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BGM: Sector 4 - AQA (Metroid Fusion)
"Okay, that makes about a hundred and ten missiles…" Samus said to herself as she walked over to Rosalina. "How's she holding up?"
"Not well." Rosalina said and explained what was going on with Blake since she was keeping an eye on her.
"Oooh…" Samus grimaced. "Well, I'm glad her friends checked up on her but… mmm… she shouldn't have to suffer that burden alone, since we're basically in this together."
"I think she's aware." Rosalina said. "Problem is, the Metroid and that SA-X is doing a number on her, and then Serris made things worse."
Samus sighed. "I'm gonna be honest, if we don't get out of here soon enough, I'm probably gonna scream too…"
"I wouldn't blame you." Rosalina nodded as they would see Blake holding Pikachu as the women and ROB approached her.
"Hey, how you holding up?" Samus asked.
"Fine… I guess…"
Samus knelt down, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Hey… you don't have to suffer this burden alone. After all, we're a team and we share this burden together… as much as I don't want to given what we're dealing with."
"I'm… well aware of that."
"Being eaten alive would do a number on you…" Samus admitted, then hugged her. "It's gonna be okay…"
"I hope so…" Blake said, hugging her back before she found her strength to stand up. "Alright, I'm ready to go."
With a nod, the group walked off to the elevator. "So… do we know where we're headed next?" Rosalina asked.
"Hmm…" Samus turned to ROB and giving him an apologetic look. "Hey… do you know where we're headed next?"
ROB's eyes went purple, though they looked a bit more sad than normal. "Hmm… so Serris has been infected by the X, too…" He lamented.
"You… okay?" Blake asked.
"Well, to be fair, Serris are fascinating creatures."
Not exactly fascinating when you get eaten by one… Blake thought.
"But on the other hand, you had to take it out as your friend had been eaten alive by it, so it is understandable. Not to mention you recovered another ability, Samus. At this rate, you might just be able to face the SA-X yet, but that's a ways off. HQ has more support data. This time it's Missile upgrade data."
Samus perked up. "Missile upgrades, you say?" She asked before smirking. "Oh hell yes. Super Missiles."
"Indeed. You desperately need this, but the Data Room in this sector is sealed with a level 4 lock, the highest security level. Let's avoid opening sensitive areas unless it's necessary."
"Right." Samus nodded.
"Also, the route to the data room in sector 2 is blocked by still more SA-X activity. I note a deliberate activity pattern, as if it is blocking your recovery intentionally."
"That makes sense considering it's fucking intelligent…" Samus mumbled. "I never thought these parasites would be so smart."
"Indeed. Usually they don't act like this but something about the SA-X is… different. I'm not sure why but I'm highly suspecting that we may have underestimated the SA-X's intelligence. So far, as you have witnessed, it is able to explore areas that it never thought of and being able to detect the quietest of noises, give how it picked up on Blake's sweat hitting the ground."
"I'm still not sure how it even heard that…" Blake mumbled.
"Plus, there have been reports of a struggle of the SA-X fighting that Metroid."
Blake's ears perked up. "Oh please tell me the SA-X killed that bastard!"
"Unfortunately… it ended in a tie. Both of them sustained heavy damage and are currently patching themselves up. They are both equally strong, I am afraid."
Blake's ears lowered and she slumped a little. "You gotta be fucking kidding me."
"Good heavens…" Rosalina quietly said with a slight tone of fear in her voice.
"Oi… that's fantastic…" Samus sarcastically groaned as Pikachu's ears lowered.
"Pika…" Pikachu agreed.
"Now then, your best bet to downloading the Super Missiles is in Sector 3 (PYR). You will find the PYR Data Room on your map once we get to Sector 3."
"Right." Samus nodded as ROB's eyes back to normal.
"Boop boop…" ROB rubbed his head as they headed off, hopping into the elevator and heading up to the main area before heading over to Sector 3's elevator and started going down.
End BGM
Blake nervously rubbed her arm, her ears have lowered a bit as she was looking on edge, Rosalina had her arms folded while also holding Pikachu in her arms and Samus also had her arms folded, checking her radar on her visor before the elevator came to a stop as they all hopped off.
BGM: Sector 3 - PYR (Metroid Fusion)
"Hmm… wait a moment." Samus said. "The AI said PYR… and if I'm not mistaken, that sounds like we're entering a higher temperature sector."
"Oh… wonderful…" Blake sighed.
"Hmm, but just how hot will it get, I wonder?" Rosalina wondered aloud and as they continued on, Adam took over ROB's body again.
"Okay, thankfully, the X have not invaded this area yet… the Data Room here is sealed by another security hatch. In order to download, you must find the security room here and activate the level 2 hatches. This may allow the SA-X and the X-Parasites into the area… but we are left with no choice. Samus's recovery is our top priority."
A map was shown in front of them. "The data room is here."
"That's… further away than I thought it'd be." Blake said.
"Mmm, it's a decent walk. It shouldn't be too bad." Samus said.
"However, as I had mentioned before, the security room can't be shown. You have to be careful here, there are some very violent organisms here. And avoid the ultra-heated areas: Samus's suit and none of you can't take such high temperatures."
Rosalina smirked, flashing back to cooling everyone down at Melty Molten Galaxy. Wanna bet? She thought.
"Now… for your convenience, level two hatches are green. Release the lock and head to the data room for download. Super Missile data is ready. Your firepower will triple. Luckily, there are no ultra-heated areas on this route so turn back if you head into one."
With a nod, everyone walked through the door as they hopped down the corridor as Samus scanned the area and found something of interest behind a door. "Hello…" She said as she opened it up and walked through as they would immediately find a wall that was in there way, where the women, Pikachu and ROB would try to blast their way through but to no avail.
Samus smirked. "Alright… this calls for something a bit more fancy." She said.
"You have something in mind?" Rosalina asked.
"Let's just say this will probably make Ruby and Sonic blush." Samus said, smirking as she took several steps back as Blake's instincts kicked in and moved back, urging the others to do the same as Samus got a good running start as her Super Speed kicked in… but then she stopped for a split second and then before PBRR knew it, Samus Shine Sparked her way through the wall, leaving behind some after images behind her that disappeared within seconds.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Whoa!" Blake exclaimed.
"Hmm, the way she's going, that level 2 hatch will stop her from entering." Adam mused.
CRASH!
However… the hatch was destroyed and left behind a Samus-shaped hole in the hatch, causing Adam to sweatdrop.
"Or… not."
"Oh wow… I've never seen Shinespark in action before…" Blake said in awe.
Rosalina whistled. "Impressive. Hey Samus, you okay over there?" She called out.
"Just peachy!" Samus called back, and then the green hatch officially opened, although if you count falling flat on the ground as electricity sparked out as "opened", and right on cue, the X-Parasites made their way inside and started morphing into Sidehoppers… only to get horribly ran over by Samus.
"Coming through!" She said, and then the floor underneath her gave way as she fell through. "Wah!"
"Oh!" Rosalina winced as they walked over and looked down. "Are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine… I found some missiles though!" She said as she climbed out as they walked back where they were then attacked by Geruta, only for Samus and Blake to annihilate them as they made their way across the room and went into the next corridor, where they would come across a hatch that could only be opened on the other side, so they climbed up… and Rosalina found herself getting bitten in the back by a Fune.
"Aaagh!" She yelped as Samus turned around and instinctively destroyed the Fune with missiles with Pikachu joining her with a Thunderbolt. As a result, they turned around to see nasty teeth marks on Rosalina's back, as well as a chunk of the back of her Zero Suit bitten off.
"Oooh… that's gonna…" Samus winced. "Are you able to conjure up cosmic water?"
"Y-yeah…!" She said, doing so with her wand as Samus would take some and applied it to her back to wash it off and then digging deep to absorb any X-Parasites that might have sunk into her wound. Blood was still pouring out of her back.
"This is gonna sting…" Samus said. "ROB?"
ROB nodded and would proceed to seal up the wound. "Mmmph!" Rosalina grunted, closing her eyes and doing her best to block off the pain. Come on… you have a high pain tolerance… work through it! She thought to herself as ROB finished sealing it of.
"Boop boop!" ROB chirped.
"Haaaah… holy… cosmic energy…!" Rosalina could only say before taking a deep breath and turned to the others. "I've a high pain tolerance and yet, I've never experienced anything like that…" She said.
"Well, look at the bright side, now you know what to expect the next time ROB does that to you." Samus said, as Rosalina gave her an unamused stare. "…Too soon?" She asked, rubbing her head. Tough crowd… She thought.
"I'll live… but I do not recommend hot laser therapy." She said. "It still befuddles me that people literally have someone stab their own backs with needles and call it therapy…" She mumbled. "What was it again… acupuncture?" She shook her head in disbelief as they made their way through and fell through the floor and opened the hatch before continuing on.
A few Geruta were in the room as they were blasted away by everyone as the floor would then give away as they opened up a hatch and made their way through and they would look up a corridor and found a few Fune just waiting to sink their teeth into them. The mere sight of them annoyed Rosalina greatly.
"So… uh… I meant to ask this earlier but what the fuck are these worm things… if you can even call them that?" Blake asked.
"Fune. They bite down into anything they come into contact with." Samus said, pelting them with missiles.
"Yeah… cosmic beings included…" Rosalina mumbled as they worked their way up… only to discover a hatch had been destroyed.
"Pika Pi Chu?" Pikachu wondered.
Blake groaned. "Oh hell… not now."
"Be on your guard… it's here." Samus said, all of them at the ready as they cautiously approached the next room, the bounty hunter bombing the wall and rolling through a crawlspace while everyone cralwed through and Rosalina shrunk ROB down as they made their way, and then Samus found more missiles.
Got ya! She thought as she decided to go up by Ball Jumping and crawled through, bombing through walls and making it out of the crawlspace and climbed up, with the others joining her as Rosalina had ROB grow back to normal and walked inside the next corridor… where they were immediately greeted with a hot climate, but luckily nothing was ultra heated.
"Pikaaaaa…" Pikachu groaned.
"You said it… it's so damn hot…" Blake said.
"Not for long." Rosalina said, snapping her fingers to immediately cool them down.
"Oh! Thank you." Blake smiled.
"The last thing we need is dying from heat stroke." Rosalina said.
"Or dying from an Angry Sun who doesn't seem to understand fucking personal space…" Blake mumbled.
Rosalina sweatdropped. "That happens? I'm amazed Remnant hasn't burnt to a crisp as a result." She said as they worked their way through and took out any Sidehoppers and Sova's on the ceiling who dropped hot fire onto the ground as they went into another corridor that was thankfully not as hot as the one before.
"The data room should be… right through this door." Samus said, opening up the hatch as they opened it up and found the data room. "Perfect!" She said as she walked into the machine where the data would download inside of her suit.
Super Missiles back online!
"That's more like it." Samus said as she walked out of the machine… and then suddenly, there was an explosion that rocked the area.
Pause BGM
BGM: Tension (Super Metroid)
"What the hell?" Blake wondered.
"I don't like the sound of that…" Samus said as ROB scanned the area.
"Boop… boop boop!"
"What do you mean SA-X wasn't responsible for that?" Samus asked as they walked out and made their way back… only to discover the way back was completely destroyed and on top of that, part of the floor had caved in. They also heard loud thumps and bangs that sounded nothing like the SA-X.
"Whatever this is… it's completely hostile." Rosalina said with Samus nodding as they hoped down into the floor and found another hatch completely destroyed as they walked into the only hatch available as they walked in and found a missile explansion just behind a Geron as Samus destroyed the Geron and then snagged the missiles, then they walked back to the corridor before the Data Room.
The moment they walked closer, they saw parts of the wall started to bulge out… and then a robot burst through, staring at the team in front of it. "What… is that?" Blake wondered as the robot scanned all five of them.
"Hostiles found. Eliminate!"
Samus aimed her arm cannon at the robot. "I'm not sure what this is… but let's take this to the scrap heap!" She said as everyone got into their stances.
End BGM
BGM: Vs BOX (Metroid Fusion)
Rogue Robot - Security Robot BOX
The BOX Robot proceeded to charge at the group, firing missiles at it but Rosalina would hold the missiles in place and sent them back as Samus would jump over and aimed her arm cannon at it, shooting a few Super Missiles and severely hurting it.
The BOX Robot would ignore the older women and headed straight for Blake, charging at her as she shot a few lasers at it, only to discover that they bounced off and then tackled her, but her semblance kicked in and dodged to the left, countering with more lasers but they would also bounce off. You gotta be shitting me… She thought to herself as the BOX Robot would spit out some grenades that would explode and caused a wall of fire to go straight for Blake.
Blake would quickly pull out her Shadow Whip and flicked it onto a pipe as she swung forward and flipped over the fire, singing just a few short hairs off of her head as she was then above the BOX Robot and started shooting from above, as it had hurt the Robot, but only just a little compared to the Super Missiles and Cosmic Waves that the other ladies had hit it with.
"Oh… I get it now." Samus said. "Hey Pikachu! Hit this with a Volt Tackle!"
"Pika!" Pikachu smirked, getting on all fours and started running as ROB would fire a laser to distract the BOX Robot as it had charged at ROB, giving Pikachu enough room. "Pika Pika PIka Pika…" Electricity would soon cover the Pokemon. "PIKA PIKA PIKA PIKA!"
"Rosie!" Samus cued.
"On it!" Rosie said, quickly picking Pikachu up as she would throw him down on top of the Robot.
"PIIIIKAAAAAAAAA!" Pikachu cried, slamming into the BOX Robot's head and completely destroying it and exposed the main core, which was… oddly a brain.
"A brain?" Blake wondered before getting the idea to shoot at it with Samus, Rosalina and ROB backing her up as the Robot tried to retaliate with fire missiles, but the group of five proved too much for it… so it proceeded to retreat and jump up into a corridor, destroying the ceiling and nearly crushing the group with rubble if it wasn't for Rosalina telekinetically catching the rubble and tossing it to the side.
End BGM
Resume Sector 3 - PYR BGM
"Nice hit, little guy!" Blake smiled.
"Pika!" Pikachu said proudly.
"What on earth was that thing?" Rosalina wondered.
"A rogue security robot." Adam spoke up. "It may have seen you as a threat just like with the X-Parasites roaming around. If you encounter it again, go ahead and destroy it. It is vital that all of you make it out alive. But as to your brief… the level 2 security locks are released, so sectors 5 and 6 are open. That means those sectors have likely been infiltrated by the X. They are much harder to stop than we initially suspected."
"Alright, so next stop will be Sector 5, right?" Samus guessed.
"Not so fast. Sector 5 (ARC) is sub-zero. You're still susceptible to cold from the vaccine side effects, so you'll take damage the moment you step inside."
"…Oh, lovely." Samus groaned.
"If we weren't susceptible to becoming infected with the X-Parasites, we'd go in Sector 5 easily." Rosalina said. "Alas… that's not possible."
"Pika…" Pikachu agreed.
"Not to worry, HQ is working on data to adjust your suit for extreme temperatures. Once we have the transmission, Samus can download it… but… the X have destroyed all the data rooms that you have used so far."
"Are you fucking kidding?!" Blake said in disbelief. "Ugh… wonderful…"
"I wish. I no longer doubt their capacity for critical thought. You'll have to use the data room in the night habitat, Sector 6 (NOC). I'll brief you more when you get into that sector."
"Got it." Samus nodded as they worked their way around the sector until they found the elevator whiel also snagging more missiles for Samus as they hopped onto the elevator and went up.
End BGM
Inside ROB's main frame…
"Has Samus and her friends suspected anything?"
"No. I do not think so." Adam responded.
"Good. Make sure they don't."
"Affirmative. Out."
"…Boop bop?" ROB asked.
"It is none of your concern, robot."
"Boop beep boop."
"I do not care if you had heard another voice in your main frame. I was just contacting HQ."
ROB narrowed his eyes. "Boop boooop…" He said lowly.
"You will just have to trust me. I only come in peace."
"….Boop…"
"You do not trust me?"
"Boop bop bop boop beep boop!"
"I understand that you are frustrated that I constantly take over your body, but do not be alarmed… I am not doing this maliciously."
ROB responded with his internal data humming lowly, as if he was growling at Adam. "Boop. Bop. Beep."
"You cannot handle the truth."
"Boop! Boop bop beeeep borp!"
"You think you deserve to know the truth because I am inside of you?"
"Bop!"
"Perhaps when the time comes, you'll understand."
Outside of ROB's main data frame…
"Uh, ROB? Buddy? Why do you look so frustrated?" Blake asked.
"Boop…"
"Internal argument with the AI? Oh dear…" Rosalina said.
"Oh, I'm sure they'll patch things up." Samus said as they worked their way to Sector 6 and went down the elevator.
BGM: Sector 6 - NOC (Metroid Fusion)
ROB's eyes turned purple as soon as they hopped off the elevator. "The Varia Suit data is here from HQ, ready to download."
"The Varia Suit? Oh, how I missed it…" Samus said in relief.
"Get moving… however, there's a problem."
"Boop bop…" ROB quietly sassed.
"Besides that."
"Of course there's a problem, why wouldn't there be…" Samus grumbled.
"X from the sub-zero sector ARC are in Sector 6 (NOC). And they… they've been changed by the cold. If you absorb one, you'll be frozen from within. This seems like a deliberate tactic."
"Oh my stars… they've fused themselves with possible liquid nitrogen…" Rosalina whispered.
"Oh that is just fucking perfect!" Samus groaned.
"Once you download the Varia Suit modification, you'll be out of danger. Just be extremely careful until then." A map popped up in front of them. "The NOC Data Room is here. Avoid the blue X. Use anything you can to stun them in order to get by. Be extremely careful, they are actively hunting you now… and this area is extremely dark."
"We'll take note of that." Samus said as they started walking… before the area started to rumble. "Gah! What now?"
"It appears that someoe had just boarded at the docking station. I am not sure who, but it could be a curious pilot who wanted to investigate. Are they friendly or are they hostile? I cannot say for sure, but regardless… it is best if we ignored them for now."
"They don't even know what they're getting themselves into!" Blake said. "They're gonna get infected by those bastards!"
"There's not much we can do, unfortunately. Let's just move… and hope those poor bastards have their survival instincts in check." Samus said as they nodded and walked through.
"…Wait a minute." Rosalina said. "Don't Faunus have enhanced sight in the dark?"
"We do." Blake nodded and then rubbed her arm. "Although, I'm not really comfortable being in the lead when most of us don't have the capabilities of absorbing the Parasites safely…"
"I don't blame you." Samus said. "We should be in and out of this sector after we get the Varia Suit… emphasis on should be."
"Right…" Blake nodded.
"Don't worry, I'll be right beside you." Samus reassured as Blake's ears rose a little bit as she gave a soft smile to Samus as they walked through… only to be greeted by Menus as they destroyed them easily and then Samus absorbed the Parasites, then they walked into the next corridor where it was darker than usual.
"My time to shine…" Blake said as she walked ahead and dropped down as the others followed until they reached the bottom, and then they saw a Geron as Samus would obliterate it with a Super Missile… and then her radar picked up on something behind her as she turned around and bombed the wall, then rolled on through and found missiles.
Once Samus came back, they went into the first hatch they saw as they saw a massive wall in front of them, only for the bounty hunter to destroy the wall with bombs and worked her way through and dropped down on an Energy Tank. "Perfect." She said and then rejoined them as Blake climbed up and shot the hatch open as she walked inside and, in the darkness, she saw a blue X-Parasite floating in wait… waiting to pounce on its victim.
"Heads up!" Blake said as she jumped over the parasite and shot it up to stun it while the others quickly went around it.
"It must be those cryogenic ones." Samus said as they hurried ahead and went into the next corridor as they worked their way down as Samus opened up a hatch and walked through… and got pounced on by a lot of Blue X-Parasites.
"Aaagh! Gaaah!" She yelped as Rosalina quickly brought Samus over to them and then sealed the hatch up with a cosmic force field.
"Samus! Speak to me… are you okay?" Rosalina asked as Blake, Pikachu and ROB surrounded her, the latter two kneeling down.
"Uuungh…" Samus groaned. "I don't recommend experiencing that." She said, shivering a bit as they made their way down further once Samus had composed herself and then climbed up the corridor, stunning some opportunistic blue X-Parasites as they worked their way down and opened up a hatch, seeing some other Parasites ready to pounce but Rosalina and Pikachu stunned them as Samus ran through and crashed through the wall.
"This way!" She called over as they quickly followed her and jumped down as they walked into the next room and found an Energy Tank as Samus jumped over and picked it up to gain more energy, and then Samus's radar picked up on the floor being bombable as she bombed it and then hopped down with the others and walked into the next room.
As they walked, they would notice a ventilation down below but they paid it no mind as they walked further until they reached a wall. "Hmm… interesting…" Samus mused.
"Do you think maybe you can destroy it with a missile?" Blake suggested.
"Perhaps, but maybe if I used a bomb…"
Pikachu's ear twitched. "Pika?" Pikachu wondered, slowly turning to the door behind them. "Pika…" He turned to ROB. "Pika Pi?"
"Boop." ROB nodded and scanned the door, narrowing his eyes to get a good closer look… and then suddenly, his eyes turned green in a panic. "BOOP! BOOP BOOOP BOP!"
"Huh? What's wrong?" Samus asked.
"Beep bop beep boop!"
Their eyes widened in horror. "Oh shit…" Samus said and then curled up into a ball, hoping to bomb the floor for a way through the ventilation.
Power Bomb.
Power Bomb.
Power Bomb.
Her radar was telling her that only they can be destroyed by Power Bombs… all except one as she finally found it. The others would hop in as Rosalina would shrink ROB, allowing him to go inside right as the hatch opened.
End BGM
…And that's when the heavy footsteps echoed in the corridor. The SA-X walked above them, just inches away from them as it continued to walk along until it stopped. It scanned the area, seeming to be looking for something.
It turned around and looked down at the floor, as it scanned the ground for anything that moved. It paused for a second, clenching its fist before turning around and morphing into a ball… and dropped a Power Bomb.
SHIT! Samus thought as they desperately moved away right as the Power Bomb went off, completely destroying the floor and the wall and leaving everyone totally exposed… luckily Rosalina had used a force field to shield them for the blast at the last second. The SA-X had its back turned to them and kept walking where it had jumped down a platform… and then silence.
"We should be in the clear, right?" Rosalina asked.
"I hope so." Samus said as Blake stood up.
"It's gone… thankfully." She said as she walked over. "Now we can-"
Suddenly the floor underneath her started to crumble… and then she fell. "Wah!" She yelped.
"Blake!" Samus exclaimed as they ran to see if she was alright where Blake had landed on her feet.
"Phew…" Blake sighed in relief… and then she looked up and her pupils shrank, her eyes widened as she had paled… while also freezing in fright. The SA-X was right there, tricking them into thinking it was long gone.
Instead… it was waiting for one of them to make a mistake.
BGM: Flood Theme (Halo: Combat Evolved)
Without even looking, the SA-X aimed its Arm Cannon and fired the Ice Beam, freezing the ceiling above them so none of SPRR could reach her. Blake's instinct was to run as she turned around… only to see the hatch completely frozen.
She was trapped.
Blake gulped and took a deep breath. "I'm… I'm not afraid of you!" She said, her voice cracking a bit as she started firing at the SA-X. The SA-X simply shrugged it off as it aimed and fired a Super Missile at her, but as it had made contact, Blake used her semblance to avoid it and then attacked the SA-X from behind.
It responded by back handing her… but she used her semblance to avoid getting backhanded as she shot it in the face.
Interesting… The SA-X had silently mused over this power that she had. It then charged up the Wave Beam and fired at Blake, where she used her semblance… and then the SA-X would swiftly fire the Ice Beam at Blake's feet, trapping her.
"Nnngh!" Blake grunted as the SA-X ran up to her and then punched her in the head. The force of it was enough to shatter her aura with just one punch. "AAAAAAAAAGH!" She cried as she had slammed into a wall, her back taking the full brunt of it. "Nngh…" She grunted as she weakly got up and fired at the SA-X, but it batted away Gambol Shroud and picked her up by the collar and then pinned her to a wall.
The SA-X activated its Grapple Beam and hooked on to one of Blake's right eye while it used its free hand to hold the left… and started to push her eyes in as she started screaming in agony. "Aaagh! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" She screamed.
Just as it was about to succeed in gouging her eyes out, she was suddenly Shinesparked into a wall. "Don't even THINK about it!" Samus said as the SA-X got up and glared at them, aiming at Samus but it was suddenly held in place by Rosalina's telekinetic energy while ROB was busy lasering the ice wall after he had used it on the iced ceiling.
Once the ice had truly melted, Samus grabbed the blinded Blake and hurried off as Pikachu had used Thunderbolt on the SA-X for good measure as Rosalina shoved it back into the wall and ran off. The SA-X burst out and chased after them, going through a few corridors and rolled through a crawlspace as it had landed on the ground a few corridors in, turning at a wall and aiming a Charged Beam at… nothing.
End BGM
In front of it, unknown to it… Rosalina had used a cosmic invisibility spell to make SPBRR invisible as they were staring right at it. The SA-X continued to aim at the wall… but then it stopped as it looked around to scan the area before it walked off, climbing up the corridor and walked through the doors, its footsteps disappearing.
"Boop bop." ROB said as Rosalina dismissed the invisibility as everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Holy hell…" Samus could only say. "Blake… how are you holding up?"
"I… I can't see… everything's so blurry…!" She said, her voice breaking before tears started running down her cheeks, Rosalina immediately hugging her and stuffing her face in her breasts to calm her down.
Samus trembled in rage, punching the floor in frustration. That damned SA-X nearly killed her and temporarily got rid of her eyesight. "ROB… how further along to the data room?"
"Boop boop."
"Just a few doors down…" Samus said. "Rosie, stay here with Blake. I'm going alone."
"Normally, I'd say you're crazy in this situation, but… I'm not going to stop you." She said as Samus nodded as she started walking off before she stopped walking.
"Blake… we will stop that fucking parasite. You can bet on it." She said and hopped down.
BGM: Theme of Samus Aran, Space Warrior (Super Smash Bros Brawl/Wii U/Ultimate)
The moment she landed on the ground, she immediately went into the next room and obliterated everything in her way. Crushing Zozoro's under her foot, backhanding Menus and splitting some of them open mercilessly…
To say that she was pissed was an understatement as she mercilessly slaughtered everything in her path, and when she got to the Gadora, she didn't even bother dodging the laser. She powered through it as the Gadora's eye started sweating as she pulled back her fist and punched the Gadora hard enough to destroy it… and then she walked into the data room.
The moment she walked through, she saw an X-Parasite destroying the data. "Hey… HEY!" She yelled as the X-Parasite Core fly off into the next room, where she immediately charged ahead and went into the next room.
End BGM
As she walked in, she was immediately greeted by a large X-Parasite and surrounded by miniature parasites. Samus didn't even say anything, but got into a stance.
BGM: Vs Parasite Queen (Metroid Prime)
Data Thief - Barrier Core X
The Barrier Core would ram into Samus, but she gracefully front flipped and fired a few Super Missiles at it. The small Parasites surrounding the core would shoot out fire and ice to strike Samus. The bounty hunter effortlessly dodged the ice while getting hit by the fire.
Samus charged up her Beam and shot at the Barrier Core, striking it as it responded by firing a fire-like missile at her but she had deflected it by backhanding it and then fired a few missiles and Super Missiles, pushing it back as she dodged the ice laser as she charged up another shot and fired, powering through a fire blast and striking the Barrier Core.
The Barrier Core responded by ramming into her, but Samus backflipped and aimed down, firing a Super Missile and struck it, then landing on the ground where she was directly hit by an ice laser, freezing her solid… but she broke out and pelted it with missiles and super missiles, then she fired one last charged shot to destroy the Barrier Core until it was nothing more than a Core X.
The Core X attempted to shoot at Samus, but she grabbed a hold of it and tore it in half, destroying the Core as the X-Parasite was all that remained as Samus grabbed a hold of it.
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"Good riddance." She said in a low voice as her Fusion Suit glowed.
Varia Suit back online!
Meanwhile…
"There, go ahead and eat up." The scientist said, patting the now Zeta Metroid on the back. "Ah… you grow up so fast." He said as he had turned around… only to see Ridley in front of him. "Yipe! Oh, hello Master Ridley… you startled me!"
"I seem to get that a lot." Ridley said. "So, now that I'm here, let's get to business, shall we?"
"Yes, indeed… although I'm surprised that you were able to avoid getting infected by those X-Parasites."
"…The X what now? Is that what those gelatinous blobs were that we were able to destroy effortlessly?"
"That would be the one." He nodded. "You see, they are able to infect their hosts and kill them from the inside, and then mimic their DNA to the point where they are able to mimic their host as a spitting image."
"I see… well, I suppose that doesn't sound too bad." Ridley mused. "Perhaps we can use them to control them."
"Ah… but they are uncontrollable, they seem to have a mind of its own. Not to mention they are intelligent… just like the SA-X."
"The SA-X? Tell me, what is this… SA-X?"
"Why, it's an X-Parasite mimicking Samus Aran!"
"IT'S WHAT?!" Ridley yelled in horror. "Oh for the love of all that is bad in the galaxy…"
"Master Ridley… are you okay?"
"I can handle only ONE Samus! The Metroid Prime is an exception because we share the same goal. Destroying that good for nothing bounty hunter! It was bad enough there was a teenage version of her side by side with her during that Shroob crisis… and now there's a parasite mimicking Samus! Please tell me it knows how to hold back!"
"I'm afraid not."
"Oh, that is just PERFECT!" Ridley exclaimed. "Great, makes my life a living hell…"
"Pardon my interruption… but what is a Shroob?"
"Never mind that. Is there anything else I should know about?"
"Well um… the X-Parasite miiiight have like, ooooh… I don't know… started mimicking a clone of you- HGRRRRRK!" He grunted, as Ridley grabbed him by the throat.
"What. Did you say?"
"A clone… aack! Mmph…"
"A clone… OF ME?! WHAT WERE THOSE GALACTIC FEDERATION FOOLS DOING!" He yelled, throwing the scientist across the room.
"Mmmph!" He grunted as he got up. "You have to understand… we were worried that you were possibly dead after your second visit to Zebes! We got a sample of your blood and we were able to clone you at the Bottle Ship successfully!"
"I didn't die! Samus THOUGHT she killed me! I was nearly dead and I was taken away by my Space Pirates so they could treat my wounds! You mean to tell me one of my pirates was able to sample my blood and take it to your precious Bottle Ship?"
"Yes, that is correct."
"Rrrrgh!" Ridley growled. "Note to self… kill the Zebesian responsible for cloning me without permission." He said. "I've heard that Samus suffered a PTSD episode and I wasn't there to witness her pissing herself! Ugh… then again, it probably wasn't a good PTSD attack that would satisfy me."
"We do have footage of that. Perhaps you would like to watch it?"
"Destroy that footage, it's probably not that good anyway." Ridley mumbled. "But you mean to tell me that those Galactic freaks thought it would be a good idea to clone me and these X-Parasites decided to mutate MY CLONE."
"Pretty much."
"Ugh… when I find that clone, I'm going to tear it to pieces. I know we have an alliance going on but that's NOT how you get on my good side!" Ridley grumbled. "They cloned me… the RUTHLESS SPACE PIRATE OF THE GALAXY! Of all the nerve…"
"Well, perhaps this should cheer you up. The X-Parasite that infected Samus? She's weakened… so you ccould go in and pay her a visit… give her hell for all the time she destroyed you."
"Hmph! Tempting as that is, I'd rather fight Samus when she's at full strength. It's much more satisfying fighting someone at full capacity… it'd be far too boring if they didn't hit me with everything they had. …But her being weakened? Now that amuses me."
"Indeed."
Ridley turned to the scientist. "So… have they met you yet?"
"No, but they have met Nina plenty of times." He said, referring to the Zeta Metroid.
"I see…" Ridley smirked. "Tell me, do you think it would be a good idea if they were to meet you right this very moment?"
"I have been meaning to introduce myself. I've been wanting to call out Samus Aran for the longest time."
Ridley smirked. "Do you know of a way to get SPBRR's attention?"
"Well… I do have one possibility."
"See to it that you do… Shou Tucker."
"Heeeey everyone, Rosie here… I'm currently taking over for Blake's video log. She's… a bit stressed to even say anything." She said, pointing the scroll over to Blake who was sitting in a fetal position.
"This has to be a dream… hahahaha… yeah, it's gotta be a dream! Hahahaha! It would make sense as to why the universe is out to fucking get me! Yeah… it has to be a fucking nightmare! Hahahaha!"
Rosalina grimaced and turned the camera back to her. "Yeeeeah… apparently her eyes getting gouged out by the SA-X has kinda pushed her to her breaking point. Or maybe not? I'm not entirely sure… I'm not much of a psychologist… though hopefully she'll snap out of it?"
Rosalina sighed. "I'm not sure if there's a light at the end of the tunnel… but we're remaining positive! Mostly… but, the thing is, with all this Galactic Hellfire that's going on around us, I'm not sure if any of us can remain positive for that long. These parasites, along with the SA-X and Metroid are, admittedly, starting to get to me too." She let out another sigh. "Where's Ibuki when you need her? We need her infectious positive energy…"
"Ow! No… pinching myself didn't work… it's real! Hahaha! It's real! The universe fucking hates me! Hahaha! Hahahaha…" Tears ran down Blake's cheeks. "Haha… hahahaha… hahahahaaaaaaa…"
"Like… desperately." Rosalina frowned. "May the stars shine down on all of you… and may the stars shine down on SPBRR. I think we need all that positive energy… okay, how do you stop recording this? Is it this red button again?"
She hit the button, as she noticed that it had stopped recording. "Oh, neat." She said, putting the scroll away and roping Blake into a hug. "Shhh…" She whispered, humming a soft lullaby to calm the faunus down.
"Oh… oh god… I needed this…" Blake quietly sobbed as Rosalina rubbed her back.
At that moment, Samus returned in her Varia Suit. "I'm back! How's she holding up?" She asked as they all looked and stared at her.
"Um… what is… that?" Blake asked.
"Oh good heavens." Rosalina lightly cringed.
"Pika pika…" Pikachu said as ROB was left speechless.
"What? Is there something on my chest?"
"Um… Samus… you know we love you, but… there's something you need to see." Rosalina said, handing the scroll to Blake where she snapped a picture.
"It's uh… your Varia suit." Blake said, handing the scroll.
"What? It's not like I look ugly or any-WHAT THE FUCK." Samus cursed, staring at the picture as she was staring at the Varia Suit… which given it had absorbed into the Fusion Suit, her Varia suit looked absolutely atrocious.
"Yeah… that's pretty much our reaction, minus the cursing on my part." Rosalina said.
Samus facepalmed. "Uuugh… damn that parasite. I look like a walking eye sore now!" She groaned. "That is just… wonderful."
Biologic Space Lab Video Log #6
"Ya know… I wonder if anyone has called out Samus for her endless destruction. Surely, someone would have called her out on her various missions. I wonder if those Bounty Hunters she came across ever called her out for her behavior?
If not, then I'm completely surprised… but perhaps in that one mission she was on where she teamed up with the Noble Team of the Galactic Federation… perhaps one of them did. Oh, what was Noble One's name again… Foy Trustang or something?
Regardless, surely someone on Noble Team would have called her out. If not, then I'm surprised! Surely someone had to! Master Ridley? Adam Malcovich? Anthony? Someone has to! I don't think our top general had called her out either… ugh, then again, he's not one to call anyone out even if they deserved a reprimand. Bradley's too nice for his own good sometimes, I swear.
Someone has to call her out… and if it's gonna be me, then by god, I'm gonna do it before I die… or my name isn't Shou Tucker!"
Aaaand there's the big reveal, folks!
