I am starting this fic because I may continue it if I feel like it, but I just wanna see how it looks. Note, this is a prologue, not an actual chapter, real ones will be longer.

Disclaimer: I do not own Metroid.

He was in shackles. Samus had finally caught him after the X invasion and now he was to be put on trial. The giant dragon slowly walking into the court room on the giant ship, federation soldiers keeping their aim on him. As he stepped into the room, he found it filled with people of every race that wanted him dead. The judge was dressed in black armor, and on his right was none other than Samus Aran, clad in her orange fusion suit.

"Ridley, leader of the space pirates, you are found guilty for multiple attacks on the federation. How do you plead?" the judge said as he read from the notes from his stand.

Ridley was silent, which was unusual, and Samus noted this. Ridley looked completely broken on the inside, and it was showing on his draconic face.

"You do not deny you are guilty? Very well, on to the punishment." The judge said as he flipped though more notes.

As he was doing that, Samus never look her eyes off of Ridley for two reasons. The first was that if he tried to break free and attack the judge, she would stop him. The second reason was because she actually felt pity for the dragon, even though he killed her parents and her entire planet.

"Let's see, the punishment for all of your crimes is public execution. Do you plead against this?" the judge asked once more as he peered at the dragon.

Ridley looked up at him with dead eyes, which led Samus to wonder what his captors did after she brought him to a nearby ship, which had a lot of renegade prisoners. Ridley looked from the judge to Samus, who was forced to look away from him because he looked completely shattered. She vowed to find out what happened to him after this was done, even if he was her enemy.

"Very well, seeing as though you are mute, you will be executed in one week's time. Case closed, and good riddance." The judge added cruelly as Ridley was led away.

"Your honor, did you notice something strange in Ridley's eyes?" Samus asked as she walked over to the judge, who was preparing for his next case.

"No, all I saw was a brute who needed to put down, why?" he asked her.

"They looked completely dead; do you know what happened on that prison ship?" Samus asked him as he laughed.

"No I don't, other than the fact that they are the cruelest people around. I suggest you forget about it, no use worrying about your enemies if you ask me." The judge said as he got out his notes and spread them out on his stand. Samus shook her head at his ignorance of others.

Samus left the room and walked down the hallway to where they held death row inmates and scanned around for Ridley, determined to find out what happened, for no creature should be treated that way.

"Have you come to gloat Samus? Go ahead, I'm finished anyway." A broken voice said from a giant cell nearby. Samus looked to see Ridley looking at her with his broken eyes and she noticed how frail he looked, when less than a month ago he was trying to kill her and was in perfect health.

"No I haven't. I'm here because I noticed that you looked like you had given up hope on life. What did they do to you in there?" Samus asked as Ridley looked away.

"I…don't want to talk about it. All I'll say was they treated me worse than any of the prisoners that I have taken…" he replied faintly. The huntress scanned him his her visor and saw that he was very ill and had multiple problems with his body, which led to her decision that she was going to find out who the people were on that ship and punish them for more cruelty than most of the prisoners ever created.

"Ridley, I promise to find out what they did to you and punish them severely for it, because not even you should be treated that way." Samus said as she began to walk away.

"Samus?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you."

I know I put Ridley OOC because torture can honestly change people. And no, I do not plan for a Samus x Ridley fic, but who knows, I may change my mind. I hope that this was good, and I may have repeated some things, but I didn't know what else to say, so I am sorry. Well, until next time. Next Chapter I think I may have Ridley tell Samus why he hates the federation to much and explain, in my point of view, how Ridley was born and his life as he is waiting on death row.