AGE OF PHAZON
Chapter 3
The ship jerked violently. Samus woke up at her controls on board the hunter. Anna had noticed Samus had fallen asleep and programmed an auto pilot to GFP research lab Beta-57. The ship had come out of hyperspace and entered the artificial asteroid belt surrounding the space station. Samus punched in an access code to turn automatic pilot off. Beep "automatic pilot terminated, manual overide accepted, welcome back miss Aran" Beep. Samus smiled under her helmet. Although A.I., Anna proved to be an interesting friend. pinging noise. Samus activated visuals and a GFP soldier appeared on the viewscreen infront of her. They had some of the best military armour in the galaxy she thought. Silver steel body plates and helmet with a full face cyan visor.
"Aaah Samus...I trust your mission was succesful?," said the deep voice of Amorbis.
"Good to see you, Amorbis. Can you lift the antigravity shield so I can dock?" Samus asked.
"...I'll see you inside...." He said. The screen went blank and Samus took hold of the steering. She veered left and into the GFP perimeter. The tractor beam pulled her into the docking bay and landed her safely.
Amorbis was waiting for Samus in the docking bay with a squad of soldiers. She stepped into the repulsor lift that took her to the outside of her ship. She looked up as she ascended. The light from the station hurt her eyes as the portal on-top of her ship spiraled open. She jumped down off the hunter and landed on the deck. She walked over to Amorbis.
"Good to see you Bounty Hunter," he said whilst reaching out to shake her hand.
"And you, General," Samus gladly took his hand and they shook firmly. Samus hadn't seen Amorbis in a long time. She had helped him out of some tight spots a few times, and vise-versa. They'd known eachother for four years, he was a few months older than her. But nonetheless, Samus prefered to work alone.
"If you'll follow me Samus, I'll take you to Captain Summers right away, you can collect your bounty from him," Samus nodded and followed next to Amorbis as he and the troops headed off towards the freight elevators.
They reached the bridge and the Captain was waiting peacefully, staring out into the nothingness of space.
"Samus Aran to see you sir," Amorbis announced. The captain gave out a grunt or recognition and Amorbis left his office on the bridge.
"It's been a while Samus," the captain turned round to look at Samus, "Where have you been, we'd lost contact with you for 7 months up until this mission we set you on a few days ago," the captain pulled out his chair and sat down.
"I've been...around, down on some of the core planets, just picking up bounties. Small time, but it pays well," Samus grabbed another chair from the other side of the desk and sat down. Captain Summers had dark grey hair, and pale blue, icy eyes. He reached into his desk droor and pulled out a chip.
"All your credits and bouties, including this one, are installed on this chip. Just give it to one of the women in the control center, they can access it for you. I'm glad you took that mission Samus, no ordinary bounty hunter could've taken out one of those," he paused and thought for a second, "do you even know what it was, Samus?" she sat back in the chair.
"They're known to humans and other humanoid beings as Predators. They are one of the most dangerous creatures in the universe. Incredibly stealth like and viscous. Advanced technology, and really don't like losing. They also must have some amazing discoveries, seeing as its wrist blades demolished the chest of my suit,"
Samus could tell that the captain had seen the two holes in her chest. But she was pretty sure the GFP labs would have some chozodian steel samples so they could weld it back together and make it look good as new.
"Do you think your technicians could fix it? I really hope so, seeing as you know how much I hate being on these stations," Samus sat back down in the silver chair she was in. She didn't hate the GFP stations, just disliked the aurora they had. They were always too clean, way too clean. Not a speck could be found. Also the smell, like a medical bay. Throughout the entire monstrosity they call a "space station".
"That's not a problem, although you wanting to get out of here quickly is I'm afraid..." Summers activated his comm unit and tuned in to the technicians block.
"Samus Aran is coming down to you for repairs, nothing too big, so send her back up when you're done," the captain tuned out and stood up.
"What did you mean me leaving was a problem? I don't see a problem there," Samus also stood up, she was about 4 inches taller than the captain whilst in her suit.
"I'll explain when you get back from the engineers, take the left turbolift to level D," Summers opened a panel on his desk and pushed a button which lifted the turbo lift door. Samus stepped in and punched the D level button. The lift door whooshed down and she started her descent into the lower levels of the space station.
Lower block D access aqquired, have a nice day at GFP research station Beta-57
Samus stepped quickly out of the turbo lift and walked over to the head technician. He was wearing blue overalls which seemed that no matter how filthy they got the GFP logo still showed in pure white.
"I need some assistance with my Varia suit," Samus stopped next to him and looked at several other engineers who were working on bio-suits for the soldiers. The technician turned to her and looked at the 2 holes in her chest plate.
"Interesting damage, I thought your armour was inpenetrable by solid substances miss Aran, what happened here?" he stood back and observed the edgy metal that seemed to be piercing the air.
"I had a problem with a...parasite," she paused "I'd also like you, if it's not too much trouble, to fuse this with my suit..." Samus reached into her compartment on her back and revealed the gauntlet which she had taken off the predator's body. She handed it to the technician and he examined it. He held it like you would a child. He ran his hand up the left hand side where a panel pertruded a few milimetres. He touched it softly and the 14 inch jagged blades shot out of the front.
"I haven't seen one of these babies in along time, where'd you get it?" he asked
"I took it, from the corpse of a predator. I want to be able to use these with my suit so that I can penetrate more harder rock and metal, that way I'll be able to get the job done quicker," he set the gauntlet down on the table and spread his hand out on a sheeth panel next to the wall. A blue light struck up on it and scanned his palm.
Identification progress affirmative, Arshal Jokag, lower level D head technician.
He released a bed, or a surgeons table of some kind. It lowered down from the wall and he grabbed his tool kit.
"Well, I reckon I could do all that in about, half an hour. Okay?" he reached into his bag and pulled out what looked like chozodian steel
"Okay.." Samus sat on the table and the work began immediately...
By Ballistic Phazonator 2004