Chapter 1
(Story Two)
Federation Trouble
A ship with Federation troops flew across the vast areas of space. Their ship fired their guns at a Space Pirate ship that was trying to evade them.
"There headed for that planet!" a troop yelled to the captain.
"Engage target at full power!" The Captain yelled back. The Space Pirate ship took a hit and they began to spin into the atmosphere of the planet.
"Sir, radar indicates there is a fierce storm brewing in that planet's atmosphere." A troop said,
"Keep going, we can't let that ship escape!" the Captain said and ordered the rest of the crew to buckle up.
Private Robert Hook strapped himself in and readied himself for the ride. He felt the force of the ship as it entered the atmosphere, suddenly there was a large explosion and the whole ship shook.
"Report!" The Captain yelled to a crewman,
"We've been struck by lightning! From the storm!" he replied,
The captain cursed under his breath and yelled, "Brace yourselves everyone!"
The ship shook and trembled as it continued down towards the surface. Hook didn't think the ship would hold, and the ship would break apart and send everyone flying outside to their doom. But amazingly the ship held out and they had landed safely, though they lost sight of the Space Pirate ship; but they would soon forget about the pirates for they had something larger they would have to deal with……
Samus Aran woke from her sleep. She stepped from her cryo tube and got dressed. She headed to her cockpit and took a look at the main screen. There was a mission for her.
Samus had gotten many missions before, all easy and boring. Ever since her encounter with the Master Chief, everything was boring. Nothing……thrilling enough for her. It was at least a year after she had met the Chief and she hadn't visited him yet. "Alright then," Samus said to herself, "let's see what I'm up against." The ship's screen blinked a bit and blue words gradually came on that read:
A ship with a handful of Federation troops has disappeared. They were on patrol and had said they engaged a Space Pirate cargo ship. They had followed it into the planet known as Aether. What happened to them and where they are now are unknown. Mission objectives: Find the Federation Troops and find out what had happened to them.
Samus clicked the accept button and geared up. Her ship became on autopilot and flew towards her destination.
A little while later, Samus entered the atmosphere of Aether. There was a storm when she had entered it and she was struck by lightning. She crash landed onto the planet and exited her ship. She was equipped normally; the only things extra that she packed were her space jump boots and her Super Missile upgrade. Samus stepped onto the soft sand, on where she landed, and walked forward.
"This shouldn't take long." Samus said to herself, "Federation soldiers must've gotten some type of engine problem. No big." She walked through a door and entered a room with a large hole in the middle. She jumped down and saw a few crates and other machines. They all looked like Federation belongings. She scanned the area for anything important, but nothing turned up. She walked forward through another door and was greeted with large computers and screens along with three dead Federation troops. Samus checked for any signs of life, but found none. She walked through another door and found the second room was much like the first, just more dead bodies and some of the computers were destroyed. Samus passed two of the five dead bodies and tried to get through a door, but it was securely locked. Samus turned around and looked for the controls to unlock the door. On her way to a computer, there was a blinking red light on one of the Federation troop's helmets. Samus scanned it and found it was a small journal entry that the soldier had left. It read:
We were to engage the Space Pirates, but we lost them after chasing after them through the storm. I hope the others are ok. My team scouted far and looked high and low but we found no traces of them. We reached a dead end and we were beginning to pack up again when those monsters attacked. Most of us made it out of the room and we had locked the door, but if we're going to die, then we'll go down fighting.
One hour later.
They've dug a hole from above us at the dead end and are attacking us from the behind! We won't hold them off for long; they take too many bullets to kill. We're running out. Only five of us are left, but we're trapped like rats in this room. If anyone finds this, tell my wife I love---- entry not finished.
Samus shook her head sadly and scanned the computers and the door unlocked for her. When it unlocked she headed for it and opened it, though when she opened it a blackish purple object attacked her. Samus jumped out of the way, and saw her enemy. It was a floating black cloud. Samus tried to scan it to see the threat but there was nothing on the dark cloud. It separated into five different clouds and each entered one of the Federation troops.
"What the?" Samus said and the Federation troops came back to life. They rose from their dead positions and raised their guns. Samus rolled left, dodging fire, and charged her beam. She fired at one of the soldiers and he fell dead. Their armor was already damaged from previous battles, so they shouldn't be too hard.
The other four were down in a few moments and Samus looked at the dead bodies. "What the hell just happened?" she asked herself, "Zombies? No way, it must have been those black clouds." Samus shook her thoughts away and entered the room which she had unlocked. At that moment she knew that this wasn't going to be easy.
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I never was good at making beginnings. SO that means the first few chapters might not be the best chapters of story two, but they make the story go on and fill in pieces in later chapters. R&R I love those reviews!