Hi. It's WindWingXS again. Killer Rabbits will hunt you down and eat
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Nintendo's. have a nice life. Exit exams stink...
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Somewhere in the vastness of space, Ryan was hauling several dozen frozen Metroids toward a pirate frigate. Finding a docking hatch, he moved inside and thawed the creatures. "OK guys, I need you to find and eat as much energy as you can. Stay together, grow quickly, and don't get caught. See you when Samus and I are done on the planet." With that, Ryan slid out of the ship, and pushed off the hull of the frigate towards Samus's ship.
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Onboard the fleet's command cruiser, A Elite pirate was standing guard on the command deck. His small brain told him that the small creature approaching him probably not supposed to be here. Reacting to late, he tried to bat the Metroid away, but found it gripping his head. A chilling feeling spread through his body, but it suddenly turned into freezing pain as he fell to the floor as dust. More Metroids streamed past onto the bridge, devouring the energy of all the pirates aboard. Soon the ship was filled with only Metroids. All were molting into higher life forms. Some that had devoured Elite pirates had matured into Hunter Metroids, while others took more traditional forms. Soon, a few dozen omega Metroids were walking the decks. The ship suddenly lost power as some of the Metroids ate the Phazon reactor on the ship, causing it to fall towards the planet.
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Ridley was NOT happy. The ships of his fleet were going silent, and started to descend uncontrolled towards the planet. Within minutes, his entire super fleet was crashing all over the planet. He knew what was to blame for this. 'Metroids.' Ridley thought, 'I knew Samus was smart, but using Metroids like this is unheard of... Possibly the boy thought of this plan. I'll have to have a talk with him.' Ridley though about this more, and smiled at the prospect. Yes, Ridley would have a nice little chat with his youthful friend...
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"Hey Samus, I've delivered the last load of Metroids. The fleet is now as docile as a sleeping Chozo." Ryan was back aboard Samus's ship, and was preparing for re-entry.
"Good! Now lets hope that the bulk of their forces were on the ships." Samus brought the ship into a dive through the planets atmosphere, and the shaking began again. Ryan gripped the back of Samus's chair, and Spike, along with a few other Metroids, latched on to him. After a few long minutes, The shaking had stopped. "K, were in the atmosphere."
"Lady, I've located the pirates base. It's 40 degrees to port, and is 400 Km. from here."
"Roger Adam. Hey Ryan, I'm going to drop you and your 'kids' off over the base. Clear out the main area while I land. Hopefully, we can get out of here before the fleet comes crashing down."
"OK Samus, we're all ready."
As the ship approached the base, Samus slowed to a safe speed and Ryan made his jump. His Space jump ability allowed him to land safely from the fall, and the Metroids floated down around him. Samus checked on him one last time, then flew off to find a parking place.
Ryan made his way into the complex using the air ventilation system(Can you say Metal Gear Solid! Heck yah baby!). He left Spike and his siblings to attack the outer defenses. He found himself above a map room, and was about to break into it when he spotted a pirate guard. Ryan though of what to do, and finally decided on a course of action. He dropped through the vent and grabbed the pirate by the head. The pirate turned to dust before he could scream. Ryan grunted, then moved to acquire a map. He moved out of the map room into the hallways. Sliding along the wall, he heard a pirate coming down the next hallway. Ryan swung around and caught the pirate by the throat, absorbing its power and turning it to dust. Coming into a containment room, he found several pirates working. Using his stealth skills, he sapped each of their life forces, and moved on to another chamber. Suddenly, the lights went out...
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Samus's Power Bomb went off, ripping apart the energy generators of the base. The base went dark, and Samus switched to her heat visor. Pirate repair teams came running in, only to be gunned down by Samus's power beam. Samus soon moved toward Ridley's keep, when she scanned a report showing that Spike and the other Metroids on the planet had been captured. 'Goodness, and I thought this would be easy.' Samus though. She went into morph ball mode, and rolled through a nearby pipe.
She came out the other side in the same map room Ryan had been in. She also accessed the map, and made her way to the prison. Within the prison, Samus encountered light resistance, and dealt with it in a professional manner. She found the Metroids hanging out in frozen ice blocks. Spike could be seen from where Samus stood. He was molting into a Omega Metroid! Samus knew this would help, but couldn't understand HOW he could have grown so quickly... Samus blasted open the seal, and released the Metroids from the freezing prison they were trapped in.
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Ryan made his way into Ridley's keep. He had absorbed the energy of over forty space pirates, and was feeling the energy's effects. Ryan found himself standing on a mountain top, and could see several star ships starting their re-entry. With a loud crash, Ridley landed on the keep. His breath was incredibly hot, but Ryan took the intense heat easily. "Oh look, a giant buzzard who's trying to play kingpin. Guess I have to go Punisher style on you."
"Whatever child. You and the Hunter stopped my mining operation. I don't like that. What are we going to do about that?" Ridley was grinning.
"Well, we could either fight to the death, or we could go back to that colony you attacked, have Milly make us some Cheese cake and talk it out while eating the cheese cake." Ryan began grinning also.
"Though the cheese cake sounds very inviting, I prefer the FIRST OPTION!" Ridley slammed his tail down where Ryan was standing, but Ryan had seen the attack coming and dodged it. He returned the favor with dual charged Plasma shots to Ridley's mouth, causing Ridley to stumble backward. Ryan took the opportunity to charge his pistols again and jumped onto Ridley's face, shoving a Power bomb down his throat. The dragon swallowed it willingly, only to let out a burst of flame that sent the bomb straight into Ryan's face. The following explosion sent Ryan against a wall, almost knocking him unconscious. Ryan struggled to get up, and began to dodge Ridley's attacks. He continued attacking Ridley head on until Ridley side swiped him with his tail. The impact of Ridley's tail sent Ryan into another wall, this time knocking him out permanently
Ryan dropped both the pistols, and one through sheer luck fired at full charge and struck Ridley in his chest armor, cracking it slightly. Ridley simply shrugged off the blows that Ryan had inflicted. He walked over to Ryan's limp body and picked him up. "Poor fellow. Guess he'll have to serve as bait and shield for me as I originally planned, instead of using that other plan..." Ridley was speaking to himself as he normally did, but thought to himself, 'That offer of cheese cake really did sound good... I might just have to spare this 'Milly' girl if I find her.' He let out a semi-evil laugh as he prepared for Samus's arrival...
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Samus was not happy. Yes, the Metroids were safe again, but Ryan was missing. "Great, and I told the Chozo I would watch him like a hawk."(get it? Bird people, Hawk? Never mind...) Samus was riding Omega Spike through the hallways, directing him toward Ridley's keep. Sometimes the hallways would get too small, so Spike would smash his way through the wall and continue on. A few Elite pirates tried to impede Samus's movements, however Spike had a good time consuming their energy. They arrived at the keep only to find Ridley with Ryan strapped to his back. Samus's only thought was, 'What is Ridley thinking? Stupid dragon.'
"Hello Samus. We meet once again. Your little friend here put up quite a fight, but it wasn't much by my standards. He should be out for a little while longer, so I don't think we have to worry much about him interfering!"
"Your done. The whole evil thing has been done WAY too many times, and it's starting to get really boring. Oh well, guess I can always take you down in one shot with my new OMNI BEAM YOU FREAKING SPACE DRAGON!!" Samus switched to the OMNI beam and began charging it.
Ridley, however, was slightly amused and started to laugh at Samus. "Really Hunter! You would kill your own friend? Your more cold hearted than I thought!"
Samus stopped charging her beam. Suddenly she realized that Ryan was strapped to Ridley's back. 'Crap, forgot about that.' she thought, 'If I use the OMNI beam, then I'll kill Ryan too. This really does suck. Guess I'll have to go old school on his face.' Samus switched to her Plasma beam and started charging. Ridley roared something akin to 'Lets get this party started!' in his own language, then charged at Samus...
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Milly was sitting beneath a tree, daydreaming. It was the same tree that she and Ryan had been under a few nights ago. She was dreaming of Ryan's triumphant return to her. 'Oh, he'll look so handsome coming down the main street of town, escorting me like a perfect gentleman. I can see it now...' she though smiling. Time passed, and she found herself thinking of what he meant by 'experiment' that night...
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Samus had put forth a excellent replay of her fight above the Impact crater on tallon IV, and Ridley was once again on the loosing side. His chest armor plating was almost shattered, and he knew he would fall soon. Suddenly an idea occurred to him, and he stopped fighting. "SAMUS! Stop fighting, or I'll kill your little friend!"
"With what? Can you even reach him on your back? Jeez. Your so pathetic." Samus wondered how such a stupid creature could have ever been a Space Pirate leader. She ate her own thoughts when Ridley spoke again.
"Well Hunter, I have 20 Power bombs strapped to my back, and if I die, they all will explode. You can say good-bye to your friend if you want to, but I doubt it!"
Ryan, however, had something to say about that. He had finally woken up, and decided to get Ridley back for beating him up. After quickly disarming the Power Bombs, Ryan reached out and touched both of Ridley's wings. Ridley suddenly got a chilling feeling, and almost immediately recognized it from when a metroid had tried to attack him on Zebes! "WHAT THE--" Spike suddenly charge and clamped on Ridley's head, also sucking the life out of the Dragon. More and more Metroids clamped on the struggling Ridley, but he turned to ash as the last of his energy was ripped from him.
Ryan fell into the ash pile that once was Ridley, and started to shake violently. Spike and the other Metroids started to back away. A growing sense of fear filled Samus as Ryan's back started to bulge. As suddenly as the shaking of Ryan's body had started, it stopped. Ryan was breathing hard, but tried to speak none the less. "Samus... Get out of here... The DNA... RUN!"
"But Ryan! What the crap is going on?!?" Samus had started to back away, but had stopped. Suddenly the shaking started again, and this time it didn't stop...
Ryan let out a terrifying scream as a wave of energy formed around his body(DBZ style), and his back ripped open and a pair of wings unfurled. Bits of flesh flew from his wretched form, but the holes filled up with new flesh. Ryan was still breathing hard, but the shaking had stopped for good. The wings reminded Samus of Meta-Ridleys...
"Ryan, what in the name of God is going on?!?"
"Samus... It's a little hard to explain, but right now I think we need to get out of here!" Ryan stood and pointed toward the Pirate vessels that were now starting to crash into the planet. Metroids could be seen streaming from the ships, filling the forest eco-system of DC-834 with their presence. Samus nodded to Ryan, and the two speed boosted to Samus's ship. Spike stayed behind however, and began to molt...
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Samus had brought her ship into a low orbit over DC-834, and had told Adam to keep them their until she told them to return to the planet. She sat down across from Ryan, who was nursing an A&W Root Beer. "So," Samus began, "what exactly happened back there?"
Ryan took one last sip of his root beer before starting. "Well, the Chozo endowed me with the powers of the metroid, but they also added something else. The X parasite which you told me you encountered, I think they added the mimicking effect that the parasites had to my genes... Thetas the best guess I have."
"That would nicely explain the whole growth of your 'wings', but what about the Space pirates DNA? I found some drained pirates in the base, and I assumed it was your doing." Samus had grabbed a Coca-Cola from the fridge, and was drinking it rather quickly.
"I don't know. I guess that my DNA thought that the pirates DNA was too weak, and rejected it." A silence settled over the cabin, but Ryan broke it. "So, what now. You know I'm a freak of nature, and DC-834 is crawling with Metroids... And NO. We are not going to blow the planet up!"
"I wasn't thinking about that!" Samus protested. "Besides, the pirate ships might just do that for us if any Phazon is left in them."
'True enough.' Ryan thought as he got up. "Well, we can always check and see. Want to go down and see how spike is doing?"
"Sounds like a plan for now." Samus said as she moved to the cockpit. "Adam, prepare for re-entry. We're going back."
"Roger Lady. Preparing for re-entry."
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On the planet, deep inside the destroyed and abandoned base, Spike had finished molting. His massive form was an impressive sight, as it was almost a combination of the hierarchy of the two Metroid clans...
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Wow. The exit exams gave me more time to write than I normally got. Like I said at the start, you better review. Anyway, whats up with Spike? When will Ryan see Milly again? you have the awanser to the experiment stuff, so be happy for now.(permission to slap author granted.) WHAT? WHEN DID I SAY YOU PEOP-- * Author is suddenly slapped by readers for putting in so many things that make no sense in the story.* OW! I'M SORRY ALL READY! jeez... see you next chapter. REVIEW!
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Somewhere in the vastness of space, Ryan was hauling several dozen frozen Metroids toward a pirate frigate. Finding a docking hatch, he moved inside and thawed the creatures. "OK guys, I need you to find and eat as much energy as you can. Stay together, grow quickly, and don't get caught. See you when Samus and I are done on the planet." With that, Ryan slid out of the ship, and pushed off the hull of the frigate towards Samus's ship.
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Onboard the fleet's command cruiser, A Elite pirate was standing guard on the command deck. His small brain told him that the small creature approaching him probably not supposed to be here. Reacting to late, he tried to bat the Metroid away, but found it gripping his head. A chilling feeling spread through his body, but it suddenly turned into freezing pain as he fell to the floor as dust. More Metroids streamed past onto the bridge, devouring the energy of all the pirates aboard. Soon the ship was filled with only Metroids. All were molting into higher life forms. Some that had devoured Elite pirates had matured into Hunter Metroids, while others took more traditional forms. Soon, a few dozen omega Metroids were walking the decks. The ship suddenly lost power as some of the Metroids ate the Phazon reactor on the ship, causing it to fall towards the planet.
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Ridley was NOT happy. The ships of his fleet were going silent, and started to descend uncontrolled towards the planet. Within minutes, his entire super fleet was crashing all over the planet. He knew what was to blame for this. 'Metroids.' Ridley thought, 'I knew Samus was smart, but using Metroids like this is unheard of... Possibly the boy thought of this plan. I'll have to have a talk with him.' Ridley though about this more, and smiled at the prospect. Yes, Ridley would have a nice little chat with his youthful friend...
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"Hey Samus, I've delivered the last load of Metroids. The fleet is now as docile as a sleeping Chozo." Ryan was back aboard Samus's ship, and was preparing for re-entry.
"Good! Now lets hope that the bulk of their forces were on the ships." Samus brought the ship into a dive through the planets atmosphere, and the shaking began again. Ryan gripped the back of Samus's chair, and Spike, along with a few other Metroids, latched on to him. After a few long minutes, The shaking had stopped. "K, were in the atmosphere."
"Lady, I've located the pirates base. It's 40 degrees to port, and is 400 Km. from here."
"Roger Adam. Hey Ryan, I'm going to drop you and your 'kids' off over the base. Clear out the main area while I land. Hopefully, we can get out of here before the fleet comes crashing down."
"OK Samus, we're all ready."
As the ship approached the base, Samus slowed to a safe speed and Ryan made his jump. His Space jump ability allowed him to land safely from the fall, and the Metroids floated down around him. Samus checked on him one last time, then flew off to find a parking place.
Ryan made his way into the complex using the air ventilation system(Can you say Metal Gear Solid! Heck yah baby!). He left Spike and his siblings to attack the outer defenses. He found himself above a map room, and was about to break into it when he spotted a pirate guard. Ryan though of what to do, and finally decided on a course of action. He dropped through the vent and grabbed the pirate by the head. The pirate turned to dust before he could scream. Ryan grunted, then moved to acquire a map. He moved out of the map room into the hallways. Sliding along the wall, he heard a pirate coming down the next hallway. Ryan swung around and caught the pirate by the throat, absorbing its power and turning it to dust. Coming into a containment room, he found several pirates working. Using his stealth skills, he sapped each of their life forces, and moved on to another chamber. Suddenly, the lights went out...
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Samus's Power Bomb went off, ripping apart the energy generators of the base. The base went dark, and Samus switched to her heat visor. Pirate repair teams came running in, only to be gunned down by Samus's power beam. Samus soon moved toward Ridley's keep, when she scanned a report showing that Spike and the other Metroids on the planet had been captured. 'Goodness, and I thought this would be easy.' Samus though. She went into morph ball mode, and rolled through a nearby pipe.
She came out the other side in the same map room Ryan had been in. She also accessed the map, and made her way to the prison. Within the prison, Samus encountered light resistance, and dealt with it in a professional manner. She found the Metroids hanging out in frozen ice blocks. Spike could be seen from where Samus stood. He was molting into a Omega Metroid! Samus knew this would help, but couldn't understand HOW he could have grown so quickly... Samus blasted open the seal, and released the Metroids from the freezing prison they were trapped in.
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Ryan made his way into Ridley's keep. He had absorbed the energy of over forty space pirates, and was feeling the energy's effects. Ryan found himself standing on a mountain top, and could see several star ships starting their re-entry. With a loud crash, Ridley landed on the keep. His breath was incredibly hot, but Ryan took the intense heat easily. "Oh look, a giant buzzard who's trying to play kingpin. Guess I have to go Punisher style on you."
"Whatever child. You and the Hunter stopped my mining operation. I don't like that. What are we going to do about that?" Ridley was grinning.
"Well, we could either fight to the death, or we could go back to that colony you attacked, have Milly make us some Cheese cake and talk it out while eating the cheese cake." Ryan began grinning also.
"Though the cheese cake sounds very inviting, I prefer the FIRST OPTION!" Ridley slammed his tail down where Ryan was standing, but Ryan had seen the attack coming and dodged it. He returned the favor with dual charged Plasma shots to Ridley's mouth, causing Ridley to stumble backward. Ryan took the opportunity to charge his pistols again and jumped onto Ridley's face, shoving a Power bomb down his throat. The dragon swallowed it willingly, only to let out a burst of flame that sent the bomb straight into Ryan's face. The following explosion sent Ryan against a wall, almost knocking him unconscious. Ryan struggled to get up, and began to dodge Ridley's attacks. He continued attacking Ridley head on until Ridley side swiped him with his tail. The impact of Ridley's tail sent Ryan into another wall, this time knocking him out permanently
Ryan dropped both the pistols, and one through sheer luck fired at full charge and struck Ridley in his chest armor, cracking it slightly. Ridley simply shrugged off the blows that Ryan had inflicted. He walked over to Ryan's limp body and picked him up. "Poor fellow. Guess he'll have to serve as bait and shield for me as I originally planned, instead of using that other plan..." Ridley was speaking to himself as he normally did, but thought to himself, 'That offer of cheese cake really did sound good... I might just have to spare this 'Milly' girl if I find her.' He let out a semi-evil laugh as he prepared for Samus's arrival...
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Samus was not happy. Yes, the Metroids were safe again, but Ryan was missing. "Great, and I told the Chozo I would watch him like a hawk."(get it? Bird people, Hawk? Never mind...) Samus was riding Omega Spike through the hallways, directing him toward Ridley's keep. Sometimes the hallways would get too small, so Spike would smash his way through the wall and continue on. A few Elite pirates tried to impede Samus's movements, however Spike had a good time consuming their energy. They arrived at the keep only to find Ridley with Ryan strapped to his back. Samus's only thought was, 'What is Ridley thinking? Stupid dragon.'
"Hello Samus. We meet once again. Your little friend here put up quite a fight, but it wasn't much by my standards. He should be out for a little while longer, so I don't think we have to worry much about him interfering!"
"Your done. The whole evil thing has been done WAY too many times, and it's starting to get really boring. Oh well, guess I can always take you down in one shot with my new OMNI BEAM YOU FREAKING SPACE DRAGON!!" Samus switched to the OMNI beam and began charging it.
Ridley, however, was slightly amused and started to laugh at Samus. "Really Hunter! You would kill your own friend? Your more cold hearted than I thought!"
Samus stopped charging her beam. Suddenly she realized that Ryan was strapped to Ridley's back. 'Crap, forgot about that.' she thought, 'If I use the OMNI beam, then I'll kill Ryan too. This really does suck. Guess I'll have to go old school on his face.' Samus switched to her Plasma beam and started charging. Ridley roared something akin to 'Lets get this party started!' in his own language, then charged at Samus...
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Milly was sitting beneath a tree, daydreaming. It was the same tree that she and Ryan had been under a few nights ago. She was dreaming of Ryan's triumphant return to her. 'Oh, he'll look so handsome coming down the main street of town, escorting me like a perfect gentleman. I can see it now...' she though smiling. Time passed, and she found herself thinking of what he meant by 'experiment' that night...
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Samus had put forth a excellent replay of her fight above the Impact crater on tallon IV, and Ridley was once again on the loosing side. His chest armor plating was almost shattered, and he knew he would fall soon. Suddenly an idea occurred to him, and he stopped fighting. "SAMUS! Stop fighting, or I'll kill your little friend!"
"With what? Can you even reach him on your back? Jeez. Your so pathetic." Samus wondered how such a stupid creature could have ever been a Space Pirate leader. She ate her own thoughts when Ridley spoke again.
"Well Hunter, I have 20 Power bombs strapped to my back, and if I die, they all will explode. You can say good-bye to your friend if you want to, but I doubt it!"
Ryan, however, had something to say about that. He had finally woken up, and decided to get Ridley back for beating him up. After quickly disarming the Power Bombs, Ryan reached out and touched both of Ridley's wings. Ridley suddenly got a chilling feeling, and almost immediately recognized it from when a metroid had tried to attack him on Zebes! "WHAT THE--" Spike suddenly charge and clamped on Ridley's head, also sucking the life out of the Dragon. More and more Metroids clamped on the struggling Ridley, but he turned to ash as the last of his energy was ripped from him.
Ryan fell into the ash pile that once was Ridley, and started to shake violently. Spike and the other Metroids started to back away. A growing sense of fear filled Samus as Ryan's back started to bulge. As suddenly as the shaking of Ryan's body had started, it stopped. Ryan was breathing hard, but tried to speak none the less. "Samus... Get out of here... The DNA... RUN!"
"But Ryan! What the crap is going on?!?" Samus had started to back away, but had stopped. Suddenly the shaking started again, and this time it didn't stop...
Ryan let out a terrifying scream as a wave of energy formed around his body(DBZ style), and his back ripped open and a pair of wings unfurled. Bits of flesh flew from his wretched form, but the holes filled up with new flesh. Ryan was still breathing hard, but the shaking had stopped for good. The wings reminded Samus of Meta-Ridleys...
"Ryan, what in the name of God is going on?!?"
"Samus... It's a little hard to explain, but right now I think we need to get out of here!" Ryan stood and pointed toward the Pirate vessels that were now starting to crash into the planet. Metroids could be seen streaming from the ships, filling the forest eco-system of DC-834 with their presence. Samus nodded to Ryan, and the two speed boosted to Samus's ship. Spike stayed behind however, and began to molt...
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Samus had brought her ship into a low orbit over DC-834, and had told Adam to keep them their until she told them to return to the planet. She sat down across from Ryan, who was nursing an A&W Root Beer. "So," Samus began, "what exactly happened back there?"
Ryan took one last sip of his root beer before starting. "Well, the Chozo endowed me with the powers of the metroid, but they also added something else. The X parasite which you told me you encountered, I think they added the mimicking effect that the parasites had to my genes... Thetas the best guess I have."
"That would nicely explain the whole growth of your 'wings', but what about the Space pirates DNA? I found some drained pirates in the base, and I assumed it was your doing." Samus had grabbed a Coca-Cola from the fridge, and was drinking it rather quickly.
"I don't know. I guess that my DNA thought that the pirates DNA was too weak, and rejected it." A silence settled over the cabin, but Ryan broke it. "So, what now. You know I'm a freak of nature, and DC-834 is crawling with Metroids... And NO. We are not going to blow the planet up!"
"I wasn't thinking about that!" Samus protested. "Besides, the pirate ships might just do that for us if any Phazon is left in them."
'True enough.' Ryan thought as he got up. "Well, we can always check and see. Want to go down and see how spike is doing?"
"Sounds like a plan for now." Samus said as she moved to the cockpit. "Adam, prepare for re-entry. We're going back."
"Roger Lady. Preparing for re-entry."
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On the planet, deep inside the destroyed and abandoned base, Spike had finished molting. His massive form was an impressive sight, as it was almost a combination of the hierarchy of the two Metroid clans...
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Wow. The exit exams gave me more time to write than I normally got. Like I said at the start, you better review. Anyway, whats up with Spike? When will Ryan see Milly again? you have the awanser to the experiment stuff, so be happy for now.(permission to slap author granted.) WHAT? WHEN DID I SAY YOU PEOP-- * Author is suddenly slapped by readers for putting in so many things that make no sense in the story.* OW! I'M SORRY ALL READY! jeez... see you next chapter. REVIEW!
