DAWN, DARKNESS, AND WAR
Metroid © Nintendo
Chapter Ten: Friends and Rivals reunite
- Meteor Tech -
The scene shifts towards Meteor Tech. The Space Pirates had taken Future City under control some time back and driven most of the people out of the city. It was an ambush that nobody saw coming.
In a narrow corridor, we see the Chaotix making their way through the dark corridor. They had managed to find a secret entrance that lead them to Meteor Tech.
"We finally managed to get here." Vector said, breathing with a sigh of relief. "I didn't think getting here would take us this long."
"Well, it was your idea to walk." Espio pointed out.
"Yeah, you had to stop by at that fast food restaurant on the way here!" Charmy added.
"I can't help myself, OK? All I wanted was that special jumbo cheeseburger. It tasted so good!" Vector said, remembering the delicious taste of the burger he had eaten earlier.
"Note to self: Never order a jumbo cheeseburger unless we're all really hungry." Espio noted.
"Yeah, yeah, I hear ya." Vector exagerated.
The three detectives soon spotted a nearby computer room in which it was empty. The Chaotix decided to take advantage of this and headed inside and made their way to a nearby computer as Espio began typing.
"So what are we looking for again?" Charmy asked.
"We need to find information on what the Space Pirates are doing here and find any information that we can come across." Espio replied.
"Right." Vector nodded. "Espio will hack into their communications network and download the Space Pirate data onto this disc." The green crocodile pulled out a disc from an unknown pocket of his and showed it to Charmy.
"That's great!" Charmy smiled before changing his expression and scratching his head. "But are you sure this will work? What if something goes wrong?"
"C'mon Charmy! You gotta have a little faith." Vector said, as he put the disc inside the computer's hardware. "Are you there yet, Espio?"
"Almost. I'm just about crack the systems code." Espio replied, as he typed as fast as he could. Keeping his composure as he continued his work. The computer screen flashed green. "Got it!"
"All right, we're in!" Charmy yelled excitedly.
"Keep quiet, Charmy!" Vector yelled out, before turning to Espio. "Espio, download the data to the disc I just put in."
"Way ahead of you." Espio replied, as he pressed enter. That began the downloading of the process.
Dozrin was at the control room, as he and the other Space Pirate Commanders were standing by for the announcement that Vi-Zera was going to address shortly, and make sure that it would be heard clear to people all around the world.
He then heard a beeping sound from one of the monitors. Checking it, Dozrin pressed a button, revealing Dr. Eggman on the screen.
"Dr. Eggman, I am pleased to hear from you, sir." Dozrin said, giving a kneel to in the process as to show respect for the mechanical genius.
"I see that everything is good on your end. How are my robots coming along?" Dr. Eggman questioned.
"Vi-Zera contacted me about that subject. The robots are coming along at a nice pace and will be ready very shortly." Dozrin answered.
"Excellent." Eggman grinned. "I trust that you'll let me in once the robots are finished?"
"Yes sir. I swear to you that they live up to your expectations." Dozrin said.
"That's what I want to hear." Eggman replied satisfyingly.
The alarm suddenly sounded. Dozrin jumped to his feet when he heard it. Dr. Eggman must've heard it as well."
"What's going on? Why is the alarm going off?" Eggman asked, demanding an answer.
Dozrin checked the security camera's to find what was causing this trouble. He soon spotted it. "Someone's in the computer data lab!"
"Then send in reinforcements and stop them!" Eggman shouted.
"Yes sir. Once we rid of the intruders, I'll contact you." Dozrin replied. He then cut communications with Dr. Eggman and turned away from the monitor. "I'll make sure that these intruders won't leave here alive."
Team Chaotix was already on the run when the alarm went off. Espio has the disc of data saved in his pocket after retrieving it from one of the computers.
"Boy, I guess it was only a matter of time, right?" Charmy asked excitedly.
"What are you talking about, Charmy?" Vector questioned. "We haven't even been caught yet!"
"And if you two keep talking like that, it will be only a matter of time before we get caught!" Espio noted.
Speaking of which, three Space Pirate soldiers came down from the ceiling, forcing our heroes to stop dead end in their tracks.
"Oh great, more of these guys!" Charmy said annoyingly. "Don't they have anything better to do?"
"Espio, we need to get out of here, quickly!" Vector told him. "Do you think maybe you can finish these guys in a record amount of time?"
"All right. But don't expect miracles from me all of the time." Espio noted, as he quickly went to each towards Space Pirate. Each one of the Space Pirates with a strip of Japanese paper strip. Before the Space Pirate Troopers could make a move, Espio slapped each one of the strips on their faces, blinding them. After Espio was finished, he quickly went to a clearing away from the Space Pirate troopers and snapped his fingers, exploding and making a large cloud of smoke.
At that moment, Espio appeared from within the shadows of the smoke. "Come on, let's get moving!"
Vector and Charmy wasted no time as the charged right past Espio, almost taking the chameleon by surprise before he decided to catch up with them.
Soon, the Chaotix made it to a large area of Meteor Tech. They looked around to see where the next door is that would lead to the exit. Vector noticed a large door up ahead that had the most light.
"That must be the door! Let's hurry and get out of here!" Vector shouted.
"Righto!" Charmy saluted.
CRASH!
A large crash came from the side of the room. The Chaotix were taken by surprise by this as they looked in the direction where the crash came from.
"What was that?" Espio asked.
"Could it be more Space Pirates?" Charmy wondered.
Vector got a close look from his point of view. His eyes then widened. "Uh...boys? We got trouble!"
Trouble was right. A large group of Space Pirates stood together, including the leader, Dozrin. He was holding his hammer with a grin plastered on his face.
"So you're the intruders that snuck in here." Dozrin said, pointing out the obvious.
"That's right!" Charmy answered.
"CHARMY!" Vector said, slapping his head in annoyance. "Yeah, and we plan getting out of here, too!"
"I wouldn't plan on that." Dozrin replied. "What you see here are my Space Pirate Troopers ready to attack once I give the word. But first, we have business to take care of. You were in the computer data lab and I want to know what you were doing in there."
"We were stealing-" Charmy blurted out before Vector shut his trap up just in time.
"Quiet down, Charmy!" Vector told him.
Those words from Charmy caught Dozrin's attention. "Stealing? What were you stealing?"
As Espio was trying to keep Charmy quiet, Vector spoke towards the Space Pirate General. "What we came here for is none of your business. We're doing to defeat you and your Space Pirate army and get out of here!"
Espio and Charmy seemed a little surprised on what Vector had said.
"Uh Vector, not to burst your bubble, but there's like an entire army of Space Pirates out there! I don't think we stand a chance against thse numbers." Charmy pointed out.
"Did that stop us when we battled Eggman and his robots before?" Vector asked. "No! Once we start a job, we finish the job! That's our policy."
The two other members remembered this motto and they both agreed with Vector. Charmy grinned excitedly. "Yeah! Let's kick some Space Pirate butt!"
Dozrin couldn't tell whether to be amused or assume they were being foolish. "Do you think you can actually take me and my Space Pirate army with just the three of you? You would need extra fire-power to take us on." He gripped his hammer. "All soliders-"
A missile flew out from above Team Chaotix and skyrocketed straight towards Dozrin without warning. Before the Space Pirate General had time to react, the missile directly hit his core, blowing up near his face.
"What the heck just happened?" Charmy wondered. He was confused on where that missile came from.
Espio was able to get a clear look after the smoke had died down. "Whatever it was, it seems to have damaged that Space Pirate General."
Dozrin was down on one knee while holding one hand on his damaged core. "W-What happened? Where did that missile come from?"
"Why don't you take an obvious guess?" A voice replied.
The Chaotix heard the voice from behind them as they turned around, only to be shocked and surprised as to who's voice it was.
The person's voice turned out to be from a tall humanoid in a familiar looking orange Power Suit. Charmy smiled happily to see who it was.
"Samus! It's you!" Charmy said excitedly.
Samus Aran approached the Chaotix. "Hello boys. I came here as soon as I could."
"Greetings, Samus. It is good to see you again, but how did you know to come here?" Espio questioned.
"I think we can save the questions until later." Samus replied as she fixed her Arm Cannon onto Dozrin.
The Space Pirate General saw her. The famous Bounty Hunter was here. He chuckled at her arrival as he got back to his feet. "Samus Aran. Who knew that you would show up here at all places?"
"Would you rather prefer if I didn't show up here at all?" Samus asked.
"No. In fact, we were expecting you to arrive here."
Samus stayed cautious and focused at the same time her eyes darted upwards towards the ceiling. "Good. Because we're not going to be staying here for very long."
Before Dozrin could have a chance to respond, Samus shot five missiles at once towards the ceiling, blasting a large portion that made a large portion of the ceiling come falling down towards Dozrin. The Space Pirate General was caught off guard by this as the piece of the ceiling crashed on top of him. The Space Pirate Troopers managed to jump out of the way in time before it buried Dozrin.
The Chaotix seemed impressed by this. Most notabaly Vector. "Very good job, Samus!"
Samus lowered her Arm Cannon and turned around. "Let's get moving while they're distracted. That won't hold Dozrin down for long."
"Oh, right! Let's get out of here!" Vector shouted as Samus led the way with the other Chaotix members following her.
The Space Pirates were about to go after them.
"Stop!" This caught the Space Pirate attention. "Let them go and help get this off of me."
The Space Pirates went over to the buried Dozrin and helped him get the large portion of the broken ceiling off of him. Dozrin had an angry look on his face. "I promise you, Samus, that you and your friends haven't seen the last of me. I garuntee it."
- Wave Ocean -
The scene shifts towards Wave Ocean. It was a beautiful day as the sun started to set with the sky turning orange. Over near the shore we could see Team Berserker of Armand, Basil, and Axel were standing at the shore of the beach together. It looks as though as if they were waiting for someone or something to show up.
"Do you think they'll show up?" Axel asked. "Let alone even help us?"
"Well, my gut says no. But then again, my guy doesn't always tell me things straight." Basil shrugged.
"I'm sure they'll be here. With all that's been happened today, I'm sure they will have noticed it as well." Armand remarked.
"How will we know when they get here?" Basil wondered.
A minute later, a red airship suddenly flew over them and stopped overhead above the sand beore coming to a halt in mid-air. Soon, three familiar looking anthro birds came riding down from the airship on their Extreme Gear boards and came across with Team Berserker.
"Well, if it ain't you guys again. Thought you'd never show up." Basil greeted unsually.
"We're you expecting us not to show up?" Jet questioned witha raised eyebrow. Basil replied with no response.
"So what did you want to speak with us about?" Wave asked.
"Actually, we're expecting other people to be here." Axel told them.
"Which would happen to be us!" A cocky male voice called out.
The two groups turned to see that the voice came from three other people.
Jet frowned. "Really? You had to call them out here?"
The group that Jet was mentioning was Team Rockers that consisted of Yamkir, Xion, and Robin. Yamkir was wearing a tan fur-jacket, blue shiny boots, and his spiked wrists. Xion was wearing a light blue tank-top, black jeans, and black/white sneakers. And Robin was still wearing his black jacket and black sunglasses.
"But of course, green bird! As you know, we are the greatest Extreme Gear team of all time!" They turned their heads dramatically, having a moment to themselves as if they were in the spotlight.
Storm cracked his knuckles. "So did we come here to race or what?"
"I called you all here for an important reason." Armand announced. "As you may have noticed, earlier today, the monsters known as Space Pirates began invading our planet. They are lead by the Ridley and Dr. Eggman. Not only this, but I've also received disturbing news."
"Really? And what might that be?" Wave asked.
"Mephiles is still alive." Armand replied. "And he's kidnapped Louise Harmon's daughter."
There was a long silence. Xion was rather curious.
"So what happened?" Xion asked.
"A pair of monsters known as Morbids abducted her under Mephiles rule." Axel explained. "From what we've heard, Marisa and Samson were the only ones fighting them off. The Morbids succeeded and they kidnapped Marisa before escaping."
"I see..." Wave rubbed her chin. "Did Mephiles explain why he needed Marisa?"
"No. We weren't really there, so we don't know that part." Basil replied.
"But what we do know Marisa was kidnapped by Mephiles. That much we know for certain." Armand stated.
"So what do ya want us ta do, laddie?" Robin asked.
"This is one of the reasons why I called you all here." Armand continued. "We should form a search party together and find Marisa."
"That sounds fine and all, but I gotta a couple of questions about this." Yamkir interjected. "First of all, where are we suppose to look in order to find her? You know that this is a pretty big planet. And secondly, suppose that we do find here. What do we get out of all this?"
"That's why we've come up with a solution. Basil?" Armand turned to the fox.
"Got it." Basil grinned as he handed communicators to Team Rockers and the Babylon Rogues.
"What are these for?" Storm asked, confused.
"These are communicators, all hand made by us." Basil answered. "In case anyone of us finds a lead or even Marisa herself, we can call each other with these, no matter how far apart we are. And it works as a walkie talkie, too, so we can talk to each other!"
"Not a half bad idea, I have to admit." Xion smiled a bit at the new communicator. In an odd fashion, she clipped the communicator to her belt. "I think this looks good on me, don't you admit, dudes?"
Robin had flashy eyes coming from his shade. "That looks good on ya, Xion. Fits you well!"
"Yeah, babe." Yamkir shrugged. "But what about the other question? What do we get out of all this?"
"What do you want?" Armand asked. "To prove that your the best?"
"What? You all know that the three of us are the best Extreme Gear in the world!" Yamkir boasted the tiger.
"Really?" Jet raised an eyebrow. "Because from where I stand, you're third-rate."
"What did you say, bird boy? I think my ears kinda clogged itself up." Yamkir questioned as if he was serious.
"I said you're third-rate. Not just you, but your team as well." Jet grinned.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Xion called out. "You better watch what you say, because if mess with us, you're gonna get rocked!"
"Why don't you say that to my face, punk?" Storm replied back.
"STOP ARGUING!" Basil shouted. "Can't you see that a big crisis is going on? How can we concentrate on the current situation if you guys are going to boast about who's the better team?" The fox started to pant a bit. "Man, that was a bit rough."
Axel himself had to agree. "What do you suggest, Armand?"
"After this is all over, and everything is settled, why don't we have a three team race? That way, we can settle the differences once and for all."
The Babylon Rogues and Team Rockers seemed to listen carefully and both nodded silently.
"All right, it's a deal!" Jet nodded.
"And that goes double for us!" Yamkir added. Xion and Robin nodded in agreement.
"OK then. Now then, I suggest we split up into different directions. The communicators will keep track of where we are, no matter how far about we are. If and os us manage to find any leads or whereabouts concerning Marisa's kidnapping, either we will contact you or you contact us and give us the update. Is everyone clear?"
Jet tossed the communicator to Wave, to which the purple swallow caught.
"We'll search high above the sky in our airship. We can cover more ground that way." Wave said.
"Good idea." Axel nodded. "And you guys?" Asking Team Rockers.
"I don't know. I think we'll search the best spots like Twinkle Park and see if we can find her there." Yamkir replied.
"Are you sure? Cause I doubt Mephiles would take Marisa there." Basil doubted.
"You never know until you look." Yamkir retorted with a finger wave. Basil just shrugged it off.
"One more thing. Stay away from places in where the Space Pirates are at. We can''t find them with the current numbers we have, so it's best to avoid them as possible." Armand warned them.
"Got ya, lad!" Robin agreed. "We'll do our best."
"Can we go now?" Jet asked, yawning a bit. "I'm honestly getting bored just standing here."
"Very well. In that case, we'll start searching in the forest area." Armand said. "Now let's move!"
In a short amount of time, the three teams took off in their own directions. Their mission was to find Marisa Harmon.
More friends and rivals meet up as they each have their own objectives. What kind of information did the Chaotix get in their hands? With Samus reuniting with the Chaotix, will they be able to stand up to the Space Pirate invasion? And will the Extreme Gear teams be able to locate Marisa? Find out on the next Dawn, Darkness, and War!
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NOTE: Wow...it's been over a year since I updated this story. And after a long period of Writer's Block, I've finally got my writing spirit back. Rest assured, I'm back. And I'm going to go all the way with this story.
