Clone Republic star destroyer Independence

9 ABY

outer rim-wild space border.

A phase 2 clone wearing an olive colored stripe down his helmet and his armor and an eagle holding a shield on his olive colored shoulders stood looking at a nebula in wild space. "Commander Preacher the shuttle from Kamino is here." Preacher turned to the phase 1 clone trooper who fidgeted under the calculating look of his commander. Preacher was known to be a hardcore, strict, and mean NCO. but in reality he cared greatly for his legion and would sacrifice himself to protect a soldier. "Good who are the visitors." he said returning his focus to the nebula. "Captain Fives, lieutenant Echo, and sergeant first class Hevy." the trooper said as the bridge doors opened to reveal the 3 surviving members of domino squad. "Dismissed trooper." Preacher said solemnly.

The trooper raised his eyebrows but left nonetheless. "Don't scare the recruits Preacher." CT-5555 or Fives said in a scolding manner. "Just trying to keep up my reputation captain. Why are you here?" preacher said relaxing his tone. "Can't a few veterans visit a former recruit turned commander?" CT-21-1409 or Echo said. Hevy smiled at the interaction before speaking. "impressive fleet wing. 7 Venators, five cruisers, 20 medical vessels, 1 cloning vessel and 16 acclamators." Suddenly there was a warning sound.

"Report!" Preacher said leaning over the scanner and the trooper manning it. "There's a large fluctuation in the nebula." the bridge shook violently knocking preacher, domino squad and any trooper standing onto the ground. "Helm get us out of here." Preacher ordered while gripping the edge of a console. "No good sir. The nebula is pulling us in as if it was a planet's gravity field or a black hole." a phase 2 clone said. "Impossible. A nebula can't do that." Fives said regaining his footing. "Evidently this one can." Echo said.

Meteors began to pelt the Independence. "Sir we're about to enter hyperspace." a phase 1 sergeant said. Preacher looked at him before looking at the stars. They were stretching. "All ships brace for hyperspace jump." he said before the entire fleet wing jumped into hyperspace never to be seen or heard from again.

[The Lost Battalion by Sabaton plays]

CLAY342 Presents

STAR FOX: THE LOST LEGION

Starring

Fox McCloud

Falco Lombardi

Slippy Toad

Peppy Hare

Miyu Lynx

Fay spaniel

Fives

Echo

Hevy

and

Temuera Morrison

as

Preacher

[The Lost Battalion by Sabaton ends]

Lylat System

2156 galactic calender

unknown nebula

"Fox why are we out here? There's nothing out here, except this boring nebula." Miyu Lynx said complaining. "General Pepper ordered us to study it miyu." Fox said. "And you thought I was the complainer." Falco Lombardi said smirking. Suddenly the red alert lights and alarm went off. "ROB what is it?" Fay Spaniel asked. "Warning. Unknown ships coming out of the nebula." ROB said. Team star fox watched as 49 ships appeared out of nowhere. 20 had a red cross on their hull. 7 were angular in shape plus they were bigger than the rest and had 2 bridges. One of the larger vessels broke away from the group and headed for the Great Fox. Fox noticed that this one's twin bridges were painted red like the stripe going from the stern to bow. "Must be the command ship." Peppy Hare said. "The command vessel is hailing us." ROB said. "On screen." Fox said. The image of a man in white armor and a green stripe down his chest appeared on the screen.

"This is Commander Preacher of the CRS Independence. State your business." the man said. "Geez. Right to the point." Falco muttered getting a slight nod from Miyu and slippy. Fay, however, was fascinated with the man speaking to fox. "listen we mean no harm to you or your fleet." Fox said. "Come aboard so we can talk in person." Preacher said abruptly before ending the conversation. "Independence out." the screen went black. "He's a fun guy." Falco said sarcastically. Everyone agreed. Everyone, but Fay that is. "Don't go judging someone's personality so fast." she said headed for her arwing. "Where are you going?" Slippy asked. "With fox, and Falco. Something about this Commander preacher has me interested on his origins."

Meanwhile on the Independence

Preacher watched as 3 craft that looked like a cross between an x-wing and e-wing left the unknown ship. "Open the hangar doors. Fives, Echo with me. Hevy, you have the bridge." Hevy nodded before Preacher, Fives, and Echo headed to the hangar. "Can they be trusted?" Echo asked. "your taking a big risk Preacher. Letting them onto your ship." Fives said concerned. "If they pose a threat we'll force them to head back to their ship." Preacher said as the trio entered the hangar. It was time to meet the locals.

Preacher, Fives, and Echo stood at attention with hands behind their backs as the arwings landed in the main hangar bay. Ground crews rolled steps next to the craft.

Fox noticed that all of the ground crew on the ship had the same face. 'What the?' he thought as something bumped into his arwing. Leaning to the left side of his cockpit he saw that some men had moved a set of mobile stairs used by pilots for boarding their fighters. Fox waited for Falco to get out of his craft. To his surprise Fay had decided to come along instead of Slippy.

Fay looked around in awe as troopers hustled around. She bumped into someone that was carrying something. "Oh I'm so sorry." she said helping the person pick up the tools. "Its alright." the trooper said getting to work on the craft he was under. "CE-1647 but you can call me Lug Nut."

"I apologize for my actions over the video feed." Preacher said noticing the white dog chatting casually with Lug Nut, the hangar's top engineer. He smiled under his helmet. "That's alright. I'm Fox McCloud. This is Falco Lombardi, and the canine speaking with one of your men is Fay Spaniel." preacher nodded.

"We were assigned by our commissioner to study a strange nebula that a probe found before it went offline." Preacher said to the representatives of star fox. "What do you mean by that commander?" Fay asked. "What Preacher means is that we lost contact with it, and couldn't bring video feed back online." Fives said clarifying Preacher's statement. "while we were studying it Fives, Echo, and Hevy here," preacher said gesturing to the arc trooper that was standing near the door and the two sitting around the table in the ready room. "Came aboard for a visit." "However, shortly after our arrival the fleet wing was pulled into the nebula and hyperspace. You know the rest." Echo said. "Commander we're getting a distress call." a clone said over the intercom. "Forward it to my ready room." Preacher said "Mayday. Mayday. This is Cornerian high command. Corneria is under attack by venomari forces." suddenly Fox's wrist-comm went off.

"Fox. It's Corneria.. it's..." Slippy began. "I know Slippy we're on our way." Fox said before looking at Preacher. "Will you help us defend Corneria?" Preacher sighed. "I'm afraid I can't." he said. "Why not?" Falco said surprised at Preacher's response. He thought Preacher would love a fight. "We just got done fighting one war. We can't get involved into another." fox nodded. "I understand. Let's go you two." Fox noticed Fay get up slowly and walk up to preacher. "Please. If not directly then do it as a favor." She begged. Preacher shook his head looking out into space. Fay sighed before furrowing her eyebrows. "What if it were your home planet." Domino squad's eyes widened and looked at each other. "What then.?" Fay said angrily before turning. However before she ran to her ship, Fay gave Preacher one last glance.

20 minutes later

"Preacher we should have helped them." Echo whispered to fives and Hevy. Both of them nodded. Preacher looked at a constellation thinking of Fay's words to him before she left. 'Kamino was invaded twice. One was during the Clone Wars, the second was during the early years of the Clone Republic. We pushed both forces off our home.' he thought. 'but we were ready both times. However, this Corneria was caught off guard by the so called venomari troops.' Preacher tightened a fist while his helmet rested under his left arm. He made a decision right then and there. "Sergeant." Preacher said. "Yes Commander?" a phase 1 clone asked. "Open a channel to the rest of the fleet." he said "Yes sir. Its open." Preacher braced himself.

"I know all of you are tired from the last war and what I'm about to do is a direct violation of the Clone republic's constitution that could result in court martial. We are going to defend Corneria which would effectively be a declaration of war. Those who oppose my decision may wish to speak so and it will be put into my log. "Commander." Fives said. Preacher looked at him. "I believe I speak for the entire fleet when I say," Fives glanced around phase 1 and 2 clones look at him. "To hell with the constitution sir." Preacher nodded "All hands, man your battle stations." he ordered.

A/N:this is my new star wars/star fox fanfic since the other one is being taken down. For Preacher's look think of Fives' body with Cody's helmet from episode 3 with olive colored markings and visor. If you don't want to read the rest of the story as chapters continue to be posted that's fine. Read and review. I appreciate criticism as long as its constructive. That being said peace.