Author: FJMCCLOUD Subject: IS--EarthSiege Continues Posted: APRIL 25, 1999 00:18 The adventure grew in scope and grandeur every day aboard the Great Fox. The first Nsiders joined Star Fox in the mission to protect earth from Andross, and in the process they had learned and experienced more than they ever dreamed they would. The Star Fox team taught them to truly soar in their arwing-like crafts! The freedom and the feeling of empowerment were indescribable, and the Nsider crew slowly became an elite squadron, proud to bear the Star Fox crest on their uniforms. Even Falco had a hard time containing his admiration for their progress, and although no one said so, the feeling of respect was mutual. After the Great Lylatian Conflict, Andross sent his remaining fleets through the black hole warp to earth's solar system. With time to rebuild his fleets in secrecy and a chance to enslave earth's population for his own use, Andross could conquer the humans' system as well as Lylat. Already he had accomplished the unthinkable--capturing the Nsiders with hopes of enslaving them to his will. The Star Fox team saved the Nsiders, but not before they had been physically altered to look like Lylatians themselves. That definitely made the war personal. Sovan Jedi's eyes narrowed as he looked at his reflection in the mirror near his bed. "Andross won't know the meaning of wrath until I get my hands on him!" he growled lowly. F.J. looked in the mirror in his quarters and felt similarly, although he secretly loved being able to finally show off a real-life ~fox smile~. In the weeks that had followed their capture, D'nel the Ex-Mage and JDrive had joined the Nsiders just in time to face another threat. Andross was sending an enormous fleet to earth--a fleet too large to face directly. KillerThunder and Slippy devised a plan to use the black hole as a time warp. With D'nel's help the final preparations were finished and the Great Fox went back in time just far enough to attack the fleet before it could be assembled. "Okay, team!" Fox McCloud's gentle, yet commanding voice beckoned everyone. "D'nel can help out aboard Great Fox as he wanted. The rest of us will head to Andross' bases on mars. We'll be fully-loaded with nova bombs. Just blow up everything Andross has. Stay alive out there, okay?" "Aye, Fox!" Ringshadow saluted as the rest of the crew followed suit. "I can't wait for the fireworks!" "Has anyone realized we haven't checked Nsider in a long time?" FoxMcCloud101 asked suddenly. "Ummm...is this really the time for that?" Falco replied. "Considering we know Andross has been monitoring earth for some time," Starfoxalpha answered calmly, "and we should be there to protect any other Nsiders who might fall into Andross' clutches..." "You're right," Ringshadow continued. "The more allies, the better anyway!" The team realized that no one else should have to suffer a fate they did--or worse. F.J. logged onto Nsider via the Great Fox's communications system and found messages from "MysticStar," "RitaLaShette," and others. "New recruits!" Sovan Jedi exclaimed. "We should welcome them!" "We went back far enough in time," JDrive said. "We can afford to make contact with them first and let them join in on the mission, I think, even if they don't have as much training." "Fair enough," Fox chimed in. "F.J., tell these new Nsiders to be ready to meet some of us in a few hours!" Author: MYSTICSTAR Subject: Mystic Star's Legend Posted: APRIL 27, 1999 16:30 I had gone to sleep that night after working on the C-wing again, tuning it up for the trial run soon. Nightmares had become more frequent. That night was one of the worst nights I had ever had... I was in a ship. No, it was more a station. There were many rooms to this place. It was all dark and creepy like. Or you could almost say evil. I saw many kids around me. Along with that, a group of "creatures" that looked like Star Fox but weren't the same. They were injecting the kids with a shot of something. The kids in the room that got the shot went zombified in a couple seconds. Then they came to me. I was going to kick the legs out from under one of the guys, but two guards or whoever grabbed me and held me tight. They gave me the weird liquid right in the left arm, but I kept squirming. I started to feel queezy at first, but then the feeling just disapeared. When the guards found out that I wasn't letting up, they mentioned something about taking me somewhere... Then I woke up.