Aran: My first fanfiction

Hello, you guys can call me Solo. My username, the title of this fanfic are connected. This story is based loosely on an obscure Metroid theory. I've only seen it referenced twice before on random threads. When I learned of this theory, I got kinda pumped because it involves two very interesting characters.

With this explanation out of the way, let's talk about the plot and rating. Also my writing. The overall inspiration is from the multitude of super smash bros fanfics that I'm strangely really addicted too... just can't stop reading em. Anyways, I'm kind of taking certain elements that are common in other fanfics and putting my own unique spin. As for rating, I don't know how it's going to turn out, probably T or maybe even M just for maturity of the content. I'm not an offensive guy, so I won't put any overly offensive content in it. So the rating isn't coming from being overly disturbing, inappropriate, or swear-word heavy. But I intend it for somewhat mature audiences. As for my writing experience, I'm a nobody as of right now. I'm new to this site, and my only experience are a couple of novels I'm writing. The one I'm most concerned about is a fantasy/sci fi novel. Maybe I'll have more on that in a later fanfic.

This is a smash bros. fanfic. The primary characters TBD, but I know it will include two characters. The first is Samus, the story will at least start from her POV. The other major character... I'll leave that for later. Let's see how the first chapter goes. Let's just say, he's kind of the second most important character, and the character I know more about. This will be a challange as I do not know as much about Samus and the Metroid series. I own the metroid prime trilogy, but I always got stuck, and right now I don't immediately have access to plugging my Wii-U into a TV to play it. I also own a 3ds game I think it's called Samus returns. I've hardly started it. So, if my portrayal of the main character is out of touch, forgive me. I know this is a long summary, but this is my first fanfic, and I'll give more info as it goes. Without further ado, I give you chapter one of "Aran."

WARNING: decent amount of exposition. I'm that kind of guy. Suffer through it, it'll get VERY interesting later.

You know that feeling the day before an important event? It could be your first sports match of the season, a race, heck, if your into the stuff... your first ping pong tournament. You don't exactly know how it's gonna work out. It's a new experience. Outwardly, you look indifferent. But inside, your practically giddy with excitement. What's going to happen? What kind of new experiences can you expect? It was kinda that way for me. Tomorrow, a new season begins. I was part of a multi-universe fighting competition called "Super Smash Brothers". The opening round was tomorrow morning...

yea... I was getting that feeling.

My name is Samus Aran, legendary bounty hunter, and I'm a veteran of this competition. Yet this particular season excited me even more than the rest. The roster kept growing and growing... Their gonna start running out of people to invite. Pfft... next they'll start inviting vampire slayers and evil reptile kings.

I cracked open my left eye just a hair. I was enjoying the lovely chilling breeze.

And the silence.

I knew full well my anti-social, introverted tendencies were about to be frustratingly challenged. Meh. I wasn't worried about the actual fighting. I'm responsible for the destruction of a few planets worth of space pirate scum. I can handle anything. Except for actual genuine human connection. Who can relate to a legendary bounty hunter woman with bird DNA? Well, at least that's how I assume they perceive me. But enough of this.

I opened my eyes fully. I felt the cold metal of the railway car I was perched upon. My surroundings consisted of what looked like an abandoned industrial railroad station. Parallel tracks were occupied by a few decommissioned cars and engines. The one I had selected as my "introvert-recharge spot" was a black tanker. The faded text on the side read: "Molten Sulfur". Surprisingly, the place was dead silent. Of course, this was why I had selected it. Away from all the pre-season buzz. The area around me looked like a wasteland on the outskirts of a large city. It was a custom stage built by the famed creator Master Hand a while ago, but I guess he decided he wouldn't use it for the contest. This is where I felt comfortable. I've almost always gone things alone. Me and my power suit, which I thought of as my own sort of companion... I wasn't wearing it right now. Just sweats and a t-shirt. I wore it for battle, and when I didn't want people looking at me. Other times, I wanted speed and agility, as well as light protection, so I would go for my specialized jumpsuit: the zero suit. My lips curled into a faint smile. This year, I was packing a few new fun tricks! I had a bit of a A-Ha moment a week ago... and designed rocket-propelled high heels for my new suit. Girl's gotta have style, no? Plus, it was fun to zip around in the sky...

My watch dinged. I huffed an annoyed sigh. Somehow, it always seemed like time passed quicker when you were relaxing yourself. My watch read twenty-one hundred hours. After not having moved much for the past hour-ish, I leapt off my beloved spot on top of the tanker car, flipping midair just for kicks, and landed softly on my feet. I started walking in the direction I knew I needed to go. As I walked, I went down my mental checklist, making sure none of my muscles were still sore from pre-season training. I walked in different patterns, putting emphasis on my heels, soles, inside, and outside of my feet. I felt fine. Ice baths really do work wonders...

I didn't have to walk far until I came upon the portal. This place really wasn't all that far away from the Manor, it's just kinda of out of the way, so nobody comes. Besides, who would want to follow me here? People generally don't mess with me. They learned their lesson in the last three seasons...

I felt the familiar feeling of having my very existence and physical form warped, folded, and zipped through space and I did an LSD trip through the portal. Still not used to it. Feels wrong. I emerged from the other side to land on green grass. This was a tucked away corner of Master Hand's petunia garden. The air was different here. I could smell food and drink, and the smells that you would normally expect from taking a diverse crew of legendary heroes from various universes and plopping them all together in one place. If one can even imagine how to.. expect that. I casually safety vaulted the hedges, fences, and "KEEP OUT CRAZY HAND" signs almost is autopilot. Then I jogged around the side of the building, to face the front.

Smash Manor. It was famous throughout the Nintendo universe as being the most exclusive place to be. Only the most worthy fighters from the Nintendo universe were allowed here! Only the FEIRCEST- was that a freaking dog?...

A brown... whatever it was, I don't care to memorize the vast multitude of dog breeds... noticed my presence and came over to sniff my leg. Strangely, a bird stood on the dog's back. A note attached to the dog's collar had a number and a name plastered on it.

Duck Hunt Fighter Id: (insert number here)

...

They let anyone in these days.

My attention reverted back to the impressive building. Clearly, it was Greek inspired, tall ionic columns hefted a subtly triangular roof over the massive entrance. The manor was four stories, with a basement. Samus had only been up to the third floor, which was the boys/men dormitories. She had only briefly visited the basement last year to help Master Hand do repairs on some sensitive equipment. Unlike the vast majority of the smashers here, I was well-versed in modern technology. I could fix anything. Magic... please... who needs that? I'm NOT jealous.

I ascended the stone stairs... by my count, there were exactly 33, wait! 34! They added an extra step from last season somehow... as I drew nearer to the top, I could vaguely hear music playing. Right, the move-in day party. I got here early to have my stuff put in my room for me, and then to arrange my stuff. The party had started at seven, and still going strong. It was being held in the indoor amphitheater/auditorium, where fighters would spectate matches or attend meetings and smash sponsored events. I entered from ground floor, a passageway cut through the raised seats, and lead to a huge circular floor. It was occupied by say,,, about half of the expected roster. Some had gone to bed early. Some of the newcomers were here already. In fact, I had only met one of them earlier today that I had liked at all. I scanned the crowd for blue hair. Nope... that blue hair belonged to Marth... there's Ike... Oh!... No that was peach playing a joke and dying her hair blue... wait what? Anyway... THERE! towards the outside of the crowd (thankfully) was Lucina. I approached her. She was hovering by the refreshments table, casually sipping some punch. No the drink, not the fist-in-your face variety. Those hurt. Especially when the punch is accompanied by a flaming fist owned by a fully grown man wearing a spandex one-piece jumpsuit... yea... it just gets weirder from here.

Hey Lucy! I called, a little bit louder than intended, a couple people turned around to look.

My face flushed a bit red, I imagine, but I ignored them.

"Hey Sam!" Lucina... well she gave me the female equivalent of a brohug. Call it what you will. But somehow, in only one meeting, we were on pet name and hug basis. That has only happened once to me before.

Lucina released me, and I took a good look at her. She was about medium height, shorter than me, but still respectable. Fit. Blue eyes to match her long blue hair. Dressed in an elegant navy blue combat robe, cape included. Her robes were long sleeved, and multi-layered. It seemed like a pretty good balance between being protective and being fairly light. It looked much like Marth's. She wore it casually, and she had that sort of vibe about her. Super chill. She didn't come up as the type to create or participate in drama, or to start it. She was here to compete, and meet a few friends. She didn't want to make a huge splash about it. She had long blue hair that went well down her cape in flowing locks. Blue hair is a fire emblem thing... trust me. Her voice has perfectly balanced between confident, competent, and humble. "You like lemonade?"

"I'll tolerate it." I shrugged as I received the cold drink from her. Somehow, the bowl that she'd scooped it from remained topped off. (damn magic.) "How was the party?"

"pretty great! I met Marth!" From what I understand, Lucina took a lot of inspiration from the Prince swordsman, and smash veteran.

"If you think he's cool. Wait til' I show you my friends." Samus chuckled.

"Speaking of introducing..." Lucina grabbed my arm and started to guide me towards the stairs "I gotta show you our roomies!" Oh yea, did I mention I met her while moving in? Lucina would be sharing a room with me and two others. They bunk smashers in groups of four. It made sense, as four was a special number here in smash. Four players to a match at maximum. (I was in for a surprise this season.) "If you think MY hair color is... unconventional, you gotta meet the other new girl!"

"Newcomer? She a Fire Emblem?"

"No" Lucina chuckled. "She's from a universe I've never heard of, don't really remember what it was."

"I love surprises" my voice dripped with sarcasm. Secretly, I was all for surprises, I had em' every day I explored alien planets.

"You might want these, until you get used to her..." Lucina pushed a pair of sunglasses onto my face.

"Uuuhhh.. what?"

"You'll see!" She smiled brightly at me, enjoying being mysterious.

We climbed the 20... wait a minute 21! Stairs up to the second floor. Why do they keep adding a stair randomly to every god damn stairwell! We get enough leg day as is! We reached the second floor, which had all the girl's dorms.

"201... 203... 205..." Lucina whispered to herself. She read off the numbers as we went along. "Janitor's office... I do hope we get a nice- ah here it is!- janitor you know? having a nice janitor is always good. They're the best to ask life advice from. I remember a janitor from a while ago, his name was Harold, always told me to brush my teeth twice a day, and cut my hair." Lucina chuckled as she used her keycard to open room number 213.

A rush of steamy air overwhelmed my senses from within the room. It was too hot and humid, not much to my liking.

"Someone's boiling enough pasta to feed kirby for a week in there" I grumbled.

"Nah, that's our new roomie, she had a hot spring installed." Lucina held the door open for me.

"I'm not sure I'm ok with this, but I'll give her a chance- Whoa!" From across the dorm, bright light was emanating from the shared bathroom. It was like, 9:25 in the evening! But it looked like natural light... like sunlight... dimmed by my impromptu sunglasses, but still noticeable.

"You'll get used to her" Lucina shrugged, and with a little "HYUP" of effort, hopped right up on the top bunk to the right. Gotta hand it to the girl, she had the ups. She called from her top bunk: HEY, LADY P, SAM IS HERE, IM GONNA GET SOME SLEEP, YOU TWO PLAY NICE!" Lucina immediately slipped on a little mask over her eyes, and comically began to snore. Her arms draped over the space underneath her bed.

"Hello Samus! Come right in, just to warn you I'm taking a bit of a hot spring bath." Called a cool, elegant, and yet playful female voice at the time came from the bathroom. She sounded about my age. Little did mysterious voice lady know, I enjoy a nice hot spring bath from time to time.

"INCOMING CANONBALL!" I shouted!

END OF CHAPTER ONE!

P.S. ...so how did you all like it so far? I'm new to writing fanfics, so don't judge me too harshly! I have a bit of dry sense of humor sometimes, I need to lighten up. Honestly this series is gonna have some comedy in it, with it being sort of an action/drama/mystery/suspense kind of read. I like making my characters a bit goofy and quirky, so forgive me if I get totally out of character with Samus. By the way, if you haven't noticed, I do like Lucina. I sort of almost halfway mained her for a short period of time. She will make the perfect best buddy for Samus! So far, the characters I have introduced (excluding duck hunt, I don't [particularly know what gender he/she is lol.) are females. Don't worry I'll introduce some guys next. I am a guy myself, so it will be difficult to put myself in Samus's shoes... er jet pack high heels? But lots of stories focus too much on just guy characters, and I admit I'm somewhat of a feminist. (yes, male feminists, we exist.) so I'm trying to challenge myself to tell it from a female's point of view. What do you people think of my Samus POV so far? Too pensive? Too goofy? too social? (Samus is widely interpreted as more of a reserved and independent character.) I might end up also doing a POV of the second character, which I'm very excited about. The second character is a dude, and while he is the secondary character, he is very important to the overall premise of the story. HINT: His personality is almost opposite to Samus. I'm literally posting this fanfic right away, starting from scratch, but I hope I can get a decent following of readers. I intend this to be my main series for a while, but I might made some side series, and add some crossovers into this series. I'm considering adding some of my own characters to this fanfic. Anyway, this chapter got kinda long. I won't waste any more of your time.

9/4/18/2018: Hey people I would like to add a few things. I'm going to be focusing on getting people to look at what I have written so far for a little bit before I release the next chapter. The next chapter is very important, as I begin the foreshadow what the secret Metroid theory is. But I want to post it after I get a few more people reading it. But I don't want people just to read it, I want people to post reviews. Tell me how I'm doing, and if you are enjoying it. That way I have some ideas of what you guys are thinking. I already have a first draft of chapter four written, and I have chapters 1-3 published. From now on, I'm going to be editing and updating chapters 1-3, and try to get some more readers. So keep checking back, as my first three chapters will be changing. I will fix errors, change the wording, perhaps even add more content to the first three chapters. When I get my first review, I will post Chapter four!

Solo is peacin' out.