Space.
It has been three month since Seth and Samus met. Together they have been making a name for themselves. Some dubbed them the SS duo. Both of the young hunters have yet to fail a bounty yet. The galactic federation had taken a slight interest in the duo, specially on Seth and his machines. The galactic federation thought that it was an somehow made using Chozo technology.
Samus and Seth were currently inside their new ship. They worked together and were able to afford an upgrade for the ship. It was alike in appearance to Samus's old ship, but it was big enough to hold the two and could fix itself if needed. Samus thought the auto repair upgrade wasn't necessary, but Seth did. They had an argument, but they made a deal. They would buy the upgrade if Samus could pick the new color.
They received a message from the galactic federation. It was a contract for a new mission. It states to search for a federation ship that was lost over a planet called Aether. The team Bravo Squad with the G.F.S. Tyrs gave the federation their last transmission eight days ago.
"So princess, what's the mission?" Seth began to call Samus princess after he heard that it was the galactic federation nickname for Samus. She didn't mind it if Seth was the one to call her that, but she hated it if anyone else called her that.
"The galactic federation has a job for us. We need to travel to a planet named Aether and help aid a missing group of federation marines." Samus said as Seth was liking the sound of the mission.
"How's the pay?" Seth saw the mission was pretty simple, so he wondered if the pay would be low.
"Check it out." Samus said as she brought up the reward.
"Wow, eight digits." Seth was wondering why the pay was so high. This didn't seem like the mission was too dangerous. He didn't care. Samus told the galactic federation that they agreed to the mission and set a course for Aether.
A little later.
Seth and Samus saw that they were nearing the planet. The duo noticed that the planet had some strange weather effect. The planet had white clouds one moment and the next they were purple. They didn't take much thought into this fact as Samus set the flight course. They began their descent as they enter the atmosphere of Aether. They entered a thunderstorm, but they didn't worry. The ship should be fine if it got hit by a thunderbolt. They didn't notice that the lighting wasn't normal. The ship was hit by the storm and they flew off course.
"Seth help me correct the flight path!" Samus yelled as she grabbed the controls and tried to steer it.
Seth rushed to the power circuit control panel. He saw that one of the engines of the ship was damaged. It had three thrusters and the one on the right was giving out only 25%. Seth quickly transferred energy from the the other two engines. The left engine was at 75%, the back engine was at 75% and the damaged engine was only able to give a 50% output. The right engine was beginning to drop the energy levels.
"Shit, Princess find a place to land!" Seth yelled.
"Hold on!" Samus said as she would try an emergency landing. The ship skid across a layer of rock on the planet of Aether. It found a weaker portion of the rock and fell through. Samus got out of the ship in her Powersuit as did Seth in [B.L.A.Z.E.].
"Princess you alright?" Seth asked. He didn't want Samus to be hurt.
"I'm fine Seth." Samus said as she started looking around. Seth decided to inspect the ship. He was really glad that they bought the automatic repairs as they would have been stranded without it.
"Hey Seth come over here!" Samus said as she began to explore the nearby area. Seth walked through several burnt webs that covered the area. Samus must have used her power beam to tear open the webs. Seth never understood why Samus left most of her powerups she gained from Tallon IV. Samus said that she didn't need to rely on powerful weapons to get her job done. He could understand that, but the fact that she didn't take her energy tanks or her missiles upgrades was down right annoying.
"You found something?" Seth asked. Seth arrived next to Samus who was currently looking down at a hole.
"Ladies first." Samus said as she jumped down. Seth followed after and the two landed on the ground.
Seth and Samus saw that a door was blocking their way. The door was locked. Seth blew it away with his energy beam and several small creatures called splinters popped out. Seth and Samus quickly eliminated the small insects and began to move again. They quickly came across a disturbing sight. They saw several federation marines hanging on the wall. One of the bodies were dragged up to somewhere. Seth and Samus were very careful. Suddenly they saw a marine that appeared to be limping. Seth went up to him.
"Hey buddy you alright? Don't worry we're here to help you." Seth said as he got closer. Suddenly the marine started to shoot at Seth. Seth avoided it.
"Why the hell are you shooting?!" Seth yelled. Suddenly he heard a groan coming from the marine. Seth saw through the marine's mask that his eyes were dead. Samus began to scan the marine and was shocked at what she found. Blaze spoke before Samus could speak.
"Seth, that person is dead, something is using his body." Without warning, Seth brought out his energy blades and slashed at the marine. The body was cut in half and fell to the ground.
Seth turned his back for a moment to say something to Samus, but the dead marine grabbed Seth's leg. Seth slashed at the marine's upper torso cutting it's head and arms clean off.
"Okay, what the fuck just happen?" Seth asked. Samus couldn't answer him, but there were two girls that could.
"Master, it appears that this planet holds a very dark energy. Its twisted and vile." Flame said as she could feel this energy very well.
"It's as Flame said. Master this energy has the power to take over most life forms, I suggest you do not come in contact with this energy." Blaze said as she wasn't sure what it was, all she knew that this power was really bad news.
"Princess come on we sh-." Seth stopped talking as he saw several more dead troops rise up.
"Great, more company." Seth said as he began his attack.
A Little bit Later.
Seth and Samus tried to get a communication dish up and running, but the dish was unable to send a signal as the storms above blocked the signal. They continued to explore the area, when they came across two black-blue beings that looked a lot like them. The two of them quickly began to tail the two figures. They witness the two figures enter a portal, and for lack of better judgement, they followed them.
Dark Aether.
Seth and Samus appeared in a place that was twisted. The sky was a dark purple and the place looked like it couldn't support any life. The duo saw the two figures doing something with a wall of Phazon. Seth figured out that the two of them were absorbing the blue stuff. Suddenly the one that looked like Samus noticed that something was wrong. It turned around and shot that Seth and Samus.
Seth and Samus avoided the attack, but Seth kept his eyes too long on Samus's doppelganger. He was able to react in time to intercept his doppelganger. Dark Seth had brought out his Phazon Blades and Charged at Seth. Seth responded by bringing out his Energy Blades. The two blades entered a bind, but something happen that Seth nevered imagined was possible. His energy blades were melting. Samus fired several shots at Dark Samus, but the doppelganger of the bounty hunter, shot at the crystal protecting her.
Suddenly the sphere of light that protect the duo was shrinking. Seth and Samus started to step back, that's when the INGs attack. Seth was lucky, he slashed at the INGs and killed them, but he now came into contact with the atmosphere of Dark Aether. He wasn't in his space more, so his mask wasn't up, he could feel his lung burning from the poisonous air. Blaze quickly activated her space mode and helped Seth. Samus wasn't so lucky. The INGs that leaped on her stole some of her power-ups, but before she could shoot Seth grabbed her hand and entered the portal.
Light Aether.
Seth and Samus returned to the light world of Aether. Samus got up and a message appeared on her screen. 'Warning, Several Powersuit abilities have been stolen. Ball Bombs, Missiles, boost ball, Grapple beam, and space jump boots are offline.
"Dammit, not again." Samus said as she got up.
Samus was about to ask Seth something when she heard the sound of someone puking. She turned towards the sound and saw Seth puking up some kind of black goo.
"Seth, Seth!" Samus yelled as she went up to him. Seth was breathing heavily. He was struggling to get up.
"Seth what's wrong?" Samus asked as she helped him up.
"I'm fine, just give me a few seconds." "What the fuck, why the hell am I so sick?" Seth was about to puke again, something had infected him.
"Seth I'm gonna try something, hold on." Blaze said as she activated [Heaven's Wrath]. Blaze entered the transformation for a quick fraction of a sec before she turned back. Seth instantly felt better.
"Blaze what was that?"
"That dark energy tried to take over you, and it's weakness appears to be light. Seth if you ever have to enter that place again, you need to use me. Hold on I'll make a slight variation of [Heaven's Wrath]." With this new form seth would be immune to Dark Aether deadly environment, but all of the weapons would be significantly powered down. Blaze made Seth promised that if he entered that world. Seth did and [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] switched places.
"Blaze, Flame what's wrong?"
"Seth in order to to allow the constant use of [Heaven's Wrath] we can't expose you to the radiation of the S2 core." Blaze said.
"So I get to spend some quality time with Master." Flame said. Seth didn't mind and they continued with the mission.
They found what was left of the G.F.S. Tyr. Samus quickly found the body of the commander and he was next to a terminal. She opened the last recorded entry. Seth and Samus watched the entry.
'We've followed the space pirate cargo ship to a remote planet in the Dasha System. After we've damaged the ship we tailed it to finish it off, but the storm around the planet damaged the ship. We made a successful crash landing. Everything seemed to be going smoothly, that was until they appeared. Several hundred small purple creatures appeared. I watched my men fall one by one. Now I'm leaving this message to anyone that comes here. Leave. Don't come here. Get away.'
The message ended and a video showed the trooper's final moments. Seth closed the opened eyes of the troop.
"Princess we need to get moving." Seth began to cough a little. It looks like he still had something, but he had no clue on what it was. They continued with the mission and eventually found Samus's missing missiles. That was one upgrade regained. They continued to a large structure, that looked like a temple. It was large and appeared to be of great importance, as the area leading up to it was surrounded with statutes. Seth asked Blaze and Flame to begin decoding the alien text. They were having trouble at first, because the text wasn't 2-D, but it was 3-D shapes.
They entered an elevator that led to the inner sanctum of the temple. As they went deeper into the temple, they saw what appeared to be cocoons and something was inside them. An energy barrier was raised trapping Seth and Samus inside it. Four splinters appeared. They surrounded Seth and Samus. Seth used his Railguns to rip apart the small insects. A larger splinter appeared. It quickly was engulfed by some strange purple mist and it transformed into a dark version of itself.
The dark alpha splinter was a tough bug, but it couldn't handle the shot from the railgun. It became a pile of goo on the floor.
"Seth was it really necessary for you to use that much firepower?" Samus said as some of the goo got on her. It had a bad smell. Luckily neither of them could smell it.
Seth would have said something, but a sphere of light appeared in front of the duo. They two of them were on their guard when it launched at Samus. The sphere integrated with Samus's suit.
'Warning, Unknown alien technology has entered the suit software. Beginning diagnostic scan. Scan complete. All suit functions are normal.' A message said on Samus's visor.
"Princess, what happened?" Seth still felt like crap, but he was able to hide his pain.
"I'm fine. I don't know what that thing was." Samus said as she checked all of her suits current abilities. They all seem to be working correctly.
They continued and entered another elevator. It lead to an area where Seth and Samus saw a machine that held some kind of light. The duo turned around and saw a strange alien. It was about twice the height if a normal human. It had a moth-humanoid appearance. Suddenly it began to speak to the duo.
"Do not be afraid. I am U-Mos, Sentinel of the Luminoth. Please listen, and hear of our world's peril." U-Mos said as he raised up his hand and showed a hologram. It showed a sphere being hit by something.
"Long ago, a cosmic object fell to our planet, Aether, exploding with great force. A rift was torn in time and space, and a strange power flowed over the world. Where once there was on Aether, there were now two. One of light...and one of shadow, each existing in its own dimension." U-Mos raised his other hand up and showed a hologram of the beings that attacked them earlier.
"It was the end of peace on Aether, for a new race was born that day, on the dark world...One fill with hate and a terrible power. They are the ING. The ING are creatures of shadow and darkness, knowing nothing of peace or mercy. For decades, we stood against them...yet we now lie on the verge of defeat." U-Mos returned to the hologram of Aether.
"When Dark Aether was born, out planetary energy was divided. Half for our world and half for theirs. Should one world gain control of this energy, the other will perish." Samus and Seth lower their weapons and U-Mos moved closer to them. U-Mos projected an image of the glowing sphere Samus had absorbed earlier.
"Before you two arrived, the INGs had stolen a device from us...one that collects planetary energy. With it, they have weakened our planet to the verge of collapse. But fortune smiled upon us this day, for the Energy Transfer Module...is now bonded to you. With it, you two can help us...help us restore our world. You're our only Hope Samus, Seth." Both Samus and Seth were wondering how did U-mos know there names, but that thought disappeared as U-mos began to speak again.
"Should we fall, the ING will look to the stars for new planets to ravage and conquer. Your species could be their next victims. The ING have taken our energy to three temples on Dark Aether. Find these temples, and transfer the energy from them to our own. I have updated your map systems with the location of another temple. There is Knowledge there that can help you on your way." Samus and Seth saw something pop up on their visors.
"I have also updated your Translator Modules. You can now access devices and doors coded with Violet holograms. Many new lands are open to you. Beware, the ING know that you possess the Energy Transfer Module. They will try to recover it at all cost. Return to me once you have restored power to a temple, I will aid you as I can. May The Light Of Aether shine upon you." U-mos raised both of his hand in the air as he gave Samus and Seth his blessing. The duo agreed to help out the luminoth. Seth and Samus now headed towards the violet gate and entered the elevator.
Agon Waste.
Seth and Samus entered the new area. Here they saw very little signs of vegetation and in the sky, they saw lightning flashing. They began to explore the area and soon found an area where Samus could fit with her morph ball, while Seth had to find another way around. He flew above in the sky, and soon something caught his attention.
Seth saw a heat source on his radar, and followed it, there he found several space pirates. They hadn't noticed him yet, he decided to follow them. The Pirates seemed to be loading something into a research facility, It took Seth couldn't figure out what it was, he decided to get a better look. As Seth got closer, something set off an alarm and my the look of things it wasn't him. He saw several space pirates run in fear as something was forcing them to flee.
Suddenly a blue figure appeared. It was ordering the pirates to move things. It was his Phazon counterpart. He decided to dub this being as Dark Seth and Samus's as Dark Samus.
Dark Seth felt as if he was being watched. He turned his head and saw Seth watching him in [F.L.A.M.E.].
"Shit, he saw me." Seth watched as Dark Seth disappeared from his sight.
"Where the hell did he go?" Seth started to look around for Dark Seth. "Did he run away?"
"Master Above!" Flame yelled.
Seth looked to the skies and saw a blue beam heading his way. He had to use [Ignition boost] to avoid the attack. Seth turned around to see Dark Seth charging up another attack. He quickly shot the large blue sphere Dark Seth was making with the railguns on [F.L.A.M.E.]. The blue sphere in Dark Seth's hands exploded with tremendous force. This shocked Seth as Dark Seth was able to gather so much energy so quickly.
Seth quickly charged in with [F.L.A.M.E.]'s large energy blade and clashed with Dark Seth's energy blades. Like before, Seth's energy blade began to melt, but all he had to do was get Dark Seth into a bind. Seth used the needle guns inside of [F.L.A.M.E.]'s shoulders to impale Dark Seth. He then charged up his railguns to fire energy beams and his disk bits as well.
Dark Seth saw what Seth was trying to do. He quickly broke the bind, but Seth wasn't about to let him go.
"Where do you think you're going?!" Seth said as he grabbed onto Dark Seth. He suddenly learned that it's probably not a good idea to touch a being made up of pure Phazon. [F.L.A.M.E.] shield points began to fall fast, but Seth needed to hold him for only three seconds.
Meanwhile with Samus.
Samus had travel inside the space pirate research facility and she found some disturbing things inside, but now she too had discovered her Phazon twin and began to follow her. She was led to an area where she saw Dark Samus enter. Suddenly a warning appeared on Samus's visor. She transformed into her morphball and roll out of the way of the attack.
Samus found Dark Samus and she didn't look too friendly. Both of them raised their arm cannons at each other.
Back with Seth.
Seth was about to unleash his attack on Dark Seth, but Dark Seth kicked Seth away and then started to glow bright blue. Seth was beyond shock.
"He's got Trans-am. Are you shitting me?"
"Master move." Flame yelled in Seth's head.
"Trans-am!" Seth yelled. [F.L.A.M.E.] began to glow red and was able to move out of Dark Seth attack. Seth saw that he had only 436 seconds in Trans-am so he had to act quickly. Seth knew that in hand to hand combat Dark Seth was better, and [B.L.A.Z.E.] could match him, but he was stuck with [F.L.A.M.E.]. He quickly came up with the idea that he would set up a trap.
Seth found the perfect area. He quickly set his mines down and soon Dark Seth came. Dark Seth charged at Seth without second thoughts. Seth waited till last second to avoid the attack and raise [F.L.A.M.E.] shield up. Dark Seth was where Seth wanted. He flipped the switch.
Back with Samus.
Samus had been in a duel with Dark Samus for a while now. Dark Samus was much strong but Samus was able to avoid a lot of her attacks. Suddenly a large explosion hit both Samus and Dark Samus. The two were knocked away from each other. They both wanted to find out what caused them to be blasted away. They both watched two red energy beams attack a single figure. Dark Samus knew who got hit, and Samus knew those energy beam.
Suddenly both Dark Samus and Dark Seth disappeared.
"Where did he go?!" Seth yelled. He looked around and noticed Samus in her varia suit.
"Hey Princess, did you see where that guy went?" Seth asked.
"Sorry, it looks like your's and my doppelgänger disappeared." Samus guess that like her, Seth was fighting his Phazon copy.
"Dammit that guy was insanely strong."
"Hey it's alright. Come we still got a job to do." Samus knew that there job was far from done. They had to keep going.
A little while later.
Seth and Samus had search the research facility and had found several upgrades for Samus. One of them being Dark Beam. They had also found a strange look object in the center of the research facility. After scanning the research logs that the space pirates left, they discovered that it was a portal into dark Aether. Seth and Samus decided to open it and enter the dark world.
Dark Aether, Dark Agon Waste.
As soon as the duo had entered the dark world, [F.L.A.M.E.] and [B.L.A.Z.E.] switched places and [B.L.A.Z.E.] immediately activated [Heaven's Wrath] powered down form. They soon learned that while in the dark Aether, Seth could create a sphere of light that would protect them from aether's harsh atmosphere, but it only had a range of 5 meters so Samus had to stay close by him.
The two of them had travel throughout dark Agon waste and had met the many enemies of the ING horde. Warrior INGs soon found out that entering Seth light sphere meant instant death. This made traveling Dark Aether so much easier. Samus had found several upgrades for her suit and had found the location of the dark Agon temple there they found something big. Amorbis was the name of this large worm like creature. It was surprisingly fast for its large size. It bursted out of the ground and charged at Seth and Samus. Seth grabbed Samus and flew out of the way of the attack. He quickly created several light sphere bits and unleashed a power torrent of beam attack.
Amorbis screeched in pain as the light from [Heaven's Wrath] energy attack was highly toxic to dark beings.
"Seth in front!" Blaze yelled. Seth looked in front of him and saw another amorbis in front of him. Samus acted quickly and charged up her light beam and shot the second amorbis. The blast caused it to move towards the right and miss Seth and Samus. Seth and Samus heard something coming from the ground below them. Suddenly a third amorbis appeared from the ground and attack the duo. Seth and Samus unleashed several missiles at the third amorbis. The missiles knocked the amorbis to the ground.
"Is it dead?" Samus wondered as the beasts stopped moving.
"No it's still alive!" Seth yelled as the three amorbis linked up with the strange black sphere in the center and they entered a dark transformation.
The three dark amorbis had gain some sort of dark crown on the front of its head. Seth and Samus soon learned what these were for as the three worms created a single black sphere and unleash a energy beam. Seth quickly brought out [Scutum Fidei.] and blocked the attack. Seth quickly put Samus inside of a light crystal light field so he could attack more. Seth quickly began his bombardment. He unleashed a massive volley of bullets from blaze's miniguns that ripped apart the flesh of the amorbises. (Not too sure what the purl of amorbis would be) One of them was still connected to the black sphere. It thrashed around in pain and smashed the black sphere causing it to crack. Samus and Seth both saw this and knew what to do.
"Seth!" Samus yelled to her partner.
"I'm on it!" Seth wasted no time in targeting the sphere.
"Light of the saint!" Seth yelled as he unleashed a massive white energy beam at the black sphere instantly destroying it.
Seth and Samus witness the amorbises turn into dust as the wind blew and where the black sphere was a new upgrade for Samus's suit appeared. The dark suit. It allows Samus to be in dark Aether without it causing too much damage to her shield points. Samus and Seth found the energy that was stored in the Dark Agon temple. They transferred the energy from the dark temple to the light temple. U-mos saw a familiar light coming from Agon waste.
A while later.
Seth and Samus returned to U-Mos and they were told to go to Torvus bog. This was a swampland and was full of deadly creatures. Seth in [F.L.A.M.E.] was torching the swamp. He hated bugs and these things had to go. They quickly made their way through the swamp and they quickly found the Torvus Temple.
Seth and Samus had learned that the dark world and light world were almost exactly the same. They also learned that if something happen in the light world it would effect the item in the dark world and vise versa. They had found these strange things that the Luminoth called rifts. These could act like portals to the dark Aether. Rifts in dark Aether would allow them to enter light Aether.
Dark Torvus Temple.
Seth Inside [B.L.A.Z.E.] in [Heaven's Wrath] form and Samus in her Dark suit. They saw a strange being burst out of the water and it created a wave of toxic water that was heading their way. Seth flew up and Samus used her space jump boots to avoid the attack.
Seth had learned that it was possible for [B.L.A.Z.E.] to learn light beam and [F.L.A.M.E.] could learn dark beam. He had copied the beams from Samus's data and could now use them.
Seth unleash a much more powerful form of Samus's light beam at Chykka. The large larva thrashed in the purple pool of water.
"Samus now!" Seth yelled. Samus charged up her powerbeam and shot three super missiles at Chykka. The larva suddenly created a cocoon so protect itself.
"What the hell is it doing?" Seth asked.
"Seth switch to x-ray." Blaze suggested. Seth did as Blaze asked and saw what Chykka was doing. It was entering a metamorphosis.
"Like hell I'll let you finished." Seth quickly brought out the [Lance of Longinus] and threw it at Chykka's cocoon. Seth saw that the metamorphosis was stopped and the beast soon turned to dust. Suddenly where the cocoon was a new upgrade appeared. It was called dark visor.
A little while later.
Seth and Samus had returned the energy to the Torvus Temple and returned to U-mos. He told the duo that they would have to sanctuary fortress. Here was once the pride of the Luminoth, but now it has fallen to the ING.
He told the duo that in dark Aether, it was called the ING fortress and was full the strongest foes they had yet to face. He told them to watch out for a machine called quadraxis. It was suppose to be their greatest weapon to defeat the INGs, but has now been corrupted.
Seth and Samus had reached the sanctuary fortress and decided to split up. They could cover more ground this way. Seth began to fly around in [F.L.A.M.E.] and saw something blue flying at an incredible speed. It suddenly disappeared. Seth traveled to its last known location and found a rift. Samus and Seth promised each other that they wouldn't travel into dark Aether without the other.
"It's just for a few minutes. She won't notice." Seth shot dark beam a the rift and the portal opened. As soon as he landed in the dark world Dark Seth was charging an attack.
"Fucking A!" Seth quickly brought out the [Scutum Fidei.] and Dark Seth unleashed his attack. The beam of Phazon was powerful enough to push Seth back, but soon Seth was able to move out of the line of fire.
Seth quickly brought out his energy blades and Dark Seth did as well. Their blades clashed and this time Seth's blades didn't melt. Their blades countered each other each time they met. The two of them entered a bind and both of them were unwavering. They broke from the bind.
Suddenly both Seth and Dark Seth created a sphere that envelop them. Seth was yellow in color and Dark Seth was bright blue. The two charged at each other. They're attacks were so powerful that they bounced off of each other. They charged at each other other again and again.
Meanwhile with Samus.
Samus had been trying to contact Seth for a while now, but to no avail. She had explored much of the sanctuary fortress and had face many robotic enemies. There were these machines that she really disliked fight called ingsmashers. These machines were made for literally smashing INGs into the ground. They reminded her of the omega space pirates that she and Seth fought.
Samus continued to explore the fortress as she couldn't seem to contact Seth. Samus had opened a door and saw something she didn't expect. Dark Samus was facing three space pirates. She fired only three shots that incinerated the space pirates. Dark Samus then began to absorb several tanks of Phazon that the pirates were guarding. Samus took this chance to scan her Phazon double. Her suit said that dark Samus was currently too dangerous to fight. Samus decided to avoid fighting her for now and entered an elevator.
As Samus was ascending something entered the elevator. Samus turned her head and saw Dark Samus inside the elevator.
"Dammit!" Samus yelled as she raised her arm cannon at Dark Samus. Suddenly a warning appeared on Samus visor saying to avoid the upcoming attack. Samus saw a nearby poll that the elevator was riding up on. She hid behind it and Dark Samus unleashed her attack. It was a scatter shot version of Seth energy beam. It destroyed many of the smaller objects on the raising platform. Samus quickly shot several shots from her powerbeam at the Phazon being. Dark Samus quickly charged up a shot from her armcannon. It was a power beam attack that could rival [B.L.A.Z.E.]'s in power. It appears that Samus and Seth weren't the only ones sharing data.
Samus entered her morphball form and used boost ball to avoid the attack. Samus was able to get behind the Phazon being and placed her armcannon on Dark Samus's back. She fired several missiles point blank. Dark Samus grunted in pain as the missiles had done massive damage to her.
Suddenly Dark Samus rose up and a created a sphere of blue energy that envelop her. She charged at Samus who used boost ball to avoid the attack. When dark Samus landed on the ground she created a shockwave of Phazon. Samus jumped up avoiding the attack. While in midair, Samus quickly charged her powerbeam and fired a super missile at Dark Samus.
The super missile was successful in damaging Dark Samus. Dark Samus got up and fired another barrage of energy shots at Samus. The bounty hunter would have attacked again if it had not been for something catching her attention.
A little but earlier, ING Hive.
Seth and Dark Seth had kept ramming at each other for a while. Their spheres created sparks of lightning as they clashed. Seth and Dark Seth went in for another clash. As the charged at each other they created a sphere. The two crashed into each other and unleashed their beams. The beams hit dead on one another.
The beams had a strange effect on each other. The toxic power of Phazon with the energy of [Heaven's Wrath] energy beam created a new rift and sucked up the two.
Sanctuary Fortress.
Seth and Dark Seth has reentered light Aether. Both of them were damaged, but Dark Seth was significantly more injured. Dark Seth saw that Dark Samus was nearby and also injured. Dark Seth quickly rushed to Dark Samus and grabbed her. He started to glow bright blue and the two disappeared.
"Hey princess you alright?" Seth asked.
"Yeah. Hey where did you go? I've been trying to contact you for the last 30 minutes."
"Sorry, I was too busy fighting that guy."
"For 30 minutes?"
"Yeah." Seth said. Samus decided to not ask anymore questions.
A while later.
The duo had finally made it to the deepest sections of the ING Hive and now were just outside of the ING hive temple. Samus and Seth entered a room where they saw a massive robot. It looked like it has been ages since it was activated.
"So this thing is Quadraxis." Seth said as they moved closer to the once powerful and pride of the Luminoth. Suddenly several purple clouds appeared. They entered the massive mech and the machine reactivated.
"Damn this guy is huge." Seth said as he and Samus got ready to fight this Titan.
Samus and Seth scanned the giant mech and found out its current weak spot is its joints.
Seth was the first to attack. He fired several missiles at one of the legs. He was successful in destroying the armor plating on the joint, but it was still moving.
The A.I. Inside of Quadraxis now listed Seth as a major threat it began to target Seth with its anti-matter cannon.
"Seth move quickly!" Blaze and Flame yelled. Seth suddenly saw Quadraxis charging up an attack. Suddenly, several grey energy blasts were unleashed on Seth. He easily avoided them.
"Why the hel- oh shit!" Seth yelled as the shots turned around and now following him. Seth began to fly erratically in an attempt to lose the spheres. Seth couldn't believe it. These things were speeding up.
Seth suddenly saw that several light bits charged and made contact with the grey shots. When the two objects clashed it created a massive explosion. Blaze had just saved his life.
"Blaze what the hell were those?"
"This thing has some crazy firepower. That was an anti-matter beam and it appears to have a lock on ability." Blaze said. Seth was trying to think of how to attack this mech, when he heard a super missile explode. He turn his head and saw Quadraxis's main body fall and its head detached. The head flew up and started to attack Samus.
Seth wasted no time in aiding Samus. He created several light bits and fired several energy beams. The Quadraxis head unit was not only able to avoid the attack it actually was able to to a counter attack.
"Seth, the main body is sending the head information. Aim for the antenna on the main body." Samus said and she was distracting the Quadraxis head unit.
Seth quickly aimed and attack the antenna. The Quadraxis head unit was now confused and now gonna rejoin the main body for emergency repairs.
"Oh no you don't!" Samus said as she turned into her morphball form and climb onto a spiderball rail. She launched herself onto the Quadraxis head unit. Samus unleashed several power bombs causing Quadraxis massive damage. The head spun around rapidly and Samus couldn't hold on. She was flung into the air, but Seth was able to catch her. Before Samus could say a word of thanks, Quadraxis reassemble itself and now began its counter attack.
Seth began to charge up an energy beam. He fired and unleashed his attack, and his light bits unleashed their beams attack as well.
Quadraxis showed that it had another ability. Just before the beams hit, Quadraxis activated its energy shields. These shields were strong, but Seth's attack was stronger.
The white energy beams unleashed a massive amount of power on the shields Quadraxis had. They shattered. Quadraxis was defenseless against Seth's attack. Seth wasn't finished yet. He unleashed even more power into his attack. Quadraxis exploded into several parts.
Samus was in awe, as she had yet to see him unleash so much power. Samus saw something in the wreckage of tall mech. It was annihilator beam. It combines both the light and dark beams that Samus currently has, into a more powerful weapon. Blaze and Flame were very interested in ability to combine light and darkness together. They began to integrate the skill.
The duo had returned to U-mos who was beyond joyful, at Samus and Seth's success. U-mos knew the ending of the war was near, but he had warn them of the challenges that awaited them in the final area, called the sky temple. He told them the great dangers they faced and that the sky temple was the one area that few Luminoth had ever entered. As such there were very few light crystals in this place. As a sign of his trust in them, U-Mos gave Samus a suit made of the light of Aether. With it Samus would no longer be harmed by the atmosphere of dark Aether. U-mos gave Seth a staff. It was strange in appearance. It black on one side and white on the other.
U-mos stated that Seth would know how to use this when the time was right.
The Sky Temple.
Seth and Samus had traveled throughout Dark Aether to find the sky temple keys. Now that they had all ten they entered the temple.
As the duo entered the temple, they saw something steal the energy core. They rushed to retrieve it, but they found something strange. They were in the heart of the ING horde and yet nothing was attacking them. They saw no signs of any INGs. [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] detected a massive life form that was full of both light and dark energy. This thing was appearing to be gaining power. One thing was certain. This was not gonna be an easy fight.
Seth and Samus made their way deeper into the temple and soon found what they were looking for. The final light of Aether, but something was absorbing the energy. It was what appeared to be an overgrown inglet. It immediately launched its tentacles at the duo. Seth quickly brought out his energy blades and slashed at the tentacles. They fell to the floor, but Emperor ING regenerated its lost limbs and attack once more.
Samus fired several missiles at Emperor ING and blasted two tentacles off. Seth created several light bits and unleashed his energy beams at Emperor ING. He was successful in destroying the remaining tentacles and then charged at the Emperor. Seth brought out a energy blade and slashed the core of the ING open. Emperor ING's protective shell was undone and showed a yellow energy core. Emperor ING raised an energy shield to protect itself, but it had a small opening. Seth and Samus, began to unleash everything that had at the core. Seth unleashed all of his noises missiles, he spun up the miniguns on his wrists, and created several light bit at unleashed a massive barrage of light beam attacks. Samus has unleashed her sonic boom attack, which was a combination of her annihilator beam and super missile. In short massive damage.
Emperor ING, now greatly damaged, let out a deafening screech. Suddenly its form began to change. No longer appearing as a overgrown inglet, but now entered a cocoon like state. Now the arena was being filled with toxic gas. Seth quickly grabbed Samus.
The two saw that the gas wasn't stopping. Pretty soon the whole room would fill up, they had to stop Emperor ING before it was too late. Samus found out that Emperor ING's shell was magnetic, and she could use her spinderball abilities on it. Samus began to drop all her remaining powerbombs on it. Seth was unleashing a massive volley with his Miniguns and soon the shell began to crack.
"Move it, Princess." Seth yelled as he saw that Emperor ING's shell was going to explode. Seth quickly grabbed Samus and they saw Emperor ING enter it's final form. Seth and Samus saw that Emperor ING finished it's transformation. Now, the ruler of all INGs took a form that resembled a Warrior ING. It charged at the duo. Seth and Samus separated to avoid the attack. Seth fired a energy beam and Samus fired a super missile, but both attacks bounced off of the mutated Emperor.
"What the hell!" Seth yelled in anger.
"Seth, this guy is nearly indestructible, you need to aim for it's glowing core." Blaze said inside of Seth's head. Seth looked at Emperor ING and for a split second, he saw the glowing core. It was hidden inside of the Emperor's mouth. He had a crazy idea. Seth charged at Emperor ING and proceeded to pry open it's mouth. Samus was surprised when she saw Seth trying open the mouth of Emperor ING, but it made sense as soon she saw the glowing core.
Samus fired several shots at the core, and the Emperor ING screeched in pain. It unleashed a massive dark energy beam that Seth got hit by, at point blank range. He was frozen in Dark Matter, but he quickly broke free.
Seth began his attack again. Emperor ING began to leap everywhere, it just wouldn't stay still. Seth used his light bits to chain the beast down, It thrashed around as it tried to escape, but Seth was going to make sure it was going to die this time. He opened the mouth of Emperor ING once more, but this time he opened it with one hand. With his free arm, Seth started to cut off bit by bit of Emperor ING's mouth. Now the leader of the INGs couldn't keep its mouth closed. Now with its core exposed, Samus and Seth began the final attack. Samus unleashed a volley of annihilator beam depleting the last of her ammo. Seth at the same time fired several energy beams at the core. The leader of the ING horde could no longer hold together its body. The massive ING now let out its final cries as it fell to the ground. It disappeared into millions of purple particles and Seth gained something unknown. It had somehow both entered [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.], yet it did no harm. Before either Blaze or Flame could say something, a massive shaking, rumbling everything in sight.
"What the hell is going on?!" Seth said as he was actually a little scared right now.
"Seth the dimension is destabilizing. You need to get out of here fast. HURRY!" Blaze sounded really scared. Seth wasted no time in grabbing Samus and getting the hell out of the sky temple. Seth and Samus quickly rushed towards the portal gate. Samus was low on shield points and Seth was reaching the time limit. They could still make it, but something happen.
"Huh? MOVE PRINCESS!" Seth saw a warning appear on his screen. It said that a high energy reading was aim that him. He moved out of the way, but it wasn't aimed for him. By the time he realized, it was too late. Samus was hit by two Phazon beams. Her energy shield points were almost all drain. She only had three points left.
"Shit! Hey Samus, hold on!" Seth yelled as he grabbed her while avoiding several Phazon beams.
"Blaze how is Samus?"
"Bad she's badly injured. If she doesn't get medical attention within an hour she won't make it." Seth knew he had to make a choice. He didn't have enough time to heal her himself, but if he made a portal to escape, then their dark copies would follow them. Seth began to heal her.
Samus began to feel a slight warm feeling. She opened her eyes to Seth who was healing her while avoiding Dark Seth and Dark Samus who was trying to kill them.
"S..Seth?"
"Hey princess." Seth said calmly. Even though this situation was really bad.
"Hey, are we gonna die?" Samus was nevered this badly damaged before.
"No. Not you at least." Seth said with a kind smile. He created a portal and threw Samus in it. Samus suddenly realized what Seth did and was now back on Aether.
"Seth...you freaking idiot!" Samus said as she broke into tears.
Now with Samus back on Aether, Seth now reached [Heaven's Wrath] limit. [B.L.A.Z.E.] now returned to it default state. Seth brought out his energy blades and charged at the dark duo.
"Dammit!" Seth yelled as he received a punch from Dark Seth. This was followed by Dark Samus firing a Phazon beam at him while in mid-flight. He fell to the ground. As Seth was getting up, Dark Seth charged at him with an energy blade out. Seth moved in time to avoid the blade, but he couldn't get out of the way of another punch, thanks to Dark Seth.
Seth slid on the ground and almost landed in a patch of Phazon. Seth got up once more, but noticed something. There were holes in the sky, several INGs were next to Dark Seth and Dark Samus. They all started to charge up an attack. Seth knew that this was it.
"Godammit, I'm going to die." He had already died once. He really didn't want to die a second time, and not here.
"Seth we still got a trick up our sleeve." Blaze said which surprised him.
"Blaze."
"Don't give up just yet master." Flame said with passion in her voice.
"Flame. So what is this trick cause I'm pretty screwed right now." Seth said jokingly as he saw that all the INGs and the dark duo finished charging their attack and this world was going to end within the next 1 minute or two.
"We'll show you." Both of the girls said. Seth was suddenly put into his Mindscape and saw both of the girls nearby him. They moved closer to Seth and kissed him on the cheek at the same time.
Back on Dark Aether, a sign popped up on Seth's visor. It read as [Fusion Program]. A large Red explosion surrounded Seth. At the very same moment, the INGs and the Dark duo unleashed their attack. A massive explosion occurred, but Seth came out of it unscarred. He found himself in a new I.S. unit. It had the wings of [B.L.A.Z.E.] with one of [F.L.A.Z.E.] Bits on his back. It's right shoulder was the same as [F.L.A.M.E.] but with [B.L.A.Z.E]'s color scheme and the left shoulder was the same as [B.L.A.Z.E.], but with [F.L.A.M.E.]'s color scheme. It's head was a perfect Fusion of [B.L.A.Z.E] and [F.L.A.M.E.] The Legs were the same as [F.L.A.M.E.]. Seth saw that this unit had a name. It was [C.O.L.D.]
"Cold. I like this." Seth said as he began his counter attack. He found that [C.O.L.D.] had only energy based weapons on it. He brought out his energy cannons that were on his shoulders. He charged up sphere of energy in his hands and in the Cannons. Seth unleashed several massive beams that shot so fast it eliminated all of the INGs. He destroyed Dark Seth's arms and Dark Samus's Armcannon. Seth speed in this form was only surpassed by [Heaven's Wrath.] Nothing could match him. Seth appeared behind Dark Samus and fired point blank. The lower have of Dark Samus was gone, but it was still alive. Dark Seth now charged at Seth without any arms, but Seth disappeared from its line of sight. Seth reappeared behind Dark Seth and slashed him in half down the center. With both of the Phazon copies down Seth created a portal. Just in time, as Dark Aether was in the final stages of breaking down.
Back on Aether.
Samus couldn't believe that Seth had sacrificed himself to save her. She blamed herself as she let her guard down.
"Dammit." Samus said softly as she got up to finish her mission. She was a bounty hunter and she had a job to do. She had lost comrades before, but why was she so hurt by Seth's death. As she got up a portal opened up and Samus couldn't believe her eyes. She saw Seth appeared out of the portal.
"Seth? Seth!" Samus ran towards Seth and embrace him in a hug. Seth deactivated [C.O.L.D.] and fell. He was knocked out.
Seth awoke inside of his and Samus's ship. He looked to his side and saw a very pissed off Samus.
"Hey pr-" Samus punched Seth In the face. Seth cringed in pain.
"Ow! Why the hell did you punch me?" Seth said as he was nursing his wounds.
"That was for fighting by yourself. We're a team. You can't just go off like that and..." Seth closed his eyes waiting for the pain. "...This is for saving me." Samus said as she gave Seth a kiss on the lips. Seth was shocked by this at first, but soon let himself sucome to the feeling. A while later Seth awoke in his mindscape. There he saw a mad Flame and Blaze.
"Seth we'll talk later about that kiss, but for now we have some good news. The staff that U-mos gave you was the holy relic. We can leave."
"Wait do we have to leave? How much time can we still spend in this universe?"
"Master, only a day has passed, if you wanted to, you could stay here for another six months. Wait you aren't thinking of staying here? Are you?" Flame said.
"I just don't want to leave just yet alright. I don't think we're done here just yet." Seth couldn't shake this odd feeling that something bad was going to happen soon, but he didn't know what ti would be.