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First Adventures

As Samus neared the edge of the cliff, she heard noises from below. She dropped flat, almost instinctively, and listened to try to determine what they were. It was like a soft growling. Another growl came after the first, followed by another. It was almost as if two Alcoon were holding a conversation.

Samus carefully crawled to the edge, and peered down. She saw two creatures standing there, examining the landscape. Suddenly, in a rush, her memories came back to her.

She had been standing in the kitchen when it had happened. Her father burst into the room and shouted to her, "Samus, hide!" She scurried for her bedroom and crawled under her bed. She heard someone burst into the kitchen, and then the sound of blasters followed almost immediately. Crashing and banging was heard as the intruders threw the furniture around, searching for loot.

Samus remained breathless as three creatures shot down her bedroom door. They barged in and threw over a chair, and Samus' dresser. She got a good look at them from her hiding spot beneath the bed. They were tall, ugly creatures that looked like a combination between a human and an insect. They had huge, crablike claws for hands, and their whole body was covered in a thick exoskeleton. Their legs ended in wide, two toed feet, and each limb was segmented. They had small heads set just above a thick plate of armor on their torso. Each pirate had a blaster strapped to its right arm, and a blade extending from its left.

The pirates systematically tore the room to shreds. Many times, Samus was frightened that they would find her, but they did not think to check under the bed. Eventually, finding nothing of value, the raiders left.

Looking down at the creatures from atop the ledge she now crouched upon, Samus realized that they were of the same species. These were the very creatures that had come to her house on K2-L before she had been rescued by Toré.

Presently, the creatures started to walk away. Intrigued, and wanting to know more about this species that she had seen in her childhood, she decided to do a little spying. She slowly crawled to an area of the cliff that was not as steep as the rest, and tried to climb silently down the cliff's face.

Having being trained by the chozo, she managed to quickly reach the ground without detection. She followed the two creatures a distance, keeping far enough away to avoid being noticed. The creatures neared the entrance to Brinstar.

Brinstar was a maze of underground tunnels and shafts. In the old days, Brinstar was used as a mine, as it was rich in the substance brinstone, for which the area was named. The mine was eventually abandoned because it was much too hard to protect the miners from the wild creatures without killing a large number of them, upsetting the ecosystem.

The creatures began to descend into the large hole that marked the entrance of Brinstar, and Samus followed. All the while, the two creatures talked to each other in their own strange tongue. They encountered the door to the first mine shaft and stopped, unsure of how to open it. They found out quickly enough by shooting it a single time with their blasters.

The door design had been used for many cycles by the chozo, and would later be adopted by almost all other civilizations around the galaxy. It was a metal, dome shaped door protected by a thin, translucent blue force field. When shot with any kind of beam weaponry, the door would open. It was very effective in preventing the entry of most non-sentient creatures.

Samus watched the creatures enter the mine and then the door closed behind them. Samus winced: now she couldn't tell how far away they were. She waited a minute or so, and then, hesitatingly, pulled out her small pistol. Like all chozo, she carried a small pistol that could be used to stun small, wild creatures. It was strictly forbidden to use this pistol on a sentient being, under severe punishment.

She shot the door, and it quickly opened with an all-too-loud whoosh. Much to her despair, the creatures were not far enough from the door. Samus tried to run the other direction, but it was too late: The creatures whirled around and saw her.

Samus ran as fast as she could, fearing what the creatures would do if they caught her, she made her way back to the cliff. She heard them cock their blasters. She ran faster, her breath coming faster and faster. She could hear the pounding of the creatures' feet behind her, getting closer… closer…

As she reached the cliff, she began to climb swiftly. Climbing came like second-nature to her, and she was making her way to the top easily. Suddenly, she heard the sound of a blaster firing from behind her, and there was a sharp pain in her arm. Gasping, and trying to handle the pain, she continued to climb.

She had almost reached the top when she was hit by a second shot from the blaster. This one had found its mark just below her right shoulder blade. She cried out from the pain, and dropped from the cliff, unable to bear the burning sensation in her arm.

She fell for a moment, and then hit the ground with a sharp crack. Her vision went cloudy for a moment, and then everything went black.