A/N: Okay readers, I realize that it has been some time since I updated. I don't have any good excuses, I've got em, they just aren't good. But know that I am sacrificing my playing Medieval:Total War, in order to bring you this chapter, so be grateful, and review!
One last bit of rant, if I didn't say so before, I'll say it now, Samus's ship is the same as in Fusion, the purple one. Okay now that that's taken care of on with the chapter.
I would like to thank the following for reviewing my story, KKBB, Master Chief 67, Mega Man X, Swordlovinfool, Desert Lynx for two chapters now(prologue and Chapter1) and if you review, you can get a nice spot in this list also, wouldn't that be great! Ya, I know, not really.
Update: This chapter was lacking to a degree, so I added a bit of dialogue, and tried to put more description in. Hopefully its better now. Also the chapter has a short little ending to it that is different.
Metroid: Mutation
Chapter Two: Friend.... or Foe?
As they sat dead in space, a small sleek vessel glided over them, finally coming to a stop within view. It was shaped like an arrowhead, only at a very steep angle to fit the length of the ship.
The cockpit was obvious from the ships position, and it looked as though there was probably enough room for a cramped sleeping quarter, given the ships size. What was most terrifying about it was its weapons array, although not much bigger than most federation fighters, it was armed to the teeth, it surely could have destroyed any vessel of equal size in a single volley. And a whole squad of them could most likely descimate a capital ship. After scanning their battered vessel several times, a hail was given to them.
"Samus Aran I presume?" a sly male voice said
"Yes, that's me, who are you?" Samus replied, in a somewhat less than hospitable manner.
"My name is none of your concern, but I happened to pick up your distress call from the beacon, and thought I'd lend a hand."
"That's very kind of you, but I would very much like to know your name, and your employer, since I see no markings on your vessel."
"All in due time, but first, you'll need this." he said, then a small robotic drone flew out from under his ship and and came near the docking hole under her ship.
"And why should I take that from you? For all I know, you're the one who detonated that star, you're the one who is trying to kill me, and that robot is a bomb sent to finish me off. So why should I trust you?"
"Because you have no choice, if you don't take it, you'll die, if you do take it, but don't use it, you'll die, but if you will accept my help, and take a chance, then you just might come out of your current predicament alive. Good day to you." with that, the comm channel closed and his ship disappeared from sight.
"Hey wait a minute! rrrr, he's gone. What do you think we should do?" Samus asked, hopeing that her old commanding officer would make a 'command' decision.
"Under normal circumstances, I would recommend we scan it."
"And under abnormal circumstances?" she asked
"Take it, we do not have any other options available."
"I was afraid you were going to say that." Samus said as she punched a few buttons that opened the underside hatch and allowed the robot drone to enter.
Upon inspection, they discovered that the robot carried in its cargo, parts to repair a number of hyperdrive models, including theirs.
"Those will do fine, I'll install them immediatly." Adam said, fetching a drone of his own.
"Wait, wait, how do we know we can trust him? These parts might blow the ship up the minute they're activated, or send us spiraling who knows where into space. Are you not concerned about this?"
"At present we've no other choice, like he said, if we don't use it, you, and eventually I will die. As CO I am in charge here, and I say that we take this course of action."
"Excuse me? We aren't working for the federation anymore, you've got no authority over me. But I agree, we've got to do something or die."
For the span of three days, Samus and the computer-mind of Adam Malkovich worked on getting their hyperdrive repaired. Many times they thought they were ready, but then something else would break, requiring further repairs.
"Are you certain this thing will work?" Samus asked as she leaned back in her chair, feet proped on the console in front of her.
"I believe so, there are always a few variables with lightspeed, but we've done all we can. All that's left to do is start it up in the morning." Adam replied, monitering all systems with great attention.
"Hopefully by then, I'll be mor.... gahhhh!" Falling into the floor, Samus rolled back and forth screaming. Again clutching her sides, she tried in vain to somehow ease her suffering. Reaching for the arm of her chair, she pulled herself back up, and sat down, breathing heavily.
"Its happening again... we should rescan you." Adam stated, drawing out the same robot arm from above. In a few minutes he displayed the results. "I fear that it is accelerating Samus, we had better get out of this system soon, as it most likely still retains whatever radiation, energy wave or solar disturbance which is causing your mutation. I order... 'advising' that we leave as soon as possible."
Through sighs and clenched teeth, Samus uttered, "Agreed."
On the 'dawn' of the fourth day, they were ready to test it. They had to use minimal thrusters to get the ship pointed in the right direction, and then when all was prepared, the sequence was engaged.
"Making jump to hyperspace in 3...2...1..." Adam counted down, the ship then launching to speeds well exceeding conventional engines, on a course for the nearest spacestation. For a time, all went well, but as they came up onto their destination, they soon realized their predicament.
"Okay, ease up, and bring us back into normal speeds." Samus said.
"I.... I can't, the ships engines won't respond, we're going to miss our target." Adam replied, quite angered that he could not control the very ship which he was a part of.
"I told you he was no good! He wanted us to use those parts just so he could send us to our deaths!" Samus shouted
"Ah, but you forget Samus, I've already been there. I'll try and slow us down...." His bit of humor was well placed as it did ease Samus' nerves to a degree. But their situation remained the same.
The ship continued its out of control course for what seemed like eternity. Adam finally managed to get a scan off, however he found that there was an object in their path, and it was big, very big, they were going to hit it for sure.
Still trying to exhaust every possible action, Samus suggested a few ideas; "You're sure we can't stop? Disengage the power source, depolarize the field, something?!"
"All such actions would result in detonating the hyperdrive, taking us with it."
"Well, then, CO, come up with some brillant plan for getting us out of this mess."
"I have none."
"Great, out of the frying pan, into the fire." Samus said, rolling her eyes at his seemingly blatent disregard for hope.
While they shot through the universe, another ship appeared in the system wherein they had just been. It looked strangely like the one seen before, but still differnet.
"Blast, they've gone already.... but how? The energy released from those stars should have obliterated them!" a relatively angered voice said through its helmet. Sitting inside their craft, searching for an explanation, the person didn't notice the automated warning from its computer in time.
"Vessel decloaking to aft." it said
"No...."
Before the pilot of the ship could engage shields or flee, an arrowshaped vessel unleased a merciless attack of missiles, beam weapons and disruptors, tearing the other vessel to peices, leaving debris and residue in the wake of the explosion.
Recloaking, the attacker departed.
One last bit of rant, if I didn't say so before, I'll say it now, Samus's ship is the same as in Fusion, the purple one. Okay now that that's taken care of on with the chapter.
I would like to thank the following for reviewing my story, KKBB, Master Chief 67, Mega Man X, Swordlovinfool, Desert Lynx for two chapters now(prologue and Chapter1) and if you review, you can get a nice spot in this list also, wouldn't that be great! Ya, I know, not really.
Update: This chapter was lacking to a degree, so I added a bit of dialogue, and tried to put more description in. Hopefully its better now. Also the chapter has a short little ending to it that is different.
Metroid: Mutation
Chapter Two: Friend.... or Foe?
As they sat dead in space, a small sleek vessel glided over them, finally coming to a stop within view. It was shaped like an arrowhead, only at a very steep angle to fit the length of the ship.
The cockpit was obvious from the ships position, and it looked as though there was probably enough room for a cramped sleeping quarter, given the ships size. What was most terrifying about it was its weapons array, although not much bigger than most federation fighters, it was armed to the teeth, it surely could have destroyed any vessel of equal size in a single volley. And a whole squad of them could most likely descimate a capital ship. After scanning their battered vessel several times, a hail was given to them.
"Samus Aran I presume?" a sly male voice said
"Yes, that's me, who are you?" Samus replied, in a somewhat less than hospitable manner.
"My name is none of your concern, but I happened to pick up your distress call from the beacon, and thought I'd lend a hand."
"That's very kind of you, but I would very much like to know your name, and your employer, since I see no markings on your vessel."
"All in due time, but first, you'll need this." he said, then a small robotic drone flew out from under his ship and and came near the docking hole under her ship.
"And why should I take that from you? For all I know, you're the one who detonated that star, you're the one who is trying to kill me, and that robot is a bomb sent to finish me off. So why should I trust you?"
"Because you have no choice, if you don't take it, you'll die, if you do take it, but don't use it, you'll die, but if you will accept my help, and take a chance, then you just might come out of your current predicament alive. Good day to you." with that, the comm channel closed and his ship disappeared from sight.
"Hey wait a minute! rrrr, he's gone. What do you think we should do?" Samus asked, hopeing that her old commanding officer would make a 'command' decision.
"Under normal circumstances, I would recommend we scan it."
"And under abnormal circumstances?" she asked
"Take it, we do not have any other options available."
"I was afraid you were going to say that." Samus said as she punched a few buttons that opened the underside hatch and allowed the robot drone to enter.
Upon inspection, they discovered that the robot carried in its cargo, parts to repair a number of hyperdrive models, including theirs.
"Those will do fine, I'll install them immediatly." Adam said, fetching a drone of his own.
"Wait, wait, how do we know we can trust him? These parts might blow the ship up the minute they're activated, or send us spiraling who knows where into space. Are you not concerned about this?"
"At present we've no other choice, like he said, if we don't use it, you, and eventually I will die. As CO I am in charge here, and I say that we take this course of action."
"Excuse me? We aren't working for the federation anymore, you've got no authority over me. But I agree, we've got to do something or die."
For the span of three days, Samus and the computer-mind of Adam Malkovich worked on getting their hyperdrive repaired. Many times they thought they were ready, but then something else would break, requiring further repairs.
"Are you certain this thing will work?" Samus asked as she leaned back in her chair, feet proped on the console in front of her.
"I believe so, there are always a few variables with lightspeed, but we've done all we can. All that's left to do is start it up in the morning." Adam replied, monitering all systems with great attention.
"Hopefully by then, I'll be mor.... gahhhh!" Falling into the floor, Samus rolled back and forth screaming. Again clutching her sides, she tried in vain to somehow ease her suffering. Reaching for the arm of her chair, she pulled herself back up, and sat down, breathing heavily.
"Its happening again... we should rescan you." Adam stated, drawing out the same robot arm from above. In a few minutes he displayed the results. "I fear that it is accelerating Samus, we had better get out of this system soon, as it most likely still retains whatever radiation, energy wave or solar disturbance which is causing your mutation. I order... 'advising' that we leave as soon as possible."
Through sighs and clenched teeth, Samus uttered, "Agreed."
On the 'dawn' of the fourth day, they were ready to test it. They had to use minimal thrusters to get the ship pointed in the right direction, and then when all was prepared, the sequence was engaged.
"Making jump to hyperspace in 3...2...1..." Adam counted down, the ship then launching to speeds well exceeding conventional engines, on a course for the nearest spacestation. For a time, all went well, but as they came up onto their destination, they soon realized their predicament.
"Okay, ease up, and bring us back into normal speeds." Samus said.
"I.... I can't, the ships engines won't respond, we're going to miss our target." Adam replied, quite angered that he could not control the very ship which he was a part of.
"I told you he was no good! He wanted us to use those parts just so he could send us to our deaths!" Samus shouted
"Ah, but you forget Samus, I've already been there. I'll try and slow us down...." His bit of humor was well placed as it did ease Samus' nerves to a degree. But their situation remained the same.
The ship continued its out of control course for what seemed like eternity. Adam finally managed to get a scan off, however he found that there was an object in their path, and it was big, very big, they were going to hit it for sure.
Still trying to exhaust every possible action, Samus suggested a few ideas; "You're sure we can't stop? Disengage the power source, depolarize the field, something?!"
"All such actions would result in detonating the hyperdrive, taking us with it."
"Well, then, CO, come up with some brillant plan for getting us out of this mess."
"I have none."
"Great, out of the frying pan, into the fire." Samus said, rolling her eyes at his seemingly blatent disregard for hope.
While they shot through the universe, another ship appeared in the system wherein they had just been. It looked strangely like the one seen before, but still differnet.
"Blast, they've gone already.... but how? The energy released from those stars should have obliterated them!" a relatively angered voice said through its helmet. Sitting inside their craft, searching for an explanation, the person didn't notice the automated warning from its computer in time.
"Vessel decloaking to aft." it said
"No...."
Before the pilot of the ship could engage shields or flee, an arrowshaped vessel unleased a merciless attack of missiles, beam weapons and disruptors, tearing the other vessel to peices, leaving debris and residue in the wake of the explosion.
Recloaking, the attacker departed.