A/N: Well, you should have seen this coming. My chapters always take a long time to come about.
Time to thank my reviewers, even though its becoming the usual crowd. I think that's a good thing. Mimic, Dragon Man, Desert Lynx and Black Phantom all reviewed. No worries Phantom, I was only using the log entry for that chapter as I felt it helped convey the feeling I wanted. If I use it again, it will be considerably less than chapter 6. Also the things which you listed will never find their way into my story, as I stand against those things. Garret Jax also reviewed, and I'm trying to keep description at a good level Garret, but sometimes you feel like you are repeating yourself. I did add description to the earlier chapters, so they should be better now. Let's hope all goes as planned with this.
Also, I'd like to note that I've gotten a total of 47 reviews for this fiction. Obviously this only happens because of you people :) Thanks.
Metroid: Mutation
Chapter Seven: Ganak Three
Samus' mission is once again being detoured as she is forced to make an emergency landing on the world of Ganak Three. The planet's surface is mostly a rain-forest like atmosphere, with large areas being covered with trees and meadows. Large oceans kept the climate under control. In effect it was a sort of paradise. But high above that perfect world was a crisis.
Shields having failed, the stress on the sleek gunship was beginning to push it to its limit. Circling like a vulture, Dragonis' ship maintained a steady orbit above them. Not knowing what would happen in the crash, he took the liberty of sending down a team to drag the bounty hunter out of the wreckage, salvage any useful technology and destroy everything else.
"We've been hit again Samus! Shields are offline! I don't know how much more this thing can take!" Jax' last words finally registered in Samus' mind as she fought with the controls. Getting past the hard part of the journey downward, she tried to keep the vessel gliding as long as possible so as to decrease their speed. But their destination was still sure, crash. The purple gunship began skimming the tops of mighty trees, a trail of smoke billowing out behind it. As it lowered down it began hitting thicker portions of trees and after several violent rockings, the two wings were stripped off by slamming into two large trees simultaneously. Spiralling out of control the main hull cleared the forest and skidded across a flower filled meadow. When its momentum was finally nullified, the once proud vessel now lay in its final resting place. In its wake was smoke, debris, and a long swath of dirt carved out of the peaceful meadow.
After about the span of two hours, the emergency hatch on the top finally swung open. Exiting the battered craft was Mimic. Looking around, he could see the destruction caused by their 'landing'. Pulling himself out he stood atop, and serveyed more so than before. The remains of the vessel began shaking and on the under side, a large hatch opened revealing the cargo bay. Exiting from it was Jax, weapons charged and ready. He soon lowered his arms, to behold the world around him.
Not far behind Jax was Adam, uploaded into his mobile drone body. His scanners were buzzing in harmony as they searched for not only signs of indigeous life, but more importantly any trace of their pursuers.
Finally Samus exited from the top hatch, her blue and yellow suit glowing in the sunlight on the perfect planet of Ganak Three. After her last stage of mutation, the tentacles that had wrapped around her became a blueish color, over the orange that had resided there. The metalic portions of her suit were still yellow, and her helmet still red. She looked somewhat more like she did after the removal of her suit parts, when she had been infected by the X.
"Report." she said and then stumbled over a crate as she tried to get a reading on the area. Her visor was cracked, but the atmosphere of the planet fortunately for her, supported oxygen.
"No other lifesigns detected other than our own, and indiginious lifeforms. Threat assessment.... zero." Adam said as the small rotating dish on the upper right portion of his body kept scanning.
As she looked at what once had been, and viewed the crash site, Samus couldn't help but feel somewhat regretful for getting her companions into this. Her anger began to mount as she turned her face skyward. "Alright Dragonis.... you want me? Come and get me." she whispered to herself as she clenched her fist.
"Samus I believe it would be best to prepare for anything. I have no doubt in my mind that Dragonis will persue us even to the surface. We should be ready. Jax and I will create a perimiter with scanner bouys. If anything so much as an insect crosses that line, I will be notified of it. You and Mimic should start salvaging whatever is left of the ship. Any questions?" Adam asked, but received silence from all parties. "Very well, move out." Adam said, he and Jax leaving the group and heading towards the forest all around them.
"Samus...." Mimic started but then stopped with his mouth agape. "Your visor... it just... it, it just sealed the crack in it."
Samus looked around a bit, seeing this to be true. "So it has. Must be part of the mutation. No doubt the metroid DNA wishes to preserve itself and me as a host." she paused for a moment, a little uneasy about the thought and then continued. "How it fixed the glass polymer I'm not sure, but metroids are curious little things... best left alone." Samus sighed and then returned within the ship to rumage through what the crash didn't destroy.
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"Done. Time to move another fifty meters." Adam said, unplugging his arm from the sensor attached to a tree trunk of massive size. His sensors on a continuous cycle, and his weapons at the ready, Jax maintained a full alert status. He quickly eliminated the life of a creature which took to the air only a few yards in front of him. Nothing, not even the most diminutive insect was safe from his crosshairs. The mechanical pair continued this routine for the rest of the day, constantly watching for enemies.
When the last sensor was in place, it made its automated feminine response, "Thankyou for using Tek-tronics. Beginning scans." Jax chuckled at this, even though he'd heard it more times than he could count in the past several hours. He was more glad to be rid of the perky voice than actually hearing it one last time. With their objective complete, they began marching back to the base camp.
On their arrival, it was quite apparent that Samus and Mimic had been extremely busy with their own projects. The hideaway turret gun from underneathe the cockpit had been removed and rewired atop two crates, giving it excellent an field of vision. Moreover, they had dug up a crate full of experimental grenades that Samus was supposed to deliver, but the mission was canceled and the merchandise never requested. "They didn't ask, I didn't tell." She had said in her defence to Adam, when the two had discussed the matter. But that mission, and all others were irrelevent now, as Adam's sensor grid had detected faint traces of movement all around them. Whatever it was, it knew they were there.
One hour, maybe two passed as all weapons stood ready. The turret maintained its constant search for a target, as did Jax's dual plasma pistols. Samus' visor remained on scan mode, waiting for something, anything to be out of place and set her alarms off.
"Something tells me when the Chozo designed this suit... a situation like this wasn't considered." Samus said to herself, looking at her arm cannon. The metroid tentacle had grafted itself onto the steel weapon only a short span, still leaving the missle functions intact. Her ponderings were shattered as the turret snapped to attention and sent a deadly stream of energy towards the sound of a snapped twig. Jax quickly investigated the scene, only to find body suddenly come into view. Chords of energy lashed about the body, killing whatever tissue might have still been alive from the blast. "It looks like a.... well, I don't know what it is." Jax admitted
Scanning over the remains with her visor from afar, Samus could tell exactly what it was. A Tirrisian. "He's one of Dragonis' troops! Jax get back here!" she cried, but it was too late for her caution to be heeded. All around them, dozens of Tirrisians began appearing out of thin air. All of them armed with a stealth suit and beam rifle, the calm meadow errupted with weapons fire. North then northwest, then southeast, the turret was spinning itself in all directions, firing upon the closest enemies it detected with lethal results. Mimic was hiding fairly close to the ship, clutching a few grenades in case he saw any enemies. He wasn't a soldier by any species standards.
Rising to her feet after demorphing, Samus slammed her arm cannon into the back of a scaley Tirrisian, and fired a round of plasma shots at a grouping nearby. Because of the nature of the plasma beam, a line of troops behind those quickly fell as well. A few shots were scored against her, but the damaged was minimal. The counter attack however, was anything but minimal. Opening her salvo, Samus unleashed two missiles at a small grouping of hostiles. Streaking under one's legs, and striking his comrades tail, the three creatures were thrown apart, and finished off by the turret which, was about to overheat.
"Mimic! Hit the override! Don't let it burn itself out!" Samus shouted, but was knocked off her feet by a well placed grenade. Watching Samus fall, and then subsequently, not rising, Mimic was shaken from his shell he'd nestled into with the ship. His fear turned to anger, and a coward became a hero. Mimicing the form of a renowned Mercenary, his now seven foot scar covered frame lifted and threw two of the grenades at his enemies. Letting loose a mighty shout, he charged forward and grabbed hold of a single Tirrisian. Snapping his neck with a mere grapple, and then beating his remaining comrades with his lifeless body, Mimic tore a hole through what was left of their ranks. His warrior spirit subsiding, Mimic retook his usual form and raced to Samus' side. As he stood before her, she finally awoke and rose to her feet. Surveying the battlefield, she quickly estimated that the total strike force was most likely only about fifty lizards. Making on the fly guesses, Samus figured that atleast twenty or more were dead. That was until she saw the carnage that Jax was causing. In his own isolated part of the battle, he'd made atleast twenty kills himself. The remaining lizards began retreating, and cloaking as they did. The battle was won, for now.
Gathered together around the ship, all of them sighed in relief that the worst was over. But indeed the worst was yet to come. A small voice began buzzing in Adam's ear. "Thorite weapons detected." Jax wasted no time and raced for a strategic vantage point. Adam and Mimic went to address the turret's overzealous firing habits, while Samus stood still, not moving an inch. "Thorite.... those grenades I kept contained Thorite....." still pondering all this, Samus' eyes widened in shock as she remembered the effects Thorite could have. It was banned by the Federation because of its unpredictability. Sometimes it would be a dud, others it would cause no more damage than an ordinary grenade, but on occasions, it would destroy an entire research facility with its explosion.
Making way to establish a point of attack, Samus felt a pain that was almost becoming kin. But this time the pain was focused in her hands and her head. Falling to her knees, Samus' fingers on her left hand all ripped open on the tips with claws taking their place. Her arm cannon was overcome with the already existing tentacle, and four claws took place on her arm cannon. Finally the two spiked pieces of her helmet, near the oxygen tubes, burst outward, as the metal was torn away by two massive pincers. Samus stood, with her hand grasping at her head, and her arm cannon dangling straight down. She screamed in pain, but her cry sounded more like the shriek of a Metroid. But all these things were moot in light of the Tirrisian that stood only a few meters away, with a rocket launcher on his back. He smiled his toothy grin and pulled the trigger. Soon after, he was shot dead by the turret. The rocket sped towards Samus, as she stood helpless before it. Her pain was greater than she could bear, and her senses were beyond recollecting. The warhead of Thorite began it's volitle arming process and was soon ready to usher its destructive life.
Adam watched with helplessness as he saw his longtime friend in such pain, and with her life on the line. Jax's back was turned to the scene, as he chased a Tirrisian off into the forest. Mimic could not help but wish he were there, to take the blow, but when he was this far, it seemed a futile dream.
Samus' visor began reflecting the bright flash streaking towards her. In her final thought of contemplation, Samus uttered a whisper to herself, "See you next mission..." when she had breathed her last, and sighed for life, the missle met its mark.
End of Part I
A/N: I'm evil aren't I? Muhahahaha. You will all have to wait until next June(when I get out of my year at college) to see the beginning of Part II (assuming I have time to make it come) I had planned on getting a little farther before ending Part I, but desperate times do call for desperate measures. .... I should use that in my fic sometime! :) Til next time.
Time to thank my reviewers, even though its becoming the usual crowd. I think that's a good thing. Mimic, Dragon Man, Desert Lynx and Black Phantom all reviewed. No worries Phantom, I was only using the log entry for that chapter as I felt it helped convey the feeling I wanted. If I use it again, it will be considerably less than chapter 6. Also the things which you listed will never find their way into my story, as I stand against those things. Garret Jax also reviewed, and I'm trying to keep description at a good level Garret, but sometimes you feel like you are repeating yourself. I did add description to the earlier chapters, so they should be better now. Let's hope all goes as planned with this.
Also, I'd like to note that I've gotten a total of 47 reviews for this fiction. Obviously this only happens because of you people :) Thanks.
Metroid: Mutation
Chapter Seven: Ganak Three
Samus' mission is once again being detoured as she is forced to make an emergency landing on the world of Ganak Three. The planet's surface is mostly a rain-forest like atmosphere, with large areas being covered with trees and meadows. Large oceans kept the climate under control. In effect it was a sort of paradise. But high above that perfect world was a crisis.
Shields having failed, the stress on the sleek gunship was beginning to push it to its limit. Circling like a vulture, Dragonis' ship maintained a steady orbit above them. Not knowing what would happen in the crash, he took the liberty of sending down a team to drag the bounty hunter out of the wreckage, salvage any useful technology and destroy everything else.
"We've been hit again Samus! Shields are offline! I don't know how much more this thing can take!" Jax' last words finally registered in Samus' mind as she fought with the controls. Getting past the hard part of the journey downward, she tried to keep the vessel gliding as long as possible so as to decrease their speed. But their destination was still sure, crash. The purple gunship began skimming the tops of mighty trees, a trail of smoke billowing out behind it. As it lowered down it began hitting thicker portions of trees and after several violent rockings, the two wings were stripped off by slamming into two large trees simultaneously. Spiralling out of control the main hull cleared the forest and skidded across a flower filled meadow. When its momentum was finally nullified, the once proud vessel now lay in its final resting place. In its wake was smoke, debris, and a long swath of dirt carved out of the peaceful meadow.
After about the span of two hours, the emergency hatch on the top finally swung open. Exiting the battered craft was Mimic. Looking around, he could see the destruction caused by their 'landing'. Pulling himself out he stood atop, and serveyed more so than before. The remains of the vessel began shaking and on the under side, a large hatch opened revealing the cargo bay. Exiting from it was Jax, weapons charged and ready. He soon lowered his arms, to behold the world around him.
Not far behind Jax was Adam, uploaded into his mobile drone body. His scanners were buzzing in harmony as they searched for not only signs of indigeous life, but more importantly any trace of their pursuers.
Finally Samus exited from the top hatch, her blue and yellow suit glowing in the sunlight on the perfect planet of Ganak Three. After her last stage of mutation, the tentacles that had wrapped around her became a blueish color, over the orange that had resided there. The metalic portions of her suit were still yellow, and her helmet still red. She looked somewhat more like she did after the removal of her suit parts, when she had been infected by the X.
"Report." she said and then stumbled over a crate as she tried to get a reading on the area. Her visor was cracked, but the atmosphere of the planet fortunately for her, supported oxygen.
"No other lifesigns detected other than our own, and indiginious lifeforms. Threat assessment.... zero." Adam said as the small rotating dish on the upper right portion of his body kept scanning.
As she looked at what once had been, and viewed the crash site, Samus couldn't help but feel somewhat regretful for getting her companions into this. Her anger began to mount as she turned her face skyward. "Alright Dragonis.... you want me? Come and get me." she whispered to herself as she clenched her fist.
"Samus I believe it would be best to prepare for anything. I have no doubt in my mind that Dragonis will persue us even to the surface. We should be ready. Jax and I will create a perimiter with scanner bouys. If anything so much as an insect crosses that line, I will be notified of it. You and Mimic should start salvaging whatever is left of the ship. Any questions?" Adam asked, but received silence from all parties. "Very well, move out." Adam said, he and Jax leaving the group and heading towards the forest all around them.
"Samus...." Mimic started but then stopped with his mouth agape. "Your visor... it just... it, it just sealed the crack in it."
Samus looked around a bit, seeing this to be true. "So it has. Must be part of the mutation. No doubt the metroid DNA wishes to preserve itself and me as a host." she paused for a moment, a little uneasy about the thought and then continued. "How it fixed the glass polymer I'm not sure, but metroids are curious little things... best left alone." Samus sighed and then returned within the ship to rumage through what the crash didn't destroy.
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"Done. Time to move another fifty meters." Adam said, unplugging his arm from the sensor attached to a tree trunk of massive size. His sensors on a continuous cycle, and his weapons at the ready, Jax maintained a full alert status. He quickly eliminated the life of a creature which took to the air only a few yards in front of him. Nothing, not even the most diminutive insect was safe from his crosshairs. The mechanical pair continued this routine for the rest of the day, constantly watching for enemies.
When the last sensor was in place, it made its automated feminine response, "Thankyou for using Tek-tronics. Beginning scans." Jax chuckled at this, even though he'd heard it more times than he could count in the past several hours. He was more glad to be rid of the perky voice than actually hearing it one last time. With their objective complete, they began marching back to the base camp.
On their arrival, it was quite apparent that Samus and Mimic had been extremely busy with their own projects. The hideaway turret gun from underneathe the cockpit had been removed and rewired atop two crates, giving it excellent an field of vision. Moreover, they had dug up a crate full of experimental grenades that Samus was supposed to deliver, but the mission was canceled and the merchandise never requested. "They didn't ask, I didn't tell." She had said in her defence to Adam, when the two had discussed the matter. But that mission, and all others were irrelevent now, as Adam's sensor grid had detected faint traces of movement all around them. Whatever it was, it knew they were there.
One hour, maybe two passed as all weapons stood ready. The turret maintained its constant search for a target, as did Jax's dual plasma pistols. Samus' visor remained on scan mode, waiting for something, anything to be out of place and set her alarms off.
"Something tells me when the Chozo designed this suit... a situation like this wasn't considered." Samus said to herself, looking at her arm cannon. The metroid tentacle had grafted itself onto the steel weapon only a short span, still leaving the missle functions intact. Her ponderings were shattered as the turret snapped to attention and sent a deadly stream of energy towards the sound of a snapped twig. Jax quickly investigated the scene, only to find body suddenly come into view. Chords of energy lashed about the body, killing whatever tissue might have still been alive from the blast. "It looks like a.... well, I don't know what it is." Jax admitted
Scanning over the remains with her visor from afar, Samus could tell exactly what it was. A Tirrisian. "He's one of Dragonis' troops! Jax get back here!" she cried, but it was too late for her caution to be heeded. All around them, dozens of Tirrisians began appearing out of thin air. All of them armed with a stealth suit and beam rifle, the calm meadow errupted with weapons fire. North then northwest, then southeast, the turret was spinning itself in all directions, firing upon the closest enemies it detected with lethal results. Mimic was hiding fairly close to the ship, clutching a few grenades in case he saw any enemies. He wasn't a soldier by any species standards.
Rising to her feet after demorphing, Samus slammed her arm cannon into the back of a scaley Tirrisian, and fired a round of plasma shots at a grouping nearby. Because of the nature of the plasma beam, a line of troops behind those quickly fell as well. A few shots were scored against her, but the damaged was minimal. The counter attack however, was anything but minimal. Opening her salvo, Samus unleashed two missiles at a small grouping of hostiles. Streaking under one's legs, and striking his comrades tail, the three creatures were thrown apart, and finished off by the turret which, was about to overheat.
"Mimic! Hit the override! Don't let it burn itself out!" Samus shouted, but was knocked off her feet by a well placed grenade. Watching Samus fall, and then subsequently, not rising, Mimic was shaken from his shell he'd nestled into with the ship. His fear turned to anger, and a coward became a hero. Mimicing the form of a renowned Mercenary, his now seven foot scar covered frame lifted and threw two of the grenades at his enemies. Letting loose a mighty shout, he charged forward and grabbed hold of a single Tirrisian. Snapping his neck with a mere grapple, and then beating his remaining comrades with his lifeless body, Mimic tore a hole through what was left of their ranks. His warrior spirit subsiding, Mimic retook his usual form and raced to Samus' side. As he stood before her, she finally awoke and rose to her feet. Surveying the battlefield, she quickly estimated that the total strike force was most likely only about fifty lizards. Making on the fly guesses, Samus figured that atleast twenty or more were dead. That was until she saw the carnage that Jax was causing. In his own isolated part of the battle, he'd made atleast twenty kills himself. The remaining lizards began retreating, and cloaking as they did. The battle was won, for now.
Gathered together around the ship, all of them sighed in relief that the worst was over. But indeed the worst was yet to come. A small voice began buzzing in Adam's ear. "Thorite weapons detected." Jax wasted no time and raced for a strategic vantage point. Adam and Mimic went to address the turret's overzealous firing habits, while Samus stood still, not moving an inch. "Thorite.... those grenades I kept contained Thorite....." still pondering all this, Samus' eyes widened in shock as she remembered the effects Thorite could have. It was banned by the Federation because of its unpredictability. Sometimes it would be a dud, others it would cause no more damage than an ordinary grenade, but on occasions, it would destroy an entire research facility with its explosion.
Making way to establish a point of attack, Samus felt a pain that was almost becoming kin. But this time the pain was focused in her hands and her head. Falling to her knees, Samus' fingers on her left hand all ripped open on the tips with claws taking their place. Her arm cannon was overcome with the already existing tentacle, and four claws took place on her arm cannon. Finally the two spiked pieces of her helmet, near the oxygen tubes, burst outward, as the metal was torn away by two massive pincers. Samus stood, with her hand grasping at her head, and her arm cannon dangling straight down. She screamed in pain, but her cry sounded more like the shriek of a Metroid. But all these things were moot in light of the Tirrisian that stood only a few meters away, with a rocket launcher on his back. He smiled his toothy grin and pulled the trigger. Soon after, he was shot dead by the turret. The rocket sped towards Samus, as she stood helpless before it. Her pain was greater than she could bear, and her senses were beyond recollecting. The warhead of Thorite began it's volitle arming process and was soon ready to usher its destructive life.
Adam watched with helplessness as he saw his longtime friend in such pain, and with her life on the line. Jax's back was turned to the scene, as he chased a Tirrisian off into the forest. Mimic could not help but wish he were there, to take the blow, but when he was this far, it seemed a futile dream.
Samus' visor began reflecting the bright flash streaking towards her. In her final thought of contemplation, Samus uttered a whisper to herself, "See you next mission..." when she had breathed her last, and sighed for life, the missle met its mark.
End of Part I
A/N: I'm evil aren't I? Muhahahaha. You will all have to wait until next June(when I get out of my year at college) to see the beginning of Part II (assuming I have time to make it come) I had planned on getting a little farther before ending Part I, but desperate times do call for desperate measures. .... I should use that in my fic sometime! :) Til next time.