I do not own Metroid, or the space pirates, or any of the trademarked names and places in this fanfic. They belong to Nintendo. But you already knew that, right?

Anyways, this follows the events of Metroid Fusion. After she destroyed the station, Samus was to be put on trial for treason. But because they wanted to keep the Metroid breeding a secret, the Galactic Fedearation was forced to drop the charges in exchange for Samus's word that she would never discuss what had happened on the station.

Adam, on the other hand, was transferred to another ship, and all memories of the incident erased. This story takes place a year afterwards.


Chapter 1: The Stowaway

It was dark and it was cramped. But the cargo compartment on this strange ship was definitely better then what Maxis was leaving behind.

He'd been on this world for the better part of a year, but he'd barely seen the sky once. He'd never been outside of the Space Pirate science facility on the surface of the planet.

He had a year's worth of scars, mental and physical, from the thing's they'd done to him. They'd exposed him to dozens of different chemicals, performed possibly hundreds of surgeries, and put him through "trials" which measured just how much pain a human body could take before it passed out.

He thought that he would be doomed to a life of torture in this god-forsaken place. Until she arrived. He knew she was female from the female pronouns that the Pirates used to describe her. They called her the Hunter. Whoever she was, she laid waste to the Pirate forces.

In the confusion, Maxis managed to steal a blaster from one of the corpses. It was designed for Pirate hands, so he resorted to using it as a bludgeoning weapon. He was surprised at how easily it crushed a Pirate's skull, but he wrote it off to the extra strength from the adrenaline.

He saw the Hunter's ship, and quickly darted aboard, just as the Hunter herself fled from the facility, massive explosions rocking the complex. Maxis hid himself in the cargo area, as the ship lifted off. As the adrenaline wore off, his body finally realized how exhausted it was. He leaned his head against a crate, and was asleep before he realized it, his hands still clutching the blaster.

Meanwhile, in the ship's cockpit...

"Samus?"

"Hmm?"

"I'm detecting a strange lifesign in the cargo area. It's human, but I'm picking a lot of anomalies," the computer said.

"What? How come we didn't detect it before?"

"It wasn't there before."

Samus let out a sigh, and got out of her chair. "Well, let's pay our stowaway a visit," she said, walking around to the back of the ship where the cargo area was located. She tapped a few buttons on the keypad, and the door slid open with a faint faint whirr. Tapping another pad on the wall of the cargo bay, the dim lights switched on, flooding the small area with illumination. Leaning against a cargo crater, and clutching a pirate-made blaster, was the sleeping form of Maxis. Most of his body was covered in a black bodysuit, save his head. His face was obscured by his shaggy, dirty hair.

"Rise and shine, stowaway," Samus said, poking him in the side with her foot.

He woke with a start, and scampered past her to the other side of the cargo bay. He had the blaster raised like a club, and was staring at Samus suspiciously. He began saying something in the pirate language. At first, Samus couldn't understand it, and then the ship's translators kicked in.

"-this real? Are you real? Or is this another test?" Maxis said.

"Test? What are you talking abou-" Samus stopped midsentence as the realization hit her. It was odd that a human was speaking the pirate language, but now she recognized the blaster as well. "Oh god..." she said, slightly shocked.

"Samus? What's the problem?"

"I think I know where our stowaway came from."


Well, that's Chapter 1 of my Metroid Fanfic. In the next few chapters, you'll find out more about just what was done to this man by the Space Pirates in the facility. Please Read and Review.

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