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Third POV
The young Metroid that was taken from the Ceres station floated alone, trying to sort its memories. It had just attacked the one that it thought was its mother, but as far as it knew it didn't have a mother. It remembered hatching, and seeing her. It remembered being exposed to a strange energy source, and feeling immense pain as it split. It couldn't remember in between those times, but it still thought that she was its mother. The Metroid heard a scream of pain, and recognized the voice as its mother's. It flew off towards the scream, and latched onto the large creature that was standing over its mother. It began to drain the energy, and prevented the creature from attacking. The Metroid continued sucking energy until its body couldn't hold any more. It floated over to its mother, and clamped onto her. She struggled, but the Metroid held firm as it began to restore her energy. Its mother stopped struggling, and let the Metroid finish. As the Metroid prepared to leave, the large creature woke up. It began to attack, so the Metroid protected its mother, and she tried to get out from under the Metroid to resume the attack on the large beast. When it was weak, it lifted off of her and began to float away. It then floated towards the large creature, intent on sucking all of its energy. The large creature attacked it with an energy attack, and the Metroid squealed in pain. It diverted all of its energy towards its mother as she got up, and took aim at the large creature. As its energy dissipated, the Metroid lost consciousness. The last thing it saw was its mother attacking the large creature.
Ruska's POV
I awoke with a start to find myself on the floor in an unfamiliar room. I scanned around the room quickly, looking for any living things. I saw nothing, but noted that I was apparently in a living room. There was some furniture that had come from Brent's place, but there was some other stuff, but I didn't recognize it. I got up, and walked towards the door. As soon as I opened it, a couple of my Metroids floated in, chittering. Someone was standing in front of me, a box in their hands that obscured their face. "Who are you?" I asked irritably. The person poked their head around the box, and I recognized it as Brent.
"Oh, hello Ruska." He said, "How do you like the ship I bought?"
"Good." I replied. I walked by him, and into the docking bay of the space station itself. Outside, I turned around to see the ship. It was larger than Samus's ship, approximately twice its size. It was pure metallic black, and reflected the light in away that made it resemble the void of space and the stars. I was suddenly picked up by the back of my shirt. I found myself facing the creature I had run into the other day. He growled a challenge to me, and I smiled a morbid smile. I was going to have myself a little fun.
Third POV, somewhere in space
Ridley swallowed the last of his meal, and licked his chops. He gazed at his stolen merchandise. The tube contained a young boy who gave off strange energy readings, but the Federation wanted him badly. They'd been chasing Ridley for almost a month now, and he was getting sick of it. He considered dumping the tube, and simply returning to his private planet, but decided that he'd rather know why the Federation wanted this boy so badly. His comm. unit beeped, and he whirled around to check it. An unknown ship was hailing him. He brought up a visual, and saw a purple ship with its guns trained on his. The ship seemed familiar, but he didn't recognize it. He opened a voice only comm. channel. "Unidentified vessel, state your purpose and identity." Said an all too familiar voice. Ridley growled, and the person at the other end of the comm. recognized it.
"Hello again, Samus." Ridley replied. He brought a visual up, and immediately saw that Samus no longer had her Power Suit. "What happened to your suit?" Ridley asked snidely.
"What are you doing here, Ridley? And how did you survive Zebes' destruction?" Samus asked.
"Didn't the Federation tell you? They took my battered and bruised body off of a chunk of Zebes, and restored me to health. They even made a few clones of me. If they had waited even an hour more, I would have died. Now I repeat my earlier question, where's your suit?" Ridley told her. Samus sighed.
"Destroyed, just like you will be." Samus replied. Ridley's ship shuddered as Samus shot its main engines. It started to drift down to the planet that it was orbiting around. Ridley cursed, and cut the comm. link. He steadied the ship as well as he could, but knew that he was still going to crash unless Samus shot him first. The ship shuddered again as it crashed into the planet's surface. Ridley checked on the tank to make sure that it was alright before he climbed out of the ship. He saw Samus's ship coming in for a landing. He was worried. He knew he could defeat Samus if she wasn't at full power, but if she had all her upgrades then he was as good as dead. Samus appeared beneath her ship in a beam of light. She took aim at Ridley quickly, and fired off three Super Missiles in rapid succession. Ridley took flight, and the missiles narrowly missed.
"You're losing your touch Samus." He taunted, unleashing a volley of Fireballs. She dodged them with ease.
"I'm not the only one." Samus said as she charged forward using her Speed Booster. As soon as she was underneath Ridley, she let loose her charged beam combo and followed it up with a few Missiles. Ridley crashed into the ground behind her, but hi tail lashed out and sent her flying through the wall of his ship. She gave a groan of pain. The tail hadn't caused too much damage, but crashing through the ship's hull had taken out two of her energy tanks. She slowly got to her feet when she saw the empty tank nearby. Ridley appeared, and unleashed another volley of fireballs. Samus dodged, and temporarily forgot about the tank. As soon as the smoke cleared, Ridley noticed the shattered tank.
"What did you do?" He growled as Samus landed nearby. Samus aimed her charge beam at him and let it loose.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Samus said.
"The Federation's experiment, you destroyed it." Ridley said, using a fire ball to nullify the charge beam.
"Federation experiment?" Samus replied.
"Something else that the Federation didn't tell you? They had a strange human clone nearby where they kept me. I decided to bring him along with me." Ridley told her. Samus stopped her attack in surprise.
"Shit! Not another one!" She exclaimed.
"Oh, so you do know of it." Ridley said.
"I know of another one. The Federation has been splicing Metroid Queen DNA with a human's. They can control Metroids, and are stronger than your average human." Samus told him. Ridley halted his attack in curiosity, but kept himself on alert. "We have to find that specimen." Samus said.
"And why should I help you?" Ridley retorted.
"You will if you value your life. This suit is stronger than my Gravity Suit, and has better weapons." Samus replied. Ridley considered this for a minute.
"Why would you want to hunt it down anyways? It's not like you're going to get a reward." Ridley said. Samus was about to reply, but a rumbling sound cut her off. Ridley looked around, searching for any signs of bad structural integrity. Without warning, the roof caved in on both of them. A lanky boy walked out of his hiding place just outside the ship, and sniggered.
"I wonder if there's enough of them for me to absorb." He said.
Third POV, remains of the Restricted Sector
An orange liquid oozed out of a small crack in the chunk of flooring. There was barely enough of it to fill an eight oz cup, but it was alive. As it clung to the chunk of the floor, it began to multiply and grow. In minutes it had assumed a human shape, that of Samus Aran. Then the shape of her suit formed over it, and it finished transforming. As the last spot of liquid disappeared, the SA-X looked around. It began to remember what had happened, and looked around for any surviving Metroids. There were none. It then proceeded to look around for any type of ship. The SA-X noticed a small salvage ship approaching. She positioned herself so that she could watch it, but it couldn't see her. She clung to the chunk of flooring to keep from floating off, and prepared her Grapple Beam. The ship slowly floated by, and she launched her Grapple Beam. It latched on right next to the cargo hatch. The beam retracted, and as she came closer to the hatch, she cocked her fist back. As soon as she could, she plowed her fist through the hatch, and fumbled around for the opening switch. When she found it, she used it to open the hatch and climb in. She was immediately confronted by three energy rifles. "SA-X, surrender or you will be killed." One of the men said. The SA-X didn't bother replying, and simply fired three quick Plasma Beams at the three men. They dropped, each one with a large smoking hole in their chest. The SA-X then noticed the charred Chozo statue that had been behind them, and in its hands was the Gravity Suit upgrade. A smile crept across the SA-X's face as she reached for it.
A/N: Sorry this is so short, the next one will be longer. Now for the Reviews.
Just here: Thanks for the review!
Specter von Baren: What Ridley Clone? If you're talking about the one from the BSL station, it was destroyed. And Samus had Adam pilot the ship to the space station while they slept.
Third POV
The young Metroid that was taken from the Ceres station floated alone, trying to sort its memories. It had just attacked the one that it thought was its mother, but as far as it knew it didn't have a mother. It remembered hatching, and seeing her. It remembered being exposed to a strange energy source, and feeling immense pain as it split. It couldn't remember in between those times, but it still thought that she was its mother. The Metroid heard a scream of pain, and recognized the voice as its mother's. It flew off towards the scream, and latched onto the large creature that was standing over its mother. It began to drain the energy, and prevented the creature from attacking. The Metroid continued sucking energy until its body couldn't hold any more. It floated over to its mother, and clamped onto her. She struggled, but the Metroid held firm as it began to restore her energy. Its mother stopped struggling, and let the Metroid finish. As the Metroid prepared to leave, the large creature woke up. It began to attack, so the Metroid protected its mother, and she tried to get out from under the Metroid to resume the attack on the large beast. When it was weak, it lifted off of her and began to float away. It then floated towards the large creature, intent on sucking all of its energy. The large creature attacked it with an energy attack, and the Metroid squealed in pain. It diverted all of its energy towards its mother as she got up, and took aim at the large creature. As its energy dissipated, the Metroid lost consciousness. The last thing it saw was its mother attacking the large creature.
Ruska's POV
I awoke with a start to find myself on the floor in an unfamiliar room. I scanned around the room quickly, looking for any living things. I saw nothing, but noted that I was apparently in a living room. There was some furniture that had come from Brent's place, but there was some other stuff, but I didn't recognize it. I got up, and walked towards the door. As soon as I opened it, a couple of my Metroids floated in, chittering. Someone was standing in front of me, a box in their hands that obscured their face. "Who are you?" I asked irritably. The person poked their head around the box, and I recognized it as Brent.
"Oh, hello Ruska." He said, "How do you like the ship I bought?"
"Good." I replied. I walked by him, and into the docking bay of the space station itself. Outside, I turned around to see the ship. It was larger than Samus's ship, approximately twice its size. It was pure metallic black, and reflected the light in away that made it resemble the void of space and the stars. I was suddenly picked up by the back of my shirt. I found myself facing the creature I had run into the other day. He growled a challenge to me, and I smiled a morbid smile. I was going to have myself a little fun.
Third POV, somewhere in space
Ridley swallowed the last of his meal, and licked his chops. He gazed at his stolen merchandise. The tube contained a young boy who gave off strange energy readings, but the Federation wanted him badly. They'd been chasing Ridley for almost a month now, and he was getting sick of it. He considered dumping the tube, and simply returning to his private planet, but decided that he'd rather know why the Federation wanted this boy so badly. His comm. unit beeped, and he whirled around to check it. An unknown ship was hailing him. He brought up a visual, and saw a purple ship with its guns trained on his. The ship seemed familiar, but he didn't recognize it. He opened a voice only comm. channel. "Unidentified vessel, state your purpose and identity." Said an all too familiar voice. Ridley growled, and the person at the other end of the comm. recognized it.
"Hello again, Samus." Ridley replied. He brought a visual up, and immediately saw that Samus no longer had her Power Suit. "What happened to your suit?" Ridley asked snidely.
"What are you doing here, Ridley? And how did you survive Zebes' destruction?" Samus asked.
"Didn't the Federation tell you? They took my battered and bruised body off of a chunk of Zebes, and restored me to health. They even made a few clones of me. If they had waited even an hour more, I would have died. Now I repeat my earlier question, where's your suit?" Ridley told her. Samus sighed.
"Destroyed, just like you will be." Samus replied. Ridley's ship shuddered as Samus shot its main engines. It started to drift down to the planet that it was orbiting around. Ridley cursed, and cut the comm. link. He steadied the ship as well as he could, but knew that he was still going to crash unless Samus shot him first. The ship shuddered again as it crashed into the planet's surface. Ridley checked on the tank to make sure that it was alright before he climbed out of the ship. He saw Samus's ship coming in for a landing. He was worried. He knew he could defeat Samus if she wasn't at full power, but if she had all her upgrades then he was as good as dead. Samus appeared beneath her ship in a beam of light. She took aim at Ridley quickly, and fired off three Super Missiles in rapid succession. Ridley took flight, and the missiles narrowly missed.
"You're losing your touch Samus." He taunted, unleashing a volley of Fireballs. She dodged them with ease.
"I'm not the only one." Samus said as she charged forward using her Speed Booster. As soon as she was underneath Ridley, she let loose her charged beam combo and followed it up with a few Missiles. Ridley crashed into the ground behind her, but hi tail lashed out and sent her flying through the wall of his ship. She gave a groan of pain. The tail hadn't caused too much damage, but crashing through the ship's hull had taken out two of her energy tanks. She slowly got to her feet when she saw the empty tank nearby. Ridley appeared, and unleashed another volley of fireballs. Samus dodged, and temporarily forgot about the tank. As soon as the smoke cleared, Ridley noticed the shattered tank.
"What did you do?" He growled as Samus landed nearby. Samus aimed her charge beam at him and let it loose.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Samus said.
"The Federation's experiment, you destroyed it." Ridley said, using a fire ball to nullify the charge beam.
"Federation experiment?" Samus replied.
"Something else that the Federation didn't tell you? They had a strange human clone nearby where they kept me. I decided to bring him along with me." Ridley told her. Samus stopped her attack in surprise.
"Shit! Not another one!" She exclaimed.
"Oh, so you do know of it." Ridley said.
"I know of another one. The Federation has been splicing Metroid Queen DNA with a human's. They can control Metroids, and are stronger than your average human." Samus told him. Ridley halted his attack in curiosity, but kept himself on alert. "We have to find that specimen." Samus said.
"And why should I help you?" Ridley retorted.
"You will if you value your life. This suit is stronger than my Gravity Suit, and has better weapons." Samus replied. Ridley considered this for a minute.
"Why would you want to hunt it down anyways? It's not like you're going to get a reward." Ridley said. Samus was about to reply, but a rumbling sound cut her off. Ridley looked around, searching for any signs of bad structural integrity. Without warning, the roof caved in on both of them. A lanky boy walked out of his hiding place just outside the ship, and sniggered.
"I wonder if there's enough of them for me to absorb." He said.
Third POV, remains of the Restricted Sector
An orange liquid oozed out of a small crack in the chunk of flooring. There was barely enough of it to fill an eight oz cup, but it was alive. As it clung to the chunk of the floor, it began to multiply and grow. In minutes it had assumed a human shape, that of Samus Aran. Then the shape of her suit formed over it, and it finished transforming. As the last spot of liquid disappeared, the SA-X looked around. It began to remember what had happened, and looked around for any surviving Metroids. There were none. It then proceeded to look around for any type of ship. The SA-X noticed a small salvage ship approaching. She positioned herself so that she could watch it, but it couldn't see her. She clung to the chunk of flooring to keep from floating off, and prepared her Grapple Beam. The ship slowly floated by, and she launched her Grapple Beam. It latched on right next to the cargo hatch. The beam retracted, and as she came closer to the hatch, she cocked her fist back. As soon as she could, she plowed her fist through the hatch, and fumbled around for the opening switch. When she found it, she used it to open the hatch and climb in. She was immediately confronted by three energy rifles. "SA-X, surrender or you will be killed." One of the men said. The SA-X didn't bother replying, and simply fired three quick Plasma Beams at the three men. They dropped, each one with a large smoking hole in their chest. The SA-X then noticed the charred Chozo statue that had been behind them, and in its hands was the Gravity Suit upgrade. A smile crept across the SA-X's face as she reached for it.
A/N: Sorry this is so short, the next one will be longer. Now for the Reviews.
Just here: Thanks for the review!
Specter von Baren: What Ridley Clone? If you're talking about the one from the BSL station, it was destroyed. And Samus had Adam pilot the ship to the space station while they slept.