Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story. They are the property of Nintendo.
This is my attempt at writing a Zelda/Metroid crossover. This chapter is Metroid only, but I'll the Zelda portion will be in the next chapter
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SAMUS
Something was wrong.
Samus knew it.
The ship was cruising along, but she had an odd feeling. She initiated the self-check system but all the ship's systems were in working order. Still, she couldn't shake the
sensation that something was wrong. She got out of her pilot's chair and stared out through the window at the stars beyond. How long had it been since she first met the Metroids?
How much blood has she spilled in her combats?
She sighed. The life of a bounty hunter was not always fun and games (except when she collected her bounty). Samus was rich. The governments
had been most pleased at her work in the Metroid crisis. they had rewarded her beyond her wildest dreams. But they had kept a lid on what had happened. Samus has not noticed the
fine print on the contract stating that should she destroy the alien treat, all records of her actions would be restricted and she was under oath to never tell a soul. Should she fail to
comply, she would be declared an outlaw, and the bounty placed on her head would be so large that it would send all bounty hunters from the galaxy after her.
She checked the panel again: there was nothing unusual going on. She noticed her radar showed several ships approaching from hyperspace. They were on an intercept
vector.
"Raise shields" Samus commanded. She was not expecting the ships to attack, but better to be safe.
The first ship dropped out of hyperspace. Samus' blood froze. It was a Space Pirate ship.
"Red alert! All weapons on line!" Samus ordered. She sat down and watched the rest of the ships drop out of hyperspace. They were in attack formation.
"How did they know I was here?" Samus wondered.
The ships were powering up shield and weapons. Samus noted that most of the ships were of a new kind she had never seen before. She scanned the ships and saw that most
of theme were equipped with rippers, illegal devices that allowed ships to access another ship's systems and gave them total control over them. This was not good. Fortunately, Samus
had been in battles with ripper-equipped ships before and her ship had a ripper scrambler on it. The catch was, she could only scramble one ripper at a time. Rippers took a while to
power up, and they took up most of the ship's energy seeing as hacking into the opposing ship's system took tremendous amounts of energy. Shields would be at the lowest setting
and weapons would be off-line. Once a ship was using a ripper, it was basically a sitting duck.
"And that's why they are sending a small fleet", concluded Samus.
She counted ten ships, but she knew that Space Pirates had cloaking devices that rendered ships invisible to radar. The ships were only three clicks away, close enough
for Samus to target them with a missile.
"Computer, target nearest ship" Samus ordered.
"Space Pirate fighter, 2.89 clicks, targeted" the computer replied.
"Arm concussion missiles" said Samus.
She heard the humming of the missile bay as a missile was readied for launch.
The targeted ship was now two clicks away. Samus could see the pilot.
Suddenly, an alarm blared: "WARNING! WARNING! SYSTEM BEING CORRUPTED! WARNING! WARNING!"
Samus quickly scanned the attacking ships; the targeted fighter was using its ripper on her ship.
"WARNING! WARNING!", the alarm blared "SHIELD SYSTEM CORRPTED. SHIELD FAILURE IMMINENT!"
The fighter had seized control of the ship's shield system. Samus watched as the shield indicators, which were bright green, started to become red as the shields lowered.
"Not today, buddy" said Samus as she initiated the ripper scrambler. Immediately, the shield powered back up. Samus could almost guess the look on the space pirate's face
as he realized he had lost control of the shields and that his ship was powerless.
"Fire missile!" Samus snapped.
The missile streaked from the bay and made a beeline for the pirate's ship. The pirate desperately tried to evade it, but as he was making a u-turn, the missile cut him off
and detonated itself, blowing the cockpit open and sucking the pirate into space.
"One down" muttered Samus.
Now, the pirates had seen that ripperes were useless, they were closing in on Samus' ship for an up-close attack. Samus flinched as laser fire started hitting her shields. She
targeted the nearest ship and locked on to its engines.
Space pirate ships have on major flaw: Their lack of rear shielding. The shields on their ship are very powerful on all sides but the back. Samus knew this and she set her ship
on a chase pattern, keeping behind the space pirate, trying to get a good shot off at his engines. Meanwhile, the other ships were hot on her tail, peppering her ship's rear with laser fire. Fortunately, they did not have missiles and their accuracy was not so good.
Samus finally got a shot at the fighter she was chasing and her shot connected with the engines of the ship, overheating them, and causing the ship to explode. She turned
her ship around on the spot and fired a missile blindly into the ships pursuing her. The missile detonated amidst the ships, blowing two up and causing sever damage to three others,
forcing them to retreat. Samus was now faced with three ships.
Suddenly, a giant ship appeared next to her ship and attached to its hull. Samus realized that the ship had snuck up to her, cloaked, and now they were going to board her
ship!
"Computer, seal off the airlock, the docking bay, and the bridge!" Samus ordered.
She watched on the monitor as the airlock was being cut through by diamond-tipped drills. She noticed that the three space pirates had fled.
"So, it was all a diversion." Samus thought.
Indeed, if she had not been so concentrated with the attacking ships, she may have picked up some kind of signature from the ship next to her. She ran to her Chozo suit
and rapidly put it on. She checked the blaster and missiles, she was full. As she put her helmet on, she saw that the airlock was breached. Now, the boarding party was trying to cut
through the blast doors that separated the airlock from the rest of the ship. One of the pirates looked up at the camera and shot it. The screen went blank.
"Damn! I'll have to try and stop them the hard way" Samus thought
She opened the blast doors sealing off the bridge and closed them behind her. She didn't want a space pirate to get into there! She walked through the hall leading to the
airlock, gun ready. She reached the airlock and found the blast doors cut through.
"Even with their drills, it would have taken them an hour to cut through these doors!" Samus exclaimed.
"Yes, but with me, it took minutes!" said a voice from behind her, a voice she knew all too well.
"So kind of you to join me, Ridley!" she said, spinning around and firing off a missile at the space pirate boss.
But Ridley was no longer himself, he was not Meta Ridley she had faced either. Ridley now looked like a huge diamond. The missile exploded on him, leaving no mark.
"Like it?" said Ridley "A diamond coating! Impenetrable! And check this out!"
He slashed at the floor with his claws, leaving huge gaps.
"Spare me the details, Ridley. What do you want?"
"Why, you! The one who defeated me."
"Dream on."
"When I'm done with you, Samus Aran, you will be dreaming, forever!"
Ridley charged at Samus, but she rolled aside, charging her gun. She back flipped as Ridley slashed at her and fired her shot into his open mouth. Ridley roared. He had
external protection, but this did not extend to his inner body. Samus blocked a swipe with her gun and kicked Ridley in the gut. The pain was tremendous. Even through the suit she
could feel it. Ridley took off from the ground and charged at Samus. She rolled under him and grabbed his tail, firing shot at his back. Ridley tried to reach Samus, but she was too far
back. Samus climbed onto Ridley's back and stuck her gun in his mouth.
"So now who's gonna dream forever Ridley?" she asked.
Ridley grabbed Samus and threw her on the ground. The shot Samus fired before he grabbed her hit Samus in the leg. She estimated the damage: several servomotors were
destroyed but she could still walk. She played dead and readied a missile. Ridley was cautious. He made several lunge at Samus but she did not move. Finally, Ridley flew over and was
about to stomp on her when she turned over and fried her missile into his mouth. Ridley was blow back by the explosion.
"You may have won this one, Samus, but you'll die now!"
Ridley flew through the airlock and back into his ship. Samus ran after him, but the door shut in her face. She closed the emergency lock so she wouldn't be sucked into
space. The battle had been too easy. She scanned the ship for any space pirates, the ship was empty. No bombs, no tracking device, this was so unlike Ridley. She rushed back to the
bridge where alarms were going off. A quick check showed her that her ship had been ripped while she was fighting and all her systems were under control, even the ripper scrambler.
"I'll get you for this, Ridley" she muttered.
Her ship started moving and she saw that Ridley's ship was alongside hers. She realized she was at Ridley's mercy. If the self-destruct was initiated, she couldn't launch an
escape pod, since those were also under control.
"And what shall I do with you now?" Ridley said.
Samus looked up. Ridley was on the monitor, gloating.
"I need to conceive a slow and painful death for you. I know. There is a neutron star nearby. I'll just launch you ship into it."
Samus felt the ship speeding up. Ahead was the star Ridley had talked about. Her ship sped towards it.
"Good-bye, Samus Aran!" Ridley cackled.
Samus desperately tried to override the ripped system but it was hopeless. The internal temperature of the ship increases as it neared the star. Suddenly, the gravitational
field grabbed the shop and broke it from Ridley's control. Samus flew into the wall as gravity pulled the ship closer in.
"If I could just get to the control panel, I could use the gravitational field to slingshot around the star and get out." Samus thought.
Samus went into her spider ball morph and attached herself to the wall. She rolled towards the panel and unmorphed. She grabbed the seat and tied herself in with the crash
webbing. The temperature was unbearable. Samus managed to redirect all power to the engines and shields. She steered the ship towards the edge of the star andfelt the ship speed up
as the pull got stronger. She needed to move more, but gravity was too strong.
"Computer, jettison all missiles" she ordered.
The intense heat caused the missiles to blow up. The force of the explosion pushed the ship over, sending it flyign around the side of the star. The gravity was so strong,
Samus passed out.
When she woke up, every alarm was balring and every warning light was on. She looked up and saw she had entered the atmosphere of a planet. Her ship was on a collision
course with a settelement. She fought to control her ship. She had to crash-land away from the settlement. Samus managed to steer the ship away from the settelment but as she
looked ahead, she saw a large structure. There was no way she could avoid it.
"No time to blow the ship. I'm too low" Samus thought.
She raced to the airlock and went into ball morph. She rolled out the airlock as her ship crashed into the structure.
To be continued...
Author's note: I know that this is supposed to be a Zelda/Metroid crossover but I had to mention how Samus gets into Hyrule.
This is my attempt at writing a Zelda/Metroid crossover. This chapter is Metroid only, but I'll the Zelda portion will be in the next chapter
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SAMUS
Something was wrong.
Samus knew it.
The ship was cruising along, but she had an odd feeling. She initiated the self-check system but all the ship's systems were in working order. Still, she couldn't shake the
sensation that something was wrong. She got out of her pilot's chair and stared out through the window at the stars beyond. How long had it been since she first met the Metroids?
How much blood has she spilled in her combats?
She sighed. The life of a bounty hunter was not always fun and games (except when she collected her bounty). Samus was rich. The governments
had been most pleased at her work in the Metroid crisis. they had rewarded her beyond her wildest dreams. But they had kept a lid on what had happened. Samus has not noticed the
fine print on the contract stating that should she destroy the alien treat, all records of her actions would be restricted and she was under oath to never tell a soul. Should she fail to
comply, she would be declared an outlaw, and the bounty placed on her head would be so large that it would send all bounty hunters from the galaxy after her.
She checked the panel again: there was nothing unusual going on. She noticed her radar showed several ships approaching from hyperspace. They were on an intercept
vector.
"Raise shields" Samus commanded. She was not expecting the ships to attack, but better to be safe.
The first ship dropped out of hyperspace. Samus' blood froze. It was a Space Pirate ship.
"Red alert! All weapons on line!" Samus ordered. She sat down and watched the rest of the ships drop out of hyperspace. They were in attack formation.
"How did they know I was here?" Samus wondered.
The ships were powering up shield and weapons. Samus noted that most of the ships were of a new kind she had never seen before. She scanned the ships and saw that most
of theme were equipped with rippers, illegal devices that allowed ships to access another ship's systems and gave them total control over them. This was not good. Fortunately, Samus
had been in battles with ripper-equipped ships before and her ship had a ripper scrambler on it. The catch was, she could only scramble one ripper at a time. Rippers took a while to
power up, and they took up most of the ship's energy seeing as hacking into the opposing ship's system took tremendous amounts of energy. Shields would be at the lowest setting
and weapons would be off-line. Once a ship was using a ripper, it was basically a sitting duck.
"And that's why they are sending a small fleet", concluded Samus.
She counted ten ships, but she knew that Space Pirates had cloaking devices that rendered ships invisible to radar. The ships were only three clicks away, close enough
for Samus to target them with a missile.
"Computer, target nearest ship" Samus ordered.
"Space Pirate fighter, 2.89 clicks, targeted" the computer replied.
"Arm concussion missiles" said Samus.
She heard the humming of the missile bay as a missile was readied for launch.
The targeted ship was now two clicks away. Samus could see the pilot.
Suddenly, an alarm blared: "WARNING! WARNING! SYSTEM BEING CORRUPTED! WARNING! WARNING!"
Samus quickly scanned the attacking ships; the targeted fighter was using its ripper on her ship.
"WARNING! WARNING!", the alarm blared "SHIELD SYSTEM CORRPTED. SHIELD FAILURE IMMINENT!"
The fighter had seized control of the ship's shield system. Samus watched as the shield indicators, which were bright green, started to become red as the shields lowered.
"Not today, buddy" said Samus as she initiated the ripper scrambler. Immediately, the shield powered back up. Samus could almost guess the look on the space pirate's face
as he realized he had lost control of the shields and that his ship was powerless.
"Fire missile!" Samus snapped.
The missile streaked from the bay and made a beeline for the pirate's ship. The pirate desperately tried to evade it, but as he was making a u-turn, the missile cut him off
and detonated itself, blowing the cockpit open and sucking the pirate into space.
"One down" muttered Samus.
Now, the pirates had seen that ripperes were useless, they were closing in on Samus' ship for an up-close attack. Samus flinched as laser fire started hitting her shields. She
targeted the nearest ship and locked on to its engines.
Space pirate ships have on major flaw: Their lack of rear shielding. The shields on their ship are very powerful on all sides but the back. Samus knew this and she set her ship
on a chase pattern, keeping behind the space pirate, trying to get a good shot off at his engines. Meanwhile, the other ships were hot on her tail, peppering her ship's rear with laser fire. Fortunately, they did not have missiles and their accuracy was not so good.
Samus finally got a shot at the fighter she was chasing and her shot connected with the engines of the ship, overheating them, and causing the ship to explode. She turned
her ship around on the spot and fired a missile blindly into the ships pursuing her. The missile detonated amidst the ships, blowing two up and causing sever damage to three others,
forcing them to retreat. Samus was now faced with three ships.
Suddenly, a giant ship appeared next to her ship and attached to its hull. Samus realized that the ship had snuck up to her, cloaked, and now they were going to board her
ship!
"Computer, seal off the airlock, the docking bay, and the bridge!" Samus ordered.
She watched on the monitor as the airlock was being cut through by diamond-tipped drills. She noticed that the three space pirates had fled.
"So, it was all a diversion." Samus thought.
Indeed, if she had not been so concentrated with the attacking ships, she may have picked up some kind of signature from the ship next to her. She ran to her Chozo suit
and rapidly put it on. She checked the blaster and missiles, she was full. As she put her helmet on, she saw that the airlock was breached. Now, the boarding party was trying to cut
through the blast doors that separated the airlock from the rest of the ship. One of the pirates looked up at the camera and shot it. The screen went blank.
"Damn! I'll have to try and stop them the hard way" Samus thought
She opened the blast doors sealing off the bridge and closed them behind her. She didn't want a space pirate to get into there! She walked through the hall leading to the
airlock, gun ready. She reached the airlock and found the blast doors cut through.
"Even with their drills, it would have taken them an hour to cut through these doors!" Samus exclaimed.
"Yes, but with me, it took minutes!" said a voice from behind her, a voice she knew all too well.
"So kind of you to join me, Ridley!" she said, spinning around and firing off a missile at the space pirate boss.
But Ridley was no longer himself, he was not Meta Ridley she had faced either. Ridley now looked like a huge diamond. The missile exploded on him, leaving no mark.
"Like it?" said Ridley "A diamond coating! Impenetrable! And check this out!"
He slashed at the floor with his claws, leaving huge gaps.
"Spare me the details, Ridley. What do you want?"
"Why, you! The one who defeated me."
"Dream on."
"When I'm done with you, Samus Aran, you will be dreaming, forever!"
Ridley charged at Samus, but she rolled aside, charging her gun. She back flipped as Ridley slashed at her and fired her shot into his open mouth. Ridley roared. He had
external protection, but this did not extend to his inner body. Samus blocked a swipe with her gun and kicked Ridley in the gut. The pain was tremendous. Even through the suit she
could feel it. Ridley took off from the ground and charged at Samus. She rolled under him and grabbed his tail, firing shot at his back. Ridley tried to reach Samus, but she was too far
back. Samus climbed onto Ridley's back and stuck her gun in his mouth.
"So now who's gonna dream forever Ridley?" she asked.
Ridley grabbed Samus and threw her on the ground. The shot Samus fired before he grabbed her hit Samus in the leg. She estimated the damage: several servomotors were
destroyed but she could still walk. She played dead and readied a missile. Ridley was cautious. He made several lunge at Samus but she did not move. Finally, Ridley flew over and was
about to stomp on her when she turned over and fried her missile into his mouth. Ridley was blow back by the explosion.
"You may have won this one, Samus, but you'll die now!"
Ridley flew through the airlock and back into his ship. Samus ran after him, but the door shut in her face. She closed the emergency lock so she wouldn't be sucked into
space. The battle had been too easy. She scanned the ship for any space pirates, the ship was empty. No bombs, no tracking device, this was so unlike Ridley. She rushed back to the
bridge where alarms were going off. A quick check showed her that her ship had been ripped while she was fighting and all her systems were under control, even the ripper scrambler.
"I'll get you for this, Ridley" she muttered.
Her ship started moving and she saw that Ridley's ship was alongside hers. She realized she was at Ridley's mercy. If the self-destruct was initiated, she couldn't launch an
escape pod, since those were also under control.
"And what shall I do with you now?" Ridley said.
Samus looked up. Ridley was on the monitor, gloating.
"I need to conceive a slow and painful death for you. I know. There is a neutron star nearby. I'll just launch you ship into it."
Samus felt the ship speeding up. Ahead was the star Ridley had talked about. Her ship sped towards it.
"Good-bye, Samus Aran!" Ridley cackled.
Samus desperately tried to override the ripped system but it was hopeless. The internal temperature of the ship increases as it neared the star. Suddenly, the gravitational
field grabbed the shop and broke it from Ridley's control. Samus flew into the wall as gravity pulled the ship closer in.
"If I could just get to the control panel, I could use the gravitational field to slingshot around the star and get out." Samus thought.
Samus went into her spider ball morph and attached herself to the wall. She rolled towards the panel and unmorphed. She grabbed the seat and tied herself in with the crash
webbing. The temperature was unbearable. Samus managed to redirect all power to the engines and shields. She steered the ship towards the edge of the star andfelt the ship speed up
as the pull got stronger. She needed to move more, but gravity was too strong.
"Computer, jettison all missiles" she ordered.
The intense heat caused the missiles to blow up. The force of the explosion pushed the ship over, sending it flyign around the side of the star. The gravity was so strong,
Samus passed out.
When she woke up, every alarm was balring and every warning light was on. She looked up and saw she had entered the atmosphere of a planet. Her ship was on a collision
course with a settelement. She fought to control her ship. She had to crash-land away from the settlement. Samus managed to steer the ship away from the settelment but as she
looked ahead, she saw a large structure. There was no way she could avoid it.
"No time to blow the ship. I'm too low" Samus thought.
She raced to the airlock and went into ball morph. She rolled out the airlock as her ship crashed into the structure.
To be continued...
Author's note: I know that this is supposed to be a Zelda/Metroid crossover but I had to mention how Samus gets into Hyrule.