Moving through the eternal blackness which was space, Samus, Link and Cloud sat there silent. Tension was in the air. The tension was so thick you could almost cut it with a knife. Huff Puff, Her breathing increased as the small blue planet came into view on her monitor, this was the planet where X and Zero were. The Reploid beings that had caused her so much turmoil. The sweat beaded on her brow inside her helm as they slammed through the air down through the atmosphere of the planet, shaking the ship ever so slightly. Flying through the air, right above the ground, Samus decided it would be best to land outside the city.
Soon the party moved out of the ship, beginning their small walk towards the city. Moving into the city, people gave them odd looks, especially Samus who resembled a Reploid. Glares were cast her way; it seemed that some people didn't approve of the reploids. The data that was sent to her told her the exact location of the Maverick Hunter Head Quarters. She moved towards the base as she stood outside the front gate blinking a few times, moving towards it as a voice came through on an intercom system. "State your name and business." Samus blinked a few times, keeping silent as the metallic voice spoke once again. "Samus Aran. I am here to speak with…Commander X, and Commander Zero." The voice then acknowledged her as the gates opened and they passed through it, moving swiftly into the building as a reploid woman walked to them smiling, "This way please!" The three warriors were led through several confusing corridors, as to make them lose their sense of direction, but Samus knew exactly where she went and exactly where she was going, she had the blue-prints in her ship after all. They were placed in a waiting room as the three of them sat there silently. Time seemed to pass on endlessly, consuming them as the door slid open once again, the three looking up at the same time in a hurry, seeing two reploids standing there in what looked like normal battle Armour. One was a tall Reploid who had no hair, but a helm on and was a light blue with darker shades of blue here and there. Beside the blue reploid was a taller red reploid with long blonde hair and a saber on his back with his arms crossed over his chest. Samus saw this one and stood up quickly narrowing her eyes at him. The blue reploid quickly slid in front of the red reploid as he narrowed his eyes. "Now, now…Mr. Aran, There is no need for hostilities. I am X, and this is Zero. It seems you have some pressing matters to attend to with us?" Samus nodded to this as her cold metallic voice poured out. "Yes. I have encountered a 'reploid' that resembles your friend Zero. I was assisting him on return to my home world and he destroyed an entire town…" X shook his head in disgust as he knew the handy work, cursing to himself. "It seems you ran onto one of Zero's clones created by Sigma. I'm terribly sorry for what has happened, but there is nothing more I can do for you, right now I am currently tracking Sigma, and am about to commence a mission to destroy him." Cloud and Link's eyes shifted to Zero as Samus addressed X. "Fine, We're going too." Zero stepped out from X's shadow as he shook his hand through the air as he looked to the two humans. "You can't, neither of your friends have the capabilities to fight a high powered reploid such as Sigma!"
Cloud and Link laughed to themselves as X turned on his heels, cursing to himself, he knew he wouldn't be able to stop them; he never was good with words. "Fine…But, Be careful. Mr. Aran, Come with me. Your friends will go with Zero. We will form two squads, Zero, and…The other two." Link cut in quickly to introduce the two of them. "It's Link, and his name is Cloud." X blinked once and resumed his sentence. "..Zero, Cloud, and Link will take on Sigma head on. Samus and I will move along through the corridors destroying the computer systems and crippling Sigma's defense force." They all agreed on this and soon split down the hallways, Samus and X moving to the right and the other three moving down the left. Samus and X soon reached a few of the hover bikes as they leaped onto them, X leading the way as Samus blazed across the ground right after him. The other three moved down the corridor to a small plane like device. Zero rushed into it as the two humans blinked but soon rushed in after him. The plane was piloted by a smaller reploid man as the plane lifted from the hangar and screamed across the landscape, heading out into the desert wastelands as it hovered over a small hatch in the middle of the ground. The three of them leapt from the small opening in the bottom of the plane, flying through the air as Zero aimed his Z-Buster down at the hatch and blasted it open, falling down through the blackness, this was a direct path to where Sigma was located. It would be much harder for the other though, since they had to make it to the control room.
Meanwhile Samus and X moved rapidly across the desert, running towards the factory on their hover bikes as the automated defense systems began to fire Lasers and Plasma blasts at them. Samus cursed as X and herself began to counter fire the blasts with their own, shifting to the left and right as they attempted to dodge. A laser blast hit the side of Samus' bike as she began to lose control. X's hadn't been hit but they were about to enter the factory. Rushing past the entrance of the factory, many maverick reploids began to emerge from the corridors of the factory; X knew it was a straight shot path to the Control room. Plasma blasts and gun fire filled the air as X's bike caught fire when it was hit, Samus' starting to flame also. The two of them leaped off the bikes as it slammed into a few nearby mavericks, blowing up and destroying the two, causing damage to the interior of the factory as flames began to well up around them as the factory caught fire. X rushed forward blasting the mavericks that got in his way. Samus ran a little behind him, catching any of the mavericks that popped out or the one's X didn't finish off. Soon enough they reached the control room, but there was a red flashing light as they looked around quickly, something else had happened. It was now set on a auto-destruct sequence. "SHIT!!! Aran!! Let's go…NOW!!!" X screamed as he turned on his heels and began to run as fast as his reploid legs would let him. Samus continued along beside him now, charging her cannon as she saw a row of Mavericks in front of them. Unknown to her X had been charging his X-Buster since they entered the small computer room, the two of them aimed their cannons at the same time and fired, clearing a path to the outside as they rushed form the factory, moving across the sand as the factory began to explode. Wisps of fire and shrapnel filled the air as Samus leaped into the air, grabbing X and pulling him to the ground as they covered themselves, the shrapnel and explosions filling the vicinity as small chunks of metal pinged off their Armour. Soon enough they stood up, turning around as they gazed at the blown up factory. X gasped for a moment, knowing that this factory connected to Sigma's true hideout. "No…Zero…."
…Meanwhile…
As soon as they landed on the cold ground, the room seemed to light up from its dim atmosphere. This was almost exactly like the room X had been in to fight Sigma when Zero had to destroy the control system, so many years ago. Zero cursed as a large cloaked figure stepped out from behind one of the computers. Laughing lightly as Cloud and Link drew their blade. "Had to get help…ZERO!?" It was sigma who was screaming as he threw his cloak at the two humans, rushing at Zero with his saber. Zero's eyes widened, Sigma had gotten MUCH faster than he expected. Zero cursed as he slammed his saber into Sigma's. Being pushed back by Sigma's superior strength. "FUCK!!!" Zero yelled. Link and Cloud tore the cloak apart as it flew at them, turning to see Zero scream small curses as Sigma rushed him. Knocking him back constantly until he slammed against the wall hard. Sigma laughed as he raised the blade, this time, there was no mercy for Zero. Cloud rushed at Sigma as he swung his massive blade at the maverick's skull, knocking him to the side, enough time for Zero to recover as Sigma's sight was now set on cloud, "FOOLISH HUMAN!" Sigma screamed as he rushed Cloud now, blitzing him with a fury of saber attacks, cloud barely able to get out a barrier spell to save his own life as the barrier shattered and cloud went tumbling backwards into a nearby computer, "GYA!" Sigma's line of vision returned to Zero now as he raised his blade, rushing at Zero in the same fashion, This time Zero ducked, aiming his blade upwards at Sigma's torso as Link executed 'Braver', that he learned from Cloud, once again, smacking Sigma's skull, making him lose his balance as Zero's saber cleaved about half of his torso off, a big hunk of metal falling to the ground as sigma gasped in pain. Turning to see only a Mako-Driven warrior charge him with a flaming blade, Cloud had cast Fire3 on his own blade as he came down on Sigma's skull, slicing it in half as he landed in a crouching position. Not even a moment's notice the voice of sigma came once again as explosions started to erupt from all around them, "Ha! HA HA! You fools! You killed my body! Now I'll kill YOU!" The place was self-destructing. The three of them looked to each other and nodded, Zero was to lead the way, The two warriors followed the quick reploid down a small corridor that lead to the outside world as explosions filled the air and they reached the outside, a huge fireball following them which sent the three of them flying through the air and crashing into the ground, slightly hurt.
Samus' gaze met the huge fireball in the distance as she saw the three warriors flying through the air and smack into the ground. X and Samus rushed quickly to the location as they were content at seeing their friends in one piece. Samus smiled at the charred warriors who seemed slightly dazed. "Okay guys…Time to go home."