Chapter 12: …And Into the Fire
"…Bad nooz, Boss-Man. Dey woke up."
I blinked my eyes open. Massive metal titanium bands pinned me to an operating wall of some sort. Big Amy and Chikorita were to my left and right, respectively, similarly pinned. I was amazed they were able to pin a Jigglypuff to the wall, but they did. As a result, the band covering her mouth prevented her from saying anything. Now that I thought about it, it felt like we were being tied up at the stockade, only this stockade featured needles, syringes, computer monitors, and other nasty scientific equipment in front of us. Finally, some squishy helmet had clamped itself over our heads, and because of it, I couldn't turn my head very far. Wait. These helmets had teeth, and they made screeching noises. No way. No way! These were parasite thingies from Sigma Star Saga!
Just then, the meanie-butts leapt down from the ceiling in front of us like a pair of creepy spiders. It turned out that the whitewashed surgically clean room we were in was wider than we thought; we were merely in an enclosed section of the room for test subjects. Chikorita and I started to scream, but the parasite helmets chomped on our heads and stopped us. Zark and Zork grinned.
"So. How do u n00bs like dem l33t parasites?" sniggered Zark.
"Congrats! 4 a bunch of n00bs, dat wuz straight l33t-ness!" congratulated Zork condescendingly. More than anything, I wanted to burst out of there and kick their butts, but the bands were too tight, and besides, how far would I get with my limited martial-arts skills versus their futuristic weaponry? I briefly wondered if staying stuck in Big Amy's memories was a better idea.
"So. Now Wii know dat u all come from a time dat don't exist no more. Dat's why u r emitting dat l33t energy stuff—b/c u r distorting space & stuff!"
My heart skipped a beat. I remembered that back in Team Pecha's day, Team Skull never even once realized the truth about them, nor their destiny to save the world. Of course, their ignorance could be explained by the fact that they were just bumbling gangster dudes who never had anything to do with Primal Dialga or Darkrai. But this was different. Teh Pirates Who Don't Do Nothin' were well in cahoots with the main bad guy Boss-Man Zoroark. It disturbed me to hear them now that they knew who my friends really were.
"Shut up, Zark! Teh Boss-Man iz here!"
They made way for the sadistically grinning Zoroark, striding through the computers and equipment before walking straight towards me. I squeezed my eyes shut. I hate it when a stranger walks straight towards me like they're going to be so blunt and direct. I hate it even more when that stranger is someone I know for a fact is evil, someone who smiles so condescendingly, and most importantly of all, has the temerity to do so after they have the nerve to experiment on me…invading MY PERSONAL SPACE!
He stroked the parasite, coaxing it to stop crushing my head. "Aww…why so scared?" he purred, forcing my chin toward him with a really sharp claw of his. A shiver went down my spine. My skin crawled all over. My heart hammered. The creep! He was scaring me on purpose!
"Wh-what kind of sick operation IS this?" I seethed.
"I'm afraid you're too late, Amy [you know who]. We've already completed the necessary extractions that our grand mistress requires. No offense." He held up a wet, sticky scalpel to prove his point.
"Eww!" I flinched. I used to be perfectly fine at the sight of blood, but whom was I kidding? I certainly couldn't take it anymore. "Wh-what do you want with us, Zoroark?"
"All of your energy sources, but especially yours. We have found that such energy as yours has the unique property…to create life. Now that my friends the Space Pirates are harnessing it, they can finally revive their former commanders. They will crush the Galactic Federation and rule the galaxy their way. And everything that you, Amy [you know who] love so deeply, will be under our control at last."
He looked at Chikorita and Big Amy, who were still struggling to talk. "Oh yes. And how could I forget Amy Vee Purima and Chikorita, otherwise known as the reviled Team Pecha? I looked up to Darkrai, you see. He was practically a father to me. But you had to end his wonderful dream twice…and turn all Pokémon against Dark-types like me! I shall accomplish his dream this third time." He pointed at the parasites on our heads. "See this device? It dredges up memories from the past and traps you and your friends in them, forcing you all to live through a permanent nightmare…that I can control at will. I received the inspiration from Darkrai, you see. This is my method of taking my revenge. I control when you can move freely…and when you can't," he concluded, winking at me.
I paled. "Wait. You were the one who trapped us in the stockade, didn't you?"
"Correct. So you see, Amy [you know who], we can't allow you all to leave. The Space Pirates on this planet have taken an unorthodox interest in your…biologies, so to speak. Sad to say, we shall lock you all here for the rest of your lives. Hope you've prepared your psychologies for the trauma of…probes."
Zark and Zork sniggered at the sound of the word "probes". It made me so furious, I—
"YOOM…TAH!"
What do you know? Big Amy managed to use Hyper Voice to blast off the titanium bars and blow Zark, Zork, and Zoroark off their feet. They landed against the far wall, dazed.
Suddenly, a door to the right of the room heaved as if a missile blasted it, and it opened. It was Samus and Grovyle! Grovyle ran to us and slashed at the weak spots of the titanium bands, freeing Chikorita and me. Samus shot several missiles at the evil threesome, and this time, they didn't have any annoying reflector shields from Star Fox to protect themselves with. We ran out of the containment area through the tiny gap to our right and made a run for the door of the wide room. As I ran, I didn't feel any sore places where they might've used a scalpel on me, and I concluded that Zoroark was merely lying to scare me. By this time, Samus curled into Morph Ball, rolled up to them, and planted a Power Bomb. "RUN!" she ordered.
We did. Because I already knew how big a Power Bomb's explosion could be, I ended up running faster than the Pokémon, and had to drag them to keep up with me. KA-BLOOIE! We might've run down the eerie red-glowing hallway, but the explosion just barely missed us. A second later, Samus caught up to us and curled out of Morph Ball. "This way! Adam's waiting for us!" she exclaimed. We followed her.
Just then, an alarm blazed through the place. "Code red! Code red! We have an escape! Quarantine the base! All personnel, report for duty! Activate secret assets K-23, R-12, and MB-33!"
We had no idea what those secret assets were at the time, but we were too busy running for our lives to really care. All we could do was follow Samus and hope no stray Space Pirate laser hit us and give us any massive infections or worse. Actually, I was pretty sure that whole massive infection thing was a joke, but Samus never joked around, so…I preferred not to find out.
"So finish your story. What happened after that?" asked Samus.
I stared at her in disbelief. Here we were, running for our lives, and she wanted me to tell her everything that happened in my friends' lives? Maybe she was used to these situations already—oh yeah. She escapes from self-destructing bases all the time. I guess at this point, she was more into the unusual lives of my friends, so I racked my brains and tried to summarize the plot of the DS games.
I took at deep breath and said, "So Chikorita found Amy on that beach and they formed Team Pecha and had fun and stuff! Okay, so there were the meanie-butts—I mean, Team Skull, but yeah! Then everyone thought that Grovyle was stealing Time Gears so they made him a wanted criminal, and Team Pecha fought him but lost, and then Dusknoir came from the future and pretended to be their friend! Grovyle almost got the last Time Gear, but Dusknoir captured him and dragged him back to the future. Same thing with Amy and Chikorita since Amy lost her memories. Then Dusknoir blabbed to them that Amy used to be a human; I mean Grovyle's best friend, and they got away back to the past. They became friends and Grovyle told them the truth. Then they convinced everyone that Grovyle was a good guy. Finally, when they collected the Time Gears to try to place them in Temporal Tower, Dusknoir came back, so Grovyle had to leave Amy and Chikorita to make Dusknoir stay in the future. They stopped the dark future from happening, but because of that paradox, Amy disappeared, and so did Dusknoir and Grovyle and everyone in the future, only someone brought them all back, someone like Arceus, I think. Then a year later Team Pecha found it was all a conspiracy by Darkrai, so they defeated him. And sometime after that, you met them, and here we are. Got it?" I gasped and panted as I finished.
"About 75% or so. You'll have to elaborate more on it later."
During the whole time, we ran through all kinds of corridors. Big Amy hung on to my head as usual, and I could swear that Grovyle kept giving me those suspicious glances. Didn't he already know how much I knew? Maybe he was worried about something else. Right then, a security wall slammed right in front of us, and Big Amy, Chikorita, and I all shouted, "AAAH!"
Samus located the weak spot in the center of the wall and started blasting it, but she was too late. Space Pirates from the rafters above started shooting lasers at us, forcing us to dodge them around the room. During this time, Chikorita managed to ask, "Hey Samus, what about your past—?"
She never got to finish. Right then, a Space Pirate in a control room somewhere above us made the floor heave sideways, and we all fell into the wall on the left. As luck would have it, Chikorita fell right on top of Big Amy, causing her to lose her grip. They tumbled onto the same spot on the wall, which turned out to be a trapdoor, which they disappeared though.
"Amy! Chikorita!" I shouted. So did Grovyle. We pounced on the trapdoor, but it was too late. It already closed. And to make matters worse, more trapdoors underneath us opened and sent us down slides.
"AAAAAAH!" I practically screamed. It was like going down one of those enclosed tube slides at a water park, only there was no water. Since I learned to like water parks at the age of 13, they'd normally thrill me now, but the fact that it was also pitch black made me panic that there'd be some garbage dump of death at the end just like in Star Wars Episode IV or worse yet, the slide that lasts forever in that one Goosebumps book. Luckily, it ended pretty quickly. I shot out the end into a mechanical room filled with the same reddish-yellow light and landed on my back, hard. "Ooow…" I groaned, rubbing my sore back.
"Oh. You found me. Congratulations. Was it worth it?" droned a computer voice of some sort. For some odd reason, the tone of voice reminded me of that homicidal computer GLaDOS from Portal. Well, who knows? I should expect these crazy crossovers by now.
I looked up and saw that I was sitting in front of a tank of some sort. There was a giant brain resting in it, squirting bubbles. Did that brain just talk? "Wh-who are you?" I asked, because I really wasn't sure whether it was It, Mother Brain, or something from a nightmare that I forgot a long time ago.
"Who am I? Perhaps a better question would be, who are you? No wait, don't tell me. I already know. You are Amy [you know who], who mysteriously disappeared in the year 2010 at the age of 18. But we all know who you really are. You have the energy I need to revive Kraid, Ridley…and myself. That's right. You know who I am." The voice managed to be both monotone and sarcastic at the same time.
A single eye on the brain opened, and if I remembered correctly, there was a circular computer behind the eye buried inside the brain. It glared. Then it quivered, it rose, and it shattered the glass container, sending that mysterious liquid sloshing over the floor and knocking me off my feet. The slide door closed behind me. I looked up in horror as the creature's real 25-foot-tall body rose from out of the ground, towered over me, glared, and grinned with a mouthful of ghastly teeth. It was a bipedal mutant with scaly-tough skin, an unusually long tail, and spikes covering its limbs all over.
"M-Mother Brain?" I gasped.
"Precisely," she hissed nastily as she charged up a laser beam.
A million thoughts flew through my head. Mother Brain. Mother Brain, the final boss of the original Metroid and Super Metroid games! This was bad. I only ever played Metroid Fusion. I had no idea how to beat her. And even if I did...I looked around the wide room at its girders, stair steps, wires, and tubes hanging from all sorts of elevations, and came to one conclusion. There was no way I could find anything in here that allowed me to do so. What could I do? What could I do? What was I going to do?
Like me, Grovyle falls down a dark, enclosed slide. He is spit out into a different room, one with green walls and floors thick with vegetation. He lands on some spikes, hard.
Grovyle: YEEOUCH!
He retreats to a spot without spikes and calms down before taking a good look at his surroundings. There is a mass of spikes and scaly skin in the center of the gigantic room.
Grovyle: (Huh. Weird place. I hope Amy and Chikorita are okay. My instincts are telling me that those Space Pirates are trying to split us up on purpose.)
Suddenly, the mass in the center twitches. Grovyle is suddenly on full-alert mode.
Grovyle (sniffing the air): (That thing just moved, I know it did. Doesn't smell like a Pokémon at all. Must be alien of some sort.)
The mass erupts into a 40-foot tall green scaly creature with three eyes, a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth, two arms with three long claws each, and a stomach with three extra limbs that he can fire out at will.
Kraid: GRRROOOOAAAAR!
Grovyle: Who are you?
Kraid: Me, Kraid. Kraid hungry! Kraid must eat you!
Grovyle (turning his game face on): Riiiight. Bring—it—on!
Grovyle jumps up to the branches above and engages in combat with Kraid. Meanwhile, Amy and Chikorita are still going down their own crazy slide.
Amy and Chikorita (holding on tight to each other): AAAAAAAAAAH! (What the heck IS this twisted thing?)
Finally, the slide spits them out into a mostly rocky room. Steam emerges from some of the holes in the rocks, and they can see some lava threatening to boil up through. Chikorita panics and jumps atop Amy's head.
Chikorita: AAAAH! Lava! Lava! Lava! Get it away from me!
Amy: Ooh—ow! Calm down, Chikorita! I'm sure we'll find a way out of here back to the others.
Chikorita: But I have to ride you, okay? And I can't get off until you find the way out of here.
Amy: Nngh…You're really heavy, you know…?
Chikorita: Hurry it up already!
Amy: Okay, okay!
Amy runs across the circular room hoping to reach the rock formations jutting out of the wall on the other side. She thinks that if she climbs them, she will find a way out. However, they don't even get halfway across the room when an aerial creature swoops down and grabs them both!
Amy and Chikorita: AAAH! *ack*!
Amy: Wh-who are you?
Ridley: Of courssssse you wouldn't know me, little girls. Heheheh…I'm Ridley!
He then flies up at insane speeds, corkscrewing all around, and slams them against the hot rock wall.
Chikorita: Stop…Stop!
Ridley: Why should I ssssstop? I'm going to…heheh…torture you two as much as I want!
Ridley continues to laugh dementedly as he drags them across the wall. It's really painful. Finally, he slams them against the ground and chuckles even more as he conjures up a ball of fire in his mouth.
Ridley: Heheheheh…hope you like flamethrowers, grasssssss girl!
Chikorita: NOOOOO! Let me go let me go let me gooooo!
Amy (glaring): (This crazy guy's really going to kill her! I have to stop him now!)
Finally, Samus freaks out the least since she immediately enters Morph Ball mode and rolls down the slide like it's the easiest thing in the world. She pops out in a shiny, sterile room with green lines glowing up and down it. She looks all around with her arm cannon at the ready.
Samus (annoyed): (If it's not one thing, it's another. Sure, I can stay here all day if I wanted to, but can't afford to keep Adam waiting. I'd better find those kids as fast as I can. Unlike me, I'm not sure how long they can stay before the Space Pirates find them.)
Suddenly, she senses something falling from above and rolls out of the way in time.
Samus: Sylux!
Sylux: NICE REFLEXES. TOO BAD FOR YOU.
Sylux shoots several rounds of Shock Coils at Samus, who retaliates by going into Morph Ball and launching all manner of bombs and Power Bombs at him. He goes into Lockjaw form and tries to trip her up with electrically charged bombs, which she jumps over by reverting back to Power Suit mode. But that's what Sylux anticipates. He reverts back to his normal form and pins Samus against the wall, aiming a gun at her that suddenly changes shape.
Samus: That's…!
It's the Suit Deactivator Beam. He fires it before Samus can turn into Morph Ball, and now she's back in Zero Suit mode with no way of calling back the Power Suit.
Sylux: NOT SO POWERFUL WITHOUT YOUR POWER SUIT, HUH? NOW LET'S FINISH THIS EXECUTION.
Samus: (I don't need my Power Suit to beat guys like you.)
Slyly, behind her back, she activates her laser whip.I slowly opened my eyes. Not a scratch. Then I realized that my spacesuit came back!
"Ha. You just got lucky," drolled Mother Brain like she'd been expecting it all along. "I guess those Galactic Federation prototype weapons all have some kind of defect. Sylux won't be happy when he finds out."
I ran up the rafters, dodging Mother Brain's beam attacks and projectiles, my heart hammering too hard to say anything in response. Along the way, I realized that not only did I have no arm cannons, but that my Colette spacesuit, unfortunately, didn't come with any swords, shields, or even circlets whatsoever. And I couldn't find any rings that would allow me to shoot magical spells like Firaga, Angel Feathers, or whatever. I had no other choice. When I reached up to where Mother Brain's head was, I charged and unleashed the most powerful jump kick I could muster.
It had no effect.
"You idiot," she shot as she smacked her head into me, shoving me off the rafters. I could only yell "AAAAUUGH!" as I fell though the air. Despite the number of cords I grappled onto as I fell, I still landed hard on the ground. The height might've normally given me critical injuries, but thanks to the suit, I got off with only a sore back.
"Did you just jump-kick me? For real? That has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Did you forget to check the label on your spacesuit? It clearly says, "For defensive purposes only", which means it has absolutely nothing on offense. It also says, "Dry clean only." Knowing you, you'd throw it in the washer along with a white load, only to find, too late, that it's permanently ruined. Well? Sound familiar? Anyway, that accursed Samus Aran would've come up with a plan ten times better than yours by now. It embarrasses me that such an idiotic weakling could possibly become my superior officer one day."
My face paled. "What…did you say?"
"Oh? Did I just break the laws of time and space? I guess so. I said too much already."
I struggled to get up. "Why would I be your superior offi—?"
Mother Brain immediately stomped on my chest, knocking out my breath and pinning me to the ground. "I did not say anything. You did not hear anything. It was all in your head," she practically sang, with a big, evil, toothy grin spreading across her face. "Just your imaAAAaagination."
She crushed me harder and harder, and I had a terrifying feeling that the suit wouldn't be able to last much longer. The sick irony of the situation hit me right there. What would be the point of forgetting what she just said if she was going to kill me anyway?
Quick as a flash, Samus squirms out of Sylux's grasp and somersaults over him, running the laser whip over him in the process. Before he can react, she leaps and slices him over and over and over again until he finally falls down, while making it look like the most graceful thing in the world.
Sylux (too stunned to move): … … …
Samus: It's not too late to get your money back, you know.
Except, of course, that Samus knew that Sylux didn't pay any money for that weapon; She already knows that he stole it from the Federation, and that's where the irony comes in. Curious about it anyway, she kneels down and unscrews the weapon from Sylux's arm cannon thingie.
Samus: You know what? Why don't I take it back for you? You might have to rest here for a while. No, you don't have to thank me. Just doing my job. (…Job? Hah. Assuming I ever get it back.)
A door automatically unlocks itself near the top of the room, so Samus space-jumps all the way to the top, carrying both the weapon and her laser whip. Since she can't use her Power Beam at the moment, she laser-whips the door and enters. On the other side, she suddenly finds herself in the midst of a heating battle. She sees a very frustrated-looking Grovyle using Leaf Blade, Dig, any attack he can on Kraid, and yet Kraid never has a scratch on him.
Samus: Grovyle! Aim for his mouth!
Grovyle: What the—? Samus?
Grovyle looks in the direction where Samus' voice came from. He loses his focus when he sees that she's back in Zero Suit mode again. Kraid takes the opportunity to bend down, chomp, and swallow him whole!
Samus (revolted): …!
Kraid: Oh. Bounty hunter lady. Kraid remember you. …Kraid still hungry. Maybe Kraid eat you too—*ACK*!
Before Kraid knows it, Grovyle unleashes Leaf Blade fury on the guy's throat. Kraid spits Grovyle out before long, and then collapses. As Grovyle shakes the saliva off of himself, Samus crosses the room in a single bound and laser-whips Kraid's mouth one more time. He faints.
Grovyle: His mouth, huh? Would've been good to know that.
Samus: I fought the guy several times before. Besides, most armored creatures like that have such weak points. Common sense, if you know what I mean.
Grovyle runs his tongue around his mouth and finds that, yes, it does feel like a weak spot.
Grovyle: Oh yeah, I get it. So Sylux hit you with that beam again, Samus?
Samus: Yeah. But I swiped it, as you can see here. I took care of him too, naturally.
Grovyle: How many of these guys do you know?
Samus: Both of them. Kraid is just some Space Pirate general that's not too hard to beat. Sylux, on the other hand…he hates the Galactic Federation, and since I'm their best bounty hunter, he really hates me too. What I don't understand is, since when did Sylux team up with the Space Pirates?
Grovyle: Don't ask me. I'm not familiar with these interplanetary politics. Besides, don't you think we should get to finding the two Amy's and Chikorita?
Samus: Good idea. Let's go.
Grovyle immediately takes to climbing the tree limbs and vines jutting out of the walls on the way to the top. But it doesn't take long before Samus quickly passes him in speedrunning mode despite the weapons she's holding.
Grovyle: (Dang! I don't think I've ever had to catch up with a human before! My Amy was never that fast. Is this what a fully-grown human is capable of? Or did she just train all her life? Either way…she's good!)
They reach the next room, where they see Ridley pinning Amy and Chikorita to the rocky ground. Amy's Hyper Voice is blowing Ridley's flamethrower in all directions, including his mouth, scorching him.
Ridley: YEOUCH! Why, you—!
Grovyle: Amy! Chikorita!
Amy: What the—? Grovyle?
Ridley flies up again, and Samus space-jumps up there. Unfortunately, he smacks her back down as he drags Amy and Chikorita against the wall again.
Ridley: S-Samus? I thought Sylux was sssupposssssed to dissspossse of you!
Samus: Why don't you put the children down and try me, one on one?
Ridley: No. I'll ssssslay all of you at oncccce!
Grovyle (furious): She said LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Ridley shoots a flamethrower through Grovyle, Amy, and Chikorita at once, but Samus dodges it. She races up to Ridley and jabs her laser-whip in his mouth, causing him to howl in pain, dropping the little girls. The three Pokémon recover and see that Ridley's mouth is also his weak spot, so they combine their attack at him.
Grovyle: Leaf Blade!
Chikorita: Solarbeam!
Amy: YOOM…TAH!
Samus (using one more laser-whip): This is for my mom, you murderer!
They all hit.
Ridley: C-c-curssssse you, Samus and all of you…Curssssse YOOOOOOUUUU!
And he faints too.
Amy and Chikorita: YAAAY! We did it we did it we did it!
Grovyle (to Ridley): And I'm going to do that to anyone who hurts them too!
Amy: Samus? You can still fight without that space suit thingy?
Samus: Of course. In fact, it's even easier, since it's not bogging me down. More dangerous, but easier.
Chikorita: Hey…Isn't that the—?
Samus (holding the gun up): It is. Nasty little piece of work. I have a theory, though, on how it works…
Amy: Wait, Ms. Aran. He killed your mom?
Samus: Flamethrower. I was 3 years old. I'd rather not talk about it.
Grovyle: Hey guys, is it me, or are we missing someone?
Amy and Chikorita (sudden realization): …Little Amy!
They run to the platforms, climb them up, and reach the door on the other side.
Two leaf attacks and a really loud noise shot at Mother Brain, causing her to stumble back and free me from being crushed. I looked where they came from: Big Amy, Chikorita, and Grovyle! Samus was there too, in her Zero Suit, and I wondered if the reason they came so fast was because they were all speedrunning (a hardcore way of completing an entire Metroid game in less than two hours, which, personally, I could never do). As the three Pokémon charged, Samus muttered, "Let me test something out." She then zapped me with that suit deactivator beam!
"HEY! What was that for?" I complained. "How the heck did you get that, anyway?"
Within a few seconds, her Power Suit came back on. "I see. So it only works on one suit at a time," she said, seemingly ignoring me.
"But—but—" I meant to say that if Mother Brain hit me one more time when I was like this, I'd be done for.
"Don't worry, kid. We'll handle this." With that, she raced to join the Pokémon in the battle.
Mother Brain's voice dripped with contempt. "Samus Aran. I see you're still alive and well. Oh, I've been busy…being dead, you murderer."
"You hypocrite!" was all Samus had to say. She shot several Ice Beams at Mother Brain's head, freezing it. Then she shot too many rounds of Super Missiles for me to count. The ice shattered in a million pieces, causing Mother Brain to collapse.
That was it. The battle was over just like that. My jaw dropped. Mother Brain was right. Samus did think of an ingenious battle strategy way faster than I ever could. On the other hand, she actually had the weapons to do the job, whereas I didn't. The three Pokémon just groaned. Maybe they were hoping that the battle would last longer or something. I ran up to the four of them, who were standing around the fallen Mother Brain.
"You know her too, Samus?" asked Grovyle.
"Know her? Hah! She's even worse than Ridley! You think she's a benevolent little computer-in-a-brain, looking out for your best interests, but noooo…she works for the Space Pirates instead. The Chozo, they never listened to me. Cost them their lives. I'd really rather not talk about it."
"Correct…you are…heh heh…" groaned Mother Brain.
The four of them were about to strike again, but right then, a sound stopped us. A dimensional hole opened behind us, over the platform that covered the hatch where the slide spit me out of. Our jaws dropped. Compared to everyone else, I had reason enough to worry; I had a front-row seat, so to speak, of who or what was coming out, so the four of them ran in front of me to meet the mysterious visitor.
"Just in time. She's coming…" wheezed Mother Brain. "Our…grand mistress."
"Wh-who is she?" I asked, not taking my eyes off of the hole. My teeth chattered. I remembered Zoroark mention this mysterious lady too, but I was too frightened to ask him about her. Furthermore, what kind of alien lady could possibly have the power to make Mother Brain, the tall, intimidating, all-powerful Mother Brain, answer to her? I could only shudder.
If I did look back, I would've seen Mother Brain smirk evilly. "The woman is terrifying. She can identify your pasts, your hopes and dreams, and your weak spots. She can make your worst fears come true. She can break you to your very soul. And worst of all? She knows everything. Hope you're all ready to die. Painfully." That was the last thing Mother Brain said before she fainted.
We saw the shape of the person emerging. I gasped. This wasn't an alien. This was a human.
Not just any human.
She was a woman with short, cropped dark-brown (or was it black?) hair, black, provocative clothes, and spikes all over as accessories. Her body looked like that of an unusually mature 22-year-old, and dark, pulsating energy emitted from her wrists and back, enabling her to float in midair. But her face…her evil, smirking, sadistic face…I couldn't breathe.
"No way…" gasped Big Amy and Chikorita simultaneously.
"Who are you?" I barely managed to choke out; terrified I already knew the answer.
It was a face I only ever saw in mirrors. A face that hadn't changed at all. And when she spoke, I was 99% sure I knew her voice. The words she said were the words I once heard in a video in health class…the words I never, ever, wanted to hear from a woman like her.
"I'm you…from the future."
To be continued…
Coming up next: Did you really think my existence was the only reason why this story was called The Other Amy? Apparently, it wasn't. That woman was the real reason! Now we're in for the fight of our lives against her…The Other Me. Can we win? Can we even get off the Pirate Homeworld alive? And even if we can, will my friends ever look at me the same way again? Furthermore, if she's really me from the future…why in the world does she want us to know about her existence? Why is she trying to kill us? I don't understand!