Third POV
A lone ship floated through space. It was strange in design, it looked nothing like any ship registered in the GF databanks. Inside were five life forms, only three were awake and the other two were in stasis. "We should return to the others. What we're doing is treason." A Space Pirate said in its guttural language.
"No, she said we should find the hunter, and that's what we're going to do." A Shadow Pirate growled. "We've stolen several crates of Phazon. If we return, we die. Got it?" The Shadow Pirate asked. The Space Pirate nodded.
First POV, Ruska
I was thrown into the wall by the explosion, and my Metroids were stunned. The ball unrolled back into the being, and the suit was badly damaged. I coughed up a goblet of blood as I stood up. The being rose their gun arm above my head, and smashed it down onto my skull. Everything went black.
I came to an unknown amount of time later, my head pounding from the blow I had recieved. Riina was sitting beside me. I sat up, and looked around. No one but her. There wasn't even any sign of the Metroids. "How's your head?" Riina asked.
"I'm fine. What happened?" I replied. Riina hesitated for a moment.
"I knocked their helmet off. Our attacker was the SA-X. We got it contained with the Metroids." Riina said. I nodded, and began to get out of bed. I had been stripped except for my underwear. I had bandages across my chest and around my right knee and on my head.
"SA-X? What's that?" I asked.
"It's an X-parasite copy of Samus, and it has her old suit." Riina told me.
"And you defeated it by knocking it's helmet off?" I asked standing and stretching.
"Well it startled it long enough for the Metroids to latch on." Riina told me.
"Why haven't we killed the damn thing?" I asked.
"Because I cut a deal with the girl." A familiar voice said. I looked at the doorway where the SA-X stood, but without her mechanical suit. Two Metroids hovered nearby. "And I'm a female, not a thing." They said.
"What is this deal?" I asked, looking at both Riina and the SA-X.
"That, I cannot say." The SA-X replied. I looked to Riina, but she was silent. "You don't have to worry, I'm not going to infect everyone I see. I'm not your standard X-parasite." The SA-X said, turning and leaving. I went to attack it from behind, but Riina grabbed my wrist, which startled me.
"Don't. She really won't harm anyone." Riina said.
"You humans let your emotions get in the way too much." I replied, wrenching my arm from her grasp, and stalking away.
"But I'm not a human." Riina muttered after I was out of hearing range.
Third POV, Environmental area
Riina sighed, leaning back against a tree. Her small Metroid was sleeping in her lap. The SA-X was sitting in tree with one leg dangling down. The other Metroids were floating around, always watching the SA-X. "Why don't you tell him?" She asked.
"I can't, that would ruin my plans." Riina said.
"Plans? What plans?" The SA-X asked.
"I was told that I was to help soften him, so that he wouldn't be an uncontrollable killer. It's easier to do if he thinks I'm just a normal human. I can't disobey my orders." Riina explained.
"Why follow useless orders like those, when you could probably subdue him by force?" SA-X asked.
"You wouldn't understand, Kiirroi. Just like Ruska doesn't understand that he's wrong." Riina replied.
"That much is obvious." The SA-X replied.
First POV, Ruska
I sat in the cockpit with Brent, thinking. "What happened after I was knocked out?" I asked.
"I'm not entirely sure. After you were knocked out, there was a bright flash. Next thing I know, my forehead is in a sharp pain, and I'm out like a light." Brent replied, as he did something with his teleporter, causing it to spark. He had a bandage wrapped around his forehead.
"Do you know what the deal is between Riina and the X?" I asked.
"No, I don't know. And it worries me." Brent replied. He snapped the cover of his teleporter back in place, and turned it on. It hummed for a moment, and then gave a a bang and died. Brent went to remove the case, but it gave him an electrical shock. I chuckled, but he ignored me and pulled a wrist strap with a wire attached out of his pocket. "Do you know who Riina's parents are?" Brent asked.
"Probably the people I killed when I first met her." I replied.
"I'm not sure if that's true. Did she ever tell you her last name?" Brent said.
"Nope." I replied. What the heck was he getting at? I mentally probed my Metroids' memories, trying to find out what had happened. Whenever I came close, a mental block came up. I frowned.
"What's the matter?" Brent asked, not looking up from his work.
"Nothing." I replied. This shouldn't be happening. I was their superior in the heirarchy. Brent finished fixing the machine, and replaced the cover. He turned the machine on, and it started humming and vibrating. He turned the machine off, and put it in a pocket. He stood up, and checked the readouts on the consoles.
"Hey Ruska, when we make planetfall is there anything you want?" Brent asked.
"A live meal for the Metroids. I don't want them to live off of the ship's power core forever." I replied, exiting the cockpit. As I did, my skin tingled as though there was a large amount of energy residue. "Hey Brent, do we have anything that could produce a large amount of radioactive energy?" I called back over my shoulder.
"No, why?" Brent asked, coming out of the cockpit.
"It feels like there was something in here." I muttered. Brent reached inside the pockets of his lab coat, and pulled out yet another item. This one was a tube. It extended into more of a rod like device, and gave off a buzz followed by three beeps.
"You're right. Something was in here. But we don't have anything that could leave this much of an energy residue. In fact, I don't even know of anything could leave this much, except Phazon possibly." Brent told me.
"Phazon?" I asked.
"It's a mutagen. Very powerful. And it had some interesting effects on Metroids. If I remember correctly, a creature called Metroid Prime produced it as a by product." Brent told me.
"This Phazon stuff is a Metroid by product?" I asked.
"No, Metroid Prime is a highly evolved Metroid, but normal Metroids can't produce Phazon. I wonder if the SA-X or Riina know anything about this." Brent muttered.
"So we have something on board that's very radioactive, enough to kill us if we get near it?" I asked.
"Or horribly mutate us, causing us extensive pain." Brent replied. I was silent for a moment.
"Great." I muttered.