Metroid Zero Mission
Chapter 1
Zebes… I called this place home once. In peaceful times. Long before evil haunted the caverns below. Now I shall finally tell the story of my first battle here. My so-called Zero Mission.
Samus looked around at the underground region of Brinstar. All was deceptively peaceful here. Samus moved over to the left. There it was, the Morph Ball, which let her turn into a little ball that could fit thru small openings.
Samus knew she would have to find the rest of the upgrades on her own, without the slightest clue of where they were. Had all gone well on her last mission, Adam would've been there to point out the locations of all the upgrades. A stab of pain reached her heart as she thought of him. I would've enjoyed fighting alongside you again, old friend.
Samus continued right until she saw a Chozo statue. It almost made Samus cry at the sight, for it reminded her of the Space Pirates, how they had committed genocide of the Chozo, killing all of them until they were extinct. Samus leapt into it's hands and rolled into Morph Ball. Then something strange happened. The statue turned on her map and pointed out the location of a new upgrade. Impressed, Samus moved toward the target until a red door barred the way. Only a missile could destroy the lock on this door. Samus dropped down the shaft and headed thru the blue door there to search for greater firepower.
Samus found the Missile Launcher on a raised pillar over a pool of deadly acid. As she was leaving the room, a great worm broke the ceiling and attacked. Samus fired at its eye, and the whole thing blew up, leaving behind the Charge Beam.
Samus grabbed the upgrade and went back up the shaft to blow the red door, then went thru it and headed toward the target. As it turned out, the upgrade it pointed to was the Morph Ball Bombs. Samus searched some more and found another Chozo statue that pointed to the next upgrade, in Norfair. Samus headed to the elevator that led to Norfair.
Deep beneath the surface of Zebes, in the fortress of Tourian, was the Brain.
The Mother Brain, leader of the Space Pirates. It knew Samus was there. It was only a matter of time before she would face it.
The Brain sat in the darkness, waiting.