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Metroid: Decay

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    • The group walked out of the bunker as the doors closed. Samus adjusted her helmet, scanning the area as they started moving back to the forest.

    "First thing's first. My ship is past the forest and the first few security checkpoints."

    "Distance?" Nova asked.

    "Five kilometers." Samus said. "This ship is astonishingly large for a Federation vessel."

    "No fuckin' kidding." Nova muttered.

    "I suspect your team was woefully unprepared for the onslaught?"

    "We're a rescue team, not a fucking chest-thumping warmongering nutgroup." Nova said. "We have the necessary equipment to help get people in and out of small stations. This was one particular mission where we just weren't supposed to be."

    "Wrong station, wrong place, wrong time." Higgs said. "That creature you killed? It was tearing through the place. Ripping people apart left and right." He turned. "You saw how much damage it did, right?"

    "It took down one of my tanks with a single hit" Samus said. "I suspect that Federation technology doesn't have the resilience that my suit does?"

    "No. It doesn't." Higgs said. "You have the best suit in the galaxy. We're stuck with grunt armor." Suddenly, they all heard a loud groaning sound within the forest. The group froze as it echoed across the area, the sound making the ground shudder as they walked.

    "...That c-can't be a good thing." Chloe said, quietly.

    Samus stared forwards...before she started taking steps backwards. "Turn back." Samus said.

    "What?" The others asked.

    "We're turning back."

    "What? Why?" Nova asked.

    Suddenly, something reached around the very fringes of the forest sector. A long, twisting arm, stretching miles across, pierced into the section. The group felt the entire sector lurch as they struggled to hold on. "What the fuck is that?!" Chloe screamed as Higgs and Nova tried to shoot at the arm.

    "Move!" Samus shouted. "We're moving back!" The group scrambled back up as the entire sector behind them started to crumble. The air behind them started to rush out as the artificial gravity really started kicking in, keeping the group barely level as they reached the door. Samus shot it open, and they all scrambled in.

    Sullivan panted as she rolled onto her back, with Samus, Higgs and Nova staring over at the now-closed door.

    "...So, any idea where to go now?" Higgs asked as they all stared at the now-useless door in front of them.

    "Not a single idea." Samus said. "Though now? Now it would be prudent to find a map station of some description." She clenched her teeth. "I sincerely hope my ship is still in a usable condition." She muttered. She moved her hand to her helmet, and immediately looked over to her ship's condition. "It's currently not FTL-worthy. Whatever happened was enough to damage its FTL-drives to the point of near-uselessness."

    Sullivan turned to her. "W-wait, you're stuck here, too?"

    "My ship will fix itself in a few days. It's got enough propulsion power to keep close to this station, though without the FTL, it's a gigantic orange target even with all of its firepower."

    Chloe nodded slowly, before she looked down at the ground.

    "Map station is two doors north." Charles said over the comm. "Though that's what I can tell from the signs that say 'map station' through these super-broken cameras."

    "So your supposedly useful information could be, at best, flawed and, at worst, utterly wrong?"

    "Yup."

    Samus sighed. "For some reason, I expected this." She turned to the others. "Follow me."

    [SECTOR 4]​


    A/N: I can't let it be that easy. That'd be cheating.
     
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    • I have no metroid knowledge. All I know is that whatever that was was massive. I'm pretty sure it aint ripley or MB, and that's about all I know
     
    I am beginning to suspect that Moid holds Hard or Insane as his canon difficulties.

    As this Samus gives no fucks are we going to see all the upgrades being used from the start?
     
    GilliamYaeger said:
    >Implying that incredibly fucking stupid 'twist' will be canon for this fic
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    I dunno, that twist made a finite amount of sense. Ridley is a bioweapon so it's a good strategy to have his early stage look cute and harmless, it decreases the chances of anyone attacking him and it could cause people to try and bring him into the base as a pet. Whereupon he eats loads grows up and murders everyone.

    So I don't have a problem with that.
     
    Heart of the Star said:
    I dunno, that twist made a finite amount of sense. Ridley is a bioweapon so it's a good strategy to have his early stage look cute and harmless, it decreases the chances of anyone attacking him and it could cause people to try and bring him into the base as a pet. Whereupon he eats loads grows up and murders everyone.

    So I don't have a problem with that.
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    He isn't a bio-weapon though. There was once an entire race of Space Dragons, and then he killed them. All of them. Because he is such a dick.
     
    Once you get past their naturally armored carapaces, powerful claws, and beam weaponry, Space Pirates can be surprisingly goofy in their messaging systems.

    I still remember Command at Aether warning troopers not to treat Metroids as pets.
     
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    • The group kept close to Samus as they wandered the halls.

    "Did you see that?" Nova asked.

    "Yup." Charles said back. "Tough luck there. Didn't see that particular thing coming."

    "I wasn't able to get a good scan." Samus said. "Though it looks like a previous foe...but larger." Samus turned. "Much, much larger."

    "Uh...huh." Chloe nodded a little, before they all started walking through the remaining hallway. They kept moving through the halls, and after several minutes of travel, they reached the first set of doors. Samus shot the door once, opening it after several seconds of waiting, before they all walked through. Higgs had to duck a little, while the others passed uninhibited.

    And it was then that Samus paused. "...That isn't just one door, Charles."

    "It looked like it to me! There was a door then another door! Where are you right now?"

    "Well..." Samus muttered. "I'm at this Sector..." The world around them rippled with a fiery energy, heat roaring around them as they stared. Suddenly, a number appeared in her visor, followed by a quickly-filled progress bar, and a name. "...The pyrosphere."


    Machines, covered in roiling lava, groaned as they pumped molten rock through the complex. Creatures, enormous and partially covered in the magma, poked their heads out of the surface to glare at the newcomers, as Samus swapped her arm cannon to the ice beam.

    Gullaggs, burstbats and other monsters screamed in fury and confusion as the group behind her turned up their heatshields.

    "...Can your suits survive lava flows?" Samus asked.

    "Uh...for a few seconds." Higgs said. "Yours?"

    "Hour."

    Nova glared at her. "How the fuck did you get all the nice toys?"

    "I was raised by extremely advanced alien birds." Samus said, flatly.

    Nova just glared back. "...That wasn't funny."

    "I wasn't joking."

    Nova tried to spit, only to wind up spitting in her own helmet. She yelped, before she groaned. "Fuck!"

    "Good job, Nova!" Charles laughed over the comm. "You did a good job!"

    "Fuck off, Charles."

    He laughed even harder. "Same to you, cupcake."

    The group collected themselves, and started their way through the lava wasteland. Samus looked around with her visor, scanning multiple animals. "...Strange creatures...I haven't even seen some of them before." Just as she said it, a single animal roared, and rushed above the surface of the lava. It soared over their heads, dripping lava onto the pathway as it did, before Samus quickly shot the path.

    Sullivan was the first to react, shaking as soon as the creature splashed back into the lava before she stared at the now-cooled rock. "W-what-"

    Samus scanned it. "...Juko III creature. The planet it hails from is so heated that carbon-based life simply isn't possible on it." She nodded. "Interesting."

    The others just stared at Samus as she walked forwards. The leaping creature pulled a smaller one, this time much like a thicker, beefier fish, before it crushed it, with white fluid pouring out of its body as it chewed. The group kept moving, before suddenly, they all heard a loud crashing sound. The group froze.

    "...The hell was that?" Higgs murmured.

    Nova pulled up her gun as Samus simply clicked her cannon into place. "Hostile, probably."

    "Fucked if I know." Nova flicked her sights up as Sullivan pulled up her pistol. "Probably ugly."

    "I-I just want to leave." Sullivan murmured. "Th-the sooner we find that map, the sooner we find a way out, right?"

    "That's the hope." Samus said. "...Though I suspect that the further we get-" Just as she started, she accidentally kicked over the severed head of a GF soldier. She glanced at it once, before she tapped it again, preventing it from falling into the lava. "...The further we get, the more dangerous the creatures will become. At least, that is what experience has taught me."

    Higgs raised an eyebrow. "Well, that would be interesting. If it weren't liable to get us brutally killed in a variety of horrifying ways." He swapped his cannon's ammo box for a different one, and stared at the little counter on the side. The number "84" flickered onto the screen, before he slammed it in, and the counter appeared on top of the gun instead. "Alright, I got some ice ammo. Hopefully it'll help some things."

    "It should." Samus said before she switched her cannon. "It means you're more than dead weight."

    [=]​

    A/N: OW TSSSSSSSSSSSS-
     
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