Metroid Diffusion 9

Betrayal

I nearly cried writing this, I'm not soft! I'm just emotional!

Samus sat in the Space Pirates mess hall at the commandoes table. They had cheered up after they heard that they were being given credit for defeating the huge monster and because of this, they acted a bit nicer towards Samus, well as nice as a space pirate can get. The science team had congratulated her individually, they had also asked for a sample of her blood but she quickly declined when she found out her blood had melted the test tube.

She was now eating something that looked alive and wriggled down her throat, it made her shiver, one pirate said to her "This is a delicacy found in the furthest reaches of Teran Region, it is the Jacion Worm, its fluids are very nice, especially when it's alive eat up," it said, with a crooked smile. She had gratefully tucked into her food after that but made sure the food was dead before she ate it. After eating she went to her cabin, it was decorated with pictures of planets and beautiful comets. This is what persuaded Samus not to stay on the ground and fly into deep space. Samus lay down on the soft bed and slept for a while.

The lights in her room had been turned off but the hallway lights were still on.

As she got up she heard voices speaking in some alien tongue, they approached the door, their bodies casting long black shadows into her room, and knocked on the door. She walked over to the door cautiously and turned the handle. Three space pirates stood before her, one was the commando leader, it stepped forward and said, "Come with us and see why we hate humans", it sounded to Samus that she didn't have much choice and so she followed them down the dimly light corridor.

It took about 3 minutes to reach an underground lab, down two sets of stairs and through and decontamination chamber. The lab was impressive even by Space Pirate standards, several huge cryogenic pods hung irregularly around the walls and 15 scientists were scattered around computer workstations. Everything was coloured chrome or black, making the room seemed very technical. Samus and her escorts walked to the main workstation. The workstation had a large glass cylinder beside it, in this cylinder was a smaller space pirate, probably an infant. Something was wrong, Samus could sense, Sumas appeared in her mind, "You sense it too?"

"Yea"

"It's that small creature"

A scientist looked up from its work, and the commando spoke to it in an alien language, it seemed to acknowledge and began to speak to Samus in human language, "This is an infant Space Pirate less than a deca-cycle old, it has been subject to atomic acceleration and high levels of radiation and DNA synching. It has an unstable mind and body but has some useful mutations. It can phase…" he was stopped by the commando, "The GF is behind this, filthy humans are screwing up our children! Destroying our next generation!"

Another Space pirate spoke, "But we don't have enough information!"

"So you Samus must go and find out what you can!"

Samus was unsure, "Well, I can't go against my people, and anyway, what have Space Pirates done for me?"

The commando exploded in anger and, while screaming, launched himself at Samus, "You have never had a child, you don't know what it feels like to lose one, and I make you know what it feels like!" He landed on her, his hot breath in her face and his scythe near her arm cannon. He was pulled off by the other two Pirates, "C'mon leave her"

"No she killed my parents, now she's here, I won't let her go until she feels the pain that she has made me feel!"

Samus' heart sank, this is the destruction she had created, and she hated herself for doing this.

"My infant is in their filthy grasp, and you just leave there. I'll never hold him again, he'll never cry or laugh or make me happy again. I'll never see him ride his first ship or go on his first courtship. He wanted to be what Daddy was. He wants to come home. I beg you Samus Aran, if there is a spark of decency in you, that you will find my son and bring him to me, I don't mind if he's dead or alive. I want him back in my arms."

Samus found new strength and stood up and walked over to the commando, "I will do whatever it takes to heal this wound I have created. I will bring your son back to you."

"Thank you"

Samus walked out of the lab and set off in her ship to the GF HQ, one thing on her mind saving the Space pirate's son. Sumas was curious, "What made you do that?"

"Space Pirates aren't as bad as I thought. It seems that there is no good or bad, something is either moral or immoral. You can never be one or the other but what you need to be is balanced between these."

"You are starting to sound like me"

"O crap I am, maybe I shouldn't talk to you so much" Samus smiled, Sumas had never experienced sarcasm.

Chapter Nine End