Chapter 13-Uh oh!
The Dark Nightmare twisted around, noticing it had missed Samus, and ran forward-Samus noticed it had gotten quite a bit faster-
Unfortunatley, samus wasn't doing much noticing after that as it almost stepped on her, though she dodged, and fired a plasma beam at its head. Unfortunately it didn't do anything and it turned around and its hyper beam burned a hole in the floor where Samus had been a second ago (why did she have to have lost it with the rest of her suit systems?). Samus fired a diffusion missile at it, which had an effect... a very small one. The dark nightmare flinched, then looked around for Samus... who was running out the way she came.
Samus knew she couldn't kill it with her current weapons- but, unfortunately, there were no convenient Metroid hatchlings around to leech the hyper beam from the dark nightmare and give it to her, so she was stuck. She could just self-destruct the station the second she could, which would kill two birds with one stone...
Samus got to the room connected to the Cargo elevator shaft and jumped out. She moved quickly down to the first level, where the self-destruct mechanism was supposed to be.
There was another gaping hole in the deck wall down here. This was a cause for panic. If the dark nightmare had disabled the self-destruct mechanism, she-and pretty much everything alive-was as good as dead. She was about to go in when she heard an odd 'whoosh' noise... like a large object moving quickly towards he-
Samus moved to the side just as the dark nightmare slammed into the bottom of the shaft, creating a huge dent in the bottom. She had forgotten its wings... there was no other way it could've gotten down the shaft so quickly. There wasn't much time for speculation, since it fired its hyper beam and blew a large hole in the wall. Samus couldn't fight it down here; one wrong hyper beam shot and it might open to vacuum, exposing her to a slow, painful death as her suit's life support systems gave out...
But that wasn't going to happen. Samus had to figure out some way of getting it back up the shaft so she could get into the deck 1, which the Dark Nightmare was currently blocking. Something was nagging her, but she didn't exactly have time to remember what it was as another hyper beam flew past her and burned a hole in the wall. Samus fired a missile at it, which did nothing as expected but distracted the Dark Nightmare...
Samus almost hit herself; of course, since there was no gravity, anything she shot at it would make it move in the other direction. She started firing all her super missiles at it; none harmed it, but it started moving.
An insistent beeping informed her she had 5 missiles left, but too late- the dark nightmare had realized what was going on, but it was already moving past level 5. Samus practically flew into the door for level 1.
Samus had to find some way to seal the door... Ah, of course! Hopefully, this station had standard safety systems... Samus switched to her Plasma beam and fired a shot at the door.
As expected, 3 reinforced blast shields dropped over it just as something large (guess what?) slammed against it. By the time it got through, Samus would find another way off the deck. Samus turned around for the self- destruct mechanism...
...and stared at the galaxy's death.
The self-destruct mechanism had been torn out of the wall.
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ARKAN SEZ: Yyyeaahhh, this one's kinda short, as are the next few. They're also kinda sucky. I started getting writer's block at the time... because school had started. Speaking of which, school just ended for me, so I'll probably have a regular updating schedule now until I run out of prewritten chapters.
The Dark Nightmare twisted around, noticing it had missed Samus, and ran forward-Samus noticed it had gotten quite a bit faster-
Unfortunatley, samus wasn't doing much noticing after that as it almost stepped on her, though she dodged, and fired a plasma beam at its head. Unfortunately it didn't do anything and it turned around and its hyper beam burned a hole in the floor where Samus had been a second ago (why did she have to have lost it with the rest of her suit systems?). Samus fired a diffusion missile at it, which had an effect... a very small one. The dark nightmare flinched, then looked around for Samus... who was running out the way she came.
Samus knew she couldn't kill it with her current weapons- but, unfortunately, there were no convenient Metroid hatchlings around to leech the hyper beam from the dark nightmare and give it to her, so she was stuck. She could just self-destruct the station the second she could, which would kill two birds with one stone...
Samus got to the room connected to the Cargo elevator shaft and jumped out. She moved quickly down to the first level, where the self-destruct mechanism was supposed to be.
There was another gaping hole in the deck wall down here. This was a cause for panic. If the dark nightmare had disabled the self-destruct mechanism, she-and pretty much everything alive-was as good as dead. She was about to go in when she heard an odd 'whoosh' noise... like a large object moving quickly towards he-
Samus moved to the side just as the dark nightmare slammed into the bottom of the shaft, creating a huge dent in the bottom. She had forgotten its wings... there was no other way it could've gotten down the shaft so quickly. There wasn't much time for speculation, since it fired its hyper beam and blew a large hole in the wall. Samus couldn't fight it down here; one wrong hyper beam shot and it might open to vacuum, exposing her to a slow, painful death as her suit's life support systems gave out...
But that wasn't going to happen. Samus had to figure out some way of getting it back up the shaft so she could get into the deck 1, which the Dark Nightmare was currently blocking. Something was nagging her, but she didn't exactly have time to remember what it was as another hyper beam flew past her and burned a hole in the wall. Samus fired a missile at it, which did nothing as expected but distracted the Dark Nightmare...
Samus almost hit herself; of course, since there was no gravity, anything she shot at it would make it move in the other direction. She started firing all her super missiles at it; none harmed it, but it started moving.
An insistent beeping informed her she had 5 missiles left, but too late- the dark nightmare had realized what was going on, but it was already moving past level 5. Samus practically flew into the door for level 1.
Samus had to find some way to seal the door... Ah, of course! Hopefully, this station had standard safety systems... Samus switched to her Plasma beam and fired a shot at the door.
As expected, 3 reinforced blast shields dropped over it just as something large (guess what?) slammed against it. By the time it got through, Samus would find another way off the deck. Samus turned around for the self- destruct mechanism...
...and stared at the galaxy's death.
The self-destruct mechanism had been torn out of the wall.
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ARKAN SEZ: Yyyeaahhh, this one's kinda short, as are the next few. They're also kinda sucky. I started getting writer's block at the time... because school had started. Speaking of which, school just ended for me, so I'll probably have a regular updating schedule now until I run out of prewritten chapters.