//------------------------------// // Chapter 18 - Losing Control // Story: Metroid, Displaced in Equestria // by Theyellowninja13 //------------------------------// A dark hand pulls itself out of the pool of Phazon, it's veins filled with the very same liquid. Following it, is a hand made out of a combination of unknown metals, which helped pull the almost deformed body out of the pool. When the body crawled onto the ground next to the Phazon, it started coughing, the blue liquid coming out of the mouth. When it started to stand up, it's hideous body was on display. It's skin was as dark as night, and it's eyes were no longer it's usual electric yellow, but now a dim golden yellow. The creature's entire body showed bright blue veins, filled with Phazon. It's head looked more like a human skull, and it's body looked like it was made of armor. Normally, nothing could mutate that harshly, that quickly without dying, but it's powerful regenerative factor kept it alive, and accelerated the transformation. As I continued on, having a suspicion that I'd be fighting Connor soon, I ran faster, quietly running through the halls at a fast pace. Eventually, I found the door to the command room, planning on blowing the ship up, and escaping on my ship. But when I opened the door, my blood ran cold. In the next room, there wasn't just one Omega Pirate, or two, not even three. There were 50 Omega Pirates in the room. And they all turned to face me. I gulped, as I looked around, seeing no Phazon for them to absorb nearby. 'Guess we're the only source of Phazon nearby.' 'This is going to suck.' I activated Hypermode, and started firing several big and powerful shots of Phazon at the Omega Pirates, which they each caught, and started absorbing. As they were vulnerable, I switched back to normal mode, and fired hyper beam after hyper beam at them. I hit the ground, and was barely able to roll out of the way of another attack. I've been trying to kill these guys for about an hour, constantly switching between Hypermode and regular. I've killed maybe 25 so far, but I'm already at one-forth energy. 'Can't survive much longer. Gonna run out of energy. Phazon blasts don't last as long as the Phazon they absorbed in the game.' I went into Hypermode, pumping my body full of Phazon again, as I prepared another round of attacks on the pirates. Before I could fire though, several purple blasts came out from behind me (my back is at the door I entered through). I then saw a familiar purple form jump over me, and started blasting the Omega Pirates. They absorbed the attacks, and sent them back at the purple shape, which was hit by them, and sent flying into a wall. "Oh, you want to do it like that? We'll do it like that." He pushed himself off the wall, and pointed his right hand at one, before snapping, making the Omega Pirate disappear. He did this 14 more times, before the purple shape turned back into Connor. Connor snapped 5 more times, before he almost fell down, and his breathing was getting erratic. I was about to help him, but he gave me a look that clearly told me not to interfere. When Connor used his Smite on the final Omega Pirate, he did fall down, and his nose was bleeding. I ran over to him, helping him up. "That was pretty cool. You removed 25 Omega Pirates from existence." "While it may have been cool, I'm almost completely drained of power." Connor started walking to the ships controls. "Now let's blow this place up, and I'll use some of my remaining power to teleport us back to your ship." Connor clicked a few buttons, until a flashing warning appeared around the ship. I couldn't understand what the warning said, but I understood the gist. Connor walked over to me, putting his arm around my shoulder. "Come on, we got a minute. That enough time for you? Or do you need to run through a complicated tunnel leading up, and jump on inch wide platforms one by one?" I gave him a small smile at his joke, but right before he started glowing, and was about to teleport us, I fell down in pain. "Gah! It's coming out!" I yelled, as I grabbed my stomach, my body entirely in pain, as I felt the Phazon take hold. Connor seemed to understand what was happening, and with a snap of his fingers, we were both back in Ponyville. I noticed my armor quickly turning darker, as it took on a shade of blue. Connor, who was breathing heavily, ran off. "It hurts!" I yelled, as the dragon characteristics I had seemed to disappear, as I started looking more and more like Dark Samus. As Sam started transforming, I ran as fast as I could with barely any energy left to find the mane six. After a minute, I found them eating lunch together at a restaurant. I ran up to them, breathing heavily. Before I could speak, Pinkie spoke first. "Wow Connor! You look really tired! You look like you just ran a marathon, and then some! Did you just run from one part of space to this one just to join us for lunch? Where's Sam?" "Girls." I said, unable to put my usual commanding tone in my voice. "King Connor," 'It's Cosmic King Connor' "You're clothes look simply dreadful! Were you swimming in a pool of blueberry jam?" Rarity asked. "Girls." "Were you off saving an alien race from going extinct?" Fluttershy meekly asked. Getting angry, I slammed my my hand down on the table, breaking it, and spilling their lunch everywhere. Before they could complain, I spoke over them. "SAM NEEDS HELP!" They seemed to understand the message, and followed me back to Sam, who was mostly transformed at this time. "What's wrong with him?" Fluttershy asked. "He's becoming corrupted on Phazon. He's going to become Dark Samus, and try to corrupt entire planets with Phazon." I could hear the ponies gulp. "If he's going to be that strong, then what are we supposed to do against him? He could equally battle the Princesses without even trying." Twilight asked. The others nodded. "I'll distract him long enough for you to use the elements. They have a 95.8888462452475244% chance of working." The ponies nodded, but before they all walked off, I got Twilight's attention. "Twilight, do you have a spell that fires electricity?" She nodded. "Fire a continuous beam at me." "But, won't that hurt you?" I let out a small chuckle. "No, it will get me some strength back. Enough for me to battle him, and distract him." Twilight hesitantly nodded, and fired a powerful electricity spell into me. "Yes! I can feel the power!" After about half a minute, Twilight stopped, before running off to get the elements. With my body surrounded with electricity, I took a few steps to Sam, who was fully corrupted now. I pressed a button on my arm, that caused the electricity to be converted into energy, giving me the power I need to stall Sam. "Prepare to be corrupted." Dark Sam said, with a voice that was very raspy, and almost electronic. Sam charged at me, and tried to hit me with a close range Phazon attack, but I dodged. I retaliated with a powerful cosmic blast, sending Sam back a few feet. Sam fired a fast missile at me, which I quickly blasted out of the air, before I slammed my foot on the ground, creating a miniature earthquake, heading right for Sam. Sam jumped up, and flew in the air (somehow, I never figured out Dark Samus flew in the games) and fired five Phazon blasts at me. I expertly sidestepped one, before kicking another out of the air. I flipped over the third, and landed in time to duck under the fourth. I jumped back to avoid the fifth. When area between Sam and I was covered in the smoke caused by the blasts, I pointed my right arm at the figure of Sam (which I could see thanks to my x-ray and thermal vision) and let my arm fire a powerful cosmic blast, that almost pushed me back a few inches, but sent Sam flying into the town hall nearby. Sam recovered quickly, and fired a blast of Phazon at me faster than I could react. As I got pushed back, I felt my chest burning with a familiar feeling. 'Phazon enhanced cosmic blasts? I won't be able to deal with too many of those. Hope the girls get the elements soon.' I sidestepped out of the way of another blast, keeping an eye on Sam, before he blinked out of existence. 'What the?' I heard a small beeping sound from underneath me, which when I looked down, I saw a familiar looking bomb, and Sam rolling away. "CRAP!" The power bomb blew up before I could react, destroying my legs. I fell down, my body quickly trying to restore my legs. Sam walked up to me, and pointed his arm cannon at me while in my 'defenseless' state. Before he could fire, I created my four tendrils out of my back, and jumped away. While Sam was surprised, I slingshotted my self towards him, impacted him with both of my arms. When we both recovered, Sam looked like he was getting fed up, and brought both of his hands up to the sky. "This world will be corrupted!" After he said that, a wormhole opened up above the planet, bringing a leviathan to the planet. I looked at the object that could destroy this planet with fear in my eyes. I then looked back at Sam, who was floating in the air. "You will not destroy this planet!" I yelled, as I slingshotted at him again, but this time grabbing him in midair, sending us both down to the ground, as I started pummeling him with my fists. Sam created some kind of explosive field of Phazon around him, sending me flying back. But as I was flying back, I fired a strong blast of Cosmic energy at Sam, causing Sam to be flying back, as he hit a wall. We both recovered quickly, and Sam started firing rapid cosmic blasts. My legs were still regenerating, and I wasn't as agile with my tendrils, so I wasn't able to dodge all the shots. Luckily, I was able to create a small shield, preventing my body from being destroyed. Although I did get shoved against a wall, shattering the shield. My legs were regenerated at this time, and I jumped in between the blasts. I noticed out of the corner of my eye, that the mane six had their elements, and were preparing for their 'taste the rainbow' attack. I knew that Sam is smart enough to avoid the beam, so as I ran up to Sam, who was currently floating in midair, trying to blast me. When I got close enough, I jumped up, and over Sam, before turning around in midair, and grabbing onto Sam, using my powers to lock us into place. "NOW GIRLS!" They seemed to get the message, before charging up their beam. I heard Sam speaking to me, while he was struggling. "YOU FOOL! YOU KNOW THAT THE ELEMENTS WILL DESTROY YOU TOO!" I sighed, knowing that the elements of harmony are always extremely racist. You have to be connected to the elements being used against you to prevent being affected by them. Since I'm not connected to this world's elements, I'll be affected, and I don't know what will happen to me. "Do you think I care what happens to me?! As Cosmic King, it is my duty to risk my own life to save another! You will be leaving my friend today! Now prepare to taste the rainbow!" As I said this, the rainbow struck us, and I watched with a small smile as Dark Sam(us) was ejected from Sam's body. Then, I watched with a small amount of fear in my eyes, as the rainbow started affecting me. The Cosmic energy that makes up my body was rapidly slowing down, until it stopped, and was turned to stone. I watched as the rest of my body was overtaken by stone. Before my face was frozen, I decided to part with a small smile, at the fact I helped stop Sam's corruption. As the rainbow stopped, the mane six looked over, with smiles on their faces as they saw Sam laying on the ground, unconscious and laying in his zero suit. But their smiles fell, when they saw a statue of Connor land right next to him. Sam woke up soon after, and before noticing Connor, he stood up, and looked at the leviathan breaking the atmosphere, before pointing his hand at it, and clenching his hand, causing the leviathan to implode, without any debris falling. Sam then noticed Connor, who was still frozen in stone, before turning to the mane six, his eyes asking them if they can reverse it. Twilight nodded, before she and her friends got in position again, and fired the rainbow at the stoned god's body. When the light cleared though, Connor was still a statue. They stared in shock at the statue, before they flinched back when the statue cracked open, and Connor tumbled out, coughing up blood. "Ugh. That hurt. Do you know what it's like to have every single cell in your body slowed down until they turned to stone? When I was a statue, I literally lost my existence." When Connor was done coughing up blood, he stood up, wiping the remaining blood from his mouth. Connor then looked at Sam, who was back in his power suit with the dragon upgrades, but didn't have the helmet activated. "Interesting. Sam, did you know you have control over Phazon now? The elements blasted away the bad of Dark Samus, but left some of the abilities." Sam looked shocked at the news, then he remembered what he did when he woke up. "I stopped the leviathan just by clenching my fist." Sam said with surprise. "Wait. If I control Phazon now, do I have to worry about side effects? Like becoming corrupted again?" "Nope. Just imagine you're already Dark Samus, just good. You could probably infinitely use hypermode, and summon any amount of Phazon at will." Connor said, as he stretched his limbs. "But wait, where does the Phazon come from? I thought all Phazon was rendered inert at the end of Corruption." Sam asked both Connor and Samus at the same time, but he realized he couldn't feel Samus's other mind in him. "Phaze isn't the only planet with Phazon in this universe." Connor said, pulling up a holographic map of the universe, and a few points light up, showing where all the Phazon in the universe comes from. "Speaking of Phazon, how did you survive the pool of Phazon without being corrupted?" Sam asked, almost forgetting that Connor was with him when they fell. As I crawled out of the pool of Phazon, I noticed my body was heavily mutated by the substance. As I stood up, and took a few steps forward, my mind started fighting against the corruption, and I fell back down. "Ugh. This stuff tastes terrible." I coughed up some of the Phazon from my lungs, as my regenerative factor started to get to work, purging the corruption from my body. "Gotta love having an AI of myself in my arm to provide backup for my own brain." I noticed my arm turning back to normal, and I stood up, my spine cracking back to it's place. I drove both of my hands into each side of my skull, pulling it out a bit, fixing up my head. As my body turned back to 'normal,' I walked over to the nearby wall, and put my hand against it, weak from using my regenerative factor to restore my body. As I put my hand against the wall, I pushed a secret button, causing a hole in the wall to open it, revealing a secret room. "So, in the room was a computer that had all the Space Pirate's plans on it." I noticed Sam raise an eyebrow. "Apparently, the Space Pirates have been here for over a year. They wanted to take a resource abundantly found on this planet, called Element Zero." Sam tilted his head. "It's a valuable resource for space travel. I'll tell you about it later. Anyways, they knew they wouldn't be able to take any of the Element Zero without Celestia knowing, and they knew Celestia could easily beat them. So, while Luna was banished to the moon, they planted a chip in her brain, to control her. They thought that when Nightmare Moon returned, she would easily beat Celestia, and take control of the country, allowing the Space Pirates to harvest the Element Zero. But when Nightmare Moon was defeated, they tried to make Luna become Nightmare Moon again, knowing she would be stronger than last time. But then you showed up, making the Space Pirates' panic. They made Luna act racist to you, hoping ponies would start to see you as evil, and eventually, they attacked Canterlot, hoping to stop you. You defeated them, and they got revenge by using the X-parasites, and destroying the Chozo. The Chozo, being more connected to spiritual stuff than others, would have been able to tell that Luna was not acting out of her own will. They also had Luna rebuild Ridley, who failed." "You were able to find all that info from a computer in a hidden room, inside a room full of Phazon?" Sam asked, skeptically. "Well, it was more of a small terminal, that I hacked, gaining entrance to all the Space Pirate's data. It was child's play to hack." I said with a small chuckle. Suddenly, Pinkie popped up next to us. "You know what this calls for?!" A bunch of confetti appeared out of nowhere. "A party!" Pinkie disappeared again. Sam, rubbing his forehead with his armored hand, decides to speak up. "Is it possible to understand that pony?" Chuckling again, I responded. "It's completely possible. She's distantly related to the Cosmic Being of Saturday Morning Cartoons." Sam gave me a 'seriously?' look. "Hey, Saturday morning cartoons are important to the Cosmic Kingdom!" I blinked, and we were both in Sugarcube Corner, as the ponies around us started partying. Getting hungry, I grabbed a cupcake nearby, and devoured it in one bite, before spitting it back up in my hand. Pinkie appeared next to me, a sad look on her face. "What's wrong Connor? Do you not like my cupcakes?" Her lip trembled, as she acted like she was going to cry. "It's not that I don't like it. It's that it tastes terrible." I held up the cupcake to show Pinkie. "It tastes bland. Where's the sugar?" Pinkie's eyes widened at that, before she disappeared and reappeared with a tray of sugary cupcakes. I turned back around to face Sam. "Connor, you do realize that the cupcake you just ate had a safe amount of sugar in it. Pinkie's usual cupcakes are too sugary for a human to handle, without dying." I gave him a look as I devoured the rest of the cupcakes in a few bites. "Oh yeah, you're not human, and you wouldn't die of sugar overload or whatever." "Anyways, I have to go. I need to get back to my universe. Who knows what kind of chaos Twilight's caused." I reach behind me, and grab a few objects. "Also, I have a few parting gifts for you." Sam looked surprised. I first pulled out a small microchip. "This is a chip I made that can upgrade your visor, telling you if someone is a cosmic. Also it vastly increases your scan visor, so you have some knowledge of the universe." Sam took the chip, and inserted it in a small slot on the side of his neck. I pulled out a Metroid style upgrade, that had the usual Metroid symbol on it. "This one can allow you to hide your dragon appearance in your power suit. You'll still be part dragon, but with this you can surprise others that don't expect you to be able to fly and stuff." Sam took it, immediately activating it, making him look normal again. I then pull out a small chain that has three cosmic purple portals on it in the same fashion as my symbol. "Lastly, this is a charm or whatever you can use to summon me back if you need my help. Just hold it, and call for me. It may not be a displaced token, but many would consider it an honor to have this." He took it, looking at it, before putting it away... somewhere. "So now, it's time to go." I was about to walk away, but I stopped real quick, before turning around. "Oh yeah, you know that weird voice in your head you had earlier?" Sam nodded. "That wasn't Samus, that was Discord. He was trying to mess with your mind, playing off your memories of the Metroid series to act like a male Samus. Technically, you're Samus, the skills Samus learned are just in your mind from being sent into this universe. I suggest going to Canterlot, and stopping Discord." I ran off, opening a random broom closet, and created a portal in it, before entering and closing the portal. "Discord, huh?" I said to myself, as I watched Connor disappear in a portal. "I wonder if the elements of harmony know about him?"