Well people, I suppose you are all wondering what's going on with the Space Pirates. Well this chapter will ALMOST be about nothing but the Space Pirates, so without further delay I present to you chapter 6.

Chapter 6: Space Pirate Drilling Service

(Space Pirate's POV)

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It is the morning after we successfully reached the Dark Crystal at the center of the planet and Lord Ridley has made a full recovery.

We placed a few metal pieces of armor on his body to better protect him against the Hunter's weaponry, even though it seems so futile to do so we still manage a way to enhance the armor to make it more impenetrable.

We have been exploring the surrounding area only to see that it is mostly volcanic rock that has become solidified from being released from its molten prison beneath the surface of the planet.

Earlier today we sent a few aerotroopers to scout out the area for more information as to the layout of the terrain.

Reports state that there are strange creatures all around this place, but none of them seem to reach a danger level above a three point five.

... Assistance from the home world is en route to the planet.

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Ridley had accompanied my subordinate and I to the Dark Crystal Chamber to see for himself what we had uncovered while he was in the rejuv tanks and recovery stasis.

Once we arrived he seemed pleased by the sight of the giant crystal just floating there in the center of the chamber. He seemed to be thinking of many ways to use this substance, even though we had already found ways to use the red, green, purple, and blue crystals that covered the land in massive clusters.

We analyzed the red crystals to find out that they could restore the health of creatures called dragons, so we crafted something that would alter the properties of the crystal so that it would heal our troopers and provide them with a source of sustenance for days.

The green crystals replenished something called Magic Energy, at that we altered it to provide our weapons with a renewable source of power that would make them more efficient upon this planet seeing as we were unable to bring a lot of our equipment with us.

The blue ones increased the power of elemental abilities apparently, with these crystals we managed to enhance the power of our weapons so that they would deal even more damage than they normally did.

As for the purple ones, we reserved those for our suicide team of six hundred Pirates.

Apparently the Purple Crystals created a Fury Mode within the one who absorbed them, so we created an armor piece that would grant us this power.

We had also been researching ways to use this Dark Crystal to our advantage by taking large chunks of it to be experimented on; little did we know that that was going to be a costly mistake to us.

We did not know if Lord Ridley could absorb the power of these crystals or not, so we made sure by making armor pieces that would allow him to do so.

Ridley was staring at the giant Dark Crystal when an image of a dragon with dark purple scales appeared in the surface of it.

The image looked at Ridley for a moment but then Ridley let out a roar of "Who are you to command me?"

I was confused, but paid it no mind for the time being.

(Ridley's POV)

Staring at this Dark Crystal that gave off the very feel of Phazon I saw an apparition of the creatures that populated this planet who called themselves dragons.

The creature in the Crystal had dark purple scales and seemed to have evil intent towards anyone.

Just then I heard a voice in my head speaking.

"You harbor a great hatred and evil. You seem to be a dragon of sorts. Release me and I shall grant you power beyond your own belief."

At that I let out a roar of, "Who are you to command me?"

The image in the crystal only seemed to smile wryly before answering, "My name is Malefor. I see that you command your own subordinates. It's a pleasure seeing another dragon who seems to have some form of ambitions like my own."

I had no idea what this "Malefor" was talking about, so I simply stated.

"My ambitions are my own. Your ambitions would seem to be to rule this world as your own where as mine is to take over the universe and rule Galactic civilization with an IRON FIST!" I was glaring at the image in the crystal when a loud screeching sound was made.

I looked at my Pirate general who was in command while I was out of commission after battles with Samus.

As I looked my Pirate General collapsed to the ground as if in pain then suddenly I felt a massive headache upon myself.

The headache continued for a time until I realized what was going on.

Turning my attention back to the Dark Crystal I roared at it releasing a stream of red plasma fire that struck the Dark Crystal.

With another roar I said, "Trying to control me will not work Malefor. I am myself, and I am in control of my own mind for my mind has already been destroyed and possessed by other creatures one worse than you. In trying to control me you are trying to take over a dead shell of something that has died many times already."

With this I started to leave the Dark Crystal Chamber when suddenly something shattered and a beam of energy surrounded me.

Turning I released a stream of scorching red plasma that tore through the black energy that was surrounding me.

It then impacted on a purple dragon that was hovering above the shattered remains of the Dark Crystal.

"You foolish excuse for a dragon, do you not think that I am not capable of escaping that crystal myself? Your subordinates helped weaken the seal. I just wanted someone else to do my dirty work instead, but seeing as how you out right denied me that I shall destroy you before destroying this planet and remaking it as my own." Malefor said before releasing another beam of black energy at me.

I dodged before it could hit me and I flew right at him and slashed Malefor across the chest with my claws.

Malefor caught me in his own claws and commenced to slashing me with his other in a fusion of claw strike breath attack.

I could not take much more when suddenly six aerotroopers flew in wearing purpler colored armor that signified the Suicide squad.

All six of them fired their massively enhanced weapons at the purple dragon until he released me allowing me to escape through the shaft that lead down here.

On my escape I was attacked once more by the purple dragon named Malefor.

(Samus' POV)

Upon waking up I was in a large room that was furnished with many different things.

Looking around I saw a bookshelf that had a few books on it, a large chest that was almost against the wall, and lastly a fire place was here along with a curtain that lead to a balcony outside this room.

Along the walls were a few paintings, most of which were of dragons.

Five of the paintings stood out from all the others.

One painting was of a large red dragon, the second was a large green dragon, third was a bright yellow dragon, fourth was a chilling cold dragon, the fifth one was of two dragons and a dragonfly.

One of the two dragons was a purple color while the other was a black color and the dragonfly was surrounded by a gold aura of light.

Shaking my head I looked for Link and saw that he was lying beside me sprawled out on his back on a pile of soft pillows..

I stood up and started for the balcony when I remembered that a message appeared on the visor of my Power Suit last night after the Death Match Survival challenge.

Upon walking out onto the balcony I activated my Power Suit to see what the message was.

Upon the Power Suit activating I saw the message and was shocked.

There on the visor were words that I had hoped to never see.

Shaking my head after reading the message I began to turn towards the curtain to the room I was in when suddenly a surge of pain shot through my body, and would have sent me to the ground had it not been for the fact that I endured pain to the extent that it was merely a nuisance than a hindrance.

I began to walk towards the room when suddenly I just dropped to the stone of the balcony only to stare at the words on the visor of my Power suit.

^Message: Transformation progress: 35%... Twilit Master Form, and other transformation abilities becoming one... Transformation progress 45%... Infusion with unknown air born substance...^

I heard a slight groan from inside the room that I had been in and knew that Link was going through the same thing.

Pushing myself to my feet I kept my Power Suit on, ran in and activated Link's Power Suit when I noticed that the progress of the Transformation had slowed dramatically while I had my Power Suit on.

My thoughts began to wander when this began.

Most likely the instant we landed without our power suits on. I groaned at this realization and knew that something was happening to us, and that for us to slow it down we would have to keep our Power Suits on the entire time we were here.

I began to shake my head when I heard a loud ringing in the distance that sounded like a bell tolling then a roar that sounded like an alert of some sort.

Instantly I grabbed Link and took off running towards the balcony, charged a Shine Spark, luckily mine and Link's room was facing the North Wall of the city, and charged towards the North Wall of the city.

Upon arriving at the wall Spyro, Cynder, the three guardian's, and a gold furred cheetah were all there already and staring in the distance.

I activated my Dark Visor to see what it was that the dragons were looking at and was surprised and angry at the same time at what I saw.

Well readers I hope you enjoyed this chapter because I liked writing it... Also I am not sure if that ending is a good cliffhanger...

Editor's Notes: I just know I missed something, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what.

Read and review please.