The first thing that Samus Aran noticed when she arrived at the space Pirate base was the lack of Space Pirates. She slowly and carefully she brought her ship into the docking bay. She thought maybe it was booby trapped. She stepped out, and shot the blue door in front of her, the several metal pieces that made up the door slid open. She ran in, hoping she wouldn't get greeted with a Space Pirate. She didn't see any. The door in front of her was unlocked, and she shot it open. The room was rather large, about 35 feet tall, and it had a second level to it. Just then, several Shadow Pirates dropped from the ieling, followed by a trio of Power, Wave, and Ice Troopers. Samus' eyes widened, she prepared a Charge Beam, and released it at the Power Trooper.
Right after she fired, a Shadow Trooper hit her in the back. She yelled out in pain. The other Pirates started to fire at her as well. She dodged to the side quickly, and charged up an Ice Shot, and activated her Missles, mixing them with the Ice Beam. She fired at the Ice Trooper, and it froze right there. She ran to it and swiped at it with the Arm Laser. It shattered, its suit leaving behind Missle Ammunition. The Troopers continued to fire, so she flipped backwards, while charging the Power Beam, and let it fly with 5 Missles, forming a Super Missle. It knocked the Power Trooper on its back. She ran up to it, ready to finish it with the Arm Laser, but a Shadow Pirate leaped in front of her, hitting her in the head with its arm. Staggering backwards, the other Shadow Pirate hit her as well. She tried to regain her balance, but they kept hitting her back and forth. Finally, she jumped up, and grabbed on to the Shadow Pirate's head, and shot a missle into it. Samus felt a piercing zapping, "AAHHHHHHH!" She yelled out in pain.
She looked over to her side, and saw the Wave Trooper, charging up another shot. She Grappled onto the Shadow Pirate, and flung it torwards the Wave Trooper, leaving none of them in the way of her getting rid of the Power Trooper. She went to it and stabbed it in the chest, killing it. She then turned to the remaining two Pirates. They ran to the wall, and pressed hand signer identifications. Two containers opened up in the wall, and the Pirates pulled out Genadier systems. They each flung them at Samus. She tried to get away, but she was too close to the blasts, and she took staggering damage. 3 Energy Tanks were gone. She charged up a Wave Beam, and fired it at the Wave Trooper. It was stunned for a moment, which gave her time to charge it up again. Then she finished it off with another charge shot, and focused on the Shadow Trooper, which had a readied Genadier shot. It blasted it at Samus, but she kicked it back, and it wiped out the Shadow Pirate. The door leading to the next room was now unlocked. She opened the door, and walked into the next room, only to find a hallway, nothing more.
She looked and saw doors all up and down the hall, they were rooms for Space Pirates to live in. She looked through the glass on the doors, and saw nothing in them. She was worried that all the Pirates had gathered, and they may all strike at once. She went furthr down the hall, seeing nothing. Eventually, she saw a room, on the door, it read: Commander's Office. She kicked down the door, and saw the Pirate Commander sitting at a desk. "Samus Aran, hello." He said. "Yeah... hi." Samus said. "Let me guess, you want to know where Ridley is being created. I will tell you, if you swear to spare me." He said. "Fine." Samus said.
"The device that continuously makes Ridley clones is in the Labs." He lied. He knew she would go down there, and run into Retry on the way.
"I will do as promised, and leave you be." She said. She walked away, with one thing on her mind, revenge.
Ten minutes later...
The Commander saw Samus was gone, and opened a Com Link with Mikerus. "Have you reached the Labs yet?"
"Yes, I am here, formation of Retry is at 39%"
The Commander smiled, "Good, what about the Weakness system?"
"Yes, that is installed as well, soon he will be vulnerable to only Ice, but they say retry will have the power to steal her abilities on his first attack. he will be able to then upload them into the machine that upgrades the Ridley clones."
He smiled, "Perfect. Soon, she will be killed by retry, so... um... what shape is he taking?"
"Oh, it is unknown how it will turn out the scientists are still testing- Wait, did you say 'he'?"
"Yes, Retry is a male." The Commander said, "I am sorry for not telling you sooner."
"Well, Commander, I have to go now, I will check on the Ridley clone army."
"Excellent." He ended the Com Link.
Meanwhile, in the halls...
Samus finally came to a door, it glowed blue, showing that she could shoot it with any beam and it would open. She opened it, and walked in. The room she entered was an elevator system. She stepped into the hologram, and the holographic image of the elevator changed to red. The image turned into a holographic screen that read:
Identify yourself immediately or suffer instant termination. Enter code: _ _ _ _ _ _
Samus thought for a moment, and entered RIDLEY. The screen disappeared, and the elevator started to go down. For about five minutes, she was waiting for it to come to a stop. She reached her destination, and stepped off. From the walls, red alarm lights came out. The room took on a red glow. "Elevator self-destruction imminent. Have a nice day." Samus shot the door in front of her, and ran through. A huge blast of fire engulfed the room, and the force flung Samus forward. She got to her feet, checking her Energy Tanks. Three of them were gone, not empty, gone.
"How the hell did the explosion destroy the very tanks themselves. That isn't possible." Samus said out loud. She heard a rustlig from under a table. She walked over to it, and lifted up the table. Under it was a Space Pirate, but it was not wearing its normal attire, it was clad with white armor, showing it is a scientist Pirate. Samus prepared to shoot it, but she was hit from behind by a blast. She turned around and saw three Commando Pirates all with readied Arm Lasers. One sped up to her and hit her suit with the laser. She charged up her Ice Beam, and shot it at one of the Pirates. It tried to move back, but the ice was covering most of its body, so it was unable to move. Samus shot at it with the Wave Beam, electrocuting it and scrambling its sysem. The other two tried to help their injured bretheren, but were unable to help, for Samus had Grappled onto one and pulled it behind her, then flung it at the other Pirate. With all three of them down, Samus focused mainly on the three downed Commando pirates. This gave the Pirate scientist a chance to escape. He fled through the door, and ran to the next door, locking each one. he finally reached the Retry Formation Lab. "Samus is in the Labs! She is only three rooms away! How powerful is Retry?" He yelled.
Mikerus' eyes widened, "What? Retry doesn't have enough time, if she attacks then, he will be doomed." Lanerith, one of the scientists, said "Retry is 99% formed. She will not be able to kill him, he will be at his living form soon." "That's... reassuring. Do you have any weapons, three Commandoes saved my life, I wish to help them in turn." Nederith, the pirate that had just survived an encounter with Samus, said. "We have a few powerful weapons, they will be unable to help them, by now, they are probably dead. I am sorry." Jotheril said. "Retry... what does it mean?" Mikerus said, finally building up the nerve to ask. "It is a species, if a Metroid is mutated to a form where they resemble a humanoid form, they are called Retry. He is the first of them, so we decided to name him Retry." Lanerih explained. "But what makes him so powerful? Everyone is saying he can kill Samus, but how? How can he kill the Hunter?" Mikerus said. "Well," said Lanerith, "why don't you ask him?"
At that moment, the tank of Phazon had two bright, shining orbs. All of them gasped, because the orbs were eyes. In he tank, the Metroid was no more, but now they could see a shape, one that surprised them, for Retry's form was rather surprising.
The last one died. Samus had reflected its attack back at it, killing it. She saw the door unlock, and walked through. In the next room, sh didn't see any Pirates, just a locked door. She walked up to it, and it opened. She thought it was surprisingly easy, but she entered the door anyways. In the room, she saw the door unlocked. she walked over to it, and it said: Retry Lab Room. Samus wondered aloud "What the hell is Retry?" Suddenly, a familiar voice boomed "Thats for me to know and for you to die before finding out."
Samus turned around and saw an electrical form of Ridley standing behind her. "Hey, watts up?" It said. Samus quickly scanned it, and it hit her while the data file was loading. All it said was ElectRidley. It flew up into the air, and Samus knew she had to fight it. "Well, guess I gotta fight him. Again" She thought.