ARKAN SAYS (in advance): OK, I have to admit it: This chapter sucks, and so
does the next one. I don't like either, but I can't think of a damn better
way of writing them, so you're stuck with sucky chapters. I'm not even
going to give them my usual check-for-errors (I wrote this all about a year
ago), because that would require my eyes looking at such crap as would make
them explode.
Yeah, I don't like them.
Chapter 14- The beginning.
Samus dropped to the floor. All nothing. All these years, the death of her parents, all the fighting, come to this: A space pirate experiment that had gone out of control. And that simple little experiment just doomed the galaxy... probably even the entire universe.
She should probably just end it now...
Samus stopped that line of thinking. There had to be a way to stop the dark nightmare. Even if she died, she would make sure it was dead.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that..."
Samus whipped around. The voice sounded like several people speaking at once- the loudest sounding feminine- and oddly distorted. But it had come from... everywhere? Nowhere? Both, if that was possible?
"Beep beep."
There it was again...
Suddenly, the "message incoming" alarm on her visor beeped twice. Samus, with a bit of shock, activated her suit's radio.
"Hello?"
"Samus, i'm receivind a disturbing report from the federation... are there any consoles nearby you can receive this to?"
As a matter of fact, there was (which, she noted, WASN'T hooked to the self- destruct) and she set up a communications channel with her ship. What looked like one of the multitude of news broadcast her ship automatically sorted through for notable events started playing.
"...And we have reports coming from R-26Z, a small colony world, that there's some sort of uprising occuring. This revolt seems to have sprung from nowhere, as the populace has shown no signs of discontent and morale at a military base on the same planet is extremely high. The revolutionaries seem to be targeting whoever they can, and there are unfounded rumors that the dissidents are using some sort of "Re-animation" technology. There are also..."
Samus wondered why Adam had thought this was important... then she ran a check on the location of the planet.
R-26Z was a relatively unimportant planet, used mostly as a supply base and also to mine a rare mineral... but the location was more important.
It was located right outside of the system where Zebes had once been. Where she was now.
And, according to her suit's computer, it had fallen under the Dark Nightmare's influence about an hour ago (give or take about half an hour due to innacuracy).
Two men- Neil and his brother, david- were looking down on the carnage occuring in R-26Z.
They were with the federation military- David was a sniper, Neil was a heavy weapons specialist. They usually hid on an obscure hill with cover while david picked off the enemies and neil gunned down anyone stupid enough to get near them. They were currently some of the few survivors on the planet with the military. For some reason, half of the base had defected over to the revolutionaries- even one man, who Neil thought he had known well, had tried to kill him earlier, before getting several dozen blasts from Neil's gun in the chest.
"God, what is with these people?" David wondered aloud. "They just suddenly decide to revolt for no god-d good reason and kill everyone. Then they just sit around waiting for something, even though I've shot 20... no, 21 in the head" and he reloaded his rifle with another energy cartridge. Neil said "Uhhh... I dunno, maybe they want money or something.... what the HELL?"
The milling dissidents- a mix of civilians armed with everything from outdated pistols, to knives, to beam weapons, and about half of the military troops- suddenly stopped. Every single one stared at the two of them.
David then mumbled "look, I got a transmission... they're sending an evacuation shuttle, we can get out with that with the rest of the guys..."
Neil looked at him and said "well, at least they aren't mo-" he fell to the ground clutching his head, screaming.
David yelled "What? What's wrong?" "MY... HEAD... FIRE... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- " Suddenly, he stopped screaming. "uhhh... Neil?"
Neil stood up with an odd expression on his face, grabbed one of the smaller rifles from his belt, and pointed at david.
"Neil, what the hell are you doing?"
Neil spoke... yet it sounded oddly like... a woman's voice?
"Your brother no longer exists."
"What the hell are y-" The shot that went through David's head ended his sentence, his confusion, and his life.
ARKAN SAYS: I do like that ending, though.
Yeah, I don't like them.
Chapter 14- The beginning.
Samus dropped to the floor. All nothing. All these years, the death of her parents, all the fighting, come to this: A space pirate experiment that had gone out of control. And that simple little experiment just doomed the galaxy... probably even the entire universe.
She should probably just end it now...
Samus stopped that line of thinking. There had to be a way to stop the dark nightmare. Even if she died, she would make sure it was dead.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that..."
Samus whipped around. The voice sounded like several people speaking at once- the loudest sounding feminine- and oddly distorted. But it had come from... everywhere? Nowhere? Both, if that was possible?
"Beep beep."
There it was again...
Suddenly, the "message incoming" alarm on her visor beeped twice. Samus, with a bit of shock, activated her suit's radio.
"Hello?"
"Samus, i'm receivind a disturbing report from the federation... are there any consoles nearby you can receive this to?"
As a matter of fact, there was (which, she noted, WASN'T hooked to the self- destruct) and she set up a communications channel with her ship. What looked like one of the multitude of news broadcast her ship automatically sorted through for notable events started playing.
"...And we have reports coming from R-26Z, a small colony world, that there's some sort of uprising occuring. This revolt seems to have sprung from nowhere, as the populace has shown no signs of discontent and morale at a military base on the same planet is extremely high. The revolutionaries seem to be targeting whoever they can, and there are unfounded rumors that the dissidents are using some sort of "Re-animation" technology. There are also..."
Samus wondered why Adam had thought this was important... then she ran a check on the location of the planet.
R-26Z was a relatively unimportant planet, used mostly as a supply base and also to mine a rare mineral... but the location was more important.
It was located right outside of the system where Zebes had once been. Where she was now.
And, according to her suit's computer, it had fallen under the Dark Nightmare's influence about an hour ago (give or take about half an hour due to innacuracy).
Two men- Neil and his brother, david- were looking down on the carnage occuring in R-26Z.
They were with the federation military- David was a sniper, Neil was a heavy weapons specialist. They usually hid on an obscure hill with cover while david picked off the enemies and neil gunned down anyone stupid enough to get near them. They were currently some of the few survivors on the planet with the military. For some reason, half of the base had defected over to the revolutionaries- even one man, who Neil thought he had known well, had tried to kill him earlier, before getting several dozen blasts from Neil's gun in the chest.
"God, what is with these people?" David wondered aloud. "They just suddenly decide to revolt for no god-d good reason and kill everyone. Then they just sit around waiting for something, even though I've shot 20... no, 21 in the head" and he reloaded his rifle with another energy cartridge. Neil said "Uhhh... I dunno, maybe they want money or something.... what the HELL?"
The milling dissidents- a mix of civilians armed with everything from outdated pistols, to knives, to beam weapons, and about half of the military troops- suddenly stopped. Every single one stared at the two of them.
David then mumbled "look, I got a transmission... they're sending an evacuation shuttle, we can get out with that with the rest of the guys..."
Neil looked at him and said "well, at least they aren't mo-" he fell to the ground clutching his head, screaming.
David yelled "What? What's wrong?" "MY... HEAD... FIRE... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- " Suddenly, he stopped screaming. "uhhh... Neil?"
Neil stood up with an odd expression on his face, grabbed one of the smaller rifles from his belt, and pointed at david.
"Neil, what the hell are you doing?"
Neil spoke... yet it sounded oddly like... a woman's voice?
"Your brother no longer exists."
"What the hell are y-" The shot that went through David's head ended his sentence, his confusion, and his life.
ARKAN SAYS: I do like that ending, though.