12: Normalcy

We received a transmission

"Samus, we need you to come to the GFS Olympus ASAP."

"Well that's a good honeymoon, in a war zone."

"This is what they pay me for, assistance when they can't solve their own problems. This is my world, and you'll need better weapons if you want to survive yourself, I think I have a power suit you can use. It's a prototype of my Chozo original, I made myself. It's modular and symbiotic like mine and even functions with the morph ball."

"Won't that mangle me, the morph ball?"

"No, I've tested it on women our size and they entered it and exited it without being mangled. To put it on, enter Justin Bailey on the shoulder's key pad. It will open up enough for you to get inside, than it will wrap around you and you'll feel small electrical discharges throughout your body, that's normal because it is becoming apart of your structure. When the discharges stop, symbiosis will be complete and you'll be similar to me. It'll even know your favourite colour scheme and make itself match. Before you do all of that, take off your jetpack"

"Justin Bailey? Was he a former boyfriend of yours."

"He was a childhood friend, who lived on K-2L with me and is my age if he's alive."

She entered the suit and it soon turned from yellow and red to blue and pink.

"Very feminine, nice. Your biological energy is primarily drawn from the suit's and you don't need to eat. You'll adjust to the lack of physical food soon enough. It even produces water for cellular functions. It will atomically destroy urine and use it's nitrogen for climate control, plus it has energy shields and can generate infinite energy blasts."

"All of this and it's only drain is damage to the shielding?"

"Yes, it's extremely efficient."

"I have everything you do right?"

"Yes, on Tallon, I found extras and built them into your suit. You only lack the screw attack and the orb-shaped shoulder pads."

We sat in our chairs and set hyperspace for the GFS Olympus. She pulled down a cable and synced my music to her hard drive. We arrived at the Olympus and docked in bay 5. The marines seemed shocked to see two of me.

"Two, two Samus's!"

"Not quite, gunny. I'm Vela Gemini, in a power suit prototype."

"Close enough. Anyway, the Admiral wants to see, well I guess both of you in the bridge."

We proceeded up the ramp into Junction Alpha. Vela dislodged the ramps with her beam, to get a feel for the aiming and recoil of the arm cannon. We proceeded up and through several corridors coming to a fighter-craft dispatch station. Our exit was coded to our registration numbers, and led to a scan chamber. I entered the scanner first and was cleared, than Vela followed suit. We came into the split-level bridge. Admiral Dane was waiting on the upper level at the helm.

"Samus! Samus, do I have double vision, or are there really two of you?"

"Relax sir. This is Vela Gemini. I met her after my mission to Aether when my warp drive malfunctioned, started a professional relationship with her, which blossomed into love, than gave her this prototype of my power suit."

"Ladies I've called you here because a being, similar to you but with blue armour and extremely powerful attacks, is terrorizing the Federation. We would like you to stop this entity because; one, we've tried everything and two, it, no she seems based off of you."

"She's back, a phazon clone of me. Deep within Tallon, I encountered a phazon abomination, Metroid Prime. Before it died, it grabbed onto my suit and pulled off a layer of my armour and a complete copy of my genome. It reformed itself in my image. I encountered her on Aether and thought she would have been destroyed when Dark Aether dissolved from existence, yet she seemed to survive. What has she done to classify her as a terrorist?"

"She has brought forth a corruption to K-2L. It is phazon, the substance we recovered from Aether after you left. She's ruined the Afloraltite mining. We will give you a phazon regulation device, in case you become corrupted. We want you to stem K-2'L's corruption, find out from where she brings the corruption, destroy her phazon facility, and kill her."

We left the Olympus and set for K-2L. Images flashed in my head of my idyllic childhood. Than came visions of Ridley, his plasma breath frying my mother and my father being killed in an explosion. I felt the emotions well, but had enough sense to turn off my microphone before they burst forth.