21: Scrambled

I saw a metroid on this planet. It was flying towards a developed leviathan untill I saw me. It latched on but did not begin draining my energy. It carried me over the leviathan and phased both of us through the leviathans ceiling. It dropped me than flew over to the leviathans core, while the leviathan began to rumble. The little metroid had attached to the core just as we were thrust upward violently like an ancient rocket escaping a planet. Once our acceleration had stopped, we stood orbiting Phaaze for just a few seconds until we began accelerating slowly again. We travelled slowly until I presume that we had entered the wormhole. As we travelled near light speed, I noticed that this leviathan was the same one that impacted Tallon IV and realised that this was the beginnings of Sam. I didn't have long to awe over her beginnings for we soon felt the impact on Tallon. I watched Sam ingest almost every gram of phazon produced by the core. She continued ingesting and quickly mutated into the spectral being I knew as Metroid Prime. This large, spectral, blue, tentacled creature wrapped its being around the core and ingested the entire black, spheroid. She became larger and developed her black exoskeleton. She noticed me again and was hostile. She sliced at me with her scythe-like arms and cut me in twain, severing my legs from my torso. This death caused me to awake. I saw that Sam and Samus were still out, but it took awhile for my brain to put 2+2 together that my brain, the brain normally running the body of Samus. Just by accident, I confirmed that my brain was in Vela's body, by shaking my (her?) bangs loose and seeing blue and I realised that I was speaking through her voice.

"Fuck! We've been switched."

` I noticed that my (her?, our?) flesh had turned crimson. Looking upon my fellow goddesses, I began to calm down and my normal Caucasian flesh-tone started to return. I noticed their chameleon reflexes were engaged to their dreams, my body was pulsating through the entire visible spectrum from head to toe, while Sam's was a stable magenta. Whoever was controlling my body must have died in her dream, for she awoke suddenly like I had. She had a confused look upon her face as she saw my blonde bangs droop over her face.

"Blonde? I'm in Samus' body, but something tells me I'm really Sam "

"Yes Sam you have my body, but I'm Samus in Vela's body, which means she has yours. Apparently during our 'sex-capade' with the womb, we coalesced into one being but did not split properly and our minds came into different bodies."

"This could be confusing, let's train our minds to respond to the name of the body."

"No, we call each other by the name of the mind, not the body. Let's wait for Vela to awake and decide for herself."

"We must have mixed memories as well because I dreamt of seeing your body as a teenager along with a similar looking teenaged boy. They were about to start a training program and I was forced along. These kids had quite the physical prowess, exceeding even ours. I had a hard time keeping up with them and eventually died on the course which caused me to awake in your body."

"I saw your beginnings as a metroid on this planet. You latched onto me and carried me into a leviathan on this planet. You than dropped me and latched on to the core and absorbed every once of phazon as we escaped from Phaaze and warped to Tallon IV. Soon after we landed, you had mutated into your spectral form, than engulfed the entire core and developed an exoskeleton. You than became violent and killed me by slicing me in twain. Hey! I think she's stirring."

"Let's freak her out if she realizes she's in the wrong body. Act like we don't know that I'm you and you're her. I think we could because voice stays with the body and not the mind."

She awoke slowly and saw us standing in front of her. She arched her back to realign her vertebrae, although I don't think we really have bones, just hardened phazon jointed like a human skeleton. She flipped her head back to realign her dorsal 'vertebrae' and saw Sam's dirty blonde hair.

"I'm not Vela, am I? In fact I know I'm not Vela, my hair is blue and my voice isn't this low."

"I don't know Sam, maybe you're crazy. What do you think Vela?"

"She seems fucking loony to me, may be a threat to us and our mission."

"Sorry Sam, you could be a liability, and we don't need you."

"She's me and I'm not me. I'm me, just in Sam's body. Just what the fuck is going on here guys?"

She was absolutely fuming and we could barely keep a straight face with eye contact. We lost control when she literally did a back flip in rage.

"What the fuck happened!"

"You really are Vela in my body. We were messing with you. Your mind is in my body, my mind is in Samus's body, and Samus's mind is in your body."

"So when we coalesced, than split we mixed minds, memories, and bodies?"

"Yes. I could guess that you dreamt about my beginnings on K-2L. I saw Sam's beginnings, she saw yours, so logically you would see mine."

"Yes I did. It's very sad, sadder than when you told me yourself. Now, how should we identify ourselves, by mind or body. I'm thinking by mind"

"We were just about to ask you that and since she agrees with you, that's majority ruling of 66% for mind identification and 33% against."

After solving the chaos of our scrambling, we forgot that we were still naked and had to suit up for the transit to Aether. Although I have worn just the power suit before, it feels odd being less bulky not only in the suit, but in her body as well. I was getting impatient looks from Vela and Sam, waiting for me to open a portal to Aether. I entered Aether's coordinates into the suits portal generation system, and charged the beam to allow the three of us to enter.