Here is Chapter 2 (which is really Chapter 1 because the Prologue takes up the position of Chapter 1, although the Prologue can't really be considered a chapter by the standards of creative writing, so technically it would be Chapter X and this would be Chapter 1).

clears throat Anyway, if there is still people here that didn't get confused by the above, This is the new chapter. I will not name them, just give the locations that the are acted out in.

You know what I realize? I explain things too much. Here you go.

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LOCATION - - - - - UNKNOWN GALAXY IN OMEGA QUADRANT

GALAXY LOCATION - - - - - 3RD FROM HOME BASE

PLANET - - - - - AETHER

PLANETARY ALIGNMENT - - - - - 5TH PLANET FROM RED GIANT STAR

DANGER!

PLANET UNSTABLE!

DAMAGE REPORT-- TEMPERATURE RAISING ABOVE 230 DEGREES FARENHIET. MULTIPLE VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES DETECTED. MAJOR SEISMIC ACTIVITY DETECTED.

PLANETARY COLLAPSE IMMINENT.

EVACUATE IMEDIATLY!

T-5 MINUTES UNITL PLANETARY COLLAPSE . . .

T-4 MIN. AND COUNTING . . .

T-3 MIN. AND COUNTING . . .

T-2 MIN. . . .

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T-30 SEC. . . .

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PLANETARY COLLAPSE -

COMMENCING

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Samus watched from the safety of Aether's second moon as the planet imploded. Thousands of years of civilization, destroyed in seconds. And, not to Samus's suprise, she felt no emotion whatsoever. She had long given up feelings. All except anger, hate, and, most importantly, revenge. She had taken the lives of so many that she felt it was best not to have the distraction of emotions. But now, she was tired. She punched in the coordinates for the nearest planetary resort on the touch screen. The ship hummed as it put itself on auto-pilot and took off. She went into her quarters and sat on the bed.

Many people had asked her how such a small Gunship could have two sleeping quarters, one of which had never been used in all the years that she had the ship, each with their own bathroom, a kitchen, an infirmary, a dining room, the cockpit, and a weight room. Illusions, she had told them. It looks smaller on the outside because of a holographic projecter that she didn't know how to turn off.

It was when she first took off her helmet when she noticed a change. The white metal of her Light Suit was black, with a tint of blue, and the visor was red. She looked at her hand and, sure enough, it was black. The metal that encased it seemed... alive. She went into the bathroom to look at the rest of her suit. She gave a loud, startled gasp when she saw her reflextion in the mirror.

Her skin, once a pale cream color, was now a dark navy blue. Her peach lips were a light shade of blue. Her blonde hair was now snow white. She stripped off the rest of her suit and took off her jumpsuit. Her entire body was blue. She went into the infirmary and stepped onto the full-body skanner built into the bio-shower. An electric eye opened infront of her. A red light shot out of it and panned her body. A panel flipped out to reveal a screen. This is what it read:

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PARASITIC BIOMASS DETECTED.

SCANNING BIOMASS - - - -

BIOMASS SCAN COMPLETE.

SUBJECT: METROID PRIME.

SUBJECT HAS SUBATOMICALLY FUSED TO HOST.

BEGINNING DEFUSION PROCESS . . . . . . . . .

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Two poles came out of the ground on either side of Samus. There was a low humming before a bolt of lightning shot from them to her. She didn't wince, though the pain was intense. More and more kept hitting her for about thirty minutes. The humming stopped and the poles retreated back into the ground. She looked back down at the screen.

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DEFUSION FAILED.

FUSION IS TEMPORARILY PERMANENT.

DAMAGE TO HOST CAUSED BY PARASITE . . . 0

BIOMASS IS NOT DRAINING ENERGY FROM HOST.

SUBJECT IS REMAINING DORMANT.

BEGINNING SECONDARY SCAN . . .

SCAN COMPLETED.

SENSES HEIGHTENED: PHYSICAL STRENGTH EYESIGHT INCREASED HEARING INCREASED

OVERALL ALERTNESS DRASTICALLY INCREASED.

SCANS COMPLETE.

SHUTTING DOWN . . .

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"Metroid Prime." Samus hissed. She thought she had killed it on Tallon IV. She grabbed a needle off the examination table next to her and shoved into her arm, wining as the cold metal chilled her blood. I won't live with this thing in me. She moved her thumb to press down on the syringe... and she froze. She couldn't move. She watched in amazement as the needle was snapped in two where it punctured her skin. The rest of the needle fell out of her arm. She watched her hand drop the syringe on the ground.

What the hell? She thought as she stood up, still having no control over her body, and smashed the syringe under her foot. Slowly feeling began seeping back through her body. She sat down and wiped the shards of glass off her foot, watching for blood. There was none. She returned to her quarters and put in her night clothes. "I'll deal with all this tomorrow." She said to herself as she laid down. She was asleep before her head hit the pillow.

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She was running, hiding, trying to escape the monster that was following her. The thing let out a hideous yell as it closed in on her. She turned around and raised her arm cannon. She waited until the beast was within range and pulled the trigger. Nothing. Her cannon was jammed. A hiss came right by her ear. She turned and saw the Metroid Prime as it was on Tallon IV. It knocked off her helmet and wrapped one of it's tentacles around her neck and raised her in the air.

You tried to kill me." It hissed in an angry tone.

"No..." Samus breathed as she gasped for air.

The Prime shone with a brilliant light and it morphed into Dark Samus. It pulled her in closer. "No?" It threw her onto the ground and raised it's hand into the air. A hologram appeared. It was Samus, in the infirmary, the needle in her arm. Her thoughts playedlike a loudspeaker. "I won't live with this thing in me." The Metroid repeated.

"You..." Samus said, still fighting for air.

"Yes. Me." It closed it's hand and the hologram disappeared. "I thought that you would have been smart enough to figure it out." It crossed it's arms across it's chest. "I don't know what pisses me off more. The fact that that shot wouldn't have killed you, or that it would've killed me. Subatomic nero-poison made from Metroids." It looked down at her. "You humans think of everything."

"Where..." Samus started as she regained her voice. "Where are we?"

The Metroid laughed. "Your mind." It saw the dumbfounded look on her face. "You know, the place that stores your thoughts and memories?"

"How?"

"What do you mean 'how'?" It rose up into the air. "This is your dream. Or at least," It raised it's arm cannon and charged a shot. "Your nightmare." It fired into Samus's chest.

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Samus bolted up in her bed. She was drenched in a cold sweat. Her chest was sore and she had a massive headache. Her neck was red and tender where the Metroid had choked her with it's phazon tentacle. She grabbed the bottle of asprin off her nightstand and popped two into her mouth. "That dream was too real to be just that." She said to herself.

"How right you are." A voice hissed.

END

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Well, there you go. Read and review, you know the drill.

PEACE OUT!

Update: END in any of my stories DOES NOT mean the end of the story. Just the chapter. The only way it would mean that is if I put THE END on it. It's more final that way.