Chapter 1: Reminiscence
It's been fifteen years since Samus defeated the Phazon Suit controlled by the Metroid Prime, otherwise known as Dark Samus. It had stolen that suit at her mission on Tallon IV after she'd defeated it. Samus settled down on a planet in a system that she had never heard of. It was the Solace system, code named HE-857. What had surprised her even more was the fact that this remote system had its own famous bounty hunters and had never even heard of Samus Aran. She made a point to get to know these bounty hunters and found that they only acted like bounty hunters when they were on a bounty; otherwise they were like normal people. The only one that she knew before she got there though was Sylux, and he died three years after she arrived.
She'd started a family and was living a happy life. After she got married she decided to give up bounty hunting and stored her things in a secret haven she constructed under their house. Her husband never even knew that she had been a bounty hunter and before she built the haven under their house she had kept every thing in a cavern in the nearby mountains. Her husband never knew a thing about what was going on because she only did construction on this project when he wasn't home. Once he'd almost caught her because she didn't put the droids away fast enough but just told him she was holding them for someone. She finished the haven after two years of hiding it and it then took her another year to get all of her things down there, but the biggest hassle was her ship.
One night she couldn't sleep and decided took go down to her haven to take a look at her things and see what she still remembered. She headed down there and just sat there starring for hours.
The first thing she remembered was her Fusion Suit. She remembered how she had to fight her own self because of one X-Parasite. After she saw that she couldn't bear to remember anything more because it reminded her of the Federation CO she'd fallen in love with and died so that she might live. She just sat there and listed the suits and upgrades on a sheet of paper: Power Suit, Varia Suit, Gravity Suit, Dark Suit, Light Suit, Phazon Suit, Fusion Suit, Fusion Varia Suit, Fusion Gravity Suit, Fusion Power Suit, PED Suit, Lasso Beam, Grapple Beam, Morph Ball, Spider Ball, Morph Ball Bomb, Power Bomb, Spring Ball, Boost Ball, High Jump Boots, Space Jump Boots, Screw Attack, Gravity Boost, Speed Booster, Missile, Super Missile, Ice Missile, Diffusion Missile, Seeker Missile, Power Beam, Long Beam, Charge Beam, Ice Beam, Wide Beam, Spazer Beam, Wave Beam, Plasma Beam, Dark Beam, Light Beam, Annihilator Beam, Omega Cannon, Phazon Beam, Nova Beam, Dark Visor, Scan Visor, Combat Visor, Thermal Visor, X-Ray Visor, Echoes Visor, Command Visor. Then she listed the few that she had come up with and made and wrote down the notes for them:
Phazon Visor-note: Detects any level of Phazon in surrounding environments.
Spectro Visor-note: Uses spectro-analysis to identify any and all known elements in the database.
Hack Visor-note: Hacks any computer controlled database, server, logbook, etc. and allows user to do as he/she wishes. Also hacks other suits and causes them to malfunction.
Zero Laser-note: Destroys anything and everything in its path (use only as last resort).
Light Bend-note: Causes suit to bend light around it and give the illusion of invisibility (works especially well in water).
Cryo Stasis-note: Allows user to go into cryogenic sleep for user specified amount of time.
She was finishing writing these down when she heard footsteps behind her. She whirled around to find her four-year-old daughter Sara standing there.
"Honey, don't sneak up on mommy like that. You nearly gave her a heart attack," she said in a quiet voice.
"Mommy," Sara said," what are you doing down here all by yourself?"
"Sara, I'll tell you why I'm down here if you tell me how you got down here, okay?" She said this as quietly as she could.
"I followed you mommy," she said excitedly. "I thought you might need some company so you wouldn't be lonely." She smiled widely and looked around curiously. "Mommy, what's this?" she asked pointing to a Power Bomb.
"Honey, don't touch that it's very dangerous." She said, almost starting to panic. I've got to get her out of here before she does something bad and gets hurt or killed, Samus thought to herself. Sara suddenly interrupted her thoughts.
"Mommy," she said smiling, "you never told me why you came down here." She was holding her stuffed animal close and rocking back and forth wanting an answer.
"I came down here because I couldn't sleep and thinking of memories helps me sleep at night honey." Samus said hoping it would be enough to satisfy the four-year-old girl's curiosity.
"Does daddy know about this place or is it your secret base?" Sara asked while finally running up to Samus. Samus bent down and picked her up. My daughter never ceases to amaze me with how smart she is, even at the age of four. No wonder her teachers have a hard time challenging her, Samus thought to herself.
"No, daddy doesn't know about this place," Samus said turning around and picking up her memory eraser. I knew I'd find a use for this eventually, but I never thought I'd have to use it on my own daughter. Hunters often used these to erase or reconfigure the memories of their clients so they could make more money. Samus had never needed it though because she worked for the Federation. Either that or she always took the toughest jobs and completed them. She was actually still living off the money of the first four missions she had completed for the Federation.
The first one had been when she went to her home planet, Zebes, and eliminated all of the Space Pirate's metroids and defeated their leader, Mother Brain. The second had been when she went to SR-388 and destroyed the entire metroid population on their home planet. The third was when she destroyed mother brain a second time because the first time she had apparently destroyed the decoy version of Mother Brain. The fourth had been the events at the B.S.L. research station and destroyed the last omega metroid and here worst enemy besides Dark Samus, the SA-X. The SA-X had been created after she had been infected by an X-parasite. They had sent her infected suit parts to the B.S.L. research station and from that rose the SA-X.
Thinking about the SA-X made her turn around and look at the cryo-tube that she kept the last X-parasite in. She had gone to check and make sure the X-parasites had been eliminated after her fourth mission. To her amazement she found the tenth SA-X floating in space unconscious. She'd turned it to its X-parasite form and put it into a cryo-tube freezing it solid, making sure that it could never do any harm again.
She looked at the memory eraser and then back at her daughter. "Honey," she said, " hold still for just a moment, okay?" Her daughter just looked at her and nodded her head yes. Samus set it for twenty minutes and placed it on the back of her daughter's head. She just watched her pass out and left the room. She took her upstairs and set her in her crib. She went back to her room, got in bed and fell asleep.