This is gonna be a little different for the fans of Metroid games. I rewrote the ending to Metroid Prime 2 to fit my story. So read on.

Prologue

The Ing had won.

They stormed the three temples in vast numbers, killing all those who inhabited them. They recaptured the energies andretuned themto their unholy replications on Dark Aether. The Luminoths savior had failed.

Her struggle against the Horde had been a noble one. The final battle, the hardest. Not even Metroid Prime could have been a worthier adversary. There stood before her the Emporer Ing, frozen by a charged Dark Beam shot, a defeated look in its eye, awaiting the final missle that would end it's wretched life and save Aether. Nothing seemed to be able to turn the battle in its favor. It was doomed.

And the Luminoths' savior had failed.

It truly was U-Mos's fault. His body had been possessed by an Ing darkling all along, although his strong will and psycic capabilities had saved his mind. For years the darkling had pushed, hinted, slowly tried to gain control, but U-Mos was strong. His will to live had saved him. But, though it saved him, that same desire was his ultimate weakness. He couldn't bring himself to activate the self-termination circutry in his armor which, in turn, could have spared Aether.

Because of this, the wretched demon that inhabited his spirit was given time to find ways to weaken him. Finally, he broke. Years of mental assult, plus agonizing loneliness, had weakened his mental sheild enough for him to consider the Ings lies, which provided the darkling with the hole in the sheild it needed and it struck, closing the gap in the contol it had. U-Mos belonged to the Horde.

It was his one act of cowardice that had condemed Aether to its death. Its only hope now was the Hunter. The legendary bounty hunter known as Samus Aran. A beautiful young woman of twenty-one, already a legend among the Galactic Federation and public-enemy-number-one to the Space Pirates, unwittingly lured into a war by a distress all from a G.F. freighter.

The Emporer Ing knew of her arrival long before she was even born. U-Mos had made many predictions while possessed, but only one had caught the Emporers ear. It had intruiged it to no end, for the light energy inside U-Mos had negated the darklings power and it lost control. For one, breif moment, U-Mos, the true U-Mos, spoke. The prophecy, as it was before the Ing had contorted it to fit their histroy, went as follows:

"An orphanded child, infused with great blood, weilding a suit of powerful armor, will overcome all challenges set against her, will arrive on a world born of light and ravenged by darkness, an army of the holy defending and an army of the chaotic attacking, and save it from destruction."

At this point U-Mos Shone with a brilliant light and the darkling was cast from his body. He smiled as he continued the prophecy.

"This holy warrior, known only as Samus Aran, will defeat the evil lord of the Horde, then continue on to defeat all who oppose her."

The light grew dim, and U-Mos, too weak even to stand, looked into the Emporers eye, and muttered these final words. "Prepare to watch the extinction of your wicked race, you filthy son of a bitch."

And he collapsed, the darkling slowly retaking its control of him. The Emporer was outraged. Not only had its death just been prophesized, but the Chozo were to blame. The "great blood" could only have been Chozo in origin. They were the ones who had created the Ing. Slavery was their intention, and for many years that was how things were. But soon, civil unrest had spread through the Ing. The Emporer was the first to revolt. Many followedits example, and soon a great war erupted between the two. The Chozo had won, barely, and had casted the remaining Ing off in a giant black meteor.

And so, with the knowledge of his death as a guide, the Emporer created a wicked plan to destroy the child. One year after she was born it sent a huge army of possessed Space Pirates to her world and ordered them to destroy everything. A Chozo scout on the planet, there were many after the war, recognized that this wasn't a normal raid. The mindless stares, the way they slaughtered the people in their way to reach their destination, a single house in the clearing.

They blasted away the building, murdering Samus' parents in the process.Three of the Space Pirates lumbered forward, carrying between them a bomb the size of a holo-ball. There were three words printed on the side. World Devastater Bomb, one that had not been manufactured since the accidental destruction of the Pirates home planet. They set it down in the middle of the ruined building and activated it. Just then the Chozo scout appeared next to Samus's crib and grabbed her. He killed the three Pirates next to the bomb and kicked it into the mosh pit of Pirates and teleported to his ship.

As he flew away, the planet's atmosphere rippled once and theplanet exploded, sending chunks of molten rock throughout space.

And now, with this new defeat fresh in its mind, along with the realization that the prophecy was begining to unfold, the Emporer started creation on the Metroids. Evil, parasitic, merciless, these were the qualities the Ing most favored and, in turn, gave to them. They were perfected when Samus had turned seventeen. They were sent after her, only to be defeated by her.

This angered the Emporer to no end. His greatest creations, destroyed by a girl who had not even reached adulthood. And, as if the Fates themselves had planned it, Samus had captured one. A newborn, just hatched, that followed her around like a lost dog. She turned it in to the Galactic Federation and they were able to find many overlooked flaws. The Emporer was starting to lose faith in the Metroids until U-Mos told another prophecy. The girl would be heading to the Chozo homeworld of Tallon IV, in only a couple of years.

This gave the Emporer an idea. In a last ditch effort to have success with his creations, he created the Metroid Prime. Fueled by phazon, the cheif Ing import, and able to create Metroids out of phazon pools that it created itself. The beast was anything if not remarkable. It was sent to Tallon IV soon after its creation.

The story of Samus's plight on Tallon IV has already been told. In the end the Ings greatest creation had been destroyed. The Ings destruction now seemed inevitable. However, Prime's survivability was greatly underestimated. With Samus's DNA, it reformed into a dark look-alike of the Hunter.

And so, with backstory told, and most likely minds blown by the truth and not what the Galactic Federation put out as the truth, we return to Samus and the Emporer. The Ing were one missle away from destruction. Samus activated the missles, switched off the safety, and locked-on. She sensed something behind her. Before she had a chance to turn around, she was hit in the back of the head with something that had the equivelent of a ten-thousand volt charge. She fell forward and the missle fired into a far wall, a safety measure if the lock-on was lost. The last thing that she saw was U-Mos standing above her, a tazer-like weapon in his hand, a sad expression on his face, before she lost conciousness. The Emporer, assuming she was dead, threw her out of the Sky Temple and onto the grounds below, teleporting her into Aether as she went.

Little did the Ing know, only the suit took any damage. It came back online and brought her back to conciousness. Fortunatly the Fates smiled upon her, for her ship wasn't twenty feet ahead of her. She ran to it as fast as her injured body would carry her, climbed in, and took off.

Bet that was different than some people remember it. Anyway, R&R people.