Hi! Chopstick here! It's been a while! slaps self for being lazy So anyway, here's chappie 2. Enjoy!
With a last look back at the control room, the bounty hunter took a strong jump and landed on her ship, the space pirate close behind her. She nearly flattened his face against it's steel surface as spherical shots flew over their heads.
"Death to the Hunter? The leader of the pirate squadron shrieked. "Death to all who oppose us!" Samus ignored him and dragged her informer though the top hatch and into the piloting cockpit. He fall in a heap, but Samus was able to grab onto the hatch and swing down feet first, landing herself right in the seat. Grasping the controls, whe swerved sharply and jetted away, slamming the unfortunate space pirate into the wall.
"Are you insane!" He asked breathlessly. His sentence was barely finished when the frigate exploded into smithereens behind them. "…oh." The space pirate gazed out the window, a mixture of regret and determination on his insect-like face. Sams switched the ship to auto pilot and turned to look at the space pirate through her visor.
"Well?" She said tentatively.
"Well, what?"
"Why did you betray your people and decide to help the federation?" Samus inquired shrewdly. She didn't trust this space pirate.
He shrugged and returned Samus' skeptical glare head on. "Lets put it this way, Hunter. Just because you were raised by Chozos, it doesn't mean you're an oversized, pacifist bird."
The tone of his voice stung the bounty hunter, arousing her anger. "Look, you space pirate scum-"
"I have a name."
"How wonderful for you! So do I." Samus retorted sarcastically. "As I was saying-"
"It's Skhilik."
Samus gave a cry of exasperation and turned back to her controls, thinking about what Skhilik had said. She didn't know what to make of the strange space pirate. Samus, on principle, wasn't much of a people-person and almost always worked alone, so her new companion was doubly baffling. She could feel a migraine coming on…
Taking care not to look at Skhilik, Samus lifted her helmet off and shook out her long blond hair. Skhilik, who had maintained a welcome silence until then, let out a half suppressed gasp of surprise.
"So the rumors are true!" He mused, apparently stunned. "I heard that you were female, but I never really-" Samus faced him with a less than happy scowl and the space pirate fell silent. Half an hour of traveling later neither of them had spoken. Skhilik had seated himself on the floor, leaning against the wall. Samus was focusing all her energy on not squirming in disgust when suddenly the ship gave a sharp jerk. "Are you trying to kill me?" Skhilik shouted in irritation.
"Of course." Samus shot back coolly. "What ever made you think otherwise?" The ship swerved again, slamming Skhilik into the wall again. Samus reached back and placed her helmet over her head before taking the controls.
"Hold on, pirate." Samus called back to him. "This isn't going to be pretty." Skhilik barely had time to grab onto a bar on the wall when the ship turned on an angle and dove straight down.
"Aran, what do you think you're-" The machine gave a sharp jolt as the back was hit by an immense blast. Samus glanced at her rear monitor and saw a space pirate cruiser closing in on them.
"They're sucking the power right out of my thrusters." Samus stated, starting to get worried. "We can't make it back to the federation base."
"Well, that was good planning. What now?"
Samus decided to ignore his irritating comment. She wasn't going to argue with a space pirate. Waste of air. "We have to land on the nearest planet to refuel." Samus pointed to a small orb in the distance. "That one."
"You forgot to mention we have to survive that long!" Another blast rattled the ship and this time Samus was knocked from her chair. Unfortunately, her hand had still been holding the steering stick and the ship bucked before rocketing to the side. Samus and Skhilik were thrown backward into a storage container. "Nice flying." Skhilik commented, groaning.
"Thank you." Samus replied, grabbing onto the shelf and pulling herself to her feet. "I've been practicing." The bounty hunter reacked the controls again and straightened the ships course, putting all of the power that was left in the thrusters into a final blst and shot toward the planet.