Metroid Revolution: Chapter 2

SR-388

Samus input the access code on her gunship. The hatch slid open. Samus jumped inside, only to be greeted by a "SCREE!!!" She looked down to see she had landed on one of the etticoons that had aided her on Zebes II.

"Hey, I thought I told you to get out of here," Samus said, smiling. She stroked the back of the small creatures head. It let out a soft moan of enjoyment.

Samus input the access code in the ship, which came to life. She hovered in the air, and then blasted off into space.

After flying for a few hours, the targeting computer finally activated. "SR-388- 20000 Miles away," the computerized voice said. Samus cracked her neck. Things were about to get crazy.

Upon flying into SR-388's atmosphere, she had to maneuver through a large lightning storm. She'd crash landed in too many storms to not be careful. Luckily, she flew through unscathed.

At the surface, she found a good flat grass spot to land on. She set down, jumping out of her ship. Setting a few functions, the visor of her suit opened. She took a deep breath of air. She closed the visor again, and armed her beam. It was time.

"Reludin, where is the cave located?" Samus asked into her communicator built into her visor.

"Close to you, just keep going forward. Stay near the mountain," his voice crackled through the radio.

"I'm breaking up with you, I'll call again once I'm back at my ship." Samus said, after struggling to hear what Reludin said.

"Roger that Samus, over and out." With that, the communicator went blank.

Samus Aran was alone on SR-388 again. She shivered at the thought.

Panting, Samus had to stop to rest. She had been looking for the cave for almost an hour, still with no luck. She wiped the sweat off her brow, after putting the visor down. "I'm getting too old for this," she said to herself in exasperation. She put her visor down, and kept going.

An hour passed, still with no prevail. Another hour, and another. Samus was extremely tempted to just go back to her ship. But then she saw it. It was far, but she could see the cave. Grinning, she ran up to it. And then she saw the pirate. Brown-orange. Unmoving. She walked up, and ran her fingers over the being which instantly crumbled to dust.

She took a step back, not remembering the things crumbling so easily. She then faced the cave. The craggy rock formation wasn't natural, but it was designed to look like it was. Samus put her left hand on her arm cannon, and cautiously approached it. She heard movement inside.

Switching to Thermal Visor, Samus made her way into the mouth of the cave. At first, she saw nothing. But then, something that she though was a rock moved ever so slightly. She jumped in surprise. She set the scan visor. Scanning------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scan complete.

Creature added to logbook.

Metroid: Small, life sucking parasite creature. Home planet SR-388. Extremely susceptible to ice weaponry.

Samus choked a gasped. The metroid heard it. It flew up, attempting to leech to Samus's face. she shot her ice beam at it, causing the creature to freeze in the air and fall to the ground. The walked up, and stomped on it. The frozen creature shattered into several pieces.

"Metroid..." Samus said, under her breath. She couldn't believe it. There was a hidden cavern of metroids. She activated her thermal visor, and slowly made her way deeper into the cave.

Twenty meters in, no more metroids were found. After fifty meters, Samus was starting to think that there had only been one metroid. But then, she hit something the thermal visor didn't pick up

It was too dark to see, so she activated the x-ray visor. Another space pirate had been sucked dry, which crumbled into dust once again. And around the pirate were two metroids- With brown-red scorch marks. The creatures were dead.

Scanning---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scan complete.

Metroid: Killed by type of plasma weaponry.

"What...?" Samus said under her breath. And then she saw, nearer to the edge of the walls. Two Federation cages, the one normally used to hold metroids.

The Federation had been here. She slow made her way further in the cave. There was nothing living. Only footprints. About thirty sets of space pirate footprints. And brown-orange dust. At the back of the cave wall, there was nothing else unnatural. But Samus kept wondering how the cave had been created so quickly. And how metroids got there.

It was time to get back to the ship. Samus got on her 'Running Boots' as she like to call them, and sprinted out of the cave.

With the extreme build up of speed that she was getting, she could crash through almost any object. Which is exactly what happened. Near the mouth of the cave, she came face to face with a frightened Hunter Reludin, who dove out of the way just in time not to get crashed into by Samus.

She skidded to a stop, turning back to see the hunter. "Reludin, what are you doing here?" Samus asked.

"Ceres station is under attack!" He called over to her. Samus actually chuckled.

"Deja vu," she said. Reluding looked confused.

"What?" He asked.

"Nothing, lets just get back to my ship. Wait- How did you get here?" Samus asked.

"I took my ship," Reludin said. Samus nodded.

"Do you think that you could drop me off at mine?" Samus asked. Reludin nodded, and pulled out his ship controls. It flew from over a mountain, and landed next to him.

"Can do," he said. Reluding and Samus jumped into the ship, but since it was only supposed to be for one person, the seat was very cramped.

The ship took off, ready to fly to Samus's ship. "Where did you land?" Reluding asked.

"I dunno, just keep flying forwards. You'll find it," she said. Reludin nodded, and set up the speed of the ship.

After about a half hour of flying, they finally came over Samus's gunship. "There!" Samus exclaimed, pointing. Just then, an explosion rocked the ship.

They were under attack.