First Battle
The message from General Pepper echoed through the entire Great Fox along with the Red Alert. "We need your help, Star Fox!" the General's soft, strong voice range out. "Andross has declared war! He's invaded the Lylat System and is trying to take over Corneria! Our army alone can't do the job! Hurry, Star Fox!"
Krystal, Sunset in her arms, raced up to Fox as he headed to join the others heading towards the hangar. "I can help-" she began.
"Your ship can't make the same maneuvers an Ar-Wing can, and you aren't trained to fly one," Fox interrupted. "The best thing you can do right now is keep Sunset safe and help Rob get the rest of Great Fox's resources ready. We're bootstrapping here, and there's no telling how well everything will work."
Krystal flinched back. She hated knowing she was basically useless as far as this battle was, but she couldn't argue the points. Her ship definitely wasn't built for combat maneuverability like the Ar-Wings were, and she'd never even seen one before arriving aboard the Great Fox, let alone fly one. "Alright," she allowed finally. "Be careful."
"Always," Fox responded immediately with a disarming smile.
"Get in the air already, lover boy!" Falco shouted out as he rushed by.
Turning, Fox immediately took off in pursuit. "Says the one who still needs to drive home the connections for his enhancers!" he called back.
"They're built to actuate while moving!"
Krystal quickly rushed to the bridge before Sunset could squirm out of her arms, getting to Rob's side in time to see the four Ar-Wings shoot out of the hangar and towards Corneria. "Which one is Fox's?" she asked Rob worriedly.
Rob tapped a few buttons on the controls, and the view screen displayed a close up of the four fighters, each one highlighted with an identifier added to the display. As they approached, Rob patched the bridge screen into the comm link, letting Krystal and Sunset see and hear who said what.
General Pepper was an older canine, just a little younger than Peppy in appearance, dressed in a medal bedecked crimson uniform. "It's about time you showed up, Fox!" Pepper was saying to the pilots. Sunset's eyes narrowed angrily at the impatient slight. "You're the only hope for our world!"
"I'll do my best!" Fox responded immediately. "Andross won't have his way with me!"
As Pepper's connection cut, Krystal and Sunset listened to the four pilots talking. "Why wings open?" Sunset asked Rob curiously after one particular order.
"Ar-Wings have two modes of flight," Rob explained. "The closed wing mode has much greater max speed, but less maneuverability. This makes it ideal for flying from one planet in a system to another, and for breaching atmospheric envelopes. Open wing has greater maneuverability, but lower max speed. This is ideal for combat flight."
Sunset grinned widely as she watched in awe as the four fighters demonstrated their skills in live combat. Krystal was in no less awe, but it was tempered by fear. Too easily could she imagine one or more of them not coming back.
As the show continued, Sunset eventually wriggled out of Krystal's grip and over to the smaller screen that showed things from the perspective of Fox's cockpit. She stayed there, eyes locked on the screen as she happily pretended that she was in the cockpit, flying the ship along with her Dad. Krystal kept her focus on split between the larger screen that showed the entire battle and Sunset. "Are they going to be okay?" Krystal asked Rob, keeping her voice quiet to avoid alerting Sunset. "Those are a lot of enemies..." She found herself staring from one dangerous looking hunting ship to another.
"You don't need to worry," Rob responded quickly. "Those are all unmanned drones. Obstacles at best, annoyances at worst. They are all far too good of pilots, even ungraduated, to fail."
"Fox, help!" Slippy's voice called out through the comms. "It's on my tail!"
"Of course, Slippy is the least skilled pilot among the group-" Rob began.
"Leave Unca Silly alone!" Sunset suddenly screamed out, her horn glowing as she dragged a finger across her screen right through the image of the drone fighter pursuing Slippy's Ar-Wing.
The large viewscreen showed the drone splitting in half, the two halves falling to the ground before exploding. Krystal's jaw dropped. A clang informed Rob that he needed to pick the lower half of his face-block up off the floor.
"Thanks Fox!" Slippy called out.
"That wasn't me!" Fox responded. "Falco? Peppy?"
"It sure wasn't me, but I saw it!" Falco answered. "It just...split in half!"
Krystal managed to get control of herself as Sunset clapped her hands. "Fox, I think that was Sunset," she said into the comms. "Just before the drone split in half, she drew a line on the screen she was watching the fight from - your POV, Fox - while shouting at them to 'leave Uncle Silly alone'."
"...her reach is that far?" Fox gasped in shock. "Just how powerful is she?"
"Talk about it when we're done here!" Slippy called out. "We've still got a long ways to go!"
The four fighters continued along, hunting down every attacking drone they could as they sought out the ship controlling them. Thankfully, it didn't take long to find the only attacking ship that wasn't unmanned. It was a large ship built in four components. The control cockpit was much larger than the Ar-Wings, and oblong in shape. On one side, a hangar held large numbers of drone fighters ready to be launched. To the other side were two nearly as large laser and missile batteries, As team Star Fox got ready to fight, Sunset suddenly giggled. "I crushy you head!" she declared happily. She held her hand up to the screen, enclosing her fist around the drone bay by her line of sight. "Crush!"
The drone bay collapsed inward as a blazing glow surrounded it, the ACSU panels lining the Great Fox glowing brighter at the same time.
"Crush! Crush!" Sunset declared, repeating the action with the missile and laser batteries. The central cockpit attempted to flee, but was quickly gunned down by the Ar-Wings.
"Okay, mission over!" Falco called out. "Let's talk. How the fig newton did Sunset do that?"
"Scanners indicate magical energy within the Great Fox flared when enemy ship components were collapsed," Rob pointed out. "However, this does not explain why."
"Actually, I think it does," Slippy began nervously. "Krystal? Remember what you said about your staff?"
"That I used it to store my excess magic and as a focus for spells, letting me amplify my magic range and performance?" Krystal confirmed. "What about it?"
"And you talked about just how much of Sunset's magic the Great Fox would hold due to its size and shaping, once I installed the panels?" Slippy continued.
Krystal's eyes widened. "You mean...the entire Great Fox is acting like my staff for Sunset, but on a massive scale?"
"Slippy, figure out some safeties to keep that in check later," Fox ordered. "For now, we'll not think about it until after we've beaten Andross."
"Roger!" Slippy agreed as the four pilots made their way out of Corneria's atmosphere and to their next destination.
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Fun! Sunset is Magical naval artillery, Could be quite a boon for The Star Fox team.
I wonder if this can be considered as Sunset screen cheating...
You'd think I would have heard about giant objects functioning as wands before...
Oh, this ought to be interesting....
...........................Okay as awesome as this is, I get the feeling that this is just going to end up painting a bullseye on Sunset if (or possibly, god forbid, WHEN) Andross and his flunkies figure it out.
ok when i read what sunset was doing the onlything that appeared in my head was this
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That's what i was thinking too!
...I can see Sunset's power being used in an anime like Aldnoah.Zero.
The only thing that comes to mind is Fruit Ninja...
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Mebey later, I think it's more like this:
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yea i can see that as well maybe its like combonation of both
So...
Either Sunset just pulled a Fruit Ninja or a Gurren Lagann.
I am very interested in how this is going to play out for Sunset in the future.
However my interest right now is about how each mission has 2 ways to finish. One says 'Complete if you go through it normally iirc; while the other way says 'Accomplished' I believe if you complete it in a special way. And I think Krystal actually made an appearance in one of the accomplished missions?
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If this is the plot of starfox 64, kyrstal never made any appearances, guest pilots were Bill and Katt who only appeared in a handfull of missions based on the path you went with.
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Actually, there are only two side pilots you can get to help you. The first one is Bill, who you get when you help him repel an invasion on the planet Katina. The other is Kat who helps you after you help her stop the forces on Zoness, which is honestly a trash planet. Does that help?
Just realized this will likely go through Sector Z with the ambush of the great Fox. Safe bet Andross will figure out that there is some super weapon on Great Fox or discover Sunset and either try to eliminate her as a threat or try to kidnap her to use her as a weapon.
I almost feel bad for Andross, almost but not quite
Hu hey question is this star fox 1, zero, or 64
Also are you going to have any of the side pilots join up cause that would honestly be kinda cool to see. Especially if you add Catt in she's like a female falco and could be fun to see how she interacts with everyone. Also she has a history with falco wich could be kinda cool to explore, especially if a certain unicorn tries to meddle with it.
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Personally, I was thinking the Wii U touch tablet.
My preferred run of Starfox 64.
Sector Y (Fun with the mech suits), Aquas (Infinite torpedo spam), Zoness (Fun with Buoys and Katt Monroe, before she decided to lose the pink fur or is replaced by her twin sister Black Kate Munroe in Command. Also was part of the same gang Falco was a part of, they are obvious shipping material with packing peanuts.), Macbeth (It feels like robbing a well protected train and is my favorite level.) and finally Area 6 (The blockade run is epic, four fighters just ripping an entire defense fleet apart.)
I can see this being an every planet route, just zigzag across the solar system and fight every boss.
If Sunset can kill enemys with a screen, does she need an Arwing?
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dialogue makes me think it is 64.
I am both intrigued and slightly terrified of the idea of a starship as a magical focus and amplifier. Very glad that she lives in a different universe to us.
8297485For the fun of it, why else?
Normally in this PWNY series, the displaced character isn't immediately massively overpowered, but I think we threw normality out the window a while ago, huh.
Y'know, I totally forgot that this Sunset was anthro. When I saw 'hands,' I thought you slipped from hooves, then looked back at the cover and said, "riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight." I've been picturing her with hooves this whole time, but now this'll probably make things a whole lot easier for her.
In terms of the actual chapter content, yeah, I envision something more like a WiiU pad on a larger scale. I'm curious to see if Sunset ever does get her own Ar-Wing when she's older, if she has a screen like that installed so she can potentially pilot and use that ability at the same time. Probably a dangerous way to multi-task, but with her sheer power and magical ability, it wouldn't surprise me if she could pilot her own ship and attack by simply using the screen.
Guess we'll just have to wait and see...
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Fruit ninja all the way
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I see the Star Wars scene where Darth Vader tells the other admirals that no weapon (including the Deathstar) could match the power of the force...then immediately heads for a nursery where he has a squad of toddlers practicing on fruit ninja where he gives a snort smugly says, "Yeah, let's just see Palpatine and his pet nerds top this."
Oh my goodness, this is one hell of an awesome quirk for Sunset.
This is the kind of gamebreaker we seek when playing our games with Game Genie/Gameshark
... well, I was wrong. She's not going to find a way to pilot a Ar-Wing during this game. She's going to make them obsolete with her uber-magic.
Holy shit! Sunset's using the Great Fox as a mana channel?!
Andross is fucked.
I'm already imagining the fights against Star Wolf, as well as wondering if Sunset'll be around long enough for the mission on Dinosaur Planet. Then again, with Krystal already on the Great Fox, how does the story there change with Sunset's added presence?
Ugh... I'm rambling... Anyways, keep it up, Tats! Unleash the superweapon that is little filly Sunset upon all of the Lylat System!
Very soon now Sunset will be playing angry birds with enemy ships
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Pft, who needs airstrikes? Am I right?
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10 bits on crushing him into oblivion.
Hmm...So Sunny's amplifier is better than Krystals, huh?
Guess staff size does matter. Provided you got the juice to power it up.
I'm not even sorry
Uh... *steps back from Sunset nervously* I hope she gets a stern talking soon.
Yikes.
Oh wow, so Sunset is using the entire Great Fox as a magic focus? I wonder how far this will scale as she matures and her magic grows more powerful.
I hope Sunset is nerfed soon. There's no drama if she just wrecks everything with magic,
Please do Slippy. She needs a nerf. And a spanking.
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done!! anyone else placeing a bet??
Woah, so Sunset found the Easy Button.
And scary. 
That's hilarious!
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There was a mission in star fox 64 where the great fox was under attack from pirate forces change it up some and that are still in the ideal ending
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This is basically a flashback of Arpeggio of the Blue Steel isn't it?
Im hoping Tatsuro has a plan for Kat, Bill, and Star Wolf. In the game it is impossible to meet all 3 fights with star wolf, save bill, and meet Kat at the same time in 1 playthrough. So maybe he will just add all the missions instead in the story?
Why does she suddenly have hands?
Well, that was terrifying.
Though it does give me cool ideas for a 'verse where people use starships as magical foci.
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....huh. I had to read the first chapter again to be sure, and you're right. She hasn't been doing anything that specifically required hands, so I guess it slipped my mind. ...i can't even think of another instance before this that has her doing anything with her hands.