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Samus Aran and other metroid features © Nintendo

THE AGE OF PHAZON

CHAPTER 1

The mist that had leaked into the compound was thick, and made it hard to see in any visor. Samus stood up from crouch and switched back to combat mode.

She leapt down off the high rise floor grate and onto the floor of the compound. Her boots shuddered as she landed on more grating. She walked forward through the mist, holding her arm cannon firmly with her hand incase of attack. The faint clank of metal on metal as she pursued endlessly through the compound.

She was searching for a well known danger throughout the galaxy to many. She couldn't help thinking. Was she hunting it, or was it hunting her? She came to a dead end, a wall was blocking her way. Though the wall wasn't the full height of the compound and had a ladder on it. She looked up and zoomed in with her scan visor. She detected an unstable ledge near the top where she could jump onto. She moved her head back down to scan the ladder. It was made of Bendezium. An increidibly old metal, so why it was in a space pirate security facility she didn't know. Maybe that's the reason it was shut down, too easy for their experimental life forms to escape from. She began to look for structural defficiencies. The ladder already looked a bit dated.

Anna, Samus' onboard computer began scouring out information and echoing it around Samus' helmet.

"Schematics show, that any weight over 5 fractic grams placed on any step of the ladder, and it will buckle under pressure." tuning out buzz. Samus took her fingers off the side of helmet and looked back up at the ledge she'd scaned. She crouched down and activated the screw attack mode on her left boot, she shot up the shaft, bouncing spinning off the two walls of the vertical alley. She came out of screw attack half way up and used her grapple beam to attach herself to the ledge. She clambered up onto the it and pressed up against the wall to stop herself from falling. As she had her hand against the wall, she felt something that she'd familiarised with before. She looked down and found space pirate blood on her hands, and it was still warm. She thought nothing of it and continued on.

She somersaulted up to the top level of the compound, which was where the ladder, had it not been demolished, of taken her. She stood up after landing to see ripped and severed space pirate corpses, some rotten, and weeks old. Some fresh, with hardly any meat.

She walked further on into the facility, passing more and more corpses. It eventually got too dark, so she switched to thermal visor, hoping to be able to follow the remaining body heat from the dead space pirates. No sooner had she switched to her thermal vision, that it was screwed up by a bright orange line, streaking down the front of her visor. She wiped it off, just to make room for another streak to drip down her helmet. She wiped it again and took a step back, changing into combat visor. She looked up, but it was too dark. But there were still splodges, dripping down onto her face. She shook her head to get it all off and stared down at her arm cannon. She flipped the control panel around and activated power beam. She aimed up and powered up for charge beam. It gave her enough light to see what was up there. She couldn't believe her eyes. She fired a missile up into the foundations of the roof and 3 hooks came undone. She quickly rolled out of the way or she would've been crushed.

2 elite pirates and a plasma pirate by the look of it had been skinned and hung by their feet from the ceiling. They hadn't been killed too long ago because they were still warm, and their blood was also. Though she hated space pirates, she feared what could do this to them. Because one elite pirate was a challenge for Samus alone and all of these dead troops had taken a bashing. Samus turned around and ran as fast as she could, deeper into the facility. Using her charge beam to light the way. She leapt over and passed a great number of space pirate corpses. Some of which were skinned like the ones she had cut down.

She dashed round the corner and let her charge beam fly at a door in-front of her. It burst open and she entered into what looked like a dome. It was huge, like no space pirate structure she'd ever seen before. She switched to scan visor and searched for any weaknesses and structural faults. She couldn't find any. And the door she had entered didn't look like a space pirate door. Up above was a platform, suspended from the roof by four wires, attached to a door that was in the center of the dome. There were half moon platforms, sticking out of the structure everywhere. Ideal for getting up to the top. Samus bounded onto all of the platforms in precesion. She landed on the edge of the last platform, it crumbled a bit and samus looked over to see how far up she'd gotten. She heard a scrambling noise and looked back up to the platform suspended from the roof. A space pirate body, unskinned, was lying there. It was shaking from a trapped nerve probably. Samus looked up to the door above it to see her prey's legs ascend further into the enclave.

She flipped over to the space pirate immediately and fired into the door. It twisted open and she clambered in. Samus couldn't see because it was so dark, so she switched into x-ray visor. She could see it darting away to the right, down a large pillared hall. She lifted her arm cannon and let off a missile that hit the pillar it was headed towards, the blast injured the beast and it screeched as it flew into the air. It was knocked against the wall of the massive room and fell to the floor holding its left arm. Samus got closer, and when she was no more than 4 feet away, it turned its head and looked at her. Its unusual braids hung down over the front of its shoulders and even crouched down, it was still a huge figure, maybe 7' 6. Fluorescent green blood seethed from the wound on its arm which was full of shrapnel and rubble.

It was wearing what looked like some kind of mask. It sized her up, looking up and down, it looked back to the wound which it was covering with its opposite hand. It reached down to the unusual cloth it was wearing and ripped off a shred, then rapping it around the wound to conceal it. It then moved down and activated a switch on its gauntlet. It made an unintelligible sound and then the creature fizzed and dissapeared. Samus could still see it though. Only the outline and fuzzed lines. It'd covered its slash with fabric from the strange cloth it was wearing so it would be hard to track it down. It stood up fully. Samus could tell it was glaring right at her... then, as if to intimidate her, its eyes flashed yellow and then disappeared. Samus couldn't tell quite where it was anymore. It had ran down the great hall and she had lost sight. She could've just used her thermal visor but then it would be disorientated by the fire she'd started with her missile. And the light it was giving off would just knock out the x-rays capabilities. She'd have to kill it the old fashioned way. She ran in the direction it had gone. With Samus' speed dash on at full she would catch up to it in no time at all. She just had to run through all the smashed up doors and walls it had left in its wake. Finally, she came to a hole in the ceiling. It had ripped straight through the magmoorian armoured iron that was the panelling, and had slipped up inside. This thing was strong as hell. Samus knelt down and jumped straight into the hole, just scraping the chest plate or her suit. It was incredibly dark in the small sector that it had smashed up into. The only light Samus could see was from its blood that was dribbled all over the room. The fabric must've fallen off or been lost while it smashed through a door. The lights on the varia suit were her main. It was crouched in the corner with its back to her, eating a space pirate corpse. It was throwing the bones and grissle behind it. Samus looked to the floor, it had taken its mask off.

It stood up and let out, what samus thought to be, a battle cry. This menacing creature was one of the most frightening things Samus had ever faced. The Predator. It turned around in one swift movement. It was the ugliest humanoid samus had ever seen. It had a large head, with beady yellow eyes and four talloned claws around its mouth. Each pair joined by a scour of skin. It screeched another battle cry and leapt at Samus' head. She quickly evaded the attack and shot rapidly at its back. It cringed and shrieked as it was hit, though the fired shots didn't seem to hurt it. It turned around and a three circled laser was beamed onto Samus' abdomen from the right side of its head. Samus looked down at the laser and looked sharply back at the predator. It fired a bluey coloured plasma cell which looked familiar, from its left shoulder which seemed to be mounting some kind of laser cannon. It hit her perfectly in her stomach. Though not damaging her via the suits power, it knocked her back about 10 ft. She flipped back up onto her feet, just in time to catch it running back for another attack.

It was barely a meter away when it branished two 14 inch blades from its left wrist gauntlet. It uppercutted them into the bottom of Samus' breastplate and then out of the top, just barely missing her chest inside. What the metal the blades were made of was unknown to Samus as she had been brought up to believe that chozodian steel, which her suit was made of, was the strongest alloy in the galaxy.

By now she was 2 foot off the ground.

The predator was screaming in supposed victory, but Samus reached up and grabbed a low hanging safety bar and pulled herself up off the blades. The predator was astounded at her stamina. She held herself there and kicked the predator up the mouth. It fell backwards into some old empty chemical batch crates. She dropped down only to be met by another plasma cell hurtling towards her shoulder plate. It collided with the high rised armour, burning and making samus feel like she'd been ruptured by radiation. An immense pain. It sent Samus spinning through the air. She twisted into a wall and fell through it creating a huge hole in the side of the room. She fell almost for 50 meters. She smashed into the floor back first, cracking it and pushing it back up into a mountain of rubble.

The predator fell also and landed on its feet, smashing into the floor and sending cordite everywhere, battering her suit. Samus tried to get up, but only fell back down again. She was huddled on the floor, her suit giving off electrical pulses from its damage. The predator walked over to what he thought to be her corpse. It was drawing near when the body of the believed dead Samus Aran fused into the morph ball mode which enabled chozo warriors to roll into a sphere. She set a morph ball bomb. In the confusion, the predator didn't know what to do. The bomb went off and temporarily blinded the predator. Samus though, was launched into the air and straight at the predators head. She hit him clean in the forehead. She rolled up over the top of him and changed back to her normal status in mid air.

The dazed and hazey sighted predator turned around wearily to see Samus standing, pointing her arm cannon directly at it's head. Samus charged up her arm cannon until she began to shake. The predator yelled out a scream of anger and fear. Samus let off a super missile, directly at it's face.

"See You next Mission...,"

By Ballistic Phazonator 2004