Author's notes; The purpose of this Metroid fan fiction is not to sexually stimulate or arouse viewers, this fan fiction will attempt to carry out an actual story within the Metroid universe that makes sense with the established canon, hence why I am rewriting the Metroid: Other M story to make it more appealing as well as make sense.
Also, this story was put on hold for so long due to Samus Returns release. As I said, I want this story to be consistent with the established canon, and thus did not want to write something that would end up contradicting the game. However, not very much would have contradicted what I would write, so it was somewhat a waste of time. But I am continuing this story now.
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With these details laid out, I hope that you enjoy this retelling of the infamous, for better or worse, video game, Metroid: Other M.
Prologue
Samus watched the Queen Metroid, the last and mother of the artificially created species, burn from within due to the release of a Power Bomb which eviscerated the creature. Samus' legs were like steel. The Queen Metroid slowly burned to dust, until even that was no more. Samus took a glance around, open eggs and a pool of bile-green liquid around them sent slight disgust through her. The mission that she had been contracted to fulfil had been a success, she wiped out every Metroid from the existence. The seemingly mistaken of creations of her now deceased carers had finally, been eradicated. Samus had watched these creatures being forged in the labs of her Zebestian home, of which she herself had been placed within to further growth and strength. She had not known the purpose of these abominations, nor does she now, all that matters now is that pay check.
The ground felt alive, every footstep was a slog as well as fleshy with sounds. It all appeared organic and pulsing with life, however the colour was less than appealing with sickly yellows mixed with blood-coloured, muscle-like walls. The cavern was deep with columns of the same contents and stretched for dozens of metres in every direction.
Samus took careful steps as the terrain was not steady. She inspected her arm cannon, which had Metroid blood on it, that was no different to her entire body, she had committed genocide on more than fifty Metroids, all for money, however the beasts had caused plenty of issues for not only her, but for the galaxy, held captive, solely for warfare.
Samus took notice of an object in her path, it was egg-like in shape with a fleshy pulp at the base for support. She stopped to inspect it when a crack formed, Samus' shoulders twitched in response. A baby Metroid then burst out from the egg with a chirp, it was incredibly jellyfish-like, however it had no limbs, only small fangs. Samus immediately took aim at the youngling and the barrel emitted a neon glow, charging her beam, ready to rid the infant. The baby however did not immediately attack Samus, causing her to hesitate in slight confusion, it was far too young to even be a threat, however her cannon was still charged, poised to obliterate the creature. Stillness occurred within the room, only the sound of Samus' cannon was being emitted.
The infant Metroid chirped lower, but shook, seemingly in glee and began to glide elegantly towards the side of Samus, her cannon followed the creature for a moment, the Metroid hovered at her cannon and bounced above it. It began to flow behind Samus, then only her head followed its movements. The creature bounced to the front of Samus, within firing line, the two began to stare at each other, Samus was motionless.
"Papa? Mama? Where are you?" Smoke covered a young Samus' face, she clutched onto the creature she had recently acquainted herself with, she had named it Pyonchi during her meeting with the great Chozo, humanoid creatures that had the head of a bird, named Old Bird, it had the appearance of a rabbit fused with a squirrel. Samus' short hair was a mess as a blast of air had rushed over her minutes ago. "What's wrong? Did something happen!?" She cleared the smoke to see a creature that bared the resemblance of a dragon. It was tall, almost anorexic, lavender in colour and had a long, chain-like tail with what looked like a spear head at the end.
The head of the beast had turned to Samus, its long snout looked like that of a nail with a hook at the end of the upper jaw, it had a stern expression on its face, menacing in appearance due to its horns above the eyes. Horrendous sounds were being cast from all directions, screams, shouts, pain and suffering. Fires and explosions near and far. The two began to stare at each other, both motionless.
A bipedal and scrawny figure with what seemed like mouths for hands approached the dragon.
"Lord Ridley," it spoke with a crackled voice, "we've captured the facility. We've begun transporting the containers." The dragon turned to the figure with his incredibly thin neck.
"Good." The beast spoke sternly and in a commanding manner.
"A-Are you... Mr. Ridley...?" Samus spoke with slight anxiety within her voice. The dragon named Ridley quickly flicked his head to face her in surprise, as if he didn't know Samus could speak. "I-I'm... Samus. Th-three years old..." Samus clung to Pyonchi, remembering her conversation with Old Bird, she had introduced herself in the same way, however Old Bird was humanoid and heavily feathered, appearing friendly, whilst Ridley had smooth, yet scaly skin and his bones were bulging from within. Samus looked at Ridley's humungous wings that were folded close to him and gulped. She mustered confidence, but her legs were still like grass in the wind. "You're not scary... I'm perfectly fine... E-Even if you look different..." Her face began to glow a faint red in nervousness, "W-We can still be friends...!"
Ridley stared at the little girl, he began to pull a look of what appeared to be pity and guilt.
"Mhmm. You're so cute. I'm sorry miss, butt... That's impossible!" Ridley bellowed. Samus recoiled slightly and her face demonstrated clear confusion. "Because..." Ridley leaped, opened his jaw and lunged towards Samus, "you're about to die!" He screeched. Samus grasped Pyonchi and fell back in terror, she allowed a scream to escape her.
"Samus!" A woman came running to Samus' side with her arm extended.
"Ah, mama..." Samus was already exhausted from the fear and sudden attack of Ridley that she barely had energy to speak. Samus' mother sprinted to Ridley. He turned to face her.
"Now that we have the Afloraltite, there's no reason to hold back. Burn everything!" Ridley exclaimed, as he raised his head with an open jaw, a ball of red energy formed in his mouth, he leaned down and a blast of plasma shot towards Samus' mother and Samus stared at her. Her mother erupted in flames and smoke in front of Samus' eyes.
"Mama!" Samus reached to where she stood and only a fiery plume remained. She clutched Pyonchi and tears streamed from her face.
As Ridley began to charge another blast ready for Samus, a huge explosion rocked the ground from above. He turned to the source. "What? Why is my ship on fire?!" Samus, with a cold look on her face, looked up and instinctively, she began to run with no thought. She however clung onto Pyonchi as if her life depended on it and tears fell from her cheeks as she ran. The husk of a burning ship landed atop Ridley himself and he let out a shriek of pain and a huge explosion engulfed him.
Two figures stood with the bodies and flames of the facility.
"Aah, how terrible..." Old Bird's voice broke the sounds of the raging fires. Another member of the Chozo stood aside him inspected the dead.
"The emergency code to the Federation Police, I know it was sent from K-2L. But I never thought it would be this bad..." He lowered his head in respect and then stood with Old Bird. "Everything's been destroyed..."
Old Bird looked down in sorrow. "It's probably the work of the Space Pirates. Complete annihilation... Not even one survivor..." He stood in silence for a moment, then a squeak sounded behind him, he jolted upright with his arm out of his cloak.
"Mama... Pa...pa." A small figure stood in front of the rising star, forming the silhouette of a little girl. Old Bird jumped and reached his hand out.
"Ooh... That's-! I-I don't believe it! Samus!?"
Samus continued to stare at the Metroid, the last of its kind, the last of its family. She leaned her head up a touch, and the glow from her cannon faded. Her posture normalized and she let out a hand below the baby Metroid. It glided towards her palm and it bounced happily, letting of a cheerful squeak. It then leaped up with its limbless body and started to fly around Samus, letting out joyous chirps. She followed its movements, she then held her cannon and started to walk forward, the infant Metroid following suite.