Author's note: My first fanfiction, hooray! I got this really cool idea for an OC in Metroid named Antlia, but basically the story takes place a year after Corruption. This is my first fic, and my writing skills aren't so great, so constructive criticism and reviews are greatly appreciated! :D
I only own Antlia.
Metroid belongs to Nintendo.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Antlia woke up to the sound of her ship's computer's set alarm, informing her that she would be docking at the Federation Base on Norion in a little less than an hour. She sat up and stretched, and donned her skin-tight white body suit. she then made her way over to the mirror in her ship's one-room housing, and combed her medium length brown hair, proceeding then to put it into a ponytail. She frowned at the several small, yet only slightly noticeable, brilliant blue streaks in her hair. They never really bothered her before, but more and more seemed to be popping up every few weeks or so, and she wondered where they might be coming from.
She was jostled from her thoughts by her computer's loud, yet monotone female voice; "Antlia, we will be docking on Norion in less than 10 minutes. Prepare yourself for landing." Antlia sighed, "Yeah, yeah" and sat down in her pilot's chair before grumbling "Call me Lia..." hating the sound of her own first name.
Antlia Dius was her full name, but her friends would have called her Lia.... had she had any. She'd been drifting alone in space for around three years since she received her bounty hunting license, she was given her own ship, but had been yet to be given a mission. For 3 whole years she had none to talk to but her ship's computer, who wasn't much of a talker, not that she liked it's voice anyways.
She had always been kind of a loner, not knowing where she had come from (or who she was really.) She had crash-landed in an escape pod on the planet Elysia twenty years ago as an infant. She didn't have much company except for the small docile machines built by the Chozo on that planet, and their data banks told her all about the Chozo, where they had gone, and what had become of them. She also learned that not all of the mechanical creatures of Elysia were docile, and there were some that were hostile, forcing her to fend for herself against them. Being only a young child, her first instinct was to run and hide.
Ten years after she came to the planet, when she was twelve years old, she stumbled upon the Federation Base that had been stationed there, however small it was, and they took her in...
"Landing in less than one minute."
Antlia was shaken from her thoughts once again. "Shit" she muttered to herself. Her ship came to a screeching halt on the landing dock, and the top of her ship opened, thrusting her from the inside.
"Greetings Antlia Dius," a federation trooper said as she exited her ship, "Admiral Dane is waiting for you in the briefing room, along with four other hunters." Antlia considered this, then walked away from him silently and began heading towards the briefing room. "Oh, and Antlia," she stopped short at the sound of her own name, "good luck on your first mission."
She turned and gave him a weak smile before proceeding forward.
She was going to need it.