AN: hey guys and girls here's another chap now I hope you guys like the fact that this story is picking up and that the phazon has finally taken holed of the characters. Now I know that I haven't updated in a while okay but I was busy doing things okay so no I'm not dead. Also now I only have one place left free for the OCs so if you want them in send me a PM. Now I was also thinking about having another story this other one has nothing to do with this story but it's a Halo Reach/Metroid crossover okay if you want to know more pm me and I can tell you about and you can say if it's a good idea. Now on with the chap.

When I woke I was in my bed with not much memory of the day before. All I could feel was enormous pain all over my body, but mostly my right arm. As I leaned up to sit up straight I could feel my bones popping and cracking under my skin. Once I was fully in a ninety degree angle I feel an on-slaughter of a migraine, so bad I had to hold my head to steady myself from falling over, or off the bed. As I was feeling this I also felt a presence on my right arm like someone was holding it. To this I froze and peaked slowly out of the corner of my eye. Only to see the doctor that I have seen yesterday with a concerned look on her face.

To this I quickly reacted like second nature to me and turned knocking the doctor over on the floor pinning both of her arms above her head with my left hand, and put my knees into her hip joints to stop her from struggling or moving, and putting my right forearm on her neck. Standard take down while saying in a dark whisper, "now where am I and why am I here."

To this she quickly reacted saying, "We received a message you collapsed so we took you in the med bay to find out the phazon has grown faster than predicted and has attacked your brain stem." to this I get off of her to stand only to fall back down again from dizziness and shook my head to clear it.

"Well that only covers the top of it." To the sound of a new voice I instantly moved my head to the right only to see the scientist from yesterday as well.

"There's more to it than that?" I asked

"Yes apparently you need to get rid of the phazon to keep it at bay, and the only way to do that is to extract some of it from your heart or to release it from your body"

"And how can I do that?"

"Well as you most likely already know it's very dangerous to do so, for you are unstable with the phazon coursing through you and it may hurt you, or someone around you."

"I can't have a phazon drainer on me everywhere I go so did you find a safe way to control this."

"We have two actually, we have already installed a PED system inside of you, giving you the ability to use it as a weapon, and then there's the antidote we have it will only keep you from having those attacks too often."

"What do I have to do with the antidote?"

"It's just a pill that you take when you are having an attack and it would stop after a couple of seconds"

"And the PED?"

"Just activate it and the phazon would give a boost of phazon improving your abilities and when its active it release phazon but you can't use it to often for you need the phazon to survive"

"ok" with that I was now standing during the conversation and was thinking of the pain in my right arm, and finally look down at it for the first time since I woke, only to see it have hundreds of phazon veins under the skin pulsing like waves, with the skin pale but giving off a blue aura around it. As I was staring at the pulsing arm I hear the doctor sigh and speak, "you are suffering from slight mutations, from the phazon exposer so don't find it that disturbing cause more are most likely on the way." To this I just silently nod and turn to the scientist and opened my palm saying, "well I might as well get my first prescription now shall I."

To this the doctor snickered and put the pill bottle, with light blue pills in my hand. To this I nod and take one pill right then and get up with pain in my body, but continue out the door anyways.

As I was walking down the hall people looked at me in consider look like they were afraid of me. Most likely because of what I did to that poor kid I punched in the face. Once I finally made it to the sparing arena I noticed all of the bounty hunters there sparing with each other. As I walked up to them I hear a voice speak to my left grabbing my attention,

"Well, well, well look who decided to wake up and join the land of the living."

"Oh I see how it is I finally wake and what do I get a snide remark from my old drinking buddy" I hear a chuckle and a feel a cold hand come down on my right shoulder.

"Well, I have to make fun of you sometimes, or else you become full of yourself" I chuckle at this comment.

"And you're not Rundas?"

"Of course I am but it fits me you not so much."

"Now isn't that the truth" as I hear this voice I know that phantom has joined the conversation.

"Hey see I have a witness that agrees with me"

"Yeah whatever, so how are you guys"

"You mean after the two months you've been out pretty good just bored though" at that comment I froze.

"I was out for two months" I said as I turned to Tatalus who said the comment looking at the ground trying to take it in.

"Yeah what happened in that core room anyways?" at this comment I see the face of the armored figure flash in memory as well as the quick screech that came with it. Making me flick my head up in a panic clearing my vision.

"Hey you ok?"

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine, so wears everyone else?" as I said this they looked at each other most likely having confused face but phantom spoke anyways.

"Well Craig is down in the training hall and we don't know where everyone else is." To this I nodded and walked down the hall to go to the training hall by myself. In the training session was brownie running through the robots blasting them to nothing but limbs, gears and pieces of metal. As I walk to the end of the training arena I see brownie jump on top of a robot crushing it instantly under his weight finishing the training session.

"Well I see that to can handle yourself" when I said this he jerked his head up and tensing for another fight, only to relax once more and bow his head while shaking it. After he calmed his breath he stood once more and we walked back to the sparing hall.

"Hey hunter you need to see this the new bounty hunter is facing phantom." Hearing this I looked at Rundas that was hanging out of the doorway of the sparing hall. So I ran to the room to see what all the fuss is about to see phantom get thrown into one of the pillars inside of the sparring arena. Once I was fully inside of the room I could see an armored figure with a sword in his hands running at phantom to only receive an head shot with his sniper blowing him back a couple of meters and him land on his back, only for him to do a full summersault landing on his feet.

But before he could do anything phantom shot three more rounds making him run behind another pillar in the arena. Before he could jump into cover though he got shot in the side, right into his lower left rib successfully disabling his shielding unit.

When phantom take the shields he went into cover as well at this point it was silent, until the swordsman ran out from behind cover as soon as phantom rolled out of his and started firing his sniper. The swordsman though was flipping and rolling evading the fire while still charging at a fast pace. When they were finally close to each other phantom threw his sniper down and took out a combat knife and did a horizontal slash right at the throat of the swordsman, only to meet air as he slid on his knees looking like a limbo with the knife.

When he was behind phantom he kicked the back of his knee making him loss his footing and fall to one knee. When he was the swordsman raised his sword now noticed as a nicely designed energy sword and brought it down to only be met with the forearm guard of phantom's armor knocking his sword out of his hand. Phantom quickly turned around and kicked the left hamstring of the swordsman knocking off his balance and uppercut right to his jaw knocking the swordsman down on his ass. After he landed though he swigged his legs hooking phantoms ankle making him fall to the ground as well, giving him enough time get up only to get tackled back down by phantom and getting nailed in the head repeatedly with phantom's right hand.

When phantom went to give another punch the swordsman quickly moved his head making phantom miss the hit, and wrapped his legs around the arm and flung him to the ground into an arm-bar. Before the swordsmen could properly lock the hold in thought phantom lifted his body putting his weight on the swordsman to be able to grab his other hand and interlock his fingers trying not to lose his grip. After phantom was able to put his legs under him he lifted up the swordsman and his armor up to bring it back down with much more force and his weight behind it, making it sound like phantom just crushed the poor guy but in reality only made him lose grip at let go of the hold.

They both laid trying to catch their breath and get up to only see their opponent in front of them and their weapon behind them. As they looked in between their opponent and the weapon behind them they quickly reacted and dove into a roll picking up their opponents weapon turning around to only stand at a standoff. The swordsman's blade in phantom's hand right at the owner's throat, as the swordsman had phantom's sniper rifle aimed directly at phantom's head with the barrel only a couple cm's away from his face plate.

With that rundas spoke breaking the silence, "that's it? I was at least expecting to see some spilt but no. they only end into a standoff how tiresome." After he spoke everyone was back to their earlier doings with phantom and the swordsman exchanging weapons and walked off the sparing arena.

When the swordsman walked off I walked up to him, "so, those were some pretty good moves there, so what's your name. Swordsman"

"The name's Patrick, sir"

"Sir? Man I haven't been called that in a long time, we are not soldiers Patrick okay we're bounty hunters you don't have to act all formal on me okay it's just hunter okay"

"Oh uh okay fine with me, sorry I'm use to people telling me just call them sir."

At this I chuckle, " yeah people can be a pain in the ass sometimes you'll will get used to it at one point, but don't worry you don't have to address us that way okay, now that not as said about the soldier thought so be careful."

"Yeah I know they are a pain in the ass, but I have to go okay hunter talk to you later."

"You know a match I want to see?" I heard someone say behind me say after Patrick left, "for samus and the nova warrior going to go against each other."

"Yeah I would like to see that as well the hunter against the ruthless demon." Looking behind me I could see two marines talking while one was bench pressing and the other being the spotter.

"Yeah I wouldn't mind that fight" hearing the familiar voice behind me spoke making me sigh in annoyance.

"Samus I don't want to fight you I'm not even fully recovered." Samus came in front of me without her suit, but to replace it was her zero suit that showed a lot of her features, and her long flowing blond hair, and striking blue eyes. "Aww what are you scared to fight me hunter? Afraid that you would lose like last time" as she said this she walked up to me staring at me like she was staring through me.

With this I growled under my breath," you know I'm not scared of you or your suits powers okay and don't you dare say that again you know I was not one hundred percent." I said so only I and she could hear.

"Then how about you actually fight me and we will finally see if you can now or are you too scared you will lose again." As she said this she had a sarcastic smirk on her face. At this I quickly shook my head and turned around and walked out while saying behind me, "fine be prepared once I'm coming back I'm going to be ready for a fight."

Once I reached the room I first woke up in I stormed in looking for the scientist. When I found him I walked up to him while asking, "Where's my armor?!" he jumped a little to show he was surprised but answered anyways.

"Sir you still are not recovered, and to even put on the armor is putting you at risk, let alone combat."

"What do you mean put me at risk, what would putting on armor do to the phazon?"

He sighed, "It's not that putting on armor will affect the phazon, it's the part where your armor is in the same state you're in." as he said this he beckoned me over to a glass window, but I was having no of it I'm not going to be told to stay out of my armor because it's like me. So I walked up to him with a glare making him back up in a little fear.

"I don't care this is my armor and I will have it back now and plus I don't even think I gave you permission so I will say this just one more time, give… me… the armor… now." I said in a dark voice that even surprised me, but I couldn't really care less about now, as I stood over him by my height. As I said this he was looking up at me now with fear in his eyes and slowly and wordlessly nodded his head, and going to his monitor and typing away at a few holographic keys. As he did this I walked up to the stand and stood in the center of the circular platform.

When I was all set mechanical arms came out of the floor and ceiling carrying the flexible carbon fiber wired suit, which makes the actual armor connect to my body. The arms first started with my arms and legs connecting all of the wires and bolting the plating into each other. After that the main peace of plating came to connect the legs to the arms, the torso once the armor was connected to each other the arms when to my back to connect the armor to my personal spinal vortex system that connects into my spinal cord making me faster and stronger, my personal design that is only developed by the federations top scientist, shame I'm the only one to survive the transplant and surgery to get it installed. When the arms where hovering over the needles that would pierce the plating of my spinal system to reach the roots of it inside of my spinal cord.

Right before they plunged into me I took a deep breath to calm my muscles so I wouldn't get stabbed in the wrong area of the spinal cord, and nodded towards the scientist that had his hand hovering above the button. After I felt the sickening crack of the needles puncturing the surface of the spine I lost all of the air in my lungs making me gasp and almost fall from the impact of the needles. After the arms retreated to get the second set of armor of the suit I bent down with my hands on my knees in a crouched position with my head bowed sucking in breaths so hard it hurt, to fill my lunges. After I finally recovered from the impact I stood once more.

This time instead of carbon fiber plates I got this rock hard leather that goes over the entire body like a jumpsuit but this one has shield deplorer that can protect me from energy weapons by absorbing most of the power of the direct hit, but these could only hold so much punishment. After the jumpsuit was zipped up finally came the main armor.

The material of this was called meteorite being strong enough to take on any punishment but with only so much that I could find I had to go with titanium and iron as well, iron may not be the strongest metal but it can absorb energy so it is useful in some ways I mean it is the metal that kills a star so hey its good in my book. As the arms bolted and welded some of the pieces together. After the suit of armor was on I looked down at myself, but instead of the standard military dark green I was used to it was charcoal black with light blue vein like things coming out of the power deposes of the armor.

Seeing this I looked up at the scientist with a raised brow in question and a scowl on my face to show my disliking of the new color and design.

"Hey don't look at me the suit was like that when we hauled you out of there, my guess is that it was also effected with the phazon corruption." Once he said this I signed and shook my head, when I looked back up I seen my helmet on a pedestal with the face mask and all but like the suit it was charcoal black. Also the eye visors were light blue instead of their crimson red, but what got me was that the eye visors now seemed to put an icy chill down my spine every time I looked at it. Ignoring it I quickly picked up the helmet, turned it around, and tilted it up to see the inside of it. Giving a few moments I took a deep breath and put it on.

When I put on the helmet instead of the icy cold feeling of the oxygen supplier coming on I felt these weird tentacle like things wrap around my lower jaw and the back of my skull and grow around me. Before I took off the helmet in a hurry I felt more but this time around my body coming from my chest, spine, calves, hamstrings, and hands, and they started to grow as well wrapping around my body. As they were growing I felt myself not able to move and nausea taking me over making me fall to my hands and knees. As I sat there I heard a muffled voice and hundreds of whispers talking at the same time making me lose focus and get a head ache. Before I did anything they were gone and the muffled voice became clear.

"Sir, sir are you okay?!" at this question I nodded and stood again.

Before the man could talk again I quickly walked out towards the armory.

As I was walking I was wondering what that was when I put on the helmet and who were the whispers coming from. Before I could go into detail about all of my thoughts I was already to the armory.

Once I walked in I quickly went to my weapons that were aboard my ship that is still having repairs being done to it. When I walked up to the table I quickly took my assault rifle full automatic off the table tuning it on and checking it to see it is still in good condition, as well as looking through the sights to fine that it as well is still accurate. After I was done checking my rifle I put it on the magnetic plating on my back keeping the gun on my back. I next took both of my submachine guns off the table doing a quick scan over and putting them on my thigh magnetic plates. Once done with those I picked up my rail handguns and done as before check over them to make sure they're in good condition. After that I put them on my belt for quick and easy access.

Once I had all the weapons I wanted, I hit my wrist computer and did a system check.

System Check

Visor

HUD: Online

Thermal Vision: Online

EON Vision: Online

Threat Vision: Online

Scanning Vision: Online

Suit Systems

Shielding: Online

Environment Protection: Online

Full Flexibility: Online

Gravitational Focuser: Online

Thrusters: Online

All Wrist Computer Functions: Online

Weapon Systems

Energy Dagger: Online

EMP: Online

Over Charge: Online

Sonic Blast: Online

Fusion Cutter: Online

Electronic Wall: Online

Warp: Online

Distortion Field: Online

Holographic Clone: Online

Projectile Barrier: Online

Power Shield: Online

Incinerate Grenade: Online

Concussion Grenade: Online

Blast Grenade: Online

Weapons: Active

Suit Power Source

Energy Tanks: Online

Bio Scan

Scan complete: Corrupted

Body and suit is showing signs of phazon and increasing. Body seems to produce phazon from an unknown source or organism. No known way to be able to remove from this known data bank, not suggested to remove from body may cause fatal injury or death.

After looking over the results I chuckled to myself, like I didn't already know that. After I was all set I walked out of the armory and headed to the sparing arena.

Once arriving I could see the arena has drawn a crowd and samus was clad in her gravity suit ready to go. When I entered everyone looked at me with surprised looks, probably from the different look of my armor. I just walked pass them without a single look or any conformation nod to anyone and walked right into the sparing arena with samus. When I was in she chuckled to herself and shook her head but got into a defensive stance anyway, I did the same as I took out my rifle. When we were both ready we nodded to each other, and rushed in.

When we were near the center I quickly made a small jump activated my thrusters making me fly with more speed, and tried to superman punch samus in the skull. She was faster though and activated her shinespark and flew right into me with a gore, making both of us fly into one of the walls of the arena. When we hit the wall I was lodged into the wall, before I could react though samus flung her energy lasso on me, ripping me out of the wall and throwing me back in the center of the arena again. Before I crashed landed on my skull, I activated my thrusters making me go into a nice roll taking out the most of the momentum of my movement, and with the rest of it I used to turn myself around firing my assault rifle at the same time. This made a whole bombarded wall of nova rounds heading right for samus. The first few hit her but she dodged the rest with her thruster pack. After she went into cover I warped myself over to cover as well. I quickly turned on EON vision seeing samus behind cover from her power source surging through her suit.

As I found her location I popped my head out of cover to fire at her position she swiftly came out of cover firing her wave beam trying to stun me. Before I could retreat back into my cover, all three bolts hit me square in the face, making fly back into cover instead of move. Shaking my head I looked back up in EON vison to see a projectile flying towards me, making me hastily roll out of cover and shooting out the fusion cutter at samus, making a fine laser that melted her cover, and the area behind it. She was quicker though and rolled out of behind the cover before she was hit. When she stood back up again she jump in the air into the screw attack heading right at me. Knowing no attacks would hurt her I ran out of the way keeping me safe from the collision course her.

When she landed out of the screw attack I threw down an electronic wall on the floor making her spas out and get stunned where she stood making her an easy target. Seeing this I threw an over charge knocking her out of the electronic wall and disabling her shield unit. Taking advantage I fired at her injuring her more until she rolled up into her morph ball form and getting out of the line of fire and recharge her shields. When she rolled out of morph ball form she fired multiple ice rounds threating to freeze me over.

When the first one passed my shoulder the icy feeling of the round pierced through me like a pirate's energy sword. This of course confused me majorly I remember getting hit by one of those ice rounds and they felt nothing like this, and I didn't even get hit this time. Ignoring the fact for now I jumped out of the way of the next shot giving the same effects as the first one. When I jumped out of the way I threw my rifle at samus hitting her and making her get dazed at first. After that I took out my submachine guns and fired taking a nice chunk of her shields.

Noticing this she ran up to me even through the nova rounds that were taking most of her shields. When close enough she rammed her arm cannon into my jaw as well as shoot a nice plasma bolt making me fly into the air and fall onto my back giving me big loud crack to my spine. She ran up to me again to shoot me while I'm down, but I successfully activated a holographic clone and rolled out of the way. After evading the attack I ran up behind her as she shot my clone repeatedly making it flinch and try to block the incoming shots, until I took out my energy dagger and sliced samus's lower back making her bring her shoulders back from the obvious pain from the blow. Quickly before samus could recover I put up a distortion field making her suit malfunction and her try to fight imaginary opponents that all looked exact clones of me and as she was doing this I was taking small hits here and there to take out her shields. When the effects wore off she finally put her sights onto me and fired a super missile at me.

Seeing this I turned on my projectile barrier making the super missile explode before I was even in the blast radius. Swiftly reacting before I could do anything she turned off her arm cannon, vira, and gravity suit to move faster with no shoulder blockage and fight close quarters with two hands. Then she ran up and hit me in the gut with her right fist making me bend forward. She then grabbed my shoulders and threw them down making me fall back and hit my head. Before she could do a double axe hand on my chest I rolled out of the way pivoting my left foot making me roll into a crouch. When I was in a crouched position I quickly shot my legs straight and do a full summersault kick to samus's jaw making her helmet fly off and knock her over from the impact, but when she fell back she rolled into her morph ball and deployed a power bomb.

O shit is all I though mentally before I activated my power shield to protect me from majority of the blast, but the effects still hit my armor tearing right through my shields severely damaging the armor and making me fly back from the blast.

As I laid down in the debris all I could feel was sever pain in my whole entire body that felt like searing hot metal was against my skin melting my skin. When I opened my eyes from the massive blast that almost blinded me, all I could see was the end of an arm cannon and the helmet of samus staring at me. Before anything else happened. I got a quick flash and instead of samus standing there I seen the dark figure clad in dark armor. All of a sudden I felt this raw energy fill me giving me power to fight once more and without thinking or controlling my body shot up knocking samus's arm cannon out of my face.

After standing I tackled samus down and went to hammer her annoying and aggravating green visor. When I did this she shot on of those useless plasma bolts to my head giving me this tickling feeling. Ignoring the feeling I quickly started fully punching her visor making her head flop all over the place. Not caring I continued hitting the visor until I heard an audible pleasant crack. Bringing my funny glowing blue fist back away from her visor I could see her eyes foggy and unfocused. Smiling to myself I brought my fist back making my fist glow even brighter, then smashed it down onto the helmet making the thing shatter under my force of the punch.

Laughing at the sight of samus's head all bloody and unconscious I wrapped my glowing fingers around her neck I slowly lifted her off the ground in a choke hole. When had her all the way in the air I chuckled at the look of defeat on her unconscious face. The chuckle soon became full blown laughter and I took out my energy dagger to finally put an end to this nuisance of mine, but before I could something rammed into my side knocking me down and lose my grip on samus. When I looked up at my interrupter I quickly slashed my energy dagger against his cheek making him fly off me. Trying to get up and stab him in the heart another blur hit me making both of us roll around to the side. When we stooped I was on top and started hitting it in the head like I did to samus, but was interrupted again by something grabbing me around my waist and threw me off and making me fall to the floor. Getting back up to run at the new threat something icy cold hit me in the head instantly knocking me out

POV: ?

As I stared at the nice ball of phazon that is now acting like a hologram all I could do is smile. Surprisingly this human had survived though the massive exposer of the seed, and somehow managed to absorb it at the same time. To be honest I actually thought he was just going to be just another of the human that can't do anything worthwhile, but he certainly proved me wrong. He has great potential but just needs that push to get it. As I thought this I just watch him fight samus and put up a good fight.

If I could somehow get him over to my side I would have a powerful ally and be almost unstoppable. The only question is how could I get to him or break though that barrier of stupid emotions all of those humans have. This is going to be a challenge even though he may have phazon in him he doesn't know how to control it or use it. This may give me an edge over him but not much, I still have to find a way to get pass all of those annoying bounty hunters he has around him.

Hmmm I think I have an idea I need to play some mind games to get close then I need to somehow infect him under my control, and I have just the thing to do it. At this though I swipe my hand through the ball of phazon dispersing it, and relaxed back into my pool of phazon and looked into the awe striking atmosphere of phaaze and closed my eyes. Thinking only one thing before I fell asleep, "just the thing"

AN: So how was the chapter I made it longer this time to pay for the amount of days I missed okay, and as always review/pm/ follow/favorite thanks.