Chapter 5
Break Out!
At roughly nine o'clock at night, Cpl Stovall walked down the brig's corridor, ready to relieve the current duty officer of his guard. He casually looked into the Aran's cell and found two bulges under covers, one breathing heavily. He turned and checked random cells for their occupants before making his way to the guard station where an episode of "Mysteries of the Galaxy's" was playing. No sign of the previous guard was found except for a cup of coffee.
The Cpl assumed the guard was in the bathroom and continued on down to be sure. He stuck his head into the multi-user bathroom and called out and received no answer. After checking the vending machines and finding no one, the Cpl began to worry. He walked quickly back to the guard station and radioed his platoon leader.
"This is the brig guard station."
"Go on brig", a voice on the other end crackled.
"Have you had any reports from the brig since the last change of duty?"
"No, we've yet to hear anything at all. I was just about to request a report. Is everything...", but before the voice on the other end could finish, the phone was slammed down.
Moments later the lights in the space station dimmed to a steady red glow and an alarm sounded through the ceiling speakers. Soon afterwards a voice came on over the speakers, "Please be on the lookout for two escapee's...", the voice said before describing the two bounty huntress and ending with the two of them being described as unarmed but highly dangerous.
......
Lana silently crept up behind the armory officer and grabbed him by the neck. The officer tried to struggle but quickly found himself slammed against the wall. Samus brought herself in front of the man and pressed a finger to her lips indicating for the man to remain silent. Lana dragged the officer to the retina scanner and forced his eye open for recognition. The door slid open and the three of them progressed into the armory. At the back of the room, the girls found their suits along the wall. Lana spun the guard around, "I'm sorry...you can't watch." She winked and then knocked the man unconscious.
"We need to try and locate the communications room. They still might have the transmission from Atlass286," Samus said while stepping into her power suit. Lana nodded her head in agreement as she snapped her helmet into place. After a quick check of their systems, the two bounty hunters located a ventilation type line running between the walls. The girls navigated the labyrinth like tunnels, in morph ball form, until they happened upon one of the smaller COM closets. Samus rolled into the room first and uncurled from her morph ball and noticed the guard watching over the many different monitors, each one showing some portion of the sector they were in. Lana followed the SA-X into the room and uncurled from her ball as well. Samus had already begun to charge her beam before letting out a signaling cough to the officer.
The officer jumped surprisingly and continuing to look at the monitor, "Geez Hardy, I really wish you would stop screwing around with me." The man shook his head and spun around in his chair. Once he realized that Hardy hadn't been the one coughing, he tried spinning back around and hitting the big red alarm button on one of the consoles. Before he could get his hand down, Samus released the beam at the button and blew it out of commission.
"No fair cheating in Hide n' Seek", Samus said walking over to the officer. "Maybe you can help us. We are looking for a transmission from a certain space station called Atlass286. Can you recall anything?"
"Wh...why should I help a couple of convicts like y'all", he answered back nervously.
Lana rolled her eyes behind her visor, armed her missiles, and pointed the barrel of the arm cannon at the guard.
"That's one good reason", Samus replied.
"Alri..Al...Alright...", the man replied scared for his life. The man turned around and as he did an alarm sounded as the lights dimmed down to a red glow. The speaker on one of the consoles crackled to life.
"COM 5 come in.... COM 5, I repeat, report in", the speaker spoke. The guard hesitated and the voice called for COM 5 again. Samus brought her missile ready cannon up and aimed it at the guard and pointed to the microphone.
The man flipped the switch on the mike, "This is COM 5...go ahead."
"The Aran bounty hunters have escaped. How does everything look down there in sector five?"
After a short moment the guard answered, "Everything looks good here. Over."
"Thanks. Over and out."
"Good boy. Now...Atlass286?" Samus asked more sharply this time, impatient with the alarm going off.
All I know is that we were to receive information being imported from the station before it was to be deleted. That's all I know...honestly."
Lana walked over to the computer console and connected to it through an interface port on one of the keyboards. "Adam?"
"Lana? It's good to know that you are still alive."
"I need you to hack the system and copy data over regarding Atlass286. Can you do that?"
"Just give me a few minutes here and I can have it. Is the SA-X with you?"
"Yes...Samus is with me."
"Very good. I'm glad to hear that."
A shuffling outside caused the SA-X to take her attention from the guard to the door. "Lana, we need to go," Samus said pointing to the door. A loud banging on the opposite side of the door caused Lana to turn about to. Within a few seconds the door was forced open and a group of five Federation Officers crowded through the door with weapons drawn. "Lana...NOW!"
Samus somersaulted into the middle of the group and before the officers could react, she spun around with a round house and knocked each one back. At that time Lana rolled into her morph ball and navigated through the body of confused officers. Samus and Lana ran through the halls of the space station dodging Federation Officers the entire way.
"Adam...where are you?" Samus called through her helmet.
"I'm located in the docking bay in Sector 4. I'm surrounded by Federation troops though," he replied.
"Just clear us a path. We're coming...and in...quite a hurry...but don't kill...anyone", Samus gasped trying to catch breath as she dodged another officer firing shots at the two of them.
In the docking bay, Adam began firing the twin .50 caliber lasers equipped to the ship. The troops guarding the ship quickly took cover in their nearby environment. Within a few minutes the Arans emerged from one of the hallways and took safe haven within their ship. In a quick few moments, the ship was flying swiftly through the outer reaches of the space station.
......
In a nearby galaxy, a suited figure sat within the darkened room deep within the bowels of a small planet. Since Ridley's demise, the Space Pirate legion had started to fall apart, there was no one who could lead the chaotic pirates into order, until he had come along. Just when the pirates were about to wage war on themselves, this being arrived and swiftly brought fear and order to the benevolent pirates. "I have a proposition for you my friend", the pirate said toward the figure sitting in the dark, a light orange visor glowing from his helmet. "I have this problem you see, and she goes by the name of Samus Aran. I have this taste for revenge and I need you to satisfy that for me. I want her dead. I also want the GFP destroyed. Not normally a one man job, but if Samus Aran can bring a pirate legion to its knees, then I don't see why you, the only one capable of defeating Samus Aran, can't bring the GFP to their knees." The space pirate screwed on a scythe and began walking across the room toward two other smaller pirates, one holding the other.
"Phazon Junkie", the one holding the captive said, "Caught stealing from the storage facility." The bigger pirate removed his artillery cannons from his massive shoulders and laid them against the wall. Omega Nine, the bigger pirate, brought his scythe up to the captive's neck.
"Phazon is in short supply, as well as your life," he replied calmly before a rage boiled in his eyes and he sliced the pirate across the throat. He continued to mutilate the body by ripping the pirate's limbs apart one after the other till nothing was left. The remaining pirate coward back. Omega Nine turned back to the figure. "So will you take the job?" He asked throwing the bleeding torso against the wall.
The figure stood up, the lone dim light along a far wall highlighted his blue armor. His visor seemed to dim and the wearer's eyes became slightly visible, human eyes. A race of people who were weak in themselves and relied mostly on machinery and weapons to do their bidding. He walked slowly over to the smaller remaining space pirate, "You know, you take to much effort to do such a simple job." The being raised his arm cannon and fired a missile at the living pirate. His body was obliterated in an instance. "See how much easier that was," he said, a smile spreading under his helmet. "I'll take the job."
"Good. Your payment will be available after her defeat. What you do with the GFP after that will be as you wish." The being in the blue suit of armor turned and walked to the door and left with his new bounty to hunt.
When the bounty hunter left, Omega Nine thought for a few minutes and then called in one of his troops. "Follow the bounty hunter. I want to make sure he is good on his word. He's heading for Galactic Federation Headquarters. Go...now." The pirate left the omega pirate's presence.
At roughly nine o'clock at night, Cpl Stovall walked down the brig's corridor, ready to relieve the current duty officer of his guard. He casually looked into the Aran's cell and found two bulges under covers, one breathing heavily. He turned and checked random cells for their occupants before making his way to the guard station where an episode of "Mysteries of the Galaxy's" was playing. No sign of the previous guard was found except for a cup of coffee.
The Cpl assumed the guard was in the bathroom and continued on down to be sure. He stuck his head into the multi-user bathroom and called out and received no answer. After checking the vending machines and finding no one, the Cpl began to worry. He walked quickly back to the guard station and radioed his platoon leader.
"This is the brig guard station."
"Go on brig", a voice on the other end crackled.
"Have you had any reports from the brig since the last change of duty?"
"No, we've yet to hear anything at all. I was just about to request a report. Is everything...", but before the voice on the other end could finish, the phone was slammed down.
Moments later the lights in the space station dimmed to a steady red glow and an alarm sounded through the ceiling speakers. Soon afterwards a voice came on over the speakers, "Please be on the lookout for two escapee's...", the voice said before describing the two bounty huntress and ending with the two of them being described as unarmed but highly dangerous.
......
Lana silently crept up behind the armory officer and grabbed him by the neck. The officer tried to struggle but quickly found himself slammed against the wall. Samus brought herself in front of the man and pressed a finger to her lips indicating for the man to remain silent. Lana dragged the officer to the retina scanner and forced his eye open for recognition. The door slid open and the three of them progressed into the armory. At the back of the room, the girls found their suits along the wall. Lana spun the guard around, "I'm sorry...you can't watch." She winked and then knocked the man unconscious.
"We need to try and locate the communications room. They still might have the transmission from Atlass286," Samus said while stepping into her power suit. Lana nodded her head in agreement as she snapped her helmet into place. After a quick check of their systems, the two bounty hunters located a ventilation type line running between the walls. The girls navigated the labyrinth like tunnels, in morph ball form, until they happened upon one of the smaller COM closets. Samus rolled into the room first and uncurled from her morph ball and noticed the guard watching over the many different monitors, each one showing some portion of the sector they were in. Lana followed the SA-X into the room and uncurled from her ball as well. Samus had already begun to charge her beam before letting out a signaling cough to the officer.
The officer jumped surprisingly and continuing to look at the monitor, "Geez Hardy, I really wish you would stop screwing around with me." The man shook his head and spun around in his chair. Once he realized that Hardy hadn't been the one coughing, he tried spinning back around and hitting the big red alarm button on one of the consoles. Before he could get his hand down, Samus released the beam at the button and blew it out of commission.
"No fair cheating in Hide n' Seek", Samus said walking over to the officer. "Maybe you can help us. We are looking for a transmission from a certain space station called Atlass286. Can you recall anything?"
"Wh...why should I help a couple of convicts like y'all", he answered back nervously.
Lana rolled her eyes behind her visor, armed her missiles, and pointed the barrel of the arm cannon at the guard.
"That's one good reason", Samus replied.
"Alri..Al...Alright...", the man replied scared for his life. The man turned around and as he did an alarm sounded as the lights dimmed down to a red glow. The speaker on one of the consoles crackled to life.
"COM 5 come in.... COM 5, I repeat, report in", the speaker spoke. The guard hesitated and the voice called for COM 5 again. Samus brought her missile ready cannon up and aimed it at the guard and pointed to the microphone.
The man flipped the switch on the mike, "This is COM 5...go ahead."
"The Aran bounty hunters have escaped. How does everything look down there in sector five?"
After a short moment the guard answered, "Everything looks good here. Over."
"Thanks. Over and out."
"Good boy. Now...Atlass286?" Samus asked more sharply this time, impatient with the alarm going off.
All I know is that we were to receive information being imported from the station before it was to be deleted. That's all I know...honestly."
Lana walked over to the computer console and connected to it through an interface port on one of the keyboards. "Adam?"
"Lana? It's good to know that you are still alive."
"I need you to hack the system and copy data over regarding Atlass286. Can you do that?"
"Just give me a few minutes here and I can have it. Is the SA-X with you?"
"Yes...Samus is with me."
"Very good. I'm glad to hear that."
A shuffling outside caused the SA-X to take her attention from the guard to the door. "Lana, we need to go," Samus said pointing to the door. A loud banging on the opposite side of the door caused Lana to turn about to. Within a few seconds the door was forced open and a group of five Federation Officers crowded through the door with weapons drawn. "Lana...NOW!"
Samus somersaulted into the middle of the group and before the officers could react, she spun around with a round house and knocked each one back. At that time Lana rolled into her morph ball and navigated through the body of confused officers. Samus and Lana ran through the halls of the space station dodging Federation Officers the entire way.
"Adam...where are you?" Samus called through her helmet.
"I'm located in the docking bay in Sector 4. I'm surrounded by Federation troops though," he replied.
"Just clear us a path. We're coming...and in...quite a hurry...but don't kill...anyone", Samus gasped trying to catch breath as she dodged another officer firing shots at the two of them.
In the docking bay, Adam began firing the twin .50 caliber lasers equipped to the ship. The troops guarding the ship quickly took cover in their nearby environment. Within a few minutes the Arans emerged from one of the hallways and took safe haven within their ship. In a quick few moments, the ship was flying swiftly through the outer reaches of the space station.
......
In a nearby galaxy, a suited figure sat within the darkened room deep within the bowels of a small planet. Since Ridley's demise, the Space Pirate legion had started to fall apart, there was no one who could lead the chaotic pirates into order, until he had come along. Just when the pirates were about to wage war on themselves, this being arrived and swiftly brought fear and order to the benevolent pirates. "I have a proposition for you my friend", the pirate said toward the figure sitting in the dark, a light orange visor glowing from his helmet. "I have this problem you see, and she goes by the name of Samus Aran. I have this taste for revenge and I need you to satisfy that for me. I want her dead. I also want the GFP destroyed. Not normally a one man job, but if Samus Aran can bring a pirate legion to its knees, then I don't see why you, the only one capable of defeating Samus Aran, can't bring the GFP to their knees." The space pirate screwed on a scythe and began walking across the room toward two other smaller pirates, one holding the other.
"Phazon Junkie", the one holding the captive said, "Caught stealing from the storage facility." The bigger pirate removed his artillery cannons from his massive shoulders and laid them against the wall. Omega Nine, the bigger pirate, brought his scythe up to the captive's neck.
"Phazon is in short supply, as well as your life," he replied calmly before a rage boiled in his eyes and he sliced the pirate across the throat. He continued to mutilate the body by ripping the pirate's limbs apart one after the other till nothing was left. The remaining pirate coward back. Omega Nine turned back to the figure. "So will you take the job?" He asked throwing the bleeding torso against the wall.
The figure stood up, the lone dim light along a far wall highlighted his blue armor. His visor seemed to dim and the wearer's eyes became slightly visible, human eyes. A race of people who were weak in themselves and relied mostly on machinery and weapons to do their bidding. He walked slowly over to the smaller remaining space pirate, "You know, you take to much effort to do such a simple job." The being raised his arm cannon and fired a missile at the living pirate. His body was obliterated in an instance. "See how much easier that was," he said, a smile spreading under his helmet. "I'll take the job."
"Good. Your payment will be available after her defeat. What you do with the GFP after that will be as you wish." The being in the blue suit of armor turned and walked to the door and left with his new bounty to hunt.
When the bounty hunter left, Omega Nine thought for a few minutes and then called in one of his troops. "Follow the bounty hunter. I want to make sure he is good on his word. He's heading for Galactic Federation Headquarters. Go...now." The pirate left the omega pirate's presence.