Samus Aran is a Bounty Hunter that works with the Galactic Federation several times in the past. She has exterminated the Metroids, Space Pirates, Ridley, Mother Brain, Metroid Prime/Dark Samus, Phazon, the Ing, Gorea, the Galactic Federation's special-forces unit bioweapons program, MB, X Parasites, Raven Beak and the Mawkin, and she has terminated numerous hostile life-forms on various planets. Below is a full account of her history.
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Childhood[]
A young Samus meets Old Bird.
Samus Aran is originally a native inhabitant of the Earth colony K-2L, where she lives with her parents, Chief Rodney Aran and Virginia Aran. When Samus is three, the colony is visited by the Chozo, who hope to obtain some of the Afloraltite that the colony mines there. During this visit, Samus catches the attention of Old Bird, one of the Chozo elders. The two of them go for a walk, where they begin to strike up a friendship. Samus begins to call him “Grandpa Bird” and Old Bird introduces her to Pyonchi, a Rabbit-Squirrel whom she adopts as a pet.
However, a Space Pirate raid led by Ridley soon commences on the colony. Finding herself face-to-face with Ridley himself, the naive Samus asks him if they can become friends. In response, Ridley attempts to kill Samus, but her mother pushesher daughter out of the way at the cost of her own life. Meanwhile, Samus's father sacrifices himself to destroy Ridley’s cargo ship. Little does Ridley know that, in killing Samus’s mother and attempting to kill Samus, he succeeds in creating his greatest enemy.
A young Samus during the attack on K-2L.
Now orphaned, Samus is the sole survivor of the attack on K-2L. Eventually, the same group of Chozo find her alone and stranded on the destroyed colony and Old Bird decides to take custody of Samus. The Chozo bring her to their planet, Zebes, and raise her. In order to survive the planet's harsh conditions, Samus is infused with Chozo DNA [1], and later gift an advanced Chozo Power Suit.
Samus trains under the Chozo for many years, and has surpassed the physical limits of ordinary humans by the age of 14. The Chozo are initially unsure if she is able to become a true warrior until they witness her compassion for a flock of Iono Feria that have become insane as a result of exposure to Badger Clover. After Old Bird tells Samus that she has his confidence, she leaves the planet for the Federation.
Rise of the Hunter[]
Samus in the Federation Police
Training and Jigrad[]
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Enrolling in the Federation Police Force, Samus excels in the academy, and is promoted to the Star-Trackers, an elite force that only one in a million police officers is qualified for. Under Chief Hardy, one of her early assignments is to the human planet Jigrad, which the Space Pirates have recently enslaved. When the Pirates threaten to execute a child slave named Damara simply for being unfit for work, Samus and her squadmates, Kreatz and Mauk, attack without orders. This leads to the first Federation imprisonment and interrogation of a Space Pirate - a matter that also involves a military leader named Commander Adam Malkovich, leading to his introduction to Samus. The interrogation reveals that the Space Pirates' actions on Jigrad are just a distraction from their invasion of Zebes. Hardy orders Samus to wait for the Galactic Federation Army to be deployed, but Samus and her teammates disobey and travel to Zebes to aid the Chozo. After a run-in with Adam, Samus is told that she has been given 48 hours before the army arrives.
Infiltration of Zebes[]
Samus and Adam before the Infiltration
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Samus, Kreatz, and Mauk arrive at Zebes and learn the Space Pirates are hoping to gain the whole of Chozo knowledge. The Chozo have either fled or surrendered, and the first Metroid is rogue in the base. Samus discovers that Mother Brain and the Chozo Gray Voice have established a "satisfactory cooperative relationship" with the Pirates, in which Mother Brain will be their new leader and use them to reunite the galaxy. Mother Brain offers Samus the role of a "master" of the Space Pirates - an offer that Samus quickly refuses. At this time, Ridley arrives and taunts Samus over the death of her parents. All of this triggers Samus's posttraumatic stress disorder due to the repressed memories of the K-2L attack, with it being severe enough that she begs her comrades to kill her before Ridley can do so when they come to rescue her. Samus is later saved by her squadmates causing a distant distraction and the newly rescued Chozo help Samus overcome her posttraumatic stress. Samus dons her Power Suit and defends the party from a Space Pirate. Meanwhile, Ridley goes to defend Mother Brain from an attack by Gray Voice, who has revealed his true allegiance and is attacking Mother Brain. Learning about Gray Voice’s plight from the rescued Chozo Platinum Chest, Samus wants to assist, but decides to help the evacuation. While escaping, Samus somehow feels Gray Voice's final moments due to their shared DNA and hears his final words telepathically. Stating that she has become strong, the dying Chozo asks that Samus use her power to help protect the beings in the galaxy who need it.
After breaking atmosphere in an ancient Chozo ship, Samus, her teammates, and the Chozo are rescued by the Federation Army led by the Federation Army Special Ops Battleship VIXIV IV, commanded by General Adam Malkovich.
Federation Army[]
After the infiltration of Zebes, Samus (Between 15–17 years old) works on the VIXIV under General Adam Malkovich. Here, she meets Anthony Higgs and Adam's younger brother, Ian Malkovich. It remains unknown how long she serves with Adam’s unit, but long enough to develop a strong relationship with Anthony, Ian, and Adam. Adam always finishes his orders with the question, "Any objections, Lady?", as a way of cementing the trust between the two of them. Samus feels like Adam is the only person who truly understands her, and grows to view him as her best friend and surrogate father figure. However, Samus leaves the VIXIV after the death of Ian, whom Adam sacrifices to save 300 innocent civilians on the Lusitania.
After Federation[]
Samus vanishes completely, abandoning her post in the GF Army. In Metroid: Other M, she states that her reason for doing so is that she was still young and relatively inexperienced at the time. Samus does not resurface until a few years later. By this time, she has become universally renowned as a Bounty Hunter by single-handedly hunting down numerous Space Pirates, including stopping an assassination attempt at the inauguration of Chairman Keaton. So much of her life during this time is shrouded in mystery that 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[]
The planet Zebes.
Now a renowned Bounty Hunter, Samus is summoned by the Galactic Federation. Previously, a Federation Planet Reclamation Division has been sent to capture Metroid specimens for study, but the Space Pirates have swept in, killed the crew, and stolen the Metroids. The capture of this creature is a disastrous blow to the Federation. With hundreds of Metroids under their power, the Space Pirates will inevitably begin a campaign to conquer the rest of the universe. Galactic civilization will end.
After a long and harrowing search, the Federation Police track the Pirates to Zebes. They launch an invasion, but Pirate resistance is too strong. After much debate, the Federation decides to turn to Samus to infiltrate the base at Zebes. She is given two objectives:
- Destroy all Metroid organisms. and
- Defeat the Mechanical Life-Form Mother Brain.
Samus's Zero Mission[]
Samus Aran during her first mission on Zebes.
Samus arrives on Zebes and soon discovers that in order to access the central Space Pirate base in Tourian, she has to defeat the two Pirate leaders situated on the planet: her old foe, Ridley, and his partner Kraid. After discovering various Chozo relics located in multiple locations on the planet that serve as upgrades for her suit, Samus is finally able to access the lower depths of Brinstar, where she discovers Kraid waiting for her. A fierce battle ensues, which ends in Kraid's defeat. Samus then heads into the deep volcanic regions of Zebes, where she has several surprising encounters with Imagos, gigantic insects that grow from enormous grub-like larvae. When Samus arrives at Ridley’s Lair, she soon encounters the Pirate leader, who has just arrived moments earlier after being sent to inspect the planet. The two face off, with Samus intent on finally avenging her parents’ deaths. The Bounty Hunter emerges the victor. However, unbeknownst to Samus, Ridley does not die from his crippling wounds.
After defeating Kraid and Ridley, Samus is granted access to Tourian, where she discovers that the Space Pirates have apparently underestimated the Metroids’ intelligence. A massive breakout has occurred, and all Pirate personnel present at the time of the breakout are dead. Mother Brain herself, however, is protected by her Chozo-built facility and so completely unharmed. As a result, Metroid cloning has proceeded as though nothing happened, so the Metroid population has risen to an astonishing level. Samus engages the Metroids she encounters but finds that they are impervious to most of her weaponry. Only by exploiting their weakness to cold with the Ice Beam can Samus hope to overcome them.
Samus soon arrives at Mother Brain’s chamber and fights her way past the defense systems. The two engage in an arduous battle, but Mother Brain is ultimately defeated. Unfortunately for Samus, Mother Brain's defeat activates a hidden failsafe measure that begins a countdown for the self-destruction system of the entire Pirate base. Samus barely manages to make it out to her Starship in time.
Ambush[]
Samus faces off against the Ruins Test.
Unfortunately, escape is not as easy as Samus has expected. As soon she leaves the atmosphere, Space Pirate vessels ambush her; during the ensuing chase, Samus is shot down, and her Starship crash-lands back on Zebes. Samus survives the crash, but the explosion destroys her Power Suit. The only weapon left available to her is a mostly-useless stun pistol. Her only option is to sneak inside the Space Pirate Mother Ship, which has landed in a nearby valley, in the hopes of hijacking a ship and escaping. The next morning, Samus climbs in through the air ducts and begins her infiltration. She privately admits that sneaking into a highly armed area like the mothership, especially while she is in her Zero Suit, is not the wisest strategy, but knows that she has no other options but to do so. Unfortunately, her plans are quickly botched when she is spotted by several Pirates, who quickly set off alarms throughout the entire ship. Though she manages to outwit the Pirates many times, Samus is ultimately forced to retreat to the nearby ruins of Chozodia.
In the ruins, Samus discovers a sacred Ruins Test that she has visited once as a young child. Upon her discovery, the Ruins Test activates; Samus has to face a mirror image of herself along with powerful bolts of lightning hurled by the hieroglyphic. Ultimately, Samus succeeds in passing the test, and the statue rewards her with the Legendary Power Suit, and unlocks the three Unknown Items that she has previously acquired: the Plasma Beam, the Gravity Suit, and the Space Jump. Now more powerful than ever before, Samus storms the mothership, leaving many dead Pirates in her wake.
Eventually, Samus makes it to the bridge of the mothership, where she discovers Mecha Ridley, a gigantic robot built in Ridley’s likeness. The robot engages her in a fierce battle, but Samus is able to destroy it. As it shuts down, the robot activates the self-destruct system for the mothership. Samus rushes through the corridors of the mothership, battling numerous Pirates along the way, until she manages to hijack a Space Pirate Escape Ship. Samus quickly flies out of the ship and leaves Zebes as the Space Pirate Mother Ship explodes behind her. Samus has fulfilled her Zero Mission.
Mission at Tallon IV[]
Samus flees the burning Orpheon.
Three years later, Samus's next mission leads her to another planet in the Zebesian system: Tallon IV. She intercepts a distress signal broadcast from the Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon and immediately flies in to investigate. Once inside, she finds dead and dying Pirates everywhere while vermin runs amok in the ship. It does not take Samus long to discover the source: a Parasite Queen the Pirates have been performing experiments on has broken out and stationed itself in the frigate’s Reactor Core. Samus kills the creature, but the dying beast slips into the reactor, causing a malfunction that threatens to destroy the entire vessel. Samus runs for her life through the ventilation tunnels, but to her great surprise, she finds herself reunited with Ridley, who has been given many cybernetic implants and been transformed into a powerful cyborg. Samus chases Meta Ridley through the ship, but along the way, an explosion rams her into a wall, causing her Power Suit to malfunction. This causes most of her abilities to go offline, leaving only the Arm Cannon and visor functional. Samus quickly leaves the dying frigate and chases Meta Ridley in her Gunship, but he proves faster than expected and soon disappears from her radar. Samus is forced to track him via ground-based reconnaissance, and so, even in her weakened state, she decides to land on the planet below: Tallon IV.
The Metroid Prime[]
Samus faces off against Thardus.
After traversing the jungles in the Tallon Overworld, Samus discovers an elevator that leads to some deserted Chozo Ruins. There, she discovers that fifty years previously, a colony of Chozo came to the planet to regain their spirituality. Unfortunately, a mysterious meteor eventually struck the planet, bringing with it a Great Poison. The Great Poison quickly began spreading across the planet, killing most life in its path and corrupting the rest into savage mutants. Many of the Chozo were driven insane and became menacing spirits; the few survivors fled to an unknown location. The remaining sane Chozo on Tallon IV, reduced to mere ghosts, managed to seal the Impact Crater within a seal called the Cipher, locking up most of the Great Poison. The Space Pirates fleeing the destruction of the base at Zebes then land on the planet; they begin mining the Great Poison (which they codename Phazon) after discovering it can be used to enhance the fighting potential of various creatures, including themselves.
Samus journeys through Tallon IV, regaining her lost weaponry and collecting sacred Chozo Artifacts, learning along the way that the Chozo have foretold that she is the one destined to destroy the prophesied Worm and the Phazon there. She also sweeps through the Phazon Mines the Pirates have set up, destroying the Phazon-infused experiments she finds there. Samus eventually confronts the most powerful of these mutated Space Pirates, the Omega Pirate. After a challenging battle, Samus manages to defeat the beast, but in its death throes, it falls on Samus and liquefies into pure Phazon. The viral radiation dramatically alters her Power Suit, transforming it into the Phazon Suit; fortunately, this corruption proves beneficial, as it allows her to safely come in contact with and harness the power of Phazon.
Endgame[]
The Metroid Prime Core Essence.
After collecting all the Chozo Artifacts and suit upgrades, Samus returns to the Artifact Temple and activates the Cipher in preparation for entering the Impact Crater. Just before the seal deactivates, however, Meta Ridley flies in and destroys the Chozo Totems. He then attempts to kill Samus, but Samus manages to burn off his wings and then overload his life-support systems. Just as Meta Ridley is brought to death’s door again, the temple's Chozo Statues there fire powerful lasers at his chest, blasting him off of the edge into the abyss. The Chozo Ghosts within the Chozo Totems then undo the seal themselves, allowing Samus into the Impact Crater. Inside, Samus discovers the sleeping Metroid Prime, the source of all Phazon on the planet. Samus manages to destroy its armor, forcing the creature to reveal its true form. Unable to damage it further with conventional weaponry, Samus is forced to overload it by harnessing pure Phazon via her Phazon Suit. The Metroid Prime begins to destabilize, but in a last-ditch attempt to save itself, it shoots out a tentacle and absorbs Samus’s Phazon Suit before exploding. Samus runs for her life as the entire Impact Crater bursts into flames. Though Tallon IV has been cleansed of Phazon, the Worm is not yet dead and will soon be reborn as Dark Samus.
The Ultimate Power[]
Samus and the other Hunters.
Sometime afterward, a mysterious telepathic message is broadcast from the Tetra Galaxy saying, "The secret to ultimate power lies in the Alimbic Cluster." Samus is sent by the Federation in order to determine the truth about this message. Unfortunately, the message has also been received by other parties and soon many other Bounty Hunters begin heading to the Alimbic Cluster, each with their own motives for seeking the "ultimate power". To obtain it, one has to find the eight Octoliths, which will power the Alimbic Cannon, allowing access to a structure in another dimension called the Oubliette. The Octoliths are all under guard by robotic beings: the Cretaphids and the Slenches.
Between skirmishes with these beings and the other hunters, Samus discovers that the Alimbics, the former inhabitants of the Alimbic Cluster, had been experiencing a time of peace and prosperity until a monstrous being named Gorea arrived in the form of a comet and began wreaking havoc upon their civilization. The Alimbics were forced to sacrifice themselves to seal Gorea within the Seal Sphere, which was kept in the Oubliette. They also left a cryptic prophecy on how one might defeat Gorea.
Gorea.
After collecting all eight Octoliths and using them to activate the Alimbic Cannon, Samus and the other hunters rush to the now-accessible Oubliette. The other hunters get there first, and inside discover an immobile structure. They begin firing at it, mistakenly believing it to hold the ultimate power. To their surprise, Gorea instead emerges from the broken structure. Samus arrives just in time to see Gorea shoot out massive tentacles and drain the other hunters of their powers. The defeated hunters disappear, and Samus alone remains to fight Gorea. She first activates the Colored Panels around the arena in accordance with the Alimbic Prophecy, then begins battling Gorea by exploiting its link to the Seal Sphere. Gorea then reveals its final form and continues its assault. Fortunately, Samus gains access to the Omega Cannon, which allows her to defeat Gorea's second form. Gorea and the Oubliette explode, while Samus and the other hunters escape with only their lives. Once she is back in the safety of space, Samus receives a vision where three Alimbic spirits appear to thank her.
Dark Echoes[]
Samus at the time of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
Samus is soon given yet another assignment from the Galactic Federation; this time, she is requested to track down a missing brigade of Federation Marines, GFMC Task Force Herakles. Samus heads to the planet Aether located in the Dasha region of space, where the troopers' distress signal is emanating from. Samus attempts to land on Aether, but her Gunship is caught in the interdimensional storms raging on the planet and is badly damaged. Luckily, her ship lands not far away from the troopers' makeshift base. Upon entering it, however, she finds she is too late: all of the troopers have died in an attack by unknown assailants. Before she can discover the source, many of the dead troopers reanimate and begin firing at her.
Samus flees the base, with the undead troopers in pursuit, but deeper inside, she encounters something even stranger: a mysterious black and blue being wearing a suit similar to hers is entering a mysterious Portal to an unknown location. Samus follows the being into the Portal, only to find herself in a nightmarish replica of the room she has been in, where her dark twin is absorbing a large quantity of Phazon. The being then destroys a Light Crystal near Samus, which is generating a Safe Zone protecting the hunter from the dimension's poisonous atmosphere. The double then departs, leaving the vulnerable Samus to the clutches of savage creatures that quickly surround and overwhelm her. Samus is forced to retreat back through the Portal, only to learn that the dark creatures have robbed her of many of her suit upgrades.
Samus makes her way through the catacombs of Aether until she discovers the source of the distress signal: the Federation troopers' damaged ship, the GFS Tyr. Accessing the ship's log, she discovers that the Squad Bravo has been stranded on Aether when their ship was damaged in pursuit of a downed Space Pirate starship. Eventually, they were all killed after repeated assaults by Dark Splinters, though one of the troopers managed to send the distress signal before his death.
The Temple Grounds.
Samus's Gunship is still repairing itself, so she proceeds on a search to identify the cause of the attack and recover her stolen weaponry. She begins finding signs of an intelligent civilization living on Aether and decides to investigate. Her search eventually leads to the Great Temple, where she finds dozens of beings suspended in cryogenic hibernation. Before she can investigate further, she is immediately attacked by an Alpha Splinter, which is almost immediately possessed and transformed into a Dark Alpha Splinter. Samus manages to kill it, but a strange glowing object emerges from the dead insect and enters her suit.
Samus continues exploring the building until she encounters a being known as U-Mos, the Sentinel of the Luminoth. U-Mos informs her that his species, the Luminoth, had migrated to the planet after being drawn by its unique energy. They had lived in peace until a meteor much like the one that impacted Tallon IV impacted the planet, straining the planet’s fragile dimensional stability and tearing it between two different dimensions in spacetime: the original Aether and a twisted, corrupted version called Dark Aether, which is home to a malevolent race called the Ing; it is the Ing who are responsible for the deaths and possession of the troopers, as well as the theft of Samus's upgrades. The Luminoth have been involved in a long war with the Ing for the Light of Aether and were at the verge of defeat when Samus arrived. U-Mos also reveals that, after her battle with the Dark Alpha Splinter, Samus has recovered the Energy Transfer Module that has been stolen by the Ing earlier. Now that she has it, she can transfer the planetary energy from Dark Aether to Light Aether; without it, the shadowy replica will collapse forever. Samus agrees to seek the Energy Controllers to restore the Light of Aether to the Luminoth.
Samus battles Quadraxis, the penultimate Energy Guardian.
Samus’s mission takes her all through Light Aether and Dark Aether, where she battles many Ing attempting to kill her for assisting the Luminoth, as well as several skirmishes with her mysterious double, who is dubbed "Dark Samus". She also reclaims her stolen weaponry from the various Ing Sub-Guardians who have made use of it, and obtains Luminoth upgrades such as the Dark Suit. Once she has restored the three Energy Controllers with the Light of Aether, U-Mos thanks her with the Light Suit, a suit that contains the Light of Aether within itself. Then, he tells her of her most dangerous task: to reach the final Dark Energy Controller, hidden within the Sky Temple. To enter the Sky Temple, however, she has to find the nine Sky Temple Keys scattered around Dark Aether.
Samus faces the Emperor.
Within the Sky Temple, Samus faces the Emperor Ing, a mighty behemoth that rules the entire Ing race. Although she is almost defeated, Samus prevails, kills the Emperor Ing, and obtains the last portion of the planetary energy. Without the energy, Dark Aether starts to fall apart, leaving her with only a few minutes to escape. Samus rushes down to the Sky Temple Gateway, but before she can flee the crumbling dimension, Dark Samus confronts her once more. The two hunters battle, but Samus takes advantage of her foe's sole weakness — an overload of Phazon — and defeats her doppelganger once again. In her weakened state, Dark Samus attempts to steal Samus’s Light Suit, but instead dissipates into thin air. Samus then enters the Portal, leaving Dark Aether to collapse behind her. The Luminoth, who have just returned from their cryogenic sleep, rejoice and thank Samus for freeing them from the Ing. Samus then gives them back the equipment she has borrowed from them, returns to her Gunship, and flies off into the vast darkness of space.
Samus bids farewell to the Luminoth.
The Great Invasion[]
Samus and the other Hunters are briefed on their missions.
Six months later, Samus is summoned to the battleship G.F.S. Olympus in orbit with the rest of the Federation Fleet above the planet Norion in the Kalandor region, where she will receive instructions for her next assignment. On the way over, however, she experiences a nightmare of Dark Samus's resurrection, as well as an anomaly with her cryostasis (which is heavily implied to be caused by Dark Samus). Onboard the Olympus, she meets with Fleet Admiral Castor Dane and Aurora Unit 242, along with fellow Bounty Hunters Rundas, Gandrayda, and Ghor. Dane and 242 inform the hunters of their mission: to deliver the Galactic Federation vaccine to the Aurora Units in the Federation Solar System, who are suffering from a Space Pirate-engineered corruption virus. Just as the mission briefing ends, the Pirates launch a surprise attack; all the Bounty Hunters, including Samus, head down to their ships to assist with the battle at Norion’s main base, fighting any Pirates they encounter in the corridors. Upon landing at Base Sector Zero, Samus is informed that the Space Pirates have disabled the Fedtech Plasma Generators to Norion’s planetary Defense Cannon; thus, she and the other hunters are given the responsibility of reactivating them while the Federation Marines hold off the invading Pirate forces.
Samus at the time of Metroid Prime 3.
Samus and the other hunters rush through the base, reactivating each generator they find to restore power to the Defense Cannon. The situation soon becomes dire when the Federation discovers why the Pirates are attacking: a massive Leviathan is headed on a collision course with Norion. The invasion is intended to stall the Federation Fleet until the Leviathan can arrive and crash into the planet, spreading Phazon everywhere. Samus heads to the final generator, only to find her arch-nemesis Meta Ridley waiting for her. In the ensuing melee, Meta Ridley breaks through the floor and the two of them hurtle down the 16,700-meter Generator Shaft, battling all the way. Just as Samus finishes off Meta Ridley, Rundas comes down to rescue her and the two fly out of the shaft together. Samus restores the final generator, and she and the other hunters rush straight to the Control Tower to activate the Defense Cannon. As soon they make it to the top, however, they encounter Dark Samus, who has indeed been resurrected by consuming the Pirates' Phazon supply. After a brief struggle, Dark Samus incapacitates all four of them with a massive burst of Phazon, then flies off. Though barely conscious, Samus manages to fire the Defense Cannon just before she faint, destroying the incoming Leviathan Seed and saving Norion.
Samus awakens after a month of being comatose.
One month later, Samus awakens to discover that she and her fellow hunters’ bodies are self-generating Phazon, with no negative side-effects to their health. The Federation medics working on her have therefore equipped her with a Phazon Enhancement Device. Through this PED Suit, she can harness her own Phazon to enter Hypermode, a function that will allow her to energize her suit and weapon systems with Phazon and providing her access to devastating powers. Samus is then informed by Aurora Unit 242 that her fellow hunters have awoken two weeks before she did. They have also been given PEDs and were dispatched to the planets Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld, which have also been struck by Leviathans. Unfortunately, the Federation has lost contact with all of them one week later. Samus is then assigned with completing the missing hunters’ missions to destroy each Leviathan Seed, as well as finding out exactly what caused the Federation to lose contact with them.
Bryyo[]
Samus first travels to the planet Bryyo, where Rundas has been assigned, and learns that the Leviathan infecting the planet is protected by two Leviathan Shield Generators. Samus obtains the locations of the generators from a downed Federation ship, the G.F.S. Theseus. After leaving the ship, however, she notices Rundas observing her from a distant cliff. Traveling to Bryyo's eastern region to destroy the first generator, she discovers Rundas's Phrygisian-Class Gunship has already landed before her.
Along the way to the generator, Samus learns that her internal Phazon - once believed to be benign - can cause her body to overload with Phazon, meaning that every use of Hypermode puts her at risk of being completely corrupted by the Phazon. Soon after, she encounters Rundas himself, and goes to greet him; however, his uncharacteristic silence gives her pause, and he leaves her without a word. Shortly afterward, he saves Samus from waves of Pirates, but then attacks her as well; Samus realizes that her comrade has succumbed to his own corruption, and is now a slave to Dark Samus's will. Reluctantly, she is forced to fight her former friend in a grueling battle, ultimately defeating him. But as she approaches Rundas, spikes of ice erupt from the ground, impaling Rundas and killing him instantly. To Samus's shock, the specter of Dark Samus then materializes, and absorbs Rundas's body before Samus can intervene.
Following Rundas's death, Samus then proceeds to destroy the two Seed Shield Generators, leaving the Bryyo Seed exposed. Flying directly into the bowels of the Leviathan, she destroys the corrupted Mogenar within, which releases a massive wave of Phazon that causes Samus's own internal corruption to spread. Nevertheless, she proceeds to destroy the Leviathan's Phazon Core, saving Bryyo from further corruption.
Elysia[]
After being briefed by Unit 242, Samus proceeds to the planet Elysia, which is home to SkyTown, an ancient, floating Chozo facility where Ghor has been assigned. Fighting past SkyTown's corrupted robotic inhabitants, Samus finds her way to SkyTown's Aurora Unit 217, to whom she successfully administers the vaccine. However, the corrupted Ghor intervenes, using his Plasma Cannon to sever 217's connections to the SkyTown's Network. Shortly afterward, she discovers Ghor attempting to sabotage her Gunship, and is forced to fight him. After Ghor's defeat, the spectral form of Dark Samus again arrives to absorb him; Samus tries to save her fallen comrade, but can ultimately do nothing but angrily clench her fist. After fixing the damaged circuit boards, Samus is informed that the Federation has located the G.F.S. Valhalla, and is asked to investigate. Upon arrival, she finds it a desolate ghost ship, filled with corpses and Phazon-mutated creatures. After an initial investigation, she returns to Elysia, and the Aurora Unit informs her of a plan he has devised to bypass the Leviathan Shield protecting Elysia's Leviathan: gather three components to a Theronian Bomb, which will then be dropped onto the seed's shield. Unfortunately, this means that Samus also has to be onboard the Spire to defend the bomb from Pirate forces, and flee before impact in an Escape Pod. After the shield is breached, Samus destroys the Leviathan's guardian - this time a corrupted mechanoid known as Helios - and then the Leviathan itself.
The Pirate Homeworld[]
With Elysia saved, 242 then informs Samus that the Federation has discovered an Emergency GF communication capsule from Gandrayda revealing the location of the Pirate Homeworld. On the planet, Samus learns that much of the planet is rendered inaccessible by deadly Acid Rain, but receives a transmission from an escaped Federation Trooper NZG41, who claims that he knows how to bypass the Acid Rain. Samus rescues the trooper, but soon discovers that "NZG41" is actually the disguised Gandrayda, who is now fully corrupted. Samus fights the final hunter in all of her various forms in a vicious battle, but ultimately, the shapeshifter falls. Like Rundas and Ghor before her, the screaming Gandrayda is absorbed by Dark Samus, but this time, Samus grimly accepts the fact that there is nothing she can do, looking away as Gandrayda dies.
After the battle and further investigation of the Pirate Homeworld, Samus disables its planetary shielding, allowing the Federation Fleet to launch a full-scale assault on the planet. Samus personally leads a team of Demolition Troopers to destroy the security door of the cargo-supply route leading to the Pirate Homeworld Seed. There, she encounters and defeats her arch-nemesis once again, now reborn as Omega Ridley. All of the Leviathan Seeds have been destroyed, but Samus has been corrupted to the point that she is now literally glowing with Phazon.
Phaaze[]
Afterward, she returns to the Valhalla to investigate its depths, and discovers that the Pirates have ignored most otherwise valuable equipment, taking only one thing: the vessel's Aurora Unit, Aurora Unit 313. In addition, she finds the Leviathan Command Codes required to control the Pirates' Leviathan Battleship.
Samus fights the Aurora Unit 313 in her final battle with Phazon.
With this, Samus and the Federation are able to launch a final battle to destroy the newly discovered planet Phaaze - the source of all Phazon and Dark Samus's place of origin. Traveling with the Federation Fleet via a wormhole created by the Leviathan Battleship, Samus descends to the planet while the Federation Fleet keeps the Pirate forces busy. As soon she sets foot on Phaaze, Samus absorbs dangerous amounts of Phazon and is nearly corrupted completely; even after venting all of her available Energy Tanks and locking herself in permanent Hypermode, she is living on precious borrowed time. Venturing to the planet's inner Sanctum, she encounters Dark Samus, and, after a long battle, Dark Samus merges with the stolen Aurora Unit 313 that is linked with Phaaze's core. After one final battle, Samus is able to overpower and destroy both her doppelganger and the Aurora Unit. Since the Aurora Unit is linked to the planet's core, its destruction causes a chain reaction that results in the destruction of Phaaze and the erasure of all Phazon from the universe, including the Phazon inside Samus's body. The Federation Fleet escapes via another wormhole, but loses contact with Samus in the process. Just as the Federation has given up all hope of Samus's survival, she flies in and reports that the mission has been completed, closing the curtain on the Phazon saga.
Samus reflects at Elysia.
After leaving the celebrating Federation Fleet, Samus returns to Elysia, where she mourns the loss of her fellow Bounty Hunters on this mission. Eventually, she leaves Elysia and heads off to find her next mission, but fails to notice a mysterious spacecraft following her.
Bermuda System and the Federation Force[]
After a Space Pirate presence is discovered by the Galactic Federation in the Bermuda System, Samus is summoned in to investigate. The Bermuda System is a three-planet solar system with abandoned Galactic Federation facilities. The Federation Force, a team of highly trained soldiers wearing Mech suits modeled after Samus's Power Suit, is already there. Samus works alongside them to battle Space Pirates, rescuing the group from a Rohkor Beetle at one point, but mostly gathering intelligence for them.
At some point, she is taken prisoner by the Pirates and somehow placed under mind control. When the Force boards the Doomseye, a large Space Pirate battle station, the Pirates use technology from the ancient Bion race to increase Samus's size and force her to fight the Federation soldiers. The Federation Force defeats her and she is seemingly crushed by falling debris. The blow frees her from mind control, however, and after recovering, she rescues the Force twice, first by destroying a group of Elite Bruisers, and then by catching the soldiers with her Gunship when they are sucked into space. Samus tells the Force that meeting them has been an honor, and then thanks them for saving her and the universe.
SR-388 incident[]
Samus arrives at SR388.
What happens after this period of time is unknown. However, ultimately, the Galactic Federation decides that the Metroids are too dangerous to exist, given the devastation they have caused in Pirate hands. After two failed attempts by their own troops, the Federation asks Samus to exterminate them herself, given her long experience in dealing with the creatures.
Arriving on SR388, Samus learns that the planet's environment causes the Metroids to mutate into different forms, each stronger than the last. She also discovers ancient Chozo ruins, including a golden Chozo Seal that is tied to the corrosive purple liquid blocking access to deeper areas of the planet; every time Samus manages to successfully kill all the Metroids in an area, the seal will lower the liquid levels, allowing the hunter access to deeper levels, where stronger Metroids are hiding. Her search finally leads her to the Queen Metroid, which is responsible for the reproduction of the entire Metroid species. Samus manages to kill the beast and thus believes herself to have successfully eliminated the Metroids for good. As she continues down the tunnels, however, she finds a single Metroid egg. As she stares at it, an Infant Metroid hatches out of the egg and, upon seeing Samus, imprints on her as its mother. Samus feels compassion for the baby and, going against her orders, takes the baby to her Gunship and makes preparations to leave the planet.
Before she can actually leave the planet with the baby, however, an unexpected threat arrives and grabs the Metroid: her arch-nemesis, Proteus Ridley. Samus fights him over the baby, eventually grabbing his tail as he is flying away and proceeds to blast him directly in the exposed abdomen at point-blank range until he is forced to let go of the baby before promptly blasting him in the wing and sending him flying into a cliff. However, Ridley rises from the rubble and resumes his attack on Samus, eventually blocking her attacks and throwing her against a wall before pinning her down to blast fire at her. She is rescued by the baby, who proceeds to absorb enough energy from Ridley to rejuvenate her, allowing her to triumph over the Space Pirate leader. Afterwards, Samus then leaves the planet with baby.
Final Mission to Zebes[]
Samus, knowing how valuable the baby can be to the Federation, heads to the Ceres Space Colony, and decides to turn it over to the scientists there, who believe they can harness the baby's power for the good of civilization. Confident in their findings, Samus proceeds to leave the station. However, she has not even left the asteroid belt where Ceres is stationed before she receives a distress signal from the scientists. Returning to Ceres, she discovers that the Space Pirates have attacked the station in the hopes of stealing the baby. Ridley himself has captured the baby and was about to make off when Samus arrived. After a brief struggle, Ridley flies out of the station and sets the self-destruct system to destroy the entire station. Samus barely makes it out alive, flying away in her Starship while Ceres Station explodes behind her.
Samus chases Ridley back to Zebes.
Samus manages to track Ridley and the other Pirates to Zebes, discovering that the Space Pirates have rebuilt their base on the planet and have returned to their machinations of multiplying Metroids. Mother Brain has returned as the head of the base, as have Ridley and Kraid. Two new Pirate generals have been recruited as well: Phantoon, a ghostly being that haunts the Wrecked Ship, and Draygon, a massive Evir that presides over Maridia. After defeating them all, Samus is granted access to Tourian. She proceeds to exterminate the Pirate-propagated Metroids she finds there, but is suddenly attacked by a Big Metroid, far larger than any she has ever seen. All of her weaponry is useless against it, and soon the Metroid drains her suit's energy to critical levels. Just moments away from her death, the Big Metroid relinquishes its hold and flees after figuring out that its victim is Samus, leading Samus to realize that it is the baby, enhanced through unknown means.
Samus and Mother Brain duel at Tourian.
Samus continues through Tourian until she encounters Mother Brain and proceeds to destroy her Control Capsule as before. Though she appears to be defeated, Mother Brain suddenly emerges from the wreckage in a massive new body. Samus fights with all her might, but Mother Brain retaliates with the Laser Brain Attack, leaving Samus near death once more. Just before Mother Brain can launch another blow, the baby suddenly arrives, siphoning the life-energy out of Mother Brain, then begins transferring the energy to Samus. Mother Brain is not yet dead, however, and begins attacking the baby. An energy shot from Mother Brain finishes off the baby, but Samus has been revived and uses the newly forged Hyper Beam against her until she is no more. Mother Brain's death triggers another self-destruct mechanism, only this time, the entire planet is engulfed in the explosion. Samus escapes with her life, while Zebes, the ancient home of the Chozo and her childhood home, is lost forever.
The BOTTLE SHIP Incident[]
Samus awakens after her ordeal on Zebes.
Although she manages to escape from Zebes, Samus is injured from her fight against Mother Brain and from the mission overall, eventually resulting into her admission into a hospital. Samus recovers and flies off, but she still mourns the loss of the baby. After several weeks of drifting aimlessly, Samus receives a "Baby's Cry"-type distress signal directing her to a derelict facility known as the BOTTLE SHIP. She finds that a Federation vessel has also received the distress beacon and has docked on the BOTTLE SHIP. The crew of the ship is a Federation squad known as the 07th Platoon, consisting of several soldiers, including two from her days in the Galactic Federation Army, namely Anthony Higgs and Adam Malkovich. She and the team are forced to cooperate in order to overcome the apparent dangers of the BOTTLE SHIP; Samus is allowed onto the team provided that she follows Adam's orders. After restoring power to the Main Sector and being sent to inspect Sector 1 / Biosphere, Samus comes across a small, furry creature that stops to stare at her.
Samus battles multiple enemies in the depths of the BOTTLE SHIP.
After much discovery and exploration, Samus arrives at the Exam Center toward the rear of the Biosphere. There, she meets up with her comrades and activates a computer terminal. The data reveals that the BOTTLE SHIP is a research station where bioweapons are being developed under the directions of Dr. Madeline Bergman. Noticing a large lizard-like creature attacking the soldiers outside, Samus rushes to help them, but is ambushed and almost killed by the Mystery Creature before Anthony shoots it off of her, said creature fleeing immediately afterward. They then find the body of Lyle Smithsonian, who appears to have been mauled by the creature. Samus also finds the empty shell of the small white creature that she saw earlier, which was actually the juvenile form of the Mystery Creature that attacked her. Samus pursues the creature into Sector 3 / Pyrosphere, but is soon ordered to go to Sector 2 / Cryosphere to search for survivors. There, she finds the body of Maurice Favreau and notices a young woman staring at her. From events that have transpired, Samus deduces that there is a traitor in the platoon and nicknames him the Deleter. Returning to the Pyrosphere, she then discovers that the beast she has been tracking is actually her arch-nemesis, Ridley. He hurls Samus's old friend Anthony into a pool of lava, angering Samus and empowering her enough to defeat Ridley once again, though he manages to escape.
Samus and Adam are separated forever.
Entering the Bioweapon Research Center while tracking the Deleter, Samus once again encounters the young woman, who identifies herself as Madeline Bergman and explains what is occurring. The BOTTLE SHIP scientists were trying to create a special-forces unit modeled after the Zebesian Space Pirates, which was then succeeded by cloning Metroids from fragments of the baby on Samus's Power Suit. An AI that recreates Mother Brain's thought processes so that the Metroids can be controlled was also developed, and nicknamed MB. Madeline gives Samus the directions to Sector Zero, a secret area on the BOTTLE SHIP containing the Metroids and MB. Samus sets off to destroy them, though Adam rushes off to stop her. Samus walks to the entrance and is suddenly shot with a Freeze Gun when about to kill a Metroid, being weakened by Adam so that she cannot strongarm her way past him. He gives her his last orders and proceeds to detach and destroy Sector Zero. Samus mourns his death, but eventually recovers and swears to finish the mission.
Samus is forced to fight another Queen Metroid.
Returning to the Bioweapon Research Center to locate a survivor and find and defeat Ridley, she finds the latter reduced to a dried husk, and later comes across several hatched Metroid Eggs. Samus is then attacked by a Queen Metroid, which spawns Metroid larvae as Samus engages it. Samus then pursues the survivor, who also identifies herself as Madeline Bergman. Madeline clears up Samus's confusion: she actually met MB earlier. MB then steps in and aims a Freeze Gun at the two of them before numerous Federation soldiers invade and freeze MB. MB then summons an army of Ghalmanians, Mighty Griptians, and Desbrachians to attack, but is ultimately killed by the soldiers. As Madeline mourns, the Colonel steps in and praises Samus's work during the mission, but states that she is now an outsider due to the deaths of everyone in the platoon, and thus she cannot have any contact with Madeline. However, it turns out that Anthony has survived his encounter with Ridley by freezing a Magdollite, as revealed when he volunteers to escort Samus back to her Star Ship. Leaving the BOTTLE SHIP with the two of them, Samus reflects on Adam and MB as she flies towards Galactic Federation Headquarters.
Samus shares a last, tender moment on the BOTTLE SHIP with Adam's helmet.
Several days later, the Federation decides to destroy the BOTTLE SHIP. Samus returns, however, to recover an important item. Progressing through the environments once again, and defeating her old foe Phantoon, she eventually reaches Adam's post in the BOTTLE SHIP Control Room, finding his abandoned helmet. Embracing it, Samus reverts to her Zero Suit, and holds the helmet as she rushes to her Star Ship.
The X Parasites[]
Samus loses consciousness.
Samus re-awakens in the Fusion Suit.
SR388 is now free of Metroids, and so the Galactic Federation decides to send in a research team to investigate the planet. Due to her previous experience with the planet and its inhabitants, Samus is employed to serve as a guide to the researchers, to collect samples of life for the Biologic Space Laboratories research station. The researchers and Samus arrive on the planet, and when they are trying to capture a Hornoad, a mysterious organism injects itself inside Samus. Thinking nothing of it, the team continues on their mission. After their search is completed and the team returns to their ships, the parasite, which has infested Samus's central nervous system, causes her to fall unconscious. Though her Gunship crashes into an asteroid belt, Samus is safely ejected from the ship and her Escape Pod is retrieved by Biologic's vessel. She is far from safe, however, as the parasites (which will later be named X) continue to spread throughout her body.
The X have infected so much of Samus's Power Suit that large portions of it have to be surgically removed, drastically altering its physical appearance. She is initially given a 0.873% prognosis for survival, but fortunately the scientists discover a cure: Metroid DNA. The Metroids are discovered to have been created by the Chozo in order to control the X. With this knowledge in mind, the scientists use a culture of Metroid cells extracted from the baby to create a vaccine. The vaccine is an astonishing success; the X are completely purged from Samus's body, curing her completely. However, it also has some unexpected side-effects: Now that she is immune to the X, Samus can absorb them to regain energy and Missiles. She also gains the Metroids' trademark weakness to cold. More than just her biology is altered, however; the surgical removal of components of her Power Suit has left her with a radically different appearance: the new Fusion Suit. She then recalls that, before this point, the baby has saved her twice, once against Proteus Ridley on SR388 and the other time against Mother Brain on Zebes.
Samus faces off against B.O.X.
Despite her recent illness, Samus is not given furlough by the Federation. She is immediately issued a new Starship with an onboard computer to serve as an aide. This computer’s personality reminds her heavily of her former Commanding Officer and so, with irony noted, she decides to name it Adam in the latter's memory. Samus is then sent to the B.S.L. research station, where the last batch of creatures from SR388 and the infected components of her Power Suit have been sent. She is to investigate an unexplained explosion in the Quarantine Bay. To her great surprise, she discovers that the X Parasites within her suit have taken on her form, and have become the SA-X (short for Samus Aran-X). The SA-X is responsible for the breach of Quarantine Bay, and as a result, the X run amok throughout the station. All the researchers aboard the station are dead, and it is up to Samus to contain this breach. The X and the SA-X make many attempts to kill her, but Samus is always able to outsmart them, even in her weakened condition.
Samus and the SA-X in the Restricted Lab.
Eventually, Samus’s mission through the B.S.L. brings her to the Restricted Laboratory. After acquiring the Wave Beam, Samus is able to bypass the security shutter and enter inside. Inside the lab, Samus makes a surprising discovery: the Galactic Federation is cloning Metroids. Before she can investigate further, she finds that the SA-X has followed her inside the lab and is releasing the Metroids so it can attack them. The Infant Metroids soon overpowered it, but the SA-X’s breakout sets off the lab’s self-destruct failsafe mechanism. Samus manages to escape, but the lab breaks away from the rest of the station and explodes, destroying the Metroids and the SA-X together.
When Samus speaks again to Adam, he is angry with her for meddling in top-secret Federation research. He also informs her that the Federation is very interested in his extensive research on the X and view it as a wonderful organism with a variety of applications. Several Federation officials were coming to the B.S.L. station in the hopes of capturing the X and SA-X (due to asexual reproduction, there are now no fewer than ten SA-X aboard the station) for military purposes. Samus vocally disapproves of this decision, insisting that the Federation is underestimating the threat that the X pose, and resolves to activate the station's self-destruction sequence to destroy the X, and herself if necessary.
Adam converses with Samus.
Adam is aware of this, however, and thus locks all the doors. Samus reacts with outrage when she discovers what he has done and angrily yells, “Don’t let them do this! Can’t you see what will happen, Adam?” The computer is confused at this response, as Samus has never disclosed her personal nickname for him. He asks for an explanation as to whom this Adam is. Samus only tells him that Adam was a friend who understood when sacrifices had to be made. From this, the computer is able to correctly deduce that Adam had given up his life to save Samus. However, he disregards this, since Samus is incorrectly assuming that destroying the station will destroy the X for good, and curtly decides: “When Adam decided who would live, he chose incorrectly.”
Suddenly, something unusual begins happening. The computer begins adopting the persona of the former Adam. He unlocks the doors and tells Samus that her instructions are to head to the Operations Deck and alter the station’s orbit path so that it will crash into SR388, so that when it self-destructs, the planet will also be caught in the ensuing vaporization field. He ends this sudden command with Adam’s famous clincher: “Any objections, Lady?”
Samus and the SA-X duel the Omega Metroid.
Refreshed with a new spirit, Samus heads to the Operations Deck, but the SA-X bursts in once more with murder on its mind. Endowed with her new weapons and abilities, Samus manages to defeat the clone, continuing fearlessly even when it mutates into a massive beast and then into a Core-X. Eventually, the SA-X is reduced once more to a lowly unshielded Core-X, but before Samus can absorb it, it eludes her and escapes into the ventilation system. Disappointed and exhausted, but still determined, Samus continues her way up the Operations Deck until she reaches the terminal that controls the station’s orbit. Samus alters its orbit and sets off the self-destruct system, then proceeds to return to the Docking Bays. When she arrives, however, her Starship is nowhere to be found, and she is suddenly ambushed by an Omega Metroid, the evolved form of an Infant Metroid that has escaped the Restricted Lab before its destruction. The creature defeats Samus in a single blow, but just before it can kill her, the SA-X appears and begins attacking the Metroid with its Ice Beam. The Omega Metroid recovers in time and attacks the SA-X, providing Samus enough time to absorb her doppelganger. Endowed with her Ice Beam once more, Samus makes short work of the Omega Metroid. Shortly after killing it, her Starship returns to the station to rescue her. Samus flies away just before B.S.L. station and SR388 explode together.
Back in the safety of space, Samus discovers that it is a common practice for the Federation to upload the minds of great leaders and scientists to computers and that this is what has happened to Adam. The consequences of Samus disobeying a direct order from the Federation, and subsequently destroying all their research aboard the B.S.L. station, have not been revealed.
Becoming Metroid[]
Samus's first confrontation with Raven Beak.
At an unknown point in time after Fusion, a video transmission is sent to the Galactic Federation, which indicates that the X Parasites have survived SR388's destruction. The transmission, traced to the remote planet ZDR, leads to the Federation dispatching a team of seven E.M.M.I. robots to investigate, but contact with the robots is lost shortly after their arrival. Samus, as the only being in the universe with immunity to the X, is then dispatched to ZDR to find out for herself if the X truly are still alive. Upon her arrival, Samus encounters Raven Beak and engages in a battle, ultimately losing and falling unconscious, although not before overhearing Raven Beak utter a phrase in the Chozo language that she not only recognizes, but is greatly disturbed by. Upon waking, she finds that she has lost all but the most basic aspects of her Power Suit.
While exploring the planet in an attempt to regain her lost abilities, Samus stumbles upon a fresco depicting Raven Beak ordering for several Chozo to be exterminated, with Samus expressing silent rage over this discovery. However, she is paralyzed by an E.M.M.I. shortly afterwards, but is rescued moments from death by Quiet Robe, a surviving member of the Chozo in the fresco, the Thoha, who is able to remotely deactivate the remaining robots. Quiet Robe explains to her that Raven Beak is the leader of the Mawkin, a warrior tribe of the Chozo who collaborated with Quiet Robe's own tribe, the Thoha, to contain the Metroid threat on SR388. However, unlike the Thoha, who sought to undo their mistake by destroying the Metroids, the Mawkin saw the Metroid as a bioweapon to be used to conquer the galaxy. As a result of this conflict of interest, Raven Beak slaughtered the Thoha, keeping Quiet Robe as the sole prisoner due to the Thoha's ability to control the Metroids. However, upon their return to ZDR, the Mawkin realized that one of their own was actually a disguised X Parasite. The tribe was subsequently infected and the parasites proceeded to spread throughout the whole planet, with Raven Beak the sole surviving Mawkin. Quiet Robe explains that although Samus's act of destroying both the B.S.L. station and SR388 should have put an end to Raven Beak's plans due to the extinction of the Metroids, Samus's very existence proves otherwise, as the Metroid DNA within her is now Raven Beak's last chance of reviving the Metroids. To this end, he has hacked the E.M.M.I and reprogrammed them to hunt Samus down and extract the Metroid DNA from her. Although Samus promises to put an end to Raven Beak's plans, a Robot Chozo Soldier kills Quiet Robe shortly afterwards.
Samus draining E.M.M.I.-07PB's energy with her Metroid powers.
Upon being ambushed by the final E.M.M.I., Samus discovers a new ability to siphon energy, which she uses to defeat the robot. ADAM is able to locate Raven Beak in a floating fortress and Samus gives chase. Upon reaching the top, ADAM reveals the truth behind Samus's current situation and her newfound powers: the Metroid DNA is causing her to undergo a metamorphosis. The Thoha DNA within her has previously kept this mutation at bay due to the tribe's control over the Metroids; however, ADAM reveals that Samus also has Mawkin DNA, explaining her incredible physical prowess. The Metroids are programmed to react violently towards the Mawkin, thus Samus's first encounter with Raven Beak has inadvertently acted as the catalyst for her new powers emerging. Shortly afterwards, Samus realized that it is not actually ADAM speaking to her, but Raven Beak impersonating the him. Raven Beak refers to Samus as his daughter, revealing that the Mawkin DNA within her originated from him. The two proceed to engage in a lengthy battle, during which Samus is able to blast one of Raven Beak's wings off, with him proceeding to tear the other one off himself. Eventually, however, he is once again able to overpower her, suffocating her while gloating that his plans have changed. Rather than extracted the Metroid DNA within her, Raven Beak now seeks to create an army of clones of the most powerful Metroid of all: Samus . As her consciousness begins to fade, her metamorphosis completes, transforming Samus and giving her the strength to grab onto Raven Beak's face, draining him of his energy. The fortress is also drained and crashes onto ZDR, and both warriors emerge from the wreckage. Unbeknownst to Raven Beak, however, an X Parasite is able to sneak up and infect him, transforming him into a hulking monstrosity known as Raven Beak X. With her new powers, Samus proceeds to annihilate Raven Beak permanently.
Samus's final confrontation with Raven Beak.
Rushing back to her Gunship as the planet self-destructs, Samus is prevented from leaving by ADAM, informing her that her new Metroid form will cause her to siphon the ship's power, effectively dooming her. However, she is shortly thereafter confronted by the X-infected Quiet Robe, whose corpse has been assimilated earlier. Though infected, Quiet Robe bows to Samus in gratitude for ending Raven Beak's ambitions for galactic conquest, before transforming into an X Parasite and allowing Samus to absorb him. This stabilizes her DNA and allows her to safely pilot her ship moments before the planet is destroyed.
Other adventures[]
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100% Efficiency Rating[]
During an unknown period of time, Mother Brain inhabits an asteroid called Metroid, and is approached by a Bounty Hunter named 'Big Time' Brannigan, who convinces her to hire him because of his 100% efficiency rating. Mother Brain tasks him with locating and terminating an intruder (Samus) on Metroid. Samus is in the process of invading the facility, fighting through waves of enemies when Big Time appears and challenges her. He causes her to fall on top of him, and the two recognize each other. Samus, unaware that he has been sent to capture her, suddenly finds herself ambushed when a plethora of enemies appears to back Brannigan. She quickly booby traps her hand gun behind her back and surrenders herself to him. The pair reach Mother Brain's chamber, where said person tells him he can collect his payment on the way out. 'Big Time', however, is urged to kill Samus to make him the top Bounty Hunter undisputed, but as he tries to shoot her, the gun explodes. The enraged Mother Brain orders that he be fed to the Metroids, while Samus leaves, remarking that Big Time did get her, but not the way he wanted.
The Blood of the Chozo[]
Sometime after the defeat of Mother Brain (presumably after Super Metroid), an invasion of the Messina system takes place, organized by a group of Chozo known as the "True Chozo". Samus is a victim of their random starship attacks, and she crash-lands on the Tranquility Base airfield, where she is put into rehabilitation. At the end of the story, she explains to Armstrong Houston that she was "supposed to get ready to go out and save the universe again," but it "looks like [she] had nothing to worry about."
Adventures with Joey Apronika[]
- and Metroid EX
Following the Raid on Planet Zebes, Samus responds to a distress call originating from a frontier planet called Liberty. She finds that its small village is under Space Pirate attack, and she takes her enemies by storm, much to the fascination of a young, reckless boy named Joey Apronika. As she is preparing to leave, Joey pursues Samus in the hopes of accompanying her. She refuses and quickly becomes annoyed with his rampant behavior, although she is forced to rescue him when they are attacked by Doruba. Samus becomes reluctant to fire a Super Missile at the beast, because Joey will be caught in the blast, although he encourages her to do so.
The pair survives the blast, although Samus orders Joey to return to the village immediately. He objects, because the two of them defeated Doruba together. Samus explains that although Doruba might not have posed a challenge, the creature that she is hunting, Dragüd, possesses a life-form that is a challenge, and a very deadly one at that: the Metroid. Samus tells him the story of her Zero Mission and leaves. Whilst she runs off to fight Dragüd, Joey follows her in secrecy using the guise of a molten Pirate skin and pretends that he is going to see the Megaroid, a Metroid created by Dragüd from dead Metroid cells.
The creature escapes containment and quickly begins consuming the energy of all the Pirates, and the ship itself. It grows into an enormous creature that Samus finds is not affected by her favorite tactic of Ice Beam and Missile fire used in tandem. The creature splits into numerous crystals that multiply into living creatures and engulfs Samus before moving on to the Liberty village. Joey collects several Space Torches and uses them to lead the Megaroids away while Samus destroys the Megaroids engulfing her using her Plasma Beam and Ice Beam in tandem to create thermal shock. She then pursues Joey to Mount Pagos, a long inactive volcano that she reactivates with a Power Bomb and Super Missile, which obliterates the Megaroids.
Samus then announces that she is returning to space. A while later, Joey sits at his father's grave and discovers a buried parcel in it, containing his old armor: the Field Knuckle. Samus sees potential in Joey, and promises to take him as far as a large space station where a friend of hers lives. She drops him off at an engine shop, the Junk Quixote, run by her acquaintance Diesel. The pair find Jealousy, another Space Pirate, instead. He is holding Diesel hostage. The creature summons his bodyguard, Bomad, to fight Samus. Joey rescues Diesel and fights off Jealousy's Pirates using his Field Knuckle, until Bomad unleashes a gravity bomb that obliterates everything in the room except for Bomad himself, Samus, Joey, and Diesel. Samus finishes Bomad off. Diesel is released, and his first order of business for Joey is to fix the shop.
Sometime later, Samus discovers that the Special Forces Ship Otowa has disappeared. She tracks it to Degrade, a planet she soon finds has magnetic storms that damage her ship and render her unable to leave (echoing Aether). Samus discovers the ship with only a fraction of its passengers alive, being attacked by Giants. Samus destroys much of the behemoths, but one prepares to eat one of the survivors, Dr. Diana Apronika, Joey's mother. Joey, who has come searching for his mother kills this Giant, saving her. The remainder of the Giants flee, as another creature swarms in the background.
These creatures, Amoks, turn out to resemble large penguins. The survivors state that these creatures ate a large fraction of their crew. The Amoks then turn on the survivors, but Samus helps them to repel the attack. Samus and Diesel make a plan to use a crashed ship they saw to escape with the Otowa survivors. Two days later, Samus asks Joey about his mother. Joey feels that he is always in her way and that she prioritizes her work. Samus confesses that she envies Joey for being able to grow up with his parents. The Amoks return and charge at the survivors, but Samus holds them off with a Power Bomb.
Diesel discovers a damaged but still functional KI-1 Class Ship, which they hope to use to escape. Inside, Joey discovers a nest of eggs and the mother of the Amoks. Samus finds that her Beams have no effect on the creature, and she cannot use her Super Missiles or Power Bombs due to her proximity to the ship, but Joey is able to hold the creature off with his Field Knuckle. As the ship takes off, Samus uses a Super Missile and destroys the creature. The Amoks feed on the corpse, offscreen, as Samus, Joey, Diesel, and the Otowa survivors escape in the Junk Hawk and KI-1 ship (towing Samus's ship).
Following the excursion at Degrade, Samus destroys Bioroid Delta III, a combat bioroid that destroyed a ship en route to a demolition site, and Dangelo, an escaped convict from her past who launches terrorist attacks wearing a Power Suit resembling hers. Joey and Diesel are kidnapped by the Dominion, a paramilitary organization that sells weapons of mass destruction. Samus rescues them and they help her to fight through the Dominion's base on the Demon Planet, destroying several mechanisms modeled after Samus. The Dominion is dealt a destructive blow and Samus is congratulated for her efforts in exposing their existence. Samus is later lured into a trap upon receiving a call from Joey, and then sealed into an Ability Disassembly and Conversion Device, which torturously downgrades her Power Suit and extracts seven of her most important abilities. Joey sacrifices himself to stop Samus from dying. By this point, Samus has accepted Joey as a partner and her anger allows her to easily kill the Body Snatcher, the being that took her powers. Samus is then ambushed by Greed, a dragon-like being resembling Ridley, who takes off for space and challenges her to follow him.
Samus, with Joey and Diesel as company, pursues Greed to the Extreme Galaxy, a lawless sector outside of the Galactic Federation's control. The trio are thrust into numerous dangerous and often physics-defying situations to recover her stolen abilities from Greed's gang, the Greed Corps, and six of his henchmen, the Deadly Six Stars. Samus succeeds in recovering most of her abilities, but after triggering a volcano to kill the last Star, Defen, she lost the Data Capsule containing her Varia Suit.
The trio later discovers Greed's real plan: to avenge the destruction of his race, which includes Ridley, that has led the Space Pirates for generations, and to access a destructive power in the ancient ruins on a diamond-shaped planet. Samus is captured and brought to the ruins, where her body is used to allow Greed to obtain the power. While she lies unconscious in the Hall of the Gods, Joey, Diesel, and the defecting Greed Corps general Knight battle the other general, Bishop, who wants the power for himself. Bishop reveals that he has recovered the Varia Suit from the ocean world, as well as Samus's Plasma Beam. After a bloody skirmish, Bishop is killed and the Data Capsules join with Samus to revive her and fully restore her abilities. Shortly after this, a black hole is created in space, which begins to impact the entire universe.
Samus, prepared to battle Greed, instructs Joey and Diesel to leave. As they protest, she explains that she heard the voice of an animus dwelling in the ruins, who explained that those who access the power must make a choice between the power of the past or the future. Her hearing this animus makes her the only person who can challenge Greed. Before entering the door, she reveals her true identity to Joey by removing her Power Suit, and promises him that he will rise to do battle in the future. She then rematerializes her Power Suit and storms off to confront Greed.
Inside, Samus discovers Greed suffering a "pathetic" death - he chose the power of the future and is being swallowed by that power. The animus prepares to destroy the universe until Samus points out that she has not made a choice. Rather than choosing the past or the future, she chooses the present. The animus, content with her decision, produces a white light. As Samus touches it, a white hole is produced in space, counteracting the black hole and restoring power to the universe. Afterwards, Samus and Joey go their separate ways and Samus returns to bounty hunting.[2]
| “ | Surprised that I'm a woman?
Although I am a woman, from the time I was very young, I have carried the destiny of a warrior on her back, like a mother carries her child, even though I have never given birth or raised one. But by fighting, I have been able to protect and nurture children, who are our hope for the future... I do not intend to die! I am still needed to provide hope, to provide peace. But this battle is mine to fight! In the future, you will become a fine warrior... and when the time comes to protect everyone else's future, then it will be your turn to fight, Joey! Become strong, Joey! Grow into a strong, kind man... for whatever hard times may come. And so I will not lose sight of my goals and purpose. I will not forget you! |
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—Samus's final monologue | ||
Spoilers end here.
Non-canon warning: Non-canonical information ends here.
References[]
- ^ Super Smash Bros. Melee, "Samus Aran" trophy
- ^ "Interview: Idzuki Kouji", Shinesparkers, 2019-11-23. Retrieved on 2019-11-23.
| History | |
|---|---|
| Zebes | Zero Mission • Raid on Planet Zebes • Final battle with Mother Brain |
| Aether | Aether incident • Battle of the Hive • Dark Age • Fourth Battle of Torvus • Golden Age |
| Other Topics | Bryyo dynasties • Cosmic Calendar • Cycle • Horus Rebellion • Metroids • Space Pirates (Assault on the Pirate Homeworld, Invasion on Norion) • Species War • Tetra Border Wars • The Treaty of Elysia • Year 20X5 SR-388 incident • Metroid Theft Incident |
| Biographies | Dark Samus • Ridley • Samus Aran |