Chapter 4: The Warnings Unheeded
Samus had been ready for a new mission for a few hours now. Why Hardy
or Keaton hadn't given her, Houston, or Ridley an assignment was just
starting to aggravate her. She had been walking over to Hardy's office
to get to the bottom of this since 10:21AM. Once she had gotten to
the area where his office is, she heard shouting and bellowing and
opened the door to see Keaton in an unmistakeable yelling spree
directed at Royce. Hardy was halfway across the room and turns to see
who just came in. Seeing Samus, he shoos her out and leaves the room
himself.
"Sorry about this. But as you can see-" Samus crossed her arms and
leaned against the wall.
"What I saw in there is a Keaton style interrogation. The other method
is chains with lethal electro-torture, I believe?" Hardy remembered
the time that Ridley told the three of them just what he went through
before Hardy's rescue that caused a small rebellion on Alpha Centauri.
"Uh...yeah. Anyway, I was going to ask her a few questions of my own
that I had ready to ask after listening to that recording that you
gave me and...Keaton bursts in with two officers and demanded that
Royce be officially interrogated and incarcerated later. I haven't
been able to do anything else edge-wise." Samus and Hardy both sigh
in unison. Keaton had gone overboard again. The third time in nearly
a year. "He thinks that Royce is a threat because she's a Metroid."
"This isn't true. How come I'm still alive, then?" Gul'Gen stops near
them.
"Maybe it's because you soon won't be."
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Samus didn't understand Gul'Gen's latest cryptic statement. It was
almost eerie to her. First she was told to beware of Metroids, and she
discovers that Royce is Queen Metroid, now she has a boggling death
omen to worry about, and she doesn't even know what would kill her.
Houston came into the chambers while Samus was holding a coffee cup and
running her left index finger across the rim in thought, and told her
that she had a job from B.S.L.
"It just said: 'Come to Chauda Station...alone.'" Samus immediately
went for her Power Suit and left Alpha Centauri to head to SR388 again.
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Royce looks at Keaton with her calm face. She could maintain a civil
tongue and hold down her predatorial instincts while in her current
form, but this brown-robed jumping bean was beginning to irritate her.
She was so tempted to attack him, but putting the Federation in chaos
would only mean that Samus would incessantly hunt her.
"Listen. I came out of hiding to protect Samus from them." Keaton's
face couldn't get more like a half-ripened tomato in color.
"BUT WHO ARE 'THEM'?!"
"I...can't easily describe them, and they don't have a name. They want
Samus, and they've begun their plan of action. You must let me go to
SR388, and now." Hardy enters the office and whispers to Keaton.
"W...what?! I DIDN'T CLEAR THAT MISSION FOR SAMUS!!! HARDY! YOU GO
AND CALL HER BACK AT ONCE!!! AND NO EATING STOPS, EITHER!!!"
'She's falling for the trap they've set. There's nothing more that I
can do.' Royce walks out silently after Keaton rushes away, with the
officers he brought as backup against Royce following him to wherever
he went. Royce had gone in the opposite direction, and escaping from
a self-styled way out, the same way she came in when Hardy asked her
for a few 'polite' questions. Too bad that Keaton spoiled Hardy's fun.
Too bad that Royce didn't have time to find the one parasite that had
got to Chauda and hid among the humans so that it could lure Samus to
SR388 and she would be infected, too. An army of perfect Samus Aran
clones...it was the perfect way to overwhelm Royce and her children.
The perfect way to overwhelm any foe. The parasites were taking their
one chance at becoming...
Perfect...
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Note: I don't have Metroid Fusion yet, so I'm going to hold off until I
get it and run through its story. Although I -did- play it at Wal-Mart.
It's so neat-o-jet!
Samus had been ready for a new mission for a few hours now. Why Hardy
or Keaton hadn't given her, Houston, or Ridley an assignment was just
starting to aggravate her. She had been walking over to Hardy's office
to get to the bottom of this since 10:21AM. Once she had gotten to
the area where his office is, she heard shouting and bellowing and
opened the door to see Keaton in an unmistakeable yelling spree
directed at Royce. Hardy was halfway across the room and turns to see
who just came in. Seeing Samus, he shoos her out and leaves the room
himself.
"Sorry about this. But as you can see-" Samus crossed her arms and
leaned against the wall.
"What I saw in there is a Keaton style interrogation. The other method
is chains with lethal electro-torture, I believe?" Hardy remembered
the time that Ridley told the three of them just what he went through
before Hardy's rescue that caused a small rebellion on Alpha Centauri.
"Uh...yeah. Anyway, I was going to ask her a few questions of my own
that I had ready to ask after listening to that recording that you
gave me and...Keaton bursts in with two officers and demanded that
Royce be officially interrogated and incarcerated later. I haven't
been able to do anything else edge-wise." Samus and Hardy both sigh
in unison. Keaton had gone overboard again. The third time in nearly
a year. "He thinks that Royce is a threat because she's a Metroid."
"This isn't true. How come I'm still alive, then?" Gul'Gen stops near
them.
"Maybe it's because you soon won't be."
-----------------------
Samus didn't understand Gul'Gen's latest cryptic statement. It was
almost eerie to her. First she was told to beware of Metroids, and she
discovers that Royce is Queen Metroid, now she has a boggling death
omen to worry about, and she doesn't even know what would kill her.
Houston came into the chambers while Samus was holding a coffee cup and
running her left index finger across the rim in thought, and told her
that she had a job from B.S.L.
"It just said: 'Come to Chauda Station...alone.'" Samus immediately
went for her Power Suit and left Alpha Centauri to head to SR388 again.
-----------------------
Royce looks at Keaton with her calm face. She could maintain a civil
tongue and hold down her predatorial instincts while in her current
form, but this brown-robed jumping bean was beginning to irritate her.
She was so tempted to attack him, but putting the Federation in chaos
would only mean that Samus would incessantly hunt her.
"Listen. I came out of hiding to protect Samus from them." Keaton's
face couldn't get more like a half-ripened tomato in color.
"BUT WHO ARE 'THEM'?!"
"I...can't easily describe them, and they don't have a name. They want
Samus, and they've begun their plan of action. You must let me go to
SR388, and now." Hardy enters the office and whispers to Keaton.
"W...what?! I DIDN'T CLEAR THAT MISSION FOR SAMUS!!! HARDY! YOU GO
AND CALL HER BACK AT ONCE!!! AND NO EATING STOPS, EITHER!!!"
'She's falling for the trap they've set. There's nothing more that I
can do.' Royce walks out silently after Keaton rushes away, with the
officers he brought as backup against Royce following him to wherever
he went. Royce had gone in the opposite direction, and escaping from
a self-styled way out, the same way she came in when Hardy asked her
for a few 'polite' questions. Too bad that Keaton spoiled Hardy's fun.
Too bad that Royce didn't have time to find the one parasite that had
got to Chauda and hid among the humans so that it could lure Samus to
SR388 and she would be infected, too. An army of perfect Samus Aran
clones...it was the perfect way to overwhelm Royce and her children.
The perfect way to overwhelm any foe. The parasites were taking their
one chance at becoming...
Perfect...
----------------------
Note: I don't have Metroid Fusion yet, so I'm going to hold off until I
get it and run through its story. Although I -did- play it at Wal-Mart.
It's so neat-o-jet!