Metroid: Vengeance
By: Leviathan71
Somewhere in uncharted space, the U.S.S. Enterprise races towards a feint distress call at warp nine.
"Captain, we will arrive at the distress call's origin in approximately three minutes, forty-eight seconds," Lt. Commander Data reported from his station.
"Very well," Captain Picard answered, "Be prepared for anything. We don't know a thing about this sector. Worf, weapon status."
"We have full phaser banks and a full complement of photon torpedoes." Lt. Worf responded.
The captain's communicator pin chirps, "What about power, Geordi?" he asked.
"Wes and I have got the warp engines running at ninety-six and a half percent efficiency," Lt. Commander LaForge cheerily reports.
"Captain, we have detected many ships in combat over a planet!" Worf exclaimed.
Meanwhile on the planet's surface, Samus is riding up an elevator, her arm cannon at the ready, making a planetary assault as the ships dueled just outside the atmosphere. This was the final assault on the last remaining Space Pirate stronghold. This will complete Samus' most important mission, a mission she named Vengeance.
Back on the bridge, "Mr. Worf, hail the planet," Picard ordered.
"Aye sir, channel open," Worf replied. The voice of the pirate echoed throughout the bridge. "Universal Translator activated, sir."
"I am Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation starship Enterprise. Could you repeat your last statement?" Picard said routinely.
"Federation! Why are you contacting us instead of assaulting us!?" the pirate replied angrily.
"We have not made war with your people. We were responding to your distress call," Picard explained, " We want to know why there is fighting over your planet."
So you are from a different federation?" the pirate pondered.
"Yes," Picard replied, "now please explain what is going on."
"This federation, whose ships you see, are trying to exterminate our race, even after countless attempts at peace. This is our last stronghold. Please help us," the pirate responded.
"What is it you wish us to do? I will see if we can assist your people," Picard said.
"There is a bounty hunter loose on the planet. Come down and locate her," the Space Pirate explained.
" I think we can do that," Picard replied. "Worf, end communications. Data initiate a full sensor sweep of the planet. Search for anything out of the ordinary."
"Sir," Data interrupted, "our sensors cannot penetrate the planet's atmosphere. We will need to be closer to the surface to get and accurate reading."
"Make it so," Picard ordered.
Samus' elevator had reached her destination. She shot open the door and walked, ever so cautiously, into a large open room. Even with her stealthy approach, a small squadron of Space Pirates spotted her and drew their energy guns. She switched to her plasma beam. She then dodged a few pirate shots, charged her beam, then let loose her plasma flamethrower. Most of the pirates fell to the ground, screaming as their flesh melted rapidly. The few that escaped quickly returned fire. Samus flinched as she got hit, but her armor held, barely damaged. She then switched to the wave beam. She shot both pirates stunning them and proceeded to curl into her morph ball. She rolled between them and dropped a power bomb. The Space Pirates didn't have time to react before they were disintegrated.
Just as she finished, a message from her federation came in bia her visor. It was the officer over the assault, Admiral Dane. "Samus, an unidentified ship is orbiting the planet. They mat be here to aid the pirates, figure out what is going on, and put a stop to it!" he reported
Samus switched to her command visor and ordered her gunship to land in the room. In a matter of seconds, her ship appeared and set down in the middle of the room. She jumped on top of it and entered through the top entrance. She located the Enterprise by radar, and lifted off.
After a short flight, she came up behind the massive ovular ship. Their navigational shields were up, but their defensive shields were still down. Samus fired a ship missile at what appeared to be a cargo bay,, bursting the shields and damaging the door. She then increased velocity and rammed straight into Cargo Bay One. The air then rushed out of the bay, sucking all of the crew and cargo our, sending them plummeting to the planet below.
"Worf, status report!" Picard frantically yelled as the ship automatically went into Red Alert.
"Dir, we have a hull breach in Cargo Bay One!" Worf reported, "Intruder Alert."
"Dispatch a security team to Cargo Bay One," Picard ordered.
"Aye sir, they are en route," Worf replied after a few button presses on hes tactical console.
Samus jumped from her ship. She looked up to see two men, armed. She scanned the weapons they were holding, identifying them as high-energy nadion beams. She swiftly raised her arm cannon and shot at one with her basic beam. The unfortunate Lieutenant's arm flew off and a hole appeared in his shest. He fell to the floor with one final gasp. The other officer fired his phaser at Samus. She didn't even flinch as she drug her arm cannon over the security officer and delivered a shot to his head.
She quickly sprinted out of the room, finding herself in a large, curving hallway. She ran for a bit, then went inside a door. She found one officer in the room, but instead of attacking this young, unarmed boy, she scanned him, identifying him as Ensign Wesley Crusher.
"Who are you!?" the young Ensign yelled as he backed against the wall, "Why are you here!?"
"I am Samus Aran, an independent bounty hunter," Samus said calmly as she kept her arm cannon at the ready, "Are you aware that your ship has entered orbit around a terrorist planet?"
"A terrorist planet!" Wesley said surprised, "We were just responding to a distress call when," He couldn't finish as the door to the room slid open, revealing three figures.
"Drop your weapon and identify yourself!" Worf barked as he aimed a phaser at her, "This phaser is not set to stun."
"Neither is my arm cannon," Samus smarted back as she shot the troops behind him. Worf dodged the third shot and ran off. Samus then shot a missile at the closed door shattering it. She started to give chase, but then a blue-tinted force field appeared in the doorway. Worf had trapped Samus, and, unintentionally, Wesley."
A familiar chirp sounded as Worf hit his combadge. "Sir, the intruder is contained," Worf reported in a satisfied voice.
"I'm on my way. Number one, you have the bridge," Picard ordered as he hot into a turbolift.
"Sir," Worf quietly reported as he saw the Captain walking towards him, "The intruder has a hostage."
"Who is it?" Picard questioned worriedly.
"It is Wesley, Captain," Worf solemnly stated.
"Oh, no," Picard whispered in a worried voice almast too quiet to hear, "Have Doctor Crusher come here at once."