My lonely road: Chapter 9
"Find your way to the Agon wastes, once the Agon plains of pristine beauty, now a wasteland with dreadful creatures roaming in search of prey. You are to ensure that the savior remains safe and completes the task we have entrusted her with." U-mos had told him. Exeter contemplated deeply as he walked on another platform leading to the Agon waste.
He was to protect this, "savior" and make sure she returned the planetary energy back to the light temples. It was rather confusing for him, owing to the fact that it happen to make no sense whatsoever to him.
Exeter would just have to do it to get off this hell of a planet. After the elevator platform came to a halt, he went through the door, to find another luminoth body.
However, this one was different. It was more of a turquoise color, in its wings and clothes. It seemed to be a warrior, since it had a spear in its hands. Exeter continued forward, through the door and to the wastelands.
His first sight of this barren place was that it was exactly as U-mos had described it: A desolate and barren wasteland with creatures roaming around. Here and there were flying bugs and creatures, then some giant centipede-like beasts digging out of the ground here and there. It really, really, sucked.
Exeter found his way up some worn away steps, skillfully avoiding the wildlife, until he came to a bridge with a giant, thing above it. It had three red circles, and his computer had no idea what it was. He crossed the bridge, and went through several more doors until he came into a enormous, circular room.
"There, you must find the Agon temple, and enter the dark realm. You must defeat the guardian of this temple, and make sure she retrieves the energy."
The words were still drummed into his mind when all of a sudden, a black-hole appeared in front of him. This surprise caught him off guard, sending him tumbling on the ground. After a few minutes of complete shock, he realized it was not a black hole; Exeter got back up and scanned this thing
This is a Dark portal. Dark portals allow living beings to travel to Dark Aether without being disrupted and scattered throughout the interdimensional void. They are unstable, however, and only remain viable for limited periods of time. Some can be reactivated, while others vanish forever once they are used. The exact location of where a dark portal that cannot be reactivated may appear is random.
So this is what the luminoth had been talking about. Exeter paused for a moment, unsure whether or not to go through. After several more seconds, he finally found the courage and stepped through the portal.
As he went through, the surrounding areas suddenly disappeared, and in its place were dark, murky, purple clouds. He was moving forward, yet he wasn't moving, and he was whizzing by at the speed of light.
Then he felt himself be split into tiny particle and shot through the clouds. Exeter flew out of the portal head first. He quickly got up, searching for any enemies and laid down his gun when he could find none.
Exeter looked around him to see a ball that resembled a giant black pearl in front of him, inside the "temple". It would have been truly unremarkable if there were not surrounded by three gigantic worms, which looked very much dead.
He also saw his surroundings, which was almost identical to that of before except in this one, everything looked dark. It was another version of the light; the dark.
Exeter also noticed a bright bubble around him, acting like a protective shield which was a good thing; U-mos had explained that Dark Aethers atmosphere was extremely poisonous.
As he examined the area around him, he saw an orange figure appear opposite of him. Exeter's jaw dropped. It was the Hunter. It was her, who had slain entire legions of space pirates, she who had the ability to destroy the metroids, single-handedly.
It was her, Samus Aran. Her armor was of a sleek orange and red and made out of exotic metals. There also was a bubble of light around her too.
In front of her were three floating red objects, which he identified as some sort of keys. They flew into the wall, which appeared to be some sort of locked door, which then slid downwards, allowing entrance for the hunter.
She walked down the ramp, and noticed the Samus's armor was now a more darkish color, most likely from the atmosphere. As soon as she reached the safe point, a light crystal, the door squeaked shut, and a tremor filled the floor.
The supposedly dead worm awoke, with two other companions with it. As soon as it spotted Samus, it lunged at her, but the clever huntress dodged it with ease and watched the worm burrow underground.
Exeter attempted to break the window in front of him, but was unable to; scanning it showed it was made of denzium, a very strong metal. His current weapons would not penetrate it.
He was forced to watch the ongoing battle, helpless, unable to do his duty. He watched as the hunter twirled through the air, landing on the ground and calculating her next move while keeping up a constant rate of fire on them. She really was a genius, able to defeat anything that crossed her path. The question was could she do it against three creatures of pure darkness?
After about another several minutes, one of the worms reared up and charged a dark energy. Samus expertly launched a light blast at it, causing the worm to misfire, with the energy heading toward Exeter.
The shot blasted a gaping hole in the window, and also provided Exeter with an open space to provide assistance. He carefully aimed his repeater rifle at one of the beasts, steadying it with his other hand, and calmly waited for an opening. After several more tense moments, he let rip at those worms.
A barrage of energized bullets hit the amorbis in its vulnerable mouth, causing it to collapse and dig underground. This immediately alerted Samus, and she whirled around to see a hulking armor clad figure in the distance.
She was unable to scan it since her scanner was short range, but it looked a dark trooper, but one problem; It was in a protective zone generated by a light crystal. Anything possessed by the ing would be unable to enter a protective zone because it would instantly kill it. This distracted Samus, and she just barely dodged another attack from one of the amorbis.
She quickly transformed into morph ball mode rolled into another light crystal, just before amorbis snuffed out the one she had just been on. As Samus reverted back to human form, she winced in pain and touched her ribs. Even with the light crystals, the poisonous air of Dark Aether was taking its toll on her.
Exeter fired another barrage from his repeater rifle, but it kept bouncing off the worm's thick hide. He then picked up and loaded his missile launcher, and fired off several salvos at it.
This attracted one of the worm's attention, and it charged up another deadly dark beam and pointed toward Exeter. He ducked for cover behind the denzium, hoping that it would absorb the hit; but it was then Samus chose to act.
Samus fired another charged beam of light, which hit the worm square in the face. This time, the dark blast hit another worm, which then toppled on another, causing it to let out a shriek of pain, and grasped the ball with its end.
With all its might, it smashed the ball against the floor and broke it open. In the process, all but the light crystal Samus was standing near was destroyed.
The three amorbis then retreated deep below the ground, never to be seen again. After a few seconds of rumbling, all was quiet. In the ball appeared a protective light barrier, with a floating object inside.
Samus walked to the mysterious thing, ignoring the pain from the recent battle, and realized there was an S shape on it like her trademark symbol. She touched the rotating artifact, and was immediately engulfed in light.
She was lifted into the air, and felt something go through her body. She then landed on the ground, with a much different armor. Instead of her traditional orange and red Varia suit, she now had what her sensors described as the Dark suit. It was built of many strange shapes, and was a deep mahogany; it made her look more like a robot.
She took the liberty of examining this new armor for several minutes, and realized that the light had disappeared. Her health bar was not going down as fast, which meant that the armor was shielding her better.
Then a door opposite of the way Samus had entered slid downward, revealing another door to the energy controller. But before she started for it, she looked around to find that mysterious figure that had helped us earlier, but to no avail; the person had already disappeared. She paused for a moment, and then made her way to the door.
Exeter raised his head as he watched Samus walk into the door. He waited several more minutes until he was sure that she could not hear or see him. Exeter leapt through the hole and landed lightly on the soft ground. He was still wary of the worms; they could reappear any moment. After making complete sure those nightmares would not cone back, he continued toward the door.
BANG!
Exeter felt a graze on his back and swiveled around as he fell to the ground. He simultaneously fired his two repeater rifles at the being, which it dodged. As Exeter stood up, he was shocked to see his target; a replica of Samus Aran. This one was different though. It looked much fiercer and deadlier than the hunter and was more of a bluish armor. He decided to call it "Dark Samus", since it looked so sinister.
I then charge its arm cannon, tilting it toward him. Exeter ran right at it, ready to defeat it.