"So what did you do after returning to your ship?" Luna inquired of Rundus.
"I took the advice and went up into space, sending the Olympus a mayday," Rundus replied. "It wasn't long after that that I was picked up and they began medical treatment, as well as trying to study what happened to me." He couldn't suppress his chuckle. "I say 'trying' because they couldn't find any trace of Phazon in my system to study what effect it had on me."
"I'm just that good," Spike preened.
"While Spike was taking Rundus back to his ship, I moved on," Samus explained. "The new Ice Missiles proved quite useful. Not only could I freeze enemies and other obstacles, but one fired into fuel gel provided a temporary ice platform I could jump on. It could even freeze flowing fuel gel, turning a pouring gel waterfall into a frozen platform to jump across." She chuckled at the sight of Rainbow taking assiduous notes. "Still planning on making that video game?"
"Yup!" Rainbow agreed. "I'm going to make a mint!"
"Oh, I love mints!" Pinkie called happily. "They taste so good on my tongue and make my breath so chilly fresh!"
Chuckling, Samus moved on. "I managed to get a scan of the Space Pirate shield generator...but none of my weapons were tough enough to damage it. Based on my scans, even Spike's arsenal wouldn't have damaged it. The Aurora Unit indicated I'd need to find some new sort of armament."
"So we went back to the main area of Bryyo," Spike explained. "With ice weaponry, more paths were available. And, since I had to take it easy carrying Rundus, we actually made it back to the ship at about the same time..."
Once back in the northern area of Bryyo, Spike and Samus made their way towards a path beyond the crashed frigate they had been unable to pursue before, which their ice weaponry now made viable. On their way there, the Aurora Unit informed them that along said path was a Federation landing site, where they would be able to upgrade their ship.
They also received a message about the malfunction in the PED. Apparently, the stimulation of the unique Phazon inside Samus by the PED caused it to go into overproduction. The Aurora Unit offered the Federation's apologies for not foreseeing the possibility.
Spike, Rundus, Ghor, and Gandrayda all snorted.
"Well, that's what they said," Samus complained defensively.
Reaching the landing site they were told about, Samus and Spike looked around to see what they needed to do to get the ship in. However, just as Samus found the controls, an alert began. The whole site closed itself down as several of the Bryyonian creatures attacked them. Samus and Spike, as was their habit in these situations, went back to back at first until they could identify all threats, then split apart to take the enemies out in a pincer attack.
Between Samus' new Ice Missiles and Spike's Ice Breath, it was relatively easy to freeze most of the enemies, after which Spike charged through them to smash them to bits. Once all the enemies were destroyed, the controls became available again. Since all paths to the controls for the skylight were through Morph Ball tunnels in the ventilation system, Spike stayed at the controls for the ship upgrade system, ready to act once the ship was in place.
As she went, Samus collected an Energy Cell that she thought might prove useful later. This also disengaged the system it was powering, causing a force field to drop, revealing a new path which required heat-based weaponry to open. Samus made a mental note of it, deciding to explore it later after upgrading her ship and dealing with the Leviathan.
Once Samus had the bay doors opened, Spike lowered the platforms to clear the pad. Samus then called the ship to land with her Command Visor, allowing Spike to trigger the upgrade. The Ship Missiles it provided proved to be exactly what they needed to destroy the Shield Generators.
"The Ship Missiles weren't just useful for dealing with the Generators," Samus explained. "Not only were there other obstacles that could be destroyed with them, the ship could also be called in to deliver an aerial bombardment on any enemies we were dealing with, as long as we were in open air and not somewhere protected by anti-air artillery."
"Sounds like it would have been more efficient to give Spike Power Bombs," Rainbow pointed out as she looked up from her notes.
Samus rolled her eyes as Spike chuckled. "Possibly," she allowed. "But it was still useful in a lot of situations. And it certainly looked amazing..."
Since there weren't any anti-Spike artillery platforms set up in Bryyo Fire, Spike decided that the most efficient way of destroying the Generator in that area was to fly Samus there on his back, get into position where she could lock onto the Generator with her Command Visor, and order the bombardment. They could then meet up with the ship in midair, board, and head for the next region of Bryyo to go after the other Generator.
The strategy proved quite effective, though Samus insisted on Spike roosting somewhere sturdy before she called in the gunship. Once braced above where Samus had gotten the generator scan in the first place, she attempted to call in the ship...only to find the signal blocked.
Tracking the source of the interference, they found a Pirate jamming station where they'd fought Rundus. Before Samus could give any instructions, Spike dove like a meteorite, seized an armored aerotrooper, and smashed it into the jamming station. Samus followed up with several ice missiles just before Spike unleashed his flame breath. The resulting temperature variance caused the station to crack as the metal weakened. With the signal interrupted, Samus called in the gunship as Spike took to the air.
The ship swept in, launching its barrage of missiles. The heavy impacts and explosives obliterated the Pirate equipment.
The explosion when the same missiles slammed into the shield generator, however, was much more satisfying to watch.
"After that," Samus continued, "we had to head for the western portion of Bryyo for the other generator. Things...weren't as easy there..."
You haven't given up on this yet? Fucking gross.
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I don't know what you're complaining about. This is a good story. Or are you complimenting it using atypical choice of words?
6591017 someone's either mad their LoL ping was too high or is jealous
6591017 Two words...FUCK YOU!!!!!!
if you didn't understand the metaphor with the lol ping i'm saying your either raging from a previous game screwup or your just jealous
6591017 The story has over 1000 likes. Why would he give up on it?
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
That means about 2 or 3 rooms in the whole game. I recently played this game, and I tried to use Ship Missiles on every room. The only satisfying time you can use Ship Missiles is when you return to Norion. Considering with all extensions you end with a total of 11 Ship Missiles, you could supply every single use of Ship Missiles in the game without refill.
Yeah, I hate Ship Missiles.
6591017 Just as gross as old milk... with added cultures... and carefully prepared... and aged to maturity... that I will now enjoy with your whine...
I swear, if this story doesn't end with Rainbow getting rich off of producing the Metroid series in Equestria, I will be SORELY dissapointed.
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Um, doesn't Spike still have his fire breath? He should be able to open that heat door.
Interesting. Bryyo was honestly my favorite planet out of all of Corruption, and it'll be interesting to see what you do with Bryyo Ice.
I've noticed the lack of "At any rate". It feels so good. Please, do continue to not use that kind of phrase. It's really repetitive and irritating. So, thanks.
Metroid 5 is going to end in Samus overthrowing the Federation. Mark my words.
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He admitted in a previous post that he is a professional Troll. Just ignore him and eventually he'll find a different story to comment on.
In the mean time, I notice from your avatar that you are a Neptunia fan. Last month the last of the Vita ports of the main series has been itself ported to Steam. The ability to apply character skins without a mod has been lost, but at least the games are available for PC now.
6591776 Or more likely, Samus just refuses to take jobs from them anymore.
6591776 well honestly with the end of other M there is pretty much only one person left alive who knows who she is.
Wish I didn't sell my Metroid Prime Trilogy.
6591854 meh I would rather play a game were as samus I get to kill everything.
Heh, that's make their lives harder.
Nice, nice.
Oh definitely.
Eh, I'm not that big of a fan of the stuff.
I'm sure...
What's so funny?
Good idea. I'd imagine Spike's fire breath might work, but you'll need your Plasma Beam too.
Good. Exploding enemy stuff is good.
Wait, is that an actual thing in the game?
This line looks very familiar.
Must be a jammer.
I can only imagine... Then again, missiles exploding your enemies tend to be VERY satisfying.
Oh dear.
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Well, him and the various clearly corrupt governmental officials who set her up to be killed in Fusion and are now very cross with her blowing up their Metroid breeding facility again.
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The finger to you as well.
So, any one else think there is just going to be frozen versions of what they fought already and the plasma beam is just so that Samus doesn't freeze? I can't be the only one who thinks there are suit upgrades associated with certain elemental upgrades to ensure safe usage, right?
6591497 Can't Spike sue her for some of the profits because he and Samus are the source material?
6592220 Then take your pick of no less than 4 Metroid games where you destroy an entire planet: Super Metroid, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and Metroid Fusion. Or maybe you want Metroid: Genocide Edition, in which case I'd recommend Metroid II: Return of Samus. In any given Metroid game, you slaughter everything that gets in your path.
6592368 the funny thing is, there are still the remnenets of the chozo amongst the federation forces as well as several of the other highly intelligent uber powerful species shamus's has saved. the federation isn't all humans remember and going after samus aran could be a political nightmare.
that being said even before she pissed them off the federation like everyone else had a bounty on her head large enough to feed a small planet for a year so who knows.
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...the ****? Am I reading this right? Before Other M/Fusion, Samus was a Bounty Hunter in good standing with the Federation. And a former Federation soldier to boot. It is kind of hard to have a bounty on a Bounty Hunter whom you yourself hire on a semi-regular basis. Links to the relevant lore, or I'm calling Buffalo Chips.
6593439 she was also the single most dangerous bounty hunter in the universe wielding dangerous weaponized technology and by the way when she left the federation she pretty much flipped them the bird on the way out. she works for them because the pays good but honestly she has made her personal dislike of the federation known in the past.
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And when that happened - post Fusion - it was the end of the Metroid Timeline.
6593505 For now.
Orbital Bombardment?
Leave no survivors.
6593505 actualy if you look it up that was the time she left the federation and became a bounty hunter shortly after the death of her lover. you have to understand samus wanted it to be forgotten that she was human or a woman, she wanted to become this specter of death amongst the galaxy. the feds pay well and for her it was honestly about the money.
and the federation has always been corrupt right to the core.
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You're doing massive generalizations from specific points.
It's said throughout both Other M and Fusion that it's only one particular part of the Federation military complex trying to weaponize Metroids and the like, and struggling to keep it all under the radar so the rest of the Federation didn't find out. Most of that specific group's anger at Samus is because she destroyed their black book projects and both exposed and eradicated them.
Also, lover? Cite source or stop talking.
6593994 ian Malkovich? younger brother to adam Malkovich? samus's commanding officer?
look it up it was his death that lead her to leaving the federation.
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According to Other M, she left because she felt she could have saved him but Adam didn't let her take the risk.
Also, cite where she was ever dating him. You brought it up in this discussion, so it's your responsibility to provide a source, not ours to look for one.
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So it IS just me.
Kinda have to agree with Samus here, it is a bit better visually to watch a good ol' bombardment than simply give Spike some Power Bombs.
C&Cs:
"Well that's what they said," Samus complained defensively.
> Comma after ‘Well’.
One all the enemies were destroyed, the controls became available again.
> Correction: ‘Once’.
...revealing a new path which required heat based weaponry to open.
> Put a dash between ‘heat’ and ‘based’.
I love calling in air strikes on enemies. Can't wait to see them get past the second shield and take on the Core Guardian.
Still can't think of anything witty to say. (Story's still good)
Ah Aerial Bombardment...Gotta love it...Unless it's coming from a Russian blimp...Cause those things can go straight to gaming hell!
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Kirov reporting!
That particular system at least had more use than the almost useless ship grapple, not to mention the completely useless Hypermode Grapple Voltage. I'm sorry, but as much as I love the Prime games, the last upgrade you get was utterly unnecessary. You used it like maybe once or twice.
In fact, the only one of the Hypermode upgrades that was at all useful was the Missile upgrade; the rest were a waste of space. Replacing the fun yet overpowered Power Bombs with a stupid AoE charge was perhaps the most fucked up decision that has ever been made for a Metroid game.
LOL
To quote Bullwinkle,
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Actually, the line is, "I like violence because they smell so nice."
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I love surviving such bombardments.