BSL: Life's Purpose
After a time, Discord cleared his throat. "Normally, this would be where someone tries to change the tone of things to try and cheer everyone up by continuing the story," he explained calmly, orbiting above the table. "However...I'm pretty sure that would be a mistake just now." He snaked downwards so his face was level with Samus' and Spike's. "After all...I don't need to be a gamer to know that beyond that door you needed the Wave Beam to open - which you just described yourself getting - was Sector Zero, where the Metroids were."
Samus nodded slowly. "Yes. That's...where they were. It...it was rough on both of us...but not for the same reason it was for Spike on the Bottleship." She lifted her head. "Now that I was part Metroid, I could understand them as well...but the ones on BSL had much more to say..."
As they went past the final airlock of the Restricted Zone, the incessant computer alert cut off. In the very first chamber, they found themselves confronted by a capsule full of infant Metroids...who all skreed happily to see them.
Welcome!
Welcome!
Brother and sister!
We knew you were coming! We felt you moving!
You will free us, yes? The enemy stalks! We must hunt!
Samus and Spike both staggered to a halt as the multitude of voices echoed in their heads. "E...enemy?" Samus spoke out, confused.
"Hunt?" Spike added, focusing on that as he braced for battle.
The enemies inside!
From beneath the plant!
Tiny tiny evil!
We exist to destroy it!
It comes for us! Free us to hunt, brother and sister!
This...way...
That last voice came from the next chamber, and Samus and Spike readily followed it...finding four more capsules. One each containing an Adult, an Alpha, a Gamma, and a Zeta Metroid.
The Adult floated up and down in its tube. The little ones do not fully understand, they have not grown yet. But they know, and as do we.
The Alpha scratched at its tube with its fangs. But we...we were grown too fast...it hurts...
The Gamma Metroid whimpered in its tube. We cannot...face the foe...
It hurts! The Zeta shrieked as it flailed in its tube. It hurts!
The humans think they have found a way to use us, The Adult spoke up. But it destroys our minds even as it accelerates our bodies. Only I retain myself...for now. Only I can explain to you...that our Makers crafted our race to cage the tiny enemies inside the living, that create the Empty Ones, the Living Dead. We Metroids were created...to hunt those you know as the X.
"What?" Samus demanded, stunned. "But...who would do that?"
The Adult Metroid seemed to chuckle. The same ones whose work I see in your blood, sister. They gave you their blood long before you had ours.
Samus' eyes widened. "The Chozo...made you to contain the X..."
That is the purpose of our existence, the Adult continued, and every Metroid has an instinctive understanding of our enemy, and how to hunt them. We all strain for those that race through this facility...and those that wake on the world below. At that moment, the entire Restricted Sector shook, and the capsules broke. They are here! the Adult cried even as the others raced for the other chamber. Samus and Spike followed.
The SA-X was firing at the walls of the Sector randomly, plainly trying to cause as much damage as possible before the Metroids converged. "Alert!" a computerized voice proclaimed. "Damage to Restricted Labs! Sector is being locked down! 60 seconds to detachment of Restricted Laboratory!"
Go! the Adult Metroid proclaimed, forcing the pair up towards the one door that was still open to the rest of the station. Fulfill our purpose for us! Destroy the Enemy, all of them...that our deaths will have meaning, and our purpose fulfilled! With that, the Adult rounded on the SA-X, skreeing in hunger.
Unable to sway any of the Metroids from their assault, Samus and Spike made their way through the door as instructed...and watched the Restricted Laboratory fall away from the BSL station to explode.
"When we made it to the Navigation Room, we got in contact with Adam...and everything was confirmed," Samus continued. "With the Restricted Laboratory compromised, the security protecting the data went down...and we got everything. BSL was being run by the same people behind the Bottleship, and it was another bio-weapons research lab...officially for turning bio-weapons to peaceful applications. The Metroid research had also discovered a way to accelerate Metroid growth, as the Metroids told us, a way to turn a Larva into an Omega in a matter of days."
"It didn't matter to the ones in charge that this reduced the Metroid to a pain-maddened berserker who had to eat everything in sight in a desperate attempt to reverse the cellular degradation caused by such rapid growth," Spike grumbled angrily, snorting a bit of fire as he spoke.
"Needless to say, all of us were quite incensed," Ghor spoke up. "However, our resolve quickly hardened as we determined exactly what our next course of action was. Samus and Spike would alter the station's course so that, when the self-destruct was initiated, the vaporization field would engulf SR388. With that, all X everywhere would be gone permanently...and the Metroids would be able to rest in peace, their purpose fulfilled."
"But there were two more problems," Adam concluded. "First, with the security down, we had full access to BSL's automated systems, and could scan through the whole station...and we saw no less than 10 SA-X patrolling the halls of the station." Gasps raced around the table...along with the sound of a deflating balloon. "It was surprising to see at first...but the X did reproduce by asexual division, so it made sense. And on top of that...the ones behind the station were on their way there. They saw...potential in the X, and the SA-X, and wanted to capture them."
"That's insane!" Twilight shouted out. "That would unleash the X on the entire galaxy, with no way to control them!"
"Precisely," Samus confirmed. "And so we were on a time limit. Download every bit of available data from the station, and destroy both it and SR388, and get out alive...before the Federation got there."
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Shadow governments and their weapons...
Oh, how I hate those types of factions in games, or rather science fiction in general: The corrupt military organizations who will see to any means of obtaining power through their scientific division, no matter how inhumane. Even if their fear in Spike is justified, the Federation sucks
Hmmmm... I wonder if Samus and the squad could sentence the people who thought this would be a good idea on charges of attempted genocide? SOMETHING has to be done at the very least. They have attempted to unleash something that could very easily cause universal genocide TWICE! Who's to say they won't try a third time?
... Dam it the feels for the Mettroids.
Oh, ok, so we're still going to have the Omega Metroid fight.
YesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES! That means we're finally going to get the chance to reveal their schemes and put them behind bars!
I wanted to see their reactions to that.
... Wait a moment.
Oh boy, more critical hits to feels coming.
7370863 Or at least part of it. It's not good to generalize, leads to all kinds of problems.
Snap! Even in the revised time line, none of the Metroid could be saved.
How can humans be so cruel,, selfish and stupid? How?!
Clever Discord.
One of the SA-X.
*wince*
You know, the depiction of the X reminds me of zombies, a massive plague that exists for the sole purpose of spreading. Only the X are smart, very smart. Also, this explains the Omega Metroid, powerful and far bigger than a normal one, but one hundred percent feral.
There you go.
Destroying their minds. You'd think that after the Bottleship disaster, they'd have learned.
So I was right, the Omega here is little more than a feral beast.
You know, that explains why the various SA-X encounters were so different, they all acted differently with different intents. Also, *ahem* this is a message I have for the dumbasses who thought that controlling the X is not just possible, but a good idea:
You dumbasses couldn't control Samus, much less the SA-X.
Exactly. Politicians, what can ya do? No offense, Princesses.
Or else, it'd be a bloodbath, even with superior weaponry, Samus and Spike would eventually be overwhelmed, the Feds would fall prey to the X Parasites, and then the entire galaxy would be thoroughly, irreversibly and unconditionally fucked.
The only consolation is Spike and Samus after part Metroid. FEDERATION Governments bitten note they can chew but don't care for collateral damage.
For peaceful application only of course. Imagine the day where everyone can have an Omega as a pet to ride on.
7370863 And yet I prefer them to the Pirates. They were going to willingly serve an Eldritch Abomination that would take over everything and leave them with no free will.
7371694 To be fair, the Space Pirates who weren't willing to serve got killed, which may have helped persuade the survivors...
7371820 Except for the fact that the ones that DIDN'T reject Dark Samus were the ones that were MORE then willing to serve.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Damn Weyland-Utani
I still wish they'd gotten one baby Metroid in the egg so they could raise it in safety. I hope the secret backers of the station get the fate they deserve soon!!!! Trying to control the X is just plain stupid.
Ok, as someone who never played any of the metroid game, with complete understanding at least, i can see thousends of different ways for the franchise to continue, why is nintendo so stingy about this?
7372848 probably won't
Interesting, now that's a much less dark ending to the metroids on this mission. For Spike anyway, at least.