Here is the third chapter, and I'm sorry for any confusion. IT IS NOT DONE PEOPLE!
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LOCATION - - - - - NEPHERON GALAXY IN THE PHALANX QUADRANT
4TH FROM HOME BASE
PLANET - - - - - AUTOMIA, 2ND PLANET FROM RED GIANT, KNOWN AS CHEMIS
SCANNING PLANET . . . . .
SCAN COMPLETE.
PLANETARY REPORT:
73 WATER
27 LAND
OXYGEN LEVELS 2 ABOVE EARTH'S
NOT LETHAL
SEARCHING PLANET'S HISTORY . . . . .
SEARCH COMPLETE.
PLANET'S MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME: BEACHSIDE RESORTS
RECIEVING RADIO BROADCAST - - - - -
"Come on down an register at the Summertide Inn today! You'll be glad you did!"
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Samus froze as the voice resonated in her mind. It was filled with anger and hate. She silently wished that she was hearing things, that it all was a dream. The color of her skin proved otherwise. "Who... are you?" Samus questioned cautiously, not sure if she wanted an answer.
"I am you..."
The realization dawned on her, confirming her fears. "Prime."
"Exactly." it hissed. "Looks like we'll be spending quite a bit of time together. You should feel honored that--" Before it could finish Samus grabbed for a second vile of nero-poison that was conviniently lying on her nightstand. An inch away and her arm froze. "I don't think so." Prime said. A bolt of black lightining shot from her fingertips and melted the vile. The smell of rotten eggs filled the room. "I thought you would have learned your lesson the first time. I guess I'll have to teach it to you agaien. Tonight."
Samus glared as the feeling of her arm returned. She cursed herself for being slow. She looked out the window and sighed. It was a beautiful day, in contrast to her dark mood. Bright and warm, no doubt caused by the closeness to the sun. She coud see why the planet was famous as a vacation spot. She put on a red jumpsuit and grabbed an ID card, just in case someone doubted who she was on account of her... change. She activated the ship's automated defense matrix and walked out.
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"What'll yeh have, uh, miss?" the Taresian bartender asked as Samus sat down. The Taresians were an odd race of alien. Totally harmless, yet had a very frighting appearence. They had two many tentacles to count.
"Martini."
"Comin' right up."
Samus swiviled around in her chair to look out at the beach. I might take a swim later. She heard a clink behind her, folowed by the sound of liquid pouring and ice shifting. At least, after a few more martinis. She turned back around and downed the drink.
"We get's a lot of yer kind 'round here."
She raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me?"
"Yeh know," the bartender said uneasily. "Space travelers. I'd like teh get offa dis planet someday an' explore da big ol' universe. Yous guys are very lucky indeed. Mmhmm."
"Really..." He nodded. "Yeah. Say, yous look familiar. What's yer name?"
She smiled. "Samus. Samus Aran."
"Samus..." His eyes lit up. "Samus! Why I haven't seen yeh in ages! It's me, Derino!"
"Derino? Wow, it has been a while. I haven't seen you since I left the Chozo homeworld."
"Yeah! Yeh was white then."
A look of confusion crossed Samus's face. "White? Oh, my skin... It's, uh, something for a mission I did about a week ago. The color hasn't wore off yet."
"Ah, I see." Derino said, not questioning further. "Yeh know what? Drinks are on da house."
"Thanks Derino." He shrugged and poured her another martini. "What are old friends for?" She smiled as her comlink beeped. She turned away from the bar and pressed a button on it, making a holoscreen appear.
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WARNING!
MULTIPLE BIOFORMS APPROACHING!
LOCATED IN ALTERNATE DIMENSION.
TOTAL COUNT - - - - - 13720 BIOFORMS.
SCANNING BIOFORMS . . .
SCAN COMPLETE.
HUNTER ING, WARRIOR ING, INGSTORMS, UNKNOWN ING BIOMASSES DETECTED.
COMPARING ING COUNT TO PLANETARY MILITIA . . .
ING- 13720
PLANET MILITIA- 7321 FOOT SOLDIERS, 1002 DIFFERENT MECHS
CALCULATING VICTOR . . .
I N G
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Samus read and reread the message in disbelief. The Ing were coming here, to this planet? But why? She ran out of the bar and into her ship, dawning (however reluctantly) her new Varia Suit. She was about to leave the ship when the armor of her hand flashed. The realization dawned on her. Oh god... she thought. The energy controller... I still have the Sky Temple's energy!
"I could have told you that."
Samus, choosing to ignore Prime's comment, instead jumped in the cockpit and took off. She just broke free of the planet's gravitational pull when the Ing armada shifted into this dimension. They had possessed some Space Pirate freighters and were using them to carry around their warriors.
"Dammit!" Samus hissed. "Betty, calculate the chances of surviving a dogfight."
"CALCULATING . . . 10 CHANCE OF SURVIVAL."
"So I have a 90 chance of dying?"
"YES."
"I'll take those chances." She activated the weapon systems quickly and was about to turn around when she felt her body freeze. Damn it! she thought, no longer in control.
"You forget, if you die, I die." the Metroid hissed. "And I can't have that."
You bastard!
The Metroid only smiled. "Betty," it said in Samus's voice. "calculate my chances of survival if we retreat."
"CALCULATING . . . 93 CHANCE OF SURVIVAL."
"Much better." It switched off the weapon systems and initiated the hyperdrive module, typing in coordinates Samus had never seen before. They entered hyperspace right as the Ing began firing. The Metroid could feel Samus's anger rising. "We would have died." It said, still in Samus's voice, as it moved her body into her quarters and made her lay on her bed. "We're stuck in hyperspace for about a day and a half."
Why do you care whether I die or not?
"Because I need you to get to thing Ing." It sensed her confusion. "I have a score to settle. And, so do you, if I remember right."
What do you mean?
The Metroid laughed. "They killed your entire family."
No they didn't. Space Pirates did.
"Wrong. Well, not entirely wrong." It paused for a moment, as if gathering strength to keep going. "Your two enemies are one Samus. I will show you..." And with that it made Samus fall asleep.
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Samus landed on her feet in a strangly familiar place. Everything was dark save a single light that shown on her from above. She heard something land behind her. She spuun around, arm cannon raised. It was the Metroid Prime. "What do you want?" she asked it.
It pushed the cannon away. "To finish my story." It said as it raised it's arm cannon and shot Samus in the chest with an ice beam that froze her from the neck down. "What the hell?" she asked.
"I still have to punish you from earlier." It took off Samus's helmet and punched her in the mouth, busting her lip. "No one tries to kill me and get away with it."
Samus spat some blood on the ground. "You little bitch..."
The Metroid laughed. "Now, where did I leave off? Oh yes." It punched Samus again. "I stole some data from the Ing."
"Stole? But I thought you served them." The Metroid punched her again, hard, this time bloodying her nose. "I serve no one." It shook the blood of it's hand. "Disgusting. Anyway, the data I stole was a video recording. Three, actually." It raised its hand and a hologram recording began playing. U-Mos was standing in a room, surrouned by a large group of Ing, with the Emporer watching him. Everything was silent for a moment, then U-Mos started to speak.
"An orphaned child, infused with great blood, weilding a suit of powerful armor, will overcome all challenges set against her, will arrive on a world split between darkness and light, good and evil, and save it from destruction."
The Metroid closed its hand. "Interesting, isn't it? You were supposed to save Aether. But somehow, you failed." It raised its hand again and another recording began playing.
Somewhere in the Sky Temple grounds, hundreds of thousands of Space Pirates were standing at attention. But something was wrong. They were standing there, staring blankly at the Emporer Ing. It was the same blank stare Samus had seen when she fought possessed Space Pirates on Aether. All at once they climbed into transports and shifted out of Dark Aether and into Aether. The Metroid closed its hand again. "With that many soldiers, it's a suprise they needed the Metroids..." It opened its hand a third time and the final recording played.
They were on some planet, watching as Space Pirates were killing people by the thousands. A group of them stopped at a single house. Thirty guns raised and they all fired, tearing down the roof and most of the walls. Two cries of pain were heard among the gunfire. With a room with a single child in it in full view, the Pirates advanced, only to be halted by a birdlike figure that grabbed the baby. It teleported, leaving a glowing sphere behind. It exploded, and the hologram cut out. The Metroid lowered its arm. "Do you need another reason to hate them?"
Samus looked down at the darkness around her frozen feet. Her anger was increasing rapidly. She heard the Metroid charge a shot. "That's enough for now." it said and it shot her
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Whew. That is the quickest I've ever typed something. Three hours people. My hands hurt like hell. You know, it's funny. Until I had told you that I was gonna update, I only had one review. Now I got four. I didn't know a little ol' thing like END could mean so much. But, what about my other story? It only got one review, and I'm almost finished with it! That sucks... Anyway, R&R, you know.