Corruption: Olympus part 1
The Welcome Party lasted the entire rest of the day, and Twilight was happy to put their new visitors up in her Crystal Castle/Library home. By sunrise, however, she was ready to throw Ghor out, as she couldn't leave him unsupervised in the library for more than five minutes before he started trying to 'collect samples' again. While she was happy to meet someone who was so dedicated to study and learning from another world, it wasn't just the castle's structure of living crystal that he tried to take study samples from. She tried to be understanding, since she could get the same way in her own studies...but she drew the line at waking up to find him brushing her mane while she slept with an attachment to his arm 'to collect dandruff samples'. She did not have dandruff!
Twilight wasn't the only one who looked like they didn't get much sleep the previous night. Rainbow and Applejack both looked hungover, and Rundus looked smug. At some point during the party, they had engaged in a drinking contest, which Rundus had won with ease. Rarity looked somewhat put out, claiming the loud noise from that 'contest' had interrupted her beauty sleep...although her eyes were on Gandrayda. Since Spike had shrunk down to be smaller than the Crusaders and hidden in amongst the roots of the chandelier, Twilight privately suspected Rarity's lack of sleep had been trying to keep Spike and the energy alien apart all night.
Samus herself looked none the worse for the night of partying, and the Crusaders were happily eating their breakfast alongside Pinkie, Fluttershy, Celestia, and Luna. Discord hadn't stopped laughing the entire night, and didn't look like he needed any sleep.
"So, will we begin telling the story now?" Ghor asked curiously. "There is quite a bit to go over."
"Four planets, three spaceships, and a grand finale," Rundus added mildly.
"Should kill a few days," Gandrayda agreed as she leaned back, arching her back as she stretched.
Samus rolled her eyes. "Well...if everyone's ready..." With nods all around, she continued. "It began with the summons to the Kalandor Region of space, and the GFS Olympus, in orbit around Planet Norion..."
Once the ship landed in the Olympus' docking bay, Samus and Spike stepped off the ship, walking side by side towards the waiting GF Soldiers. One of them greeted them warmly. "Samus, Spike, welcome aboard the flagship GFS Olympus. Admiral Dane is waiting for you in the briefing room. I will upload the location to you now."
Both of them nodded in response as the coordinates of the briefing room were uploaded to their suits' map systems. As they progressed, Samus couldn't help but chuckle as Spike looked around eagerly, enjoying his reactions to his first time aboard a Federation battle ship. To the right of the docking station was a target practice course, involving shooting a training drone as many times as you could in the air without letting it fall to the ground. Spike attempted it, but one burst of his breath melted the drone without launching it. Spike proceeded to pout all the way through the next door, only to get distracted by other things.
As they progressed, they had to wait outside the contamination scanner, since Ghor was going through the procedure ahead of them.
"I must apologize for my rudeness that day," Ghor spoke up at table. "I'd had a rough past few months, and it rubbed me the wrong way that the troops were treating me like a moron. I did design this body for myself after losing my original one, after all. I know my way around technology."
"It's no problem," Samus replied with a shrug. "Pretty sure we were all under a bit of stress that day."
"Not all," Rundus growled, glowering at Gandrayda, who merely rolled her eyes.
Samus shook her head. "At any rate, nothing really interesting there...except when it was Spike's turn in the scanner..."
"What do you mean there's a problem?" Samus demanded of the techs as Spike stood patiently in the chamber.
"We can't seem to scan him," the tech replied. "All the data coming from the scanners makes no sense. It's claiming there's some sort of gravimetric distortion in his body, and that's impossible!"
Samus took a closer look at the scans. "...oh. So that's how it works."
"Excuse me?" the tech demanded.
"Spike's adapted for a 20G planet," Samus explained. "His armor's designed to limit his physical capabilities in lower G environments so he doesn't break things - or people - accidentally. That's what you're picking up."
After that, Spike was cleared for the command bridge rather quickly, with the techs gaping at him. Smirking, he idly flexed his arm, making them duck under their consoles.
"I gotta admit," Spike called from his perch in the chandelier, "I probably had too much fun with that."
Several of the listeners chuckled, though it turned to genuine laughter when Gandrayda sent him a flirtatious smirk that had him hiding in the chandelier again.
"Gandrayda," Samus chided gently.
"I can't help it!" she replied. "He's just too adorable!"
Rolling her eyes, Samus continued her tale.
As Samus and Spike entered the command bridge, they found several people waiting for them. Admiral Dane was a middle aged soldier in full uniform, with a no-nonsense air about him. Lined up alongside where Samus and Spike had walked in were Rundus, Ghor, and...Samus?
"Gandrayda, enough!" Admiral Dane barked as Rundus and Ghor glanced back and forth between the two Samuses in confusion. The one to the far right reverted to Gandrayda in a flash of light as she giggled.
Spike, for his part, chuckled as well, shooting Gandrayda a thumbs up behind the backs of the other Hunters. Catching sight of it, Gandrayda smiled and sent him a wink.
Admiral Dane began the debriefing. "Looks like everyone's here now," he stated bluntly. "Before I begin the briefing, let me introduce 242, the flagship's Aurora Unit."
"Auroroa Unit?" Twilight asked curiously.
"Biological supercomputers," Ghor explained. "They are based off living brains, and can thus process data in ways simple electronics cannot handle, even making intuitive leaps of logic. The biological component actually proved an unexpected advantage, as the system was able to react to damage in ways above and beyond simple status reports, able to act to preserve ship and crew beyond what a standard computer could do."
"All well and good," Samus grumbled, "but they gave me the creeps. Reminded me too much of Mother Brain."
"Mother Brain?" Celestia inquired.
"The Space Pirates bio-supercomputer," Samus explained. "A giant brain that controlled everything with powerful telepathic abilities. Not pleasant. Fought the thing on Zebes shortly before I found Spike's egg."
"Can we skip over the actual briefing?" Spike asked plaintively. "It was rather boring. Couldn't we just sum up the highlights?"
"Well..."
"The Aurora network was down due to viral infection," Gandryada explained quickly. "A vaccine had been developed, but it needed to be administered to each Aurora Unit in person, but the virus was Space Pirate origin, due to them having captured another vessel, the GFS Valhalla, and its Aurora Unit. Since the Feds were worried about further Pirate attack, they called in Hunters with records of thwarting the Pirates to do it. That was us."
"Succinct and to the point," Ghor complimented. "I didn't know you could be so efficient."
"We were also to investigate Pirate activity in the area while we did so," Samus added. "Of course, the need for that was quickly discarded when the Pirates attacked the Olympus and planet Norion..."
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I'm of two minds on this next set.
On the one hand, the other Hunters having been saved is a good thing, as what originally happened would earn Corruption a tragedy tag were it a fan fic.
On the other hand, them all surviving is ruining my head canon...
6516797 The curses of passionate fandom. I understand your pain. However, you do not receive my sympathy or my pity. Instead, contain your rage, focus it on creating your own version of the story. Good luck catching up.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Well let's see how hyper spike goes down if he can even go hyper
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Isn't Zero Mission a reboot of the original Metroid? That's how I always understood it anyway.
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Yes, they all die in the original games.
Par for the course as far as Tatsurou's Displaced Adoption fics. Part of the reason why some of them have had the Mary Stu argument tossed at them.
Interesting chapter, though I can just see Rarity getting sick of Gandryada's flirting wit Spike and making him uncomfortable and confronting her during a lunch break or something.
after reading about these guys i started to wonder, will we see anything about Sylux in future chapters? if so, what changes could Tatsurou make to fit you story.... *wink wink, nudge nudge, howl howl.
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...who's Sylux?
Discord literally laughed all night, wow, he must have found this absolutely hysterical, more than normal, even.
Yep. Also, grand.
This amuses me.
Strange.
Ah. Right.
Probably.
Yes, not the only one.
The head honcho of the Space Pirates, telepathic. Could shoot lasers out of it's eyes and it was nearly impossible to hit her without getting hit by something if we're going by Zero Mission. Mind you it was probably tough in the original Metroid, but, in Zero Mission, it's frustrating.
Poor fools had no clue what they were up against.
6518083 basically my main guy in Prime hunters, check him out, the theorys about it are interesting, lots of potential.
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Ah.
Prime Hunters isn't canon to this story.
6518109 Indeed, he only ever showed his face in Prime, however its been confirmed that he is the one pilot of the ship in the special ending of Corruption, soooooo Prime may have never happened but Sylux existence is indeed canon.
Also he looks so frwaking awesome, he is like the anti-samus.
Note: i just like throwing ideas around, see if i can inspire someone with a new possibility, dont need to answer this message if not want, me also sleepy hence why me speaks like Grimlock all of a sudden.
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Yes, Zero Mission was Samus' first mission and is a reboot of the first game with additional content after Mother Brain. The rest of the game timeline order goes the Prime trilogy, Metroid 2, Super Metroid, Other M, and finishing off with Metroid Fusion.
That being said, if you believe the manga of Samus' backstory to be canon, Mother Brain used to be of help to the few Chozo whom raised Samus until she betrayed them and went with Ridley.
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Fusion Suit Samus' sprite is 35 pixels tall, but SA-X (who is wearing the classic Varia Suit) is 37 pixels tall. Assuming that Samus in her Fusion Suit is 80 inches (6' 8") tall, this puts each pixel at ~ 2.5 inches, which would also make SA-X 7' 1".
Am I the only one thinking mini-Spike sounds a adorable?
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The manga was the prequle to Other M as a reboot
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There are some spots in Other M that relate back to when Samus was on her first mission on Zebes back in Metroid 1. The manga starts from her as a child, goes through the attack made by Ridley on her home planet, her being taken by Old Bird and Grey Voice, trained and raised by the Chozo, some of her time in the military, and ending with her on her mission to destroy Mother Brain.
The manga was actually released back in 2002 while Other M was released in 2010. It is actually due to Other M that some of the elements in the manga have discrepancies in it. Due to this there is speculation in regards to if the manga is truly canon at this point.
Due to this I leave it up to the speculation of others and for them to have their own opinions on that matter.
More pls
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opps i made a mistake there was a comic/manga released prior to Other M but i goofed it still hasnt been released in english sorry.
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Point made. Apparently she lost a bit off the soles of her boots. I stand by my statement that her helmet appears completely unaltered, though.
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I wouldn't say "unaltered." The visor is shaped quite differently, the beak is smaller, and the tubes connect to her shoulders rather than to the sides of the head. I would say that the reason her helmet looks like it hasn't changed size is an optical illusion, related to the dot size illusion:
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Her helmet hasn't shrunk as drastically as the rest of her armor, so it looks bigger than it actually is, resulting in a net zero of perceived size change.
Also, I find it hard to imagine Samus running around in 5-6 inch tower shoes.
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...have you seen the heels she's rocking in Smash nowadays?
But yeah, I concede the point.
6526122 This was either the first or second of Tatsurou's Adopted Displaced stories I read, and the other candidate is Merc with the Moth, which took quite a while to get into the game section.
But now that I'm reading Melody of the Future, I'm definitely seeing that as a recurring pattern!
And Dark Samus made an unexpected return.
I'm not entirely caught up with the story, but I must say. This story has managed to pull off a serious and comical mood in the story. Congratulations my friend, you have accomplished a major feat in writing.
Loving the story. Can't wait to be caught up and can't wait for more.
I just thought of something is Gandrayda pedophile? I mean wasn't Spike like four when he went on his first mission and the next missions were every close together so who old is Spike now? The others are pretty much cradle robbers.
Another interesting chapter.
And because of these new characters Imma need some pronunciation help before I mis-pronounce their names for the rest of the chapters.
- Ghor (I would assume his name rhymes with Thor)
- Rundus (Run-dus ?)
- Gandrayda (I haven't even begun to pronounce hers)
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You're right on Ghor and Rundus.
As for Gandrayda, Gan like Fan, Dray like Gray, Da like Dah.