M: Split Path, Melissa
"Room MW wasn't actually all that far from where we were," Adam began, taking his part in telling the tale as heads turned towards him. "However, once we got there, things were a different story. Melissa tried to calm the creatures down that attacked us, but something else was influencing them, something Melissa was unfamiliar with."
"Because of that, Adam and I spent most of our efforts on protecting her," Samus explained. "During that time...I also talked things over with Melissa. She...had some anger towards Madeline, since her perception of past events had led her to the conclusion that Dr. Bergman had handed her over to the Federation for destruction, especially since she'd felt Madeline's fear in their last meeting. In our talk, she reanalyzed events, and came to the conclusion that perhaps Madeline had been afraid for Melissa, rather than of...much as I was afraid for Spike at the time, even with the report that Sector Zero had disengaged with the station and had likely self destructed by then. Since Spike hadn't returned to the station..." Her voice trailed off.
"You were afraid he hadn't made it out alive," Celestia suggested softly.
"Yeah..." Samus agreed. "And there was also Anthony. We hadn't heard from him, so we had no idea if he was alive or dead."
"Sorry to worry you like that, Princess," Anthony apologized. "Admittedly, by then I had figured out why our communications weren't working. See, our comms were designed to relay through our ship. After my fall, I made my way back there to resupply...only to find all its systems smashed."
"The Deleter," Rainbow concluded. Adam and Anthony nodded in response.
"By the time we made it to Room MW..." Samus began.
As the trio reached Room MW, they heard a loud scream. Melissa's head immediately shot up. "Mother!" she called out, fear audible in her voice. She ran ahead into the room, Samus and Adam close on her heels.
What all three saw stopped them cold. The room was large and square, with various control pillars scattered about, and large extra-thick security doors would have another chamber sealed off normally. However, the doors had been forced open, and a Metroid Queen had forced its way out, and had ripped a door out of its slot to get at the red haired woman inside. The woman had features similar to Melissa's, though it was hard to tell as she scampered away from the Queen's searching claw.
"Leave her alone!" Melissa screamed out, racing forward with her arms stretched forward, her teeth clenched. The Metroid Queen and the few Metroids it had released hesitated, moving back from the door. However, as Melissa positioned herself between the door and the Metroids, the Queen clenched its jaw and moved its head forward. Melissa staggered back, then held firm, even as blood started to leak from her nose.
"What's going on?" Adam demanded in confusion.
"Mother Brain's telepathy is based in how a Metroid Queen controls its offspring!" Samus snapped out. "But Mother Brain had a much larger cerebral capacity, and could generate enough telepathic power to control a Queen and hundreds of Metroids. But Melissa doesn't have that much brain power to call on! She's not strong enough to overrule the will of a hungry Queen!"
Even as Samus spoke, Melissa was forced back a step, then two. Blood started to leak out from under her right eye. "M-Mom..." she stammered out, sparing a glance towards the woman in the small room. "R...run..." She winced and sank to one knee as the Queen took advantage of the momentary distraction to press forward. The Queen's jaws opened wide to crush the interloper...
A super missile to the side of the Queen's head rocked it back and broke its concentration. The other Metroids flew back from Melissa's last surge of energy just before she collapsed to the floor. "Adam, Madeline!" Samus barked out. "Get her into one of these rooms! I'll handle the Queen!" Rounding on the massive creature as it reeled from the impact, Samus took advantage of Melissa's last energy surge to freeze the floating Metroids, destroying them with Super Missiles. In a rage, the Queen rounded on her, pursuing her into the larger chamber it had come from.
As she stepped into the darkness, Samus quickly accessed her suit functions, restoring one of her old visors. Given Metroid vulnerability to cold, she reactivated her Thermal Visor. Spinning, she flipped out of the way as more Metroids lunged for her, spawned from the Queen's back to hunt her down. Leveling her arm cannon, she unleashed a charged blast, freezing the group. Seeing just how fast she would need to work, she went into her arm cannon systems, switching functions so she would automatically fire Super Missiles. The risk of damage to her systems was worth it to keep Adam and the others alive.
Once two more batches of Metroids were destroyed, the Queen roared in rage, crystal formations erupting from around its head and neck before it unleashed a blast of fire at Samus, which she barely dodged by backflipping over it, grateful that her Varia Suit kept her from being burned by it, even if she did have to switch to X-Ray Visor because the flames blinded her Thermal Visor.
Once again accessing her missile functions, she switched from Super Missiles to Seekers, locking onto the crystals. Racing around the chamber, she managed to leap onto the Queen's back, unleashing her missiles at the crystals, shattering them. Even as they broke, however, the Queen only got back up.
"Samus!" Adam called through the comms. "From your own records, a Metroid Queen can only be damaged from the inside...and only one weapon in your arsenal can do enough damage to counteract it feeding on you once you're there."
Samus nodded. "Understood Adam," she replied coldly, activating the functionality even as she leapt forward, going into Morph Ball as the Queen roared, rolling straight down the beast's throat.
Outside the chamber, Adam ducked for cover behind everything he was able to put into place between himself and the chamber Samus was fighting in, even going so far as to shield Madeline and Melissa with his own body. "Power Bombs authorized!" he called out. "Do it Samus!"
As he spoke, the explosion went off, tearing through the chamber and searing straight through everything around it, coming close enough that Adam could feel the wave of heat against his back. He knew if he'd been even a few centimeters closer to the epicenter, it would have seared right through his armor, cooking him alive. Much closer than that, and he'd have been incinerated. Once he was certain Madeline and Melissa were safe, he stepped into the main chamber.
The walls that had been meant to keep the Metroid Queen locked up were fused together. If Samus was in one piece beyond them, she wouldn't be able to get back through. "...Samus, do you copy?" Adam called out worriedly.
"...I read you, Adam," Samus replied. "...there was a path out of here, but it's broken..."
"...Samus-"
"One moment, Adam," Samus interrupted.
As Adam waited, he heard the sounds of Samus' footfalls, followed by her banging against the wall every so often. When she heard a sound she liked, she paused. A red spot began to glow on the wall, followed by a highly focused plasma torch beam punching through. This continued in a small circle. Once it was complete, Samus pushed out the circle, exactly the size of her Morph Ball. Through the hole, Adam could see her smirking at her arm cannon. "Thank you, Ghor," she murmured softly, before shifting to Morph Ball and getting through the hole.
"You are quite welcome," Ghor offered with a warm smile. "I am glad to see that function continued to be of assistance."
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Another bites the dust. That's what? The 2nd Metroid Queen she's dethroned?
And I liked her keeping the plasma torch. You think that'd be something she'd use pretty frequently irl.
Also, I know it's a little rude, but I wanna do it anyway. First!
Soon we will learn what got Spike so shaken up in Sector Zero.
7135457 My guess? It's being able to talk to the metroids he was going to kill. Not much worse than being able to talk with those who don't know they're going to die and probably worse he knows he's the one going to do it. Just a guess.
7135437 Hmm, would you count Metroid Prime as a Queen class Metroid? If so this would make 3. Either way it's also the last canon Queen to be encountered and slain in person. (There may have been a Queen in a certain sector of a certain other scientific station she'll visit in her next mission but if there was it was never seen during the brief visit made to it before it is destroyed.)
7135511 I don't know if the prime counts as a Queen or not. I'll have to check the wiki.
Awesome user name by the way. Zelda FTW.
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*Opens mouth. Closes mouth.*
Well ain't that just deep, dark, and disturbing.
My first time fighting The metroid queen I ended up rage quiting because I kept dying to those metroids. I come back 3 months later and beat it on my first try.
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Metroid Prime wasn't a Queen, it was just a Tallon Metroid that was VERY heavily mutated and augmented by both the Space Pirates and extremely large quantities of Phazon.
7135855 Ah. Thanks for the clarification. And now that I think on it, it should be obvious, the Prime never controlled or spawned other Metroids did it? That's kinda a big give away.
7135860 Prime spawned Metroids in pairs during the second phase of the battle.
While the evolution path was vastly different due to phazon, the Metroid prime was a parallel evolution to the queen state.
We have fission Metroid, Phazon Metroid, Hunter Metroid, Metroid Hatcher, Metroid prime.
And then Alpha Metroid, Beta Metroid, Gamma Metroid, Omega Metroid, Metroid Queen.
On another note, How can Ghor smile? He has no facial articulation.
Now THAT is a useful tool. Locked yourself out of the house??? Burn out the lock. Car? No problem. Highly classified and dangerous facility? Leave a trail of doors behind you.
I can't wait to see the next bit of interaction between Melissa and Madaline.
7135944 oh. I admit to having not played Prime 1 so I had no real clue. Sorry. ☹️
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Someone actually put together a cohesive line of events that (mostly) make sense and explain the whys behind a lot of stuff that happens in the Metroid universe. It goes over where Metroid Prime came from and why it does what it does. It might as well be all headcanon, but it all pretty much fits.
The Spectacular Story of Metroid
You never cease to impress Tats. You've single-hoofedly pulled a 180 on one of the most poorly-received Metroid titles, and somehow pulled off a miracle.
Keep up the good work
The Metroid Queen.
Right, right.
Yep.
Mother?
Oh. Oooh. Oh, shit.
Damn!
Here we go.
It really is the small details that make this so much better.
Oh fantastic, that thing can breathe fire!
That's got to hurt.
The Power Bomb.
Damn, forgot just how utterly devastating Power Bombs can be.
What are you thinking?
Neat. Also, that sounds like a really useful trick, the plasma torch I mean.
Same.
having not played other M i have no idea how badly your killing the original plot-line but from what i have read about it this has to be waaaayyyy better
7136527 The fact that she's able to call on previous upgrades unlike M where she can only unlock Super Metroid suit functions makes this far more fun to read. What's more, the additional character development from Spike's meddling has really fleshed things out. I think it's a safe bet you'd be disappointed going into M after reading this.
This may sound really bad: I've never been able to beat this boss. I always had a problem with the Metroids.
Another enjoyable chapter. good job.
I may have said this already, but I really hope things turn out well for Melissa.
From what I've seen, Other M has good gameplay, it's just that some people don't really like the story.
Is it weird that reading through this story again makes me wanna break out my copy of the metroid prime trilogy?
Power Bombs. When you absolutely positively have to nuke something.
Power Bombs, Metroid's most powerful and consistant "Fu(
) You!" Weapon since the first game..
Edit: or was it Super Metroid?
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Other M did have reasonably good game play for a late gen five game. However, the story itself did fall flat in places.
I don't know if I agree personally. See, I like a good story, and the FMV sequences were actually pretty decent. The problem wasn't the story so much as delivery. The voice actor they picked for the North American version came across as unemotional at times, and overly whiny at others.
More to the point, I think a lot of people didn't like it because Samus was better off as a silent protagonist. Personally, I agree with Rabbid Luigi on the fact that the 'silent protagonist' is a dead horse trope.
Rabbid Luigi posts 'Best of' and game walkthroughs on youtube.
Wait, weren't these metroids supposed to be immune to cold? Did I miss something?
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Sector Zero Metroids were immune. This Queen, however, was genetically unaltered as a control specimen.
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They were in metroid 2
so is she an android or a Cyborg ?