Zion was unlike anything Samus had seen before. Even the Chozo never had cities underground like this. It was amazing to see such a large group of people to live in one spot. From what Samus learned, Zion was the last human city on Earth and it was almost destroyed by the robots almost ten years ago. This was stopped by Neo who made a truce with the robots saying that he would destroy the Smith Virus if the humans could have peace. Of course the robots only held this truce for about a year. But the robots never attacked the city again. The reason remained unanswered.

The crew, at the moment, was bringing Esther to Zion's hospital. Her arm was infected badly. She needed proper care immediately. Once they reached the hospital she was brought to a doctor that immediately treated her with antibiotics. She was then left to rest. The crew stuck around for a bit. An hour later Esther died.

"She died from blood loss and infections." said the doctor.

"I can't believe it." said Raven. "She was a very strong person. How could she die like this."

"I'm very sorry." said the doctor.

Raven had to sit down. It was too much for him to handle.

"Were you close to her?" asked Samus.

"Yeah. She was my sister." replied Raven.

"I had no idea." Samus said, feeling sorry. Once again, a feeling she had not felt for what felt like an eternity.

"Most of the crew doesn't know." said Raven. "She was unplugged before me. Only you and Boss know. Before being unplugged we weren't that close. We had our problems."

"I'm sorry." said Samus, feeling somehow guilty.

"Thanks."

After the crew said their goodbyes to the late Esther they left for their homes they had in

Zion. Samus declined to stay with Raven when he offered. She would sleep in her ship that was being repaired by the best engineers in Zion.

As Samus was walking to the docking bays where her ship was, she was confronted by an old man.

"Hello, outsider." he said in what seemed like a very wise voice.

"Um, hello? How do you know me?" she asked.

"Word gets around pretty fast here and we don't get many people from other universes." he explained.

"May I ask who you are?"

"My name is Morpheus. Leader of Zion." replied the old man. "And if I'm correct your name is Samus."

"Yes." said Samus, quite shocked.

"I told you that word gets around." said Morpheus who saw the shock on her face. "Would you please join me."

"Sure." said Samus, unsure what to do.

"I'm sure you have been trained but I would rather if I could train you some more. Of course, only if you wanted to." he offered.

"It would be an honor." replied Samus. She always accepted gifts from leaders.

Morpheus brought Samus to a lab in the fourth level of Zion. The security was quite intense. They had about two-hundred soldiers in exoskeleton. She was impressed.

"After the robot invasion almost ten years ago we decided that we would need more sophisticated technology. So we started experimenting with new weapons." explained Morpheus. "So far, we have made an astonishing progress."

They entered the lab after an intense security check that included DNA scan and eye scan. Once they entered, Morpheus brought Samus into a room with a lot of stations to plug into the Matrix with.

"They don't exactly broadcast to the Matrix. But we can do training programs here." said Morpheus. "And that is exactly what we are going to do."

Two men prepared a couple of stations for Samus and Morpheus. This only took a minute. Then they hooked Samus's device up to on of the stations. They both sat down ready to enter the training program.

"Oh, and Samus, this will be hard." said Morpheus just as they entered the program.

Samus found herself in a bamboo forest. She was in samurai armor with a sword. She had no idea how to use a sword. All of a sudden her brain felt as though it was injected with a very dense liquid.

"Don't worry." said a voice to her side. She looked around and saw Morpheus standing in similar armor to hers. "It was just a download that taught your brain to wield a sword."

It was true. She just knew how to fight with a sword and she had never even touched one before. She pulled the sword from its sheath.

"I'm sure that you were taught that the Matrix has no limits with enough concentration. This program will teach you to move so fast that even an agent will not have time to dodge your punches." said Morpheus. "This program's atmosphere is so dense it will feel like your under water. Now we fight."

Morpheus jumped then bounce off a bamboo tree and flew at her. Samus didn't even have time to move away from the kick that was about to make contact with her face. She flew back from the kick. She fell down with a bloody nose. She got back up and tried to attack Morpheus. This proved futile due to the dense air around her.

"Come on. You can do better." said Morpheus. As he sent a brick crushing punch to her chest. She once again didn't have time to dodge one of this man's attacks. She attacked with normal speed this time. Morpheus blocked her sword every time it came near him. Then he pulled out his sword and hit her side with the flat of the sword. It stung. She attacked again. This time it was fast. She only managed to scratch his suit.

She slowly got faster and still Morpheus dodged or blocked every attack. This carried on for about twenty minutes. Samus jumped back to dodge an attack. She landed on a tree. She jumped back down and feinted a slash to the head that Morpheus tried to block. She then flipped over him and slashed him in the back. It wasn't a deep cut but it was enough.

"Stop." said Morpheus as paused for a second. "We are going to have to cut this short. Zion is being attacked."

Both were sucked back to the real world.

"What do the robots want now?" was the first thing Samus heard as she entered the real world. It was Morpheus talking to a man at a computer.

"They're not robots." replied the man.

"I know what they." said Samus as she looked at the screen. "Space Pirates."

"What?" said Morpheus.

"Just ready you army." said Samus. "Trust me."

Morpheus nodded and then told a messenger to give this info to their army.

Samus ran to find the crew of the spirit. She activated her varia suit while doing so. It didn't take long to find.

"We have to go." said Samus to Raven.

"Why?" asked Raven slightly startled.

"We are being attacked and I need to get to the Space Pirate's mother ship."

"Space Pirates?" said Boss.

"I'll explain everything later but first you need to come with me." said Samus.

"Where are we going?" asked Raven.

"First we got to go to my ship. The Zions weapons will not be strong enough where we are going." replied Samus as the crew ran with her to the docking bay.

Once they reached her ship, Samus opened a door on the side of the ship. She pulled out six weapons and handed one to each of the crew members.

"Galactic Federation Trooper standard issue plasma rifles." explained Samus. "Just aim and pull the trigger."

After this they ran to the Spirit and began to start the ship.

"Samus, you better tell me what the hell is going on, because if we are being attacked I'm not supposed to leave Zion." demanded Boss.

"The only way for a victory is if we take the mother ship. Trust me." said Samus.

"But what about the gates?" asked Jette.

"Don't worry. I'm overriding the gate system now." said Samus as the gate began to open.

"What are we going to do once we get to the mother ship?" asked Raven.

"Talk to an old friend."