A brilliant sun blared over the endless cyan sphere of sky and sea surrounding a piping hot tropical sandbar resort on a designer-island-chain where Samus Aran lived in relative secrecy. What seemed like only a short while ago, she had been seen as something of a heroine to the galaxy- constantly defending it and the once-noble Galactic Federation from the terror of unchecked bioweapons, hyper-mutated super predators, unscrupulous traitors, and the like- all for years on end, to her own detriment. But, during her last mission, Samus was faced with the difficult decision of crashing the now-corrupt Federation's Biologic Space Laboratories research station into the planet SR-388 in a desperate final bid to wipe out the universe-threatening X-Parasite along with it. The Federation saw this act as the perfect excuse to sever any remaining ties with the she-hunter and the ideas of the old Federation forever. But it was all a memory now; a vision being melted away from her stream of thoughts like rainbow sherbet in the sweltering heat of peninsular paradise. She was so far off of the Federation's disproportionate share of the grid and so surrounded by her most fervently dedicated and tight-lipped legions of allies and admirers that it would take a full-scale war for the Galactic Federation to cut through her defenders and claim her bounty.
Nowadays, the living was easy for the bounty huntress: she would help develop a new technology for the military here, suit up to go out and claim a minor bounty there, and, unbeknownst to most- make a whole lot of love in between. When she wasn't busy kicking ass at her job, she was making time for her new hobby of getting down and dirty with her husband- a young man named Nicole.
Before she met him, during Samus's time as a teenage Galactic Federation recruit, she and two of her allies traveled to the planet Jigrad for a recon mission. They were scouting out a camp of slaves that were being forced to build a monument for their ruthless invader overlords- the Space Pirates, and among the slaves was a young Nicole. He was at the anterior of a chain of child slaves being lead by a Space Pirate to the monument's construction site. Outraged at the sight of children being used as slaves, Samus went against protocol by stepping in to rescue them, with her two allies joining her shortly after. Nicole saw Samus and her allies in action as they decimated most of the Pirates. Unfortunately for him, his freedom did not last. The locals on Jigrad were very poor, and their elders had no money for food or supplies. In a covert act of cruelty, they hastily sold him to a fleeing Space Pirate on the premise that Nicole was a member of a certain endangered subspecies of human called Garian Beastmen. Under the Space Pirate, Nicole was strictly trained to be able to work on creating and repairing machines. Once he was deemed ready, he was taken back to his home planet Garia and sold yet again to a wealthy Space Pirate named Tox, who gambled on battle robots. In Tox's possession was a Chozo-tech battle robot as well as the robot's aging Chozo mechanic named Silver Eye. Tox, seeing that Silver Eye was outliving his usefulness, arranged Nicole to be Silver Eye's apprentice. In the following years, Silver Eye passed on his extensive knowledge and his role as Tox's mechanic to Nicole. When the time was right, Tox was ready to take Nicole with him to the casinos in Garia's central hub.
It was during these times that Tox and Nicole would eventually be encountered by Samus Aran in her off time, in which she rescued Nicole by defeating Tox and his battle robot. After Nicole told Samus about the aftermath of her exploits on Jigrad, she became personally invested in him. The two quickly grew close during Samus's subsequent investigation of Garia. During their exchanges, Nicole informed Samus of his apprenticeship under Silver Eye, citing him as the reason why Tox was in possession of Chozo technology, to which Samus requested that Nicole take her to him after her investigation of Garia was complete. When the time came, Nicole brought Samus to Tox's abode to speak with Silver Eye, whose health had taken a turn for the worse. During the conversation, Silver Eye realized that Samus was the last hope of the Chozo species, and that Nicole's apprenticeship under him could not have been a coincidence. With little energy left to speak, Silver Eye requested that Samus and Nicole always look after one another like family, and for them to grant him an honorable passing in solitude. After leaving Tox's abode, Samus and Nicole would later go on to live together.
Where their relationship had (at one point) been constrained by time and circumstance, they were inseparable now, joined by their mutually exclusive loyalty and dedication, strengthened by the bond they shared through their best and worst of times, thoroughly consummated to one another. There was another step they had to take in fully realizing their love for each other, one which Nicole had been meaning to take with Samus eventually. But in the meantime, the two were more than happy with their current living arrangements: week after week of travel, tourism, amusement, shopping, dining, lodging- all with Samus's nearly endless amount of money. With just as much time on their hands, they were free to explore every hobby, every passion project, every whim their hearts desired. But among the many passions they shared, one permeated them all: sex, sex, sex. Due to a procedure that Samus underwent as an additional means of protecting her line of work, she was currently unable to become pregnant, and it was this procedure that enabled them to have sex so freely. Whether it was sneaking off to a unisex restroom, or being as time-efficient as possible in a solitary elevator ride, they were always looking for creative ways to make love. Especially in the comfort of their own home- a home, which, in their case, doubled as a massive boat sitting along the designer-island-chain where they lived. It had enough space for a full-sized house and yard. In a room facing the patio, Samus was currently busy working on an improvement for her home security system with some help from her AI assistant, Arthur. In the meantime, Nicole had just finished drying off after having a swim in their revolving current machine, and decided to check in on Samus to see what she was up to...