Chapter 5: Ambushed!!
As Samus opened the door to mother brains old chamber, something seemed out of place when she stepped into the room, but she couldn't place her finger on it. She scanned around the room, and her instinct as a bounty hunter told her somethng wasn't right, it rang in her head like a bell, but nothing came to mind.
Samus: .. Am I imagining things.. or is something different..
She continued walking into the room, making her way across the old Zebetite life support tube holders, until she was directly in the middle of the room.. then it hit her like a brick. As she looked around the room she realized the monitors on the walls had turned back on, and the lights were on...
Samus: Somethings been here... since I was last here...
As she finished the last word in the sentence she heard a loud breaking sound from behind her. She spinned around just in time to watch something rip through a drain in the floor, located directly in front of the door to the elevator.
Samus: Damn!
No sooner had that one popped up then another loud breaking sound could be heard, coming from the other side of the room. She turned her head to see another space pirate, tearing through the pedastal where mother brain used to reside, again located right in front of the door to the vertical escape tunnel. She was trapped
Samus: Its an ambush!!
Two more came down from the ceiling to the left and right of her. The four space pirates in the room turned to face her, and cannons slid into place on their wrists
Space Pirate 1: You go no further Samus
Space Pirate 2: We'll make short work of you!
Samus readied her own arm cannon, preparing for combat. She loaded her newly restored missile launcher and prepared to take the four on.
Samus: Bring it on!
The first and second pirates fired, samus leapt and did a summersault in mid air over to the corner of the room, barely being missed by the lasers. The other two locked onto her there, and fired at her, but again she ran up the wall and back flipped off it. Upon landing, she spun around to fire a missile at the 3rd pirate, who was engulfed in flames and quickly collapsed. The 2nd Pirate grabbed her from behind, and allowed his razor sharp claws to extend, just nanometers away from cutting the thin flexible armor that surrounded her neck.
Space Pirate 2: I've got you now Samus.. this is for the deaths of our comrades
The pirate was about to slice her neck open, when the first pirate yelled..
Space Pirate 1: NO! I have a better idea..
The third pirate walked over, and grabbed her arm cannon, preventing her from using it, together, they held her there for a matter of minutes, discussing in an alien language over their communications systems before finally they had decided on a course of action. The two that had her took her over to an exposed patch of wiring, strapped her to it, and welded it back on using their wrist lasers, so that they acted as ropes chained to the wall. Samus was now completely helpless.
Space Pirate 1: Oh, don't worry Samus, we're not going to kill you...
The 1st space pirate walked over to a monitor, and touched it, a wave of energy coming from his hand. Samus felt energy begin coming into the wires, not enough to shock, but enough to burn.. the three then walked into the next room, and the door sealed. When the door finished sealing, it turned clear, and she could see them watching her.
Samus: ... I don't get it, sure its a little uncomfortable, but its not gonna kill me or anything..
Space Pirate 1: Oh, no, thats just to make you uncomfortable.. this is to kill you..
She could hear a bubbling sound coming from where the drain was, and noticed the hole was starting to glow reddish.
Samus: NO!!!!
She could see the drain hole starting to fill up with acid, fresh, acid that she knew could cut through her suit in a matter of minutes, seeing as how Ridley had already damaged its armor. It began rising, and filling the lowest levels of the room, spilling into every little groove in the floor. Samus was suspended so her feet were halfway up the room, and her head was at the very ceiling. She struggled against the constraints, which were now fairly painful from high heat.
Space Pirate 2: haHAH, hot enough for ya?
The acid was now about a fourth of the way up the room, and was eating through debris that had fallen from the ceiling.
Samus: .. what am I going to do.....
Space Pirate 3: Well dying would be nice
The acid was now seconds away from her feet, when she heard a strange little noise..
Samus: whats.. that.. sound..?
Samus forced the words out from the searing pain of the wires on her, she forced her head to the side to see a little green creature, no bigger then her head, walk out on top of a pipe, and look down at her with big round black eyes, almost like an alien teddy bear.. it smiled, showing very sharp teeth
????: ki-ki-kiki-ki?
Samus: Can you.. understand me little guy?
The creature gave no visible signs of understanding...
Samus: .. don't suppose theres any chance of you AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!11
As she was about to finish her sentence she realized the acid was at the very tip of her feet, it was intense, and made her cry out in pain.. the creature reared its head a bit, and began scampering down samus to her legs. With a good chomp it cut the two restraints on both her legs, and she weakly lifted them out of harms way. It proceeded to cut the rest of her restraints, except for one last arm one, when it cut on that however, she fell into the acid below. The creature, being on her shoulder at the time, leapt on top of her helmet to stay above the acid. Samus leapt ontop of one of the zebetite cylinders and, seeing a duct in the ceiling, used her missile launcher to blow a hole in it and leap up.
Space pirate 1: She's getting away!! STOP HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The three pirates began scaling the walls of the escape shaft, heading to the exit to that vent, also in the shaft were over 10 support pirates, who were not quite as powerful as the three from the ambush, but still dangerous in large groups.
Reaching the top of the vent, samus found herself in one of Tourians old maintence shafts, she remembered this shaft used to be filled with metroids, but that didn't matter now. Her senses were still recovering from the blast of pain the acid had given her.. those space pirates would pay for that. She sat down for a moment, catching her breath, and analyzing the little creature that had found her.
Samus: Thanks lil guy, I owe ya one
Samus had no time to reflect on the creature however, as a laser ripped through the wall to her left, the creature scurried into a small hole. Samus stood, reading her missile launcher, and turned to the wall.
Samus: Payback time!
She stepped backwords, heading almost to the opposite end of the room, but not before kicking a peice of thin,weak metal over the large duct she had just escaped through, which covered it. The space pirates, all 13 of them, walked into the room, and onto the duct. Samus put her hands in the air
Samus: Alright.. I surrender
Space Pirate 1: Good girl.. I'll make your death quick then.. well.. quickER
Too bad the Space Pirate didn't see the smirk on her face, with a quick move she fired a missile at the weak metal under them, and it gave way, sending all 13 of the space pirates into the pool of acid below.
Samus: Looks like 13 wasn't your lucky number
Samus leapt over the hole and headed out into the escape shaft, hearing the screams of space pirates behind her. She leapt up the platforms up the remaining way of the shaft and headed up into upper crateria.
**End chapter 5**
As Samus opened the door to mother brains old chamber, something seemed out of place when she stepped into the room, but she couldn't place her finger on it. She scanned around the room, and her instinct as a bounty hunter told her somethng wasn't right, it rang in her head like a bell, but nothing came to mind.
Samus: .. Am I imagining things.. or is something different..
She continued walking into the room, making her way across the old Zebetite life support tube holders, until she was directly in the middle of the room.. then it hit her like a brick. As she looked around the room she realized the monitors on the walls had turned back on, and the lights were on...
Samus: Somethings been here... since I was last here...
As she finished the last word in the sentence she heard a loud breaking sound from behind her. She spinned around just in time to watch something rip through a drain in the floor, located directly in front of the door to the elevator.
Samus: Damn!
No sooner had that one popped up then another loud breaking sound could be heard, coming from the other side of the room. She turned her head to see another space pirate, tearing through the pedastal where mother brain used to reside, again located right in front of the door to the vertical escape tunnel. She was trapped
Samus: Its an ambush!!
Two more came down from the ceiling to the left and right of her. The four space pirates in the room turned to face her, and cannons slid into place on their wrists
Space Pirate 1: You go no further Samus
Space Pirate 2: We'll make short work of you!
Samus readied her own arm cannon, preparing for combat. She loaded her newly restored missile launcher and prepared to take the four on.
Samus: Bring it on!
The first and second pirates fired, samus leapt and did a summersault in mid air over to the corner of the room, barely being missed by the lasers. The other two locked onto her there, and fired at her, but again she ran up the wall and back flipped off it. Upon landing, she spun around to fire a missile at the 3rd pirate, who was engulfed in flames and quickly collapsed. The 2nd Pirate grabbed her from behind, and allowed his razor sharp claws to extend, just nanometers away from cutting the thin flexible armor that surrounded her neck.
Space Pirate 2: I've got you now Samus.. this is for the deaths of our comrades
The pirate was about to slice her neck open, when the first pirate yelled..
Space Pirate 1: NO! I have a better idea..
The third pirate walked over, and grabbed her arm cannon, preventing her from using it, together, they held her there for a matter of minutes, discussing in an alien language over their communications systems before finally they had decided on a course of action. The two that had her took her over to an exposed patch of wiring, strapped her to it, and welded it back on using their wrist lasers, so that they acted as ropes chained to the wall. Samus was now completely helpless.
Space Pirate 1: Oh, don't worry Samus, we're not going to kill you...
The 1st space pirate walked over to a monitor, and touched it, a wave of energy coming from his hand. Samus felt energy begin coming into the wires, not enough to shock, but enough to burn.. the three then walked into the next room, and the door sealed. When the door finished sealing, it turned clear, and she could see them watching her.
Samus: ... I don't get it, sure its a little uncomfortable, but its not gonna kill me or anything..
Space Pirate 1: Oh, no, thats just to make you uncomfortable.. this is to kill you..
She could hear a bubbling sound coming from where the drain was, and noticed the hole was starting to glow reddish.
Samus: NO!!!!
She could see the drain hole starting to fill up with acid, fresh, acid that she knew could cut through her suit in a matter of minutes, seeing as how Ridley had already damaged its armor. It began rising, and filling the lowest levels of the room, spilling into every little groove in the floor. Samus was suspended so her feet were halfway up the room, and her head was at the very ceiling. She struggled against the constraints, which were now fairly painful from high heat.
Space Pirate 2: haHAH, hot enough for ya?
The acid was now about a fourth of the way up the room, and was eating through debris that had fallen from the ceiling.
Samus: .. what am I going to do.....
Space Pirate 3: Well dying would be nice
The acid was now seconds away from her feet, when she heard a strange little noise..
Samus: whats.. that.. sound..?
Samus forced the words out from the searing pain of the wires on her, she forced her head to the side to see a little green creature, no bigger then her head, walk out on top of a pipe, and look down at her with big round black eyes, almost like an alien teddy bear.. it smiled, showing very sharp teeth
????: ki-ki-kiki-ki?
Samus: Can you.. understand me little guy?
The creature gave no visible signs of understanding...
Samus: .. don't suppose theres any chance of you AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!11
As she was about to finish her sentence she realized the acid was at the very tip of her feet, it was intense, and made her cry out in pain.. the creature reared its head a bit, and began scampering down samus to her legs. With a good chomp it cut the two restraints on both her legs, and she weakly lifted them out of harms way. It proceeded to cut the rest of her restraints, except for one last arm one, when it cut on that however, she fell into the acid below. The creature, being on her shoulder at the time, leapt on top of her helmet to stay above the acid. Samus leapt ontop of one of the zebetite cylinders and, seeing a duct in the ceiling, used her missile launcher to blow a hole in it and leap up.
Space pirate 1: She's getting away!! STOP HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The three pirates began scaling the walls of the escape shaft, heading to the exit to that vent, also in the shaft were over 10 support pirates, who were not quite as powerful as the three from the ambush, but still dangerous in large groups.
Reaching the top of the vent, samus found herself in one of Tourians old maintence shafts, she remembered this shaft used to be filled with metroids, but that didn't matter now. Her senses were still recovering from the blast of pain the acid had given her.. those space pirates would pay for that. She sat down for a moment, catching her breath, and analyzing the little creature that had found her.
Samus: Thanks lil guy, I owe ya one
Samus had no time to reflect on the creature however, as a laser ripped through the wall to her left, the creature scurried into a small hole. Samus stood, reading her missile launcher, and turned to the wall.
Samus: Payback time!
She stepped backwords, heading almost to the opposite end of the room, but not before kicking a peice of thin,weak metal over the large duct she had just escaped through, which covered it. The space pirates, all 13 of them, walked into the room, and onto the duct. Samus put her hands in the air
Samus: Alright.. I surrender
Space Pirate 1: Good girl.. I'll make your death quick then.. well.. quickER
Too bad the Space Pirate didn't see the smirk on her face, with a quick move she fired a missile at the weak metal under them, and it gave way, sending all 13 of the space pirates into the pool of acid below.
Samus: Looks like 13 wasn't your lucky number
Samus leapt over the hole and headed out into the escape shaft, hearing the screams of space pirates behind her. She leapt up the platforms up the remaining way of the shaft and headed up into upper crateria.
**End chapter 5**
