Ok, so this is my first venture outside the Spyro part of this site, but BK was one of my all time favorite n64 games, and so was Starfox, so in an effort to expand my literary empire, I decided to combine them! ok, for my readers who had me on author alert from the spyro section, should you decide to read this and have never played either game (though I hope you've at least heard of them), just google the titles and they'll explain wtf is going on. anyway, this came into my head, so I had to put it out there. enjoi!

CHAPTER 1- NIGHT ON SPIRAL MOUNTAIN

It had been months since the defeat of Grunty in Showdown Town and the surrounding worlds. Banjo and Kazooie hiked atop the spiraling mountain which they now owned, contemplating the life ahead of them.

Banjo reached the top of the mountain and sat down, dangling his feet off the edge as Kazooie stood beside him, looking at the dying sun.

She let out a heavy sigh before tucking her legs underneath her beside her best friend.

"Please tell me we aren't going to get fat this time?"

Kazooie chuckled at his remark and answered.

"Nah, no more Mcjiggies for us." She said still smiling.

"What about pizza?" The honey bear asked.

"Sorry. We just got our moves and fitness back. No way I'm loosing them over junk food." She replied.

A low but audible 'Aww...' came from her companion as his expression saddened.

She looked back toward the setting sun and spoke up after a brief pause.

"So now what do we do?"

Banjo didn't answer immediately, as he stopped to ponder the question.

"Uh...what do you mean Kaz?"

"What do you mean what do I mean? What is there to do now? We beat the witch and her devil cat. Are we just supposed to sit around all day and stare at each other?"

Truth be told, neither one would mind doing that all day, as the thought crossed both their minds at the same time. The boredom subject was soon tabled when another question was brought forth.

"What do you think about our friendship Banjo?" Kazooie asked.

He turned away from the sunset and looked at his Breegull pal with an expression of confusion.

"And you say I ask ridiculous questions!"

This earned him a light hit on the head with her wing as she hardened her expression.

"I'm being serious!"

Banjo thought for a second, not really understanding why she would ask such a question.

"Well...Its been through so much, I don't think I can even remember it all...but I think its pretty much unbreakable. After all, its been me and you since as far back as I can remember!" He said smiling warmly at her.

She liked that answer, but it wasn't the one she had hoped for. She remembered the night he and his sister had found her at the foot of Spiral Mountain, with one broken wing in the pouring rain. Out of the inherent goodness of their hearts they nursed her back to health, but when the time came for her to leave, she couldn't bring herself to do it, not after all they had done for her. What started as a debt repayment transformed into something more, something better. A friendship, a bond, a strength that was indeed unbreakable. Though she would never admit it, she had been with him for so long, something besides friendship began to grow. As she figured it would, but whenever she thought of this, she reminded herself that she was a bird! And he was a bear! The mere mechanics of a kiss would be mind boggling, let alone the other stuff. But...Love knows no bounds right?

"What do you think about it Kazooie?" He asked.

She snapped out of her daydream startled.

"Oh...uh...Yeah...That's what I think too..." She quickly retorted.

Banjo accepted it and turned back to the quickly sinking sun without a second thought. Banjo couldn't detect subtlety if he had Bottles build him a subtlety detector. Kazooie would need nothing short of a giant neon sign to get her true feelings across to her friend...but alas, she knew the unlikely-ness of such a relationship blossoming, which secretly clawed at her heart every day she woke up hanging next to him on the coat hooks beside his bed.

He wasn't the brightest star in the sky, but he was her star, if nothing else. Maybe they would never move past friendship. Maybe they would stay just friends for the rest of forever! It didn't matter to her. As long as she was around him, it didn't matter. Nothing did, just them being with each other was enough for her. That little blue backpack was her home away from home, even though she had recently ventured out of it a lot more than she used to. Like right now, for example.

Soon the sun disappeared behind the mountains and the night set in over the peaceful place the duo called home.

A cool, almost cold breeze swept over them as Kazooie ruffled her feathers and shivered, releasing a soft 'breee'.

Banjo heard this and opened the flap to his backpack, motioning for her to jump in.

She gladly obliged and he got to his feet, setting off toward their house down the mountain.

As Kazooie bounced along in her friends pack, the flap occasionally popped open, giving her glimpses of the spectacular night sky. He was her star alright.

'What would that dumb old bear do without me?' She thought grinning as Banjos rhythmic steps lulled her to sleep.

Meanwhile, on the Great Fox...

"That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard." The blue falcon said as he pushed the weights up and down on the bench press while his wingman Fox spotted him.

"The pay is good, so we had to take it." Fox answered as he racked the weights in the small gym aboard their mothership. Falco sat up on the bench in his T-shirt with the sleeves cut off and gym shorts. Fox was dressed in a similar manner as he switched places with his friend.

"Besides, you're the one who's always complaining about how boring it is. You of all falcons should be happy."

"Right, I'm ecstatic Fox." He said sarcastically, crossing his arms as Fox began his reps.

After a brief silence he spoke again.

"But the Omega sector? I mean come on! There is NOTHING out there! We couldn't be farther away from anything if we tried!"

Fox rolled his eyes as he continued to train.

"Stop complaining. Money is money, and we haven't had any in months. The ship is falling apart and Rob is being held together with duct tape and chewing gum according to Slippy."

Falco grunted indignantly as an alarm and the plasma screen t.v. in the room flickered to life, painting the gym in a red light while Rob appeared on the screen, startling Fox and making him loose his grip on the bar and causing it to fall on his chest.

"Falco...help...!" He choked, but the falcons attention was directed toward the robot.

"All pilots to your ships! All pilots to your ships!"

"Damnit, right in the middle of my workout..." Falco muttered as he heard a strange gagging noise.

"Falco...!" Fox wheezed.

"Oh! Sorry about that Fox." He said lifting the heavy weights off him.

He sat up and gasped for air, shooting a quick glare at him before they both dashed into the locker room changing into their flight suits.

Fox was changed first, and headed out to his ship, calling for Falco to hurry it up.

He got changed and looked into his locker where his personal E.L.T. (Emergency Location Transmitter) rested. Standard operating procedure required it at all times...but it was such a pain to install and put on.

"Screw it, its just a patrol. I wont be gone long."

He ran down the corridor to the hangar bay and jumped into his corresponding Arwing.

Once in formation, the team reported in.

"Ok Rob, what do you have for us?" Fox radioed in.

"Your assignment is to patrol the outer sectors for remnants of Andross' rogue squadrons raiding the local underdeveloped planets for resources. This is in direct violation of the primative planetary isolation treaty of-" He was cut off by an annoyed Falco.

"We get it Rob! Geez lets just get going!" He said engaging his engines and rocketing away, the rest of the group in tow.

After a few hours of nothing but empty space, the female computerized voice in the cockpit announced that he was nearing his first way-point.

"Wow, there's nothing out here, what a surprise." He said to himself as he looked at the millions of stars shining outside the glass of his canopy.

He waited for the rest of his team to catch up and sighed complacently as he cut his engines, allowing his ship to float aimlessly. Fox was right, this was the Star Fox teams first paying job in months. Once the Cornerian army got its act together, they weren't required as much anymore, and soon hadn't heard anything from Cornerian high command in just as many months. He and the rest of the team were broke as a joke, and floating along on a cruiser in dire need of repairs. Times were quite rough for the mercenary group...

"Fox, are you guys coming sometime today?" He radioed aggrivated to his wingmen, but got only static as a reply.

'That's weird... ugh, must be some magnetic fields around here...'

Suddenly, a voice came over his radio, one he knew all too well.

"Fox is a little tied up at the moment!"

It was his rival Leon, coming up on his six fast.

He quickly restarted his engines and took off in a dog fight.

"And I thought this would be a boring patrol! Too bad it will be once I blast you into stardust!" Falco said maneuvering to fire his lasers.

The aiming reticle moved around the back of Leons ship.

It locked on with a computerized 'ting' and launched a charged blast at his rival. It hit dead on, jarring his ship, but barely scratched his engines.

"That wont work this time Falco! This ships shield is impenetrable to all but the most powerful attacks!" He boasted as he executed a loop and found himself once again on the six of Falco's ship.

A burst of lasers rocked his Arwing, shooting off a wing and disabling two of his six thrusters.

"That Arwing is old news! Any mercenary worth his salt keeps up with the times!" Leon mocked as Falco cut his engines, letting his rival zoom past him. He re fired his thrusters and was once again on his opponents tail.

"You arent getting away this time Leon!" He said as he locked onto his ship once again.

"Lets see how you like proton bombs!"

Leon grinned and flipped the cover off of a blue switch with an arrow facing backwards in his cockpit.

"Any last words?" Falco asked, his feathered finger on the launch button.

"Just two." Leon said grinning.

"E.M.P. missile!"

A hatch opened in the back of Leons ship and a missile glowing a radiant blue rocketed toward Falco head on.

"Oh shit..."

He pulled up violently as the weapon exploded, its electromagnetic pulse was rather large however, frying all of the avionics in his spacecraft.

The cockpit went dark as the crippled Arwing hurtled toward a distant planet.

"Bon voyage Falco! Ahahahaha!" Leon cackled as he was joined by the rest of the Starwolf team.

Their ships all looked damaged.

"What happened to you guys?" He asked.

"An electrical storm shorted out our shields. We were no match for them." Wolf admitted angrily.

"Well no matter, I eliminated Falco. Now they are one pilot short. The next encounter, we will crush them!"

xXx

Falco was working furiously to replace the circuits and panels to try and give him some control over where he was going. The planet he was headed to proceeded to get larger in his canopy as he began to enter its atmosphere. All other options exhausted, he pulled the lever that gave him manual control over the flight surfaces of his Arwing. Going as fast as he was, it was almost impossible to regain command of his crafts plummeting altitude. Soon he began to see the ground below. It was rich in plant life, and he appeared to be over a swamp of some kind, so he assumed he could breathe down there. He fought with the stick and managed to right the spacecraft so it would land on its belly. The landing gear was all electronically operated, so it was an emergency landing for him. He crossed over a snow covered land with what appeared to be a giant snowman built in the center of it, then only moments later, a large desert with strange monuments built all over it.

"What the hell kind of planet is this?" He grunted to himself as he fought to keep his rapidly descending aircraft level.

'Guess I'm about to find out!'

Ok so thats the first chap! now, this isnt in the starfox section because A) it takes place in the BK world(s) and B) I dont know enough about the new Starfox games to post it there, and I dont want to sound like a n00b. any other questions you have, feel free to ask! the next chap will be released in five days or so.