Chapter 4

"METROID!! Is that what you said?" Dan demanded.

"Yea" Samus replied, " The creature they cut from the rock was a Metroid, believe it or not. So obviously if someone knew of the Metroid before the meteorite then I guessed it had to have been during the Roswel crash, in New Mexico. Someone must have seen it and decided to through me and this Metroid together into one game."

"It makes sense, " Erika appeared to be listening, " but we can't prove anything until we get inside. Samus AG-1 is already in position and waiting for you."

"Right then," She continued , "Look for an elevator. Its got to be an under ground facility. Move."

They all ran for the bunker that had the soldiers walking around. It was a large tan building that looked like it had just recently been opened. Watching the ground as he ran Dan noticed that the dust patterns on the ground looked very odd. He couldn't really tell cause the choppers they came in on muffled much of the patterns that could answer questions.

Dan stepped into a door to the bunker and ran into Erika's back. "What's the de-" Inside the bunker, which was more of a hanger then a bunker there was a very oddly shaped space craft. It was held in the air by cables because it had no real landing gear. Dan didn't get much of a look at it because he had been rammed in the back by Alexia, who suddenly gave the same reaction that Dan had given when he walked in. Samus didn't hesitate at all, she was already giving out orders to secure the area. Dan and Alexia together ran up to her for their orders.

"Okay!" Samus started." Everyone here and accounted for? Good, AG-1 you'll go down first. AG-2 will fallow when you give the all clear. AG-3 and 4 you wait here for my orders. Any objections?" Not a single hand went up or words said, " Good. Then lets move!"

With the yell there was a scramble, apparently they had found the elevator. AG-1 and 2 vanished around a corner as Dan stood his ground. There really wasn't much for him to do. So he made his way over to the elevator. When he say it the doors were closing, Samus was turning around to give more orders to her troops, which included Adam and Erika. About five minutes passed and then the doors to the elevator opened. It had one soldier in it, and to what Dan could see only one group could fit in the elevator at a time. The all clear had been given and Samus turned to Dan.

"Dan, when the elevator gets back up here your group gets in. Is that understood?" She ordered," AG-4 will stay up here just in case. Okay? See ya in a few."

She jumped into the elevator with everyone else and let the doors shut. Dan ran over and gave the orders to everyone else who was still on the surface. He looked around and didn't see Alexia's purple and pink suit anywhere and began to panic. He looked back at the elevator but only saw the refection of his yellow and green suit in the doors of the elevator. He thought that the yellow and green was a bad combination of colors but now was a bad time to complain. He spotted some office doors that he hadn't seen before and decided to check those out. Inside he saw a desk with a very basic computer, on the wall hung metals and awards of some forgotten general. There were a couple of pictures but none had any significance to the task at hand. Behind the desk sat Alexia buried into the screen of the computer. Her helmet was off and she was typing vigorously at the keypad.

"Where the hell have you been?" where the only words that came out of Dan.

"Dan the elevator is on its way back up, get everyone ready." She announced, not even blinking as she continued to explore the files on the computer. Noticing that Dan hadn't left she called him over to take a look," Well if your not going to go tell them than I'd may as well tell you what I found. For starters the man who owned this computer was a very sick man. Who in their right mind would put a porno add as their wall paper."

"Everyone that was here was probably very isolated so I'm sure they got very bored. But more importantly what did you find?"

"Oh yeah, right. Well I was able to down load a map of the whole facility. I then uploaded it to the memory banks of my helmet. The only problem is there is a door on the map, and behind the door there are no halls or anything. I'm guessing that that is where they are keeping the space craft from New Mexico."

"Wait so then what's the ship in the hangar?" Dan wondered.

"I'm guessing that's the reason why we haven't found any survivors. Something was in that ship that either killed everyone or forced everyone to hall ass into the underground base. What it is I have no idea."

The door Dan had come through opened again and a soldier poked his head in, "Dan the elevator is back up here."

"okay get in, but wait for us. We'll be there in a sec." Dan ordered.

With a simple 'yes sir' the man disappeared through the door. Not to long after, Alexia had her helmet on and was ready to go. Soon Dan and Alexia where both in the elevator with the rest of the AG-3. (note: AG stands for 'Area Group') The elevator ride itself was about a minute long. Which was one minute too long for Dan. The doors opened and they all poured out of the elevator into a room that was a little smaller than hangar they where just in.

They came out onto a elevated platform with stairs right in front of them. The stairs lead down into a room that was crawling with computers and wreaked of death. On the far wall was a huge monitor screen with some smaller television around the outside. The only activity was that of the soldiers that were securing the room for anything that might so much as move. Dan came down the steps expecting something to come flying out at him. As he descended he saw two other hallways that according to the map that Alexia found where the labs and experimenting areas and the living areas and false environments. He spotted Samus and went over to get his orders. Suddenly the huge screen sprang to life as a marine on a computer yelled out, "I've got it!"

Samus walked over to him, "Got what?"

"I got power back up. For some reason power to the whole base had been turned off. Even the underground life support was turned off." The man studied the screen and grimaced at something on the screen. " According to the records the life support was the first thing they deactivated. Strange."

" Okay, see if you can access their maps." Samus ordered.

"Don't bother I've got'em" Alexia announced, "I've already got it uploaded to my memory banks. Why don't you try looking for what it is they were doing here while I find a computer to print the maps out for ya's"

"Okay, that works." The man agreed, as Alexia sat at a computer and pulled a cable out of the desk.

Soon Alexia had the maps printed and handed out when Samus decided they were going to move on. They couldn't access the information they needed from that computer. Even when Alexia and the marine put their heads together. Hacking into the system inside the facility was difficult enough, Alexia didn't want to know what it would have been like from outside the base.

Again they split into two groups: AG-2 went into the labs and AG-3 went into the living quarters. AG-1 got to stay in the computer room and try and get more information. As Dan made his way into the hall with the living quarters he walked past a door that looked similar to the vault door at Fort Mead. It was the door that the maps didn't say what was behind it. That was not his to worry about at the moment though.

He proceeded up a small stair case that lead to another hallway. On his right there was another staircase, down the hall was a series of doors.

"Don't go upstairs yet." Dan announced, "Save that for when we got everybody else."

"I wonder what they're up to?" Alexia thought out loud.

"Samus, I think you might want to come in here." The corporal asked.

"What is it?" Samus asked stepping into the room. As she did so she saw a series of body tanks, the thing was they were all frozen to the point no one could see into them. "Try and deactivate one. just so we can see what's in it. Get on it."

He ran over to a large computer on the other side of the room. The room itself was more like a hall than anything. It was a blue color because the cold air was starting to take hold in the rest of the room. It was like an elevator shaft that had been laid down to hold the testing areas.

"Samus it'll take me a minute to do that," The corporal announced, " the computer has been frozen. The only thing is this looks like its been frozen on purpose."

"Say what?" Samus asked.

"Its looks like someone went to the computer console with a fire extinguisher. Freezing any chance of getting the system up and running easily."

" Right do what you gotta do, just get it done." She ordered as she watched Erika wipe the ice off the glass in hopes of getting a better look. Not that it helped. " You, " she addressed a soldier who had just walked in. " run back and see if you can get some heaters on in here."

About ten minutes later he came running back into the room, " Samus, the heat is up and running again."

About ten more minutes later there was an announcement that he was deactivating the freezing process on the tanks. There was a hissing noise and areas of the tank started to glow a red/orange color. Not to long after they saw movement from inside the tubes. Everyone stood around one tube. Samus stayed on the outside of the group. Wait a minute, Samus thought to herself, Someone is missing..

"Adam, where's Adam?" She asked. Everyone looked around no one knew where he went. Suddenly Adam stepped out from behind a tube that he was looking at by himself. "Geez, Adam, don't do that."

"Yes mother." He said. Deep within his mask where no one could see due to his visor, he grinned a grin that only villains would make. " But it shouldn't be me your worried about. Take a look."

Whirling around to see a huge Metroid slam itself into the glass. Suddenly another appeared next to it, trying just as hard to shatter the glass in a failed attempt. Looking down the row of tubes, they all sprung to life as Metroid after Metroid tried with all their might to shatter the glass all of which failed.

Adam looked down at the one that starred up at him, " Cute aren't they."