Sorry this took a while. I've been really busy in life lately and had troubles remembering MP3 as it's been a long time.

Here is the second chapter where it takes place right before Samus heads her way to the isolated moon the Reds and Blues inhabit.

P.S. I am in no way affiliated to both parties nor own anything from them. All rights for Red vs. Blue goes to Rooster Teeth and all rights for Metroid goes to Nintendo.

Chapter 2: Help Wanted

It's been six months since Samus' last mission at Aether, where she once fought the ferocious dark creatures, called the Ing, who were determined to bring destruction to anything in their path. The one thing she was hopeful not to see again was the reincarnation of Metroid Prime, a sinister doppelganger born from pure phazon. As far as she knew, both the Ing Horde and Dark Samus were extinct and she wanted it to stay that way.

After a long time without communication, the Galactic Federation has finally requested a meeting with various bounty hunters, including Rundas, Ghor, Gandrayda, and Samus herself.

Ghor has been a friend of Samus for at least a couple of years or so. She wasn't really close to him, but she knew Ghor had a high sympathy of a will of justice, as it can be seen with all the loss of about 90% of his whole organic body. Now his body is mostly mechanical, but has still retained his characteristics of a strong willed being, save for his alteration whenever he merges with his suit, drastically changing his personality as he becomes more aggressive and violent.

Gandrayda is much like a sister to Samus, as she loves being competitive towards her. For Samus however, she thinks it's just for show and, to some extent, a child like behavior. Gandrayda wanted to have a rivalry, at least towards someone who she deems worthy, in order to show how she could be as good or better than the other individual, but could only do so much with her mimicry abilities. Samus and Gandrayda both get along pretty well as the Galactic Federation has records of both of them having to cooperate like perfect siblings, although Gandrayda's cockiness and over confidence can sometimes get the best of her, especially when working with her so called rivalry.

Rundas, out of the three, was probably one of Samus' closest friends she has in her life, other than Commander Adam Malkovich, after Grey Voice and Old Bird. She's known him for quite a time, after some small and independent missions like raiding places where Space Pirates were once stationed to take over a certain area or preventing certain technological alien stuff from going into the wrong hands of the Space Pirates. She's been able to rely on him when necessary as Rundas has always been there to help her, even when Samus couldn't admit she didn't have a situation under control as Rundas always knew when she needed help the most or not.

As Samus was arriving in the vicinity of the G.F.S. Olympus near the planet, Norion, she saw a glimpse of what appeared to be a spaceship that might've most likely belonged to Gandrayda, since her ship is some sort of a durable small pink cylinder-like ship.

"I'm guessing if Gandrayda has just arrived, it would only mean I'm either early or late to the meeting," Samus said to herself, unsure when would exactly the meeting start with or without her. As she put that thought away, she continued on until she was stopped by a transmission from the Olympus itself. A man can be heard from behind the radio, instructing Samus to identify herself, in order to let her through.

"Unidentified vessel, please switch to a radio frequency and transmit your identity code. We are standing by," the man behind the radio said, as Samus begin doing what she was told to do. Immediately after she sent her identity code, the radio came to life once again. "Transmission verified. Greetings Samus. We welcome you on behalf of the Galactic Federation."

After the process was complete, a marine located at the docking area where Samus was cleared to enter, made contact with her. "Proceed to the command ship G.F.S. Olympus. You've been cleared for docking bay five. Welcome back, Samus." Just like that, she was able to fly her ship into the docking area near the training simulation grounds. As soon as she parked her ship and got out, she first checked to see if her suit was still normally functioning, even though her gunship's computer system told her it was at full functionality. It's not that it was inaccurate. It was more of just a reassuring measure, in case anything goes wrong.

As she approached the main entrance of the docking area, she was met and greeted by a couple of marines as they instructed her to calibrate her weapon and aiming systems, before entering. Just after she did on what she was told to do so, one of them gave her information about the meeting.

"Welcome aboard the flagship G.F.S. Olympus. As you may already know, Admiral Dane is waiting for you in the briefing room," the marine said, with a slight tone of nervousness in his voice since he was just talking to the famous bounty hunter, Samus Aran. "The meeting should start in about 10 minutes. I will upload the location to you now."

"Thank you," Samus answered, as she was beginning to feel a bit of a relief that she wasn't as late as she thought she would be. As Samus began moving towards the west side of the flagship and arrived at the room where they scan for anyone trying to enter the Command Bridge, she saw Ghor just entering the containment area.

"Try not to move. We need a stable im-" Just as the worker was about to finish his sentence, he was cut-off by an irritated Ghor.

"I understand the procedure," Ghor interrupted, a bit annoyed about how they needed to tell him the procedure every time they entered the area.

It didn't take long before they finished scanning him as he was mostly made of machine, in which makes him a lot easier to scan through, unlike a more organic living person.

"Subject is cleared for the Command Bridge," a computer system AI said, just as it was finished scanning Ghor.

"You may proceed," the man behind the other side of the glass said.

"Of course," Ghor replied, in a more friendlier manner this time.

Samus was next, so she did as she was told to do so, without question or expressing any annoyance towards the procedure like Ghor did before her.

"Initiating DNA verification..." the worker said, who scanned Ghor previously. Just 8 seconds later, the worker got an identity of who she was. "DNA verified. Registration no. 13576. Identified as Bounty Hunter, Samus Aran." Just as he finished his sentence he quickly started the biohazard procedure. "Preparing biohazard scan..."

For a moment, Samus wanted to ask why they didn't do a biohazard scan for Ghor, but then quickly reminded herself that there's no need to question on anything, that's if she doesn't want to ruin her reputation towards the Galactic Federation. She continued doing as told. The panel began taking a signature of her.

"Analyzing Biohazard Scan...

Status: Clear

Chozo Varia Suit Online"

Samus was reading along and said in her mind, "Of course it is online and active! How else am I managing to use my suit in the first place?"

"No harmful material detected. You are cleared for the Command Bridge, Samus," the man said.

"Yes sir," Samus replied. She continued onward to the Command Bridge. When she arrived, she was stopped by one of the marines guarding the entrance towards the briefing room.

"Samus, right?" The marine asked with a more calm, but authoritarian tone of voice than the other marine she last talked with.

"That's me," Samus replied, without hesitation.

"Admiral Dane has ordered me to remind you that suit maintenance and data backup from your suit's memory bank should be put in place, before you enter the meeting."

"It was already done inside my ship, just after I arrived," Samus answered.

"Then you are clear to go. Admiral Dane is waiting inside," the marine said.

"Thanks," Samus said in return, as she began moving towards the door behind the marine. As she was arriving in the briefing room past the long corridor, she saw that the other hunters were already there. One thing that got her attention, however, was that the hunters were looking at her, confused, and turned their heads to a reflection of her own self just to Rundas' right.

"Gandrayda! Enough!" Admiral Dane ordered, knowing that the one next to Rundas wasn't Samus at all.

Gandrayda turned back to her own purplish self again, while giggling like a child. "I was just having some fun, that's all."

Admiral Dane just gave her a serious look and turned back to face Samus, with his serious expression telling her she was almost late. Samus just nodded slightly, letting him know she understood what he told her in her mind.

"Looks like everyone is here now," Admiral Dane stated, turning his head towards everyone else, as if his head was automated to scan everyone in the room. "Before anything else, you may have heard a computer AI doing announcements as you were heading your way into this room. Let me start, by introducing 242, the flagship's Aurora Unit." Just after he finished his last word, a blue hologram came to life. Inside the hologram was a brain-like mechanoid, with cables attached from its bottom. Everyone looked at it, familiar with such supercomputers they've seen installed in other regions of Galactic Federation Space.

"Ah, an organic supercomputer. Fascinating!" Ghor exclaimed, now realizing what it really was. "I've seen these before during one of my missions last year. I remember a group of Space Pirates tried to raid a Federation building in a planet, called Junniper in which they failed, but managed to disrupt the Aurora Unit's link to the station. I was the one who fixed it and manage to restore everything back to normal. If I'm not mistaken, the Galactic Federation's core network is compromised of such units."

"That is correct, Ghor," said the Aurora Unit with a female-type of persona. "And we serve as the network's master control. However, currently the network is doing."

"That seems inefficient," Ghor replied, stating the obvious.

"But necessary," 242 shot back. "You see, seven days ago we discovered that all Aurora Units were infected with an unknown virus. Due to this, we were forced to bring the network down. Fortunately our scientists were quickly able to devise a vaccine that can purge the virus."

"So does the vaccine actually work, or is it just temporary?" Samus asked.

"Unit 242 was the first AU to receive the vaccine and as of now, there has been no side effects of any sorts, confirming that the virus was completely purged from it," Admiral Dane replied.

"Where did this virus come from?" Gandrayda asked.

"We believe the virus is of Space Pirate origin," the Admiral answered. "Four months ago, the G.F.S. Valhalla went missing while on a training mission in the Klar nebula. From what we managed to gather from the ship's logs, they revealed that they were attacked by a Space Pirate raiding vessel."

"Out of all things... why attack and disrupt a Federation training mission?" Ghor became puzzled at the idea of Space Pirates going after a mere defenseless ship, seemingly achieving almost no logical goals in doing so.

"They're pirates," Gandrayda shot back at him. "How could they resist a prize like that?"

"That never would've happen if I'd been there..." Rundas said with a regretful tone, thinking how he could have gotten rid of all those pirates within minutes.

"Then it's a shame you weren't..." Admiral Dane stated with almost a cold tone in his voice and continued on his briefing right after with a normal tone once more. "During the invasion, the pirates went inside the vessel and got a hold of the ship's Aurora Unit, 313 and that is how they managed to hack into the network and plant the virus from there, spreading it like wildfire."

"Thanks to our security protocols..." the AU seemingly went back to life as it spoke, "we were able to shutdown the network just in time before the virus did irreversible damage."

"This makes us more vulnerable however, as we'd be hard pressed to defend ourselves if Space Pirates were to launch a major offensive," the Admiral warned them. "We MUST rid the other AUs of that virus and bring them back online, but before we can proceed, we will be needing more help than this." He turned to face Samus. "That's where you come in. We already have another group of so called 'Reds and Blues' or how they are known as the 'Greatest Galactic Warriors'." He had the AU show a blue-holographic image of the Reds and Blues from the Interstellar Daily article from another region known as the UNSC space.

"They don't even look like Bounty Hunters or anything else trained for this type of situation, except probably for those two in the front," Gandrayda stated. "What makes them so special about being the 'Greatest Galactic Warriors'? I'd love to see them try and save a whole planet from becoming a wasteland." She winked at Samus just as she finished her sentence.

"As a matter of fact they did," the Admiral replied. "I read their background and according to the Interstellar Daily article that they published in that region of space, they managed to bring Project Freelancer to justice, save a whole planet from an escalated Civil War, and ended the dictatorship of Chairman Malcolm Hargrove from Charon Industries. All these events has lead them become what they really are and we could use some more helping hands from all of them, if possible."

"How did you manage to trace a group of soldiers like them?" Rundas wondered.

"Just before the whole network came offline, we managed to reach out a distress signal that came from across this particular region, but we didn't get enough information as to where exactly it came from, until just recently," AU 242 explained. "Using a probe that was thought to be lost, located not too far from that region, is how we managed to trace the amounts of data we received. As of now, the Reds and Blues are located on an isolated moon not far from the reaches of planet Chorus. Samus, I will give you the coordinates to the isolated moon now."

"So you want me to go find and bring them here?" Samus asked to the Admiral.

"That's your current objective. Once you bring them here, we need all the help we can get to get rid of the virus and the pirates for good." Admiral Dane replied. He turned to the other Bounty Hunters soon after. "As of you three, we need you guys to search for any more pirate activities around the region as we need to know what are they really trying to accomplish by bringing down the whole AU network. Any questions?" He started scanning the room, making sure there were no confused looks on their faces as everyone nodded their heads sideways. "Alright then you all know what to do! Get going!" The hunters quickly followed his order in an instant, without question, but stopped one of them.

"Samus!" He hollered.

Samus turned around and walked towards the admiral as he was standing right in front of the AU hologram in the middle of the briefing room. "Yes, Admiral?".

"We need at least four of those colored soldiers, that's if you can't manage to convince them all in joining our cause,"

"I'll do my best, sir!"

"Then you know what to do. You have at least 48 hours before our next meeting starts and this time, with them present in this exact room where we are standing. I already gave a clearance for these soldiers, in case any one of them are volunteering."

"Yes, sir! I'll be on my way!" Samus said, without hesitation. The Admiral gave her a slight nod as she left the room. Just as she arrived to her ship, one of the marines guarding the area where he ship was parked, came to her. It was the same marine that greeted her when she first arrived in the flagship.

"Here... you should take this,"

"What is it?"

The marine handed her what it looked like a grapple beam upgrade capsule designed specifically for her Chozo suit.

"I found this laying around here in the training grounds. I had one of the engineers upgrade the model of the grapple beam and made the grapple more resistant to your force of pulling objects and such, basically turning it into a grapple lasso at once."

"Oh, thanks!"

As soon as Samus touched the capsule, it immediately disintegrated in her hand and immediately transferred itself into her arm, making it look as if she had a portable secondary gun on her left arm. This process of acquiring upgrades to her suit was possible by the Chozo tech she had as it can immediately grab almost any type of upgrade that's compatible to her suit, if not, even try to convert it into an upgradable part of her Power Suit.

"It looks quite nice on you! Mind if-" The marine was cut off as soon as he was hit with a fist on the face just after he made a slight flirting gesture. "Ow!"

Samus didn't say a word, but she was sure enough that the marine understood why she hit him. As she got aboard her ship, she inputted her objective coordinates to her ship's system.

"Coordinates confirmed!

It read. Just after that, she prepared for take off and headed her way into UNSC space towards the isolated moon.

To be continued...

That was it for now. I don't think there will be any action in the next couple of chapters, but we'll see how it goes. It took me long enough to figure out how to connect the plots of Red vs. Blue and Metroid Prime 3. At least I made it possible so there's that. Next chapter will come up for sure, but I can't promise you anything on when exactly is that going to happen. Next chapter will continue from where Samus encountered Grif for the first time. For those two people who wrote reviews, much thank you! Don't hesitate to write a review if you haven't already or even if you are hooked a bit on this cheap crossover of mine xD