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// Chapter 2 - Get her away from me! 
// Story: Metroid, Displaced in Equestria 
// by Theyellowninja13 
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    As we walked to Sugarcube Corner, I was telling Applejack and Rainbow Dash my story and who Samus Aran is. Rainbow Dash didn’t seem all that impressed.

“She doesn’t sound very strong. I bet I could take her.” I laughed a bit at that.

“I doubt it. She’s taken down beings much bigger than her. She battled the same dragon over and over again.” Rainbow smirked a bit at that.

“So you’re saying that she keeps on losing to a weak dragon?” She asked, the smirk never leaving her face.

“No, I’m saying she kills him every time, but his space pirates keep bringing them back. Ridley is one of the scariest dragons I can think of. He can fire energy and flames at you. He can fly incredibly fast. He’s intelligent. He keeps on changing. Plus, every time Samus sees him, she has to remember the time she saw him murder her parents and everyone she knew. Try dealing with that.” I replied with as smirk on my face.

“How could anypony kill another in cold blood like that?” Twilight asked.

“Some creatures just don’t care for others.” I stated.

“HUUUUUMMMMMMAAAAANNNNN!” I heard a voice call out as a mint blur tackled me to the ground. My instincts quickly kicked in, rolling into a morph ball, underneath the blur, and rolling out of the way before returning back to normal.

“Whoa, that felt weird.” I said when I stood back up. I looked to where I was tackled, to see a mint colored unicorn desperately searching the ground for me.

“Lyra, are you okay?” Twilight asked. Lyra looked up at her, tears in her eyes, before she noticed me. Right as she pounced, I turned back into a morph ball, and rolled over to Twilight, who looked at me curiously.

“Will you please stop jumping at me.” I asked kindly, after returning back to my biped form.

“NO!” She yelled rather dramatically, before trying to jump on me again, only to be stopped by Twilight.

“Why are you tackling Sam, Lyra?” She asked, trying to keep the struggling unicorn under control.

“I finally found a human! After so many years of looking, my wishes have finally come true! Now everypony will see I’m not insane!" She let out an insane laugh after she said that. "Now let me go so I can take my new pet with me back to my house! I shall name him Humberg and he shall be mine! He will do all the chores, and he will please me and obey my every wish because I summoned him with my own wishes!” Unbeknownst to either of them, I started getting angry at being called a pet. I had a bad history with being called that. I looked around, noticing how there are no other creatures around but us, so I switched my cannon to wave beam and started charging it up.

“Listen here Lyra.” I said that name with venom. “I am NO ONE’s pet, now I suggest you apologize before I send volts of electricity into your body.” I held up my cannon to emphasize the point.

“Why don’t you listen up Humberg! I am your master! Now get this pony to let go of me!” She said in an angry tone. I looked at Twilight for a second, before she nodded, and I discharged my wave beam into Lyra, who was dropped to the ground when Twilight let her go. We all watched as Lyra was spasming on the ground, drooling uncontrollably.

“Sorry about that, Lyra’s kinda obsessive about humans. Before we all thought that she was just crazy, and humans don’t exist, but now I guess she’s just crazy.” I just kept on staring at her spasming body, memories going through my mind.

“Let’s get out of here before she stops spasming.” The others agreed we kept on walking. On the way, I decided to start working on my HUD. By the time we got to Sugarcube Corner, I had finished setting up most of the programs on my visor. I had my weapons systems all up, and from what I could see, not only did I have stuff like the four beams in Metroid Prime, but I had both the Light and Dark beams, along with the Annihilator, a switchable Nova beam. I even had a Hypermode and a Hyper beam. I gave a small smile at the thought of using those two, so I decided to save them for a surprise against an enemy. I noticed I had all the missile upgrades, which I can switch from, and I had 230 missiles on me, along with 50 super missiles, AND 20 full energy tanks. I had to resist screaming in delight at the thought of all of this. But it’s like I have a stronger control over my emotions.

I looked over to see that Sugarcube Corner looked like a giant gingerbread house. “Is it supposed to look like a gingerbread house?” I asked Twilight who just giggled.

“Well it is a bakery.” She said, rolling her eyes. I just sighed, before looking around, noticing that there are no ponies around except for the ones with me..

“Where are all the ponies? It’s the middle of the day, wouldn’t there be at least some ponies around?” The others noticed this too, looking around.

“Well, there is a new critter in town.” Applejack pointed out, talking about me. “Maybe they’re all just frightened and hiding in their homes?” Another thing I noticed was the fact that through the doors to Sugarcube Corner, I couldn’t see any lights and I heard faint speaking coming from inside.

I activated my thermal-visor, noticing a vast quantity of ponies in the building, crouching down. “Are they having a surprise party in there?” I asked Twilight, who was shaken out of her thoughts of why no one is around.

“Well, our friend Pinkie Pie is a bit strange. She might have known that there is somepony new in town, and is waiting for you to arrive so she can surprise you.” Twilight’s eyes widened when she realized something. “Wait... how did you see in there through the walls?”

I turned to face her, before tapping on the side of my helmet. “Thermal visor. I can see heat signatures through walls and stuff.” She looked curious, and was about to ask a question, when I just walked into the building, and the lights turned on, with ponies jumping out from behind furniture, yelling ‘Surprise!’.

I just stood there, waiting at the door, watching as a few seconds went by before everyone started freaking out. “Monster!” They yelled. Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack quickly walked in and calmed everyone down.

“He’s not a monster everypony!” Twilight announced to the still panicking crowd. “He’s a human, and he was just sent to this universe.” They started to calm down now.

“So Lyra isn’t crazy?” A random pony blurted out.

“No, I’m pretty sure she’s downright psychotic. She tried to enslave me on the way here.” I said in a joking manner. “Anyways, my name is Samuel Aran. Nice to meet you.”

A few ponies laughed at the Lyra comment, while they still mostly looked afraid. Before I could do anything however, a pink blob suddenly appeared on the front of my helmet. My instincts kicked in, turning me into a morph ball, before rolling away. I was about to blast it with a morph ball bomb, but the blob let go and I could tell it was a pink pony instead of a metroid.

“Whoa! That’s really cool! You can just roll up into a ball and roll away. I can do that too, but whenever I try, and I can’t roll up into a perfect ball like you do. How do you do it?” The pink pony said rapidly after I returned to my standing position. I was gonna scan her, but then I remembered that I don’t have any data about this world in my database. And I don’t have a database. Maybe I’ll make a database, I do have the plans in my files on this visor.

When I feel my arm cannon moving, I look over to see the pink pony messing around with it. I pull it out of her hooves, and then she looks me right in the face. “Oh, silly me! I forgot to introduce myself. I’m Pinkie Pie! The premiere party planner of Ponyville!” She crossed her eyes for a second before giggling out loud. “Try saying that three times fast!”

While Pinkie was laughing to herself over her slightly humorous joke, I heard three small voices to my left. I looked to see three small fillies, pushing each other over to me. “You go Applebloom.” “No you Sweetie.” “How about you Scootaloo.” They kept on doing that for a minute, while I just smiled at their cute antics.

After a while, I just crouched down, pushing my arm cannon against the ground, and holding out my left hand. “Hello.” I said softly, getting their attention, and causing them to stop fighting. “My name’s Sam, what’s yours?”

“Applebloom.” The yellow regular pony with a bow started.

“Sweetie Belle.” The white unicorn with a pink and purple mane continued.

“Scootaloo.” The orange pegasus with a purple mane finished.

“I assume you three were fighting over who was going to talk to me first?” They all nodded, surprised at my Batman level detective skills. “If you wanted to talk to me, you could just, you know, talk to me.”

Applebloom worked up the courage to talk first. “Are you an alien?” She asked bluntly. I noticed she had a southern accent, and looked similar to Applejack.

I gave a small smile. “I don’t know if I am. I’m from a different universe. For all I know, this is the same planet I’m from, it’s just a different timeline.”

“Can you fly?” Scootaloo asked. She sounded similar to Rainbow Dash.

“No, I don’t think I can. Would be cool if I could though. I have abilities similar to flying, like double jump, and wall climb.” She looked amazed at that.

“Can you do magic?” Sweetie Belle squeaked out.

“Not that I know of. No human in my world could do magic. We get along with plain old technology.” They all looked dumbfounded at this. Before we could continue speaking, Applejack and a white unicorn walked up to me.

“I see you met our sisters, Sam?” Applejack said, I just nodded.

“So, I’m assuming that Sweetie Belle is your sister, Miss…” I asked the white unicorn with a purple mane.

“It’s Rarity. And yes, Sweetie Belle is my sister, Mr. Aran.” I smile a bit at the formalities. She doesn’t seem like she’s faking, but I’m totally faking this. I had a feeling by the way Rarity carried herself, she was a high-society pony.

“Please, just call me Sam. Mr. Aran was my father.” I was getting tired to standing up, so I sat down at a nearby table. This armor is heavier than it looks. Sure the energy tanks help reduce it’s weight, but it’s still pretty heavy.

“So, Sam, I’m sure you would want to change out of that ghastly armor.” I gave her an unseen look behind my visor. “And it just so happens that I run the Carousel Boutique, one of the only clothing stores in Ponyville.”

“I’m sorry Rarity, but I don’t know how to take this armor off. I figured out how to remove the helmet, but the rest of my armor, I don’t know. Besides, I like this armor. It’s a relic of an extinct race of wise bird-people called the Chozo.” Man, I’m starting to act like that is my past.

Pinkie appears right in front of me a second later with a cupcake on a plate, and puts it down in front of me. I looked at it, and it had frosting on it that said; ‘Welcome to Equestria, Sam!’. The colors of the cupcake even match the colors of the Varia Suit.

I was about to take off my helmet, and try to eat it, when I realized something. Horses, ponies included, like sugar, so maybe this cupcake has too much sugar in it. I start scanning it, and my visor gave the following results;

Analysis:
Subject: Cupcake.
 Age: 1 hour.
 Ingredients: See list.

 Diagnostics: Cupcake, while similar to common cupcakes found on Earth, contains high amounts of sugar related substances. Also contains a high amount of love.

Conclusion: Fatal to User life.

I sighed, and pushed the plate away from me. I looked up to see all the ponies, gathered around looking at me expectantly. Twilight was using her magic to hold a quill and some paper, ready to take notes. “I’m sorry Pinkie Pie. I can’t eat this cupcake.” Everyone gasped.

“What! Why not! I’ll have you know I made that with 75.35246% love!” Pinkie yelled flabbergasted.

“And the rest is sugar. I scanned it, and the results said that it is too sugary for me to eat without dying. As much as I would love to eat that cupcake, I’m sure you don’t want to be seen as a murderer for an entire species.” All the ponies just had their jaws touching the ground.

“But how can it be too sugary! Everypony loves my cupcakes! Right everypony!” She said that last part in a demonic voice, looking to the crowd of ponies.

“Exactly. Everypony. Humans can’t eat high amounts of sugar like ponies can.” I stood up out of my seat, everyone still shocked. “I’m sorry Pinkie, but thanks for the party.” I walked out of the bakery, and just stood out in the middle of the road.

“Man, I was hungry too.” I said, putting my hand against my stomach. I was thinking about what to do now, when a sharp pain hit me in the back, sending me flying forward for a second, before crashing into a wall.