Coded Messages: Ridley's Plea

by theclownsarethere

After the events of metroid 1, Ridley reaches out to Samus in an attempt to break free of mother brain during her second uprising. This piece is told in a series of e-mail like messages between the two as they battle away, but come to a greater understanding of each other.

42. Chapter 42

Message #42.

To: Ridley.

From: Samus Aran.

Subject: Where We Fall.

I don't much care anymore Ridley, for anything at all. It's all become automatic for me; I have no one in my life anymore, I have no one but those who continue to haunt me. I know not where I will go, but I feel like this moment of realization will pass, to be assumed by my stone hard mind again.

I can't take that Ridley. I can't go back to not thinking again for so long, yet I've only begun to feel different at all. I know I feel noble in what I do, but there are times like these where I see something else, as if all my work is sickening. Yet when I share my story society will praise me if I defeat you and your people. I have to play out that story, if I resist it I don't know what will happen. I can't be the darkness, I can't hide from the truth. I have to fight and fight more, there is never time to think, time to do anything but fight…