That's odd COSE thought There should be a jump port just 25 meters from an appropriate terminal. Where's the little yellow light for it?
Standing in the spherical teleport station, Samus noticed that there were significantly fewer yellow dots on the control panel.
My guess; the pirates took them out manually. They'ret a hell of a lot more valuable to me than they are to them Samus replied Even if they could somehow kill our virus, fewer stations means they just have to walk further, while I still have to fight my way through security.
Possibly COSE said Whatever the reason, we'll still need a new route. Let's see…
COSE brought up the area map, and highlighted all available jump ports and computer E-connected terminals. The wrist-worn cyborg computer traced all possible paths, and then closed all but the shortest. He then closed the map, and highlighted the needed dot on the control panel.
Samus touched the dot, and was enveloped in a yellow sphere. Said sphere rapidly contracted into a single point, taking Samus with it. A similar sphere expanded in the jump port Samus previously specified, and contracted as its predessessor; leaving Samus in its place.
Samus tapped the tri-sectioned door of the jump port, and received the rather unpleasant surprise of two ceiling-mounted turrets waiting for her. Samus quickly leapt behind the curved wall of the jump port; but not before taking three 30-joule hits.
Kind of obvious, really. I'm the only one that can use the… jump ports, you called them?- Samus thought So, any stats on them?
COSE superimposed the image of one of the turrets – a footbal-shaped device mounted on two rods – onto Samus' visor, and displayed a series of technical schematics.
These appear similar to Shalber-class turrets. They've got this quantazon buffer… that's actually a really good idea; I'll have to implement that COSE replied Anyways, the two mounting rods are the weakest parts. Two Relative torpedoes each there should fry 'em.
Armed with a game plan, Samus leapt back into range of the turrets. She quickly fired four blue pulses, which hit the guns at the mounting rods. As COSE had predicted, they became incapacitated, and fell to the floor.
I'm done with my modifications COSE stated Please, place your hand on one of the turrets-
Samus did as requested, and five small, yellow sphere were absorbed into her suit. Her visor reported "Missles (5) aquired".
That's five pre-fabricated, 200-joule quantazon devices COSE reported Alex is already re-writing the computer visrus to refill your missles. Like the matter-based variety you've been using, you can only hold so many – five, right now – you'll probably be able to increase your capacity at any turret maintanence hatch.
"Three Raekans? Come on," Samus groaned. As one could probably infer, Samus had been confronted with a trio of the Feliciae Sapiens species. To further hamper her progress, the hallway had been cut off by force-fields.
"Shut up," One of the Raekans, who was wearing a larger suit, replied, "We had to walk through half a kilometer of our own security systems to get to you."
And thy have battle scars to prove it. That guy's HP has been cut in half- COSE reported Oh, and as you can probably guess, her suit isn't Singularity class – its Gamma class. 750 HP (right now, down to 504, go virus!) external muscle enhancements, and has Relative Cannons. I'd save her for last.
Samus decided to test out her missiles, and loosed one at the weakest of the pirates. She hit her mark, knocking the feline humanoid back several feet, much to the his, his comrades, Samus', and COSE's awe. Samus then stunned the pirate, and absorbed 12 joules of health from his suit.
The second Raekan was quick to get out of Samus' way when he was targeted; Samus had fully expected this, and clipped him with two uncharged quantazon beams. The female, Gamma-class-suited Raekan front-kicked Samus, knocking her off-balance – but she was, regardless, able to nail her attacker's chest with a second missile. Samus then successfully dodged a kick launched by the remaining male Raekan; this enabled her to grab his foot and slam him into his comrade. He was then stunned.
Samus fired a charged power beam at the Raekan woman, who had almost regained her footing. This slowed her down little – the feline pirate swiftly pounced at Samus, who dodged by entering her morph ball. The attacker recovered quickly, and tried to pounce Samus again; this was dodged by a simple roll. Samus quickly got back to her feet, and fired a third missile. The quantazon device disabled the suit's protective energy field, and the pirate was stunned.
With all three attackers incapacitated, Samus fired a Relative Torpedo at the force-field in the hallway. The force-field disengaged, allowing Samus to step into a conveniently-placed computer F-connected terminal, allowing her to replenish her health and missiles.