A/N: And here's the new story! A couple of note first: The Spyro portion of this story won't show up until chapter 2. This takes place after both Metroid Fusion and The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. The version of the Legend of Spyro world I'm using in this story is based off the one from my Legend of the Three trilogy. Finally, I would like to note that Samus' ship resembles the one she used during Corruption, since I think that's the best looking model.

Disclamer: I Don't own Metroid or the Legend of Spyro, only my OCs... who don't appear in this chapter.

The Legend of Samus: Ridley's Redemption

A Legend of Spyro/Metroid Crossover

Chapter 1: A New Mission

Samus' POV

After I was cleared of any actual charges for the BSL incident, I continued to roam, doing jobs here and there, though I noticed that I'd clearly lost some measure of trust since I kept blowing up all the Galactic Federation's dangerous and highly illegal experiments. As such, the missions I received were much more low-key.

Then, I got the call. It was from the Luminoth. The Space Pirates had attacked and, while there were no casualties, the Space Pirates had made off with an important new prototype: An advanced version of the rift portals generators I'd used during my journey across Aether. They were requesting that I track them down and recover the prototype.

To assist me in this endeavor, they transferred me the data required to use the Dark, Light, and Annihilator Beams. I also made sure all my other abilities were active for this mission.

The Luminoth had also sent me the data they'd managed to gather relating to the location of the Space Pirate's base. According to the coordinates, it seemed to be located in the Rosetta Nebula near the white star Alpha Draconis. I check the Federation archives for information on the system, and found surprisingly little data. Apparently, the only data on the system came from a flyby of a distant probe, which revealed two planets orbiting a small star.

A couple hours later, I arrived in system.

"We are approaching our destination Lady," Said Adam, my ship's AI and former CO, "I have performed a scan of the system: the outer planet is a standard hydrogen-helium gas giant with approximately 21 moons, none of them show signs of habitation. The inner planet is more interesting: It is an Earth-like planet, labeled Aeia on the star charts. It's within its star's 'life zone,' with an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, approximately ¾ the atmospheric pressure of Earth, and a gravity of 1.1 G's. I am also detecting construction on the surface, along with many Space Pirate communications signals".

"Bring us into land, Adam," I said, "and activate the stealth systems".

I landed and went into the Space Pirate base, fighting off the standard guards as I went. Along the way, I managed to pick up a new X-ray visor, to replace the one I'd… misplaced previously.

As I continued through the base I noticed that some sections were far older then the rest… and bore strong similarities to Chozo ruins I'd explored in the past. My Varia suit's scanners translated the Chozo runes in these sections. It was an unusual dialect, and had familiar symbols mixed with unknown ones. What I could work was that the runes were speaking of some sort of gateway to a land beyond the farthest skies. There were also drawings of two Chozo, a warrior and an elder, meeting with what looked like a depiction of a… dragon? They were shown bowing to one another.

'How strange… Old Bird never told me any stories about anything like this,' I thought.

Soon enough, I reached a map station, and downloaded the location of the advanced Rift Portal. I also noticed that there was another landing site near the portal. I quickly used my Morph Ball to shortcut through the vents, quckly reaching the Portal Array. It looked quite similar to the ones I'd seen on Aether, only much bigger. The ruins extended into this area as well, and it seemed that the Space Pirates had tapped into some pre-existing system within the ruins to install their stolen portal array. In fact, it almost seemed to fit too well… as if the portal array was intended to be installed here.

I summoned my ship to this area just in case. However, unbeknownst to me, I wasn't alone. An old foe was waiting, watching me, ready to pounce.

I stepped towards the Portal Array to check how far the Space Pirates had gotten with their modifications to it: from what I could tell, the Array was fully functional, except for the lack of a coordinate plotter and control module. The portal itself was located further ahead.

It was then that Ridley attacked… again. This makes the sixth time we've battled, seeing as the Bottle ship incident and the BSL station versions were just cheap copies. By this point, Ridley didn't have any more tricks for me, as I'd seen them all before.

Before long, I'd almost defeated him when he managed to grab me, and then threw me into the control console, causing the portal array to start booting up. The ruins also started lighting up as well, and seemed to guiding the energies of the portal array.

Ridley saw this happening and flew away, entering his dreadnought, which then entered the portal.

Not wanting to let him escape, I dashed over and boarded my gunship.

"Adam," I shouted, leaping into the pilot's seat, "Follow that ship!"

"Acknowledged, Samus," replied Adam, "Warning, Rift portal is rapidly destabilizing. This will most likely be a one-way trip, Samus. Energy readings indicate extreme transport range, and destination cannot be determined. Given previous records involving Luminoth portal arrays and your recent scans, trans-dimensional transit is highly likely. Are you certain you wish to continue?"

"Yes Adam," I replied, "let's go!"

With that, we entered into the portal, flying into the unknown.

A/N: And so our new journey begins! See you next Chapter!