Samus Aran sighed heavily and thought to herself as she sat in her cockpit.
'It's gonna be one of those days…'
She slowly sat upright and looked over her console. Lights were flashing on and off, alarms were ringing loudly, and on her visual monitor, the Earth loomed ever larger. She knew her situation was grim, but she had gotten out of worse. Nothing worse sprang to mind as she sat and thought about it, but she knew there was something. She calmly reached over and began quickly tapping in her re-entry vectors, hoping by some miracle the VTOL systems weren't shot to hell and back, and then she proceeded to patch her com-line into the Smash Island main communication grid, and started sending her mayday signal, transmitting her bearing and projected coordinates.
"Mayday, mayday, this is Delta Vector Sigma dash one-one-niner, my main systems are failing, dynamics are shot, controls are all Vector Zero, I repeat, controls are all unresponsive. I will need assistance, possibly a full scale recovery team, I'm coming in hot. Current velocity estimated at mach 5 and slowing, but nowhere near fast enough to ensure survival. Repeat…"
She tapped the replay button on her com-linkup and listened as it replayed her message over and over, hoping against even hope itself that someone had heard her message. She leaned back and silently reflected on her latest misfortune versus Ridley, his Space Pirates, and all their diabolical schemes.
Ridley had a real Ace up his sleeve this time, a demon even Samus almost couldn't handle. He had done the impossible and resurrected his mother, Mother Brain, and his Brother, Kraid, and set up a trap so cunning it was almost too much for her. Mother Brain's superior intellect powered Ridley's defensive systems, While Kraid's monstrous minions served as cannon fodder, while the three generals prepared for the final battle. Mother Brain's past experience and vast knowledge had proven to be nearly too much for Samus, but she had beaten her way to her old foe once again. But upon launching an offensive against Mother Brain, Samus was then ambushed, according to plan, by the two brothers, while Mother Brain activated her last ditch defense systems, and the room almost literally flooded with space pirates. It was indeed a dire situation. Samus looked around at her many foes and almost was worried.
"Heh…almost."
Samus had discovered a new Suit adaptation on this miserable rock that gave her gun arm a Sword attachment, so Samus, much to the three overminds' dismay, hacked, slashed, and blasted her way through every minion they could muster, and in a fit of rage, killed Kraid in cold blood. Not an easy task considering he was 60 times her size, but with one fell swoosh of her sword blade, Samus dropped him like a hot rock. Ridley Nearly panicked, and in the confusion over Kraid's sudden death, Samus took a pot-shot at Ridley and successfully blew a decent sized chunk off of his side, a surprise even to her, as usually Ridley's natural defenses made it impossible to hurt anything but his head. Ridley flew off, the airborne version of limping, and left his mother alone, again, with Samus.
Mother Brain screed loudly in disgust and horror at her oldest's cowardice, but fixed her huge, gaping eyeball on the bounty hunter. In unusually intelligent form, it turned out that Mother Brain's new protective case was completely impervious to attack, even Samus's newfound Sword. But not to be deterred, Samus rolled up in a ball and laid a powerbomb at the base of Mother Brain's pedestal. A large chunk of it disintegrated, leaving Mother Brain's life-giving Brainstem in full view. Samus had a particularly good time making a huge, bloody mess of her nemesis's lower cerebrum, then walking right underneath her and unleashing a hellstorm of super missiles, leaving the Brain, once again, a messy pile of quivering goop. Samus beat a hasty retreat and made it off of ZHK1914 in good health.
But then, not far from her first Radio point with Galactic Confederation of Planets Main Access grid, Samus was ambushed and besieged by Ridley, and 4 Space Pirate Battle-Mantises. Samus, in her newer ship, fought them tooth and nail, even managing to destroy all 4 ships that were chasing, but Ridley's pursuit and his assault shared the same uncompromising fervor and zeal, and his relentlessness proved to be almost, again almost, too much for the time-and-battle-hardened Bounty Hunter. In fact, had Ridley not given up when he had, he would have located Earth, and Samus's base of operations. She thanked the gods of Chozodia for at least that small favor…
A loud alarm buzzer snapped Samus back to reality, notifying her that her trip back to Earth was fast nearing its end.
'Well, hell…' Samus thought, 'Fifteen minutes of drifting with no thrust power and I still haven't left Mach 5… and falling to Earth this fast won't end pretty…'
She sat back again, and a lot of rapid-fire thoughts shot through her consciousness, some more prominently than others. She reminisced about times good and bad she had shared with her friends down on Earth, in Smash Manor.
Friends. Huh. What a concept. Samus had been a loner for her whole life since childhood, having friends was a luxury, and one she had long ago thought a myth. But the Super Smash Brothers crew had accepted her as one of them, part of the big, happy, screwed up family they were, they had even gone so far as to elect her head of internal Security. She had made friends… allies… a couple of semi-enemies… and even a Lo-
CRASH
Samus sprang awake, blinking her eyes hard at the crushing darkness assaulting her, confused, but seemingly okay. Samus tried hard to sit up, as she was lying on her back now, but it was in vain, so she instead settled for lifting her arms, which she somehow also found oddly difficult. She tapped a few buttons slowly and ran a systems check, her suit's HUD blinked to life, but being the only ambient light source around, still didn't help her any. It told her the temperature was about 62 degrees outside her suit, atmospheric pressure was 1.2 Earth atmospheres, and the surrounding gaseous atmosphere was mostly oxygen and then small amounts of trace gases. She tapped her visor, confused as to why she couldn't see, then her HUD blipped to life, displaying her status, displaying her current status, life support readings and Weapons status. These confused Samus further, because it was reading she hit and survived with little injury or suit damage…
"What in the 8 gates of hell…"
Samus couldn't finish her thought, because suddenly a loud noise was heard, echoing as though the area she was in was cacophonous, and seemingly solid stone. Next a dull red glow filled the room giving Samus he first real look at the surroundings.
"Not exactly a friendly, cheery place… but at least there isn't a welcoming party like the last umpteen dark, and desolate places I have landed.
Samus stood, a feat itself considering how heavy her suit was and the fact she felt like she was trying to control her body by remote control. She looked all around the obviously cavernous room she was in, and a quick analysis told her it was a large domed room made from, as far as her sensors could tell, nothing but solid volcanic rock.
"Odd…" she said out loud to herself, "Volcanic stone…. But it is red, not black or grey… usually the high temperatures of magma burn out any iron impurities that would make it red…very odd."
Samus looked at her feet, expecting, for some reason to look down and see nothing, but instead saw her own two feet, armored as usual, standing on the stone floor, not knowing or caring why she expected anything else. She looked all around her for a way to get out of here and didn't immediately see anything but wall. She turned to her right and blinked, then suddenly a door was there, to her left now, as though she had been facing it the whole time. She turned and shut her eyes and shook her head, and opened them again, and found herself looking at a Large, wooden, French door, covered in the dust of many, MANY years of non-use, in fact the door looked as though it had never been touched at all. Seeing no other option, save sitting around and starving to death, Samus walked over to the door and opened it. Her suit bleeped and told her the ambient temp had just plummeted over 20 degrees, and it was, again, very dark inside. But Samus wasn't afraid, and went ahead and steeped inside, closing the door behind her.
FIN
Author's note:
Well! Wasn't THAT just special! Heh. Anyway, its official folks, I am back and there is nothing to be done about it. PG-13 rating for now, even though this chapter was VERY PG, but who knows, something might bite me and tell me to turn this story gruesome and have to rate it R. Who knows. Check ya later, people, all your base are belong to us, you have no chance to survive, make your time, wash behind your ears, eat your vegetables and always DO YOUR HOMEWORK! XP Laterz, I'm out.