Hi guys!!!
I'm really sorry that I haven't been updating this story but I've been really busy with stuff (such as schoolwork, writing "I'm Back!", and trying to beat Samus 2: Echoes, which is a very cool but impossible game) , plus my bro is totally hogging the computer now with his stupid Madden 2005 game.
Disclaimer (I've got to do it now before I forget to do it at all):
I don't own anything. I think.
Thanks to all who reviewed:
Fan: I'm REEEAAALLY sorry that I haven't updated lately! I would have updated sooner if I would have heard from you that you really wanted a new chappie! Sorry again! (And the answer to your question? Samus is a bounty hunter/assassin now, so she isn't like a rampant killer freak. But she does like money a lot (as you will see in this chapter) so she takes whatever assassin/b. hunter job is the highest paying at that point in time. And yes, she does like the thrill of killing people a little bit, too! XD)
Serenyty: Wow, you gave me 3 reviews! Go you! Thanks for your encouragement! Go you, again!
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AlwaysImpatient: Don't worry…you'll get a rob/star make out scene soon enough (actually, the make out scene will only be at the end. Sry!). I also hate it when people make Starfire a clueless idiot!!!
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I'm happy now because I got in my school play after all! It's about pirates! Wh00t!
I am sorry that this chapter is also very short, and I'm sorry that Nightwing isn't in this chapter either! But don't worry…he's in the next one!
Here, without further ado, is Chapter 2!
Chapter 2: Blackfire's Bounty (shut up, I hate titles)
It was a gorgeous night in this galaxy. Samus smiled and relaxed in her comfy chair in her space pod, "The Meteor", which she had built herself. It had been about 2 Earth hours since her last mission, and Samus couldn't be happier.
10 million gira! 10 million gira was what she'd received as her reward for assassinating Prince Gouthar! She could probably buy an entire planet for that amount! Samus loved money probably as much as she loved…say…herself! The more money the better. (A/N: Oh, Samus' space pod resembles the airplane that Mr. Incredible went on to get to that island in "The Incredibles". It has a huge front window, to look around the galaxy and stuff, and things like that. And that awesome table that refills itself or whatever! )
Samus decided to fly to Fiath, a small trading planet not far from the Milky Way Galaxy. She could probably get the best prices on things (such as planets) there. She stood up and headed over to the cockpit of her space pod, which was on automatic pilot right now.
Suddenly, her visor began blinking. (A/N: Okay, this needs some explanation. Samus, in Meteroid Prime 2, has this visor thing that can locate stuff and items and all that. (This is really hard to explain, so don't be hard on me if you don't understand this.)
So, I'm just saying that Samus has a visor thing that can detect when another mission has become available. For example, say Samus was wearing her normal visor, and that instant, somewhere on, lets say, Tameran, someone activates that a new bounty guy is loose, then Samus' visor would begin blinking. Samus would switch visors and see what new bounty target is available for bringing in, and their description and bounty price. If she likes the target description and their bounty price, Samus could go out and find that bounty target, and bring them in to whoever requested someone to find them.
Confusing enough for you? Sorry. I'll answer any questions you have…just send them to me via reviewing)
Samus quickly switched visors into her bounty visors, checking to see what kind of a target was out loose in the galaxy.
When she saw the target description and price, she smirked and expertly maneuvered the spacecraft so that it faced the opposite direction. The direction of her newest target. Her break time was over. It was time to get some serious bounty prices…and some revenge on her dear, sweet, bounty-targeted sister.
Blackfire cackled with malicious joy as she counted all the money she had acquired while raiding a small planet just minutes ago and as she sped away from it, escaping the planet's police.
"Pathetic inhabitants," she scoffed. "They'll never catch me now. No one can catch me!"
"Actually, that's where you're wrong."
Blackfire whirled around to face this stranger.
"And who do you think you are to tell me to…" she faltered as she began to recognize who was speaking to her. Tight space armor, sonic cannon and knife in hand, and smug expression behind the helmet…could it be?
"S-S-Samus?" Blackfire asked, cool tone in her voice gone. Her voice began to crack as she faced the infamous bounty hunter.
"In the flesh," she responded coolly.
"But…what are you doing here? I mean, I haven't done anything to have someone send you out to get me, have I?"
"Actually," Samus said as she cracked her knuckles and readied her cannon, "that's exactly what I was here for."
Heart pounding, Blackfire did the only thing she knew how to do when she was in a situation that fighting would not solve—flattery and talking her way out of her problem.
"Oh really," she said, her panicked expression replaced by one of coolness and calmness. "And what had I been doing to deserve this? I am an actually pleasant person, of course."
"I'm sure," Samus replied. "Hey, look, I've dealt with people just like you before, and I want you to know, you don't fool me. I'm not that innocent."
"What does that mean?"
"I think you know perfectly well. And if you don't, then I'll give you 5 seconds to figure it out." With that, Samus began charging her sonic cannon.
Blackfire knew only one way out now, and that was to escape. She was gone in half a second, shooting away from the bounty hunter in the snap of a finger. Samus laughed inwardly and began to count to 5. Then, after the promised 5 seconds, she pressed a button on her space board and was after the fugitive alien. Blackfire was hers.
Blackfire knew that she could never defeat Samus, so she had to outrun her and take refuge on some nearby planet. But with panic in her heart, she realized that she was zooming through the Earthian Solar System (A/N: AKA our solar system), where there were practically no planets for millions of miles. But she had to be strong and fly to the nearest one.
About 10 seconds behind Blackfire, Samus was casually riding her board as if there was no hurry. She was fully aware that she was in the Earthian Solar System, so that there were no planets for miles around. And Samus right now was very happy that she had lost her powers of flight. That was because Blackfire could fly and fly as swiftly as she could, for millions of miles, but eventually, would tire out. Samus, on the other hand, would never wear out, because she only had to stay on her board, and she could go to the outer reaches of the universe without breaking a sweat.
In about an hour, Samus figured, Blackfire would totally wear out from all this flight, and would be the perfect opportunity for her to reel in the bounty target…and cash.
Samus was right. After flying and flying for about an hour, Blackfire began to slow down. It was at this point that Samus finally pressed the acceleration button on her board, ready to catch up to the exhausted Tameranian.
But suddenly, Samus looked up and saw a sight that she had vowed to herself that she would never look at ever again. In the distance, about 3,000 miles from where the 2 were floating in space, lay a very familiar planet. Earth.
Samus' eyes widened behind her visor and she knelt onto her board, trying to suppress the wave of emotions that had just crashed onto her soul and heart. For 5 years she had trained herself to control all the hurtful emotions of Earth that she still had. But now, with the view of Earth in her sight, Samus just broke down. Her visor began to fog with her tears.
Blackfire, who was catching her breath, saw Samus kneel onto her board. The creepy criminal took advantage of this opportunity, and hurled a fast Starbolt at the bounty hunter who was in a very vulnerable position. Before Samus could react or dodge, the bolt knocked her off her board, and hurling into space. Blackfire cackled and shot into the air again, headed for Earth.
Samus knew that she had to pull herself together fast, before she was pulled into the dangerous air currents in space. She quickly dried her eyes (after taking off her visor for a second) and then unleashed a laser beam (A/N: Whoever has played Super Smash Bros Melee, you know that Samus has this laser beam that she can unleash that attaches to ledges and stuff, and pulls her up. This is the same laser beam rope thing) from her cannon, which latched onto her board. Samus quickly pulled herself up the rope and onto her board.
Blackfire was headed to Earth. Samus swiftly cast off her childish emotions and pulled herself together. If Blackfire was going to Earth, so was she. No matter whom she might encounter there. (Namingly, the Teen Titans. No duh…)
About 15 minutes later, Blackfire was just entering Earth's atmosphere with a cocky heart, when she heard a shout behind her. "Hey, Blackfire! Thought you were through with me?"
Blackfire whirled around to face Samus right behind her.
"H-how did you get out of that…?" She stammered out and then stopped, speechless.
"I have my ways," Samus replied calmly. "Anyway, ready for a little friendly game of tag?" She asked tauntingly and held up her cannon. "I call being it."
Blackfire narrowed her eyes and tore off down to Earth, frantically trying to avoid the ruthless bounty hunter.
Samus smirked, and counted, "One, two, three, ready or not; here I come!" Then, cannon in hand, she tore after the fugitive, diving in for the kill, and unknowing of how much she had changed her life by diving down to Earth, and unknowing of a special someone she would meet down there. Yep, that someone is Nightwing.
The end! At least for now…dun dun dun…
Well, did you like it? I hope so! If you did, please review! If you didn't, please review and tell me why you disliked it so I can fix it!
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Last but not least:
Chapter preview!!!!!!!!!!
Next chapter…Samus and Nightwing meet…it will be a 'Clash of the Titans!' Literally! But, of course, they won't recognize each other. And that probably will be about all that is in the next chapter. (I know that I'm making these stories short, but hey! "Slow and steady wins the race", right? coughs Right, guys? Okay, maybe not…)