Chapter 3b- Enter Riaid
Experiment 15 watched Samus retreat to her ship. His mind swam with different thoughts. It was as if he had two sets of memory that overlapped each other, making both impossible to comprehend. "It's a hauntingly worse version of amneisia," he thought. He had his memory, but it was scrambled together beond recovery. The only part of his memory that wasn't clouded was all that happened after he was released from his stasis tank just before his fight with the parasite Queen.
He would have stood thinking there for much longer, but just then his arm was reathed in flaming agony. His suit healed his injury, and he looked around for his attacker. A pirate clad in-red banded armor had taken a shot at him. The Space Pirates were here.
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Samus looked back at Zeta VII and wondered how the pirates had successfuly copied her Chozo-built power suit so well. Unless... She set a course back to Zeta VII. She had a suspicion she needed to prove or disprove as quickly as possible.
Upon ariving, she saw a pirate frigate break orbit, followed by a number of small shuttles. She carefuly guided her ship to the docking area of the frigate, as that was the only apparent way in, as the frigate had been plated with bendezium, and Samus could not (safely, anyway) take a more discreet way in. Luckily, the docking bay was vacant of pirates, and she met no resistance.
The ship was nearly identical in design to Orpheron, which now lay shattered on Tallon IV. The maps she had downloaded of that doomed ship worked well here, and she eventualy (after many small pirate-related skirmishes) found a map station. She downloaded the more acurate maps then went back through the blue iris door to what was labeled "Log database access" on the map. Passing through another door, she found a room full of computer consoles, each bearing a notice or important log entry.
She was about to access the nearest terminal, when a sentry drone droped from the ceiling, hovered at about her eye level, activted security lockdown, and attacked. Samus was careful in this battle, trying not to fry any records so she could read them later. The drone, who wasn't as careful, easily had the advantage here. Using the only "weapon" she could, she latched on to the drone with the grapple beam, and swung. Doing so, she not only overloaded the drone with the grapple beam's energy, but it's anti-grav unit failed under her weight. the drone fell to the ground, inactive.
She began reading the many notices and logs, but found little intresting data in them. Most were logs on cargo status or notices about "rules" of the ship. Only the few more recent logs were interesting. Her suit translated them, and they said:"Command has sent us the plans for a power suit to be constructed and given for experiment 15. The science officers here are amazed at both the plans and results. It is still unclear how command got the results, but that, at this point, is irrelivent. Combat testing will comence tomorrow." "Well, that wasn't helpful," thought Samus. The space pirates who built the new suit didn't even know where the plans came from.
Another log was slightly more useful. "Due to the success of experiment 15's suit, command has requested that we make simmilar suits for other pirates. Though we dont have the resources to make more full suits, command has settled for the 'morph ball' suits we have developed. While their only special function is morph ball mode, command still sees the design as desirable. Those who have recived the prototypes have nicknamed their group 'morph troopers'." While this was not "good" news, it put Samus on guard for these new forces.
The last log... "Experiment 15 nearly escaped the holding facility he was placed in. Luckily, we managed to recapture the misquided creation, but not before he severely depleted our crew. 3 elites, 20 standard, 1 plasma, 4 ice and 7 power troopers fell before the renegade was captured. We have sent a message to command regarding the incident, and have placed Ex15 in a triple strength stasis tank with maximum possible guards on patrol. This latest combat test was unfortunate, but it has proved exactly how powerful Ex15 is."
Ex15 was recaptured? thought Samus. The pirates must realy want him, if they are willing to suffor such great losses to retrive him. "3 Elites... Oh well. Lets get him out again..."
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The huge reptillian creature looked out of it's tank. The fluid around it twisted it's vision kalidoscope-like.
It had many replicated memories, as both of the creatures who's dna was used to create it had been revived at least once each. It wanted to stretch it's wings and tail, but the tank prevented that. It suddenly didn`t like the tank. It wanted out, and it was going to get it's way.
A/N: Sorry for the lateness. I was unsure how to progress the story to this point until now.
Experiment 15 watched Samus retreat to her ship. His mind swam with different thoughts. It was as if he had two sets of memory that overlapped each other, making both impossible to comprehend. "It's a hauntingly worse version of amneisia," he thought. He had his memory, but it was scrambled together beond recovery. The only part of his memory that wasn't clouded was all that happened after he was released from his stasis tank just before his fight with the parasite Queen.
He would have stood thinking there for much longer, but just then his arm was reathed in flaming agony. His suit healed his injury, and he looked around for his attacker. A pirate clad in-red banded armor had taken a shot at him. The Space Pirates were here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Samus looked back at Zeta VII and wondered how the pirates had successfuly copied her Chozo-built power suit so well. Unless... She set a course back to Zeta VII. She had a suspicion she needed to prove or disprove as quickly as possible.
Upon ariving, she saw a pirate frigate break orbit, followed by a number of small shuttles. She carefuly guided her ship to the docking area of the frigate, as that was the only apparent way in, as the frigate had been plated with bendezium, and Samus could not (safely, anyway) take a more discreet way in. Luckily, the docking bay was vacant of pirates, and she met no resistance.
The ship was nearly identical in design to Orpheron, which now lay shattered on Tallon IV. The maps she had downloaded of that doomed ship worked well here, and she eventualy (after many small pirate-related skirmishes) found a map station. She downloaded the more acurate maps then went back through the blue iris door to what was labeled "Log database access" on the map. Passing through another door, she found a room full of computer consoles, each bearing a notice or important log entry.
She was about to access the nearest terminal, when a sentry drone droped from the ceiling, hovered at about her eye level, activted security lockdown, and attacked. Samus was careful in this battle, trying not to fry any records so she could read them later. The drone, who wasn't as careful, easily had the advantage here. Using the only "weapon" she could, she latched on to the drone with the grapple beam, and swung. Doing so, she not only overloaded the drone with the grapple beam's energy, but it's anti-grav unit failed under her weight. the drone fell to the ground, inactive.
She began reading the many notices and logs, but found little intresting data in them. Most were logs on cargo status or notices about "rules" of the ship. Only the few more recent logs were interesting. Her suit translated them, and they said:"Command has sent us the plans for a power suit to be constructed and given for experiment 15. The science officers here are amazed at both the plans and results. It is still unclear how command got the results, but that, at this point, is irrelivent. Combat testing will comence tomorrow." "Well, that wasn't helpful," thought Samus. The space pirates who built the new suit didn't even know where the plans came from.
Another log was slightly more useful. "Due to the success of experiment 15's suit, command has requested that we make simmilar suits for other pirates. Though we dont have the resources to make more full suits, command has settled for the 'morph ball' suits we have developed. While their only special function is morph ball mode, command still sees the design as desirable. Those who have recived the prototypes have nicknamed their group 'morph troopers'." While this was not "good" news, it put Samus on guard for these new forces.
The last log... "Experiment 15 nearly escaped the holding facility he was placed in. Luckily, we managed to recapture the misquided creation, but not before he severely depleted our crew. 3 elites, 20 standard, 1 plasma, 4 ice and 7 power troopers fell before the renegade was captured. We have sent a message to command regarding the incident, and have placed Ex15 in a triple strength stasis tank with maximum possible guards on patrol. This latest combat test was unfortunate, but it has proved exactly how powerful Ex15 is."
Ex15 was recaptured? thought Samus. The pirates must realy want him, if they are willing to suffor such great losses to retrive him. "3 Elites... Oh well. Lets get him out again..."
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The huge reptillian creature looked out of it's tank. The fluid around it twisted it's vision kalidoscope-like.
It had many replicated memories, as both of the creatures who's dna was used to create it had been revived at least once each. It wanted to stretch it's wings and tail, but the tank prevented that. It suddenly didn`t like the tank. It wanted out, and it was going to get it's way.
A/N: Sorry for the lateness. I was unsure how to progress the story to this point until now.