Metroid Origins

Derek Hylio was sleeping pleasantly onboard the GFS Olympus, well not exactly sleeping, just quietly thinking.

"How often is it that I actually get some sleep now-a-days? I wonder when the Ragnarok will have its maiden voyage. When am I am going to get that arm-cannon upgrade that Jake promised...

Derek's thoughts were abruptly stopped as an alarm blared throughout the Olympus, all of the crew was suddenly awake and on their feet.

Admiral Dane's voice came onto the comm. system "Wake up Marines, We just got an urgent distress signal From Samus Aran on a planet outside of Federation space, She has located a pirate compound that is too much for her to handle...I am ordering the Ragnarok to warp to Aran's coordinates, Prep the ship and get going."

"Maiden voyage indeed! Why do I always get what I wish for at the wrong time?"

Samus ran at full speed across the barren wasteland that the pirates had made out of the planet that once was a refuge for the Chozo that fled Zebes, the land was a hard, black volcanic glass, it was rough in some parts and smooth in others. Lining the black ground were strangely shaped mountains of what was once metal from Chozo households and buildings of other sorts, whatever they were, Samus had thought, They are unrecognizable now. But Samus wasn't thinking about those former buildings now, now she was running, not because of the pirates that were only meters behind her, but because of what the pirates were running from, A Parasite queen, not only that but a parasite queen that is of the "plated" variety, in short, neither Samus nor the thirty-some pirates behind her had the concussive weapons able to kill it.

"Figures that I would attack some random experiment before learning that I couldn't kill it, and figures that the pirates weren't smart enough to build a way of controlling it, and were the hell is Dane, never on time, ugh, If I get out of this I am personally going to explain to him how to build a Chozodian warp engine."

The plated parasite queen stopped suddenly, Both Samus and the pirates did the same. The Queen looked up into the sky for a few moments and then, with a grunt charged twice as fast as it had before at the pirates and Samus. Some of the Tallonian pirates open fired but their shots bounced harmlessly of the Queen's plated carapace, Samus rolled into morph ball and then unfurled as the Queen charged past her. The Queen, with one of the Tallonian pirates impaled on one of its galvanized legs, slowly disappeared from view. Samus Then turned to the remaining 30-some pirates that consisted of Tallonian and a few Utrazonian militias. She took aim at the nearest militia and was about to fire when an ear-piercing screech made her shudder and wince; the pirates were on the ground screaming in agony as they didn't have sound filtering helmets. The screech was followed by an explosion that knocked Samus backwards, when she got up there was a gaping crater in the ground where the majority of the pirates had been, she also noted that the pirates' numbers were now reduced to four, one of them got up, only to be impaled by a falling shard of volcanic glass. Samus looked for the source of the explosion and first saw a ship about one third the size of the Olympus, It was roughly shaped like her old hunter class that she had used on Tallon IV. Samus then saw a dot that grew to a black blur before crushing the three remaining pirates. A tank? Samus thought, it was black with a two meter long cannon protruding it and a turret on top of it. Several federation troopers exited the tank; one went on top of it and manned the turret that slightly resembled a hydra class. One of the troopers was wearing armor that mirrored the Power suit in every way, except that it had a blue visor, with federation colors and insignias.

"Samus it's good to see that you're unscathed," Said the trooper in the power suit copy.

"Unscathed, I almost got crushed by a parasite Queen and shot by your missile" Thought Samus grimly

"We got word that you had some trouble and came to help, sorry about the missile, we had to cut it close, or those pirates would have been hard to beat. What is your situation?"

"My ship detected a massive burst of nuclear energy, After searching the planet I discovered a pirate research facility, I tried to infiltrate it but was forced to retreat after a less than cordial encounter with a Plated Parasite queen and about thirty pirate troopers." explained Samus

"Where is this Parasite queen now?"

"It was heading towards the source of the nuclear energy burst," Said Samus, while motioning in the direction that it went. "Plated queens are only vulnerable to concussive weapons, so I'm out of options."

The trooper put his hand on his chin and looked downward in thought, but his thoughts were short lived as an Areotrooper Flew over the large mound of twisted metal and fired at the marines. The marine on the turret shot at the Areotrooper, sending it into evasive actions. As the marine's and Samus's attention were on the Areotrooper an Pirate militia that was under the tank decided to make his escape, it's legs were broken so it pulled itself along the shattered volcanic glass for a few feet and reached for a plasma rifle dropped by a now dead Utrazonian. Then another dot appeared in the sky before crushing the pirate militia's weapon and forearm. Samus turned to look at this new federation weapon and found that it wasn't federation at all but rather Luminoth, an Ingsmasher with another power suit wearing trooper sitting in a seat on the back of the Ingsmasher, fingering a large cannon that was similar to the ice beam. The new Ingsmasher lumbered away to one of the two pathways through the metal mountains.

"Concussive eh," said the first power suit marine. "I know somebody who can do that, but first I have to secure the area."

As he finished speaking a normal marine stepped up to him and saluted.

"What are your orders Captain Skylar?" Asked the marine in a high pitched female voice.

"Fauna, good, you take the drones and go to the pathway opposite Jake and disguise yourself as a pirate, Go!"

Samus was about to ask how Fauna was going to disguise herself when she changed shape to a Utrazonian pirate and ran to the pathway with five or six "Jolly-roger" shaped drones following her.

"Samus I am going to stay here with the troops and hold the area, I'm sending you in with Derek, my demolitions expert, he has the weaponry to fight your parasite queen, He will meet you at the compound up ahead in one minute, you had better get going"

Without a word Samus bolted strait for the compound that loomed up ahead, her mind burred with questions.

"Was that '"Fauna'" marine one of Gandrayda's kind? How do those troopers have my weapons and armor, and how did that Jake trooper get an Ingsmasher?"

Regardless, Samus didn't have the time to get these questions answered now, so she kept on running towards the ever nearer compound.

As Samus left the area where the marines had landed, the still living pirate militia managed to get onto his knees only to be hit by the suicide diving Areotrooper that the marine at the tanks turret finally killed.

The sound of pirate screams and weapon fired clouded her hearing, but Samus didn't let it affect her, she now had a clear objective and was doing what she had always done, kill pirates, save the galaxy etc. The only thing out of place in Samus's mind was how the federation was able to duplicate her power suit; the humans were still just breaking the surface of what the Chozo had established years ago, so they couldn't have made a power suit.

"I never gave them any information on Chozo tech, they aren't ready for that power yet, they needed to find their own way, that's how it should have been. The only way the federation could have gotten our tech would be from a...could they have found a living Chozo, no, not even I can find them, maybe they found some Chozo tech and replicated it, yeah that's it, they just found some Chozo artifact...before me...right."

Samus had finished her thoughts just as the pirate compound came into view. A sudden beep made Samus jump until she realized that it was a radio call, she pressed a button on her helmet.

"Samus, come in. This is Captain Skylar, we are holding the area but the pirates are mobilizing, we are outnumbered, so whatever you're going to do, do it soon. Using the information sent to us by your ship, the Ragnarok has located the source of the nuclear radiation. Its origin is a pirate Colossus class battleship that seems to have crash landed on this planet; our readings indicate that the radiation is an exact match to your files on the "Omega cannon". It is protected by a large energy shield so we cannot destroy it using the Ragnarok's weapons easily, we need you and Derek to infiltrate the pirate facility and deactivate that shield, and if you can find a way to destroy the Colossus in the process it would be much appreciated. Skylar out."

Samus nodded to herself and continued toward the compound. As the compound came into view Samus noted the gaping hole in the main entrance.

"I guess that means the Queen was here." She muttered to herself

As she approached a firefight came into view, five Tallonian pirates were shooting at two demolition troopers and one marine in a power suit that bore brown-black colors and a yellow visor. Samus assumed that the power suited one was the Derek that Skylar had told her about. She ran to aid the marines and watched the fight as she approached; they were still out of her range. Derek shot power beams in five shot bursts at the pirates, killing two, the pirates responded by riddling one of the demolition troopers with charged energy bolts. The remaining demolition trooper knocked a pirate down and shot it in the skull repeatedly until it was just green and red mush. One of the remaining pirates leapt at Derek with its scythe over-head, Derek drew an energy charged blade from a scabbard on his back, the pirate's scythe held for a few seconds before Derek's blade sliced the scythe in two, Derek then proceeded to cut the pirate in half. Samus made it up to a meter away from Derek and the remaining demolition trooper.

"Samus, it's about time you showed up," Said Derek in a gruff voice. "We were about to be overwhe..."

His sentence was cut short as Samus shot the last pirate that was about to behead Derek.

"You're welcome." replied Samus.

"Ok, a huge...thing came through here earlier, know anything about that?" asked Derek

"Yeah, it was a plated parasite queen, it can only be injured with concussive weapons, Skylar said that you were the man to come to about that."

"Oh, well concussive is my specialty."

"Let's move then." With that Samus and Derek were off leaving the Demolition trooper behind to guard the compound.

The compound was dark and the sounds of battle outside were snuffed out by the sound of the queen's dying victims, them being several dozen pirates of all breeds and one very unlucky Shegoth. The queen's roars were endless, and grew ever louder as Samus and Derek closed in on it.

"So, you had experience with these queens before?" asked Derek.

"Yes, once on the pirate frigate Orpheon I killed a normal parasite queen, it was...difficult" answered Samus.

They ran into a room filled with broken storage tubes that were modified for experiments. Then the queen appeared, it was clinging to the ceiling. It roared as acid dripped from its double mandibles.

"So you don't like concussive, try this!" yelled Derek as his arm cannon changed to the same shape as Samus's missile launcher.

"Ha" cried Derek as morph ball bombs shot from the cannon in bursts of three.

Samus shot her power beam at the queen, just to distract it, she watched as the bombs took their toll on the queen, each hit took a few more units of health away from the queen, it was not going to be enough.

The queen shot a stream of weapon grade acid at Derek who writhed in pain, Samus rolled into morph ball and laid as many bombs as she could before uncurling and resuming her power beam shots, one lucky shot caught the queen in the mouth, stopping the beam of acid that was on Derek.

Derek stood up and charged up with the power beam.

"Now you pissed me off!", With that the arm cannon changed again to bomb mode but instead of a bomb the charged shot merged with the morph ball bombs and shot a power bomb at the queen, damaging it heavily. Samus took the opportunity to roll into morph ball and go inside the parasite queen via getting swallowed.

"Samus!" yelled Derek before the parasite queen exploded from the inside out and Samus walk casually towards Derek who was covered in green slime.

"Oh I bet you think that covering your allies in slime is real funny Samus, but I don't, so please, don't do it again."

"Just trying to help." said Samus.

They then abandoned the compound and walked into a windowed room with a large terminal in it.

"This must be the control center." Exclaimed Samus.

"Uh Samus?" said Derek from the window. "You might want to have a look at this."

As Samus walked over she saw a massive Colossus class ship supported by machine arms that lifted it and aimed it to a dot in the sky.

"It's aimed towards the Ragnarok, we have to stop it!" yelled Derek

Samus went back to the terminal and started scanning it.

"It's in a pirate dialect that I can't translate." said Samus

Just then a pirate militia jumped at Samus who then shot it once in the skull.

Derek, ignoring the surprise attack that Samus just thwarted, ran to the terminal and started shooting it with morph ball bombs, causing it to spark.

"What are you doing!" exclaimed Samus

Then the terminal spoke in plain English, "Colossus self-destruct selected, DNA verification required to activate self-destruct."

"Shit, where are we going to get pirate DNA?" yelled Samus.

Derek picked up the dead militia and dragged it towards the terminal, when he placed it in the terminal. Nothing happened, so he began to slam it into the terminal, still no effect.

"Damn it! What DNA does it want, Wait, it spoke English, aha." Exclaimed Derek. He then put his hand on the terminal.

"Colossus self destruct activated"

"How did that work?" asked Samus.

"Those stupid pirates stole this terminal from humans."

"I guess that's why they call them pirates."

Samus and Derek turned to the window and watched as the pirates ran with flailing arms away from the ship as it created a small nuclear explosion. Derek winced and clutched his side as the explosion reached its peak and died.

"Are you alright?" asked Samus

"Fine, my suit just isn't as well shielded as yours"

Samus reached for her helmet as a radio call came in.

"Samus, job well done, you couldn't have cut it any closer, are you and Derek alright?" asked Skylar

"Fine Captain, do I have permission to recoup onboard the Ragnarok?" asked Samus, knowing that they could not say no

"It would be an honor." replied Skylar.

But Samus wasn't interested in recouping, she had questions that needed answering, specifically about their power suit, and she would get them, one way or another.