Metroid: The Fanfiction
by Jammin-2099
Well Here we go again. Chapter 4. This is getting harder for me to keep up with my game progress. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up though, and There won't be any unnecessary Degradation of the Storyline.
I'm doin the best I can though guys, Come on I Need those Reviews.
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Chapter 4
Welcoming Friend, Deadly Enemy
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After a few minutes of climbing, I found myself back under the pressure door I had dropped through into this shaft. I flipped the door activator to open, and leapt up and through once the door was opened wide enough.
The pirates, luckily for me, were as dumb as they had been before. They hadn't changed their comm channel or even scrambled their frequencies. I was picking it up now. They were yelling about me, fearful screams of 'The Hunter is here!' and 'She's come for us all!' I listened for a moment, there above the door I had just leapt through, trying to get any intel on what kind of defenses they had setup. That was when I heard the most shocking transmission I have ever received from a pirate comm link.
"The Mother has sent the Elites."
I was frozen. I couldn't believe it. There was no way Mother Brain could have survived the destruction of the base. Her life-support system was the self destruction device, for crying out loud!
These thoughts began to plague me as I slowly forced my panic down. I had finally regained my composure, when I heard a skittering from right next to me that nearly set me off again. I quickly wheeled around, bringing my cannon up instinctually, to find a Ripper climbing down the wall next to me. It slowly creeped down to the floor and skittered across the ground, before starting it's way back up the other side of the room, never hesitating in its never ending search for sustenance. I watched it for a moment before calming myself down and lowering my cannon.
Looking up though, I found the shaft infested as it had been years ago. Rippers covered almost every viable platform, and zoomers swooped between the wall and other rock outcroppings.
I finally stored those unsettling thoughts away for later. They must have realized I would be monitoring their comm channels, and sent that out to throw me off guard. I quickly ran towards the southern wall, leapt up and kicked off of it, launching myself higher in the shaft. I climbed to the top quickly, leaping from platform to platform, stopping only to clear a stray ripper out of my way.
I reached the top quicker than I thought I would, But paid no mind to it as I landed at the edge of the top of the shaft. From where I was crouched, I could see a tunnel digging into the rock, and traveling below the floor. I ran towards where it was, leaping past the dive-bombing Skree, and morphing in mid-air as I dove for the hole. I rolled into the familiar ball mode, and rolled down the cramped tunnel, popping out and demorphing into a larger cavern that glowed with a strange light. I looked out over the room and noticed the glow came from a rubble strewn wall at the bottom of the chamber.
I made my way down carefully, avoiding the lone zoomer that had made it's home down here. When I reached the glowing wall, it began to pulse slightly faster, as if it was reacting to my suit. Trying to lift one of the rocks, I began trying to excavate the wall, only to have more rubble shift down and cover what I had taken away. I finally decided just to blast my way into the wall, lowering my cannon output to not cause a cave-in.
After blasting the rubble away, I found another of those strange Chozo lab doors. I opened the door carefully, the automatic system having given out long ago, due to years of disuse. The door creaked warningly as I pushed them open, the hinges ancient and unforgiving, almost as if something was resisting as I pushed them open. Once inside, I found a practically empty room, devoid of the many experiment tables I had seen in the last one. The floors and walls, though, were finely polished titanium, the only sign of aging apparent on them being the slight film of dust that had accumulated over the years. In the back of this lab though, nestled in an alcove set into the wall, rested another of the strange Chozo statues.
This one also held one of the Chozo stasis spheres, supported as the last one was by the right claw of the statue. As I came closer, the sphere began to open automatically, revealing the bomb weapon I had become used to using when I had the Morph ball upgrade. Like last time, I plugged my cannon into the data connection, and initiated the transfer. A moment later, I felt the new weapon system come online, and I disengaged myself from the statue. As I turned to leave, though, I heard a creak come from the statue. Looking back, I checked for anything that could have made the noise, but I found nothing. A moment later though, I heard the unmistakable sound of a door slamming shut. I quickly whirled around, and watched as the other half of the door forced itself shut, and I heard the locks set in.
I dashed to the door, searching for the opening switch, and not finding one, I turned around and began a search of the room for any traps that might have been activated. Nothing was apparent as an activated trap, but I was still hearing that creak from the statue. I moved closer to the statue to examine it further, when suddenly the eye of the statue opened!
"Oh, this is not good..." I said to myself as the statue began to stand up. It shrieked in a horrible, earsplitting, mechanical wail, and lunged forward as it made it to an upright position. I threw myself out of the way of the statues lunge, landing on my side and rolling to my feet as I fired several shots from my cannon into the statues side. I grimaced slightly as the shots barely left a dent in the monstrosity. Then I was moving again as the creature spun to swipe at me with a set of razor-sharp claws.
I switched to my missiles, hoping to do a little more damage, when it suddenly leapt away from me, and landed on the other side of the lab. I stood there a moment, trying to figure out why it had done that, and I saw it's beak open. "Oh, gizyo..." I cursed, as it began to fire pods of some kind at me. I leapt to the side of the first one, and jumped back a little further when it burst and began to eat through the floor.
I couldn't let it stay at this range, or I'd be melted down by this strange acid, so I charged in, trying to get in under it's barrage of acid pods. I came in as low as I could, jumping upwards, and somersaulting over the statues head while priming my first missile. I was about to fire it, when it swung it claw around towards me lightning fast. At first I thought it had missed me, but then I heard the "Krak-BOOM" as it broke the sound barrier momentarily, and the shockwave blew me off my feet, sending me into the wall. Fortunately, I managed to get the shot off before I was sent flying and the missile exploded against it's head. I was picking myself up from where I had landed against the wall, when suddenly out of the smoke from the explosion, the statue charged out towards me, and grabbed me up by the front of my suit, slamming me up against the wall.
I noticed as it held me there, that the explosion had ripped away the plating on it's stomach and face, and the face was a twisted mess. I could see it raising its other claw behind it, ready for the killing blow, and then I raised my cannon into it's stomach, pushing it in past the armor plating. "Good night, Brighteyes." I said with a smirk as I fired, blowing a hole out the other side of the creature, which slumped to the floor a moment later, dropping me from it's deathgrip.
I lay there a moment where I fell, staring up at the ceiling of the lab. "Well, that was fun..." I grumbled sarcastically. I brought up a status of my suit systems, everything was operational, and the few damaged systems the auto-repair was already working on. I picked myself up slowly, pulling myself out from under the smoking corpse on the floor. As I stood I heard the sound of a lock disengaging, and I looked at the door to see it swinging open. "Well, that solves how I'm supposed to get out of here..." I said as I pulled myself up into the doorway, and back down the hall to the main shaft. After a few moments of searching the roof of the chamber, I found an outcropping that had a tunnel dug just above it, and it led right to the door I had come in from my ship just a few hours ago. I opened it, and stepped out, heading back to my ship for a little first aid, and systems repair before I continued to search deeper.
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End Chapter 4
Okay, well hope you like this so far. I'm working on getting through the story. I try to keep the things that happen in the game as close to the way they already are, without changing them drastically for the story. But some of the things just don't fit. Obvious things are like getting energy and missile reloads from the creatures you destroy. That just wouldn't do at all. The creatures here aren't bothering Samus, so she's going to try to avoid them and avoid killing anything she doesn't need to. I've gotten all the way past Kraid on the game, so I should be able to write up to that point pretty quickly. It's when I get past that point that I begin getting lost, having trouble finding the next objective, yadda yadda yadda... So I shouldn't have much trouble with writing for the next three to four chapters.
Next chapter....
----The lift dropped slowly through the packed earth around me, and stayed relatively stable as it descended. It wasn't until I noticed that the earth was beginning to be replaced by vines and plantlife that I began to realize this wasn't the same Zebes I had assaulted a few years ago.----
See you next mission...
Stay Vigilant, Hunters.
Ja, ne?