Metroid Diffusion X
Daddy's boy
Samus' ship once again came into sight of the ugly metal ring that was the GFHQ. Again she explained to the cold voice that she was alive and again she walked into her commanding officer's office to get a debriefing. He had a smile on his face, "I must say, I job well done! All credit really goes to you but for the records, the pirates controlled it before we sent anyone in."
"Thank you sir" and Samus made her way to the door but the commander stopped her,
"Samus," he said, "did the pirates mention their infants?"
"No, why?"
"They did! Didn't they?"
"Yes sir"
"What they showed you was a fake. All they want is one of their 'medical wastes' brought back to them so they can reap the beneficial mutations. They want to take over again. You will have nothing to do with them, understood?" the commander growled.
"Yessir"
Samus went to her cabin and burst into tears, this was too much. She cursed herself, she was becoming weak! She had had more pressure than this before! But the pressure hadn't meant as much as it does now. Her fingers trembled as she picked up a glass of water and as she drank. She decided to go to the labs and find out what was happening. She would do it tonight.
The whole HQ was silent and dark, perfect for Samus. Her new suit was darker than her previous suits and she found she could blend much more easily in the shadows. Her trip to the elevators was a quick one and she got to the labs in record time. Inside was dark, cold and smelt of fear. Samus seemed to float through it as if she was a ghost passing smoothly around table and chairs. The lab was split up into 5 sections, R&D, FAB Lab, PR, scientists' quarters and store. Samus decided to go to Research and Development (R&D) as she thought the technology used on the space pirates would only be in its first stages. The corridors were empty and quiet, but eerily so and though Samus was well equipped for an attack, a running tap did make her jump. R&D was huge; it could at least hold a dozen space frigates and still have space for a battleship. Samus took a quick look around hoping to find something about space pirates and, sure enough after five minutes of searching, Samus found several glass cylinders she had seen in the space pirates' base. She looked carefully in them and saw the horribly mutated body of a space pirate staring back at her. Something brushed against her conscience and she immediately assumed that Sumas had come, "Sumas?"
"Who?" the voice seemed frail and young, it was the Space Pirate! It was using telepathy.
"I was thinking of someone else, who are you?"
"Krask, son of Redact. My daddy was a commando, I want to be just like him when I grow up" the voice had a soft, dreamy feel. Samus felt calm, "What do they do to you?"
The voice suddenly went hard as rock "THEY DESTROY ME! THEY KILL ME AND BRING ME BACK AS SOMETHING ELSE! WHY WOULD YOU CARE? YOU ARE ONE OF THEM!"
"I care because your father cares."
"Daddy? Where's my Daddy? I want my Daddy!"
"I am a friend of your Daddy"
"Help me! Please"
"Don't worry little one, I'm here"
The door burst open and a man in blue security uniform stood in the doorway, "What are doing? Get away from that!" Samus reluctantly slid back to the door and deliberately bumped into the security guard, as if she was a moody teenager found out to be creeping around an off-license. Ignoring the shouts of the now toppled man she walked straight to her cabin and began to plan her next move. She decided to arrive at the air duct, and then cut the power cables to the lab; one problem was she had never ever done a mission that involved serious creeping up on enemies and trying to stay hidden in the shadows. She would have to try her best though for the sake of Krask.
After sleeping till the 5th cycle, Samus walked down the corridor to the mess hall, hoping to get a bite to eat without causing too much commotion. Nothing seemed to go right for Samus and as she walked through the hissing double doors, the whole room went silent and heads turned to look at Samus. That was when Samus noticed something; some of the faces turned at her were not human. Nearly all of them had something different, one was blue, and another had six extra eyes and so on. Samus quoted what a lot of people would have said at that point, "What?" This statement seemed to stop most of the drooling and goggling and made everyone turn back to their lunches as if nothing had happened.
She went to the serving track and received her meal and sat down at an empty table, soon enough several people had sat beside her. Fadley gave her a toothy grin, and for the first time she noticed he had pointed teeth, "Hello Samus, good first mission? Yea thought so." Samus thanked him and looked at the other people around the table, she knew them all, all of them friends from the academy, X who was the best weapons expert in the galaxy, Triad- he had the self-control of a
Round face Symvildoanian bureaucrat, which if you didn't know was very self-controlled and last but not least Danrenir also a warrior infused with Chozo blood and an orphan of the same massacre on planet K-12 as Samus. Little did she know they were all traitors.
After the meal she began thinking out her plan but she soon found this boring and decided to do something else more interesting and looked around the room for any entertainment and spotted a Nintonda Gamesphere. She turned it on and picked up the controller, which was in the shape of gloves and a VR helmet. She spent almost 15 cycles playing useless replicas of her own adventures on Tallon IV and Aether. When she decided to stop it was nearly time to execute her plan. She crept silently through the corridor as she had done the previous night and, with the agility of a war wasp, snuck into an air-conditioning vent. As unreliable as they were, the GF still used air-conditioning vents and lucky too for Samus otherwise she would have to distract the guard otherwise. After a 20th of a cycle she came to a grille panel below her where she could enter the lab. She carefully and patiently waited for 10 minutes before entering the room and dropping to the floor. Krask was about five metres away from her, so she crawled to him along the floor and kept herself underneath the scientific tabletops. She was in reaching distance of the glass cylinder when she heard voices. "Seen that damn Samus woman?" said one.
"No but I'll check." And Samus heard him approaching closer, Sumas awoke and said to her, "If you want to be air, feel like it" Samus was about to answer when she understood what he was saying and so she concentrated on being small and insignificant and split apart. The first indication that she was gaseous was that of the scientists was walking through her, it tickled, but it took a while for the message of laughing to be sent to all the limbs. The man in the white coat shrugged and said to the other man, "No one here, I wouldn't worry she's probably too scared to come here again." And Samus heard more footsteps grow fainter and a door close. She knew it was safe to reform again, her particles raced together again and she felt happiness as if she was greeting an old friend she hadn't seen for a long time. She spun round and eyed the cylinder, there was no way she could open it, and she would have to take the whole thing and so she did. She ripped it from its holding and stole away into the air-conditioning system again. When she got to her room, Krask spoke to her "Thank you"
End of Chapter X
(I'm hearing the 'AWWW's already)
