The outcome of a charge beam singed against the new and improved Ridley as his body went crashing

into an old house, a bit of debris snowing over him. The animal's eyes saw mother and child escape into

an alley, while his metal nemesis walked towards him, gun at the ready.

The two foes stared into the soul of one another. Each drank from the bloody rage of history, of years

trying to end one another once and for all. While one could not be bested as she cowered behind

armour, the other could not stay dead as he relied on petty thugs to stitch his wounds.

Neither said anything to each other. This battle has been going on for decades and while the

circumstances and locations may change, the heart of the situation never does.

Ridley fired himself into the air, his wings blotting out even more light along with the smoke. A red glow

rose up his throat, and white flame screeched from his jaws and towards the target. Samus leaped

backwards to avoid extra heating to her already active suit and fired a barrage of missiles.

Ridley deflected a few with his tail but decent dents in his plating had been made from those he could

not prevent from reaching him. He spun around, his tail slamming into Samus's torso and pinning her

against another building.

With a clawed hand, Ridley grabbed his enemy's head and slammed her into the ground. But just as he

was relishing in his own attacks, he felt the pathetic shots of a tazer pistol tickling his snout. Ridley

looked up to find the same little boy whose mother was protecting him, now running towards him with

the idea he could actually make a difference in the fight.

Samus saw the boy coming to try and save her and realized the danger in the situation. She performed

her screw attack to knock Ridley off balance then ran to the boy, plucked him from the ground and slide

him into the arms of his mother who had come to reclaim both her son and her pistol.

The mother ran back to the alley with her son as a sharp tail end skewered Samus's large shoulder plate,

ripping her from the civilians and back into the heat of rivalry.

Samus was trying to free herself of the tail as it tossed her about the area like a ragdoll until her visor

became partly smashed from hitting a building corner. She was finally thrown off Ridley's sharp tail,

giving her enough time to change her weapon settings.

Ridley who was now in a demented hunger for mayhem, rose to the air with his wings mid lunge

towards his foe. Samus quickly turned around and jumped to Ridley, tossing her arm around his snout

and penetrating her arm cannon into his avian jaws.

Mother and Son watched from the alley as the metal warrior threw its own fiery fury into the belly of

the beast.