On the surface of planet Fortuna, a lone figure was trying to find his way through the thick forest...
"Curse them..." Andrew Oikonny wheezed as he leaned against a tree and caught his breath. "Curse them all... first Star Fox... then that freaky machine monster... curse them all!"
It had taken him hours until he was able to free himself from the wrecked remains of his ship, which was buried under a huge pile of rubble in the canyon where the moth-like Aparoid had appeared the first time. Since then, he had stumbled around in the wilderness, trying to find a way back to his base.
But when he finally reached its north gate, all he saw was a desolate base, with nobody to welcome him back. Only a few damaged robots and containers were still scattered across the floor.
"What happened?" he stuttered. "Where'd they all go? They must have known that I survived... nobody beats Andrew Oikonny... why did they abandon me? Honorless cowards! I was gonna win! WIN!! Curse them all to hell!"
He stomped a few time with his foot, then he tried to find any remains of his soldiers and mercenaries, but there really was nobody left. He couldn't know that shortly after his defeat by the Star Fox Team, his base got attacked by the swarm of Aparoids. After the bug-like machines left, the Cornerian Army arrived to arrest the remaining survivors of Andrew's men. They surrendered voluntarily.
Andrew sat down on an overturned cargo transporter and hid his face in his hands. "Uncle Andross... forgive me... I have failed you..."
He didn't know for how long he sat there after that. But when a shadow fell upon his face, he looked up at the silhouette that was standing in front of the sun.
It was a tall, imposing figure with steely eyes and an impressive beard. The ape-like face looked down at Oikonny like an emperor would look down at his followers.
Andrew gasped. "No..." he whispered. "That can't be..."
Gendo grinned when he saw the flabbergasted face of Andross' nephew. With this new body, he had also received all of the memories of the deceased tyrant, so he instantly recognized Andrew. Spreading his arms, he grinned down at the younger ape. "Well, don't you want to welcome your uncle?"
"But you're dead!" Andrew shouted. "Fox McCloud... I saw him flying into Venom's core after he and his team blasted us out of the skies. And when the underground base exploded... nobody came out there alive, except for McCloud! You couldn't have survived that inferno!"
Gendo smirked. This little guy was way too funny, he decided to keep him. Maybe he could help him to reach the glory Andross had never been able to achieve... but to do that, he had to act like he was Andross himself.
"What is death to me?" he asked. "I've experimented with life and death all my life, do you really think there was no way for me to escape? Oh yes, my body got destroyed... nevertheless, my spirit was able to escape to Sauria, where I wanted to use the ancient spirits of the Krazoa to return to my former self... still, I got once again defeated by Fox McCloud."
He grinned. "But that didn't matter, since I am back again! And the Lylat System... no, all of the cosmos will tremble before the name of Andross - and you will help me again, won't you, Andrew?"
"Of course!" Andrew jumped to his feet and took his 'uncle's' hand. "I would follow you into the deepest pits of hell, Uncle Andross! But our army..."
"Don't worry, nephew, we will have a new army... right now, Star Fox is fighting another enemy, and they will get weakened by that... and that's when we will strike. We have no troops left, that's true, but Star Wolf will do the job."
"Star Wolf? But uncle... Wolf and his gang left me behind. They declined to help me reclaim your place as the emperor... the cowards! Pigma even said that he would gain no profit from it, the greedy swine!"
"That's the Star Wold of old, Andrew! There will be a new Star Wolf Team, replacing Wolf and his comrades in history. They are stepping into their places as we speak..."
"Excellent!" Andrew shouted with joy.
Gendo liked the loyalty and devotion Andrew was showing towards him. He just wished his own son had done the same...
Andrew blinked. "Say, Uncle..." he murmured. "Since when have you worn glasses?"
Wolf O'Donnell looked around. He and his two teammates were standing on a black platform with glowing, purple outlines, that was hovering in the vast emptiness in space... yet, they were somehow able to breathe.
"What happened?" Leon asked. "Where are we?"
"I don't know..." Wolf mumbled as he reached for his blaster. "But I don't like it..."
Panther shook his head. "The last thing I remember is how all of a sudden, that black hole appeared in front of us, when we were on our way back to the Sargasso Station... I know that I tried to dodge, but it sucked us in... and next thing I know, we're here!"
"This is making no sense!" Leon hissed. "Where are our ships? What is this place?"
"Let me answer that question for you, little lizard!" came a booming voice from above, and to their surprise, a giant, disembodied hand came floating down from above, its fingers twitching around jerkily.
"What IS that thing?" Wolf grumbled. His men also drew their weapons.
"Looks like Andross lost his left glove..." Panther grumbled.
The apparition laughed in a mad voice. "A very good joke, panther! Unfortunately, that will be the last joke you ever made. I welcome you... to the Final Destination!" The hand made a sweeping gesture across the huge platform. "YOUR Final Destination!"
"We don't plan to stay here for long," Wolf shouted. "So why don't you just give us back our Wolfens..." He aimed his weapon at the flying hand. "And we won't have to shoot you down, Fingers!"
"Do you know who you are talking to, disrespectful whelp?" the voice shouted. "I am CRAZY HAND!"
Panther sweatdropped. "Yeah... I can see that."
"Crazy Hand or Lazy Hand, whatever! The only thing I know is that you are going down!" Leon hissed as he stormed forward, his gun shooting at the massive glove.
"Leon! Wait!" Wolf shouted, but it was too late. One simple scoop, and Leon was trapped in-between Crazy Hand's brutal fingers. The whole hand closed around the chameleon... and when he opened them up again, Leon was replaced by a life-sized statue that looked almost exactly by him. With a loud clang, it fell down to the flat surface of the platform.
"One taken care of, two to go," Crazy Hand snickered in his mad voice. "Who's next?"
"I don't plan on dying in a place I know nothing about," Wolf growled. "And especially not before I took my revenge on the Star Fox Team!"
"You fools! Don't you realize that this is happening because you will reject your destiny? You will even join forces with Star Fox to fight their enemies."
"Me? Help FOX?" Wolf barked. "I have never helped that pup!"
"Oh, but you will!" Crazy Hand seemed to smirk. "Or rather, you would have done it very soon, if I hadn't brought you here. And there is no escape from the Final Destination... not until you beat me..."
"Be careful, Panther!" Wolf grumbled. "He's up to something."
"Don't worry, he won't be able to catch me that easily," the black-furred feline smirked. "Cover me!"
While Wolf distracted the giant hand with a few shots, Panther ran towards Crazy Hand, just like Leon did.
"Don't you ever learn, you fool?" shouted Crazy Hand and tried snatching Panther, as he did with his cold-blooded teammate. But Panther skillfully dodged and threw a grenade into the big hand. When it exploded, Panther gave the floating hand a cocky grin.
"All who meet my rose will see death," he snarled and turned around from the charred glove.
"Panther!" Wolf shouted. "Look out!"
Before Panther could react, Crazy Hand came flying forwards, having recovered from the blast much sooner than any of the two remainders of Star Wolf could have anticipated. Panther struggled against the iron grip of the glove's fingers, but to no avail. Soon, a second figure was lying next to Leon's statue.
"Now I need only one more trophy, and you will be replaced with your new doubles," Crazy Hand laughed. "My fool of a brother thought he could trick me by sneakily putting souls from a dying world into the places of the missing champions... but I'll have the last laugh! And the Subspace Council will reign the multiverse!"
"I don't know what you're talking about, but you will die for what you did to my companions," Wolf grumbled. "And if it's the last thing I'll do!"
"You are wrong, wolfie!" Crazy Hand snickered. "THIS was the last thing you'll do... EVER!"
And when the demented brother of Master Hand closed himself around the body of Star Wolf's feared leader, Wolf lost consciousness...
The three Wolfens were standing at the edge of the floating platform. There was no trace left of Crazy Hand or Wolf and his team... but there were three figures standing next to the spacecrafts.
A cute-looking wolf girl looked up at her new ship. "Well, boys... time to correct the mistakes Wolf made by rejecting Andross. WE won't do the same mistake, right?"
"You are right about that, Lupina," smirked a muscular leopard boy with a cocky grin on his face. "Although everyone will think he's Andross, it's in truth Gendo we're going to follow."
"But Pardus, what if we run into Shinji on the way?" asked the remainder of the group, a nerdy-looking lizard boy with huge glasses.
"Easy, Gecko!" Lupina replied. "When he sees us, he will think that we are still the same losers from his class... while in fact, we have become the new predators of this galaxy!"
She raised her fist up into the air. "The NEW Team Star Wolf!"
They might have been Hikari, Toji and Kensuke once, but that was before the Subspace Council bathed them in darkness, making them the pawns of the council's newest member: Gendo Ikari, the new Andross.
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