1HELLO OUT THERE! I'm updating! YAY! Alright then, I'm at a bit of another loss for a few of my stories, but I will do my best. I need some support in all categories, so whatever you can give, I'll need. Well, with that said, let's see how Samus and Ridley are doing, ne?"
Chapter 3: Thoughts
Ridley took carful aim and fired, freezing the last of the hunter metroids that had escaped. The pirates quickly contained them and put them back into storage. One of the came up and saluted. "Thank you for your help, Ridley."
Ridley scoffed and headed off to his private quarters. He sighed as he closed the door behind him and flopped down on his bed. "They ruined it!" he complained to himself. "I had Samus Aran at gun point and they just had to let all those hunter metriods escape from captivitiy!"
He closed his eyes as another thought came to him. "Why... why couldn't I pull the trigger? She's killed me so many times without remorse. I should have been glad to have her dead... so why then?" he asked, his eyes opening again. "Could this be human emotion? Am I truly becoming more like what I despise the most?"
He walked over to his computer and opened several files that contained all the data he had on humans. He had never really read these before, but now he was curious. He read as much as he could, committing everything that was possible to memory. After about an hour of researching, he rubbed his head. All of this was so foreign to him... but he had to discover what had happened.
Finally, he found something that might actually help him. It read, "In humans, several emotions exist, many of which seem obsolete. Several examples of such emotions include:
Anger: a sudden rage towards a person, place, thing, or idea. Anger can sometimes cause humans to do very idiotic things.
Sadness: Deep sorrow or grief for something that was lost or a tragedy that has occurred. Sadness, like anger, can cause humans to do even more idiotic things.
Happiness: A large surge of joy towards another person, place, thing, or idea. Happiness is obsolete to us as it would only hinder our success rate.
Regret: An emotion that makes a human rethink their actions. It can make them hate what they have done in the past or what they are about to do."
Ridley stopped at this one. "Regret... could this be what I felt when I was about to kill Samus? But... how could that be possible? How could I regret killing her?" he asked himself. He sighed and looked at the last emotion on the list.
"Love: the most obsolete of all emotions, love is the fell one human has when he wishes to be another's mate. They go through a long and tedious courting ritual that has yet to be interpreted by us and they finally seal their mating with a ritual called 'marrage'."
Ridley frowned at the last one. "Love... it seems that we know more about all the other emotions than love. I must... investigate."
He rose from his bed and contacted the launch bay. The pirate there saluted. "Hello, Ridley sir. How can I be of assistance?"
Ridley dropped his hand, a symbol to be at ease. "I want you to prepare my vessel and have it equipped with the coodinates for the capital planet."
The pirate tilted his head again. "Going after the hunter again, sir? This time under cover?"
Ridley smirked slightly. "No, this time... it is a bit of a research expidition."
The pirate nodded, knowing better than to ask any further questions. He saluted and the connection ended. Ridley sighed slightly and he sat down on his bed, waiting for his ship to be refueled. "I need to find out as much about being human as I can..." he said to himself. "Even if it means that I need to act what I so despise."
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Samus sighed as she worked on her suit in the solitude of her own ship, which was currently floating on autopilot near the capital planet. She sighed as she tightened some loose bolts. "Ridley, how could this be? I killed you over and over again... why can't you just take a hint and stay dead for once?"
She shook her head and reached for a few loose wires, receiving a small electric shock in the process. She pulled her hand away with a yelp. Recovering, she finished what she had set out to do. After the final adjustments had been made, She walked over to the central computer and entered a few codes.
A large screen appeared in front of her and she opened up a large file that she had just created with the data she had gathered on Ridley's new form. She'd hacked into several space pirate computers for the information and found several interesting facts about what they were doing.
She pulled up a picture of Ridley's human body without his power suit, and whistled. "Wow, not half bad... muscular, flexible, quick, attractive, probably really good in bed..."
She mentally slapped herself and shook her head for thinking such a thing. This was hardly the time or the place to think of something like that. Besides, that was the body of her arch enemy. She couldn't afford to let sexual attraction get the better of her now. After she finished mentally scolding herself, she turned her attention back to the readouts. "Let's see... his power suit is almost an exact replica of mine, meaning that he would know all of my moves and I would know all of his... this puts us each at a stalemate..."
She sat back down near her suit. "This means that, in order to beat him... I'll have to learn more about him. I'll have to look up a bit about dragons." She redirected her ship's course towards the capital planet. "The library there should have plenty of information on what I need to find out."
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Well, what did you think... this chapter wasn't very exciting, but it did give us a bit more view on what the characters were thinking currently, ne? Tell me what you think and the next chapter will be up soon, hopefully...
