It was pointless.
Everything Samus Aran, Bounty Hunter of the Stars, has accomplished led to her death.
Well, not everything, just the major things.
The Metroids, the X Parasites, Ridley, Leviathans.
The New Federation was at fault, wanting to harness the power of the Phazon, they kept an infant Leviathan alive.
Worst, wanting to recreate the Powered Armorsuit the Chozo invented, they used the pieces of Samus' suit they had left over, and attempted to make another PED out of it.
With experimental Phazon, they discovered how to Warp and Alter Time.
Then, the expected happened, they messed up.
Like they always do.
The Suit parts, after coming in contact with the New Phazon, went back in time far enough to bring back the X Parasite infection to it. More specifically, SA-X.
The Phazon itself also went back in time, to when it was Corrupted. It brought back Dark Samus.
In an explosion of the worst combination, of a virus and an energy source, both of which share similar goals, infect, corrupt and destroy. Mixed with the DNA of the Chozo from the Suit made with the ability to adapt to anything.
Dark Samus Aran X, or just DSA-X, was born.
She then destroyed the New Federation, infected planets with her powers, brought back all the Ridleys she could, and infected them to be her slaves.
And poisoned Samus Aran.
Her body was shutting down, from vomiting Phazon to passing out, she could no longer work, she couldn't even activate her Suit.
Her insides were a mess.
The Phazon was mindless, unlike the X Parasite, it didn't target anything, it just overcharged everything.
The Metroid blood fighting the X Parasite, and the X Parasite itself.
It was killing her and keeping her alive.
As Samus was on the ground, the clacking sound of metallic boots were heard walking towards her.
"Look at you now, Sammy. A pathetic girl who can't even stand." A metallic voices taunted with an echo.
Samus glared up, blue Phazon dripped from her eyes, she opened her mouth to retort, but vomited instead.
"Don't worry, I'm here to make sure you won't find a miracle cure and stop us."
The charge up of her Arm Cannon was louder than Samus had ever heard.
Samus, not one to accept death, did the only thing she could think of, she slammed her palm into her vomit and forced the Phazon to overload itself.
The ground exploded and Samus was sucked into space.
As she drifted, she gazed at the Federation's wrecked armada and the army of Mutated Monsters.
The ships and monsters were both bathed in blue and yellow ooze.
The temperature of space didn't kill her right away, it only prolonged her suffering.
The blood of the Metroids altered her normal body temperature, but now hyped up on Phazon, it couldn't regulate anything.
The vacuum of space was another issue, because of the constant regeneration and degeneration of her body, the Virus' didn't care if she died.
Her eyes locked on to the Figure looking through the hole she made.
The Figure was still charging up their Arm Cannon.
"Hey Sammy." A female voice that sounded like her own spoke in her head. "Don't worry, I'm not searching for a worthless bounty hunter right now, just thought you should know what kills you."
The Figure waved her Arm Cannon. "Your little show of pointless resilience, gave me a thought. You read the report, I was born from an explosion, the Phazon and X Parasite reacted poorly with each other, but why?" The voice asked.
Samus tried to do anything, she couldn't.
"They both want control, they both want to infect the entirety of the subject, now, I don't want any more unexpected results after I shoot you with this. So..." She trailed off as the Beam turned a bright neon green.
The ooze on the ships and monsters started to combine into the same color.
"I'm going to make them one virus, I think I'll call it 'X Phazon', not really creative but it does the job. If this doesn't kill you, then enjoy life as a glob of pain."
She fired.
But an explosion from the ship altered the intended path, the Beam went straight into a Leviathan.
"Why does killing you have to be so difficult." The Figure groaned and reached out her arm to the Leviathan
Nothing visible happened.
"What!?" The Figure shouted as the Leviathan exploded.
Samus watched as the shockwaves altered the fabric of Time.
'Oh, must have had that new Phazon they found. Ha.'
Some ships turned to dust and others were repaired.
The shockwaves went in every direction and ripped holes in Space, the natural ability of the Leviathan was to make Wormholes, add that to the Time altering Phazon, and we have the end of the universe if it continued.
All the displaced matter and holes caused explosions and implosions, somewhere among those, a Black Hole was formed.
Only this Black Hole was void of color, even black, the only indication it existed was the massive number of objects swarming into a single location and crumbling into a pocket of nothing.
"This is all your faul-" The Figure was silenced as a rift swallowed her.
Samus had no idea why she remained stationary as all this happened, but then again, she wasn't an expert on how physics worked when Space and Time broke.
When she started gravitating to the Black Hole, a brief wave of panic flooded her mind, before she accepted her fate, there was nothing else she could do, everything was hopeless. She failed.
If she could have cried right now, she would've.
As she was deconstructed, the universe corrected itself.
Everything that happened there, never happened.
Everyone that was there, Never existed.
That Location was clipped from Space.
Then things fell back into place.
Samus was dead.
Right?
Then why could she feel grass, hear the wind, see a bird watching her?
"I-I'm alive?" Samus questioned as she sat up.
She looked down to her hands to confirm she was a living human being, well, technically one third human.
She saw her hands.
And she wasn't wearing her Zero suit.
No, she was wearing fingerless black leather gloves.
She looked at the rest of her clothes.
Boots.
Knee pads.
Pants.
Holstered Pistol.
Green button shirt over Orange tank top.
She was in her Academy clothes.
'Oh no.'
She reached her hand up to her hair hesitantly and confirmed its size.
"Well, just because I'm dressed up, doesn't mean I am sixteen agai- Gah! I even sound sixteen!" She shouted to no one.
The bird flew off.
Samus clutched her head in her hands and sighed.
"What even happened?" She pondered.
Memories of the event were hazy, probably because she hasn't actually experienced them yet, but she got the gist.
She looked at her body again.
"I don't... Am I?... What?..." She couldn't wrap her head around the sensation she was feeling.
Normally she pulled from inside herself, and her Power Suit would manifest on her, but this time she pushed.
Luminescent green veins crawled up her arms.
She didn't freak out.
It felt calming.
It was disturbing.
She stood up, walked to a tree, and place her hand on the surface of the tree.
The green veins remained on her and only her.
"Glad to see it's not spreading."
She applied a little pressure to push herself off the tree, and toppled it.
"Oh, this planet is weak, speaking of planets, were am I?" She looked around but couldn't see any signs of intelligent life.
"Okay Sam, let's go over the list, breathable atmosphere, flora, fauna, and..."
Samus looked up at the sky and saw the Moon.
"And... a broken Moon...yeah I'm lost."