Chapter 3: A New World, or Maybe Not
* * * Author's note: If I have used the names of characters from other peoples FanFics, it is purely coincidence. And if you believe that, you'll believe anything. I just like the names and/or I can't be bothered to find out the 'real' names of the people whose names I have nicked. Oh I've just realised I didn't need to write this, you can't really sue me anyway. None of the stuff on FanFiction is copywrited anyway!!! P.S. anymore author's notes will be in *these*
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When Samus got back to her hotel room, after updating her log book, she decided to have a long rest in the king-size bed in her room. Earth-time, it was only 15:00, but this planet had longer 26 hour days, and it was 25:00, nearly midnight. If she hadn't been used to Earth-time she would have been asleep within half-an-hour. But her month long killing spree holiday was long enough for her body to get used to Earth-time.
* * * When I say Earth-time, I am referring to GMT, the time zone Samus went to on her holiday. The time for Earth2 as most humans call it, is the time zone Samus is in at the moment.
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After an eternity of not sleeping, Samus realised that she must have been so tired that she forgot to take off her suit. She took it off and got back into bed. Half-an-hour later she was just about to drop off when the phone rang. "Bloody phone! The hotel should turn it of at night." She shouted to herself, picked up the phone and screamed, "Who is it and what is so urgent that you must call me in the middle of the night?!" "Sammy girl, what are you talking about?" Adam Malkovitch's voice said calmly on the other end of the phone, "I deliberately called you when you would be awake." "What!!!" "Look at the time, open the curtains. Do anything that will result in you being aware that it is 10:00 your time." "Oh." she said as she opened the curtains and looked at her watch.
Adam Malkovitch was a Federation officer who once supervised Samus on a previous mission. Samus lost contact with him after that. He was the sort of man who would turn up for work one day, then take a year leave on account of his being 'ill'. Even though the Federation was stupid enough to believe him, Samus wasn't.
"Shit, I must have gotten to bed real late last night," cursed Samus, "what is it then?" "We've traced those pirates you found last night, and we think they came from SR3Beta63, but we could be wrong." "What pirates?" Samus asked, trying to sound like she didn't know what he meant, but failing. "Don't think we don't read your log book, some Tseldanian hacker is publishing it on the externet." "And what are you doing to stop it?!" The TV in her room somehow managed to smash, sending sparks everywhere. "What was that?" Samus was pleased that she had accidentally changed the subject. "Just the TV, I'm not watching it anymore." replied Samus, hoping Adam would forget why he phoned. "Oh, fine. Don't go anywhere Samus. I'll only be a second." With that he hung up. "Only a second, eh?"
That second turned out to be half an hour, but Samus wasn't going anywhere anyway. She knew Adam's judgement of time was different to the rest of the universe's, so she wasn't surprised by the wait. "Sorry 'bout that. The scanner just picked up a new planet in the Theta- Region, but it must have been a false alarm." "A Tseldanian scanner giving a false alarm! Now that's not something you see every decade! What makes you think that it was playing up?" "Actually the Chozo gave us one of their old scanners since you last saw this ship. It's still better than that Tseldanian one! What was that about my scanner playing up?" "She wants you to explain the false alarm, you stupid pathetic human!" verbalized a monotonous voice that was not unfamiliar to Samus. "I see the Tseldanians are still hacking into your ships computer!" Laughed, shouted and whispered Samus, somehow all at the same time. "Yeah, its as if they think they rule all of cyberspace! It was probably one of them who made this planet appear on my scanners, then disappear without a trace." "Sounds about right. Their life revolves around hacking into Federation stuff! Yeah, I'll check my scanner later today."
Samus was about to hang up when Adam she heard Adam say something in a rather nervous voice, which was not like the extravert. "How about you come over to my ship later and we can....erm....check the computer together. See if it did get hacked into....err, yeah." "How about no," said Samus defiantly, "If you want to ask me out you need to learn to ask me out properly." "I, err, OK. I'll stay here on my own, with only the Tseldanian hackers to insult me." "If you're trying to make me feel sorry for you so that I come over there, it's not working. Besides, if you really want someone to talk to you can go ask whoever your boss is for a raise. Now go away, unless you have important information to tell me."
With that if she'd had a twentieth century style phone she would have slammed it down, but she didn't. She had to make do with the voice commands, the cheap voice recognition that doesn't understand angry voices.
Samus lay on her bed, wearing only the silk nightgown that Adam bought her last time he tried to date her. That was a week before their mission together; well Adam was on a space station within a few light-years of her, supervising from the safest distance possible. As Samus lay there she realised that Adam was the only person who had ever asked her out, and both times he failed. It wasn't his fault though; Samus wasn't one for receiving orders. This made her scared of dates, boyfriends etc. as because she had never seen a male human until she was 20, she thought that if you go out with anyone, you ended up marring them. And in human couples, the man always seems to be in charge. Samus didn't like that idea at all.
Later that day Samus went to her ship to have a look at the place where Adam said the planet appeared, but found nothing. Nothing, other than the one thing that she did not expect to find. The one thing that would not be picked up by Adam's scanners, as this one thing was discovered by the Chozo after Adam's version of their scanner had been made. The new scanners could see this new phenomenon and were originally going to be able to scan them further to find out how they worked.
What Samus had stumbled on was what the Chozo called Stil'ren or cosmic tunnel, otherwise known as a wormhole.
Samus had nothing on her mind other than to call Adam and enlighten him with what she knew. She rushed back to her room where she left her phone and called him. No answer. She tried again half an hour later. Still no answer. She waited for a while deciding whether or not to call him back again when her phone rang.
"Adam!" she yelled with as much enthusiasm as there was in the universe. "Well Samus," said the voice of Chairman Keaton, the head of the Galactic Federation, "that's just what we called you about."
"Samus,"
"Adam's dead."
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OK, that's it for this chapter. What have we learned so far? Adam is dead; Samus has found a rare Chozo phenomenon; The Chozo favour Samus over Adam, and last but not least, The Pirates are waiting in SR3Beta63.
What is this wormhole doing?
What will the Federation do when Samus tells them about it?
And do the Tseldanians have anything better to do with their lives?
Find out in two chapters time. Meanwhile, what is link going to find now that he has left the Lost Woods? Review and give your suggestions.
P.S. if you tell your friends to R&R this story, I'll post the next chapter sooner. Or I will try to.
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* * * Author's note: If I have used the names of characters from other peoples FanFics, it is purely coincidence. And if you believe that, you'll believe anything. I just like the names and/or I can't be bothered to find out the 'real' names of the people whose names I have nicked. Oh I've just realised I didn't need to write this, you can't really sue me anyway. None of the stuff on FanFiction is copywrited anyway!!! P.S. anymore author's notes will be in *these*
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When Samus got back to her hotel room, after updating her log book, she decided to have a long rest in the king-size bed in her room. Earth-time, it was only 15:00, but this planet had longer 26 hour days, and it was 25:00, nearly midnight. If she hadn't been used to Earth-time she would have been asleep within half-an-hour. But her month long killing spree holiday was long enough for her body to get used to Earth-time.
* * * When I say Earth-time, I am referring to GMT, the time zone Samus went to on her holiday. The time for Earth2 as most humans call it, is the time zone Samus is in at the moment.
* * *
After an eternity of not sleeping, Samus realised that she must have been so tired that she forgot to take off her suit. She took it off and got back into bed. Half-an-hour later she was just about to drop off when the phone rang. "Bloody phone! The hotel should turn it of at night." She shouted to herself, picked up the phone and screamed, "Who is it and what is so urgent that you must call me in the middle of the night?!" "Sammy girl, what are you talking about?" Adam Malkovitch's voice said calmly on the other end of the phone, "I deliberately called you when you would be awake." "What!!!" "Look at the time, open the curtains. Do anything that will result in you being aware that it is 10:00 your time." "Oh." she said as she opened the curtains and looked at her watch.
Adam Malkovitch was a Federation officer who once supervised Samus on a previous mission. Samus lost contact with him after that. He was the sort of man who would turn up for work one day, then take a year leave on account of his being 'ill'. Even though the Federation was stupid enough to believe him, Samus wasn't.
"Shit, I must have gotten to bed real late last night," cursed Samus, "what is it then?" "We've traced those pirates you found last night, and we think they came from SR3Beta63, but we could be wrong." "What pirates?" Samus asked, trying to sound like she didn't know what he meant, but failing. "Don't think we don't read your log book, some Tseldanian hacker is publishing it on the externet." "And what are you doing to stop it?!" The TV in her room somehow managed to smash, sending sparks everywhere. "What was that?" Samus was pleased that she had accidentally changed the subject. "Just the TV, I'm not watching it anymore." replied Samus, hoping Adam would forget why he phoned. "Oh, fine. Don't go anywhere Samus. I'll only be a second." With that he hung up. "Only a second, eh?"
That second turned out to be half an hour, but Samus wasn't going anywhere anyway. She knew Adam's judgement of time was different to the rest of the universe's, so she wasn't surprised by the wait. "Sorry 'bout that. The scanner just picked up a new planet in the Theta- Region, but it must have been a false alarm." "A Tseldanian scanner giving a false alarm! Now that's not something you see every decade! What makes you think that it was playing up?" "Actually the Chozo gave us one of their old scanners since you last saw this ship. It's still better than that Tseldanian one! What was that about my scanner playing up?" "She wants you to explain the false alarm, you stupid pathetic human!" verbalized a monotonous voice that was not unfamiliar to Samus. "I see the Tseldanians are still hacking into your ships computer!" Laughed, shouted and whispered Samus, somehow all at the same time. "Yeah, its as if they think they rule all of cyberspace! It was probably one of them who made this planet appear on my scanners, then disappear without a trace." "Sounds about right. Their life revolves around hacking into Federation stuff! Yeah, I'll check my scanner later today."
Samus was about to hang up when Adam she heard Adam say something in a rather nervous voice, which was not like the extravert. "How about you come over to my ship later and we can....erm....check the computer together. See if it did get hacked into....err, yeah." "How about no," said Samus defiantly, "If you want to ask me out you need to learn to ask me out properly." "I, err, OK. I'll stay here on my own, with only the Tseldanian hackers to insult me." "If you're trying to make me feel sorry for you so that I come over there, it's not working. Besides, if you really want someone to talk to you can go ask whoever your boss is for a raise. Now go away, unless you have important information to tell me."
With that if she'd had a twentieth century style phone she would have slammed it down, but she didn't. She had to make do with the voice commands, the cheap voice recognition that doesn't understand angry voices.
Samus lay on her bed, wearing only the silk nightgown that Adam bought her last time he tried to date her. That was a week before their mission together; well Adam was on a space station within a few light-years of her, supervising from the safest distance possible. As Samus lay there she realised that Adam was the only person who had ever asked her out, and both times he failed. It wasn't his fault though; Samus wasn't one for receiving orders. This made her scared of dates, boyfriends etc. as because she had never seen a male human until she was 20, she thought that if you go out with anyone, you ended up marring them. And in human couples, the man always seems to be in charge. Samus didn't like that idea at all.
Later that day Samus went to her ship to have a look at the place where Adam said the planet appeared, but found nothing. Nothing, other than the one thing that she did not expect to find. The one thing that would not be picked up by Adam's scanners, as this one thing was discovered by the Chozo after Adam's version of their scanner had been made. The new scanners could see this new phenomenon and were originally going to be able to scan them further to find out how they worked.
What Samus had stumbled on was what the Chozo called Stil'ren or cosmic tunnel, otherwise known as a wormhole.
Samus had nothing on her mind other than to call Adam and enlighten him with what she knew. She rushed back to her room where she left her phone and called him. No answer. She tried again half an hour later. Still no answer. She waited for a while deciding whether or not to call him back again when her phone rang.
"Adam!" she yelled with as much enthusiasm as there was in the universe. "Well Samus," said the voice of Chairman Keaton, the head of the Galactic Federation, "that's just what we called you about."
"Samus,"
"Adam's dead."
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OK, that's it for this chapter. What have we learned so far? Adam is dead; Samus has found a rare Chozo phenomenon; The Chozo favour Samus over Adam, and last but not least, The Pirates are waiting in SR3Beta63.
What is this wormhole doing?
What will the Federation do when Samus tells them about it?
And do the Tseldanians have anything better to do with their lives?
Find out in two chapters time. Meanwhile, what is link going to find now that he has left the Lost Woods? Review and give your suggestions.
P.S. if you tell your friends to R&R this story, I'll post the next chapter sooner. Or I will try to.
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