A/N: Okay now, before you cast the first stone, let me explain. I've been busy with alot of things since.... the middle of February. Lots of traveling to see my sister who is getting married next month. Plus lots of other things I'd rather not go into detail on. Anyway, I apologize for lack of updates, but I'm going to try and make them a little more frequent. I've got some good ideas for this chapter, I just hope that they come out like I want. So bear with me please. I'd like to thank(this is gonna be awhile) Black Phantom, whose questions I hope to answer in this chapter. aundru, Angry Matt(why so angry?), Shadow Fox, who I just might use some of his helpful tid bits. OmegaMewTwo was kind enough to review, ShadowBoy, Mimic for your.... "interesting" review(aka skitsofrenic(sp?)). And Dragon Man, paladin2007, and ever faithful Desert Lynx all reviewed. I think(not saying much) that is everyone for the current chapter. I hope to answer some questions raised here and there about this and that, and hopefully raise new ones too! :) Oh yeah, no more first person, way to hard, narration from here on out(maybe).
Oh yeah, ------------------ That means a scene change.
Update: Lynx's character name was replaced with Mimic(it fits better). A few little things here and there changed, but on the whole, it was a pretty good chapter to begin with :)
Metroid: Mutation
Chapter Five: Escape and Discovery
"YOU THERE, HALT!"
Samus paused, turning around to see a single guard with his beam rilfe pointed in her direction. Although it wasn't her first choice, she consented to lower her weapon and surrender. But when the guard had approached her position, he was struck across the face by Jax's weapon. Their layout was such, Samus stood at the end of a T corridor which split going two ways. The guard came from the one tunnel towards the junction, where they had escaped from. Laying on the ground he was conscious, but moving slowly, Jax was ready to finish him,
"No!" Samus shouted, stepping in the way, "They already think us criminals, why give them good reason?" Jax stood for a second, his computer logic, and neural functions clashing, finally he
came out of his comatose status, "You are correct, we shall leave him." He began walking on, but before Samus followed, she stuned the guard with her weapon and followed after Jax.
For a short while the two slid as silently as they could through the depths of the space station, stunning guards, and sabotaging specific security cameras.
"Hey! Psst! You there." were the urgent whispers from an inmate in a cell which they were passing.
"Shhh, keep it down...." Samus said, quickly looking this way and that, "What do you want?" Samus asked, somewhat irritated that the alien nearly blew their cover.
"What else? To get out of here, please, you've got to get me out!" he pleaded, his voice slightly raising higher and higher.
Samus checked her shoulders, making certain no one was alerted, "I won't even continue our conversation if you don't keep quiet." She said, making quite certain that he understood her, "So why exactly should we free you hmm? What crime are you supposedly innocent of?"
"I'm not guilty of anything, except being labeled a freak. I... I'm... I'm a shape shifter." he said hesitantly, then morphing himself into another form as proof. Samus wasn't buying it, quickly checking the panel that was in control of his cell, she brought up his profile and charge. Sure enough his crime was being 'hazardous', nothing more. Against her better judgment, she spoke with him further. "You're charged with being hazardous, do you emit some sort of radiation or disease?"
"No, I'm simply able to alter my form at will, they consider that a hazard.", his tone changed, starting to reflect the acceptance that she wasn't a trusting person.
'Adam will kill me for this' Samus thought to herself, "Very well, I'll take you with us, but only if you agree that we do things my way." sighing, she swiped a key card through the slot and released him.
"Thanks! I promise, your way is my way, whatever you say ma'am! Just lead the way!"
'Great... he's got pure energy running through his veins.', peeking around the next corner she led them to an elevator which was hopefully their ticket out of the detention block. "By the way,
what's your name?" she asked
"Mimic is the name, whatever you say is my game." he said energeticly. Further introductions were made as their elevator carried them to a deck which Jax reported as storage. Once there they hid behind some anit-grav generators, to discuss their plan of action.
"Okay, if your info is good Jax, then Adam should be here." Samus said, pointing to a holographic image projected by the machiene-man. It was a layout of the surrounding decks, up and down, giving them a good view of the mid section of the massive station. "And if they haven't put false data in their computer, my suit will be here." she said, pointing to another point a few decks
below Adam. "And last but not least, the shuttlebay is up here.", yet another spot much higher than the other two.
"I believe we should aquire your suit first, if its as powerful as you say, it will make rescuing Adam much easier." Jax commented
"Easier for me yes, but it would also alert them to not only my presence, but also yours. If we take Adam first, we can get the jump on them." she explained, which was true, rescuing Adam first
was critical, everything else would fall into place after that.
Once they were all agreed on their course of action, Mimic brought up a new question which did make things more difficult. "But if Adam is as important to them as you tell us, then won't he be guarded? Requiring clearance to even get into the room?" Quite the troublesome realization that he just had to make.
"They'd pick me out because of my combat suit, you'd never get past the corridor once they spotted you Jax, which leaves us with..." She and Jax looked towards Mimic at the same time, making him somewhat uncomfortable.
"What? Me? Oh I don't think so, I mean look at me! They'd never buy this, no, nope, nut unh."
"You are a shape shifter are you not?" Jax asked
"Oh yeah! Well... I guess I could do that. But maybe I've got a better idea!" he said, standing up proudly.
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"This isn't going to work." Samus said grumbling
"Maybe, then again maybe not, I'm not really sure." a muffled voice said, resembling that of Mimic.
"Not sure?! Then why didn't you say so before?"
"I thought I did?... Must have slipped my mind, oh well."
Samus rolled her eyes, which were hidden behind goggles of sorts. Mimic was not only able to change shape as a person, but could take on forms as well. He had used his ability, to cover Samus and make her appear as if she were a guard. With a military style ball cap, darkened goggles and clothes to match, only the most observant would have been able to pick Samus Aran out of that disguise.
She walked on, eventually reaching the door which led to where Adam was supposedly being held.
"I'm here to transfer the drone to the computer lab." she said, trying to appear as convincing as possible.
"This is the computer lab. Who are you anyway? What's your profile number?"
"My name... errmm... number? Well..." she said turning slightly, then smashed the end of her rilfe into the male guard, knocking him out cold. "Never ask a girl for her number when she's holding a gun." she said, then blew a kiss, and opened the door with his key card. Once inside, she decided against leaving him there, and went back out, dragged the body inside the door and into a nearby closet, where she tied him up and gaged him. Continuing on into the lab, she found a robotic drone lying on a table, with several panels open, circuits yanked out, and wires frayed. 'No...' she thought, 'how could they have gotten through our security measures?'
"Samus, ahem, I'm over here." Adam's monotone voice stated, gaining her immediate attention. She pointed her weapon at the two technicians with their instruments hovering over Adam's form.
"I was beginning to wonder... alright, you two, into the closet." Samus said, motioning her head towards the afore mentioned space. Once they were inside she switched the rilfe over to half
power and sealed the door shut.
"I assume you've got an escape plan?" Adam asked
"You know me too well." Samus said with a smile, then made her way back to the elevator.
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"Sir." a nervous young recruit said
"Yes? What is it?" his commanding officer asked
"I'm detecting unauthorized weapons fire in Computer Lab Alpha."
"Hmmm, probably nothing, most likely those techys are just test fireing something without going throught the proper channels. But at this hour, I don't really care." he said returning to his seat.
"But sir, security protocols state that we are to send a guard to investigate."
The officer seemed annoyed at the young man's strict adhereance to regulations, "Fine, if you want it checked out, then get your gear and go do it." he said, then taking a sip of his beverage.
"But sir, I.."
"GO!"
"Yes sir!" he replied, and quickly got up from his seat and equiped himself with all the required gear to be dispatched.
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"Okay, so we get in, get my suit and get out before they realize what's happening." Samus said, as the elevator came to a halt on the appropriate deck. Exiting the lift, she made a right turn,
running straight into a security officer on his way to where she had just come from.
However, when he bumped into her, Mimic wasn't prepared for it, and didn't hold his form quite right, causing a ripple to go over himself, and consequently, Samus's body as well.
"Wha?...." was all that fell out of his mouth, as he looked down with Samus at her waving clothes, and then both of them looked at each other. "What's your profile number? What is that drone doing with you?!" he asked quickly, but didn't have time for another as Samus used her weapon to stun him, and dragged him back to the elevator.
"You'd think men would learn eh Samus?" Mimic teased
"Samus... your clothes are talking...." Adam said, being significantly more than just curious.
"Long story, I'll explain later." She said, ending the conversation, and pressing forward. In due time, they stood before the heavy door which kept her from her suit. She swiped her key card, but it wasn't high enough authorization, and an alarm went off. "Great, just what I needed."
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"Um... sir.., we've got a security alarm in section 42, Science lab Delta-2, someone has tried to open the door without proper clearance."
"My quiet evening is becoming one little annoyance after another." he said, sighing, "Send Jenkins, or whatever his name is to check it out."
"Yes sir." the man replied, and went about radioing the person. After several failed attempts he turned towards the person in charge, "Sir, he's not responding."
"I'm surrounded by incompetence. Fine, send a full security detail, it'll give em something to do."
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Samus had tried various things in an attempt to get the door open, but no such luck. Until Jax rounded the corner and came to plug in a special cord of his to hack the door directly.
"You're not permited here! Drop your weapons!" a man shouted as he and the other officers with him all raised their weapons.
'Not good!' Samus said to herself, falling back a bit into the crevace that the hall had. It was the regular door they were trying to get through, but there were spaces on either side where the blast door retracted to. Enough to give them cover, not enough to make a stand.
"Given the current situation, I would emplore you to work faster, erm... Jax was it?" Adam said with as much urgency as he could.
"I'm working as fast as I can, this is a complicated procedure, if I make one mistake, I could close these blast doors on us, and I'm sure you don't want that to happen." Jax replied, obviously having mastered the language in a short time. His little data link was humming loudly, trying desperately to break the code.
"Any day now Jax!" Samus shouted at him, as she ducked back for cover after fireing several shots down the corridor. She popped out again, and managed to land two hits, stunning two of the guards, who promptly fell to the ground. While her rifle was set to stun, the security guards were shooting powered shots, trying to do them harm.
"I think I got it... I think I got it.... Uh oh." Jax's voice sunk down, after his words though, blast doors closed on the other end of the hall, sealing the guards out.
"Good timing Jax, this thing is almost out of ammo."
"Um... I wouldn't congratulate me yet..." as if on que, another set of blast doors slammed shut, this one closer than the last.
"Jax.... they're getting closer, am I to assume that this set will close too?"
"Probably. But I think I can get us in before that happens." he said, and got back to work, franticly going over algorithims and codes. Another set shut, he must have tripped something, because they were closing faster now. "Almost there...." The next set came to a solid close, the next one up was theirs. They could hear the clamps being released so as to let the doors block off the entrance, and crush them with it. "Got it!" he shouted as the door slid open and they all piled in. Not a second to late as the last set shut behind them.
The scientists in the room were rather disturbed to see them enter, considering the gun fire and the alert. But they weren't ones to argue with a weapon in their face, and readily backed into a corner where Jax had them held up. What they did not know is that his weapons hadn't been loaded, and therefore were harmless, but looks can be intimidating.
"There you are." Samus said, typing in key strokes to release her suit from the chamber which it was being held in. "Alright Mimic, you can get off now."
"Unnn, what? Hmm? How'd we get here?" he asked, in his muffled voice, but somewhat of a gurgle was added to it, he had been sleeping it would seem.
"Get off now Mimic." Samus demanded
"Oh right..." he replied, allowing his form to slide off and take shape.
Samus set the gun aside and neared her suit. After her ordeal with the X parasites, her method of getting into her suit had changed drastically. Instead of it attaching at certain key points, it sort of, molded around her. She stepped into the yellow colored metalic frame. After that, she pulled helmet over her head, and allowed the suit to do the rest. It always would come to life as
it were, laying back down over her body, and reattaching itself. A sight to behold for sure. When it was done, her Orange and Yellow suit was firmly back on her body. Her second skin as it were, was once again a part of her.
"Alright, now lets get to the shuttle bay, and get out of here!" she shouted, stretching her legs by doing one of her trademark leaps. When they had opened the secondary entrance/exit to the
room, they were greeted by a fully armed squad, who soon after opened fire.
"Everybody back, we'll find another way!" she yelled, blasting several of the guards back, and sealing the door. "Get to the corners, step away from the center." once all parties had done so, she jumped up and fired a super missle into the middle of the room. When the smoke cleared, a large hole remained where a computer console had once stood. They all dropped into the hole, and proceeded from there.
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"Ensign! What was that!?" the officer shouted, as he spewed out his drink.
The ensign at the readout station quickly turned around and reported, "A large explosion has been detected in Science lab Detla-2 sir!"
"No kidding!" he shouted, "Get men down there, find out what's happened!"
"Security has already been dispatched."
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Running down the hallway which was underneathe the lab, they made their way towards the elevators, and with it, their escape. When they were at the door, Samus went to enter a different
elevator.
"Where are you going?" Jax inquired
"To take care of some unsettled business. I'll meet you back at the ship."
"But..."
"Don't try to stop her Mimic, when Samus' mind is made up, there is little that can change it."
The trio watched her disappear into a different lift, as the doors of the one they were in, slid shut.
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Samus ran down the corridor that she had been in not so long ago, and came to almost exaclty where she had been held, but went a few more cells down. Typing is a quick key code, she lowered the force shield between her and him.
"Get up." she said, but the man laying before her did not stir from his slumber. "I SAID GET UP!" kicking him he soon awoke and rose to his feet, only to be backhanded into the wall. Before he
could recover she grabbed his neck, clenching her fingers into his delicate tissue. "You should have had this a long time ago." throwing him to the floor, she charged her power beam, and with
one word, "Vengence.", she released the beam into Hawk's battered body, killing him painfully.
"Now the dead may truely rest in peace." She said, and then started back for the lift.
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Racing out of the elevator Samus found her comrades engaged with more federation forces, while they tried to enter the ship. The primary entrance was to small for Jax, so they opened the cargo lift and stowed him back there. As she ran towards their freedom, a splintering pain shot through her sides and ended up in her back.
"Not again!..... Not now!.....Arrhhhhh!", collapsing to her knees, Samus held her sides as if to hold something in. However a great pain unlike any she'd felt thus far errupted from her back.
Four tentacle like appendages burst forth from her back, and wrapped themselves around her arms, and her legs, one for each. Curled all the way down each limb, they they flatened out and became another layer upon her body, a third skin seems the best way to describe it. When Samus passed out, federation guards were approaching, but automated guns from the ship put them in their place.
"Let's get out of here!" Mimic shouted from the cockpit, engaging the ships engines and blasting out of the hanger. The federation had been kind enough.. or foolish enough to fully repair her
ship, it was now back in tip top shape, and ready for combat, and exploration.
"Samus?...." Adam asked aloud 'I wonder if she is still in there somewhere." he continued in thought, looking at the now slightly larger bounty hunter who lay in the floor, unconscious.
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Deep within the station, in a dark room not many eyes have seen, two men discussed the days events.
"Are they away?" the elderly voice of a man asked.
"Yes sir." a much younger sounding man responded.
"Is the tracking device in place?" he asked again.
"Yes sir, they'll not go anywhere without our knowledge." the man reported confidently.
"Excellent.... but it's not enough, I want every bounty hunter in the quadrant with her face on their list. I don't want her able to set foot on board a garbage transport without them knowing who she is." he demanded, turning around to face the young man.
"It shall be done." he replied
"Is Subject 071 ready?"
"Almost, she...it.. Subject 071 has been somewhat uncooperative, but the project heads assure me that it will be ready on schedule." he said, somewhat nervous about the information he had to offer.
"Remind those working on Project Necro, that if they fail once again, the whole experiment will be started anew, with NEW scientists." he said, putting great emphasis upon the word, 'new'.
"At once sir." the young man said, and then left the room.
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Streaking across the stars, a sleek purple gunship was on course for... anywhere minus its previous docking port. Inside Samus Aran was beginning to wake up from her involuntary nap.
Rolling over, she fell out of the bed she'd been put in, and stayed knelt on one knee.
"What.... what happened?" was all she could bear to ask.
The floating drone noticed her awake, and hearing her inquiry, flew over to assist.
"Easy there Samus, you've had a rough day. That unbearable pain you no doubt felt I believe was the next stage of your mutation." Adam said, while using his small robotic arms to ease her to her feet, they entered the cockpit section, where Jax and Mimic were managing the ship. The shape shifter hadn't a clue what he was doing, and was constantly being corrected by Jax.
"No no! Don't hit that, no... do that, just let me do it!"
Samus smiled behind her mask at the comotion going on, it reminded her of when she had a partner one mission, he was always messing something up. "I trust everything is under control?"
Both of them stopped bickering long enough to look her way, then Jax returned to his work to fix Mimic's mistake. "Samus, you're awake, and alive. That's good, you had us worried for awhile."
"Samus has been through rougher things than Federation detention." Jax and Mimic began looking around for the source of the voice, only for them to discover that Adam had transferred himself back into the ship's computer, and began unlocking all systems, and running diagnostics.
"Indeed she has." were the words of another voice, but this one came through the comm system.
"I'm glad to see you back out and in the open Samus, I knew that the federation wouldn't keep you prisoner for very long."
'Him again...' Samus said to herself, "My mysterious knight in shining armor returns, you seem to know a great deal about me, yet we know very little about you." trying to coerce information out of the unknown ally.
"Your curiosity is understandable, but I fear that there is little I may tell you of. Just know that I am on your side. However, there is something we must discuss."
'On my side.... well, he did give me the hyperdrive.... which sent me to federation HQ.... who
repaired my ship free of charge.... Perhaps he is working for my benefit.' pondering these things she missed what Adam and the anonymous traveler spoke on.
"Yes she got back in her suit, what does that matter?" Adam asked
Silence was heard on the other end, at first one would have thought that the connection was dropped, but he soon replied with disturbing news, "Samus, you allowed your suit to reconnect to you, yes?"
"That's right... why?" Samus asked, not understanding the purpose behind the question.
A sigh was heard over the speakers, "Samus, when your suit was removed, the majority of your metroid DNA was contained within the suit. The portion of it within your body, was... stimulated by the suit DNA strains. As a result, when you reentered your suit, that added metroid activity accelerated your mutation. Have you had any further progression of mutating?" he asked, yet Samus somehow thought that he knew the answer already, he knew so much as it was.
"Yes, I collapsed in the shuttlebay as we were escaping. I don't actually know how I ended up on board." She explained
"Oh, that was me, I shifted into a Jaraelian, a large ape like creature. Made carrying you in, quite easy." Mimic said, seeming quite proud of that fact.
Samus, wasn't sure what to say about that, but awaited a response from the comm.
"It is worse than we feared then,.... alright Samus, if you want any chance of being cured, you're going to have to go to the following coordinates, do not deviate from the flight path I'm sending you." he said, then began a short data transfer, to give them all the info they needed. "Good luck Samus." without leaving chance for response, the comm channel was cut off, and the arrow head shaped vessel, veered off to the starboard side, cloaking in the process.
"I wish he wouldn't do that." she sighed, then took her seat. Plugging her gun arm into its slot, she and Adam preped the ship for their journey.
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One lunar cycle later.....
A pronounced Thud.. Thud.. Thud... was heard, as a man walked down a long hallway. His boots making a distinct sound throughout the area. A few key strokes, and the door before him slid up into the ceiling, providing his entry into the darkened room, where an old man sat awaiting what news he might bring.
"Sir, Subject 071 is ready."
"Excellent, how soon may we see her in action?"
"Now sir, " he said stepping out of the way. The door opened again, revealing a figure with multiple luminous displays all over its body, primarily, a visor which glowed a distinct green.
"What is your designation?" he asked, putting all his finger tips together, waiting for a reply.
"I am Project Necro Subject 071." it replied
"What is your mission?" he asked
"To seek out, locate, and exterminate the bounty hunter known as, Samus Aran."
Oh yeah, ------------------ That means a scene change.
Update: Lynx's character name was replaced with Mimic(it fits better). A few little things here and there changed, but on the whole, it was a pretty good chapter to begin with :)
Metroid: Mutation
Chapter Five: Escape and Discovery
"YOU THERE, HALT!"
Samus paused, turning around to see a single guard with his beam rilfe pointed in her direction. Although it wasn't her first choice, she consented to lower her weapon and surrender. But when the guard had approached her position, he was struck across the face by Jax's weapon. Their layout was such, Samus stood at the end of a T corridor which split going two ways. The guard came from the one tunnel towards the junction, where they had escaped from. Laying on the ground he was conscious, but moving slowly, Jax was ready to finish him,
"No!" Samus shouted, stepping in the way, "They already think us criminals, why give them good reason?" Jax stood for a second, his computer logic, and neural functions clashing, finally he
came out of his comatose status, "You are correct, we shall leave him." He began walking on, but before Samus followed, she stuned the guard with her weapon and followed after Jax.
For a short while the two slid as silently as they could through the depths of the space station, stunning guards, and sabotaging specific security cameras.
"Hey! Psst! You there." were the urgent whispers from an inmate in a cell which they were passing.
"Shhh, keep it down...." Samus said, quickly looking this way and that, "What do you want?" Samus asked, somewhat irritated that the alien nearly blew their cover.
"What else? To get out of here, please, you've got to get me out!" he pleaded, his voice slightly raising higher and higher.
Samus checked her shoulders, making certain no one was alerted, "I won't even continue our conversation if you don't keep quiet." She said, making quite certain that he understood her, "So why exactly should we free you hmm? What crime are you supposedly innocent of?"
"I'm not guilty of anything, except being labeled a freak. I... I'm... I'm a shape shifter." he said hesitantly, then morphing himself into another form as proof. Samus wasn't buying it, quickly checking the panel that was in control of his cell, she brought up his profile and charge. Sure enough his crime was being 'hazardous', nothing more. Against her better judgment, she spoke with him further. "You're charged with being hazardous, do you emit some sort of radiation or disease?"
"No, I'm simply able to alter my form at will, they consider that a hazard.", his tone changed, starting to reflect the acceptance that she wasn't a trusting person.
'Adam will kill me for this' Samus thought to herself, "Very well, I'll take you with us, but only if you agree that we do things my way." sighing, she swiped a key card through the slot and released him.
"Thanks! I promise, your way is my way, whatever you say ma'am! Just lead the way!"
'Great... he's got pure energy running through his veins.', peeking around the next corner she led them to an elevator which was hopefully their ticket out of the detention block. "By the way,
what's your name?" she asked
"Mimic is the name, whatever you say is my game." he said energeticly. Further introductions were made as their elevator carried them to a deck which Jax reported as storage. Once there they hid behind some anit-grav generators, to discuss their plan of action.
"Okay, if your info is good Jax, then Adam should be here." Samus said, pointing to a holographic image projected by the machiene-man. It was a layout of the surrounding decks, up and down, giving them a good view of the mid section of the massive station. "And if they haven't put false data in their computer, my suit will be here." she said, pointing to another point a few decks
below Adam. "And last but not least, the shuttlebay is up here.", yet another spot much higher than the other two.
"I believe we should aquire your suit first, if its as powerful as you say, it will make rescuing Adam much easier." Jax commented
"Easier for me yes, but it would also alert them to not only my presence, but also yours. If we take Adam first, we can get the jump on them." she explained, which was true, rescuing Adam first
was critical, everything else would fall into place after that.
Once they were all agreed on their course of action, Mimic brought up a new question which did make things more difficult. "But if Adam is as important to them as you tell us, then won't he be guarded? Requiring clearance to even get into the room?" Quite the troublesome realization that he just had to make.
"They'd pick me out because of my combat suit, you'd never get past the corridor once they spotted you Jax, which leaves us with..." She and Jax looked towards Mimic at the same time, making him somewhat uncomfortable.
"What? Me? Oh I don't think so, I mean look at me! They'd never buy this, no, nope, nut unh."
"You are a shape shifter are you not?" Jax asked
"Oh yeah! Well... I guess I could do that. But maybe I've got a better idea!" he said, standing up proudly.
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"This isn't going to work." Samus said grumbling
"Maybe, then again maybe not, I'm not really sure." a muffled voice said, resembling that of Mimic.
"Not sure?! Then why didn't you say so before?"
"I thought I did?... Must have slipped my mind, oh well."
Samus rolled her eyes, which were hidden behind goggles of sorts. Mimic was not only able to change shape as a person, but could take on forms as well. He had used his ability, to cover Samus and make her appear as if she were a guard. With a military style ball cap, darkened goggles and clothes to match, only the most observant would have been able to pick Samus Aran out of that disguise.
She walked on, eventually reaching the door which led to where Adam was supposedly being held.
"I'm here to transfer the drone to the computer lab." she said, trying to appear as convincing as possible.
"This is the computer lab. Who are you anyway? What's your profile number?"
"My name... errmm... number? Well..." she said turning slightly, then smashed the end of her rilfe into the male guard, knocking him out cold. "Never ask a girl for her number when she's holding a gun." she said, then blew a kiss, and opened the door with his key card. Once inside, she decided against leaving him there, and went back out, dragged the body inside the door and into a nearby closet, where she tied him up and gaged him. Continuing on into the lab, she found a robotic drone lying on a table, with several panels open, circuits yanked out, and wires frayed. 'No...' she thought, 'how could they have gotten through our security measures?'
"Samus, ahem, I'm over here." Adam's monotone voice stated, gaining her immediate attention. She pointed her weapon at the two technicians with their instruments hovering over Adam's form.
"I was beginning to wonder... alright, you two, into the closet." Samus said, motioning her head towards the afore mentioned space. Once they were inside she switched the rilfe over to half
power and sealed the door shut.
"I assume you've got an escape plan?" Adam asked
"You know me too well." Samus said with a smile, then made her way back to the elevator.
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"Sir." a nervous young recruit said
"Yes? What is it?" his commanding officer asked
"I'm detecting unauthorized weapons fire in Computer Lab Alpha."
"Hmmm, probably nothing, most likely those techys are just test fireing something without going throught the proper channels. But at this hour, I don't really care." he said returning to his seat.
"But sir, security protocols state that we are to send a guard to investigate."
The officer seemed annoyed at the young man's strict adhereance to regulations, "Fine, if you want it checked out, then get your gear and go do it." he said, then taking a sip of his beverage.
"But sir, I.."
"GO!"
"Yes sir!" he replied, and quickly got up from his seat and equiped himself with all the required gear to be dispatched.
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"Okay, so we get in, get my suit and get out before they realize what's happening." Samus said, as the elevator came to a halt on the appropriate deck. Exiting the lift, she made a right turn,
running straight into a security officer on his way to where she had just come from.
However, when he bumped into her, Mimic wasn't prepared for it, and didn't hold his form quite right, causing a ripple to go over himself, and consequently, Samus's body as well.
"Wha?...." was all that fell out of his mouth, as he looked down with Samus at her waving clothes, and then both of them looked at each other. "What's your profile number? What is that drone doing with you?!" he asked quickly, but didn't have time for another as Samus used her weapon to stun him, and dragged him back to the elevator.
"You'd think men would learn eh Samus?" Mimic teased
"Samus... your clothes are talking...." Adam said, being significantly more than just curious.
"Long story, I'll explain later." She said, ending the conversation, and pressing forward. In due time, they stood before the heavy door which kept her from her suit. She swiped her key card, but it wasn't high enough authorization, and an alarm went off. "Great, just what I needed."
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"Um... sir.., we've got a security alarm in section 42, Science lab Delta-2, someone has tried to open the door without proper clearance."
"My quiet evening is becoming one little annoyance after another." he said, sighing, "Send Jenkins, or whatever his name is to check it out."
"Yes sir." the man replied, and went about radioing the person. After several failed attempts he turned towards the person in charge, "Sir, he's not responding."
"I'm surrounded by incompetence. Fine, send a full security detail, it'll give em something to do."
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Samus had tried various things in an attempt to get the door open, but no such luck. Until Jax rounded the corner and came to plug in a special cord of his to hack the door directly.
"You're not permited here! Drop your weapons!" a man shouted as he and the other officers with him all raised their weapons.
'Not good!' Samus said to herself, falling back a bit into the crevace that the hall had. It was the regular door they were trying to get through, but there were spaces on either side where the blast door retracted to. Enough to give them cover, not enough to make a stand.
"Given the current situation, I would emplore you to work faster, erm... Jax was it?" Adam said with as much urgency as he could.
"I'm working as fast as I can, this is a complicated procedure, if I make one mistake, I could close these blast doors on us, and I'm sure you don't want that to happen." Jax replied, obviously having mastered the language in a short time. His little data link was humming loudly, trying desperately to break the code.
"Any day now Jax!" Samus shouted at him, as she ducked back for cover after fireing several shots down the corridor. She popped out again, and managed to land two hits, stunning two of the guards, who promptly fell to the ground. While her rifle was set to stun, the security guards were shooting powered shots, trying to do them harm.
"I think I got it... I think I got it.... Uh oh." Jax's voice sunk down, after his words though, blast doors closed on the other end of the hall, sealing the guards out.
"Good timing Jax, this thing is almost out of ammo."
"Um... I wouldn't congratulate me yet..." as if on que, another set of blast doors slammed shut, this one closer than the last.
"Jax.... they're getting closer, am I to assume that this set will close too?"
"Probably. But I think I can get us in before that happens." he said, and got back to work, franticly going over algorithims and codes. Another set shut, he must have tripped something, because they were closing faster now. "Almost there...." The next set came to a solid close, the next one up was theirs. They could hear the clamps being released so as to let the doors block off the entrance, and crush them with it. "Got it!" he shouted as the door slid open and they all piled in. Not a second to late as the last set shut behind them.
The scientists in the room were rather disturbed to see them enter, considering the gun fire and the alert. But they weren't ones to argue with a weapon in their face, and readily backed into a corner where Jax had them held up. What they did not know is that his weapons hadn't been loaded, and therefore were harmless, but looks can be intimidating.
"There you are." Samus said, typing in key strokes to release her suit from the chamber which it was being held in. "Alright Mimic, you can get off now."
"Unnn, what? Hmm? How'd we get here?" he asked, in his muffled voice, but somewhat of a gurgle was added to it, he had been sleeping it would seem.
"Get off now Mimic." Samus demanded
"Oh right..." he replied, allowing his form to slide off and take shape.
Samus set the gun aside and neared her suit. After her ordeal with the X parasites, her method of getting into her suit had changed drastically. Instead of it attaching at certain key points, it sort of, molded around her. She stepped into the yellow colored metalic frame. After that, she pulled helmet over her head, and allowed the suit to do the rest. It always would come to life as
it were, laying back down over her body, and reattaching itself. A sight to behold for sure. When it was done, her Orange and Yellow suit was firmly back on her body. Her second skin as it were, was once again a part of her.
"Alright, now lets get to the shuttle bay, and get out of here!" she shouted, stretching her legs by doing one of her trademark leaps. When they had opened the secondary entrance/exit to the
room, they were greeted by a fully armed squad, who soon after opened fire.
"Everybody back, we'll find another way!" she yelled, blasting several of the guards back, and sealing the door. "Get to the corners, step away from the center." once all parties had done so, she jumped up and fired a super missle into the middle of the room. When the smoke cleared, a large hole remained where a computer console had once stood. They all dropped into the hole, and proceeded from there.
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"Ensign! What was that!?" the officer shouted, as he spewed out his drink.
The ensign at the readout station quickly turned around and reported, "A large explosion has been detected in Science lab Detla-2 sir!"
"No kidding!" he shouted, "Get men down there, find out what's happened!"
"Security has already been dispatched."
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Running down the hallway which was underneathe the lab, they made their way towards the elevators, and with it, their escape. When they were at the door, Samus went to enter a different
elevator.
"Where are you going?" Jax inquired
"To take care of some unsettled business. I'll meet you back at the ship."
"But..."
"Don't try to stop her Mimic, when Samus' mind is made up, there is little that can change it."
The trio watched her disappear into a different lift, as the doors of the one they were in, slid shut.
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Samus ran down the corridor that she had been in not so long ago, and came to almost exaclty where she had been held, but went a few more cells down. Typing is a quick key code, she lowered the force shield between her and him.
"Get up." she said, but the man laying before her did not stir from his slumber. "I SAID GET UP!" kicking him he soon awoke and rose to his feet, only to be backhanded into the wall. Before he
could recover she grabbed his neck, clenching her fingers into his delicate tissue. "You should have had this a long time ago." throwing him to the floor, she charged her power beam, and with
one word, "Vengence.", she released the beam into Hawk's battered body, killing him painfully.
"Now the dead may truely rest in peace." She said, and then started back for the lift.
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Racing out of the elevator Samus found her comrades engaged with more federation forces, while they tried to enter the ship. The primary entrance was to small for Jax, so they opened the cargo lift and stowed him back there. As she ran towards their freedom, a splintering pain shot through her sides and ended up in her back.
"Not again!..... Not now!.....Arrhhhhh!", collapsing to her knees, Samus held her sides as if to hold something in. However a great pain unlike any she'd felt thus far errupted from her back.
Four tentacle like appendages burst forth from her back, and wrapped themselves around her arms, and her legs, one for each. Curled all the way down each limb, they they flatened out and became another layer upon her body, a third skin seems the best way to describe it. When Samus passed out, federation guards were approaching, but automated guns from the ship put them in their place.
"Let's get out of here!" Mimic shouted from the cockpit, engaging the ships engines and blasting out of the hanger. The federation had been kind enough.. or foolish enough to fully repair her
ship, it was now back in tip top shape, and ready for combat, and exploration.
"Samus?...." Adam asked aloud 'I wonder if she is still in there somewhere." he continued in thought, looking at the now slightly larger bounty hunter who lay in the floor, unconscious.
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Deep within the station, in a dark room not many eyes have seen, two men discussed the days events.
"Are they away?" the elderly voice of a man asked.
"Yes sir." a much younger sounding man responded.
"Is the tracking device in place?" he asked again.
"Yes sir, they'll not go anywhere without our knowledge." the man reported confidently.
"Excellent.... but it's not enough, I want every bounty hunter in the quadrant with her face on their list. I don't want her able to set foot on board a garbage transport without them knowing who she is." he demanded, turning around to face the young man.
"It shall be done." he replied
"Is Subject 071 ready?"
"Almost, she...it.. Subject 071 has been somewhat uncooperative, but the project heads assure me that it will be ready on schedule." he said, somewhat nervous about the information he had to offer.
"Remind those working on Project Necro, that if they fail once again, the whole experiment will be started anew, with NEW scientists." he said, putting great emphasis upon the word, 'new'.
"At once sir." the young man said, and then left the room.
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Streaking across the stars, a sleek purple gunship was on course for... anywhere minus its previous docking port. Inside Samus Aran was beginning to wake up from her involuntary nap.
Rolling over, she fell out of the bed she'd been put in, and stayed knelt on one knee.
"What.... what happened?" was all she could bear to ask.
The floating drone noticed her awake, and hearing her inquiry, flew over to assist.
"Easy there Samus, you've had a rough day. That unbearable pain you no doubt felt I believe was the next stage of your mutation." Adam said, while using his small robotic arms to ease her to her feet, they entered the cockpit section, where Jax and Mimic were managing the ship. The shape shifter hadn't a clue what he was doing, and was constantly being corrected by Jax.
"No no! Don't hit that, no... do that, just let me do it!"
Samus smiled behind her mask at the comotion going on, it reminded her of when she had a partner one mission, he was always messing something up. "I trust everything is under control?"
Both of them stopped bickering long enough to look her way, then Jax returned to his work to fix Mimic's mistake. "Samus, you're awake, and alive. That's good, you had us worried for awhile."
"Samus has been through rougher things than Federation detention." Jax and Mimic began looking around for the source of the voice, only for them to discover that Adam had transferred himself back into the ship's computer, and began unlocking all systems, and running diagnostics.
"Indeed she has." were the words of another voice, but this one came through the comm system.
"I'm glad to see you back out and in the open Samus, I knew that the federation wouldn't keep you prisoner for very long."
'Him again...' Samus said to herself, "My mysterious knight in shining armor returns, you seem to know a great deal about me, yet we know very little about you." trying to coerce information out of the unknown ally.
"Your curiosity is understandable, but I fear that there is little I may tell you of. Just know that I am on your side. However, there is something we must discuss."
'On my side.... well, he did give me the hyperdrive.... which sent me to federation HQ.... who
repaired my ship free of charge.... Perhaps he is working for my benefit.' pondering these things she missed what Adam and the anonymous traveler spoke on.
"Yes she got back in her suit, what does that matter?" Adam asked
Silence was heard on the other end, at first one would have thought that the connection was dropped, but he soon replied with disturbing news, "Samus, you allowed your suit to reconnect to you, yes?"
"That's right... why?" Samus asked, not understanding the purpose behind the question.
A sigh was heard over the speakers, "Samus, when your suit was removed, the majority of your metroid DNA was contained within the suit. The portion of it within your body, was... stimulated by the suit DNA strains. As a result, when you reentered your suit, that added metroid activity accelerated your mutation. Have you had any further progression of mutating?" he asked, yet Samus somehow thought that he knew the answer already, he knew so much as it was.
"Yes, I collapsed in the shuttlebay as we were escaping. I don't actually know how I ended up on board." She explained
"Oh, that was me, I shifted into a Jaraelian, a large ape like creature. Made carrying you in, quite easy." Mimic said, seeming quite proud of that fact.
Samus, wasn't sure what to say about that, but awaited a response from the comm.
"It is worse than we feared then,.... alright Samus, if you want any chance of being cured, you're going to have to go to the following coordinates, do not deviate from the flight path I'm sending you." he said, then began a short data transfer, to give them all the info they needed. "Good luck Samus." without leaving chance for response, the comm channel was cut off, and the arrow head shaped vessel, veered off to the starboard side, cloaking in the process.
"I wish he wouldn't do that." she sighed, then took her seat. Plugging her gun arm into its slot, she and Adam preped the ship for their journey.
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One lunar cycle later.....
A pronounced Thud.. Thud.. Thud... was heard, as a man walked down a long hallway. His boots making a distinct sound throughout the area. A few key strokes, and the door before him slid up into the ceiling, providing his entry into the darkened room, where an old man sat awaiting what news he might bring.
"Sir, Subject 071 is ready."
"Excellent, how soon may we see her in action?"
"Now sir, " he said stepping out of the way. The door opened again, revealing a figure with multiple luminous displays all over its body, primarily, a visor which glowed a distinct green.
"What is your designation?" he asked, putting all his finger tips together, waiting for a reply.
"I am Project Necro Subject 071." it replied
"What is your mission?" he asked
"To seek out, locate, and exterminate the bounty hunter known as, Samus Aran."