The sword was quickly removed by the owner. "Markell!" Megtan roared. She threw a shockwave at him, but it was easily deflected. She ran close to him brandishing her own plasma based sword. Samus ran to Ralo and checked his wound. "Will you survive?" she asked after her scans indicated he was still alive. "I'll be fine," he said, "Just a small scratch." He chuckled. "I've had worse happen."
Megtan and her father continued to fight. Each sword let off an intense hiss. Each swing connected. "It appears someone has taught you well." Markell said. They backed away. Fury grew in Megtan's eyes. She moved in and swung her sword. Markell parried and threw Megtan off balance. While Megtan staggered Markell moved in for the kill.
A shot went off towards Markell who easily deflected it, but it gave Megtan enough time to recover. "Thanks Samus," she said without taking her eyes off of her opponent, "Would've been the end if this bastard actually got me."
"Bastard?" Markell sounded offended.
"Yes, you fucking arrogant prick!"
"The same arrogant prick who gave birth to you!"
"You did not! My mother brought me into this world!"
Megtan's eyes grew red. "The same mother who taught me how to hold my own in battle!" Samus noticed she started moving, unwillingly, towards Megtan.
"I taught your mother everything she knew!" Markell yelled. "Without me you'd have known nothing!" His eyes were red as well.
"Fuck you! Where were you for me then? Where were you when my mother grew sick?" Metal started to pull inward. "Where were you at her funeral?"
Megtan rushed in. Markell countered. More intense hisses. Samus kept getting pulled towards the fight, along with other metal objects. "Samus!" She turned to Ralo. "She has the power of magnetism," he said, "Your suit!"
"But I'm not sure about the atmosphere!"
"You'll be fine!"
Samus understood and powered down her suit. She stopped moving. "For fuck's sake," Samus breathed, "that was weird." Ralo looked at her. "You shouldn't intervene yet," he said.
"I'm not," she said, "I need to take care of you first."
"I'll be fine like I said. You can't leave her here."
"But we'll nee-"
"Samus. Seriously. I'll be fine."
The hisses of the swords grew even more intense. It seemed the fight wouldn't end, until… "ARGH!" Megtan roared. Her leg had been deeply cut. Markell walked towards his daughter and let out a sigh. "You had much to learn, but this is the end for you. My daughter." He raised his sword. Just as it was about to come down it was yanked out of his hands. Samus used her whip just in time. The sword dissipated in the air. Megtan let out a howl and threw a shockwave. It connected and sent Markell a few feet. The metal that was being pulled in was left bent and disfigured .Samus ran to Megtan and helped her up. "You'll need medical attention as well." Samus said.
Megtan shook her head. "I have to finish this." "You can't and you don't." She shook Samus loose and limped towards her father who was rising to his feet. She looked back at Samus and winked. Samus nodded.
Markell smiled. It wasn't sincere, but sinister. "You must really want to join her." He said. "I will make it fast if you want." Megtan stopped and took in a deep breath. "The only one that will be seeing her soon is you," she said, "and once you are there I hope she will kill you over and over and over." Markell let out the most menacing laugh. "You are too injured to even try"
"I might be, but she isn't."
Samus rushed forward. Markell readied to throw a shockwave but Samus was too fast and was already in his face landing blows. She cocked back for the final blow and punched him through the doorway. Samus slowly walked in. She looked around. The room she had entered was bigger than what displayed on the 3D model. Computers and tubes everywhere.
She ran to Markell, jumped and tried to land her foot in his face, but he dodged too quickly. "You're pretty good, bounty hunter." His breathing has become more erratic. Samus looked around again. And she spotted what she should have spotted before. Creatures were in the tubes. In some from of liquid. It couldn't be.
"That's not…" she said.
"Phazon? No. This is something even more potent. Something that exists everywhere, in every living thing."
He walked to a button and pressed it. One of the empty tubes opened up.
He ran towards Samus who was caught off guard, picked her up and tossed her in front of the tube. "I'll show you what it can do," he said with a psychotic grin. He rushed towards Samus and almost knocked her in the tube, but was faulted by Megtan who hit him with a shockwave and sent him into the tube.
The doors closed behind him. He knocked and banged on the glass begging to be let out. Liquid started pouring on him. He slowly calmed down and gave a menacing grin. "What the hell?"Samus said. The liquid filled up the tube, but unlike the other it started to be absorbed. "Oh shit!" Samus exclaimed. Markell started to mutate. He grew larger. Samus had a flashback of the Omega Pirates she had to fight when she first learned of Phazon. But Markel didn't turn blue, nor did he have any obvious weak points. He didn't turn one color. "It's just like the plants that I saw." Samus said. He was many colors all at once. That was the key. What brought them here. What their new enemies are using to power their weapons and shields. She'll brief Megtan and Ralo about it. If she can get back to them. I will get back to them, back to Hayden, she thought, Markell let out a roar and broke through the glass. Samus looked at and readied her missiles. Markell charged at her.
Megtan hitched Ralo on her shoulders with all of her remaining strength. "Ugh, we gotta help Samus," Ralo said. Megtan kept walking. "Megtan, please?" She stopped. "We can't do anything but be liabilities for her right now."
"But I don't feel right leaving her behind with your father."
She looked at him.
"Something that we may need to have a discussion about."
"For what reason?"
"Because Samus might trust you, but I can't right now. Not while I see what I see and know what I know."
They both stared at each other intently.
"Can you please," Megtan started, "save it for when we get you in the med-bay?"
Ralo nodded. Megtan started to walk. "I hope Samus will make it out okay."
"Don't worry," Ralo said, "I know she'll be fine."
"Fucking shit!" Samus yelled, picking herself up from the ground. Markell laughed. He lunged towards Samus, but she cleared him by jumping right above him. She charged her beam cannon up. Markell looked up. Samus fired a Super Missile right in his left eye. The beast Markell stumbled back and fell. Samus rushed forward to seize the opportunity. She put her beam cannon in the eye she had just taken out and fired a few shots. Markell growled with pain and flailed. Samus jumped out of the way.
"Damn he's fucking tough." The beast rose and faced Samus and fired a ball of energy at her. It was too fast. Samus was hit by the energy. It felt strange getting hit with that attack. Something she had never felt before in her life. She dropped to her knees gripping her midsection. She didn't have time to recover. Markell was on her and beating her into the ground. Her suit started flashing. Warning. Suit Malfunction Imminent. But she couldn't do anything. Markell had her. She was on Death's doorstep. One more pounding and she would lose all of her weapons, something she didn't want to happen again. She rolled into a morph ball and dodged Markell's foot.
Once she rolled out of range she charged up her cannon again and fired another Super Missile. As soon as she shot it she ran in to close range of Markell and charged up another shot. Markell dodged the first Super Missile, but Samus had closed in on him too much. She slid right next to him and fired another Missile.
Direct hit right in the other eye. Markell once again stumbled back and flailed roaring his head off. Samus thought that she had the fight finished when Markell turned towards her and a third eye opened.
"Alright, we're here," Megtan said to Ralo. Her ship appeared out of nowhere. They both went up into it. She immediately put him in the Med-Bay. Just as suddenly, little machines came out and started working on him.
"Megtan, it appears you need assistance as well", a computerized voice said. "Yeah, Marga," Megtan said, "But make it quick. I have someone I need to help."
Markell shot energy in many forms at Samus the entire time. She couldn't hide. Not from his third eye. Everywhere she tried to hide he would find her in a matter of seconds. "What is it about that damn eye?" Samus wondered. "I can't even put it out like the other two." She ran up to the beast and tried to climb up on him to get a close, direct shot to the eye. This was her fifth attempt. And just like the other four, he flung her off. He let out a piercing howl. Glass shattered everywhere. Samus fell to her knees unable to stand the noise. It was so disturbing that her power suit went offline.
There she was. No armor. No weapons. Completely vulnerable.
This was what Markell was after. He let out what seemed to be some sort of growling laugh. Samus was dazed. She couldn't focus. Ears were ringing and her sight was much disoriented. She could feel the vibrations as Markell rushed towards her. She dodged to the right narrowly avoiding him.
She staggered to her feet. She lost a lot of energy. She couldn't hold herself up and fell back to the ground. Markell, learning his lesson, walked over to Samus, almost as if he was stalking her.
She could sense him, but couldn't do anything. He grabbed her in his monstrous hands, picked her up, and slammed her to the ground. She coughed up blood. He then threw her to a wall, where she stayed, impaled.
Megtan was fully healed. "Nicely done Jovian."
"Megtan, I have lost a power reading from Samus…"
"Shit. I hope I'm not too…"
"She's fading fast ma'am. "
Megtan had shock written on her face. Samus, the famous bounty hunter, dead? No. Not if she could do anything about it.
"Jo, is the I.T. up and running?"
"100% capacity ma'am. Shall I send you back?"
"Yes. I need to get there in less than one second."
She stepped onto the pad.
"Initiating transport in… 1."
And she was gone.
Markell faced his prey. He saw she wasn't moving, but thought it would be a good idea to finish off such a meddlesome foe. He opened his mouth and a light started to shine. Then he heard something crackle behind him, He turned around and saw his daughter.
Megtan gazed at Samus, but then shifted her focus back to her target, fury burning in her eyes.
"I definitely won't call something so hideous 'father'." She said.
Markell roared as if he understood and attacked. Megtan slid underneath, whipped around and pulled many sharp metal objects off their hinges and threw them at the beast. He deflected them all with his arms. When Markell recovered, he realized that the bombardment was just a distraction. Megtan had retrieved Samus from the spike. "Samus?" Megtan said. "Samus, can you hear me?"
Her eyes were shut, irresponsive. But Megtan felt a faint heartbeat and shallow breathing.
Markell roared. Megtan laid Samus down and stood up. "I'll save you, I promise," she said.
Samus opened her eyes. All around her was darkness. The only things she could see were her arms and legs where she had gotten impaled. This wouldn't knock me out though, nor would it put me near death as I am now. She moved her hand toward her chest and felt a gaping hole. Fuck! I can't go out like this! I need to get back to Hayden! Hayden… Hayden? She looked in front of her and there he was. Tears running down his face. "You promised me you'd come home!"
"I will," she said, "I promise."
"But now you're hurt! You're not coming back this time!"
Tears started swelling up in her eyes. "Hayden I swear!"
Hayden started to run. Samus tried to get up, but she couldn't.
Then the darkness around her started to give way to light. Then the light burst forth and blinded her. Then colors burst forth and wrapped around her body. Then, as soon as it came, it disappeared, but the light remained. She looked at her body and noticed that her wounds were gone. Gone! I know what to do!
Megtan and Markell continued to fight. Growls and grunts, moans and groans, roars and yells. All of this while Samus slowly opened her eyes. She mustered up what little strength she had to roll over and crawl her way to a console. IT took almost everything she had to crawl up to view the console and not fall back to the ground. She hit a few buttons and one of the tubes made a hiss and opened. Markell heard it and saw his dying prey trying desperately to get into the tank. Megtan did everything she could to distract him. Then she shot a shockwave at his face. That must have triggered an animal instincts and he charged after her.
Samus successfully got into the tube. It sealed itself shut and the rainbow liquid started to flow upon her. Enveloped her whole. Megtan dodged every attack Markell threw at her. She was holding out as long as possible. And then. . .
A hiss. Samus stepped out of the tube, glowing. Her suit was now every color, every hue. Markell turned to her. Fear arose in his eyes. "Hey big guy." She stepped out. Markell grimaced at her. She had a glow of light pouring off of her. She still looked. . . normal. Markell charged toward her. Samus fired a super missile, without any need to charge up her cannon. Direct hit. Markell fell to the ground, unable to move. All he could do was look at Samus as she walked over to him, and the final thing Markell heard was, "This is for trying to take me away from Hayden." Samus fired another shot. And finally, Markell was put down.
