A brilliant sun blared over the endless cyan sphere of sky and sea surrounding a piping hot tropical sandbar resort on a designer-island-chain where Samus Aran lived in relative secrecy. What seemed like only a short while ago, she had been seen as something of a heroine to the galaxy- constantly defending it and the once-noble Galactic Federation from the menace of unchecked bioweapons, hyper-mutated super predators, unscrupulous traitors, and the like- all for years on end, to her own detriment. But, during her last mission, Samus was faced with the responsibility of choosing the lesser of two evils by crashing the Federation's Biologic Space Laboratories research station into the planet SR-388 in a desperate final bid to wipe out the universe-threatening X-Parasite along with it. The corrupt Galactic Federation saw this act as the perfect excuse to sever any remaining ties with the she-hunter and the once-noble ideas of the old Federation forever. But it was all a vision now; a memory being melted away from her stream of thoughts like rainbow sherbet in the sweltering heat of peninsular paradise. She was so far off of the Federation's disproportionate share of the grid and so surrounded by her most fervently dedicated and tight-lipped legions of allies and admirers that it would take a full-scale war for the Galactic Federation to cut through her defenders and claim her bounty.

Nowadays, the living was easy for the bounty huntress: she would help develop a new technology for the military here, suit up to go out and claim a minor bounty there, and, unbeknownst to most- make a whole lot of love in between. When she wasn't busy kicking ass at her job, she was making time for her new hobby of getting down and dirty with her one and only betrothed- a young man named Nicole.

Before she met him, during Samus's time as a teenage Galactic Federation recruit, she and two of her allies traveled to the planet Jigrad for a recon mission. Going against protocol, they liberated a camp of slaves that were being forced to build a monument for their ruthless invader overlords- the Space Pirates, and among the slaves rescued was Nicole. In the moment of rescue, at the very anterior of a chain of child slaves, Nicole saw Samus in action as she decimated most of the Pirates. Unfortunately for him, his freedom did not last. The locals on Jigrad were very poor, and their elders could afford neither money for food nor patience for Nicole's optimism. In a covert act of cruelty, they sold him to a fleeing Space Pirate on the premise that Nicole was a member of a certain endangered subspecies of human called Garian Beastmen. Under the Space Pirate, Nicole received strict slave training. Once he was deemed ready, he was taken to his home planet Garia and sold yet again to a wealthy Space Pirate named Tox, who gambled on battle robots and collected rare slaves. In Tox's possession was a Chozo-tech battle robot as well as the robot's aging Chozo mechanic named Silver Eye. Tox, seeing that Silver Eye was outliving his usefulness, arranged Nicole to be Silver Eye's apprentice. In his last years, Silver Eye passed on his knowledge to Nicole before passing away. When the time was right, Tox was ready to take Nicole with him to the casinos in Garia's central hub.

It was during these times that Tox and Nicole would eventually be encountered by Samus Aran in her off time, in which she defeated Tox and his robot, thereby rescuing Nicole. After he told Samus about the aftermath of her exploits on Jigrad, she became personally invested in him. The two quickly grew close during Samus's subsequent investigation of Garia, and would later go on to live together.

Where their relationship had (at one point) been constrained by time and circumstance, they were inseparable now, joined by their mutually exclusive loyalty and dedication, strengthened by the bond they shared through their best and worst of times, thoroughly consummated to one another. There was another step they had to take in fully realizing their love for each other, one which Nicole had been meaning to take with Samus eventually. But in the meantime, the two were more than happy with their current living arrangements: week after week of travel, tourism, amusement, shopping, dining, lodging- all with Samus's nearly endless amount of money. With just as much time on their hands, they were free to explore every hobby, every passion project, every whim their hearts desired. But among the many passions they shared, one permeated them all: sex, sex, sex. Whether it was sneaking off to a unisex restroom, or being as time-efficient as possible in a solitary elevator ride, they were always looking to make love. Especially in the comfort of their own home- a home, which, in their case, doubled as a massive boat sitting along the island chain where they lived. It had enough space for a full-sized house and yard. In a room facing the patio, Samus was currently busy working on an improvement for her home security system with some help from her AI assistant, Arthur. In the meantime, Nicole had just finished drying off after having a swim in their revolving current machine, and decided to check in on Samus to see what she was up to...