Setting: Tallon IV Underworld, ???????
After falling down that hole, I could tell it was going to be one of those days. When I came around, my head was in pain, and I didn't see anybody else. Jack was gone too. I figured if anybody had survived, he would have. It reminded me of Adam again. "Ow....."
"You seem to be okay, but it may hurt for a while." A squeaky voice told me. I looked up and saw a small hovering robotic creature.
"Who......or what are you supposed to be?" It was small, boxy, and had two small wings. It looked odd, but it resembled a maintenance robot used in air vents by the Federation.
"My name is ELM. Sir Jack told me to stay here until Mistress Aran awoke."
"ELM? Does this stand for anything?"
"Electronic Lightweight Mechanoid. Sir Jack told me to tell you that he's looking for a way out."
"Well, that's just swell.....all alone in hell again." I looked at the mossy walls. There were some torches on the wall that had been lit. Probably Jack giving me a way to see. The bright glow hurt to look at. "Today could not possibly get any worse.....did he say anything else?"
"Umm......oh yeah! He said that most of his power suit's functions had been knocked out of commission, and when he checked yours, he said they were knocked out too."
I quickly raised my power cannon and checked the settings. Surely enough, the power beam was the only operational weapon, my missiles were missing, and the grapple beam was crushed beyond repair. "Great.....NOW things couldn't get any worse." My armor was also shattered in most locations. I brushed away all the shards that were loose. "Fusion armor is down to thirty three percent too.....damn."
"Excuse me Mistress Aran....."
"It's Samus. You don't need to be so proper in front of me."
"Yes.....well, Samus....." For a robot, he sounded pretty uneasy. "I'm getting a vital sign reading from twenty yards to the south. Perhaps you should investigate."
"Well, not much else to do in the middle of Planet Nowhere. Why not?" I got up, raised my power cannon, and began to walk south. I heard a familiar liquid-like noise approach. I didn't know what it was, but I was ready for the worst.
"Miss Aran! Look out!" Elm yelled out from behind me.
An ethereal being jumped in front of me. It looked like a ghostly Space Pirate, yet it had a crystalline body. "What the hell?!" I began firing without any regard for what he was capable of. Much to my disappointment, my shots reflected off of his skin.
"Time to die Aran." It's voice was deep, and quite human-like. It raised it's arm and slammed me to the ground. He landed his foot on my cannon, and raised a blade on the other. "Goodnight!" he began to bring his arm down. My eyes clenched shut. I thought it was the end. "ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!" At the last second, an explosion rocked the creatures back.
"What the?.............what happened here?"
"Miss Aran, were you really about to give up so easily?" Jack's voice came from behind the monster. As it fell to it's knees, his figure appeared. His cannon was smoking.
"I couldn't exactly move......what?!" I saw something rising from the fallen creature. It was something I never expected to encounter in the rest of my days. "A Core X Parasite!" I quickly grabbed it and prayed that the fusion armor would accept the parasite. "Urg.....Ahhhhh!" My power cannon began to change shape. The metal seemed to liquefy and take a new form. When the metal hardened, my arm held a missile launcher.
"So these are the X-Parasites I've heard about.....The biological and technological qualities of the Fusion Armor are incredible......" Jack seemed intrigued, but I was rather bothered.
"Don't you think we should worry about what this thing is?" I looked at the beast again. "What the.....it's a Space Pirate!" The body had altered itself after the parasite diffused.
"The larger parasites seem to evolve in life forms at an accelerated rate.....the smaller ones seem to only be capable of inhabiting creatures." He bent over to get a closer look.
"How did the parasites get here? I thought all of them were destroyed at the BSL labs......."
"Not all of them Miss Aran. Some of them DID survive." He stood up. "They escaped inside of you."
"Me?! What are you saying?"
"Didn't you find it a bit odd when most of your Fusion armor's functions got destroyed when they were integrated biologically with your armor?"
"Just what are you getting at?"
"When you fused with an X-Parasite, you would have biologically fused with it due to the metroid cells in your blood. This would be the result if you were without the Fusion Armor."
"Okay, now your making some sense. But what does this have to do with the Fusion Armor?"
"Everything. You see, the Federation provided you with the Armor in hope that just in case you DID destroy the SA-X, they could recover a sample X from your suit."
"I don't think I like where this is going."
"It's only going to get worse as I continue. Are you sure you want me to go on?"
"I'm an orphan who had to watch her only home get burned down and the only family she ever knew wiped out. I've been from one end of the galaxy to the other while being shot at, blown up, smacked aside, and thrown around like a rag doll. I think I can handle a few words."
"Heh" he let out a brief laugh. Though only a second long, something seemed to shoot through his mind. "Anyway, the armor was built with metroid cells as well. This allowed the suit to merge with the parasite cores. Not you."
"Your saying that the Feds sent me in as an investigator and a PETRI DISH?!"
"Well, since you put it so elegantly....I suppose you could say that." He let out another laugh, amused by my comment.
"Damn! I'm nothing more than a puppet to them! When I get out of here....."
"IF you get out of here. In the meantime, we need to get you away from this planet. The parasites your suit fused with have clearly diffused with your armor. If they can evolve with some of the creatures on the planet AND gain phazon exposure, there is no telling what we may have to deal with."
"Well, today just keeps getting better and better now doesn't it?" At the time, I thought I'd rather take on Kraid and Ridley at the same time.
After falling down that hole, I could tell it was going to be one of those days. When I came around, my head was in pain, and I didn't see anybody else. Jack was gone too. I figured if anybody had survived, he would have. It reminded me of Adam again. "Ow....."
"You seem to be okay, but it may hurt for a while." A squeaky voice told me. I looked up and saw a small hovering robotic creature.
"Who......or what are you supposed to be?" It was small, boxy, and had two small wings. It looked odd, but it resembled a maintenance robot used in air vents by the Federation.
"My name is ELM. Sir Jack told me to stay here until Mistress Aran awoke."
"ELM? Does this stand for anything?"
"Electronic Lightweight Mechanoid. Sir Jack told me to tell you that he's looking for a way out."
"Well, that's just swell.....all alone in hell again." I looked at the mossy walls. There were some torches on the wall that had been lit. Probably Jack giving me a way to see. The bright glow hurt to look at. "Today could not possibly get any worse.....did he say anything else?"
"Umm......oh yeah! He said that most of his power suit's functions had been knocked out of commission, and when he checked yours, he said they were knocked out too."
I quickly raised my power cannon and checked the settings. Surely enough, the power beam was the only operational weapon, my missiles were missing, and the grapple beam was crushed beyond repair. "Great.....NOW things couldn't get any worse." My armor was also shattered in most locations. I brushed away all the shards that were loose. "Fusion armor is down to thirty three percent too.....damn."
"Excuse me Mistress Aran....."
"It's Samus. You don't need to be so proper in front of me."
"Yes.....well, Samus....." For a robot, he sounded pretty uneasy. "I'm getting a vital sign reading from twenty yards to the south. Perhaps you should investigate."
"Well, not much else to do in the middle of Planet Nowhere. Why not?" I got up, raised my power cannon, and began to walk south. I heard a familiar liquid-like noise approach. I didn't know what it was, but I was ready for the worst.
"Miss Aran! Look out!" Elm yelled out from behind me.
An ethereal being jumped in front of me. It looked like a ghostly Space Pirate, yet it had a crystalline body. "What the hell?!" I began firing without any regard for what he was capable of. Much to my disappointment, my shots reflected off of his skin.
"Time to die Aran." It's voice was deep, and quite human-like. It raised it's arm and slammed me to the ground. He landed his foot on my cannon, and raised a blade on the other. "Goodnight!" he began to bring his arm down. My eyes clenched shut. I thought it was the end. "ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!" At the last second, an explosion rocked the creatures back.
"What the?.............what happened here?"
"Miss Aran, were you really about to give up so easily?" Jack's voice came from behind the monster. As it fell to it's knees, his figure appeared. His cannon was smoking.
"I couldn't exactly move......what?!" I saw something rising from the fallen creature. It was something I never expected to encounter in the rest of my days. "A Core X Parasite!" I quickly grabbed it and prayed that the fusion armor would accept the parasite. "Urg.....Ahhhhh!" My power cannon began to change shape. The metal seemed to liquefy and take a new form. When the metal hardened, my arm held a missile launcher.
"So these are the X-Parasites I've heard about.....The biological and technological qualities of the Fusion Armor are incredible......" Jack seemed intrigued, but I was rather bothered.
"Don't you think we should worry about what this thing is?" I looked at the beast again. "What the.....it's a Space Pirate!" The body had altered itself after the parasite diffused.
"The larger parasites seem to evolve in life forms at an accelerated rate.....the smaller ones seem to only be capable of inhabiting creatures." He bent over to get a closer look.
"How did the parasites get here? I thought all of them were destroyed at the BSL labs......."
"Not all of them Miss Aran. Some of them DID survive." He stood up. "They escaped inside of you."
"Me?! What are you saying?"
"Didn't you find it a bit odd when most of your Fusion armor's functions got destroyed when they were integrated biologically with your armor?"
"Just what are you getting at?"
"When you fused with an X-Parasite, you would have biologically fused with it due to the metroid cells in your blood. This would be the result if you were without the Fusion Armor."
"Okay, now your making some sense. But what does this have to do with the Fusion Armor?"
"Everything. You see, the Federation provided you with the Armor in hope that just in case you DID destroy the SA-X, they could recover a sample X from your suit."
"I don't think I like where this is going."
"It's only going to get worse as I continue. Are you sure you want me to go on?"
"I'm an orphan who had to watch her only home get burned down and the only family she ever knew wiped out. I've been from one end of the galaxy to the other while being shot at, blown up, smacked aside, and thrown around like a rag doll. I think I can handle a few words."
"Heh" he let out a brief laugh. Though only a second long, something seemed to shoot through his mind. "Anyway, the armor was built with metroid cells as well. This allowed the suit to merge with the parasite cores. Not you."
"Your saying that the Feds sent me in as an investigator and a PETRI DISH?!"
"Well, since you put it so elegantly....I suppose you could say that." He let out another laugh, amused by my comment.
"Damn! I'm nothing more than a puppet to them! When I get out of here....."
"IF you get out of here. In the meantime, we need to get you away from this planet. The parasites your suit fused with have clearly diffused with your armor. If they can evolve with some of the creatures on the planet AND gain phazon exposure, there is no telling what we may have to deal with."
"Well, today just keeps getting better and better now doesn't it?" At the time, I thought I'd rather take on Kraid and Ridley at the same time.