Chapter Three:
Her heart was pounding at the thought of what was actually behind her. What would it feel like to get eaten alive?
"Maybe if I just stay still it won't notice me." she thought.
She waited for her eyes to adjust to the light and stayed very, very quiet. After a few minutes she could see and snapped her head around with her charge beam ready to blowup whatever was behind her. She just wanted the damned thing to go to hell! She regretted thinking that because as she turned around the creature ran away with a shriek. It was only an eticoon that just wanted to be nice. She felt bad for the thing and willed it over to her again. It was a gentle thing, a kind loving animal. That all changed when it got ripped in half.
The Omega Metroid roared with such ferocity that the chamber shook. It took the dead eticoon in its forehand and swallowed it while viciously crunching its bones. Samus was taken by such surprise that she didn't completely realize the fire ball coming towards her. Luckily, she had the Varia Suit so she didn't take any damage; however, she was thrown quite a ways back and lost her footing. The beast came hurtling towards her, but Samus was faster. She swiped at his exposed stomach with her beam. It screeched and fell back for just a moment.
Samus took this pause as a blessing and swiftly attacked again and again. It was almost dead, she could tell by the color of its skin, but Samus was still going strong. The Metroid sent one last lunge at Samus and made contact. She went flying across the room cutting her health down so much she could barely lift her arm. The vermin collapsed with its last burst of energy and fell dead on the ground. Samus was very close to doing the same. The only thing that saved her was another eticoon that brought her a red X. Samus absorbed it and was back to being at full health. She thanked the eticoon and was off, continuing to follow her map.
She could hear the roars of other Omega Metroids in the distance, but none too close to have to worry too much about. She advanced at a medium pace turning here and there along the vast dark corridors. The ceilings were huge, daunting, and black. Nothing had color. It frightened her a little, but on she moved. Apparently this was an Omega Metroid breeding program, and unfortunately the eticoons were their prey. She felt terrible and swore to herself she would come back and free the eticoons. She didn't want the Metroids to die either, as she was a nice soul, but decided to change their food source to something else.
She wearily continued through the dank room until she was faced with a huge circular hall. According to the map she should continue around to the right, but something unnerved her about this place. There was a humongous whole in the center of the room, but she couldn't tell what it was. She circled around following the map until the ground shook. She looked behind her, to her sides, but saw nothing unusual. She raced over to the edge of the hole and stared down. Her mouth opened in awe. The ground below was rising and something was coming with it.
"It has to be an Omega Metroid." she thought.
"But it looks too short! Maybe it's a Zeta Metroid?"
Unfortunately, Samus was wrong. It was a Metroid Queen.