Starfox: Villains Return

Disclaimer: I do not own Starfox or any of the characters (unfortunately).

Prologue

"AAAAHHH!!!" Fox McCloud woke up abruptly from his sleep after hearing a scream coming from the Great fox's kitchen. Slipping on his boots, he ran down the halls, wondering what was happening. He ran through the metallic gray hallways of the Great fox and, on his trip to the kitchen met up with Falco Lombardi, an avian who had recently joined up with the team last year after he left during an eight year layoff.

"What's going on McCloud, I mean it's 0200 hours and I need my sleep," Falco asked complaining as the two were making their way to the kitchen.

"How should I know?" Fox answered as they entered the kitchen. No one was there. Fox saw the dirty dishes from last nights dinner and the still gray walls, but no animals."Well, whatever happened here, there's nothing left of it," Fox mumbled.

"Great, so you mean we woke up for nothing?" Falco said complaining some more. Suddenly, Slippy ran in screaming his lungs off. He dove behind Fox and Falco and became a shivering heap.

"What's happening Slippy? Why are you screaming?" Fox asked hurriedly looking around the kitchen and then back at Slippy.

"I s-s-s-s-s-saw a sh-sh-shadow in the kitchen w-w-w-while I was g-g-g-getting a d-d-d-drink of water." As Slippy finished explaining his encounter with a strange ghostly shadow, another shadow appeared from around the corner. Falco took out his blaster as Slippy started screaming again. Krystal turned around from the corner, holding a glass of water and saw Falco pointing his blaster at her, Fox in a fighting stance, and Slippy behind the two, shivering like a coward.

"What's going on? I got up to get a glass of water when I heard Slippy scream." Krystal said scanning the faces of the animals. Fox lowered his fists and Slippy looked up with a sigh of relief.

"I was just about to hit you on the head with the butt of my blaster," Falco said re-holstering his blaster. "Well, anyway that's what you get, Slippy, for watching that scary movie before we went to bed," Falco said as he continued looking at Slippy.

"What was all that screaming about?" Peppy asked turning around the corner. Since he could recognize Slippy's screaming, he turned to Slippy for an answer.

"Well, apparently Slip-up here got scared by a couple of shadows," Falco answered for Slippy to save him from further embarrassment.

"Sorry," Slippy said quietly, starting to turn a bright red, and luckily for him, it was dark so no one could see his face.

"Well, everyone get back to bed, we have a big day tomorrow at Corneria so get some rest!" Peppy said, annoyed at being woken at such an early time.

"Whatever, at least I can get back to bed," Falco grumbled, walking to his quarters, followed by the rest of the Starfox team. Each entered their rooms.

Fox slipped off his boots and pulled the covers over his body.

That wasn't very eventful ,and I bet Falco will be teasing Slippy about the whole thing for a while. Better get some sleep, after all, I'm gonna need the rest if we're going to have to listen to General Pepper talk. He does take hours with his speeches.

After a few short seconds of more thought Fox drifted into a deep slumber.

(Author's Notes: Sorry if that was kind of crappy, but I guess I can promise you that it will get better.)