Behind Cold Metal
Chapter 1: Defeat
The two had been battling for at least thirty minutes in the pouring rain. Missiles had been fired, fire had been breathed and plenty of destruction had been brought down on the land. It was the usual fight, Samus versus Ridley, or in this case, Meta Ridley, with all of his upgrades on his metal exoskeleton. But even after pulling the slyest of tricks and the most powerful weapons, Meta Ridley was about to suffer another defeat.
Samus cornered Meta Ridley and aimed her arm cannon right at his face.
"Samus...there's no need to go this far..." Meta Ridley said, trying to reason with Samus. He was standing at the edge of a cliff, and his wings were too damaged to fly. His plea didn't reach Samus.
"I don't care how much you beg, grovel, plead or cry, I'm going to finally finish you off, right here, right now!" Samus shouted.
"Samus...please...reason with me Samus...don't do it!!!" Meta Ridley pleaded. He felt fear grow inside him as he saw a beam of light appear from within Samus's arm cannon. She was charging up.
"I'll kill you...no matter what...to avenge my parents!" she said. "One more Super Missile should do it..." she said.
"No!!! Don't! I don't want to die!!!" Meta Ridley pleaded. He even put his hands together, becoming hysterical. Samus loved every moment of it.
"Ready?" she said, about to fire a Super Missile into Meta Ridley's jaw.
"No!! No!!! Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!" Meta Ridley screamed. Then, he broke inside. He suddenly broke down in a shower of tears and halved in size as he bent down and hid his head. "Don't kill me!!! Please!!!! I'm sorry for everything!!! Waaaaaahhhh!!!!!"
Samus had never seen Meta Ridley do this. Usually, Meta Ridley would get seriously beaten up, then recover and come back for more. But was this a trick? Samus hesitated slightly, and it was a bad mistake. She didn't know that Meta Ridley was faking it, even though he was actually crying. The split second she didn't attack was the same split second Meta Ridley quickly lunged at Samus and punched her across the face, knocking her unconscious with some shot.
Meta Ridley then stood up and looked at Samus, lying on the floor. He wiped his tears, a little startled at how much he got into his acting, faking defeat.
"...I...I win?" he thought. He picked up Samus and put his thumb across her chest. He could feel a faint heartbeat within the Power Suit she was wearing.
"...She's not dead..." he thought. "That won't do. I'm going to kill her now..." He picked up Samus with one hand and opened his mouth, about to bite her head off. But before he bit down, just as his teeth scraped against her helmet, he suddenly thought of something.
He hesitated, just like Samus did.
"Am I going to actually kill her? Just like this?" he thought. "...That's a little...boring, I guess. Maybe later...but what do I do?" he thought. The rain poured down harder on his wounds. Meta Ridley knew he couldn't stay long. He needed to call for a ship to carry him away.
"...I'll take her back to the Pirate Homeworld and I'll decide what to do when I'm all healed up" he thought. Decided on his course of action, he called for a Pirate frigate to pick him up from the cliff's edge and take him back to the Pirate Homeworld HQ.