BSL: Close Escape
"You don't have to?" Luna asked curiously. "Whatever do you mean, Samus?"
"...later," Samus replied. "We're almost finished here. Let's get all the way to the end."
"Well, from the sound of it, it was setup the bomb and fly clear," Rainbow pointed out, having gotten free of the headlock while everyone had been stunned at Pinkie's revelation. "That's about it, right?"
"Can't be!" Scootaloo pointed out. "She's still purple!"
"Say again?" Apple Bloom asked, confused.
"After getting the Gravity Suit effect, her suit turned purple," Scootaloo explained. "So she had to have absorbed something else to turn her suit orange, so there must be something more!"
"There is still several years of time to cover," Sweetie Belle pointed out.
Scootaloo frowned. "Oh...hadn't thought of that..."
"Actually, you're right," Spike spoke up. "We did have one more obstacle to deal with on the way out of BSL. After altering the station's orbit and starting the destruct sequence, we started racing for the ship...only to receive a signal that the ship was under attack, and Melissa had activated it to move out of the station to escape the attack. And when we got there..."
The last hallway to the docking bay was violently torn up, as though something had clawed and chewed its way through the material, like it was searching for something, or desperate to try and stop something. It looked a bit like the damage from Spike's first teething, but scaled up immensely. Unnerved, Samus and Spike continued into the docking bay...where they spotted the largest of the broken open Metroid cocoons.
At that moment, the far wall of the docking bay broke open and an Omega Metroid broke through, landing atop the cocoon and crushing it beneath its hind claws. It let out a roaring shriek.
It hurts...it HURTS!
It continued to rampage, smashing itself against everything in sight and clawing at the walls, pain maddened beyond reason. Samus sighed sadly. "There's only one thing we can do..." she muttered softly.
"Yeah," Spike confirmed sadly. "Besides, the ship can't pick us up as long as it's rampaging in here." Opening his mouth, he exhaled a stream of ice breath...only for it to bounce off the Omega's claws.
You're hurting me! it shrieked out, swiping at them both, its claws tearing through armor and scales as it knocked them back.
"Aah!" Spike shrieked in pain, clutching at the new gashes even as they started to heal.
Samus slammed into the ground nearby, clenching her teeth in pain. "S-Spike!" she called out, trying to get to her feet.
Alert: Power Suit Integrity failure! Atmosphere failure!
Samus cursed under her breath, clutching at the hole in her armor to keep her air from leaking out too much, unable to move to protect Spike.
It hurts! the Omega shrieked out in pain again.
Samus jerked her head up as she heard the strange signal - the one from the SA-X - again, this time sounding infuriated. The blue X Core floated in, settling down between Spike and the Omega Metroid before once more turning into the SA-X. As the Omega approached Spike, the SA-X unleashed a barrage of ice beam shots straight into its belly, the Plasma effect allowing the beam to pierce the hard shell. The Omega let out screams of pain until it took a swipe, knocking the SA-X back and forcing it to revert to an X Core. The signal came again, this one pleading, as the X Core floated over to above Samus.
Steeling herself, Samus leapt up, absorbing the X Core.
Armor Integrity Restored.
Ice Beam Functionality Restored.
Dragon Auto-Fire...Adapted.
Auto-Fired Ice Beam will cause Crystalization within the target.
"Get away from my son!" Samus roared out, her furious tone exactly matching the tone of the signal the SA-X had sent as it had come to their rescue. Lifting her arm cannon, Samus opened fire, pointing straight into the Metroid's underbelly. The twining streams of ice that erupted from her cannon, slamming the Omega against the wall as its body slowly froze from the inside.
As the light started to fade from the Omega's eyes, it let out a final skree.
Pain's...gone...thank you...
As the Omega crumbled away, Samus' ship flew in. Spike and Samus immediately leapt inside, letting the ship take them away from the station as it entered SR388's atmosphere.
As they flew away alongside Melissa's Luminoth fighter craft, they watched the station and planet explode, all the X wiped out at once. Samus and Spike both felt a strange sense of relief, as though a weight upon their very souls they weren't even aware of had been removed. Samus took the controls and opened communications. "Mission complete," she told Adam.
"Good work, Samus," Adam congratulated. "The ones in charge of the station can no longer get their hands on any X."
"But they still get away with it," Spike grumbled. "They're the same ones behind the Bottleship, and again they get away with everything!"
"Not quite," Melissa spoke up. "I was able to download everything off the station's files once the security went down with the jettisoning of the Restricted Sector. Names, dates, signatures...enough to nail them to the wall for everything. Every last detail."
"So what are you going to do with it?" Samus asked. "Hand it over to Dane to prosecute them?"
"No," Melissa countered. "There's too much here. The very act of giving him the information will put him in danger. They'd have Deleters dispatched by the time we landed."
"Then what is your plan?" Ghor asked curiously.
"The Federation's new instantaneous communications network isn't as secure as they'd like to believe," Melissa replied cryptically. Hooking into the network, she typed in an instant message with, leaving the 'To' field blank.
Jane, I need a favor...
"I don't know what Melissa did," Adam concluded, "but the very next morning, all the information from BSL appeared simultaneously on every computer system in the entire Federation. Personal computers, media outlets, government units...all at once, and with no source code to say where it came from."
"At that point, the Federation cracked down hard on those responsible," Ghor added. "Because in addition to information about bio-weapons research - which was illegal - the information revealed that BSL's primary purpose was, indeed, to develop weapons specifically to kill Spike, on the off chance he became an enemy of the Federation. With how popular Samus and Spike were with the general populace for everything they'd done..."
"It began to look like a witch hunt," Anthony added. "The public had the names, and they wanted blood. The Federation actually hired Samus and Spike to carry out the arrests of the guilty parties and transporting them to the trials, as the only ones the public wouldn't tear through to get at them."
"I found it oddly cathartic that the ones we were bringing in knew that all we had to do was step back, and the mob would descend upon them," Spike murmured softly. "Knowing the only reason they made it to the trial in one piece was because we were more honorable than they."
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That was a satisfying conclusion. Looks like this one's about to start winding down. All that's left is the final confrontation in Equestria.
That's the trouble with an ansible network. You never know whose auia is involved.
Yeah.... so honorable.... a bit too honorable Spike..... you should've let Ridley die.
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Maybe, but I would have done the same thing, No matter how much I hated my worst enemy, I would have wanted them to die with some dignity.
Heh...this will be interesting...I am very interested in how the finale instance plays out...and what did happen to the suit?
7401325 Nope. According to Tats there's at least one more "Original" (as in, not Canon to the Metroid universe) mission left to go before they head to Equestria
7401405 NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I want the Equestrian confrontation now not 8 months from now 
YEEEEEESSSSSSSS! YEEEEEEESSSSSSS! #&*% You federation officials!!!
You know what would give me some cathartic relief? The people behind this being named Fredrick Conway and Professor Eisen. Obviously you should ask Flammenwerfer first, but still.
Another enjoyable chapter. Great job.
That's what I love about your works, Tatsu. You do both wish fulfillment and desirable catharsis in the most spectacular fashion.
That said, I still got some feels from this chapter as well. Well done
So, is no one else going to comment on the fact that the world of Trixie, Sam, and Max is located in Samus' universe?
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Actually, this is referencing the entity that Jane got her name from.
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Oops, well you can't really blame me for seeing patterns where none exist. There is a tendency for your stories to overlap subtly on occasion. (I do recall Twilight watching Fluttershy's "Not the mama" scene on a TV at some point).
still feel kinda bad for the SA-X
I particularly like what Melissa did. Send the info through the proper channels? Nope. Send it to EVERYONE. That way no one can deny anything.
It's a much brighter ending than the actual game, which implied that Samus and the Adam AI would be alone against the whole Federation, which would basically be calling for answers.
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Given the last chapter, I suspect that was the whole point.
Jane, huh? I'm sensing a bit of Ender's Game seasoning in my MLP/Metroid crossover.
I freaking love Ender's game! How does that universe fit with Samus's though? Or is Jane the only one to be crossed?
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Just Jane, because the Federation built an Ansible Network.
7401884 Can't argue with that. Just though of something though, are you going to cover Metroid prime hunters at all? I vaguely recall reading that you have an original mission, then the return to Equestria.
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Nope. Hunters takes place between Prime 1 and 2 and had no place for Spike at that point, so I considered it non-canon.
7401911 It'd be interesting to see it used as an epilogue mission with the full cast. IIRC it takes place in a different galaxy, and the entire story is self contained and doesn't have any firm grounding in the timeline of the actual canon. I also recall there was supposed to be some sort of time restraint (which, like every game that isn't majora's mask goes largely ignored), 8 keys, and 6 other hunters. Could have Spike, Samus, the 3 hunters and (Melissa or the federation unit) square off against the 6 hunters on separate planets, then have the Equestrians take one of the more puzzle-y worlds for a key, and the remainder of Melissa or the federation unit go after the last key.
Oh, man! BSL get their just desserts! i love it!
7401884 What exactly is an Ansible Network? I tried googling the term, but the results don't seem to explain WHAT it is.
Good point.
Also a good point.
... Kinda feel bad for it, the pain driving it completely insane.
Shit!
To think, none of Samus's other foes have been able to reduce the two to 1% in a single blow, yet this monstrosity of an Omega Metroid has.
Mama Bear time?
Mama Bear time.
... Rest In Peace, Omega Metroid. We hardly knew ye.
Nice work!
Hm...
Hm...
Saying it didn't go over well would be an understatement.
The fact that you didn't let them get literally ripped apart shows that you're better than the ones who made BSL and Bottleship.
7402213 Ansibles are the receivers for a faster than light wireless computer network that basically functions as the internet. IIRC data is transmitted between ansibles instantly, no matter the distance.
7402236 It even occurs when one end is experiencing time dilation, but the chronoligical times on both ends have to have "met" in order to be received.
Laughed to much, light headed. going to lie down and finish laughing
7402236 Are you a professor?
7402881 Nope. Just your average friendly neighborhood scientist.
7402357 Orson Scott Card's ansible is made up of two ends of a particle still connected over cosmic distances, but has an awkward relationship with Einstein's theories since the instantaneous communication despite time dilation effects implies some cosmic clock dictating what events count as simultaneous, rather than, say, allowing each end to age independently according to its motion through the universe.
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Alternatively, it uses quantum entanglement (what Einstein called "Spooky action at a distance") to make it so that when the communication system at the other end changes some of the particles, the other particles at the other end of the line change to reflect that. In that case, ansible contacts would be stored entanglement patterns for the atoms, to allow the two sets to become entangled. Or it could be that ansibles sort of work like giant cellphone networks, with a ship's comms sending a normal, light speed signal to an entangled comm point. From there, it figures out what part of the universe the receiving end of the call is in and what ansible to send the signal down. From there, it winds up being re-transmitted to the other ship's comms, and they get the message in relatively close to real time.
7404075 That's not how OSC's books describe it working (ansibles work even when traveling into unexplored territory).
As for using quantum entanglement, it seems that quantum entanglement can't be used to transfer useful information faster than light (also, as soon as you get some information out of an entangled pair, it breaks the entanglement) - it seems that doing something to one particle changes the state of the other in some way, but only in a subtle way - if you just observe the other end, then you'll get what looks like random noise unless you can get information from the first end some other way to allow you to interpret it.
Nice.
Fusion was actually my first Metroid game-- that I owned at least--, glad you did it justice.
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unless of course its still in there somewhere
I didn't know you were an enders game fan
7402213 the Ansible network was a sister network born from an AI that was soposed to analyze the minds of the children in battle school in enders game. The result of this crated the Intelligence of the cybernetic bieng known as Jane.
Nice, now there's a happier ending for the SA-X.
And for the Federation, too.
Jane, or Dane?
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Jane. A reference to Ender's Game.
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Glad I wasn't the only one to catch the reference to the Ender sequels.
I should have commented on this section long ago with this. Melissa had essentially dropped dox on those responsible.
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I loved that movie and I want to read the book
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Wasn't that the named used in the Trixie story as well?
The golden rule of rebellion against corruption: Take the dirty laundry widespread, not to the cops. The media is an especially viable outlet.