User blog:1hs444/Origins

Yo to all. Drullkus started his own blog thingy, so I decided to shoot a shot at it. Origin story about Fox's father James McCloud, taken in third person past-tense perspective. If it slightly differs from SF canon in the specs, thats by design.

Nintendo was so vague on the topic of James' tragic death, so I thought I could bring some light to it. Here goes nothing. *cracks knuckles and blows on dusty old typewritter*

Origins
James wasn't typical. He was far beyond that of just typical. Forced by his family to join the Cornerian Air Force at a young age, he felt like he needed better. Much better. Wearing a flight jacket with a serial number on it and following an abusive commanders every whim was not him. He had worked all his life to become something, and wasn't ready to give it all up to a weak military. So, one day at the Cornerian Armed Forces Academy, he gained the following of two other renegade cadets, and left. All three of them took every single dime they had, put out loans on just about every bank that would offer them, and sought financial help from friends and family to begin a mercenary business with three of the galaxies most expensive, dangerous, and untested prototype vehicles known to date: the Arwing starfighter. The young cadets aptly named their new mercenary business "Star Fox".

A few years have passed. James is all the way in his 20's, and his fellow pilots Pigma Dengar and Peppy Hare have made their way in life, all still loyal to Star Fox. The team is so successful in aiding Corneria from threats that they can't defend from that an 80-year-loan is put out in order to pay for one of the Lylat Systems most ambitious and expensive capital ships of it's time; the Great Fox. Fox is born, with his father being his only available parent. Andross, a Cornerian resident and military scientist, is condemned to the depths of Venom, an acidic and barren planet for his crimes against Corneria after an accidental nuclear explosion killed tens of thousands in part of Corneria's capital. Once again, peace returns, clean up efforts have completed, and people forget.

In the peacetime however, comes the greatest shock when evil strikes.

5 years later.
James turned his head and looked over to his privately owned planetary terminal, and sighed. Eager to repay his nearly complete vessel, he waited on Macbeth for any sign of trouble in the galaxy; and as fate had it, he received a distress signal. Several Cornerian satellites over Venom recently dropped out of contact, even the manned scientist centers. The team was called up to do a brief check up on the planet, and then to pull out before the atmosphere could have a chance to severely effect the ships.

James accepted the mission, and the team raced for Venom. Now at a nose dive into the atmosphere, our mercenaries are discussing matters back at home, especially concerning that of Peppy's future wife, Vivian. The clouds over Venom start to fade, and reveal several frigates, assault carriers and cruisers hiding behind them. The confused team is quickly silenced by a taunt from Pigma, explaining that he was bribed by this invasion force, leaving James speechless. Pigma fires on James, and an entire wing blows clean off, and James' Arwing falls hopelessly to his doom kilometers below. Peppy, who isn't quick enough to react to James' fate, tries to engage Pigma in a dogfight, but is too shot down after intervention by the nearby cloaked fleet. Peppy bails on his doomed fighter, and after narrowly escaping death by a failing parachute, he rendezvouses with the miraculously still alive James on the blood red deserts of Venom.

The two equip themselves with pistols and proper gear to defend them against the climate, and start out for the fortress that the fleet is defending. James took a detonator from his downed Arwing, and strapped a bomb to his payload of 9 smart bombs. The two reach the fortress walls after evading capture for hours, until finally being caught by a squadron of fighters. The Arwings were towed inside of the fort for investigation by this invading army, and the two were brought to a holding cell for future execution. Failing to realize the importance of the duos neural implants, the opposing forces were left ignorant to the plotting that their prisoners were doing, but not without a price; captured Cornerian soldiers were being publicly tortured and executed by their captors, and the remaining forces of Star Fox were the next victims. James reached through the prison cell's walls, and snapped the guards neck, while Peppy disabled the surveillance system in the entire mega-compound.

Realizing that the last ship that could escape the Venomian Fleet was Pigma's very own Arwing, James decided to stay behind and let Peppy go forth to warn Corneria, and his son Fox, about the inbound invasion force who happened to be lead by the scientist Andross. Peppy snuck into the hanger bay where Pigma left his Arwing, readied it, and blasted off to the clouds, almost completely unchallenged by the inferior Venomian fighters. After nearly a day of pushing the fighter to her limits, the Arwing was close enough to home that the pursuers could not follow.

Meanwhile, 9 Type-B Smart Bombs stay ready in the bay of the now dissected Arwing still left in the fortress on Venom. Pigma finally decided to finish his paid job to eliminate the scout party, and readied for James' execution. James thought of Corneria and her colonies, and his son, and finally came to the conclusion that he could buy his homeworld valuable time by nuking the stronghold. Pigma lifted a sidearm up to James' head, pulled off the safety, and exclaimed:

"If it makes you feel any better, no one will remember you once you're dead, so you can get over that."

"Didn't you know?  Cornerians never die.  They are just missing in action."

He leaned over and pressed the detonator, and detonated 9 Type-B Smart Bombs effectively reducing the stronghold to rubble, and truly making James missing in action.

''Thanks for reading my short story, it took me awhile to write, and I hope you enjoyed it. :D''