Samus had been aboard the chozo ship, "Justice" for five months now. Things were pretty boring as the space pirates hadn't attacked in three weeks. Everyone was still on their toes because the pirates would obviously return. It wasn't their style to just give up, even if they were losing horribly.
Taklon was currently playing some chozo board game with one of the other warriors while Samus watched. They were all wearing their battle armor which was kind of uncomfortable but no one ever took off their armor except to shower. The pirates could strike at any time.
Placing a stone piece resembling a jewel encrusted lizard in the corner of the board, Taklon boasted, "I win. I told you I would."
"What, how did you, oh I see.", mumbled the other chozo.
Samus walked over and said, "my turn." They were all interrupted by a siren. The intercom turned on with a click.
"Everyone, I mean everyone get to your designated stations now!", announced a voice over the inter com. Samus looked up at a display on the wall. It showed thousands of pirate ships headed straight for them. Samus and Taklon ran for the briefing room where they'd be told what to do next. The other guy ran for the room that housed the turret controls. They ran into the room and automatically stood in their preordained spots. A chozo general stood in front of them with a nervous look on his face. Several others were with him.
"Uh, units one through ten will stay and defend this ship, units 11 through 15 go to docking bay 2 to leave and reinforce the other ships, units 16 through 18 will go to docking bay 3 and leave for that particularly large pirate ship, and 19 and 20 will join the pilots and fight off those approaching ships. I trust all of you can do this, go."
All of the soldiers filed out of the room towards their designated locations, talking amongst themselves. A pirate attack of this size was pretty surprising as it was unknown that the pirates had this many ships. Samus and Taklon were part of the group heading for the pirate mother ship. They were soon aboard a cloaked carrier which would take them there.
Samus sat down on a bench and thought of the situation. She just didn't see how they could win this. Despite the technological advantage the chozo had there were just too many pirates. She heard others sitting near her express similar concerns. An officer told them to stop worrying and be quiet.
"Don't worry so much, we'll be fine.", said Taklon in a low voice.
"I hope so. It doesn't look good.", replied Samus.
"These pirates are too stupid to accomplish anything. They'll just get headaches and go home."
This made Samus smile, "Yeah." The whole room shook as they collided with the pirate mother ship. This was supposed to happen but was still unnerving. Machinery outside the carrier cut into the ship, and created a doorway through. Samus and everyone else charged out and surprised some pirates. The pirates in the room were quickly eliminated. All was not well, however.
Clenching his fist, the commander yelled into the radio on his arm, "I thought we were supposed to have backup, where are they?"
He listened to the radio for a few minutes and responded, "Morons." He looked about the room and saw that he only had 30 people.
"Well, it appears the reinforcements were needed elsewhere at the last possible moment. Change of plans, we will not be taking over the ship. We will make our way to the control room, set off a self-destruct and run back toward the carrier.", said the commander to the confused warriors. At this moment over a hundred pirates began rushing into the room from multiple directions. Chaos ensued and it was hard to tell exactly what was happening. Samus ducked a glowing energy scythe and shot a missile into a pirate's head. Before she could turn around another pirate shot her in the back. She blocked the pain and rolled int a morph ball. She weaved in and out under the pirates legs, confusing it, then laid several bombs. She unrolled to see the pirate explode.
"I did not need to see that.", she thought to herself. The smoke soon cleared. She had never seen this many bodies before. Everywhere, dead pirates littered the area, their green blood coating the steel floor. There were also two dead chozo.
"Move it!", shouted the commander, setting a bomb which would go off should any pirates enter the room while they were gone. Everyone waited while the officer threw a power bomb into the next room, clearing out any pirates and then filed in. They went like this for some time clearing one room at a time, heading for the controls. They were down to five people which definitely wasn't good. The large shielded door blocking the control room didn't help either. They kept shooting at it slowly wearing it down. The occasional pirate would come along and interrupt them.
Finally the door broke open! Unfortunately the room was occupied. A pirate threw some grenade which killed the commander and one other warrior. Upon seeing this another warrior ran out the door and fled. Samus and Taklon shook their heads and shot the pirate and several others that popped out from behind a box.
"Let's do this.", said Taklon. Samus nodded and set to work setting the self destruct. The visor translated the controls but it was still hard to figure them out. It took her a few minutes but she got the self-destruct set off. A siren went off and a voice counting down in the pirate language could be heard. They had a little over three minutes to escape. They quickly ran into some pirates and had to take them out.
"We need a way out where we wont be interrupted by pirates constantly.", yelled Taklon over the noise. Samus noticed a ventilation shaft running along the ceiling.
"According to the map data that leads pretty close to where the carrier was left.", said Samus, pointing.
"O.k. then." Samus shot a hole in some grating and they both pulled themselves up into the shaft and rolled up into morph balls. They had to bomb their way through a fan but they were quickly out and pretty close to where they started. Taklon shot at the door but it wouldn't open.
"That's just awesome, the room is locked off for whatever reason. We'll have to find another way."
They both headed for the docking bay since there was the possibility some ship were still there. There was only one left and a pirate was headed for it. Taklon shot it several times and they entered the ship. It was for carrying some kind of cargo. There were numerous boxes bolted down to the floor. This made Samus nervous. There was no telling what might be hiding in there. Samus found the controls and set a course for the Justice. The ship shook as it took off but Samus thought she heard something else.
"Did you hear that?", asked Samus.
Taklon answered, "What, the ship thrusters?"
"No, like a scraping noise."
"I didn't hear anything. You're probably just jumpy. It happens after battles."
Taklon leaned against a box and at that moment, a spiked tail shot out of it and wrapped around his neck. Samus gasped and began shooting at the tail. In frustration, the tail hurled Taklon against the room and into a steel box. Suddenly the box burst open and a strange beast was revealed. It resembled a purple dragon. Before Taklon got back up, the dragon flew and landed on top of him hard. Taklon stopped moving.
"No!", cried Samus, unleashing a missile into the dragon's face. The dragon was knocked back a little and its head bent at an odd angle but it quickly recovered. It regained its footing and popped its neck which made a noise as loud as a shotgun blast. The dragon charged at Samus but slipped when everything started shaking. A shockwave passed through the ship and both Samus and the dragon were knocked over. Heavy, almost crushing boxes slid into them.
"My ship! You'll die for that.", yelled the dragon standing back up. The dragon began inhaling and then released a steady stream of fire. Samus halfway dodged it and her left arm was badly burned. Samus then fired like mad at the dragon, hitting its face. The dragon let loose another blast of fire. Samus jumped over it this time and the fire melted a cage filled with some small animals.
"Who are you? Any other human would have died by now.", questioned the dragon.
"You first", replied Samus firing a missile which the dragon easily dodged.
"Fine then, I am Ridley, grand commander of the space pirates."
"So, grand commander of basically nothing.", retorted Samus. As planned, this made Ridley angry. He did not like things like this pointed out. He charged at Samus and she jumped out of the way. She quickly turned and fired multiple missiles into him. He fell over, apparently dead. Samus rushed over to Taklon to check on him. She put her fingers to his neck feeling his pulse. She felt nothing. Desperate she tried again, still nothing. It sunk in that Taklon was dead and she let out a cry of anguish. It was so hard to believe. Why was it that the pirates took everyone from her?
Samus looked over at the cursed dragon and saw that Ridley had moved a little. He was not as dead as she previously thought. She fired a missile but Ridley ducked and the missile hit the wall. Unfortunately the ship was already weakened from their fighting and this created a large hole. First Ridley, and then Samus and all the other contents of the ship were sucked into the vacuum of space.
At first Samus was worried that she would die but then realized that her suit would keep her alive. At least that Ridley monster would die. Samus looked over to the planet Zebes. She saw all the chozo and pirate fleets combating eachother. She realized then how bleak the situation was. The pirate fleet was so huge. They had to outnumber the chozo at least a hundred to one. Samus was stuck helplessly drifting through space, watching her friends slowly lose. She continued drifting for what seemed like forever. She would fall in and out of sleep and she saw the planet make several rotations and still she floated there. She stopped looking when she saw the last of the chozo ships destroyed and the pirates began descending upon the planet. Once more, everything she loved was destroyed.
Samus wondered if Tobi or any other chozo escaped. This hope helped sustain her as she floated through space. She continued floating and she began to despair as she floated farther and farther from the planet. Soon the planet was the size of a marble in her vision. She began wondering. Wouldn't it be better if she just removed her helmet and died quickly. She couldn't bring herself to do it though.