Me: Welcome back! Did you miss us? Of course you did! We sure missed you guys, didn't we?
Meiya: Meh.
Reigo: Not really.
Me: O…kay, nice to see that we all have big, welcoming smiles! Now, before we get this show on the road, I have an announcement to make. I am in the process of shaping a NEW STORY!
-applause!-
Meiya: New story? You're replacing us?
Me: No, of course not, Meiya! I could never replace you guys, and I know I don't usually work on two projects at once. It's just that this crossover has been on my mind for quite some time now, and if I keep it there anymore, my head could burst, then nobody wins.
Ischi: Crossover?
Me: That's right! I'm developing my FIRST real crossover story here on FF. I will be crossing two of my favorite game series that I believe go perfect together: Metroid and Dead Space!
Kumori (brightening): Dead Space? Seriously?
Me: As serious as a heart attack. For those of you unfamiliar with either series, I'm taking a moment to explain both.
Metroid is set at an unspecified period in the future, featuring 6' 3" femme fatale sexy bounty hunter Samus Aran, whose parents were killed by alien pirates. She spends her days searching and destroying those pirates, right down to their leader, Ridley. After succeeding, she spends her time now kicking alien ass as a hobby.
Dead Space is set 500 years in the future, after Earth ran out of its resources. To fix this, human colonies invented 'planet-cracking', that is, blowing up (uninhabited) planets and taking its resources. While cracking a planet known as Aegis VII, an undetected alien life form found its way onto the largest of the planet-cracker ships, the USG Ishimura and killed a woman, infecting her corpse and turning her into a raging zombie known as a Necromorph. This created a domino effect, and soon the entire ship was infected, except for a few survivors, as well as Isaac Clarke, a miner/engineer who has to use what he has to escape the ship, which is not a lot.
Both series are a lot more complex than I let on, but if you want to find out more about either, check out their respective wikis.
The story already has a title, Metroid: Whole Again.
Kohi: Ooh! Creepy!
Me: It will be a horror/action story. I can't give you a date for release, since it's still being developed.
Kumori: Sounds good. Definitely something I would read.
Reigo: Here, here.
Me: And one more announcement… Unfortunately, school is going into overdrive, since it's the last quarter. I'm struggling to keep up with school and to keep up with A:RotS, but it's really hard. Pray for me, guys!
Phew, alright, now on to business. Our first comment concerning you lot came from georgster101. He says that he's from farther in the future than the Sovereignty and if Kisi or Kaizu dies, he'll drop a big ol' can of whoop-ass on you two with his own futuristic weapons.
Kumori: Why, that piece of-
Me: He also warns not to give a snarky reply.
Kumori: -surrounds herself in shadow and shrinks down into a little girl's body- You wouldn't hurt a pwetty wittle face wike mine, would you? Now wisten. You can make all the wittle cwaims you'd wike, but you still have no idea what I can do. I can be a big, fat meanie if I choose to. And twust me, you don't want me to turn into a big, fat meanie on you. I can be vewy scawy as a big, fat meanie. Oh, I weally, weally hope I didn't sound snawky. I don't want you to hurt me! –morphs back-
Did he say anything else?
Me: -shiver- Yes, he did, actually. I don't think you want to hear it, though.
Kumori: Read it!
Me: Alright. He said his robot was bigger than yours, that he had a giant robot-killing laser, told you not to kill pandas, that he's from the 666th century, and that you suck in l33tspeak.
Kumori: Alright, hear me now, you little mother%^*)&! Nothing would please me more than seeing you confront me on D-Day with whatever future techno-bull$&!* you have. Hey, listen, how about I (censored) and (more censored, geez, you HAVE to hear this), you stupid (still censored, she's really letting him have it). -pant, pant- Phew, I'm done.
All: -cringe-
Me: Well, gee, if you can do that to a dude's manhood, I don't think ANYBODY would want to confront you. Alright, our second question from georgster is for Ischi and Zuko. He asked when you two will be getting married.
Zuko: After we win the D-Day War and silence the Shadowbenders for good!
Ischi: Yeah!
Kumori: You're not going to win! Do you see the kind of firepower we have? We will bury Republic City and begin our reign over the Ear-
Me: Yeah, yeah, next question. Here's one for Kaizu from georgster. Why are you a Shadowbender if you're such a nice guy?
Kaizu: It comes with the package of being the son of the Shadow Sovereign. I'm forced to be a Shadowbender, unless TeaMeiya can pull through.
Kumori: Is that treason I sense in your tone?
Kaizu: Of course not, Mother…
Meiya: When are we going to get some questions for US? I'm putting down roots over here!
Me: Alright, Meiya. Here's a question for everyone. An excellently spicy query from TeamAvatar: What was the most embarrassing off-screen incident that occurred for each of you?
Reigo: Does TeamAvatar mean off-screen or behind-the-scenes bloopers?
Me: I'm thinking she means behind the scenes. Who wants to start?
-crickets-
Me: Meiya, since you're so eager to answer a question, why don't you go first?
Meiya: Of course… Um, let's see. I guess my most embarrassing blooper was filming that scene with the Southern Raiders when Kosa was cutting the net. On one take, he cut the net right, but he also cut through my outfit. I stood there, bare-chested for about seven full seconds before I realized what had happened.
Kohi: You think THAT'S your most embarrassing off-screen moment? What about the Floating Prison scene with you in the S.S Chaos?
Meiya: No! Don't talk about it!
Me: Come on, Meiya. Out with it.
Meiya: Sigh. During that scene, when I was supposed to cross my legs and poke out my chest to keep my clothes from falling off, during one take, I missed my cue by a half a second and my clothes really DID fall off. I tried to scream for the captain to cut the scene, but I was unintelligible through the gag in my mouth. Worse yet, SH kept the scene rolling even after she saw what I was going through!
Me: I actually still have the tape. For everyone in the audience, you each have a copy under your seats.
Meiya: WHAT? NO! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!
Me: Kohi? Your most embarrassing moment?
Kohi: Remember during The Southern Water Tribe At Last chapter, during the scene where I jumped up and down, pointing to our destination? Well, one take, a bird actually flew into my stomach, thrashed around, and somehow found its way into my pants. I screamed in surprise, but it actually tickled a lot.
Me: -cringe- That sounds wonderful… Anything for you, Zuko?
Zuko: Me and Ischi actually share a 'most embarrassing moment'. When making the 'Breakout' chapter, during a take, Ischi's metal staircase was a little faulty and it dove inward when we were at the midpoint. It gave us both extremely painful hanging wedgies.
Me: -cringe- Wow, I haven't cringed this much in one day since I played through Dead Space 1. Any for you, Khole?
Khole: Other than the multiple off-screen attempts to pacify animals, while failed and got the animals mad enough to eat my clothes off? Not really.
Me: Okay, then… -shiver- What about you guys, Shadow Sovereignty?
Reigo: All those times when I screwed up my shadow-swimming due to lack of focus. I was able to turn my body, not my clothes, into shadow whenever that happened. That always went over well for the male cast.
Kumori: Here, here. I have the same problem occasionally, but not as much as my daughter.
Me: You don't have an extremely embarrassing moment, Kumori?
Kumori: Not one that immediately comes to mind, no.
Me: How about you Kaizu? Kei?
Kei: I haven't been on-screen long enough to have an embarrassing moment.
Kaizu: I don't get embarrassed.
Me: e.O Wow. That's quite an anticlimactic end to that question. Now, onto the next, for Kumori. What's getting all that hate mail like, asked TeamAvatar.
Kumori: Ask him. –forms a pool of shadow on the ground and pulls out a skeleton- He was one of the haters who really pissed me off. I love tracking down my haters and killing them like this. It's like a heaping bowl of justice.
All: -CRINGE!-
Kumori: What? You all should know me by now.
Me: I'm starting to think that this is WORSE than Dead Space… Alright, Kei, Meiya, and Ischi, we're going back to the wooden room!
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Meiya: H-Huh? Wooden room? What the- Hey! Where did we go? Where are we right now?
Ischi: We're in the same room where SH took me to ask me about my PRS situation.
Me: That's right. No one else can know about this little thing we have going on here yet, so keep this hush-hush to the others. First, for Kei. Have you really changed, since you're associating with Reigo?
Kei: I may not like associating with Reigo, but I value my life, so I'm kind of forced to. She's told me that I'm expendable.
Meiya ad Ischi: -cringe-
Me: And how do you feel about Ischi's little secret, Meiya? TeamAvatar would like to know.
Meiya: I was freaked out at first, that she was keeping this secret, then amazed that she could keep it a secret for so long without exploding, then impressed with her strength in trying to keep the secret. I'm kind of on level ground about it now; I'm still trying to help her work it out. Hey, I just thought of something. Why is Kei here? He's not part of the secret, is he?
Ischi: -cringe-
Kei: I figured it out earlier than you did. I knew Ischi before all this started, and I'm trying to help her, as a friend.
Meiya: Hrm, sounds about right. But what about-
Me: Ischi, TeamAvatar would like to know how your feelings are toward Kei now.
Ischi: Kei and I… We're on sort of a level ground right now. I'm still a little buggy, but I feel that, for the most part, I can trust him… to keep helping me through this, because that's why he's here.
Me: Nice save.
Meiya: Huh?
Me: Nothing; I coughed. Now, back to the main room!
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Meiya: Hrm? What? How'd we- But how- Wha..?
Me: Don't think too much on it. Now, onto Reigo's question. Who was the person you were chasing after several chapters ago, asked TeamAvatar.
Reigo: Remember this, early in the story? At the very end of the Season 1 Finale?
"Freeze! Stop right there! Hey!" yelled angry voices. The woman turned and saw a young girl run past her, followed by several Shadowbenders.
"Catch her! She's headed for the portal!"
The woman sighed, then sunk into the shadows, following the pack of guards.
"Almost there! Almost there!" the girl panted to herself.
"Almost isn't good enough." said the woman as she rose in front of the girl.
"No, but THIS is!"
The girl took a small pouch out of her pocket and threw it on the ground. A large flash of light shot into the air, blinding the woman and allowing the girl to sidestep past her and jump through the portal.
"Master, she could alter the course of history!" one Shadowbender said.
"Don't worry about her. I'm sure that Reigo will keep her from doing anything too harmful. Get back to your posts. I'm awaiting a battle report at any time now."
Reigo: I'm chasing that girl to keep the future from being altered. I can't tell you who she is, but you'll find out at the end of Season 2, which is a long ways away.
Me: Ah, interesting development. Now, our final and juiciest question from TeamAvatar. For Zuko, what's the sauciest thing you and Ischi have done since beginning your relationship?
Zuko: On or off-screen?
Me: Which is saucier?
Zuko: You remember when we were supposed to be making the restaurant scene during the first part of The Center of the Modern World, when me and Ischi disappeared?
Me: Yeah? Where were you guys, anyway?
Ischi: In the supply closet, vigorously loving each other.
Me: -cringe- R-Really? That's where you guys were?
Zuko: Yep. Still got bite scars on my chest. Wanna see them?
All: -CRINGE!-
Me: Urk… No thanks, dude. Well, it looks like that's it. No more questions to answer. I think this has been a successful MidSeason Q&A! But before I go, I have just come up with my promo for Metroid: Whole Again. Let's watch, shall we?
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Some…where… over the rainbow… Way up… high… There's a… land that I've heard of… once, in a lullaby…
Dead silence blankets the large building, the main HQ of the Galactic Federation. The moaning of the air vents is the only thing that can be heard. A small thump can be heard coming from one of them.
Some…where… over the rainbow… Skies… are… blue… And… the dreams that you… dare to dream… really do come… true…
In one hallway of the building, a cascade of dead bodies litters the floor. Some look like they were killed. Others look like they've committed suicide. One dead man sits in the hallway corner, his arms and hands locked in the Unitology sign, even in death. If you look closely enough, even though he's clearly dead, you'll notice his shoulder twitching.
Someday I'll wish upon a star… And… wake up where the clouds are… far behind… me…
As the air vents continue to moan, the man's shoulder continues to twitch, growing more and more violent. Other bodies began to shift as well. One body even twitches its mouth into an inhuman sneer before his empty eyesockets snap open.
Where troubles melt like… lemon drops… away… above the chimney tops… That's where… you'll… find… me…
The bodies all over the hallway suddenly begin to change. Limbs morph and twist into unnatural positions, and faces twist and distort, letting out alien screeches as if they were enraged. Most of the human skin rapidly rots away, leaving only scraps of flesh over bare rotten muscle, organs, and protruding bones. In less than a minute, the entire hallway becomes a legion of Necromorphs.
Some…where… over the rain…bow… Bluebirds… fly… Birds fly… over the… rainbow… Why, then… oh, why… can't… I..?
The hallway is now almost empty. All of the Necromorphs have disappeared, except for the body of that one Unitologist man, and a massive torrent of blood spattered against the floor, walls, and ceiling. Frightened footsteps approach the hallway, and a Galactic Fed Soldier appears, his flashlight shuddering in his hand. He shines across the hallway, noticing the man, who was still twitching.
If happy… little… bluebirds fly…
"Hey, are you alright? How long have you been here?" the soldier asked the man, who had his head down, his shoulder continuing to spasm on an ominous loop. The man didn't respond to the soldier.
Beyond… the rain…bow…
The soldier snaps his fingers in the man's face, trying to get a response.
"Come on, buddy. Don't play games. We've got to get you out of here before-"
Suddenly, the man's twitching shoulder bursts open, sending a third fleshy, bone-bladed arm flying into the soldier's neck. He gurgled in surprise, his eyes widening and beginning to roll back into his head.
Why… Oh… why…
The Unitologist lifted his head, revealing his gruesome Necromorph face. One eye was missing, his teeth had rotten and elongated into twisted fangs, and the skin on either side of his mouth had been ripped apart into a freakish Glasgow smile.
The soldier gurgled again, hacking up an ocean of blood, before the Necromorph lunged forward with a screech.
Can't… I…
The hallway is empty again. The soldier and the Necromorph have vanished. From around the same corner, more footsteps. Then voices began to become distinct.
"Ugh, where are you taking us? We've passed this block three times already."
"Shut up. Isaac. I know this place better than you do. I know where we're going."
Two people appeared. One was a male wearing a helmetless Engineer's RIG, sporting black, sloppy hair, while the other was a blonde woman wearing a skintight blue bodysuit. Both looked about the hallway with disgust.
"No doubt about it; we're definitely going the right way now." Isaac said, a helmet forming together and latching onto his head.
"I'm holding my Power Suit right down in the next quadrant. Hopefully, those Ectomorphs haven't found it yet." the woman said.
"Let's hope." Isaac said, a blue light turning on inside the helmet, lighting up the eyeholes. As the two walked down the bloody hallway, Isaac turned to his companion.
"Oh, and Samus?"
"What?"
"They're called Necromorphs."
"That's what I said."
Metroid… Whole Again… Coming soon to rock the world of FanFiction... Altman be damned...
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All: -CRINGE!-
Kohi: Wow, that was scary! I almost peed myself!
Kumori: That even freaked ME out, and nothing freaks me out!
Meiya: Are you kidding, that was AWESOME! I can't wait to read this one! You'd better make it soon, SH!
Me: It's still in developmental stage Alpha. That's just a little promo for ya! Next time I update, we'll be returning to the story, which will be quite a challenge since writer's block is killing me… But bear with me, I promise that I'll shape up with this story! So, until then, this is SH10-
Meiya: And cast!
Me: -signing out! Goodnight, everybody and happy Spring!