METROID: What if?

Chapter 1

Coll sat starring at his monitor with the list of names on it. He looked over each name and where the kid lived. He was very taken into his work as Arkling also told him. He looked over at the plans for the new "Power Suit."

"Power suit, ha! Looks more like a space suit to me." He said to himself.

"It has the abilities to do that ya know?" A voice came from behind.

The lights flickered on as Coll rotated in his chair. He knew it would be Arkling there too, that's why he didn't protest to the lights coming on.

"I told you, your gonna be blind soon sitting in the dark like that." Arkling continued.

"What are you my mother? You got those requests or what?" Coll barked at him as he rubbed his eyes.

"As a matter of fact I do. The only thing is now have you decided which kids your going to rip from society?" Arkling asked with same smile he always got when he knew he finished something and Coll had just barely started.

"Well as a matter of fact I have chosen them all." When in reality he had only gotten the two when he needed three. He glansed at the monitor again and randomly chose the first name he saw. "I was just putting in the last one as you walked in and interrupted me." He clicked on the name with the mouse then pressed enter. All the little confirmation screens came up and he affirmed them all. He then printed a list of the names and where they lived. He looked at the name he had chosen before doing so. Dan Zeary.



Dan hated chemistry class just as much as everyone else in the room, or in the school for that matter. At least it was the last subject of the day. He looked around the small, bland colored room to see there was only one other kid who had a test. He stood up and handed his in. The teacher didn't even look up from her computer, she just stuck her hand out for him to put the paper in.

He sat down just as the bell rung, ending the school day. "Why didn't it ring while I was standing?" Dan complained. He had had gym, also known as 'Physical Education', and the new teacher they got this year had a fairly fun game played, so the kids used a descent amount of energy.

Dan grabbed his bag and stood up. He made sure he didn't cream anyone trying to get his bag on his back. It hasn't very heavy but hitting someone in the face would give him a problem later. He proceeded to the door along with everybody else. He had to step back a bit to let a girl through the door, a girl he had previously had a crush on, but never took any steps to asking her out.

"Hey Jill, how's things going." Was all he could get out.

"Nothing much" was all she replied, which was more than he expected.

"So , uhhhh, you gonna be on the bus today?" He wasn't very good at conversation, especially when it came to women.

"Yeah" again, more then Dan expected. He would have figured 'no.' She never was on the bus, he didn't know why, but he didn't ask because it was none of his business.

" Cool it's always more fun when your on." Mentally Dan kicked himself "Listen to me, I sound like a car commercial. Well I'll see ya on the bus then." She gave the same smile he figured she'd give, said something, and walked down the side of the hall he wasn't going. His locker was right across the hall but he wished it was closer to hers. He just shrugged and bent down to his locker. He figured if he was closer she'd probably get sick of seeing him all the time. So he accepted the fact, pulled his jacket out and got bashed in the head by the girl in the locker above him.

"Oh my god I'm so sorry are you all right!!?" Dan couldn't figure out how she had managed to get it all in one sentence and breathe.

"its okay, I've had worse. Besides I'm probably gonna get worse as life goes on." he replied even though she only paid attention to his first sentence.

Rubbing his head a bit he went down the stair case that was right by his locker. At the bottom of the staircase was the doors to his freedom for the weekend, or so he thought. He pushed open the doors and continued down the few steps that lead him to the side walk. He could see his bus and he was glad that he could. It was a cold day, and he didn't want to walk very far just to get on a bus.

He had only taken three steps when a man dressed like a truck driver stepped in front of him. Dan made an attempt to go around him, but he stepped in his way again. Dan realized the man did it on purpose, who ever he was he was trying to stop Dan from getting to his bus.

"Dan Zeary?" The man asked in a very deep voice.

" What?" Dan replied, wondering how the man knew his name.

"Come with me and I'll explain everything" The man continued.

"And if I don't?"

He looked down at Dan, who was a good 6 feet tall himself, "You have no choice."



Chapter 2

Dan felt the car stop, but didn't bother to move until he heard the ignition get turned off. Even then he simply sat up and looked around. He remembered everything, from when he got in the car to when they stopped to empty their kidney's. There was another man in the car Dan had gotten into. When they had stopped They introduced themselves as Blaine and the driver was Arkling. They said they were with the government, but that's all they had told him.

"Get out. We're here." Arkling ordered.

"Fine but do you mind telling me where here is?" Dan wondered as he got out.

Blaine opened the other door, reached in to grab Dan's bag and said, "Fort Mead Maryland. You should know this place."

That he did, his older brother had come here for training to be a photographer's mate on board the U.S.S. Kittyhawk out of Japan, where he was now. Fort Mead was a military training base for both the U.S. NAVY and the army. Dan's brother was in the Navy so he didn't quite get top notch quarters to live in. Dan knew the base was big but these guys seemed more covert operations then Navy or Army.

"Wait hold up!" Dan yelled.

" Shut up! People are sleeping." Blaine barked. "your questions will be answered shortly. In the mean time shut your mouth and follow us. Understood?"

"yeah.I guess." Dan mumbled as he caught up to them.

They didn't even go into any of the buildings, they walked over and stood between two trees. Dan looked at them and figured that they where standing on an elevator or something. He couldn't see much but some where he heard either Blaine or Arkling pressing buttons. Suddenly two large straps shot up from under the car, wrapped around it and almost pressurized to the hood and trunk. Dan heard a hiss, then the ground under the car began to move. It was capsizing and taking the car with it. Then from behind them a block had came up to there level. When it was done moving a door opened to reveal a stair case.

Blaine and Arkling started walking down the stair case not even caring if Dan was following them or not. But they knew Dan would follow, and as they predicted he did. Though Dan himself was beginning to wonder if he wanted to know what was going on.

When they got down there Dan heard a strange buzzing noise. Looking at each corner Dan saw that there where cameras in all four corners of the corridor they had just walked into. At the end of the corridor was a door that looked much like a vault door then anything.

"Aside from Area 51, this is the hardest place to get on the planet earth." Arkling said, not even looking down at Dan. As they moved down the corridor the camera seemed to follow them as they moved. They reached the door and Arkling flipped up a switch to reveal a retina scanner in the middle of the vault door. There was a beep then there was a series of bangs that sounded like the door unlocking its huge metal locks from the other side. The door opened slowly to reveal another hallway, this one too with a camera in each corner of the room. At the end of this hall there was another door, only this door looked more like an elevator door. Arkling placed his hand on a blue panel that was next to the door when he arrived at it. A light seemed to scan his hand, then what looked like an mechanical eye ball shot out of the wall. It soon angled itself to scan the back of Arkling's hand. As the scanning was being done Dan looked down the hall way to notice that the "vault door" was still open. Blaine saw Dan's puzzlement and explained that it remained open until they were out of the room. That way no one can see the locking mechanism on the back of the door. Made little sense to Dan but he didn't really care. He had gotten the notion that he wasn't going to be leaving for quite some time. Still waiting Dan decided to make faces at the camera. The camera turned down the hall way and fired a few machine gun rounds out the door. What Dan thought to be ha helpless monition detector on the bottom of the camera turned out to be a machine gun. A sentry camera that was controlled manually. Dan decided that he was done fooling around, looked back at the door to see Blaine and Arkling now standing in the elevator.

"sorry" Dan apologized.

"No need. Just get in here." Arkling demanded, and from what just happened Dan wasn't about to argue.

They seemed to go down what felt to Dan like 30 stories, but was only 10 or 20. When they got to the bottom they went through the whole thing again, only without the face making. The rooms appeared to be the same, be it didn't make any difference to Dan, he was worrying about what was going to happen next. When the final door opened they stepped into a room that no bigger than the cargo hold a cargo ship. They were standing on a balcony looking over a room that was buzzing with activity. Computer monitors where glowing as people scurried by on their way to their next activity, whatever it would be.

"Welcome, you must be Dan Zeary?" An annoying voice came from down the balcony some ways. Dan saw a general dressed in what looked like his finest metals and cloths. He had very broad shoulders and a crew cut that looked like he had done it himself. Behind him stood two other kids, both girls, and the generals some army of lawyers and captains. The girls stood at right and left and looked not to far off in age.

The girl on his right stood starring at Dan from underneath her bangs, which where long and a very dark brown. She was wearing a T-shirt that said "independent" across the front, and a simple pair of sweat pants.

The girl on his left seemed very agitated, she couldn't seem to sit still. She was a dirty blonde and was all to eager to learn Dan's name. She wore a light blue, elbow long shirt that had the word princess written across the front in glittery letters. Then of course she wore the tight jeans and sandals. As Dan looked her over he noticed that she wore socks under her sandals.

The general reached out and took Dan's hand, whether Dan wanted him to or not didn't matter. He had such a strong firm grip on Dan's hand that it soon started to hurt.

" nice to meet you son my name is General Coll. But since we're going to be good friends in no time flat, you can call me Coll" He exclaimed.

" Yeah that's nice." Dan muttered as he waved his hand around trying to get feeling in it again, " Look can you please tell me what's going on here?"

"Yeah, ya told us that once the third kid got here you tell us what's goin' on!" the Brunet barked.

Coll turned to Arkling, "Make a note that we'll have to work on their patience level." He tired to hide it but all three of them could hear it. " Okay, okay, show them to the conference room. Suddenly without warning they through a cloth bag over the three kids heads.

Dan could feel them leading him around turns and around people, but he didn't bother to try and remember his way. Not to long later they threw them into a chair next to one another and removed the masks. The room looked like an auditorium if anything. It had carpet that was very wore and now lumpy, making the chairs a little unbalanced. There was a stage that they were sitting in front of that General Coll and company now stood on. There were guards at the only two doors in the room but everyone was more focused on Coll at the moment.

"As you three may have guessed by now, you are going to take part in a government experiment. Well we're partially with the government. We've brought you here to make you into strong, agile, flexible and any other adjective you like killing machines."

" Wait! Stop, Rewind, Play. Run that by me again" The blond girl shouted springing to her feet.

"we are going to make you super warriors how does that sound?" Coll's sarcasm was none too reassuring. " Now may I finish?" She sat down glaring at him, " now, each of you are going to be issued a special suit. My colleagues have come to call it a 'Power Suit.' This suit is specially built for your sizes and is also built to grow as you do if necessary. It has its own gun attached so you don't have much to worry about in terms of combat."

Dan thought for a moment and realized this sounded a lot like something out of a video game he had once played. "Wait a minute. This 'power suit' did you get the idea from a video game?"

Coll had a look of surprise on his face. He looked behind him to a women in a white lab coat who walked over to the podium Coll stood at. " As a matter of fact the game came from our idea."

She stepped back, as out from behind the curtain the main character from the game Metroid showed herself.

"So it appears you kids have played the video game Metroid," A female voice came from inside the suit. She reached up and removed her helmet which gave a hissing sound as it came off, announcing that the suit is pressurized, " Nice to meet you three. My name is Samus Aran."