Hi, people! sorry i'm late on publishing this chapter. First off, i would like to thank two very special people upon the creation of this chapter. the first is sylux125 of Metroid Headquarters, who is the person responsible for creating Dystereos, and i would like to thank kenji imatake of Metroid Headquarters, who is the creator of Nero. I also give special thanks to StrafeHunter of Metroid Headquarters and Retroid Studios, for his support on the next installment in the series. He WAS supposed to have appeared in this part, but i couldnt fit him in it. so, sorry Strafe.
Enjoy!
Chapter Ten: Friends and Enemies.
Year 20X9 Cosmic Calendar: 4th of June.
Location: Skyray City, Aerocitadel.
Adorios was currently doing what he didn't do often: hiding. He was usually very good at going upon the offensive, destroying his enemies. But currently, he needed to recoup himself. Losing to Samus and losing the stones wasn't the worst that could happen, it was the fact that he was currently stuck on Aerocitadel with nowhere to go. Adorios sat down in an alley, thinking of possible stratagems. As he pondered, someone walked up to him. Adorios looked up.
"Who are you?"
"Hello, Adorios, it seems that we, Ah, have similar interests in the destruction of a common enemy: Samus Aran. I would be willing to help, if you do not mind. Samus and I have quite a history of brutal battles, and of course, she has beaten me each time. I would like to get my revenge on her, and I suppose you would as well. What do you say? Should we, team up?"
Adorios looked at the person warily. The man was still in the shadows, and Adorios couldn't exactly see what he looked like. He decided to test him.
"A team-up would be a good plan, yes. However, I would need to see your strength, your power. My master, Metalloid, would have to deem you worthy of being one of his allies, so I am not sure…"
"You need me to prove my worth? HAH! I have destroyed entire armies, conquered planets, and even battled GODS! Nothing will stand in my way of revenge against Samus!"
The man pulled out a sword from the shadows, and sliced a nearby support beam in half, as if cutting air. The beam itself was precisely 5 feet thick, and now had a clean cut through it. Adorios admired his power.
"Very well. I have seen that you are quite, let us say, determined about defeating Samus. If you wish to become my ally, then you will take this sphere."
Adorios placed his hand out, and a silver metal ball was set in his palm.
"Just know that when you take this ball, you will never be able to change you mind again; your fate will be set."
The man looked at the suspicious ball for a moment, and then palmed it. "Let us go forth, then. I have a ship that might be useful; it can travel through hyperspace faster than any other ship made. It will definitely help us on our mission."
Adorios nodded. "What is your name? You seem to know mine."
"My name is Dystereos. Remember it well, for it will be the name of the legendary hunter who destroyed Samus Aran!"
Adam lunged at Xorexus with astounding speed. He slashed forward, slicing several power cables as Xorexus jumped out of the way.
"Adam! You need to stop what you're doing right now! I seriously don't want to attack you!"
Of course, Adam ignored him. "Pitiful organic! Running will not protect you at all! I can connect with the entire system around me, and cause it to attack you indefinitely!"
Adam punched the wall with a clenched fist, and energy pulsed out of his arm. Soon, turrets popped out of the ceiling like machine guns, and shot lasers at Xorexus with equal force. Xorexus pulled a blue shield from his pack, and the energy bolts bounced off harmlessly.
"If I cannot get to your mind, I will have to shut you off!" Xorexus said. He put away the shield, and pulled out a purple triangle. He pressed a few hidden buttons on it with extreme speed, and the triangle expanded, energy running along the edge of the device. He threw it straight at Adam, launching it at him with amazing force. As it closed in on him, though, Adam stepped towards the wall suddenly. He pushed himself into it, and he disappeared. The disc smashed against the wall that Adam vanished into.
"Huh? How did he---"
Suddenly, an arm popped out of the floor by his feet. Startling Xorexus, it grabbed his ankle. Xorexus tried to shake it off, but the grip was of metal, and could not be broken. As Adam rose from the floor below, Xorexus sank, his legs becoming trapped in the ground. Xorexus struggled feebly.
"What…do you want?"
"Nothing really," Adam replied, "I simply have to fulfill my master's bidding, AND DESTROY AND CONTROL EACH AND EVERY ONE OF SAMUS'S ALLIES!!!!!" Adam screamed. He began to laugh evilly, as Xorexus tried even harder to loosen himself. Adam's laughter slowed down, and he placed his palm outward. A ball of silver metal rose from his hand, and he placed it above Xorexus's head.
"You will be added to the army of Metalloid, and will fight against Samus to destroy her! Are there any last requests before you are removed from your body forever? "
Xorexus smiled. "No, I don't have any requests, but I do have a comment. Next time, trap my arms too." Xorexus pulled another purple disc out, and he smashed it against Adam's torso. A wave of purple energy emanated from the disc, and Adam convulsed. He jerked into positions that would kill a normal human being, and then collapsed into a crumpled heap. Xorexus sighed, and relaxed.
"Thank goodness I'm good with tech. Now, how do I get out?"
Adorios walked along Dystereos. The route they were taking kept them in the shadows, but was still long and tiring. It didn't matter to Adorios about becoming tired, since he had no problem with it, but it was still a bit boring. Adorios turned towards Dystereos. He still couldn't see his face or apparel. Adorios spoke.
"Your ship might be the fastest ship in the universe, but it is certainly taking a slow time to reach it. Where is it, and how long will it take us to get there?"
"It's by the edge of town, near the Zoomer Tavern. If it's taking so long for you, then why not try to beat me there?
Dystereos suddenly burst into a speedy form, running at insane speed. Adorios chuckled, and turned into dust. He shot as fast as light to the ship, and appeared in it a second later. He looked around. Inside the ship, there was a large amount of trophies, each one representing a time of Dystereos's victories. Adorios stepped towards the dashboard of the ship. He touched it lightly, and it filled him with all of the ship's logs. Reading each one as fast as possible, it came to him that Dystereos was indeed a pure enemy of Samus, for each log recorded each battle they fought. He would serve the purpose of Metalloid well. As Adorios read the logs, something appeared in the ship as well, causing Adorios to lose his focus. He spun around.
"And who might you be?" he said.
"Samus? Who is Kraid?"
Samus was staring at Kraid, scared slightly and in awe. It had been four years since Samus had seen Kraid, and she was itching for a battle with him. What was currently on her mind, though, was questioning why the Space Pirates had never re-cloned him instead of Ridley.
"Kraid……is like a deformed Space Pirate. I'm not entirely sure about all of the details, but I do know that he is the second general of the Space Pirate legions. He may look sluggish, but he is anything but such. I've battled him twice before, but never like this." Samus said to Listal.
Listal smiled. "Wanna take on him together?"
"We don't have much of a choice, do we?"
Samus ran off in one direction, shooting at Kraid's face, while Listal ran in the other direction. Listal jumped up to the wall, and attached herself there. Aiming carefully at Kraid's face, she shot a burst of kinetic energy at his stomach. When the beam hit, Kraid's stomach bent under the force of the beam, and Kraid regurgitated a fountain of silver liquid. The silver stuff hit the ground, and it turned itself into several small Kraids. Each Kraid was completely silver, and had red eyes. They began to shoot small silver spikes out of their stomachs at Samus. Samus dodged each one, and continued her onslaught of attacks on Kraid's face. Then, one of her beams hit Kraid's eye. He began to scream, leaving his mouth open. Samus yelled to Listal.
"Launch a speed missile into there! It might completely take him out!"
Listal nodded, and expertly shot a missile into his throat, causing damage on the inside. He screamed more, and then promptly exploded, leaving blobs of goop and metal everywhere.
"Well, that was extremely easy, wasn't it?" Listal said.
"One thing you should know about your new career, Listal," Samus said, "Is that the battle is never over until the door is unlocked."
"Huh…?" Listal began. But as she spoke, the metal slime started to regroup itself. It formed itself into a large reptilian skeleton, becoming a reinforced set of steel bones. Samus nodded.
"I knew it wasn't over. But, in the meantime, I've always wanted to battle a Meta-Kraid."
The skeletal Kraid roared, and began to trudge towards the two hunters below.
Adam woke up wearily. "Ohhhhhhh… what happened?"
He looked around himself for a bit, and then noticed that Xorexus was stuck partially in the ground.
"Hello, Adam. You wouldn't mind pulling me out of this, would you?"
"Umm…what is happening here? I seriously have no clue."
"This thing," Xorexus held up a bottle that was holding a metallic slime in it, "Was inside your body. I had to shut you down and scrape off every single speck of this crap so that when you woke up, you wouldn't kill me." The bottle shook violently, leaning towards Xorexus's head. Xorexus looked at it with an annoyed look on his face.
"Do you seriously think you are going to get me? Nice try, but no." Xorexus pulled a black plate out of his pack. Placing the bottle on the ground, Xorexus smashed the plate down onto the bottle, making it disappear with a garbled scream. Xorexus put away the plate and turned to Adam.
"I think you have fully proved your incompetence today. Now, can you pull me out?"
"Samus! What are we going to do now? That thing cannot be destroyed! And as you said, the door is still locked!"
"Shut up, Listal." Samus snapped. "If there is anything I hate about bounty hunters, it's when they lose all hope on the situation because they are about to die. So, shut up and think carefully. What are this thing's abilities?"
"I don't---"
Suddenly, Meta-Kraid took in a deep breath, and shot out a deathly purple beam from his mouth. The beam hit the wall behind them, and a large chunk of the wall disappeared. It dawned upon Samus that this thing was much like Adorios, with abilities and weapons like his.
"Listal, do you have anything that can reflect weapons back at its source?
"No, but Xorexus does…"
"Gah! He's probably half-way across the complex by now. I'm going to have to call him."
Avoiding more purple blasts from Meta-Kraid's mouth, Samus tapped a few small buttons that were on the temple of her helmet. A com-link indicator appeared on her helmet, and communication between her and Xorexus began.
"Xorexus! Where are you? I need your help!"
Xorexus replied. "You need my help? Let me tell you, miss, I have had the worst time while we split up! Adam just tried to kill me, though it wasn't his fault, and I'm still stuck in the floor!"
-Stuck in the floor?- Samus thought. "Nevermind that! Is there a dumbwaiter in the room you are in?"
"Huh? Oh, um…I think…yes! There's one on the other side of the room. Why do you ask?"
"Put your shield on it, and set the coordinates to 'Quarantine bay'! Get Adam to put it there!"
In the room Xorexus was in, Adam got the instructions, and grabbed the shield. He ran over to the dumbwaiter, and placed the shield onto it. Setting the coordinates as Samus commanded, he pressed the send button, and it vaporized into thin air.
In Samus's room, the dumbwaiter glowed suddenly, and a blue device appeared on the receiving platform.
"Thanks, Xorexus. I promise I won't break your little toy."
"It's not a toy, it's a complicated piece of hardware designed to---"
Samus shut off the com-link. "I don't have time for that right now." She said. Pressing a few buttons on the small ball that was a shield, it suddenly projected a blue force-field, creating a small dome like an umbrella.
"Well, at least I can stay dry from the acid rain now…"
Meta-Kraid took in another deep breath, and several purple beams shot from his mouth, directly at Samus. Closing her eyes, she held up the shield hoping it would work, and braced herself for the impact.
Nothing happened.
Opening her eyes, she noticed that each beam was currently latched to the shield, trying to break through with no avail. Meta-Kraid was still shooting beams at Samus, and they kept on piling upon the mass of purple on the force-field. Smiling, Samus pushed the shield forward, and every single beam flew directly at Meta-Kraid. The beams covered his body, and as he screamed, he disintegrated, leaving no trace of the silvery metal.
Samus breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down. Listal, however, was still standing there, shivering as he stood in the middle of an area pock-marked with decomposition blasts. Samus smiled to herself. She owed her life to two people now.
Adorios was facing towards someone hidden deep in the shadows. Adorios was beginning to become exasperated with people not showing their faces to him, for it got on his nerves. He asked the being again.
"Who are you? And why are you here?"
The being replied with a slightly heavy voice. "My name is Nero. I have come to discuss alliance with you." His body shifted irregularly in the shadows, contorting into positions unimaginable.
-Oh, no, not another one.- Adorios thought. "Why do you wish alliance with me?"
"Because I have wished to get revenge upon Samus for a long time…and I will do it with you. I also have deep interest in the elemental stones, as well…"
"I seem to be meeting many people who wish to kill Samus today. I think it may be a good idea, but we will have to discuss our terms of agreement…" Adorios said slyly, approaching Nero slowly…
Well, that's it people. i know i kinda introduced two new people in a slightly rushed manner, but hey, they have a very important part in the story. please review, and get ready for...
Next time: Intrigue on Diaban!
