The Adventures of Samus:
Departed

Chapter 1: Another World

A small girl walked into the room and glanced out the window wandering when it would begin.
"Mom, when does the meteor shower begin?"
"Soon honey, just be patient, okay?"
"Okay mommy." The girl looked back out of the window at the moon her space station orbited. Noticing something she had never seen before, the little city that thrived on this moon was completely dark, the city of eternal light... filled with shadow.

"Huh..." I awoke to find myself in a room, one I had no memory of, one I had never seen before. The room was dark and lifeless... empty.

I tried to get up, but my movement was impaired by the massive shoulders of my Chozon Spacesuit.

"How did I get inside of this...?" I wondered allowed.

I made it a rule that I would never fall asleep in this thing; I was in it enough of my life to begin with.

My attention turned back to the room. "How did I get here...?"
I sat up this time instead of trying to roll over; my suits' shoulders couldn't avert me from doing that. I pushed myself up off of the ground, once up I cleared my throat, and grabbed the base of my helmet, "Hello, this is BH# 13329 requesting aid." I waited a bit but got no response, I repeated myself, "This is BH# 13329 requesting aid. Please respond." Still nothing, this new bounty hunting guild crap; they had a bunch of rules and regulations regarding how you worked and still were too dmn unreliable to respond to hails, but with the jobs so slow I had little choice but to join. Nowadays these guilds were getting request directly from clients hold sort of a monopoly on freelance Bounty Hunters.

"I don't know exactly where I am. I will attempt to get out on my own, I will report back then." One of the things I was required to do was keep a sort of log of what happened around me while I was on missions, and as soon as we contacted the guild for aid we were to act as though we were on a mission unless I was told other wise... hmpf... they recorded it and sold it back to the client or the highest bidder or something, as if the 10% cut from the reward wasn't enough...

I centered my thought back on the room.

"... A way out", I mumbles as I began to look around but the room was totally sealed off.

"Visor, X-ray." Nothing happened, the command didn't work. I cleared my throat and said it again, "Visor, X-ray.", but it to didn't work. I touched my visor in order to initiate it's scanning feature; maybe it would be able to scan the walls for a weak spot.... That too wasn't working...

"Screw it. Cannon, Full power."

I felt the full weight of the suit as all of it's the power went form its own suport systems to my beam cannon. I squeezed my right hand repeatedly aiming at everything in the room that looked to be remotely frail, the recoil was nearly impossible to keep suppressed without the suit doing it for me, but I managed.... sort of.

"Suit, Cancel." I was out of breath, I forgot just how heavy the suit was without it supporting itself.

The room was now filled with dust, but it was no longer dark, there was a bright light shining in from a wall on my left I headed for it.

"Hello!" I shouted into the light, only my echo responded.
I reached into the light to find a small hole just small enough for me to squeeze through, without having to change my form.

"Uhhh!" I grunted as I pulled myself through, "What the..." It was huge, perhaps the largest space station I had ever seen; it was an O type, a space station in which the main living area revolved around a central axis, called a spear, in order to create a sort of artificial gravity. This type of space station was quite old, newer ones that created the same gravitational effect without wasting nearly as much energy were created well over 150 years ago, but still this station was very impressive; the buildings, they were gigantic; enormous trees lined the streets with blue and purple leaves, there even seemed to be a wind blowing threw them. There was a McDonald's or Burger King on every other block. But those things weren't what really surprised me; it was the calm, dead aura the space station emited... Its emptiness... I had come out from that hole in the ground to find a station completely void of life.

"Suit, scan site for info." if this station was registered there would be information on it, with that maybe I could figure out where I was and why the station was barren...

"No information found on this area, sorry."

"Dmn it!" a space station this large unregistered? "Suit, begin mapping process." My suit had the capability to instantly map out any area within a certain radius of the suit it's self for my future reference, a life saver in the deep caves I usually work in.

I walked out to the middle of the street in hopes if finding an elevator to the spear; my menial efforts weren't in vain. I saw a thick grey tube rising up above the stations tall buildings, and it didn't seem to far from where I was. I made my way towards it slowly taking in my surroundings, making metal notes for future reference, but overall there wasn't much exceptionally interesting on my direct route.

"Dmn... that's big." Looking up at the large structure I realized just how large the thing actually was. But then again on a station this large, it made sense to have an elevator this big; cargo, and numerous amounts of people must have been using these on a daily basis, so it was actually quite practical.

I stepped into one is the many doors that surrounded the giant cylinder to find that it was shaped more like a wedge, these obviously made up the cylinder making it even more practical, but the wedges were still large enough to hold anything I could think of, and there were no windows, just a large digi screen used mostly for news and station related info.

BOOP

I pushed the up button, I was eager to find out just what was going on.

"One minute remaining." A computer told me. It wasn't to long a wait, I slouched against the wall, I was kind of used to this sort of thing, but at least this elevator was big enough to rest in.

"10 seconds"

The ride was also pretty smooth considering how fast the elevator moved.

"Prepare for stop."

I braced myself for the sudden shock of the elevator stopping, but much to my surprise it was seamless I couldn't even feel it.

"Stand back, opening doors."

The doors only partially opened.

"Danger! Increased heat levels, Danger Increased CO levels' my suit warned by flashing it in the left corner of my lens."

In my profession I learned to always assume the worst, chances are if something was this bad up here I had a battle ahead of me, "Suit, battle visor."

The screen's tint changed to more of a greenish color in order to illuminate dark areas more easily. Many other things like power for my energy shield, amount of missiles and power missiles grazed the right side of the visor.

"Anyone there?" there was no response, the area was leaking out dangerously high amounts of carbon monoxide, a deadly gaseous chemical, luckily I had my suit, but others in this section of the spear... I tried not to let the thought distract me, I came up here for a reason, something this small would stop me from achieving it. I had to find the control room.

BOOM!!

An explosion rocked the space station, knocking me off of my feet; I prayed there wasn't a major hull breach.

"Hull breach detected, implosion imminent, 1 hour until full decompression."

"Sht! This place definitely wasn't as peaceful as it seemed..." I began to run ahead looking for a control room or a way out, which ever came first, but that proved much harder than it should, "...Zero gravity..." In these old fashion space stations the spears were a zero gravity zone.

"I don't have time for this!" I blasted a hole in the nearest door and jumped towards it letting inertia do the rest. Upon passing threw the door I noticed a large arrow pointing in the direction I was headed just above it said Control Room; it wasn't exactly luck to find it, all stations had these, it was more of a placement issue, but either way it wasn't relevant, I was headed in the right direction, that's what mattered.

I continued down the, to find a the control room door conveniently placed at it's dead end, "Door, open." I didn't deal to much with voice activation doors, but I could tell them apart from normal ones, this was defiantly a voice activation door.

"Error, Voice not recognized. Please state code clearer"

That's right my voice wouldn't be registered as a crew member... but as a bounty hunter, that was a different story, one pluses of the guild was that they had been able to get the hunters who worked for them acsess to normally in acsesable areas, maybe my call for help didn't go unnoticed, "BH# 13329, Samus Aran, door open."

"Voice recognized, please enter Mrs. Aran" , they got it a bit wrong but I didn't mind much, I had gotten in.
The control room was enormous; it was on scale with the United Planetary Union conference room. Walking deeper into the heart of the room I realized that on the upper levels there were many bodies draped over computer councils on the upper levels, dead from the large amounts carbon monoxide I assumed.

"What the..." there was blood, but not just human blood some other species as well... Pirate maybe?... Noobian?

An alarm unexpectedly sounded, "Alert, threat detected in sector A, all personnel report to nearest safe zone,..." the voice continued to repeated itself.

"What now?..."

I heard a faint clicking; it continued to get louder and faster...

BOOM!!

An explosion behind me threw me off balance, and as though it was orchestrated hundreds of tiny insect like robots clung to me. I could hear them beginning to cut threw my shield, it percentage was dropping rapidly, "Cannon, Plasma" my beam cannon quickly morphed in to its "plasma cannon" form; my suit could easily take the immense amount of heat it produced, but hopefully these things couldn't I fired at the ones on me first they disintegrated instantly, got up and then began to shoot at the bots that surrounded me, but it seemed they were pouring in faster then I could shoot.

"Dmn." I murmured to myself, I had to make a quick decision; I glanced at the left side of my visor, "Power bombs, zero... there goes that plan." I looked around the room for some sort of vantage point, I quickly found one. I leapt towards the second floor forgetting all about there being no gravity but still achieving the same goal, while floating to my destination I saw a larger version of the bug robot, about twice the size of me. It jumped toward me, there was no way I could have avoided it, zero gravity made it very hard to dodge effectively. I fired on it but the blast merely scorched its surface. Like a tree it swung its massive arm picked me up and slammed me through the Control Room's wall,.

"Error, Error..." My suit chirped.

"DMN!" I glanced at my shields' power while getting up from the blow, "...Great, zero..." all that was protecting me now was the suit itself.
I stood up aiming my beam cannon at the hole I had been thrown from. Tons of the smaller bots began poured out of it, I when to fire, but nothing happened. Apparently that blow knocked out more than just my shield. I could make out the larger bot approaching the hole as well; I knew I couldn't handle it like this.
I growled in frustration, turned and pushed of the ground propelling myself down the hall, away from the robots. I approached the end of the hall; luckily the door was open; with out my beam cannon there would have been no way for me to exit. I escaped the hall to find a near exact replica of the first room I had seen when arriving on the spear, "Good, a way out." I murmured to myself as I headed towards the elevator. I punched the down button.

"BONG", luckily it was already here and I didn't have to wait for it to come up. I leapt into the elevator and slapped the down arrow, "BONG, doors closing."

"Okay, time to think." I told myself as I walked to the center of the empty elevator and sat down from what my logic dictated, there should be a ship some where down here, and gravity would be a big help as well.

Tck, tck, tck, tck, tink

The realized it instantly; they had gotten through the door and were falling on top of the elevator. It was getting faster; I could only assume there were more raining down on the elevator's roof. There really wasn't much I could do except wait and hope that I would reach the bottom before they cut through the ceiling. There was an awkward straining sound, then the elevator completely halted, the stop was much more abrupt then when I was going up, so I knew there was no way I could of reached the bottom.

"This is not my day!" I growled to myself, I looked up and I could see a bright red glowing spot on the ceiling, I knew they were going to get through soon.

"Suit, specs" I used this feature quite often, I could check maps, configure weapons and a large variety of power levels that the suit normally kept regulated on its own. One capability it had I rarely used was a damage report, read outs on exactly what was wrong with the suit. "Beam cannon, functioning abilities." Only the power beam, my weakest weapon was working, and even it wasn't at 100% capacity, hopefully its rapid fire functions still worked, if anything I would need that.

"System, quit; Cannon, power." The beam cannon had trouble making the conversion but it pulled it off; now it was time to see if it would work.

I flung my arm down at the ground and shot as fast as I could, the area I as shooting at was liquefying, my plasma beam would of made short work of this floor, but my power beam's speed was nothing to complain about I was getting through.
Suddenly there was a loud pitched whine. Then a loud snap, the elevator went hurtling to the ground; the insect bots must have cut the cable. I clenched my fist in order to charge my beam canon; luckily I had just gotten the hole in the floor big enough for me to fit through. I jumped through it and could clearly see the exit door. I let the charged energy ball go, it hit its mark perfectly, shattering the door, giving me a clear way out. Now all I had to do was get through it before getting crushed by the elevator. I began to charge my beam canon again, this time aimed upward and fired, the force of the blast got me moving downward much faster, I hit the bottom and immediately sprung up and dove for the door. I could feel the pressure of the elevator sliding down the chaff. I didn't know how close it was. I didn't know if I would make it out in time. Alive

A SYNOPSIS OF WHATS TO COME! /,,

Samus finds herself on a strange spacestation with no memory of where she is or how she got there, and to make things worse She has one hour to live! But little does samus know this strange space station holds secrets to her forgotten past...

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO SAMUS NEXT!