Author: FIDDLESTICKS Subject: Starfox: Metallix Posted: APRIL 26, 1999 10:59 //Continuation of "Saving Private Stinky".// //In the Cornerian Army base, General Pepper is readying his men for battle.// General: According to Starfox, there is a great threat beginning to arise from the depths of Lylat.. the bio-weapons. We don't really know how many or how strong a force we are up against, but we can be sure it will be great. At the moment we are waiting for distress signals to come in... //Un-suprisingly, the distress signal starts to ring just then.// General: Well isn't that a coincidence! Stinky//From crowd//: Daah... co-wink-kee-dink... Genreral: Ha ha! That's the kind of attitude this army needs! Now, who is this? //It's Bill.// Bill: This is commander Bill of Katina Unit. We are under attack, I repeat, under attack. A... BZZZRRRRPPPP... General: The signal has cut off. Everyone, to Katina! I'll call... STARFOX! //Soon, in Great Fox, Peppy has answered the General's call and is telling the others.// Fox: Who was it Peppy? Peppy: It was General Pepper. Bill called them and said that Katina was in trouble! Fox: BILL?!? What kind of trouble? Peppy: I asked the General that too, but he said that Bill got cut off! Fox: If those bio-weapons have done anything to Bill, I'll... Peppy: Calm down Fox! We don't even know what's happened yet! Fox: That's what bothers me! Everyone, to the Arwings! //They rush to their Arwings. As they run, Eddie talks to Falco.// Eddie: Why's Fox getting so worked up? Falco: Oh, it's just his little friend Bill again... Fox: Shut up Falco... Falco: EEP!!! //The team reaches Katina. The energy pyramid is being hit with a large multicolored beam that is coming from outer space. As the Cornerian Army and the other members of the team try to find the source, Fox finds Bill.// Fox: Bill, you're okay! Bill: Yeah Fox, the only reason the signal cut out was the energy pyramid being drained of power, and without the pyramid... Fox: All power on Katina will shut down! Bill: And we both know that Katina supplies all of Lylat with weaponry, once the power's gone, it'll be free for all for every villain in the system! Fox: Andross tried this before, but he tried to destroy it. This is sapping the energy. Bill: Seems that whoever's up to this isn't wasting any power. Fox: This has got to be the work of the bio-weapons! //Slippy flies over.// Slippy: Fox! THe beam's coming from Zoness! Fox: Zoness? What are the bio-weapons doing there? Well, there's no time to think about it now, we've got to stop that beam as soon as possible! We can ask Peppy on the way, he should know... Bill: See ya Fox! Fox: You too... Bill... //The team now heads to Zoness.// //On the way to Zoness the team talks.// Fox: So Peppy, what could the bio-weapons want on Zoness? Peppy: There are Andross' oil pumps, but they were shut down for good after the war. Eddie: I've spotted the source! It looks like the... Space Viking's Ship?!? Fox: WHAT?!? But how, the Vikings are too stupid to create, or even operate, that kind of stuff! Slippy: Hey, look on the ship! Isn't that the guy who came with General Pepper to rescue us? What's his name? Er... Stupid... Swampy... Sambo... Eddie: Actually, I think it was Samson. Slippy: Right Samson... but it looks like he's controlling the beam! Fox: But he's a member of the army! We gotta check this out! Falco: Slippy? What's my name? Slippy: Falbo... WAIT!!! NO!!! I MEANT... Falco: See, complete idiot! Author: FIDDLESTICKS Subject: Starfox: Metallix Posted: APRIL 27, 1999 10:20 //As the team begin to land, the vikings pull out... laser guns?!?// Falco: Where the heck did they get those?!? Eddie: And where'd they learn to aim so well?!? Fox: We gotta think of an attack plan! Falco: No time Fox, let's just take 'em out! //Falco fires repeadetly at the vikings, only to get shot down.// Viking: Arr, does this 'ere be booty, Emperor Samson? Samson: It is, you simpleton! Just capture the enemy and teleport the damaged craft to the bio-weapons! Peppyeror Samson?!? But he's a respected member of the Cornerian army! Eddie: Maybe we should have came back and rescued him? Slippy: So that's what we forgot last time! Fox: I have a plan! ROB, teleport Falco and his Arwing out of there! ROB64: Teleporting now... //Falco and the Arwing teleport out before the vikings can do anything.// Slippy: Now what Fox? Fox: I'll fire a smart bomb and destroy the beam and knock out the vikings, you guys cover me! //The team fights off the vikings' shots as Fox fires the bomb. It explodes on contact with the ship. The vikings are thrown off into the sea, but Samson remains.// Samson: No... no.. no. NO!!!!! //Samson pushes a button and the boat transforms into the dragon robot.// Fox: Oh great... Author: FIDDLESTICKS Subject: Starfox: Metallix Posted: APRIL 28, 1999 10:42 //The dragon starts breathing fire and swiping its claws at the team.// Fox: Any ideas on how to beat that thing? Peppy: Try its feet, that should make it lose its balance! Fox: Good idea Peppy! You guys distract it! //Fox attacks the feet, only to be kicked away.// Slippy: Boss energy found. The legs are definetly the weak point! But how can you hit them if it keeps kicking you? Eddie: I'll shoot at the other leg. It can't kick both of us! Fox: Great Eddie! Let's do it! //Soon enough the dragon falls over and explodes, Samson's flung overboard.// Eddie: We did it! Slippy: Yippie! Now le... //The vikings who fell overboard earlier are now swimming and have their lasers back on line. They fire at three of the Arwings and they fall to the water. The vikings climb aboard them.// Slippy: GUYS! Hey, you didn't shoot me?!? Viking: Arr, ev'rybody knows tha' yer an idgit! Slippy: Hey! //Samson swims back on board the destroyed boat. He presses a button on the broken beam. It recharges the dragon robot. It grabs the three Arwings and hits Slippy with it's tail, sending him flying.// Slippy: AHHHHHHH!!!!!! //The dragon starts to walk away, the vikings start singing.// Vikings: This is the way we triple our pay, Triple our pay, Triple our pay, This is the... //Soon, they arrive at a huge base. The entrance opens and the dragon walks in. Inside there's a strange red glow. When the dragon enters, glowing eyes appear on it.// Glowly thing: YOU HAVE DONE WELL SAMSON... Samson: So, do we get our money now? Glowy thing: HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!! //As the glow laughs, lots of other laughs echo throughout the base.// Glowy thing: YOU WON'T NEED MONEY WHERE YOU'RE GOING... //THe glow fires a laser at Samson. He screams as he fades away.// Glowy thing: YOU INSIGNIFICANT BEASTS MAY LIVE FOR NOW, UNLOAD THE ENERGY BEAM AND LEAVE THE SHIPS AND THEIR PILOTS. THEN GO AND DESTROY ANYTHING THAT COMES HERE. //After the vikings carry out their orders, the team speaks up.// Fox: Who are you? Glowy thing: BECAUSE OF YOU I HAVE NO NAME, BUT SOON I SHALL NAME MYSELF, SOON... BUT YOU WILL NOT LIVE THAT LONG! ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IS... WE WILL REIGHN SUPREME AND WE ARE... THE BROTHERHOOD OF METALLIX! //Meanwhile, Slippy's ship is floating around in the middle of the sea. A bunch of sharks start to circle it.// Slippy: Ooo, where am I? Hey! SHARKS!!! //A shark jumps aboard, snapping its jaws. Slippy knocks him back in the water with his laser pistol.// Slippy: Phew, I gotta get outta here! ROB, teleport me on to Great Fox! ROB64: Teleporting now... //When Slippy appears on Great Fox, he meets Falco.// Slippy: Falco! Everyo... Falco: I know, I saw it all. Slippy: What're we going to do? Falco: We're going to have to storm the base with Great Fox and the... hey, what're those coming outta that base?!? //THe entrance to the brotherhood's base has opened. A hundred or so ships fly out, followed by a huge crab.// Falco: Jeez louise, what is that?!? //The crab skims accross the water. It stops when it spots Great Fox. It then leaps high in the air and smashes the bottom of Great Fox!// ROB64: 56% damage taken on Great Fox. Cannot evade any attack. Falco: Crud! What're we going to do?!? Slippy: As Eddie would say... EEP!!! //As the crab begins to jump again he's knocked away by a powerful smart-bomb blast.// Falco: Hey! Who did that? Bill: Hey guys! It looked like you needed help! //All the ships that came with the crab surround Bill's ship.// Bill: Hey! What are you doing?!? //All at once, the ships fire beams at Bill. They drain his energy.// Bill: Guys, I could use some help here! AHHHHH!!!! Slippy: We can't let this happen to Bill, he saved us! ROB, teleport him on board! ROB64: Is possible, but will empty Great Fox's energy supply causi... Falco: Just do it, metal mouth! ROB64: Metal mouth, not understood. Will teleport anyway. //Bill's teleported on to Great Fox. The ships end up destroying themselves.// Slippy: Yes! Now le... HEY!!! //Great Fox loses power and falls to the sea.// ROB64: I warned you. I take no responsibility. Falco: Shut up Eddi... I mean ROB... ROB64: I am shutting down. Falco: No, I didn't mean... //All remaining power on Great Fox shuts off, just as the crab recovers and heads for Great Fox!// Slippy: Great work, Falco... Author: FIDDLESTICKS Subject: Starfox: Metallix Posted: APRIL 29, 1999 10:51 //The crab smashes Great Fox! It sinks down and down and down, etc. ect., you geddit.// Bill: It's over, it's all over... Falco: Nothing can save us now... //Meanwhile, at the brotherhood's base, the glow watches malevolently. Thankfully, the rest of the team are still alive, but trapped inside an energy sphere.// Glowy thing: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! I HAVE DEFEATED THE MIGHTY GREAT FOX, NOW NOTHING WILL STOP ME! CRUSH-STATION, HEAD TO KATINA WITH THE ENERGIZERS, ABSORB THE REST OF THE PYRAMID'S ENERGY! //Miles away the giant crab hears his master.// Crush-Station: Yes, uh, what's-your-name... //Crush-Station takes off into space, followed by the ships.// Fox: So, what's your plan, uh... mister? Glowy thing: WHY SHOULD I TELL YOU WORM?!? Fox: It says it right here on the "Hero/Villain guidebook", On page fourtheen. Glowy thing: Hmmm, lemme check... //The glow pulls out a book, he quickly checks.// Glowy thing: Oh, all right... WE, THE BROTHERHOOD OF METALLIX WILL RULE THE UNIVERSE, NOT WITH WEAPONS, NOT WITH STRENTH, AND NOT WITH ARMIES, BUT WITH ENERGY, PURE AND SIMPLE... WE WILL GAIN ALL ENERGY ON LYLAT, FACTORYS, WEAPONRY, HEAT, COLD, GOOD, EVIL, FAST, SLOW... EVERY ENERGY, THAT IS WHAT THE SHIPS, OR ENEGIZERS ARE FOR. ONCE WE MASS THE ENERGY TOGETHER, WE WILL CREATE A DEVICE SO POWERFUL, THAT IT WILL REVIVE THE MIGHTY ANDROSS AND THEN HE WILL TAKE HIS RIGHTFUL PLACE AS RULER AND, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, NAME ME... of course, the device will wipe out all life as it revives Andross, like a bomb really... Eddie: That's insane! Peppy: These fiends will cause the apocalypse! Fox: You'll be stopped, uh... fiendish evil doer! Glowy thing: OH, I THINK NOT! SOON, IT WILL BE THE TIME OF RECKONING FOR THOSE WHO GO AGAINST ANDROSS!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! //Meanwhile, underwater, the Great Fox is drawing on water.// Bill: Well it was nice knowing you guys... Slippy: Wait, I've got a plan! THE BLUE MARINE!!! Falco: Look's like you've got a good idea for once, Slip! C'mon, before we all drown. //After a few minutes, the blue marine, carrying Slippy, Falco and Bill, is launched.// Slippy: We've got to get to the enemy base and save the guys... Falco: ...if they're still alive... Bill: Don't talk like that, Falco... Slippy: Uh-oh! Guys, look! The viking's dragon ship! Falco: Oh for crying out loud Slip, just nuke 'em! Slippy: But, but, but... Falco: Lemme do it! //Falco fires a torpedo at the legs. They blow up, but now the dragon's going to collapse on them!// Bill: Thank the stars above that I never joined Starfox, it seems to depleate your intelligence... Falco: Shut up Eddi... I mean Bill... Slippy: What're we going to do?!? Falco: JUST KEEP FIRING, MAYBE IT'LL BLO... Bill: Maybe if you just boosted before it lands, bird-boy... Falco: That might work too... //The boost and pass the dragon before it lands.// Falco: Okay, so Bill was right... but don't call me bird-boy! Bill: Okay, beak-face... Falco: Right then, now... HEY!!! //Meanwhile, on Katina, Crush-Station and the energizers have landed. The army tries to fight them off, but the energizers absorb their energy and they plummet to the ground. Any remaining ships retreat. After that, Crush-station and the energizers head to the energy pyramid. Crush-station attaches himself to it and begins to absorb. The energizers fight off any attack. General Pepper and the remaining army can only look on.// General: It seems that we are dealing with a far superior force than we could have ever imagined. All we can do is go back for reinforcements... Stinky: Daah... I like pants... General: After this, there may never be pants again... Stinky: Daah... oh no! My brain came out! Author: FIDDLESTICKS Subject: Starfox: Metallix Posted: MAY 02, 1999 14:28 //Back on Zoness, the Blue Marine has reached the base.// Falco: How're we going to get in? Bill: Maybe there's a... HEY! WHAT'S THAT?!? //A serarch light has spotted them. An electronic voice starts sounding off.// Voice: INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! Bill: Uh-oh, we've been spotted! //The entrance opens, robotic sharks come out and start heading for the Blue Marine.// Slippy: Hey, the door's open! Bill: Boost as hard as you can Slip, and avoid those sharks! //The Blue Marine boosts, it smashes the sharks in it's path, and makes it inside just as the doors close.// Fox: Guys, you made it! Peppy: Are we glad to see you! Eddie: Now we'll show 'em! Glowy thing: AH, I SEE WE HAVE MORE GUESTS... NOW YOU WILL FACE THE FULL WRATH OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF METALLIX!!!! //The glow explodes and lasers fly everywhere! The Blue Marine takes a good few hits.// Slippy: Uh-oh! Our energy's low! Bill: At least Glow-boy's gone! //The glow reforms.// Falco: Guess what, he's not! Glowy thing: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! //He begins to explode again.// Slippy: What'll we do?!? Peppy: Try a barrel roll! Slippy: Thanks Peppy! //As the lasers come, the Blue Marine barrel rolls, the shots reflect back at the glow.// Glowy thing: AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! //The glow fades away. The energy cell holding Fox, Peppy and Eddie disapears. As they fall, the Blue Marine opens up, catching them.// Bill: YEE-HAH!!! We did it!!! //Thousands of laughs echo around the base.// Glow's voice: HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! FOOLS!!! THAT WAS ONLY A HOLOGRAM, NOT THE REAL ME! THE BROTHERHOOD IS LOCATED IN A HIDDEN BASE THAT YOU'LL NEVER FIND! AND SOON, CRUSH-STATION AND THE ENERGIZERS WILL ABSORB ALL POWER ON KATINA AND THEN CHAOS SHALL BE RAMPANT!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! //The laughs all fade away.// Bill: How are we going to stop those guys? Fox: Without Great Fox, there's no way off Zoness! //Suddenly, the viking ship busts inside.// Viking: Arr, we'll help ye! That thar glow double-crossed us! We want to git back at 'im! Ye can use ar ship's new boosters which da glow supplied us wih' ta git thar! Fox: Thanks vikings! C'mon guys, let's go kick some crustacean carcass! Eddie: Oh yeah, now I get it! Crustacean, Crush-Station, heh... heh... real funny... Falco: Shut up Eddie... //Soon, the ship reaches Katina. Crush-Station is still absorbing the energy pyramid, until it spots the ship. It then begins an attack, followed by the energizers. When Crush-Station and the energizers attack the ship transforms into dragon form.// Falco: Say bye-bye, lobster-lad! //The dragon swings its tail, sending the crab flying into the air. It then burns the energizers to the ground. With the energizers gone, the Cornerian army then attacks the crab. The dragon then joins in. After much blasting the crab eventually explodes.// Genreral Pepper: Good work Starfox, er... and space vikings... Vikings: Arrr!!! The team: Yahoo! General: Is this the end? Fox: No general, the bio-weapons still have a base somewhere... Falco: Once we fish Great Fox back out, we'll go searching! Bill: I think I'll go back to the army for now, Fox. Fox: See ya, Bill! General: Good luck to you, Starfox! We'll keep things under control until you're back on line! Fox: Thanks General! //After letting Bill off, the dragon robot heads back to Zoness.// THE END OF "Metallix", BUT NOT THE END OF THE STORY. ANOTHER CHAPTER COMING SOON!