Author: ARCA9
Subject: Andross' Children
Posted: APRIL 25, 1999 17:58


I had just finished my third year at the Cornerian Flight Academy when it
was closed. General Juniper shut it down with no more explanation then
that in times of peace there was no need to train new pilots. I still
wanted to be a pilot so I went to Katina to finish my last year of school.
I was not thrilled about it but at least I was getting trained. Graduation
had been just the other day and I was just arriving home.
I stepped off the transport and blinked in Solar's bright light. It had
been a long trip from Katina and I was tired. I scanned the crowds for my
parents. They had been very excited the night before, when they found out
I would be coming home. They promised to pick me up at the airport.
"God it's good to be home." A young avis stepped up beside me. "You don't
know how much I've missed Corneria."
I glanced over at him. "Yes I do Jus. I'm as happy to be back as you are."
At first glance Justin looked like just a normal avis but if you spent
enough time around him, like I did, you could see the small amount of
feline grace and sleekness. His father was Falco Lombardi, the avian pilot
of the Star Fox team, his mother was a sort of free-lance cat pilot, named
Katt Monroe, that joined up with Star Fox.
"Ash." A voice called.
I looked back at the crowd and smiled as a tall red vixen walked towards
me. This was my mother, Vixey McCloud. She was smiling broadly as she
pushed through the crowd. Walking next to her was another fox. I cringed a
little upon seeing him. This was my brother Josh and we had never gotten
along very well. 
"Mom." I hugged her as soon as she came up to us.
"Welcome home." She said. "And you Justin. You must have grown a foot
since I saw you last."
"Only two and a half inches." Justin said. "But who's counting?"
Vixey pulled him into a hug too. Justin spent enough time over at my house
to be considered a member of the family. Falco and Katt felt the same way
about me.
"Hey Squirt." Josh said ruffling the fur between my ears. I gritted my
teeth as he did this. He had given me this name ever since he had grown
and I had not. I was happy to see that he had to reach up to do it now.
Maybe he would have to stop calling me Squirt now that I was as tall as he
was.
"Where's dad?" I asked realizing that he was not there.
"There's been a little bad news." My mom said. "Let's get your bags and
I'll tell you about it on the way home."
Once we were on the highway speeding towards Corneria City I could not
wait any longer.
"So what happened mom? Dad's not dead is he?" I asked with worry in my
voice.
"Oh no, nothing like that. Its just that General Juniper has cancelled the
contract with Star Fox."
"What!?" both Justin and I said at the same time.
"He can't do that." I said.
"Well he did Squirt." Josh said turning around. "More stuff has been
happening around here since you've been gone. The Army's been cut almost
in half and without any new pilots being trained no one is being
accepted."
"And I suppose they just wouldn't take you." I said.
"No, I didn't even register. Dad said that"
"Josh I don't want to hear that language right now." My mom said.
"So dad's taking it really bad huh?" I asked.
My mom nodded. "He's doing everything he can to keep Great Fox and the
arwings from being scrapped by the Army."
"He can't do that." I said in a near panic. "Those ships belong to dad."
"Don't worry Fox wont give them up without a fight." My mom said. "He's as
stubborn as his father."
I leaned back against the seat. I always did that when I was mad or
frustrated. Right now I was both.

I could not understand how General Juniper could do this. I mean, even if
it was peaceful times there was still need for an Army. The only reason
Corneria had survived the Cornerian-Venomian war was because he had kept
the Army in working condition. Things had been tight between him and my
father ever since he had taken over after General Pepper died.


Author: ARCA9
Subject: Andross' Children Part 2
Posted: APRIL 27, 1999 16:10

The car pulled into the driveway in front of a nice-sized brick house. I
knew my parents had made enough money working as mercenaries to live in a
house the size of Macbeth but my parents did not like to throw their money
around too much. We lived more than comfortably in this house, and so did
the Lombardis who lived next door. Justin jumped out of the car in the
arms of his parents who must have seen us coming down the road.
"Oh welcome back honey." Katt said hugging her son. "Things have been so
boring around here without you."
"Should I be offended by that?" Falco said with a slight smile on his
beak.
"You know what I mean." Katt stood up and gave him a quick peck on the
cheek. Falco smiled. "Let's get your bags inside and you can tell us
everything."
"Sure thing dad. See you later Ash."
I nodded. He grabbed his bags and headed inside. I took mine and followed
my mom into the house.
"You're room's still ready the way you left it." My mom said. "Do you need
some help with those bags?"
"No." I said heading for the stairs. By the time I got to the top of the
stairs I was exhausted. We had not had any stairs in the dorms on Katina.
All that training and I could not even get up the stairs with a few bags.
I pushed the door to my room open and dropped my bags just inside. I
looked around smiling. My room was still the same. Painted black with
pictures of planets and starships everywhere. My bed had a black comforter
with an arwing on it. I flung myself back on the bed and sighed.
"Hey Ash." A voice said.
I sat up and looked towards the window where the voice had come from. I
laughed and jumped off the bed when I realized what it was. I grabbed a
walkie-talkie from under the window and switched it on.
"I can't believe these things still work." I said.
"Neither can I." Justin said. "I remember when we were five and we used to
stay up late talking to each other."
"And then our parents would come in and make us go to bed." I laughed
remembering.
"Did you find out anything about this contract thing? I asked my dad and
he refused to talk about it."
"I haven't seem him yet. I think he's in his study." I said. "I'll go find
out and call you back later."
"Sure thing." Justin said.
I put down the walkie-talkie and headed downstairs.
"Ready for dinner?" my mom asked.
"You don't know how much I've missed those words." I said. Dinner would of
course be some pre-prepared meal. My mom could not cook at all but it was
better then the slop we'd gotten on Katina. "Is dad in his study?"
"Yep. He wanted to talk to you." My mom said pulling the meal out of the
microwave.
I nodded and headed across the living room to my dad's office. I opened
the door and stepped inside. My dad was bent over his desk writing. Even
in his advancing age I could see the trained warrior he still was. He
heard me come and turned around in his chair. His eyes twinkled when he
saw me.
"Hi Ash." He said smiling.
"Hi dad. How are you?"
He shook his head. "I take it your mom told you."
I sighed and nodded. "You're not going to let Great Fox get scrapped are
you?" I asked.
"Never." My dad said. "But Juniper's trying."
"Is there anything we can do?" I asked.
"As a matter of fact there is. That's what I wanted to talk to you about.
I already told Josh. I know that Juniper's going to use the fact that I
can't fly any more against me. So I wanted to give Great Fox to you and
your brother. If there is ever a need you can lay claim to her and Juniper
can't do anything about it."
My mouth dropped open in shock. "G...give Great Fox,...to us?"
"That's what you wanted right. That's why you trained?" my dad asked.
"Yes." I said. "But how...?"
"I'm going to leave that up to you and Josh. Now you don't need to go out
right away and start the team back up." My dad said. "But just know that
you can. No matter what that bast~rd Juniper says."
I nodded. "Thanks dad." I gave him a strong hug. "Now come on dinner's
ready."


Author: ARCA9
Subject: Andross' Children Part 3
Posted: APRIL 28, 1999 18:28

After dinner I hurried up to my room to call Justin. It was a few minutes
before I got a reply.
"What's up?" he asked.
"You're not going to believe this." I said.
"What?"
"You know Great Fox right?"
"Great Fox? You mean Star Fox's flagship with three NTD-FX9 plasma
engines. That Great Fox?" he asked. "Never heard of it."
"You idiot. My dad gave her to me. Well me and Josh but still..."
I could see Justin looking at me through the window with disbelief on his
face. His window was right beside mine.
"Crazy." He finally said. "So what does it mean."
"It means Juniper's not going to get Great Fox." I said. "And we may get
the chance to fly in Star Fox."
Justin smiled.
The next day Justin and I felt like relaxing on our first day back home. I
borrowed my dad's car and we drove to the city. I found the old bar we
used to hang out at and parked in the back ally locking the car doors. The
neighborhood had changed a bit since we'd been there. As we entered the
bar I found it to be darker and louder then I remembered. It had use to be
a place for the Cornerian Academy cadets to come and hang out. Of course
the Academy was closed now so there were no more cadets.
"It's changed a bit." I said quietly.
"Well you know what they say. You can never go back." Justin said. "Shoot
I sound like I'm forty. Slap me quick."
"Gladly." Someone shoved Justin from behind sending him right into me. I
kept my balance and turned to see who had pushed Justin. A silver gray
wolf stood in front of me. The first thing I saw where his eyes. They were
a deep golden color and seemed to see everything. Other then that the wolf
was quite normal looking.
"What do you think youre doing scum?" I growled.
"You got a problem vixen?" the silver wolf asked putting his hand on the
gun at his side. I realized that I did not have my gun but I was not about
to back down.
"Yea and it's you." I snarled.
He scoffed. "You're not worth it." He said. "I'd just hurt you anyway."
"I didn't know you cared." I said.
"I don't." he snapped. "My name's Raider. If you ever hear it again you'll
be dead."
"I'll keep that in mind." I growled.
Raider walked off with a bunch of his friends. It took most of my
self-control to keep from going after him. That was the temper I had
inherited from my mother.
"You sure you want to stay here?" Justin asked.
"I'm not about to let that Raider have the satisfaction of thinking he
scared me away. We stay." I said looking around. In the back corner I saw
a small crowd gathered. I headed over.




Subject: Andross' Children Part 4


I pushed my way to the middle of the crowd. There was a cat and a toad arm 
wrestling over the table. At first it seemed like the cat was winning but 
then the toad grunted and slammed the cat's hand onto the table.
"When will you ever learn Doug?" the toad asked.
"You're too cocky for your own good Kyle." Doug said pulling some money
out of his pocket and handing it to Kyle. "You'll loose one day."
"No one'll ever beat this." Kyle stood up and kissed his flexed muscle.
"Who's this? Justin asked from beside my shoulder. "He seems to be in love 
with himself."
"Excuse me feather head?" Kyle turned to us. "Do you have something to say to 
me?"
"No, all mighty mountain of muscle. I'm not worthy my lord." Justin said 
jokingly.
"Are you trying to start something?" Kyle reached for the gun of his belt.
"Wait a minute." I said quickly stepping between the two of them. "No he's 
not trying to start anything."
"And who are you? His babysitter?"
"No, my name's Ash McCloud and I'm not in the mood to have him shot full of 
holes." I said.
"McCloud? As in Fox McCloud of Star Fox?" Kyle asked.
I nodded. Kyle laughed. "And don't tell me you're Falco and Katt's son." He 
said to Justin.
"Justin Lombardi." Justin confirmed.
"Well freak it. My old man would've killed me if I'd shot either one of you." 
He put the gun back in his belt. "My dad's Slippy Toad."
"So that means you'll leave us holeless?" Justin asked.
"Sure enough. Sit down." Kyle said.
The crowd drifted away when they realized that there wasn't going to be a 
fight. We sat down at the table and started to talk.
"So you finished your school on Katina?" Kyle asked. "That sucks."
"Yea." I said. "I'd rather of finished school here but when it closed we 
didn't have much choice."
"That's right. I graduated the year it closed." Kyle said. 
"So that means you're 19."
"Actually I just turned 20." Kyle said.
"I wonder why we never met you before?" I asked. "I mean if our parent are 
friends."
"My dad's just so busy with his inventions." Kyle said. "He doesn't have time 
to visit. I guess that's why I'm here. Nothing better to do. I mean I do know 
machines but my dad seems to take all the fun out of it."
"You any good?" I asked.
"Only the best." Kyle said.
"Whoever didn't see that coming needs a good whack on the head." Justin said.
"Quiet feather head. What can you do?"
"Make jokes at the speed of light." Justin said. "But of course that's not as 
good as you my lord."
Kyle rolled his eyes. "So what are you two doing here anyway. I see that 
neither of you has a gun. That's just asking for trouble."
"Just trying to take a night out. We just got back to Corneria last night."
"Uh excuse me." A quiet voice said from behind me.
I turned to see a brown colored dog standing there holding a mug of beer. He 
looked nervous. Justin, of course, took immediate advantage of the poor dog. 
He jumped up and took the mug from the bewildered dog's hands.
"Oh thank you." He said. "I accept this Oscar with a joyful heart." He wiped 
away an imaginary tear. "And I'd like to thank all the little people I 
stepped on to get here. My hair stylist," his feathers were a mess. "And my 
voice consultant." His voice cracked.
Kyle and I were near rolling as we laughed. The dog was nervously backing 
away.
"Wait." I said bringing my laughter under control. "Sit down. What's you 
name?"
The dog sat down. Justin handed him back his mug of beer and sat down too. "I 
didn't mean to eavesdrop but I heard the name Fox McCloud." He said.
"That you did." I said. "And do you have a problem with my father?" I said 
ready to fight if I had to.
"No, no. My name's Daniel Gray. Your father and mine are good friends."
"Bill Gray's son huh? I thought you lived on Katina." I said.
"We're visiting for a week or so." Daniel said. "I used to come here when I 
went to the Academy."
"Join the club." Justin said. "Of course it's not the place we use to hang 
out in."
"I can see that." Daniel said. "I was getting ready to leave when I heard you 
talking."
"Well Dan, pleased to meet you. I'm Ash McCloud, this is Justin Lombardi, and 
Kyle Toad."
Hellos were exchanged.
"I heard about General Juniper trying to scrap Great Fox. What's your father 
doing about that?" Kyle asked.
"Well he gave her to me and my brother so we have legal claim to her." I said.
"Wow!" Daniel said. "You mean you own Great Fox?"
"More or less." I said. "It's not that big of a deal. It's been years since 
my dad's seen her. She probably couldn't fly anymore anyway."
"Would you mind if I came to take a look?" Kyle asked. "I could tell you what 
type of shape she's in."
"I'd have to ask Josh." I said. "Maybe we can meet here tomorrow and you can 
meet him."
"Can I come too?" Daniel asked.
"Sure." I said. "How does seven tomorrow night sound?"
"I can be here." Kyle said.
"Sounds fine." Daniel said.
I stood up. "Then it was nice meeting you both and we'll se you tomorrow."
They both nodded. We all headed for the door. Just as I was leaving I turned 
back inside. I saw Raider sitting and laughing with his friend in the
corner. 
I had this strange feeling that I couldn't just forget him. He looked up 
suddenly and his golden eyes met mine. I turned away and hurried out the
door.


Author: ARCA9
Subject: Andross' Children Part 5
Posted: MAY 02, 1999 19:17

The drive home was silent. Justin was tired and I was ready to call it a
night. Or morning actually being as it was twelve-thirty. I was sure my
parents would chew me out when I got home. Oh well, I'd had a good time. I
parked the car in the driveway and say good night to Justin. I headed into
the house. The lights were on in the kitchen and in dad's office.
"That's weird." I said quietly going to turn them off. "Mom? Dad? I'm
home." There was no answer.
I shook my head. They must be asleep. I thought heading upstairs. I peaked
my head into their room. I expected to see the silhouette of their bodies
draped over each other but the bed was empty. I flipped the light on.
There was no one in the room.
I heard the door open downstairs. "There they are." I sighed racing down
the stairs. I nearly knocked Josh down the steps.
"Hey Squirt. Isn't it past your bed time?" he asked.
"Man, I thought you were mom and dad." I said.
"What? They aren't home?"
"No." I said. "I just got home and they weren't here. The lights were
still on too."
"Strange." Josh said. "No wait not actually. You've only been home a day
and they already had to get out for the night." He smiled.
"Funny." I said pushing past him to head back up the stairs.
I fell back on my bed and stopped myself from calling Justin. His parents
would kill me if I call this late. Josh stuck his head in my door.
"Hey if you want to talk to mom and dad I'll come get you when they get
home. I'm staying up to watch a movie I wanted to see."
"Thanks Josh." I said.
"No problem Squirt." He said and ducked out of the doorway as I tossed a
well-aimed pillow at his head. I heard him turn on the TV downstairs. I
was set on staying awake until mom and dad got home but the sound of the
TV slowly sent me off to sleep.


Author: ARCA9
Subject: Andross' Children Part 6
Posted: MAY 02, 1999 19:25

I was in a large bay. In front of me was Great Fox. She was as beautiful
as I had always imagined. I smiled. Five shadows appeared below the ship
headed towards me. As they stepped out into the light I saw that it was my
mom and Falco, Katt, Slippy, and Bill. I was confused. Then I looked over
next to me where an arwing was parked. My face reflected in the glass but
then instead of my face it was my father's.
"Help." He said.
I woke up with a gasp. I was breathing hard and sweating all over. The
clock next to my bed said three in the morning. I lay back down trying to
even out my breathing. "What in Lylat was that?" I asked myself. I lay
looking into the darkness for a long time until I finally fell asleep
again.
"Hey Squirt, are you ever getting up?" I heard Josh yell up the stairs.
I blinked awake and sat up. I was still laying on top of my covers. I got
up quickly and changed into some clean clothes. Then I headed downstairs.
"I thought you were never getting up." Josh said.
"What time is it?"
"Almost two." He said. 
I was a little surprised. I was usually an early riser. "Where are mom and
dad then?"
"Not here." Josh said. "They never came in last night. I stayed up pretty
late too."
"Not here? Where could they be?" I asked getting a little worried as I
remembered my dream from the night before.
"I don't know." Josh said.
"I'm going to see Justin." I said and I hurried next door. I knocked on
the door quickly. After a few minutes, and a couple more knocks, Justin
opened the door.
"I don't want any." He said and then slammed the door.
I would've laughed but I was too worried. "Jus, open the door. I've got to
ask you something."
He immediately opened the door. "What?" 
"Are your parents here?" I asked.
"No." he shook his head.
"Man I have a really funny feeling. My parents are gone too. They weren't
home when I got home last night and they never came home after that."
"They're probably out partying." Justin said.
"Oh jeez, come on. I want to see something." I pulled Justin back to my
house and into my dad's office. I walked up to his desk. There was a paper
lying on top with a pen on it. I quickly scanned the paper. It was some
kind of letter to General Juniper but that's not what I was interested
about. At the bottom of the letter the last sentence read. 'These things
all in mind I wou...' and there was not more.
"Why didn't your dad finish the letter?" Justin asked.
"Because for some reason he couldn't." I said. "I have a bad feeling. We
need to get Josh and go talk to Kyle and Daniel. I have a feeling that
this may effect them too."


Author: ARCA9
Subject: Andross' Children Part 7
Posted: MAY 03, 1999 18:16

Josh, Justin, and I were in the bar before seven. Josh was a little
skeptical about something being wrong but he agreed to come. Daniel came
in almost exactly at seven.
"Dan this is my brother Josh." I introduced them.
"Hey." Dan said and they shook hands.
"Where do you think Kyle is?" Daniel asked.
"His lordship is probably beating someone into a pulp." Justin said.
"You want to be next?" Kyle said sitting back down.
"If it is your will lord." Justin said.
"You are a feather head." Kyle said, then he looked at Josh. "You must be
Josh, I'm Kyle Toad."
They shook hands.
"Now to get right into this." I said. "I need to know if either of your
parents are missing?"
"What?" Kyle said. "How did you know that?"
I shook my head. I'd gotten the answer I'd expected though I hadn't wanted
it.
"Mine are too. " Daniel said. "What does that mean."
"They all ran off for a weekend getaway on Fortuna." Justin said. "I hear
the skiing's good this time of year."
"Justin, this is serious." I said.
"Sorry Ash. " He said sighing." So what do we do?"
"So you are capable of intelligent conversation." Kyle stated.
"Of course." Justin said, then he smiled. "Though I am told it does not
happen often lord."
"I think you could be right about this Squirt." Josh said.
My face blushed as Josh used my nickname in front of my new friends. They
Kyle smirked a little. If looks could kill, Josh would have been dead
where he sat.
"So I guess it's a bout time to do with dad said." Josh said. "He said if
it was ever necessary we should start Star Fox back up."
"What?" I nearly choked.
"If dad is really gone Juniper could use it as an excuse to scrap her."
Josh said. "How about we go see her and decide what to do."
Daniel and Kyle nodded eagerly. Justin smiled and my head was spinning
with happiness. This was a dream come true. I just wish my parents didn't
have to be missing for it to happen.

It was dark by the time we got to the Cornerian Hanger. We sneaked past
the sleeping security. Dad had told Josh that Great Fox was in hanger 32.
That was in the very back of the compound.
"How do we get past security?" Josh asked when we found the right Bay.
"Leave that to me." Daniel said. "The Army turned me down for a job in
computer programming. I'm going to make them sorry they did." It took his
only a few minutes to override the security and the door slid open. We all
headed inside.
The Bay was pitch black. Josh fumbled for the light switch and turned it
on. Light poured into the Bay. I blinked a few times and then looked up.
Great Fox sat in front of us in all her glory. She looked just like she
had in my dream only older.
"Wow." Kyle breathed. They don't make flagships like her anymore."
"How about a tour?" Daniel said. "I'd love to see her computer system."
"Well who's going to stop us?" Josh asked. "Let's go.
We headed up the open ramp into Great Fox's belly. The Launching Bay was
huge. There were seven tarps sitting off to the side. I went right over
and lifted one of the tarps to see the sleek silver body of an arwing
underneath.
"Guess what I found." I said.
"The Lost City of Atlantis?" Justin asked.
"No." I took a firm grasp of the tarp and yanked. The tarp slid off
bringing down a load of dust. I coughed and then sneezed several times.
"Great job." Josh sneezed.
There was quite a bit of sneezing until the dust finally cleared. When it
had we had a clear view of the arwing.
"Oh wow." I said moving closer and ran my hand over the sleek metal. It
looked old, I mean it was over forty years old, but there was still a look
of beauty to it. "She's beautiful."
"But as outdated as all." Kyle said. "That arwing wouldn't last five
minutes in a dogfight if it even still flies at all."

I saw that the weapons system on the arwing was pretty old. There were
only TB-H1 laser cannons and the system could only shoot smart bombs. I
had studied weapons on Katina. They worked a little more on weapons
development on Katina then they had on Corneria.
"The weapons are old too." I said. "But they could be fixed right?
Updated?"
"Probably." Josh said. "But it'd take a whole crap load of money."
"So. We can do it." I said getting excited.
"What do you guys say?" Josh asked. "How about we start Star Fox back up?"
"Ashley, preferably Ash McCloud, weapons expert and maverick pilot
reporting in." I said sticking my hand out.
"Justin Lombardi, feather head and jokester extraordinare. I'm in." Justin
put his hand on mine.
Kyle cracked a smiled and added his hand to the pile. "Kyle Toad, expert
mechanic. I'm in if I don't have to fly by him."
"Daniel Gray, computer genius and hacker." Daniel smiled and added his
hand.
"Josh McCloud, mechanic's major and top gun pilot." He put his hand on top
of the pile.
"Star Fox." We said together and the team was reborn.


Author: ARCA9
Subject: Andross' Children Part 8
Posted: MAY 08, 1999 18:47

We then had two things to do. One of course was fixing up Great Fox and
the arwings. The other was keeping it a secret from General Juniper. We
knew he would never let us do what we were doing is he knew about it. We
did recruit some help from some of the Cornerian Army pilots who were
happy to see Star Fox coming back. They helped with security and getting
supplies in and out.

Fixing up the ships themselves took the whole crap load of money Josh had
predicted. We all took our particular talents and worked on that part of
the ship. I took weapons. I had a fun time replacing the old weapons with
top of the line Hyper-X lasers. I even sprung for an ion cannon for Great
Fox. Kyle and Josh got together to work on the engines. Completely
rehauling or even replacing them. Daniel took to the ships' computer
system. All day long he could be found at Great Fox's main computer typing
away as happy as a clam. Justin, who had no particular talent except for
being crazy, took the job of cleaning up the rooms on Great Fox. He set
about it happily saying that his head would be great for dusting.
It took almost five seasons of work before we were finished. During that
time we all became great friends. Josh sort of emerged as our leader. I
did not mind except that he kept calling me Squirt. He finally announced
that we were done and called a meeting in the Sitting Room. We all sat
around the round table in the center of the room to talk.
"We did it guys." Josh said happily. "Great Fox is ready to fly again and
so are the arwings."
"And the new weapons system can take down anything in the sky." I said.
"Though it was a pain in the butt getting the ion cannon in here without
Juniper finding out about it."
"And the computers are updated and ready to go." Daniel said. "I even
found ROB in the back of one of the hard drives. I woke him up and updated
him too. You there Robert?"
"Here and ready." Robert said from the speaker on the wall.
"So what do we do now?" Kyle asked.
"Wait here." Josh said. "I have to go get something." He hurried out of
the room.

A few minutes later he walked back into the room. I just stared at him in
shock. He was wearing full Star Fox uniform. The deep blue flight suit
with the baggy silver jacket. The Jacket had SF and the Star Fox symbol
embroidered on it.

"I did a little research and found out what the old uniforms really looked
like and then ordered the same thing. I think the company was a little
shocked but here." He threw us each a package.
"I feel like I should solute or something." Kyle said. 
"Don't even start with that." Josh laughed. "Now go try them on."
I changed quickly in my quarters and then hurried back to the Sitting
Room. We really looked like a team now.


Author: ARCA9
Subject: Andross' Children Part 9
Posted: MAY 10, 1999 18:57

"General Juniper's visiting President Adipose today." Josh smiled the next
day. "Who thinks we should drop by for a visit?"
"Unannounced?" Justin said in mock horror.
I smiled. "I'm all for it. And it mean he won't be around to give us grief
when we take Great Fox out."
"It'll give us a chance to try out the arwings too." Kyle said. "Let's
go."
We headed to the Control Room.
"All right Robert. Open the sky hatch and take us up."
"Sure thing." Robert said. I felt Great Fox's engines start up with a
purr. The hatch above us slowly creaked open. With a slight groan Great
Fox lifted from her hanger and rose out of the hatch into the sky. No
alarm sounded. We'd told security what we were doing and they were ready
for us. We rose like a white cloud over the base. 

Author: ARCA9
Subject: Andross' Children Part 10
Posted: MAY 13, 1999 10:34

"Let's get to the arwings." Josh said. "Robert take Great Fox into orbit
and we'll call you when we're coming back."
We got into our arwings.
"All right. Everybody ready?" Josh asked. His picture appeared along with
his message. He looked truly proud.
 
"Fine here." Kyle said.
"Ready to go." Justin said. "Dang, is this thing supposed to come off?"
"I'm ready." Daniel said.
"Let's go bro." I replied flipping a few more things on.
"Then let's go." Josh's arwing shot out of the Bay's now open doors. I
followed a split second behind him. It took us no more then five minutes
to arrive over Corneria City.
"Looks like we're drawing some attention." I said looking down at the
city.
The people on the streets were looking up and pointing at us as we flew
over the city. Justin suddenly shot past in front of me and did a barrel
roll. "Ye ha." He shouted. "This thing is so cool."
"Don't go running into any buildings." Kyle said. "I'm not fixing any of
these arwings until we come back from our first dogfight."
I weaved in and out of some building. The arwing's handling was so smooth.
Now for that g-diffuser. I pulled back hard and my arwing shot up and
around performing a loop-de-loop. I laughed as I came back around. Daniel
swerved as I nearly hit him.
"Watch it Ash." He said.
"Sorry Dan."
"No fancy flying Squirt." Josh said. "And let's take it up to three
thousand."
We pulled up over the buildings. The president's house, called The House,
appeared in front of us.
"We might have a little trouble getting in." Josh said. "So stay close and
don't do anything to get us shot."