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CHAPTER 7
Madman, and an alliance of sorts
The Hunters turned to see the door slam shut, and then they heard things come, clawlike limbs ripping at the stone floor. Squall grabbed the closest one and threw it at a wall.
"SHADOW! Form up! Don't let them touch you!" Squall ordered.
One of the SHADOW shot its right arm at Montague, he weaved around it, Elenor pumped rounds of Photon bullets into its armored carapace, bringing it down quickly. It wasn't done however, and it shot a crimson beam at Sean, who saw it too late.
It hit him in the chest, but instead of vaporizing him like it would a normal Human, it merely disapated against him. He stared for a second, then somehow, he cast a devistating variation of Foie at it, lighting it ablaze. It exploded seconds later, splatering them all with a hot bluegreen muck. "So nasty!" Sarah said as she flung some of it off of herself, into the eyes of another SHADOW, who was temporarily blinded by the melted remains of its ally. Blinded...long enough for Squall to run his RED SABER through it like it was paper.
Sean noted that Squal seemed to be driven by some madness, the way he fought these so-called SHADOW. He was everywhere, running around them and slashing them to pieces, even clawing and biting at one of them.
Sean shrugged and saw twenty SHADOW who had Sarah, David, Montague and Elenor trapped in a corner.
"DAMN YOU! GET AWAY FROM THEM!" He said and a single thought ran thorugh his mind, destroy.
A swift wind picked up suddenly, derbis swirling about them insanely. The SHADOW found themselves trapped within collums of burning light.....light that a second later, intensified to an insane degree, ionizing them as if some kind of beam cannon had fired upon them. He then whirled about to face a good couple dozen more as they came from holes in the walls. He merely looked at them and they were suddenly engulfed in searing flames. The others had stopped fighting, transfixed by this insane spectacle. All, but Squall, who was chewing on the arm of one SHADOW that was entwined around him like a feral creature of darkness. Soon though, the only SHADOW left was the one still clinging to Squall like a vice, and paying for it, as it soon resembaled a velociraptor's chewtoy more than what it had once been. Once it was finished off, they took a few minutes to recover......Sean saw Squall rush off, into the next room, and Sean followed him. He ran, the distance increasing as Squall outpaced him quickly.
When Squall finally vanished past a corner, Sean floowed and when he heard fighting in the next room, he quickened his pace even more.
What he had expected was to see Squall hacking a SHADOW into pieces....
instead....
what he saw of what looked like Squall more resembaled a feral creature of some sort, wild red hair flowing behind it as it lept upon a SHADOW, using its clawed feet to latch onto it and ripping at the SHADOW's face with its clawed hands.
It pushed the SHADOW back as it lept off of it's chest, the SHADOW burst aflame and exploded, Squall or whatever looked kinda like him was already on another SHADOW. Squall (Sean assumed this) had his jaws clamped down on the SHADOW's long neck, fire in his eyes. The now mauled SHADOW fell to the ground and exploded, the room now looking more like Hell than a stone ruin, with flaming chucks of SHADOW and even BURNING STONE (however the heck the stone was burning) everywhere. even the walls were aflame.
Soon, the others arrived, now staring horified at the hellish visage of a mad fiend beating a SHADOW over its head with its own right arm, flames burning all around him and his hair was on fire. Suddenly, Sean saw a blur, red and white, arrive, pursuing several fleeing and panicked SHADOW, leaping from one to another and mauling them. Soon, the madman and the android were fighting along side oneanother, as were the rest of the Hunters, against larger, nastier SHADOW. "Beta SHADOW!" Squall rasped wildly and beheaded one with a beam of fire, running the beam down the rest of it to finish the job.
Sarah lept onto the back of one SHADOW and began stabing repeatedly with her Buster, over and over again. it fell, and she lepted off, using it as a springboard for her jump onto another SHADOW, who got knocked over by David as he was sent flying into it by another Beta SHADOW who had punched him in the head, hard. He got up and saw the face of an enraged SHADOW looming just infront of him, its mouth opening and reveiling rows of teeth that moved like a chainsaw. "Gah!" David shouted and hit it with Grants right to the head, causing it to blow away like a flashbomb had detonated in its mouth.
"Nice kill, David!" Montague shouted from across the room, giving him a thumbs up as he lashed out at several SHADOW with several Gizonde shots, shocking the SHADOW and causing them to explode.
Elenor saw a SHADOW sneaking up behind the Doctor and unloaded on it with two LK-14 Combats. It fell and detonated.
Sean sensed something amis. He spun around and saw a man before him......FLOATING!
"What the-!?"
The man laughed and floated out of the room. By that time, all of the SHADOW in the room had fallen. Sean followed the floating man, but quickly lost him, so he came back to the main group.
Squall found himself the target of many a gawker. They staered at him, waiting for him to say something, such as an explanation....or just anything. He bolted suddenly, unable to think of anything else to do but run in panic.
They followed him, soon finding that he had been running for the outside.
hey entered the main entrance, and found that the stone door had been melted into oblivion.
The exited through the gaping hole in it and found him standing very still............staring at a floating creature, vaugly resembaling an aquatinc organism of some sort.
It had pinchers on its underside, and a red triple nucleus in its core. It had an exterior that was semi-transparent.
Chirping wildly, it rushed at him, he braced himself to lunge in return, but was knocked aside by the red and white blur, the Android, who lactched onto it to slow it down. Montague hit the thing with Gibarta to freeze it, the Android jabbing a bladed hand through it to shatter it.
The Android landed upright, and stared for a moment at the shatered peices of the unknown organism.
"Metroid, this unit's namesake. perhaps one of the most dangerous creatures in this galaxy." It said.
It turned to face them. "It seems that this unit has underestimated you all. This unit did not think that any of you aside from the Valka.." it paused and glansed at Squall, before continuing face and defeat a single SHADOW, fighting as a group against it, and win...but this unit has indeed been mistaken." it said.
"This unit applauds you all for your skill. This unit requests to join you, under a condition......" it said.
"Name it." Montague said.
"This unit is in need of assistance in eliminating a threat to itself, its creators wish to end this unit's functions, they wish to terminate this unit. This unit does not desire termination." It said.
Montague thought for a moment, then turned to the others.
"I kinda am curious about that Android, so if none of you object, I think we need an new ally....and I'm willing to take on its enemy if necacary." he said to them, they gave various gestures and comments of assent to his plan, and he turned toward the Android.
"You have a deal. What is you name, anyway?" Montague asked.
The Android glanced at the melting remains of the terminated Metroid.
"This unit's designation is Metroid-ZERO." the Android said, as it removed the ridged helmet on its head, reveiling a humanoid face with redish eyes with no pupils.
