A/N: not much to say. A new story, a new fandom. Well two actually. And I'd have to thank Halopedia and Wikitroid for information on each fandom.
New part: thank you to AbsoluteDestruction, Ravenhood and readandreview66 for reviewing the original version of this chapter.
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Demon/Hunter
Chapter 1
The Frigate
Samus sat there in a state of retrospection. The Federation had set up a memorial on her birth world, the colony K-2L, a planet that had been ravaged in a long war against the Space Pirates. Everyone other than her had been slaughtered by a group of Space Pirates led by Ridley, a Pirate general who descended from the legendary space dragon race. She had miraculously survived a direct confrontation with her future nemesis. Days later she was found by a race of humanoid birds called the Chozo, who decided to help her. They raised her, and after many years of training and a few years with the Galactic Federation police, she then turned towards a life of solitude, and became the most renowned bounty hunter in the galaxy. And the most feared.
Three months had passed since the destruction of Phaaze and the elimination of her doppelganger, Dark Samus. She found herself to be in the habit of returning to this site after every mission she completed; Samus wasn't sure if it was some sort of way to keep her grounded, but it was reassuring. After a couple of minutes, she stood and tapped a couple of buttons on her Zero Suit. A golden light spread over her as the Chozo Battle Suit reappeared in its Varia Stage. The message she saw every time a rezbit got the better of her back on Aether, along with whenever she removed the suit itself appeared.
Main Power Restored
System Check Initiated
Chozo Battle Suit Ver SA1-446B-VM6-P
Main computer: Online
Targeting System: Active
Arm Cannon: Active
Armor: Engaged
Morph Ball: Engaged
HUD Suite: Online
Visors: Responding
Missile Launcher: Engaged
Ammunition Module: Deployed
She then returned to her Hunter-class gunship, just yards away. With a quick jump, she landed onto the entry point on the top and was lowered into her gunship. Moving into the pilot seat, she tapped some of the buttons above her and the ship began liftoff procedures. As she prepped her gunship for launch, a transmission from Galactic Federation Command arrived.
A hologram image of Fleet Admiral Castor Dane popped up. "Samus, our long-range sensors have discovered part of a frigate of unknown origin. We want you to investigate it before we send Commander Malkovich and his crew."
"Since when have you been able to command him, Dane?" The admiral glared back, obviously annoyed by her question.
"Since the Battle of Phaaze. He's been demoted down to Captain, if you're wondering." Tired of talking about Adam, she continued on.
Samus looked at him through the visor. "How much will I be paid?"
"25,000 seguru." She was surprised. That was a large sum of money. Whatever was on the frigate had to be of vital importance someone.
"That's a lot. What's so important about it?"
The admiral groaned. "We're in talks with a human group known as the UNSC and when we told them that our long-range sensors had picked up part of a craft with the name UNSC Forward Unto Dawn, they requested an investigation as part of the talks. Apparently one of their heroes was lost on that craft. Rumors are that this hero could take you on in a fight." Samus laughed.
"I have my doubts, but if they're confident enough, let them hold onto their illusion." She had a sudden change of heart. "You know what Dane, I'll do it. Then I'm taking this person to their home planet. I'll need coordinates for that Dane."
"Ok. Just show us the body before we give the coordinates. They're very possessive of their location." The communication shut off and Samus took off, rolling her eyes.
A space pirate watched as Samus' gunship landed within the frigate. It scurried away as the Hunter rose out of the ship, heading deeper into the ship to warn others. She looked over to her left and saw two ships. One was a space pirate ship she was too familiar with while the other was a strange, purple craft. Samus quickly scanned it and sent the data to GF Command to see if they had any info on the mysterious ship.
As she walked through the ship, searching for any sign of life, Samus discovered signs of a tear; she assumed that it happened when the frigate got ripped in half – the command bridge was gone. Other than some vermin, Samus couldn't find anything nearby. Her search ended her up in some sort of control room, where two space pirates were hard at work hacking into the system. Jumping up swiftly, she fired a missile right into the back of the one of the left. As if collapsed to the ground, the other one screamed in a way she never had seen in her entire experience with the trash. It then charged like usual, just to meet a missile to the face. Walking over to the control unit, she saw vital signs on it. A quick scan confirmed her thoughts that they were for the UNSC hero.
She looked up to see a cyrotube. It was starting to open up, releasing its content. Inside was a man in a drab olive armor with a golden visor. He grabbed onto a handle and looked over towards where Samus had entered. Standing in the doorway was a hairless gorilla. With a gun.
Using her grapple lasso, she pulled the weapon away from the creature. Samus caught the weapon and handed it to the thing coming out of the cyrotube. It yelled out something about a 'demon' before charging. So he's human. Pleasant.
The man in the olive armor next to her spoke. "You're screwed. That's a brute and I've seen them take on tanks and win. They sometimes give me troubles." That's great, she thought. I'm basically a tank right now anyways. Samus began to charge her arm cannon, using the new coils on the outside to cover the entire cannon in glowing plasma. Samus didn't pause to scan it; instead, she grabbed the creature's collarbone and tossed it up above herself in an arch. Once the thing was past her head, she forced her cannon up through its torso, splashing blue blood onto the ceiling. She tossed the brute down at the feet of the other person.
He looked at her, surprise in his voice. "How did you do that?"
"What? Kill that thing? Easy. I used its movement to lift it up. And Chozo technology is always useful." Samus turned away and started to walk away. He quickly grabbed her massive shoulders and spun her around. She found herself tempted to do the same to the being before her as she had done to the brute.
"Who are you?" His question was simple.
"I'm a bounty hunter in the employment of the Galactic Federation. My name is Samus Aran. You?" She was happy that he couldn't hear her normal voice; some cultures had problems with women being as powerful as her.
The mechanical voice from the man in the orange armor was getting on his nerves, but he answered. "I'm Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 of the United Nations Space Command."
Samus smiled under her helmet. "Good. Then you're the person I was sent here for. I'm taking you back to," she went through some of the data she had just received. Finding what she was looking for, she finished with "Earth." They faced little to no resistance on their way back to her gunship. Only a foolish grunt had gotten in the way and the bounty hunter let the soldier deal with it. Once there, he stared at it awkwardly.
"How do I get in, Samus?" He was answered not by words, but by actions. She jumped onto the ship and was lowered back into it. He shrugged his shoulders and clawed his way up the side of the gunship and lowed in the same way she had. Once inside, he popped a chip from out of his helmet. From it projected Cortana, the AI that had stuck with him through his journeys to take out the Halos. A golden light came from behind and he turned, wondering what trick the bounty hunter had to show next. Right where Samus had been was now a female in a black bikini, letting her hair hang down.
She looked at him. "What? Never seen a female's body before."
John just looked at her. "That's for another time. When will we leave and is it alright if I plug Cortana in?"
"Cortana?"
"My AI from my 'journeys' to save the universe." She shrugged her shoulders before starting the take off procedures.
"Sounds like we have a similar line of work, Chief."
Unknown to both of them, a pterodactyl-like creature watched them leave.
A/N: I probably should get a beta reader.
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