15: New Team
We finally calmed down although it was dusk and Justin's pyre had almost burnt out.
"Did you have theology training? That final offering for Justin was beautiful."
"Not formally no. My parents were ministers and I learned the basics from them. Juno was the one who was more into their spirituality."
I picked a nearby prairie flower and placed upon Justin, than turned away and we entered the seed. We came onto a platform over the ground and saw several elevated platforms, with tendrils hanging off of them, acting as stepping stones to the only other visible exit. There were several large glands emitting phazon and crystal-like projections projecting from certain spots on the ceiling and walls. I reamrked at its beauty.
"It's beautiful. All of this from phazon, must make it the most versatile element, exceeding carbon in ability to form new compounds."
"One of Justin's people, Jacob I think, said to destroy another old friend in the precious. Were there other survivors, maybe an animal friend. You said Old Bird introduced you to the beauty of nature and may have found you an animal friend."
"Pyonchi! The small rabbit-like squirrel I kept as a pet. She must have an extraordinary life-span and must have been chosen as the guardian like Metroid Prime or the Emperor Ing."
As I said that I realized that she would have to be killed if we want to stop the corruption on K-2L. She's an evil abomination like Prime or the Emperor, I kept telling myself as we hopped up the jellyfish-like stepping stones. The door was nothing but a curtain of purple phazon and led into parabolic corridor. Three organs blocked our path but could be destroyed with charged shots into their centres. There was another curtain leading to the seeds core chamber. From our small platform we could see Pyonchi hopping about the chamber, though she was many times larger than when I last knew her.
"She's a cute abomination."
She wasn't so cute when we could see her face, massive yellowed fangs, deep green eyes, 10 claws each the size of a human, and a wound on her torso. She noticed us and let loose a massive roar. She tried hopping up and slashing at us, but just could not reach. We starting attacking, aiming anywhere on her body. Hitting her tail made her wound expand and emanate phazon. Our shots into it seemed to do nothing so we tried phazon state.
"She does not seem to know that she has an exposed area, otherwise she would be turning it away from us."
"Are you calling my pet stupid?"
"No I'm calling that abomination stupid. The abomination that happened to be your pet. Just pump her full of phazon till she dies."
We shot her wound with our phazon. I tried the charge function but it created not a single blast, but many in a scatter-shot. I saw on my visor that the phazon meter had turned red and was filling up when I wasn't firing. I learned a pattern to make phazon state last until Pyonchi keeled over and exploded, splattering not organs and blood, but phazon energy at us. The core exposed itself from its protective sac and the burst of phazon had caused it to drop to the floor. I had drained the phazon tank and was out of state when the energy reached us. Vela must not have because her regulator flashed, than her armour did as well. She shuddered and a flash of blue encompassed her armour, making it entirely blue. That must be the result of letting that red meter fill, becoming a phazon creature. She pointed her cannon at me, but her visor flashed and she put down her cannon.
"Samus, let the red meter fill, or one of us will die."
A last act of humanity caused her to offer me the choice. I couldn't kill her, not after everything we had done, plus I had just killed my two first friends. I didn't want to die either and accepted her offer and engaged the state. It took sheer will to let it turn red and fill. My regulator flashed than I became a phazon being like her. Phazon had completely infiltrated our minds and made us upset, not over the death of the guardian but the dying core. We dropped down from our overlook and approached the befallen core. We looked on in mourning and heard a female's voice behind us.
"I sensed a disruption in the corruption and thought you two might have been responsible. I implanted a corruption in you thinking that it would overtake you and put me in control of you. Your lack of aggression tells me that I succeeded, though at the cost of this seed. Mighty bringer of phazon, from where did you come?"
I found it odd that we could understand Dark and the seed, although being of phazon, it likely reset our language centres to speak and understand the phazon language.
"We were sent from a sentient planet, composed entirely of phazon. It developed us over one hundred years, than sent us through space. We warped to this planet and called to a native creature to guard us. Phazon humanoid, absorb our last energies and gain the ability to warp to your homeland. Use those two as puppets, they have been turned into beings like yourself through your power, and will follow your orders. Make this universe one of phazon and rule over it. The smaller one fell first, than the larger one made herself fall to the power."
She thrust her arm cannon into the core's centre and absorbed it, draining the blue centre into gray.
"Slaves, I want your names and to see the ladies under the armour. How can I remove the suits?"
"I'm Samus Aran, and we're still sentient you know. We're not complete mind slaves of yours."
"I'm Vela Gemini. On our breastplates are five buttons, but we want to see you exposed as well."
That's phazon. They still are sentient, but will follow my orders. I disengaged my armour as did they. The larger one, Samus, was blonde and wore a single piece, skin tight blue jumpsuit. The smaller, more forthcoming one, Vela, had blue hair, wore two pieces. A blouse and skirt, both blue and white. I'm more stabile than I was on Aether and I found myself wanting to feel their bodies against mine.
My doppelganger looked exactly like me but with black hair and a darker blue jumpsuit. Her flesh was very blue tinted, but an albino tone still showed through. I felt the same sexual tension I had with Vela after our swim. I wanted to mount her, but would that be my ego taking control, or something else?"
She's as sexy as Samus, just bluer. I would love to mount her, although technically I already have. I wonder if the phazon would cause a different experience.
We put our suits back on to hide our sexual tension. Dark summoned a portal from her arm cannon and herded us towards it.
"Ladies, we are going to what is apparently the source of phazon. I'll figure out what to do with you there."
She pushed us into the portal and it closed behind her.