7 -the deal

Eli had been offered the job to persue Samus, to which he walked away laughing at the sergeant.

The young hunter walked out of the hospital located on the planet Altantia, located in the Regg System. Looking around, Eli got his first good look at the Altantian capital of Cobalt. It was a large, modern city, consisting mostly of bland cube-shaped buildings. "This place sucks," he muttered to himself as he strode slowly towards the docking station where his ship was.

Local police in full-raid gear and the planet's militia were bustling about, trying to usher all citizens out o f the streets. "You in the armor!" one of them ran up to Eli, with his plasma rifle's static-chamber spinning audibly.

"He thinks i'm a threat?" Eli thought as he stopped to speak with the officer.

"Who are you!" he demanded

"I'm just a bounty hunter passing through," Eli activated the status-screen on his wrist to show his Hunting License.

"Where are you going now?"

"Back to my ship. I'm sure you know that criminals don't catch themselves."

"That's the issue," the officer warned him, "there is a Double S-Ranked criminal loose in the city."

Eli chuckled.

"What's so funny?"

"Don't worry," Eli continued his journey towards the spaceport, "Samus is harmless."

"Eli," His ship's computer conacted him through his helmet, "There is something trying to sneak into the ship."

"Something? Not someone?" Eli quickened his pace, taking a guess at the intruder.

"Physiology suggests it is a human female. However, biological scans come up as an unregistered species."

"Using the scans of the specimen captured during the last mission, extrapolate as a human-NecWorm hybrid. Does the subject fit within parameters?"

"perfectly."

Eli walked through the gates of the spaceport, "let her in. Welcome her as Samus, monitor reaction."

As his ship came into sight, the computer informed him, "slight suprise. No other reactions."

Eli walked up the hatch of his ship and hit the lockdown button. All possible escapes from the ship sealed instantly. "Why the hell did you come here, Samus?"

Samus held one of the emergency medkit's scalpel, ready to defend herself. "Where else could I go?"

"exactly, I bet you the Federation has already placed a 'NO FLY' order on this port."

Samus grinned, "but that hasn't stopped you before."

"How do you know that?"

"because after your break-out flight from Hekate Port last year, they tried to hire me to bring you in for breaking the Zoning and the damage to the pad."

"Well, I guess I was too small-time?"

"No, I'll hunt C's if it doesn't take me far out of the way."

"So?"

"I read your file, then declined."

"Ah."

"So when do we leave?" Samus walked up to the nearly twenty year old man.

"We?"

"Yup, until I get a new ship and some armor," Samus winked, "we're partners."

Eli's heart skipped a beat. He'd dreamt of hearing her say that to him, but now it actually happened. Not only that, but Samus was now depending on him. "I..." Even in her unnatural state, Samus still made Eli uncomfortable because of her beauty. "Let's make a deal," Eli removed his helmet to reveal he was blushing slightly, "you kiss me and you can stay."

With a giggle that could only be described as 'cute', Samus said, "still a kid... deal" and sealed the agreement with a kiss.