KINGDOM HEARTS: This World Tallon
by RedMageMoogle
...Kupoooo...Hiatus is not fun, kupo! But I'm back on top of this, so hold on, kupo!
On with the show, kupo!
-Miranada, Inn-
BUZZ! BUZZ!
Sora hated alarm clocks. He had to admit, they were useful, but oh so very annoying. Ah hell, he figured they had to be to wake someone up.
It woke up the others as well, for he could hear Riku grumbling, Mickey yawning, Donald, Goofy, and Emiko snoring, Kairi getting out of bed…Wait, where was Samus?
"Sammmmmmusssss?" Sora yawned.
He looked over to Samus's bed. It looked as if it had never been slept in, with a note on the pillow. Snapping fully awake, Sora quickly read it as Emiko woke up.
All of you,
I have traveled to Planet Aether by the time you read this. Apparently, there is a Heartless conspiracy going on in the Phazon Mines, as well as Ing activity. (The Ing are similar to the Heartless.) I will return the morning this message is received with those who are more familiar with the Ing than I: the Luminoth race.
It was simply signed "Aran" with her custom S-logo.
Riku came up to Sora. "Whassat?" he said groggily.
"Something from Samus." Sora handed the note to Riku.
-Great Temple, Energy Controller-
On Tallon IV, it may have been morning, but here on Planet Aether it was well into the night.
The Luminoth Sentinel U-Mos could not sleep. Hence, he sat in the Energy Controller's room, being that the planetary energy, also called the "Light of Aether", comforted him.
He looked up to see a ship passing by, but stood up when it turned and came toward Aether. He recognized the shape of that ship…
You're back, he thought with a smile.
-Temple Grounds, GFMC Compound-
At first glance, one would think that the Galactic Federation was using this area, and all the troopers were asleep. Alas, such was not the case—all the Federation troopers had been killed long ago by the darkling Splinter swarm, some of the troopers possessed by the darklings. This, however, was now a thing of the past, being that Dark Aether, the ugly, dimensional copy of Aether, had ultimately fallen at Samus's hand. The GFS Tyr, the starship the troopers had used to get to Aether, had been removed, giving Samus more clearance to land, rather than the place she had landed before.
On came the descent. As she passed the planet's stratosphere, Samus set Phoenix Flame's onboard computer to auto-pilot, then entered the elevator shaft. She was already in her Varia Suit, so she didn't care to go to the bed quarters for it.
Her ship landed on the spot where the Tyr had been. Up went the elevator. The hatch opened, and Samus rose up. She hit a few buttons on the side of her Arm Cannon, and did her trademark somersault-jump off the ship, where an unfamiliar Luminoth greeted her…
"Might I ask your name?" Samus inquired. The Luminoth bowed his head.
"Welcome, Champion Samus Aran. I am S-Kul, a relative of the fallen warrior A-Kul. Our Sentinel U-Mos wishes to speak with you. Please follow me."
Samus already knew her way around Aether, but obliged him anyways.
-Tallon Overworld, Landing Site-
Yes, the same Zoomer was back, this time taking care to keep an eye out for anything that might pose a nuisance to it like that big armored person or the boy with a giant key. Maybe this time, things would be better.
The poor Zoomer. It just wasn't its week. Sora and the rest of the team had come through the blue door running all of a sudden, and once again the Zoomer fled screeching and purring curses and death threats in its own animal language, and even raised a foot and shook it like one would shake their fist at something.
Aside from that, Sora complained, "Gee, nice of her to just run off like that!"
Riku opened his mouth to say, "Ah, shut it, Sora" but was interrupted by something up on one of the rocky outcroppings. "What the--"
Sora's outburst may have woken it up. It rose, a gelatinous creature, which had greenish, transparent skin, its red nuclei visible, with four pincers protruding from the bottom, two large ones in the back and two in the front. It clacked them together with a skrEEEEee! and shot at them, ready to strike…
Emiko squealed, "M…Metroid!"
"Huh?" Kairi inquired, then turned to find Sora, Donald and Goofy locked in combat with it.
Goofy managed to block the Metroid's attack with his Knight's Shield, but that just made it angrier. Time and time again the Metroid would launch itself at someone, who would take a few good swings at it, all of which only lightly damaged it. Donald tried casting a Firaga spell, but the Metroid only used the magical energy to enlarge itself-it was resistant to heat. Why wasn't Samus around?
Emiko squealed again, "Freeze it!"
Donald took this as advice, so he cast a Blizzard spell--low level, to see the effect. The Metroid couldn't block this, and was frozen in place—it fell, and sort of bounced to Riku's feet, who took it upon himself to give it a downward stab with his devil-wing Soul Eater—shattering the large parasite.
"Wonder what set it off," Riku said sarcastically.
Nothing to say here, kupo...
See you next mission!
