Prologue
THE MISSION
INCOMING MESSAGE
Samus was awakened by this very alert. Moving from her bed in the back of her ship, she was wondering who would send something at this time of the night. She sat in her chair, and activated the console. A bit of quick typing, and the face of Galactic Federation Commander James Kardinal appeared on the screen. It was a prerecorded video. "Samus," the commander said in a deep, gruff voice: The kind you would expect of one who had fought a thousand battles, not all of them won. "I have a mission for you.
"We have detected Phazon on a small ocean planet known as Terra, somewhere around a body of water known as the Pacific Ocean. Your job will be to covertly locate and destroy it. however, Stealth is more important than you may be used to; the natives know nothing of your existence and believe me, we would dearly like to keep it that way.
"Reply to this message should you accept."
She turned on her microphone and uttered a quick command.
"Send Reply, Live Feed."
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Samus made the journey rather quickly. She was hovering at the top of the atmosphere, and in the process of deciding just where to land, when her engines cut out. She no longer had control of the ship, and she plunged into the ocean, not far from a cluster of islands.
At the time, she was unaware of the young Japanese girl witnessing the event from the beach on a nearby island.
Chapter 1
THE WITNESS
Miyuki Yamanada was stunned by what she had just witnessed. At age eighteen, the young woman was just finishing up High School, and had college fully on her mind. The ball of fire that dropped into the ocean just a few kilometres away may have looked like a meteorite, but already she knew better: She had brought her phone. As soon as she realized that something was strange, she brought it out of her bag, and when the fireball appeared, she zoomed right in and took a photo. Close up, the object looked metallic, and even had something that looked like a green pane of glass across the middle. Nani desu ka. (what is it?) I've gotta check it out!
The next day, she was off of school, so she went to the nearest beach, and swam out to the spot where she had seen the object fall: It was an Orange metal container, presumably a vehicle of some sort, with a green windshield! Just as I suspected! This is getting weird! I have the feeling though, that I've seen this somewhere before...
She climbed to the top of the vehicle, and opened the hatch and she then did not believe what she saw! She recognized the unconscious woman! I've been playing too many video games, she thought.
"Aran Samusu"