The following morning, everyone once again gathered around to hear more stories, wanting to know more about what had happened with Samus and Spike. Once everyone was gathered, Scootaloo spoke up eagerly. "So what next?" she asked eagerly. "Where'd you go next? What other adventures did you go on? Or did you just come straight here after that?"
Samus chuckled softly. "Well, BSL was six years ago," Samus pointed out logically. "We did quite a few things during that time, though for about the first year or so we laid low on Tallon IV until the entire BSL situation resolved itself. With Phazon purged from the planet, it provided everything we needed until we got confirmation that we were out of the news feeds. It was a good detox for both of us."
"After that, we went back to being bounty hunters," Spike explained. "Capturing a few felons, dealing with chemically altered wildlife, helping with disaster cleanup...whatever we got hired to do. Nothing that paid as well as our previous jobs, but it was mostly to keep busy."
"Both of us were pretty sure something big would come along eventually," Samus continued. "Something that would start us on our next big adventure, or lead us to something new...but nothing ever seemed to come."
"Then what did start the next adventure?" Twilight asked curiously. "I mean, I'm just guessing, but it has something to do with you not having to imagine what it was like for the SA-X, right?"
Samus jerked her head up in surprise, then chuckled softly. "Yeah, it did, though that was only part of it. As for what set things in motion..." She sighed softly. "After leaving BSL, every time I'd go to sleep, I'd have...odd dreams. Sometimes I was searching for something through dark corridors. Other times, I'd be flying through the air. Once, I was actively hunting something to devour it..." She shook her head. "I couldn't really make sense of any of it. All I got out of it was bad sleep and a lot of confusion."
"Not to mention being incredibly irritable," Spike added jokingly.
Samus chuckled softly as the surrounding mares giggled. "Yeah, that too." She shrugged her shoulders. "At first, that was all it was, so I was willing to ignore it...but before long, other symptoms began to arise."
"Symptoms?" Luna asked worriedly. "Were you unwell?"
"Not exactly," Samus corrected. "The symptoms weren't medical as far as we could tell. They were...behavioral." She sighed as she gathered her thoughts, deciding how best to explain things. "Aboard ship, I became...a bit more territorial, making Spike stay in his area, unless I felt like cuddling him or he was in his smaller size. I also found myself counting our credits and...enjoying it a bit more than normal. I also started seeking jobs more actively, to earn more credits...and getting stingy with what we had, even though I knew intellectually that we had plenty."
"Sounds like early hoarding instincts," Ember spoke up. "You did just become part-dragon and started tapping the abilities. I suppose it's conceivable you'd start exhibiting behaviors."
"That's exactly what it was, though we didn't know it at the time," Samus confirmed. "At the time, however, it didn't seem harmful or out of control, so we let it slide." She frowned, glancing away. "But then...there was an incident."
"An incident?" Fluttershy asked worriedly, shivering.
"It was on one of our missions," Spike explained softly. "We'd been hired as bodyguards for the young daughter of an Ambassador. The Ambassador had received word that she was being targeted by an agency seeking to use her to pressure him into handling certain diplomatic matters to their advantage, and wanted her transported to somewhere safe. We were the ones he asked to do that." He shrugged his wings nervously. "It seemed like a standard escort mission for a while, but halfway to our destination, the mercenaries hired to kidnap the girl took out one of our engines, and we were forced to make an emergency landing."
"Seems rather routine," Rarity murmured softly. "I don't see what-"
"While we were affecting repairs, the ship's security systems were down," Samus explained. "That's when the mercenaries made their strike, getting Spike and I distracted while one of their men got into the ship to snatch the girl. I...heard her scream in fear, and..." She looked away, shivering slightly.
"You snapped," Ember translated. "You killed every last one of them for trying to steal a young from your nest, and you did so brutally, to send a message to anyone else that might try."
Samus nodded slowly. "Yeah...but it's not just what I did. It's how..." She shivered slightly as she remembered. "I...I didn't use the weapons of my suit. I..."
When she remained silent for a while, Spike spoke up. "She tore their armor off their bodies with her bare hands, breaking several bones before snapping necks, literally tearing through them while back-handing laser fire out of the way. When she got to the last one, the one who actually took the girl, she ripped his arm off and beat him half to death with it...and then grabbed him by the head and remaining shoulder, jerking to expose his neck before baring her teeth." He shivered slightly. "I stopped her before she ripped his throat out with her teeth."
Silence reigned over the table. Eventually, Samus spoke up. "When that happened, I knew I couldn't just ignore what was happening to me. After safely delivering the girl, I decided to find somewhere to face down everything about myself. Since it was apparently dragon behavior, I went looking for a place to meditate and face down my inner dragon...the ruins of K2L, my birthplace."
oh i like this! It seems like K2L will be more of a spiritual mission than a martial one. A nice change of pace.
This is gonna be awesome.
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Congratulations. You just jinxed it. Now watch as a swarm of Space Pirates and Ridley's illegitimate son show up
Well, Mama bear has finally met her match... Meet Mama Dragon, someone who has the capacity to be even more brutal and unforgiving.
cant wait to see how this goes
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I like this! This is a great turn of events!
Ridley is fucked in SO MANY WAYS.
Well I did and didn't expect this to happen good show
Me: Alright New Guy, see this big red button, under the glass case, with the black and yellow stripes around it? It says 'CAUTION' above it?
New Guy: Yes sir.
Me: you can press that button, no problem. We can clean up that mess.
Now do you see that little orange button right next to it?
New Guy: Yes sir.
Me: that's the 'MOM' button. Never, EVER, press the 'MOM' button!! NONE OF US will be AROUND to regret you pressing the 'MOM' button!
Well...yeah. I got nothin'.
The PRECIOUS! WE WANTS IT!!
I actually wanted an emojii with Mr. Krabbs for this one.
So, Samus is a human-Chozo-Metroid-dragon hybrid? Welp, the universe isn't safe... Only ponies that can match her are PWNY! Twi and PWNY! Pinkie.
Nothing like ripping an arm off and beating the arms owner to death with it...
woof
cool
nothing to loose your head over
Twilight get ma rope
kinky
So... arc-wise, on the TV Tropes recap page, I currently have this event labeled as "The Last Adventure". But is it based off an actual game or comic whose title I could be using instead?
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
Well, wasn't expecting that.
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Nope. This arc is completely original material.
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...Great, considering what's going on in TSIHE right now, I'm imagining what Twi and her boyfriend would get up to with Samus and Spike's armor... and DNA.
7422527 In which case, I'll stick with the current title, and I look forward to seeing how the arc turns out.
In a related note, the aforementioned recap page now has story arc listings for all but one fic, and full recaps for eight out of fifteen (the two Fortresshy fics share a folder). (And I've tweaked the coding for the known upcoming arcs so they're completely invisible rather than just hidden under spoiler tags.)
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
7422560 ...Ick.
I'm sure.
Hm, I think it might be the perspective of the X.
Sounds like hoarding.
True.
Oh dear.
... Yikes.
... As Mario has often said, "Here we go."
I'm... going to step back now...
You know compared to give me something sweet to bite what she bib isn't so bad
You know compared to the darkfic something sweet to bite what she did isn't so bad
just when I thought samus couldn't get any more badass and scary.
When Samus went savage I was hoping she would beat someone to death with their own skull
7423705 That doesn't seem physically possible.
Momma bear meet momma DRAGON! Play nice
7423711 Who cares?
Sorry, but the aspect of Mama Dragon is both badass and kinda funny when you read when Samus tore off a guy's arm and beat him with it.
7423711 Well, if you were to first surgically remove the skull leaving the brain, brain stem, and circulatory system intact using some sort of futuristic technowhatsit, then maybe.
7424759 no no the proper responce is "thats what they said"
Very interesting Mama Dragon instincts for Samus. Could she possibly get dragon wings for her armor at some point???
7423711 thats exactly what Jimmy kept saying...
behavioral changes --> MURDEROUS RAMPAGE...
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This is a gud. If hope they get their asses rest on k2l, if only to have it happen once.
Why is it so hard for Capcom to bring this series back?
Just change Dragon for Metroid and you have a in-game explanation for her to go to weird places for seemingly no reason, and i wont even start on the whole Mama Samus concept.
Get Good Capcom, pull your shit together.
7430143 Capcom is Megaman. Metroid, and Samus, are Nintendo. Samus had several outings up through about 2008 with the Prime series, then Other M fucked things up in 2011 or so. I'm sure Nintendo will bring Metroid back, because yeah there's still a mountain of options they can go through with Samus.
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Capcom has had a lot of trouble because so many of the games they've done over the years- like, for instance, one of the Zelda franchise -were Nintendo's property. Those that weren't have never had the popularity in recent times that they once did, despite being great games.
And that last bit is solely because of asinine, repetitive, formulaic FPS that are repeats of what's already been done. You play one CoD game, you've played them all. Or because of the same type of thing for sports games.
Maybe I should explain myself a bit here. I do play Call of Duty on occasion, and did enjoy Halo. However, beyond a certain point, they cease to provide any enjoyment for me. I play games for many of the same reasons that I read, which means that I enjoy a certain amount of replay value.
CoD and virtually every sports game outside of Need for Speed has none. It's only redeeming feature is Multiplayer, and that devolves into a juvenile pissing contest far too often for me to enjoy except when in a pissy, destructive mood.
Congratulations Samus, you've been promoted from mama bear to mama dragon. Have fun with that.
Well, at least this time you didn't have to break your suit to do it.
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Do you think she offered what was left of them to Spike? Meat is meat after all.
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You are a sick individual.
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Try Mortal Kombat's Scorpion. In one of the games, he rips out his opponent's skull and spine through their face.
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Tell that to freelancer agent texas from Red vs Blue on rooster teeth