"Go fish?"
"Nah,"
"Besides, we don't even have cards."
"Hide and Seek?"
"No. Where would we hide anyway?"
Thoughtful silence.
"Hm... Oh I got it! Tag!"
"Seriously?"
"It was just a suggestion, no need to get all huffy at me for it."
Sigh.
The three of us sat in a circle, naming off things to do. We had lost track of how long we had been prisoners here, and ran out of activities to keep us occupied. We had considered exploring more, but we found nothing. Sleep was even becoming boring, at which I surprised myself.
I held my head in my hands, staring blankly past Ghor's shoulder and into the inky black. My mind was becoming a cell in which I was trapped. The times I was ever set free of my self-induced captivity was when I communicated with Ghor and Gandrayda. Though, my fellow bounty hunters seemed to be becoming locked in on themselves as well.
"I wonder if I could kill myself..." Ghor muttered, breaking the mute. "Would death be worse than this?"
"Death sounds inviting." Gandrayda said in monotony, her eyelids drooping. "It's probably better than being sealed inside some psychotic alien."
"You don't see that every day," I chuckled a few times, and my friends did as well. It lightened the blandness of the situation slightly. "But then again our lives are pretty much wrecks."
"Got that right, Rundas." Gandrayda said, her eyes fully closing. She caught herself snoozing and yawned widely, stretching her arms out. Her bones popped at the sudden extension. "I'm tired."
"Aren't we all?" Ghor said numbly as he laid down on his back. He folded his arms over his chest. "I don't think I've ever been this exhausted before."
"Is it because we're dead bored or that we're disappearing from existence?" I asked.
He shrugged. "Who knows?"
I felt something come over me, a sensation like I was flying. The black in front of me dissolved, and I saw a battlefield.
There were blue tentacles of Phazon all around, combined with a dark sky that glittered only by stars. A voice in my head spoke, "Ah, Samus..."
Below, on the Phazon covered ground, was indeed the familiar bounty hunter. She was glowing with Phazon, her suit streaming bright blue. Samus seemed to be having trouble standing, and her shoulders were hunched as she stared towards where I was.
I touched the ground, hearing maniac laughter that was strangely close. Samus pointed her gun towards me. I lifted my hand, only to see that it wasn't my own. Black armor that covered slim hands and strong arms was what appeared. The fist clenched, Phazon haze hovering around it. The other arm that was mainly a weapon was raised at Samus as well.
I jerked back to where I actually was, with Gandrayda and Ghor in a panic. They both had anxious faces, but Gandrayda was shaking me back and forth.
"Rundas! Are you all right?" Ghor asked, waving his hand in front of my face. My sight was a little blurry, but I could make out a few things.
"Did you guys see that?" I responded to a question with a question, but I didn't care. This was important!
They looked confused. "See what?" Gandrayda wondered.
"I saw Samus. But through Dark Samus's eyes. Samus is in danger, she's become more and more corrupted. We have to help her!" by this time I was on my feet, rushing towards a place I couldn't get to.
Gandrayda and Ghor stepped in front of me, holding me back. "Wait, you saw them? Actually them? Fighting?" the robot said, a look of disbelief all over his face.
I nodded. "Yes! We need to help her!" I tried to fight their grip, but they held me strong.
"You said that already. But Rundas, there's nothing we can do! We've been stuck here for who knows how long and we're completely helpless!" Gandrayda explained, but I didn't glance at her. I was too busy searching for an exit.
"No! We're not helpless! We can do something, I know it!" I cried, my voice strained and worrisome. What if Samus ended up here? What would we do then? I couldn't just wait and watch her be beaten.
I shook away Gandrayda and Ghor, hurling ice chunks all around. I made them thick and jagged, but they struck nothing. Landing on the black ground, they shattered into a million fragments.
I hung my head, greatly stressed and disappointed. Ghor appeared next to me, saying softly. "The best thing we can do is to wait."
"But I don't want to wait. She's in trouble. I-" sucking in a breath, I saw flashes of blue and white streak swiftly before my eyes. "augh! Samus!" I grabbed my head, the vision of Dark Samus assaulting my corrupt friend flooding my mind.
I felt my companions hands on my shoulders. "Tell us what you see!" Ghor commanded.
I obeyed, reciting what I was experiencing. "Samus fires Phazon at Dark Samus, but does hardly any damage... ...Dark Samus splits herself into separate beings, running around the arena and concentrating huge Phazon bursts at Samus... ...Dark Samus shoots long energy beams that cause real Samus to scream..." I kept going for the entire battle, my comrades listening as intently as they could to my suffering.
"Dark Samus falls, but returns back to her feet and summons..." I gasped, making Gandrayda and Ghor jump. "an Aurora Unit?! How can this be?!" I remembered the G.F.S. Valhalla's AU had gone missing, and then stolen... "Aurora Unit 313 has been completely corrupted by Dark Samus. Now, the dark hunter is merging with it..." Gandrayda and Ghor went stiff with shock and horror. "it begins to fight Samus with rockets, beams, and head slams... Samus rolls into a ball and evades the landing of heavy duty missiles that explode with red Phazite... ...Aurora Unit 313 sends out duplicates of Dark Samus, which assault Samus aggressively... ...The AU's neck tendon is destroyed, leaving only the head in midair for Samus to attack... ...A purple soft spot is on its back. Samus firing as rapidly and toughly as her beam can manage... ...The Aurora Unit's tendrils sent out huge rays that Samus has to avoid or get burned... ...The AU hurls blue bombs that explode around Samus... ...The bounty hunter keeps firing at the weak spot, the Aurora Unit eventually falling and imploding on itself..."
I stopped, feeling the terrible pain that begins to eat away Dark Samus as she emerges from the broken body of the AU. I fall to my knees again, writhing and screaming in sync with Dark Samus as her suit begins to destroy her, Phazon erupting from it in bright energy spikes. Her limbs are shaking violently. Gandrayda and Ghor can do nothing for me now.
Dark Samus reaches out for Samus, crying in agony and hurt. But she is merely stared at by her opposite, and continues to die.
Dark Samus throws her hand skyward, and explodes in a flash of Phazon.