Chapter 2
Other M Part 1
Okay so it has been a real long time since chapter 1. I'll spare you the explanation as to what happened and just say that I'm sorry. Now, on to the reviews.
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Well, I've kept you waiting long enough so... Let's kick it up!
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Samus was talking on the holo-phone with Virginia on her home after a particularly annoying job and stopping of on the planet Aether for the fourth time in the three and a half years since the events on Zebes for a certain side project she had been working on .
"I'm sorry that job took me so long, sweetie." Samus said to the now six year old looking humanoid Metroid.
"It's okay, mommy." Virginia replied before pointing up and closing her eyes as she began to speak one of 'Rules of hunting' that Samus often preached. "Getting the job done right is more important than getting it done fast."
"That's my girl." Samus said with a smile when suddenly an alarm went off in her Gunship.
"What's wrong?" Virginia asked in a slight panic.
"A Baby's Cry coming from a space station called the 'Bottleship'." Samus explained before changing her coarse. "Sorry, sweetie. Looks like I'm be a gone for a little bit longer." She said looking to her disappointed daughter.
"It's okay." She said in a sad tone, wishing that she was older so she could go with Samus on her adventures.
"I'll be home as soon as I can. Until I get back remember to..." Samus said before the child interrupted her.
"Finish my studies, eat my veggies, and take a bath before going to bed promptly at 20:30." Virginia said while leaving out one every important thing.
"Aaand." Samus led in a mom tone.
"Don't go in to the secret room." Virginia said as she crossed her arms.
Samus couldn't help but smile at her daughter's attempt to pull one over on her despite the nanny droids she kept near constant watch on Virginia while she was gone. "Love you, Virginia." She said, getting the girl to smile.
"Love you too, Mommy. Be careful." Virginia said.
"I, will don't worry." Samus replied be fore they waved goodbye to each other and Samus cut the call before speeding off to the Bottleship.
Samus traveled for several minutes at top speed before arriving at the Bottleship and docking. Upon exiting her ship, Samus could already sense that something was amiss. She felt a slight chill she had not felt in some time.
Samus surveyed the hanger briefly before noticing a GF transport was there and after a quick scan with her thermal visor, she could see the engines were still warm. She continued on, hoping to meet up with the troops before they inevitably made what ever was happening worse.
Samus began traveling through the eerily empty station, keeping her weapons raised. Several minutes of travel, she arrived in a mostly empty room. Suddenly, she sensed some movement behind her. She quickly turned around with her beam charging only to be met by four GF troops, their helmets marked with '07'.
"Hey, princess." One of the soldiers greeted, causing Samus to smirk under her visor as the man lifted his. "Purple's a good color on you." He said, commenting on Samus' Gravity Suit.
Samus' helmet quickly glowed before disappearing revealing her face to the solider. "Anthony." She greeted with a genuine smile to her old friend, one of very few people who could get those. "I assume you're here for the same reason I am." She said before getting her answer.
"Yes we are." The leader of the platoon said before raising his visor.
"Adam." Samus nodded in respect to her former C.O before walking to him and shaking his hand.
"It's good to see you, Samus." Adam said, never dropping his stoic face or tone.
"What can you tell me about the situation?" Samus asked before Anthony answered her.
"Nothing right now." He said before pointing to a door. "We're trying to cut through there to get to the control room and override the lockdown. But it could take a while." He explained.
"There is a junction point on this level that can at least restore partial power and unlock the door. But the walkway to it has been destroyed." Adam said and Samus instantly understood.
"So, I make my way to the junction point, get the door unlocked and rendezvous with you back here." She reasoned, getting a nod from Adam. She then walked closed to him and began to whisper. "Don't let your men move any further from here until I get back. There's no telling what's in here." She said.
"Fine. But get back here fast." Adam whispered back as Samus exited the room and began to make her way to the junction point. She quickly made her way to the downed walkway before Grapple Beaming up and going the rest of the way to the junction point and restoring partial power before making her way back to the room where the troops were. However, several insect like creatures now blocked her way. Nothing that Samus couldn't handle. But she couldn't help but note that they were similar to the Mellows she faced on Zebes.
Samus quickly arrived back with Adam's platoon before the General began to give orders. "Alight, move in slowly. Keep your backs to each other to avoid sneak attacks." He said as the platoon got in to formation. Adam then nodded to Samus, signifying the he wanted her to take up the rear. Which of coarse, she was all to willing to do.
As the group entered the room, Samus was feeling slightly uneasy. She looked down with the rest of them to see a dead body covered in green venom. Suddenly small purple bug approached one of the soldiers, who slapped it away with his rifle before shooting it.
"A bit jumpy their. Aren't you Lyle?" Anthony quipped. The solider was about to respond when suddenly, hundreds if not thousands more insects fell down from the ceiling along with a large eyeball. The insects quickly converged on the eyeball and forming in to a large creature with two tentacle like arms. One of which knock the solider 'Lyle' against a wall as another of the group ran to him.
The rest of the platoon quickly opened fire on the creature. But they were quick to see that their attacks were having little if any effect. Adam was about to order the group to change tactics when Samus quickly stepped forward and used her Ice Spreader to freeze the creature completely before hitting it with her Seeker Missiles and destroying most of the insects before she used her Grapple Beam to grab the eye and pull it to her hand, squishing it with one quick squeeze.
The GF troops lowered their guns with the creature dead, all but Adam and Anthony in awe at Samus' prowess.
Adam then went over to the two soldiers at the wall and looked to Lyle who was trying to stand up after the hit. "How is he?" He asked the soldier next to Lyle when Samus, who had activated her X-ray Visor to look Lyle over, spoke up.
"Nothing looks broken and there appear to be no concussions." She said before shifting to her Echo Visor to get a look at his heart rate and breathing. "Looks like he just got the wind knocked out of him. Just give him a couple minutes." She said, getting a nod from Adam who then signaled for her to follow him.
"Samus, if that creature was a sign of thing to come we might need your assistance in securing the facility." Adam quietly said in his usual calm tone.
'Translation: Samus, I want to ask for your help but I'm to cool and proud to do so.' Samus thought as she rolled her eyes under her visor. "I'll do whatever I can to help." She verbally responded.
"I do have to stress though, we can't risk extreme damage to the station and some of your heavier weapons can do just that." Adam said.
"So, you want me to avoid using my Nova Beam, Super Missiles, and Power Bombs." Samus deduced.
"I'd also like you to avoid use of your Plasma Beam and Screwattack." Adam said.
"If I can. But if my backs to the wall..." Samus began to say.
"As long as it doesn't put my men in danger." Adam said.
"Of coarse." Samus said, her mutual understanding with Adam keeping them butting heads due to her bounty hunter status conflicting with procedure.
"Alright." Adam said before going up to a computer terminal over looking the room to lay out orders. "It appears that something is preventing the platoon's coms from functioning right now. James Get to the communications room of the station and find the cause of the interference." He Said as James nodded. "K.G, go to the living quarters and search for survivors. The rest of you go to the elevator hub. Once it's online, Lyle will go to sector 1, Maurice to sector 2, and Anthony to sector 3. Anthony I'll leave it up to you to decide if use of Plasma Beams is called for." Adam said getting nods from Anthony and the others before they moved out.
"What do you need me to do, Adam?" Samus asked.
"I've unlocked the door to the main power station. The junction you went to only restored partial emergency power. So, I need you to get the main grid back online so my men can move out." Adam explained. "Any objections, Lady?" Adam asked, making it unable for Samus to hold back a smile before she gave him a thumbs down before going to make her way to the main power grid.
Along the way there, Samus in countered a fleet of Wavers and a large group of Hoppers. Samus was able to time her attacks perfectly, using her Morph Ball Bombs to take out the Hoppers when they landed before shifting out of the Morph Ball and using Seeker Missiles to take out the Wavers.
'This starting to feel suspicious. One type of creature I faced on Zebes is one thing. But three? To much of a coincidence for me.' Samus thought. But decided the best coarse would be to play the field to see what was going on.
Samus continued on her way, eventually reaching the main power room where he found the source of the outage. A nest of Mellows. Samus was quickly swarmed by the insect like creatures. Samus quick to dodge out of the way and use her Ice Burst to take care of the swarm. She then quickly turned around and used the stream of the Wave Buster to cut away the nest from the power core and causing it to fall before she jumped after it and used the stacked Wave and Ice beam to destroy the hive and the remaining Mellows. She then Space Jumped back up to the control console and restoring the power.
"Good work, Samus." Adam said from over the coms. "Now, I need you to make your way to Sector 1. I'll give you additional instructions once there.
"Understood." Samus replied before she began to make her way to Sector 1.
Meanwhile in said sector:
Within a small lab the sound gnawing and meat being torn and chewed could be heard. The source of the chewing turned out to be a small, white creature with a mouth full of canines that then let out a blood curtailing shriek.
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Well, there you go. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and once again, I'm sorry it took so long. Next time we continue this modified story of Other M. Points to those who can guess why Samus had gone to Aether multiple times since the events of Super Metroid. Though I wont confirm if you're right until much later. Well, until next time (Which hopefully wont be that far away.) and as always... Keep on keeping on.