//------------------------------// // Chapter 12 - The Cure // Story: Metroid, Displaced in Equestria // by Theyellowninja13 //------------------------------// “There has to be a way to save him! He’s like a brother to me!” Twilight said, as she looked through all the books in the room. It took a while for her to understand what’s happening, and believe me when I told her about Spike. “Are you sure that there are no more of these ‘metroids?’” “Yes. I should be the only creature alive capable to defeating the X. But I can’t force them to leave the bodies. And that’s if they don’t decide to quickly kill him.” “Can’t we make a cure from your blood?” “My blood has three different races in it. And if the X finds out we know, it might decide to kill him. The elements might work, but it could kill Spike the second you fire.” We heard some loud screaming and some explosions coming from outside. “I’m going to go check that out. DO NOT let Spike know we know. And be careful around anything that looks like an X.” I quickly ran outside, to see a bipedal figure destroying the town by firing missiles into stuff. I ran over to the figure, firing a few wave beams at it, causing it to turn around and face me. When I saw who it was though, I gasped. It looked like Lyra, but it was humanoid. It’s skin looked similar to my power suit, and I noticed that it’s right hand was similar to an arm cannon. I did a quick scan of the creature. Subject: Lyra Heartstrings Species: Unknown. Analysis: Subject has been infected with the SA-X, thus giving the subject the form and abilities of User’s power suit. Suggestion: KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE! “I’m finally a human! I shall spread this joy to everyone!” Lyra yelled, clearly happy. “And you can’t stop me hunter!” She quickly fired a few missiles at me. I expertly dodged the missiles, firing a few power beams at Lyra, who wasn’t able to dodge in time. ‘She’s not used to the body yet. I can use that to my advantage.’ I used my speed booster to charge at Lyra, and the second before I hit her, I turned into a morph ball, and rolled underneath her legs, placing a powerbomb. I got a good distance away, and watched as Lyra was hurt by the powerbomb. ‘Luckily there was no creatures nearby, allowing me to use that attack.’ When Lyra recovered, she quickly fired a few ice beams at me, I barely dodged, firing a few plasma beams at her. I heard her scream in pain, as the plasma started to burn her. I was about to attack again, when I was struck in the back. I looked behind me, seeing a bunch of ponies of all races preparing to attack me. ‘I can’t handle these many hostiles.’ I rolled out of the way of a few more magic blasts, before shooting a few thrown projectiles out of the air. I backflipped over the charging pegasi. I quickly sidestepped Lyra’s beams. ‘Maybe I can do this.’ Right after I thought that, I was hit in the back by a powerful beam. When I recovered, I saw an enraged Luna. “YOU DARE ATTACK OUR SUBJECTS! YOU CAN'T DENY THIS! WE HAVE SEEN YOU ATTACK OUR SUBJECTS!” I was about to reply, before I noticed an X about to charge Luna. I reacted quickly, running over to her, tackling her down, and grabbing the X. I turned around to face the infected ponies. “No more innocents. No more innocents shall die!” I flipped over Lyra’s ice beams, landing on a big piece of floating debris, firing a missile at it the second I jump, and using the explosion to propel me onto another piece of debris. I did this over and over again, and firing my hyper beam at Lyra. I was about to jump again, when Luna tackled me. “WE SHALL STOP YOU ALIEN!” I pushed Luna of of me. “I’m not the enemy here! Look at your subjects! They’re infected with a virus, and I’m trying to stop it from infecting anymore! I don’t want to kill them! I want to find a way to save them! But I have to take care of the SA-X Lyra before I can! Now, are you going to attack the only predator to the X parasites?” To answer my question, Luna blasted me again, sending me flying. I crashed into a wall, and quickly pushed myself off. “WE WILL NOT FALL FOR YOUR TRICKS ALIEN SCUM!” ‘I have to stop her from attacking me, I’m taking too much damage.’ Before I could do anything, an X parasite flew right at her “LUNA! LOOK OUT!” She didn’t believe me, and as she took a step forward, the X flew into her, and started infecting her. Powered by rage, I quickly activated hypermode, and started firing a constant barrage of phazon blasts at Lyra. I kept on firing a constant blast of phazon at her, ignoring the attacks the others were giving me. “NO MORE SHALL FALL!” Eventually I heard Lyra scream in pain, as she disappeared in a flash of light. In her place was a spiky core-x. I quickly fired a few hyper missiles at it, breaking the shield. After I did this, my hypermode exited out, and I ran forward grabbing the upgrade. As my body starting glowing, and the upgrade started integrating with my suit, a few words appeared across my visor that made me smile. Upgrade acquired: X Parasite Cure. By firing this beam upgrade at any creature infected with the X parasite, the X parasite is purged from the host, saving the host and preventing them from being infected again. By firing this at a free X parasite, it will instantly terminate the parasite. I quickly activated the beam, and started firing it at all the infected ponies, noticing how the beam was similar in color to a metroid. Once everyone nearby was cured, I started running back to Twilight’s place, firing the beam at any parasites nearby. I got to Twilight’s house, bursting down the door, to see a crying Rainbow Dash and Twilight, standing over Spike. I did a quick scan, seeing that Rainbow Dash and Twilight were clean. I walked over to Spike, and fired my beam at him, destroying the x parasite. I expected Spike to get up, but when I did a quick scan, I noticed I was too late. “Spike’s dead.” I said, tears starting to form in my eyes. “He figured out that we knew, and then he let out a yell of pain, and fell down.” Twilight said, still crying. “I was too late. I just got an upgrade that would have cured him, but if I didn’t spend all that time curing others, I could have saved him.” I fell to my knees, deactivating my helmet, before letting out a large cry. “I said that no more would die. Why did he have to die?” As we all sat there, crying, Luna burst through the doors, her horn glowing, as she looked between me and Spike’s body, with rage in her eyes. “YOU HAVE KILLED THE YOUNG DRAKE! YOU MONSTER!” She fired her horn at me, sending me flying into a wall and hitting my head pretty hard. Unlike the other times Luna has done this, I didn’t react. I didn’t react as she fired spell after spell into me. I didn’t react as I watched my energy tanks go down fast. I didn’t react as my consciousness slipped, and everything went dark. 'Good. You're awake.' 'I'm not awake. I'm unconscious. And what are you doing in my mind?' 'I should be asking you that question. After all, you are in my body.' "Mistress! We received word that a ship is coming towards the planet." A Space Pirate ran towards the dark figure, before bowing down. "What kind of ship?" The dark figure asked curiously. "It seemed to be a Chozo ship. Our scans showed that it perhaps held the last of the Chozo species, the species that raised and trained the Hunter." The Space Pirate informed the dark figure. "I will deal with it. Get back to work." The dark figure said without a care. The Space Pirates immediately left the room, hoping not to get killed by the dark figure. When the room was empty, except for the dark figure, she started cackling madly. "If I can get the alien angry enough, then I won't have to do much work! It'll try to kill me and it will be executed for the act!" "Don't! Please don't do this! A quieter voice spoke out. The dark figure stopped laughing, before using her magic to summon a mirror in front of her. In the mirror held an almost identical copy of the dark figure. The only difference is the small changes in appearance. For one was the Princess of the Night, and the other was the Bringer of Eternal Night. "Oh, you're still here? I thought I got rid of you." The dark figure said indifferently. "Of course I'm here! You're in my body! Now I begging you! Please don't do this!" The figure in the mirror pleaded. The dark figure just started laughing. "Oh, of course I'm going to do this. I need to show the world that I'M THE RIGHTFUL RULER OF THE PLANET! THAT THE WORLD SHOULD BE CAST INTO ETERNAL NIGHT!" Then with a glow of her horn, the dark figure permanently removed the figure in the mirror from existence. "And now. I don't have to worry about those pesky Elements of Harmony turning me back into a cowardly second-best ruler." The dark figure used her magic to remove the mirror, then summoned a small magic viewing orb. "Speaking of the Elements of Harmony, best make sure they don't figure out what happened, and try to stop me." With another glow of her horn, not only the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, but the Princess of the Sun, had their brains mentally altered to obey the dark figure, without realizing it.