Metroid: Wrath of a Bounty Hunter
Recreated by:
Matthew Sharonlover Sharpe
As with any fan fiction, the characters, quotes, and direct game events, are owned by Nintendo; Captain Hunter, if he appears, is of my own creation. Everything is Nintendo's, so please no suing...besides I'm just a poor Metroid fan boy who spends all his money on the Metroid Franchise.
A/N: This fan fiction is yet another re-telling of the events that occur in Super Metroid. As with any of my fan-fiction there is a single timeline these stories follow. In a prequel, viewable here at under "In One We Will Find A Warrior", we follow Samus as her life is destroyed and rebuilt again to become protector of the Chozo. During this prequel, Samus falls in love with a bounty hunter, Houston Armstrong; however, between Metroid and Metroid II, he has disappeared without a clue as to where he went. Samus also suffered amnesia in this prequel, but I don't know if this condition will reflect greatly in the story. Just a quick heads up on that. Please don't forget to review. Thanks.
Prologue
"The last Metroid is in captivity...the galaxy is at peace."
The legendary bounty hunter, Samus Aran, sat at her ship's console recounting her recent adventures; her golden strands of blonde hair fell against her orange and brown power suit. The once powerful arm cannon lay on a nearby shelf waiting patiently for action; her recent battle with the Metroid Queen ended with a damaged power suit and weapons. Repairs to the suit had been refined to removing the damaged accessories and welding portions of the basic power suit back together. The repairs to the suit had been successful, but the weapons and accessories that she had worked so hard to obtained were gone once more. As Samus was entering these memories into the ship's log, a red light began flashing on her screen; a distress signal from the Ceres Research Space Colony, a station she had left only an hour ago, was in trouble. The ship turned from its set course and began trekking back toward the station at full speed as Samus continued her log.
"I first battled the Metroids on Planet Zebes, it was there that I foiled the plans of the space pirate leader Mother Brain to sue the creatures to attack galactic civilization. While leaving Zebes, I picked up a faint signal from a Space Pirate ship, and I soon found myself fighting the Space Pirates again as well as a new type of Metroid, Metroid Prime. The Space Pirates planned to use Prime for their own evil purposes, but I was there to make sure those plans failed. Thinking all was well; I received word from Galactic Federation that a small group of troopers had disappeared on Planet Aether where a strange disturbance had been reported. I found myself put against the pirates again, but to my surprise, the Phazon they were there for, was not the reason for my calling. I was pitted against enemies I had never before encountered and friends that would help me to defeat these creatures."
Samus sat back against her pilot's chair, stretching her arms above her head and yawning; three weeks had gone by without a good nights sleep and it had started to catch up with her. She thought about the next entry she was about to make, her most current memories and the battle was still fresh in her mind. The Galactic Federation had extended her bounty from her Zebes mission to include eradicating the Metroid species from all existence; a group of troopers had found a nest of Metroids on a planet labeled as SR-388. Samus' later learned during her mission that SR-388 was the Metroids home world as well as a safe haven for the Chozo civilization at one point.
I next fought the Metroids on their home world, SR-388. I completely eradicated them except for a larva, which after hatching followed me like a confused child.
Samus remembered when the little bugger hatch; Samus had come across the egg and was about to blast it, the last one on the planet, but when it began to crack and the baby Metroid rose from the shell, she had felt pity. The Metroid had circled her many times, seemingly confused by a presence that didn't seem anything like its mother, but in its mind, Samus was the first person it had seen and now they shared a relationship. Samus' emotions had clouded her mind and she felt compelled to keep the Metroid, but then rumors would start and that was the last thing she needed; therefore, it was in her best interest and the interest of the scientific community to drop it off at the nearest Galactic Research Station, Ceres Space Colony.
I personally delivered it to the Galactic Research Station at Ceres so scientists could study its energy producing qualities. The scientists' findings were astounding! They discovered that the powers of the Metroid might be harnessed for the good of civilization! Satisfied that all was well, I left the station to seek a new bounty. But, I had hardly gone beyond the asteroid belt when I picked up a distress signal! Ceres station was under attack!!"
Samus closed the console screen she was working on as the space station came into sight through the view port; the docking station's bay doors stood wide open as the ship came closer. Samus slowed the engines to a slow crawl assessing the immediate area for any sign of an ambush. The station seemed to be intact; at least on the outside, and according to the ship's sensors, the emergency systems had been activated within the station, only obvious on the outside by the absence of the normal operating white docking lights.
"Ceres command...do you copy?" Samus asked into the COM link, expecting an answer from the control room. "I repeat. Ceres command...do you copy?" No answer. Samus tried sending the control room a message from the ship but after five minutes, there was still no answer. Samus tapped her finger on the console impatiently, she didn't want to rush head first into the station, but on the other hand, the Metroid Hatchling was in there somewhere, and whether or not it was alive or dead, she had to recover it. A simple DNA sample in the wrong hands could bring the Metroid population back into existence and threaten the galaxy by those who would re-incarnate them.
Samus pushed the throttle forward on her ship and brought the tiny vessel around to the docking bay doors and after a quick scan of the immediate interior, she assumed it was secure. The ship slowly settled in the darkened docking bay, the red glow of emergency lights faded in and out illuminating the small station momentarily. Samus noted that no damage had been done to this particular room as she used the ships front search light to visually check the area. Cargo boxes were still stacked neatly along one side of the bay, just as she had last seen them and even the station's research vessels were there.
Samus turned in her pilot chair and reached for her helmet, the green visor was lifeless and as she slipped it over her head, she carefully tucked her blonde hair into the top. The second she latched the helmet on, a sucking sound emanated indicating the helmet had locked on; this action caused the suit to come to life. The HUD came up first running diagnostics on the suit before displaying her status. A single full energy tank showed in the upper left hand corner and that was it; she reached for the arm cannon and locked it onto her right arm with a twist. The suit checked the status of the arm cannon as it was recognized, showing that her only option with it was the power beam. In full armor, Samus walked toward topside hatch on her ship and pressing a button on the wall, she allowed the yellow disc of energy to raise her to the top of the ship.
In the docking bay, Samus cautiously made her way toward the elevator, stealing a peek inside one of the research vessels between her and the door. The inside of the ship was slightly lit by a light hanging over the main console, papers had been neatly stacked in a bin; a steaming cup of coffee slightly fogged the opposite window. A look toward the back of the vessel was pointless without any further light and so Samus continued toward the elevator; her armor, normally clanging on the metallic floor was soundless in the airless chamber. The elevator door opened automatically as Samus came up to it, the yellow disc of energy glowed brightly within the small tubular room. Samus stepped onto the disc, the door closed and pressurized before starting down the elevator tube.