Chapter 7 "The call to the….tournament?"

Planet Zebes

Before Samus met Cap. Falcon.

Samus's flagship the Gunship was flying at maximum speed entering the atmosphere of the large yellowish planet, inside it was Samus Aran sitting in the cockpit, watching the main screen of the planet in search of any warning that she had been detected by the defenses of the planet.

"I hope the federation pays well for this job" Samus thought as her ship entered the space pirates' zone on the planet, she had recently been hired to infiltrate the planet and destroy the space pirates' base that were on the planet, to tell the truth, she was a little nervous about having to face the pirates not because she is afraid of fighting them, but because of someone in particular that she might run into on this mission.

Coming out of her thoughts Samus observed the large rocky surface of the planet before landing her ship near some caves, once the landing was done and verifying that she had not been detected, Samus put on her suit and left the ship observing her surroundings, the The sky was partly cloudy and there didn't seem to be anyone in sight.

"Okay, time to start the mission" Samus thought before venturing into the caves, once inside she discovered several passages and tunnels infested with creatures and some space pirates, but she eliminated them without any problem and without giving them time to communicate with her allies.

The more she explored the tunnels of the place, the more monsters she found which were quickly eliminated, she also quickly noticed how the whole place was a great maze that connected with various bases throughout the región of the planet.

But it wasn't all bad, she also discovered many powers for his suit including freezing missiles and even the ability to transform her suit into a ball to pass through very small parts, although don't ask how that worked without hurting her because she had no idea.

The more she progressed through the different bases the more it became clear that there was someone else in control of the entire planet and not just the space pirates and her suspicions were correct when while she was trying to reach the hottest region of the planet Norfair, she would be intercepted by a transmission from none other than Mother Brain, a mutant brain-shaped parasite that had the entire planet under its control, this complicated things a bit.

After going through more obstacles, she reached the chamber where Kraid was, a giant creature in the shape of a prehistoric dinosaur, once Samus defeated Kraid and continued advancing through the base, she bumped into someone and things got weird.

"I'm almost to where Mother Brain should be located" Samus thought as she ran down a long corridor to reach the next chamber, some space pirates got in her way, but Samus eliminated them without problem, once she reached the next chamber and there met someone she feared to see again, Ridley.

Ridley descended from the ceiling of the chamber and immediately went on the attack not giving Samus time to process being in front of her parents' killer again, grabbing her Ridley began to slam Samus against the wall repeatedly and then threw her across the room. She quickly recovered and swallowing her nerves, began firing missiles at Ridley.

The battle began to intensify, Ridley was the strongest opponent she had faced to date, Ridley threw his fireballs at Samus who managed to dodge it at the last minute and responded with several shots from her cannon, but they missed their target, the fight continued to develop and this was where things got weird.

Ridley tried to hit Samus with his tail, but she dodged him and fired a missile that hit him in the face, sending him towards the walls of the chamber with force, taking advantage of this opportunity Samus began to load his cannon but before she could fire, a ball of dark energy hit Ridley surprising her because she was sure that they were the only ones here, suddenly a figure descended from the ceiling of the chamber, it was a woman who seemed to have white hair although it was difficult to say it because she was surrounded by a dark energy, she had a sword and a book in each of her hands and she placed herself between Samus and Ridley.

The woman opened her book and said some strange words that she had never heard and suddenly the ground where Ridley was standing catch fire, hurting the space pirate a lot, who roared furiously and after the attack ended, he launched himself towards the woman. Who dodged his attack in a very elegant way and hit Ridley with her sword that when made contact with his body electrocuted him.

Meanwhile, Samus found herself watching the battle behind some rocks, analyzing the newcomer, she was willing to accept help, although she had a feeling that this woman was not helping her, but was simply on a mission, something she could understand, even so, that dark aura that surrounded the woman gave her a bad feeling.

The match continued Ridley and the unknown woman fought with all their might, Well Ridley did, but the woman didn't seem to be trying very hard, in fact, now that she thought about it, Ridley hadn't landed a punch since the match began, the fight followed that same rhythm with the woman dodging Ridley's attacks without problems until finally she launched what seemed like a very fast electric laser that Ridley could not dodge and hit him and the leader of the space pirates fell defeated without moving on the floor.

Samus was surprised at how easy the woman defeated Ridley and then the woman approached Ridley, invoked in her right hand what looked like a metal sphere, and activated a portal that enveloped Ridley and disappeared with him.

"What was that?" Samus thought, surprised by what she just saw, but before she could continue thinking about what had happened, the woman turned and stared at her Samus remained tense, preparing for the worst when without warning, the woman disappeared and reappeared at her side and hitting her with her sword, she let out a scream from the impact and fell to the ground, the woman attacked again, but Samus swept her legs causing the woman to fall and quickly fired a Missile straight into her face.

¡BOOM!

The wave from the explosion sent her backwards, but thanks to her agility, she landed on her feet and looked towards the blast site only to be stunned when the woman looked unharmed.

"If that's what you have I suggest you to give up" the woman said, her voice cold and emotionless.

"Who are you?" Samus asked pointing her cannon at mysterious woman.

The woman didn't respond and disappeared again, reappearing behind Samus, but this time, she was ready and at the moment the woman reappeared behind her, turned and fired another missile at her and immediately followed it up with several rounds of fire shots from Her cannon, the woman dodged the shots and quickly fired a fire spell in her direction, but Samus narrowly dodged.

The woman continued to cast spells of all kinds causing Samus to be overwhelmed by the number of attacks and not having much time to react, she was hit over and over again, until she fell exhausted to the ground, the woman slowly approached her, she had to think of a plan quick.

When the woman got close enough, Samus immediately transformed into her spherical form, activated a-bomb causing an explosion and she manage to move away from the woman, and immediately began charging her cannon.

"I only have one chance" Samus thought as she continued charging her cannon with all her energy, The woman began to charge an attack as well, both charged their attacks to the maximum and fired at the same time.

"Zero Laser/Thoron" they both yelled at the same time and fire their attacks that collided with each other creating a shock wave that destroyed parts of the chamber walls, Samus was focusing all her energy on the laser, she couldn't failed because it was very likely that she would end up like Ridley.

The two attacks seemed even but Samus quickly began to lose ground in her attack, the energy of her suit was going down quick, she had to plan something quickly but what?, the woman's attack was slowly approaching her and the Zero laser was only delaying the inevitable but just when Samus lost all hope of survival, a white light enveloped her and she disappeared from the place in a white flash.

The woman's attack hit the place where Samus had been, she stared at where Samus had been raging, but quickly calmed down.

"Master hand, he got her before me, that shouldn't be possible I thought that the barrier I put around the planet should be enough to prevent his interference" the woman thought as she looked at the combat area, before hearing a noise in the distance.

"Well, it doesn't matter, at least I got one of the objectives" the woman thought before creating a portal with her right hand, but before entering she heard the noise again, it was Mother Brain screaming in the distance, she stopped and a new plan came up to her mind.

"Although perhaps the master will be happier if I bring him another servant" the woman thought with a smile before closing the portal and heading towards the source of the noise.

White Dimension

Samus opened her eyes and found herself in a place where there was nothing no matter where she looked, here everything was White and it took her a while to adjust her eyes to the place, but as she looked at the place and wondered why she had come there, a large figure began floating behind her.

"Samus, nice to see you again" exclaimed a voice, turning around and aiming her cannon at the voice ready to fire until she noticed whom it was, it was the god of creation Master Hand.

"Calm down, you're in a safe place" mentioned the giant hand in a relaxed tone.

"Master Hand? How are you here? "Samus asked confused as she lowered her cannon.

"I know you must have many questions, but right now I summon you because we need your help with something very urgent" exclaimed Master hand before snapping his fingers and creating a portal, showing the woman with whom she had been fighting a few moments ago.

"The woman you were fighting with is in the possession of a being of pure evil energy called Zero" as Master Hand spoke the images that the portal showed changed to that of a man with blond hair and white skin, wearing a cape and two black pistols in his hands.

That man for some reason seemed familiar to Samus, but why? She did not remember seeing him ever in her life

"This man, Zero is a being of great power, me and my brother Crazy Hand thought that we had sealed him a long time ago in a place known as the void dimension" when he said this the images on the portal changed again and showed the void dimension.

"But somehow he managed to manipulate the power of the void dimension and begin to influence various worlds of the multiverse, turning people into his puppets" The images changed again showing how the woman trapped Ridley in a portal of darkness.

"We need your help to prevent him from continuing to manipulate more people in the multiverse or else he could break out of his prison and cause incredible damage to all worlds" again the images on the portal changed to show several worlds being consumed by darkness.

Samus listened carefully in disbelief to what Master Hand said, there really was such a powerful being capable of scaring two beings of great power that she considered gods.

"Do you accept this task?" Master Hand asked Samus pulling her out of her thoughts; she stared at the hand for a while before nodding.

"I'm in, but with such a huge opponent, shouldn't I have my other Friends of the tournament helping me?" Samus asked curiously noting that only the two of them were here.

"Me and Crazy Hand are gathering them and informing each of them on what they must do, but this task has been very difficult for us because in each world that Zero has left his presence our power is momentarily blocked, that is the reason why I couldn't get you out of your universe faster" Master Hand said before snapping his fingers again the Gunship appeared next to them.

"I'm going to send you to look for captain Falcon, but you must be careful, you may find more of Zero's minions when you arrive in his world" after that Master Hand snapped his fingers again and the Gunship shone brightly, Samus looked at this with curiosity.

"I put a magical seal inside your ship; this should protect you from some abilities that Zero's minions may have" Master Hand mentioned.

"Thank you very much, Master Hand" Samus said as she enter her ship once inside her suit glowed brightly and it repaired itself from the damage it had with its energy completely full, she also noticed on one of the walls of her ship the seal glowing brightly, Samus removed her suit and sat in the cockpit of her ship a portal appeared in front of her.

"When you arrive, look for the captain on the nearest planet, you must find him and take him to these coordinates so I can get you out of there, I already feel Zero's energy, try not to face his minions unless it is absolutely necessary to do so and good luck" Master Hand told her and waved Samus.

Samus started her ship's engines and went through the portal disappearing in a bright light.

Unknown Planet - Cave

Samus's hologram stopped after she finished telling her story, Captain Falcon was left meditating after what he had heard an enemy so powerful that even Master Hand was afraid of him, and it sounded too incredible to believe if not for the fact that he just heard it.

"That's why we must hurry and get to the coordinates that Master Hand told me, so we can get out of here unharmed" Samus mentioned, pulling him out of his thoughts.

"Well let's get going then," the captain exclaimed enthusiastically with a confident smile.

"Aren't you a little nervous about what might happen?" Samus asked.

"Of course not, these last 10 year's everything in my life has become very monotonous and now I have the opportunity to help my old friends to save the multiverse, what is cooler than that" the captain exclaimed while making a superhero pose.

Samus let out a laugh as she saw how excited the captain was about the adventure that awaited them ahead. Suddenly they both heard several footsteps approaching them. They both got into a fighting stand thinking that Mewtwo and Ridley had found them, but it turned out to be a group of green aliens with a humanoid appearance that approached them pointing their guns at them.

"Who are you?" Samus exclaimed pointing her cannon at them as the captain found himself surprised as he recognized that race of aliens, which meant he was here.

"Very well done guys, hello again captain Falcon long time no see" exclaimed a green alien taller than the others he had an orange armor on his chest and two metal plates on his legs along with red boots.

"Pico, what are you doing here? Don't tell me you're working with Goroh" asked the captain.

-Character Analysis-

Pico - He is an alien of 134 years old, it is said that he was an assassin before entering the racing business, His racing machine is the Wild Goose, although due to his erratic way of running he caused a great Accident in F-Zero racing, someone have to take away his driver's license.

"I knew that working with him was going to be a pain, although I guess it work out since you're here now" Pico said before moving in front of his men and pulling out his own weapon.

"And what exactly do you want us for?" Samus asked coldly making the captain shudder; he had forgotten what her voice sounded like when she was serious.

"I have a client who wants both of you, unfortunately alive, so why don't they come calmly so no one gets hurt" Pico said as he and his men pointed their weapons at them to which Samus and the captain just looked at each other and they both nodded their heads before looking back at their enemies.

"Try it" said Captain Falcon and immediately the enemies opened fire, quickly Samus transformed into her spherical form and began to roll towards two minions near her then she returned to her normal form and hit one of the minions while shooting at the other.

Captain Falcon dodged the shots as he ran towards Pico and hit him in the stomach and tried to hit him again on the head, but Pico recovered quickly grabbing his fist and hit him with his right hand on the cheek, the captain did a somersault to gaining distance and took out his pistol shooting at Pico who dodged the shot returning one of his own.

Samus kept attacking the minions with great ease, it was not her first time facing multiple enemies at the same time and these men were not as well trained as her, so she very easily began to get rid of the minions without even being hit by one of their shots.

Captain Falcon and Pico continued their confrontation each trying to disarm the other in order to have the advantage, but despite the fact that the captain had better training, Pico's unpredictability in his movements made it difficult to hit him with a decisive blow but eventually the captain was able to get close enough to take his weapon and throw it out of reach.

"Don't think you've beaten me, captain" Pico exclaimed before pulling a knife from his pocket and cutting the captain's right arm, forcing him to move away.

"I have a mission to accomplish and I will do it no matter what" said Pico before attacking the captain with his knife, Captain Falcon had to stay on the defensive but even so he suffered several more cuts on his body, although not as deep as the one first.

However, Pico was too distracted to notice a shot that was coming towards him and hit him in the back sending him crashing against one of the walls of the cave, Samus approached and stood next to the captain.

"Captain we have to go before Mewtwo and Ridley know that we're here" exclaimed Samus to which Captain falcon nodded.

"It was a pleasure to dance with you Pico, but it's time to say goodbye," Captain Falcon said before releasing a smoke bomb, taking advantage of this opportunity they began to run further into the cave.

Pico got up from the rubble and when the smoke cleared he saw that both Samus and captain Falcon were nowhere to be seen, enraged he turned to his minions to give orders only to watch as they all lay unconscious having been defeated by Samus very easily.

"¡It can't be!" Pico exclaimed furiously, he could not fail, he simply could not, who knows what his client would do to him if he did not capture Captain Falcon and his friend, he quickly picked up his pistol from the ground and prepared to chase his victims.

"I have to find them ¡Now!" Pico whispered but before leaving, he found himself unable to move and was suspended in midair.

"I'm afraid your services are no longer required" exclaimed a voice causing Pico to cringe in Fear and see how Mewtwo and the space pirate Ridley approached from the shadows.

"Wait, just give me a few more minutes, I'm almost have them" Pico pleaded, but was interrupted by a roar from Ridley that silenced him, Mewtwo slowly approached until they were face to face.

"Goroh failed us and now you do it too" Mewtwo said as he looked at all of Pico's minions defeated on the ground before looking him in the eye again. "and we do not accept failures"

Saying this, Ridley began to approach him and stabbed him in the arm with his tail, causing Pico to scream in pain as he continued to beg again.

"Ridley go and chase Samus and Captain Falcon" Mewtwo said without looking at him, to which Ridley snapped his tail out of Pico´s arm causing him to let out another scream and flew further into the cave.

Mewtwo lifted Pico higher as he too levitated before creating a dark portal and ignoring Pico's pleas he flung him into the portal, then closed it and headed in the direction Ridley had gone.

Meanwhile Samus guided captain Falcon with her visor through the cave looking for a way out to the surface to escape from Pico and his man But more importantly thinking how to avoid Mewtwo and Ridley once they reach the surface.

"We have to find a way to escape this planet, but without my ship, doing so will be a problem" Samus said as she moved at high speed and analyzed the different paths so as not to lead them both into a dead end.

"I think I have an idea" exclaimed the captain moving quickly behind her "Pico´s machine, if we can find it we could use it to get out of here"

"That might work, but where could he have left his machine, we don't know how long he was following us" Samus said and before the captain could reply, they heard a familiar roar coming up behind them.

"Ridley!" they both thought at the same time as they continued advancing through the various tunnels of the cave, Ridley had to stop flying due to the narrowness of the cave, but even so he was fast and was gaining ground by the second.

Samus continued to analyze the paths of the cave and luckily find one that leads them to the surface.

"Captain to the right that takes us up to the surface again" Samus exclaimed, the captain nodded and followed her they could still hear Ridley's footsteps and grunts behind them.

They rushed down the path as fast as they could until they finally surfaced again at the foot of a mountain, they didn't stop there they kept running until they had more distance from the entrance of the cave, unfortunately they had no place to hide Because they ended up in a valley.

Ridley came out of the cave roaring as he began to fly through the air, observing his surroundings; he saw Samus and the captain in the middle of the valley and flew in their direction.

Samus and Captain Falcon ran through the valley looking for a place to hide and figure out how to find Pico´s machine when they heard Ridley's roar and saw him coming towards them quickly. Samus started shooting at him with her cannon, but Ridley dodged the shots and with his claws rushed to attack her, but was knocked out of the air by Captain Falcon who intervened just in time.

Ridley fell to the ground and got up angrily releasing another roar, Falcon and Samus got into their fighting poses, the space pirate lunged at them dodging a shot from Samus and using his claws to attack Falcon at high speed who wasn´t able to react to the attack in time.

"Captain!" Samus screamed, getting distracted for a few seconds, to which Ridley took the opportunity to grab Samus and fly with her through the sky, both rose to a great height while Samus tried to free herself from her clutches.

Captain Falcon recovered from the blow and saw with surprise how Ridley had Samus captured in his claws while flying through the skies, he had to think of a plan to help her but he couldn't fly and he couldn't summon his own machine because they were too far away from it if he could find Pico's machine he could help her.

While looking for a way to try to help Samus, Falcon noticed an unusual glow behind some trees approaching and discovered that it was Pico's machine.

Samus was in trouble Ridley wouldn't let go no matter what she did and his claws were slowly piercing her suit, she needed to think of a way to get free before Mewtwo entered the battle, suddenly Ridley was hit by a shot that made him let go and she began to fall to the ground but was caught by a machine that flew below her and saw that she was in a cabin next to Captain Falcon who was piloting the machine.

"I caught you just in time, Now let's get out of here" the Captain said before heading at high speed towards the coordinates that Samus had mentioned to him, but Ridley followed them with his great speed shooting his fireballs towards the ship.

"We're going to have to get rid of Ridley" Samus said before opening the cockpit and aiming her cannon at Ridley, this surprised the captain.

"Samus, what are you?"

"!Keep Flying! I'll take care of it" Samus shouted as she charged her shot, focusing on Ridley, she had to wait for the perfect moment.

While this was happening Mewtwo left the cave and looked around to see where Ridley went, until he heard his roar and looking at the sky he saw two small points leaving the planet, Mewtwo immediately began to fly in that direction.

Captain Falcon kept heading towards the coordinates while still dodging more shots from Ridley, Samus still charging her cannon waiting to land a finishing blow.

"Samus, we are going to enter space at any moment!" captain Falcon yelled.

"!Give me a minute!" Samus replied as he kept pointing at Ridley.

The ship lurched as it was hit by Ridley's attack causing it to plummet for a few seconds, but Captain Falcon was able to quickly recover the ship and continue flying off the planet.

"Samus, how much more!?" scream again the captain.

"When I yell now turn left," Samus said as she focused even more energy into her cannon.

Ridley was rapidly approaching the ship while loading more fireballs to shoot it down, but before he could, Samus scream.

"Now!"

The machine immediately took a sharp left turn and before Ridley could readjust, he saw in surprise how Samus was aiming her fully charged cannon at him and unleashed a powerful shot that hit him full on causing him to plummet towards the planet. Samus sat back inside while the captain quickly closed the cockpit and accelerated faster into space towards the planet's moon.

"Haha, that was great, worthy of a Captain's adventure," Falcon exclaimed with a laugh.

"Let's not claim victory yet, we have to get to the coordinates soon," Samus said before relaxing a bit in her seat.

"At this rate we'll be there in two minutes" the captain said as he looked at the screen to the coordinates.

The rest of the trip was calm, but just before reaching the coordinates, the ship suddenly stopped, Samus and the captain were surprised by this and suddenly they heard a voice.

"I finally reached you, time to end this game" said a very angry Mewtwo who used his Psychic powers to stop the machine.

"Oh great the alien got us" said the Captain

"I told you I'm not an Alien! I'm a pokemon!" Mewtwo said angrily

"Alien? Falcon, you remember what a pokemon is, right?" asked Samus confused

"Of course, I just like to upset him"

"Silence!" Mewtwo yelled and approached the ship positioning in front of the cabin to observe them both.

"I'm going to take you to my master" Mewtwo said as he used his powers to open a portal, but before he could do anything, the ship began to shine brightly something that Mewtwo recognized.

"No!" Mewtwo yelled, but he couldn't do anything as the machine along with the captain and Samus disappeared, which caused him to yell in fury as he knew that he had failed.

White Dimension

Samus and the captain suddenly appeared in an empty void where there was nothing but white as far as the eye can see, a place that Samus recognized.

"We did it, we reached the White dimension" Samus exclaimed with relief before getting out of the machine, however the captain took longer to get out because he was surprised by this place, it was one thing to hear about it, but to see it with his own eyes was incredible.

Leaving the machine, he stayed close to Samus as he continued to gaze at the place in astonishment, both of them suddenly felt a presence behind them when they turned around saw Master Hand who was waiting for them.

"You two arrived safely, well done Samus" Master hand said before addressing the captain "Captain Falcon it's good to see you again, I hope Samus has brought you up to date on what's going on"

"That's right, and while I still have doubts about the situation, I'm in to kick some ass," the captain said enthusiastically.

"We are going to meet with the others, so that we can explain to everyone what is happening" Master Hand said and Snapped his fingers causing them to be wrapped by Light and when it disappeared they saw that they were surrounded by familiar and strange faces and Crazy hand was in the room, but before they could say anything Crazy Hand spoke.

"It's about time you got here" Crazy Hand exclaimed before snapping his fingers and a huge screen appeared in front of all of them, Master Hand positioned himself next to his brother.

"I know that many will wonder why you are here, so let us explain what is happening and why we all need cooperate to save the entire multiverse" said Master hand and Crazy hand both snapped their fingers at the same time and the screen began to shine.

"It's time to tell all of you who Zero is"

End

Continue in "The threat for the multiverse"