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Chapter 13
Samus's soldier instincts were the deciding factor on whether they got hit, or they didn't. Thankfully for them, her soldier instincts held out.
Samus grabbed Amaterasu and dived behind a rock.
The place where they were standing was singed and the snow had melted through.
What the in the name of me is happening? Asked Ammy.
"There are hostiles firing on us up on that cliff," answered Samus calmly.
Nothing we haven't been through, commented Ammy.
Samus realized that she had neglected to scan the grunts, or anything else for that matter.
Samus switched to her scan visor. She had recently had it upgraded to scan at further distances. She locked on to the grunts and initiated a scan. The rock took the fire meant for Samus and Ammy.
"So, these guys are called grunts and they seem to work for a company called Sonsoft..." said Samus after the scan had finished.
How do you know that? Queried Ammy.
"My visor has a function that allows me to scan things to access data bases to get information on it," answered Samus.
Ah, okay, said Amaterasu with all the grace of a goddess not understanding what was just said.
Samus didn't bother to say anything; instead she darted out from behind the rock. A lucky shot was flying straight for her, but she dodged it by executing a double back-flip over it. While she was still in the air she fired a few plasma shots and a missile straight at the grunts. A few of the shots missed, but the missile was sure to hit.
Just before the missile hit, one of the grunts made a signal with his hand; a signal that would cause the toughness, grace and power of a goddess to be revealed.
Fifth teen grunts sprang out from the snow and behind rocks. Samus didn't realize that she was about to be attacked until too late. Even when attacked unexpectedly, she still put up a fight. She managed to take out two grunts before one of their shots paralyzed her.
Ammy had not fought yet. Now was the time to act; a time for the power of a goddess to be revealed.
She leapt up from behind the rock; rearing her head majestically towards the moons. She had the Rosary weapon Tundra beads equipped as her main and the glaive (sword), Thunder edge, as her sub.
The grunts were awed at the sight of this.
The awe wore off quicker on one, said grunt than aimed his weapon at Ammy. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain across his waist. It lasted only a micro second.
Whut the 'ell?,thought the grunt.
He shrugged and remained his weapon. Then he realized that he was on the ground. Well half of him, at any rate. His legs were standing above him, blood from them dripping onto his face. Then he died.
This all happened within two or so seconds; while Ammy was still in the air.
The moment over, Ammy attacked the shocked grunts. She charged at one using Thunder edge, driving straight through it. After shaking its corpse off, she lashed out at one with the Tundra beads, maiming it beyond recovery. It died of loss of blood within ten seconds. She mercilessly grabbed another grunt with the beads, spinning up into the air with him, while biting him. She then threw him downwards straight into the ground, his skull cracking on impact. She started to fall gracefully.
One of the grunts saw this as an opening and shot at her. The shot hit, but was not enough to knock out the goddess. The grunt was perplexed by this, well he would have been if he hadn't been electrocuted by some unknown force.
The rest of the grunts ran off, Amaterasu in all her grace and kindnesses letting them go.
As Ammy stood there, standing in the blood drenched snow, panting, with blood falling from her mouth, she did something unexpected. She lay down and started crying. She hadn't just killed Demons. She had killed living creatures. This wasn't something she liked doing.
Composing herself, she dragged the still paralyzed Samus back to her cave.
Who knew? Thought Samus as her limp body was dragged through the snow.
