Metroid: Nightmares…
Chapter two: A new breed
Samus was jolted awake. She groaned. The nightmare had gotten worse. Sighing, Samus pressed the button to open the top hatch, and leaped out onto the top of her ship. From her position on the roof, Samus could see the damage her crash had caused, and the original landscape in the distance. The land was scoured and bare of all life for a 2-mile radius.
"Geez." Samus thought. "I thought the impact crater on Tallon IV was bad!" Samus hopped down from her ship and did a damage check. Her ship was half buried in the sand, of which the top layer had melted to become glass. The engines were in flames, and were in need of extensive repairs. And the heat was still radiating off of the ship, melting more sand, and making recovery of the ship even less possible. Samus sighed in her helmet, fogging up the visor for a split second. She was going to be here a while.
Samus was quite frustrated. She had tried everything to get her ship out. Digging would be quite difficult, and blasting it was certainly no good, it would only make more glass. But there was one thing she noticed that was strange about the glass. She could not shatter it, no matter how hard she hit it. Tired and angry, Samus threw her emergency hammer as far as she could, without thinking of the possible consequences. Angry with herself now, Samus stalked off after it. After quite a bit of walking, Samus found her hammer lying by a small grove of bushes. She bent down to grab it, when she heard slightly familiar voices. Darting out of sight, Samus parted a particularly large tuft of grass and watched what was unfolding before her. The ship, which had damaged her engines, had landed a few yards from Samus's current position, and walking down the gangplank, was Ridley. He was clad in black armour, much like when she had met him at the impact crater on Tallon IV, but this time it seemed almost as if he'd grown it on himself. A squad of pirates followed him, of which breed Samus had never seen before. A tall pirate walked up to him, exchanged a few words, and then led him to what looked like a hill. The pirate pressed a spot on the rock, and it opened wide, revealing a tunnel. Samus crawled forward for a closer look. The squad and Ridley followed the pirate into the tunnel, and the rock closed behind them.
"Well, then. I think I just may win the favor of the Federation for this one." She muttered to herself, and sat there, waiting for nightfall.
Nightfall had come, and Samus crept up to where the pirates had disappeared into a few hours before, pressed the hidden button, and disappeared into the tunnel. Her scans for enemies read negative, so she continued forward into the tunnel. After a few minutes of walking, Samus came to what looked like a lab of some sort. There were stasis tanks with creatures unknown to her spread out about the large room, and computer panels along all of the walls. To her fortune, the pirates had seemed to have gone to sleep. Curious, Samus walked up to one of the stasis tanks and looked at the creature inside. It looked bizarre, with its semi-transparent skin and veins flowing with a glowing blue substance. She scanned the monitor at the face of the tube for a bit of info.
"Specimen; living. 2 weeks exposure." The monitor read. Samus continued on and entered another long tunnel. It continued on farther deep into the base, and finally opened up into a room larger than the last. Samus stared. In stasis tanks, were space pirates! Samus smirked. She could end this right now! Samus walked up to the first stasis tank. Then Samus realized what was wrong. It was too easy. Samus shook aside her suspicions, charged up her power beam, and the lights in the room switched on and all the doors locked. And she was pretty sure she could hear an alarm in the background. She turned back to her prey, and what she saw chilled her to the bone. The space pirate, whom was originally asleep, stared back at her with glowing red eyes. It stirred for a bit, and Samus backed away, charging her beam again. The pirate shattered its stasis tank and leaped out at her, and triggered the rest of its sleeping brethren to free themselves as well. She was surrounded.
"You want a fight? Well you're going to get one hell of one!" Samus snapped, firing a charge beam at the nearest pirate, and, to her horror, absorbed the blast. Really angry now, Samus armed her light beam and shot at another pirate. The pirate faltered, but still advanced. Then, for the first time, Samus felt real fear rise up inside her. Angry with herself and the pirates, she opened up everything she had on them, but only to fail. Then a cackle mixed with a roar rang out throughout the lab, and down swooped Ridley in all his newfound glory.
"Well, well. Samus Aran. I thought you were dead. But I guess I was mistaken." The dragon sneered. Samus shot a charged blast at him, but he just raised one claw, absorbed the blast, and fired it back at her out of his mouth. Samus lowered her arm cannon, and Ridley chuckled. "What? Has the great Samus Aran finally been defeated?" Samus drew her dagger, leaped at him and stabbed him in the chest. Ridley shook his head, pulled out the dagger, and threw it aside. The wound healed instantly. "You see, Samus, the Space Pirates are not going to be beaten as easily as the last times. We have found a power source unlike any other, even greater than that phazon we were fiddling around with a few years ago. And, as you have so vainly discovered, it has made us unbeatable."
"Just like you, Ridley. All talk and no bite." Samus snapped bitterly. The very bad blood between them was starting to boil over. Ridley glared.
"Fine, then. If you want it that way, then so be it! Men! Get her!" Ridley flapped his great wings and soared off, and the space pirates advanced, grabbing Samus. Though she fought gallantly, then jabbed her with a needle, which pierced her armour. For a split second there was excruciating pain, and then everything faded into blackness…
End of chapter two.
Note; I do not own Metroid prime or any other of the characters in this story. They belong to Retro Studios and whomever else created Metroid.