Metroid: The Fanfiction
by jammin-2099
Hey, putting in another chapter. These should come out pretty quickly since I got in the zone the yesterday and proceeded in the game a little faster than I planned to for the story, so I'm going to wing it as best I can, and hope I make the right references in time. I won't be writing in all the missile tanks and energy tanks, but I will give a description of her interactions with the power-ups, such as her first missile tank/Missile launcher. Her first energy tank, so on so forth.
Flames, You know the drill. We've got plenty of fliers here that haven't gone maverick yet, and they all like to reach out and torch someone.
So, here we go!
Note: USMC in this story is not the Marine corps and has nothing to do with the IRL Marines. USMC is the shortened version of "U"nited "S"pace "M"ilitary "C"orps.
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Chapter Three
Relics of the Past
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I approached the door into Mother Brain's chamber cautiously, reaching from the side to activate the door mechanism. When the doors had opened fully, I leapt around the frame, only to find...
"By the Maker..." I said silently to myself as I stepped into the now dormant throne chamber. Everything was a mess, conduits had fused, the doors were half melted on the inside, everywhere there were smashed and cracked monitors, and where there wasn't a monitor, there was a burned out slot where a monitor used to be. As I took a few more tentative steps into the final resting place of Mother Brain, I saw where her containment cylinder had been, before it had been smashed to useless shards of glass, from the missiles I had used to break through to the evil ruler. As I approached closer I could see the scorch marks were still on the walls, where near misses had continued to detonate harmlessly against the wall.
Turning away from the half melted pile of slag, I began walking towards where I had first entered Tourian, the passage I would now be using to return to Brinstar. I leapt up to the raised entranceway, only remembering now that the channel I had been walking in had once been filled with the same corrosive acid that Mother brain used as a circulatory fluid. "Must have burned away in the explosion." I said to myself as I activated the doors and stepped through to the Tourian to Brinstar gravi-lift room.
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The trip downward was uneventful, save for a few stray sounds of rocks falling and ancient structures crumbling from old age. I soon reached the bottom and felt my weight drop down slightly to meet my feet to the floor, as the gravi-lift deactivated at the end of the trip.
Now this place had brought back memories. This is where it had all began on Zebes, all those long years ago. I saw the familiar rock formations that formed the focus towers for the gravi-lift. And beyond them to my right, I saw the rock structure that had been the first formation I had explored back then. I almost missed the strange pale glow coming from the other side of the massive stalagmite, but after a moment of reminiscing my mind kicked back into gear. 'It couldn't be, I took those upgrades with me...' I thought to myself as I climbed over the rock formation.
As I reached the top though, I only confirmed my suspicion. There, encapsulated in a Chozonian energy sphere, lay the Maru Mari adaptation for my Powersuit, or the Morph ball, as I preferred to call it. Jumping down to the floor of the cavern, I moved towards it slowly, watching the shadows for an ambush by the space pirates.
The thought had been bugging me, this whole trip down to this point had been way too quiet. As I stepped up to the platform though, nothing materialized out of the aether. No surprise attacks from the shadows. No traps, no security systems. Just the enhancement.
I circled around the pedestal slowly, looking for anything that might suggest a trap, but nothing was out of place, I only found the connection port to download and engage the enhancement. Since I had my suit refitted for the metroid mission on SR-388, and again afterward, none of my tools were working anymore, so I inserted my cannon arm into the connection port and hit the keys on the pedestal to start the information download. Might as well get my suit upgraded as much as possible while I'm here, right?
I watched as the info began to scroll at high speed across my visual HUD. A moment later, and the download was completed, and I felt the burst of energy flooding to the newly etched in circuit pathways. For a moment, I was relaxed as the energy found its way into its new channels and activated the new equipment. Then, the feeling faded and I was focused back on the mission, but something seemed off. Noticing a rather strange glow playing across the floor, I turned and followed the strange glow up the wall, to...
A security eye! It had seen me!
My reactions immediately fell into place, and I flipped over the pedestal, firing a volley of plasma shots towards it as I came down. I watched for a moment as the surveillance device was destroyed, and then I cursed, loudly and at length. They had seen me for sure now, and I could hear all around me, though they were faint and in the distance, the sound of doors opening and drones taking positions. I immediately morphed, and remembering my first visit, rolled through the passageway under the giant spire I had just leapt down from. I decided, 'Well since they know I'm here, I'll just explore down here for the moment.'
That decided, I demorphed and leapt across the gravi-lift, landing gracefully on the other side, and jogged down the tunnel to the corroding door that led to a vertical shaft if I remembered correctly. Opening the door though presented a problem, as the corrosion had practically welded the door shut. After a moment of trying to pry it open, I finally said mentally to myself 'screw it' and leveled my cannon at the door. A short burst of plasma later and I walked through the newly, and permanently, opened door.
As I had thought, the vertical shaft was here, I took a moment to clear the debris blocking the lower floor, and leapt down, morphing for a moment to roll through a rather tight spot near the bottom. As I came through to the other side, I found an ancient looking door, similar to the ones I had seen on the Chozo ship I had grown up on. Reaching for the stud I knew was the activation switch, I twisted it, then stepped back as the door swung open.
Inside, I found a lost Chozonian lab, its technology mostly corroded, but some of it was still viable. Lost in the back of the lab was a Chozo statue, most likely it had been a statue of one of the greater scientific leaders in its time, but old age had worn it down to being unrecognizable. In its upraised claw, however, it held aloft a stasis sphere. Pushing a few keys on my gauntlet, I transmitted an unlock cipher to the sphere and waited as it began to pulse slightly. After a moment, the sphere shined brightly and retracted into the statues claw, revealing what it had been keeping in stasis.
My eyes widened as I realized what it was. It was a Chozonian missile launcher! One of the original series, it had several upgrades to be found, but I was sure I would have no problem with that. If this was here, It meant they had had a testing facility for the other prototypes! This was getting interesting. With the other prototypes I would have no problem handling the pirates.
I took the missile matrix from the opened claw, which closed up into the stasis sphere again after a moment. Unlocking and flipping open my cannon, I removed and tossed the burned out USMC missile launcher tech, and slipped in the Chozo circuitry cube, which immediately fused and integrated with my systems. I felt the launcher come online, and tested it by switching to missiles. I smiled slightly in pride as I watched the end of my cannon split open, and the warhead of the first missile became visible.
Switching back to my regular cannon, I continued my investigation of the lab, but eventually realized that nothing else of use had survived. Stepping from the lab, I turned and looked over the ancient research lab. Saying a prayer for the souls of the Chozo I had found the skeletons of in the lab, I switched to my new missiles and fired a pair of missiles into the lab, then quickly hit the button to close the doors. I heard the muffled 'whump' of the missiles detonating and the resulting explosion inside the lab. Satisfied that the pirates would not get their hands on that technology, I morphed and rolled out of the area.
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I found my way back to the gravi-lift, running a quick diagnostic on my systems while on the way. The missile launcher I had found was integrating perfectly with my powersuit, and I wasn't detecting any abnormalities. I switched off the diagnostic as I reached the gravi-lift platform. Looking up the shaft, I could see that the running lights for the lift were back on, and they stretched all the way up to the top of the lift.
I stepped on the activation plate for the lift, and straightened as the gravity platform began to lift me upwards, bringing me back up to the decrepit area of Tourian. As the lift came to a stop, I could hear the pirates even then, the strange chitter of their mandibles as they spat at each other in their hissing, vulgar language.
I edged myself to the door, reaching over for the activation control slowly, making as little noise as possible. I flipped the control and watched as the door began to open. In a burst of inspiration I leapt up and dug the toes of my suit into the wall above the door, and grabbed the wall with my free hand, causing me to be hanging from the wall above the door upside down. I heard the two guards chittering at each other as they wondered why the door had opened.
'Come on...' I thought, as my grip began to loosen on the wall. 'Come into the lift room...' I mentally sighed in relief as the pirates walked through and looked around the room. Lowering my cannon from the wall and leveling it at them, I dropped to the floor, making a resounding clang as I hit. The sudden noise caused both pirates to whirl around to face me, but it was too late, I was already switched to missiles. "Hello boys, ready for the fireworks?" I quipped as I launched a time delay missile into the chest of the closer one, knocking both into the wall. I ran through the door which closed behind me, as the missile exploded, a small gout of flame escaping through the door way as it closed.
I relaxed for a moment, then jumped into the channel and ran for the door I had come in through. I could hear the sound of more guards running towards the gravi-lift room, but none of them could see down into the channel i was in, so they passed right by me. Leaping up at the end of the channel, I dove through the security door as it closed just barely making it out.
I sat there a moment at the bottom of the shaft, resting for just a moment. I found myself remembering my battles as I sat there at the bottom of the shaft among the damaged and broken pieces of platform. I could see myself, running from elite pirate drones, and obliterating them with missiles as I trapped them in a corner and put them out of my misery. "I really need a new day job..." I joked to myself as I got up and began the climb back up the shaft.
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End Chapter Three
ok, well this is where I'm cutting it off for this chapter. No the vertical shaft right before the old Mother Brain room doesn't have drones in it at this point, as all the guards ran for the gravity lift room when they heard the explosion.
Hope you liked the way I described the power-ups in this chapter, Some terms I have come up with are probably obvious but I'll clarify in case anyone doesn't get it.
Gravi-lift: these are the elevator things Samus uses to change areas in Super Metroid, and I think just about every Metroid game.
Stasis Sphere: remember those powerups that you would find when you shot those balls the statues would be holding? Well that's a stasis sphere. I thought it would make more sense for Samus to unlock them and have them open naturally, than to have her blast them open. Blasting them just seemed kinda violent, and since it was that way in the game merely to prevent slowing the game down, I changed it to something that made more sense.
Security Eye: remember playing Super metroid, and when you get the Maru Mari Sphere that Eye opens up and shines that yellow light on you? That is the security eye I was talking about, It's like a kind of security camera.
Drones: Your basic Pirate guard unit. Also comes in commander, general, Elite and plasma varieties.
USMC: The United Space Military Corps. Basically the police force of the galaxy, and the best and most effective form of galactic government to date. The USMC is divided into 4 divisions; Navy- Ships and Space assault forces, Space Marines-Infiltration, Ground, and Ship Boarding assault troops, Emergency Forces- Responds to distress signals and basically is a special forces unit, and Governmental- Deals with planetary policy and existing treaties with non-United Space governments. The USMC is a coalition of over 50,000 worlds, Including Humans, Humanoids, and All forms of non-Humanoids.
That's the end. See you next chapter.
Stay Vigilant, Hunters.
Ja, ne?