CE 2183…1235 hours…August 22…Reaped Aether
The large metal worms finish their roar with the three of them detaching from the orb and burrowing beneath the sand of this coliseum the three find themselves in.
"Everyone quick, back up the ledge!" Jason shouts.
He watches as Vasir uses her biotics to launch herself up to the ledge but before he can help Tali up the door slams shut.
"Shepard!" Vasir's muffled voice yells from behind the tinted window next to the door.
"Vasir, get back to the portal! ALI, as soon as that thing is ready, send Vasir through to get the others and work on getting this door open."
"Of course, Jason." ALI states just as he sees Vasir quickly turn from the window.
He can feel the ground beneath them begin to rumble and he barely scoops up Tali in time to dodge as one of the worms launches out of the ground where they were standing only moments before. As the black armored creature rises he notices odd red dots blinking on its underbelly.
"Keelah, Jason, what do we do now?" Tali asks as he sets her back on her feet just as the worm burrows its way back under the sand
"We fight these things until help arrives." He says sternly as he grips tighter to his sniper rifle, "Stay close for when we need to dodge them, get you're Omni-tool ready to scan once it's in the air."
Tali nods just as the ground begins to rumble again, Jason once again holding Tali and launching the pair away with biotics just in time to dodge the worm's ascent.
CC 2077…1345 hours…Aug, 23…Agon Temple, Light Aether
With one more well timed jump and an accurate charged shot, the Jump Guardian is sent sprawling backwards. It writes on the ground screeching loudly as its body disperses into an inert puddle leaving behind nothing but the jump boots that were stolen from her. Samus walks forward and touches her old equipment as her suit quickly absorbs the Space Jump Boots. Once the light of the absorption fades she jumps, then follows it up with a mid-air second jump to test her boots functionality.
Turning back she can see that A-Las and Nula were still trying to get Huntress and Agaric to regain consciousness. She looks past them as she approaches to see Vasir rushing towards the group with only Bau in tow.
"Where's Jason and Tali?" Nula asks worriedly
"They're in trouble."
CE 2183…1255 hours…August 22…Reaped Aether
"Okay, Jason, just one more!" Tali cheers as the worm falls to pieces from above them, the metal segments of the creature crashing in random locations on the opposite side of the arena.
"Right," he states happily, "be ready with that energy drain program you cooked up."
He wraps his arm around her and waits. After a moment the ground once again begins to shake and he jumps way, setting Tali down and readying his rifle. Then the worm shoots from the ground revealing the magnetic coupling generators on the underbelly that ALI confirmed the red dots were in their scan. There is an electric pop as sparks shoot from some of the couplings. Immediately he fired, thankful for ALI's return once more as the HUD helped him make three quick perfect shots striking the couplings. The creature growls as its lights dim and it delves back underground. The creature isn't underground long however as the ground beneath them shakes again and they repeat their cycle.
Just as the last coupling is shot and the creature falls apart he hears the large doors open behind him. Turning he sees Samus dropping down into the coliseum with them, her arm cannon at the ready.
"You're a bit late." He laughs.
"No, I'm not."
CE 2183…1300 hours…Aug, 23…Reaped Aether
Samus hears Tali gasp as lightning shoots from the Amorbis power orb in the center of the room to the segmented hunks of metal that litter the room. The segments fly over their heads and connect together to form an Amorbis Husk trio. Suddenly clouds of black ash flow from openings in the walls behind them and swarm around the giant worm-like beasts. The now possessed Amorbis share similar structure to their Dark Aether counterpart while still maintaining the dark metallic sheen and glowing blue indicators of huskification she has grown accustom to. Two of the Dark Amorbis screech as the third positioned closest to Jason, Tali, and herself begins producing a bright red ooze from its mouth as it turns its dead blue eyes onto the trio. She notices the substance steaming as it drips to the sand below and the air seeming to swirl with dark energy in the area just in front of the creature's three horns.
"Everyone move!" Jason shouts just as the Dark Amorbis vomits the burning fluid into the orb propelling it forward so fast as to make it appear as a beam. The beam burns a path forward and she barely strafes away before it scorches the ground where she once stood.
Lifting her hand to her visor she begins the scan on the creature. Before she can finish however the worm she strafed closer too begins to flare with the dark energy of biotics. She stops the scan and uses the morph ball boost to evade an enormous impact from a singularity. She continues to roll forward, fighting the pull of the large biotic vortex as it attempts to drag her back in.
"I hope the others can resist this pull." Samus thinks as she struggles to remain in her own position.
Finally the singularity closes; causing the air to swoosh as the black hole in its center rapidly shrinks. She quickly exits morph ball mode and turns. She thankfully sees Jason and Tali safe. The pair is seemingly unfazed as they continue to dodge the burning beams of the first Dark Amorbis and fire on it in an attempt to remove its apparent barriers.
"ALI, you got any idea on how to kill this thing yet?!" she hears Jason yell as he dodges yet another beam.
She turns back to begin her own scan once more finding the second worm preparing to fire a singularity amongst her allies.
"Jason!" she yells, not taking her eyes away from the Dark Amorbis. The singularity fires but only makes it slightly way from the creature before a small biotic blast strikes it, causing a massive explosion of dark energy. The beast gurgles and collapses over just as she finishes her scan, her armor recording the entry to her Logbook.
Quickly she skims the entry, finding that there is an Ing nerve cluster within the beast. The Ing is heavily armored but the shock of a power bomb may cause the creature to damage the power orb the worms are connected to. If the power orb is destroyed then the Amorbis falls apart. The only obstacle was the Ing formed glands secreting the super-heated mercury on the Amorbis that fires the laser.
Quickly taking advantage of the disoriented worm in front of her she morphs and boosts directly into its gaping maw, she hears Tali and Jason yell for her just before the light of the outside world vanishes. She feels the momentum shift as the creature undoubtedly lifts itself to its upright position. All sound within the Amorbis is muffled beyond a buzzing noise just before she reaches her destination. Quickly dropping a bomb next to the beetle she rocketed back out of the worm.
Light suddenly fills her vision and she feels the shock absorbing crunch of the sand under her. Her eyes adjust just in time to see the worm violently convulse enough to lift the large black power orb before slamming it downward again, causing cracks to form on the surface revealing its orange interior. Morphing once more she hears footfalls approach from her left.
"That was crazy!" Jason shouts as he lightly hits her shoulder, "I mean even I draw the line at getting eaten deliberately."
The Amorbis regains its composure and lets forth a wrathful roar.
"So is that what we gotta do? Let this thing eat you until it breaks that orb?"
Samus nods, "We have to incapacitate them first like you did earlier but yes. We also need to figure out how to deal with the one with the Mercury Beam."
Tali sighs, "Keelah this is going to be a long day."
A/N: Sorry for the long update, I'm just experiencing terrible writers block with this Metroid section of the story. Hopefully I can pull it together when the Amorbis is dead. Anyway I am going to be heading for Skyrim after this so I'm going to need various characters for it. I might as well get the word out and look for some people now. Either leave a review or send a PM of them and I'll figure out who gets in. I could also fit in some Dark Souls and Gears of War characters as well so don't be afraid to add them. I'll update again as soon as I can.
Sorry for the re-upload, I just realized I had 1400 hours instead of 1300 like I should have put just before the end up above.
