Metroid Diffusion
Chapter 8
Hollow Victory
(Chop Suey is a System of a Down Song)
(I'd advise people to get popcorn and drinks before reading it, it is long!)
Samus, I mean Sumas, stood up in full splendour. He now was level with the icy behemoth before him. Samus floated on the brink of existence in her shared mind, she analyzed the data and decided to tell Sumas what she knew,
"Now what you need to do is" she said, her voice echoing as if she was in a huge stadium, "This is a Sheegoth, its defenceless points are usually the mouth and the under belly, remember you don't have missiles or..."
"Oh, I don't need them"
Sumas turned to the Sheegoth and lowered his centre of gravity as if suspecting a charge and the battle began. Samus imagined Space-Metal music in the background. Space-Metal had first arrived when deaf rockers still wanted to hear music, so they decided to feel it instead, the first music was made by using old engines off ships and worked well until some band were sued because of incurring deafness, and so the Itallics arrived. They were Space-Metal with a difference, not as heavy but still had the same raw passion that had gripped many earth heavy metal bands. Samus now heard her favourite song in her head, "Chop Suey".
Sumas, on the other hand could not indulge in such luxuries as listening to a song in his head, he had to concentrate on the task ahead. He produced a phazon sword out of nowhere and readied himself for attack. There was something in the creature's eyes; it was intelligence, demented intelligence but intelligence nonetheless. Sumas charged and ducked around the creature's head, slicing the Sheegoth's leg. It turned its head and plunged a tooth into Sumas heavy phazon-plated body, sending part of it into the air; the wound immediately began to heal. The Sheegoth disappeared in thin air using its cloaking ability. Sumas switched his sight to X-ray and lock on to his enemy. It let out a steady stream of energy from its mouth, blowing apart a nearby rock into radioactive chunks and covering Sumas in a light dust. Sumas shook it off and began sidestepping and piercing the Sheegoth, everywhere he could. It kept fighting though, launching several icy snowballs in Sumas' direction. These were no ordinary snowballs, they were hyper-cooled water and whatever they touched was soon coated in a thick layer of ice allowing the Sheegoth to easily ensnare prey. It had little effect on Sumas though but it froze the stream, Sumas had to melt it!
He moved round the Sheegoth with such agility that it would have shamed a top ballerina; even if the ballerina Sumas was being was much more dangerous. He stepped over the river and concentrated on heat and soon enough he emitted heat radiation and the river began to melt. The Sheegoth was smart and didn't come anywhere near the river, it knew somehow.
'Some things have to be pushed', Sumas thought, and eyed the old bulldozer in the background he had seen earlier. He doubled back, but kept his eyes on the Sheegoth, until he was beside the huge bulldozer. It was big by Sumas standards and looked as it could move mountains, as the model number stated "MUNTMVR0097". Sumas swung up and squeezed into the cockpit and started the engine, which gave a small hiss as indication of it running. Sumas turned to the Sheegoth, stared it in the eyes and put his foot down. The machine accelerated at astonishing speed and hit the Sheegoth with tremendous force pushing it into the river. The icy creature's cold stare signalled its electrocution, it jumped out of the river and ran blindly at the bulldozer knocking the machine with surprising strength. Sumas jumped out of the vehicle and rolled across the ground. The creature immediately charged and crashed into Sumas and sent him flying and breaking several of his bones.
Sumas began hear voices in his head, his knowledge of tongues picked up the sentences as Space Pirate. So they were close, perfect. Sumas got up and lured the Sheegoth into the centre of the clearing, almost immediately plasma bursts erupted from the leaves above his head and directed themselves at the Sheegoth, who stood shocked by the new onslaught. It began to glow and enjoying the shots that were meant to hurt it. Sumas couldn't figure it out but Samus could, "Sumas, it absorbs beam weapons, tell them not to use plasma bursts"
"You've got a plan?"
"Of course, I never leave home without one."
The Space Pirates stopped shooting and began to reload their weapons when they received an audio message on their internal radios, "It absorbs your beam weapons, but I have a plan"
The Space Pirates' tension notched up a scale, "Filthy human, we will never listen to your commands"
"Who says I'm still human?"
"What!"
"Alright, I'll give you a choice, this animal is not in its right mind, it's completely demented from Kraxon, we can use Kraxon to make it so mad that it dies, or we can try and use hand to hand combat. Your choice"
A large number of hissing and growls came down the radio frequency, sounds that, when translated, the author is obliged not to write. The leader commando said, "What's Kraxon, you mean Phazon?"
"If that is your name for it"
"Fine its coming but we're not touching it, it is poison for us"
"Fine, I accept"
Sumas turned around and saw the animal almost hyperventilating. It opened its mouth and let out a gigantic beam of super-chilled water encasing the landscape in slippery ice and snow, the trees seemed petrified. The ice began to melt because of the jungle climate the section was. Sumas had jumped out of the way or he would found a new meaning for the word 'cold'. He hoped for the Kraxon to hurry up. Above him a huge network of railings started and soon a 40 feet metal tub of Kraxon was on its way down to him. The Sheegoth looked at the metal tub with curiosity that would have shamed a cat; it stood perplexed by this thing flying down into the clearing. Sumas took advantage of this distraction to jump up onto the tub. He gently placed his weight so the tub was over the Sheegoth and as the tub came within ten feet of the creature, Sumas tipped the tub and slammed it on top of the creature, sealing the Sheegoth under the metal mass. He breathed a sigh of relief and watched the commandoes come down from the trees. They came nowhere near him or the Kraxon. The leader spoke up, "Who are you?"
"Let me show you", Sumas let Samus regain control of her body, and so, in a bright white light, the giant blue demon was reduced to the small, lithe frame of Samus Aran. The Space Pirates didn't know what to say and left. Samus was alone once again in the beautiful jungle, breathing in the air that was full of the sweet smell of flowers. A crash sounded like the bell of death behind her, the metal tub shook viscously. Fear gripped her heart; it was back, "Shit!" Samus swore.
The metal tub exploded and in its place was the Sheegoth but horribly mutated. It had several organs pumping on the outside of its body and its bottom teeth were puncturing its head because they were so long, it had mutated too much, so much it was killing itself. It charged at Samus blindly, sweeping its huge teeth at her but she didn't move, she raised her gun and fired a phazon charged missile right between the creature's eyes, firing it back. It went into spasms before lying completely still. Samus felt no joy but pity for the poor creature, fuelled by fear and rage, it didn't know what was right or wrong and so died because it adapted too much. Samus left the battlefield victorious but it was a hollow victory.
Chapter 8 End.
