Metroid Diffusion XV

The Final Battles

The Sky fortress was a real testimony to its creators, the Luminoth. What they hadn't anticipated was the amount of phazon it generated in the dark world, it seeped of the stuff! The lift's two pillars, riddled with circuitry, towered far above Dark Samus. The phazon in front of her, she began to absorb it, making sure she got that warm feeling once again. The feeling of absolute power, dementia tore its way through her brain call and as she gradually absorbed the phazon. Samus was behind her now in the dark suit, a brown suit riddled with red circuitry to ward off Dark Aether's atmosphere. It wouldn't stand phazon punishment though and would break, leaving the corrosive environment to slowly and painfully reduce Samus to a ragged bloodstained skeleton. It was time to fight. Dark Samus tripped the switch and elevator moved up, now Samus couldn't hide behind anything and would be easy prey.

Dark Samus weightlessness made her float above the cold metal surface allowing her to dodge most of the power beam effects. A burning stream of white hot light erupted from Samus' gun; damn she had the light beam. Dark Samus regenerated the melted part of her suit and began to attack with more vigour. She fired a spread-hot at Samus direction but she hid behind the elevator support. It was time to test the phazon-ball. Dark Samus increased the gravity of her own body to form a ball of molten phazon more potent then any morph-ball, Samus could change into. Dark Samus began to fly at high speeds around the enclosed area and attempted to hit Samus, but the woman in the dark suit jumped every time just like Dark Samus remembered she did, a long time ago. It was not the past she was concerned about, it was the future. Coming out of her phazon-ball, Dark Samus spilt her atoms and went into dark camouflage, hidden from view, now she could attack with secrecy. Samus launched a deep purple swirling mass in Dark Samus' direction, striking her full on. Slightly shaky Dark went on, convinced that was a fluke until after repeated successful hits by Samus, Dark Samus realised, that she had once also used the dark visor herself to see Dark Samus. Determined to go on, she fought foolhardy, even though her integrity was being wore down every minute she was fighting. The elevator reached its final stop, at the top of a huge tower with sloping sides into the darkness below; the perfect battlefield for the perfect fight. The victor would throw the loser over the side and be done with them. Dark Samus fought more vigorously but even found she was growing weak with exhaustion from this bounty hunter. Her strength failed, she could not go on any longer, the phazon she had had was not enough, she needed enough for a planet and then she could defeat this nuisance. Instead of cowering to the hunter, Dark Samus threw herself out the window and into the darkness below the sky fortress. She drifted away smelling more phazon higher in the sky, the sky temple; finally an area so full of phazon that even she could have her fill.

There was so much, it would have killed anyone else but her, she was made for this substance, she was Queen of Phazon. The reminiscent euphoria returned as the power surged through her body, her normal level was satisfied but not the deep calling within her. It was as if the phazon was attracted to her as she to it and wanted to be used as a weapon, it wanted her. Her body evolved instantly to occupy the new power, a force field surrounded her, she didn't look human anymore but she didn't care, she was with her phazon and she was in high spirits about it. Her body cravings were finally satiated and she was in overdrive, the power coursing through her veins was the same she had feared so long ago. Now Samus wouldn't have a chance.

The female bounty hunter now clad in a brilliant white suit came to the sky temple entrance via the beam of light, the only dark portal for miles around. Dark Samus split her atoms so she couldn't be seen and used phazon to block all other exit out of the final arena. The world was crumbling and would go soon, such a bad way for a bounty hunter to go unless Dark Samus could rip her pumping heart from her still living body. The Dark and Light Samus faced each other off. Samus fired her normal power beam relentlessly, foolish woman, did she not know that Dark Samus was so much stronger. Samus let loose a torrent of anti-matter at Dark Samus; the beams of energy were somehow attracted to her. Anyway, Dark Samus' phazon radiation overloaded Samus' Dark visor and so Dark Samus was able to dodge most of the bounty hunter's attacks. Something was nagging at Dark Samus mind; Samus had an echo visor that would mean she could still see Dark Samus. A battery of missiles headed Dark Samus' way and found their target. Dark Samus's health reduced, she felt disappointed and angry, so angry she could rip the galaxy in half, she began to hyperventilate and call upon a deep reserve of phazon deep within her. She began to feel the familiar feeling of mutation; it crept up on her and pounced. The force field around her was, now, too powerful for beam weapons and deflected missiles, Samus could not touch the creature she would become one day. Dark Samus decided to give Samus a taste of her own medicine and conjured beams of phazon energy that would follow their target. Samus began to suck in the power and use it, wearing down the shield that held Dark Samus together. As the shield felt pain so did Dark Samus, the pain forced to go on and keep firing. But each time Samus would use them against her, her shield was useless. She was useless. The final strike came as the shield ruptured and Dark Samus was left crawling on her knees. She reached for Samus, "Help me." She tried to say but was too mutated to say a word, her last plea to herself not to take this path but choose another. She could only do one more thing, to save herself, she had to open the portal to light Aether, she concentrated her last strength and brought phazon wall crashing down. It was too late and so frail and defeated; Dark Samus felt her atoms tear apart.

Samus was unsure what to think of this thing she had fought and defeated, there were so many answers. Ing crowded around her, angry at the death of their leader and the destruction of their world. She quickly scanned the light portal and jumped through with seconds to go. The Ing attempted to follow her but were caught in the portal as the dark dimension disintegrated. Finally she was free.

End Chapter XV

THE END?

(MUhahahahawahahhaha there is the end just like Metroid Prime 2!)