Metroid Ultima saga: Episode 10 X Vs. Predator Part 1

Samus sat on the bridge of the XGP, her feet plopped up against the controls. Pete had avoided her ever since that little incident at the casino, 3 days ago. Samus decided if he wasn't going to talk to her she'd have to talk to him. She got up and walked over to him. "Pete look, about the other da….." Pete then cut her off. "Look lay off ok, its not like I care about you. Ever since you came here bad things started happening!!!!!!!!" Pete stormed off the bridge in anger.

Samus sat back down, it didn't make he had a reason to be mad but he didn't have to bite her head off. Jade looked at Samus and got a nasty idea. "Samus do you really think Pete cares for you?" Jade asked. Samus blushed slightly and turned away from her. "Pete means nothing to me!" Samus replied. "Well Pete has plenty of girls to go around. He's just using you in a amusement matter. Jade said, as a wicked crossed her face.

Samus got up and walked out of the room. Lee walked over to Jade and sighed. "Jade you don't like Pete, your just jealous of the fact that he and Samus are beginning to like each other. You cant have every man you want." Jade looked at Lee and said nothing.

Samus found Pete sitting in the engine room with his head plopped back. "Pete is it true?" Samus asked. Pete looked up at her with a confused look. "Is what true." He asked. Samus sat down next to him. "That's you only use me for your amusement." Pete looked at Samus like she was crazy. "Samus that's insane."

Samus turned away from him. "Look you can lie all you want." Samus yelled. Pete was getting irritated . "Ok, fine tell me Sam, what do I mean to you?" Pete asked. Samus blushed furiously. "Look we are just friends ok. There's nothing between us!!!!!" Samus yelled. The COM link beeped, and Lee's voice was heard. "Ok guy I got the briefing from HQ, you two can work out your relationship issues later. "Screw you Lee."

Once they got up to the bridge, Lee showed them the brifeng.

A distress call has been received from an old GF biologics vessel, that we lost contact with 2 years ago. Space pirate vessels have been spotted near it. Since Ultima is in control of the pirates we believe he wants to steal valuable specimens from this ship. Your mission is to search for any human life, neutralize all pirates.

Lee turned off the briefing and turned to them. "Ok we are in orbit now." The four of them went into there quarter bays and 5 minutes later emerged fully armored. Lee connected the transport tube to the vessel. As soon as they entered the vessel, it was easy to tell that something had happened.

Their were different types of gunk on the walls. As they walked through the halls Samus scanned every single piece she passed. "Must you do that?" Jade asked in an annoying voice. Samus said nothing. Once they came to a locked door, Jade tried to get out of it. "Well I guess we cant go, lets bail." Lee stuck his arm cannon into a slot on the wall, the door then opened. "Not with Lee around, he can hack anything. He's somewhat of a genius." Pete said, with a smirk behind his visor. Samus began to get that feeling again, it wasn't possible the SA-X was dead, the X were dead.

"Well I cant access the system from here, I need to get to a main computer." Lee was interested in what type of shape the mainframe was in. The doors closed behind them as they crossed into the other side. Samus switched on her pulsar visor. It showed 1 bio sign in the area. "Keep your eyes peeled." Samus didn't know what was on this ship, and she didn't want to encounter anything and not be ready. Once they crossed a corner, footsteps could be heard, not foot steps but a large jumping sound.

Samus looked down at the grayish creature, with a green top. It was a side hopper, once it spotted them it lunged at Samus immediately. She moved out of its way as it slammed into the wall. Samus shot it with a super missile, it then exploded into smoke. Once it cleared their was nothing left but a small yellow, gelatinous life form. "X!!!!" Samus thought to herself. Samus touched it with her hand as it sunk into the armor, and into her body.

Lee gave Samus a funny look from behind his visor. "Samus what was that?" He asked. Samus turned towards him and spoke. "That was an X parasite, a life form which I thought to be extinct. On my mission on BSL I exterminated them, so I thought." Samus still couldn't believe that these things still existed. Lee knew what she was talking about. "You mean those mutant pieces of jell, that absorbs the DNA of its host, then it mimics them." Lee was trying to ass humor to it, but Samus wasn't laughing.

"You know maybe I might be seeing double." Pete pointed at a figure that you could have said was Samus. Samus looked at the figure, it was indeed the SA-X. "Don't make any sudden movements." Samus nudged Pete to stay behind her. But as usual he pulled in idiot move. He shot the SA-X with the wave buster. The4 SA-X tried to pry itself out of the beams path but it made no use. It then shot Pete with a super missile, canceling out the wave buster and knocking Pete 10 fee t backwards.

Pete obviously hadn't had enough, as he shot at the SA-X continuously. Every super missile he fired didn't make a difference, the SA-X just took the hits, while firing back at him. It seized him with the grapple beam, pulled him towards itself, and shot him right in the gut with a super missile. Once Pete got to his feet Lee gave him his status. "Pete let Samus handle it from here you've only got 30 life points left!!!!!"

Pete ignored him and pointed his cannon at the SA-X. In the place of a super missile only a click was heard. It clicked 7 times more before Pete got the picture. "Well don't that beat all, I'm outta missiles." Samus rolled her eyes and said. "Now were screwed." The SA-X began to charge something up, blue energy sucked into its cannon like a vacuum. Pete switched to his plasma beam, and began to charge it up. Lee knew it was time to let Samus take over. " Pete stop. You cant cancel out that blast its impossible." Pete just stood there eyeing the SA-X. Just as it was letting its blast go, Samus tackled him out of its way and took the blast for him. What you may have thought was a normal blast was a barrage of missiles beams and what not

Samus turned to nothing but a glimmer of different colored light as numerous explosions were heard. As the smoke cleared a small computerized voice could be heard. "Suit offline." Samus just laid there uncurious A large object which looked like a metal spider latched onto the SA-X's back. The SA-X fell to 1 knee as it tried to pry the spider off its back. Lee looked behind the SA-X to see a tall man with body armor and a rifle standing there. "Bring her over here and lets go!!!" The man yelled.

Pete picked up the uncurious Samus in his arms and ran over to the man with Lee, and Jade. He was standing next to a small opening. "This way." The man said. They stepped into the opening, as the man pushed a red button on the wall causing the doors to close. The small space which they stood began to descend downward. Pete pulled off his helmet as he looked at the man with thanks. "How'd a bunch of kids like you get on this ship?" The man asked.

Lee told him what they had been sent here for. "Names Jack by the way." The elevator descended for about 5 minutes, it then hit the bottom and the 2 metal doors opened. What you may have thought was an abandoned ship on the outside, was like a space colony. Many people lived on this floor. Jack told them that a virus created here had escaped into the many air vents, and somehow corrupted all the creatures here. It caused them to go insane.

Jack led Lee to a main computer, he then stuck his arm cannon into a slot and, a whole map of the ship showed up on the screen. He took his cannon out and turned his suit off.