Instantly thousands of laser bolts started firing at the bio-weapons. The bio-weapons continued advancing towards the Cornerian Defense Force as they continued firing on the enemies. Occasionally a bio-weapon would go down but five bio-weapons would take its place.

"We've got them beat at long-range weaponry," said Pepper cruising above the action in his fighter. However, several blasts came rocketing back at them from the tail blasters on the scorpions.

"Then again, maybe not," said Pepper. The laser bolts kept flying back and forth between the two forces.

Ocean: Six subs were underneath the water and several attackboats were on top of the water ready for an ocean assault.

Lead Sub: "Admiral take a look at this," said a sonar operator. The admiral walked over to the sonar and looked at it. On the screen where several blips which confirmed that bio-weapons were in the ocean.

"Inform HQ. Ready torpedo tubes," said the admiral. Alarms started ringing all over the ship as it went to mode red.

"Fire torpedoes," said the admiral. Six torpedoes emerged from the subs headed towards the targets and several explosions were heard

"Report," said the admiral.

"Sir! The targets are still advancing," said the sonar operator. Instantly the bio-weapons converged on the subs and started attacking them.

"We're finished. Order the attackboats to drop depth charges," said the admiral.

"Aye sir," said the radio operator. Instantly water started flooding into the cabin.

"Message sent," said the radio operator.

"Prepare for contingency plan seven," said the admiral. Everyone looked at the admiral and knew that it was the only way to give Corneria City a fighting chance.

"Self-destruct system activated," said the captain.

"Other subs have also activated their self-destruct devices," said the radio operator. The bio-weapons continued attacking the subs and then the subs exploded.

Surface of the water, Lead Attackboat: "Sonar confirmed. Six explosions," said the sonar operator.

"How many bio-weapons left?" asked the commander.

"Four that are still moving," responded the sonar operator.

"Drop depth charges," said the captain.

"Depth charges dropped," said the weapons operator. Several depth charges were fired into the water. Then they exploded beneath the water.

"Negligible damage. One of the targets is coming underneath the port attackboat. Wait a minute, it's surfacing!" exclaimed the sonar operator. The port attackboat buckled and cracked as a large squid surfaced underneath it. The squid then lashed out its tentacles and destroyed three other battleboats.

"Back us off! Fire at that thing," said the commander. The forward laser guns opened fire on the squid with laser cannons, depths charges, and torpedoes. The squid was taking most of the damage with only a few breaks in its skin. However, one of the laser bolts managed to connect with the munitions supply of the boat located on top of the squid. The bay exploded and took out the squid.

"Where's the other bio-weapons?" asked the commander.

"They made a break for the city," said the sonar operator.

"Bring us around," said the commander. The attackboats spun around and advanced towards Corneria City.

Land Battle: "Wing 6, concentrate your fire on the crabs," said Pepper. His fighter flew over the large battle below as thousands of explosions rocked the ground.

The bio-weapons were relentless in their pursuits to enter Corneria City.

"Sir, large mass approaching, it's Mantia," said a commander.

"All aerial units prepare to attack Mantia," said Pepper. All wings of fighters prepped themselves to attack the bio-weapon. Several miles away, Mantia burst from the clouds along with several other flying bio-weapons.

"Looks like it's brought some friends along," said Falco.

"That it has," responded Pepper. Mantia and the flying bio-weapons converged on the fighters at full speed.

"Fire!" yelled Pepper. All wings opened fire on Mantia and its companions. While Mantia kept blazing forward, his colleagues strayed behind apparently trying to avoid the laser blasts. The three laser cannons emerged from Mantia's body and fired on the fighters.

"Evasive maneuvers," said Pepper. The fighters all tried to swerve out of the way. Six fighters didn't make it and were destroyed.

"Sir, we're under aerial attack!" yelled an artillery commander. The flying bio-weapons were attacking the ground units. One bird landed on a tank, cawed loudly, and exploded taking out several tanks and soldiers.

"There's a gap in the field!" yelled Falco.

"Wing 4, cover the gap," said Pepper. Several bio-weapons entered in through the field and into the city.

"Alert inner city defense force," said Pepper. Six tanks converged onto Main Street as two crabs and a scorpion entered into the heart of the city. The tanks fired on the creatures, but their thick skin hardly caused them to slow down. Behind the bio-weapons two captured Venomian building pushers approached the creatures (the large robots that pushed over buildings on the Corneria level of Star Fox64). One of them rolled over one of the crabs and crushed it. The other grabbed the scorpion by the tail and crushed it. Then, the building pusher proceeded to pick up the scorpion and threw it out of the city. The second wall crawler pushed a building over and crushed the final crab.

"The uninvited guests has been dealt with," said a tank commander.

"Very good," said Pepper. Explosions started erupting all over the outskirts of the city as the bio-weapons rumbled over several defense stations.

"Fall back to secondary positions," said Pepper. Several defense units fell back to just inside city limits. Several burning fighters streamed towards the ground and exploded into several buildings.

Above Corneria: The Raptor's Pride emerged from warp and Jake and Dan flew out of the main hanger bay.

"Looks like they're overwhelmed," said Dan. The two fighters headed for Corneria City.

Corneria City: The bio-weapons had pushed through the outer limits of the city and were advancing towards the center of the city.

"They've overridden defense points six and seven," said a ground commander.

"Shoot," said Pepper. Several buildings fell in the background as the bio-weapons proceeded to push them over.

"It was easier to use a fighter to attack enemy forces when there weren't that many buildings in Corneria City," grumbled Falco.

"Yeah, well. That's because this is such a great place to live," said Pepper. A building fell down towards him and Pepper barely managed to avoid the building and being crushed.

"Well, not anymore," said Falco.

"Maybe one day it will," said Fox zooming by overhead.

"Hey Fox. Late as usual," said Falco.

"Yeah well better late than never," responded Fox.

"I heard what happened to Slippy. I may have annoyed him in the past, but in the end he had the courage to sacrifice his own life to try and take out Mantia. I would never have done that," admitted Falco. Mantia flew overhead firing at the nearby buildings. Several fighters pursued Mantia firing their lasers at it.

"I take it bombs have no effect," said Dan.

"You would be correct," said Pepper. A large explosion was heard as a large flying object caught on fire and was headed right for Falco, Dan, Pepper, and Fox.

"What the heck," said Fox. The object became clearer and was revealed to be a bird bio-weapon.

"Evasive maneuvers!" yelled Falco. The four fighters scattered as the bird streaked by, gave an ear-shattering caw, and slammed into the ground demolishing several nearby buildings. A scorpion crawled over one of the buildings and started firing at fighters flying overhead. A couple of blasts found their marks and the fighters crashed into the ground.

"Things aren't going so well," said Falco.

"Pepper, distress call from the 6^th artillery unit on seventy second and fifth street, they're boxed in by some bio-weapons and you are the closest to them," said the president who had decided to coordinate the attack from the ground.

"Roger that Mr. President," said Fox. The four fighters flew in low along the streets in order to avoid any aerial attacks. The fighters spun around a tight turn and saw a decimated crater, where the artillery unit would have been, surrounded by three bio-weapons.

"They're gone," said Pepper. Dan zoomed ahead and fired his lasers and bombs at one of the creatures and managed to destroy it.

"Their deaths weren't in vain, they softened up these bio-weapons. Now let's honor their memories by destroying these bio-weapons," said Dan.

"You're right," said Pepper finally. Pepper, Falco, and Fox fired on the remaining two bio-weapons and managed to destroy the other two. Above the buildings a bird came flying overhead pursued by three fighters that were firing on it.

"Where's the guest of honor?" asked Dan.

"If you mean Mantia, it's leading a group of three crabs, two scorpions, and one snake towards the capitol building," said the president.

"Where are you holed up?" asked Falco.

"We are currently underneath Central Tower Plaza Hotel," said the president.

"Be careful, Mantia could have bio-weapons that can dig underground," said Dan. A snake crawling below them swung out its tail and tried to bring down the fighters. Part of its tail hit part of Falco's fighter. The engine on his Arwing started smoking as the engine caught on fire.

"I've got to set down," said Falco.

"I'll cover you. Fox and Pepper, you'd better keep flying on," said Dan. Pepper and Fox headed out towards another bio-weapon and were joined by five other fighters. Falco started flying low over the ground.

"My engine is too badly damaged, I'm coming down hard and fast," said Falco. Dan flew in behind him as Falco's Arwing crashed into the street and rumbled to a halt in front of a building. Falco popped out of his ship as the snake approached from around a corner.

"Great," said Falco running off. Falco was a fast runner, but the snake was faster than him, and was gaining ground.

"I'll help you," said Dan. Dan landed his custom fighter between Falco and the snake. Dan grabbed two blasters, a shoulder blaster cannon, and a handful of grenades before setting the ships motion tracker to auto-destruct the ship once the snake was on top of it. Dan then ran off after Falco. The snake approached the fighters and was crawling over it when the self-destruct system activated. Dan ran at top speed and tackled Falco as the shockwave passed over them.

"Thanks," grumbled Falco.

"Don't mention it," said Dan. As they both got up, Dan handed Falco one of the handheld blasters before walking off.

"Where are you going?" asked Falco.

"To Central HQ. We should get there soon because we are really no match for the bio-weapons and we don't want to be run over by our own forces," said Dan running off. Eventually they reached another street and were deciding which way to go when a roar was heard as Mantia was seen approaching them. Dan spun around and saw the capitol building right behind them.

"Well this is just great," sighed Dan. Falco grabbed the other blaster and started firing at the bio-weapons.

"Pea shooters will not effect any bio-weapon," said Mantia as it watched the scene unfold from the air.

"Time to bring out the big guns," said Dan. He aimed the shoulder cannon and fired three shots at the approaching bio-weapons. Two of the shots went wide, but a third struck a crab in the eye causing it to roar in pain.

"Insolence! Destroy them!" commanded Mantia. The laser tails, of the scorpions, started firing on Dan and Falco as they ran for cover.

"Head into the capitol building," said Dan. The two ran behind the doors and watched the approaching army.

"Options," said Dan.

"Hold them off until backup arrives," said Falco.

"If backup arrives," said Dan.

"It should," said Falco. In front of the building two building pushers moved between the bio-weapons and the capitol building. Also, in front of the building a speeder screeched to halt and a marine called out to Dan and Falco.

"Let's go!" the marine yelled. Dan and Falco ran out of the building and into the speeder. The marine gunned the engine as it sped away from the capitol.

"What about the building?" asked Falco.

"It's equipped with a self-destruct device. As soon as the bio-weapons start clawing on the building, they're history," said the marine.

"Okay. Are we headed for HQ?" asked Dan. The marine nodded his head. Behind them, the building pushers fired their lasers at the oncoming bio-weapons. Two crabs exploded and the tail section was blown off one of the scorpions. However, the bio-weapons soon overwhelmed the building pusher and destroyed them. Then they proceeded to tear apart the capitol building.

"Excellent," said Mantia. Suddenly though, the building exploded and the shockwave destroyed all of the bio-weapons and hurtled Mantia towards a large building. Mantia clipped slammed into one of the buildings and it collapsed on the bio-weapons. Mantia roared in anger at the loss of the bio-weapons before going on a rampage and destroying several nearby buildings. The shockwave also caused the engine to stall on the speeder. Dan ran out of the speeder and looked at the engine.

"It's hopeless," said Dan.

"You need to be nice to it," said Falco. Falco walked out of the speeder and kicked the engine as it roared to life. Dan slammed the hood shut and jumped into the speeder along with Falco.

"Go!" yelled Dan. As the speeder zoomed off, an armadillo slammed through the building that was right next to them. The armadillo rolled off into the distance and slammed into several more buildings causing them to collapse.

"That was close," said the marine.

Pepper, Fox, and the five other fighters accompanying them zoomed inside the city and tried to help out when possible.

"The capitol plan worked and it dispatched the bio-weapons that were attacking it, with the exception of Mantia," said the president.

"Excellent," said Pepper.

"Not so excellent, the bio-weapons are overrunning every fallback position that we selected. They've overrun fallback positions 1-12," said the president.

"That leaves only three left before the troops are surrounded and destroyed," said Pepper.

"For those that are still alive," responded the president grimly.

Macbeth: Peppy was walking through a secret underground area. Eventually he got to a door that read: Missile Control. Peppy walked in and activated the old consoles. The computer revved to life and several screens flicked on.

"This is Venomian Interplanetary Cruise Missile launch control. Enter in coordinates for missile launch," said the computer. Pepper punched in a coordinate on the computer.

"Coneria City coordinates confirmed, missiles launching," said the computer. Pepper sat back and watched the launch silos open.

Macbeth Surface: Several miners were huddled around a small T.V. watching the events unfold in Corneria City. Then, all of a sudden, the ground started rumbling.

"What's going on?" asked one of the workers. Nearby, a section of the ground parted and a missile emerged from it and headed towards Corneria. Nearby, several other missiles were launched into the air and were also headed towards Corneria.

"We've got to alert central command," said one of the workers.

Ocean just outside of Corneria City: Two lobsters and one turtle emerged from the water and started trundling towards Corneria City. Three tanks plowed forward firing at the bio-weapons. A few feet away, the attackboats opened fire on the turtle. Several shots hit the turtle's tail and blew a chunk of it off.

"Got it," said the commander of the lead attackboat. The tanks kept on firing at the lobsters hoping that they would go back into the water. Instead the lobsters made a dash at the tanks and ran right over them, destroying the tanks and the soldiers inside. The attackboat kept on firing on the turtle until it retracted its body into its shell.

"All ships, fire all weapons on it!" yelled the commander. Every weapon on the attackboats fired on the turtle and smoke started rising all around it, several shells also blew up large chunks of the sand throwing it into the air. Eventually the guns went dry as all of the weapons supplies were exhausted.

"Ammo stores depleted," said a technician looking at the weapon's counter. The commander tried to look through the smoke and sand to see if the turtle was still there. Eventually the smoke cleared and the turtle shell was still there. Then the body emerged and the turtle trundled off. The two lobsters though were dead from the choking sand.

"That turtle is unstoppable," said the commander. A loud roar was heard overhead and the commander was sure that it was Mantia, but instead a large object fell from the sky and obliterated the turtle.

"What was that?" asked the commander.

HQ: "What was that?" asked the President.

"An interplanetary cruise missile," said a commander.

"Where did it come from?" asked Dan (who had arrived with Falco and the marine).

"The only other time that Corneria was attacked by interplanetary cruise missiles was during the Andross' wars and those missiles were launched from Macbeth," said Pepper. This statement made Dan think for a moment before activating his comm. unit.

"Raptor's Pride," said the communicator.

"When Peppy Hare escaped from our ship, where did he go?" asked Dan.

"His trajectory would have taken him to Macbeth," came the response. Dan turned to the president. "There's your culprit."

"Peppy is the culprit? Are you sure?" asked Fox (who had landed outside and also entered the HQ).

"Who else would have known about the missiles? You annexed Macbeth and I doubt that anyone on that planet would have the expertise in launching those missiles. Also, if they were launched by someone who was partial to the Venomians and there idea of conquering the Lylat System, then they wouldn't be attacking the bio-weapons," said Dan. Then an alarm went off in the underground area.

"More missiles?" asked Fox.

"No, that's a geological sensor. Something's about to burst through that wall," said the president. A mole burst through the wall and into the HQ flinging dirt everywhere.

"Evacuate!" yelled the president. Everyone ran for the stairs to get back to the surface (remember, the HQ was underground). Suddenly the whole building started collapsing in on itself. Thankfully, everyone managed to escape before the building buried the mole and killed it.

"Not everything is smart," said the president starting to laugh. However, more explosions were heard as dozens of missiles rained down on the city. Not all the missiles though hit their targets and many destroyed several buildings.

"Can we still send the evacuate code?" asked the president.

"Yep," said a technician.

"Send it. We're bugging out," said the president. The signal was sent and everyone made a run for it. Fox ran for his fighter (Pepper was still attacking the bio-weapons) and everyone else ran to the transports. They all took off down the streets in separate directions out of the city. A hover transport accidentally ran right into a bio-weapon and was destroyed on its way out. Above the transports, all of the remaining starfighters were leaving as well. Eventually everyone, who was still alive, had left the city as missiles continually destroyed it.

"So much for Corneria City," said the president.

"Hey, isn't that Mantia?" someone asked. Mantia was flying over the city trying to locate a living bio-weapon, when a missile hit it dead on. A part of Mantia's body was blasted away onto the city while Mantia roared in pain. Everyone cheered at Mantia's inability to attack what attacked it. After one more hit, Mantia burst into the sky leaving Corneria behind. Fox and Pepper pursued it in their fighters while Dan and Falco were left behind.

"Just great," said Falco. A wind kicked up behind them as one of Raptor's Pride landing craft appeared behind them.

"Let's go," said Dan. The two piled into the landing craft as it burst away into the sky.

"Let's pick up the pieces," said the president to the remaining soldiers.

Raptor's Pride: The landing craft touched down on the deck next to Fox and Pepper's fighters. Dan exited the craft and on the way to the bridge, with Falco, was briefed about the current situation.

"Mantia is apparently making its way to Sector Z," said a technician.

"Why?" asked Dan.

"I don't know, I'm not the universes most deadly bio-weapon," said the technician.

"Yeah," said Falco deadpan. They reached the bridge and Dan sat in the captain's chair.

"Pursuit course," said Dan. The freighter leapt into warp pursuing the damaged bio-weapon.

3 hrs. Later: "Sir, Mantia is entering Sector Z," said a technician.

"Do we pursue?" asked the pilot.

"We do," responded Dan. The freighter entered Nebula Z (the actual nebula, not the area where the level took place at).

Macbeth: Peppy watched Mantia and the freighter enter the nebula. Pepper wanted to hold back from attacking, but knew that there was no other choice. The missile system couldn't track Mantia, but he knew that the missile wouldn't have to due to its extensive payload. He hit the button marked with an A and an upside down horseshoe.

"Alpha and Omega launched," said the computer. A large portion of the ground disappeared as a large missile launched from the ground. Pepper knew the missile was slow, but its blast radius was large enough to obliterate Mantia and the whole nebula.

Nebula Z: The Raptor's Pride was cautiously making its way through the nebula as it attempted to track Mantia.

"Any sign of it?" asked Dan.

"No sir, the nebula is wreaking havoc with out sensors," responded the sensor operator. Dan looked at the viewscreen and saw it crackle with static as the sensors attempted to display an image.

"This is hopeless," said Dan. A large object floated by on the viewscreen.

"Fire," yelled Dan. Several lasers fired but none of them seemed to contact with the creature.

"Weapon's lock is off-line," said the weapon's officer.

"Should we use fighters?" asked Fox.

"I would advise against it because we may need to get out of here in a hurry," said Dan.

"Oh all right," said Fox. Suddenly Mantia appeared in front of them.

"Hard to starboard," said Dan. The freighter jerked hard to the right as Mantia fired its lasers. Unlike the freighter, Mantia's lasers didn't have targeting sensors, the merely fired in the direction that Mantia was facing. Several shots hit the side of the ship sending pieces of it into the nebula.

"More weckage for this system," said Dan. Suddenly, Mantia was hit by several laser blasts, as a fighter flew by.

"Attention unidentified freighter, you're in my trade jurisdiction," said the pilot.

"He sounds serious," said Falco.

"Of course he does. Thanks for the assist Jake, I won't forget it," said Dan. Jake started laughing.

"Don't you ever forget about what I did for you, I'll help escort you out of here," said Jake.

"Why?" Fox asked.

"Dan, you remember about the rumor of a doomsday bomb designed to destroy Corneria?" Jake asked.

"Yeah, wasn't it was rumored to have been built by Andross to destroy Corneria. Wasn't it called Alpha Omega?" asked Dan.

"It ain't no rumor because it's headed this way right now!" yelled Jake.

"Let's get moving!" yelled Dan.

"You believe him?" asked Falco.

"Jake wouldn't lie to me about this. I'm one of his suppliers and he definitely doesn't want to see me disappear. Let's go," said Dan. The ship set into forward motion and zoomed off. Mantia watched with interest as the ship's left, but chose instead to heal its wounds. The two ships flew away and zoomed past the missile.

"Sensor's confirmed, she's hot," said Pepper. Fox looked at the screen and his eyes widened.

"That missile could potentially obliterate this whole nebula and fling Mantia far away from here never to come back," said Fox.

"Increase speed," said Dan. Mantia watched as the missile entered the nebula and figured that there was no way this missile could possible damage it enough to hinder its pursuit of conquering the Lylat System in any way. The missile stopped and exploded. First a small explosion, followed by a larger one and a tremendous shockwave, which ripped away chunks of Mantia's body and flung it out of the Lylat System.

Raptor's Pride: "Sir, we have a shockwave approaching of unbelievable magnitude! It's off the charts," said a technician. The wave chart went so high that the screen exploded.

"We've got to increase speed or we'll never make it!" said Jake.

"Rear view," said Dan. On the screen a large shockwave was seen headed right towards them.

"Jake, remember that shockwave that erupted from the fuel depot," said Dan.

"How could I forget, I got second degree burns all over my body as we were flung fifteen feet away. Why?" asked Jake.

"I have a feeling that this shockwave will fling us a lot farther away than that. You've been a good buyer over the years and I want to say thanks," said Dan,

"We're not going to die. We're going to make through this and I'm going to steal from your supply depot," said Jake with a nervous laugh.

"Yeah," said Dan sighing.

"Shockwave hit in three minutes," said the computer. Dan spun around and looked at Pepper.

"I only regret that we could've been seen in public together uncle," said Dan.

"You two are related?" asked Fox. Pepper nodded his head.

"My sister and her husband adopted Dan when he was five years old," said Pepper.

"That is why you never bothered to hunt him down and arrest him," said Falco.

"Shockwave in two minutes," said the computer.

"He's family, I can't do that to family," said Pepper.

"Plus my mom made him swear that he wouldn't," said Dan laughing. Pepper merely shrugged his shoulders and then shook his head in humility.

"Shockwave in one minute," said the computer.

"Fire a satellite, I want to how far this shockwave will send it," said Dan. A slot opened on the bottom of the freighter and a satellite fell out. A few seconds later, that satellite was rocketed away.

"Talk about fast, that thing has rocketed out of the system," said the sensor operator.

"Talk about fast, that thing was gone in sixty seconds," said Falco.

"Shockwave in thirty seconds," said the computer.

"It is rapidly loosing strength," said a technician.

"So, we might not be flung as far," said Dan.

"Best estimate is that when it hits us and we survive the shockwave, we'll be flung just beyond Sector X," said the technician.

"Excellent," said Dan.

"I said if we survive the shockwave," said the technician.

"Jake can you make it?" asked Dan.

"Oh yeah, I won't even be hit by it. I hope you enjoy this," said Jake. Two large boosters emerged from the side of Jake's ship. Dan's eyes opened wide as he realized what they were.

"He stole my hyper-acceleration boosters. You'll pay for this!" yelled Dan.

"Bye," said Jake. His fighter blasted away from the freighter and the shockwave.

"Shockwave hit imminent," said the computer.

"Brace yourselves!" yelled Dan. Suddenly the whole room turned white as Sector Z exploded into a million pieces of stray particles. Dan saw his life flash before his eyes and he wondered what he could have been. Then Dan saw a light ahead of him and he walked into it and let the light overwhelm him. Dan's opened his eyes and he saw that he was still on board his freighter. Around him his crew were laying all over the floor. Dan blinked his eyes a few time and cleared his head of the cobwebs.

"Crew. Crew!" yelled Dan. Several members stood up and staggered about lightheaded and disoriented.

"Talk about a hangover," said Falco rubbing his head. Pepper and Fox also stood up and looked around.

"Report," said Dan.

"Minor buckling to the hull, but it looks like there is no breaches, also Sector Z has been destroyed. So far, no one is dead on the ship, only disoriented," said a technician.

"That's good. Location," said Dan. The pilot spun the ship around and they saw Sector X in the distance and the exploded Sector Z farther back.

"It will take three days at warp to return to the Lylat System," said the sensor operator.

"What about Mantia?" asked Dan. Everyone looked at the sensor operator with hope in their eyes.

"Gone," was all that the creature said. The crew started cheering.

"Let's go home," said Dan. They freighter entered warp.