S/N: Some of the years are being changed for, in my opinion, realistic time frame of events. Sorry if it bothers you, but since the whole space age part starts at 2003 in the series, I can't very we'll do that, now can I?

Chapter 2 I'm...in a game?

I raised my hands, scared out of my mind.

"Why are you here?" The person questioned again. The voice...sounded like a woman's, though I wasn't sure.

"I-I'm not sure!" I told her, telling her the truth. I stepped backwards, and almost tripped over the strange orb.

"That doesn't explain anything!" The woman yelled out again.

"I don't know!" I yelled back. "I woke in a ship a few rooms that way!" I pointed the direction I had come from. "If you don't believe me I'll take you back there. The computers broken, but the note's still there!"

She stared at me for a second, before lowering her canon.

"Show me," She commanded. I stared at her for a second, before nodding. I turned around, jumping back over the orb.

I jumped off of the strange thing holding the orb, and towards the door. I pulled out my sword, slashing it again. The door flew open. The woman followed me through the door. We both jumped from the door to the platform.

"That's a strange Ronin model," The woman stated.

"Ronin model?" I questioned, as we jumped off of the platform.

"The model of your suit, I haven't seen that version." We were at the ship, and I pressed against the door. It opened up slowly.

"Neither have I. I woke up with it on me. I had no clue what the hell anything on me was." I pulled up my sword. "Wasn't even sure what this was."

"That, I wasn't sure on. Like your suit, it's a different model."

We walked through the hallway, the rest of the way in silence. I kicked the next door, which flew open. It was the room that I had been in before, when I woke up. I moved to where the hole in the wall was. I quickly pulled out the note, then handed it to her.

She read though it, while making sure to keep an eye on me as she did.

"This makes barely any sense," The woman stated.

"You're telling me, I woke up in that thing," I said, as I pointed to the machine.

"That thing?" She pointed at it as well. I nodded. "That's a cryogenic freezer. It's meant for people keeping people alive without aging them by having them frozen."

I stood still, frozen to the ground. The woman was trying to speak to me, but I couldn't hear here.

"Wha-what year is it?" I asked, slowly.

"2585, why?"

"...I'm from 2014," I told her plainly.

"Wait, what?"

"My guess is I was frozen over five-hundred years ago. That explains my lack of knowledge, doesn't it?" I said to her.

"Why would you be frozen?"

"That, I don't know. The last thing I remember is beating a game in my time. That's it. Next thing I know, I'm waking up inside of that thing. The computer said something about help coming and try and survive."

"Hmph, if that's true then just stay out of my way," The woman said. She turned around, and was ready to walk away.

"My name's James. What's yours?" I asked her. She turned to me. She gave me a glare, that I was able to see though her helmet.

She was at the door, ready to leave before she responded.

"Samus," She said plainly, as she walked through the door. It closed behind her, leaving me standing in the middle of the room.

"Samus, why does that sound so..." My eyes opened wide. "From the fucking game?" I questioned aloud.

No that can't be right. I thought. How could I be in a fucking video game! I grabbed my head, as I looked to the door. How is this possible! I screamed. I heard a strange sound, and decided that it would be best to leave.

First priority, getting out of here as fast as possible. Second priority, figure out what the hell is going on.

I nodded to myself, as I moved to the door. I kicked it roughly, getting the door to open. I walked as fast as I could, though the hallway. I sliced the other door with my sword, surprised to see that it was cut in half, unlike all the other doors.

I pushed it aside, with strength that was only slightly stronger then my normal one. I took off running, finding that I was moving far faster then I could without the suit. I saw the platform. I jumped, easily making it onto the platform.

There was another turtle on it, so I sliced it in half with ease. I moved to the door, jumping again. I grabbed onto the ledge, and climbed up. I sliced at the door, sending it open.

I could see Samus was crouched down at the strange orb. In a second, I saw the orb absorbed by her suit. She moved away from it. I followed her, mainly because it was the only way to go. She turned back, and looked at me.

I started running, taking off. She stopped, surprised, as I rushed past her.

"The hell are you doing!" She yelled at me.

"Trying to find a damn way off of this place!" I said back, grinning. I didn't see the turtle. I stepped on it, and went backwards.

I heard a sigh from behind me. "I might end up regretting this, but stay by me then. I'll get you a way out of here as soon as I complete my mission," Samus said to me. I nodded to her, as I turned slicing the turtle in half.

I grabbed the purple orb that came out. I felt it sink into my suit again. I continued walking, with her trailing behind slightly.

"So where are you from?" I asked her.

"I was raised here on Zebes," She told me. I gave her a confused look.

"On this dangerous place?"

"It wasn't so dangerous beforehand." I came to a small hole. I sighed as I got down on my hands and knees and crawled through the hole. I turned around, seeing a ball following me. I moved out of the way, as it stopped in front of me.

The ball turned into a suit, and Samus stood up.

"Why were you in that ball?" I asked her.

"Its a function of this suit," She said back.

"Wouldn't it be easier to..you know, just crawl."

"Going into the Morph Ball makes me move faster then I would if I was crawling with this suit," She explained.

I wasn't convinced, but I still nodded as if I was. We continued down the path. We jumped up when necessary, but that was it. We jumped up again, landing right in front of a door. Samus shot it open. I jumped back slightly.

I wasn't expecting that sound. It made more of a boom then I was expecting. Though I heard a electrical shock as well. In the other room there was a strange platform, along with a turtle on it. Samus shot her way through the rock, breaking it apart. The turtle fell and I moved in front of her, slicing it in half.

I moved to the door, opening it as well. I walked into the room, Samus beside me. I didn't look up, and I really should have. Something came crashing down, right where I was. I was sent backwards slightly, but said just close enough for the damn thing to explode on me.

I fell backwards, dazed.

"The hell was that?" I questioned. I looked to the ceiling, seeing two things hanging from it, just staring at me.

"I'm not sure, everything has changed since the last time that I was here," Samus said, looking at the ceiling as well. She fired her cannon at the creatures. Sadly, the beam of energy dissipated by the time that it would have hit the monster.

"I forgot that this suit was incomplete," Samus muttered.

"In complete?" I questioned.

"I trained in the beta version, but that got destroyed. This was to be the final version, but it was never fully completed. The programing for most of the functions was lost. Though judging by finding the Morph Ball programing here, I'm assuming that most of it will be."

Her suit is incomplete, just like mine. I thought. I shook my head, ignoring my own thoughts. We both rushed past the two things that were hanging to the ceiling. They dropped down, trying to hit us but missed. They embedded themselves into the ground, before exploding.

We continued moving, until we got to a tiny gap in the cave, that we would have to move though. I sighed, as I crouched down. Samus turned into a ball, and rolled in ahead me. I crawled behind her, once we were through to the other side, she stood up, out of the ball.

We walked a few feet in silence, until we came to a strange statue.

"What the fuck is that?"

"It's a statue, remains of the people who lived here," Samus stated, with a sigh. "Though it seems to be blocking our path."

I moved forward, sword ready. I slashed across the feet of it, finding the blade bouncing off of it. I stood back, surprised. Samus walked in front of me, aiming her cannon at the statue. She fired into it, multiple times.

Each blasted added another cloud of smoke, that slowly grew and hid the statue. She stopped, and pointed her cannon to the air. The cloud slowly faded, showing the statue, perfectly unharmed. I decided to walk closer to it, examining every single inch of it.

I couldn't find anything strange about it, besides the obvious about its hands. They were held out forward, as if it was to hold something. I sat in the hand, out of curiosity. Nothing happened. I shook my head, as I went to step off.

I tripped, and was started to fall face first. I quickly stuck my hands out, catching myself on the ground. It was something I was good at doing. I fell...a lot. It was rare for me to go a day without tripping. Be it up a staircase or nothing.

I turned around, to see Samus standing in front of the statue. I let myself fall gently to the ground, as I turned to watch what she was doing. She jumped onto the hand like I had done mere seconds before. She crouched down in it, before activating the Morph Ball function of the suit.

It clutched onto her. The statue seemed to come to life. It lit up, turning from stone look, to one of gold. It stood up, before turning back into stone. It sat down, farther then it had been beforehand. A path seemed to appear behind it, making me question the reasons of it being here.

Samus stood up, looking slightly confused. "It marked a place to go on my map."

"Map?" I questioned. She had one of those?

"Yea, it's in my system data, though it's incomplete. It fills itself in as I move along. Your suit should have it as well."

I stared at her blankly. She sighed at me.

"You don't know how to do that, do you?"

I shook my head. She sighed, as she moved to me. With her left hand, she pressed something that was against my right ear, that I hadn't felt before. Suddenly, a map appeared in front of my face.

"..."

"No remark?"

"I feel I've over said my remark to much today," I said plainly. I pressed my hand up to my right ear. The map faded away.

"It'll display it in front of your eyes, just so you know. If you lose the transmitter in your ear, you'll lose your map as well.

"Transmitter?"

"That's what's in your ear. It also has a camera in it, so with the right frequency someone could see and hear everything you do." I nodded. "You don't know what frequency yours is do you?" Again, I nodded. "We'll have to figure it out after we get you off of here."

We climbed over the statue, spotting a door in front of us. We started walking towards it, when I stopped. Something had dawned on me. Samus shot open the door, and was about to walk through, before she stopped. She realized I wasn't following her, and turned around.

"Why aren't you moving," She commanded the answer out of me.

"You said...what I see and hear is being transmitted..." I said slowly.

"Yes, why?"

"You remember the note that was in the room I woke up in?"

"Yes, again, why?"

"Remember the final line of that. 'Goodbye, until we meet face to face, we'll be watching.'"