Part 1: Chapter 3
The space between the Solar Biology University and the IBHA station is almost completely empty. In between these two points was a ship. This ship was Aran's Pride. And Renick Aran was it's pilot. The ship wasn't large, it had a maximum capacity of two passengers. The only rooms in the entire ship were the two sleeping quarters, and a small living area, which had once been a storage bay. The ship was seed shaped with wings shaped like boomerangs. Each wing had three concealed laser cannons as well as two external lasers.
Renick was reclining in the pilot's chair attempting to get a little shut-eye before he had to disengage the lightspeed drive. then the proximity alarms began beeping. He pulled himself into an upright position, and checked his long range sensors.The sensor scanshowed nothing that could cause the alarm to go off.
"Thats strange" he said to himself. Suddenly the whole ship shook and the ship's speed decreased to four-hundred mph. He checked his sensors again which still showed nothing. The ship shook again, this time more violently. Alarms went off while the damage displays clicked on, listing everything from system malfunctions to hull breaches. Renick again checked the sensors, and this time he set it to scan the interior of the ship. Three green blips, which signified life forms, appeared in the aft section of the ship inside the computer core housing. This confused him. The computer core housing was a cube no more than two inches on all sides. Yet the creatures had rocked the entire ship. How could something so small have so much strength? Intrigued by his discovery, he opend a small panel beneath the flight controls and pulled out a medical scanner and a datapad. He also pulled out a belt with various tools he would need, and a laser pistol...just in case. He rose from his chair and made his way to the back of the ship.
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Samus raised a knife above her head. Beads of sweat rolled down her face. Derek, who was sitting in a chair next to the coffee table,looked up at her confused.
"Uh, Samus?" he asked "What are you doing?" Samus didn't answer. Instead she braught the knife down with all her strength and drove the it into a little doll of general Farkus. Derek looked at the doll, which stared at the ceiling with a stupid look on it's face and a hole in it's chest.
"I'm relieving some stress." she said finally. Samus walked away and put the knife back in the kitchen. Derek bit his lip. She was in a bad mood. He hated it when she was in a bad mood. Samus had a tendancy to be a little random when she was angry. Once she had drawn a sketch of tap dancing Metroid, and pasted it to his face. Another time she had tried to stuff general Farkus with cotton balls. And if anyone asked what she doing, she would say 'I'm relieving some stress'. She usually snapped out of it after 'relieving her stress', unless she was really angry. Which apparently she was. She came out of the kitchen with a flaming hunk of meat on a fork. She laid it down in the middle of the floor, and pulled a fire extinguisher out from behind her back. He watched her extinguish the fire and take everything into their bedroom. Samus came out a couple minutes later with the meat, fork, and fire extinguisher in a bag. She made her way towards the door.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"To relieve stress." she said plainly and disappeared. Derek sighed and went off to hide everything that was glass.
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Renick pulled back the panel on the computer core's housing and peeked inside. And there, right on top of the main processor were the three life forms his sensors had detected. Renick pulled a vial from his belt and scooped one of the things into it. The creature was only a centimeter long. It had three sharp claws where a mouth would be, and two small spines on it's abdomen. On the underside, there was a clear membrane which allowed him to look at it's organs without having to dissect it. Renick pulled a small digital magnifier out of his belt to get a closer look. He directed it towards the creature's underside, and instantly recognized the clusters of energy storing spheres, with some connected to stringy membranesthat clung to the sides of the stomach. Metroids.
Renick had seen Metroids before. But those had been security camera recordings. He had even snuck into a laboratory once, and stolen some data cards with a lists and pictures of all the Metroids ever encountered. He never recalled seeing one like this in those records though. Which meant he had just discovered a new species! Excited more than ever he began using the medical scanner to obtain every bit of data he could about this new type of Metroid. He was too busy with the scanner that he never noticed that the other two had gotten away to other parts of the ship. They used their claws to cut holes in the panels and find their way towards a power conduit. They were incredibly hungry after the long wait for a ship to pass by. When they finally found one, they latched themselves onto it, and began draining power from it. As they did so, their size began to increase. And as this happened, they began draining more and more power from the ship. Soon the lights began flickering all over the ship.
Renick finally looked up from his specimen, and noticed the absense of the other two. He began to panic, but quickly regained his wits and pulled out the laser pistol. He set it to stun, totaly oblivious to theMetroids increased size,hoping the minor blast wouldn't kill the things. He walked cautiously down the corridor until he found a wall with to small flashing holes. He looked into one of the holes and couldn't believe what he was seeing. He didn't think the Metroids would grow when they consumed energy. He fumbled with his pistol and set it to full power. He stuck the nozzle into one of the holes and fired. The bolt shot out and hit the Metroid. But it's bodyabsorbed the bolt. The creatures continued to drain the ship of it's energy. Renick was at a loss. He couldn't go to lightspeed with so little power. And he couldn't destroy the beasts either. He tried to think of a way he could get out this mess, but the only thing that cam eot mind was sending out a distress signal. but if he did that, then he would get expelled from SBU. He would probablybe fined a large sum of money for stealing secret information on Metroids too. That is if they found out. He didn't HAVE to send a distress signal to SBU, or anyone he knew for that matter. Thankful for his sudden revelation, he made his way back to the control cabin. He went straight to the comm unit and opened a list of comm contact numbers. He thaught of calling his sister, but given the mood she was in when he called her, that probably wouldn't be a very good idea. He scrolled through the list until he came upon one that looked promising. He closed the list and called the number...
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Farkus was in the middle of reading a tragic story, about two people who decide that they should eat each other, when his door chimed. He relunctantly rose and walked over to his door and opened it. Samus stood there with a bag in her hands. Uh-oh he thought.
"Hello there Samus." he said pleasently "Whats in the bag?" Samus shoved the thing into his hands and ran away. Farkus stared until she rounded the corner. He closed the door and placed the bag in the incineration unit. He didn't want to know what was in the bag. He then sat back down in his chair and resumed his reading. Just as he sat down, the comm unit beeped. Oh, great. Now what?