Chapter 8- Impossibilities
Samus looked at the small holographic display of the station which was currently telling her 5,000 space pirates had appeared out of thin air and were moving towards her. She couldn't stay there; not even she could kill 5,000 space pirates by herself if they swarmed her all at once. Checking the map, Samus noticed a small matinence elevator on the opposite side of the deck that she could use to get out, and she began heading towards it.
According to a side note that was on the map, there were three main elevators on the station. One was the main passenger elevator, one was about half as big and was for matinence, and the last was very large and used to transport large equipment to parts of the station. The cargo elevator did not actually have an elevator in it, and was usually the only part of the station not affected by the artificial gravity. However, it only had exits on about half of the decks-none of them where she was- and all of the mysteriously-appearing blips were moving towards the normal elevator, hence the decision to use the matinence elevator. However, they usually ran on automatic so she would probably end up wherever the computer's last directions had ordered it to go to.
Samus came into another security checkpoint- this one with actual camera controls. She decided to look at some of the earlier entries in the system. The first thing she noticed was that there was a period between 2 months and 1 month ago where all the entries had been deleted. Samus stared at it for a few seconds. Yet another mystery; it was supposed to be PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to erase data from these because they had biological components in them. She decided to check some of the more recent things to maybe see what was going on.
She first checked the past hour on the research deck. Fast-forwarding, it was as she had seen it... then she walked through...
Suddenly, a few seconds after she left, the corpses stood up.
They stood up.
She rewound it to make sure she wasn't hallucinating.
She wasn't.
"What the HELL?"
She stared at it before noticing the footage on the next screen. They all played the same times simultaneously, so it was showing the room where she had been researching some information on the computer. The Delta Metroid walked in and-she was shocked to notice- it stood there staring at her for about a minute before walking closer. Then, in the footage, she got up... they fought...
Suddenly, she noticed yet another strange thing. She rewound it. It showed her firing her plasma beam...
... she missed it. She rewound it again and slowed it down.
It showed her firing the beam...
...it traveled slowly through the air...
...and somehow vanished in midair, 6 inches from the Delta Metroid.
Samus muttered "It just gets stranger and stranger..." to herself before looking back at the other screen, where the corpses-or were they still alive, somehow?-had walked out of the room, staggering, she noticed with some shock, in the same way the space pirate from before had.
She was so caught up watching the security footage almost didn't hear the main elevator activating.
She did, though, and immediately realized she had wasted enough time and ran towards the matinence elevator.
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ARKAN: Sorry about that delay, stuff happens. But more stuff is happening, and this'll be updated more sporadically (about once a week). Sorry folks.
And did I misspell "Matinence"?
PS: Golden sun: The Lost Age rules!
Samus looked at the small holographic display of the station which was currently telling her 5,000 space pirates had appeared out of thin air and were moving towards her. She couldn't stay there; not even she could kill 5,000 space pirates by herself if they swarmed her all at once. Checking the map, Samus noticed a small matinence elevator on the opposite side of the deck that she could use to get out, and she began heading towards it.
According to a side note that was on the map, there were three main elevators on the station. One was the main passenger elevator, one was about half as big and was for matinence, and the last was very large and used to transport large equipment to parts of the station. The cargo elevator did not actually have an elevator in it, and was usually the only part of the station not affected by the artificial gravity. However, it only had exits on about half of the decks-none of them where she was- and all of the mysteriously-appearing blips were moving towards the normal elevator, hence the decision to use the matinence elevator. However, they usually ran on automatic so she would probably end up wherever the computer's last directions had ordered it to go to.
Samus came into another security checkpoint- this one with actual camera controls. She decided to look at some of the earlier entries in the system. The first thing she noticed was that there was a period between 2 months and 1 month ago where all the entries had been deleted. Samus stared at it for a few seconds. Yet another mystery; it was supposed to be PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to erase data from these because they had biological components in them. She decided to check some of the more recent things to maybe see what was going on.
She first checked the past hour on the research deck. Fast-forwarding, it was as she had seen it... then she walked through...
Suddenly, a few seconds after she left, the corpses stood up.
They stood up.
She rewound it to make sure she wasn't hallucinating.
She wasn't.
"What the HELL?"
She stared at it before noticing the footage on the next screen. They all played the same times simultaneously, so it was showing the room where she had been researching some information on the computer. The Delta Metroid walked in and-she was shocked to notice- it stood there staring at her for about a minute before walking closer. Then, in the footage, she got up... they fought...
Suddenly, she noticed yet another strange thing. She rewound it. It showed her firing her plasma beam...
... she missed it. She rewound it again and slowed it down.
It showed her firing the beam...
...it traveled slowly through the air...
...and somehow vanished in midair, 6 inches from the Delta Metroid.
Samus muttered "It just gets stranger and stranger..." to herself before looking back at the other screen, where the corpses-or were they still alive, somehow?-had walked out of the room, staggering, she noticed with some shock, in the same way the space pirate from before had.
She was so caught up watching the security footage almost didn't hear the main elevator activating.
She did, though, and immediately realized she had wasted enough time and ran towards the matinence elevator.
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ARKAN: Sorry about that delay, stuff happens. But more stuff is happening, and this'll be updated more sporadically (about once a week). Sorry folks.
And did I misspell "Matinence"?
PS: Golden sun: The Lost Age rules!