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CHAPTER 9
Hunter's Bane
The CEO of Sentinel Electronics walked into the meeting room of General Aerodyne.
"What is it that was so important that I had to be dragged away from my weekly training?" Garon said, irritated. "Cool your jets old man." The CEO of General Aerodyne, Christine Shackle, said to him ofhand. She regarded him through an artificail eye, the red glowing lens glaring coldly. "Your late. Shall we start this bloody meeting then?" she said, the various corporate types around them nodding their assent.
"Alright." She said, and rose from her seat. she hit a control on her desk, a holographic display activating.
On it, was a holograph of schematics for a new model Android, the HUcaseasl-Nu. "This is our latest model of combat Androud, a female-type unit. We have at least twenty batches already made, and ready to use at any time, however, I want to wait to deploy until we absolutely need them. However, I am makeing an exception for ten of the highgrade variants, designed and modified to take down the Prototype unit. This HUcaseal-Nu series is code named Metroid, after the organisms encountered thirty-odd years ago, on our way to this nightmare of a planet. The Prototype that escaped is designated as Metroid-ZERO. It has several redundantcy systems installed to render it useless if it were to go Maverick, however, it seems to have overridden them all, indicating an advanced inteligence....either that, or someone else has overridden them and then allowed it to go on its way, killing and maiming as it maraudes about the ship." She said. One of the corporates yawned. She hit the man with her right arm, a cybernetic unit. He fell out of his seat, unconcious. "no yawning." she said, and continued with her tiresome retoric.
Just as she opened her mouth to speak, an alarm rang loudly, and the emergency lights activated, bathing them all in a ruddy glow. "what the bloody hell is going on now?!" She said.
"Ma'am! LOOK DOWN BELOW!" one of the younger, more excitable ones urged. She complyed, curious to see what he was blabering about, and stopped still in her tracks as she saw what was happening.
"Grrr........terminate them, NOW!" she roared at a blue and red HUcaseal-Nu unit, of the Metroid Series. "Yes, ma'am, this unit will comply." it said, and proceded down to the main courtyard, where a major fight was being fought.
"Squall! We won't be able to get in there, if we just sit around and blow drones to bits from here, we have to get in!" Montague said.
"Roger that! I will keep them occupied while you all get inside." Squall told them, Sarah looked at him for a seco0nd, then followed the others as they snuck toward the entrance doors. Squall jumped out from behind the stone statue of an ancient Android, named Wren. He ran at the combat drones and began blasting at them with beams of fire.
Suddenly, a blue and red blur streaked by Squall and attacked ZERO. She took off at it and the two units began pumuling eachother, now both hovering about a good ten meters above the ground, still beating at eachother. Clangs could be heard as metal fists connected. Squall saw another form coming at them, a large one. "Dang, another combat unit!?"
"Hello, Squall. We meet again! Say hello to Hunter's Bane, my newest weapon, made just to destroy you!" A familiar, hateful voice sounded at him from loudspeakers built into its head.
"No....it can't be......" Squall said, looking up at the top floor of the General Aerodyne building, just as he suspected, the CEO, Christine Shackle, was standing in the window, glareing at him. He made much eye rollage, and jumped at the bulky, murderous Android.
"Don't even try it." She said, and speakers rose from its shoulders.
A loud, uber-highpitched screech sounded from the speakers.
"HOLY-!?!?" Squall began to say, until he could take no more, and fell to the ground clutching his head. Even on the other side of the compound, Sean could hear a horrible sound. "What the blazes is THAT!?" He asked. Montague shrugged, unsure of it.
Up above them, now twenty meters in the air, ZERO drove her right hand into the Mass-Pro type version of herself 's torso and ruined the powercore, a small fusion furnace. She withdrew her hand quickly and drifted back to avoid the blast that came a moment later as the power core detonated. The ridged helmet began to fall but she caught it, and threw it right at the left speaker on Hunter's Bane.
Squall saw a head, or at least a helmet impact with the left speaker of doom, and destroy it, the sound output was down enough to be somewhat tolerable now, and he quickly destroyed the other speaker to prevent it from makeing the sound worse.
"You insurferable bleep! I will destroy you yet! MEGA-PARTICLE-BEAM-CANNON!" She bellowed insanely at him as a panel on the chest of the Android opened and a long barreled cannon extended from it. "I don't think so!" Squall said and hit it with a blast of fire from the inside of the cannon, ruining the fireing mechanism. "BLAST YOU SQUALL! DIE! JUST DIE SQUALL!" She screamed at him, before she turned to face the barrel of Elenor's rifle.
"We got her, Squall, and the others. They are currently unconcious, by the way." Montague said to Squall through the loudspeaker that Ms. Psyco had been accousting him from. "You, you won't get away with this.......you are too foolish for that......this is a hologram of myself, and you can shoot if you want to bother, little android girl." She said, mocking Elenor. The hologram vanished. "Dang it!" Sean could be heard in the background....all these voices coming out of Hunter's Bane's mouth were confusing it....It finally shortcircited and collapsed, sparking and smokeing.
ZERO finished it off by demolishing its power core. It went boom and the others were ready to leave when.......
They found themselves surrounded by blue and red Mass-Pro versions of ZERO.........
