Chapter 14:

Inside the Radio Tower, Elric and his Magic Lord masters laid waste to anyone and everyone who stood in their way. A security officer stood in front of them, firing scarlet pulses of energy from his rifle, only to have the pulses blocked by the two adolescent Magic Lords. The two then ruthlessly cut the security officer to pieces. Once the pieces of the officer fell to the floor, Elric heard Aglara quip, "Well, that's all of 'em." Elric took that to mean that they had killed the last of the security officers. The two Magic Lords continued towards a stairwell that would take them to the top of the tower. Elric prepared to follow them when he his comm unit beeped. He pressed a button on his wristwatch and the image of one of his golden-armored Watchman soldiers appeared.

"Sir, we've just received word that Chairman of Defense, Rickard Lorenz, has been killed," the Watchman reported.

"What?" Elric blurted in surprise. "How?"

"According to the last report before we lost contact with him, the only possible way he could have been killed was by Samus Aran since he was already engaging the bus in a firefight."

"Samus killed him? In a starfighter?" he gasped. The Federation Chairman could hardly believe what he had heard. Rickard had been piloting a Stiletto-class starfighter that should have been armed with missiles. The armor alone was enough to shrug off all of the weapons fire from Samus's suit, to say nothing of the fighter's shields. Maybe normal missiles or Super Missiles would have been effective, as would have the electrical Wave Beam, but Samus had none of those. Her suit was a mere shell of what it had once been. He then began to realize that there was another possibility. Samus's current stacked Plasma Beam had the added effects of the phasing Wave Beam, which allowed her beams to phase through certain materials and shields. One of the materials that it could phase through was glass and other transparent materials. He then realized that that was what she had to have used to kill Lorenz. He grimaced at the loss of not only another starfighter, but also his Chairman of Defense. It would be another position that he would have to fill, which would only bring down more scrutiny on him from the rest of the Council. While he did have his supporters on the Council, his attack on Earth might have driven away some of his supporters, especially since his attack had been a disaster and it looked like most of his fleet was now destroyed. With these dark thoughts, he followed after his masters, hoping that they would be able to turn things around, somehow, before things really did get out of control.

Meanwhile, on Spear Pillar on the peak of Mount Coronet, Cyrus proceeded to make his way towards the Hall of Origin. He absently had his hands in his pocket, fingering the Azure Flute that he would use in order to call Dark Arceus to the world and use the Red Chain to control him and have him destroy the universe and make a new universe, one where he was in charge. He glanced back at his lieutenant, Charon and told him, "Remain here. Have the others make sure that there are no intruders. I cannot afford to be interrupted right now."

"Understood," Charon replied.

Cyrus then gave a grin as he turned around and took out the Azure Flute. The Azure Flute more closely resembled an ocarina with four several tubes with holes at the end of them, plus a red mouthpiece at the end of the instrument. Cyrus then blew into the flute and several notes echoed from the flute. The soft tone of the song that Cyrus played echoed across the wind. Charon and two grunts looked on as Cyrus played, tears coming to the grunts' eyes. Charon, however, seemed to be unaffected by the song that Cyrus was playing. Eventually, the song ended and the Vice-Chairman took a step back. A strange series of musical notes from an alien sounding instrument sounded and an energy outline formed stretching from the ground out into the sky. Soon, a series of clear energy-based steps filled the outline. Cyrus did not even look back at his subordinates as he stepped onto the first step. He continued to climb the stairway into the sky, not looking back at all. After climbing for what seemed like an eternity, he eventually reached the top of the stairway.

Once he reached the top of the stairway, he found what looked to be a glass-like platform. At the end of the platform, a dark, swirling vortex of energy stared back at him. He stared into the vortex and could feel the presence on the other side of the vortex stare back at him. As he approached, he saw a flash of purple form on the other side of the vortex. Cyrus retreated a few steps as a purple ball of energy erupted from the vortex and landed a few feet in front of the leader of Team Galactic and Vice-Chairman of the Galactic Federation. Cyrus stared in amazement as a figure emerged from the vortex. Emerging from the vortex was what looked to be the Pokémon, Arceus. However, upon fully emerging from the portal, it was clear to Cyrus that this Pokémon was not Arceus at all. While it still had the centaur-like body of Arceus, body was black with a gray underside, as opposed to Arceus's white body and gray underside. Its face was gray with red eyes and black pupils. In addition, this creature had a black cross-like wheel, which was attached to its body by its round abdomen. Both this wheel, along with the creatures eyes and hooves were black, indicating that this creature was a Dark type Pokémon. Despite the Pokémon's similarity to Arceus in appearance, one would have known right away that this Pokémon was by no means, Arceus. Instead, it was more similar to Arceus's opposite; and his evil opposite at that. Cyrus could sense the malice and intense hatred for the universe that came from this Pokémon.

"Dark Arceus," Cyrus stated plainly, staring up into the Pokémon's eyes.

"Cyrus," the dark creature responded with a masculine voice, his lips not moving at all. The Pokémon's voice echoed through Cyrus's mind as he spoke. "I remember you. You were the one who came to the Distortion World after being beaten by that Pokémon Trainer over two years ago."

Cyrus took off his backpack and pulled out the Red Chain and prepared to use it against Dark Arceus. Before using the Chain, though, Cyrus made one plea to the Pokémon, saying, "Dark Arceus, I must thank you for coming."

"I should be thanking you," the Pokémon interrupted in a sinister tone. "Without you having played your Azure Flute, I would not have access to your world. As it is, though, I know why you summoned me and not my more benevolent counterpart."

"Then you know my wish," Cyrus proclaimed boldly. "End this flawed universe of emotion and hope and create a new universe for me: one without these flawed concepts of emotion, love, hatred, anger, sadness, happiness, and joy! Create a new universe without spirit!"

"Why should I do as you ask?" the dark Pokémon asked haughtily as he took several steps towards Cyrus, forcing the Vice-Chairman to take a few steps backwards.

Cyrus, however, was not caught off guard. He had expected Dark Arceus to refuse him and had taken precautions against this. He readied the Red Chain and let it fly into the air. The chain formed a ring of red crystals and under Cyrus's direction split and launched itself at Dark Arceus. The dark Pokémon did nothing to avoid the chain and let it wrap itself around him. Cyrus gave a satisfied smile as the Red Chain wrapped itself around Dark Arceus and the Pokémon remained still, not taking any action. "Now Dark Arceus; fulfill my desires and create for me a new universe out of the old!"

"Why not just let me destroy this one and not create a new one," Dark Arceus countered in an evil tone.

Cyrus's eyes went wide with shock at Dark Arceus's statement. Dark Arceus then smiled and flexed his muscles. The Red Chain then shattered into thousands of fragments, which then proceeded to burst into an unnatural purple flame while still flying in the air. Before any of the shards managed to strike the ground, the purple flames consumed them. "Did you really think that such a device would allow you to control a creature like me? Now, die with this universe!"

A large ball of purple energy formed in the mouth of Dark Arceus. Once it had grown to the size of a small boulder, the evil Pokémon launched the ball of energy into the air. As the ball was rising, Cyrus fled down the stairwell and back towards Spear Pillar as the dark vortex grew in size until it was larger than the size of the peak of Mount Coronet. Once Dark Arceus's attack had risen a few dozen feet into the air, it split into a dozen large purple meteors, which bore down upon Cyrus and the planet. The sensors that the grunts had been using in order to detect energy signatures had been blown out when trying to measure the power of Dark Arceus's attack. "Now die with Final Judgment!" Dark Arceus cried.

As the attack was about to strike the planet, a second attack came from nowhere and intercepted Dark Arceus's attack. The attack appeared to be a series of blue psychic energy bolts which intercepted the meteors of Dark Arceus's Judgment attack and deflected them back through the portal. A second later, a massive light emerged from the center of the portal and the ground shook as lightning sparked from the portal. After a minute or so, the ground stopped shaking and the portal seemed to stabilize. During this time, though, a fraction of a second after the meteors of Final Judgment had been deflected into the portal, a blue swirling sphere of energy streaked towards Dark Arceus and struck the dark Pokémon in the head and exploded. The dark Pokémon recoiled from the attack and was forced back a few steps, having sustained damage from the attack. The fact that he had felt pain for the first time in his life shocked him. Dark Arceus looked up into the sky and found a humanoid feline-like Pokémon floating in the air. This unknown Pokémon had a gray body with a purple underside with a long purple tail. It also had two arms with paws with three digits on each paw. It also had blue glowing eyes and two small ears on the top of its head. The unknown Pokémon stared down at Arceus and a masculine voice echoed, "Arceus?" as if he were questioning whether or not his opponent was the legendary creator Pokémon. "No, it can't be," he concluded, after studying Dark Arceus further. "Arceus has white fur, and this one has black. And besides, I sense a great amount of evil coming from this one."

Dark Arceus stared up at the unknown Pokémon and called out in a haughty voice, "Who are you to dare to attack me?"

"I am Mewtwo," the unknown humanoid cat-like Pokémon replied. "And I will protect this world with my life if that is what it takes."

Dark Arceus then grinned, "Then your life it shall be. And you'll still fail to protect your precious world."

Mewtwo merely gave a growl as he assumed a fighter's stance. Cyrus and the others could only look on as they knew that the battle for the Earth, and possibly the universe, was about to begin. Still, plans were already being formulated by Cyrus, for he knew that whoever won this battle would undoubtedly be a hindrance to his plans, especially if the winner was Mewtwo.

Back in America, the hoverbus containing Samus Aran and Councilman Colin Williams and his guards rocketed towards the Radio Tower. So far, besides the single Stiletto that had come for them, there had been no further attacks on the bus. The bus's sensors indicated that it was coming up on the Radio Tower and Councilman Williams alerted Samus, "We're coming up on the tower. Get ready. We may have some stiff competition for reaching the Radio Tower."

"I copy," Samus answered. She looked off into the distance and could see the large spire of the Radio Tower coming into view. As the bus got closer, the tower grew in size. She looked down at the grassy areas and roads surrounding the tower and saw what looked to be several tanks and figures stationed around the tower. She then steeled herself for the upcoming battle whose outcome would have huge ramifications for the entire Galactic Federation.

Inside the Radio Tower, the metal door to the control room of the tower swung open and the two Magic Lords, dressed in Watchman power armor, and Elric barged in. Two officers that were sitting at consoles and computers stood up at the sound and were promptly shot to pieces by Elric and his "Elite Guard." Elric's voice soon echoed throughout the control room as he proclaimed, "The Radio Tower is now under the direct control of the Galactic Federation, in other words, me. You must all leave the control room, and the tower, now! If you do not, well, you know the consequences." He then pointed down to the two operators that had been killed by him and the Magic Lords.

The operators at the consoles then rose and quickly filed out of the control room. Aglara and Aramon stepped aside and let them pass unmolested. Aramon gazed longingly at the human filing past him, hoping that they would try something that would justify him killing them. Aglara, however, glared at him and subtly shook her head. She did not want to risk blowing it and getting Elric killed…not yet. They still had a use for him. After the operators had filed out of the room, they closed the door and began to chant in their native language. They chanted for at least half a minute before they rejoined Elric. Once they got to him, they removed their helmets and focused their gaze on the Star Elf. With sadistic grins on their faces, they told him, "Now it's time for you to play your part. Open a channel to all Galactic Federation worlds."

Elric's eyes went wide. "All Federation worlds? I thought that we were only going to…"

"Do it!" Aglara roared. "All of humanity must die, not only the humans on Earth. They are the only known high potential psychic race still alive, aside from the ascended Chozo and the Luminoth, who are a critically endangered species. "Humans also breed like the trees of the forest. We have an opportunity to wipe them all out in one fell swoop. We will not waste it. Now, set up the Radio Tower to transmit out signal to the rest of the galaxy. The Song of Death must be carried to all humans across the galaxy."

"But that won't deal with the non-human Chosen Heroes, or humans that are in other dimensions, will it?" Elric asked.

Aglara smiled. "Any and all sentient lifeforms connected to Earth will be killed: human, Pokémon, and Cetacean."

"What about species that were engineered by you that used human DNA as a template?" Elric asked in a worried tone. He knew that as a slave of the Magic Lords, they basically viewed him and his people as expendable."

"This song will not affect any species that has a connection to the Elvanheim. You will be safe," Aglara told him. "But don't get too comfortable, Chairman slave. We have another song that can wipe out all of our created species in one fell swoop."

"I understand," Elric stammered quickly, bowing before his masters. "It shall be done as you ask." The Chairman then proceeded to make his way to one of the consoles and told the Magic Lords, "You must understand that it will take me a few minutes to get everything ready, and even after that, it will take a minute or two to open a channel to all Federation worlds and stations, but once we're ready to go, all you'll have to do is sing into the microphone and face the camera. I know how magic works and it often requires both sight and sound, so there's still a chance that…"

"We know how our Song of Death works idiot!" Aramon snapped. "Just do as you're told!"

"Yes, master," Elric replied once more. He then went to work preparing the transmitter so the Magic Lords could broadcast their Song of Death to the entire Galactic Federation, and wipe out all of the humans of Milky Way galaxy. As he was doing so, he could not help but feel as if he was nothing more than a pawn that could easily be disposed of…and that his masters were about to dispose of him once his usefulness came to an end.

The hoverbus sped towards the Radio Tower at top speed. Peering down from the roof of the bus, Samus saw the faint outlines of the troopers that were standing guard outside the tower. The hoverbus decelerated as it approached the tower. Samus focused on the tanks, since they were the primary threats of the defending forces. While they were too far out of range for her Scan Visor to be able to get an accurate reading, she suspected that they were likely shielded, or at the very least, heavily armored. She suspected that it would take more than a single shot from her stacked Charged Plasma Beam to take them out. As such, the greatest asset of the hoverbus would be the fact that it was flying at a fast pace. She opened a channel to Colin Williams and told him, "We've got tanks down there. My guess is that they're likely shielded so it will take more than one shot for me to either destroy or disable them. I think that it would be best if we just made a dash for the Radio Tower and you drop me off, hopefully as close to the control room as possible."

"I see them, Samus, but I don't like our chances of making it to the ground undetected, and intact," Williams responded.

"We could land on the landing platform on the far side of the tower," the pilot suggested to the Councilman.

Williams then told Samus, "Samus, check the landing platform once we swing around to the far side of the tower. I need to know if there are any guards there, and if there are, you have to take them out."

"Understood, sir," Samus responded.

The hoverbus then flew towards the Radio Tower at top speed. Several tanks swiveled their turrets and elevated them so that they were aiming at the approaching hoverbus. The tank squadron commander quickly opened a channel to Elric and called, "Sir, an unauthorized hoverbus has entered Radio Tower airspace. Requesting instructions."

Inside the Radio Tower, Elric heard his comm line crackle as the tank squadron commander informed him of the approaching hoverbus. Elric, who was sitting at one of the consoles, preparing everything for the Magic Lords, stopped what he was doing, looked up and over towards his two masters. "What the hell are you doing?" Aramon roared. "Get back to work!"

"The tank squadron has informed me of an unauthorized hoverbus that has entered Radio Tower airspace and is requesting instructions," Elric told them.

"Then tell him to kill it!" Aramon snapped.

"But hoverbusses are common civilian vehicles. If my men order their deaths, that will draw attention to us," Elric argued. He felt no compassion for anyone who may have been inside that hoverbus, but he did not want the rest of the Earth's military to look away from his fleet and focus on him. "I need to know if we should be concerned about this particular hoverbus."

Aramon growled and turned his head away seemingly sulking, but Aglara then stepped away for a moment and her eyes glowed a deep green. Only a second later, they returned to normal and she told Elric, "Tell the tank squadron to destroy that hoverbus, and tell the troops inside the building to intercept and kill anyone who comes out of that bus."

"Who's on it?" the Chairman asked, fearing the worst.

"Samus Aran," Aglara responded. "One of the Chosen Heroes. She is also accompanied by Councilman Colin Williams, President Richardson and some Secret Service guards. This will be your best chance to take out everyone who hates you," she quipped.

Elric, however, gasped at the information. This was the worst news that he could have received. Samus, and likely Colin Williams and President Richardson, knew all of his dirty secrets and dealings with the Space Pirates, as well as him giving the Space Pirates the information necessary to attack Galactic Federation Headquarters, and even indirectly allowing them to destroy Daiban. If that information ever got out, then he was doomed. There would be no way for his position to allow him to be secure. The Federation Council would be forced by their constituents to call for a vote of no confidence, or outright impeach him, and he would likely be convicted. Even with all of his supporters on the Council, if this ever came to light, there was no way that they would, or could, support him. And if they did still support him, then their own constituencies would call for votes of no confidence in them, if not go straight for recall elections and vote in people who would oust him. And that was if someone did not merely assassinate him first, since he would not likely have any loyal Secret Service members there to protect him from any potential assassins, the outrage over the destruction of Daiban, and the deaths of over nineteen billion people, was too great. He then spoke into his communicator, "Commander, destroy that hoverbus at all costs! Don't let it get to the tower! I repeat, destroy it!"

"Understood, sir," the tank squadron commander responded.

Outside, Samus could see the barrels of the tanks begin to glow, as well as the troopers outside the tanks begin to take aim at the bus. "Go evasive!" Samus called out in warning to the pilot, as she steeled herself to prevent herself from falling off of the bus as it performed a series of evasive maneuvers. The bus swerved to the right, since the landing pad was on the right rear side of the building by the bus's perspective. A torrent of energy flooded the space that the hoverbus had occupied seconds earlier. Samus then charged her Plasma Beam and decided that it would be best to take a shot at one of the tanks, if for nothing else than to give them something to think about. Once her beam was charged, she unleashed it at the closest tank. The green energy pulse erupted from her cannon and struck the enemy tank in less than a second. The plasma blast struck the tank in the cannon and proceeded to burn its way through the cannon and snap off the barrel of the tank cannon. She noticed one of the occupants bail out of the tank as smoke rose from the destroyed cannon, and a hole was gouged into the tank. The other tanks stopped firing for second and tried to get some new firing solutions, but the hoverbus flew out of their optimal firing range against enemy aircraft and was quickly approaching the landing pad on the side of the Radio Tower.

As the bus was approaching the landing pad, Samus spotted what looked to be a window in a far corner. "She told Councilman Williams and his guards, "I see a glass window. I'm going to enter there and hopefully get close to the control room of the tower."

"Good luck, Samus," Councilman Williams told her. "We'll be up to help you out as quickly as possible."

With that, Samus proceeded to run towards the edge of the bus facing the window a jumped, somersaulting through the air, and proceeding to Screw Attack towards the window.

Meanwhile, inside the Radio Tower, Elric finished making the final preparations for his masters. He finished typing in the final commands into the main control console and sat back in the chair. Once he sat back, he waited for various screens to light up in the control room. One by one, each of the screens began to light up and the room became even brighter. Eventually, all of the screens were lit and Elric stood up and told the Magic Lords, "It's your show, masters."

Aglara and Aramon both grinned as they stepped towards the main transmitter console. Elric had set the microphone on the table before them and had turned it up to its highest sensitivity. It would have even been able to pick them up if they were whispering. Elric then focused the cameras on the two Elvanheim and gave them a thumbs up. Once he had given them the signal that everything was ready to go, they began to sing:

The time has come,

Your day is done.

Now go to your eternal rest.

There is no hope,

Your end is nigh.

Go to sleep and let death take you…

But before they could end the song with, "Die," the window closest to the transmitter console shattered and flew inward, pelting not only Elric, but also Aglara and Aramon with shards of glass. The racket of the glass shattering drowned out the final word of the Magic Lords' Song of Death, rendering it useless, and thus, they had to start over from the beginning. Again, they began to sing:

The time has come,

Your day is done…

They were unable to even get to the final line of the first verse before Samus barreled into Aramon, knocking him into Aglara, and knocking both of them away from the microphone. Elric shot up upon seeing both of the Magic Lords fall to the floor and glanced over towards them. They quickly rose and yelled at him, "Kill the intruder!"

He looked to the left of the Magic Lords and saw Samus pointing her arm cannon at them. "Samus!" he gasped, almost in shock.

Samus did not pay Elric any heed, only focusing her attention on the two unknown figures standing before her. "Who are you?" she demanded, figuring that the two were allies of Elric. She turned to the Radio Tower's transmitter console and saw that the transmitter was already active. Not only was it active, but it had also opened a transmitter to the rest of the Galactic Federation. "And what are you doing here?" the bounty hunter added.

"Destroying a great threat to our plans," Aglara responded cryptically, with a grin.

"Yeah," Aramon echoed. "We're gonna kill all humans in the Milky Way and negate your potential threat in the future?" Aglara scowled at Aramon. She had not wanted her plans to be revealed to the rest of the galaxy. If anything, the fact that the channel was open now alerted the rest of the galaxy to their plans, as well as Elric's complicity in those plans.

"By singing a song?" Samus asked, skeptical of the fact that a song could kill everyone. The fact that they had been singing a song to kill everyone did not cause Samus to lower her guard, though. If anything, it caused her to put herself more on guard now, since they had to have been using magic in order to utilize a song that could kill all of humanity in the Milky Way galaxy.

"For a warrior wearing what looks to be Chozo Armor, you certainly don't know your history very well," Aglara mocked in a haughty tone.

"Again, I ask, who are you?"

"They're Magic Lords," Elric answered from across the room. He was holding a pistol that looked like the Chozo Technology Disruptor pistol she had used to disable MB before finally destroying her on Research Facility 777. Samus's eyes went wide in surprise as she turned back to the two figures who were grinning at her.

"And you're helping them to destroy all of humanity?" Samus asked, barely able to contain her shock and anger.

"You act as if it's a surprise that I would sell my soul to them," Elric said casually. "After all, I did give the Space Pirates the information they needed in order to attack GFHQ. Granted they went a little far, but hey, Daiban's destruction has done wonders for me. Now, the Magic Lords come to me once more, revealing themselves again. And who am I to say no? After all, I am one of their own creations."

"Their creations?"

Elric nodded. "Yes. The Star Elves are creations of the Magic Lords. And not only my people: but the Simians, the Cat-people, many of the Lizard and Reptilian species as well. In fact, many of the species that exist in the Milky Way galaxy are creations of the Magic Lords. Humans, the Urtragians, the Chozo, Luminoth, N'Kren, Ylla, Phyrigisians, Krikens, Jovians, Vhozon, and the others are all the exception, rather than the norm. Yes, many of the non-human species in the Galactic Federation, especially those that are near human in appearance, are actually the creations of my masters."

"But why are you doing this?" Samus asked, sounding as if she were trying to grasp her mind around Elric's desires. What she was really doing, though, was trying to get Elric to state that everything he had done was for power. And Elric did not disappoint.

"I did it all for power!" Elric proclaimed. "My masters have promised me that with the fall of humanity, I will have dominion over the entire Galactic Federation. My worlds and those I choose will be free from becoming hunting grounds. The others can just go to hell, for all I care."

Samus would have grinned, for she now had all of the information that she needed to have Elric thrown in jail, if not shot on sight. She did not even need to provide the data that she had gathered from the Research Station Moreau. Elric was, in essence, doing her job for her. Now, all she had to do was deal with his masters, the two adolescent Magic Lords standing in front of her, glaring both at her and at Elric. It was then that Elric realized his mistake and looked aghast. "Oh no," he stammered, glancing over at the console and seeing that the cameras and speakers were still on. He had just admitted to the entire galaxy that not only had he given the Space Pirates the information they had needed to launch their attack on Galactic Federation Headquarters, but also assisting in an attack that, if successful, would have wiped out practically all of humanity. His political career was over, and it was likely that he would not survive the week, assuming he even made it past this day. His only hope was that he had done a good job of driving a wedge between the humans and the rest of the Galactic Federation. And even then, the humans still had powerful allies in the form of the Luminoth, the Chozo Remnant, and the Ascended Chozo. There was no way that this would end well for him and his allies. As such, Elric had nothing left to lose. He removed his golden armor, revealing a much more streamlined and less bulky suit of black armor with gold lines similar to a prototype armor suit that the bounty hunter Sylux had stolen years ago.

Elric began the battle by pointing his Shock Coil towards Samus and firing. A stream of neutrinos, which strongly resembled an electrical current, lashed out at Samus and she immediately fled from Elric, hoping to break the connection between herself and Elric. As she ran to break the connection, Elric glanced back towards the adolescent Magic Lords and yelled, "Sing the song once more! The connection's still good!"

The Magic Lords wasted no time beginning their song once more. Upon hearing the Magic Lords begin to sing, Samus proceeded to fire on the two Magic Lords. While she scored a direct hit on them with her charged Plasma Beam, it seemingly did nothing to the two youths. Samus backed up a step, grimacing. This was bad. Elric with a suit of Shock Coil Armor was bad enough. Having to deal with two Magic Lords that were trying to wipe out all of humanity was far worse, and that was before seeing that her weapons had little to no effect on them. She heard the sounds of energy fire echo from beyond the door. Colin Williams, President Richardson, and his Secret Service guards were fighting their way to the control room. Samus knew that there was little chance of her managing to kill the Magic Lords before they finished their song, so she did the best thing she could. She let out a blood-curdling scream, hoping to drown out the noise of the Magic Lords' singing. As she was screaming, ran around the room, charging up her Speed Booster. As she was charging up her Speed Booster, she subtly dropped the disk containing the data on Elric and his dealings with the Space Pirates before the destruction of Daiban. Once she had built up the necessary charge and a field of energy surrounded her suit she immediately launched herself towards the Magic Lords, and Elric, who was positioned in between Samus and his masters, at supersonic speeds, a sonic blast emanating as she flew into her enemies. She plowed into Elric and took him with her as she barreled into Aramon and Aglara as they were continuing her song. The momentum of her Shinespark carried her and her quarry outside the window that she had shattered in her entrance. The whole group then fell to the ground, Samus stopping her yell once they were all safely away from the transmitter.

Just as she had knocked Elric and the Magic Lords outside the tower, Councilman Colin Williams, his guards, and President Richardson broke down the door to the control room and entered. As they made their way into the room, they clearly saw the signs of a struggle, but there was no sign of Samus and Elric. They did, however, notice the disk that Samus had been carrying lying on the ground. Colin Williams went over to the disk, reached down, and picked it up. He then went over to the nearest player and inserted the disk just to make sure that the data was uncorrupted, and that this was the real disk and not a blank disk or something else. He watched the recording and found that it was, indeed, the data that Samus had gathered about Elric and his dealings. He gave a scowl as he watched the recording; his hatred for Elric never having been so great than it was now. Despite what he saw, a part of him did not want to reveal this data, and would have felt even more strongly against revealing the data had he known what Elric had said during the skirmish in the control room before he and his men had entered. Still, he felt as if he had a responsibility to reveal the truth about Elric. As such, he put the disk in the main player and broadcast the recording across the entire Galactic Federation.

Meanwhile, outside the Radio Tower, Samus gracefully landed on her feet after the long fall, as did the Magic Lords. Elric, however, was not as fortunate. While the shock absorbing systems of his suit did allow him to survive the fall, his armor was of an inferior design to the armor that had been worn by Sylux, and even less capable than the armor worn by Commander General Leroy Cutter in his battle against Clone Samus. As Elric struck the ground headfirst, the sickening crunch of bones was heard. Even though he had been wearing a helmet, his suit was ill suited to sustain a fall from several stories. As such, upon striking the ground, his skull was broken in numerous areas. His vision blurred as he tried to rise and found himself unable to do so. He watched as Samus began fighting his masters, firing a Charged Plasma Beam blast at Aramon, only to have Aramon laugh off the beam as it struck his chest. He tried to move his arms so he could unleash the power of his Shock Coil upon Samus but they would not budge. He soon realized that his neck was broken as well. He could only move his head around. He then saw Aramon release a blast of energy towards Samus. The blast moved quickly from Elric's perspective, but was relatively slow by Samus's. She dodged the energy blast, which resembled a burst of plasma, with ease. Unfortunately for Elric, Samus's dodging the blast of energy allowed it to sail directly towards him. He was struck in the abdomen, the blast of energy practically disintegrating his lower abdomen and legs, but did not cause him any pain due to his paralysis. However, his vision began to blur even more as he felt his heart slowing down. A whirlwind of thoughts and regrets immediately entered Elric's mind as he realized that he was dying. Everything that he had done for his masters was for naught. The attack on Galactic Federation Headquarters by the Space Pirates that had given him the opportunity to take over the Federation was now meaningless. Even if Aglara and Aramon did manage to kill Samus and kill all of humanity, something that was looking less and less likely at the moment, it would not matter to him. He would be dead. He soon saw some of his soldiers approaching him to help, but it was too late. He faintly heard the voice of one of his troopers call to him, yelling, "Chairman Elric, are you alright?"

What do you think, moron, he wanted to respond, but all he was able to manage was a groan. He then glared at Samus as she continued to fight with the Magic Lords. She was unable to inflict any damage with her beam weapons on them, but it seemed as if she was still able to hold her own against them, for they had yet to inflict any damage to her. However, they may have just been toying with her to see what the latest Chozo technology was capable of in the hands of a mere human. Elric glared at Samus as she crossed his vision once more and all of his malice and hatred towards her came boiling up to the surface. He blamed her for everything that had happened to him in the last year. Had it not been for her, he would not be in this position. He would not have been indicted on the assassination of former Chairman Keaton and on having had a hand in the development of an illegal bioweapons program. He would be in charge of the Federation and have been able to engineer his full rise to power and be able to fully maintain it, creating the first Galactic Empire. But now, those dreams were just fantasies. Here he was, laying on the ground about to die, and there was nothing he could do, except order the death of the one that was responsible for it all. To that end, he mustered all of his strength and hatred and croaked, "Kill…Samus." With that last order, he died.

His soldiers looked down at the ground and replied, "It shall be done, my lord." They then proceeded to aim towards Samus, but before they could open fire, Samus, sensing that something was wrong quickly turned and saw them targeting her. She unleashed a charged Plasma Beam blast towards the lead soldier, the blast striking him in the chest. The blast burned through the soldier's chest and most of it was missing as he fell over onto the ground, dead. Samus did not stop to admire her handiwork as she continued to fire uncharged blasts at several of the soldiers that had been flanking Elric. Six more soldiers fell to Samus's shots, prompting the others to flee the scene. However, as they fled, they took one last look at the body of their Commander-in-Chief, the one who had granted them their power, and at the one they knew had killed him. They vowed revenge against Samus as they fled the scene of the battle, knowing full well that one day, they would get their chance to avenge their fallen leader.

Back at the fight between Samus and the Magic Lords, Samus, seeing that her beam weapons were of little use and that Ice Missiles would be little better, decided to try a new tactic and curled into her Morph Ball mode. She then proceeded to roll straight towards the two figures. The two elf-like figures did nothing to evade her, for they knew that she was unable to harm them in Morph Ball mode. As she approached, Samus readied a Power Bomb, knowing that her normal Morph Ball Bombs would be woefully insufficient to deal any damage to them. Once she had rolled in between them, she dropped the Power Bomb. A round, blue sphere was dropped in between the two magicians and Samus then proceeded to roll away from them. Aglara pointed her hand and lightning arced across her fingertips, about to launch an attack on Samus, when the Power Bomb detonated and engulfed both Magic Lords in an expanding wave of destructive energy. They both stood there as the wave engulfed them and they did not utter a single sound. Once the wave had dissipated, the two emerged from the center of the Power Bomb detonation unscathed. They grinned as Samus reassumed her normal form and turned to face them. She grimaced. She had hoped that the Power Bomb would have been enough to destroy the two Magic Lords, but suspected that it would not have been. She was surprised, though, to find that her attack had inflicted only miniscule damage to them. The two Magic Lords merely laughed. "What are you gonna do now, Hunter?" Aramon mocked. "None of your attacks can hurt us. You may have gotten lucky with your Screw Attack and Shinespark, but now, your luck has run out. Now you die!"

The two Magic Lords were about to unleash their attack on Samus when their eyes suddenly went wide and they turned their heads westward. "Damn," they muttered. "Of all the times he could appear. Why now?"

Samus took this opportunity to fire some more energy blasts at them as she charged them in preparation of performing a Screw Attack. The plasma blasts did nothing, as Samus had expected, but she then performed a Screw Attack on the female, Aglara. The attack knocked Aglara out of her stupor, but inflicted little damage to her. Aramon, sensing his sister's shock at feeling Samus's attack, was roused from his own stupor as he fired a blast of pulsing green magic towards Samus. Samus barely managed to activate her Screw Attack in time and deflect the blow. The two Magic Lords turned to each other and said, "We'll have to deal with Samus later. Mewtwo is the greater concern right now."

For a split second, Samus wondered what they were talking about, particularly who this "Mewtwo" was, but still concentrated on taking them down as best she could. The two Magic Lords then closed their eyes and held two fingers in front of them and their other hand behind the first. She could see that they were performing some sort of hand sign, and that was likely a prelude to some form of magic. And given what she had heard, it was likely that they were teleporting somewhere. She quickly charged Aglara once more so that she could ride with her to the Magic Lords' intended destination. While she had not been able to inflict a great deal of damage on the Magic Lords, her Screw Attack and Shinespark had managed to inflict some, and those small bits might have been enough for another fighter to help her destroy them. As she charged the adolescent, she knew the grave risks involved with riding along in a teleportation, and that they may have been able to cast her off anywhere, but she felt as if it was worth the risk. If there was someone or something on Earth that was a threat to them, she had to know, since she had had little success in dealing with them. She could not let them blindside another potentially good soldier that might have been able to defeat them. She arrived at Aglara and bear-hugged her as she was beginning to teleport. She was then taken with the Magic Lords as they teleported away, the Magic Lords not reacting fast enough to force Samus away from them. She felt the rush of air as she glanced around her. In the brief instant, she saw the mountains, hills, and the ocean pass by as she was whisked away from New York and was taken to another location.

After a second or so, Samus and the two Magic Lords reappeared at the peak of a mountain. Aglara grunted and blasted Samus off of her with a blast of magic, taking off almost half of her total Energy Tanks. The bounty hunter was sent sailing through the air and landed almost twenty meters away. "How weak," Aglara mocked as she pointed her fingers at Samus, ready to finish her off. Just then, a blue wave of energy struck the Magic Lady and sent her sailing through the air. Almost an instant afterwards, a massive explosion sounded from above and Samus saw a massive ring of energy form and spread out from the top of a translucent stairway. Samus checked her HUD and found that the attack had managed to knock off almost half of Aglara's life bar. Her eyes went wide in shock as she then saw a white humanoid cat-like figure with a purple tail appear in front of her. She then noticed her Energy Tanks completely refill, and all fatigue leave her. The figure glanced back at her and he heard a voice in her mind say, "You're a Chosen Hero aren't you? I am Mewtwo. I am your ally." He then turned to face Aglara and Aramon and for the first time, she saw expressions of dread on the faces of the young Magic Lords.