Chapter 7: Adam's Appearance

Krystal stood by one of the bridge's computers worrying about Fox and Peppy down in maintenance. She had felt Fox in trouble and ran up there to tell the others when Peppy instructed her to stay there while he went to make sure. Even then she was still worried since it was about a couple years since Peppy had actually handled a weapon for combat and there was a reason he no longer joined them in missions. Krystal paced back in forth deciding if it was wise to disobey Peppy's instruction to not go down there or if it was best to stay in the bridge. There was trouble just thinking from the noise that the game Falco and Slippy were playing was making like chip tone battle music to miniature explosions.

"Hey can you guys tone it down?" Krystal asked politely.

"Hold on just one sec! I'm about to finally win this game against Falco!"

"In your dreams Slippy, I'm about to win!"

"Hey! That's not nice!"

Krystal became frustrated with the two so she went over and unplugged the cord that connected their two game devices together for the game. The two instantly noticed becoming frustrated themselves on why she had just ended their game.

"How can you both just sit there while Fox and Peppy could be in serious trouble right now?" Krystal pressured on them to make them feel shameful.

"Well sorry, they've got themselves, no need for us to worry. Now why don't you let us get back to the game?" Falco proceeded to try to plug the game again when Krystal snatched the device away from him.

"This isn't funny Falco! They're in trouble no doubt, neither one of them has come back yet!" Krystal snapped at Falco.

"What are we supposed to do? We were told to stay up here directly" Slippy responded for Falco.

"Follow a new directive then" a monotone voice said nearly giving everyone a heart attack.

Krystal recognized the voice from somewhere before, yet she couldn't remember where in time before Falco and Slippy started to point their blasters towards the main door. To her shock it was the Adam that had requested to meet Fox the day before standing there not even worried that he was in danger of being shot by two people. Adam stepped even closer to them with not even a single care or sign about the two with no idea who he was.

"I've figured you have more than just intruders that had snuck onboard your ship thanks to three of your friends. It seems that our worst fears have become true and are worse than ever" Adam said towards Krystal confusing the other two on how she knew him.

"How did you get onboard? I never saw you at all!" Krystal stepped forward talking to Adam in a way to show her suspicion to him.

"Now's not the time, to make things worse for me it appears Samus had accidentally ended up on board for some reason and managed to get herself in trouble"

"Samus? Her? Oh no, you mean she's in trouble wi-with Fox? Oh no, this isn't good" Krystal came to a sudden panic and almost ran out to find Fox.

"Hey wait who's this?" Falco looked at Adam unsure of what was going on, but his answer was delayed when Krystal ran out unable to control her emotions, "Okay, whoever you are, we can follow, but you're not goin' outta my sight"

Samus stayed within the shadows while Anthony and Madeline commenced their plan. Of course she was part of their little plan; it was just that her job was to get her A.I. to get into the ship's systems to find out what was going on with the crew's abandoning areas despite the fact Samus had no idea how to do that with her A.I. not responding. "Come on Adam, where are you? We could use you now" Samus thought searching for any signal that she wasn't needed. A shadow loomed nearby walking closer, no, running closer. Who was it?

It couldn't have been Madeline or Anthony since they both were in a different area than where this one was coming, was it the people she saw earlier? Samus made sure she was hidden well in the shadows and patiently waited like a predator waited for the prey. The footsteps grew louder and louder until it was to the level where Samus knew exactly to jump from the shadows. She quickly rocketed herself out of the shadows managing to grab whoever it was and pin them to the ground. There was no time for Samus to see who it was as someone shot her in the side to throw her off.

She quickly jumped back to her feet and pointed her arm cannon to this mystery shooter while there was a blue vixen standing there pointing her gun at Samus in return. "Is this some sort of zoo?" Samus wondered to herself watching as the vixen looked at her like she was checking something.

"Is that her?" the vixen whispered confusing Samus.

"Who?" the confused Samus asked still not dropping her guard.

The vixen didn't answer, instead she just stood there silently until a blue falcon ran up behind her not even seeing Samus.

"Krystal what are you thinking? At least explain to us who that guy was and tell who that Samus person was you two apparently knew. Wait one second, does Fox know about this?" the falcon demanded finally seeing Samus in front of him, "Oh great, more unknown people onboard."

"Wait Falco that's her," Krystal looked over to Samus, "what did you do to Peppy and Fox?"

Samus stood there trying to figure out everything they were saying. How did they know her name? Maybe that guy this "Falco" mentioned knew exactly.

"Lead me to your other guest first" Samus demanded trying to sound serious.

"Answer us first all ready will ya? Where's our two friends?" Falco replied back.

"I see then" Krystal whispered then ran past Samus.

"Hey! Seriously, what's goin' on?!" Falco yelled out then turned toward Samus, "Great, well if you really want to meet that guy then wait here will ya?