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Chapter 2 Brinstar
Samus began her trek down the gold tinted shaft descending to the lowest part of the room where she found a door. Samus went through the door and found herself in another gold tinted room. She dodged a few blue Wavers floating about the area and sustained some damage from a Skree falling from the cave ceiling. Samus came across a small protrusion over a pool of acidic sand. In between two vertical ledges over the pit sat a glass container holding a missile launcher and missiles. Samus cautiously jumped for the ledge and was knocked back into the sand by a flying space pirate. The acid in the sand began draining the energy from her suit. The sand seemed to give away under Samus' feet as she struggled to climb out of the solution. After finally grabbing hold of the nearby ledge she turned to face the pirate who had attacked her. She spotted the pirate hanging from the top of the ceiling just above the missile accessory. Samus took aim and began firing at the being as it flew farther down the room trying to evade the blasts. Samus finally defeated the creature and a large energy ball replaced the now deceased creature. Samus collected the energy ball by jumping into it whereupon the energy seemed to dissipate into her suit. The energy count on her visor rose by ten and she grabbed the missile attachment and leapt to the ledge where she could properly install the device. The missile launcher snapped onto the arm canon and Samus placed the five micro sized missiles into an opening on the side of her suit. An icon appeared on the upper left of her visor indicating an inventory of five missiles.
Looking about the rest of the tunnel Samus found the next room to be an elevator room but not wanting to venture deeper within the planet just yet turned to explore rooms she hadn't been to yet. Samus headed to the gold tinted duct and up into the next set of rooms higher on the right. Samus dodged Wavers and Zoomers while jumping from ledge to ledge avoiding the acidic sand that covered some portions of the floor. The inevitable space pirate here or there kept Samus from making the time she wanted, as she had to wait and demolish the aggravating pests. Samus came across another container, which held an energy tank. The energy tank allowed Samus' suit to hold another extra 99 units of energy. This meant she could sustain more damage from the planets populace without worrying about her suit collapsing into pieces on her. She retained the energy tank after a brief battle with another space pirate. After more exploration Samus came across yet another blue vertical shaft leading up into the planet. At the top of the shaft Samus spotted another blue door higher up then the one she had ventured up to. She tried jumping up to the door, which happened to be just beyond her reach. She finally settled for the door before her and entered. She ran through the room destroying a few space pirates conversing on the ceiling and evaded some Zoomers. At the opposite end of the span Samus came across a red sealed door. Samus activated the missile launcher on her arm cannon. The missile icon in her visor highlighted and Samus fired the launcher. A slight heat built up within the cannon and Samus' arm was jerked back as the missile flew from the barrel of the cannon. It smashed into the firm molten rock causing minute pieces of the lava to fly ubiquitously. The highlighted missile icon decreased by one informing Samus that she only had four remaining missiles left. Four more shots cleared the remains and the door shattered to pieces as a humid draft exited the room welcoming the bounty hunter in.
Samus entered the room and the first thing she noticed was a statue sitting atop a ledge only about three feet higher then the room's floor. Samus scanned the statue and a description came up.
"The Chozo Statue: A statue created by a Chozo artist to commemorate accomplishments by a Chozo or used as a memorial for the deceased. Most of these statues are made out of a Cordite rock though some can be found made out of Bendizium rock. During the advances in Chozo technology, many inventions related to the Chozo power suit have been encompassed within the membrane-coated ball in the case of an emergency. Such devices were hidden from the Chozo attributable to the vow of pacifism that the Chozo took centuries ago."
The Chozo statue sat on the ledge in silence it's hand outstretched toward Samus with the small ball clutched in its hand. The ancient Chozo statue was gray, its legs pulled toward its body rising up to the bend in its knee. Though the stone was old and weathered it held its head up looking straightforward, its eyes proud, strong, and welcoming to Samus. Samus shot at the coated ball in the statues hand disintegrating the membrane and revealing the concealed prize within. The hand now held a small round ball in its palm and Samus scanned it to find information about it.
"The Bomb: The bomb can only be used when the Maru-Mari ball is activated. The bomb uses the same energy that the power beam uses. Uses for the bomb include blowing up diminutive walls and objects as well as injuring beings. Usually the power beam energy cannot harm physical objects; however, the bomb becomes magnetized, attracting elements to it and upon exploding causes the magnetized elements to be used as shrapnel."
"Well maybe I can put this to some good use", Samus said reading the information the display produced. The information faded away leaving Samus gazing about the room taking in the awesome sight that the Chozo artist had left long ago. Samus remembered the monument on K2-L, her home planet, and the reason for the erection of such a magnificent spectacle. Though it had been some time Samus shed a tear for her lost parents who had been killed by a space pirate invasion. The Chozo statue brought remnants of memories from her past. Samus exited the room and began to backtrack to the gold tinted shaft she tried to use as a landmark. She had yet to find another room like it with the exception of the tunnel just to the bottom right of the shaft. During her journey back to the shaft, in one of the corridors Samus found herself enclosed in tight quarters with a Waver. The erratic creature fluttered angrily around the room attacking the bounty hunter. Samus rolled into her morph ball and set a few bombs on the floor in order to try and eliminate the creature before the suit took any more damage. A portion of the floor gave away and Samus found herself falling through the floor into a pit of the energy draining acidic sand. She landed with a thump in the sand but to her surprise the substance was not acidic. She began walking around the pit and fell through the floor again, this time falling a good distance down and striking the rock floor relatively hard. Samus precariously stood up regaining her composure from the plummet and with knocking knees walked to a door in the wall.
"I have got to be more careful around this place." Samus shot at the door and it opened obediently. Samus strutted in and quickly took out a few space pirates within the room and collected the energy and missiles the demolished creatures left behind. Dispensing all five of her missiles, which exploded and sent the door flying in pieces, Samus quickly cleared the red door in front of her. Samus found herself in another chamber with a Chozo statue sitting on a ledge. The room was an exact replica of the one she had been in before and she wondered whether or not she had somehow traveled in a loop bringing her right back to the same room. Samus shot at the ball in the palm of the Chozo's outstretched hand and an attachment appeared in the ball's place. This was not the same room Samus soon found out as she grabbed an ice beam attachment for her arm cannon. A display appeared on Samus visor explaining the ice beam.
"Ice Beam: The ice beam combines the power beam with liquid nitrogen to create a blast of freezing energy. When a living being is hit with this ice beam the creature is immediately frozen along with the air around it leaving it in a form of suspended animation for a short duration."
"This should come in handy when I run into that Metroid", Samus said to herself equipping the ice beam. She left back out of the room and entered the chasm where she had fallen through the sandpit. Samus climbed up over a few ledges and was able to make her way high enough up to see the hole from which she had fallen. She climbed up in the hole and was able to pull herself up while grasping the crumbling floor. Once back on track Samus continued back into the gold tinted shaft and began making her way up. An encounter with a Zoomer allowed Samus to test the ice beam. Samus shot the Zoomer from across the room and as the beam left the cannon she felt a slight chill as the end of the barrel collected ice. When the beam flew across the room tiny air particles became visible as they were frozen and dropped to the ground with new weight. With the creature frozen Samus could continue firing at it with the beam and soon the creatures makeup would disintegrate into nothingness or she could demolish it with a missile. Samus chose her first option and continued to fire at the creature until its body disappeared. Samus continued to the top until she could go no further and entered the door just at the top. She came into a cavern full of green rock and scattered about the place was dried out vegetation of all types from bushes to grass. A few pipes in the cavern floor told Samus that Zebs more then likely occupied them. She tried to quietly and quickly to make her way by but ended up being in the midst of a swarm. She quickly dispatched the creatures and continued through the room. A group of smaller pipes were embedded into the green rock on the far side of the room. They were just big enough for Samus' morph ball to fit in. With no other direction to go she activated the ball and tried the bottom most pipe. Rolling through the pipe she encountered a Zoomer. She laid a bomb and before she could move far enough from the blast zone, she was flown out of the pipe as the explosion shook the walls of the pipe. The vibration of the pipe caused the overhead rock to collapse in on the pipe. Samus would have to use a pipe higher up and deactivating the morph ball Samus looked through each pipe. The group of pipes at the bottom all seemed to be blocked and only the top most one showed light at the other end.
"Well how am I suppose to get up there?" Samus asked herself before a smile crossed her face as an idea came to her. She theorized that if the explosion from a bomb could force her out of a pipe, what was stopping the explosion from propelling the morph ball into the air. With a fresh idea Samus rolled back into the ball and laid a bomb against the wall. With the explosion Samus was indeed propelled into the air but not high enough to reach the top. She tried again but the attempt failed. Her mind began turning again and she decided she would try and lay multiple bombs in a vertical column as she propelled herself up. It took Samus awhile but soon she was propelling herself to the top most pipe with ease.
"I think I'll call that little trick there the wall jump", Samus said out loud to herself pleased with the results. Samus rolled through the pipe and popped out the other side falling onto the ground. She then jumped a small crevice in the floor and continued through the door and found herself in another tunnel like room. A Zoomer raced across the ceiling and before Samus could destroy the creature it disappeared through the roof. Samus scanned the cracked surface of the ceiling to check it's stability and found that a passageway was likely just a level higher. Samus stood back and blasted a missile at the roof and sent rock flying everywhere. The hole in the ceiling became visible and a room above shed light down. Samus jumped through the hole into the room and entered the only door on her left. She found herself in a temple hallway and made her way to the door on the far end of the room. She assumed that another Chozo statue lay just beyond and she promptly destroyed the door and entered the room. Her assumption was verified and the Chozo statue welcomed her with an outstretched arm. The statue was in better shape then the others had been, the detail of the statues features crisp and clear. Samus immediately shot at the ball in the Chozo's hand and revealed suit attachments beneath.
"Varia Suit: The Varia suit equips the current power suit with a special armor capable of withstanding extreme high temperatures much like those found in the core of planets. The armor will not allow the wearer to venture into magma or other substances of high temperature as the suit will begin to deteriorate. With a more durable metal, damage received will be reduced by a quarter percent."
Once the scan was completed Samus suit came to life again. Samus was thrown into a crucified position. The attachment parts clamped together fusing with the current suit and integrated into the system. After the installation of the new hardware Samus found the suit to be a light tint of purple rather then the usual orange and red she was use to. Samus exited the room and left the abandoned temple room behind her. She ventured back through the tunnels to her right and picked up a missile expansion adding five more missiles to her armament. After four more hours of exploration Samus found herself traveling in circles. She had become lost within the vast blue maze like tunnels and now tired and exhausted she wanted to find a place to rest. Samus found herself venturing into one of the many blue vertical shafts she had explored earlier. She entered a door on her left and found herself in a room she had yet to explore. With surprise Samus continued through the room and an indicator light appeared on her visor. A report appeared on her screen showing that the Phazon toxic levels were extremely low. A red door at the end indicated that Samus would come into contact with yet another Chozo statue. The Phazon level within the statue room was almost non existent and safe for the bounty hunter to breath. Samus removed her helmet allowing her green hair to fall alongside the back of the suit. She shot at the Chozo's ball and revealed the long shot. Samus put the helmet back on to scan the object but didn't like the helmet on.
"Long Shot: The Long shot allows the arm cannon to shoot further and more accurately. With this equipped the user can safely annihilate beings from a distance."
Samus removed the helmet and set it at the foot of the Chozo statue. She put in the command to eject the suit, which caused the suit to bend forward and unseal. The backside of the suit split down the sides and the back slowly lifted away on hydraulic hinges. Samus lifted her body out of the suit feeling a refreshing breeze of cool air flow about her. She was sweaty, exhausted and tired and looking around the room spotted a small pool of water dripping from the wall. She tested the water which seemed to be clean and took in a long drink of the refreshing liquid. A Zoomer appeared from behind the statue charging toward the armor less bounty hunter. She quickly rolled to the side barely missing the spikes on the creatures back. She picked up her helmet and tossed it at the creature as it turned around to attack again. The creature stopped in it's tracks dead from the impact. Samus couldn't hold off sleep any longer. She climbed onto the ledge the Chozo statue sat upon and removed her leotard. She rung the wet sweaty clothes out and taking some water from the pool dumped it onto the leotard. After ringing it out for a second time she laid on the stone and placed the cloth beneath her head as she fell into sleep.
Chapter 2 Brinstar
Samus began her trek down the gold tinted shaft descending to the lowest part of the room where she found a door. Samus went through the door and found herself in another gold tinted room. She dodged a few blue Wavers floating about the area and sustained some damage from a Skree falling from the cave ceiling. Samus came across a small protrusion over a pool of acidic sand. In between two vertical ledges over the pit sat a glass container holding a missile launcher and missiles. Samus cautiously jumped for the ledge and was knocked back into the sand by a flying space pirate. The acid in the sand began draining the energy from her suit. The sand seemed to give away under Samus' feet as she struggled to climb out of the solution. After finally grabbing hold of the nearby ledge she turned to face the pirate who had attacked her. She spotted the pirate hanging from the top of the ceiling just above the missile accessory. Samus took aim and began firing at the being as it flew farther down the room trying to evade the blasts. Samus finally defeated the creature and a large energy ball replaced the now deceased creature. Samus collected the energy ball by jumping into it whereupon the energy seemed to dissipate into her suit. The energy count on her visor rose by ten and she grabbed the missile attachment and leapt to the ledge where she could properly install the device. The missile launcher snapped onto the arm canon and Samus placed the five micro sized missiles into an opening on the side of her suit. An icon appeared on the upper left of her visor indicating an inventory of five missiles.
Looking about the rest of the tunnel Samus found the next room to be an elevator room but not wanting to venture deeper within the planet just yet turned to explore rooms she hadn't been to yet. Samus headed to the gold tinted duct and up into the next set of rooms higher on the right. Samus dodged Wavers and Zoomers while jumping from ledge to ledge avoiding the acidic sand that covered some portions of the floor. The inevitable space pirate here or there kept Samus from making the time she wanted, as she had to wait and demolish the aggravating pests. Samus came across another container, which held an energy tank. The energy tank allowed Samus' suit to hold another extra 99 units of energy. This meant she could sustain more damage from the planets populace without worrying about her suit collapsing into pieces on her. She retained the energy tank after a brief battle with another space pirate. After more exploration Samus came across yet another blue vertical shaft leading up into the planet. At the top of the shaft Samus spotted another blue door higher up then the one she had ventured up to. She tried jumping up to the door, which happened to be just beyond her reach. She finally settled for the door before her and entered. She ran through the room destroying a few space pirates conversing on the ceiling and evaded some Zoomers. At the opposite end of the span Samus came across a red sealed door. Samus activated the missile launcher on her arm cannon. The missile icon in her visor highlighted and Samus fired the launcher. A slight heat built up within the cannon and Samus' arm was jerked back as the missile flew from the barrel of the cannon. It smashed into the firm molten rock causing minute pieces of the lava to fly ubiquitously. The highlighted missile icon decreased by one informing Samus that she only had four remaining missiles left. Four more shots cleared the remains and the door shattered to pieces as a humid draft exited the room welcoming the bounty hunter in.
Samus entered the room and the first thing she noticed was a statue sitting atop a ledge only about three feet higher then the room's floor. Samus scanned the statue and a description came up.
"The Chozo Statue: A statue created by a Chozo artist to commemorate accomplishments by a Chozo or used as a memorial for the deceased. Most of these statues are made out of a Cordite rock though some can be found made out of Bendizium rock. During the advances in Chozo technology, many inventions related to the Chozo power suit have been encompassed within the membrane-coated ball in the case of an emergency. Such devices were hidden from the Chozo attributable to the vow of pacifism that the Chozo took centuries ago."
The Chozo statue sat on the ledge in silence it's hand outstretched toward Samus with the small ball clutched in its hand. The ancient Chozo statue was gray, its legs pulled toward its body rising up to the bend in its knee. Though the stone was old and weathered it held its head up looking straightforward, its eyes proud, strong, and welcoming to Samus. Samus shot at the coated ball in the statues hand disintegrating the membrane and revealing the concealed prize within. The hand now held a small round ball in its palm and Samus scanned it to find information about it.
"The Bomb: The bomb can only be used when the Maru-Mari ball is activated. The bomb uses the same energy that the power beam uses. Uses for the bomb include blowing up diminutive walls and objects as well as injuring beings. Usually the power beam energy cannot harm physical objects; however, the bomb becomes magnetized, attracting elements to it and upon exploding causes the magnetized elements to be used as shrapnel."
"Well maybe I can put this to some good use", Samus said reading the information the display produced. The information faded away leaving Samus gazing about the room taking in the awesome sight that the Chozo artist had left long ago. Samus remembered the monument on K2-L, her home planet, and the reason for the erection of such a magnificent spectacle. Though it had been some time Samus shed a tear for her lost parents who had been killed by a space pirate invasion. The Chozo statue brought remnants of memories from her past. Samus exited the room and began to backtrack to the gold tinted shaft she tried to use as a landmark. She had yet to find another room like it with the exception of the tunnel just to the bottom right of the shaft. During her journey back to the shaft, in one of the corridors Samus found herself enclosed in tight quarters with a Waver. The erratic creature fluttered angrily around the room attacking the bounty hunter. Samus rolled into her morph ball and set a few bombs on the floor in order to try and eliminate the creature before the suit took any more damage. A portion of the floor gave away and Samus found herself falling through the floor into a pit of the energy draining acidic sand. She landed with a thump in the sand but to her surprise the substance was not acidic. She began walking around the pit and fell through the floor again, this time falling a good distance down and striking the rock floor relatively hard. Samus precariously stood up regaining her composure from the plummet and with knocking knees walked to a door in the wall.
"I have got to be more careful around this place." Samus shot at the door and it opened obediently. Samus strutted in and quickly took out a few space pirates within the room and collected the energy and missiles the demolished creatures left behind. Dispensing all five of her missiles, which exploded and sent the door flying in pieces, Samus quickly cleared the red door in front of her. Samus found herself in another chamber with a Chozo statue sitting on a ledge. The room was an exact replica of the one she had been in before and she wondered whether or not she had somehow traveled in a loop bringing her right back to the same room. Samus shot at the ball in the palm of the Chozo's outstretched hand and an attachment appeared in the ball's place. This was not the same room Samus soon found out as she grabbed an ice beam attachment for her arm cannon. A display appeared on Samus visor explaining the ice beam.
"Ice Beam: The ice beam combines the power beam with liquid nitrogen to create a blast of freezing energy. When a living being is hit with this ice beam the creature is immediately frozen along with the air around it leaving it in a form of suspended animation for a short duration."
"This should come in handy when I run into that Metroid", Samus said to herself equipping the ice beam. She left back out of the room and entered the chasm where she had fallen through the sandpit. Samus climbed up over a few ledges and was able to make her way high enough up to see the hole from which she had fallen. She climbed up in the hole and was able to pull herself up while grasping the crumbling floor. Once back on track Samus continued back into the gold tinted shaft and began making her way up. An encounter with a Zoomer allowed Samus to test the ice beam. Samus shot the Zoomer from across the room and as the beam left the cannon she felt a slight chill as the end of the barrel collected ice. When the beam flew across the room tiny air particles became visible as they were frozen and dropped to the ground with new weight. With the creature frozen Samus could continue firing at it with the beam and soon the creatures makeup would disintegrate into nothingness or she could demolish it with a missile. Samus chose her first option and continued to fire at the creature until its body disappeared. Samus continued to the top until she could go no further and entered the door just at the top. She came into a cavern full of green rock and scattered about the place was dried out vegetation of all types from bushes to grass. A few pipes in the cavern floor told Samus that Zebs more then likely occupied them. She tried to quietly and quickly to make her way by but ended up being in the midst of a swarm. She quickly dispatched the creatures and continued through the room. A group of smaller pipes were embedded into the green rock on the far side of the room. They were just big enough for Samus' morph ball to fit in. With no other direction to go she activated the ball and tried the bottom most pipe. Rolling through the pipe she encountered a Zoomer. She laid a bomb and before she could move far enough from the blast zone, she was flown out of the pipe as the explosion shook the walls of the pipe. The vibration of the pipe caused the overhead rock to collapse in on the pipe. Samus would have to use a pipe higher up and deactivating the morph ball Samus looked through each pipe. The group of pipes at the bottom all seemed to be blocked and only the top most one showed light at the other end.
"Well how am I suppose to get up there?" Samus asked herself before a smile crossed her face as an idea came to her. She theorized that if the explosion from a bomb could force her out of a pipe, what was stopping the explosion from propelling the morph ball into the air. With a fresh idea Samus rolled back into the ball and laid a bomb against the wall. With the explosion Samus was indeed propelled into the air but not high enough to reach the top. She tried again but the attempt failed. Her mind began turning again and she decided she would try and lay multiple bombs in a vertical column as she propelled herself up. It took Samus awhile but soon she was propelling herself to the top most pipe with ease.
"I think I'll call that little trick there the wall jump", Samus said out loud to herself pleased with the results. Samus rolled through the pipe and popped out the other side falling onto the ground. She then jumped a small crevice in the floor and continued through the door and found herself in another tunnel like room. A Zoomer raced across the ceiling and before Samus could destroy the creature it disappeared through the roof. Samus scanned the cracked surface of the ceiling to check it's stability and found that a passageway was likely just a level higher. Samus stood back and blasted a missile at the roof and sent rock flying everywhere. The hole in the ceiling became visible and a room above shed light down. Samus jumped through the hole into the room and entered the only door on her left. She found herself in a temple hallway and made her way to the door on the far end of the room. She assumed that another Chozo statue lay just beyond and she promptly destroyed the door and entered the room. Her assumption was verified and the Chozo statue welcomed her with an outstretched arm. The statue was in better shape then the others had been, the detail of the statues features crisp and clear. Samus immediately shot at the ball in the Chozo's hand and revealed suit attachments beneath.
"Varia Suit: The Varia suit equips the current power suit with a special armor capable of withstanding extreme high temperatures much like those found in the core of planets. The armor will not allow the wearer to venture into magma or other substances of high temperature as the suit will begin to deteriorate. With a more durable metal, damage received will be reduced by a quarter percent."
Once the scan was completed Samus suit came to life again. Samus was thrown into a crucified position. The attachment parts clamped together fusing with the current suit and integrated into the system. After the installation of the new hardware Samus found the suit to be a light tint of purple rather then the usual orange and red she was use to. Samus exited the room and left the abandoned temple room behind her. She ventured back through the tunnels to her right and picked up a missile expansion adding five more missiles to her armament. After four more hours of exploration Samus found herself traveling in circles. She had become lost within the vast blue maze like tunnels and now tired and exhausted she wanted to find a place to rest. Samus found herself venturing into one of the many blue vertical shafts she had explored earlier. She entered a door on her left and found herself in a room she had yet to explore. With surprise Samus continued through the room and an indicator light appeared on her visor. A report appeared on her screen showing that the Phazon toxic levels were extremely low. A red door at the end indicated that Samus would come into contact with yet another Chozo statue. The Phazon level within the statue room was almost non existent and safe for the bounty hunter to breath. Samus removed her helmet allowing her green hair to fall alongside the back of the suit. She shot at the Chozo's ball and revealed the long shot. Samus put the helmet back on to scan the object but didn't like the helmet on.
"Long Shot: The Long shot allows the arm cannon to shoot further and more accurately. With this equipped the user can safely annihilate beings from a distance."
Samus removed the helmet and set it at the foot of the Chozo statue. She put in the command to eject the suit, which caused the suit to bend forward and unseal. The backside of the suit split down the sides and the back slowly lifted away on hydraulic hinges. Samus lifted her body out of the suit feeling a refreshing breeze of cool air flow about her. She was sweaty, exhausted and tired and looking around the room spotted a small pool of water dripping from the wall. She tested the water which seemed to be clean and took in a long drink of the refreshing liquid. A Zoomer appeared from behind the statue charging toward the armor less bounty hunter. She quickly rolled to the side barely missing the spikes on the creatures back. She picked up her helmet and tossed it at the creature as it turned around to attack again. The creature stopped in it's tracks dead from the impact. Samus couldn't hold off sleep any longer. She climbed onto the ledge the Chozo statue sat upon and removed her leotard. She rung the wet sweaty clothes out and taking some water from the pool dumped it onto the leotard. After ringing it out for a second time she laid on the stone and placed the cloth beneath her head as she fell into sleep.