After (somehow) sending out a token of the famous Metroid symbol, and realizing that the Metroid background was created when I came into this universe, I reactivated my helmet, and activated the teleporting beam to get me back outside.
While the light was fading, I heard the usual sound the game makes when you save in the first Metroid Prime game. I walked up to the Princesses, who were looking at the ship suspiciously. They didn’t notice me when I walked up to them. I cleared my throat, and when they finally noticed me, I spoke up.
“It does appear to be my ship. The AI in it says I’m the owner of the ship.” They looked confused when I said ‘AI’. “AI means artificial Intelligence. It’s like a machine, that acts like a person.” I could hear Adam take offense to that.
“I’ll have you know, slavery is illegal in Equestria!” Luna speaks up.
“What slavery? Adam was my superior officer in the Galactic Federation and a good friend, and when he died the GF had his consciousness on a computer which they gave to me in my ship. So technically he’s there by his superior’s orders.” My smirk was hidden by my visor, but Luna clearly looked angry. I don’t know what her problem is anyways.
When Luna began talking with Celestia in private, and she used a soundproof shield, I just walked over to Twilight and her friends. I also was scanning everything in sight like in the Metroid Prime games. Twilight noticed me, and decided to talk first.
“Sam, did you make that machine light up?” She asked curiously.
I nodded, before responding. “I have different uses for my visor” I tapped my visor to point out what it a visor is. “I can scan stuff to find out about it, and I can control my ship to.” Pinkie Pie immediately appeared on top of my head, and pushed her face into my helmet.
“Can you scan me! HUH! HUH! HUH!” I cut her off my pulling her off my head, and dropping her to the ground. I decided to scan her, just to see what it says.
Subject: Pinkamena Diane Pie
Age: 26 years
Race: Earth Pony
Coat color: Pink
Mane/tail Color: Dark Pink
Personality: Cheerful/dark
Analysis: ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! Subject Pinkie Pie does not compute! ERROR!
After getting rid of the error signs, I looked at Pinkie Pie with a look of fear. The way she was looking at me, told me that she still wanted to know what it said. “It... broke, scanning you.” After I said this, Twilight’s friends all started laughing.
“Yeah, that’s Pinkie for ya.” Rainbow Dash said, trying to calm herself back down. After another minute of laughing, she decided to ask to be scanned next. I sighed, and complied.
Subject: Rainbow Dash
Age: 25 years
Race: Pegasus
Coat Color: Light blue
Mane/tail Color: Rainbow
Personality: Arrogant, self -centered, loyal.
Analysis: As the Element of Loyalty, Rainbow Dash would do almost anything for her friends. She is the self-entitled ‘fastest thing in Equestria’ and has the skills to back it up. She is the only pony recorded to do a ‘Sonic Rainboom’, winner of the Best Young Flyer Competition, has proven to be 20% cooler, and is known to be able to fly around mach 5.
After saying all this information out loud, and evidently building up Rainbow Dash’s pride, the other ponies asked for their scan info, except shy pony behind all of them, who is apparently Fluttershy. When I finished telling them all their scan info, I heard some familiar sounds coming from the sky.
I looked up, trying to place the sounds, when I saw what was making them. “Space Pirates.” I said in a hushed whisper.
“What are those!” Twilight exclaimed.
“Everyone! Get inside now! The city is under attack!” I yell, as the explosions the Space Pirates are making made my point clearer. I picked up Fluttershy, carrying her into the building, due to how afraid she was.
Once everyone was safely inside the buildings, I was tackled by a dark blue blur. When we stopped, I noticed it was Princess Luna, who had an angry look on her face. “We knew you were an invader, alien! You have sent a message to your race to attack our ponies! We will not go down easily!” She started charging up her horn, as I struggled to get out.
Before she could do fire the spell, a large explosion nearby knocked her off of me. I quickly jumped up, destroying the Space Pirate carrier, but not before a few Space Pirates jumped out, aiming at me and Luna, who was still recovering.
I quickly jumped over to Luna, shielding her from the blasts, as I took the blasts meant for her. I retaliated by firing a missile at each of them, quickly disposing the Space Pirates in the area. I made sure that the coast was clear, before helping Luna up.
Luna looked at me like I was stupid. “I don’t need your help, alien scum!” She tried to charge her horn again, but I put my left hand out to tell her to stop.
“Do you want to fight me? The only creature on this planet that has experience dealing with the Space Pirates? Or do you want to help save your ponies? I assure you I didn’t summon them here.” Luna looked unconvinced, but when we heard some ponies scream from the inside of the castle, and she reluctantly agreed.
When we ran inside, we quickly killed all the Space Pirates in the hallway, before entering what looked like the the throne room. The ponies looked beaten, and they were surrounded by Space Pirates. Even Celestia looked tired, and has several burn marks.
When all saw the Pirates all charging their beams at the same time, I knew I had to get their attention to save the ponies. “HEY SPACE PIRATES!” My plan worked, as they all turned to face me, looks of surprise on their faces. Luna just facepalmed.
“Why did you do that? We had the element of surprise.” Luna said, as we prepared to attack.
“They were about to attack, and unless you want some dead ponies, I did the best I could.” I gave a small smirk. “Besides, they have the disadvantage.”
I quickly ran forward, activated my speed booster, and firing a few beams at some Pirates, missiles at others. I jumped on an unlucky Space Pirate, snapping his neck with my feet, before sliding across the ground, using his body as a surf board. My inertia made it so I wasn’t hit once.
When I made it to the inner circle with the ponies, and Luna teleporting next to me. I did a quick look of the situation. “It looks like they have back-up.” I said out loud, as they began charging up their beams again, knowing that if I tried to dodge, it would kill one of the ponies behind me.
“Sam, do you have a plan?” Celestia whispered to me.
“Yes, but I don’t like it. It could easily kill all of these Pirates, but we have ponies in the area, and I don’t want to hurt them. If you could lift them all high enough, I could do it.” I said grimly.
“I can lift them in the air for a limited time. How high should we be?” Celestia responded.
“About the height of the roof.” Celestia gave me a look like I’m crazy, before faintly seeing the serious look in my eyes, and started levitating the ponies to the roof with Luna. Luckily there are no aerotroopers in the room.
When the ponies were a safe enough distance away, I noticed the Space Pirates were trying to speak to me in their natural language, which I can’t understand. But it explains why I’m not dead yet.
I take a step forward, and starting preparing for my attack. I put one foot in front of the other, sliding the other foot back, so I would still have balance, and be prepared for the recoil of my attack. Once I activated the attack, I held my arm cannon forward, watching as its tip quickly floated off the arm cannon, and started expanding and spinning. My arm cannon quickly expanded, glowing with bright energy, as I start to fire it.
Once it starts to fire, a giant beam comes out, completely disintegrating the Space Pirates in its range, as I quickly spun around, killing every Space Pirate in the room. When I stopped the beam, my body started glowing, as I crouched down.
The ponies quickly ran up to me, to see what was wrong, when I finally got up in a flash of light, my power suit disappeared, revealing me in my own zero suit. The ponies all gasped, surprised to see me without my power suit, as I began looking over myself, noticing the stun pistol at my waist.
“What are you wearing! It’s a crime against fashion!” Rarity exclaimed.
“It’s my zero suit. When I use my Zero Laser, it uses all my suit’s energy, causing it to disappear.” When I said this, I could see Luna had an evil smirk.
Luna immediately tried to jump on me, trying to kill me in my weaker state. But to everyone’s surprise, I quickly dodged her by sliding underneath her. I quickly unsheathed my pistol, before firing a quick charge shot at her, causing her to be mostly paralyzed. Luckily my powers aren’t exactly the same like in the games.
I kneel down so I’m closer to Luna’s face. “Why do you keep attacking me? I just killed all the Space Pirates that attacked. There are no more in the city, but you keep attacking me, and have never once called me by my name.”
Luna growled, before responding. “And why should I believe that? You sent a message to those aliens to invade our planet. You attacked two princesses of Equestria. You’re nothing but alien scum!”
Celestia walked forward before I could respond. “Luna, while it’s clear that Sam here knows those aliens” Luna had a big grin on her face. “But he only attacked in self-defense. We attacked him first yesterday. And you tried to attack him just a few minutes ago.” Luna’s grin fell, and Celestia turned to me. “Sam, what can you tell us about those aliens?”
“Those aliens are called Space Pirates. They follow the orders of one stronger than them. Samus has battled them many times. It was Space Pirates who attack Samus’s home colony of K-2L when she was just a kid. Samus’s parents died saving her.” All the ponies eyes widened, including the princesses. “A race called the Chozo came along, and stopped the Space Pirates, and adopted Samus too. Then, years later a creation of the Chozo to control Metroids went crazy and took over the Space Pirates. The creature was called Mother Brain. Samus defeated her, and defeated her again some time later. Ridley, the space dragon, is the usual leader of the Space Pirates. Ridley was the one who lead the attack on K-2L and killed Samus’s parents. Samus and Ridley became mortal enemies, battling to the death everytime. The Space Pirates have also been lead by Dark Samus, a creature created when Metroid Prime pulled the Phazon out of Samus to try and save itself. Dark Samus is evil, and tried to corrupt all the planets with Phazon.” I took a deep breath, noticing most of the ponies are crying.
“Well, at least they’re all gone now.” Twilight stated. “And you’re not exactly Samus Aran. You don’t have the same past.” I sighed at that.
“Well, I kinda do. A year ago, my father, mother and I were on a trip around the world, when we were attacked by pirates. The leader of the pirates was called Ridley, and he killed my parents. I barely managed to escape.” The ponies all looked shocked at this. Even Luna, who was finally able to stand again, had a look of regret on her face. “Now if you‘ll excuse me, I’m going to get my suit back.”
The second I started walking back to my ship, a loud roar pierced the air. We all looked up to see a giant purple dragon rip a hole in the roof and fly in, giving off a loud screech. “Crap! It's Ridley!” When I yelled this so the others would know who it was, Ridley noticed me, and charged.