Chapter 7- Minor Disagreement
After about a minute, Samus slowly stood up, stumbled a few times, then leaned against a wall. She felt much the same way a drunk person would, and almost vomited again from the sensation.
Whatever had just happened, it had been incredibly disturbing, especially the one part where she had been back on K-2L when the space pirates attacked.
Samus noted that her headache, which had been going away, had suddenly intensified in response to the-vision? hallucination?-for whatever reason, and her hands and feet felt weighted down, as if something was holding them. The feeling was rapidly going away, and Samus decided NOT to linger in case what had just happened was caused by some type of creature in the vicinity. She downloaded the most recent records (the past month and a half or so) of the motion sensor map into her suit's database for later viewing and quickly hurried (stumbled, more accurately) out of the room.
Samus immediately realized that she was not in the right hallway to go back to the elevator shaft, and was about to turn around to leave when she heard a shuffling noise. Looking back, she noticed a lone space pirate stumbling towards her. She was about to fire at it when she noticed several things wrong with it.
Aside from a giant, gaping chest and neck wound, the space pirates' arms and one of its legs had been broken in several places, yet it was still shuffling towards her. Samus fired a single blast from her power beam at it, and the pirate immediately collapsed on the ground. Moving towards it, she decided to inspect it to see how it had been moving. Her suit's gloves allowed for some thermal penetration, but when she touched the pirate it was freezing, and initial scans indicated a 75% blood loss. It had to have been dead for at least a week, yet she had seen it walking around a second earlier.
Samus mumbled "This keeps getting stranger and stranger..." to herself before standing up. She decided to look around a bit more before leaving this deck to try and find out more of what happened on the station. Walking down the hallway, she noticed several areas on the walls where there was evidence of blasts from energy weapons. The Delta Metroid had, at least from what she had seen, not used any long-range projectiles, so what had done this? Opening a door at the end of the hallway, Samus came into one of the large rooms that had a large group of data terminals for that deck. Looking around, she noticed something on two of the terminals that was slightly disturbing. One had the same crew numbers on the terminal, but one gave it according to the motion-sensor data- it was mostly the same, but it gave current crew numbers as "3,105".
This was shocking-there was a group of 3,000 space pirates that were somehow still moving after death. Samus stared at it for a few seconds, before looking at a small error message on the bottom of the monitor talking about "a minor disagreement between data. Please check for errors".
Minor disagreement, indeed.
Suddenly, something struck Samus. She ran back to the room with the motion- sensor camera data and looked at it. When she had been here a few minutes ago there had been about 60 dots moving, and now there was 5,000 or so, mostly on decks around hers. She wondered where they had just come from, when she thought of something.
The data terminals about the Delta Metroid had said it had a small amount of psychic ability, and most of its abilities were improving constantly. Could it somehow be controlling the bodies?
She shook her head at the ridiculous notion, but it was the only thing making any sense at the moment. She walked out of the room before she turned around and stared at the monitor in shock.
Most of the dots that had appeared suddenly were all moving towards her.
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Note about the chapter length: Some people have mentioned that the chapters are a bit short. Well, I have more chapters to compensate. I'm currently up to about 16 and I'm nowhere near finished this.
After about a minute, Samus slowly stood up, stumbled a few times, then leaned against a wall. She felt much the same way a drunk person would, and almost vomited again from the sensation.
Whatever had just happened, it had been incredibly disturbing, especially the one part where she had been back on K-2L when the space pirates attacked.
Samus noted that her headache, which had been going away, had suddenly intensified in response to the-vision? hallucination?-for whatever reason, and her hands and feet felt weighted down, as if something was holding them. The feeling was rapidly going away, and Samus decided NOT to linger in case what had just happened was caused by some type of creature in the vicinity. She downloaded the most recent records (the past month and a half or so) of the motion sensor map into her suit's database for later viewing and quickly hurried (stumbled, more accurately) out of the room.
Samus immediately realized that she was not in the right hallway to go back to the elevator shaft, and was about to turn around to leave when she heard a shuffling noise. Looking back, she noticed a lone space pirate stumbling towards her. She was about to fire at it when she noticed several things wrong with it.
Aside from a giant, gaping chest and neck wound, the space pirates' arms and one of its legs had been broken in several places, yet it was still shuffling towards her. Samus fired a single blast from her power beam at it, and the pirate immediately collapsed on the ground. Moving towards it, she decided to inspect it to see how it had been moving. Her suit's gloves allowed for some thermal penetration, but when she touched the pirate it was freezing, and initial scans indicated a 75% blood loss. It had to have been dead for at least a week, yet she had seen it walking around a second earlier.
Samus mumbled "This keeps getting stranger and stranger..." to herself before standing up. She decided to look around a bit more before leaving this deck to try and find out more of what happened on the station. Walking down the hallway, she noticed several areas on the walls where there was evidence of blasts from energy weapons. The Delta Metroid had, at least from what she had seen, not used any long-range projectiles, so what had done this? Opening a door at the end of the hallway, Samus came into one of the large rooms that had a large group of data terminals for that deck. Looking around, she noticed something on two of the terminals that was slightly disturbing. One had the same crew numbers on the terminal, but one gave it according to the motion-sensor data- it was mostly the same, but it gave current crew numbers as "3,105".
This was shocking-there was a group of 3,000 space pirates that were somehow still moving after death. Samus stared at it for a few seconds, before looking at a small error message on the bottom of the monitor talking about "a minor disagreement between data. Please check for errors".
Minor disagreement, indeed.
Suddenly, something struck Samus. She ran back to the room with the motion- sensor camera data and looked at it. When she had been here a few minutes ago there had been about 60 dots moving, and now there was 5,000 or so, mostly on decks around hers. She wondered where they had just come from, when she thought of something.
The data terminals about the Delta Metroid had said it had a small amount of psychic ability, and most of its abilities were improving constantly. Could it somehow be controlling the bodies?
She shook her head at the ridiculous notion, but it was the only thing making any sense at the moment. She walked out of the room before she turned around and stared at the monitor in shock.
Most of the dots that had appeared suddenly were all moving towards her.
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Note about the chapter length: Some people have mentioned that the chapters are a bit short. Well, I have more chapters to compensate. I'm currently up to about 16 and I'm nowhere near finished this.