Metroid: Volume 2

Metroid: Volume 2 is the second and final 9-chapter graphic novel in the Metroid manga series. It picks up where Metroid: Volume 1 left off, Samus's capture by Ridley on Zebes. The story continues to set up Samus's mission in the game released after this book, Metroid Zero Mission.

8: Scars
This chapter picks up where Volume 1 left off, with Ridley tormenting Samus that she is the Bio-weapon that Mother Brain was talking about. Ridley goes on to tell her that to suvive the explosion on the Afloralite, he had to eat the flesh of the dead humans, and that after killing her Mother he came back to eat her flesh. All this causes Samus to fall into a state of Post Traumatic Stress and has fallen to the ground in silence. Grey Voice commands Ridley to stop, to which he replies that he will not take orders from Grey Voice until he "Gets his hands dirty" and kills Samus himself.

Meanwhile Mauk, Kreatz and Pyonchi discover Chozo labs being used on Pirate to "adjust there bodies so they can adapt to this planet", in the same lab they find 12-13 Chozo prisoners, including Platinum Chest, the Chozo who helped Mauk's race join the Federation. Mauk and Kreatz make plans to over throw the gaurds but just before they attack Ridley, Grey Voice and Samus walk in. Grey Voice refuses to kill Samus, saying that the Chozo have "incapable of Harmful Actions" and that Samus may still defect to the Space Pirates. Ridley then turns to the prisoners, and, with Grey Voice's approvel, moves to Attack them.

9: Counter Attack
Ridley advances on Platinum Chest, and stats strangelling him with his tail. Seeing this Mauk remotely activates the ship they arived in and gets it to fire on the "heat sources" on the planet, in hope of causing a distraction and saving Plantnum Chests life. The plan works and Ridley releases Platinum Chest and turns back to Samus, demanding to know where her back up is coming from. Grey Voice dismisses this idea, saying Samus was trained to work along and her alone knows this enviroment, so the explosions were probably "planned ahead of time" to allow her to escape. Grey Voice then orders the Space Pirates to find the ship while Ridley orders the Prisoners to fix the Body Adaption Machines, broken in the explosions, and happy that Grey voice is acting as a Space pirate Commander flys away to help in the search. Grey Voice dismisses Samus as Pitiful and leaves her alone.

Mauk and Kreatz then come out of hiding to free the prisoners, but as they turn to Samus, they find her standing there shouting "Kill me" over and over.

Links

 * - Ongoing scanlation of the manga.
 * - Scans of both manga.