//------------------------------// // Chapter 16 - WHAT THE CRAP IS THAT!!!! // Story: Metroid, Displaced in Equestria // by Theyellowninja13 //------------------------------// My eyes shoot open, and then my body follows soon after. I cringe at the pain through my chest. "Not the smartest move Connor." I take a deep breath, and paused when I realized I was only getting half the oxygen I should. Looking down at my chest, and currently not able to use my x-ray vision, I take my right hand, and jab it into my chest, making a hole big enough to see. "Crap." I said when I realized that my left lung is destroyed. As the wound I created healed back up, leaving only a small scar from the cosmic beam, I looked around, taking in my surroundings. "Trapped in a room, strapped to a table. I can easily escape." I just lay back down, and focus on restoring some of my powers, and not trying to escape. Eventually, when my full vision was working again, I opened my eyes, and saw a group of guards coming down the hall to my room. I let out a small smile. The guards entered the room, and I sat up. The guard in front looked at me with anger in his eyes before speaking. "You're coming with us monster." Not really caring what a red-shirt said about me, I nodded, breaking off the chains that kept me strapped to the table, and stood up, watching all the guards almost piss themselves when they saw a creature effortlessly break chains meant to hold even the most dangerous and powerful creatures. "Lead the way." I motioned for them to start walking. The guards quickly pointed their spears at me, as they lead me to the throne room. When we got to the throne room, I was moved in front of the throne, and when most of the guards bowed, they growled at me because I didn't bow. "Bow creature." One guard said, as he slammed the butt of his spear into the back of my legs, breaking the spear, and doing nothing to me. I let out a small smile, as I looked around the room. I saw Celestia on the throne, a slightly angry look on her face. Luna was next to her, nearly foaming at the mouth. I turned my head to see the person who I battled earlier, still wearing their power suit. Next to him was the mane six, each looking at me with angry expressions, but Fluttershy was looking at me with a worried expression, and hiding behind AJ. "You should bow before us alien." Luna said, making me roll my eyes. "Technically, it's the other way around. But then again, I hate it when people bow to me just because I rule the multiverse." I stated, getting some confused looks. Luna was about to reply, when Celestia stopped her with a wing, and spoke. "Why did you attack Ponyville creature?" Celestia asked, in a calm manner. "I didn't. I acted in self-defense." Most of them looked confused at that. The person dressed as Samus took a step forward, and spoke. "You attacked me first. I was the one who acted in self-defense." I just gave him a small 'seriously?' look. "Perhaps it would be better if I explained the whole story. See, I'm from a different universe, and I was teaching my Twilight how to create portals to deliver messages easier. She messed up a bit, creating a singularity in her portal, and I got sucked in. As I was flung through the portal, I built up speed, and when I left the portal in the sky above your Ponyville, the speed finally kicked in, sending me crashing down as supersonic speeds. My senses were still messed up from the portal, so I wasn't able to calculate a way to prevent anyone from being hit. So, because of that, I hit Samus over there, who naturally thought I attacked first, and tried to defeat me. Not sure why he didn't kill me, or why there is a male Samus on this planet, but after he tried to attack me a few times, I was able to attack back. When I realized that the element bearers were going to try and attack me, I painlessly stopped them." I said, leaving all the ponies confused. "Another universe?! You expect us to believe those lies!" Luna yelled, before turning to her sister. "Sister, that alien is just trying to take over the planet. We have to stop it!" I started laughing at that. "Why would I want to take over the planet? I rule the multiverse! I already rule over this planet." Celestia looked confused at that. "You said you rule the multiverse, but only the Cosmic King does that." Celestia said, getting slightly nervous. "Yes, I am the Cosmic King." I stated, leaving the mane six confused, Celestia unsure, and Luna foaming at the mouth. "If thee really are the Cosmic King, prove it! But we doubt thee are telling the truth, as the Cosmic King would never be such an ugly alien invader!" And she's talking in 'ye olde speak.' "You want proof, here it is." A bright flash later, and I was in my Cosmic Form. "This enough proof for you?" When I looked at both of the princesses, I saw that Luna was unimpressed, clearly still not believing me, and Celestia was getting nervous. "So you are the Cosmic King." Celestia flew off her throne, landing right in front of me, and surprised everyone when she bowed down to me. "It is an honor to have you in our kingdom." I sighed, as I turned back to normal, and motioned for Celestia to rise. "You don't need to bow to me Celestia, I hate it when people bow to me." I noticed Luna was on the verge of attacking me. "Thou clearly aren't the Cosmic King! Where is thine crown! Or the power to destroy the planet just by breathing! Thou ar't an imposter!" "I'm pretty sure I am the Cosmic King. Or at least a part of it. I'm split up into several different universes, and I only have a third of the full power. I know someone else has the destruction powers, but I don't know where the other third is." I stated. "Also, are you supposed to be the biggest racist since Hitler?" I asked Luna. "I'm not RACIST! I'M TRYING TO PROTECT MY SUBJECTS FROM VILLAINS LIKE YOU!" Luna yelled, flying into the air, and was about to charge at me, but I snapped my fingers, teleporting her to her bed asleep. I looked over at the scared mares, before replying. "What, it's past her bedtime, and she was getting cranky." I noticed the Samus person, and walked over. "Name's Connor, the Cosmic King." I held out my right hand, which the person shook, before responding. "I'm Sam Aran." I noticed strange when he said this, like he had another voice in his head. "Sorry for attacking you yesterday." "It's okay. Completely natural. In my universe when I showed up, I was attacked by almost everyone. Then I saved the Cutie Mark Crusaders from being crushed. Now everyone considers me a hero." I said with a shrug. I felt a weight on my head, and the familiar face of Pinkie showed up in front of me. I let out a small smile, as she started talking. "OH MY GOSH! I HAVE TO THROW YOU A 'WELCOME TO THIS UNIVERSE PARTY'! YOU SHOULD COME WITH US BACK TO PONYVILLE, WHERE WE CAN BE BEST FRIENDS!" "Sure Pinkie." I said with a smile, as I pulled her off my head, and put her on the ground. The second after I put Pinkie on the ground, Rainbow was in my face. Rainbow was clearly mad that I was able to easily beat her. "I'm on to you buster. I won't let you harm my friends." I rolled my eyes. "Which is why I won't hurt them." I pushed Rainbow away, to notice Rarity was walking up to me. "Darling, why would a king wear such dreaded clothes?" She used her magic to grab my shirt, which repaired itself while I was sleeping. I negated her magic. "I'll have you know, that the Rarity from my universe made these." Rarity gasped. "But how could any version of me make such boring clothes for a king!" Rarity said dramatically. "Because I asked her to. And I like these clothes. So if you try to change my clothes, I will turn your mane green." Rarity seemed appalled at the idea, and walked off. I walked over to Sam, who was looking at me suspiciously. "So... I'm going to need to stay on this planet for a while. I have a lack of experience escaping universes, and I need to build up the energy to do it correctly." "Why are you telling me this? Shouldn't you be telling Celestia?" Sam stated. "Because I could care less about them. You're the hero for this planet, so I didn't want you to feel like I was taking your job." I was about to walk away, when I thought of something. "Wait, how is a gender-bent Metroid's Samus Aran in Equestria?" "I'm a displaced." He replied, not really caring. "Displaced? Wait... I seem to remember hearing about them." I thought for few more seconds, before remembering. "Now I remember! Displaced are the group of people who go to conventions, and buy something from the Merchant, and get sent to Equestria as the character for the thing they bought." I frowned. "I hate the Merchant. I met him a few times, but he escaped before I could get him. Every time he displaces someone, it messes up the multiverse." "I honestly don't quite care what he did to me. In my old life, I might have been rich, but my parents died a year back. We were on a trip around the world, as we do at least once a year, and we were attacked by some pirates. Their leader, named Ridley, killed everyone on the ship in front of me. I escaped, and killed him, but I've been alone since then." Sam shrugged, before continuing. "I was a huge Metroid fan, my name was Sam Aran, before Metroid ever came out. Now I'm in Equestria, as my favorite game character, with the voice of male Samus Aran in my head." He tapped his helmet. "What's your story?" "I was a normal kid in high school, and another student started shooting. My best friend tried to confront him, but I pushed my friend out of the way right before the bullet was fired, and I took the shot. I was shot again in the head, and when I died, a bolt of lightning came down, giving me the powers of the Cosmic King. Well, a third of them. Murphy, the guy who killed me got another third, and became a god of destruction, but I'm unsure where the final third went." I answered. "Is your Luna as crazy and racist as mine?" Sam asked, making me chuckle. "No. But she does get angry a bit easily. Is your Twilight a psychopath?" "Depends on what you mean by psychopath." "Twilight would constantly kidnap me, and torture me in experiments. I one time activated, with Twilight standing over me, breathing heavily." "I don't think this Twilight is that crazy. Lyra is the crazy one." We both chuckled at that. "Tell me about it. On my last birthday, Lyra got me a plastic mare crotch." I think Sam just did a spit-take. A couple hours passed, and we all started heading back to Ponyville. The mane six took some chariots, while Sam let me ride in his ship with him. I didn't care that much, because I've been in Samus's ship before. But what surprised me, was when we touched down, and we both got out, and I saw that we landed on the very same hill that the tree I like to rest on is on. I noticed the tree wasn't here, so I assumed that it's just in my universe. We entered Sugarcube Corner, because both Sam and I were hungry. I ordered us some cupcakes, and paid for them, and when we sat down, and started eating, I devoured a whole cupcake, before spitting it out. "YUCK!" I ripped out my tongue, and destroyed it and the cupcake remains, before regenerating another tongue. "Is something wrong Connor?" Pinkie asked, appearing next to us, with a worried expression on her face. "Of course there is something wrong!" I grabbed another cupcake, and held it front of me for emphasis. "These cupcakes are bland. There's hardly enough sugar in them." "What are you talking about? Any more sugar, and it would be enough to kill a human instantly." Sam asked. "Well, I'm not human, and I can regenerate the damage caused by Pinkie's cupcakes." I turned back to Pinkie, who was excitedly holding an entire trey of cupcakes, which I could tell had lots of sugar on them. I had a big smile on my face, as I started devouring the cupcakes, several at a time. I was standing against a wall at Pinkie's party, taking periodic sips from a plastic drink cup. While my helmet may have been off, I wasn't taking off my suit. At first, all the ponies were scared of Connor, except Lyra, who stayed away from him when she realized that he wasn't human. 'We should totally try that at one point. Maybe she'll finally leave us alone.' 'But we're still part human. It might work for Connor, who is no longer human, but we just have small amounts of Chozo and Metroid DNA' 'I guess.' I eventually noticed Connor, walk away from the party, a depressed look on his face. I decided to follow him outside, where he was standing there, looking at the sky. "You okay?" Connor turned to look at me. "No, I've never been okay. Ever since I got my powers, I've had one bad turn after another. I can't sleep without having a nightmare about the future or the past. I have terrible luck. Everyone around me always gets hurt. I'm immortal. And I also only have one lung now." I cringed, knowing that it was my fault, as I scanned his body when we brought it to Canterlot, and found all the injuries on him. "How did you survive that blast anyways? You said that Cosmic energy of a different type than the one your made of can severely weaken the regeneration of that wound." I asked. "Well, you shot my in the lung, and it went all the way through. You could probably tell I wasn't even trying in the battle, but when I started charging forward at you that last time, and you fired the shot, I was able to move fast enough to use a regenerative factor I keep in my arm. Although I'm quite surprised that you have a cosmic beam. Where did you get it?" I sighed, thinking back to the incident the other day. "The other day, the Chozo came to Ponyville." Connor looked surprised. "Old Bird, my foster father, was there and he was trying to help me with curing me of Phazon. While he was working, Luna teleported aboard the ship, and made the ship's core blow up, killing all the Chozo including Old Bird. I eventually grabbed the remains of the ship with my ship, and the upgrade fell out." I noticed Connor was thinking. "You know what Phazon is right?" Connor nodded. "Yeah, first Metroid game I played and completed was Corruption. I basically grew up with the Wii, Gamecube, and GBA SP." Connor was about to say something else, when a loud screech was heard. We both looked to the sky near Canterlot, and saw a shadow rapidly approaching. "What the crap is that?" The shadow quickly landed near us, and with another loud screech, which made my blood run cold, we both saw what it was. As the creature fired a beam of energy at the town, destroying a few buildings, Connor and I managed to get behind something. "IT'S RIDLEY!" I yelled to Connor, who was looking pretty terrified at the sight of Ridley's new form. "Stupid Cosmic King." I grumble to myself as I pace around my room. After he snapped his fingers, I was teleported to my room, strapped to my bed in his cosmic energy. It took me over an hour to get free, so I know he knows how to use his powers. After I got free, I sent a message to my minions to free the dragon and unleash it on Ponyville. But, since the Cosmic King is here, he'll probably stop it. "Wait, if the Cosmic King is here, and is from a different universe, he might notice the different personality." I sat down on my bed, trying to think about what to do. After another minute, I figured out a solution. I looked over at my mirror, and charged up a magic spell, which I cast upon myself. "Hopefully, he'll be stupid enough to fall for this." I cast another spell, which hid my essence, so the Cosmic King couldn't figure out who I am.