I was barely able to avoid the attack as I ran through the doorway, running back to my ship, Ridley on my tail. I heard him screech again, and I ducked to avoid his lunge, as he impacted the wall. I quickly turned the corner and kept on running, knowing I’m getting close to my ship.
I heard another screech and briefly turned my head to see Ridley was about to charge again, but a few quick bursts of magic impacted him, and I noticed Celestia and Luna are distracting him. I looked back down the way I was running, in time to turn the corner. I saw the doors to the garden up ahead, and quickly burst through them, before running to my ship.
I was barely inside my ship for a second, before I started refilling my energy and weapons, causing my power suit to come back. I teleported myself out of the ship, feeling the familiar weight of the suit again, before running back into the castle.
After running for about a minute, I found out that the princesses lured Ridley back into the throne room. I saw Ridley about to attack, and quickly fired a super missile at his back. His loud screech told me that I hit my mark.
Ridley quickly spun around to face me, anger evident in his eyes. He charged once more, but this time I jumped up, using my space jump to land on his back. Once I grabbed hold of his wings, I started firing my nova beam into his back, causing his skin to slightly burn.
Ridley quickly flew into the air, spinning around, and causing me to fall off. I landed on the ground with a thud, and looked up to notice that he wasn’t all that effected by the high temperature of my Nova beam. ‘Guess it only really works on Omega Ridley.’
Ridley opened his mouth, and I noticed something about his charging attack. It’s glowing. As I charged up a charge shot, I heard Twilight yell from a distance. “Don’t hit the glowing part!” I just roll my eyes, knowing that it’s Ridley’s weak spot.
Right before he fired, I fired first, causing his attack to blow up in his throat, damaging him. I smirked under my helmet. While he was recovering, I quickly ran over to the wall near him, and using my wall jump to climb the wall and land on his head.
I used my feet to spread apart his jaws, and started firing super missile after super missile into his mouth, clearly damaging him. After I went through all my regular super missile ammo, I quickly turned into morph ball form, falling into his mouth, but placing a power bomb in his stomach.
Once it blew up, destroying most of Ridley’s torso. I rolled out of his stomach, landing on the ground and standing back up. I turned around to see Ridley’s guts everywhere, and Ridley’s lifeless head and neck laying on the ground.
I took a deep breath, knowing that I just killed Samus’s most recurring enemy, and I didn’t take any damage. I decided to do what perhaps any Metroid fan would do in this situation. I spun around, before placing my left hand against my head as if I were saluting, and quickly pulling my hand back to my side, like Samus did in Super Smash Bros Universe.
After my taunt, which I had to resist squealing in delight over the fact that I did it perfectly, I walked over to the shocked ponies. I noticed that Celestia and Luna were both shocked as well, but were hiding it.
“What was that explosion?” Celestia asked, finally able to speak.
“My power bomb. One of my most powerful attacks. But leaves lots of collateral damage. I would have used it sooner, but I’m not risking innocent ponies being disintegrated.” I gestured to the six shocked ponies.
“For that, I must thank you Sam.” I just nod, before walking over to the ponies, leaving Celestia and Luna to talk to each other.
“You six okay?” They nodded, still shocked, before Twilight spoke up.
“How could you just kill it! It was a living creature!” Twilight exclaimed. I just sighed.
“So, you’re saying that you should have died, and I should have let Ridley kill even more? He’s a mass murderer. Besides, I bet he’ll be back later. The Space Pirates will probably revive him as Meta Ridley again.” I said with a serious voice.
“But he was still a living creature. We could have just sent him to Tartarus!” I quickly went through my database to figure out what she meant.
“Oh yeah. Like that would have gone over well. Let’s put one of the most dangerous creatures in the entire galaxy in a prison with other creatures. You know what will happen next?” They all shake their heads. “The Space Pirates will find the gates to Tartarus, and open them, allowing Ridley to have one of the most powerful armies known to Equestria. Totally smart idea.” My voice was almost dripping with sarcasm.
Before anything else was said, Celestia and Luna walked over to our group. Celestia addressed me first. “Sam, you said that Ridley might be brought back?” I nodded. “And he will probably be back to attack Equestria with more of these Space Pirates.” Another nod. “If that’s the case, I hereby grant you the use of your space ship, only if you help Equestria and it’s citizens.”
“What about other countries?” I asked.
“If they need help, they can ask for help. But we would like to keep you mostly hidden from other countries. Also, we would like to grant you this.” Celestia spawned a small box, and when she opened it, it revealed a small medal. I picked it up, and examined it. “This is the Equestrian Medal of Valor. It is given to ponies who put the lives of others above their own. You have risked your life to save others, even when they have treated you badly. It is a great honor.”
The ponies behind me gasp, as I thought over what to say. “Thank you Princesses.” I put it in a small pocket hidden inside the suit.
“Also, I have arranged carriages for the Elements of Harmony for the trip back to Ponyville. I trust you can ride your ship back?” I nod.
“I can also live in it. so I won’t need housing. Or food for that matter. I have a food synthesiser.” I start walking off to my ship. “So if you need me, I’ll be in Ponyville.”
“Wait.” Celestia called out, and I turned around, curious of what else she wants. I noticed the six ponies are gone from the room now. “You said you were a bounty hunter earlier?”
“Samus was a bounty hunter. But since I have all of Samus’s abilities, I guess I could be considered a bounty hunter. Why?” I asked, kinda knowing the answer.
“We might have need of a bounty hunter in the future.” These peaceful ponies? Well, I imagine it takes a lot of work to keep a nation peaceful.
I pull out something that resembles the Metroid games symbol. It was red with a silver outline, and had a silver ‘S’ on it. I toss it to Celestia, who catches it in her magic, and looks at it. “That works as a communicator. Just hold it close or something, and say ‘Samus Aran’ and then relay a message. I’ll get it on my computer.” I walked back over to the door that leads me closest to the garden. “I’ll also expect some form of payment for doing a bounty.” I go through the door and walk back to my ship.
On the way I came across a stupid and ugly looking unicorn who acted like he was better than anyone else. “What is a monster doing here!” He yelled to a guard, who looked like he was ready to kill this unicorn.
“Oh you know. Defending Equestria from a Space Pirate invasion. Getting the Equestrian Medal of Valor.” I said, instantly hating this guy.
“How dare you speak to me like that! Do you know who I am!” He yelled, holding his snout up in the air, as if he expected me to start bowing to him.
“The cleaner of the royal toilets?” I said in a tone that made me actually sound serious. These mental changes are interesting. I have almost complete control over my emotions.
The pony took extra offense to this, and ordered a guard to have me arrested. Which they didn’t, due to the fact I did nothing illegal. I noticed we were being watched by more guards, wanting to know what the outcome will be. The pony called himself Prince Blueblood, and said he was Celestia’s nephew.
Curious to see if this was the truth, I scanned him, comparing it to Celestia’s. “Interesting you said that. Because I just compared you to Celestia and it says that you are hardly related.” Also, wouldn’t he be Luna’s son or something?
“You dare speak to me like that peasant! I assure you I am closely related to Princess Celestia!” He stomps his hoof in frustration.
“I’m richer than you. My father became the richest person on my planet, closing in on one trillion dollars. And besides, I don’t think you want to get on the bad side of a human. Last time we had nobility like you, we overthrew them, and cut off their heads, and stuck them on pikes.” His eyes slowly opened in fear as I said this. I gave an hidden smile, before speaking again. “I may not have a guillotine, but I have an armada of deadly beams.” I charged up my plasma beam, and I heard a sound similar to water dripping rapidly.
It took me a minute to realize I just made him wet himself. He quickly ran away and I just burst out laughing at the hilarity of the situation. I noticed some of the other guards were laughing too.
After another minute of laughing, the closest guard spoke up. “Thanks for doing that Samus. None of the guards like being around Prince Blueblood.” I just gave a quick nod.
“Yeah I understand that. I’m glad my father raised me right, or I might have ended up like that.” I said with a small chuckle.
“Well, the guard owe you one now for putting Blueblood in his place.” I started walking back to my ship again, giving a small wave to the guard.
Once I got back to my ship, I walked over to the controls, and started flying back to Ponyville. I landed on a hill just outside of Ponyville, and noticed that it was getting pretty dark. I deactivated my suit, before finding my bed and falling asleep.
"I'm sorry we failed Mistress." The Space Pirate said, crouching low on the ground in front of the dark figure. "We didn't expect the Hunter to be this strong."
"Excuses? I put you in charge of a very expansive group of Space Pirates, AND Ridley, and YOU still failed to kill a single insignificant worm!" With a charge of her horn, the dark figure destroyed the Space Pirate in front of her. The other Space Pirates flinched at the death of their comrade, before continuing to bow. "No matter. I will just have to send in some of the others." The dark figure tilted her head to a Space Pirate next to her. "Bring in those parasites. Let's see how the alien can deal with those."