Chapter 2
The dull screeching of metal against metal was the only sound in the abyss that made up the space station Exemption… apart from the crunching sounds of one.. no two beings knocking themselves against everything as they climbed up the lonely shaft.
One of the figures, a canine like creature was pushing it's legs against the side of the ventilation shaft, and clutching onto the beast's shoulders was a strange little imp with a large helmet on it's head. The Wolf turned his head to make sure the imp was secured onto his back and continued climbing up the metallic, cold shaft.
The imp had white skin flanked by an almost second layer of black skin, she had large yellow eyes with a red interior, glazed over from exhaustion. She was pushing the other way with a strange orange mass of goo that extended into a hand emanating from her hair.
She was wearing a strange ornate helmet that somehow was staying on her head and she was strangely voluptuous for a disfigured imp and had strange luminous blue tattoos dotted across her limbs.
"Come on! There isn't much further to go!" she snapped.. "I think..". Midna, as she was called could see the hole above where the ventilation shaft curved into a vertical axis. The wolf she was riding had piercing blue eyes and a strange earring. It sniffed the cold artificial air and coughed slightly, it pushed harder manoeuvring the unlikely pair up towards it. Midna grabbed hold of the ledge with her arms and heaved herself up.
Behind her Wolf Link barked and began to fall, but she then reached forwards with her hair and grabbed his waist heaving him up behind her. The two companions looked at each other in bemusement. The Wolf was panting heavily and he lowered himself for Midna to climb on his back, the strange pair continued down the vents undeterred. "How much longer until we find the control room of this damn thing?" Midna chimed in sarcastically.
She blinked and gave a noise of disdain, "Come on Link…", she then kicked into Wolf Link's flanks and they sprinted down the dark tunnels.
A giant television screen sat there, it jettisoning the images of the Wolf and his imp friend to a figure who knew them only so well. The figure watching them wore an ornate robe covered in the same style of markings as the shadow imp, but also had a strange bug-like helmet over his head. Zant, king of Twilight screamed out in frustration at being followed.
"Calm down Zant.." came a low voice behind him. A figure dressed completely in black walked into the room behind him, he wore a mask that covered most of his scarred face and atop it was a pair of large horns built into the helmet.
He wore an extremely disturbing skintight dark suit and walked into the room with an air of almost regal superiority. "But I thought they would never follow me!" came the frantic reply from a supposedly evil man. "The portal was supposed to close... I... I CLOSED IT!"
Zant turned his head to him, "Black Shadow… what would you do in a situation like this?"
The man chuckled to himself, "Well, I would kill them the first chance I had but you won't be able to do that while they're in the ducts. They'll probably come out in the room where Geoform 52-B is and he'll finish the little bastards off"
Zant gave a little laughter of his own and groaned, "These two are a headache.. I thought I had killed the little imp girl!" Black Shadow smirked at him with an almost patronising demeanour, "You can't seriously find those two irritating? It's an animal with a little weak girl on the back!". Zant screamed with anger and drew two swords of Twilight and prepared to slash at his foe, Black Shadow jumped back and withdrew one of the Dark Cannon pistols that he'd been supplied with.
"Don't try it Zant.. you know Ganondorf will be pissed if you touch me with those glow sticks of yours" The king of Twilight muttered something under his breath and slid the two swords back into their holsters, Black Shadow smiled sweetly at him. "Good decision… now let's wait 'till Bowser returns and then we can get back to subjugating your world"
I know you're there…please come out. I promise I'll feed you some more if you wake up.
In front of Dr Eggman was a huge pulsating sack of glowing, pulsating liquid chemical, behind it were several more all stacked against each other in the form of a giant vat.
"Wake up my dear, your breakfast has arrived!" the Doctor smiled.
Within the pit of the purple element, several blobs of it begin to clump together. Gradually they started to form a humanoid shape and eventually it stopped.
Stood there was an armoured person, clad in a dark purple/black suit. It screeched in an alien tongue and struggled against some of the bonds that held it.
"Are you all right my dear?" Eggman jeered, behind him a pair of Lizalfos walked in, armed with strange weapons designed to guard him against attacks from the Dark Hunter.
"We've come to feed you some of your favourite food!" he mocked, "Phazon!". He cried the word in an almost uplifting attitude not at all fitting the sombre and depressing mood.
The figure he was speaking to was damaged, noticeably. She, if you could it a she, had a large helmet with a light blue T visor built into the front of it. It seemed to much like a barbaric creature to have been born with the armour.
"Dark Samus.. do you want your Phazon or not? We need you to create more of it for us, and in return... we will spare you and feed you the leftovers.."
The being gave an almost saddening wail and looked at the huge vat of Phazon, small arcs of electricity darted across the surface of the almost sentient matter. Eggman had found Dark Samus before all the others, it was because of her he'd concocted his plans and around her they were designed.
He'd found her at the edge of death on a strange world called Phaaze, the planet was about to rip itself apart but Eggman, seeing the potential for the barbaric monster pulled the Hunter into the portal taking with the ability to create Phazon and in so making herself a living Phaaze. In effect, she was the harbinger of reality's doom.
Using her Phazon, Eggman was planning to destroy every single planet in space-time allowing it to seep through and destroy others. The few that were not infected by 'The Great Poison' were ruled over by Eggman... and whichever of his allies that were left.
He marvelled at the ingenuity of it all and how he, Ivo Robotnik was such a genius to come up with it. He knew that his partners were too greedy to follow the plan, so in allowing them to help they were playing right into his hands, gradually killing each other off.. the fools.
Eggman turned to one of the Lizalfos, one of the minions Ganondorf had brought with him, picked up the thrashing monster. He threw him off the sheltered balcony from which they stood and the screaming lizard landed headfirst in pure orange Phazon.
It started mutating instantly, it's changing bones split into three segments and it grew to three times it's size before giving a scream and ripping itself apart. It dissolved into the substance quickly, it's nutrients becoming part of it's energy. Dark Samus, having watched the spectacle turned back to the Phazon vat and dumped it into her pool. Writhing with pleasure the alien dived into the cancerous substance and began absorbing it.
Eggman grinned to himself, The mindless fool..
He picked up the Lizalfos' Dark Cannon, turned to the other one and fired a blast into its chest turning it into a trophy. He kicked the trophy into the pool and walked away stroking his moustache thoughtfully.
Meanwhile back on Corneria, Ridley was getting extremely angry… even more angry than usual which said a lot for a genetically modified space dragon infused with Phazon and cybernetic implants. He had once again caught scent of his old hated enemy, the Hunter.
The enormous space dragon launched another plasma bomb at his enemy's hated gunship, he saw it fly around the peak ahead of him and loop back on it's self.
Ridley shrieked and tried to fire plasma in it's path but they merely sizzled against the shield on the green cockpit viewport, he irately chased her again back towards the portal from which she'd came.
Instead of heading there, Samus Aran flew her ship towards the crashed Great Fox, the ship that Ridley had brought down earlier with a well-placed jamming device to make way for the invasion force.
The spacecraft roared into a tiny slit on the extremely large white capital ship's underside and out of sight. 'Omega' Ridley, his orange eyes unblinking growled and flew towards it himself preparing to cleanse his existence from her fowl presence forever.
The Gunship slowed to a halt, and a hatch opened from inside it. It hissed open and an orange figure walked away from the vessel, she scanned the room with her extremely advanced visor and held her arm cannon firmly. Samus Aran, Bounty Huntress ran down a long corridor in an effort to escape the incoming storm. She wore a large alien battle suit, created solely for her lithe frame by her Chozo guardians, and combined with her dexterity and skill in warfare she was a formidable opponent. She ran into what appeared to be a bridge area of the vessel, she looked around and scanned the room quietly.
SHIPS LOG: Data 12334 Recording 54
Large explosion followed by shrieks"This is Peppy Hare, broadcasting on an open channel, reporting emergency code Alpha! Can anyone hear me?" a frantic and frightened drawled voice came through the recording.
"We are under attack by a strange bird creature armed with extremely heavy weap…
Intense Static"Extreme caution is required.. we can't keep it out much longer.." Shrieks "Oh.. Oh! No!"
Sounds of laser fire and blasters going off, loud roars pierce the recording"Don't let him R.O.B! …AAAARGHH!!…."
Long static….
SHIPS LOG: Recording Terminated
Samus looked around the devastated ship's bridge and saw several bloodstains splattered dimly across the walls in a random matter. Behind her she heard faint and very familiar shrieks. She primed her arm cannon and before she knew it Omega Ridley had dived above from the skies in a large hole in the top of the bridge, she deftly activated her morph ball dodged a burst of flame the bird spluttered at Samus's spherical form and fired a missile into his abdomen. Ridley shrieked and as had become common practice, began to fight her.