Not Exactly Typical
A fan fiction by RebelX
Chapter 3: And then it just got weird.
Author's note: Most of this chapter will be a recap on the metroid games, so you experienced gamers can scroll past that part if you want. Just make sure you read the beginning, which adds to the atmosphere and sets up part of the plot quite nicely, and once you see a big line, everything from that point until the dotted line (- - ) will be a recap on the Metroid games. I'll be as accurate as I can, but I have an unfortunate habit of dressing things up a bit. Hey, that's what writers do though, right? Anyway, when you see the dotted line (- - - ) the official stuff is over and then pure conjecture takes over. That's all, folks!
-Emergency-
Proximity breach detected in sector 27.
Atmospheric security compromised.
Unknown bioforms detected in sectors 26 and 27
Unauthorized vessel has landed in sector 27
INVESTIGATE IMMEDIATELY
"Huh? Another one?" John's brow furrowed as he read the printout.
"Wait.does it say bioforms? As in the plural of bioform?"
"Yup"
"But there was only one a few minutes ago!"
"Must be from the unauthorized vessel"
"I hate to burst your bubble, but these alerts are always in chronological order"
"Uh.well.let's just check the surveillance history" Lucius turned back to the computer and brought up the surveillance program. She promptly located the proximity breach records, then played the clip for that morning. A map of the continent appeared on the screen. Sector 27 flashed, and the camera zoomed in on it. A blinking orange dot appeared near the top, and a label of its velocity appeared next to it. It slowly blipped to the right for an inch or two, then stopped moving. A smaller blue dot appeared on top of it, with a label of "unidentified bioform". It moved to the left at a slow, halting pace. Right at the edge of the sector it began blinking rapidly, and a second label appeared reading "unidentified activity". It stopped suddenly and began moving down. A second dot came out from under it and crossed the line into sector 26.
"What the hell?! Did that thing just reproduce?"
"I think the computer would have recognized that activity. Besides, Giving birth or hatching from eggs takes a lot longer than that.
"It seems to have picked up an abnormal decibel reading when the dot split into two or whatever-"
"Nice terminology"
"Shaddup. Seriously though, do you think that was the scream you heard?"
"Maybe." The dots continued moving, the first going down and the second going to the left.
"Wait.is that thing heading where I think it is?"
"Aw shit.it's heading right for us"
"Then that proximity alert-" The two bounty hunters looked at each other, the effects of this appalling revelation apparent in their expressions.
"Shit!" They cursed in sync before darting to the weapons room to gear up.
"That damn computer really needs to be more specific!" Lucius muttered as she armed a plasma rifle.
"No kidding." John quickly activated his wrist scanner and set it to surveillance mode. Two blinking red dots appeared on either side of two blue ones in the center of the radar.
"What the hell?!" cried Lucius as she dialed up her radar and got the same thing.
"Don't tell me that thing.reproduced again!"
"Alright, so now what do we do?"
"Well according to protocol we inform the federation of the disturbance and sit back and wait until they come check things out"
"Yeah, right, then they can go beg Samus Aran to deal with it since they don't have a clue what to do."
"Heh. You got that right. Seriously though, I'll go 'inform them of the disturbance' while you keep an eye on these things here. We'll meet in the results lab, and hopefully we'll have enough time to look at the analysis of that metal before these things get to us."
"Right, you do that. I'll go spy on the closer one. If I'm not in the result lab in half an hour, make it a nice funeral"
"Can nice be translated as inexpensive?"
"..Shaddup."
Samus Aran. The very name struck fear into the hearts of space pirates and humans alike. The legendary bounty hunter had brought the space pirates to their knees more than once. The fall of the space pirates was entirely Aran's doing, and this is how it happened.
It had all begun with the coming of the space pirates. At first they were simply nameless raiders who attacked hapless trade caravans. The media, not knowing their proper name or even what species they were, branded them "Space pirates", and the name stuck. They presented quite a problem to the federation, for as they hindered trade they hurt the economy. To solve this problem, the federation enlisted bounty hunters to fight them. One of these bounty hunters immediately began to stick out. Samus Aran. No one knew what Samus looked like under that suit, but it was generally assumed that he was a male human (though some suspected him of being a machine). Samus completed tasks that seemed impossible to others, took on jobs that no other bounty hunter would touch with a ten foot pole. He became a legend among bounty hunters, though the public had not yet heard of him. All this business with the space pirates seemed relatively unimportant to the general population, and at the time it was quite trivial. But then something happened that changed all that.
On a wild planet named SR388, Federation scientists suddenly discovered a new life form. The metroid. It was a small creature that resembled a green beach ball with four fangs coming out the bottom and a pulsating red nucleus inside. It made a strange, somewhat strangled sounding screech that went something like: "squee!" Though it did not look too dangerous, it was found to be the one of the most deadly life forms man had ever encountered. It would latch onto its victim with its fangs, and drain the very energy of life out of them. How it did this and what this "life energy" was exactly, no one knew. The scientists couldn't explain it. The creature left its victims no more than motionless figures, and when disturbed this shell of what once was the victim would crumble into a pile of dust. And that was only what the larval form of this thing could do. The scientists, having successfully captured a few of the creatures, were bringing the specimens back to Federation headquarters when something very bad happened. They were attacked by space pirates.
The pirates immediately recognized the potential the metroids had as biological weapons, and promptly seized a nearby planet by the name of Zebes and made a base there where they could study the creatures. The Federation was horrified by the idea of a weapon such as a metroid in the hands of the pirates, and attacks on planet Zebes began immediately. Many troops of both mercenaries and professional soldiers were sent to recover the metroids. None returned. That's when Samus Aran volunteered for the job. He planned to infiltrate the pirate defenses and destroy their base completely, but he would work for a high price. And he would work alone. The general public thought he must surely be insane, the Federation considered him a dead man, and even the other bounty hunters believed that an entire planetary base chock full of metroids and who knows what else was too much for him. He proved them all wrong.
He infiltrated the base, defeated their two top generals (Ridley and Kraid), went on to beat their leader, Mother Brain, then utterly destroyed their facilities with a time bomb. The public was astounded. The bounty hunters were all in awe. The Federation was ecstatic that the problem had finally been dealt with and made a big ceremony out of giving him his money. At that ceremony they all received the biggest shock of all. Samus Aran, for the first time in public, took off his helmet. And he was a she.
This was not the end of Samus' marvelous career, but the beginning, as it turned out. Some of the pirates had fled to a backup base on Talon IV, and she pursued them there and shut them down again. Then, on the request of the federation, she went to the metroid's home world of SR388 and completely eradicated the species so that no one could use them for ill ever again. She hunted down and destroyed each and every one, then killed their queen so that there would be no more. But after she had done that a funny thing happened. She found a single egg that had escaped destruction. It hatched right before her eyes, and the metroid within saw Samus and mistook her for its mother. It followed her like a confused child. She did not kill it. Rather, she took it to a small Federation research colony (named Ceres) where they could study it. She had barely left the colony when she received a distress signal from them. They were under attack. Guess who?
The space pirates were alive, kicking, and stealing the metroid larva. Or at least one space pirate was: Ridley, the right hand dragon of Mother Brain. Samus promptly returned and fought him, but he escaped after setting the colony to self destruct (don't worry, all the scientists were already dead by then anyways). Samus followed him to Zebes only to find that the pirates had rebuilt their base and returned in force. This time they had two additional generals (Phantoon and Draygon) but Samus defeated them all just the same. Then Samus destroyed Mother Brain (this time reducing her to a pile of dust) and blew up the entire planet. It is not quite clear to the public what happened on Zebes, but when Samus came back she told the Federation that the metroid larva was dead.
After that final fall of the space pirates on Zebes, they disappeared from the eye of the public. A few could still be found managing crime rings here and there, but they were rounded up easily enough. Samus Aran continued doing odd jobs for the federation, but these were all dull and boring and also no longer interested the public. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
With the fall of the space pirates, bounty hunters everywhere lost work. Even Samus could barely find jobs. As a thank you to the work they had done during the space pirate crisis, the Federation found a unique way to supply bounty hunters with jobs that would suit them. They made them caretakers of research outposts they no longer had the money to keep completely operational. And you know the story from there.
A/N: HA! Now people who are unfamiliar with the game have no excuse! You must all review! VUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *cough cough* uh.review? *makes puppy dog eyes* pwease?
A fan fiction by RebelX
Chapter 3: And then it just got weird.
Author's note: Most of this chapter will be a recap on the metroid games, so you experienced gamers can scroll past that part if you want. Just make sure you read the beginning, which adds to the atmosphere and sets up part of the plot quite nicely, and once you see a big line, everything from that point until the dotted line (- - ) will be a recap on the Metroid games. I'll be as accurate as I can, but I have an unfortunate habit of dressing things up a bit. Hey, that's what writers do though, right? Anyway, when you see the dotted line (- - - ) the official stuff is over and then pure conjecture takes over. That's all, folks!
-Emergency-
Proximity breach detected in sector 27.
Atmospheric security compromised.
Unknown bioforms detected in sectors 26 and 27
Unauthorized vessel has landed in sector 27
INVESTIGATE IMMEDIATELY
"Huh? Another one?" John's brow furrowed as he read the printout.
"Wait.does it say bioforms? As in the plural of bioform?"
"Yup"
"But there was only one a few minutes ago!"
"Must be from the unauthorized vessel"
"I hate to burst your bubble, but these alerts are always in chronological order"
"Uh.well.let's just check the surveillance history" Lucius turned back to the computer and brought up the surveillance program. She promptly located the proximity breach records, then played the clip for that morning. A map of the continent appeared on the screen. Sector 27 flashed, and the camera zoomed in on it. A blinking orange dot appeared near the top, and a label of its velocity appeared next to it. It slowly blipped to the right for an inch or two, then stopped moving. A smaller blue dot appeared on top of it, with a label of "unidentified bioform". It moved to the left at a slow, halting pace. Right at the edge of the sector it began blinking rapidly, and a second label appeared reading "unidentified activity". It stopped suddenly and began moving down. A second dot came out from under it and crossed the line into sector 26.
"What the hell?! Did that thing just reproduce?"
"I think the computer would have recognized that activity. Besides, Giving birth or hatching from eggs takes a lot longer than that.
"It seems to have picked up an abnormal decibel reading when the dot split into two or whatever-"
"Nice terminology"
"Shaddup. Seriously though, do you think that was the scream you heard?"
"Maybe." The dots continued moving, the first going down and the second going to the left.
"Wait.is that thing heading where I think it is?"
"Aw shit.it's heading right for us"
"Then that proximity alert-" The two bounty hunters looked at each other, the effects of this appalling revelation apparent in their expressions.
"Shit!" They cursed in sync before darting to the weapons room to gear up.
"That damn computer really needs to be more specific!" Lucius muttered as she armed a plasma rifle.
"No kidding." John quickly activated his wrist scanner and set it to surveillance mode. Two blinking red dots appeared on either side of two blue ones in the center of the radar.
"What the hell?!" cried Lucius as she dialed up her radar and got the same thing.
"Don't tell me that thing.reproduced again!"
"Alright, so now what do we do?"
"Well according to protocol we inform the federation of the disturbance and sit back and wait until they come check things out"
"Yeah, right, then they can go beg Samus Aran to deal with it since they don't have a clue what to do."
"Heh. You got that right. Seriously though, I'll go 'inform them of the disturbance' while you keep an eye on these things here. We'll meet in the results lab, and hopefully we'll have enough time to look at the analysis of that metal before these things get to us."
"Right, you do that. I'll go spy on the closer one. If I'm not in the result lab in half an hour, make it a nice funeral"
"Can nice be translated as inexpensive?"
"..Shaddup."
Samus Aran. The very name struck fear into the hearts of space pirates and humans alike. The legendary bounty hunter had brought the space pirates to their knees more than once. The fall of the space pirates was entirely Aran's doing, and this is how it happened.
It had all begun with the coming of the space pirates. At first they were simply nameless raiders who attacked hapless trade caravans. The media, not knowing their proper name or even what species they were, branded them "Space pirates", and the name stuck. They presented quite a problem to the federation, for as they hindered trade they hurt the economy. To solve this problem, the federation enlisted bounty hunters to fight them. One of these bounty hunters immediately began to stick out. Samus Aran. No one knew what Samus looked like under that suit, but it was generally assumed that he was a male human (though some suspected him of being a machine). Samus completed tasks that seemed impossible to others, took on jobs that no other bounty hunter would touch with a ten foot pole. He became a legend among bounty hunters, though the public had not yet heard of him. All this business with the space pirates seemed relatively unimportant to the general population, and at the time it was quite trivial. But then something happened that changed all that.
On a wild planet named SR388, Federation scientists suddenly discovered a new life form. The metroid. It was a small creature that resembled a green beach ball with four fangs coming out the bottom and a pulsating red nucleus inside. It made a strange, somewhat strangled sounding screech that went something like: "squee!" Though it did not look too dangerous, it was found to be the one of the most deadly life forms man had ever encountered. It would latch onto its victim with its fangs, and drain the very energy of life out of them. How it did this and what this "life energy" was exactly, no one knew. The scientists couldn't explain it. The creature left its victims no more than motionless figures, and when disturbed this shell of what once was the victim would crumble into a pile of dust. And that was only what the larval form of this thing could do. The scientists, having successfully captured a few of the creatures, were bringing the specimens back to Federation headquarters when something very bad happened. They were attacked by space pirates.
The pirates immediately recognized the potential the metroids had as biological weapons, and promptly seized a nearby planet by the name of Zebes and made a base there where they could study the creatures. The Federation was horrified by the idea of a weapon such as a metroid in the hands of the pirates, and attacks on planet Zebes began immediately. Many troops of both mercenaries and professional soldiers were sent to recover the metroids. None returned. That's when Samus Aran volunteered for the job. He planned to infiltrate the pirate defenses and destroy their base completely, but he would work for a high price. And he would work alone. The general public thought he must surely be insane, the Federation considered him a dead man, and even the other bounty hunters believed that an entire planetary base chock full of metroids and who knows what else was too much for him. He proved them all wrong.
He infiltrated the base, defeated their two top generals (Ridley and Kraid), went on to beat their leader, Mother Brain, then utterly destroyed their facilities with a time bomb. The public was astounded. The bounty hunters were all in awe. The Federation was ecstatic that the problem had finally been dealt with and made a big ceremony out of giving him his money. At that ceremony they all received the biggest shock of all. Samus Aran, for the first time in public, took off his helmet. And he was a she.
This was not the end of Samus' marvelous career, but the beginning, as it turned out. Some of the pirates had fled to a backup base on Talon IV, and she pursued them there and shut them down again. Then, on the request of the federation, she went to the metroid's home world of SR388 and completely eradicated the species so that no one could use them for ill ever again. She hunted down and destroyed each and every one, then killed their queen so that there would be no more. But after she had done that a funny thing happened. She found a single egg that had escaped destruction. It hatched right before her eyes, and the metroid within saw Samus and mistook her for its mother. It followed her like a confused child. She did not kill it. Rather, she took it to a small Federation research colony (named Ceres) where they could study it. She had barely left the colony when she received a distress signal from them. They were under attack. Guess who?
The space pirates were alive, kicking, and stealing the metroid larva. Or at least one space pirate was: Ridley, the right hand dragon of Mother Brain. Samus promptly returned and fought him, but he escaped after setting the colony to self destruct (don't worry, all the scientists were already dead by then anyways). Samus followed him to Zebes only to find that the pirates had rebuilt their base and returned in force. This time they had two additional generals (Phantoon and Draygon) but Samus defeated them all just the same. Then Samus destroyed Mother Brain (this time reducing her to a pile of dust) and blew up the entire planet. It is not quite clear to the public what happened on Zebes, but when Samus came back she told the Federation that the metroid larva was dead.
After that final fall of the space pirates on Zebes, they disappeared from the eye of the public. A few could still be found managing crime rings here and there, but they were rounded up easily enough. Samus Aran continued doing odd jobs for the federation, but these were all dull and boring and also no longer interested the public. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
With the fall of the space pirates, bounty hunters everywhere lost work. Even Samus could barely find jobs. As a thank you to the work they had done during the space pirate crisis, the Federation found a unique way to supply bounty hunters with jobs that would suit them. They made them caretakers of research outposts they no longer had the money to keep completely operational. And you know the story from there.
A/N: HA! Now people who are unfamiliar with the game have no excuse! You must all review! VUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *cough cough* uh.review? *makes puppy dog eyes* pwease?