Metroid: Return To The Past

Chapter 2: In search of the suit

Disclaimer: I do not own Nintendo, Samus or any of its characters mentioned in this fanfic other than O'Connor, which was my own idea. Thanks to NOD-Flareon, Charles and Wayne for their help in this chapter.

I knew I didn't have much time to waste; surely it wouldn't be too long before they discovered I was missing. I made my way down the main corridor; I saw a sign on the wall that confirmed that I was currently on floor 2 section A. I made my way towards the elevator when suddenly; two G-Fed security troopers came out of the elevator and spotted me. "Its Samus!" one of them shouted and they both aimed their weapons at me. I had no choice but to use the Emergency Pistol that O'Connor gave me and I took them both out with 2 single shots.

Just so you know, the Emergency Pistol doesn't kill; it merely paralyses the foe for a short time. I have only used this pathetic excuse of a weapon once before, in desperate times, but I had no time to think about that now, I had to move on.

I made my way towards the elevator and went inside. I pressed down on the elevator and the doors closed behind me. The elevator started to move and I was heading down towards floor 12. This is too easy…

I was correct, a few moments later, there was a sudden halt to the elevator and I was trapped between floors nine and ten. Surely this must have been the work of the G-Fed, they must have found out that I had escaped. My suspicions were confirmed when I heard voices coming from outside the elevator door, then the sounds of metal making contact with metal, they were trying to open the elevator doors, I had been found!

I looked around for a means of escape and noticed a hatch at the top of the elevator. It was my only chance!

I smashed the grating off the hatch and jumped up through it. I got to the top and replaced the hatch where it was, and held myself against the walls of the elevator shaft. Suddenly the doors opened, and I heard voices from below me.

"She must have decided to take the stairs, she tricked us!" said one of the G-Fed troopers. "Well, she can't have gone far, alert troopers throughout the ship to keep a look out, and get a team over to the docking bay to secure her ship, do NOT let her escape!" said another. The troopers' left and when I was sure they had gone, I scrambled back down into the elevator and pushed the down button, to my surprise, the elevator started to move again!

The doors opened and I entered floor 12, I was currently in section A, I had to get to section D as quickly and as stealthily as possible. I came across a few more security troopers along the way, making good use of my Emergency pistol. I finally made it to section D, and walked towards a room with a sign outside of it that said 'Armament Storage' and a slot just below it. I took the card key that O'Connor gave me and placed it in the slot. The doors opened and I stepped inside.

This place was huge! It had almost every type of weapon I had seen the federation use over the years I had worked with them. I didn't have to search for long before I found my suit. I put it on, and did a system scan to find that everything was in working order. I started to walk out of the room when suddenly, the lights in the room glow red and an alarm starts to sound! I ran out of the room only to find myself standing in front of two armed G-Fed Troopers. They started to fire and they gave my suit quite a bit of damage. I had no choice but to defend myself. I charged my power beam and aimed towards the two G-Fed troopers, I unleashed a powerful charge beam attack on them and they were thrown backwards against a wall. I made my way towards the elevator.

I turned the corner only to find a unit of G-Fed Troopers standing there before me. "THERE SHE IS! GET HER!" Shouted the head Trooper. I turned back and started to run. I was chased down a corridor and fired at repeatedly. I came to the end of the corridor and turned right towards the stairs. I started to run up the stairs as fast as I could, from floor to floor while I was been followed from behind.

I got to the top of the stairs and rolled into my morph ball. I bombed the stairs, causing them to collapse behind me, blocking off the G-Fed. I got out of morph ball mode and ran down a corridor towards the docking bay. I turned a few more corners and found the entrance to the docking bay. I shot the security lock off the door and it opened to reveal my ship in the docking bay. "Oh! Samus, you're here!" Shouted a voice from behind the ship. It was O'Connor.

I looked around and saw the bodies of G-Fed troopers scattered everywhere. "What happened here?" I said as I looked around at the sheer destruction. "I had no choice, they was trying to destroy the ship" explained O'Connor. Just then an army of G-Fed troopers began to run into the docking bay. "Quick lets go!" I shouted, and we both scrambled into the ship.

"Start the engines!" commanded O'Connor. "Hey! Nobody tells me what to do, you don't command me!" I said angrily. "Lady, there is an obstruction ahead, I cannot fly us out of here" Said the ship's computer. "Hey that sounds like…" Said O'Connor as the ship, shaken by gunfire from outside, interrupted him. I sat down and took the controls. I fired two missiles at the bay doors and they broke up. I flew my ship out of the G-Fed mother ship and zoomed off into space.

"Adam Malkovich?" O'Connor said in disbelief, looking at the ship's computer screen. "Not exactly, its Adam's digitized mind, programmed into my ship's computer before he died" I said. "I see" Said O'Connor inspecting the computer. "Lady, we are being followed by a fleet of G-Fed ships, would you like me to take action against them?" asked the computer. "Negative, I think we have upset the Federation enough already, lets not take any chances Adam" I told the computer. I looked at my ship's navigation screen to find where we should head to lose the fleet of federation ships chasing us, when I noticed something on the screen that puzzled me.

"Is everything alright?" asked O'Connor. "That's unusual, there's a small rift of some kind on screen, it came up all of a sudden, and I am sure it wasn't there before" I said. "Maybe we could hide there until the Federation pass," said O'Connor. I agreed with O'Connor and set a course for the rift, with the Federation in hot pursuit unsure of what I would find there.

Eventually, we reached the rift, with the Federation still on our tail. According to my scans, the rift hadn't been here long, and I had no clue as to how it was created, but it surely can't have been a natural occurrence. "Lady, the Federation are not far away from us, may I suggest you make a decision now?" asked the computer. "Perhaps if we get close enough to it, we won't show up on scans," said O'Connor. "Take us in closer Adam" I asked the computer. The ship moved in behind the rift and we hid there until the federation passed. They had lost us, and I thought our plan had worked until…

"Lady the rift is expanding, and we are been dragged inside of it!" Said my ship's computer. "Full reverse!" I shouted. Suddenly the ship began to shake and lights began to flicker. "Negative lady, I cannot break free," said the computer. "Do something!" Shouted O'Connor. "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" I screamed at O'Connor. The ship began to shake violently and we were drawn into the rift. Suddenly my ship lost power apart from the computer. "Switch to emergency power Adam!" commanded Samus. "Negative Lady, emergency generators are down," announced the computer. "That's it, we are done for!" Shouted O'Connor. "EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!" said the computer, with power down and with no means of escape; there was nothing I could do.

I enjoyed writing this chapter, it took me a while but I got it done! Please read and review, and I hope to bring you the third chapter really soon!