Tallon IV: Final Battles
"You just...left him there?" Twilight asked in shock.
"I didn't exactly have a choice," Samus replied. "I couldn't move him without his help, and he was perfectly safe. Nothing could have gotten to him in there except the Elite Pirates, and there weren't any of them left according to the data I'd acquired. Any other type of pirate would have disintegrated trying to get in, as would any of the various types of Metroids. The only way anything could hurt him in there is if they brought in their machines, and there wasn't enough Phazon in the pit to warrant that...unless something drew their attention. I was last seen in there, so if I wasn't soon seen elsewhere, the pirates would be investigating. The best way to keep him safe was to draw a great deal of attention to myself elsewhere."
"So you went out and blasted everything in sight?" Rainbow asked eagerly.
"Almost everything," Samus replied. "I needed to be sure reports of my movements got back. I made sure a few Pirates - very few - made it to safety to report. On my way, I was also able to pick up the last Chozo Artifact, the Artifact of Newborn. After that, I knew it was time to head back to the Impact Crater to undo the seal. On the way back, I stopped at my ship to rearm, record information...and to see if there was any sort of jury rigging I could do to load Spike onboard at his current size. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything."
"Oh! Oh!" Pinkie gasped, bouncing up and down. "Is this where Spike learned how to change his size?"
"Weren't you the one going on about Spoilers earlier?" Applejack asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I was?" Pinkie gasped. "But this isn't really a spoiler. He obviously made it off planet somehow..."
Samus chuckled. "Well, not quite yet. But I did pick up some unusual energy back at the Phazon Mines. I assumed it was Spike, so I sent him a signal to meet me back at the Impact Crater. He didn't respond, but I did get a signal back that he'd received the message."
"How come you didn't respond?" Fluttershy asked Spike curiously.
Spike smiled nostalgically as he spread his wings gently. The look on his face made Rainbow chuckle knowingly. "Well..." Spike began.
Spike slowly climbed out of the pool of Phazon as he awoke. A Space Pirate walking by took one look at him, bowed low, and began babbling in their native tongue. Spike didn't understand a word, and the noise was giving him a headache. He snarled and glowered at the Pirate. It immediately fell silent and fled.
Spike blinked a bit at that. That wasn't how the Pirates normally behaved around him. Normally, they'd be trying to attack him. What had changed? Shrugging the thought aside, he shook the stray Phazon from his body and looked upward. He could tell the sky was just beyond the rock. The sky...he wanted it.
Inhaling, he drew a great deal of Phazon into his maw, mixing it with his dragon fire. When he exhaled, the blast of blue-green-white heat tore the rock apart, leaving a clear path to the sky. At some level, he knew that would draw attention, but he didn't care.
The communicator in his ear beeped, and he heard Samus telling him to meet him at the Impact Crater. Reaching up, he pressed the button on the communicator to send the 'Message Received' signal. He didn't want to talk just now. He didn't want to taint the moment.
His eyes locked on the sky, he spread his new wings, and leapt.
"Aw, yeah!" Rainbow said happily, pumping her fist. "First flight. You never forget that moment."
"Yeah..." Scootaloo breathed, hovering in lazy circles around Rainbow's head, still reveling in her own recently gained flight. Chuckling, Rainbow caught her by her tail and pulled her into a hug.
Spike chuckled. "Yeah...it was amazing. I'm not sure how long I flew. I just...knew how to do it, and I had to. I had to get in the air. It was...calling me."
"About a half hour," Samus pointed out.
"Eh?" Spike asked.
"That's how long you were in the air before you showed up in the nick of time at the Impact Crater," Samus explained. "Knowing that the 'Signal Received' message was just before you leapt into the air told me exactly how long that first flight was."
"Pretty good time for first flight," Rainbow pointed out. "Why'd you stop? Wings got tired?"
Spike chuckled. "Let Mom tell you...you're going to love it."
As everyone turned to face Samus, she grinned, leaning forward. "It all started as I reached the Impact Crater..."
As Samus returned to the seal of the Impact Crater, the Artifacts resonated, embedding themselves in the 12 statues built to hold them. Their energies poured into the central spire, releasing a massive spear of light into the sky as the path to the Phazon meteorite was unsealed...the path to the prison of the Great Worm, the one the Pirates called Metroid Prime.
Before Samus could enter the portal, however, a loud roar was heard, and Meta Ridley swept the top off the central spire with his wing, causing it to explode, resealing the gate.
As he came back around for another attack with energy bombs, however, a bolt of purple and green from the sky slammed into him like the wrath of a god, knocking him so far off his flight path that his bombs hit the Phazon Mines.
"Yee-haw!" Apple Bloom shouted out, startling everyone who had been listening with such rapt attention. "Go get 'im, Spike! Show that naughty varmit what-for!"
"Apple Bloom!" Applejack scolded. "We're trying to listen!"
"Besides," Discord added, "with Spike, it's bound to be all the way up to what-seven!" He pointed playfully to each of Spike's claws, wings, and his tail in succession.
Samus chuckled. "Actually, most of the rest of that fight is better told from Spike's perspective. There was something going on up there I didn't quite catch."
Spike grinned. "Okay, I'll take it from there." He glanced towards the Crusaders. "But no interruptions!"
They nodded earnestly, and Spike continued.
Ridley recovered quickly from the impact, though surprised that the double hind-claw strike had buckled his armor on his side. Still, a classic avian assault. He rounded on his foe, and his eyes widened.
He was facing another dragon, masters of the sky and flame. Unlike himself, this one wore no armor and carried no weapons save those that nature had given him.
"What?" Ridley demanded. "Why does one dragon interfere with another?"
Spike hovered there, maintaining position. "Leave my Mother alone," Spike stated bluntly, his eyes glowing with rage.
"What?" Ridley roared, exhaling a blast of flame that Spike side slipped to evade. "A dragon allows a human to assert such dominance? You debase yourself and our mighty race by kowtowing to that mongrel?"
Ridley didn't see the strike coming. One moment, Spike was facing him in the air. The next, Spike had lost altitude, and Ridley was clutching his beak and spitting teeth from an unexpected tail strike. "Don't talk about my Mother like that," Spike growled, flames on his breath.
With a snarl, Ridley lunged forward.
The battle was not entirely in Spike's favor. He was young and well trained, and had strong instincts. He also had incredibly durable scales. However, this was his first aerial battle, and he did not fully understand three-dimensional combat. Ridley was not quite as young, and the heavy tinkering he'd undergone - along with all the tech fused to his body - made it harder for him to recover from damage taken. However, he was a veteran combatant with years of experience under his wings, even if this was the first time he'd ever fought another dragon. The metal armor he wore was also tough enough to deflect Spike's claws, for the most part.
After several high speed exchanges of flame, claw swipes, and tail strikes, Ridley managed to get above Spike and dove in, digging his claws into the younger dragons back. Spike roared in pain as the metal clad claws dragged across his flesh, ripping his scales apart. "Foolish whelp!" Ridley barked. "You know not your own weaknesses!" Ridley dug away, trying to get to the flight tendons that allowed the wings to flap. If those were cut, Spike would fall to his death.
However, Spike carried one advantage both from his blood, his many growth spurts from ingested Phazon, and his training with Samus. He was nothing if not adaptable. Reaching up, he grabbed Ridley's crocodile-like beak in one claw and squeezed it shut. "And you talk too much," Spike growled, yanking him off his back.
Ridley struggled, dragging all four sets of claws and his tail along Spike's body, leaving deep gashes above and below the wings that wept blood. Once he'd flipped Ridley over, however, Spike reached out with his other claw, grabbed Ridley's metal clad wing bone, and yanked it out of the socket. Ridley tried to roar in pain, but his jaw was still held fast.
"Can't fly," Spike growled deep in his throat. When Ridley's tail lashed his face over his left eye, he grabbed the offending appendage near the base with his free hand. "Can die!" he barked, planting his hind claws in the small of Ridley's back and stretching with all his might.
The crunch of metal, a sickening snap, and the tearing of flesh told the tale as Ridley was torn in half. Youth and primal rage had conquered experience and technology. Spike let off a roar of triumph...and slowly fell from the sky.
Samus raced up to his side, worried for him, but he managed to stabilize himself just before he crashed, landing heavily but safely amongst the monoliths of the Seal. "Spike, are you alright?" Samus asked worriedly.
Spike nodded. "I'm okay," he mumbled, taking internal stock of his injuries. Five broken ribs, deep gouges along both sides and the small of his back, strained wing muscles, slight tearing to the left flight tendon, and blood was still pouring into his left eye from the deep gash there. He could also feel a bit dizzy from the loss of blood. "I'll live," he corrected. "I mean...once I get into the impact crater, I can just chug some Phazon, right?"
Samus sighed. "Ridley broke the seal," she explained. "I don't know if we can-"
Her words were cut off as the gateway opened itself, the blue light and spectral flame showing the way.
"Guess they fixed it," Spike pointed out, nodding to the 12 Chozo Spirits he could see within the monoliths, bowing respectfully to them.
The pair entered the portal, and vanished into the Impact Crater.
As soon as they arrived in a flash of purple, however, Spike suddenly started screaming in pain.
"Spike!" Samus called out, shocked, rushing to his side. Her scan visor quickly gave her answers.
The orange Phazon of the Impact Crater is of much higher concentrations than the normal blue Phazon. It's radiation is proportionately more intense. Spike's physiology cannot cope with the intensity of the radiation. As contact with orange Phazon will overload the protections of the Phazon Suit, its mere presence is enough to cause harm to Spike, possibly lethal if exposure is prolonged.
Before her eyes, blue light and ethereal flame sucked him away. "Spike!" she called out.
Hatchling... a voice echoed in her mind.
Samus fell silent.
Your Hatchling cannot survive inside the Impact Crater...he cannot face the Great Worm alongside you this time. We have drawn him back to safety. We will see to his injuries and cleanse the harm of the Great Poison from his brief trip below...he will be well. Face the Great Worm free of concern...
Sighing, Samus nodded. She recognized the voices of the Chozo Spirits. In point of fact, this was the one from the Artifact of Truth, the one who had explained how Spike could handle blue Phazon without harm. Steeling herself and pushing her concern for Spike from her mind, she proceeded into the crater.
Everyone stared in silence. "You...you were okay, right Spike?" Twilight asked worriedly.
Spike nodded. "More or less," he replied. Turning side on, he shifted his armor slightly with a mental command. Everypony gasped as scars exactly where the battle wounds he described became visible. "The radiation caused an infection of the wounds. As a result, they never completely healed. The scars from my first battle will always remain." As the armor shifted back into position, he lifted his visor, revealing the one over his left eye, jagged and raised. "The Chozo spirit were able to complete the healing, and could have excised the scars...but I didn't want them to. They told me I had the instincts and the heart of a Warrior of the Chozo...that I did my Mother's adopted people proud."
He lowered the visor back into place. "So I keep the scars...reminders that I'm not invincible, no matter how strong I've become."
"A very noble sentiment, Spike," Luna murmured. "And one quite rare in our world's modern day."
Samus smiled, stroking Spike's neck gently. "He made me proud, too."
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FINALLY. Ridley gets some damn respect.
And this is why you DO NOT piss off Equestrian Dragons... Unless Fluttershy is nearby to bail your dumb ass out.
BOOOOYAAAAHHH!!! WAY TO GO SPIKE!!!!
Well, now Samus has something to taunt Ridley with the next time they meet. "My son was only (Spike's Age) and had just had his first flight and still kicked your ass in mid air combat!!"
I bet Metroid Prime was breathing a sigh of relief that Spike didn't face it.
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Four.
Spike is four years old at this point, though he is a physical adult.
Love the way Spike handled Ridley!!!
What he lacked in experiance... he made up for in cunning; easily using Ridley's own pride against him with a healthy dose of courage and righteous rage! THAT is how you defeat an enemy greater then yourself!
6158293 So it's an even bigger diss on Ridley....
Speechless. I...
Oh. Here's something.
Metroid Prime if he leaves the crater:
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I'm out!
-CB
6158293 He's still just a hatchling!!
... The other dragon's gunna be like huh
he was how old!?!!!! and then be humiliated for the rest of his existence 
while this will be a source of pride for both Samus & Spike.
Love.This.Story.
Fucking AWESOME chapter! Dragons! The ultimate warrior and life form!
I only have one thing to say to this:
Welp, how long before they clone Ridley? That's what space pirates do after all. They take the pieces and replicate it in a way that they can take advantage of it.
But, WAIT!!! Has Spike tried growing a moustache while under the care of Samus? If not, that could be a funny extra scene.
FATALITY!
6158446 And Spike will be there to rip the SOB in half again and again!
6158593 Actually, the only confirmed way to get rid of Ridley would probably be Spike turning his body into so much melted and slagged stone. Then they can skip straight to mecha Ridley.
6158593 Actually, the only confirmed way to get rid of Ridley would probably be Spike turning his body into so much melted and slagged stone. Then they can skip straight to mecha Ridley.
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She.
A very enjoyable chapter. Great job.
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6158293 there are only three ways to get an equestrian Dagon to chill:
1) a big a$$ horde
2)flutters
3) HIS MOMS
Love this story! Can't wait to see the next chapter.
Wow, Spike had his work cut out for him this time. Barely managed to pull that one out.
6158694 Mecha-Ridley is 100% robot and was made by Lord Ridley in his own glorious image.
Aah, Tats, why am I surprised to see you in the featured box again?
Red Phazon... Called it!
GG ridley
You lose and spike is cool
6159029 Exactly.
Hehe, FUCKING CALLED IT!
He bet Ridly down like one AWESOME dragon, who believed in Spike all the way, I DID!
Watch 4:30 to 5:10 and I get the idea that is Spike's reaction... minus the depression from killing the only other nice person and all.
Now... I find it weird that Spike has bathed, drank and done so much in normal Phazon, yet that offered no protection or resistance to survive in THIS phazon... seems like it was just a method of getting rid of Spike like in canon. Also, when did Samus have time to teach Spike combat?
My fave Ridley music is still from Fusion--- well, that version, couples with that LOUD screeching Ridley-X (who's also proportionally bigger, I think, than other versions) does, makes it a very cool fight.
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In answer to your first question, with the Phazon Suit, Samus can walk through Blue Phazon like nothing, but touching Orange Phazon damages her faster than Blue Phazon did without the suit. The radiation is that much more intense.
In regards to your second question, he watched her train when he was still canon sized and smaller, and followed her movements. Also, this entire trip.
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Yeah... Alright.
And that isn't really training other than the trip, it sounded for like Samus actually trained him longer than that, also the trip in itself is more of 'eat eat eat' and 'grow grow grow', also, Samus is a hybrid human while Spike is a dragon, their bodies are a lot more different in that respect...
But hey, that's getting technical with the word 'training', it's likely the best word for it but just doesn't fit right...
Wow. Spike, has finally reached his ultimate form. I wonder what is going to happen now that the whole back story is done? Great job and good luck.
6159397 depending on the cannon, mimicking the movements of another is how a certain rat learned the art of ninjitsu, an art he then passed on to his four sons in New York...
I'll say it again. Spike is Kha'Zix. Consume and Adapt
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I see. Ok
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Uh, okay, that might have worked, but we are drawing from the worlds of MLP and Metroid respectively, also, I find that a VERY weird thing, rats, even if they were smart enough before getting irradiated from some genetic goop don't have a bipedal body to follow through with martial arts.
Plus, Samus uses a beam cannon and minimum melee, Spike is claws, flame breath and a lot of biting, radically different styles of fighting, it's like saying a boxer learned to box by watching a Call of Duty match.
The better explanation is that Spike is just rolling with the punches dragon style.
Elite Pirates, and there weren't any of them left according to the data I'd acquired.
If I'm correct.
Samus is now on her own
! What shall happen next
? I'm intrigued
.
6159925 look into the various back stories of Splinter-san. a few of them have him as the pet of Hamato Yoshi-sensei, and Splinter learned the arts of ninja by mimicking Yoshis movements from his cage. Spike could have done similar with Samus, or she could have taken the time to get some preliminary training done before the events of the games.
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In the games she uses minimum melee. However, her backstory clearly states she was trained in the Chozo combat arts, which were highly advanced martial arts. The practice Spike watched and learned from was Samus going through her katas to stay in shape.
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Still, what about the style of combat? Spike is charging at Riley and tearing at his body, Samus would circle around a bunch, shoot her cannon and roll into a ball to drop some bombs.
I don't see how Spike could apply anything he learns from her.
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... Oh. Alright no complaints now.
6160359 if u look at the story, the arial combat moves Spike used were instinctual, he wasnt fighting, not at first. he was hunting, in the classic DFA posture used by many raptors seen in nature to attack ground bound prey targets. every fight Spike has been a part of up to this point, has been driven by instinct to a degree. he is, after all, a dragon, an apex predator.
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... Sorry, I thought you were defending that Samus taught him how to fight?
6161138 on the ground sure, she probably showed min the basics, but the rest was instinct and pure battle rage. that is the nature of their dynamic from what i can see. he brings the power and ferocity, she brings control and focus
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Eh, if you say so, I still find it an inconsistency but I won't question it anymore.
I wonder how the next chapter will go down since spike is more or less out of the equation.
(Insert dragon ball z's narrator voice here)
Will the next chapter just be a play through of samus vs the great worm?
Will we change scenario to a different game and talk more about his development?
Will we see an outside the game chapter of samus and spike in every day life?
Or will get a chapter of stuff happening in equestria?
The answer to all this questions and more in the next chapter of Another Hatchling.
if this does go into the other primes games I wonder how spike will react to dark aether or much stronger will be become when his body start's creating phazon
That motherf*cker.
NICE.
That, was, AWESOME!
Right, so we are getting Dark Samus.
Very noble.
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Um... Wasn't it stated that Spike was four during these events? I remember because modern day Spike kept repeating it throughout the chapter that his past self got a hold of Phazon for the first time. I just don't see the Tallon IV mission as having taken two years.
Just checked. Spike said it near the end of chapter 8 (Tallon IV: Kids Will Be Kids), and at the beginning of chapter 9 (Tallon IV: Convenient).
Ripped in half. What a way to go haha. Spike doesn't play when you mess with his mom...human mom...
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6158399 ultimate warrior you say?
Spike should carry Phazon for a Phason Flame Attack... with a better name than what I gave. Buuut, that will never happen.