Metroid: A Tale of Paradox
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Author's note: Alas, its chapter three before us. A shorter chapter than the rest, I decide to skip a large portion of unneeded information. The simple lives of the main characters shattered to dust by the end of the second chapter, may their fates turn for the better? With a rough alteration, we are now more officially in the metroid's time line, aside from Ridley being under age and not the leader of the space pirates, during the attack. I won't follow every bit of the time line, that's a lot to throw at you which I don't intend to follow anyway, and we will not be following Samus and Ridley at the same time, for now. Samus is smarter here than in the manga, and I'm skipping a large portion of Samus' raising with the Chozo. Read the manga if you want to know, if you haven't already. This chapter will tell the continuing story of Samus, and obviously etc., for the next. I wish you enjoy and (critically) review!
Chapter 3: Samus Aran Chozo
"Hurry Samus, you're going to be late!" Adam passed the door as Samus was trailing up the steps behind him.
Once on the other side of the door, Samus found herself standing in her school hallway.
There wasn't a living soul to be seen, even Adam was not present.
"I must be late." Samus went down the hall to her classroom door. It was locked, and the chatter of students could be heard from within.
Samus began tugging on the door, no luck. She became frustrated, how could they lock her out? Samus, filled with confusion and temper, charged the door, ramming her side into it.
The door flung open with ease and Samus clumsily fell into the room, but she didn't hit the ground as was expected. Samus was falling down a white shaft, with no visible end to it.
Suddenly, Samus could hear voices around her, most were familiar to her. fellow students, the teachers, neighbors and friends. They sounded as if to be communicating in a muddied, undefinable dialect.
Then Samus heard her mother's voice call out her name, which sounded distorted from afar. Samus panicked even more, from the fall, and now because she wanted her mother.
The white shaft merged into black, with only a slight minuscule red glow.
There before her eyes, was Ridley, descending at the same speed as her. Samus cried out to Ridley to save her, but he made no reaction towards her. Ridley's image appeared as if out side the shaft, or within the very wall itself, like a mirror's reflection.
Samus tried frantically to get his attention. He turned his face to her.
Ridley's majestic blue eyes melted away, and were replaced with a dark, dingy yellow. He grew to about thirteen feet, with adult fangs and claws.
Samus was in even more panic as she watched her beloved brother turn into a fearsome demon.
Samus strained her eyes shut and wished for everything to stop. The shaft shattered like glass at her whimpering plea, and Samus fell head-first into a clear, blue-less sea.
Samus began to drown, contrary to her excellent swimming skills. She sank in the nothingness that surrounded her. Before Samus gave out her breath, she heard a voice that she had heard before.
"Quickly, release the containment seal!"
The Chozo lowered the lever at the controls. chemical liquid surged out of the sustainment capsule, along with a stark-naked child.
Samus coughed water from her lungs, rising from a slick floor. She was panicked, both from the nightmare she had just awakened from, and from the now present trauma.
"Here my dear, take this." A Chozo held out a fluffy robe.
Samus took it without even looking at the one who offered it, but after she had wrapped the robe around her, she then realized something, she wasn't at home.
Samus looked up to see the Chozo looming before her.
The Chozo smiled warmly looking down at Samus. "Hello Samus."
Samus' eyes widened. "Bird Grandpa! You're here!"
Samus Hugged Old Bird joyfully, she was disoriented but pleased in her accomplished reunion.
The other Chozo left the control panel and came to them. It was Gray Voice.
"I can't understand why the compressor failed, but she is well now."
Samus looked at the two Chozo in a pleasant daze, but then it hit her blunt in the face, Rock's Edge, swimming, Pyonchi, Ridley,... Mother!
She crippled to the floor again, weeping profusely.
"It is good we were not too far to receive the distress signal. We remorse for your people."
Gray's words made no affect towards Samus' crying.
Old Bird knelt down, he embraced Samus so gently, it reminded her of cradling the kitten she had found.
Samus' weeping grew less and less until it ceased altogether. She looked up, Old Bird still enfolded around her with the care on his face that only a parent felt for their young.
Now that Samus was calm, she felt something on her, in her. It didn't feel bad, just... abnormal.
"I don't feel right," Samus stated plainly.
Old Bird stood up with Samus and propped himself on his cane. "Samus, when we found you, you were unconscious and poisoned with toxic fumes. Your blood was contaminated and, in order to preserve you, we infused part of our blood and DNA into yours. Our blood is compatible with human species amazingly, and our DNA will make you stronger, able to adapt to our planet. It took about two weeks."
Samus didn't really care what Old Bird said, she just hoped that she wouldn't turn into a flightless bird. At least one that could can fly.
"I and Gray have discussed, and he has agreed with me to raise you here on Zebes."
A robotic orb, a little larger than an adult human's head, appeared hovering a few feet above Samus.
"The human is now adequate to survive in Criteria and Brinstar regions. The final scan reported complete on DNA transfusion."
Old Bird acknowledged the report with a nod.
"Excellent. Thank you Mother Brain," replied Gray Voice firmly.
Mother Brain hovered in front of Samus, "Greetings Aran, Samus." Mother Brain's electronic voice had a female accent, Samus felt comfortable thinking of it as a motherly tone.
Samus looked into the single lens of the mechanical orb, examining the blue glow from within.
"Samus, Mother Brain keeps track of data and reports on Zebes, our aurora unit."
Suddently, Samus gave a big laugh, causing the floating orb to move back, surprised by Samus' unpredictable reaction.
"Pardon miss, what do you find humorous?" Mother Brain asked.
"You sound like my mother's GPS on her car."
Mother Brain's human-less characteristics prevented it from feeling insulted by an aurora being compared to a GPS system.
"I'm afraid I don't understand the humor in this." Mother Brain flashed its blue glow brighter as it spoke.
Before Samus could go into detail as to help the emotionless AI understand, Old Bird clanked his staff on the floor, catching Samus' attention.
"Samus, we have something for you. We found it lying beside you when you were found."
Old Bird walked across the room to a self-opening door, and entered in. He returned with a white, furry object in his hands.
Samus' eyes widened with excitement. "Pyonchi! You found Pyonchi!"
Samus didn't wait for the Chozo to extend the creature to her, she merely snatched it from his possession before he had ceased moving.
Now Samus had a piece of home with her, she could more easily pass the pain of her lost loved ones with her furry friend and Bird Grandpa.
Samus was raised as well as any Chozo child would be, receiving the knowledge of the Chozo and the universe taught from their perspective. She was also trained in extreme land combat. Old Bird told Samus she was doing this to fulfill what the Chozo couldn't afford to anymore, be the protector of the galaxy.
Samus had lost her mother and her dragon-born brother, that was all the fuel she needed to accept her responsibility placed upon her.