Chapter 3
The Knight Sabers and Samus entered the repair room where Mackey, Sylia's younger teenage brother, prepared one of the suits for testing. The dark blue and red armor shined brightly under the florescent lights, its metal freshly cleaned and polished, the black visor blankly waiting to come to life. "Mackey is currently working on upgrading the suits to help with this mission", Sylia said, taking a closer look at Priss' finished upgrade.
"That's right, currently, your suits do not contain the right type of armor or weapon grade to take on even the most basic of Metroids. After much scavenging, I was able to dig up some spare metal to have your old suits melted down and re-fitted with tintarium. According to the GFP, this is one of the strongest, yet lightest, metals known through the universe. It's a very rare element only found in a few distant galaxies", Samus explained, "You think you can do things now…just wait till these suits are done."
"We are upgrading the weapons system in each suit to help incorporate a ice beam weapon", Sylia started, "We will also be added some type of ice property to the currently installed weapons."
"That's right", Mackey said, picking up where Sylia stopped, "As Sylia said, each of you will have an arm cannon like device built in to allow for the ice beam. As for the currently existing weaponry, Priss' needles will contain a liquid nitrogen chamber that injects the enemy and freezes it from the inside out. Sylia's arm blade will have pores that secrete liquid nitrogen, and the helmet whips on Linna's suit will have the same. Nene is the only left out, she will only have the arm cannon."
Nene instantly began to pout. "How come you all get to have the cool weapons?" She whined loudly.
"Like you really need a weapon. All you do is run around and scream like a little girl anyways", Priss replied, chortling at her own remark. Linna and Sylia both attempted to stifle their laughter.
"HEY! That's not very nice. You know you wouldn't last long without my input", she cried, hurt by the joke.
"Yes Nene…we know", Linna said rolling her eyes, "we know."
"As if you do anything important!" Nene shot back.
"That's enough girls. Let's try to keep to business here please", Sylia interrupted before they started fighting. "There is one more upgrade to the systems we will be making. In order to take this fight wherever it may need to go, we will be making the suits air tight for space use, and Samus has been gracious enough to provide us with the necessary specs and equipment to make this possible. Would you care to explain?"
"After looking over the original suit specs, I realized that these upgrades wouldn't be too hard to implement. The ways the suits are designed are very similar to my own, which is very good seeing that in order to make space, as well as water, pursuits viable, they will have to be air tight. The suits will carry my Varia and Gravity suit upgrades, or at least versions of mine. These will allow you to navigate various temperature ranges from extreme cold to metal melting heat, or full freedom of movement in space and water."
"Why all of a sudden are we going to need these types of abilities? We've never needed anything like this previously", Linna said.
"Well girls, there's a little more to this entire thing", Sylia said.
"What?" They all asked.
Sylia looked back over to Samus and continued, "Well ladies, we may be on the brink of a cataclysmic event", she said, the girls all listening intently, "It seems that this Mother Brain character is about to throw our dimension into another one. When this happens, there is no telling what will happen to our dimension or the one we collide with. Theories suggest that the two dimensions will fuse, taking pieces from each one and throwing it into a mixing pot.'
"Mother Brain is in the process of collecting parts for this machine. Why she intends to do this, we don't know, but we believe she may have found some type of energy source to use as a weapon in this other dimension", Sylia started.
"This wouldn't be the first time a species has crossed dimensions to find an energy source. The same thing happened a few years ago on a planet called Aether. The difference between then is that the world was in chaos and the dimensions had actually split due to a meteor impact. This, however, is going to be a fusion of dimensions, a completely different type of issue because with Aether, the planet and space around it were warped, but what Mother Brain is trying to do is fuse the entire dimension. That could be disastrous on a universal level", Samus continued.
"According to the GFP's theory, Mother Brain would have to create a machine the size of Genom tower to create the energy and force needed to fuse the dimensions; however, we've been unable to locate the machine and something that size is going to be hard to miss. With that said, and with the tendencies that Mother Brain has, she has probably moved the project underground, and with Mega-Tokyo's past earthquake, we believe she has moved this operation here where there are plenty of space and resources", Sylia said, drawing a quick diagram of the fault line beneath Mega-Tokyo.
"This is horrible", Linna said.
"Well it gets even better then that. To answer Linna's question about the upgrades, if our dimension and the unfortunate victims of another dimension become fused together, there is no telling what type of environment we will find ourselves in. My power suit will have no problem withstanding close to anything and with these upgrades, your suits will closely be that powerful."
"So then, either way, we have no choice but to help Samus because we're the only ones on this damn planet that can even do anything about this. Those sorry ass K-6 suits the A.D. Police have aren't going to be able to do much good", Priss angrily stated, still disgusted with the fact that she would have to deal with yet another partner.
The girls were discussing the situation amongst themselves when a red light began flashing, and a few seconds later Mackey entered back into the room, "There's a rogue boomer downtown. The weapon upgrades have been completed, but the suit upgrades aren't done yet."
"Can we still use the suits?" Sylia asked.
"Priss' is the only one that is completely done", Mackey replied before exiting the room.
"Nene, Linna and I will stay behind while Priss and Samus take this one on. It'll be a good opportunity for you to see how we work as well as a chance for us to see how you work", Sylia said, giving the order more toward Priss then Samus. Sylia knew if Priss had the chance she would take this mission over to try and show her skills and try to keep ahead of her new partner.
Priss looked away in disgust and stormed off to change. Samus clasped her helmet on and walked over to Sylia who was mapping the boomers location and movements. "You'll have to ignore Priss, she's a bit of a control freak with an attitude when it comes to playing nicely with others. Sylia sighed, "Alone…she does wonders, but with partners, she's not very friendly so don't feel bad if she brushes you off or gives you attitude."
Samus' attitude seemed to have changed when the rogue boomer appeared; an all business face crossed her face. "I don't care about her attitude, I'm here to ensure this horrendous event doesn't take place. I'm not too fond of partners either. Since the beginning I've taken care of hordes of Space Pirates single handedly and to be thrown into a partnership is not my idea of a good time", Samus said turning around and walking toward the door. She stopped in the doorway and turned around, "Just keep her out of my way, otherwise…I'll take care of her attitude myself." Samus turned and walked out the door and down the hallway.
A/N: You know I started this story long before Echoes came out, like long before and it's funny how dimension rips occur in both stories :-P…makes you wonder. Anywho…hope y'all are enjoying so far. Please don't forget to leave a review on what you think so far.
