Sorry it's been so long for this chapter. I think this is probably the
longest chapter I'm going to be writing, but it's a key role in the
fanfiction. Enjoy!

Chapter Four

Samus fired an Ice Diffusion Missile at Ridley, and he was frozen.
"Great job guys." She said. Yehoshua went back to human. Instantly, the
over sized muscles vanished, and he was normal again. Samus leaped on
top of the frozen Ridley, and readied her cannon. She took her
flamethrower and melted the ice around Ridley's head, and was careful
not to singe his skin. When she was done, Ridley looked like a
half-painted ice sculpture. Then his eyes lit up. He stared at the
remote in Samus' hands, and then at the collar on his neck, and seeing
that they bore the same insignia, he gulped. "Okay Ridley" said Samus.
"I have a proposition for you" Ridley's response was:
"REEEEEEAAAHHHH!" "Crap" said Samus. "I forgot you only speak
mumbo-jumbo. Colin, can you get the Translator doohickey? "Sure" said
Colin. About five minutes later Colin came running back with a strange
device that looked like a plastic donut with small buttons. She tossed
it into Ridley's drooling mouth. Ridley started to turn green, his
chest was expanding, and there was a look of fatigue on his face. "Take
cover!" yelled Yehoshua. Yehoshua hid behind a house of straw. Colin
hid behind a stick house. And Samus hid behind a brick house. Then,
Ridley closed his eyes…and farted. "EEEEWWWW!" yelled all of them at
once. Once the stench went away (a.k.a. five hours) Samus tried again.
"Ridley, there is a dark being at work." She said "Darker than me?" said
Ridley. "Yep" said Samus. "Crap" "Shut up. This being is known as
Reshef. He told me I was the chosen one and all that jazz and I had to
collect a team of seven, including me, to fight him. So far we have
Yehoshua the Demon Warrior, who mooned you, Colinuseran the Commander
of the Metroids, and we were going to get Jerrod Malkovich, who is
being held hostage on your ship, when we realized you would be a big
help." "What the #$&!" exclaimed Ridley. "Relax" said Samus. "He
said if we didn't beat him, then he would destroy the universe as we
know it. Plus, I won't inject the Metroid Venom in you." "That sounds
reasonable" said Ridley. "I know who else to get, but that leaves one
person…" said Samus, stroking her beard. (I'm just joking! I hope) "I
have a Space Pirate who is my right hand man. He was on the Zebes fight
and only his spinal cord was left intact. We put it in a robot and now
he is a cyborg. His name is Cydon Praxx. He is watching guard after
this 'Jerrod'." Said Ridley. Samus unfroze the rest of his body, and
Ridley started hulking towards the entrance. Everybody followed him,
ready to see their new team-mates.

When the Space Pirate Leader walked into the base followed by the Hunter
and unfamiliar life forms, they raised their lasers and aimed at Samus.
"They're with me!" snapped Ridley. The Space Pirate stepped back,
afraid to be eaten by the giant dragon/dino/metal-thingy. As they
stepped into the holding cell, Ridley immediately said "Put your weapon
down, Cydon." Cydon obeyed, and dropped his laser-gun. Cydon's body was
sleek and shiny, the color of silver. Instead of two eyes, he had a
yellowish blob on the front of his face, which uneasily reminded
Yehoshua and Samus of an Ing. His laser gun was actually just a small
pistol, which made him look formidable. His hair was tied back in what
looked like a pony-tail. (To see what Cydon looks like, go click on 'Hunters' and 'Weavel') "Release the prisoner and
give him back his items" he continued. Cydon smashed a button on the
wall and some hidden gates opened. Underneath was a man, presumably in
his late twenties. He had short black hair, thin glasses, and was very
tall. "What is going on?" he said. "Sit down." Said Samus. Jerrod did
so, and Samus explained what had happened. When she was finished, she
turned her eyes back to Jerrod. "I know you're smart Jerrod. Do you
have anything to help us?" "Yeah." He replied. "I made a power suit out
of a new Federation suit and some old Chozo artifacts I found on Tallon
IV." He pulled a small capsule out of his pocket and smashed it against
his chest. There was a blinding light. When it cleared, Jerrod was
standing in an awesome suit. It was golden, and was in the shape of
Samus' Power Suit. The cannon looked more like a claw, and the cannon
was on both hands. "The suit lets me telepathically tell the suit which
visor and beam I want to use, and I can use the claws on my cannons as
fingers. Like Samus' suit, it gives me nutrients so I don't have to
eat." "What about Cydon?" inquired Colin. "He just looks like a robot
with a pistol." Cydon leaped off the bench, and landed on the ground.
Two metallic arms sprouted out. All four arms reached for his belt and
whipped out four light-sabers. He whirled them around so fast that they
were a blur. Then he jumped about twenty feet in the air and landed on
one of Jerrod's claws. It was clear that Cydon was very agile. About
five minutes later, all of them marched back to the Samus' ship. When
they arrived, Samus set a course for Aether, and Yehoshua and Colin
started a pig-out-session in Samus' pantry. The ship left the docking
bay, and shot of to where one of the greatest entities was defeated…

Back on the planet of Aether, U-Mos the Luminoth smirked. 'Back
already, huh' he thought. He stepped forward to greet the ship. When it
touched down, Samus and the others were about to start to greet U-Mos,
but Yehoshua was way over-enthusiastic. He rushed forward and hugged
U-Mos. The others were clue-less. Even more surprisingly, U-Mos
returned the favor. Samus finally understood. Her mind rushed back to
Yehoshua's memory. She remembered the Luminoth that had wept in the
dream. Could that have been U-Mos? Seeing the stunned faces of the
team, U-Mos explained. "About thirteen earth cycles ago, a great meteor
filled with a dangerous chemical substance called Phazon hit the planet.
It is also said that the Phazon wiped out the Chozo on Tallon IV as
well. The meteor hit, and formed Dark Aether. From Dark Aether, the
Emperor Ing rose. It spawned more Ing, and one of those Ing ventured
into young Yehoshua's home on Agon. It slayed his parents and then
possessed his body. When I found him later, he was frail and weak, and
in danger of dying. I used Luminoth magic to lock up the Ing within
him. But he was both gifted and cursed with the ability to go into a
powerful form. But sometimes the Ing could take him over for a short
while he was in his powerful form. However, because tomorrow is his
thirteenth year in existence, we can begin a ritual known as
'Purification'. It will let him expel his darker side for a more pure
one, more powerful one. But we will need three materials for the
ritual, which we do not usually have. A thorny situation. Yes, rather
thorny. We will need an eye of a Sheegoth, a body segment of an Alpha
Bombdigger, and a chunk of Phazon." Finished U-Mos. "Won't it be
dangerous?" said Samus. "No" replied U-Mos. "I have constructed a small
tube that can with hold the power of the Phazon. As long as you scoop it
up with this tube, you will be safe." "OK" said Samus. "But how will we
get to Tallon IV in a day?" "By these." Gestured U-Mos. He pointed to
two large stone bodies. Each one held a yellow orb in the right hand,
and a blue orb in the left. There were no heads on them, just a
cockpit. "Ingsmashers. Fastest things ever. Get you from one end of the
galaxy to the next in two days. And that's without hyperspace. You can
use them to get the materials. Yehoshua will accompany you." "OK" said
Samus. She and Yehoshua climbed into the Ingsmashers, and rocketed off
to Tallon IV…

(While they get the materials, I will be saying Samus instead of Samus's
Ingsmasher. Saves time.)

Samus and Yehoshua landed on the frozen plains of Phenendrana Drifts in
Tallon IV. "Last time I saw a Sheegoth, it was in Chapel of the Chozo
Elders." Said Samus. "Then lets go there!" replied Yehoshua. The huge
bulking figures flew off in the chapel's direction, ramming senselessly
into Crystallites and Ice Parasites as they went. After about five
minutes of flying, they found a big hole. "According to my map, the
hole leads to the Chapel. They slid into the hole and found themselves
in the middle of the chapel. "Hey," said Yehoshua. "What's that?" He
was pointing at a Wave Beam canister on an altar. "DON'T TOUCH IT!"
Shrieked Samus. "Why Not?" said Yehoshua. "It's a booby trap. Let me show
you." She hurled a Yellow orb at the canister. Before it hit, the altar
zoomed into the ground. The hole locked up, and something started
rumbling. Then, 8 bluish monsters came out of the altar. "SHEEGOTH!"
Screamed Yehoshua like a little girl. "Baby Sheegoth." Said Samus. She
leaped up and hurled a blue orb at one of them. Dark energy enveloped
it, and it shrieked, obviously in pain. Then Samus threw a yellow one
at it. Now light energy surrounded it. The creature shrieked and died.
"Yellow is light beam, blue is dark beam!" shouted Samus. "Gotcha"
yelled Yehoshua. He put his hands together and combined the orbs to
mark an Annihilator Beam. He shot it at the monster and it died in one
hit. The baby Sheegoth were no mach for the Annihilator Beam. When they
were all dead, a huge. Sheegoth came rushing out of the altar. It
roared, and a yellow dripping came out of Yehoshua's Ingsmasher. Samus
leaped up, and fired an Annihilator beam at it. The Sheegoth screamed,
only to be shut up by another Annihilator Beam. 18 Annihilator beams
later, the Sheegoth fell. Samus knelt down and plucked the eye off the
Sheegoth, and put it in one of U-Mos' tubes. "Hey Samus" said
Yehoshua. "What" "Do you have any spare pants? The Sheegoth made me wet
myself."

When Samus and Yehoshua landed on Agon Wastes, their first objective
was to find an Alpha Bombdigger. To their surprise (and luck) when they
touched down, an Alpha Bombdigger jumped out of the ground, and fired a
blast of acid at Yehoshua. He jumped out of the way and fired an
Annihilator Beam at it's tail. It just bounced off of it like a ball.
Samus chose to aim one at the head. Bingo! It hit the head and the
Bombdigger split in half. The Bombdigger didn't like that. Both of the
parts went under ground and laid bombs. The force knocked Samus and
Yehoshua over, and then the Bombdigger rose up again. Samus and
Yehoshua each fired the Anniliator Beam at each part of the Bombdigger.
Then those two split in two. When they went down to bomb again, Samus
tried to do a Screw Attack, but it didn't work. "Shoot" she said. "My
normal attacks don't work in here." They landed on the ground right
after it bombed the ground. The repeated the process until the
Bombdigger was completely cut up. Samus and Yehoshua blasted all but one
of the segments. The remaining one was put inside the other vile. "Follow
me." Said Samus. The Ingsmashers rose into the air, and zoomed to the
Sky Temple.

"This should be very easy." Said Samus. They had arrived at the Sky
Temple, which had a wall that was completely engulfed in Phazon. Samus
took two viles out of her compartment. "Hey, U-Mos only gave you three
of those." Said Yehoshua. "I know." Said Samus. "I sneaked it from him.
I'm sending some of the Phazon to Federation HQ for analysis. She
scooped the Phazon in the two viles. "Oops!" Samus slipped and fell in
the Phazon. Instantly, her Ingsmasher dissolved, and Samus was about to
fell the Phazon's effect. Yehoshua leaped out of his Ingsmasher, grabbed Samus and the viles, and ran Far away from the Phazon. There was no hope of getting back to the Ingsmasher, for the Phazon had engulfed his Ingsmasher as well. Yehoshua rose up, and started walking to the Luminoth Sanctuary…

"You have finally arrived." Said U-Mos. They had finally reached the Sanctuary, and Samus was awake. The sanctuary had a single altar, and a large tube above it. Next to the altar was a control panel, with three slots, presumably for the viles. "Please step onto the podium." Yehoshua obliged, and stepped onto the holy ground. U-Mos inserted the viles in the panel, and the tube above Yehoshua started to glow. A glowing material, unlike anything Samus had ever seen, started to drip out of the tube. Yehoshua opened his mouth, and swallowed it. He started to glow. U-Mos closed his eyes and muttered Yehoshua's incantation, only differently. Yehoshua shut his eyes, and there was a blinding flash. Yehoshua was in his Demon mode, but it was no longer that of hell. His skin was bright silver, energy was coursing through is veins, and there were two red bulbs protruding out of the back of his hands. He looked like he had a blue orb jammed into his forehead, and his hair turned a bright, bright yellow. His muscles did not change, but he regained his demonic strength, and could shoot light energy from his palms. On each of his orbs, there was a symbol, exactly like the one Yehoshua had on his back. Yehoshua opened his eyes, and looked at himself in wonder. Suddenly, Yehoshua turned back to normal and a black mist surrounded the Sanctuary. Many Luminoth started shrieking "The Ing! It's the Ing!" But it was not the Ing. "I thought I told you to be at the Alimbic Cluster!" boomed Reshef. "Ladies and gentlemen, I present you to Reshef." Said Samus. All seven of the teammates were sucked into the mist.

They had re-materialized at the Alimbic Cluster, and could see Reshef and six other teammates, some familiar, some not. Samus could see the SA-X, Dark Samus, Metroid Prime, and three new foes. One looked like the Emperor Ing, and it bore the tattoo that Yehoshua bore on his back. It was clear that this was the Ing that had both slain his parents and possessed him. There was also a large, hulking figure that was completely made of Phazon. There was also an android that was covered with missiles, lasers, ion cannons, flame throwers, and other arsenals. "This is my team." Said Reshef. "The SA-X, Emperor Ing, Phazon, X, Metroid Prime, and Dark Samus. The first round of the Dark Tournament is on… Magmoor Caverns!"