Metroid Eclipse
This story takes place after Super Metroid, but before Metroid Fusion.
Chapter 01: Shai'judais
Samus Aran piloted her ship in the path of the fleeing Elite Pirate. The bounty on Shai'judais was so high mainly because that it would take someone like Samus to kill him. Shai'judais was one of the Space Pirate Empire's toughest Elites. He had just ravaged a colony and Samus had only been minutes late. All that was left was a few Beam Pirates (the Space Pirates that fire beams from their pincer-arms, in Super Metroid) and one Plasma Trooper. She had a constant lock on him except for when he went behind the ship. She hated making loop-the-loops. It REALLY got on her nerves.
"You god damn Elite Pirate." Samus said angrily. "Why won't you stay still?"
Shai'judais didn't care what Samus was saying. He was just worried about her tailing him all the way back to Eclipse Beta.
She took off her helmet and shook her long hair. It had gotten really sweaty in that thing. She finally had a clear lock on Shai'judais, fired, and only found that she had fallen prey to his illusion attack again, a new Elite ability.
"God darnit!" She screamed, slamming the controls. Suddenly, the ship was sent spiraling. Shai'judais had hit it with one of its cannon blasts. "Oh, that freaking thing. It's really ticking me off. This is worse than those stupid Borrowers on Tallon IV."
Shai'judais then stopped suddenly. Samus hit the brakes. While she might kill Shai'judais by running into him, it wouldn't really do her ship any good to run into a 17-foot-tall, 18 ton Elite Pirate. In fact, her ship would probably explode. And there goes the bounty collecting.
"You've been tailing me for about six solar systems." Shai'judais said. Samus' ship was running out of plasma energy, and she could tell that Shai'judais had more endurance left than her ship had at the beginning.
"Well, maybe if you didn't plunder that colony." Samus began.
"Lady, I'm a freaking Space Pirate." Shai'judais said. "I was simply following orders."
"Yeah, but you sure earned a bounty on your li'l head, Shai."
Shai'judais finished punching in a code on a tiny (for him especially) keyboard he had and then disappeared from sight. Samus blinked.
"Aw, shit." She said. She turned on her X-Ray visor. Nothing. This worried her. She tried her thermal visor. Still nothing. "Aw, this is worse than shit." Her aggravation at chasing Shai'judais for about 50 quintillion light years was making her swear a lot.
Samus moved her ship forward a bit to see if Shai'judais was still hiding and slammed into something big that was definitely not Shai. A yellow force field crackled in front of her. She knew these force fields. Nothing but Space Pirates could pass through them- naturally. She hopped onto the roof of her ship and fired a wave of Hyper Beam into the force field. It shattered.
"Why didn't I just do that to Shai when he stopped to attack with a shockwave? Jeez." She said to herself. As the force field shattered, a huge Space Pirate space station appeared out of nowhere, as well as a huge system of beautiful looking planets- four of them, in the same orbit, each in a different season. Samus recognized this pattern.
Chozo, she thought. But it was impossible. They are extinct, either killed by the Space Pirate forces or on Tallon IV by the rampaging Flaaghra in their ruins, the Phazon release, or Metroid Prime.
But she had Shai'judais' lock-on again. And it was in that station.
"Why is it always space stations? Oy." And she hopped off the ship and began her journey.
This story takes place after Super Metroid, but before Metroid Fusion.
Chapter 01: Shai'judais
Samus Aran piloted her ship in the path of the fleeing Elite Pirate. The bounty on Shai'judais was so high mainly because that it would take someone like Samus to kill him. Shai'judais was one of the Space Pirate Empire's toughest Elites. He had just ravaged a colony and Samus had only been minutes late. All that was left was a few Beam Pirates (the Space Pirates that fire beams from their pincer-arms, in Super Metroid) and one Plasma Trooper. She had a constant lock on him except for when he went behind the ship. She hated making loop-the-loops. It REALLY got on her nerves.
"You god damn Elite Pirate." Samus said angrily. "Why won't you stay still?"
Shai'judais didn't care what Samus was saying. He was just worried about her tailing him all the way back to Eclipse Beta.
She took off her helmet and shook her long hair. It had gotten really sweaty in that thing. She finally had a clear lock on Shai'judais, fired, and only found that she had fallen prey to his illusion attack again, a new Elite ability.
"God darnit!" She screamed, slamming the controls. Suddenly, the ship was sent spiraling. Shai'judais had hit it with one of its cannon blasts. "Oh, that freaking thing. It's really ticking me off. This is worse than those stupid Borrowers on Tallon IV."
Shai'judais then stopped suddenly. Samus hit the brakes. While she might kill Shai'judais by running into him, it wouldn't really do her ship any good to run into a 17-foot-tall, 18 ton Elite Pirate. In fact, her ship would probably explode. And there goes the bounty collecting.
"You've been tailing me for about six solar systems." Shai'judais said. Samus' ship was running out of plasma energy, and she could tell that Shai'judais had more endurance left than her ship had at the beginning.
"Well, maybe if you didn't plunder that colony." Samus began.
"Lady, I'm a freaking Space Pirate." Shai'judais said. "I was simply following orders."
"Yeah, but you sure earned a bounty on your li'l head, Shai."
Shai'judais finished punching in a code on a tiny (for him especially) keyboard he had and then disappeared from sight. Samus blinked.
"Aw, shit." She said. She turned on her X-Ray visor. Nothing. This worried her. She tried her thermal visor. Still nothing. "Aw, this is worse than shit." Her aggravation at chasing Shai'judais for about 50 quintillion light years was making her swear a lot.
Samus moved her ship forward a bit to see if Shai'judais was still hiding and slammed into something big that was definitely not Shai. A yellow force field crackled in front of her. She knew these force fields. Nothing but Space Pirates could pass through them- naturally. She hopped onto the roof of her ship and fired a wave of Hyper Beam into the force field. It shattered.
"Why didn't I just do that to Shai when he stopped to attack with a shockwave? Jeez." She said to herself. As the force field shattered, a huge Space Pirate space station appeared out of nowhere, as well as a huge system of beautiful looking planets- four of them, in the same orbit, each in a different season. Samus recognized this pattern.
Chozo, she thought. But it was impossible. They are extinct, either killed by the Space Pirate forces or on Tallon IV by the rampaging Flaaghra in their ruins, the Phazon release, or Metroid Prime.
But she had Shai'judais' lock-on again. And it was in that station.
"Why is it always space stations? Oy." And she hopped off the ship and began her journey.