…send help. metroid :Message Ends)
(Priority: Urgent)
(Transcription: Emergency)
(Sending message + message sent)
The agent gathered together the last of his functioning equipment as he prepared to leave the wreckage of his ship. Those damn creatures were coming again, he couldn't hear them, but he couldn't hear anything else either, the caves always seemed to go silent before an attack. The temporary force field generator that had preserved him so far was almost out of power, but Galactic Federation Agent Nat Hayes wasn't planning to give them a meal after making them wait this long.
He thought idly of the enemies he was facing as he checked his gear. The burrowing life form was completely new to him, they could tear through stone or metal at a terrifying speed and they were numbered in their hundreds, thousands even. Fortunately they were vulnerable on every part of their body but their heads and a simple blaster shot was enough to defeat them.
Then he thought of the Metroid, and shuddered. Something like that shouldn't be so fast. He had read through reports of them before and from what he had gathered they were tough to beat, but relatively easy targets. This one was… terrifying. He hadn't even seen it clearly more than once or twice and already he dreaded the sight of the lightning-fast silver Metroid.
Metroid… Anyone that knew anything about that word knew about Samus Aran. Samus Aran, if only she was here they'd be out of this nightmare in no time. He thought of the videos he'd seen of her, dodging aliens in leaps and bounds, sending back shots, rockets and bombs. So efficient, so professional, so perfect… He was brought back to reality by the sound of his power generator emitting an early warning tone. He'd have to get out of here soon, since he might need to use that power somewhere else before all this was over.
Suddenly, his heart leapt into his mouth as he heard the noise again, the noise that had haunted him for most of the last week or so, the tunnellers were back. He thought for a moment, a few minutes before they break through, he had just enough time. He had to get out now. He grabbed the generator, turned off the force field, and ran towards a path through the caves. This was it then, from now on he was on his own unless the Federation sent aid.
Hopefully the message would reach someone, even out here on the bleak frontier of known Federation space. "They must pick it up" he murmured as he hurried through the tunnels "They'll send somebody, they have to"
Several miles out from the service station, Samus Aran glanced around at the Chozo-crafted battle suit stood in a cradle in the space behind the cockpit. It had been so long since she had used it, and now…
The time had come for her to shine again.
Switching the ship onto autopilot, Samus swung herself back over her pilot's seat and stood in front of the suit. She stared at her reflection in the green visor.
"This is it" she murmured, "another round, me against the universe"
"Peters!" yelled Harvard, strolling out of the analysis room.
"What is it?" Leon Peters looked enquiringly at the Federation Officer.
Harvard put a pile of documents onto the desk that Peters was sat at "You call yourself an expert on Metroids?" He pulled out a file from the sheaf of papers in front of him and thrust it into front of his face.
Leon Peters took a look over the document.It explained how the only know appearance of the mysterious Metroid species, Levitas, had been on a small, unknown planet in the otherwise, completely desolateRayta Quadrant. It had attacked a Federation scout vessel that had stopped to perform minor repairs, accompanied by a multitude of small, burrowing creatures that were individually weak but deadly in large numbers. The ship escaped after the crew was almost wiped out, and when it was found weeks later, the few remaining crew members had already starved to death.
"Levitas" he said, almost whispering.
"You're damn right it's a Levitas, Peters. How do you think Samus Aran is going to have any chance of going up against something like that?"
Leon Peters stared at the document for a moment then murmured "Don't worry about it". He dropped the file back onto the desk and turned to his own work
"What?" Harvard was almost screaming at the man in front of him "The Levitas is unstoppable, even by her"
"She'll find a way" Leon tried to wave Harvard away, but the Federation official had spotted the delay and heard the quiver in the voice.
"Peters, you know she can't handle this don't you?"