Anyone reading this? This is my first fanfic. I decided to write it because I find writing stuff fun. Please read this and review it. If you review it please explain why you liked it or hated or what should have been done differently or whatever. You don't have to but I prefer it that way. That could help me improve the story. Basically this story is about what happens before, during, in between and after the metroid games. It's mostly about Samus but parts of the story focus on other characters. I don't own metroid. I don't own halo or zelda, or tetris or any other video game related stuff either.
Leon, a man of medium height with blonde hair was lugging a heavy toolbox toward a large white building. He had moved to this planet with his wife Samantha and their daughter. He didn't really like this planet.
The gravity was a little too strong and the climate was too hot. The planet was officially named K-2L but most of the inhabitants called it "New Eden". He didn't understand why anyone would call it that. It had only been inhabited for thirty years and was on the frontier of the Galactic Federation.
Because of this fact the planet had not been fully tamed. Monsters roamed into the town frequently and the people were often afflicted with strange diseases.
Leon had only moved to this planet because of his job. He maintained important machinery like terraformers, air filters, and space satellites, all of which are vital for a small colony. He greeted a tall guard at the entrance.
The guard replied, "Stop right there, show me your i.d."
"What? You know me by now."
"Thems' the rules, sorry.", explained the guard. Leon then pulled out a card which the guard scanned with some laser device.
"Have a nice day", said the guard before making a waving motion with his right hand.
"You too.", said Leon.
He walked into the building and went down a long, tiled corridor. Ignoring all the doors and branching hallways, he soon came to an elevator at the end of the corridor. He rode this up several floors and came into a room filled with computers and machinery. A pale, bald man rose from his desk and pointed to a machine in the corner. This important machine showed the data from the watch satellites in orbit around the planet. Basically, it alerted the military officers in the building to any suspicious activity in the solar system. What was really strange was that the back-up machine for if this one broke was also down.
He set to work, inspecting and taking apart the machine. In a matter of minutes he found the problem. He was surprised to find that a wire had been cut. The officers were equally surprised and started talking about things like sabotage. Leon replaced the wire and quickly reassembled the machine. The machine was soon up and running.
Immediately, some blips appeared on the radar screen followed by some messages. A grey haired man in a uniform ran over and looked at the screen.
He said two words, "space pirates!" This got everyone's attention. The workers started making phone calls and the military was put on alert.
Thoughts raced through Leon's mind. Space pirates. Why would they attack a planet like this? There wasn't much there the pirates could want. He suddenly thought of his wife and daughter. He had to be sure they were safe!
He ran to the elevator and was stopped by a general.
"Sir, where are you going?"
"I have to check on my family."
"Sir, there's no way you'll get there fast enough!, the pirates are already in the atmosphere."
"I have to try!"
"Very well, you may go.", said the general giving in. With this, Leon went into the elevator.
Samantha was walking through a sunny field with her young daughter, Samus close behind her.
"Mommy, where are we going?", questioned Samus.
"Nowhere, it's just a nice day to go for a walk."
"But I'm tired."
"O.k. Baby, we can turn back. I'll carry you." Samantha bent over and picked up Samus.
Samus was soon asleep in her arms. It was taking too long to walk home and the sky was getting cloudy. Pretty soon it started raining heavily. Samantha was drenched and took cover under a large, leafy tree. She was sitting there, bummed out when she noticed a hawk in a branch above her.
All of a sudden the hawk opened it's beak and spoke, "Ah, is that your baby Samus, you are covering with your jacket?"
Despite being freaked out she replied, "Yes, but how did you know that?"
"I know lots of things. That is not important though. Your Samus is in danger, you must hide her right away. She is the hope for the future."
"What? Why should I listen to you?", asked Samantha with anger in her voice.
"No time for talking, hide her now! I am serious!", yelled the bird. Samantha suddenly felt a great fear and knew in her heart that she must listen to the bird. Scooping up Samus, she ran with her all the way to another tree. As Samus was struggling and crying, Samantha frantically placed her in the hollow dead tree. She felt her fear pass and stood there catching her breath when she was struck by lightning. She cried out as her entire body burned.
Samantha woke up covered in sweat. Looking around the room, she realized that she had been dreaming. There was a funny feeling she had about the dream. It seemed so real.
"Oh no.", she said when she realized she had slept in. She didn't have much time left before she had to leave for the office and get Samus off to school. She frantically set about getting ready. Samantha went into Samus's room. She looked so peaceful lying there.
"Samus, time to wake up, baby."
"Ah, let me sleep a little longer." "No, I have to get you off to school."
"eh, o.k., Mommy.", agreed Samus but it was clear that she wanted to sleep longer. Samus followed her mother into the kitchen where hermother made her a bowl of Frost O' Chunks. Her favorite cereal.
She was eating her breakfast when she heard what sounded like thunder and the lights went out.
She screamed and her mother comforted her, saying "It's o.k. Babe, the the power just went out that's all. I have some candles around here somewhere."
At this moment Leon burst through the door. He took a second to catch his breath then said, "Space pirates are... about to land. Don't go outside."
"Pirates, here, that's impossible!", proclaimed Samantha.
"I wish that were true." Samantha then saw a hawk perched on top of a chair and screamed.
"What's the problem?", asked Leon, confused.
Then he saw the hawk too, "Huh?, I didn't know this planet had birds." The hawk stared in Samantha's direction and screeched as if it wanted something.
"My dream, we have to hide Samus!", said Samantha.
"What are you talking about?", asked Leon.
"In my dream, the bird told me to hide Samus!"
"I don't get you right now but yeah, we should hide Samus."
"Yeah." Samantha then led her daughter up the stairs and had her hide in the cupboard under the bathroom sink.
Leon came up as well, "Now stay here until we come and get you, honey."
"Uh-huh", answered Samus as she nodded her head. Samantha then kissed Samus.
"It'll be o.k., babe." Then she closed the cupboard. Samantha and Leon headed back down the stairs. The hawk was still perched on the chair.
It then said, "Good.", and disappeared in a puff of feathers!.
"What is going on here?", asked Leon in a fearful voice.
"I'm not sure what's going on either but that bird was in my dream. It told me to hid Samus.", answered Samantha.
"O.k., that's kind of weird..." He was interrupted by sounds on the porch.
He reached in a cabinet and grabbed his beam rifle. He walked over and kissed Samantha before standing next to the door. Leon put a finger to his lips to tell Samantha to be quiet and readjusted his rifle. Without warning the door burst inward and an ugly space pirate resembling an insect ran inward. Leon shot at it, putting a hole in it's chest. The pirate stumbled, then fell on the ground, dead.
He stood there, afraid to move. A grenade then rolled into the house and completely destroyed him. Samantha screamed in horror and began to sob when three pirates stepped through the door. They were incapable of frowning but she could see the hate in their eyes. She ran into the living room but the pirates were close behind. She threw a knife at the pirate in front and it was struck in the face. It quickly recovered and shot her in the leg. She went down hard and tried to get away but the pirate stepped on her back.
She lay there crying and praying when the pirate said in English, "You would like to live, would you not.?"
"Yes, please, take what you want, I need to live."
"Ah, that's too bad." The pirate then plunged its knife into her back and yanked it out at an angle. She then cried out and died.
"Oops", said the pirate. The other two who had been watching laughed. He joined in and they all laughed for the better part of a minute.
"That's enough, we have to get moving. Take anything of value or usefulness. A sad, furry creature pushed a cart into the house and the pirates loaded it with what they found. After a while one of the pirates noticed a family picture hanging on the wall above the stairs. The two humans they just killed and a little girl were eating at a wooden table on some other planet. The ground in the picture was covered with what appeared to be a green carpet. After about ten seconds the pirate realized something. The little girl was probably their daughter and she was probably in this house! He told this to the pirate who killed Samantha.
After a few seconds he replied, "Hm, search the house, kill her!" so that everyone could hear.
"Is that really necessary?"
"Of course it is. Ridley's orders were to kill everyone."
"Oh, I don't want him to eat me." All of the pirates agreed with this. They set to searching for the little girl. The furry creature had been ordered to search the bathroom. He peeked in the trash can. The girl wasn't in there. He turned around a few times and walked over to the cupboard. He opened it and saw the girl, cowering. The girl shrank away from him. He stared at the girl and felt pity. He suddenly had an idea. He didn't have to tell the pirates he found her! They had enslave his people and been mean to him after all. He didn't owe them any favors.
"Don't worry, little girl, I won't hurt you."
She untensed herself a little, "Are you a teddy bear?"
"No, please be quiet, there are bad people who want to hurt you." Samus's eyes widened.
"Did they hurt Mom and Dad? I heard them scream." He paused for a second, unable to bring himself to tell her. Besides, if he told her then she might cry and attract the attention of the pirates.
"They're fine, they got away from the bad people."
"Good, can I pet you."
"Maybe later, I have to go. Now stay in there for as long as you can stand it. The bad people will eventually leave. Don't make any noise."
"Bye, Teddy, thanks." He stepped out of the bathroom and closed the door.
A few minutes later.
"What do you mean you can't find her?", yelled the head pirate in a men acing tone.
"She's not in the house, maybe she escaped.", suggested the pirate.
"Well, she couldn't have gone far. We'll have to search the area surrounding the house!"
"Tel Chr, sir, what if she's at school?", asked the furry creature.
The pirate slapped his forehead, "Should have remembered, the humans always send their children to schools!"
"Wish you thought of that earlier before wasting...", said one pirate before he was interrupted.
"Shut up", yelled the head pirate.
"Sorry, sir."
"Now, let's see, this is a nice amount of stuff.", said the head pirate staring at the cart, "Let's go, General Scrit has requested our help at the warehouse."
"Woohoo", replied both of the other pirates as they hopped over their fallen comrade and ran out the front door. The head pirate and the furry creature followed. While pushing the cart, the furry creature stopped and looked back at the house.
The general saw this and barked, "Hurry up, whelp!" The creature looked away from the house and continued pushing the cart.
Samus sat in the cupboard with her arms wrapped around herself. She heard he parents' screaming and covered her ears. She didn't understand what was happening. Were her parent o.k.? She sat like this, trying not to cry too loudly. A while later she was found by a furry creature. She almost screamed but the creature seemed nice. I looked kind of like a giant teddy bear. It told her that her parents were fine. Her heart leaped at this. The creature left her and told her to wait longer.
Ridley, the space dragon flew over the hopeless city. He spread his wings and glided along effortlessly. He felt so powerful. He had been able to surprise this planet thanks to his friends, the Micks. The Micks were kind of like intelligent mice. They were perfect for chewing wires and sabotaging important equipment such as radar machinery. His army had killed almost the entire population of the planet, about 50,000 people in less than two hours. The planet's army wasn't much to look at. He lost more soldiers to civilians than to the army. He landed on top of a warehouse. Next to the warehouse were several huge space pirate frigates parked on top of houses. The frigates weren't pleasing to the eye. They were all blocky and painted the darkest black imaginable. The prates definitely held the belief that function should come before form.
Sitting on top of a frigate, he patiently waited for the frigates to be loaded with the last of the loot. He felt a sharp pain in his back several times. The dragon turned around and saw several marines shooting at him from behind a bush. He breathed out some fire. They weren't expecting this and screamed right before they were scorched. He entertained himself watching two pirates fighting over the helmets from the dead marines until it was time to leave.
Samus sat in the cupboard for what seemed like hours. She hadn't heard anything in a long time. Maybe the bad people were gone. She finally opened the cabinet. She got out and stretched her sore legs.
"Mommy, Daddy, are you there?" asked Samus hoping for a response. She received none. Building up courage she opened the door and stepped into the hallway. Looking into her parents' bedroom she saw that it was trashed and more than half the things in the room were gone.
"Mommy, Daddy?" Why weren't they there? Wouldn't they have come back now that the bad people were gone? She slowly walked down the stairs. Samus stepped into the living room, the gruesome scene hitting her. She ran over to her mother.
"Mommy, what's wrong? Mommy, wake up!" She lifted her mother's arm but it dropped back down on the floor. She shook her mother but she wouldn't move.
Four Chozo were in a ship descending through the atmosphere. They looked in sadness at a screen showing the ruined city below. Space pirates had been there only one hour earlier.
"Shame.", said one of the Chozo.
"The council should have declared war on the disgusting pirates twenty years ago when they were still weak!", shouted one old Chozo with grey feathers, pounding his right fist on the arm of his chair for emphasis.
"Calm down, Hawkoruu!", said another Chozo.
"Fine", said the angry Chozo, unclenching his fists.
"Yes, this is definitely the planet from my vision.", said a young Chozo shaman adorned in jewelry while looking out the window.
The ship soon landed. The Chozo stepped onto the lawn they landed on. They were shocked at the extent of the destruction. Multiple buildings were destroyed and dead bodies were scattered in the streets.
"Are you sure this is the place? I don't see how any child could have survived this.", questioned Hawkoruu.
The Chozo priest looked up and replied, "I am sure of it, we will find the hatchling here." One of the other Chozo pulled a small, beeping device out of a pocket on his robe. The Chozo held the device close to his face.
"There is a small life sign in that direction." stated the Chozo, pointing his feathered hand down one road.
They followed him for a good fifteen minute. The Chozo were losing hope that the life sign was real but then they came upon a house on the outskirts of town. The front door was broken down.
Samus was sitting on the floor next to her father crying. Suddenly she heard noises outside. Her first thought was of the "bad people", and she ran and hid in a closet. She could hear heavy footsteps as she tried to breathe quietly. The footsteps came closer and she hid farther behind some clothes. She could also hear someone speaking in a strange language. She was hoping they would leave when she was discovered by what looked like a giant bird man who had opened the closet. She started screaming as loudly as possible. The other Chozo gathered around.
The shaman stepped forward and stated, "Don't worry, it's fine now."
"Fine!, they're dead!", yelled Samus defiantly.
"They're in a happy place, and will be watching you." Something told Samus these were not bad people.
She got out of the cabinet and looked at the Chozo, "My name is Samus."
"Mine's Sobimoruu.", explained the Chozo shaman.
"Would you come with us. We can give you a new home." Saying this somehow made Samus cry but between her sobs she agreed to go with them. Pretty soon they were in the spaceship and leaving the planet with Samus.