Chapter 3: A Journey through time
"We survived! I can't believe we survived!" were the first words I heard coming from O'Connor as I awoke with a terrible headache.
"Good to have you back lady," said the unmistakeable voice of Adam, my ship's computer. I took off my helmet and held my head. "What…what happened?" I asked, trying to make sense of the situation. "Take it easy Samus, you had a nasty fall. You were knocked out cold!" explained O'Connor. "What's the state of the ship?" I asked, sitting up. "Bad news I'm afraid Samus. The ship has taken quite a bit of damage, and so have you. All of your weapons and abilities are offline, I am surprised we came out of the rift in one piece!" said a relieved O'Connor.
I climbed up onto my seat and tapped the computer's navigation screen, turning it on. "I hate to ask silly questions, but where the hell did we come out to?" I asked. "Good question lady, we appear to be in orbit above planet Tallon III. We are not too far away from Planet Zebes, except…" the computer said, trailing off. "Except what Adam?" I asked, worried. "…We aren't even in the same time and space lady," said the computer. I found this hard to believe at first, but after scanning the area, I realised that the computer was correct!
"It seems that we entered some sort of tear in time and space itself" explained O'Connor. "How far back have we actually gone?" I asked. "We haven't been able to determine how far back exactly, but we think around fifteen years or so," explained O'Connor.
Fifteen years ago? That was before I even set out on my first ever mission, against the space pirates. I was still training to be what I am today.
"What if we were to fly back through it again?" I asked. "Negative lady, shields are down. We are just scraping along on emergency power," explained the computer. "We have to do something!" I exclaimed. "I think it would be wise to land the ship on Tallon III and carry out repairs on the ship," said O'Connor calmly, placing his hand on my shoulder.
I nodded and took to the controls of my ship. I set the co-ordinates for an abandoned research site on Tallon III's surface. My ship began to enter Tallon III's atmosphere and began its decent towards the planets surface.
TALLON III
Mass: 4.7 Trillion Teratons
Profile: Smaller in mass than Planet Zebes, it has an atmosphere almost the same as Tallon IV, its sister planet. Once populated by the Chozo, this planet was a thriving planet, a tropical paradise.
Scans show Phazon Radiation has infected the planet and is slowly destroying life there, similar to Tallon IV, but at a much faster rate. Scans show minimal life signs on the plant's surface.
Intelligent life not detected.
My ship descended through the atmosphere and landed on the ground without any trouble. I scanned the area one final time to make sure there were no life signs, and when I was certain there was nothing around, I put my helmet on and prepared to leave the ship. "Samus, all your weapons are offline except your power beam and your scan visor," said O'Connor. "I'll be fine" I told him, and walked out of the ship.
As I stepped foot into the open, I saw a beautiful area, full of forests, waterfalls and a lake. Beyond it in the distance, were some ruins, and the research site. I made my way towards the ruins. Along the way, I crossed a narrow bridge, close to a waterfall. As I progressed towards the ruins, I had a strange feeling I was been watched… followed even. I turned around, and used my scan visor to scan the area around me. There was nothing to be seen.
When I finally reached the ruins, I discovered that it was a large Chozo temple. I aimed my arm cannon towards the temple door and fired a single shot of energy towards it, and it opened without any trouble. I slowly stepped inside, not knowing what sort of things I would find there.
Inside the temple, I saw computers and control panels everywhere! There were containers too, that probably once used to hold animal specimens. It became clear to me that this research base had not been used in such a long time, and there would be little chance of me finding any sort of materials to repair my ship. I decided to do a scan of the research room in hope that I would find something useful.
I scanned the containers to see what was inside them. My scans detected nothing at first, but suddenly, it picked up on something inside one of the containers! It was some sort of machine, but my scan couldn't pick up exactly what it was. I went over to the container, and with a couple of shots at the lock of the container, it opened. Inside was a Chozo built Arm Cannon upgrade, which seemed to be in perfect working order, and just so happened to be compatible with my suit!
Charge Beam Acquired!
I started to make my way out of the temple, when suddenly, the door of the temple sealed, and I was trapped! I then heard a voice from behind me…
"Samus Aran! I have been expecting you!" said the voice.
I charged my power beam and aimed towards the voice, and noticed a figure of some kind was standing directly opposite me, obscured by shadow. Was this person a friend or a foe? I was about to find out, as the figure started walking slowly out of the darkness towards me.
Another cliffhanger! Sorry about that everyone. Please read and review and let me know what you thought of this chapter!