Metroid Regeneration:
Chapter 4
A long Flight
(Sorry this one's short, I didn't realise until I wrote the next one)
Serina was edgy around 'Sumas', she could sense something in that alien that she hadn't sensed for 15 years. Serina began to probe, "Who are you?"
"Don't you remember?"
"I'm not Samus."
"You're her daughter, right?" Serina could imagine the alien smiling, she felt embarrassed,
"Yes, what connection have you got to my mother?"
"I'm an old friend of hers. Did she not mention me?" The creature seemed to dip its head a lot, Serina felt slightly betrayed,
"No she never said anything."
"I am her fear. I am her phazon, her ego which is now in purest form, a solid state of fear and that fear is phazon. That's why there is so much in the galaxy, it rules the galaxy, it permeates any civilisation and gives control to someone. A long time ago, your mother completed a test, set by that ancient race, I am the outcome."
It was a lot to take in, the new information began filling in gaps of old information. Serina felt a wave of euphoria, she was being lied to, for the first time in her life, she could trust this person. Serina was ready, "I am ready to take the test." Sumas laughed,
"No child, your existence passes the test. You are nothing like your mother, are you?"
"I may be slightly different, so is everyone else, its variation."
"Don't lie to yourself, you know something is wrong. You ask why everyone is dieing around you. It's because you are…." He couldn't finish, the shuttle rocked, the white room vanished and was replaced by an old set of controls. Several GF ships were in intense battle with Sikron ships and Sumas' ship was in the crossfire. "The more they hit us, the more we get energy." Sumas said, amid the juddering. His cloak hood was now pulled back and Serina could see him, he had a skeletal face with huge oval, black eyes, veins of phazon pulsed around his mouth and eyes. He was concentrating on the battle and Serina could see the phazon gas coming out of the two slits on his face. His huge hands covered the chunky controls and several dials lit up parts of his cloak almost like a mini light show. The two were calm considering the wake of energy bursts making their way to the hull. Serina trusted this 'Sumas', he wasn't human and therefore wouldn't make a mistake.
"Why have you come to me?"
"To help you on your journey" he answered bluntly. His mind was a swirling vortex of phazon energy with huge bolts of electricity crossing vast expanses of his mind. At the middle of his mind she saw a glimpse of someone she peered closer but had to reel back in the real world to dodge the hand of Sumas as it swung an arch in her direction. She was surprised, "What was that for?"
"You know fine well!" came the reply; Sumas turned to her and said
"I cannot give you answers; you must find them out yourself!"
Serina sulked for the rest of the flight; she was so close to answers but still so far away.