CHAPTER SEVEN: Unity
Commander Link, his men, and Samus were outgunned in the field. And all that was facing them was the lone skiff!
"Let's get out of here!" suggested Link over the noise.
"Good idea!" Samus replied. "I'll cover you! You get your men to that door!"
"Gotcha!" Link gestured to his men as Samus moved to the other side of the skiff. Concentrating her fire, Samus managed to Missile one of those turrets to pieces.
But the other one was the problem. The turret had eaten all 30 of her Missiles, leaving her with a Beam weapon as her only defense. She searched frantically for a solution to this problem of running out of firepower, and found it immediately.
She was staring right at the engines.
It was at that moment that one of the other Troopers, seeing the exact thing, decided to use his weapon. To Samus' surprise, three small hovering machines launched themselves from that Trooper's backpack. As the Trooper guided them, the drones ascended to the height of the skiff, and fired energy blasts at the engines. The small, precise shooting sheared off the drive fins, and soon the skiff's main engine turned out to be its own demise as the unregulated exhaust melted the rear of the craft. Without a drive, the skiff lost power, and came to the ground with an immense dust cloud and a deafening SLAM!
As soon as the drones returned to their dock, all the troopers and Samus exited through the door that Samus had entered through, taking them back to Samus' landing site.
While the rest of the Troopers waited, Samus docked with her ship, refilling her Missiles and gaining another repaired powerup.
EQUIPMENT REPAIR COMPLETE - BOMBS ONLINE
Missile Capacity Increased to 40.
Samus returned to the troopers, who were in the process of unlocking the green hatch. Link explained, "This ought to take us back to the crash site. If they ran into trouble during our absence, they'll need our help if they want to live. This passage comes out at the other end in a hidden hatch. We should be able to surprise the attackers from there."
The green lock disengaged, and the door opened. Everyone made a dash through the adjacent hallway, and sure enough there was a ceiling hatch 800 meters down. Samus was the first to climb through the hatch and the loose brush that covered it, and the sight that awaited her shocked her to the very core.
"Are you sure this is the crash site? All I'm seeing are Space Pirates and a mangled, burning wreck."
