The Plight of Samus Aran
A Fanfic by: Matthew Sharonlover Sharpe
This fanfic is meant to show what happened after the event of Super Metroid. All characters and anything related to Nintendo or Gumpei Yoko's work is done with the highest respect to their most beautiful creation, Metroid. In other words, please don't sue me :). Enjoy
Chapter 1 Introduction
Samus Aran had just barely escaped form the planet Zebes where she had not even ten minutes ago destroyed the Mother Brain, hopefully for the last time at that. She was soon on her way back to the Galactic Federation Police Headquarters to report her procedure as well as doing the usual paperwork required. Of all things Samus hated filling out the paperwork. As she flew through the dead of space she couldn't help but think how the Metroid hatchling had helped to save her life by sacrificing its own. Her respect and admiration for the Metroid race had blossomed after she had witnessed such a heroic act and she could think of no means in which she could return her thanks. Looking back on her recent adventure she knew that without the help of some of the native Zebesian creatures on the planet, she would not be alive this very minute. She felt saddened by the loss of all the innocent creatures and restless souls that would forever plague the spot where the planet Zebes had once orbited. Her Metroid hatchling was presumably the last of its race. How science had come to destroy, what she believed, to be such an admirable creature after all. She thought vainly of the way that she herself had to slaughter so many innocent creatures, only because they were defending there home against a being that was once one of there own and who had before infiltrated there beloved homes only to leave them in shambles.
~Does the human race have no consideration for life?~ Samus questioned herself. Samus thought more bitterly of the Mother Brain and her insidious band of Space Pirates. Samus felt nothing but hate and frustration toward the Mother Brain, who had plagued her twice now. She looked back on her adventure still, and could not believe the mass slaughter and destruction she herself had to dispense to keep the Mother Brain from mindlessly unleashing a power far greater then its own on the universe.
~Had that Metroid been fully-grown it would have easily taken the Mother Brain out...without question!~ Samus continued thinking to herself. Samus soon reached the Federation Headquarters where she waited impatiently to submit her paperwork.
"Humph, paperwork. Why in the hell should I have to fill out paperwork? What an absurd request. So I killed a few beings. There is no reason for me to explain why because it is pretty clear that they were all killed in self-defense. How stupid", Samus said. She hated paperwork; everything had to be done with paperwork: mission approvals, binding contracts and even small compensations for repairs. She wanted to tell them to shove their paperwork but she had to make a living to.
The receptionist soon called Samus up and said, "Well Mrs. Aran, I'm not surprised to see you here so soon again. As much destruction and chaos as you cause."
Samus retorted angrily, "Well I would not be here if your idiotic government didn't make me fill out this damn paperwork saying I killed a few Space Pirates now WOULD I?"
"I suppose not, you can sit down until they call you, MRS. ARAN", the receptionist replied with a hint of annoyance in her voice. Samus didn't go sit down though; instead she headed for the door that led to the locker room. She wanted to change out of her armor and put something a little more comfortable on. She didn't know exactly what she was going to wear seeing she had left her changing of clothes back on her gunship.
"Hey! You can't go back there yet, they haven't called you!" Yelled the receptionist.
Samus stopped in her tracks and turned toward the receptionist and replied, "LOOK LADY", she walked back to the desk and smashed her armored fist through the top of the glass to make her point, "How would you feel running around a hot planet all day in an armored cooking oven? HUH? Wait you wouldn't know because you're nothing more then a brown nosing, hair twirling pencil pusher RIGHT? Now if you don't mind, I am going to go and change into something I don't have to WELD SHUT every time I put it on. OK!?" The receptionist was taken aback by the bounty hunters violent outburst and quickly began distracting herself by cleaning up the mess she had made.
Samus headed back to the locker room where she could change. In the dressing room, Samus figured it had taken her around a full day to complete her mission. This was a great success, seeing that her first assault on the pirate's Zebesian fortress had taken her a good week. She hoped this would be the last time she would have to deal with the Mother Brain. She knew nothing could have survived the blast that had obliterated Zebes, but then again she had been wrong once before. Samus looked back on that close battle with the Mother Brain that had almost ended her life.
She remembered going down a circular shaft where cannons fired random shots in her direction. When she reached the bottom there was a door. It was a pink door that indicated that she needed about five missiles to open it. Samus had learned the difference in the colored doors from her childhood. Growing up on Zebes, Samus remembered being restricted from many areas of the Chozo's labyrinth of tunnels. She was told that many powerful secrets were locked away, secrets Samus had grown up to finally reveal.
Samus walked out of the dressing room wearing some high cut Jean shorts and a small black T-shirt with GFP on the front that she had found sitting just inside an open locker. She thought it was a little tight, but hey...men like that right? She walked down the hallway and let her hair down. The dirty blonde hair seemed to swirl before it settled into a bouncing routine that coincided with her walk.
Samus continued through the pink door only to be met by a room filled with glass walls. The floor bubbled over in places where acid was eating through it. The room was sweltering and Samus was sweating profusely within her power suit. Continuing through the room, cannons continued to shoot at her. All the while she tried to keep her footing as she advanced from one ledge to the next trying to keep out of the unforgiving acid that bubble and boiled just inches below her. She knew if she fell into it that it would only be a matter of minutes before the suits energy would be depleted leaving her helpless and vulnerable to the melting liquid. After blowing apart the glass walls she came upon a sight that she thought she would never see again. It was the Mother Brain, in the flesh, enclosed in her protective glass casing. It was like deja vu for Samus. Just two years earlier she had beheld the same ugly and hateful creature. She had easily disposed of her before and could not believe that this monstrosity was still alive. The Mother Brain attacked from inside her glass shield. Samus returned fire, leading with an onslaught of missiles to destroy the glass casing which would then leave the brain vulnerable against Samus' attacks. The case was now destroyed and super missiles quickly began launching from Samus' arm cannon tearing the tissue from around the Mother Brain. There was soon an explosion and the room was sealed off from everything else. The broken glass, wires and tubes were all melted in the acid that began draining from the room. Samus sat staring at the dead brain on the floor. It was just her and this dead brain but something was wrong. Where was the self-destruct that the Mother Brain was sure to have in case of emergencies?
Samus reached the front desk. The receptionist was still busing herself, cleaning up the glass and sorting papers back into order. "The captain will see you now Mrs. Aran. WAIT! Hey! Those are my clothes you're wearing!"
"Is that so? Thanks, they fit great. I figured you wouldn't need them, besides...I look a lot sexier in them then you sure the hell would, "Samus replied winking at the open mouthed receptionist before walking away with a huge satisfied grin on her face. She headed back down the hallway toward the elevator lobby and entered the first available cart. She then continued up toward the captain's floor and the elevator started with an annoying grinding screech as it began its ascension.
So there she was stuck in the room with a dead Mother Brain. Now what? There was a terrible screeching sound and Samus looked back at the brain as it started to rise. Samus was dumbfounded by this grotesque creature, which had now established mechanical legs and arms, as well as a body to support itself. Samus stood for a moment in disbelief at what she was up against. Gripped with fear, Samus unleashed a hoard of super missiles, missiles and power bombs. She had completely exhausted her armament of weaponry and still the Mother Brain stood tall. The only thing Samus had left was her plasma ice beam, which she used to the best of her ability. She repeatedly charged it and sent it flying at the Mother Brain while dodging bombs, fireballs, and lasers. The plasma ice beam was apparently causing a greater deal of damage then her other weapons had caused and soon the brain began to weaken. Samus stood back to assess her situation while dodging the Mother Brains onslaught. Samus was surprised when the hideous creature backed against the wall and stood almost in a meditation-like stance. The brain began to collect energy and its head began to glow as the power grew. Without warning, the Mother Brain shot the energy at Samus, sending the bounty hunter sliding across the floor before crashing into the wall. Samus was able to rise to a kneel but the power suit and herself had lost a large percentage of energy. The brain again began to collect more energy and it would soon harness enough power to destroy the weakened hunter.
Before the brain could unleash its deadly beam of energy, Samus heard an all too familiar sound. With a horrific cry, the Metroid hatchling tackled through the wall and latched itself onto the Mother Brain, sinking its huge fangs into the brains soft tissue before attempting to drain the energy from the brain. Samus was desperately searching for spare energy to help the Metroid with its attack on the Mother Brain but was unsuccessful with her attempt. The Mother Brain soon fell to the floor in a gray heap, its energy drained from it. The Metroid lifted off of the creature and flew over to Samus where it slowly descended and began transferring the Mother Brain's energy into Samus and the power suit. Unfortunately for the two, the Mother Brain was not yet done for. The brain struggled to seat itself and once it had done so, it began regaining its strength. Eventually the Mother Brain came to and slowly rose again, making its way toward Samus and the Metroid hatchling whom was still transferring its energy. The Mother Brain began attacking the two and still Samus could do nothing. The Metroid would not allow Samus to rise from beneath it, using its own body to shield the bounty hunter from the danger the Mother Brain was dispensing. Samus could tell the Metroid was beginning to weaken as the glowing green slime that covered the Metroid began to change to a dark brown. Finally the Metroid rose off of Samus and began circling back around to attack the Mother Brain again. The walking brain saw the Metroid coming and threw back its head and shot a fire blast at the attacking Metroid. The Metroid screamed in agony as the fire blast shot through its tissue and soon it began falling toward the ground and fell on to the rising bounty hunter. Before the Metroid's body dissipated into ashes, it managed to transfer the last of its own energy by latching onto Samus, breaking through the power suit. The suit instantly came to life, surging with the newfound energy. The power suits circuitry began humming with power and the word "hyper" appeared on Samus' visor. Samus could no longer hold the tears back and with a loud scream the infuriated bounty hunter unleashed a blinding beam of light from the power suits arm cannon. The hyper beam tore through the Mother Brain leaving holes where the beam burned through the body. The Mother Brain stumbled back in shock at the shot. Samus continued attacking the Mother Brain with tears streaming from her eyes, as she became more and more angered. Soon the Mother Brain fell to its knees and dissipated into a pile of ashes under the immense energy of the hyper beam. Samus continued shooting the pile of ashes in pure hatred for this vile creature. Soon a red light began flashing and a computer-generated voice came from a loud speaker, "The self-destruct sequence has been initiated. Please evacuate the premises immediately. Three minutes remaining."
The walls began shaking as small explosions rocked the inner facilities of Tourian and Samus departed down a hallway that opened up behind the Mother Brain's chamber. Samus found herself running through rooms and fighting off the relentless Space Pirates as she tried to find her way out.
The elevator chimed and the doors opened as the elevator came to a halt on the thirty-eighth floor of the GFP. The captain's office was just down the green carpeted hallway. Soon she would be telling the same story over to him. Samus started down the hallway.
Samus had made it to a long vertical shaft she recognized from her earlier infiltration into Crateria. She began climbing up the shaft jumping from one ledge to the next as she made her way up toward the surface. Soon the ledges began falling apart and Samus had to resort to her space jump to allow her to make it to the top. The space jump allowed Samus to continuously jump in midair without have to find a place to land. Once within the familiar caves of Crateria, Samus headed for her ship but was interrupted by the screaming of creatures. She decided to investigate and ran off course toward the sound of the distressed beings. Inside a room, Samus found a Dachoras and three Etecoons desperately trying to dig there way to a tunnel that had been blocked by falling debris. Samus quickly dispense of the creature's obstacle whereupon they graciously began running down the hallway. Samus turned and began her trek back to her ship. At least she could try and save something good from the planet. Back out the door she went and out to her gunship where she quickly made her way out of the planets atmosphere. As she left the planet behind her, Samus could hear a low rumble erupting from behind her. She turned her ship back towards the planet to watch its destruction. Small explosions could be seen on the surface of the planet before a blinding white light temporarily engulfed the dark of space. The sonic blast from the explosion that followed caused the hunter class ship to rock violently throwing Samus to the floor. When Samus pulled herself to the viewport the planet Zebes was no more, just floating chunks of the ancient Chozo planet.
So here she was outside of the captain's office ready to explain the whole thing over again.
A Fanfic by: Matthew Sharonlover Sharpe
This fanfic is meant to show what happened after the event of Super Metroid. All characters and anything related to Nintendo or Gumpei Yoko's work is done with the highest respect to their most beautiful creation, Metroid. In other words, please don't sue me :). Enjoy
Chapter 1 Introduction
Samus Aran had just barely escaped form the planet Zebes where she had not even ten minutes ago destroyed the Mother Brain, hopefully for the last time at that. She was soon on her way back to the Galactic Federation Police Headquarters to report her procedure as well as doing the usual paperwork required. Of all things Samus hated filling out the paperwork. As she flew through the dead of space she couldn't help but think how the Metroid hatchling had helped to save her life by sacrificing its own. Her respect and admiration for the Metroid race had blossomed after she had witnessed such a heroic act and she could think of no means in which she could return her thanks. Looking back on her recent adventure she knew that without the help of some of the native Zebesian creatures on the planet, she would not be alive this very minute. She felt saddened by the loss of all the innocent creatures and restless souls that would forever plague the spot where the planet Zebes had once orbited. Her Metroid hatchling was presumably the last of its race. How science had come to destroy, what she believed, to be such an admirable creature after all. She thought vainly of the way that she herself had to slaughter so many innocent creatures, only because they were defending there home against a being that was once one of there own and who had before infiltrated there beloved homes only to leave them in shambles.
~Does the human race have no consideration for life?~ Samus questioned herself. Samus thought more bitterly of the Mother Brain and her insidious band of Space Pirates. Samus felt nothing but hate and frustration toward the Mother Brain, who had plagued her twice now. She looked back on her adventure still, and could not believe the mass slaughter and destruction she herself had to dispense to keep the Mother Brain from mindlessly unleashing a power far greater then its own on the universe.
~Had that Metroid been fully-grown it would have easily taken the Mother Brain out...without question!~ Samus continued thinking to herself. Samus soon reached the Federation Headquarters where she waited impatiently to submit her paperwork.
"Humph, paperwork. Why in the hell should I have to fill out paperwork? What an absurd request. So I killed a few beings. There is no reason for me to explain why because it is pretty clear that they were all killed in self-defense. How stupid", Samus said. She hated paperwork; everything had to be done with paperwork: mission approvals, binding contracts and even small compensations for repairs. She wanted to tell them to shove their paperwork but she had to make a living to.
The receptionist soon called Samus up and said, "Well Mrs. Aran, I'm not surprised to see you here so soon again. As much destruction and chaos as you cause."
Samus retorted angrily, "Well I would not be here if your idiotic government didn't make me fill out this damn paperwork saying I killed a few Space Pirates now WOULD I?"
"I suppose not, you can sit down until they call you, MRS. ARAN", the receptionist replied with a hint of annoyance in her voice. Samus didn't go sit down though; instead she headed for the door that led to the locker room. She wanted to change out of her armor and put something a little more comfortable on. She didn't know exactly what she was going to wear seeing she had left her changing of clothes back on her gunship.
"Hey! You can't go back there yet, they haven't called you!" Yelled the receptionist.
Samus stopped in her tracks and turned toward the receptionist and replied, "LOOK LADY", she walked back to the desk and smashed her armored fist through the top of the glass to make her point, "How would you feel running around a hot planet all day in an armored cooking oven? HUH? Wait you wouldn't know because you're nothing more then a brown nosing, hair twirling pencil pusher RIGHT? Now if you don't mind, I am going to go and change into something I don't have to WELD SHUT every time I put it on. OK!?" The receptionist was taken aback by the bounty hunters violent outburst and quickly began distracting herself by cleaning up the mess she had made.
Samus headed back to the locker room where she could change. In the dressing room, Samus figured it had taken her around a full day to complete her mission. This was a great success, seeing that her first assault on the pirate's Zebesian fortress had taken her a good week. She hoped this would be the last time she would have to deal with the Mother Brain. She knew nothing could have survived the blast that had obliterated Zebes, but then again she had been wrong once before. Samus looked back on that close battle with the Mother Brain that had almost ended her life.
She remembered going down a circular shaft where cannons fired random shots in her direction. When she reached the bottom there was a door. It was a pink door that indicated that she needed about five missiles to open it. Samus had learned the difference in the colored doors from her childhood. Growing up on Zebes, Samus remembered being restricted from many areas of the Chozo's labyrinth of tunnels. She was told that many powerful secrets were locked away, secrets Samus had grown up to finally reveal.
Samus walked out of the dressing room wearing some high cut Jean shorts and a small black T-shirt with GFP on the front that she had found sitting just inside an open locker. She thought it was a little tight, but hey...men like that right? She walked down the hallway and let her hair down. The dirty blonde hair seemed to swirl before it settled into a bouncing routine that coincided with her walk.
Samus continued through the pink door only to be met by a room filled with glass walls. The floor bubbled over in places where acid was eating through it. The room was sweltering and Samus was sweating profusely within her power suit. Continuing through the room, cannons continued to shoot at her. All the while she tried to keep her footing as she advanced from one ledge to the next trying to keep out of the unforgiving acid that bubble and boiled just inches below her. She knew if she fell into it that it would only be a matter of minutes before the suits energy would be depleted leaving her helpless and vulnerable to the melting liquid. After blowing apart the glass walls she came upon a sight that she thought she would never see again. It was the Mother Brain, in the flesh, enclosed in her protective glass casing. It was like deja vu for Samus. Just two years earlier she had beheld the same ugly and hateful creature. She had easily disposed of her before and could not believe that this monstrosity was still alive. The Mother Brain attacked from inside her glass shield. Samus returned fire, leading with an onslaught of missiles to destroy the glass casing which would then leave the brain vulnerable against Samus' attacks. The case was now destroyed and super missiles quickly began launching from Samus' arm cannon tearing the tissue from around the Mother Brain. There was soon an explosion and the room was sealed off from everything else. The broken glass, wires and tubes were all melted in the acid that began draining from the room. Samus sat staring at the dead brain on the floor. It was just her and this dead brain but something was wrong. Where was the self-destruct that the Mother Brain was sure to have in case of emergencies?
Samus reached the front desk. The receptionist was still busing herself, cleaning up the glass and sorting papers back into order. "The captain will see you now Mrs. Aran. WAIT! Hey! Those are my clothes you're wearing!"
"Is that so? Thanks, they fit great. I figured you wouldn't need them, besides...I look a lot sexier in them then you sure the hell would, "Samus replied winking at the open mouthed receptionist before walking away with a huge satisfied grin on her face. She headed back down the hallway toward the elevator lobby and entered the first available cart. She then continued up toward the captain's floor and the elevator started with an annoying grinding screech as it began its ascension.
So there she was stuck in the room with a dead Mother Brain. Now what? There was a terrible screeching sound and Samus looked back at the brain as it started to rise. Samus was dumbfounded by this grotesque creature, which had now established mechanical legs and arms, as well as a body to support itself. Samus stood for a moment in disbelief at what she was up against. Gripped with fear, Samus unleashed a hoard of super missiles, missiles and power bombs. She had completely exhausted her armament of weaponry and still the Mother Brain stood tall. The only thing Samus had left was her plasma ice beam, which she used to the best of her ability. She repeatedly charged it and sent it flying at the Mother Brain while dodging bombs, fireballs, and lasers. The plasma ice beam was apparently causing a greater deal of damage then her other weapons had caused and soon the brain began to weaken. Samus stood back to assess her situation while dodging the Mother Brains onslaught. Samus was surprised when the hideous creature backed against the wall and stood almost in a meditation-like stance. The brain began to collect energy and its head began to glow as the power grew. Without warning, the Mother Brain shot the energy at Samus, sending the bounty hunter sliding across the floor before crashing into the wall. Samus was able to rise to a kneel but the power suit and herself had lost a large percentage of energy. The brain again began to collect more energy and it would soon harness enough power to destroy the weakened hunter.
Before the brain could unleash its deadly beam of energy, Samus heard an all too familiar sound. With a horrific cry, the Metroid hatchling tackled through the wall and latched itself onto the Mother Brain, sinking its huge fangs into the brains soft tissue before attempting to drain the energy from the brain. Samus was desperately searching for spare energy to help the Metroid with its attack on the Mother Brain but was unsuccessful with her attempt. The Mother Brain soon fell to the floor in a gray heap, its energy drained from it. The Metroid lifted off of the creature and flew over to Samus where it slowly descended and began transferring the Mother Brain's energy into Samus and the power suit. Unfortunately for the two, the Mother Brain was not yet done for. The brain struggled to seat itself and once it had done so, it began regaining its strength. Eventually the Mother Brain came to and slowly rose again, making its way toward Samus and the Metroid hatchling whom was still transferring its energy. The Mother Brain began attacking the two and still Samus could do nothing. The Metroid would not allow Samus to rise from beneath it, using its own body to shield the bounty hunter from the danger the Mother Brain was dispensing. Samus could tell the Metroid was beginning to weaken as the glowing green slime that covered the Metroid began to change to a dark brown. Finally the Metroid rose off of Samus and began circling back around to attack the Mother Brain again. The walking brain saw the Metroid coming and threw back its head and shot a fire blast at the attacking Metroid. The Metroid screamed in agony as the fire blast shot through its tissue and soon it began falling toward the ground and fell on to the rising bounty hunter. Before the Metroid's body dissipated into ashes, it managed to transfer the last of its own energy by latching onto Samus, breaking through the power suit. The suit instantly came to life, surging with the newfound energy. The power suits circuitry began humming with power and the word "hyper" appeared on Samus' visor. Samus could no longer hold the tears back and with a loud scream the infuriated bounty hunter unleashed a blinding beam of light from the power suits arm cannon. The hyper beam tore through the Mother Brain leaving holes where the beam burned through the body. The Mother Brain stumbled back in shock at the shot. Samus continued attacking the Mother Brain with tears streaming from her eyes, as she became more and more angered. Soon the Mother Brain fell to its knees and dissipated into a pile of ashes under the immense energy of the hyper beam. Samus continued shooting the pile of ashes in pure hatred for this vile creature. Soon a red light began flashing and a computer-generated voice came from a loud speaker, "The self-destruct sequence has been initiated. Please evacuate the premises immediately. Three minutes remaining."
The walls began shaking as small explosions rocked the inner facilities of Tourian and Samus departed down a hallway that opened up behind the Mother Brain's chamber. Samus found herself running through rooms and fighting off the relentless Space Pirates as she tried to find her way out.
The elevator chimed and the doors opened as the elevator came to a halt on the thirty-eighth floor of the GFP. The captain's office was just down the green carpeted hallway. Soon she would be telling the same story over to him. Samus started down the hallway.
Samus had made it to a long vertical shaft she recognized from her earlier infiltration into Crateria. She began climbing up the shaft jumping from one ledge to the next as she made her way up toward the surface. Soon the ledges began falling apart and Samus had to resort to her space jump to allow her to make it to the top. The space jump allowed Samus to continuously jump in midair without have to find a place to land. Once within the familiar caves of Crateria, Samus headed for her ship but was interrupted by the screaming of creatures. She decided to investigate and ran off course toward the sound of the distressed beings. Inside a room, Samus found a Dachoras and three Etecoons desperately trying to dig there way to a tunnel that had been blocked by falling debris. Samus quickly dispense of the creature's obstacle whereupon they graciously began running down the hallway. Samus turned and began her trek back to her ship. At least she could try and save something good from the planet. Back out the door she went and out to her gunship where she quickly made her way out of the planets atmosphere. As she left the planet behind her, Samus could hear a low rumble erupting from behind her. She turned her ship back towards the planet to watch its destruction. Small explosions could be seen on the surface of the planet before a blinding white light temporarily engulfed the dark of space. The sonic blast from the explosion that followed caused the hunter class ship to rock violently throwing Samus to the floor. When Samus pulled herself to the viewport the planet Zebes was no more, just floating chunks of the ancient Chozo planet.
So here she was outside of the captain's office ready to explain the whole thing over again.