Chapter 5 - Return to the Oubliette
Trace was still trying to recover from his encounter of the Supreme Metroid (as Samus had dubbed it). Metroids may be able to travel through space, but SR388, the home planet of the Metroid species, is millions of miles away from the Terra Galaxy, where the Alimbic Cluster is located.
"Hmm... Well, there is a chance it was here when the Alimbic Cluster was attacked by the 'original' Gorea. The elders may have been researching Metroids in secrecy or something. Meh, whatever. Goreas, you're going down!" Trace yelled this last part out of the side of his ship. He was still a bit crazy from that encounter.
But something was wrong. He hadn't heard from Kanden or Sylux for a few hours. Last time he checked, they were on the Oubliette. Immediately, he flew to the prison planet.
"Sylux? Sylux! Where the hell are you!" Kanden screamed.
This part of the Oubliette was a dark and sinister place. It was mainly a building-like structure, with platforms and jump pads leading to the top. The top was the most frightening part of all; Kanden felt a faint drop in temperature and a dark aura as he entered it. It was mainly just a round, blue arena.
"Great. Lost in this part of the Oubliette with no escape. Why did I go into the center of that other room? Those things on the wall shoulda been a clue that something bad would happen. Stuck. Alone." And little did he realize that there were seven Goreas coming up to him, ready to strike!
"Oh, crap. Goreas. How the heck do I get out of here!" Kanden was starting to go crazy. But then, out of nowhere, the Goreas all turned to a bright shade of yellow.
"Yellow, yellow. What do the different colors mean! Oh, right! Their weakness! Oh crap, they'll change any minute! Uh, uh..." Without thinking, he immediately started to fire Volt Driver shots, as if his gun was a machine gun. One by one, the Goreas' arms exploded. And then, they jumped off the sides of the platform!
"What the hell!" Kanden thought that they just committed suicide. But he soon dropped that idea when he saw seven gray, egg-shaped creatures flying towards him. And... they had Gorea heads!
"Oh my God! This is what Samus meant by the Goreas have an alternate for-" Before he could finish, a barrage of lasers and meteor-like objects shot at him! In excruciating pain, Kanden decided to try a last desperate attempt at freedom. With a running start from across the arena, he jumped on the back of one of the Goreas!
"Yeah, now we're talking!" He shouted. Clinging on, despite the Gorea going crazy, he turned it toward one of the others. He then started taunting it. As if meant to happen, the Gorea fired the rocks and lasers at Kanden.
"You missed, you retard! Ha!" Kanden shouted, jumping off the exploding Gorea. He then repeated this process with the others, until there was only one Gorea left. He then jumped onto this last one, doubting his next idea but trying anyway.
"Now let's see what you can do," he said to himself, as if he were talking to the Gorea. Despite the Gorea's awesome defense, he started to shoot the back of its head.
"Green vapor! Go!" he ordered. He faced the sky, tried to turn the Gorea towards it, and shot it repeatedly in the back of the head with his Volt Driver. As if it were trying to help him, the Gorea went straight towards the sky.
"Whoa. Where am I? Why's the sky all red like that?" Sylux was wandering around the outside of the Oubliette. One of the Goreas carried him out here and threw him off the Oubliette, but his stolen Federation technology was able to bring him back to the surface. The outer surface.
Looking around, he soon realized, "Wait. This is the Oubliette's outside! How am I supposed to get off here, though?" He pressed a single button on his gun, and almost immediately, the Delano 7, his ship, came straight to him. "Oh, duh." Anyway, he then started to head towards the Celestial Archives, thinking there may be something there to help. And if not, he was planning on going Gorea hunting anyway.
As soon as Sylux left, Trace arrived from the opposite side of the planet. "Was that Sylux? Oh, he just left. But.. Where's Kanden?" Trace went into his crab-like alternative form, the speedy Triskelion, and started running towards the center of the Oubliette. But coming from behind were more Goreas!
"Crap! I gotta hurry!" He then started using his alternatative's attack, a flying charge, to head there even faster. Soon enough, he was in the center room, next to the portal that leads to the first arena of the Oubliette.
"Trace? That you?"
"Kanden! Where are you!" He recognized the voice as Kanden's, but he was nowhere to be found.
"Look up. Hehehe..." Kanden sounded like he had something to hide. Looking up, Trace soon found out what.
"YOU TRAINED A GOREA!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. Apparently, Kanden WAS able to train a Gorea. And it actually seemed to like him, as if it were a dog!
"Yep. I knew this one seemed a bit different since I've seen it. I realized later that it just received its solidified form from the vapor. Basically, it's a kid. Easy to train." Trace was still wondering how Kanden trained it in the first place, but he'd worry about that later.
"Well, ok, but one Gorea under our control won't help too much. Maybe a little, though. C'mon, I saw Sylux heading to the Archives. And Noxus is still alone on Arcterra. Samus is on the Vesper Defense Outpost. I'll go help Noxus, you go to Alinos and work with Spire. We're done with the Oubliette, and the Octoliths are still activating the Alimbic Cannon. Use it to seal up this place," Trace ordered.
"Right. Now let's head outta here. C'mon Gorea, you're coming with us."
"Reeaaww!" the Gorea said excitedly.
"..." Trace just left without saying anything.