Peace and Aran

I don't own Samus but Josh Peace is my character so BACK OFF!

The creature Josh had been after lunged at him. He ducked and rolled, placed a mine as he did so. The creature landed where he just was and yelled as the mine exploded. He knew that now that his gun was inoperable he had no chance of surviving this fight. The only thing he could do was to detonate his power pack and take them both down. He winked at the icon on his visor which then blinked out and a count down started on the left hand part of the screen. He was about to launch headlong into the beast when he saw a missile fly thought the air and hit the creature in the back of its next, its weak spot. He looked up at saw, on a ledge, a person in an orange, yellow, and red suit with a gun were his right hand should be. This mysteries rescuer jumped down and expertly inspected the creature to make sure it was dead.

"Thanks" was all he could get out in an astonished whisper. Almost nothing astonished Josh, he had been to every edge of the universe and had seen many odd and freighting things, yet this almost normal person left him surprised (well he looked kind of normal). The person turned his head to him and nodded acknowledgment. He heard a beep and remembered his power pack and through it clear across the room to the cave the creature had come out of. It detonated with a load thump and for a second his electronical equipment shorted out and rebooted form the EMP from the pack. The person in front of him faltered for a second and quickly recovered. He thought that was odd, a person as experienced as this one must be should not have been shocked by the explosion. After recovering he heard, with his super sensitive hearing, the person say faintly "moron" without turning on his mike. Then Josh got his second shock of the day, he realized that the voice was a woman's voice.

Then she said through a filtered voice "are you alright?"

"Yes I am thank you…?" he said.
"Samus" she said "Samus Aran."

"Thank you Samus" he said. A thought popped into his head which he immediately dismissed.

"And what is your name?" she asked.

"Uh... Josh, Josh Peace. If you could believe it" he said. He always had a sense of humor that popped up during the oddest times "sorry about the power pack it's just that you surprised me and I forgot about it."

She nodded her understanding and turned to his mangled weapons on the floor "he spit on them?" she asked.

"Ya"

"Good thing you took it off it; eats away at anything it touches" she said.

His anger flared she was treating him like he was a rookie, know that he thought about it he was acting kind of like it was his first time against a level 1 creature. He mentally took a deep breath, she had saved his life a flaming remark was not what she deserved.

"So what are you doing out here" he said. He couldn't keep the bite out of his voice.

She looked at him and he knew that through the visor she was probably raising an eyebrow.

"I am here the same reason you were, to kill that." She said pointing at the dead creature behind them.

"Do you have a way off of this planet? The creature also destroyed my communication device so I can't call in a ride." He said embarrassed, this was not his lucky day.

"My ship is on the surface." She said.

When they reached the boiling surface Josh saw her ship it looked almost like here helmet just elongated.

"Let me guess the suit and ship were a set?" he said sarcastically. She chuckled softly. It sounded like something she didn't do very often. The inside of the ship was like many attack ships, cramped and stuffy.

"Where are you going?" she asked.

"You can drop me off… Ouch" he finished because he had hit a pipe with his foot. "…Anywhere. I would think this place would be roomier for a girl." He realized what he said to late.

She turned to him "how did you know that?" she said in a dangerous voice.

He stepped back "I can hear your voice through the helmet. I have very good hearing."

She visibly relaxed then cocked her head sideways "you're a Kanta aren't you?" she said in sympathetic tone.

"Yes" he said all the memory flooding back to him.

She suddenly stiffened "you haven't used your X-ray vision have you?"

"What? No I would never do that" he said waving his hands after realizing what she meant. When he realized she was a girl he thought about it but he was not that man anymore he would not.

"Good" she said in a warning tone. They waited in silence for awhile as he watched galaxies racing by.

"Is Garaca fine?" she asked her voice filter gone.

"Now that I think about it I have a job on Hydar could you drop me off there?"

"Sure I'm heading there myself." She said.

"Don't tell me we have the same mission again." He said sarcastically.

"Taking down a rogue sarsilian?" she asked.

He sat up "yes" he said surprisingly.

"Interesting" she said.

She moved away back to the controls and by the way she moved he know she did not want to talk. That was ok it gave him time to think. He thought about them both having the same objective twice. Having them both together would make them easier to kill. He didn't know about her but he had made a lot of enemies through the galaxy, some of them with a lot of power that they could wield on him if they thought he was more then a small nuisance.

"Do you have any enemies?" he asked.

"More then you could count" she answered.

That really raised his hopes that this was just a coincidence. Had he done anything recently to annoy any of his major enemies? Probably he thought. He sat up and looked at the weapons console to see if there was anything following them, there nothing on the radar or weapons detection system. He laid back with a sign; maybe it was a coincidence after all. He soon dosed of, it was four days to Hydar and he hadn't slept in two. He had troubling sleep brought on by the memories Samus unknowingly brought back. He woke up maybe seven hours later. He awakened in darkness and with his hyper sensitive eyes looked around. He saw that the auto pilot was on and that Samus was asleep. He thought it probably is uncomfortable for her to sleep in that suit; he didn't feel to good himself. He went to check on his weapons or what was left of them. The creature's acid had burned through half of his assault rifle and his pistol was nowhere to be found. He went to the auto pilot to and saw that they were a lot closer then he would have thought. This ship was way faster then any ship he had ever seen. At this speed they would be there in a couple more hours. He looked back at Samus and here suit. He noticed that it looked to be almost organic in some way. He looked around the ship and saw the same thing. Everything seemed very alien to him. He remembered looking at the ship and that there were no scratches or dents on it at all. He searched through his memory and immediately remembered the name Samus. She was one of the top bounty hunters in the world. How the heck could he have forgotten that? I knew people always said Samus was a guy. He looked at the suit again, it did look a little like it was made for a woman but he knew that was just his mind playing tricks on him.

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A/n: hope you like the first chapter. It going to probably only be a three chapter series unless I get a bit of good feedback (although I do have ideas for more). I have them all done but I need to go over them again.