There were three Prolouge Chapters before this one, and I love every minute
of action that I put into this new fan-fic. This one is the true sequel to
"Return of the Queen", and aside of the Ginyus and the planet trade, I'm gonna
kill off the other DBZ stuff for this fan-fic. It has already come and gone,
well, briefly, and I'm not bringing that back until the next installment.
Now begins the real second piece of "Metroid Saga":
"A Different Enemy"
--------------------------------------
Chapter 1: "Private Enemy Number 1"
Samus waited inside of the elevator going down impatiently. The Federation
recieved cloned Metroids from B.S.L and had captured Royce Felder, the Queen
Metroid. They were all being held inside of this space station. It was as
large as Alpha Centauri, and was all research facility and containment cells.
Samus wasn't permitted to enter any security doors past level grey.
The station itself looked strikingly like Chauda on the inside. Either it
was a former B.S.L outpost, or it was still in possession of that company,
and the Federation was being loaned it for use. Samus thought that she could
easily map out the appearance of it. What struck her the strangest was that
the station was totally empty aside of the docks. No signs of life, and if
the Metroids were anywhere, it was the sectors below, where the simulated
environments were. There, the Metroids were contained. If Samus had her say,
she would have Adam turn the self-destruct on and escape. But Adam
disregarded her fastball tactics for something a bit less...obvious. He had
requested her to invade the station silently and uplink him to the commputers.
He would then let the Metroids loose, and validate a reason to attack them.
The Navigation Room wasn't very far away. It was just beyond that single
grey shutter. Samus fired at the lens-shaped door and it peeled away into
the tunnel. She walked inside and saw that everything was...disturbingly
exactly like Chauda. She entered a series of codes and a large purple lens
appeared on the screen.
"Lady, I don't think that this was such a good idea now. The scientists have
all evacuated and security was called in. Hopefully Hardy can bide you time."
Samus waved her hand.
"Yeah, so what do we do? We can't miss this opportunity, you know. It was
Lex's idea that I do what Old Bird requested." Adam's lens shifted.
"And it was her pleading to you that did it, too?" Samus folded her arms.
"No. It was Ridley's subsequent fit that followed. I don't want to see any
of them gone. Especially Ridley." Adam's lens shifted again.
"Please, for sake of future reference...call him Ryu." Another shift. "I
have uploaded the map of this sector, and given you a security alert program.
Your mission is to open the containment cells without detection. If you
do get spotted, shift into the SA-X and escape. Any objections, Lady?"
Samus shook her head and left out the other side of the room. This part was
different from Chauda. It was a long corridor with three doors on the right-
hand wall. All three were different colors. One was blue, one was red,
and the last one green. None of them could be opened without accessing the
locks that held them shut tight. Of course, they could be forced open, but
Samus knew the risks of that. It would bring up an unnecessary alert.
Yet in this hallway, behind one of the doors, was the controls for the area
containments. All of the elevators leading into the different holding areas
were shut down on the deck side. This was to lock the Metroids in, so that
none of them could get out. They could easily go between sectors, but they
couldn't leave. Samus had to turn on the elevators manually in order to
allow them to pass through, because Adam wouldn't risk being harmed or
deleted by any internal countermeasures. She had to take a guess and fired a
Super Missile at the green door. It opened. No loud or silent alerts.
'What a relief, the security system is off. The locks are still on, though.'
Samus looked inside. The color coded panels of the other two were inside the
room, but nothing else. "Oh, real cute. Sax could have busted through just
as easily, and causing a lot of destruction in her wake. That would call
the guards." Samus opened the locks of the other two doors and checked the
room with the blue door.
Nothing in here. She moves on to the red one. What was inside surprised her.
Three guards. All of them were shot by some kind of energy weapon, and they
were all dead, too. They were supposed to monitor the systems of the sectors,
as well as bring up an alarm if someone forced the doors. Everything was
turned off except for the remote turrets. Samus walks up to the panel and
checks the IFF program. It didn't make any sense to her. The coding was
in some strange language that not even the computer could possibly recognize.
But it could recognize it. The directives that she could discern were that
the only ones not to be shot were...
------------------------------------
"I hope you know full well what happens if we botch this, Kraid. Mother
Brain gave you a human body once she found out that Ridley has one now."
A large Russian man puffs a cigar and exhales. His outfit was similar to
Heidegger's, a green general's outfit, but it had a yellow front on the
jacket. He looks at a short, pudgy man in a brown business suit.
"Da? Zo vhat eef vee fail. Zeh Metroids are loose, comrade. Zat vas all
vee needed to do. Now, vhat say you about vee going back to Altri, da?"
Stern-faced, Kraid looks at the new elite recruit. He was supposed to take
Ridley's place, but he didn't do that well of a job, not even in Mother
Brain's eyes. "Nyet...you vant to catch Metroid. Ho vell, your lose. I am
going though, comrade. Eef you die...you die." The small fat guy looks
around nervously.
"M-my company has ordered me to t-take a Metroid back to them. I'm n-not
g-going back on that!" Kraid grabs the fat guy's sleeve and walks back to
the ship that is right next to Samus' in the dock.
"Beh...Palmer...value your life. Your boss has nuhteenk for you. He cancel
your department, and for vhat? Vun sabotaged launch of rocket? In old
country, vee just say ho vell and launch anozer. Vee vill not be zo stingee.
Vee vill let you come back to him, and vith a Metroid...but later, when
Samus is not here." Palmer looks at Kraid.
"Oh, so is that what you're worried about?" Kraid looks at Palmer irritated.
"Vurried? She iz zee only ting zat can stop us. She defeated Muzzer Brain
and let Zebes go boom. She does not care about our lives." The hatch shuts
and the Gamman passenger shuttle flies away. An Omega Metroid spots Samus'
ship and stomps toward it, growling.
'This thing...Sister Al-ken was killed by another Metroid near this thing.
I will turn it to scrap. I will destroy it. Then...it has no way back.'
The Omega Metroid starts to scratch the hull of the ship savagely, only
causing paint to peel or dents where it slammed the ship.
"Lady! The Metroids are already loose! That's why they were evacuating!
I spotted a Gamman ship leaving the port, but now our ship is being attacked
right now! Come back here at once!" Samus recieves the transmitted message
and dashes for the docking bay elevator. Torn up and smashed.
"Shit. Looks like this thing is of no use. Sax, I didn't want to bring you
out for anything, but it looks like I'll have to." Samus focuses on being
her counterpart, sailing up the elevator shaft as an ice blue blob. She
reforms into the SA-X and looks at the Omega Metroid tearing up the ship.
"HEY!" The Omega Metroid turns around. Samus arms her Super Missiles and
begins firing at its stomach. It doubles over after five rounds, getting hit
by one in the face, hurling it backward and against the ship.
"Lady, watch it! You're rocking the ship!" Samus ignores Adam's color
commentary and circles the Omega Metroid. It stomps slowly towards her,
pissed off enough as it was by the sight of her ship, it was even angrier
that Samus was actually hurting it. She switches back to herself and then
launches a fully charged Diffusion Missile at it. The wave of cold freezes
the tuft of hairs just under its head, but doesn't really do anything else.
"Right. So it'll be like last time, huh?" Samus fires beam blasts at it,
aiming for the stomach again. The blasts that came out of the cannon lanced
at the Metroid, three of them waving in a sine pattern, glittering from their
frigidity. One after another they struck, the Metroid screams and backs up to
the dock elevator. Its body seemed to get stiffer with each step backwards,
and it collapsed to the ground, its breathing labored. She wasn't going to
kill it. Not yet. She had to find out just what the hell was going on.
She had to find out who was behind the release of the Metroids on this
station.
Whatever happened, she didn't think that it was a fortunate sign. True,
one lucky break after another happened...but an IFF that didn't make any
sense?
'What the hell is Kraid doing still alive? Who the hell is Palmer? Why the
hell does the IFF system not target me or the Metroids? Someone is setting
all of this up. I have only one person to suspect...
'Old Bird.'
-------------------------------------
Samus took the time out to relax after getting back. She and Lex were out
at Applebee's, and Ryu was insistent on staying home to play a game he found
on the internet called "3700 AD". (Author's Note: this is an actual game,
folks. Go to http://www.3700ad.com if you want to take a look. It ain't
finished yet, but who cares? It's fun.) Samus had told Lex that she needed
a breather before jumping into the political arena, something she was
beginning to think of as interesting.
"Ugh, getting into politics shows just how old you are." Samus looks at Lex
evilly. This brat of a sister always had some kind of one-liner to kill her
R&R.
"Oh, you are so going down for that. Don't think that I'm a geezette losing
my hair just yet, because I'm not going into it full-time. I've got a bone
to pick with Gul'Gen." Lex takes a drink from her water glass and puts it
down. Houston walks up to the two of them, holding the plates of the food
that they ordered. The getup that he wore made Samus think that he was
seriously jumping out of the Bounty Hunter's Guild; he was decked out in a
full work uniform for the restaurant.
But Houston wasn't qutting the Guild. Not ever. He was Samus' main partner,
and her older brother. He didn't want to leave her alone and in danger, but
this time, he had no choice. Commissions were slow after Akyasuma's arrest
and escape. The Gammans weren't acting up as usual...at least, not that
Houston knew about what happened. He was a low-class bounty hunter who got
paid big when he got involved with his sister, and did a lot of temp work
when things were slow like this.
Samus decided to live at his apartment to do a lot of his personal
housekeeping (something that isn't his strong point), and ended up finding out
she moved in with a relative. It was a shock to her at first when Ridley left
her that message telling her everything about her brother. She waited for him
to sit after putting the plates down, but he just took off back to the
kitchen. Lex piped up and got Samus' attention. She turned her head and
looked over at Lex.
"Why? Is he doing something bad?" Samus sighed.
"I think so. He's consorting with the Gammans in order for my job of
eradicating the Metroids to be easier. But...they aren't the bunch to talk
to for stuff like this. What if they got a Metroid and took off with it?"
Lex shook her head.
"I dun think so. They barely had enough time to get away from you finding
them." Lex rubs her eyes. "As for Palmer...well...I only know that he's
the Shinra Head of Space Development. Musta got fired. Me, I'm gonna go
to Midgar and work with the Turks someday." Samus laughs.
"Like they need another ditz on the team?"
"HEY!!! I'm no DITZ! I'm not like Elena!" (A's N: Conversly, I am dragging
FF7 into the mix, just to see how it goes.) "After all, everything about her
is bad...except for her manga. Kawaii, it's so funny and neat-o-jet!"
"Fugh...do I have to listen to the latest little comic that she made?"
Lex shakes her head.
"No, you already read it." Samus looks at the paper. She reads the strip
called 'Turks Galore!' and then looks at Lex. She grins at Lex and throws the
paper at her.
"Very funny, Lex. Very funny." Houston comes back from serving ten other
tables in record time and sits between the two of them.
"Uh, why aren't you eating?" Samus sticks a fork into the baked potato that
sits on the edge of the plate and then takes a bite.
"Hm. We'll come here more often. Anyway, I wanted to tell you that-" Houston
gets up to serve another order. "Ergh. Oh well. He wants his cash for
today, I guess." Lex grins and cuts a big strip from the steak on her plate.
This wasn't too bad of a break for Samus. After all, she didn't have to piss
herself off about everything just yet. Houston was too busy to be her wall to
talk to. Samus spots Hardy walking in and waves him over. "Oy! Hardy!"
Hardy looks around in bewilderment. Was Keaton here, of all places?
He spots Samus waving and then waddles over to her.
"Hello. What did you want?" Samus shrugs and sticks the potato again.
"To talk. After all, Houston's overworking himself for a Cred." Hardy
chuckles. "Anyway, you did good with keeping the cops back away from me."
"It was nothing. They already saw that the Metroids were loose and that
their turrets for the restricted areas were firing on them. Even security
was called out of the station. They don't know what the hell happened."
Samus looks at Hardy, swallowing a bite from her chicken.
"Gammans happened. They let the Metroids loose and then ran off. Didn't
even take one." Hardy's face turns from calm to a nervous grin. Did Samus
just say that?
"Uh-heh. The Pirates are out again. But we've tried locating their bases
ever since Ater organized them one last time. We found every single one in
the galaxy. Unless they're out of the galaxy, something that I highly doubt,
they've gone mobile. But what can they use for a base?" Lex looks at the
paper that sat in front of her. On the front page was an article about
Shinra.
"Uhm...how about Midgar or Junon?" Lex hands Hardy the paper. Poring over
the article numerous times, his hands begin to tremble. "What? Did I just
do something to help?"
"yes..." Hardy whispers. "You did. See here. Shinra wants to research
alternate energy methods, but ever since they heard about the Metroid
research, they have wanted to test out their own theory alongside of several
others that were proposed." Hardy looks at Lex and Samus. They both had
their jaw dropped, and see-food spilled out of Lex's mouth. "I guess that
I'll need to tell you later, Samus. Right now...I've got a few calls to make
before talking to Keaton about this."
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(I have wanted to do a Final Fantasy 7 and Metroid crossover since I was in
high school. This installment of "Metroid Saga" will be the first of those
kind. I don't know where it is going to go, but I hope it doesn't flop down
like "Return of the Queen".
Odd. I don't know who to make the real villian of this fan-fic. It won't
be Sephiroth or JENOVA, I'll say that much.)
of action that I put into this new fan-fic. This one is the true sequel to
"Return of the Queen", and aside of the Ginyus and the planet trade, I'm gonna
kill off the other DBZ stuff for this fan-fic. It has already come and gone,
well, briefly, and I'm not bringing that back until the next installment.
Now begins the real second piece of "Metroid Saga":
"A Different Enemy"
--------------------------------------
Chapter 1: "Private Enemy Number 1"
Samus waited inside of the elevator going down impatiently. The Federation
recieved cloned Metroids from B.S.L and had captured Royce Felder, the Queen
Metroid. They were all being held inside of this space station. It was as
large as Alpha Centauri, and was all research facility and containment cells.
Samus wasn't permitted to enter any security doors past level grey.
The station itself looked strikingly like Chauda on the inside. Either it
was a former B.S.L outpost, or it was still in possession of that company,
and the Federation was being loaned it for use. Samus thought that she could
easily map out the appearance of it. What struck her the strangest was that
the station was totally empty aside of the docks. No signs of life, and if
the Metroids were anywhere, it was the sectors below, where the simulated
environments were. There, the Metroids were contained. If Samus had her say,
she would have Adam turn the self-destruct on and escape. But Adam
disregarded her fastball tactics for something a bit less...obvious. He had
requested her to invade the station silently and uplink him to the commputers.
He would then let the Metroids loose, and validate a reason to attack them.
The Navigation Room wasn't very far away. It was just beyond that single
grey shutter. Samus fired at the lens-shaped door and it peeled away into
the tunnel. She walked inside and saw that everything was...disturbingly
exactly like Chauda. She entered a series of codes and a large purple lens
appeared on the screen.
"Lady, I don't think that this was such a good idea now. The scientists have
all evacuated and security was called in. Hopefully Hardy can bide you time."
Samus waved her hand.
"Yeah, so what do we do? We can't miss this opportunity, you know. It was
Lex's idea that I do what Old Bird requested." Adam's lens shifted.
"And it was her pleading to you that did it, too?" Samus folded her arms.
"No. It was Ridley's subsequent fit that followed. I don't want to see any
of them gone. Especially Ridley." Adam's lens shifted again.
"Please, for sake of future reference...call him Ryu." Another shift. "I
have uploaded the map of this sector, and given you a security alert program.
Your mission is to open the containment cells without detection. If you
do get spotted, shift into the SA-X and escape. Any objections, Lady?"
Samus shook her head and left out the other side of the room. This part was
different from Chauda. It was a long corridor with three doors on the right-
hand wall. All three were different colors. One was blue, one was red,
and the last one green. None of them could be opened without accessing the
locks that held them shut tight. Of course, they could be forced open, but
Samus knew the risks of that. It would bring up an unnecessary alert.
Yet in this hallway, behind one of the doors, was the controls for the area
containments. All of the elevators leading into the different holding areas
were shut down on the deck side. This was to lock the Metroids in, so that
none of them could get out. They could easily go between sectors, but they
couldn't leave. Samus had to turn on the elevators manually in order to
allow them to pass through, because Adam wouldn't risk being harmed or
deleted by any internal countermeasures. She had to take a guess and fired a
Super Missile at the green door. It opened. No loud or silent alerts.
'What a relief, the security system is off. The locks are still on, though.'
Samus looked inside. The color coded panels of the other two were inside the
room, but nothing else. "Oh, real cute. Sax could have busted through just
as easily, and causing a lot of destruction in her wake. That would call
the guards." Samus opened the locks of the other two doors and checked the
room with the blue door.
Nothing in here. She moves on to the red one. What was inside surprised her.
Three guards. All of them were shot by some kind of energy weapon, and they
were all dead, too. They were supposed to monitor the systems of the sectors,
as well as bring up an alarm if someone forced the doors. Everything was
turned off except for the remote turrets. Samus walks up to the panel and
checks the IFF program. It didn't make any sense to her. The coding was
in some strange language that not even the computer could possibly recognize.
But it could recognize it. The directives that she could discern were that
the only ones not to be shot were...
------------------------------------
"I hope you know full well what happens if we botch this, Kraid. Mother
Brain gave you a human body once she found out that Ridley has one now."
A large Russian man puffs a cigar and exhales. His outfit was similar to
Heidegger's, a green general's outfit, but it had a yellow front on the
jacket. He looks at a short, pudgy man in a brown business suit.
"Da? Zo vhat eef vee fail. Zeh Metroids are loose, comrade. Zat vas all
vee needed to do. Now, vhat say you about vee going back to Altri, da?"
Stern-faced, Kraid looks at the new elite recruit. He was supposed to take
Ridley's place, but he didn't do that well of a job, not even in Mother
Brain's eyes. "Nyet...you vant to catch Metroid. Ho vell, your lose. I am
going though, comrade. Eef you die...you die." The small fat guy looks
around nervously.
"M-my company has ordered me to t-take a Metroid back to them. I'm n-not
g-going back on that!" Kraid grabs the fat guy's sleeve and walks back to
the ship that is right next to Samus' in the dock.
"Beh...Palmer...value your life. Your boss has nuhteenk for you. He cancel
your department, and for vhat? Vun sabotaged launch of rocket? In old
country, vee just say ho vell and launch anozer. Vee vill not be zo stingee.
Vee vill let you come back to him, and vith a Metroid...but later, when
Samus is not here." Palmer looks at Kraid.
"Oh, so is that what you're worried about?" Kraid looks at Palmer irritated.
"Vurried? She iz zee only ting zat can stop us. She defeated Muzzer Brain
and let Zebes go boom. She does not care about our lives." The hatch shuts
and the Gamman passenger shuttle flies away. An Omega Metroid spots Samus'
ship and stomps toward it, growling.
'This thing...Sister Al-ken was killed by another Metroid near this thing.
I will turn it to scrap. I will destroy it. Then...it has no way back.'
The Omega Metroid starts to scratch the hull of the ship savagely, only
causing paint to peel or dents where it slammed the ship.
"Lady! The Metroids are already loose! That's why they were evacuating!
I spotted a Gamman ship leaving the port, but now our ship is being attacked
right now! Come back here at once!" Samus recieves the transmitted message
and dashes for the docking bay elevator. Torn up and smashed.
"Shit. Looks like this thing is of no use. Sax, I didn't want to bring you
out for anything, but it looks like I'll have to." Samus focuses on being
her counterpart, sailing up the elevator shaft as an ice blue blob. She
reforms into the SA-X and looks at the Omega Metroid tearing up the ship.
"HEY!" The Omega Metroid turns around. Samus arms her Super Missiles and
begins firing at its stomach. It doubles over after five rounds, getting hit
by one in the face, hurling it backward and against the ship.
"Lady, watch it! You're rocking the ship!" Samus ignores Adam's color
commentary and circles the Omega Metroid. It stomps slowly towards her,
pissed off enough as it was by the sight of her ship, it was even angrier
that Samus was actually hurting it. She switches back to herself and then
launches a fully charged Diffusion Missile at it. The wave of cold freezes
the tuft of hairs just under its head, but doesn't really do anything else.
"Right. So it'll be like last time, huh?" Samus fires beam blasts at it,
aiming for the stomach again. The blasts that came out of the cannon lanced
at the Metroid, three of them waving in a sine pattern, glittering from their
frigidity. One after another they struck, the Metroid screams and backs up to
the dock elevator. Its body seemed to get stiffer with each step backwards,
and it collapsed to the ground, its breathing labored. She wasn't going to
kill it. Not yet. She had to find out just what the hell was going on.
She had to find out who was behind the release of the Metroids on this
station.
Whatever happened, she didn't think that it was a fortunate sign. True,
one lucky break after another happened...but an IFF that didn't make any
sense?
'What the hell is Kraid doing still alive? Who the hell is Palmer? Why the
hell does the IFF system not target me or the Metroids? Someone is setting
all of this up. I have only one person to suspect...
'Old Bird.'
-------------------------------------
Samus took the time out to relax after getting back. She and Lex were out
at Applebee's, and Ryu was insistent on staying home to play a game he found
on the internet called "3700 AD". (Author's Note: this is an actual game,
folks. Go to http://www.3700ad.com if you want to take a look. It ain't
finished yet, but who cares? It's fun.) Samus had told Lex that she needed
a breather before jumping into the political arena, something she was
beginning to think of as interesting.
"Ugh, getting into politics shows just how old you are." Samus looks at Lex
evilly. This brat of a sister always had some kind of one-liner to kill her
R&R.
"Oh, you are so going down for that. Don't think that I'm a geezette losing
my hair just yet, because I'm not going into it full-time. I've got a bone
to pick with Gul'Gen." Lex takes a drink from her water glass and puts it
down. Houston walks up to the two of them, holding the plates of the food
that they ordered. The getup that he wore made Samus think that he was
seriously jumping out of the Bounty Hunter's Guild; he was decked out in a
full work uniform for the restaurant.
But Houston wasn't qutting the Guild. Not ever. He was Samus' main partner,
and her older brother. He didn't want to leave her alone and in danger, but
this time, he had no choice. Commissions were slow after Akyasuma's arrest
and escape. The Gammans weren't acting up as usual...at least, not that
Houston knew about what happened. He was a low-class bounty hunter who got
paid big when he got involved with his sister, and did a lot of temp work
when things were slow like this.
Samus decided to live at his apartment to do a lot of his personal
housekeeping (something that isn't his strong point), and ended up finding out
she moved in with a relative. It was a shock to her at first when Ridley left
her that message telling her everything about her brother. She waited for him
to sit after putting the plates down, but he just took off back to the
kitchen. Lex piped up and got Samus' attention. She turned her head and
looked over at Lex.
"Why? Is he doing something bad?" Samus sighed.
"I think so. He's consorting with the Gammans in order for my job of
eradicating the Metroids to be easier. But...they aren't the bunch to talk
to for stuff like this. What if they got a Metroid and took off with it?"
Lex shook her head.
"I dun think so. They barely had enough time to get away from you finding
them." Lex rubs her eyes. "As for Palmer...well...I only know that he's
the Shinra Head of Space Development. Musta got fired. Me, I'm gonna go
to Midgar and work with the Turks someday." Samus laughs.
"Like they need another ditz on the team?"
"HEY!!! I'm no DITZ! I'm not like Elena!" (A's N: Conversly, I am dragging
FF7 into the mix, just to see how it goes.) "After all, everything about her
is bad...except for her manga. Kawaii, it's so funny and neat-o-jet!"
"Fugh...do I have to listen to the latest little comic that she made?"
Lex shakes her head.
"No, you already read it." Samus looks at the paper. She reads the strip
called 'Turks Galore!' and then looks at Lex. She grins at Lex and throws the
paper at her.
"Very funny, Lex. Very funny." Houston comes back from serving ten other
tables in record time and sits between the two of them.
"Uh, why aren't you eating?" Samus sticks a fork into the baked potato that
sits on the edge of the plate and then takes a bite.
"Hm. We'll come here more often. Anyway, I wanted to tell you that-" Houston
gets up to serve another order. "Ergh. Oh well. He wants his cash for
today, I guess." Lex grins and cuts a big strip from the steak on her plate.
This wasn't too bad of a break for Samus. After all, she didn't have to piss
herself off about everything just yet. Houston was too busy to be her wall to
talk to. Samus spots Hardy walking in and waves him over. "Oy! Hardy!"
Hardy looks around in bewilderment. Was Keaton here, of all places?
He spots Samus waving and then waddles over to her.
"Hello. What did you want?" Samus shrugs and sticks the potato again.
"To talk. After all, Houston's overworking himself for a Cred." Hardy
chuckles. "Anyway, you did good with keeping the cops back away from me."
"It was nothing. They already saw that the Metroids were loose and that
their turrets for the restricted areas were firing on them. Even security
was called out of the station. They don't know what the hell happened."
Samus looks at Hardy, swallowing a bite from her chicken.
"Gammans happened. They let the Metroids loose and then ran off. Didn't
even take one." Hardy's face turns from calm to a nervous grin. Did Samus
just say that?
"Uh-heh. The Pirates are out again. But we've tried locating their bases
ever since Ater organized them one last time. We found every single one in
the galaxy. Unless they're out of the galaxy, something that I highly doubt,
they've gone mobile. But what can they use for a base?" Lex looks at the
paper that sat in front of her. On the front page was an article about
Shinra.
"Uhm...how about Midgar or Junon?" Lex hands Hardy the paper. Poring over
the article numerous times, his hands begin to tremble. "What? Did I just
do something to help?"
"yes..." Hardy whispers. "You did. See here. Shinra wants to research
alternate energy methods, but ever since they heard about the Metroid
research, they have wanted to test out their own theory alongside of several
others that were proposed." Hardy looks at Lex and Samus. They both had
their jaw dropped, and see-food spilled out of Lex's mouth. "I guess that
I'll need to tell you later, Samus. Right now...I've got a few calls to make
before talking to Keaton about this."
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(I have wanted to do a Final Fantasy 7 and Metroid crossover since I was in
high school. This installment of "Metroid Saga" will be the first of those
kind. I don't know where it is going to go, but I hope it doesn't flop down
like "Return of the Queen".
Odd. I don't know who to make the real villian of this fan-fic. It won't
be Sephiroth or JENOVA, I'll say that much.)