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Great Fox 2, Holding station above Fichina, 14:00 hours ship board time

Krystal hated not being able to do anything, her team mates were out there possibly being tortured while she sat in on the command deck and twiddled her thumbs. Not that she could do anything mind you, after all not only was her Arwing, the mainstay Star fighter of the team completely trashed and needed extensive refit and repair but she was laid out with a leg that was broken in three places, the damaged limb now sat in a Re-gen cast and as such she was grounded until the healing process was complete and she had underwent physical therapy to get her back into top form. She cursed herself as a twinge of pain rushed through her calf making her wrap around the damaged limb and almost bumping the release latch of the cast, knowing how close she got to undoing what healing had been done already she slowly moved her hand away before repositioning herself so she could rest more comfortably.

There was a loud hiss as the door to the command deck opened causing the Blue Fox to turn in the Command Chair to see who had entered the room and was surprised to see one of the humans from the Equenox walk in. She was fairly tall for her species, fairly muscular and her short platinum white hair had been done up in a way to not impede her tasks. She wore a tank top with a design Krystal still couldn't identify and her harms were covered in tattoos that put her tribal markings to shame while around her neck was a set of noise cancelling headphones that seemed to Blast some sort of Rock Music.

“Hey Blue Butt, how's the leg doing?" she said before siting down at the helm console, Krystal chuckled as the human spun herself around on the chair once before coming to rest facing the Blue furred Vixen.

“It's getting there, I still get pain from muscle spasms but I should be back in the cockpit in no time." Krystal reached down giving the cast a rub, “So what brings you to the Bridge Razor? had enough of the Star Wolf team?"

“Yes and to tell you the truth if I get challenged to another sim battle by Leon I will slam his head into a Blast Door." the human chuckled “you know, after our encounter at Atlas I was not looking forward to our next meeting, I mean you probably read the mission report General Pepper was given on their actions and how we all had to kick their asses so I was prepared for us to throw done but I was not expecting to see the roster change, tell me what happened to Andrew and Pigma?"

Krystal took a sip from a cup on a side table near the command chair, the taste of the aromatic tea leavers sloshed around her pallet given her a calming sensation, the last thing she needed was for her to start broadcasting her emotions onto Razor and getting her worked up as well. “Andrew Oikany is now ruling over Venom and as far as I can tell has not tried anything to destabilise Lylat, he did get severally injured during the Aperoid attack by the way but as the saying goes “he is harder to kill than a Cockroach", Pigma on the other hand was absorbed by the Aperoids, we were forced to destroy him.".

“Damn, he got assimilated? that's a horrible way to go, I guess the Aperoids must have taken a page out of the Borg play book" Razor said then looked down at the deck plating, she had never thought she would actually hear about aliens that would do such things, “I just hope it was a quick death, I hate for him to have suffered even if he was a total...well pig".

Krystal was about to reply when her console started to chirp, leaning over she noticed two notifications were present, the first was that a tracking signal had been detected, the second was an approaching shuttle was hailing the Great Fox, she looked back at Razor who gave her a knowing nod before she turned to the console and inputted a series of command prompts, moments later the main screen of the Great Fox 2 came to life with a visage of General Pepper and a very familiar elderly rabbit. “General, Peppy, perfect timing, we just picked up the tracking signal, we have a solid location of the enemy ship" she said grinning just as Slippy, Rob 64, The Starlink Team and Star Wolf Team entered the Bridge.

“Good to hear Krystal, hopefully they stay their long enough for us to catch them, we are docking now so make sure the Zypher drive is spooled up and ready to go" General Pepper replied as he and Peppy worked the controls of their shuttle, “by the way, what's their location?"

Slippy looked over the data that was coming in and smiled, the grin got bigger as he turned to the screen, “you wouldn't believe it sir, but it looks like its stuck in the orbit of Titania, I've already primed the engines so we are good to go".

“Eli and Judge have also charged the spin drive on the Equinox for a shot jump, we are ready to assist General" Mason added as he went to strap himself in, Krystal hadn't had the opportunity to talk to the young scientist and the creator of Starlink, an innovative modular system that allowed for each ship equipped with it to swap weapon load outs on the fly even when the craft was already launched, hopefully after Fox and Falco have been rescued there would be time but for now she had to focus.

“Very good" replied General Pepper, he looked away from the camera for a second then nodded reassuringly, “Docking sequence complete, you may jump at your discretion".

With a nod Krystal gave the command, outside the large bulk of the Great Fox 2 began to move away from the planet Fichina slowly followed closely by the Equinox, few moments later both ships were jumping to F.T.L. on a direct course to the desolate planet Titania.

Meanwhile onboard the Inter-dimensional Arena Ship orbiting Titania

Bolts of energy whizz passed inches above Falco's head as he dove for cover, he had never thought he would be in this situation but here he was stuck in a large room with only one way in or out and behind him a glowing portal that lead to god knows where. He looked over to see Fox and Wolf laying down covering fire as one of the many prisoners, a large Dragon Turtle creature who they learned went by the name Bowser stomped his way toward the portals event horizon, all the while Gabriel Hunter the human who had helped him break out of his cell worked tirelessly to maintain a stable threshold. Drones were flooding into the room now and the junk was piling up however it was only a matter of time before the they would be over run, they were running low on ammo and had to resort to using the discarded weapons of the drones, the sound of another successful transition filled his ears and he chanced a look back to see that only a few groups remained, he smiled knowing that all he had to do was hold out a little longer.

“OK, next group get ready to make a run for it!" he called out then turned to Gabriel “Gabe, have you reset the coordinates?" the human looked over the portal controls and gave the thumbs up “perfect, Fox the next group is heading out now!"

Fox gave his wingman a nod then began to unload round after round into the oncoming horde, his blaster was now overheating causing him to curse under his breath, that's when he saw them, the aliens that had abducted them and forced them to fight, he hadn't seen these entities once during his short time on this ship bit now he was seeing them in the flesh caused his blood ran cold. There were two types, the first seemed to be a glowing sphere that surrounded itself with strange multicoloured wing like ribbons that flowed around it like a angelic shield the second was more eldritch in nature taking on the form of a mass of writhing snake like tentacles surrounding an eye that glowed with malice. “New contact, incoming!" the Vulpine pilot yelled as he ducked a series of polychromatic lances that arched toward his makeshift barricade, splashing the floor behind him with blasts of searing hot plasma, responding to the new threat Wolf aimed the salvaged weapon he had been using, a large calibre rail cannon so big it would most likely be attached to a combat vehicle of some kind.

Timing his shots the infamous canine of Star Wolf sent a salvo of large super heated metal rods straight for the Eldritch looking entity scoring a direct hit to its pupal turning it into a mass of gelatinous goop and its twitching tentacles flopping helplessly to the ground. He smirked then sent another salvo straight for the more angelic one only to have them blocked by the strange ribbons, “shit!" he cursed as he ducked back behind cover, “these things are quick on the uptake, have the last of the groups gone through?" Fox pointed over to the portal where the last of the final group was backing into the Event Horizon, he was not sure about this one, it was human but seemed to be blocky in shape, as if someone had drawn a human out of three dimensional rectangles and cubes. The strange pixelated being fired a series of arrows from an equally pixelated bow that struck the entity's core making it howl in pain, Wolf took the chance and unloaded the rest of his ammunition into the glowing yellow sphere shattering it like a globe made from crystalline glass.

As if reacting to the death of their masters the Drones seemed to freeze then fall to the floor inert, for a moment no one moved then tentatively the three Mercenaries left their defensive positions. The room was covered in the carnage of the fight the scrapped robot hulks and twitching remains of the entities among the distruction, “well that was fun" Falco said sarcastically as he kicked a fallen Drone, he was going to say more but the sound of an explosion drew his attention and he almost gasped in shock. Gabe was lying on the ground a few meters away from the Portal Control Console of which was now smouldering and chard, the human coughed as he slowly rose to his feet before turning to the Portal which now was deactivated and lifeless.

“Well there goes my ticket home, not like I wanted to go anyway" the human said in between groans as he stretched his back. He turned to the three Mercenaries then gave them a quick wave, his face was covered in soot while his hair looked slightly singed looking as if he was the unfortunate villein in an old cartoon who used sub par weapons to take out the hero, “I'll be all right, you better check in with whats his face and the rest of the Lylat abductees".

Wasting no time Fox got on the comms, “Fox to Lieutenant Dolmen, do you read?" he said with a bit of trepidation in his voice. Moments passed as he listened to someone on the other end of his comm link only giving the occasional acknowledgements until he looked at his three companions, “copy that Lieutenant, we are on our way" he said then closed his comms. Striding up to Falco, Wolf and Gabe he hefted a large weapon pod from one of the downed attack drones “Got good news and bad news, the good news is that Lieutenant Dolmen has secured the hanger and a means of transport for the civilians, our Arwings as well as the Wolfen are their along with a wing of alien fighters" he said with a smirk.

“And the bad news?" Falco asked slamming a pair of fresh power packs into his pistols before holstering them, he preferred using them over the clumsy salvaged weapons Fox and Wolf were now welding.

“The bad news Falco is that they are pinned down by more of these things" he gestured to the corpses of the slain Alien creatures, so we need to give them covering fire" he turned to Gabe who had fished out a large blade from the piles of wreckage strewn about the room, “you up for another round with these ass holes?" he asked

Gabe strapped the blade to his back and activated his suit setting it to Sword combat mode, “I'm ready and eager, hopefully see if I can get a chance to reenact the “Rules of Nature" meme on these creatures with this blade" he replied gesturing to the salvaged melee weapon before striding toward the door, “I know a short cut to the Hanger, it will be a tight squeeze but we can get there quicker if we do". The three Lylat natives didn't protest and followed at a brisk pace, they needed to get off this ship and contact Cornaria asap and if they could get to Dolmen's position before the civilians were slaughtered the better.

Meanwhile in the Aniverse

Bucky was now starting to get nerves as he watched the large asteroid slowly tumble in space all the while a glowing point on its surface began to glow brighter. By now the Heroic Hare had contacted the Screaming Mimi giving them a run down of the plan and now they were counting down, the moment the Toads fire that cannon the two Frigates will use their manoeuvring thrusters at full burn to push the ships out of the line of fire, once safe the two would engage their engines at Maximum and effectively charge the asteroid with all guns blazing, blitzing the Cannons location and if their aim was true turn the gun and Toad Borg and Co into molten slag. The glow of the large super weapon if it were to be called that began to reach a crescendo almost blinding the crew then like a dying star the gun flared once and discharged a massive particle beam of pure unfiltered energy.

“NOW!" he yelled and like a well oiled machine the two ships effectively sidestepped the beam, the energy sliding past the two boxy ships as if it were a flash flood. Moments later the two Frigates gunned their Boosters rocketing towards the asteroid, Toad fighters and the mining stations point defence turrets began to fire trying in desperation to render the ships a pair of smouldering wrecks but Both the Heroic Hare and his allies proved to be out of their league.

Deadeye for his part had been wracking up kills like there was no tomorrow as he focused on the ever looming cannon, to him the massive weapon was an eye sore of cobbled together junk and something more alien, it was unsettling to say the least and if the Toads were screwing around with tech far beyond their understanding then it must be eradicated and he would be the one to do it. As the two ships closed in a interesting surprise greeted the one eyed, four armed duck, the new targeting computer on his guns came to life projecting an detailed readout of the target, vulnerable areas were highlighted making it easy for him to target which made his grin ever wider. However before he could get a chance to fire the Screaming Mimi shot past commencing a strafing run, he was about to shout a protest into his comms when with a flash the other Frigate blasted something along the outer perimeter of the derelict Mining base, moments later a shimmer could be seen as a defence shield destabilised and dropped.

On the bridge Bucky and Jenny saw the shimmering barrier appear, flicker then disappear followed by the sound of Mimi over the comms “All clear Bucky, slag that Cannon!" she said as the second Frigate banked away to try and get some distance, knowing he would have to ask about how she spotted the shield before he or anyone who had sensors on his ship did he keyed the intercom.

“Deadeye, Light'em up!" he yelled before hearing an elated woop in reply, moment later a series of Maser cannon beams shot out stitching the surface of the cannon. then it happened, the blasts must hit something volatile, something that held a lot of energy or was attached to the power supply because not only was there a massive explosion but a series of secondary explosions began to ripple out and blossom over the mining base then the asteroid. “Oh hell" he said as he wrenched the helm controls to pull the Righteous Indignation out of its attack run, even though the ship had artificial gravity the crew were almost thrown out of their seats or off their feet in the case of Willy, Blinky and Bruiser, Bucky called down to Willy in engineering almost yelling thanks to the Adrenalin rush “Willy, divert power to engines, we need to get some distance!"

“We're red lining them as it is but I'll see what I can do!" came the reply, it seemed that he was trying to juggle five problems at once but the Heroic Hare knew he was up to the task. Bucky was so focused on trying to outrun the destruction that he didn't see a new development happening till Jenny caught his attention.

“Bucky, check the rear cameras, we have incoming!" she said pointing to the monitors, Bucky did so and a mixture of dread and elation flashed over his face at what he saw. The asteroid was now cracking up, large chunks were being blown off and hurled into space which in turn effected its rotation, this in turn brought into view a hidden Slip Dock on its underside but what was interesting was the two Toad Capital ships launching from them. It was easy to spot Toad Borg's flag ship due to the large amount of modifications to the hull, the other however seemed to be held together by noting more than welds, rivets and maybe chewing gum.

“So we have two for the price of one hey?" the Heroic Hare mused, “well I think its time Deadeye got a chance to use the newly installed Cruiser Buster" he opened a channel to the Screaming Mimi, Willy in Engineering and Deadeye at his station. “We have Toad Borg and maybe the Air Martial trying to escape, most likely they will try and disable us on the way out so we are going to hit them with the new Ion Cannon upgrade we got, Willy, I need you to divert power back to the guns, Deadeye, make sure your aim is spot on, we should have enough velocity to keep us from being caught in the destruction of the station and give our engines a chance to cool down so lets blast those ships and Crock those Toads!" a round of cheers and acknowledgements erupted from the comms station as Jenny and Bucky prepared to face their adversarys one more time and hopefully take them off the board for good.

_ To Be Contunued _