Ing's Light chapter 2

Okay everybody, second chapter! This might get a little confusing, but try to read it anyway!(what our ing friend says is now in italics)

SAMUS

LOG ENTRY: I have discovered an experiment of the space pirates. They have created a light world counter-part to the ing. It has proven to be intelligent and friendly. Will continue to study.

Samus was in her cockpit with the ing, heading toward the planet that he had pointed out. The ing had figured out how to make himself smaller (he claimed all ing could do it). He was perched on Samus' shoulder. She had taken off the armor and was in the blue interface suit.

After several long, awkward minutes, she asked, "what is you're name anyway?"

"I was wondering when you would ask. It's been on you're mind since we left the station. My captors called me experiment 735, but I would rather not have that name," he said in his odd thought-speech.

"I wouldn't either. Hmmm… I don't know what names the ing use, but how 'bout a kerian name? 'Skar' maybe? It was the name of a kerian I met. He was very brave and intelligent."

"Skar… I like the feel of it. It'll do."

"Why did they create you anyway?"

"The same reason they created the others. As a weapon."

"The data I got of you said you weren't hostile to normal creatures though."

"The tests they performed were flawed. They set a cage with a normal creature in it in front of me. I didn't attack because I could see it couldn't attack me. Next they did it again with a creature that was possessed by an ing. That one I could see had the ability and incentive to kill me, so I killed it first.

A beacon beeped gently on the console, warning of the approach to the planet. Samus activated the landing sequence and walked off to another chamber.

"Where are you going?" He asked, hopping off her shoulder,

"To put on my armor. You didn't think I'd go out there like this did you? I mean, after all, I don't want to be killed." she said pointing out the interface suit.

"Ah."

After a few minutes, she returned in her battle suit. "Lets go." Skar got out first.

"It's safe!" he said, "come on out." She did in her usual fashion, jumping super high and doing like ten flips, landing in a crouch, and looking around.

"Show-off." said the recently christened Skar.

"Sorry, but that's always fun."

They looked around and saw that Samus had picked a good spot. There were no hostiles.

"Skar, when something attacks, help Me," said Samus.

"Got it. I would've anyway, by the way." Skar said smugly.

"Right. Sorry."

They left the area and saw a power door. " Aha! They were here!"

"One question Samus. What weapons do you have?" He asked after they went through the door.

"Let's see…missiles, dark beam, light beam, annihilator beam, plasma, ice, wave, and power beams, super mi-."

"Okay, okay! I'm sorry I asked!" he said, causing Samus to burst into a laughing fit. After several minutes she recovered. "Okay. Let's look around. There has to be some reason they're on this rock. Stay alert."

"Right." he said. After he said this, the blue plates on his back lifted so they looked like spines (strangely, he didn't' seem to notice) .

"HOLY SHIT!" exclaimed Samus as tentacles(that looked very similar to the ones on ing)sprouted from under the plates

"What?"

"Look at yourself!" At this his eye swiveled to the back of his head (which to Samus looked even stranger) and saw the tentacles. "Whoa! That's new! Man this is cool!" he said, his formal tones gone completely, "Awesome!" he moved them around a little, melding them together so they looked like a shield.

"Yeah. Umm… What else can you do?"

"I have no idea." Skar said honestly. After he thought for a second, he said, "Wait a minute. I have an idea. Hold still and try not to panic."

"What are you doing?" she asked nervously

"Trying out an idea." He reached the tentacles toward Samus' varia suit and the second they touched the suit, they seemed to melt into it and Skar felt a pull and was tugged forward into Samus.

"Whoa!' he yelled out in surprise (he actually yelled. In the ing language, he was too surprised to convert to thought speak. To Samus it sounded like an unearthly shriek). He was actually merging with the suit! He could sense every system in the suit, each one amazing him because he knew what they could do instantly.

"What's going on!" Samus yelled, "What did you do?"

" I wonder how you will react to this…now this may come as a shock…"

"What may come as a shock? Tell me before I kill you!"

" That would be harder than you know. Go to your ship and look at your reflection." Skar commanded.

"Okayyyy…" she said and did as he told. "Whoa," she breathed.

"Yeah. Whoa." In the reflection, she saw what had happened. Her suit had somehow melded with the ing. It was mostly white with blue streaks (talking about her suit here by the way), with two blue spikes that were half a foot long on her shoulder blades. She saw the ing's eye on her chest, looking at the reflection too (the reflection was on the eye too).

"Now that's interesting. That's very interesting."

"Interesting? INTERESTING! You- What did you do anyway? And how did you do it"

"I'm not sure…some kind of instinct. I somehow knew that I could combine with machines and I wasn't sure if it was real or a thought."

"Well, can you get off? Do you know how?"

"I can try, but I don't know if it'll work." He concentrated for a second and turned into a substance that was remarkably like water and slid right off. "Whew! I wasn't sure that would work But we know how to get on and off."

"Right just warn me next time, okay?"

"Okay." He said and turned to the power door, shrank, and hopped on Samus' shoulder. "Let's go kill some space pirates!

"I was wondering when you'd ask."