//------------------------------// // Chapter 11 - X Invasion // Story: Metroid, Displaced in Equestria // by Theyellowninja13 //------------------------------// I stood there, waiting to see what the X parasite would do, with Sweetie Belle right behind me, visibly scared, as she remembered what I told the class about these creatures. I point my arm cannon at her, preparing to blast her, when Filthy Rich came out from around the corner. “Diamond, honey, leave these two alone.” He said, thinking that his daughter was bullying Sweetie Belle again. “Nah, I don’t feel like it. But I am hungry.” The parasite leaves Diamond’s body, before charging at a shocked Filthy Rich. I quickly ran in between them, grabbing the parasite, and feeling it get absorbed into my body. I did a quick scan of Diamond Tiara’s body, before looking at Filthy Rich. “I’m sorry, but she didn’t survive.” I walk over, and close her eyes. I heard Filthy Rich try to figure out what just happened. “You wouldn’t know this, but that was an X parasite. They’re a parasitic species that take’s over another creature’s body. While they are in control, they slowly destroy the creature they are in. They only have one predator, metroid, which were wiped out a while back, but I have some metroid DNA in me, enough to absorb them. But I’m sorry, the X parasite killed your daughter.” I walked over to Sweetie Belle, who was crying, and I picked her up, before walking her back inside, and talking to Cheerilee. “Cheerilee, we have a problem.” “What’s wrong?” She acted nervous at my tone. “Diamond Tiara was murdered.” She gasped. “It was an alien parasite that was thought to be extinct. I managed to stop it, but there are perhaps countless more. If you see anyone acting the slightest bit strange, alert me immediately. I got to tell the elements.” I put down Sweetie Belle. “Can you make sure Sweetie Belle gets home safely?” Cheerilee nodded, and I could see some tears coming from her eyes. I ran out of the schoolhouse, and activated my speed booster, before running over to the track Rainbow Dash was waiting at. After arriving, Rainbow Dash immediately flew over to me. “‘Bout time you show up! I’ve been waiting for like an hour!” “Now is not the time for that Rainbow Dash.” Rainbow Dash flinched at my tone, knowing something bad is happening. “An alien parasite has appeared in Equestria. It already has killed Diamond Tiara.” “Alien parasite? Well, I’ll just kick it’s butt!” Rainbow Dash acted like she was punching something in mid-air. “You can’t. If you touch it, it will take over your body. You can’t fight it. Eventually it will act like you, and slowly kill you. Metroids are the only things that can kill them.” Rainbow Dash looked a little bit nervous now. I was about to say something else, when I noticed a small group of ponies walk up the the track. I did a quick scan, finding out that they were infected. “Rainbow Dash, they’re infected. Be careful, and don’t let any colorful blobs touch you.” There were five ponies, I don’t recognize any of them, but Rainbow Dash seemed to. “Rainbow, you would believe the words of an alien, over us?” One of them asked, and I could see that Rainbow flinched. “Don’t believe them Rainbow Dash.” “GAH! I don’t know who to believe!” Rainbow Dash yelled, before flying up, away from both of the groups. “Believe us Rainbow! This alien should be killed.” The ponies all say at once. “I’m not going to persuade you to choose either group, Rainbow Dash. That’s your decision. You’re an adult, and you can make your own decisions.” I stated. “I just don’t know!” Rainbow Dash yelled, grabbing her head with her hooves. As she was doing this, I noticed one of the ponies flying up to Rainbow Dash, while her eyes were closed. “RAINBOW DASH! LOOK OUT!” I yelled, and Rainbow Dash opened her eyes in time to dodge the tackle by the pegasus. I noticed the yellow X parasite leave the pegasus, before charging at Rainbow Dash. I quickly used both my high jump, and my space jump, managing to grab the X, and absorb it, before it could touch the rainbow pegasus. As I was falling, I quickly aimed at the the ponies, quickly killing each of them. The second I landed, I dashed forward, touching all the X parasites, absorbing them. When I absorbed all the parasites, I walked over to the bodies, before deactivating my helmet, and crying. Rainbow Dash landed next to me, not exactly understanding why I was crying. “Relax Sam, they’re just alien invaders.” “No, they weren’t. The X parasites were the invaders. The ponies were innocent. There’s no real way to extract them from the bodies, without killing them. I was infected once, and the only way I was saved, was when the remains of the last metroid in existence was used to make me part metroid.” Rainbow Dash started crying, realizing what happened. “You mean…” I just nodded, tears still falling. Eventually I stood back up. “We need to stop all the X. I think we should tell Twilight and the other elements of harmony. If any of them get infected, you won’t be able to use the elements.” “You’re right.” Rainbow Dash was about to fly off, when I grabbed her to stop her. “We need to stick together. You could be infected without me. Plus we need witnesses to prove the invasion.” I put her on my back. “At least now you get to see my speed booster. Hang on.” I started running, and before long, activated my speed booster, making it to Twilight’s house within a few seconds. While I was running, I realized that Samus never used the full speed of the booster due to the small spaces in the game. When I stopped right in front of Twilight’s house, I let Rainbow Dash get off, noticing how she was affected by the wind. “That was awesome!” “Glad you liked it. Now come on, the fate of the world is on our shoulders.” I opened the door, noticing Twilight and Spike were reading or something. “Sam? What are you doing here?” Twilight asked. I quickly scanned her, noticing how she was clean, but when I scanned Spike, I started holding back tears. I deactivated my helmet to talk to Twilight. “Twilight, I need to talk to you, it’s very important.” Twilight heard the seriousness in my voice, and I followed her into a back room. While she was turned around, I looked at Rainbow Dash, and pointed at Spike, who wasn’t paying attention. Rainbow Dash nodded, before keeping an eye on Spike. “So, what is this about?” Twilight asked, after we entered the room, and closed the door. I took a deep breath, before I started crying. “Sam, are you okay?” “No. And neither is Equestria.” I took another breath. “An old enemy is trying to take over Equestria.” Twilight gasped. “It’s called the X parasite.” I made a hologram of what they usually look like. “They are incredibly dangerous. They infect a host, taking over their bodies, and acting like a perfect replica of them. But as they do this, the host slowly dies. I counted six pony casualties so far, Diamond Tiara is already dead, and a group of other ponies tried to infect Rainbow Dash. I… I had to kill them.” I started crying again. “I don’t want to kill innocents.” “This sounds bad. We should tell the princess. I’ll get Spike right away.” I stopped her before she could continue forth. “Don’t. I haven’t told you the worst part yet.” After making sure she was listening, I spoke again. “Spike is infected.” The sound of stone cracking was like music to my ears. I was finally able to gather all the chaos energy I needed to escape. As I was stretching after my stone prison was broken, I talked to myself, glad to here my own voice again. "Oh boy! I'm glad that Ponyville had all those recent bursts of chaos energy lately." Snapping my fingers, I teleported to the small town. "Now, lets see what could have caused the chaos." I disguised myself as a bagel, and started looking around, noticing some ponies looked like they were infected with something. After a few seconds of searching, I found the purple unicorn's tree-house. Looking in a window, I saw my little chaos-maker. "Oh boy, this is going to be fun. Let's see how much chaos you can cause little human."