//------------------------------// // Chapter 10 - School // Story: Metroid, Displaced in Equestria // by Theyellowninja13 //------------------------------// When I arrived back at Canterlot castle, I told Celestia (most of) what transpired. She gave me a bag full of gold coins, which is apparently Equestrian currency. A quick scan told me that there were 20,000 bits in the bag. I just dropped the bag on my ship, before flying back to Ponyville. I landed in the exact same spot I landed on earlier. Noticing that it was late, I just went over to my bed, deactivate my suit, and fell asleep. The next morning was rather hectic, a giant four headed hydra was attacking Ponyville, so I was able to get it to go back to it’s swampy home after attacking it in my ship. When I landed again, I exited my ship, and was checking to make sure that my ship wasn’t ‘injured.’ While fixing a small crack in the part that stores the fuel gel, I noticed my visor showed someone approaching me from behind. I turned around to notice it was that small white unicorn. Sweetie Belle if I remember correctly. I quickly turned back around, continuing my work, to see if she could start the conversation. It took a minute or two, but she finally worked up the courage to talk to me. “Umm… Mr. Aran?” I had a small smile, as I turned around, and deactivated my helmet. “Yes?” I could tell that Sweetie Belle was really nervous. She was visibly shaking, and now trying to make herself seem as small as possible. I took pity on her, and bent down, and pulled her into a hug. I could tell that she was incredibly nervous for the first few seconds, but then she calmed down, and a minute later, I let go of her. “Does that help?” I asked. “A little. But anyways, today is ‘bring your hero to school day’ and my big sister Rarity has important orders to fill, so she can’t come. So I was wondering if you could come with me today?” Sweetie Belle asked, not as nervous as she was a minute ago. “Why would ask me? I’m not much of a hero.” Heroes usually help others for free. I’m just a bounty hunter. “Well, on the day you arrived, you risked your life to save Dinky.” I forgot about her. “And Rarity told me that the other day you saved her and her friends lives from a bunch of monsters. And just earlier today, you fought off a giant hydra. If you weren’t a hero, you wouldn’t do those things.” “I suppose.” I stood back up. “I’ll try to be there. What time do I need to be there?” I gave a small smile at Sweetie Belle’s big smile. “Just be at the schoolhouse in an hour.” She pointed to a building off in the distance. “That’s the school house. See you there!” She squeaked, and ran off. I just shrugged, before reactivating my helmet, and continuing the repairs. An hour later found me walking to the schoolhouse. As I approached it, three familiar fillies ran up to greet me. “Sam! You came!” Sweetie Belle squeaked. I noticed the other two were nervous. I crouched down, and deactivated my helmet. “Relax, I wouldn’t hurt a child.” Wait, if I have Samus’s background, then… “In fact I even spared a newborn baby of a race that would kill countless creatures by sucking out their energy.” The fillies looked mesmerized by this. I was about to say something when I heard the voice of a snobby filly. I quickly reactivated my helmet, turned into a morph ball, and rolled into a bush, staying there, watching the conversation. “Well, well, well, if it isn’t the blank flanks. What losers did you bring to class today?” A pink filly with a tiara on her head walked over to the three fillies. She was accompanied by a grey filly. “We didn’t bring losers!” Scootaloo replied, angrily. “I brought the awesome Rainbow Dash.” “And I brought my big sister Applejack!” Applebloom replied. “And let me guess, you brought your failure of a sister?” The pink one asked Sweetie Belle. I noticed a light of realization in her eyes, as she realized why I hid, before speaking. “Nope. I brought somepony that is a true hero. Too bad you’ll have to wait for class to see them.” “Yeah right, like you know a ‘true hero.’ Everypony you know are all losers.” I could practically hear that whistle from the Spongebob episode with Kevin. “Rainbow Dash is not a loser!” Scootaloo defended. “She is a loser. She hardly works. And all she can do is brag about how she thinks she’s better than everypony else.” I noticed a small rainbow blur in the sky as she said this. “But she’s also an Element of Harmony.” Rainbow Dash said as she landed behind the three fillies. “You don’t even deserve to be an Element of Harmony.” The pink one said with venom. “I would make a better Element of Harmony than all of your worthless friends.” I could see that Rainbow Dash was starting to get angry, so I decided to do something. “Wow, you would totally make a good Element of Honesty with those lies.” I said, as I stood back up, making my suit look like it did with the Phazon upgrade from Metroid Prime one, easily making myself scarier. “MONSTER!” Both annoying fillies screamed as they ran away. I deactivated my helmet as I started to laugh along with Rainbow Dash. “That was priceless!” Rainbow Dash said, after calming down. “Anypony who can do a prank like that, is good in my book.” She lightly punched my armored shoulder, and I lightly punched her back. “Yeah well people like that give rich people a bad name. You should have seen what I did to some ugly prince I came across in the castle the other day. Made me so scared he pissed himself.” I said with a smile, as Rainbow Dash tried to figure out what I meant. When she did, she started laughing again. “You should tell Rarity that. Blueblood was a jerk to her a while back.” I made a mental note to tell Rarity later, before changing my suit back to normal. “So, what are you doing here?” “Sweetie Belle said that her sister was too busy, and asked me to come today.” I said with a shrug. “When I noticed two clearly snobby ponies walking up to these three” I gestured to the three fillies. “I decided that if they treat them bad, I would scare them, so I hid in the bush.” Before we could continue, the school bell rang, and the colts and fillies all started running into the schoolhouse. Rainbow Dash and I followed the three fillies into the schoolhouse, Applejack joining up with us. When we entered the schoolhouse, I decided to pull another prank, turning into my morph ball, before following Sweetie Belle. As Sweetie Belle sat down, I rolled right next to her, stopping right next to her saddlebags. I had a small smile on my face, as a pinkish pony walks up to the blackboard, and started speaking. “Good morning class. I’m glad to see that none of you were harmed by the hydra attack this morning.” A colt’s hoof raised, and the pony called on them. “What was that weird orange, red, and green thing that attacked the hydra? I’ve never seen a creature like that.” The adult pony (I can’t scan in morph ball mode) had a sad look on her face. “I’m sorry Pipsqueak, I don’t know.” Rainbow Dash spoke up after that. “I know what it was. It was the spaceship of the alien in town.” Rainbow Dash said. “Ms. Dash! There is a time for fantasy, but this is not it!” So the pony didn’t know about me. Rainbow Dash was about to reply, when the pony cut her off. “Now wait to speak until it’s your turn.” “Now as you all know, it’s ‘Bring your hero to school’ day. So I will call you up one at a time, to bring up your hero, and explain why you consider them your hero.” With that the pony started calling up ponies one by one, showing everyone their heroes. After maybe an hour, the snobby pony (who I learned was named Diamond Tiara), was wrapping up her speech about her father, Filthy Rich. Sweetie Belle’s name was called up next, and as Sweetie Belle ran up to the front, I rolled after her. “So, Sweetie Belle, who did you bring?” The big pony, who I found out was named Ms. Cheerilee, asked, looking around. “Here he is.” She gestured to my morph ball form. “Sweetie Belle, now is not the time for games. Were you able to bring in somepony?” Cheerilee asked. “Yes she did, and I would appreciate you don’t insult a friend of mine.” I spoke, and as everyone looked around for the voice, I stood back up, noticing how I wasn’t sore from being a small little ball for so long. Everyone gasped as they saw me, and Diamond Tiara and her minion both screamed. “MONSTER!” I flinched at the title, and Cheerilee scolded the two fillies. After scolding, Cheerilee started talking with me. “So, Sweetie Belle brought you in? Can you speak?” I rolled my eyes. “I believe we already established both of those.” Everyone gasped again, not expecting my to speak. “So, introductions, my name is Sam Aran.” “Sam is like a superhero! He goes throughout space, fighting crime!” Sweetie Belle spoke out. “That is only partially true, I’m not really a superhero. I’m just a human who was well trained by the Chozo, given some Chozo DNA, and work as a bounty hunter for the Galactic Federation. I also have a really cool power suit, as you can see.” I deactivated my helmet, causing all the ponies to gasp again. Diamond Tiara spoke up. “Why are you so ugly?” Another round of gasps. “I could ask you the same thing. Don’t you know that plastic surgery only makes you uglier? Not to mention who you are on the inside matters a lot more than on the outside.” Sweetie Belle and her friends all start giggling. “How dare you speak to me like that! Do you know who my father is!?” Diamond Tiara yelled. I sighed. “He’s right there. And I was here for the past hour, listening into all the conversations in the room. Infact I have an interesting one right here.” I reactivated my helmet, before playing an audio playback. “I can’t believe that we’re forced to be in the same room with those blank flanks!” “I know! They should just all be arrested for taking up valuable space!” “I LIKE CHEESE!” I deactivated my helmet again, looking at the shocked faces of two fillies, and one embarrassed colt. I didn’t expect that final sentence to play. “Diamond is this true?” Filthy Rich asked his daughter. “Of course not daddy! It’s a monster! It tried to replicate our voices!” Diamond Tiara tried to explain. “This might clear up the problem.” I create a hologram that shows the event. ‘Not sure where the projector came from.’ I could see Diamond Tiara and her friend start getting nervous at the overwhelming proof of what they did. When Filthy Rich took his daughter outside, Sweetie Belle started her small speech, and I corrected her on the exaggerated parts, and filled in the gaps of stuff she didn’t know. When Sweetie Belle was finished giving her speech about me, every hoof in the room was instantly raised. I decided to answer some of their questions. “How can you walk on two legs?” “By putting one foot in front of the other.” I remember watching that scene with my parents. “What’s your cutie mark?” “Human’s don’t get cutie marks.” “Then how do you know what you’re destiny is?” “We don’t. We can be good at a lot of things.” “Can you do magic?” “No, but I can get close to using magic. If we go outside, I can show you, without fear of destroying the schoolhouse.” I looked to Cheerilee, who agreed, and we all went outside. Once outside, I stood a safe distance from all the kids, and prepared for a few of my abilities. “This is called the grapple beam.” I pointed my hand to a big piece of flat metal, and a beam shot out of my hand, latching onto the metal. “Is that all? Seems rather lame.” Diamond Tiara’s minion asked. With a flick of my wrist, and a pull of my arm, the metal was sent flying into the sky, and landed behind me. All the kids ‘ooh’ed and ‘ahh’ed. “I also have an ability called the screw attack. It is highly dangerous, as touching it could kill you. So stay clear.” When they were all clear, I ran in the opposite direction of the kids, before jumping up, and activated my screwattack. When I stopped it, landing on the ground a ways away, I could hear a lot of clapping. I started running back to them, by body glowing blue, as my speed increased. I stopped just in front of them, kicking up some dirt. “That, is my speed booster. It can give me supersonic speeds, but I don’t know how fast I can go.” “Then why don’t we test out to see how fast you can run? I would love to prove myself faster than an alien.” I gave Rainbow Dash a glare. “Sorry.” “Sure, but can it wait ‘till later? I still have a few things I want to show these kids.” I said, preparing my next trick. “Fine, I’ll be at the race track over there.” Rainbow Dash pointed to a race track, and flew away. “Now, check out this.” I pointed my arm cannon up, before firing a modded missile up into the air, which exploded, but was similar to a firework, as the light of the explosion, reflected off the shards of ice in the missile. “That’s all my party tricks.” The kids all groaned. “Well, I’m sorry but my other abilities involve harming others, so unless any of you want to be disintegrated.” “And since Mr. Aran is finished with his presentation, I believe that class is now over.” Cheerilee said, and all the kids started walking back into the schoolhouse to get their things. I was about to head to the race track, when a heard Sweetie Belle behind me. “Thanks for coming, Mr. Aran.” Sweetie Belle squeaked. I crouched down, before patting her on the head. “Your welcome. And please, just call me Sam.” I stood back up, before turning around, and seeing Diamond Tiara standing there, clearly angry. “Figures blank flanks would stick together.” She said, surprising my with the fact that actual venom wasn’t coming out of her mouth. “What do you want?” I asked, not caring for her. “I want you to kill yourself, but I doubt you have the balls to do such a thing.” This kid knows some language. Too bad I know more. “Well, neither do you.” “You’re just a freak of nature. You shouldn’t even exist.” “Says the pony who insults others for a living.” “I’m not insulting anypony! I'm simply showing them why I’m superior to them.” “No one is better than another.” “You keep believing that, freak.” “I know bullies. You’re trying to get under my skin. Well, no matter how hard you try, you won’t even get under this armor.” “You haven’t seen nothing yet.” “Well, try all you want, but you won’t succeed. I was forced to watch as my parents were murdered right in front of me.” “I can think of worse.” “Like what?” “Your death.” There’s something wrong with this filly. I did a quick scan of her, and found out something that terrified me. “Sweetie Belle, stay close.” She looked confused, especially at the urgency in my voice. “Why, it’s just Diamond Tiara. You fought creatures stronger than her right?” “That’s not Diamond Tiara. Not anymore.” I said with a shake of my head. “That’s an X parasite.”