Space.
Seth finally saw the end of the portal nearing. He could see that he was entering the vacuum of space. Luckily Blaze saw this and she activated her Space Travel feature. A mask appeared covering up Seth mouth and he could feel air inside of his mask. Suddenly Seth now saw an Orange planet appear in front of him. He noticed an orbiting space station just a little bit in front of him.
Seth had never been in space before so this felt so odd to him. It was hard for him to get used to the feeling of flying into space, but humans learn pretty quickly.
Seth made his way to the Frigate Orpheon. As soon as. He entered the force field that protected the ship, be was locked in.
"So they want to keep me inside." Seth said as he started to move through the space station.
Seth came across a blue door. He brought out one of his pistols and shot an energy blast from it. The door opened and Seth entered. He started to make his way towards the inner part of the station, but Seth entered a room filled with space pirates. Seth was full of excitement. It was an alien. A real alien.
"Ah Hello, I come in-Shit!" Seth yelled as the pirates opened fire.
"Hey I'm try to be nice." Seth said as he moved out of the way of the space pirates energy shots. The pirates didn't even stop. Suddenly the pirates began to speak. Blaze began to analyze the speech patterns and was able to decode the space pirate language.
"Seth listen to this." Blaze said as she translated what the space pirates were saying.
"Destroy the intruder!" Was all Seth heard. It kept saying this.
"I guess they don't come in peace." Seth said as he began to open fire at the space pirates. The pirates were being destroyed.
Seth opened fire on two pirates and their heads exploded. Seth rushed towards a pair of pirates with an energy blade out. He cut then in half and green blood started to gush out of them. One pirate tried to stab Seth with a space pirate energy dagger, but Seth blocked it and then blew the pirate's brains out to the back side of his head. Seth was getting sick of all the pirates. He locked on to several random location and unleashed his noise missiles. The missile damaged the surround area.
Meanwhile.
An orange hunter-class ship had just arrived at the Frigate Orpheon. A bounty hunter known as Samus Aran came here on a mission from the galactic federation. Her mission is to wipe out the possible space pirate colony on Tallon IV. She jumped out of her ship in her Chozo Powersuit. She began to notice that there was a clear path of destruction. As a trained bounty hunter she knew how to track a person, and she was one of the best. Even if she was only sixteen.
She began to follow the path of destruction and soon enough she heard the sound of a nearby combat. She began to get closer to the sound and soon she saw a black figure holding up a space pirate. It was speaking in the native language of the space pirates. This was very disturbing as not even the best of the galactic federation translators could crack the language.
"Just who was this person?" Samus thought as she began to scan to unknown machine. Big mistake.
"Who are you?" Seth asked in the native space pirate language.
"Crush the intruder." The pirate said as it tried to attack Seth, but these were weak strikes. Seth was that the pirates were almost mindless, he killed the space pirate by slashing the head off with his free hand.
"Seth someone is scanning us." Blaze said. Seth was glad that the I.S. gave their user 360 degree vision. He could see the person scanning him. Seth acted clam and acted like he didn't see this person. He continued to walk through the Frigate Orpheon and entered a cylindrical room. Samus was right on his tail, but when Seth entered the room she lost him.
"Where did he to?"
"Don't move." Seth said from behind Samus. He had an energy blade at Samus's back. Samus saw what the energy blades did to the space pirate and held her hand and arm cannon up. Seth took more that her arm cannon looked a lot like Ichika's in [F.L.A.R.E.].
Samus saw that Seth wasn't focus on her and entered her morph ball form and used her ball boosted to created distances between her and Seth.
Seth was surprised at how usual Samus's Powersuit seems to be. It had several combat aspects that interested Seth. Samus began to charge a shot from her arm cannon and Seth created a blue sphere in his hands. Seth unleashed his attack first, but Samus entered her morphball form and avoided the attack. Samus unleashed her attack, but the power beam shot seemed to have no effect. Samus fired several more shots from her power beam.
Seth avoided the attacks easily, but he could tell that this person he was fight, was trained very well. This person's reflect time was almost on par with his own and he was genetically modified. Samus launched several missiles at Seth. Seth launched his own missiles at Samus. They canceled out each other. They would have continued to fight had it not been for a beast entering the room. The parasite queen didn't like these intruders making such a loud ruckuses. She would silence these loud invaders.
"What the hell is that?" Seth asked. He started to scan the beast and from the data he collected from the space pirate logs he found out it was named the Parasite Queen. Seth read that it was some sort of biologically engineered weapon or it could be classed as a alien B.O.W. Seth had a slight hatred for B.O.W.s. He decided to attack this thing first.
Unknowingly Samus had the same plan as Seth. Together they began their fight against the Parasite Queen. The queen was inside a energy barrier at protected her from Samus's and Seth's attacks. Their energy attack, conventual weapons, or missiles wouldn't work, but there were openings in the barrier. Seth and Samus both opened fire when they saw the opening. With their combined attack of energy blasts and missiles the beast stood no chance. It was a quick fight. The Parasite Queen fell inside the reactor core that she hanged above.
Seth and Samus looked at each other, they were going to say something, but they began to hear something shocking. First an shockwave from the core reactor knocked Samus and Seth back. Seth was fine, but Samus's Powersuit lost several of its powered.
'The station will self destruct in five minutes. Evacuated immediately.' A computerized voiced said.
"Shit, I blocked off the path back." Seth thought as he wanted to seal in Samus and himself in this room. As he looked around he noticed that his tracker was waving at him. It appeared that his tracker wanted him to follow. Seth decided that it was his best shot. He followed Samus and they traveled through the vent system. On the way they saw several parasite infants. Seth used his missiles to clear the way and continued on.
They finally made it to a point where Seth had to fly across. Samus used her grapple beam that her suit came equipped. When they crossed, they saw something that shocked both of them. They witness a cybernetic dragon. It was Meta Ridley a beast that was supposed to be dead. Seth was on his guard, but Samus started to have a panic attack. Seth started to hear screaming from his tracker.
The dragon wasted no time slashing at Samus, but Seth rushed and grabbed Samus, who was now knocked out. The cybernetic now left and headed towards the planet. Samus's Powersuit now deactivated and revealed that Seth's tracker was a girl. A girl that was very attractive. He was lost in thought until Blaze and Flame regained his attention. He continued to traveled until he saw Samus's ship. He raised a barrier to create an air bubble so Samus could breath. He hopped on the ship, but found that he was denied entry into the ship.
"Blaze, Flame!" Seth said. Both of the girls quickly went to work on hack the ship. Even if it was made from Chozo tech Blaze and Flame cracked it. Seth entered the ship and with Blaze and Flame's help they were able to move the ship down to Tallon IV.
Several Hours Later.
Samus was slowly waking up. She saw that she was in her ship which made her grow defensive. She quickly looked around and saw a boy wearing a black suit that looked a lot like her own zero suit. She began to noticed his figure and how physically fit he was. She looked at his face and saw that he was around the same age as her. Seth saw that she was awake and put down the book he had. He began to speak.
"Hey you're awake. Are you feeling be-Ow, ow ow you're gonna break my arm!" Without warning Samus grabbed Seth arm and put him in an arm bar.
"If you want to keep your arm, than tell me who the hell are you?" Samus said as she put more pressure on Seth's arm.
Seth was in a real pinch, but he kept calm. He quickly broke free and now held Samus down in a pin. Now Samus couldn't move her arms and legs, but Seth was close enough for her to do one thing. Seth suddenly felt Samus forehead connect with his. It was a massive amount of force and Seth let go of Samus. Samus's attack backfired on her as she didn't expect her forehead to be in so much pain. The two of them back away from each other while holding their heads.
"Ow, that really hurts." Samus said as she now had a massive headache.
"Why the hell did you use a headbutt? Those backfire." Seth said as the pain began to fade.
"You know if you wanted to know my name, you only had to ask." Seth said.
"Fine then who are you?" Samus said as the pain finally went away.
"Isn't it rude to not introduce yourself first."
"I'm Samus Aran, a space bounty hunter."
"Seth Fairs." After Seth spoke neither of them spoke. Samus decided to break the Ice.
"Hey I got a question, how did you get in my ship?"
"I hacked it." Samus was absolutely stunned.
"WHAT! That impossible this ship is made with Choze technology."
"Chozo?" Seth never we heard of this word in his life.
"It's the name of an ancient alien race. They also happen to be the ones who trained me and raised me."
"But you're human, aren't you?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Seth saw a sad look on Samus's face and decided to drop it. He saw Samus leaving the room.
"Hey where are you going?"
"I have a contract. The sooner I start the sooner I finish it." Samus said as she equipped her Powersuit. Seth followed her outside in [B.L.A.Z.E.].
"Why the hell are you following me?" Samus asked Seth.
"Well it seems we both have a job to do here. So if we help each other we'll get done faster." Seth said.
"I can complete my job on my own."
"I never said you couldn't." Seth said as he continued to follow behind.
The duo now entered a chamber where there was a lot of sand. Samus saw that it was safe and began to cross, but before her feet touched the ground Seth fired several missiles in front of her. Samus immediately turned around an aimed her arm cannon at Seth.
"Look in front of you." Seth said. Samus turned her head and saw several dead hostile animals in front of her. These were extremely deadly insects and there was at least fifteen of them. Alone they were dangerous, but in a swarm they were lethal.
"Samus I'm not asking you to work with me forever, I just need a little help." Samus thought hard, with the type of weaponry Seth had her mission would be so much easier.
"Fine, but if you slow me down, I'll leave you behind." Samus said as she blasted a door opened a blast from her arm cannon. It revealed an elevator that led to a place called Chozo Ruins. Seth stepped on the platform with Samus and the elevator went down.
Chozo Ruins.
Seth and Samus were able to easily destroy anything that got in their way. Samus's suit detected several lost power ups. They made their way to recover Samus's morphball, missiles, ball bombs, and charge beam. Each of guardians of the power ups fell at Seth's blade. Now they received a message that Samus's varia suit was in an area, also poisons water blocked out access to the next elevator. They made their way to. Place where Samus map told them to go to. Once there they saw a place where it seemed like some sort of green house. As they entered several things, of what appear to be some type of solar panels, moved and now aimed at the soil. The single flower that was in the soil suddenly grew several times its own hight. The giant plant monster now was several stories high and had two razor sharp scythe blades. It roared at Seth and Samus.
"Didn't see that coming." Both Samus and Seth thought as they avoided several attacks from the beast. Seth really didn't want to deal with this so he began to unload a massive barrage of missiles and rounds from his miniguns. Flaahgra roared out in pain as it was being rip to apart from the barrage. Seth stopped his attack once he heard Flaahgra stop roaring. Suddenly the plant beast seemed to have regenerated and rose up once more. Seth decided to stop being guy. He enter an Elemental shift. His armor turned red and two flamethrowers appeared on his wrist.
"Eat this!" Seth yelled as he unleashed a torrent of flames at Flaahgra. The plant beast roared once more. The flames were destroying Flaahgra at the same speed that it was regenerating. Samus began to notice that Flaahgra gained its power from sunlight. If she could remove its powers source, then they could kill it.
While Seth was frying the plant alive, Samus shot the solar panels out of place and with its energy source gone, it could no longer regeneration. The flames began to do their job. Flaahgra turned into a pile of ash.
"See piece of cake." Samus just oversee her eyes at Seth prideful attitude. She noticed that Flaahgra dropped an item. Samus picked it up and she regained her Varia suit. They also noticed that the water was clearing up. The two now travel to the next location.
Magmoor Cavern.
The intense heat in this made it unwise to use [B.L.A.Z.E.] in here. It was far too closed in and too hot. [F.L.A.M.E.] had just finished her upgrades and was readied to be used. Samus was surprised when she saw that Seth had a second machine with him. They had to spilt ways as Samus could access areas in her morphball form where Seth couldn't. Samus made her way through the maze of tunnels in her morphball while Seth traveled through the more open areas.
A warning appeared on Seth's visor. He turned to the direction that his visor told him to watch out only to see a large serpent pop out of the lava. It tried to attack Seth by using it mouth, but Seth avoided the attack and gave the beast a impact punch cracking its skull. The lava serpent fell into the lava, dead.
"Huh that wasn't too bad." Seth thought. Suddenly several more lava serpents popped out of the ground. They didn't look happy. All of the serpents opened their mouth and unleashed a torrent of flames at Seth. Seth raised a barrier to protect himself.
"Now it's time to have a little fun." Seth said as he began his attack on the lava serpents.
Samus began to hear the noise of load explosions near her. She guessed it was Seth. She was spooked when the wall next to her exploded. She raised her arm cannon ready to attack whatever it was that tore the wall down. She saw that it was Seth.
"Oh hey. We met up." Seth said.
"Did you find anything?" Samus asked.
"Well nothing with the space pirates, but I found this." Seth said as he held up a strange object in his hands. Samus began to scan it. She took it from Seth's hands.
"You found a Chozo Artifact."
"A what?"
"Is like a book. It tells a story about the Chozo." Samus began to read the text inside of the artifact. This was the Artifact of Nature.
"Seth how did you find this?"
"I found it when I slammed one of these lava snakes into a stone pillar." Samus didn't want to know how he was able to slam a lava serpent into the pillar or why. She walked to the next elevator and Seth followed after. They traveled to their new location.
Phendrana Drifts.
"It's freezing." Seth said as he was hugging himself to keep himself warm.
"What you can't handle a little cold weather?" Samus said in a teasing tone. Seth thought he would play a small prank on Samus. He went up to a mound of snow and made a small snowball, but the mound began to move. Suddenly it revealed a large blue monster Beatle. It was a baby sheegoth that had razor sharp teeth on it. It roared at Seth, but Seth gave the beetle a impact punch and it flew into a wall of ice nearby a waterfall. The attack made it seem like someone crushed the baby sheegoth under a boot. Suddenly several more baby sheegoths appeared. They charged at Seth and Samus.
Four were headed to Seth. They tried to charge at him, but Seth used the grenade launchers on his wrist. He fired eight shots and stopped two of them. The third one got close enough to try and bite him. Seth held the beast jaws open and used his bits to cut the baby sheegoth in half, while he fired his needle gun at point blank, skewering the sheegoth. The final one leaped at Seth, but it was hit by Seth's railguns killing the beast.
Samus had two baby sheegoth coming at her. She leaped over them allowing them to pass her. She turned around and fired several missiles at the baby sheegoth's back. It cracked the shell and revealed the soft flesh of the sheegoth. Samus fired a charged shot from her powerbeam. It killed one of the sheegoth. The second one turned around and fired a ball of ice at Samus. The bounty hunter moved out of the way and got behind the sheegoth. She fired two missiles at its back killing it.
"Took you long enough." Seth said as he was wait for Samus to finish her fight. Samus would have said something in annoyance, but a message came saying that a the boost ball upgrade was nearby. She decided to get it.
Samus easily solved the small puzzle that guarded the power up. She and Seth returned to the first large area when they saw that large from the space station. Samus suddenly felt weak in her legs and fell on one knee.
"Samus, are you alright?" Seth asked as he help her get up.
"I'm fine. Come we ne-" Samus stopped talking as she recived a message from her ship. Saying that it had detected a upgrade for her and it was nearby her ship.
"Dammit."
"Samus what wrong?" Seth heard Samus curse.
"There's a powerup near my ship, but that means we'll have to go back up to Tallon Overworld."
"Actually I have a better Idea." Seth said as he switched from [F.L.A.M.E.] to [B.L.A.Z.E.]. He suddenly grabbed the bounty hunter and flew off.
A Few minutes later.
Samus at first hated the idea of being carried, but Seth told her that it was the fastest way back to the ship and it would save them the trouble of fighting anything they missed when they first passed Magmoor Cavern or Chozo Ruins. Samus gave in and soon they arrived at her ship. It was easy for Samus to retrieve her Space Jump Boots. Once that they finished Seth grabbed Samus and traveled back to Phendrana Drifts.
Phendrana Drift.
They entered a temple called the temple of the ancients. It was once a great temple full of chozos as a place of worship, but now that has been consume by the ages and by the ice. As the duo traveled across the temple they came into contact with these strange life forms that appeared to live off of electricity. Samus charged up a shot from her arm cannon and the electric beings came towards her. Seth slashed at them before Samus could shoot.
Several more electric sphere appeared out of nowhere and were for some reason attracted towards Seth. The spheres were getting closer and closer, when blaze deactivated her energy blades. Seth wondered why blaze would stop him from attacking.
"Blaze why did you stop me?" Seth asked.
"Seth look at them." Blaze said as the two of them looked at the electric spheres. They appeared to be calm and not moving at all.
"They appear to be attracted to energy sources." Samus said as she charged up her arm cannon again and the spheres started to head her way. She stopped charging her arm cannon and they stopped moving.
"So Seth should we kill them, or pass them?" Samus said. She wouldn't mind killing, but with her current weaponry it would be a small challenge. She knew that of the current weaponry that she saw from Seth, they were all energy based. She got her answer by the sound of several bullets being shot. She turned and saw Seth with one of his pistols. The shots ripped threw the electric spheres, killing them.
"Lets go." Seth said as they continued. The duo came to a room and inside of it their was a strange object. It was a container with lightning inside of it. Samus scanned it. It was a powerup called wave beam. She rushed to grab it, but it was covered by a stone wall and an adult Sheegoth appeared. It was different from the baby version. It had six eyes and had large crystals on its back instead of the shell. It roared at Seth and Samus as it was the guardian of the temple.
Seth and Samus wasted no time in attacking. Samus charged up an attack from her arm cannon while Seth made a blue sphere in his hands. They unleashed their energy attacks at the adult sheegoth, but something strange happened. The attacks changed corse and hit the large crystals on the back of the sheegoth.
"What the hell?" Samus said. Suddenly a warning appeared on both Samus and Seth's visors.
"Shit!" Seth said as he raised a barrier to protect he and Samus as the sheegoth unleashed a frost breath attack. It was a torrent of freezing wind as cold as liquid nitrogen.
"Samus, use missiles." Seth said as he unleashed ten missiles and Samus unleashed three from her arm cannon. The missile raced towards the ice beast. The strange sparks of lightning appeared out of the adult sheegoth's back. It created an electromagnetic barrier using the energy from Seth and Samus's attack. The missiles bounced off of the sheegoth and several hit the walls.
"Dammit, it had no effect." Seth cursed as he and Samus moved to avoid the charging beast. Seth began to unload a volley of bullets from his miniguns. Live rounds seemed to have an effect on adult sheegoth, but it had hardly any effect on the beast. The electromagnetic barrier caused some effect on the bullets weakening them. Seth saw that he ran out of live ammo for his miniguns and knew it would take ten minutes for [B.L.A.Z.E.] to create more bullets.
Samus saw a chance to attack while Seth kept the sheegoth busy. She rolled up into her morphball and dropped several ballbombs on the beast. The sheegoth fell on one knee as its left knee took the blunt of the bomb attack. It let out a strange cry as four baby sheegoth's appeared.
"Great. Samus hold off the mama sheegoth for a few seconds." Seth said as he charged towards one of the baby sheegoth. Seth wasted no time in killing it. Seth brought out an energy blade and landed on the sheegoth's back. He jabbed the energy blade into the back of the sheegoth. It killed it instantly. Seth repeated this process again for the other three.
Samus found the sheegoth's weakness. It could only hold its electromagnetic barrier for two minutes at a time. She fired several charged shot from her arm cannon and unleashed several missiles at the sheegoth's face. Samus saw that it was about to unleash an ice ball. She turned into a morphball and used her boostball ability to avoid the sheegoth's attack. While the sheegoth was focus on Samus, Seth grabbed it by the tale and threw it at a wall. The crystals on its back were shattered and it was lying in a pool of its purple blood. Seth knew that it was going to die, but it would be a slow death if he left it alone. He brought out an energy blade and walked up to the beast. He stabbed it in the head giving it a quick and painless death. The wall that hid the wave beam upgrade now moved up.
Samus grabbed the upgrade and a message appeared on her visor. 'Wave Beam is now online'. Samus charged a shot from her new wave beam to test it out. Seth took note that it was an electric attack much like his own elemental shift.
"So where to now?" Seth asked.
"Follow me, I saw a door that we couldn't open before, but now we should." Samus as she traveled towards the entrance of the temple.
The two made their way towards a purple door. Samus shot it with her wave beam and it opened. They entered a tunnel where more of those electric spheres were. This time they were acting like a type of defense. Samus charged her wave beam and unleashed it at the poor small electric sphere. The sphere exploded and the duo continued on their way. They entered an ice cave where their was nothing inside. Suddenly an alarm sounded and a drone appeared. It was unable to fire any shots as Seth fired eight missiles killing it.
"Looks like we're heading in the right direction." Seth said as they continued. They entered a hall where their was a lot of open space. Once they entered, something locked them in. Several figures fell down, but there was a problem. They were invisible. The figure began to surround the duo.
Seth switched his visor to thermal vision. He could clearly see the space pirates. The space pirates thought that they had the upper hand. They were surprised when two of their brethren fell at Seth's energy blade.
"Samus on your left!" Seth yelled. Samus trusted Seth and charged her wave beam and unleashed it to her left. It hit a space pirate. The pirate was stunned and unable to move. Samus fired several missiles at the pirate killing it. As they finished defeating the last space pirate, a message appeared on Samus's visor. It was her ship again telling that it found several upgrades for her Powersuit. Two of which were really close to their current location, but they would need to travel to Chozo ruins first. Seth saw the look on Samus's face.
"Let me guess, there's an upgrade nearby here."
"Two actually."
"Well, what the hell are we waiting for?" Seth said as he opened the door.
They began to travel deeper into the lab, when they came across one of the upgrades. After getting rid of the space pirates in the room, Samus quickly solved the puzzle and retrieved her super missiles. They ventured even deeper into the research center, they came across a thing something Samus never hoped to see again. It was a Metroid.
"What's this little thing?" Seth said as he tapped the glass of the Metroid chamber. The Metroid started to attack the glass that held it in, but it was unable to break free.
"Seth don't mess with these things. They're dangerous."
"These little guys. They don't look like they could hurt a fly." Seth actually thought that the Metroid looked cute. They made their way to the point that Samus's ship pointed to. They found no one inside the base. They didn't care how but they we're glad. It made their job much easier. They made it to the point Samus's ship pointed to and the upgrade that the ship was thermal vision.
They didn't think that taking the upgrade would do anything, but as soon as they took it, the defenses that held the Metroids in place, fell.
"Seth stay close to me!" Samus yelled as she knew how dangerous the Metroids were. They're only weakness was cold and she didn't have her ice beam. She heard one of the Metroids let out a battle cry before it charged at her. It was hit by a charged wave beam stunning it. Seth took his energy blade and slashed it. He watched the Metroid avoid his attack and latch on to him. It began to drain his energy.
"What the fuck, get off of me!" Seth said as he tried to rip the Metroid off, but the little bastard was not even shaking off. It just kept feeding away at Seth energy. Samus tried to shoot at the Metroid, but it was using the energy it was stealing from Seth to heal itself.
"Samus does this thing have any weakness?" Seth said as he kept trying to rip the Metroid off.
"Extreme cold. That the only thing that will kill it."
"Perfect. Elemental shift." [B.L.A.Z.E.]'s armor turned white and Seth placed his hand on the Metroid. The Metroid began to freeze and fell off of Seth. Samus was now wondering what other forms Seth suit had. She was brought out of her thoughts as she heard several Metroids heading their way.
"Lets move." Seth said as he grabbed Samus and flew through the tight corridors.
"I think we lost them." Seth said as they ran outside. The duo
remembered that their was something that could help them in Chozo ruins. Samus suggested that they travel there.
"Alright I'll let's go." Seth was about to pick Samus up again, but she stopped him.
"Actually, there's a shortcut close to here." Samus said as she led Seth to a large dome like area. The arena had several large rocks scattered around. The place was labeled as Quarantine Cave on the map. As they entered deeper into the arena the rocks began to move.
The rocks began to form a humanoid shape. This beast name was Thardus. It was massive in size. The stone beast raised it arm and slammed it at Seth and Samus. Seth moved out of the way and Samus used her morphball to avoid the attack. Seth fired several missiles at one of Thardus's rocks and it fell to the ground.
"Too easy." Seth said, but the rock that fell off of Thardus rejoined the stone monster.
Samus scanned the beast and found that it might have a weakness. She changed to her thermal vision and saw a glowing spot on Thardus. Seth was blasting pieces off of Thardus and any piece that he blasted off, it would just come back. He was starting to get mad.
"Why won't you die?!" Seth blew off another stone arm, but it just came back.
"Seth use thermal." Samus said as she blasted off a piece from Thardus and this time it stayed off. Seth changed to his thermal vision and saw a glowing spot on Thardus. He knew where to attack.
Thardus wasn't gonna go down without showing a few more tricks. He rolled up into a ball and charged at Seth and Samus. Seth grabbed Samus and flew up to avoid the attack. Samus and Seth now began their attack. They locked on to the glowing rock that they saw on their thermal vision. Samus charged her power beam and Seth created a blue sphere in his hand. Samus fired a super missile at the glowing spot, destroying it. Another glowing spot appeared and Seth locked on. He unleashed the beam attack and it shattered several rocks. Thardus couldn't handle the sudden attack. It shattered into several pieces and dropped an upgrade. Samus walked up and picked it up. A message appeared on her visor. 'Spiderball is now online.'
Samus wasted no time in trying her new upgrade. She climbed on the spider rail and left Quarantine Cave with Seth. They made their way to the elevator.
Chozo Ruins.
The duo had made their way into an area they had yet to explore. They entered an area where Samus had to use her morphball to solve the puzzle. Samus had to leave Seth alone while she solved the puzzle.
Seth was board. It had been ten minutes and Samus had yet to return. He was starting to worry, but he stopped thinking when he heard a strange noise. It sounded like something was whispering in his ear. Seth was getting a little freaked out. He turned around and saw nothing behind him.
"Guess it was just my imagination." Seth said as he turned around only to come face to face with a white being. It was tall, about twice his hight. What freaked out Seth the most was that he could see through this thing.
"What are-?"
"WAHRAAAAA!" The beast roared at Seth's face.
Seth jumped backed to create distance between him and the Ghost Chozo. He didn't know what the heck this thing was, so he'll kill it them ask questions later. He brought out his energy blades and charged at the Ghost Chozo. He slashed right as he was in range, but the blades passed right through it. Seth moved to fast and couldn't stopped. He made an indent in the wall. Seth quickly recovered and turned around to face his opponent, but he saw nothing there.
"Where did he-hmpf!" Seth received a blow to the back by the ghost Chozo. Seth recover and fired several missiles at the ghost Chozo. The missiles went right through the phantom. The ghost Chozo began to create a white sphere in its hands. The ghost Chozo threw the sphere at Seth. Seth came up with the craziest idea. He didn't move until the right moment and caught the white sphere. Seth threw it right back at the ghost Chozo. It worked. The ghost Chozo left the white sphere hit him and screeched out in pain. The screech was so loud that Seth was force to cover his ears.
The battle was far from over. The ghost Chozo was now mad. It phased out and turned invisible. Seth began to look around trying to find it. It would have launched at Seth if not for the fact that it was hit by a super missile. The blast was too close and Seth was caught up in the attack. The ghost Chozo was dead and Seth recovered from the blast. He looked and saw Samus.
"Samus why the hell did you shoot that close?"
"Huh? That's the thanks I get for saving your life?"
"Sorry. Thanks for the save. Can you tell me what the hell are those things?"
"They're fallen Chozos that have become corrupted by phazon."
"Phazon?"
"It's a type of fuel. It has a massive energy density. That why the space pirates are here, they're mining the phazon." Samus received a message that another upgrade was detected in Phedrana Drift. Samus and Seth began their way back towards that frozen land.
Sometime later.
Seth and Samus recovered the upgrade. It was Samus's gravity suit. With it she could move in water as if she was on land. They saw a group of space pirates heading somewhere. They decided to follow them instead of killing them. The pirates led them to a place that neither of them would have imagine.
Phazon Mines.
This place was crawling with space pirates. This was a massive operation. This mine must have started months ago. Samus was about to go in guns blazing, but Seth stopped her.
"Allow me." Seth said as he brought out [B.L.A.Z.E.] sniper rifle. He decided to use energy rounds as they were easier to suppress. He took out the pirates very carefully so that they wouldn't noticed as they fell one by one.
"Alright lets move." Seth said as they moved deeper into the mines. They were met by several space pirates that quickly fell by Seth and Samus's attacks. Together the two picked up the power bombs and grapple beam upgrades that they found. Samus received a message that her ship found several upgrades outside of phazon mines. They decided to spilt up. Samus would recover the upgrades while Seth explore phazon mines.
Seth came across a red door. He knew that the doors were colored by the element that they had to be opened by. He used elemental shift and slashed the door with his flame blades. The red door opened and Seth entered. He knew that the pirates would be on their guard. He would have to go guns blazing he switched from [B.L.A.Z.E.] to [F.L.A.M.E.]. He entered an elevator. He met several space pirates earlier, that had armor that was colored in the same style that the doors were.
"Flame equip the disk bits with ice, electric elemental shift and equip the railguns with napalm rounds."
"Yes master." Flame said as she did as Seth asked. Seth could feel a massive numbers of space pirates just ahead.
The elevator doors open and he saw at least fifty space pirates waiting for him. One of the pirates began to speak.
"Give up. You have no hope of winning. We will give you a quick death if you surrender."
"You can shove your offer straight up you ass." Seth spoke in the native space pirate tongue. This caused a lot of the space pirate to roar in anger.
"Kill him!" The pirates yelled.
Seth charged towards the closest pirate. He punched it with an impact punch, killing it. The dead pirate now flew towards his allies and knocked a couple of other pirates backed. Seth unleashed his railguns on a nearby cluster of space pirates. They were torn apart and those who were unlucky survived. The railguns had napalm rounds equipped and it burned them alive. The napalm that Seth had was a special mixture and these flames couldn't be put out. Water would just fuel the fire even more.
Seth spun up his disk bits. One of the disk bits turned white, while the other one turned purple. Seth saw a group of space pirates. They had what he called elemental armor. These pirates elemental armor was colored white. He charged up a white sphere on his white disk bit. Seth acted so fast, that the space pirates couldn't react. The bit unleashed its beam and it froze the pirates solid. The disk charged at the froze group and shattered them.
The pirates began to panic. They didn't expect that Seth would have so much firepower. They were running out of option. They would have to use the elite pirate. Seth was rampaging on the pirates. He unleashed several mines that got rid of at least 15 space pirates. Seth brought out [F.L.A.M.E.]'s energy blade and slashed apart several more pirates. Seth saw a few pirates trying to runaway. He fired several rounds from his grenade launcher wrist. This ripped them apart and limbs flew across the room. Several pirates got courages, and tried to sneak up on Seth. Seth saw six pirates charge him from behind. He turned around to face them, but not before they could grab him. Seth used the needle gun on [F.L.A.M.E.] to get the pirates off of him. The needle gun had so much force that the pirates were impaled into the ceiling. One poor bastard was impaled through the chin.
Seth suddenly noticed that the pirates that he didn't kill, escaped. A warning appeared on his visor. He saw two large figure appear. They appeared to have had some kind of modifications. They were much larger then a normal space pirate. They had these strange blue sphere on them. Seth could tell that these were its weak spot.
Seth knew that fighting one at a time would be the best. He came up to the and delivered an impact punch. They flew in opposite directions and Seth attack the one on his right. He gave the elite pirate several more impact punches until he broke the blue sphere. The other pirate hadn't recovered yet. Seth began to hit this pirate with impact punches. Seth didn't realize that he was breaking the wall behind him. The wall crumble behind the pirate and moved away, but the pirate wasn't gonna go alone. It grabbed on to Seth and the two fell into an area where phazon covered the walls. The elite pirate was dead, but it led Seth into a death area. Seth made contact with the phazon and it burned. He could feel it killing his body.
Seth quickly moved away, but [F.L.A.M.E.] had only 20 energy points left. [F.L.A.M.E.] used her energy to protect Seth from the toxic substance. Seth noticed that there was something inside of a chamber. He noticed that it was starting to move. Suddenly it exploded out of the chamber and grabbed Seth. It was a monster known as the omega space pirate. It was the pride of the space pirate tech. Seth tried to break free, but [F.L.A.M.E.] was too low on energy. Seth watched in horror as [F.L.A.M.E.]'s energy points were nearing to zero. He knew that if he tried to switch to [B.L.A.Z.E.] the omega space pirate would crush him.
"Shit I'm done for!" Seth mentally screamed as he prepared for the end.
A purple stream of lightning came and hit the omega pirate. The pirate let go of Seth and he fell to the ground. [F.L.A.M.E.] and [B.L.A.Z.E.] switched place to protect Seth from the phazon. The omega pirate now turned to its attacker to see a ball of ice heading towards him. The omega pirate raised his hand and something formed in its hand. The attack seemed to be absorbed by the omega pirate. While it was distracted, a purple sphere came up and knock the omega pirate in the chest. The sphere left a massive explosion as it hit the omega pirate. The pirate was knocked back and the sphere appeared next to Seth.
"I leave you alone for 50 minutes and you almost get yourself killed." A familiar voice said to Seth.
"Samus, thanks for the save." Seth said as he got up.
"You look like you had some fun on the way here." Samus said as she saw the carnage Seth created with the space pirates in the room before.
"Yeah anyway we got to kill this thing." Seth said as he got up. He noticed that [F.L.A.M.E.] was in a quarantine status. The phazon had made using [F.L.A.M.E.] extremely unsafe. Seth was surprised as how rapid his shields fell when he came into contact with the Phazon. He knew that the pirates earlier did only 50 points of damage, but the Phazon almost finished him.
Seth was dragged out of his thoughts when he saw the omega pirate getting up. Seth readied himself and Samus equipped her plasma beam. The omega pirate had four blue sphere on its body that were made from Phazon. It currently had two left, thanks to Samus's power bomb. The omega pirate began to gather energy. It slammed down its hands on the ground and unleashed a wave of energy. Seth and Samus jumped to avoid the attack. Seth and Samus, while in the air, they locked on to the last two spheres. Seth unleashed a volley of bullets from his miniguns and Samus unleashed a charged shot from her plasma beam. They both broke the phazon sphere that they locked on to. The omega pirate seemed to disappear.
"What?"
"Samus we got several more pirates!" Seth yelled as he saw eight elemental pirates heading their way. Four were red and the others were white. Seth entered his ice form in [B.L.A.Z.E.]. Samus went after the red ones while Seth attacked the white ones. As the two were getting rid of the pirates, the omega stood in a pool of Phazon and began to heal.
Seth and Samus noticed a strange noise near them. Samus tried her X-Ray visor upgrade and saw the source of the noise. Seth tried to see what that noise was from. He used several type of optics that [B.L.A.Z.E.] was equipped with. He used his thermal vision, magnetic, echo, and finally he used his X-Ray. Seth and Samus saw that the omega pirate was healing using the Phazon. They had to stop him. Seth made a blue sphere in his hands that was now a light blue, and Samus charged her wave beam.
Seth and Samus unleashed their attacks. Seth's attack caused the pirate to suffer a massive cold blast. Samus's attack was her wave buster. It unleashed a torrent of electricity on the omega pirate. The two attacks caused a strange reaction with the Phazon. The Phazon inside of the omega pirate began to tear it apart from the inside. The pirate roared in pain as it was near the end of its life. It started to move towards Seth and Samus. It tried to attack once more, but it couldn't. Seth and Samus knew that it was on its final breaths. They didn't move as they knew it wouldn't be able to hit them. What they didn't count on was the big ass pirate falling on them. The dead omega pirate now dissolved into a pool of mutated Phazon. The Phazon began to intergrade with [B.L.A.Z.E.] and Samus's Powersuit.
The two got up from the ground and noticed that they changed. Samus's Powersuit was now black and grey. It had an orange visor on. [B.L.A.Z.E.]'s armor changed from the normal black and grey to a silver. The normal green lines that ran across [B.L.A.Z.E.] were now blue. [B.L.A.Z.E.] now had a green visor as well.
"Blaze what happen."
"Seth I don't know. Whatever this strange Phazon thing is caused this transformation." Blaze's words spawned a question in Seth.
"Are there any bad side effects?"
"No in fact we've gained several abilities. This Phazon thing won't hurt you anymore."
"Anything else?"
"I don't know. This stuff isn't normal. It's as if its alive." Seth didn't want to think too hard about this Phazon stuff. He remembered that he forgot to ask if Flame was alright.
"Flame how are you feeling."
"Sick, this Phazon crap is disgusting. I'm sorry master, but you won't be able to use me for a while." Flame said as she continued to keep purging the Phazon from her system.
Seth decided to test out this Phazon transformation. He stood in a pool of phazon and was shocked not only not hurt him, but he was actually gaining energy.
"This is sweet." Seth said. He brought out he's energy blades and now they glowed the same color as the Phazon. He dubbed them Phazon blades. Samus liked this new upgrade even if it was an corruption. This made it so much easier for them to get through Phazon mines and Metroids weren't a problem anymore for them. Samus and Seth received a message from something to head to an area just in front of Samus's ship. They knew that the fastest way would be via Seth. Seth grabbed Samus and flew off to Tallon Overworld.
Tallon Overworld.
They had reached the area that Samus's ship told them to go. It was a temple. They both felt stupid for not checking this place earlier. Samus and Seth entered an area that had several stone pillars around them. They saw the stone pillars disappears one by one and a strange light appeared in the center. Before either if them could touch the light, it vanished. Suddenly they heard a strange cry. Seth never we heard this sound before, but Samus knew this sound far too well. Her breathing got heavier, she began to sweat and she couldn't stop shaking. Seth saw this and wonder why Samus was acting to strange.
"Samus are you a-." Seth didn't finish as a new figure appeared. It was a massive winged beast. Seth remembered seeing this thing back in space. It was meta Ridley and he was mad. Seth was about to move out of the way when he saw Samus deactivate her Powersuit and fell to the ground, crying.
"Samus!" Seth yelled as he rushed to the sixteen year old. He picked up the blond busty girl, who was having a panic attack. She was hyperventilating and shaking. Seth couldn't believe that the fearless girl that could defeat hordes of space pirates, solve any problem, and look death straight in the eyes, was shaking like a young girl. Something had struck fear into her heart.
"Samus, Samus what's wrong!?" Seth said as he tried to get a response from the girl.
"Mama, Papa don't go." Seth saw tears running from Samus's blue eyes. Seth knew that Samus was suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.) It was really bad. He knew he had to get Samus to calm down.
Meta Ridley wasn't about to let these two mere humans leave alive. He roared and charged at Seth and Samus. Seth saw the opened jaws of Ridley heading their way. He picked up the mentally unstable Samus and flew away, but Ridley followed them. Seth saw that Ridley was tailing them. He ordered his bits to attack Ridley while he worked on getting Samus back to normal.
"Samus come on, snap out of it." Seth said to the blond, but nothing was snapping Samus out of her panic attack.
"Goddammit!" Seth cursed as he was out of options. He knew one way to snap someone out, he hoped Samus wouldn't kill him for this.
Samus was currently seeing her parents death in her mind. It kept replaying over and over again. She could hear the screams of terror coming from her parents. Samus could see the twisted look of pleasure coming from Ridley's face as he devoured Samus's parents. She felt helpless and there was nothing that she could do. She saw the jaws of Ridley now coming towards her. She suddenly felt a warm feeling on her lips. She was brought back to reality and saw Seth kissing her on the lips. She broke the kiss and wondering why Seth did that.
"Seth why the hell did you kiss me?"
"Sorry, it was the only way to snap you out of your panic attack." Seth said.
"Samus I know you have a fear of that robot dragon thing, but I need you to help me."
"Ridley..." Samus felt fear in her heart once again.
"Samus I know your scare, but I'll help you through it. I won't let you die, I promise." Seth said as he held Samus's hand with his. Samus no loner felt fear, instead a really warm feeling filled her chest. She could fight Ridley.
Samus reactivated her Powersuit and Seth placed her on the temple. Meta Ridley saw Samus on the ground. He was going to finished the weak human once and for all. He landed in front of Samus and screeched at her face. Samus fired several super missiles at Ridley's mouth. The cybernetic dragon felt a great pain in its jaws. Ridley exposed it's chest. Samus used her grapple beam to latched on to Ridley's chest to expose a core. Seth fired his energy beam at Ridley's core. He saw that it wasn't dead so he fired all the missiles he had. Seth was going to make sure that Ridley was going to stay dead. He brought out his Phazon blades and jabbed them into Ridley's core. The cybernetic dragon screeched as it was hit. Seth moved back and the temple began to glow. Suddenly Ridley was hit by some sort of energy beam. Ridley fell back into the bottom of the temple.
Seth and Samus saw several ghost Chozo appear. They saw that these Chozos weren't corrupted by the Phazon. They were truly good. They opened up a portal that would lead to impact crater. Samus hear the Chozo speak say that she had to pure the great evil. It laid underneath the temple. Samus asked Seth if he would go along with her and he agreed.
Impact Crater.
Samus and Seth had passed this new type of Phazon dubbed red Phazon. It was so toxic and caused so much radiation. Anything would die if it stood in the red Phazon in a matter of seconds. They entered a red door. Inside of the door was what appeared to be large face hanging. The face began to move. Samus and Seth, while in Phazon mines, remember reading about a strange life form that the space pirates feared. It was a Metroid that had perfectly fused with the Phazon. The space pirates dubbed it Metroid Prime. This creature matched the description the pirates listed.
The Metroid had a crab or spider like body and currently it had white colored streaks running across it. Seth used elemental shift and Samus brought out her ice beam. They both charged up their attacks and fired at Metroid Prime. It worked.
The beast took several steps back from the pain it received. Metroid Prime took several steps before it tore through the wall opening a new path. Seth and Samus quickly followed Metroid Prime. They entered a new area, where it was too small for Seth to fly above Metroid Prime. Seth and Samus saw Metroid Prime change his color from white to purple. Seth entered an elemental shift. His armor turned yellow and Samus brought out her wave beam. They both charged up an attack, but before they could unleash it, Metroid Prime charged at them. Samus entered her morphball and dodge Metroid Prime by using the canals in the ground. Seth didn't have enough room to avoid the attack. He met Metroid Prime head on and the two tried to push each other back.
Samus saw her chance. She charged her wave beam and unleashed her wave buster. The current of electricity hit Metroid Prime and caused the giant to weaken. Seth felt Metroid Prime was acting weaker and put all his energy into [B.L.A.Z.E.] thrusters. This wasn't enough Seth entered Trans-AM now he had enough energy to push Metroid Prime back. Seth slammed Metroid Prime into the wall and the stone behind Metroid Prime crumbled. Samus ran after Seth and Metroid Prime to join the fight.
Metroid Prime changed it color from purple to red. Seth changed to his fire elemental shift. Samus equipped her plasma beam. They charged up their attack, but Metroid Prime revealed his mouth and unleashed his own beam. Seth got in front of Samus and raised a Barrier. It protected them from the attack, but Metroid Prime used a new attack. It had something that was akin to Samus's grapple beam. It latched on to Seth and began to pull him in. Samus saw that Metroid Prime was distracted. She fired a barrage of plasma shot at the mutated Metroid. Seth felt the grapple beam stop pulling him in. He saw that Metroid Prime was getting weaker. He made a red sphere in his hands and unleashed his attack at the beast.
Metroid Prime fell backwards and tore down another wall. Seth and Samus followed after it. They saw that Metroid Prime was breathing heavily. It colored scheme changed from red to yellow. Samus and Seth could tell that it was on its last leg. They changed into their default state and charged up their attack. Samus unleashed her super missiles and Seth used his normal energy beam attack. They witness Metroid Prime fall as he was unable to move in time. Metroid Prime staggered towards one of the sides inside the room. Seth and Samus rushed towards the body of Metroid Prime to see if it was truly dead.
They watched something blue come from the corpse of Metroid Prime. It was floating and had several tentacles. The beast roared at Seth and Samus. They wasted no time in fighting this new beast.
Metroid Prime in its second form unaffected by normal attacks. Seth and Samus tried all of their weaponry, but nothing seemed to work. Seth would have tried to use [Heaven's Wrath], but [B.L.A.Z.E.] said it was too dangerous. With the corruption of Phazon who knows what would happen. The bastard would also spawn other Metroids. When it spawned Metroids it would leave a strange pool of Phazon. Samus stepped in it by accident, but she discovered something. If they stood in the pool of Phazon they would enter hyper mode, and it seemed like this was the only thing that could harm Metroid Prime. Seth and Samus took their turns at using Metroid Prime's own Phazon against it.
They were both standing in the pool of Phazon and they unleashed the hyper beam on Metroid Prime. It cried out in pain. Seth and Samus saw Metroid Prime shrink in size, before a tentacle latched on to them. They were being sucked in. Seth used [B.L.A.Z.E.] to grab onto Samus and he was able to get the tentacles off of them, but it ripped the corrupted form of their machines. [B.L.A.Z.E.] color scheme returned back to normal and Samus had her gravity suit back. They noticed that what was left of Metroid Prime was starting to expand. They decided to get the hell out of here.
Seth used [B.L.A.Z.E.] to fly out of impact crater and just in time. Samus called her ship to pick them up and Seth landed on it. He and Samus entered the ship. It was over, but what would happen now?
"She'll want nothing to do with me." Seth thought as he remembered the way she acted when they first met. The two had left the atmosphere of Tallon IV. Seth was about to say something when Samus spoke.
"Hey, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind working with me for a bit?" Seth was surprised by her words.
"What?"
"I said, would you like to work with me for a bit. You know, do a couple of bounty missions together. It's alright if you don't want to."
"Well considering that I have no place to go, I guess it would be best if I went with you." Seth said. Seth couldn't see it, but underneath Samus's helmet she was smiling.
"Well then, how does a 70/30 split sound."
"Huh? Why isn't it 50/50?" Seth thought that partners would share the loot evenly.
"Well, considering the fact that you'll be mooching off of me, I think that you could consider it like a kind of rent."
"Make it 45/55 and we have a deal." Seth wasn't about to get cheated out of a deal.
"65/35." Samus said.
"40/60 and that's my final offer." Seth said. Samus looked at him in the eyes and saw that he was serious. She gave in.
"Fine, but you're helping me pay for a new ship. This one is too small for two people."
"That sounds good to me." Seth said as he decided to rest. He knew that this was the beginning of a new adventure, but he wondered where this strange girl would lead him. Samus began to type her report to the galactic federation and began to register Seth as a new bounty hunter.
Meanwhile in Imapact Crater. Two beings began to rose from the pool of Phazon. They wanted one thing, revenge.