The journey to Forsythe was a suprisingly pleasent one. Though I was a little fed up with the length of the trip, taking nearly three standard days, Adam felt it was necessary that we take the back routes to Forsythe to avoid Gallactic Federation and Space Pirate detection. I was put into an unconcious state for most of the trip, feeding off the ships battery to regain the limited energy that had remained in my suit after the Ridley attack. When I awoke, I was greeted with a screen on my radar that showed that the ship was within 4.5 parsecs away from entering the Tallon system.

I read through Gallactic Federation reports of Forsythe. It was first explored by Chozo scientists, where a research center was located on the surface of the planet. Though the reports didn't say what this center researched, it did say that all activity discontinued when the Chozo abandoned their science program and took up their pursuit of happiness at Tallon IV. Perhaps this space station was rebuilt and now under control of space pirates.

Other than the Chozo, Forsythe had been completely barron of life. As Adam had mentioned, it was mainly tundra land and frozen ice patches. There was nothing of particular interest on the moon.

But as my spaceship neared the planet of Tallon IV, Forsythe became visible to the human eye. As I looked through the front visor of the ship, I noticed Forsythe's hue was not as discolored as it had been in the old images I saw on the ships research monitor. It wasn't a white planet with grey gases smoldering over the planets stratosphere as it once had been. It was blue, with dots of jungles and mountains swirled into the mix, and light green clouds instead of grey gases coated the stratosphere.

As the ship struggled to close in on Forsythe due to it's unusual orbiting patterns, I began to notice that something was definitely not right about this new moon.

"Adam," I muttered, "are you sure we have the right moon here?"

It was a stupid question, but Adam was as perplexed as I was.

"Lady, you should know more than anybody that Tallon IV doesn't have any moons. Still, this is definitely unusual. Scans indicate that this moon has exactly the same circumference as Forsythe had orbiting SR388, which the odds of a new moon appearing out of nowhere that resembles Forsythe in every measurement is nearly an impossibility. Also, there are large amounts of subterraneous activity being detected by the ship's lifeform detection systems. And if I know my space pirates, lady, Forsythe or not, this is where the pirates are operating."

As the dense lifeform readings Adam found in his scans loaded onto the research monitor, he was right - the dense glow of life farther into the interior of the planet and nearly no life above ground was a red flag.

"So, when will we be landing?" I asked Adam.

"We're being drawn in by the gravitational pull right now. Any preference, lady?"

"I was reading something about an old Chozo research station. That would be a good place to start. Maybe I could get some augmentations for my suit there that the Chozo left behind. Is there anything like that on the planet still?"

"ChozoTech Research. Located in one of the northern-most points of the moon's northern hempisphere. There appears to be several attempts made to gain access to this station, according to the security logs. Probably attempts made by the pirates."

"There's something of importance in there. Is there anyway we could get in?"

"You should be able to land on the roof of the complex, on the emergency landing platform. There's an elevator shaft that leads inside. Your suit should already be equipped with most of the Chozo security codes necessary to open the doors."

"Alright, Adam. Put in the coordinates of ChozoTech Research and prepare for landing."

As I released the throttle, it began to move by itself, indicating that Adam had taken over the ships controls. As I sat back and looked on the planet through the ship's front visor, flying closer and closer to the surface, I noticed something extremely alarming.

The ship was now cruising fairly low to the ground, and I looked out through my ship's front visor to see large canyons and mountainous terrain passing below me at rapid speed. Huge lakes would often break the pattern of canyons and mountains, but as the ship progressed farther and farther north, glaciers and snow capped mountains filled the landscape. This was nothing like the pictures of Forsythe's environment I saw on the research screen. This was too eerily like... like...

"Welcome to SR388, lady." Adam exclaimed wearily, breaking the inept silence that fell over the cockpit.

"What... in... the..." which was all I managed to say out of all the thoughts I was recieving.

"I'm... not really sure what's going on either. I'll investigate, lady. But for now, I need you to find out every bit of information you can about this planet from ChozoTech Research. Also keep an eye out for needed energy tanks and suit modifications."

At that moment, the ship came to an abrupt halt, causing me to hit the navicom dashboard of my ship.

"Sorry about that, lady. If you let me fly more often I would be a little bit better at this!" Adam exclaimed mockingly.

"Fat chance, Malkovich," I retorted. At that moment, I felt the landing systems kick in, and looked out to see that I was landing atop fractured rooftop of ChozoTech.

"Well, here we are. Get in there. I'll be waiting here. Any objections, lady?"

Adam tested our trust once more with that old cliche that was now a tradition.

"No, Adam. Take care."