Chapter 6- The Nightmare begins...
Samus stared around the room. It had barely been 15 minutes since she had been here last, but the 400 or so space pirate corpses had vanished into clear air. The strange occurrences kept adding up.
Hearing a series of loud clanging noises that signified the Delta Metroid escaping, Samus decided not to waste time. Running out to the elevator, she jumped down. Stopping for a moment, she noticed the corpse of the space pirate was still jammed in the mechanism. On a hunch, she tapped it with her suit's foot: nothing. She had suspected the Delta Metroid's blades had some kind of chemical that destabilized the bonds between cells in a body (or simply "making them fall apart"), which could have accounted for the corpses vanishing. This one hadn't, though that could have simply meant it had died from something else. Jumping inside the elevator- still stuck between the research and security decks- she jumped into the gaping hole the Delta Metroid had apparently cut into the elevator. Space-jumping down to the door to deck 15, the security deck, she blasted the door with a missile and jumped in.
Samus looked around. Unlike the horrific damage on the above deck, the damage here was nonexistent. She guessed this had to do with the fact all the space pirates on the deck would have immediately reported to the above deck when the Delta Metroid escaped, which would explain it... somewhat. There would still have been some space pirates here, and the Delta Metroid, according to the research data, would go out of its way to kill anything it could. Samus stopped thinking about that and immediately began looking for the security camera system. It would have a visual record of what had happened, more complete data records (hopefully), and maybe some type of weapon system that could harm the Delta Metroid. She didn't find any kind of computer terminal for the security systems, and her map, as usual, didn't list any real locations on this deck.
Samus walked into the next room. Luckily, a slightly outdated form of security system referred to as a sensor map was in the center of the room. While it was relatively useless on a large military station, it was quite useful on a research one like this. It worked by taking a 3-d hologram of the station and using motion sensors implanted in parts of the walls to record where any moving bodies were in the station. It also recorded, so she could find out exactly when the Delta Metroid had escaped. Any movement was recorded as a small dot; it was useful if the research station had large creatures on it. If they escaped, it could track them easily; but in case of some type of invasion the system was useless because it did not distinguish between friends and enemies. Currently, the system displayed the station with a large group of about 50 of the dots on the command deck (28), one on deck 17, and one in her location. The Delta Metroid had apparently thought Samus had gone up to the technical research bay, though why was a mystery. Right now, she was more worried about exactly when the Delta Metroid escaped, and if there was any particular pattern driving it.
As her hand moved towards the "view previous data" button, there was a sudden skip in the lights and everything turned black for a split second. Looking around a bit, Samus couldn't see anything. Turning back to the console, Samus looked in shock as it began... melting?
Suddenly, the oddly melting console morphed into a giant mouth-like thing which proceeded to rip off Samus' arm. Screaming, she turned around and the floor dropped out from beneath her. Instead of the below deck, there was simply a pit with spikes. Half a second before the first impaled itself into her, the area vanished. She was now, somehow, in a small room that was strangely familiar. Looking down, she noticed that she was perfectly fine, but her suit was gone and she was... younger? With a mild sense of rapidly growing panic, Samus looked at the small time clock in the wall and realized she was somehow back on her home colony of K-2L... 1 minute before the space pirate raid that killed everyone except for her. In a panic, she ran out of the room, but there was a space pirate outside who raised the scythe attached to its arm and stabbed her in the head-
-she saw herself being torn apart and tortured in every imaginable way-
-make it stop-
-and a strange image of a creature that looked oddly like mother brain laughing at her-
-make it STOP-
suddenly, with an effect like glass shattering, Samus was back on the station's security deck.
She could take it no more. She ripped off her suit's helmet and vomited on the floor.
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Arkan: DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!!! SAMUS GOES CRAZY!
Oh, and whoever mentioned the Metroid Hatchling not helping Samus kill Mother Brain, it did- In Super Metroid, the space pirates revived M.B. and the Hatchling saved Samus' life right before Samus got a hyper beam to the face.
Samus stared around the room. It had barely been 15 minutes since she had been here last, but the 400 or so space pirate corpses had vanished into clear air. The strange occurrences kept adding up.
Hearing a series of loud clanging noises that signified the Delta Metroid escaping, Samus decided not to waste time. Running out to the elevator, she jumped down. Stopping for a moment, she noticed the corpse of the space pirate was still jammed in the mechanism. On a hunch, she tapped it with her suit's foot: nothing. She had suspected the Delta Metroid's blades had some kind of chemical that destabilized the bonds between cells in a body (or simply "making them fall apart"), which could have accounted for the corpses vanishing. This one hadn't, though that could have simply meant it had died from something else. Jumping inside the elevator- still stuck between the research and security decks- she jumped into the gaping hole the Delta Metroid had apparently cut into the elevator. Space-jumping down to the door to deck 15, the security deck, she blasted the door with a missile and jumped in.
Samus looked around. Unlike the horrific damage on the above deck, the damage here was nonexistent. She guessed this had to do with the fact all the space pirates on the deck would have immediately reported to the above deck when the Delta Metroid escaped, which would explain it... somewhat. There would still have been some space pirates here, and the Delta Metroid, according to the research data, would go out of its way to kill anything it could. Samus stopped thinking about that and immediately began looking for the security camera system. It would have a visual record of what had happened, more complete data records (hopefully), and maybe some type of weapon system that could harm the Delta Metroid. She didn't find any kind of computer terminal for the security systems, and her map, as usual, didn't list any real locations on this deck.
Samus walked into the next room. Luckily, a slightly outdated form of security system referred to as a sensor map was in the center of the room. While it was relatively useless on a large military station, it was quite useful on a research one like this. It worked by taking a 3-d hologram of the station and using motion sensors implanted in parts of the walls to record where any moving bodies were in the station. It also recorded, so she could find out exactly when the Delta Metroid had escaped. Any movement was recorded as a small dot; it was useful if the research station had large creatures on it. If they escaped, it could track them easily; but in case of some type of invasion the system was useless because it did not distinguish between friends and enemies. Currently, the system displayed the station with a large group of about 50 of the dots on the command deck (28), one on deck 17, and one in her location. The Delta Metroid had apparently thought Samus had gone up to the technical research bay, though why was a mystery. Right now, she was more worried about exactly when the Delta Metroid escaped, and if there was any particular pattern driving it.
As her hand moved towards the "view previous data" button, there was a sudden skip in the lights and everything turned black for a split second. Looking around a bit, Samus couldn't see anything. Turning back to the console, Samus looked in shock as it began... melting?
Suddenly, the oddly melting console morphed into a giant mouth-like thing which proceeded to rip off Samus' arm. Screaming, she turned around and the floor dropped out from beneath her. Instead of the below deck, there was simply a pit with spikes. Half a second before the first impaled itself into her, the area vanished. She was now, somehow, in a small room that was strangely familiar. Looking down, she noticed that she was perfectly fine, but her suit was gone and she was... younger? With a mild sense of rapidly growing panic, Samus looked at the small time clock in the wall and realized she was somehow back on her home colony of K-2L... 1 minute before the space pirate raid that killed everyone except for her. In a panic, she ran out of the room, but there was a space pirate outside who raised the scythe attached to its arm and stabbed her in the head-
-she saw herself being torn apart and tortured in every imaginable way-
-make it stop-
-and a strange image of a creature that looked oddly like mother brain laughing at her-
-make it STOP-
suddenly, with an effect like glass shattering, Samus was back on the station's security deck.
She could take it no more. She ripped off her suit's helmet and vomited on the floor.
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Arkan: DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!!! SAMUS GOES CRAZY!
Oh, and whoever mentioned the Metroid Hatchling not helping Samus kill Mother Brain, it did- In Super Metroid, the space pirates revived M.B. and the Hatchling saved Samus' life right before Samus got a hyper beam to the face.