Chapter: "The Invincible Killer"
Samus was inside the same dark cavern as she had seen in Chozodia...fear
began to flow inside of her like the undulating waves of Phazon energy
outside of her Power Suit. It was near her...behind her. Blocking off the
entrance to the cavern. She turned around and saw the giant crab-like
carapace of the Metroid Prime, the ultimate evolution of the METROID. It
lashes at her with one of its arms, batting her into one of the walls of the
cavern. She arms her Super Missiles and begins firing at it, circling it at
a distance. Nothing was happening. She switches to her scanner and looks
for a weakness on it. No weaknesses to any of her weapons detectable.
"This is nuts! Mother Brain wasn't kidding when she said that it was
something invincible! But that this killed the Chozo is hard to believe.
It's just been in here, eating Phazon all its life...wait." Samus grabs a
chunk of the solid Phazon that was in the cavern and tosses it at the Metroid
Prime. It didn't visibly do anything, but she fired a Super Missile at the
same spot.
The carapace shredded apart as thought the Phazon from the rock softened it.
"Now I get it. It not once made direct contact with the Phazon in that skin,
because it knew its weakness...but...where's the beef? Was it only something
em-" Samus gets hit by an invisible force and hits a rock column in the
chamber. "What the hell was that?!" She switches her visors frantically.
When she changed her sight to the X-Ray Visor, there it was. A large,
glowing Metroid. And it was crawling at her like a spider with its tentacles.
She fired several volleys of Super Missiles at it, all of them only holding
the monster back from getting to her. It swishes one of the tentacles at her,
dragging along the ground. The ground gushes out Phazon like blood, it was
so close to the floor.
Samus siderolls away from the tentacle, only to get hit by another one
swinging at her. She hits the wall again and it bursts with liquid Phazon,
also. The Metroid stamps the ground where it still stood with two of its
tentacles and begins to absorb the energy from the liquid.
"It's recharging. [ENERGY RESERVES MAXIMUM, SHIELD OVERLOADING] And so is...
my Power Suit?!" The Energy Bar at the top of her visor begins to tick
away rapidly. "SHIT! It's flushing the shield!" Samus aims her cannon at
the Metroid Prime. "Time to give you a taste of what I'm going through!!"
A large white beam of energy sails straight at the Metroid Prime. It takes
in the blast, and Samus watches as the Metroid Prime pulses.
What was it going to do with an influx of energy that massive? The Metroid
looks in Samus' direction, and bullcharges at her. It shrieks madly, as
though pain clearly wracked it. Grabbing Samus with one of its tentacles, it
swings her around and flings her across the room...and then collapses. The
insides of it were boiling and hissing. The Metroid Prime was either dead or
dying, but either way, Samus didn't care. She had to get out now, because
the Phazon shield was gone, and so was the ability to regain it.
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'Invincible Metroid Prime...it wasn't that tough. Mother Brain was harder
to face. She nearly killed me.' Samus thought to herself as Keaton both
congratulated and berated her for her mission report. Again, she had no
Metroids for them to study. Again, she destroyed them all. Again, she
defeated the Gammans that were in her way. Only weeks after defeating them
at Zebes were they out to collect more Metroids on Tallon IV. Something that
they accidentally created using the Phazon had destroyed most of their ship,
however, and most of the Gammans that were on it, too. Still too many people
called them the 'Space Pirates' when they had a name. She wondered...how did
Meta-Ridley return? It wasn't very possible, unless Ridley made another one.
'Still...I hope that they were the last ones. I think I'll go crazy if I
have to hunt Metroids again...especially after...finding out that they were
the ones that rendered the Chozo to near extinction.' Samus hears a familiar
voice clear his throat.
"Old Bird. Why did you lie to me about the Gammans?" Gul'Gen sighed.
"I couldn't help it. They...well...we...didn't know that they wouldn't
attack what feared them. We created the Metroids because we didn't want to
lose Zebes. I guess that it was our fate. We should not have gone there.
We should not have lived there. I am...afraid that we have made the gravest
mistakes of all that are part of the Federation." Samus leans on a wall.
"You're damn right about that. Ever since Biologic Space Labs found them,
they have been captivated with the obsession of researching them. Hell, even
the Federation wants one for study. These things are dangerous, they nearly
killed all of your people, and those that fled are hopefully re-establishing
themselves inside of the Federation's fleet jurisdiction. If not, we could
see all of you become extinct."
"Samus-san...I am sorry for what I had to put you through. Your real training
and purpose...it was not to defend us from the Gammans. You cannot defeat
Mother Brain alone, and this I believe is proven. Your real purpose...was...
to erase our mistake." Samus stops leaning on the wall. "You were trained
to kill Metroids."
"So that's why Metroid Prime was so easy in comparison to Mother Brain."
Gul'Gen nodded. "That's why I have to go destroy them all. Not a single
one left alive, is that it?" Gul'Gen nodded again. "You make me sick, Old
Bird. You ask of me to commit the genocide of an artificially-created
lifeform, just so that you have nothing left of your tracks to cower about?!"
"Samus-san-" Samus grabs Gul'Gen by the neck.
"IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE! The Federation and B.S.L want Metroids to study them
now, and that puts a crimp in my side!! Corporations and governments are
very difficult enemies to face, and very different from Metroids and Gammans!
Do you think I want to lose everything?! Huh?!"
'No...but you have no choice.'
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(I don't like how short I made this. I love everything else. I dunno why,
but I find myself able to characterize struggle to a slight T. And it some-
how feels uplifting to have some of the characters vent, especially the
still young and hero-elevated Samus, who doesn't want to be a savior of the
galaxy. Gul'Gen and his defeatist "give in to fate" nature is kind of cut
short, but I still think that I can implement it very well later on.)
Samus was inside the same dark cavern as she had seen in Chozodia...fear
began to flow inside of her like the undulating waves of Phazon energy
outside of her Power Suit. It was near her...behind her. Blocking off the
entrance to the cavern. She turned around and saw the giant crab-like
carapace of the Metroid Prime, the ultimate evolution of the METROID. It
lashes at her with one of its arms, batting her into one of the walls of the
cavern. She arms her Super Missiles and begins firing at it, circling it at
a distance. Nothing was happening. She switches to her scanner and looks
for a weakness on it. No weaknesses to any of her weapons detectable.
"This is nuts! Mother Brain wasn't kidding when she said that it was
something invincible! But that this killed the Chozo is hard to believe.
It's just been in here, eating Phazon all its life...wait." Samus grabs a
chunk of the solid Phazon that was in the cavern and tosses it at the Metroid
Prime. It didn't visibly do anything, but she fired a Super Missile at the
same spot.
The carapace shredded apart as thought the Phazon from the rock softened it.
"Now I get it. It not once made direct contact with the Phazon in that skin,
because it knew its weakness...but...where's the beef? Was it only something
em-" Samus gets hit by an invisible force and hits a rock column in the
chamber. "What the hell was that?!" She switches her visors frantically.
When she changed her sight to the X-Ray Visor, there it was. A large,
glowing Metroid. And it was crawling at her like a spider with its tentacles.
She fired several volleys of Super Missiles at it, all of them only holding
the monster back from getting to her. It swishes one of the tentacles at her,
dragging along the ground. The ground gushes out Phazon like blood, it was
so close to the floor.
Samus siderolls away from the tentacle, only to get hit by another one
swinging at her. She hits the wall again and it bursts with liquid Phazon,
also. The Metroid stamps the ground where it still stood with two of its
tentacles and begins to absorb the energy from the liquid.
"It's recharging. [ENERGY RESERVES MAXIMUM, SHIELD OVERLOADING] And so is...
my Power Suit?!" The Energy Bar at the top of her visor begins to tick
away rapidly. "SHIT! It's flushing the shield!" Samus aims her cannon at
the Metroid Prime. "Time to give you a taste of what I'm going through!!"
A large white beam of energy sails straight at the Metroid Prime. It takes
in the blast, and Samus watches as the Metroid Prime pulses.
What was it going to do with an influx of energy that massive? The Metroid
looks in Samus' direction, and bullcharges at her. It shrieks madly, as
though pain clearly wracked it. Grabbing Samus with one of its tentacles, it
swings her around and flings her across the room...and then collapses. The
insides of it were boiling and hissing. The Metroid Prime was either dead or
dying, but either way, Samus didn't care. She had to get out now, because
the Phazon shield was gone, and so was the ability to regain it.
---------------------------------
'Invincible Metroid Prime...it wasn't that tough. Mother Brain was harder
to face. She nearly killed me.' Samus thought to herself as Keaton both
congratulated and berated her for her mission report. Again, she had no
Metroids for them to study. Again, she destroyed them all. Again, she
defeated the Gammans that were in her way. Only weeks after defeating them
at Zebes were they out to collect more Metroids on Tallon IV. Something that
they accidentally created using the Phazon had destroyed most of their ship,
however, and most of the Gammans that were on it, too. Still too many people
called them the 'Space Pirates' when they had a name. She wondered...how did
Meta-Ridley return? It wasn't very possible, unless Ridley made another one.
'Still...I hope that they were the last ones. I think I'll go crazy if I
have to hunt Metroids again...especially after...finding out that they were
the ones that rendered the Chozo to near extinction.' Samus hears a familiar
voice clear his throat.
"Old Bird. Why did you lie to me about the Gammans?" Gul'Gen sighed.
"I couldn't help it. They...well...we...didn't know that they wouldn't
attack what feared them. We created the Metroids because we didn't want to
lose Zebes. I guess that it was our fate. We should not have gone there.
We should not have lived there. I am...afraid that we have made the gravest
mistakes of all that are part of the Federation." Samus leans on a wall.
"You're damn right about that. Ever since Biologic Space Labs found them,
they have been captivated with the obsession of researching them. Hell, even
the Federation wants one for study. These things are dangerous, they nearly
killed all of your people, and those that fled are hopefully re-establishing
themselves inside of the Federation's fleet jurisdiction. If not, we could
see all of you become extinct."
"Samus-san...I am sorry for what I had to put you through. Your real training
and purpose...it was not to defend us from the Gammans. You cannot defeat
Mother Brain alone, and this I believe is proven. Your real purpose...was...
to erase our mistake." Samus stops leaning on the wall. "You were trained
to kill Metroids."
"So that's why Metroid Prime was so easy in comparison to Mother Brain."
Gul'Gen nodded. "That's why I have to go destroy them all. Not a single
one left alive, is that it?" Gul'Gen nodded again. "You make me sick, Old
Bird. You ask of me to commit the genocide of an artificially-created
lifeform, just so that you have nothing left of your tracks to cower about?!"
"Samus-san-" Samus grabs Gul'Gen by the neck.
"IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE! The Federation and B.S.L want Metroids to study them
now, and that puts a crimp in my side!! Corporations and governments are
very difficult enemies to face, and very different from Metroids and Gammans!
Do you think I want to lose everything?! Huh?!"
'No...but you have no choice.'
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(I don't like how short I made this. I love everything else. I dunno why,
but I find myself able to characterize struggle to a slight T. And it some-
how feels uplifting to have some of the characters vent, especially the
still young and hero-elevated Samus, who doesn't want to be a savior of the
galaxy. Gul'Gen and his defeatist "give in to fate" nature is kind of cut
short, but I still think that I can implement it very well later on.)