Disclaimer: I don't own star fox or anything to do with it in any way, Please don't sue me Nintendo. All original ideas and characters are mine though.

AN: This is my first ever fanfic and i hope to make a series out of it. Constructive criticism and reviews are greatly appreciated, please no flames.

Star Fox: The Last of a Kind

Chapter 1: In the Beginning

It was the 5th of November 2038, the earth was, unbeknownst to the public, on the verge of a third world war, only this time if war did break out, the planet would not recover.

On the small nation of Scotland, a fifteen year old boy was crouching behind a brick wall, suppressed pistol in hand; he peeked out of his cover.

'Five hostiles, heavily armed, 11 O'clock, stationary' he thought to himself 'Sniper, 1 O'clock, guard tower'

"Hmm, where are the rest of them." He said under his breath. "That's four not accounted for, I'll have to watch my step."

Luckily for him the guards on the ground were all in a group talking, not paying much attention to anything going on around them 'Huh, idiots' he rightfully thought.

When the sniper was facing away the boy made a dash for the next cover which led straight around to the guard tower, he silently moved along the wall and made his way up the guard tower stairs

The sniper was facing away from him so the boy took his chance. He snuck up behind him and quickly put his hand over the snipers mouth to stop him from screaming, kicked his legs from under him and pressed down on his jugular in a swift, almost noiseless motion, in a few seconds the sniper had stopped struggling and was unconscious, he pulled out his gun, took aim and pulled the trigger, painting the inside of the guard tower a crimson red.

"One down, nine to go" he smirked at himself as he pulled out a pair of high powered binoculars. He scanned the area that was out of range from his previous cover and saw the four people that he hadn't seen before entering a military armoured car.

"Right on time" the boy smiled to himself and pulled the trigger on a small remote detonator. He watched as all of a sudden the windows were painted red. "Five left"

He moved to the other side of the guard tower to see the five men from before still talking to each other. He took aim at one of their heads but just as he was about to pull the trigger his instincts kicked in, he felt like something was wrong he just didn't know what, over the years he had learned to trust his instincts so he got out a small device and put it in his ear.

"Shit man, I know it, I know he's watching us, I can't take it anymore its driving me insane!" That was all he needed to hear. He looked around and found a medium sized rock lying in the corner of the tower. He threw the rock as far as he could, it hit of a metal container making a loud clanking sound. All of the five people jumped and started shooting towards the source of the sound. The boy quickly grabbed the sniper rifle from the floor and started picking them off one by one.

By the time any of them had a chance to react there was only one of them left who quickly spun round and tried to shoot, only to realise that he had to reload. He tried to run but by the time he got five feet he had been shot in the chest twice and fell to the ground.

"I win again guys!" The boy shouted while running down from the tower.

"Yeah no shit Alex, you always win at paintball." He heard in reply from the top of the tower "And how many times do I have to tell you not to do that to me!"

Alex smirked from the bottom of the tower as he looked up at his friend on the tower holding the back of this head. "Hey, it's not my fault you guys suck!" He laughed

"We don't suck dude, you are just far too good, which isn't surprising, since you've had your dad train you since you were, what, five?" A voice called from behind him.

"Six" he replied. It was true; Alex had been trained by his dad (of the same name, except his dad mostly got called Alexander whereas he only ever got called Alex) from the age of six. His dad was 6'2", well built, smart and a tactical genius who had taught himself almost everything he knew. He had led Scottish forces in the Scottish war of independence that started in the November of 2017; three years after the Scottish independence referendum had failed. The war had started because even though 98% of the Scottish people voted for independence, Queen Elizabeth II and David Cameron had fixed the vote, knowing that the UK could not survive without Scotland, they had stated that only 40% of Scots had voted yes to independence. Their plot was foiled however when a chain of events had revealed the true numbers to the media and in turn, the public. Alexander was outraged at this as he had always harbored a strong resentment for the UK government and quickly rallied a rebellion, not only did he lead the rebellion, he had fought as both a soldier and a pilot, he had saved countless lives in the bloody conflict and became known as a war hero. After four years of war, in which Alexander met Alex's mother, overcame impossible odds and defeated British forces, ridding Scotland of both the British government and the monarch. Alexander had ruled Scotland through a golden age, in which Scotland, small as it may be, had become the leading superpower in the world, it's technology decades ahead of any other country's tech. Alexander had resigned as leader in 2023 when Alex was born as his mother had died in childbirth. At the age of six Alex was very mature for his age and was very smart, he had asked Alexander to train him to be just like his dad telling him that he wanted to be a pilot in the SAF (Scottish Air Force) when he grew up, Alexander agreed to teach him everything he knew and so began Alex's Training.

Due to This vigorous training Alex was very effective in every combat situation and had a very good tactical mind, not to mention he was very well built and strong, albeit a little skinny, just like his father before him.

"Where are the others?" The last person that had fallen asked.

"They're over there" Alex pointed to the car with reddened windows.

"Dude! You set of a paint bomb in the car!" Another person said with a wide smile on his face "The owners are going to be PISSED!"

"Don't worry about it, I'll pay them to get it clean, anyway come on, I want to see how they'll react to this!" Alex said while starting to jog towards the car.

He stopped just in front of the black car and opened the nearest door. "Alright guys you can get up now, I've won." He looked inside the car and all of a sudden four seemingly unconscious bodies almost simultaneously started to get out of the car.

"I hate you so much right now dude, I hate you so much." The person nearest to him said with a slight smirk on his face.

"Ah you'll be fine once you wash the paint off of your... everything!" Alex said as he burst into laughter after seeing his friend completely covered head to toe in red paint.

After they got washed Alex and his friends went out and got some food. They ate their meals while talking and sharing stories of their lives. "Alright" Alex said as he finished his third burger "I need to be off, here's what I owe, any of you want a lift?" He offered while putting money on the table. They all declined so he left and got into his car. In Scotland you didn't need to be a certain age to drive, you just had to prove that you were able and mature enough to drive.

Alex parked his car in the garage next to his house. He got out his car and walked to the house and entered.

The inside of the house was very spacious. The first room past the entry hall was massive room with stairs in the middle leading to the back with a balcony like second floor around the back and sides leading to an array of different rooms.

"Dad, I'm home." Alex shouted hoping his dad would be close enough to hear him. When there was no reply Alex decided to go looking for his father, to find him in the kitchen cooking something, he couldn't make out what he was cooking but it smelled amazing.

"Hi dad, what are you cooking?" Alex asked from across the room.

Alexander looked up and saw his son, he smiled and said "Alex, you're going to love this, have you ever had venison before?"

"No I haven't, what is it?" Alex asked while inspecting the food his dad was preparing.

"It's deer!" Alexander said with a big grin on his face.

"Deer? Aren't they almost extinct?" Alex asked

"Yup, that's why venison is so goddamn hard to get your hands on, not to mention so bloody expensive, guess how much this stuff costs just to feed the two of us." Alexander said just as he was putting the finishing touches onto the dinner.

"I don't know, fifty pounds?" Alex asked in a confused tone, he had not seen his dad this excited about food before.

"Two hundred pounds, just for the two of us, but it was worth it, venison is amazing." Alexander handed Alex his plate and made his way to the dining room.

Alex sat down at the dining room table "Two hundred pounds; that's pretty expensive for just the two of us, what's the occasion?"

"Well, you know how our space program is very advanced?"

"Yes."

"Well, our engineers and scientists have finally invented a spacecraft capable of interstellar flight!"

"Wow really! That's amazing."

"Yes it is its max speed is so high that it can get to the other side of the galaxy in just a couple of years."

"A couple of years, that's, just, amazing!"

"Yup, it's a two person craft, and guess who they asked to be the pilot." Alexander said with a big smirk on his face.

Alex saw him smirk and knew exactly what he was implying. "No way!"

"Yes way!"

"How long will you be gone for?"

"They want me to be gone for ten years."

"Oh, okay, well, who is going with you?" Alex asked with an obviously upset tone, Alexander had always wanted to go to space Alex knew that and even though he would miss his dad being away for ten years he wouldn't hold him back by asking him to stay.

"Well they're letting me chose, and I want you to come with me!"

"I... What... Really... I... WHAT!" Alex basically shouted. "I would love to!"

"I knew you would, we are scheduled to leave eight months from now, until then there will be a lot of training; think you'll be able to handle it?"

"Of course I will! What about you old man?" Alex joked

"You forget who you're speaking to, I was the best pilot in the SAF and don't you forget it!" Alexander laughed.

"Not anymore! Your time has passed; it's my time to shine old man; you're all washed up!"

Alexander smirked as he finished his dinner "You think you can take me!"

Alex remembered the last time they had a conversation like this, it was around five years ago; they had ended up in the training room fighting and Alexander had beaten Alex within seconds, but that was five years ago, Alex was only ten "Of course I could, but I wouldn't, your too fragile; I would end up breaking your hip." Alex said with a cocky smile.

"Oh you're for it, meet me in the training room when you've finished that." Alexander said while walking away "And wear something appropriate!"

Alex smiled and ate the rest of his food. When he was done he got changed into training shorts and quickly jogged down to the training room.

Alexander was waiting for him in the same clothing. Alex hadn't seen his dad without a top in a long time; he expected to see at least a small beer belly when he looked him over, instead what he saw was a tall very muscular man with no signs of any flab, he looked very young for his age of forty he had slightly long dark brown hair and deep dark brown eyes, he had no grey hairs whatsoever, it basically looked like he was a very fit twenty year old, except from multiple scars across his body from during war in which he had been hit by shrapnel and had been shot many times, sometimes just being grazed other times being directly hit.

'Oh crap what have I gotten myself into?' Alex thought to himself.

"You ready?" Alexander said; finishing of his stretches.

"As ready as I'll ever be!"

"If you say so; come one let's go boy!" Alexander said and raised his fists.

Alex done the same and started circling his dad. Alexander made a sloppy move and made a slow high punch, but that was just a distraction as Alex blocked it and tried to counter he grabbed his arm and moved behind him to get Alex into an arm lock.

"Ow! Let go!" Alex said in shock.

"Just tell me when you give up!" Alexander said.

"Ow okay I give up just get off me!" Alex said and his dad let him go.

"You're not good enough to beat me quite yet!" Alexander grinned.

"Had it been anyone else I would've won."

"I'm sure you would've!"

For the next six and a half months both Alex and his dad trained for interstellar flight. They both done very well and all was well, in one and a half months they would be the first Humans to ever leave the solar system.

It was the middle of the night Alex was sitting on the living room sofa, rifle in hand, worried out of his mind; he and his dad had been having a random conversation like they always do and all of a sudden Alexander had gotten a phone call that was apparently very urgent, he had gotten two assault rifles from his personal collection, one for him and one for Alex, told Alex to wait in the living room for him to return and to turn all electrical devices, then broke the fuse box and left, that was five hours ago now and Alex had been sitting in the dark with only his pet husky for company.

He had been waiting in the dark for too long, he had to find out what was going on; just as he reached the door he heard gunfire, so instead of just leaving, he put on full body bulletproof armor that was shaped specifically for him and left. As he opened the door he smelled the unmistakable smell of smoke and death, but the smell was nothing in comparison to what he saw, in front of him he saw a once beautiful landscape almost completely destroyed, in the distance the skyline was glowing orange, meaning that there was a lot of fire over the hill. After standing in shock for a good five minutes staring at the once beautiful land he saw his dad drive around the corner in an armored 4x4 and sound the horn stopping a few meters away from Alex. Alex ran towards the car and dived into the already open passenger door.

Just as Alexander was about to floor it Alex called out "Wait! What about belle!?"

"I'm sorry Alex there's no time!" Alexander said back and slammed his foot onto the accelerator.

Moments after they got away an artillery shell landed on the house, killing the husky belle and destroying almost everything both Alex and his dad owned.

"NOOOO!" Alex cried out as he watched his home explode and his seven year old dog that he had ever since she was a puppy die.

"I'm sorry son, if you had have gone back in there you would be dead." Alexander said

After five minutes of silent driving on off roads, in which they constantly kept having to hide from strange, old-looking foreign military vehichles Alex finally broke the silence. "Dad what the FUCK is going on!" Alex shouted.

"Scotland's being invaded." Was Alexanders only reply.

"By who?!"

"As far as I can tell, the whole goddam world." Alexander said nonchalantly as an artillery shell smashed into the ground, narrowly missing the car.

They straight through the security fences of the spaceport and parked next to a closed hangar. They got out of the car and Alexander opened the hangar to reveal a medium sized spacecraft.

"What are we doing here?" Alex finally said.

"You're leaving, all the supplies you'll need are inside, do you think you can pilot this thing on your own?"

"Of course but, what about you? What are you going to do?" Alex asked as he worried for his fathers safety.

"I'm sorry son, I can't come with you, I need to stay here and make sure nobody can get their hands on our technology. You have to go now, take this holographic comms unit, I'll be in touch; goodbye son; I love you." Alexander said and gave Alex an unusually long hug.

"Goodbye dad, good luck" Alex said then entered the ship.

Alexander stayed a while to watch Alex leave the atmosphere then drove off to Scotland's capital, Edinburgh.

As he flew into space, Alex saw the full extent of the invasion. Scotland's coastlines, many islands, and border with England were lit up in a blaze. The headquarters of all military operations in Scotland, Scotland's equivalent of the pentagon, Faslane military base, looked like a massive crater in the ground, with the contents of the adjoining Gare Loch spilling into the crater. All of Scotland's major cities, from, Edinburgh and Glasgow near the south, to Inverness and Aberdeen near the north, were all flashing with what Alex could only assume to be gunshots artillery fire. Alex saw Scotland's tremendous armada, or what was left of it. Scotland had had a small, non-nuclear armada, but it was the most powerful fleet in the world; the armouring, weaponry, and flexibility of the fleet made it known globally, as a sign that Scotland was not to be attacked. It was led by the mighty warship SNNS Ben Nevis, a ship so powerful that it could withstand an attack from the entire British navy solo, and win. There was once an instance in which the UK had tried to claim the new-found North Sea oil and gas reserves by naval force. Unfortunately for them, the SNNS Ben Nevis had just been completed, and was tested in a hurried attempt to reclaim the sea. Once in battle, the ship used its multiple prototype solid state laser weapons with great success; the British navy was torn to shreds, greatly weakening the UK's military influence in the world, that is when Scottish relations with the rest of the world started weakening to the point of breaking, despite Scotland's best efforts to stay allied with as many nations as possible; Scotland was kicked out of NATO and the EU, and was on the verge of being removed from the UN, mostly because of the fear and uncertainty many people felt with this new technology. Alex thought about that battle as he saw the savaged SNNS Ben Nevis as he flew into space; he knew that no single military alone could've done this, and knew that it must have been a collaborated effort from many countries.

Five hours later Alex was still in the earths far orbit; he was beginning to fear the worst when his dad called him on the holo-comm he was given. When he answered a holograph of his dad appeared and Alex almost threw up; Alexander was covered in blood, had a large bullet wound in his stomach and was missing an ear, despite this Alexander seemed unfazed and immediately started talking.

"Alex I need you to leave the earths orbit." He said.

"Okay, why?" Alex said and left the orbit.

"Scotland is lost, I'm one of the only ones left, it was a massacre, there were just too many of them." Alexander said which made Alex flinch; it definitely wasn't like his dad to admit defeat. "Which is why you can't come back." He continued. "You need to find a habitable planet in another system, this is the last time you will ever hear from me, goodbye son, I'm so proud of you." With that he pulled out a small button and pressed it. The link cut off and Alex heard a blood-curdling, boom even through the depths of space. Alex looked out the cockpit window and, to his dismay saw instead of the earth, hundreds of rocks and lots of molten iron floating through space. Alex just sat there in his ship jaw-dropped at what just happened, the earth had been destroyed, he was the last human in the universe.

Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months. After two months of jumping from star to star and scanning planets Alex was running low on supplies, if he did not find a planet with life within the next day he would be doomed to starve to death and float among the stars, he only had enough fuel left for one hyper jump.

"Well I guess this is it." Alex sighed and set a course for a star on the other side of the galaxy from where earth once was. "Those engineers really underestimated the fuel efficiency and speed of this ship, I'll say that!"

After five minutes of FTL travel he reached his destination and saw nothing but the star and a green planet that looked like its seas were made of acid.

"Well, that's me dead, may as well take a look around this system." He spent an hour on reserve fuel aimlessly wandering around the system until a certain planet came into view, he saw that this planet not only had clouds and atmosphere, but it also had water. "Wait a minute, this planet could support life!" He said to himself and flew full speed towards the distant planet.

"General Pepper, sir, there's and unidentified spacecraft entering our atmosphere, what shall we do?" A young officer asked her superior.

"Is it armed or showing any signs of aggression?" A fairly old hound dog replied.

"No sir it looks like it trying to land but our scans indicate that it's low on fuel."

General Pepper sat down in a large chair and thought for a second. "Hmm, send out an interceptor to guide it into the nearest spaceport, make sure it identifies itself first though." He eventually said.

"Yes sir." The cat replied and scrambled an interceptor.

"Shit, Shit, SHIT!" Alex shouted. "I can't be out of fuel, not now, not when I'm SO close!" Alex was so busy trying to stop the flashing red warning lights and sirens that he never noticed the fighter ship that had moved in front of his gliding spacecraft. When he finally shut them off he heard a voice over the built in comms unit.

"... I say again, unidentified spacecraft please identify yourself or you will be shot down do you copy?"

Alex was very surprised at this but quickly grabbed the comms unit and replied "This Is IStellar1 don't shoot, I mean you no harm, don't shoot!" Alex shouted into the mic.

"Spacecraft IStellar1 I am to escort you to the nearest spaceport do you copy?"

"I can't! I'm out of fuel, I'm just gliding through the air, I'm going to crash." Alex said, hoping that wouldn't piss off the person on the other end of the comms. Before the interceptor could reply Alex's ship smashed into the ground, skipping along it as if it were a pebble on water.

Alex awoke inside the IStellar1 which was severely damaged from the crash; he made his way to the door and saw that it was crushed and unable to open. "FUCK!"

General Pepper along with a couple of ambulances, a dozen fire trucks and a couple of squadrons of military personnel had all made their way to the alien crash site, just as four of the best soldiers available were cautiously approaching the strange spacecraft they all stopped dead in their tracks as they heard a loud bang from the other side of what looked to be a crumpled door, a couple of seconds passed and they heard another bang, and another, and another until the door finally fell off.

After about ten kicks Alex finally managed to break the door off, when he did the sunlight hit him like a brick. After he had woke up, Alex had felt very dizzy, drowsy and very sore and the fresh air only made it worse. When he got out the vehicle he made a few struggled steps forward before falling to his knees; the last thing he saw through his blurred vision was four soldiers, weapons drained on him slowly walking towards him, before it all turned to black.