Biography of Samus Aran

Samus Aran is a bounty hunter that has worked with the Galactic Federation several times in the past, having exterminated the Metroids, X Parasites, Ing and Phazon. Below is a full account of her history.

Childhood
Samus Aran was originally a native of the Earth colony K-2L. She was living with her parents, Rodney Aran and Virginia Aran, when, at the age of three, the colony was visited by the Chozo. The Chozo had come in hopes of gaining some of the Afloraltite the colony mined there, but the colony was unwilling to give them any. Samus, however, caught the attention of Old Bird, one of the Chozo elders. The two of them went for a walk, where they began to strike up a friendship. Samus began to call him “Grandpa” and Old Bird introduced her to her new pet, Pyonchi.

However, a Space Pirate raid, led by Ridley, commenced on the colony. Samus herself had an encounter with Ridley, where she asked if they could become friends. Ridley was humiliated in front of his troops as a result, and attempted to kill Samus, before her mother pushed her out of the way. Virginia was subsequently killed by Ridley, while her father sacrificed himself to explode Ridley’s flagship. Little did Ridley know that, in killing Samus’s mother, as well as attempting to kill her too, he had succeeded in creating his enemy. Samus was the sole survivor of the attack. Eventually, the same group of Chozo found her alone and stranded on the destroyed colony. Old Bird decided to take Samus. They brought her to their planet, Zebes, and raised her with Chozo influence. She was infused with Chozo blood, and later given the powerful bio-mechanical Power Suit, built entirely out of Chozo technology.

Samus trained under the Chozo for many years. By the age of 14, she was already well past the physical limits of ordinary humans. The Chozo were unsure at first of her ability to become a true warrior, until they witnessed her compassion to a flock of Iona Faria that had gone insane as a result of exposure to the Bajar Grove. Old Bird told her that she had his confidence and she immediately left the planet for the Federation.

Rise of the Hunter
Samus joined the Federation Police, where she excelled far above any at the academy. Only one being in a million was cut out to be a member of the police force, and she rose above them all. She received cybernetic enhancements, enhancing her already high combat capabilities to nigh-superhuman levels. Eventually, she was promoted to the Star-Trackers, which only one out of a million police officers is qualified for.

She was assigned to the command of Adam Malkovich, who referred to her as "Lady." He would always finish his orders with the question, "Any objections, Lady?" It was his way of cementing the trust between the two of them. Her squadmates were Kreatz and Mauk, whose admiration of Samus lead them to disobey Federation orders and travel to Zebes to help the Chozo.

A few years later, without warning, Samus vanished completely, abandoning her post in the GF Police. Her reasons for doing so are unknown. She did not resurface until a few years later, and by this time had become universally-renowned as a Bounty Hunter. She had apparently spent these years single-handedly hunting down Space Pirates. So much of her life during this time is shrouded in mystery, the public believes her to be a male cyborg, not the same woman who graduated first in her class at the GF Police.

Return to Zebes
After becoming the most famed and capable of all Bounty Hunters, succeeding in missions everyone considered impossible, Samus was summoned by the Galactic Federation. A Federation Planet Reclamation Devision had been sent to capture Metroid specimens for study, but the Space Pirates had swept in, killed all the crew, and stolen the Metroid. The capture of this creature was a disastrous blow to the Federation. The Metroid could leech life from victims, was impervious to most weaponry, and could be cheaply cloned by exposure to beta rays for 24 standard hours. The Pirates had already tested their potential in a three-way simultaneous act on several Federation worlds, which were a stunning success for the Pirates’, with no casualties to their side at all. This was a grave threat to the fate of the Federation. With hundreds of Metroids under their power, the Space Pirates would inevitably begin a campaign to conquer the rest of the universe. Galactic Civilization would end.

After a long and harrowing search, the Federation Police tracked the Pirates to Zebes. They launched an invasion but Pirate resistance was strong. After much debate, the Federation decided to turn to Samus to infiltrate the base at Zebes. She was given two objectives.


 * ’’’Destroy all Metroid organisms.’’’ and
 * ’’’Defeat the Mechanical Life-Form Mother Brain.’’’

Samus’s “Zero Mission”
Samus arrived on the Zebes and discovered that, to access Tourian, where the Pirate base was located, she had to kill the two Pirate leaders situated in the planet: her old foe, Ridley, and his partner Kraid. After discovering various Chozo artifacts located in multiple locations on the planet that served as upgrades for her suit, Samus was finally able to access the lower depths of Brinstar, where she discovered Kraid waiting for her. A fierce battle ensued, with Samus ultimately coming out the winner. Samus then headed down deeper into the volcanic regions of Zebes where she had several surprising encounters with  Imagos, gigantic flies that formed from enormous grub-like larvae. By the time Samus arrived at Ridley’s lair, Ridley had just arrived moments earlier after being sent to inspect the planet. Samus fought him with a murderous lust, finally being able to avenge her parents’ death. Ridley was left nearly burned alive, but ultimately he did not die.

After defeating the two, Samus was granted access to Tourian, where she discovered that Space Pirates had underestimated the Metroids’ intelligence. A massive breakout had occurred, and all Pirate personnel present at the time of the breakout were dead. Mother Brain herself, meanwhile, was protected by her Chozo built facility and so was completely unharmed. Metroid cloning had proceeded as though nothing happened as a result and so the Metroid population had risen to an astonishing level. Samus proceeded to kill all the Metroids she encountered but found that the Metroid were in impervious to most weaponry. Only by exploiting their weakness to cold with the Ice Beam could Samus hope to overcome them. Samus arrived at Mother Brain’s chamber and proceeded to destroy her. The two entered an arduous duel but Mother Brain ultimately was defeated. Unfortunately for Samus, Mother Brain proceeded set off a countdown for the self-destruct of the entire Pirate base. Samus barely managed to make it out to her gunship in time.

Ambush
Unfortunately, escape was not easy as Samus thought it would be. As soon she left the atmosphere, Space Pirate Fighters ambushed her, and Samus was shot down. Her ship crashed landed back on Zebes. Samus survived but the explosion had destroyed her Power Suit. The only weapon left available to her was a mostly-useless stun pistol. Her only option left was to sneak inside the Space Pirate Mother Ship, which had landed in the valley nearby, in hopes of hijacking a ship and escaping. The next morning, Samus climbed in through the ductwork and began infiltrating the ship. Unfortunately, her plans were quickly botched when she was spotted by several Pirates, who quickly set off the alarm throughout the entire ship for her capture. Though she managed to outwit them many times, Samus was ultimately forced to retreat to the nearby ruins of Chozodia.

In the ruins, however, Samus discovered a sacred Ruins Test which she had visited once as a young child. Upon their reunion, the statue summoned her to an immense battle, where Samus had to face a mirror image of herself, along with powerful lighting hurled by the statue. Ultimately, Samus succeeded in passing the test, and the statue rewarded with the Gravity Suit. Now more powerful than before, Samus stormed the Pirate Mothership, leaving many dead Pirates in her wake.

Eventually, Samus made it all the way to the bridge, where she discovered Mecha Ridley, a gigantic robot built in Ridley’s likeness. The robot engaged in a fierce battle, but Samus was easily able to destroy it. As it shut down, it unexpectedly began setting off an alarm for the self-destruct of the entire Pirate Mothership! Samus raced through the corridors of the Mothership, battling numerous Pirates along the way, until she managed to hijack a Space Pirate fighter. Samus quickly flew out of the ship and left Zebes, while the Pirate Mothership exploded behind her. Samus had fulfilled her Zero Mission.

Mission at Tallon IV


Samus’s next mission led her to the next planet on the Zebesian system: Tallon IV. She intercepted a distress signal sent from the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon and immediately flew in to investigate. Once inside, she discovered a horrendous sight. Dead pirates were everywhere, and vermin ran amok in the ship. It did not take Samus a long time to discover the source. A Parasite Queen the Pirates had been performing experiments on had broken out and stationed itself in the Frigate’s Nuclear reactor core. Samus killed the creature, but the dying beast slipped inside the reactor, causing a malfunction that threatened to destroy the entire vessel. Samus ran for her life through the ventilation tunnels, but to her great surprise, she found herself reunited with Ridley, who had been given many cybernetic implants and been transformed into Meta-Ridley. Samus chased him through the ship, but along the way, an explosion occurred which rammed her badly into the wall, causing her Power Suit to malfunction. Of all its previous functions and upgrades, only the Arm Cannon remained functional. Samus quickly left the dying Orpheon and chased Meta-Ridley in her gunship, but he proved faster than expected and soon disappeared from her radar. Samus was forced to track him on foot, and so, even in her weakened state, she chose to land on the planet below: Tallon IV.

The Metroid Prime
After passing through the jungles in the Tallon Overworld, Samus discovered an elevator, which led to deserted Chozo Ruins. There she discovered that, 50 years earlier, a colony of Chozo had come to the planet to regain their spirituality. Unfortunately, a mysterious meteor struck the planet, bringing with it a Great Poison and The Worm. The Great Poison quickly began spreading through the area, killing all life in its path, and corrupting any beings which it did not kill. The Chozo, now immortalized as ghosts, managed to seal off the Impact Crater within a seal called The Cipher, locking up the Metroid Prime with it. Most of Chozo there had gone insane and turned into menacing spirits and all the survivors fled to an unknown location. The Space Pirates fleeing the destruction of the base at Zebes had then landed on the planet and began mining the Phazon there after discovering it could be used a steroid for military use.

Samus journied through Tallon IV, regaining her lost weaponry and collecting sacred Chozo Artifacts, for the Chozo had prophesied that she was the one destined to destroy the Worm and the Phazon there. She also swept through the Phazon Mines the Pirates had set up, destroying the Phazon-infused experiments she found there, eventually coming across the most horrifying on of them all: the Omega Pirate. After a challenging battle, Samus managed to defeat the beast, but in its death throes, it fell on Samus and melted into pure Phazon. The viral radiation dramatically mutated her Power Suit, turning it into the Phazon Suit, which allowed her to safely come in contact and harness the power of Phazon.

Endgame
Samus returned to the Artifact Temple, having collected all the Chozo artifacts and suit upgrades, and activated the Cipher so that she could enter inside the Impact Crater. Just before the statue seal deactivated, Meta-Ridley flew in and destroyed the statue. He then attempted to kill Samus, but Samus managed to burn off his wings then overload his life-support. Just as Meta-Ridley was brought at death’s door again, the Chozo statues there fired powerful lasers at his chest, causing him to topple off the mountain. The Chozo Ghosts within the statues then undid the seal themselves, allowing Samus inside the Impact Crater. Inside, Samus discovered the sleeping Metroid Prime, the source of all the Phazon. Samus managed to destroy its armor, forcing the creature to reveal its true form, then overloaded it by harnessing pure Phazon through her Phazon Suit. The Metroid Prime began to die, but in a last-ditch attempt to save itself, it shot out a tentacle and absorbed Samus’s Phazon Suit, then began to explode. Samus ran for her life as the entire Impact Crater burst into flames. Tallon IV had been cleansed but the Worm was not yet dead.

The Ultimate Power
Some time after, a mysterious telepathic message was sent out from the Tetra Galaxy saying, "The secret to ultimate power resides in the Alimbic Cluster." Samus was sent by the Federation in order to determine the truth about this message. Unfortunately, the message had also been sent to other recipients and soon many others hunters began heading to the Alimbic Cluster, each with their own reasons for the ultimate power. To gain the ultimate power, one had to find the 8 Octoliths which would power the Alimbic Cannon, allowing access to the Oubliette. The Octoliths were all under guard by robotic beings: the Cretaphids and the Slenches.

Between skirmishes with these beings and the other hunters, Samus discovered that the Alimbics, the former inhabitants of the Alimbic Cluster, had vanished when a monstrous being named Gorea had arrived in the form of a comet and began wreaking havoc upon their civilization. The Alimbics were forced to sacrifice themselves to seal away Gorea within the Seal Sphere, which was kept in the Oubliette. They also left a cryptic prophecy on how to possibly defeat Gorea.



After collecting all 8 of the Octoliths, and using them to activate the Alimbic Cannon, Samus and the other hunters raced to the now accessible Oubliette. The other hunters got there first, and inside they discovered an immobilizing structure. They began firing at it, mistakenly believing it to be holding the ultimate power inside. To their great surprise, Gorea instead emerged from the broken structure. Samus arrived just in time to see Gorea shoot out massive tentacles and drain the other hunters of their powers. The defeated hunters vanished, and Samus alone remained to fight Gorea. She first activated the panels around the arena in accordance with the Alimbic prophecy, then began battling Gorea by exploiting its link to the Gorea Seal Sphere. Gorea then revealed its final form and continued the assault. Fortunately, Samus gained access to the Omega Cannon, which allowed her to defeat Gorea's second form. Gorea and the Oubliette exploded, while Samus and what is believed to be the other hunters escaped with their lives. Once she was back in the safety of space, Samus, less her suit, received a vision where three Alimbic spirits appeared to thank her.

Dark Echoes
Samus was given yet another assignment from the Galactic Federation, which was to track down a missing brigade of Federation Marines, GFMC Task Force Herakles. Samus headed to the planet Aether, located in the Dasha region of space, where the troopers’ distress signal was coming from. Samus flew to Aether in her gunship, but her ship was caught in the dimensional storms raging on the planet and was badly damaged. Very luckily, her ship landed not very far away from the troopers’ makeshift base. Immediately upon entering it, she could see that all the troopers had died in some sort of attack. Before she could discover the source, many of the dead troopers rose and began firing at her.

Samus fled the base, with the undead troopers in pursuit, but once she was safely outside, she discovered something very strange. A mysterious black and blue being that wore a suit similar to hers was entering a mysterious Portal to an unknown location. Samus followed the being into the Portal, only to find herself in a nightmarish replica of the room she had been in before. The being was absorbing a massive lode of Phazon before it. It began firing at her, but ultimately left her to be attacked at the hands of the savage creatures surrounding them both. Samus readied herself to fight, but before she could put up a fight she was exposed to the poisonous atmosphere of the region and began drowning as the creatures attacked her.

Samus managed to make it back to the portal, though now many of her suit upgrades had been stolen by the creatures that attacked her. She made her way through the catacombs of Aether until she discovered the source of the distress signal: the Federation troopers' damaged ship, the GFS Tyr. Accessing the ship’s log, she discovered that the Task Force had been stranded on Aether when they were pursuing a shot down Space Pirate frigate found in the area, only for the ship to be damaged by a dimensional lighting storm. Eventually, they were all killed after repeated assaults by Dark Splinters, though one of the troopers managed to send the distress signal. Scans of the individual troopers’ logs eventually showed that they were likely all dead. Samus’s ship was still damaged and so she went on a search to identify the cause of the attack, as well as to recover her stolen weaponry. She began finding signs of an intelligent civilization living on Aether and so she chose to investigate. Her search eventually led to the Great Temple where there were dozens of beings in cryogenic sleep inside of tanks. Before she could investigate further, she was immediately attacked by an Alpha Splinter, which was almost immediately transformed into Dark Alpha Splinter. Samus managed to kill it, but a strange glowing object emerged from the dead insect and entered her suit.

Samus continued up the building where she was encountered U-Mos, the Sentinel of the Luminoth. U-Mos informed her that his species, the Luminoth, had migrated to this planet, having been drawn to its unique energy, and had lived in peace until a Leviathan much like the one that impacted Tallon IV impacted the planet, straining the planet’s fragile dimensionality and thus creating two different dimensions of the same planet, the original Aether and a twisted, corrupted version: Dark Aether. A malevolent race called the Ing had come with the Leviathan, and was responsible for the death and possession of the troopers. The Luminoth had been involved in a long war with the Ing for the Light of Aether and were at the verge of defeat when Samus had arrived. Samus had gained the Energy Transfer Module that had stolen by the Ing years earlier. Now that she had it, she could transfer the Light of Aether from Dark Aether to light Aether, for without it the planet would collapse. Samus thus agreed to seek out the Energy Controllers to restore the Light of Aether to the Luminoth. Samus’ mission took her all through Aether and Dark Aether, where she faced many Ing attempting to kill her for assisting the Luminoth, as well as several skirmishes with Dark Samus herself. She also reclaimed her stolen weaponry from the various Ing Guardians who had made use of it, as well as Luminoth upgrades such as the Dark Suit. Once she had restored the three energy controllers to transfer the Light of Aether, U-Mos thanked her with the Light Suit, a suit that contained the Light of Aether within itself. Then, he told her of her the most dangerous mission: to obtain the final Energy Controller, hidden within the Sky Temple. To enter the Sky Temple, though, she had to find nine Sky Temple keys. Within the Sky Temple, Samus faced the Emperor Ing, a mighty behemoth that ruled the Ing Horde. Although she was almost defeated, Samus prevailed, killed the Emperor, and obtained the final energy controller. Without the energy, Dark Aether started to fall apart, and with only eight minutes to escape, Samus raced down to the Sky Temple gateway, where Dark Samus confronted her once more. The two dueled it out to the death, but Samus took advantage of her foe's sole weakness - an overload of Phazon. Using this Dark Samus was ultimately defeated. In her weakened state, she attempted to steal Samus’s Light Suit, but instead vanished into thin air. Samus then returned back to Aether, while Dark Aether was destroyed. The Luminoth, who had just returned from their cryogenic sleep, rejoiced and thanked Samus for freeing them from the Ing. Samus then gave them back the equipment she borrowed from them and returned to her gunship, where she flew off into the vast darkness of space.

The Great Invasion
Six months later, Samus was summoned to the battleship G.F.S. Olympus, in orbit with the rest of the Federation fleet above the planet Norion, receive her instructions for her next assignment. She, along with her fellow bounty hunters Rundas, Gandrayda, and Ghor were ordered to deliver a vaccine to the Federation’s Aurora Units, which were suffering from a Space Pirate-engineered virus. Just as their mission briefing ended, a surprise Pirate attack occurred, and all the bounty hunters, including Samus, headed down to their ships, fighting any Pirates they encountered in the corridors, to assist with the battle at Norion’s main base, Sector Zero. Once she had landed there, she was informed the Space Pirates had disabled the generators to Norion’s planetary cannon and thus she and the other hunters had the responsibility of restoring them while the Federation Marines held off the invading Pirate forces.

Samus and the other hunters raced through the base, turning on each generator they found to restore power to the cannon. The situation became direr than expected when the Federation fleet discovered exactly why the Pirates where attacking: a massive Leviathan was headed to Norion and the invasion was intended to stall until it could arrive and crash into the planet. Samus headed to the final generator, only to find her old nemesis Meta-Ridley waiting for her. In the ensuing melee, Meta-Ridley accidentally broke through the floor and the two of them hurtled down the 1600 meter shaft, dueling all the way. Just as Samus finished off Meta-Ridley, Rundas came down to rescue her and the two flew out of the tunnel together. Samus restored the final generator and she and the other hunters went straight to the control tower to activate the cannon. As soon they made it to the top, Dark Samus, who was responsible for the invasion, blasted them all with a massive Phazon laser to ensure that the Leviathan would not be destroyed. Luckily, Samus, though heavily wounded, managed to fire the cannon just before she fainted, destroying the incoming Seed.

One month later, Samus awoke to find that she and her fellow hunters’ bodies were self-producing Phazon with no negative side-effects to their health. The Federation medics working on her had thus equipped her with the Phazon Enhancement Device. Through this suit, she could take advantage of her own Phazon to enter Hypermode,  a function trigged by the PED that would allow her to energize her suit and weapon systems with Phazon, giving her access to devastating powers. Samus was then informed by the Aurora Unit 242 that her fellow hunters had awoken two weeks before she had. They to had been given PEDs and dispatched to the planets Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld, where Leviathans had also landed on. Unfortunately, the Federation had lost contact with all of them one week later. Samus was then ordered complete the missing hunters’ mission to destroy each Leviathan, as well as finding out exactly what caused the Federation to lose contact with them.

Samus traveled to the planets Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld to find upgrades to further enhance her abilities to destroy the seeds. However, she learned that the Phazon corruption, initially thought to be benign, could cause her body to overload with Phazon energy which she must expel to prevent total corruption. (If Samus stays in hypermode past an allotted time, she enters corrupted hypermode in which the Phazon meter rises up. If the meter maxes out, Samus will be utterly corrupted, transforming into another Dark Samus, which leads to an automatic "Game Over.") She learned that each of her fellow hunters fell to the Phazon corruption and to protect herself she battled each hunter in turn, killing them. As each hunter fell, Dark Samus showed up to drain the Phazon energy and their abilities from their bodies, with Samus powerless to stop her. With the help of her Phazon, Samus was able to successfully destroy the seeds at both Bryyo and Elysia. She also disabled the Pirate Homeworld’s planetary shield, allowing the Federation’s fleet to launch a full scale assault on the planet. Samus herself personally led a team of Demolition Troopers to destroy the security door to the Pirates’ cargo line leading to the Seed. All the Leviathans are destroyed but Samus had been corrupted to the point that she was now literally glowing with Phazon.

The Aurora Unit 217 then discovers the location of planet Phaaze, the source of all Phazon and Dark Samus's place of origin. Traveling with the Federation via a wormhole created by the Leviathan Battleship, Samus arrived and descended to the planet. As soon she arrived, Samus began absorbing dangerous amounts of Phazon energy, nearly corrupting her completely, but managed to prevent this by venting all her available energy tanks and locking herself in permanent Hypermode. After venturing to the planet's inner Sanctum, she encounters Dark Samus, who fuses with the stolen Aurora Unit 313 that is linked with Phaaze's core. Samus was able to defeat Dark Samus, which destroyed the Phazon in her own body and caused the planet to self-destruct. The Federation fleet escaped via another wormhole, but lost contact with Samus in the process. Eventually, though, her ship appears, and she reports that her mission is complete, then flies off into space.

After leaving the celebrating Federation fleet, Samus returned to Elysia, where she mourned the loss of her fellow bounty hunters on this mission. Eventually, she leaves Elysia and heads off on her next mission, but fails to notice a mysterious gunship following her.

Metroid Extermination Order


What happened after this period of time is unknown. It is known that at this point, the Galactic Federation had deemed the Metroids to be too dangerous to exist. After several failed attempts by their own troops, The Federation ordered Samus to exterminate them herself, given her long experience in dealing with the creatures.

Samus arrived at SR388 and landed her ship at the base of an active volcano, where the Metroids lair had been traced to. Once there, she found that Metroids mutate into different forms, each stronger than the last. Every time she managed to successfully kill all the Metroids in the area, the lava level inside the volcano would drop, allowing her access to deeper levels where stronger Metroids were hiding. Her search finally led her to the Queen Metroid, which was responsible for the reproduction of the entire Metroid species. Samus managed to kill the beast and thus believed herself to have successfully eliminated the Metroids for good. As she continued down the tunnels, however, she found a single Metroid egg. As she stared at it, an Infant Metroid hatched out of the egg and, upon seeing Samus, imprinted her as its mother. Samus felt compassion for the infant and, going against her orders, took the Metroid Hatchling to her gunship and left the planet.

Final Mission to Zebes


Samus, knowing how valuable the Metroid Hatchling could be to the Federation, headed to the Ceres Space Colony, and chose to turn it over to the scientists there, who believed they could harness the infant’s power for the good of mankind.

Samus, confident in their findings, proceeded to leave the station. However, she had not even left the asteroid belt where Ceres was stationed before she received a distress signal from the scientists. Returning to Ceres, she discovered that the Space Pirates had attacked the station in hopes of stealing the Metroid. Ridley himself had captured the Metroid and was about to make off when Samus arrived. After a brief struggle, Ridley flew out of the station and set off the self-destruct to destroy the entire station. Samus barely made it out alive, but flew away in her gunship, while Ceres exploded behind her.

She managed to track Ridley and the other Pirates to Zebes, and there discovered that the Space Pirates had rebuilt their old base on the planet and had returned to their old plan of cloning Metroids. Mother Brain had returned as the head of the base, as had Ridley and Kraid. Several new Pirate generals had been recruited as well: Phantoon, a ghostly being that haunted the Wrecked Ship; Crocomire, the crocodile-like general who resided in Norfair; and Draygon, a massive Evir which presided over Maridia. After defeating them all, Samus was granted access to Tourian. She proceeded to exterminate the Pirate-cloned Metroids she found there, but was suddenly attacked by a massive Metroid, far larger than any she had ever seen. All her weaponry was useless against and soon the Metroid had her down. Just moments away from death, the Metroid strangely relinquished its hold, and Samus realized that it was the infant Metroid, enhanced through unknown means.

Samus continued down Tourian until she encountered Mother Brain and proceeded to destroy her tank as before. Though she appeared defeated, Mother Brain suddenly emerged from the wreckage in a massive new body. Samus fought with all her might, but Mother Brain quickly defeated her with her Hyper Beam, leaving Samus heavily wounded and near death once more. Just before Mother Brain could launch another blow, the infant Metroid suddenly arrived and began sucking all the life out of Mother Brain, then began transferring the life to Samus. Mother Brain was not yet dead, though, and it began attacking the Metroid. The Hyper Beam finished off the Metroid, but Samus had been revived and used Mother Brain’s own Hyper Beam against her until she was no more. Her death triggered off a self-destruct mechanism, only this time for the entire planet. Samus escaped with her life, while Zebes, the ancient home of the Chozo was lost forever.

Becoming Metroid
SR388 was now free of Metroids, and so the Galactic Federation decided to send in a research party to investigate the planet. Due to her previous experience with the planet and its inhabitants, Samus was hired to serve as a guide to the researchers, to collect samples of life for the Biologic Space Laboratories (BSL). The researchers and Samus arrived on the planet, and when Samus and the troopers were trying to capture a Hornoad, a X| mysterious parasite injected itself inside Samus. Thinking nothing of it, the team continued on their mission. After their search was completed and the team returned to their ships, the parasite, which had infested her central nervous system, caused her to fall unconscious and drift her gunship into an asteroid belt. Fortunately, her escape pod was ejected from the ship and retrieved by the BSL.

The X had infected such large portions of her Power Suit that it had to be surgically removed, drastically altering her physical appearance. She was initially given a less than 1% chance of survival, but very fortunately the scientists discovered a cure: Metroids. The Metroids were discovered to have been created by the Chozo in order to exterminate the X. With this knowledge in mind, the scientists used a culture of Metroid cells extracted from the Infant Metroid to make a vaccine. The vaccine was an astonishing success; the X were completely purged from her body, curing her completely. The vaccine had some unexpected side effects on her body, however. Now that she was immune to the X, she could absorb them and channel them to restore her health. Samus also gained the Metroid’s trademark weakness to cold. More than just her biology changed, however; the surgical removal of parts of her Power Suit suit had left her with a radically different appearance, the new Fusion Suit.

Despite her recent illness, Samus was not given furlough by the Federation. She was immediately issued a new Gunship with an onboard computer to serve as an aide. This computer’s personality reminded her heavily of her former Commanding Officer and so, with irony noted, she chose to name it Adam in his memory. Samus was then sent to the BSL research station where the last batch of creatures from SR388 and the infected parts of her Power Suit were sent. She was to investigate an unexplained explosion in the Quarantine Bay. To her great surprise, she discovered that the X Parasite within her Suit had taken its form, and it had become the SA-X (Samus Aran X). It was responsible for the breach of Quarantine Bay, and as a result, the X ran amok throughout out the station. All the researchers aboard the station were dead, and it was up to Samus to contain this breach. The X and the SA-X made many attempts to kill her, but Samus was always able to outsmart them, even in her weakened state.

Eventually, Samus’s missions through the BSL brought her to the Restricted Lab. After acquiring the Wave Beam, Samus was able to bypass the security door and enter inside. Inside the lab, Samus made a surprising discovery: the Galactic Federation were cloning Metroids. Before she could investigate further, she found the SA-X had followed her inside the lab and was releasing the Metroids so it could attack them. The Metroids soon overpowered it, but the SA-X’s breakout had set off the lab’s self-destruct. Samus managed to escape, but the lab broke away from the rest of the station and exploded, destroying the Metroids and the SA-X together.

When Samus spoke again to Adam, he was very displeased with her for meddling in top-secret Federation research. Adam also informed her that the Federation was very interested in his extensive research on the X and viewed it as a wonderful technology with a variety of uses. The Federation themselves were coming to the BSL in hopes of capturing the SA-X (due to asexual reproduction, there were now no fewer than ten SA-X aboard the station.) Samus was intensely against this mission and decided to activate the station’s self-destruct to destroy all the X aboard, and herself if necessary.

Adam was aware of this, though, and thus locked all the doors. Samus reacted with outrage when she discovered what it had done and angrily yelled, “Don’t let them do this! Can’t you see what will happen, Adam?” The computer was confused at this response, as Samus had never disclosed her personal nickname for it. It asked for an explanation as to who this Adam was. Samus only told him that Adam was a friend who understood when sacrifices had to be made. From this, the computer was able to correctly deduce that Adam had given up his life to save Samus. However, it disregarded this, since Samus was incorrectly assuming that destroying the station would defeat the X for good, and curtly decided: “When Adam chose who would live, he chose the wrong person.”

Suddenly, something unusual began happening. The computer began adopting the persona of the former Adam. It unlocked the doors and told Samus that her instructions were to head to the Navigation Deck and change the station’s orbit so that it would crash into SR388, so that when it self-destructed, the planet too would be caught in the field. It ended this sudden command with Adam’s famous clincher: “Any objections, lady?”

Refreshed with a new spirit, Samus headed to the Navigation Deck, but the SA-X burst in once more with murder on its mind. Endowed with her new weapons, Samus managed to defeat the clone, continuing fearlessly even when it mutated into a massive beast and then into a Hard-Core X. Eventually, the SA-X was reduced once more to a lowly X, but before Samus could absorb it, it eluded her and escaped into the ventilation system. Disappointed and tired, but still determined, Samus continued her way up the Navigation Deck until she reached the terminal that controlled the station’s orbit. Samus altered its orbit and set off the self-destruct, then proceeded to return to the Docking Bay. When she arrived, though, her ship was nowhere to be found, and she was suddenly ambushed by an Omega Metroid, the evolved form of a Metroid that had escaped the Restricted Lab before its destruction. The creature defeated her in a single blow, but just before it could kill her, the SA-X appeared and began attacking the Metroid with its Ice Beam. The Omega Metroid recovered in time and attacked the SA-X, giving Samus enough time to absorb her doppelganger. Endowed with her Ice Beam once more, Samus made short work of the Omega Metroid. Shortly after killing it, her ship then returned to the station to save her. Samus flew away just before BSL, and SR388, exploded together.

Back in the safety of space, Samus discovered that it is a common practice for the Federation to upload the minds of great leaders to computers and that this is what had happened to Adam. After this point, it is unknown what will happen to Samus, as she disobeyed a direct order from the Federation, and subsequently destroyed all their research above the BSL.