User blog:RoyboyX/Metroid Prime: The Novel

My fifth novel, based on the first 3-D adventure in Metroid. Yes, another thing created during my block.

Prologue
Three years ago, below the surface of planet Zebes, the mercenaries known as Space Pirates were defeated by interstellar bounty hunter Samus Aran. Descending to the very core of the Pirate stronghold, Samus exterminated the energy-based parasites called Metroids, and defeated Mother Brain, the leader of the Pirate Horde. But the Space Pirates were far from finished. Several Pirate research vessels were orbiting Zebes while Samus fought on the surface below. After the fall of Mother Brain, the ships escaped, with the hopes of finding enough resources to rebuild their forces, and take their revenge. After discovering a possible Pirate colony on planet Tallon IV, Samus has again prepared for war, hoping to end the Pirate threat forever.

The cosmos... in the vast universe, the history of humanity is but a flash of light from a lone star. The life of a single person should be lost in space and time... but among the stars, there is one light that burns brighter than all others: the light of Samus Aran. Her battles extend beyond her life, and etch themselves into history. Here, another chapter of that history will be written.

Chapter 1: Distress Call
I'd been resting in my gunship with no particular thing to do when I picked up a distress call. It was coming from a lone frigate in orbit above a planet named Tallon IV. Meteors circled above as I landed my newly rebuilt ship on the ship's docking bay. But first off, let me introduce myself.

My name is Samus Aran. I'm a bounty hunter that works alone, defected from the Federation Army after an incident with my former commanding officer, Adam Malkovich. Three years ago, I'd gone to Zebes, the planet I had grown up on, and I'd single-handedly destroyed the Space Pirates. They planned to use parasitic creatures, Metroids, for use against galactic society. I had destroyed them all as well as the supercomputer that lead them, Mother Brain. After escaping their exploding base my mission was complete, or so I thought. I was shot down and I lost my Power Suit and ship in the crash. Stranded near their mother ship with no protection but a taser, I invaded the ship, barely making it to the Chozo ruins, where I collected an even stronger Power Suit and blew up the mother ship.

During the three years that followed, I hadn't really had anything to do but train myself on the now safe Zebes, and salvage my ship for reconstruction. I gave it an orange color this time and even though I'd lost the wings in the crash, I didn't give it new ones.

As my ship landed and I exited the cockpit, getting onto the lift that would bring me through the hatch at the top of my ship, I did a spin jump off the hull, aided by the boosters on my back, and landed, before I programmed my Arm Cannon. I was back in business.

There was a force field in my way with several targets around it on walls to both sides. Shooting the targets was the only way to get through. After that, there was another one, but the lights weren't active. Thankfully, there was an Interface Module nearby that restored it. I kept moving through the ship, the Frigate Orpheon, and came into a room that was depressurizing. Appropriately, it was called Air Lock. Several dead creatures and debris were in the air that dropped after I restored the switch.

And then I found myself in the Emergency Evacuation Area. There was a large dead creature, much vermin lying about, and many jettisoned escape pods that left 6 hours prior to my arrival. Shooting at the vermin which my Scan Visor called Parasites, I kept moving. There were several Space Pirate corpses scattered around near the huge corpse. What had happened here? This must have been a Pirate ship, but how did they survive? A very weak Space Pirate, with bite marks on its body was trying to shoot me, but failed miserably. "Yeah, right." And I shot it to death.

I soon encountered several Parasites running into a tunnel in the wall. Now was when I exploited one of my abilities, the Morph Ball, and rolled through the tunnel. They were gone, but I found myself inside a navigation room. A map of the ship was in here; after downloading it I read some of the terminals and found out some more about the Pirate activity here. Two 'Parasite Queen' specimens became volatile on Deck Beta. Was that what the large dead creature was?

In Biotech Research Area 1, there were three specimen tanks that had creatures (Parasite Queens?) with low life signs. The tanks were shrouded with liquid that I could barely see through. Two wounded Pirates were in here, one was actually standing. I then entered a Biohazard Containment and found many different species, including another Parasite Queen in stasis. Some of the specimens here were entirely new to me, like Parasites, Ice Shriekbats which looked like the Zebesian Skree and a Plazmite. However, there was one creature that was very violent and tried to break out of its containment. I could see through the cracked portions of its containment door that it looked like a Sidehopper. Four more Pirates.

A long elevator leading downward, and for once there was a Pirate in perfectly good condition. After opening two vault doors, I found myself in the Reactor Core. The elevator descended and took me down to the main chamber. I heard roars and then saw a Parasite Queen descend down from the main chamber of the core.

Chapter 2: Planetfall
The scorpion-like beast was inside a barrier with a huge gap in it, actually, two gaps, that gave me a striking point. It only had one attack, an easily dodgable acid laser. Sometimes the barrier would split and rapidly spin around, but otherwise I was able to dash around and fire at the queen. I then scanned it and found a new target: its mouth. Several Missiles finished it off in seconds. The barrier exploded and the queen fell into the Reactor Core, trying to escape, but failing. An explosion then commenced. "Evacuate immediately. Evacuate immediately." This echoed throughout the ship. A force field behind me disappeared, and since I had no time to go back the way I came I rushed through there quick.

I sped through halls, scanned elevator switches and paid lots of attention to any information I could glean from terminals. I had to know what was going on and have evidence for it as well. Sometimes there would also be Interface Modules that I could scan to disable the ship's Auto Defense Turrets, a real life-saver. Re-entering the Bioteach Research Area 1, I could see one of the Parasite Queens trying to escape its containment. A terminal below its stasis tank ordered its termination. The others had already escaped. Soon, a large explosion occurred, killing all the Pirates nearby and the queen. I sped up to the top via stairs of broken floor and made sure there would be no survivors but me.

I then realized, there's no door! No door! What?

But, I then remembered some information I'd found earlier; which said that ventilation caps would explode if overheated. One was nearby, and sure enough, it blew off, giving me a passage into the ventilation tunnels. More of those Parasites were flooding the chambers and they clogged up my visor with their splattered blood. One time I'd encountered a piston that would lunge itself out now and then, but I was able to push it back with weapon fire enough that I found a way out.

In a large room with water on the bottom, I heard roars. Looking around, I suddenly saw the source of the roars at the top. I was taken aback by it although I aimed my gun up. It was Ridley, reborn from my fight with him on Zebes. After he killed my family I had been scarred with post traumatic stress disorder. I'd killed him, but he was here. How?

"You..." I said, silently. He roared and broke free of his restraints before fleeing. I waved my arm off in anger. The only way over the water was two Grapple Points. I swung over the obstacle Tarzan style and kept moving. Before I left I gained some information on Ridley – no, Meta Ridley, as he was now called – and found myself in another elevator shaft. After scanning the Interface Module to activate it, several explosions occurred, coming to me. I tried to escape, but the explosion sent me flying at the wall. I hit it and fell to the floor, my suit degrading. I now had a yellow color scheme, my old Power Suit. What? No!

"Varia Suit malfunction. Morph Ball malfunction. Missile malfunction. Charge Beam malfunction. Grapple Beam malfunction." No, no, no, no, no! I was getting stressed and this wasn't helping me. My suit was so damaged it just disappeared completely, leaving me in my Zero Suit. Hoping there were no serious hazards out there I grabbed my Paralyzer pistol and did not once stop moving.

Thankfully, I made it out safely. The ship had begun exploding, with pieces of it blowing off quickly. Ridley was flying to Tallon IV, the planet. I raced to my gunship and pursued him. I was so ready to destroy him.

"Tracking on enemy target has been lost. Ground-based recon required. Begin landing sequence." Dammit! I'd lost him. As I descended through the clouds I looked at the scenery. It was very gorgeous, lots of green vegetation and rain. I was instantly reminded of Crateria. I took a moment before exiting my ship to recharge my suit's energy and read up on all the information I'd gathered.

Chapter 3: Restoring my Suit
The Pirates had been building a colony on Tallon IV with some mutagen they called "Phazon" that had very powerful properties. They'd used it on several bioforms and themselves for experiments, like the Parasite Queens. Meta Ridley was genetically rebuilt after Zebes. I was going to track him down and kill him.