ゼロミッションの使い魔 The Familiar of Zero Mission
(Zero Misshon no Tsukaima)
Disclaimer: The Familiar of Zero (ゼロの使い魔 Zero no Tsukaima) and all of its known official characters, concepts, locations, etcetera are owned by Noboru Yamaguchi (light novelist), and all other writers of its anime and manga adapts. The series Metroid, and all known characters, concepts, locations, etcetera is owned by Nintendo. All I own are my Original Characters and this idea of a story... crossover story.
Author's Note: I've read so much Familiar of Zero fanfiction I've developed a likeness to the series as a whole. Researching gave me more in-depth detailing and history to the series itself, and well, it prompted me to write this up. Saito will still be in this, only Saito is basically in Metroid costume... along with a certain sword. The events of Metroid are in the middle of the "Phazon Chronicles" (more importantly, after Prime 2, but before the events of Prime 3 so Samus will get a sort of introduction in the fic). *sigh* I need to write more original stories and non-crossover fics.
In space, a location nowhere close to where the epitome of this whole story will soon begin, was lit with the firefight of missiles, space-age weapons, and overall, guns blazing. A sleek emerald green gunship was fastly evasive of its foes, and on-board weapons shoot down and destroy enemy drone ships released by the main pirate source. On board, two humanoids and one human were busy keeping status on the gunship's integrity and its armoring shields, and also keeping track on the system's mapping of the battlefield of any enemy ships.
The pilot of the gunship, kept his hands on the controls, hair-trigger ready for any more evasive flights and counter-attacks.
"Saito! Status update!" the pilot commands.
Saito Hiraga, a Japanese national (born on Venturas Island, Planet Big Blue) of seventeen years of age, scans his blue eyes across texts of data on his hologram monitor.
"Shields are at 76 percent and are holding, Sekai. But we're running low on Photon Missiles. We still have plenty of ammo for the primary guns, however."
The dark-haired teen with styled otaku hair glances to the pilot, Sekai Jiraiya, an elf alien prince (and the last of his own kind) from Planet Jiraiya in the Xia system. He was his age, with the most vibrant of violet-colored eyes, and long pointed ears. His hair was as dark as the universe's vast expanse, in large accentuating dreadlocks that accented his aristocratic looks. The main detail that depicted his species (known as Jiraiyans) was the crystal growths on the forehead as a four-pointed star. But Sekai's marking him as royal blood is the crystal wing-like grows that frame out from the sides of the four-point star.
And then there was the lone female of their three-person team, in otaku cases classified a catgirl. She was Lumine Starr, from Planet Thuban 9 of the Elistar system. Her kind was known as Felinekoh, a name crossing between feline and neko/nekomimi (due to the fact that despite being closely related to humans, they had traits of the standard cat species). A short blonde-haired beauty with large (otakus would call them anime-styled) periwinkle cat ears and cat tail, and bright blue-colored eyes with the mark of a crescent moon insignia printed on the point of her forehead (blue in color).
The three teens would be an age younger before the universally legal of-adult age, but officially they were known classified bounty hunters. And thus is the reason why they were in a space dogfight with Space Pirate forces; the pirates they have had a run-in time and again on separate missions for the Galactic Federation for the past three years (yes, they became hunters at such a young age), and today, apparently, the pirates deemed them as dangerous as their fellow friend (and sworn enemy of the Space Pirates) Samus Aran. Thus, is the reason why the three teens inside the emerald sleek gunship, were in a fight for their lives.
Just as it appears hell would descend, a giant greenish portal of energy suddenly rips a hole in space. The computer systems were already blaring, detecting the foreign energy source and displaying unknown signals.
"What the hell is that? A portal?"
"Looks like it..."
"Damn... problem! We got two freighter ships closing in on our position, with more enemy fighters already deployed. They're really going all out on us!"
Sekai looks at his monitor, and then to the energy portal. He presses a button, and his monitor makes a confirming beep.
"Hang on!" he yells.
"Sekai? What are you doing?"
He took the chance and flew into the portal, just as one of the pirates' missiles struck the back of the ship causing an explosion and more damage to the shields. But they successfully escaped. The flashing lights and blurs of energy washed quickly, soon reintroducing them to a different region of space.
"Where are we?"
"In the Kallin 3 system," Saito replied, the computers already getting a primary location on their position in the galaxy. "We're a far away from where we last were."
Sekai gazes out, and sees a large planet. The interesting thing about it was the two colored moons of red and blue.
"Sekai, ship's damaged greatly by that last attack. We need to land somewhere and quick," Lumine reported.
Sekai growls. "Damn pirates... what's the planet in the distance like?"
"Well..." Saito types away on the hologram grid, scanning the planet. Data returns to the screens, displaying new light monitors, "It's an Earth-class planet... plenty of oxygen to sustain natural life... the system seems to determine the age of Middle Age Europe. Huh... I'm detecting strange energy fluxations from the surface. They're coming from the life on the planet, which is primarily homosapien-class bioforms..."
"Humans?"
"Yeah," Saito replied.
An explosion and the gunship jolted.
"Engine two exploded. We need to land now," Lumine said.
"Right. Strap in and hang on!"
Sekai pilots the gunship closer to the planet.
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On said planet, smoke wafts but slowly thins out, revealing a choking coughing girl with pink hair, waving said smoke from her face with a stick in her hand.
"Well, the Zero did it again," a jeering voice stated, and laughter descended again, making the pink-haired girl frown and slump in defeat.
"Please professor, let me try again!" the girl exclaimed, trying not to show her tears.
The man she spoke to, with a staff, sighed.
"I am sorry Miss Vallière, but you tried three times, this being your fourth chance," Professor Colbert tells her. "And the last... I am afraid."
"But I know I made it work. Please! Once more! Please!" she exclaims, before a soft sound is heard. It slowly grew louder, and most wondered where it was coming from, when one student looked up and shouted whilst pointing up. All eyes turn and they see a shooting star... and it was coming fast down upon them. Professor Colbert lifted his staff, waiting to defend his students, when the shooting star seemingly drifts away, but still it headed to the courtyards. With a powerful crash and a loud boom, it struck and made a crater inches from them. The heavy plume of dust made them all choke and cough.
Sekai inside the gunship held the controls, and turned the thrusters on and brakes in time, almost nearly crashing into a nearby building (which was the main dining hall of Tristian Magical Academy). Sekai maneuvers the gunship into a docking position, close to the crater they made before the engines shut off upon landing.
"Damn, that hurts," Saito grumbles.
"You okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine, Sekai," the Japanese teen replied.
"I'm okay as well, Sekai," Lumine mutters, "but my tail hurts."
"Scan nearby for any hostile lifeforms," Sekai commands, and Saito went to work immediately, allowing the pilot to unbuckle from his chair.
From the main doors, the Headmaster of the academy had heard the loud explosion and had rushed out to see what was going on. "What in the name of the Founder?" the old man whispers, seeing a strange... thing, one can call it... in the courtyard. It looked like a wind ship fully encased in a bubble of metal. Yes, that's as close as he could call the strange thing... where did that thing come from? Was it the source of the explosion?
"Colbert, what happened?" Headmaster Osmond questioned, as a student who was a Wind mage was helping clear the smoke and dust away.
"Miss Vallière... I guess this is the result of her summoning? I am unsure of this."
"Really?" Osmond looks to the craft.
Inside the gunship, the three teens were finishing examination of the ship's systems, when Saito spoke up.
"Lifeforms detected outside... mostly humans... I think we crash-landed in a settlement. Thus far, I have detected no hostile lifeforms, but some are fairly alien in origin."
Sekai nods. "Alright Saito. Let's gear-up, just in case, and Lumine did you deploy the emergency beacon?"
"Yup. Emergency signal deployed, and the ship's auto-repair functions are already working on damage control to the shields and the engine. We're lucky there's a Federation Outpost in this sector, but it's far from this planet... I doubt no one in the Federation KNOWS this planet has human bioforms living."
"Something we'll make a report of once our distress signal is picked up and they send a ship to us."
The three teens head off, to apply emergency gear to their suits, before they access the ship's elevator to the top. Outside, the students, adults, and yes even the school's staff had crowded to see what the thing was. The top hatch unlocks, and spins open revealing a trail of energy riding from the opening, as a platform rose up, revealing the three teens.
Now, all three wore the same full-on body spandex (the humanoids wore black, Saito's was navy). Lumine wore white shorts with side metal clasps hugging her toned hips, and a zipped dark pink vest with white collar. She wore white gloves with gold anklets and bracelets, and metal-bracer shoes of a white and silver color. She also has a gold and silver ring around the base of her sweeping cat tail. For the boys, they wore pants instead, and Saito wore metal-armored gray boots. Sekai wore a green trench coat with gray under vest, with triangular armor pads on the shoulders, and is equipped with a silver and gray metal belt, forest green metal gauntlets and boots (eerily resembling Samus's armor boots). Saito wore a jacket-styled coat of blue and white colors, and gray gloves with gold bracelets. On his ears were white rounded guards, the left piece attached with a triangular antennae sticking out like a rabbit's ear.
As they leap acrobatically to the ground, each were equipped with emergency stun pistols (that double as plasma whips), with Saito having what looks like a long sword positioned on his back at an angle by unknown means, and with Sekai, he had an aged old green wood short staff clipped to his belt with the hardened gnarled root of wood on the top crafted after the head of the Chozo race. The gnarled root of wood was also grown around a raw crystal that doubled as eyes in the cut-outs.
"Saito, scan the surroundings."
Saito brought his hand to the antennae-equipped ear guard, and in a flash of materializing lights, formed a solid triangular-shaped half-face dark blue visor.
"It's an elf!" they heard one of the humans cry in... Was that an abject of horror?
"Well, well, well... I didn't believe it could happen, but it has. We're back in my home world, partner," spoke a cheer-filled male voice.
Saito stopped in mid-scan of a small dragon-like lizard creature (Flame), and gazed to the handle of his trademark weapon used in plenty of bounty hunts. The sword of magical creation (having been discovered as such by Sekai during a market skive three years ago, as an old blade ready to fall apart before being repaired and reinforced with new magicks of Sekai's bloodline) chuckles amusingly to itself.
"Wait, you know where we are specifically, Derf?"
"Yup. If my memory serves right, this is Halkeginia. The planet's name is... Arutei Maria... a portmanteau of the main countries of the central continent, when you divide and mix the names."
"... Did you just make that up?"
"Yup!" The sword, also known by his full name Derflinger, cheerfully states. "Besides, you can't really call this Earth, since the REAL planet has only one moon back in the Milky Way system."
"True, so why did they scream elf?" Saito questions the sentient weapon.
"That's because on this planet, the elves and humans are two separate species. Both are humanoids, yes, but through old histories concerning this planet's foundation, are at odds, and primarily the humans of this planet hate the elves for stealing some land of great prosperity or something equally important. I don't really know much, since I find needless hatred of one race to be incredibly stupid. And also, this planet speaks a form of Galactic Basic with French and Old Europe terms and accents, so switch to it."
"Elf! It's coming close!" the same voice shouted again, as Sekai walked close to Saito. Professor Colbert and Headmaster Osmond prepared defensive magic, but Sekai was faster, feeling the magic in the air. With a wave of his Chozo Staff, he nullified the magic in the general area. The mages felt whatever magic they tried to use suddenly vanish.
The glowing white eyes of the green short staff Sekai suddenly wielded slowly pulsated.
"Boy, I am so glad I draw on your bloodline magicks, Prince," Derf says with a sigh of relief.
"What's going on? I can't feel my spells produce," Colbert whispered, shocked.
"It's a simple nullifying field. Useful for innate origin of magical fields, such as this world seems to produce. It's also useful to knock out surveillance fields and tracking/monitoring equipment by enemy forces." Sekai sheathes the staff back at his waist in its leather holder, "Now, before anything else happens... we are from outer space and we crash-landed here on this planet after escaping a Space Pirate assault through a large lime green blue portal of magical energy. We thought we were going to die when said magical portal appeared and I took the gamble and drove right into it, allowing us to escape, but not without a last attack that crippled one of the engines on my gunship behind me and my two partners here."
Saito then speaks up, also changing to the planet's basic language; they would hear him speak with a strange accent to his words instead of gibberish like before.
"After I determined the planet was safe to go to, we made an emergency landing here. We tried to avoid anything important and human settlements, but Sekai's ship was damaged by the last missile that crippled the main engines. Apparently, my sword here, Derf, is from this planet..."
"True that. I do remember it like it was yesterday. I was as usual bugging the merchant in the Smith & Weapons Shop, and also preventing the old shrewd from scamming people with fake weapons and crafts made of easily-breakable alloys and alchemy-transmuted pyrite."
Derf would shake his head if he had one.
"Then he finally threw me out into the trash. I ended up stolen by bandits before being lost in some deep valley crevice in Germania. Next thing I knew, aliens from some third world planet grabbed me and took me off the planet with some other junk they stole or salvaged... man, I have been in that market shop for a long time until I met my partner here when they walked through those flaps on that sand moon."
Osmond held his hand up. "Stop... If what I heard was not horse radish..." Osmond wanted to say a swear word, but he couldn't, not in front of the students, "are you saying you came from the stars themselves?"
"In a way, yes... I'm Sekai Jiraiya, from Planet Jiraiya. This is my girlfriend Lumine Starr, from Planet Thuban 9. And this is Saito Hiraga from Planet Big Blue. We're aliens in a sense, although technically we're termed as humanoids, while Saito's a full human of Japanese nationality. Lumine's considered a classic catgirl, while I'm the last of my species and of royalty. Saito however comes from a military family, though he's a bounty hunter like we."
"Yeah... and people like to chatter about us from time to time... the catgirl, the elvin prince, and a human from a military-raised family who wields a magical spirit blade of power." Saito dismissed his visor, revealing his whole face to the shocked and stunned masses once again.
"I... see," Osmond muttered. While some would like to believe one day the stars could be reached, he never knew it already happened, and that life existed beyond their world. Yes, it can be much of a cultural shock.
"Hold on," Colbert spoke up, "your story... if it's believable... you said a portal of magic appeared in front of you people and you decide to jump through?"
"Yeah," Sekai replies with a shrug of his shoulders.
"They were too busy, but I did heard the chant of a girl's voice," spoke Derflinger, "I didn't bring it up until now because Sekai, Saito, and Lumine were too busy trying to stay alive from an amassed Space Pirate force seeking to kill us brutally. The chant was about seeking her heart's passion or something, and seeking the familiar..."
The group of mages all turns eyes to the girl with pink hair. Louise blinks.
"Yeah... the portal that appeared when I was ready to risk a hyper space warp, even though the core drive was damaged in the attack, was a godsend. As my species are capable of detecting all types of magical energy in the universe, I was however varying of such an anomaly and the risks it held in case the situation turned worse. I was going to explore such circumstances that luckily allowed us to escape to safety."
Louise felt the eyes of the three people, one an elf, looking at her. "I... I was trying the Spring Summoning Ritual to summon my familiar... I thought I had failed four times..."
"Well... I did catch a sample of the magical field before attempting the jump."
He lifts his left gauntlet up before accessing his grid, and types away on it. Another light window emerges in a flash, and data scrolls in unintelligible patterns and in a language no one on Halkeginia will ever understand for centuries to come. It makes a green light beep and Sekai gazes intently on Louise now.
"Yup. The signal matches you. You're the one who generated that magic portal. So, in a way, I have to thank you for saving our asses from certain death." He politely bows by the waist, left arm tucked regally across his chest. The girl with the cat ears and tail smiles, and waves in thanks, while the boy with the talking sword just gives a lazy wave with a warm handsome-looking smile...
For some reason, Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière felt as if life as she knew it was forever changed.
She had no idea what kind of Pandora's Box she had just opened on Halkeginia...
And there you have it. I'm going to expand more on this on a later date. I just had to get this all written down before the idea would get lost on me and then die in the shadows of my brain. In all honesty, I'm probably the first who thought to use Metroid as a cross. I've seen Fallout, Mass Effect, and Halo used, but never Metroid. So, if no one is going to try this type, I will. Hopefully, now that I have, I want to see others who enjoy Familiar of Zero to try their own hand at this type of crossover.
Maybe Ridley being summoned by Louise at the brink of being killed (again) by Samus (yet again)...
Well, if you want to, review and tell me what you thought of this. EDITED for some character location changes/renames.