Chapter 10 - Uncontrollable

The saliva of the Supreme Metroid was seeping into the cracks of Samus's Morph Ball. There was no way she could live through this. The Metroid would soon swallow her, and digest her, and then...

She couldn't bear the next thought. Her life started to flash before her eyes. But then, one memory stuck in her mind. She pictured herself, with her scan visor equipped. She was in a Space Pirate base. All of the computers translated to data about a different type of Metroid. Metroid Larva, Hunter Metroid, Omega Metroid... Each one told the weaknesses, powers, and even detail about their insides. Omega Metroid... she payed attention to this part of the memory more than the rest...

Omega Metroids have a weakness on the front of their torso, and this thing is part Omega Metroid! She decided to wait until she got swallowed. It smelled awful, the odor seeping through the Morph Ball. Ignoring this, she rolled to a spot in the stomach where she could slightly avoid the stomach acids. She couldn't have her Power Suit melt away; she can fight without it, but it would give her a minimal chance of survival. Damn it, only one Power Bomb left! she screamed in her head.

Despite this, she dropped a small, glowing orb. It starting glowing brighter, then there was a blinding flash! The Power Bomb hit the weak spot from the inside of the Metroid! Samus felt herself being pulled somewhere. The Metroid was regurgitating! Ignoring how disgusting this was, Samus got back to the fight. She had to get this thing to Arcterra before it was too late...

"Nox! Gorea, ten o'clock!" Trace ordered. Almost immediately, Noxus turned and shot a Gorea right in the shoulders with the Imperialist (by now, the hunters had all received each others' weapons). Then, with one more shot, straight to the head, the Gorea was destroyed!

The other hunters, and the spirit of Kanden, were all fighting the giant Gorea. It was being held off slightly, but now it was commanding normal sized ones to distract them! Noxus and Weavel held these off, Weavel with his Halfturret, and Noxus with the Affinity weapons. It wouldn't work for long, though.

"TRACE! BEHIND YOU! GRAY GOREAS, CIRCLE!" Kanden's spirit screamed. He knew if he didn't warn Trace, he would suffer the same fate; death. The Goreas were becoming more intelligent; they had strategies to destroy the hunters...

Sylux ran over to Trace and helped fend off the Goreas. They couldn't allow them to fire Omega Cannon shots. Sylux was easily able to trap them in electric wires with his Lockjaw. Apparently, it doesn't harm Goreas, but it's enough to trap them. With one more bomb triangle, they would all be stuck together, unable to move. The Goreas may have strategized, but they were still unable to cooperate well. They would end up killing themselves, once trapped.

The giant Gorea was unstoppable. It could command others at will, and had power too great to live through. The hunters were outmatched...

Samus was in a crack in the wall, where the crab-like Supreme Metroid couldn't reach. She had to think of a plan. Watching the Metroid very closely, she started to think.

It seems to track down prey until it either kills or consumes it... Just with this knowledge, she was able to think of a plan. Almost immediately, she jumped out of the crack and started taunting the Metroid.

"Hey, fat ass! You want some? Come get some," she said in a mocking tone, aiming her arm cannon at the Metroid's eyes. She fired six shots, and ran as fast as she could to the escape. Just like she planned, the Metroid dug through the bottom of the chamber, like the Metroid Prime she had fought in one of her most recent missions. It was heading for the planet's surface. All she had to do was get to her ship, paralyze the Supreme Metroid in some way, then tow it to Arcterra.

Reaching the surface, she started to hear clawing and screeching noises. Next thing she knew, there was a dead gorea at her feet. She had to hurry to her ship, before the Metroid escaped! There was no way she could make it, though...

Kanden suddenly felt that something was wrong. Although he traveled back to the mortal world, he still had tie-ins with the spirit world. He somehow sensed that Samus was in trouble.

"I have to go! I can't say why, but I do! Fend off the Goreas at all costs!" he yelled to the others. He disappeared in a puff of smoke (well, it looked like smoke), and headed to Alinos.

Lucky for Samus, the Metroid left a trail of destruction everywhere it went. But then, it went to the Gateway. A dead end. And it couldn't dig through the lava. But then, a blueish, smoke-like substance appeared in front of Samus! It faded after a while, and she almost passed out at what she saw.

Kanden.

"Came to help. Remember, I was created to be the ultimate soldier. I might not be able to kill this thing, but I can stun it. What the hell is it, anyway?" Kanden said confidently.

"Supreme Metroid. A fusion of an Omega Metroid and a Metroid Prime. I'm guessing the Space Pirates may have created it, but it escaped to the nearest planet off of one of their frigates; Alinos. It has the power to destroy the giant Gorea. But it may be uncontrollable," Samus explained. As soon as she finished, they both ran straight towards the other end of the Gateway, avoiding the lava any time they could.

"Aim for the blue thing on the stomach!" Samus ordered. Missiles and Volt Driver shots immediately fired toward the light blue, pulsating orb on the stomach, slightly protected by what looked like an outer rib cage. The Metroid screeched in pain, but quickly got over it. They fired everything they had, but the Metroid was still standing! Bleeding, but still able to attack. That's when it ran full speed towards Samus! Kanden only saw one thing; the Metroid running, and Samus lying on the ground motionless, blood covering the inside of her visor...

"Wha...? What happened..?"

"You got trampled by that Metroid. Your Power Suit is in your cargo hold. Had to get it off to heal those slashes. Whole inside was covered in blood. Cleaned it, though. I'm gonna go take this Metroid to the Gorea. You get your Power Suit back on and meet us there," Kanden explained. He headed out of Samus's ship (his was damaged still), and went to untie the sleeping Metroid from the back of the ship. It was a difficult travel, with the Metroid pulling the ship down, but they made it.

Wait a minute... He got the Supreme Metroid here! Samus thought while getting into her Chozo Power Suit. With her suit only half-way on, she ran straight for the Sic Transit.

As soon as she had her suit on and she arrived at the Sic Transit, she was shocked. The giant Gorea was lying on the ground, the whole room was covered in blood, but now the hunters were fighting the Metroid.

"SAMUS! GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE AND HELP US!" Trace screamed. The Metroid was firing everything it could at them. Samus could see slashes on Sylux, and there was a black spot, from a Plasma shot, on Noxus. Kanden's spirit was nowhere to be found.

"Aim for the blue orb! That's the weak spot! Also aim for the eyes, that'll blind it!" she ordered. The Metroid was screeching, but it was too strong! Sylux was getting tired of this, and immediately ran straight up to the Metroid. This must be how he got scratched. Ignoring this, Sylux set up his Shock Coil, an electric coil that latches itself onto the nearest life form and sucks their energy into his life supply. The Metroid was about to slash Sylux again!

As soon as he saw this, Weavel ran up to the Metroid, fired a barrage of green, explosive Battlehammer shots, distracting the Metroid! It turned to attack Weavel, and that's when he placed his Halfturret and used his top half to run to the others. It was an effective combination, but it soon destroyed the turret, and slashed away Sylux!

Samus fired all of her homing missiles at the Metroid. The cage protecting the orb fell off with one of her last missile blasts! The orb dropped out of the Metroid with a sickening thud. Almost immediately, the Supreme Metroid stopped moving! The bloodstained creature fell to the ground, eliminated.

"Alright, move it! Get to the ships! This war isn't over yet!" Samus ordered. They had won a great victory against their strongest foes so far in this war, the Goreas were still coming. They had to find the source of the Goreas.

"Kanden. Wake up," a hisslike voice said.

Kanden sat up, and was wondering what happened. That's when he noticed it; he was in a Federation base. There was some kind of machine above him, letting down an orange light. It seemed to give him strength.

He was wondering why he had faint memories involving a Metroid-like creature, and another involving a giant Gorea. That's when he noticed the person talking to him. He looked like a Vhozon, but light blue. He also looked like metal, although he wasn't.

"Who are you, and why am I in a Federation base! And what's with these strange memories? I want answers!" Kanden ordered.

"I am Rundus. Intergalactic bounty hunter. I encountered two members of your team, Sylux and Weavel, about two weeks ago. On Alinos. Your body was lying there, motionless. They explained what had happened. I took you here, because of their advanced technology. They had to revive Samus Aran many a time, and I thought they may be able to do the same for you. I stayed here since then. You may go back to the war now. I shall bring you there. Just follow the ice," Rundus explained. Kanden was shocked. This was a second life? How did he die in the first place? But that's when he remembered; the twenty Goreas closing in on him, all with the Omega Cannon. He would get his thoughts straightened out later. Now was the time for battle.

Rundus created a sheet of ice leading out of the base and heading toward the Tetra Galaxy. Kanden stepped onto it, and both of them traveled to Alinos. Kanden was now ready for anything.

Those Goreas won't stand a chance.