the soldier was standing guard at the door leading to the janitor's room. A sound could be heard inside the room, so the soldier outside decided to look at what it was. He found Katt hunched over the body of a soldier while she graoned and teared off the neck of the victim, the victim screamed hard and died quickly. Katt pulled back and showed her inhuman eyes to reveal that she was infected with the parasite. She quickly had a feast with both shoudlers and left the Janitor's room...

*  *    *

I got out of the ducts and waited for Krystal to get out, we both managed to get out of part of the mall but we weren't on the rooftop as Bill and I planned. I noticed Slippy was not here near the ducts, it made me quite worried for a bit on whether he got taken away by the forces or if he became a zombie...either way, I just hope he isn't killed...

We both entered the manager's room and noticed the 2 dead soldiers covered in blood on the floor.

"Krystal...this doesn't look good..." I said, searching the room....

"Fox, I found Katt's headband. Where do you think she is?" Krystal asked.

"I don't know..." I answered and saw a note on the table that had some terrible hand writting on there... "Krystal, theres a note here..." I said as I read:

Fox, while you were out some crazy people snuck in from the rooftop and started snatchin' people.  I heard a helluva racket coming from where the monitors are, so I'm taking advantage of the confusion and stealing a helicopter!  I might not look the type but I've got a small aircraft pilot's license.  I haven't seen Katt.  There's no time to look for her now.  I've gotta get out of here while the gettin's good.  I hope you don't think I'm a coward.  If we meet on the other side, I definitely owe you a drink.  Good luck, Fox.

Slippy Toad

"So now Slippy just...what did he do?" Krystal asked.

"I don't know...I hope he didn't take my helicopter away." I said while opening the door to get out of the Janitor's room. There was a zombie wandering around that looked liked Katt Monroe...is that really her?

"Fox, watch out!!" Krystal shouted as she fired her blaster at Katt. The plasama hitted Katt and quickly killed her, looks like only me and Krystal were the only ones leaving this mall...

"I'm going to the rooftop now, stay here Krystal." I said while climbing up the stairs and exiting out of the security room. I arrived on the helipad and check my watch to see that the time striked to noon now. I looked up hard in the sky to see that there still was no chopper in sight.

Bill looked through his binoculars and saw me on the roof of the Cornerian mall, he didn't believe that I would make it out of here alive....

"Well I'll be damned...he's still alive! That bi*ch made it! That must mean he got hia scoop...I can't wait to get my share of the take...yee-haw!!" Bill shouted in realif and got to his helicopter to start it up and take me out of here. He flew towards the rooftop of the mall...

"You just hang tight buddy, I'm on my way!!" Bill said.

I walked around the roof to kill some boredom, then suddenly I heard the sounds of a helicopter. I waved my hands up and down to get the attention "Hey Hey! Heeeey! Heeeey! I'm over here!!"

"I see you buddy! I see you! Yeah! Hah ha! I'm on my way! Yeah you did it!! You did it!!" Bill shouted and cheered in the helicopter he was piloting to the rooftop where I was. Just when Bill was about to land the helicopter so me and Krystal could leave, a zombie appeared i the back of the helicopter and grabbed Bill.

I couldn't tell what was happening to Bill so I used my camera's zoom lens and saw a zombiw inside the helicopter with Bill. Then the zombie started to eat up Bill and lost control of the helicopter...then it flew down away from me...a moment of silence occured...

............then a explosion was heard in the distance, I stared on with a blank stare as I watched smoke drift up from the middle of the mall. I fell down to my knees while staring at the somke that continued to rise...now there was nobody to help me and Krystal get out of the mall, just nobody....

I was unable to take what I just saw and I sat motionless...the zombies then started to walk towards me from behind but the current mood I was in blocked out all the traces of the moaning....it was like i didn't care at all...

THE END...? No it can't be!!

I stared at the smoke that was rising, I couldn't move or talk at all...I couldn't even cry. There is still no ride coming to get us now...

Another zombie approached to me on the side of my right arm and suddenly was about to eat me until a plasma ball hitted thorugh his head...it was the mark of a blaster.

"Fox!!!" Krystal called out my name and shot more zombies that wer surrounding herself and me.

She shouted as she moved closer to me "Fox!!! What's the matter with you?! Fox!!!"

I turned my head to see that Krystal was coming to get me, I smiled a bit at seeing her pretty face and then a moment later, I fell down onto my sides...unable to see anything or move or talk...

Krystal picked me up and headed to Panther's hideout...

.........

Once she arrived with me, she putted me on a rug in the hideout. She watched me wake up and look around...she knelt besides me and said "You're awake. Oh thank god...it wasn't easy getting you back here by myself, you know. You...collapsed on the roof."

"I collapsed? No I...wait...does that mean..." I didn't know what to say...

"You...you must have gotten yourself infected somehow." She told me. I started to laugh at her in disbelief.

"The time between infection and zombification differs greatly from person to person...you're lucky Fox. You seem to have a very high level of resistance." Krystal said.

"So uh...so what you're sayin is that I spend longer for the inevitable to happen. Is that it?" I laughed and resumed "You know I'm not sure that lucky is the word I'd use. The helicopter crashed...nobody is coming to help us now...it's over for us, no matter what we do." I said.

"But what if...what if there was some way to impede the infection? If we could extract and administer a large dose of hormones from the corpus allatum of a adult queen...it would potentially hinder the growth of the larvae in your blood, retarding the zombification precess." Krystal explained to me.

"Hand on a damn second there! I don't understand a word you just said...we do we suppose to do?" I asked.

"I'll need certain supplies to get this to work. And Queens...as many as you can get your hands on." Krystal said while she helped me get up.

"All right. Sounds like a plan, sure beats sittin' around here waiting to die." I said and exited the hideout to get the supplies...

Time until Fox's zombification:

24:00

[Guest SCoatiH]

Dang! Fox, do itta fast!

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Chapter XI

                                                        Time until Fox's zombification:

                                                                                            13:46

While I went to get the supplies for Krystal, she waited for me to get back to the hideout so that she could set up the equipment to develop something that from what I would probably guess is to prevent me from becoming a zombie. Krystal thought of some times that I had come to her rescue back during the Saurian crisis where at that time Andross was finally finished and General Scales....his fate is unknown, he could come back here at anytime by using some sort of power to revive the dead, she didn't think that Scales was smart enough to even make some magic like Andross, how he even came back after he's been finished by me multiple times remains shrouded in mystery. Shortly after I convinced her to join Starfox while she was sending me her "Thank you.", I realized that we both would develop a relationship together that we both cannot admit whenever we are near our teammates, mainly Slippy for one but now...with Falco and Peppy gone..plus Katt, Starfox is pretty much dead. I lost my friends...and who knows what Slippy is up to other than he left this place. If anyone were to ask me about if Starfox would ever come back, I would walk away from them and give them a thumbs down, it's too late to look for some recruits, there really wouldn't be much of a chance if Falco or Peppy even survive and wound up at the hospital, they could be dead...Slippy I know escaped, he isn't the mastermind of this outbreak, he doesn't usually have the guts to fight back but...he was my only friend...he hasn't been infected yet from the parasite, or that is what I would assume. Thinking of my teammates at the moment just makes me wonder what is going to happen with only me and Krystal while we're still in the mall, well I know if I don't hurry up and stop this zombification, I'll be next to die, leaving only Krystal unless she didn't make it...

*  *    *

I climbed my way up the hatch to Panther's hideout and took the supplies one-by-one out to the hideout so I wouldn't carry them like a stack of boxes to form a giant tower and eventually drop them. Krystal probably didn't expect me for quite some time until now, she heard my footsteps and waited until I got closer to her to give her the supplies needed for this cure. I managed to collect a lot of Queens that I found in some zombies scattered around the mall. The trouble I had was to avoid the mini-copters made by the Cornerian Defence Forces, plus the soldiers...luckily I haven't gotten myself captured to them...yet.

She took the supplies that I obtained for her and said "This is all I need as far as supplies are concerned, all we need are some queens. I assume you have at least 10, maybe?"

"Yeah uh...listen...just how long do you suppose your...'drug' will prevent me from turning into a walking corpse?" I asked while handing out some queens to Krystal.

"During some of my research, I was never able to conduct proper clinical studies. To a certain extent, the period of effectiveness depends on each patient's physiology. It could be a year...maybe only a week, there is no way to tell for sure." She explained while taking the queens I was giving to her.

"Fannnnn-tastic!! So I'll be a walking zombie time bomb!" I laughed as if I never cared about the situation I was currently dealing with...

"A time bomb?" Krystal said to me in confusion, she looked at the laptop and typed a few things in...

"What's that all about?" I asked her while she was looking at some list.

"Once the drug's development was complete, Panther poured his energy into starting an NPO dedicated to helping war orphans. We had about 50 doses of the drug prepared, not long after that...the NPO managed to find homes for a large group of children. Want to take a guess at just how many?" She asked me while she zoomed in a bit on the names of people that spreaded across Lylat.

"Oh my god...are you saying that he infected these kids and then gave them your drug? That he made about 50 little ticking time bombs?" I was shocked while looking at the list.

"Look Fox, I don't know, I just don't know! It could be possible though..." Krystal sighed a bit.

"Look at this...Macbeth...Titania...Fichina...these kids are spread all over the Lylat System! But...if your theory is correct...Lylat could be crawling with zombies by now! I don't know what's worse...that we don't know for sure or that we can't warn anybody about this." I said and handed her the last queen.

"Well, what we need to do right now is prepare the hormone and get you taken care of." She sighed and started to rub my arms a bit to calm me down...

She then turned her back from me and said "I don't know how long this will take Fox but if you want, you can sit here until I get the drug ready."

I proceeded to sit down on the rug she putted me on earlier and laid down on my back, I then closed my eyes a bit and waited for the time to pass...

......

......

......

I woke up from some of my napping and saw that Krystal was kneeling close to me with the drug to inject into me in her left hand, she nodded her head and waited for me to get up.

"So...you're gonna inject with that huh? OK...let's quickly get this over with." I said and pulled my right arm out for her to inject the drug.

She carefully pinned down the needle on arm and pushed down on the handle to deliver the drug it contained inside, I breathed heavily and made sure not to yell out in pain. I took a sigh and waited for her to take the needle out.

I started to grin and said "At least I won't have to worry about turning into a zombie for a while...OK! Next on the checklist is...figure out a way to get the hell out of here."

"While I was isolating the hormone...I managed to identify a pheromone that suppresses the attack instinct in adult parasites." She said to me.

I nodded my head and waited for her to continue, she resumed "In other words, the zombies don't like the way it smells. I should be able to produce some of this pheromone if given enough time."

I laughed a lot when she said some things about how zombies don't like the smell of some perfume she made. I managed to stop laughing for a bit and said "They think it smells bad? You think we could use something like that to keep them away from both of us? We could just walk right past them and just simply get out of here."

"Well....in theory, yes. Either way, it is certainly better than nothing." She said and scooted closer to me, enough for both of our noses to touch each others...

"Look, there was a cave, outside where a helicopter crashed. It was packed with zombies - I mean shoulder to shoulder. But it may lead somewhere outside. If it works...your anti-zombie perfume or whatever could keep us safe in that cave. What do you say? You ready to leave here now?" I asked.

"There won't be enough of this pheromone to waste it on experiments...we'll only have enough to use it once." she said and started to pull my jacket and shoulder pads away...she then pulled my shirt off and took off my gloves.

"Err....whatever you say." I said, not moving at all and letting her take control of me.

She then pulled back from me and she started to unzip her suit in front of me. She putted my gear to form a pile and placed it near the laptop, she placed her suit and her bra near the wooden box.

She then ran to me and started to slowly kiss me on my lips, I saw that her eyes were closed. I imagined for quite some time that this would happen...only me and her were at Sauria at our honeymoon as Tricky mentioned during the Aparoid Invasion, but that was just a joke that was played by him and caused me to...well, I couldn't explain. This moment that is happening with only me and Krystal is going to have to be embraced right now, either she couldn't wait long enough or only this would be a good time to show our love together...She then wrapped her arms around me and sighed in pleasure. I then proceeded to close my eyes and keep up the kissing...

Eventually, we got our gear and some clothing back on ourselves and left Panther's hideout to finally escape out of this mall....we both gripped our hands tight together and walked through the zombies plus the CDF soldiers...Krystal carried her perfume or whatever on her left hand tightly so that she wouldn't drop it and lose it. We then proceeded to get outside to Leisure Park and I led the way to the clock tower that I went to and saw the zombies inside...

Once we got closer to the clock tower, we letted our hands go and I showed Krystal of how there were that many zombies inside that tower...

"My god, there are so many...where could this lead?" She asked.

"I don't know. But considering how many of them keep pouring out of here, it is connected to something. It's just gotta be..." I said and watched as Krystal was about to walk away from me as if she didn't to get out of the mall but insted stay here.

"Krystal...listen, any other way out of here is guarded by the military. If we're going to get out of here and put a stop to Panther's plan, we've got to go in there. It is the only way. It's not like we are unarmed. We've got your smelly perfume, don't we?" I asked her.

She didn't answer to me but insted shook her head in doubt to me.

"Look I wouldn't be alive now if your drug didn't work. That perfume is going to work too, I know it. Come on...please..." I begged to her.

She then started to smile a bit and held my hand to hers, she then said "OK...let's go."

"That's the spirit!!" I exclaimed and got inside the tower, Krystal then got in with me and saw that a few zombies that were surrounding us were walking away...it looked like her perfume was working now.

When we both got inside the tower, we saw over 100 feet away a pool of zombies that were wandering around inside, if it isn't too much trouble, the perfume WILL work.

Krystal managed to get ahead of me and started to move past the zombies while pulling me to her so she wouldn't lose me in the crowd. I could imagine over 7000 zombies must've been packed in this tower all the time....but who knows what will happen now with the numbers still increasing...

Once we got through many of the zombies, we saw a gate at the end of a tunnel or whatever, there were also 2 CDF soldiers shooting at the zombies. For me and Krystal's safety, we got up a concrete platform so we wouldn't need to deal with more zombies coming and leaving us...

"Are you sure this was a good idea?" Krystal asked.

"Looks like soldiers are here too...if we can get that gate open, they'll be too busy dealing with zombies to notice us slip by." I said.

"Hold on, Fox...the pheromone is starting to wear off. It's only strong enough to cover one of us now." She groaned.

I then grabbed her arms and propped her on my back, she startled a bit and shouted "What are you doing?!"

"Hang on tight, OK? Once we are out, let's see if we can steal ourselves that jetbike over there!" I said and got off down the platform and carried Krystal on my back tight. I then walked in the left direction and got up some rusty stairs that led us somewhere...or actually it was just a lever that I had to pull down, so letted Krystal get off of me and I pushed the lever down and noticed the gate was opening up, now we could get outside and get away from the soldiers by stealing their jetbikes.

I went down on the rusty staircase and got outside to see the huge numbers of zombies that were surrounding the soldiers...I didn't even want to bother to help them out since they are part of CDF and how it would be possible for them to be partially responsible for the outbreak...Krystal kept behind me and pointed her finger to a jetbike that was ready to be used by us. Nodding my head, I ran to the jetbike and started the engine up, Krystal got on my back again and wrapped her arms tight around my neck. I then began to drive the jetbike out of the zombie's view and went up a path...

As we reached a open spot from the path we took, a tank that looked alot like my Landmaster only it was red all of a sudden appeared from a gated pathway. Then it started to corner both of me and Krystal, it was like it was going to squish us down like some pancakes, keeping the engine going, I drove the jetbike away from the tank and did my best to keep out of target.

The tank started to fire it's laser at us, only everytime it would always miss us by as close as 1 feet, then the tank started to fire missiles at us...the missiles failed to come in contact with the jetbike. Then the tank started to get the mini-copters out, the same copters that I saw while I was getting the supplies for Krystal. They didn't seem to miss our jetbike as they weren't aiming for it but insted...me. They started to fire miniture-sized rapid-fire bullets at me and then the copters went down...

"These automated machines are no use at all on the battlefield...Switch to manual control!" A wolf shouted inside the tank.

The tank quickly bursted foreward and rammed the jetbike we were on and it turned to it's side with me and Krystal getting hurt from the crash. Krystal climbed up the jetbike for her own safety, I stumbled from the jetbike and noticed a familar-looking wolf standing on top of tank.

"Aim main cannon." The wolf said and the cannon started to point at me, I raised my hands up to surrender and mumbled "Oh sh*t..."

I then stared at the familar-looking wolf on the tank it was on...then wolf started to laugh a bit and said "Ahh...what do we have here? I think I remember you from a long time ago during the Anglar Invasion..."

I looked behind myself and noticed that Krystal was getting off the jetbike and climbing up to a car that was also tilted on it's side. I then focused on the wolf...

"Where were you hiding when my ruffians mopped up the mall? On a mission in which the number of targets is unclear, it's difficult to ensure absolute thoroughness. Heh, you have imagination...that's what drives you in your quest to run...your quest to hide. As prey, you and your kind are much more stubborn than the zombies." The wolf said and started to get out a cigar to smoke.

"...How much do you know about the zombies, Wolf O' Donnell?" I asked.

"So you do remember me after all...leader of Starwolf squadron...Wolf O' Donnell. Congratulations..." Wolf clapped his hands 3 times and resumed "I commanded the Cerina operation...if we had fulfilled our mission then, we wouldn't be needed here no to take care of this...incident..."

I then realized that even though Panther is the one responsible for the zombies, it would now seem to look like Wolf is the true villain of this outbreak...he killed many at Cerinia...Krystal's homeworld...why would he even do this do her? He doesn't even know her that much and she just came back to Starfox or now...me.

I then lowered my hands down and said "That's all it was to you huh? A mission? What about those innocent people who had to pay for sins committed by OUR forces and - it's inhuman reseach?"

Wolf interrupted me and said "Our mistakes have not begun with this operation." He laughed and resumed "Lylat...has proven itself to be quite adept at making mistakes. Hah! Hell, it's the only thing we truly excel at. Well then, I'd say this mission still isn't quite over yet. Wouldn't you agree...Fox?"

The cannon got turned around by Wolf and aimmed it a nearby zombie horde than me. I could feel myself getting angry for what Wolf has done to Krystal's homeworld....for what he only cares about....for the rivalry that eventually had to end back in the many wars in Lylat. I can't let Wolf just keeping up with getting away from me and letting him still have the bounty on his head along with Panther and...don't know about Leon. This had to end right now, I had enough with Starwolf now that Wolf has gone WAY too far...

When Wolf's attention shifted to the zombies, I climbed up to the tank and leaped toward Wolf and decided to punch him in the face, watching his cigar getting knocked away. The moment the impact of my punch came in contact with Wolf, he threw me off and watched me get back up.

We stared at each other from eye-to-eye and grunted. This was going to be the last battle to start as of now...

[Guest Mr. Mario]

"Come on, Fox. You think you can throw some punches on me?" Wolf said while growling at me and waiting for some time to pass.

I didn't respond to him at all, insted I threw my aggressive punches at him and watched as he kept dodging my attacks. He grabbed me by the arm and punched me in the hip, then I heard one of my bones cracked. Wolf then started to laugh and I started to roundhouse kick him and I saw it was difficult for him to avoid it.

He felt the impact of my attack and decided to grab me by the shoulders and pin me down on the tank. He stomped on my chest about 2 times and punched my face. I was getting weaker and weaker by the moment I felt Wolf's attack. My body was losing strength and I was getting closer and closer into getting unconscious... I need to finish Wolf right now or else I will die and so will the truth.

By the moment Wolf watched me for one second, I punched his face and kicked him down, making him open for attacks. I punched his face multiple times and kicked him in the stomach area, he then appeared to be getting weaker as well as me...

Once he stood up, he couldn't lay a attack on me but insted, he stared at me and lost his balance and fell off the tank and into the horde of zombies that were surrounding the tank. One of the zombies caught Wolf and then started to have a feast on him while he was still alive.

I stood on my knees with both of my hands on top of the tank and stared down, breathing very fast...

Krystal sat on the turned over car and struggled to keep the zombies away from her as they start to nearly push the car over. She kicked them and looked at the tank to where I was, she saw me just staring down as if I was about to unleash something....

She stared at me and waited for me to get to her...before I could, I felt as if I need to get something out of my system right now, so I lifted my head up and yelled as the zombies continue to surround the tank around me...

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" I yelled at the top of my voice and breathed very heavily. I noticed Krystal was looking at me, so I looked at her...we both didn't say anything to each other at all.

Krystal was getting worried about me and the zombies, but she couldn't do anything since her zombie phenomone was worn out...

Then...a helicopter noise could be heard from the sky above me. I couldn't look up but insted only at Krystal.

She waved her hands and yelled to get the pilot's attention, the helicopter stopped right above me and dropped some rope ladders down near me.

We could hear someone shouting in the helicopter "Guys!!! Get to the chopper!!!"

Krystal got down from the car and quickly rushed down to the tank where I still was and she looked at me for one second.

She said "Come on, Fox! Get a move on!!" Krystal then climbed up the rope ladder and eventually into the chopper...

I looked up to the see the helicopter along with Krystal getting inside, I had no choice but to get to the helicopter so I could publish this story to Lylat. So I got up and climbed up the rope ladder and then the chopper, Krystal pulled my arms to help me get inside and I quickly sat inside the chopper...

The rope ladder was now getting ready to go back into the helicopter now. The pilot which turned out to be a familar-looking frog stared at me and said "Hi Fox, it's Slippy! Seems like you need some help."

"Yes...I do Slippy." I said and sighed a bit.

"Don't feel too bad Fox, I found someone along the way." Slippy said and focused on getting out of Corneria.

The front passenger turned out to be a vulpine like me only it was a little more darker fur color and he was wearing some pilot's shades. The vulpine didn't speak to me at all but insted, he looked at me and then smiled at me...

Krystal smiled back and laid her head down to my legs and fell asleep after many days of avoiding the zombies and stopping Panther's plans.

The helicopter got out of the mall and headed towards a familar-looking mothership with the Starfox team emblem and the logo of the word: STARFOX...it looked like the Great Fox I used to be in along with my teammates.

I said "I need to go over to my place though, my story has to be published!!"

Slippy nodded his head and then parked the helicopter near the Great Fox that was next to a big building which happens to be the place that hired me as a photojournalist. I'm really happy and sad at the same time when I arrived at my place and delivered the scoop.

Slippy got out of the helicopter and we all managed to get inside the Great Fox...to get into our Arwings and escape Corneria from the zombies....

Fox McCloud managed to escape the city of Corneria with the information pertinent to the incident under his belt.

The news caused a fervor throughout Lylat, leading to the Cornerian Defence Forces to admit at least partial culpability in the livestock research program.

However, no connection to the Corneria incident was acknowledged and the events that occurred there were deemed the work of a old Starfox team rival squadron.

The people of Lylat as could be expected from the modern culture of new saturation soon let the Corneria incident fade from their minds.

The authenticity of Panther's chilling plan to utilize the orphans as his pawns has yet to be confirmed or proven false.

                                                  And yet, he complained that his belly was not full...

A few years after the Corneria incident, Fox and Krystal got married and spent some time together on their honeymoon at Sauria. Eventually, they both got themselves a baby boy which by Fox decided to name it Marcus McCloud.

After the honeymoon and the birth of Marcus, Fox left Krystal by herself for some 'important business' but he kept his promise to meet her and Marcus some time.

Eventually Krystal retired as a pilot and became a motocross champion to make some money for her job. She spent some time with Marcus as always and took very good care of him...

She then convinced by her fans joined a new game show that took place back at Corneria called HORROR IS REALITY (HIR). After she signed up for HIR, Marcus got himself bitten by a zombie and though with some Resistance, he will become a zombie in some time if Krystal doesn't give him the prescribed medicine which is highly controversial and expensive...

                                                                                                    [glow=green,2,300]THE END

                                                                                              (The story continues in Dead Starfox Rising 2.)

[Guest Mr. Mario]

CREDITS:

Director: Yoshinori Kawnano

Producers: Keiji Inafune, Shigeru Miyamoto

Executive Producer: Satoru Iwata

Writter: Mr. Nintendo

Supervisor: DRL

Original Character Designers: Shigeru Miyamoto, Kevin Bayliss

Music: Hideki Okugawa, Marika Suzuki

Animator: Satomi Hayashi

Special Effects: Mitsuhiro Isozaki, Shigeto Murata

Motion Capturing: Naoaki Ishida, Sumio Ito, Tetsuya Kono, Kumiko Naemura, Yasunobu Samata, Mio Satou, Kaoru Suzuki, Naoko Yoshiyama

With the voice talents of:

Fox McCloud - Jim Walker

Krystal - Alesia Glidewell

Panther Caroso - David Scully

Slippy Toad - Mike McAuliffe

Falco Lombrdi - Mike Madeoy

Katt Monroe - Jen Taylor

Survivors - Steven Jay Blum, Mr. Nintendo, T.J. Storm, Conrad Vernon,

Wolf O' Donnell - Grant Goodeve

Special thanks to:

Everyone at Nintendo EAD

Everyone at SF-O

Everyone at KLA

Based upon the Capcom video game, Dead Rising and the Nintendo game, Starfox

©2010, Mr. Nintendo, Capcom, Nintendo

[Guest SCoatiH]

Well done! Another succesful fanfiction.

( Also Mr. Nintendo, remember our chat... )

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Ok for a reminder that I will make a seperate fan-fic of this only it will include alternate endings plus some details about the endings and the such...they will be coming Q4 2010.

As for the sequel Dead Starfox Rising 2, it will start in Winter 2011.

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Link to the sequel, Dead Starfox Rising 2:

http://forums.starfox-online.net/index.php?topic=9017.0

(The alternate endings will be made soon.)

[Guest Mr. Mario]

A note from the author: As I promised some time ago, I am going to make alternate endings for this fan-fic. Notice that each of them are non-canon and that also, I will explain how the ending would have been used.

Ending B

(To get this ending, Fox did not solve the case but he successfully got back Krystal and they both arrive at the heliport in time.)

"So now Slippy just...what did he do?" Krystal asked.

"I don't know...I hope he didn't take my helicopter away." I said while opening the door to get out of the Janitor's room. There was a zombie wandering around that looked liked Katt Monroe...is that really her?

"Fox, watch out!!" Krystal shouted as she fired her blaster at Katt. The plasama hitted Katt and quickly killed her, looks like only me and Krystal were the only ones leaving this mall...

Or so I thought as for a strange reason, about every survivor got out of their rooms and headed up the stairs to get to the rooftop like me and Krystal.

"Gee, everyone sure looks happy to leave this place." I said as I went up the stairs.

"I agree." Krystal said while she focused on not falling down.

As we both got to the rooftop of the zombie-infested mall, I saw above me a helicopter that looked just like Bill's go flying down and parking on the helipad where the letter 'H' was surrounded in a circle. As the helicopter parked, a dog saw both of us and waved his hands to tell us that we need to get out of here right now. We both rushed inside the helicopter and saw the survivors were climbing inside, Bill said to me

"Hey Spock, I'd told you that I would come back here for you!"

"For the 2nd time, Bill, my name is Fox. Now listen, besides Krystal...we're going to have more passengers then we both agreed on." I said, getting the front seat with Bill, Krystal sat down on my lap.

"Now it's OK with you...right?" I asked Bill.

"Uh...yeah, I guess." He replyed to me and looked behind the survivors, none of them happened to be Falco, Slippy, Peppy or Katt.

"Say Fox, what happened to your friends?" Bill asked me.

"It's best that we don't tell you." Krystal said, winking at me.

"Come on, please?" Bill whined.

"Well..." I was about to answer when Krystal said for me.

"We'll tell you later when we leave."

"Ok fine. Now Fox, I'm glad you made some friends but just who the hell are these people? Are they survivors?" Bill asked me once more, begining to get the helicopter going up and leaving the mall.

"They're survivors all right...they were pulled right out of the depths of hell..." I said, wrapping my arms tightly around Krystal's waist where her belt was wrapped around her torso, I did this so she wouldn't fall down from the chopper, she didn't seem to complain or mind me with my arms around her waist.

"Hell huh? Well what was going on down there anyway?" Bill asked me as he was flying the helicopter away from the helipad.

"Umm...I don't know." I said, watching the view of the rooftop getting smaller and smaller as we were flying away. We finally escaped from Corneria but...I don't have enough information that I would use to determine who was really responsible, I only know Panther was the one who started this...maybe I'm wrong.

Although Fox McCloud was able to escape with some headline-grabbing stories...

The cause of the zombie outbreak remains shrouded in mystery.

The days following the Corneria incident ushered in a series of similar zombie outbreaks in planets all across the Lylat system.

For a time, Corneria would find it's place in the spotlight, being remembered as the first planet to fall to the zombie onslaught.

                                                                                                    THE END

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Ending C

(To get this ending, Fox did not solve the case but he successfully got back Krystal but they don't arrive at the heliport on time...in other words, they were a little bit late for Bill.)

"So now Slippy just...what did he do?" Krystal asked.

"I don't know...I hope he didn't take my helicopter away." I said while opening the door to get out of the Janitor's room. There was a zombie wandering around that looked liked Katt Monroe...is that really her?

"Fox, watch out!!" Krystal shouted as she fired her blaster at Katt. The plasma missed Katt and when she avoided it, she pounced onto me and began to have a feast on me, Krystal watched in horror as I was about to die.

"Fox!! No!!!!" She cried out.

"Just go, get to the chopper!!" I yelled out as Katt was eating me alive, my vison all of a sudden went to white and all my thoughts, my heartbeat, everything in my body just stopped.

Listening to my last words, Krystal quickly escaped from Katt and got to the rooftop to escape from this mall...unfortunatly since Bill doesn't seem to be here, she couldn't leave this place.

Bill was over next door on another rooftop, using his binoculars to see if I was on the rooftop, waiting for him. He could only see Krystal though...sobbing and sitting down on the ground.

'Hey it's Krystal...but where's Fox? Why is she sobbing though?' He wondered in his thought as he looked one more time for me on the mall rooftop, still no sign of me.

"Oh no...that isn't looking good." He said as he putted away his binoculars and gave a sign in sadness.

"Well...it didn't matter how bad that he wanted his scoop...because when you're dead, you're done for." He said to himself once more and heard some moaning going on near him. Before he could even set a attack, a zombie appeared out of nowhere and started to eat up Bill...

Now nobody...but nobody was able to leave this place, alive...plus nobody will know about this.

The Cornerian Defence Forces issued a order for an absolute quarntine of the locked down city of Corneria, declaring the area a hotbed of an unspecified infectious disease...

Ultimately, nobody was able to report the true nature of what had occured at Corneria...

                                                                                                    THE END

[The Shaper]

You sure put a large amount of effort into this didn't you?

[Guest Mr. Mario]

You sure put a large amount of effort into this didn't you?

I kinda did, I felt like it would be better with using alternate endings to see what wouldn't happen in the fan-fic but what I would choose if I were to get rid of the true ending.

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Ending D

(To get this ending, there is still some time until Bill arrives to pick up Fox but while Fox and Krystal are about to leave the mall, they both get captured by the CDF.)

"So now Slippy just...what did he do?" Krystal asked.

"I don't know...I hope he didn't take my helicopter away." I said while opening the door to get out of the Janitor's room. There was a zombie wandering around that looked liked Katt Monroe...is that really her?

"Fox, watch out!!" Krystal shouted as she fired her blaster at Katt. The plasma has hitted directly at Katt but after she was taken care of, a door behind us was busted open and we heard some random shouting going on, with some things like "Get him!!" "Don't let them get away!!" or "Requesting emergency backup!!"

"Krystal...I think that's the CDF soldiers!!" I yelled as I tried to run away, but it was found impossible as me and for no reason Krystal were brutally beated down by the soldiers, causing us to slowly die a little bit...but that was only if they did it that hard which...I know it hurted as hell but, it wasn't enough to kill one of us. We both don't know where we were going now that the CDF was here...

*  *  *

As I recovered my eyesight, I looked around to see the outdoors and on my left side, Krystal in her bikini.

"Hey Krystal, you look nice in your clothing now!" I chuckled, hopefully not meaning to hurt her feelings. My tempurture began to rise as I stared at her tattoos that were on her arms, thighs and her back.

"You look nice too, Fox." She giggled at me and stared at me, I looked down to see that almost all of my clothing was gone, except I had underwear on. I suffered from embarassment and tried to get up, but I couldn't because I felt like my arms were tied up. One thing that bugs me though is...why did the CDF take nearly all of our clothing off? We're not terrorists or anything. We heard a gun click as someone climbed inside what appeared to be a CDF helicopter, my ears lowered and so did Krystal's.

"You two may not make love here, that is unacceptable after what you did."

"We're not even that close..." I said. The soldier whacked me with the assault rifle. "Do not back talk to me, sir!" The soldier shouted.

"Really now, why are you..." Krystal was about to finish when the soldier whacked her with the same gun that was used to hit me, we both did get bruises and we sighed together in shame...watching the helicopter leave the mall and the soldier who was going to attack us if we were going to talk to him. We tried to escape by taking off what was keeping us from moving but it would take alot of strength to successfully escape...in other words, we couldn't leave.

I groaned again as the soldier clicked the gun and started to point it at me, Krystal shook her head in shame as we escaped from Corneria but...with someone we couldn't trust...

The CDF was dispatched to clean up the series of incidents in the locked down city of Corneria.

However, the true story of what had occurred there remains unreported to this day...

The day Fox and Krystal were now in custody of the CDF.

                                                                                                    THE END

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Ending E

(To get this ending, Fox didn't solve the case and didn't get to the heliport on time.)

"So now Slippy just...what did he do?" Krystal asked.

"I don't know...I hope he didn't take my helicopter away." I said while opening the door to get out of the Janitor's room. There was a zombie wandering around that looked liked Katt Monroe...is that really her?

"Fox, watch out!!" Krystal shouted as she fired her blaster at Katt. While the plasma successfully killed Katt, I started to experience some spaz attacks and began lying on the floor, groaning in pain.

"Fox, are you ok?!?" Krystal cried, she tried to get me back up.

"It's no use...I've had problems like this before...you'll...have to leave....me behind...." I said in a slow tone, passing out in front of Krystal. I was offically now dead.

"Fox..." She began to sob on me as she saw my eyes close and my muzzle shut, there was nothing she could to revive me. She along with the other survivors got to the rooftop to escape from the mall and Corneria from the zombies.

As Bill was getting to the rooftop to park his helicopter on the helipad with the letter 'H' surrounded in a circle, he waited moments for me to get on and leave this place...unfortunatly, I wasn't there.

"Well, times up. Looks like Foxie didn't make it after all...wait a minute!!" He exclaimed as he saw someone in a blue suit exit out of the door and walked into the chopper, it was Krystal who was sad in seeing me die.

"Hey, Krystal. I'm glad you're here and all but...where's Fox?" Bill asked.

"I...don't want to talk about it." Krystal said in a sad tone, crying as she was sitting in the front seat next to Bill. He turned around to see many survivors get in the helicopter and waited for him to leave...

"So, that photographer fox saved you, huh?" Bill asked one of the survivors as he was about to leave the mall and Corneria, the power was rising for the helicopter.

"Please Bill...don't talk or mention...Fox." Krystal said again in a sad tone again, she stared out her window and nobody else...she wiped the tears from her eyes as she was leaving Corneria without Fox.

"Man...I feel like I'm running a taxi service here." Bill muttered to himself as the chopper was floating above the helipad and was flying away from the mall.

"Oh well, all of you guys sit tight. I'll get you somewhere safe!" He announced as everyone but Fox escaped from the mall and from Corneria.

Survivors, including Krystal indicated that their escape from the mall under siege was made possible through the asisstance of a single journalist...who was known as Fox McCloud.

However, with his death...or a health problem, his exploits after that point and his current whereabouts are unknown...

                                                                                                    THE END

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Ending F (Or better known as 'The worst ending'...)

(To get this ending, during the part where Fox had to get rid of the bombs before they exploded, the timer on the bombs all of a sudden counted down to zero and pretty much killed all of Lylat....)

Back at the parking lot, I quickly ran away from the shopping cart that was full of bombs. The timer on the suitcases went to 0 now, so now they were ready to explode, only the larvee wouldn't be spread all around Lylat...but then it turns out I was wrong as the cases made beeping sounds that there ready to explode and kill all of Lylat. Seeing as I was too late to stop it, I suffered from the explosion and a few days later, everyone else fell down to the parasite...all of Lylat was gone.

As planned, the explosion sent the parasitic organisms responsible for the zombie outbreak high into the stratosphere.

The contamination quickly spread far beyond the quarntined area, turning the once isolated incident into a galaxy epidemic.

Soon, the whole Lylat system fell victim to a rash of zombie outbreaks...

                                                                                                    THE END...

[The Shaper]

Bring the enforcers! Destroy the zombies at all costs! By the way how many of these are you making?

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Bring the enforcers! Destroy the zombies at all costs! By the way how many of these are you making?

The endings? Ending F was the last one, I have no more endings now. That is it.

[The Shaper]

The endings? Ending F was the last one, I have no more endings now. That is it.

Okay then, I believe I've spent enough time here. Good luck with the future fanfictions Mr. N, I hope you make a killing.

[Guest Mr. Mario]

Okay then, I believe I've spent enough time here. Good luck with the future fanfictions Mr. N, I hope you make a killing.

I will, thanks!

The saga will continue until I create Left 4 Starfox. That fan-fic is basically the final chapter to the saga. It'll come in 2011, for sure.