Chapter 7
What's In A Dream?
Samus scanned the area trying to locate any sign of the promised Metroids. Although her scanners wouldn't pick up anything, she could feel their presence. Thye've gotta be somewhere, I can feel them. Still not picking up any life forms, Samus walked toward the opposite side of the room. The floor was uneven and Samus stumbled a few times in the mist. Samus sensed that she had been here before. She slowly made her way through the thickening red mist. The mist collected on Samus' suit and the water hastily rolled down her visor. She couldn't shake the feeling that not only was she surrounded but she knew what was going to happen next. A vague sense of deja vu enshrouded her. Something started coming into site in front of Samus. Three red orbs slowly appeared from the mist, floating lazily in the air and Samus continued to walk toward them. A greenish light enclsoed the orbs and Samus took a sudden step back as she realized that the object in front of her was a Metroid. The being floated toward Samus, and soon the Metroid came into full view, its pearl white fangs appearing from below the mist. My dream! No, this can't be happening.
Samus could feel the energy pulsating from the deadly creature as it chirped exciteldly when it noticed that it was not alone and that it had found its dinner. There was another chirp from behind Samus, and she turned in surprise, finding herself confronted by three more Metroids. More Metroids started to appear and surround her. Samus could handle one...even two Metroids at a time, but this many was going to pose a problem for her. She only had a few missiles, super missiles and power bombs. The lights came up to reveal the room, which consisted of somewhere around twenty Metroids. Well, I guess if I go out, then I go out fighting! Samus armed her cannon, readying it for the intense battle that was about to pursue. The Metroids continued to surround her, circling her and chirping excitedly.
"You can do nothing.....you will do nothing.......nothing....at all", Sharon's voice echoed through the vast room but not visible anywhere. With those words, the Metroids started their attack. Samus decided that it would be best to start out in defense and try to seperate the group of life sucking beings. Samus quickly rolled into a morph ball and laid a power bomb. The following explosion threw the Metroids across the room. Once back out of her ball, she activated her power bombs again, and she began charging her ice beam. She was going to attempt to tap the energy from her power bombs to use along with her ice beam to project an ice shield. The Metroids started back toward Samus, chirping angrily at there found complication. The combined energy of the weapons created a temporary ice shield that danced around her body. The Metroids closest to her were immediately frozen. Samus switched to her super missiles and with three shots she quickly dispensed of the frozen Metroids. The remaining Metroids backed off in fear for their lives.
"OK! Who's next?" Samus yelled across the room at the huddling group of creatures. Two of the Metroids dispatched just as Samus' ice shield wore off. She wouldn't have time to create another shield and so she fired her ice beam at the two incoming combatants, freezing them in their place. She slaughtered the two with missiles. Samus wouldn't have enough to destroy the rest of the Metroids and as if the Metroids could read her mind, they all flew in at her again. This can't be very good.
Samus reached to her side and grabbed her sword, activating it as it flashed in the light. The Metroids stopped in confusion to try and figure out this new threat. The Metroids chirped amongst themselves as if asking the others who would try her first and appeared to decide to just swarm the vulnerable bounty hunter. Samus raised the sword as the Metroids advanced on her. She brought it down as the first Metroid came into range, slicing the creature in half with ease. The Metroid screamed in pain as it fell into tiny pieces, disappearing into the mist, leaving a green glow on the floor. Samus continued swinging her sword at the swarming Metroids, fending them off to the best of her abilities. They dropped one after the other and soon Samus began to tire; her exhaustion causing her reaction time to drastically drop.
I don't know how much longer I can hold out. Samus looked up to find that vents in the roof of the cavern began pouring out swarms of Metroids. Samus let out a despairing sigh. This is it. Mother Brain has finally got me. Who thought that saving that one little Metroid would be the demise of the great Samus Aran. Samus continued slaughtering the swarm of Metroids till she could do no more. The Metroids began to crowd her and she couldn't get in a full swing to do any damage to the creatures. One latched on, its fangs breaking through her armor. Her visor turned to static as the energy was quickly drained from the suit. Another Metroid managed to latch onto her leg where the armor was much thinner. It broke her skin and she fell to her knee screaming in pain as her life force began to drain from her body. Her heart began pumping frantically as she began to panick. She began to get weaker and weaker, swinging blindly out trying to fend off the relentless Metroids.
There was an explosion across the room and the floor shook slightly beneath her. There were more explosions and Samus could sense that less and less Metroids surrounded her as they all took off toward the explosions. The two latched to her, continued to drain her energy. There were more explosions and then an ice cold chill overcame Samus' power suit. Another chill began to climb her leg and she whimpered in defeat. The Metroids had stopped draining her, and soon she could feel the beings lifting off. Someone popped open the port in the back of the suit and soon the visor came back to life. Admiral Hall stood before her with a rocket launcher and Captain Hunter appeared from behind her with an ice beam cannon.
"Boys, I never thought I would see the day I would be glad to have backup", Samus said kneeling on her knees, trying to catch her breath and get her body to start pumping adrenaline. The Metroids flew in for another attack.
"Sorry, can't talk right now, we're a little busy", Admiral Hall remarked as he launched rockets at the horde of Metroids as Captain Hunter froze them before hand. Samus was regaining her strength, allowing the two men to play Rambo temporarily.
"How many are there?" Hunter asked, yelling over the multiple explosions.
"I don't know...they just keep coming and coming", Samus replied rising to her feet, "but I've got a solution!"
"I'm almost out", Hall yelled, interrupting Samus.
"Save that ice beam Hunter!" She commanded gesturing toward the weapon. Hunter nodded and making a quick switch, began ripping through the slime covered Metroids with a twin chain gun. The bullets sprayed the Metroids, tearing apart their innards while rockets flew overhead, splattering their geletin bodies across the floor. "Alright! This is what I need from you Hunter! I need you right here by my side. When I tell you, start charging that ice beam to its full capacity. When I tell you to, you're gonna fire it and cross my path of fire. Understand?" Hunter nodded his understanding. "Admiral Hall! I need you to hold off those Metroids until we can get this thing charged. If I'm right, we're gonna have our own little Christmas in July here!"
"I'll do my best!" Admiral Hall hollered shaking his head in confusion as to what Samus meant by Christmas in July.
"START CHARGING!" Samus activated her power bombs and began charging her ice beam to its full capabilities. The arm cannon quickly iced over, steam rose off of the cannon as the cold met heat. Captain Hunter followed suit and soon both cannons were icing over. Admiral Hall fired round after round of rockets toward the seemingly endless population of Metroids. Samus raised her free hand ready to signal. She tapped the energy from the power bombs and released the field of energy. She dropped her hand and the two fired there weapons. The ice flew from the cannons, intercepting each other and the power bomb energy at the same time. A blinding blue light flashed as the energy transformed into an expanding ice field. The storm of ice froze everything in its path, expanding well beyond the room. Soon everything was frozen solid and the Metroids hung in their icy prisons in midair. Stalactites formed from the ceiling and magma blasted from the walls as it froze into solid rock. With the exception of the crackling and popping from the ice, an eerie silence fell over the asteroid, which not a minute ago had been alive with gunfire, explosions, and the screaming of dying Metroids.
"What now? We don't have enough ammo left to destroy them all", Hall announced checking his remaining munitions.
"Our only option will be to", Samus began before she was interrupted.
"NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!" Sharon screamed, her lighted figure appearing staticy from across the room.
"Who is she?" Captain Hunter asked.
Samus ignored the captain's question and walked over toward Sharon. "I can't do what? I can't spoil your fun? I can't flush your plans down the toilet again? Tell, me what can't I do. I can do whatever the hell I want. You know why? Because I have you right where I want you." Samus removed her helmet and set it on the icy ground, a large smile spreading across her face as she realized what Sharon had meant. "She's trapped. Her circuitry is frozen and she has no way to runaway like before."
"What are you talking about Samus?"
"Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you, Sharon Apple."
"Who?" The two of them asked in unison.
"You might know her better as Mother Brain." Hunter and Hall let out gasps. They had always heard of the mastermind behind the Metroid schemes but they never dreamt to be facing her in real life. The terrorfying stories of her past exploits brought fear into there eyes. Samus gave a little laugh at there bewildered looks. "There is no need to fear boys. The great Mother Brain cannot harm us as far as I can tell. This is nothing more then a hologram", Samus said, demonstrating by shooting a missile through the figure who remained silent and present.
"Let's see what the sicutter actually can do", Samus said changing her weapon. She began charging the weapon and the arm cannon soon glowed blue. A brilliant display of electrical bolts shot from the cannon in various direction. If it did nothing else, it sure did impress Hunter and Hall who watched on in amazement. Samus shot the sicutter at the hologram but once again nothing happened. In fact the shot navigated itself up toward the ceiling where it just sat and glowed. Everyone looked up at the floating ball in confusion as it did nothing but light the room.
Sharon began to laugh, "It seems you are wrong Samus. When I get all thawed out here, I will concentrate my days to hunting you down and destroying you. You will suffer a greater death then your beloved Houston!"
Samus' eyes shot toward Sharon as her nose began flaring and her arms started to shake. Samus remembered that day all too well. The day she was going after the Metroid hatchling and stumbled upon the body of her fellow bounty hunter and lover Houston Armstrong. "Listen you bitch! This is twice now that you have destroyed my life by taking those that I loved and murdered them. I will not let you leave this asteroid, not if I have to search this entire rock inch by inch and pull your wires myself." Sharon could only smirk at the comment.
"Samus! We need to do something, this rock is beginning to thaw!" Hunter said pointing to the thawing Metroids. Water began dripping from the frozen bodies.
"NO! What's happening?" Sharon screamed as the others turned toward her. Samus could feel a growing energy in the room. She looked up at the ball of floating light and scanned it. The results came back quickly across her visor. The ball of light was created by the product of fusion and the surrounding Metroid's energy was speeding up the fusion process. It was a nuclear explosive of some type!
"Uh fellas. I do believe it is time to take our leave. Y'all go ahead." Samus said turning toward the guys.
"Why? What is it?"
"I said go. NOW!" She yelled at them. Hunter knew better then to argue with Samus and grabbed Hall by the shoulder and took off toward the corridor. "Well Sharon, you've been a thorn in my side now for too long. Now its time for you to take your leave....permenantly. You will never again plague my galaxy or have the chance to create an evil threat greater then your own. Goodbye Mother Brain", Samus said as she slowly turned and began for the door.
"I will be back Samus...mark my words...I will be back", Sharon yelled as her lighted figure began to fade as the ball of energy began sucking at the figure. Samus could feel her suit losing energy and Samus turned and ran from the room leaving the Mother Brain screaming after her.
Samus made it back out to the asteroids surface and found that Hunter and Hall had indeed left her without so much as a goodbye. She ran to her ship and started it up. Looking back out of the viewport, Samus could see that it wouldn't be long before the asteroid would though out, releasing the Metroids from their prisons. Samus launched her ship and headed to a safe distance right outside the asteroid field where she turned about to watch the explosive power that was about to be released. Even from Samus' distance, she could make out the glow from the large asteroid. The ball of energy was still rapidly expanding, and soon it engulfed the entire asteroid and began pulling energy from nearby asteroids. Why hasn't it exploded yet. It'll be too late here soon! Samus' eyes shot to a flashing icon on her visor and enlarged it. It was the detonating command for the explosive. Well that might answer a few questions, she thought to herself. "Sharon, Mother Brain, or whoever the hell you are, I'll see you in hell."
Samus detonated the ball of energy. A blinding light lit the darkness of space momentarily followed closly by the sonic boom of a massive explosion. Samus' little ship rocked in its place before settling back to its norm. Samus watched on as the fiery pieces of asteroids melted together into a massive ball of fire burning a bright red. The fire dwindled and the remaining pieces of asteroid began swirling back into a central point. Samus had just created a blackhole. The immense energy that the sicutter had collected and then exploded, simulated the explosion of a star and in turn created a blackhole. Samus could feel her ship being pulled toward the hole and she also noticed moons from a nearby planet pulling toward the massless spot. Samus turned the ship and struggled with the engines, trying to pull against the force of the blackhole. She flipped the boosters on and broke free from the gravity, speeding off toward the GFP headquarters. She sat back in her pilot's seat with the auto pilot engaged, releasing a sigh of relief.
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"Hello Samus. Back so soon are you?" The receptionist asked handing Samus a bundle of papers.
"Paperwork! WHAT? Man this is bull. So I destroyed a planet and created an asteroid field before turning it into a blackhole, all just to destroy the most evil being the universe has ever laid eyes on!"
"Yell at the man upstairs...not me", the receptionist remarked with a smirk on her face, "he'll see you now."
"Thanks a lot", Samus shot back walking briskly to the elevators.
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Admiral Hall, Captain Hunter and the Head of the Galactic Federation Police were all crammed into Hunter's small office. "Welcome back Samus. Now I'm not going to complain to you about your irresponsible and highly destructive behavior carried out in this mission. Instead.....I want you to become a part of the GFP."
Samus looked at him, surprised by the offer, but she worked alone, "I can't accept that sir. I am a bounty hunter for hire. I'm happy right where I am at and I will contine to accept certain contracts with you."
"Well, we are offering you a contract that says we may aquire your serviceswhenever needed. You will still operate as you normally do, keeping to yourself if we can help that. However, we are creating a new department in charge of hunting down the Intergalactics most wanted and we want you to head it. This means that you will have a team and that you will have to work with this team."
"What?"
"Hear me out. Just accept the contract and you will be set for the rest of your life. I can gaurantee it." Samus thought it over quietly in her head before coming to a decision. Well, as long as it pays I guess it can't be too bad of an offer. Not if he's giving me a gaurantee anyway. Besides, I think a little socialization would be good for me. "What the hell. I need a steady income anyway." She took the contract and quickly scanned it for any small print. Satisfied with what she read, she took the pen and signed her name beside the signature of what appeared to be some Sylia Stingray. Wonder who she is? She asked herself shrugging it off because she knew she would soon have a chance to find out.
"Gentlemen, it has been a pleasure doing business with you."
"As it always is with you Mrs. Aran", Captain Hunter responded. The three men got up as Samus did and they all exchanged handshakes. Samus turned and started for the door. She stopped just outside the office and turned back to the three standing men and said,
"See you next mission."
To be continued....
A/N: That's it ladies and gentlemen. I hope you enjoyed "The Plight of Samus Aran". The sequel to this is sorta in between as I'm working on multple stories but keep an eye open for it. The sequel promises to be pack full of action and for those of you who know Sylia Stingray, you know what to expect. It's actually started, it's called "Total Conversion" Check it out if you get a chance and if you haven't yet done so. PLEASE PLEASE, leave me a review. See you next fanfiction ^^
Sharonlover
Samus scanned the area trying to locate any sign of the promised Metroids. Although her scanners wouldn't pick up anything, she could feel their presence. Thye've gotta be somewhere, I can feel them. Still not picking up any life forms, Samus walked toward the opposite side of the room. The floor was uneven and Samus stumbled a few times in the mist. Samus sensed that she had been here before. She slowly made her way through the thickening red mist. The mist collected on Samus' suit and the water hastily rolled down her visor. She couldn't shake the feeling that not only was she surrounded but she knew what was going to happen next. A vague sense of deja vu enshrouded her. Something started coming into site in front of Samus. Three red orbs slowly appeared from the mist, floating lazily in the air and Samus continued to walk toward them. A greenish light enclsoed the orbs and Samus took a sudden step back as she realized that the object in front of her was a Metroid. The being floated toward Samus, and soon the Metroid came into full view, its pearl white fangs appearing from below the mist. My dream! No, this can't be happening.
Samus could feel the energy pulsating from the deadly creature as it chirped exciteldly when it noticed that it was not alone and that it had found its dinner. There was another chirp from behind Samus, and she turned in surprise, finding herself confronted by three more Metroids. More Metroids started to appear and surround her. Samus could handle one...even two Metroids at a time, but this many was going to pose a problem for her. She only had a few missiles, super missiles and power bombs. The lights came up to reveal the room, which consisted of somewhere around twenty Metroids. Well, I guess if I go out, then I go out fighting! Samus armed her cannon, readying it for the intense battle that was about to pursue. The Metroids continued to surround her, circling her and chirping excitedly.
"You can do nothing.....you will do nothing.......nothing....at all", Sharon's voice echoed through the vast room but not visible anywhere. With those words, the Metroids started their attack. Samus decided that it would be best to start out in defense and try to seperate the group of life sucking beings. Samus quickly rolled into a morph ball and laid a power bomb. The following explosion threw the Metroids across the room. Once back out of her ball, she activated her power bombs again, and she began charging her ice beam. She was going to attempt to tap the energy from her power bombs to use along with her ice beam to project an ice shield. The Metroids started back toward Samus, chirping angrily at there found complication. The combined energy of the weapons created a temporary ice shield that danced around her body. The Metroids closest to her were immediately frozen. Samus switched to her super missiles and with three shots she quickly dispensed of the frozen Metroids. The remaining Metroids backed off in fear for their lives.
"OK! Who's next?" Samus yelled across the room at the huddling group of creatures. Two of the Metroids dispatched just as Samus' ice shield wore off. She wouldn't have time to create another shield and so she fired her ice beam at the two incoming combatants, freezing them in their place. She slaughtered the two with missiles. Samus wouldn't have enough to destroy the rest of the Metroids and as if the Metroids could read her mind, they all flew in at her again. This can't be very good.
Samus reached to her side and grabbed her sword, activating it as it flashed in the light. The Metroids stopped in confusion to try and figure out this new threat. The Metroids chirped amongst themselves as if asking the others who would try her first and appeared to decide to just swarm the vulnerable bounty hunter. Samus raised the sword as the Metroids advanced on her. She brought it down as the first Metroid came into range, slicing the creature in half with ease. The Metroid screamed in pain as it fell into tiny pieces, disappearing into the mist, leaving a green glow on the floor. Samus continued swinging her sword at the swarming Metroids, fending them off to the best of her abilities. They dropped one after the other and soon Samus began to tire; her exhaustion causing her reaction time to drastically drop.
I don't know how much longer I can hold out. Samus looked up to find that vents in the roof of the cavern began pouring out swarms of Metroids. Samus let out a despairing sigh. This is it. Mother Brain has finally got me. Who thought that saving that one little Metroid would be the demise of the great Samus Aran. Samus continued slaughtering the swarm of Metroids till she could do no more. The Metroids began to crowd her and she couldn't get in a full swing to do any damage to the creatures. One latched on, its fangs breaking through her armor. Her visor turned to static as the energy was quickly drained from the suit. Another Metroid managed to latch onto her leg where the armor was much thinner. It broke her skin and she fell to her knee screaming in pain as her life force began to drain from her body. Her heart began pumping frantically as she began to panick. She began to get weaker and weaker, swinging blindly out trying to fend off the relentless Metroids.
There was an explosion across the room and the floor shook slightly beneath her. There were more explosions and Samus could sense that less and less Metroids surrounded her as they all took off toward the explosions. The two latched to her, continued to drain her energy. There were more explosions and then an ice cold chill overcame Samus' power suit. Another chill began to climb her leg and she whimpered in defeat. The Metroids had stopped draining her, and soon she could feel the beings lifting off. Someone popped open the port in the back of the suit and soon the visor came back to life. Admiral Hall stood before her with a rocket launcher and Captain Hunter appeared from behind her with an ice beam cannon.
"Boys, I never thought I would see the day I would be glad to have backup", Samus said kneeling on her knees, trying to catch her breath and get her body to start pumping adrenaline. The Metroids flew in for another attack.
"Sorry, can't talk right now, we're a little busy", Admiral Hall remarked as he launched rockets at the horde of Metroids as Captain Hunter froze them before hand. Samus was regaining her strength, allowing the two men to play Rambo temporarily.
"How many are there?" Hunter asked, yelling over the multiple explosions.
"I don't know...they just keep coming and coming", Samus replied rising to her feet, "but I've got a solution!"
"I'm almost out", Hall yelled, interrupting Samus.
"Save that ice beam Hunter!" She commanded gesturing toward the weapon. Hunter nodded and making a quick switch, began ripping through the slime covered Metroids with a twin chain gun. The bullets sprayed the Metroids, tearing apart their innards while rockets flew overhead, splattering their geletin bodies across the floor. "Alright! This is what I need from you Hunter! I need you right here by my side. When I tell you, start charging that ice beam to its full capacity. When I tell you to, you're gonna fire it and cross my path of fire. Understand?" Hunter nodded his understanding. "Admiral Hall! I need you to hold off those Metroids until we can get this thing charged. If I'm right, we're gonna have our own little Christmas in July here!"
"I'll do my best!" Admiral Hall hollered shaking his head in confusion as to what Samus meant by Christmas in July.
"START CHARGING!" Samus activated her power bombs and began charging her ice beam to its full capabilities. The arm cannon quickly iced over, steam rose off of the cannon as the cold met heat. Captain Hunter followed suit and soon both cannons were icing over. Admiral Hall fired round after round of rockets toward the seemingly endless population of Metroids. Samus raised her free hand ready to signal. She tapped the energy from the power bombs and released the field of energy. She dropped her hand and the two fired there weapons. The ice flew from the cannons, intercepting each other and the power bomb energy at the same time. A blinding blue light flashed as the energy transformed into an expanding ice field. The storm of ice froze everything in its path, expanding well beyond the room. Soon everything was frozen solid and the Metroids hung in their icy prisons in midair. Stalactites formed from the ceiling and magma blasted from the walls as it froze into solid rock. With the exception of the crackling and popping from the ice, an eerie silence fell over the asteroid, which not a minute ago had been alive with gunfire, explosions, and the screaming of dying Metroids.
"What now? We don't have enough ammo left to destroy them all", Hall announced checking his remaining munitions.
"Our only option will be to", Samus began before she was interrupted.
"NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!" Sharon screamed, her lighted figure appearing staticy from across the room.
"Who is she?" Captain Hunter asked.
Samus ignored the captain's question and walked over toward Sharon. "I can't do what? I can't spoil your fun? I can't flush your plans down the toilet again? Tell, me what can't I do. I can do whatever the hell I want. You know why? Because I have you right where I want you." Samus removed her helmet and set it on the icy ground, a large smile spreading across her face as she realized what Sharon had meant. "She's trapped. Her circuitry is frozen and she has no way to runaway like before."
"What are you talking about Samus?"
"Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you, Sharon Apple."
"Who?" The two of them asked in unison.
"You might know her better as Mother Brain." Hunter and Hall let out gasps. They had always heard of the mastermind behind the Metroid schemes but they never dreamt to be facing her in real life. The terrorfying stories of her past exploits brought fear into there eyes. Samus gave a little laugh at there bewildered looks. "There is no need to fear boys. The great Mother Brain cannot harm us as far as I can tell. This is nothing more then a hologram", Samus said, demonstrating by shooting a missile through the figure who remained silent and present.
"Let's see what the sicutter actually can do", Samus said changing her weapon. She began charging the weapon and the arm cannon soon glowed blue. A brilliant display of electrical bolts shot from the cannon in various direction. If it did nothing else, it sure did impress Hunter and Hall who watched on in amazement. Samus shot the sicutter at the hologram but once again nothing happened. In fact the shot navigated itself up toward the ceiling where it just sat and glowed. Everyone looked up at the floating ball in confusion as it did nothing but light the room.
Sharon began to laugh, "It seems you are wrong Samus. When I get all thawed out here, I will concentrate my days to hunting you down and destroying you. You will suffer a greater death then your beloved Houston!"
Samus' eyes shot toward Sharon as her nose began flaring and her arms started to shake. Samus remembered that day all too well. The day she was going after the Metroid hatchling and stumbled upon the body of her fellow bounty hunter and lover Houston Armstrong. "Listen you bitch! This is twice now that you have destroyed my life by taking those that I loved and murdered them. I will not let you leave this asteroid, not if I have to search this entire rock inch by inch and pull your wires myself." Sharon could only smirk at the comment.
"Samus! We need to do something, this rock is beginning to thaw!" Hunter said pointing to the thawing Metroids. Water began dripping from the frozen bodies.
"NO! What's happening?" Sharon screamed as the others turned toward her. Samus could feel a growing energy in the room. She looked up at the ball of floating light and scanned it. The results came back quickly across her visor. The ball of light was created by the product of fusion and the surrounding Metroid's energy was speeding up the fusion process. It was a nuclear explosive of some type!
"Uh fellas. I do believe it is time to take our leave. Y'all go ahead." Samus said turning toward the guys.
"Why? What is it?"
"I said go. NOW!" She yelled at them. Hunter knew better then to argue with Samus and grabbed Hall by the shoulder and took off toward the corridor. "Well Sharon, you've been a thorn in my side now for too long. Now its time for you to take your leave....permenantly. You will never again plague my galaxy or have the chance to create an evil threat greater then your own. Goodbye Mother Brain", Samus said as she slowly turned and began for the door.
"I will be back Samus...mark my words...I will be back", Sharon yelled as her lighted figure began to fade as the ball of energy began sucking at the figure. Samus could feel her suit losing energy and Samus turned and ran from the room leaving the Mother Brain screaming after her.
Samus made it back out to the asteroids surface and found that Hunter and Hall had indeed left her without so much as a goodbye. She ran to her ship and started it up. Looking back out of the viewport, Samus could see that it wouldn't be long before the asteroid would though out, releasing the Metroids from their prisons. Samus launched her ship and headed to a safe distance right outside the asteroid field where she turned about to watch the explosive power that was about to be released. Even from Samus' distance, she could make out the glow from the large asteroid. The ball of energy was still rapidly expanding, and soon it engulfed the entire asteroid and began pulling energy from nearby asteroids. Why hasn't it exploded yet. It'll be too late here soon! Samus' eyes shot to a flashing icon on her visor and enlarged it. It was the detonating command for the explosive. Well that might answer a few questions, she thought to herself. "Sharon, Mother Brain, or whoever the hell you are, I'll see you in hell."
Samus detonated the ball of energy. A blinding light lit the darkness of space momentarily followed closly by the sonic boom of a massive explosion. Samus' little ship rocked in its place before settling back to its norm. Samus watched on as the fiery pieces of asteroids melted together into a massive ball of fire burning a bright red. The fire dwindled and the remaining pieces of asteroid began swirling back into a central point. Samus had just created a blackhole. The immense energy that the sicutter had collected and then exploded, simulated the explosion of a star and in turn created a blackhole. Samus could feel her ship being pulled toward the hole and she also noticed moons from a nearby planet pulling toward the massless spot. Samus turned the ship and struggled with the engines, trying to pull against the force of the blackhole. She flipped the boosters on and broke free from the gravity, speeding off toward the GFP headquarters. She sat back in her pilot's seat with the auto pilot engaged, releasing a sigh of relief.
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"Hello Samus. Back so soon are you?" The receptionist asked handing Samus a bundle of papers.
"Paperwork! WHAT? Man this is bull. So I destroyed a planet and created an asteroid field before turning it into a blackhole, all just to destroy the most evil being the universe has ever laid eyes on!"
"Yell at the man upstairs...not me", the receptionist remarked with a smirk on her face, "he'll see you now."
"Thanks a lot", Samus shot back walking briskly to the elevators.
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Admiral Hall, Captain Hunter and the Head of the Galactic Federation Police were all crammed into Hunter's small office. "Welcome back Samus. Now I'm not going to complain to you about your irresponsible and highly destructive behavior carried out in this mission. Instead.....I want you to become a part of the GFP."
Samus looked at him, surprised by the offer, but she worked alone, "I can't accept that sir. I am a bounty hunter for hire. I'm happy right where I am at and I will contine to accept certain contracts with you."
"Well, we are offering you a contract that says we may aquire your serviceswhenever needed. You will still operate as you normally do, keeping to yourself if we can help that. However, we are creating a new department in charge of hunting down the Intergalactics most wanted and we want you to head it. This means that you will have a team and that you will have to work with this team."
"What?"
"Hear me out. Just accept the contract and you will be set for the rest of your life. I can gaurantee it." Samus thought it over quietly in her head before coming to a decision. Well, as long as it pays I guess it can't be too bad of an offer. Not if he's giving me a gaurantee anyway. Besides, I think a little socialization would be good for me. "What the hell. I need a steady income anyway." She took the contract and quickly scanned it for any small print. Satisfied with what she read, she took the pen and signed her name beside the signature of what appeared to be some Sylia Stingray. Wonder who she is? She asked herself shrugging it off because she knew she would soon have a chance to find out.
"Gentlemen, it has been a pleasure doing business with you."
"As it always is with you Mrs. Aran", Captain Hunter responded. The three men got up as Samus did and they all exchanged handshakes. Samus turned and started for the door. She stopped just outside the office and turned back to the three standing men and said,
"See you next mission."
To be continued....
A/N: That's it ladies and gentlemen. I hope you enjoyed "The Plight of Samus Aran". The sequel to this is sorta in between as I'm working on multple stories but keep an eye open for it. The sequel promises to be pack full of action and for those of you who know Sylia Stingray, you know what to expect. It's actually started, it's called "Total Conversion" Check it out if you get a chance and if you haven't yet done so. PLEASE PLEASE, leave me a review. See you next fanfiction ^^
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