1Yosh! I thank you all for the reviews in my first chapter and several of your suggestions shall be taken to heart. I did receive some complaints as to what Ridley was wearing, but I shall make it better in this chapter. A bit more shall be explained and a bit of action shall take place as well.
Chapter 2: The meeting
--------- Log 123-76-98: The transplant for Ridley's brain was a success. However, several pieces of his brain were damaged as well including the speech lobe. We had no choice but to replace these parts with human brain parts... we are unsure of how this will effect his everyday activity. He still possesses the ability to understand space pirate speech, but he can now only speak human, and as such, he can understand humans as well. The body that his brain was placed in belonged to a young humanoid who had recklessly tried to invade space pirate territory. We were going to terminate him, but we spared his body... his brain has been subjected to Phazon experiments, causing it to corrode rather quickly. The power suit that Ridley now wears was built after some extensive research on some broken power suit pieces found aboard the sunken frigate. During our salvaging, we also dug up several Chozo graves for experiments. One of them still had skin upon it, so using that little DNA, we managed to infuse a bit of Chozo blood into the body as well. We also found no reason to change the clothing that the body wore, in case Ridley ever found the need to remove the power suit and go under cover. As he takes off for the planet Tropico in pursuit of Samus Aran. We continue our experiments here... but our cold facilities are beginning to malfunction and the Metriods that we have kept in captivity are beginning to regain their energy... ---------
Ridley carefully piloted his ship away from the main station. He put the engines on full throttle, trying to reach his destination, which really wasn't very far away, as fast as he could.
He smiled a bit and looked down at his power suit again. "I can now understand how Samus defeated us so easily all of these times... when I first met her, I thought that she was a complicated android... but bioscans and evidence of my eyes proved me wrong. She is much to flexible and skilled to be an android. I should have known better."
He gave a small chuckle. "I'm talking to myself... how pathetic is this?"
He frowned and looked out through the window of his ship, watching the stars race by at a high speed. It really was a very nice sight... but not one that he had time to admire. He had a mission to complete and he aimed to complete it... by any means nessicary.
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Samus sighed contently as she sank into the hotspring. She was staying at one of the many resorts on Tropico. It was her first vacation in a while and she was relieved to finally have a break. She was wearing a red two-piece bathing suit that hugged her skin nicely. Her ship was set next to the hot spring, just in case. She was just being a bit cautious right now... there were quite a few creatures in the universe who desired her death.
She closed her eyes and laced her fingers together. She blew a few strands of hair out of her face and looked around at all the foliage around her. It was peaceful on this planet... something that she was definitely not used to. But, it was nice to have a break from all the explosions and traps and excitement that she had to deal with when she was on a mission. Her thoughts suddenly went to Ridley... her dearly departed nemisis. She kept trying to convince herself that he was gone for good this time, but for some reason, she couldn't help but feel as if he was still out there, watching, waiting to strike at her...
She shook her head. Yes, she definitely needed this rest if she was ever going to get these paranoid thoughts out of her head. She shifted to a more comfortable position, but winced when she sat on a sharp rock. "Damn." she muttered, "you would think that they would at least check for things like this first." She grabbed the offending rock and threw it out of the pool.
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Ridley let out a small chuckle as he landed his ship near the resort. He looked out at it and snorted. "These stupid humans... they build these stupid resorts, but what's the point?"
He shrugged and exited the ship, cocking his arm cannon and walking towards the resort. When he reached it, he looked around and noticed several scarcely dressed humans staring at him. He smirked at them and raised his cannon threateningly, causing them to scatter like cockroaches when the light comes on.
He forced open the door and walked up to the front desk and slamming his fist down on it. "Hello there. I'm looking for a woman named Samus Aran and I have reason to believe that she is staying here."
The woman at the desk gulped. "I-I'm very sorry sir, but I'm n-not allowed to reveal any information without some identification."
Ridley laughed and raised his arm cannon at her, setting it on the plasma beam. "You want some identification? I'll give you identification if you don't tell me where Aran is!"
The girl nodded, but an officer stepped up and raised his gun at Ridley. "Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to step outside with me."
Ridley grinned. "Allow me to give you my answer to that request." He placed his hand on the man's head and twisted it until a hideous cracking sound came from the man's neck. His eyes glazed over and he dropped to the ground, dead.
The woman at the desk reached under the desk and pressed a red button. Alarms blared around her and a recorded message sounded. "RED ALERT! RED ALERT! ARMED MAN IN RECEPTION AREA! EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! ALL PERSONEL, EVACUATE IMMIDIATELY!"
Ridley smiled evily and raised his arm cannon again. "Perfect. An alarm like that will almost certainly lead Aran to me. Thank you... now, here's your reward." He fired his plasma beam... the poor woman didn't even have the chance to scream as her head and chest were incinerated by the intense heat, blood flowing from the bottom half of her body.
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Samus heard the sound of the alarms and the message. On instinct, she jumped out of the water and ran into the ship. She had no time to get her entire suit on or even some decent clothing on. She simply grabbed her arm cannon and slipped it onto her arm, running out of the ship and towards the reception area.
She burst through the front door and raised her arm cannon. When she saw who it was, she gasped. It was a man there, dressed in a power suit almost exactly like hers. He had his arm cannon out and was shooting in random directions. "Hold it!" she shouted.
Ridley stopped and looked over at her. He was a little surprised. He had never seen Samus outside of her power suit, but he knew that it was her because of her arm cannon. He smiled and raised his own cannon. "Well, well. We meet again, Samus Aran."
Samus cocked an eyebrow. "Have we met?" she asked. She couldn't recall a single person who had a power suit like hers.
Ridley laughed. "Not surprising that you don't recognize me. Allow me to give you a few hints. We first met on Zebes where you first killed me and mother brain. Then, we fought again after you brought that metroid in to the government. Then, we recently met again on Tallon IV where you completely destroyed my body."
Samus' eyes went wide. "It can't be... Ridley, is that you?"
Ridley smiled and nodded. "And you figured it out all on your own. Guess you aren't such a mindless bitch after all. Thanks to you, the pirates needed to put me in this godforsaken body!"
Samus growled. "Don't blame me! It was your own fault for getting in my way."
Ridley shook his head. "It doesn't matter now, because I shall destroy you here and now! Finally, revenge shall be mine!"
Samus raised her cannon and started charging her power beam. "Shove it up your ass, bastard!" She fired.
Ridley rolled out of the way and fired a missile at her. Samus ran up to the missile and jumped over it, landing on a table near Ridley. She fired off a missile of her own, but Ridley back flipped out of the way. "Very poor aim, Samus."
Samus frowned. "It would probably be easier if you would stay still!"
Ridley wiggled his index finger. "Please, what fun would that be?" He charged up his own beam and fired it. It hit Samus' arm cannon, short circuiting it. Samus clutched her arm, feeling the pain through the cannon. She had no choice but to slip it off of her hand. "Damn you."
Ridley smirked as he looked at her. Samus Aran, the greatest bounty huntress in the universe and the most feared enemy of the space pirates was now at his mercy! He raised his arm cannon and smiled. "Prepare to die, Samus Aran."
Samus sighed and closed her eyes, waiting for death to take her. Ridley was poised and ready... but, for some reason, he couldn't pull the trigger! His arm shook as he tried to pull it, but it wouldn't obey! 'Damn it, why can't I kill her?' he thought to himself.
He tried again, but before he pulled it, a beeping sound came to him. He pressed his hand to his visor. "Ridley here."
A pirate, sounding quite frantic, was the one speaking. "Ridley, abort your current mission and get back here NOW! Our freezing facilities have malfunctioned and an entire swarm of hunter metriods have gotten loose! We need your help to contain them ASAP!"
Ridley's eyes widened. "What! But I... I'm so close!"
The pirate sounded slightly more frantic. This pirate was on the command, so he knew that arguing with it was pointless. "Now is not the time for that, Ridley! Get back here now!"
Ridley growled, but lowered his arm cannon. "Yes sir." He said those last two words through clenched teeth. The communicator shut down and Ridley looked at Samus. "You are extremely lucky that we have such incompitent workers back at Command, Aran. This little feud of ours will have to wait, but rest assured that I will be back."
He ran out of the front door and boarded his ship, quickly turning on all the main engines, speeding back to the Command central station.
Samus picked up her malfunctioning arm cannon and started to walk back to her ship. She sighed. "So, Ridley is alive again and this time, he is in a human body with a replica of my power suit... this is not going to be a very relaxing vacation..."
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Ridley growled and punched the wall of his ship, leaving a dent in it. "God damn it! I was so close! She was at my mercy and all I had to do was pull the damn trigger and my revenge would be complete... so why couldn't I? She the bitch who killed me, what? Five times now? I've lost count of how many times she's wasted me!"
He slumped down in the pilot's chair, thinking. "The pirates did say that my brain, combined with this body would bring about changes in the way that I act and think... could it be that I'm experiencing emotion?"
He shook his head and spat at the word. "No! It can't be! My arm was just tired... yeah, that's it..."
He sighed as he neared the station. "Damn idiots..."
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A sentry pirate, in a room safe from the hunter metroids was now talking to the Command over a video communicator. "We are sorry, but the all of the cold weaponry is offline and our missiles only hold them back for so long."
The commander in the center shook his head. "That is not the reason we are speaking with you. A sentry camera that we sent to keep an eye on Ridley saw the battle that he and Samus had... he hesitated to strike the final blow and blew the opportunity."
The pirate looked rather uncomfortable. "So... what would you like us to do about this?"
The commander on the left spoke. "We fear that his brain may be adapting to humanoid traits to fast. This could be very hindering in the future... as such, once he has disposed of Aran for good... terminate him."
The pirate nodded, saluted, and walked off, ready to help the others defend against the hunter metroids that had gotten loose.
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Phew! What a chapter. I hope that you like this one and I apologize if I didn't please everyone who reads this story... but that would be humanly impossible. Everyone who reads the junk I wright is going to have at least one problem with it... but still, let me know what you think.