Chapter 3: Upgrades and Damage
Samus looked around the best she could in the dark but she couldn't find anything until a light came back on and then off again. In that amount of time, she managed to find a door. She ran toward the door and then tried to get through when it locked itself up. A noise was then heard above her. Whatever it was making the noise, it isn't small. Then one of the vents came crashing down and a space pirate came through and a single light turned on. Samus quickly switched to her scanner and scanned the pirate.
Quake Trooper: A space pirate with modified USG space boots. When this trooper lands, he creates a shockwave.
Samus switched back to her combat visor and started firing off as quickly as she could at the Pirate while dodging all attacks. About half way through the battle, Samus was knocked over onto the ground. The Space Pirate then grew four tentacles like things from its stomach. Samus quickly scanned the Pirate again.
Quake Trooper: This Pirate has been upgraded with necromorph DNA. The Pirate takes less damage when hit directly. Its weak spot is the proboscis's coming out of its stomach.
Samus switched back and then started firing at the tentacles. Then the Pirate moved a tentacle to its left and shot it forward hitting Samus in the neck and wrapping around. Then it used another of its tentacles and shot it forward stabbing Samus in the stomach. The Pirate dropped Samus and then slammed against the ground.
Samus jumped just high enough for the wave to miss her gun but not high enough to miss her. Samus was thrown backward and into a wall. Samus made sure to avoid hitting the wall with her gun. She quickly got up and started hitting the Pirate with just enough small beams shots to kill it.
The Pirate fell to the ground bloody and left the boots behind. Samus went over and took the boots for herself. Then a warning was announced.
Health now at eighty-five percent. Find a health station to regain health.
Samus then looked at her gun and a health meter appeared. She groaned and then all the lights came back on and she could see clearly. Quickly, she went and grabbed the boots and put them on. The door then unlocked and Samus was let through into a small room with some controls. Samus scanned the controls to find them offline, so she went through the next door. After entering through the door and into a hallway, she then found a wall that appeared to be damaged. Switching to her visor, she scanned the wall.
Wall heavily damaged by meteors. Best to avoid the wall.
Samus switched back and then sighed. She stayed as far from the wall as possible when something hit the wall breaking it causing a vacuum and sucking Samus through. Just on the other side of the wall is another wall that had also been destroyed. Thinking quickly Samus grabbed onto the other wall. Slowly she pulled herself in and in the process, hitting her gun against the wall.
Warning, power beam offline.
Samus sighed again and then stood up. She found herself in a somewhat big room with a locked door. "Great, I have no gun and there is no way I can jump to the other side." Samus then noticed something on one of the shelves. She ran over and scanned the item.
Plasma Cutter: Primary fire, horizontal beam. Secondary fire, Vertical beam
"Well I guess this will have to do for now." Samus went to pick it up but it started to glow as did her gun and soon the Plasma cutter was sucked into her gun.
Plasma Cutter acquired and gun online
Samus looked over to the door to see if it had unlocked but it hadn't and so she decided to scan it to see what the problem is.
Door unable to open due to too much pressure on the other side.
"I guess I go back the other way if I can without being sucked into space." Samus went over to the opening and was about to jumped through when a giant meteor got stuck causing the vacuum to weaken. This was her only chance and so Samus took it and jumped through to the other side and away from the wall. "Now to figure out where to go from here." Samus said heading to the next door. Samus walked through and three creatures turned the corner. Samus scanned the creatures quickly.
Slasher, weakest of the Necromorph. Body hits are weak, try to cut off its limbs.
"Got it." Samus then aimed her gun on the Slasher in the front coming fairly quickly at her. She managed to blast off its arms but then it reached her and bit into her shoulder. Samus shook it off of her and then blasted off its head killing it. Then she jumped into the air and landed causing a shockwave making the two slashers fall backward a few feet. She took aim and shot off the head of the one to the left and then shot off the others legs.
The slasher on the right fell down and was stunned for a second before it started crawling toward Samus where as the one without a head slashed around blindly trying to find its target.
Samus managed to kill the one standing by shooting off its arms but the other reached her. Samus couldn't back up as there is a wall behind her and so the slasher slashed Samus and then its arms were blown off. The small part of the hallway that she ended up in is now bloody.
Health at seventy percent.
"Great, I'm gonna die before I get the chance to get anywhere at this rate." Samus walked a little bit and then found a small item sitting on the ground next to a dead body. Samus turned on her Scanner and scanned the body first.
Body has been dead for three years and has been fed on. Death was caused by a stab to stomach.
Samus then scanned the small item.
Small health vial, drink to restore some energy.
Samus turned off her scanner and picked up the vial and drank it.
Health at ninety percent
Samus then looked around and found that she only has one way to go, forward.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews and I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I made a mistake in the last chapter; I said that she had a command visor. I meant her combat visor, sorry for the mistake. Please review, thank you. The health station is the save station in the game but I changed the name specifically for the story. All it does is heal her instead of saving anything.