Chapter: "Chozodia"
The stomach of Mother Brain's body split open, revealing a giant life-support
machine, also torn through by the slash that had connected from Adam's saber.
Samus was quite shocked that Adam stood in the way of her Brain-Power attack,
and still had the strength to attack Mother Brain the way he did.
They both watched as the giant robot supporting the brain fell to the ground.
The eyes of the mask on Mother Brain's face glow with multiple colors as
it repeats,
(WHat-DO-YOU-FigHT-FOR-What-DO-YOU-FIGHT-Fo-WHAT-do-YOu-FIGHT-WHAT-DO-You-
IGHt-WHAT-DO-YOu-WHAt-dO-what) The eyes then fade to black as the machinery
stops running altogether. Mother Brain was dying now, unable to use her
tremendous psychic powers because she had to focus her will on survival.
The Gammans were now disorganized and uncoordinated without their main mind.
Samus let out a sigh of relief, moments before Adam just collapsed like
Mother Brain. Samus looks over at Adam, startled at what happened.
"A-Adam?!" Samus gets up and dashes over to his prone figure.
"Lady...I exhausted myself. I cannot leave this spot just yet; I am
undergoing self-repairs. Mother Brain did massive internal damage and is
forcing me to replace my biological components. Circumstances this dire
only come around when doing something this risky. I'm sorry, Lady, but...
Adam...was not entirely human after he recieved his prosthesis. The
technology that was used was far too advanced for proper implementation. As
such, the left hemisphere of his brain was being replaced by a positronic
one, by the same nanomachines that made his prosthesis possible. I still say
that I am sorry. He will be almost totally machine after this." Samus shook
her head.
"How much of him was damaged?"
"All major systems of bodily function. Only the parts of his brain that were
not replaced are undamaged. This sacrifice is too grave. Humans are so...
incomprehensible. I too, am part of Adam Malkovich, possibly a second mind,
but I am unclear as to why." Samus stood up. She looked around. The place,
didn't Mother Brain say that it was going to explode?
"Two brains. A robotic one and a human one. You must be a self-building AI
unit."
"......Yes. I am a self-building AI program. At this time, while the
nanomachinery are carrying out the commands given, I am taking necessary
precautions in case my capacity to self-build is shut off or removed. I am
taking all data from Adam's mind: past, present, and future...and putting
it into my programming. There is an interesting scheme to his mind. There
always was. It is an equation of military logic that surpasses any machine
performance to date." Adam paused and looked up at Samus. "Why can a human
do that? Why do humans prove superior to machines in the end?"
"Well...I don't know that. Maybe..." As sudden as Mother Brain's defeat,
a blast of red thunder strikes Adam's body and disintegrates half of it.
Samus turns around and looks at something she didn't expect. Ridley again.
This time, he was a machine. Covered in metal plates of some silver-like
metal, and its red eyes glowed like Ridley's yellow ones. Its voice sounded
like Ridley's but with Mother Brain's mechanical noise.
"Y-O-U. FOLLOW ME. WE WILL END EVERYTHING HERE ON ZEBES. YOU WILL END.
YOU DEFEATED MY CREATOR, YOU KILLED HIM. I WILL PROVE YOUR STUPID FRIEND
WRONG." Samus looks at the robot Ridley, enraged.
"He's not stupid!" The robot cocks its head to the side.
"OH? THEN WHY DID HE GET IN MOTHER BRAIN'S WAY? DO YOU NOT SEE HER
RECOVERING?" Samus looked around for a moment. Mother Brain was nowhere in
sight, not even above them. "I THOUGHT SO. YOU DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO KILL
HER. YOU ARE PATHETIC, BUT...YOU DID ALLAY THE SELF-DESTRUCT BY NOT DOING
SO. WHICH MEANS...WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO DO BATTLE. BUT, IN THE MEANTIME,
I HAVE OUR SHIP READY TO LEAVE, IF SHE DARES TO TRIGGER THE DETONATION. I
AM CAUTIOUS, UNLIKE ALL OF YOU RECKLESS FOOLS. COME TO THE SHIP. I WILL
BE WAITING." Samus watched as the robot flew away. She had to get back to
Crateria in order to reach the surface. She looks over at Adam.
"I will be fine. The nanomachines build and rebuild each other; the body
is composed of them. Self-repairs are almost complete."
"Yeah, well...when you finish, get to my ship and get ready to pick me up."
Adam looks at Samus.
"Is that an order, Lady?" Samus smiles behind the visor.
"Yeah. See you in space." With that, Samus dashed off to the long corridor
back up to Crateria.
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She had been in for the longest upward climb that she knew. After getting
out of Tourian, she had to mind the weaving heights of the structure that
the Gammans called Chozodia. It was supposed to be a temporary evacuation
colony in case the Chozo were attacked from space. It was the first thing
that Mother Brain had seized in her surprise attack from underground. Samus
knew of the place well, she heard about it several times in the history of
the attack on Zebes. The place felt so labrinthine to her, and really was
huge. Most of the Zebesian Chozos could have lived here until reaching the
Federation. She reached a door and scanned it for any presences. Behind it
was definitely a high-power machine. She opened the door and entered.
The robot was standing on a platform surrounded by an acid that wouldn't
corrode the platform. Apparently, this was a Torizo arena. It glared at
Samus and grinned as best as a robot could.
"SO YOU DID COME. GOOD. WE WOULD DISGRACE YOU IF YOU DID NOT. MOTHER BRAIN
WOULD HAVE TOLD ALL ABOUT YOUR...FAILURE TO ELIMINATE ALL OF US GAMMANS."
Samus held up the cannon of her Power Suit at the robot.
"This is it, then. They will all stay silent if just you are defeated."
The robot nods.
"LET'S ADD A TWIST TO THIS BATTLE. DO NOT USE YOUR POWER SUIT." Samus looks
at the robot in shock for a moment.
'Why do humans prove superior to machines in the end?' Samus remembered what
Adam said just before this robot look-alike of Ridley rudely introduced
itself. She knew what its motivation was now. It wanted to make sure that
either she was superior to machines, or that it was superior to her. But
how was she going to be able to fight without anything to use for a weapon?
Pratically everything that was a weapon was also a machine.
"What are the other conditions?" The robot looks downward at the acid as
Samus' Power Suit opens and she steps out of it.
"WHO FALLS INTO THAT, OR WHOEVER IS KILLED FIRST...LOSES. WE START NOW!"
The robot charges forward at Samus, exhaling fire while running. Samus
jumps to the side and watches the robot's tail. This one was not covered in
poisonous spines. She had an advantage there, but it was still going to be
difficult to do, seeing as how whatever it would swing into very well could
be demolished. She jumps up toward the robot's head and grabs it by the neck.
It turns its head to look at her with the right eye. Taking a chance and
a gamble, she punches the eye, causing the cover to shatter. She grabs the
ocular registry equipment and pulls on it. The robot squeals and screeches,
trying to fling her off, but only loosening its parts that she has a hold on
worse. It finally manages to throw her, but the whole ocular registry part
(both of its eyes, in other words), gets ripped out, blinding it.
Samus looks at her hand, cut and scratched in several places, and bleeding
moderately. One of those few moments in which she wishes she could use her
Power Suit. Wait...it was blind now. It wouldn't be able to know, would it?
"HOW DARE YOU INSULT META-RIDLEY LIKE THIS!! YOU MINDLESS HUMAN!!!"
The robot wildly swings its tail with full force, hoping to all Hell that it
hits Samus and cleaves her in half. She ducks most of the swings, having to
jump a couple of them, and then leaps in front of Meta-Ridley. She grabs it
by the underside, near its tail, and heaves upward. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
Meta-Ridley seemed too heavy to lift, but she managed on the fourth time to
get the momentum in her motion to hoist the robot off the ground a few inches
and throw it towards the acid before it even came close to grabbing her. It
landed a few feet from the edge, and skidded right next to the edge.
Meta-Ridley temporarily forgot that it could not see anymore, and then noticed
on its display that its tail was being damaged severely. It didn't feel like
it was being ripped off, though.
It was burning. Its tail was dipped inside of the acid pool, and Meta-Ridley
screeched in rage and panic. It had lost and had no idea that it was even
that close to the acid until it was too late. It pulled itself out of the
acid and then...
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Ridley woke up with a start. He had barely managed to activate Meta-Ridley,
and then passed out. Did he blank out, so tired from that battle against
Samus? Or was he so badly harmed that he died of his exhaustion. He looks
around, still inside the chamber that he fought Samus in. Ridley sighed in
relief. She only fought him until he was down for the count. He was still
alive. He began to laugh again.
"Dammit, she must have got some new improvments while here. Oh well, so she's
got more power than me now...so what. I've still got brains." (ANd we IS
StiLL LIVINNg.) "Uh. I didn't think she'd reach you that quickly, Mother
Brain." (shE IS MMorE POWERFUL THAN You THINK. I am ONLY RECOVERING FROMM
OUR BATTLE, AND INSIDE THE DEEP TOURIAN.) "So you had to be taken near the
core...well, at least Samus won't find you, even if your powers are a lot
more grounded for now." (groUNDED?! WHAT DOES YOU MMEAN!? I CAN rEACH YOUR
MIND...A...N...D...I WILL MAKE THE OLD BASE...EXPLODE!!!) Klaxons blared all
over the planet. Mother Brain triggered the detonator, and Ridley had almost
no time to escape. He flew out of Norfair as fast as he could. He had to
reach Chozodia or he'd go with the original base. It was not time for him
to die yet. He willed it so badly that he not die yet.
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Even though Meta-Ridley acknowledged its loss, it was still far to furious
to go down without being destroyed. Samus had proven Adam's point, and now
it was time to destroy the berzerk robot before it does the same to Chozodia.
She quickly donned her Power Suit and began firing Super Missile after
Super Missile at Meta-Ridley. Most of them only dented its plating from the
explosion impacts, and it just roared at her, exhaling fire. It couldn't use
its tail anymore, that had flung off of it after one last giant swing that
missed.
'If my Super Missiles barely even hurt this thing, then what good would my
regular Missiles do?! And beams only glance off of this robot!' She switched
to her regular Missiles and began firing them as fast as she could. She
noticed Meta-Ridley being pushed back by the explosions, back toward the acid
pool that surrounded them. Even if it didn't hurt Meta-Ridley, she still had
a plan. The acid had badly corroded its tail, so what if she got Meta-Ridley
to fall in?
Its feet were at the edge of the platform when it leapt into the air and
just hovered there. She had only one Super Missile left.
"DO OR DIE, ROBOT!" Samus launched the last round she had at Meta-Ridley,
and it turned around to dodge, but too late, and fell into the acid, unable
to continue flying. The pool that surrounded them was deep, and Meta-Ridley
couldn't pull itself out. It continued to sink into the acid, further down,
wasting away into a metal skeleton that soon began to crumble also.
(So...IT IS OVERr. YOOU Have-DefAETED US ALL...FATE WORKS AGAINST US.
MMAyBE WE WaS NOT MEANT TO HAVVE MeTROIDS...THE TERRIBLE DEFENSE OF THE CHOZO,
IT COST ThEM EVrEYTHING.) Samus looked around. "Where are you, Mother
Brain?!" (I am HIDiNG. YOU ARE the fIRSt THAt I FEAR.) "What did you mean,
that the Metroids cost the Chozo everything?!" (THEY EVOLVED. THEY BECAME
INVINCIBLE. THEY KILLED THE CHOZO...We DiD notHING TO THEmm.) Samus' heart
sank. The Chozo weren't being obliterated by the Gammans? What was Gul'Gen
hiding from her?
The stomach of Mother Brain's body split open, revealing a giant life-support
machine, also torn through by the slash that had connected from Adam's saber.
Samus was quite shocked that Adam stood in the way of her Brain-Power attack,
and still had the strength to attack Mother Brain the way he did.
They both watched as the giant robot supporting the brain fell to the ground.
The eyes of the mask on Mother Brain's face glow with multiple colors as
it repeats,
(WHat-DO-YOU-FigHT-FOR-What-DO-YOU-FIGHT-Fo-WHAT-do-YOu-FIGHT-WHAT-DO-You-
IGHt-WHAT-DO-YOu-WHAt-dO-what) The eyes then fade to black as the machinery
stops running altogether. Mother Brain was dying now, unable to use her
tremendous psychic powers because she had to focus her will on survival.
The Gammans were now disorganized and uncoordinated without their main mind.
Samus let out a sigh of relief, moments before Adam just collapsed like
Mother Brain. Samus looks over at Adam, startled at what happened.
"A-Adam?!" Samus gets up and dashes over to his prone figure.
"Lady...I exhausted myself. I cannot leave this spot just yet; I am
undergoing self-repairs. Mother Brain did massive internal damage and is
forcing me to replace my biological components. Circumstances this dire
only come around when doing something this risky. I'm sorry, Lady, but...
Adam...was not entirely human after he recieved his prosthesis. The
technology that was used was far too advanced for proper implementation. As
such, the left hemisphere of his brain was being replaced by a positronic
one, by the same nanomachines that made his prosthesis possible. I still say
that I am sorry. He will be almost totally machine after this." Samus shook
her head.
"How much of him was damaged?"
"All major systems of bodily function. Only the parts of his brain that were
not replaced are undamaged. This sacrifice is too grave. Humans are so...
incomprehensible. I too, am part of Adam Malkovich, possibly a second mind,
but I am unclear as to why." Samus stood up. She looked around. The place,
didn't Mother Brain say that it was going to explode?
"Two brains. A robotic one and a human one. You must be a self-building AI
unit."
"......Yes. I am a self-building AI program. At this time, while the
nanomachinery are carrying out the commands given, I am taking necessary
precautions in case my capacity to self-build is shut off or removed. I am
taking all data from Adam's mind: past, present, and future...and putting
it into my programming. There is an interesting scheme to his mind. There
always was. It is an equation of military logic that surpasses any machine
performance to date." Adam paused and looked up at Samus. "Why can a human
do that? Why do humans prove superior to machines in the end?"
"Well...I don't know that. Maybe..." As sudden as Mother Brain's defeat,
a blast of red thunder strikes Adam's body and disintegrates half of it.
Samus turns around and looks at something she didn't expect. Ridley again.
This time, he was a machine. Covered in metal plates of some silver-like
metal, and its red eyes glowed like Ridley's yellow ones. Its voice sounded
like Ridley's but with Mother Brain's mechanical noise.
"Y-O-U. FOLLOW ME. WE WILL END EVERYTHING HERE ON ZEBES. YOU WILL END.
YOU DEFEATED MY CREATOR, YOU KILLED HIM. I WILL PROVE YOUR STUPID FRIEND
WRONG." Samus looks at the robot Ridley, enraged.
"He's not stupid!" The robot cocks its head to the side.
"OH? THEN WHY DID HE GET IN MOTHER BRAIN'S WAY? DO YOU NOT SEE HER
RECOVERING?" Samus looked around for a moment. Mother Brain was nowhere in
sight, not even above them. "I THOUGHT SO. YOU DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO KILL
HER. YOU ARE PATHETIC, BUT...YOU DID ALLAY THE SELF-DESTRUCT BY NOT DOING
SO. WHICH MEANS...WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO DO BATTLE. BUT, IN THE MEANTIME,
I HAVE OUR SHIP READY TO LEAVE, IF SHE DARES TO TRIGGER THE DETONATION. I
AM CAUTIOUS, UNLIKE ALL OF YOU RECKLESS FOOLS. COME TO THE SHIP. I WILL
BE WAITING." Samus watched as the robot flew away. She had to get back to
Crateria in order to reach the surface. She looks over at Adam.
"I will be fine. The nanomachines build and rebuild each other; the body
is composed of them. Self-repairs are almost complete."
"Yeah, well...when you finish, get to my ship and get ready to pick me up."
Adam looks at Samus.
"Is that an order, Lady?" Samus smiles behind the visor.
"Yeah. See you in space." With that, Samus dashed off to the long corridor
back up to Crateria.
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She had been in for the longest upward climb that she knew. After getting
out of Tourian, she had to mind the weaving heights of the structure that
the Gammans called Chozodia. It was supposed to be a temporary evacuation
colony in case the Chozo were attacked from space. It was the first thing
that Mother Brain had seized in her surprise attack from underground. Samus
knew of the place well, she heard about it several times in the history of
the attack on Zebes. The place felt so labrinthine to her, and really was
huge. Most of the Zebesian Chozos could have lived here until reaching the
Federation. She reached a door and scanned it for any presences. Behind it
was definitely a high-power machine. She opened the door and entered.
The robot was standing on a platform surrounded by an acid that wouldn't
corrode the platform. Apparently, this was a Torizo arena. It glared at
Samus and grinned as best as a robot could.
"SO YOU DID COME. GOOD. WE WOULD DISGRACE YOU IF YOU DID NOT. MOTHER BRAIN
WOULD HAVE TOLD ALL ABOUT YOUR...FAILURE TO ELIMINATE ALL OF US GAMMANS."
Samus held up the cannon of her Power Suit at the robot.
"This is it, then. They will all stay silent if just you are defeated."
The robot nods.
"LET'S ADD A TWIST TO THIS BATTLE. DO NOT USE YOUR POWER SUIT." Samus looks
at the robot in shock for a moment.
'Why do humans prove superior to machines in the end?' Samus remembered what
Adam said just before this robot look-alike of Ridley rudely introduced
itself. She knew what its motivation was now. It wanted to make sure that
either she was superior to machines, or that it was superior to her. But
how was she going to be able to fight without anything to use for a weapon?
Pratically everything that was a weapon was also a machine.
"What are the other conditions?" The robot looks downward at the acid as
Samus' Power Suit opens and she steps out of it.
"WHO FALLS INTO THAT, OR WHOEVER IS KILLED FIRST...LOSES. WE START NOW!"
The robot charges forward at Samus, exhaling fire while running. Samus
jumps to the side and watches the robot's tail. This one was not covered in
poisonous spines. She had an advantage there, but it was still going to be
difficult to do, seeing as how whatever it would swing into very well could
be demolished. She jumps up toward the robot's head and grabs it by the neck.
It turns its head to look at her with the right eye. Taking a chance and
a gamble, she punches the eye, causing the cover to shatter. She grabs the
ocular registry equipment and pulls on it. The robot squeals and screeches,
trying to fling her off, but only loosening its parts that she has a hold on
worse. It finally manages to throw her, but the whole ocular registry part
(both of its eyes, in other words), gets ripped out, blinding it.
Samus looks at her hand, cut and scratched in several places, and bleeding
moderately. One of those few moments in which she wishes she could use her
Power Suit. Wait...it was blind now. It wouldn't be able to know, would it?
"HOW DARE YOU INSULT META-RIDLEY LIKE THIS!! YOU MINDLESS HUMAN!!!"
The robot wildly swings its tail with full force, hoping to all Hell that it
hits Samus and cleaves her in half. She ducks most of the swings, having to
jump a couple of them, and then leaps in front of Meta-Ridley. She grabs it
by the underside, near its tail, and heaves upward. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
Meta-Ridley seemed too heavy to lift, but she managed on the fourth time to
get the momentum in her motion to hoist the robot off the ground a few inches
and throw it towards the acid before it even came close to grabbing her. It
landed a few feet from the edge, and skidded right next to the edge.
Meta-Ridley temporarily forgot that it could not see anymore, and then noticed
on its display that its tail was being damaged severely. It didn't feel like
it was being ripped off, though.
It was burning. Its tail was dipped inside of the acid pool, and Meta-Ridley
screeched in rage and panic. It had lost and had no idea that it was even
that close to the acid until it was too late. It pulled itself out of the
acid and then...
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Ridley woke up with a start. He had barely managed to activate Meta-Ridley,
and then passed out. Did he blank out, so tired from that battle against
Samus? Or was he so badly harmed that he died of his exhaustion. He looks
around, still inside the chamber that he fought Samus in. Ridley sighed in
relief. She only fought him until he was down for the count. He was still
alive. He began to laugh again.
"Dammit, she must have got some new improvments while here. Oh well, so she's
got more power than me now...so what. I've still got brains." (ANd we IS
StiLL LIVINNg.) "Uh. I didn't think she'd reach you that quickly, Mother
Brain." (shE IS MMorE POWERFUL THAN You THINK. I am ONLY RECOVERING FROMM
OUR BATTLE, AND INSIDE THE DEEP TOURIAN.) "So you had to be taken near the
core...well, at least Samus won't find you, even if your powers are a lot
more grounded for now." (groUNDED?! WHAT DOES YOU MMEAN!? I CAN rEACH YOUR
MIND...A...N...D...I WILL MAKE THE OLD BASE...EXPLODE!!!) Klaxons blared all
over the planet. Mother Brain triggered the detonator, and Ridley had almost
no time to escape. He flew out of Norfair as fast as he could. He had to
reach Chozodia or he'd go with the original base. It was not time for him
to die yet. He willed it so badly that he not die yet.
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Even though Meta-Ridley acknowledged its loss, it was still far to furious
to go down without being destroyed. Samus had proven Adam's point, and now
it was time to destroy the berzerk robot before it does the same to Chozodia.
She quickly donned her Power Suit and began firing Super Missile after
Super Missile at Meta-Ridley. Most of them only dented its plating from the
explosion impacts, and it just roared at her, exhaling fire. It couldn't use
its tail anymore, that had flung off of it after one last giant swing that
missed.
'If my Super Missiles barely even hurt this thing, then what good would my
regular Missiles do?! And beams only glance off of this robot!' She switched
to her regular Missiles and began firing them as fast as she could. She
noticed Meta-Ridley being pushed back by the explosions, back toward the acid
pool that surrounded them. Even if it didn't hurt Meta-Ridley, she still had
a plan. The acid had badly corroded its tail, so what if she got Meta-Ridley
to fall in?
Its feet were at the edge of the platform when it leapt into the air and
just hovered there. She had only one Super Missile left.
"DO OR DIE, ROBOT!" Samus launched the last round she had at Meta-Ridley,
and it turned around to dodge, but too late, and fell into the acid, unable
to continue flying. The pool that surrounded them was deep, and Meta-Ridley
couldn't pull itself out. It continued to sink into the acid, further down,
wasting away into a metal skeleton that soon began to crumble also.
(So...IT IS OVERr. YOOU Have-DefAETED US ALL...FATE WORKS AGAINST US.
MMAyBE WE WaS NOT MEANT TO HAVVE MeTROIDS...THE TERRIBLE DEFENSE OF THE CHOZO,
IT COST ThEM EVrEYTHING.) Samus looked around. "Where are you, Mother
Brain?!" (I am HIDiNG. YOU ARE the fIRSt THAt I FEAR.) "What did you mean,
that the Metroids cost the Chozo everything?!" (THEY EVOLVED. THEY BECAME
INVINCIBLE. THEY KILLED THE CHOZO...We DiD notHING TO THEmm.) Samus' heart
sank. The Chozo weren't being obliterated by the Gammans? What was Gul'Gen
hiding from her?