Here's the next chapter. It starts to get interesting from here! Remember to leave a review, and I don't own anything Metroid! Oh yeah, and I made a few minor changes to the previous chapters to make them flow a little better. :D Okay, now read!
Trapped!
Samus woke up to find herself in a large, translucent blue stasis tank. There were electrodes attached to her head with wires running up through the top of the tube-like cage. She felt her shoulder, which seemed to be miraculously healed from the gun blasts that she had endured. She checked her side: She had been relieved of her pistol. It wouldn't have mattered, anyway. It was a weak pistol. It would have had no effect on the creatures holding her captive.
She began to look for a way to escape. She saw that the room around her was filled with computers and electronic equipment. There was a large vat of red liquid sitting next to her tank, and Samus could swear that it was glowing. There were several other stasis tanks in the room identical to Samus', but they were empty.
Samus took to studying the computer nearest her. She had trouble reading the screen, as it was facing away from her, but she could crane her neck enough to be able to see some of it.
The readout was in some sort of alien language. It was not one of the ten languages taught to chozo children, it was something completely different. The characters seemed somewhat harsher, a bit more angular than any of the other languages Samus had seen before.
Presently, one of the creatures walked into the room. It looked at Samus and noticed that she was awake. Samus felt fear well up inside herself. The creature calmly walked over to the computer system in front of her and pressed some buttons, apparently reading the readouts. It nodded, satisfied, and walked away. Samus was alone once again.
Then, Samus felt an unprecedented panic rise up within herself. She banged on her containment capsule with her fists. She pounded, frenzied and not thinking, and when she realized that it was not working, she started clawing at the walls. She felt her tank closing in around her, choking her.
She started to throw her body at the walls, trying in vain to escape. A buzzer sounded in the room and a few creatures hurried in to see what was happening. They saw Samus slamming herself against the container, and one of them quickly hurried to the computer by her tank. He pressed a few buttons, and then a hissing sound could be heard above Samus.
Samus was now pounding so hard at the container that her whole body began to ache. The hissing sound only made her more frightened, and her actions became more frenzied. Suddenly, as if someone had flipped a switch, Samus began to feel light-headed. Her vision slowly faded, and she collapsed on the ground, not to wake up for several hours.
When Samus woke again, she felt very drowsy. Her actions were sluggish, and she had trouble thinking clearly. Once she had assembled some semblance of a thought, she realized that the creatures had given her a sedative.
Slowly, her mind cleared. She began to wonder what they wanted with her. Why was she being kept in this container? She did not have much time to contemplate this before some of the creatures came back again.
There were three of them. One was small, and mostly unarmored like the ones Samus had seen before. Two of them had a large gun strapped to one arm and a wicked, curved blade attached to the other. The small one moved to the computer nearest to Samus, and motioned to the other two. They walked right up to Samus' tank and braced themselves.
Again Samus felt a foreboding terror within her inner being. She sat waiting, watching, wishing the creatures would go away.
The small one pressed a button on the computer, and all of the electrodes on Samus' head dropped off. It happened so quickly that it startled her. Then, very slowly, the walls of her tank started to sink into the ground.
The very walls that Samus had so desperately wanted to escape from before were now her only protection from the creatures waiting outside. She was frozen in horror, wishing with all of her being that the walls would stop decending.
When the walls had reached Samus' hips in height, Samus felt very vulnerable. The hulking creatures were units away from her, and there was no escape. She simply stood there, unsure of what to do.
Without warning or waiting for the tank's walls to completely descend into the floor, the two creatures on either side of Samus grabbed her. She screamed and swore at them, suddenly being shocked into reality. They took no heed, and dragged her towards the door, holding her wrists and sliding her legs along the floor.
Samus did not know exactly why, but she did not want to go through that door. She kicked and struggled, but she was no match for the burly creatures. Their claws dug deep into Samus' arms. She was startled to see blood dripping down her arms to her shoulders: The creatures were clutching her arms firmly.
The door approached quickly, and Samus could do nothing to stop it. It slid to the side, and Samus braced herself for what she would find behind it.