Corruption: Investigations and Infiltrations
"So after you got the Nova Beam, you went after the Leviathan, right?" Twilight asked eagerly.
Samus smirked. "Nope. I decided to backtrack and get a few more expansions and other things."
Twilight blinked, tilting her head in confusion. "Umm...while I understand being fully prepared...weren't the Federation getting ready to assault the Pirate Homeworld?"
"Yes," Spike confirmed. "And they were constantly bugging us about getting the shield down! It was really annoying!"
"So I made a unilateral decision to be as prepared as possible before going in," Samus explained. "After all, we'd be fighting Ridley, and I wanted to see if there were any upgrades available for Spike before he faced off against him again."
"There weren't," Spike admitted, "but the excuse got the feds off our back for a time."
While Twilight looked completely flabbergasted, she was the only one not laughing or at least giggling.
"Beyond that," Samus continued, "when I'd found all the Energy Cells I could, we were able to fully explore the Valhalla. There was...some significant information there."
"Which I got left out of finding," Spike grumbled, pouting. "Just cause it was in a vacuum and I couldn't breathe in space yet."
"Why didn't you just shrink to human size and put on an oxygen unit?" Rundus asked.
Spike stared at him for several moments before slamming his face into the table. Laughter erupted.
Once the laughter subsided, Samus continued. "It turned out that Dark Samus had ordered the Space Pirates to attack the Valhalla to steal the Aurora Unit...specifically to install it on Phaaze, the planet of living Phazon. Doing so gave her complete control of the planet, and the ability to produce the Leviathans at an accelerated rate and determine where to aim them."
"What purpose did the Leviathans serve Phaaze?" Luna asked curiously.
Samus was dead silent.
"Reproduction," Spike explained. "The Leviathans were seeds. Planted in other worlds, they slowly converted those worlds into more like Phaaze, worlds of living Phazon. Phaaze was a living planet...and a blight on all life as we knew it by its very existence."
Deciding to move past that quickly, Samus continued the story. "I also found a Space Pirate control code that we later discovered was for controlling Leviathan based battleships, one of which was actually in orbit around the Pirate Homeworld. That came in useful later."
"After that, we returned to the Pirate Homeworld, and headed for the shield generator..." Spike began.
Entering the shield control center, Samus and Spike moved carefully, investigating how best to shut it down. After destroying a few enemies and turrets, they determined that the shield generator itself was the central pillar. At three points along the pillar were Phazite armor plates, guarding the structural weak points of the mechanism. Samus' X-Ray visor let her see through the Phazite armor, and her Nova Beam could shoot through them. From what she could determine, the only entrances to the shield control tower was on the bottom floor. However, the control panel to expose the Phazite panels was on the top floor.
"Here's the plan," Samus explained. "You get down to the ground floor and guard the entrances. As soon as you're in position, I'll activate the controls. You keep the hostiles off my back while I disable the shield generator."
"Got it," Spike agreed, leaping down to the bottom of the tower.
As soon as she heard the thump of his landing, Samus activated the control panel. Much to Samus' surprise, several enemies warped in near the top, and she had to open fire immediately. Since they were equipped with special jamming tech, she wasn't able to use the X-ray visor/Nova Beam combo for instant kills, and was forced to rely on Hypermode until Spike was able to get back up and cover her back. He dealt with the enemies by the simple expedient of grabbing them and hurling them out the window.
Each time a new segment of the generator pillar was disabled, more enemies appeared. While they immediately attacked Samus, they hesitated when turning on Spike. Apparently, they still couldn't quite convince themselves that he wasn't actually Ridley.
I wonder if the fall out the upper window helps them make up their minds, Samus thought idly as she went after the last panel.
With the final one disabled, Samus rode Spike back to the top of the tower, letting him grab hold of her in Morph Ball and slam her into the final slot. Detonating a bomb, the entire shield generator shut down. The shield dropped, and the defense turrets activated, trying to protect the base, but the Federation assaulted full force, with high speed fighter craft, heavy bombers, and full carriers. The Pirate Homeworld was not prepared for such a full force assault.
"Whoa..." Rainbow gasped out, plainly excited at the mere idea of such a heavy assault.
"Yeah, the Federation went all out there," Samus admitted. "Admittedly, that was only the one fleet."
"Only one fleet?" Luna asked nervously. "Pray tell, how many fleets of such size doth this Federation have?"
"About 10," Samus replied with a shrug. "I didn't bother to keep an exact count."
"If they have ten fleets that size," Celestia asked, more than a bit odd, "why do they need you?"
"Because, Celestia," Discord pointed out logically, "it doesn't matter how many sledgehammers you have in your shed if what you need is a scalpel. The fleets are obviously for pitched wars and the like, and not just with the Space Pirates. But for infiltration missions and things like that, Hunters like her are obviously the preferred choice. And it's cheaper to hire her on a case by case basis than to train your own on payroll getting bored between jobs."
Celestia groaned. "Don't remind me," she mumbled to herself, pointedly not meeting Twilight's eyes as she turned to her in confusion.
"After that," Spike continued, "all that was left was the assault on the path to the Seed..."
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Heh...I guess we finally have figured out why the main six keep getting sent out if Celestia has an army. It does kinda make sense though...
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It doesn't. Ridley does that to them all the time.
I'd thought around this issue before, but this chapter clinches it; calling the Space Pirates Space Pirates is a misnomer.
The race actually behaves more like an insurgency state; launching guerrilla raids on soft targets, yet never waging wars they know they can't win. Real pirates are unlike that; they operate independently from each other, and despite what movies and television say, seldom actually either killed or destroyed the ships they plundered. The Space Pirates as a race operate more like the Fremen in Dune in my opinion.
As such, the way they operate should be easy for a military like the Federation to stomp them out. Personally, I think the bleeding hearts are stopping them. It really makes no sense; as much as I find genocide to be abhorrent, a race like the Space Pirates is better off dead.
I get it somewhat.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
if the seed is made out of phazon, couldn't spike just eat it?
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The problem is that the space pirates weren't one single race. they were a union, an intergalactic faction of multiple species Vying for dominance.
Just look at them, comparing the Areotroopers to standard troopers in prime reveals strong differences in body structure between the two. The grunts in Prime three are directly stated to be a different species than the commandos, and then there's the Bezerker lords. Then there's The Zebezian pirates most often seen in the 2d games, named as such in other M.
This is the most important fact about the space Pirates, and the one that everyone ignores.
the GF may have Alliances with some races, but their military is entirely human. They are the minority, they only won by outgunning the pirates, and throwing Samus at them.
What has me more concerned is that after the last stronghold of Pirate forces was destroyed for good in Super Metroid, the GF didn't dial down weapons research, and instead started to act more like the pirates did. Two illegal Bioweapons research ships raises quite a lot of red flags in my mind.
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Are you sure they were an alliance of different races? Given that the Space Pirates routinely engaged in genetic and bio-weapon research, it stands to reason that at least a few of those races were a result of said research.
You are correct though; it did state in Super Metroid that the flying pirates were from another galaxy. And both Ridley and Mother Brain were of a different race.
As to the Federation doing illegal research, take into account that both times were illegal operations happening without approval. Not without knowledge of course; plausible deniability and all that. It doesn't mean that humans in this universe were becoming more and more like the Space Pirates; one of the best ways to learn how to beat a bomb is to build a bomb.
6730096 but there's still the difference between diffusing the bomb, or blowing it up with your bigger bomb.
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Yeah, I get that. I thought it was really stupid for humans to do the research that they were doing with metroids though, even for peaceful applications.
I only said what I said because that was one of the major reasons why the U.S. continued is atomic weapons program for so long.
And in all likelihood, hasn't stopped it, no matter what the prez says.
Im kinda confused on the whole talk between Celestia and Discord.", what did i miss? What happened?
6730501 Basically saying that the mane six were the scalpel, while the royal guard is the sledgehammer.
6730515 ooooooooh.
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Actually, I was trying to imply that Celestia used to keep "Agents of the Crown" on payroll, but there weren't enough incidents requiring their attention to warrant it in modern days, and bored agents are dangerous.
6730609 That Shyamalan Twist.
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For someone who says there's no fun in making sense, that was surprisingly reasonable! Well said!
6730609 Ah. Okay.
and I couldn't breath in space yet
1. Breathe.
6730668 Well, if he was perfectly logical in that moment, when everyone is expecting him to do the unexpected and logic defying, what is more unexpected of the spirit of Chaos making a logical argument? Therefore, remaining true to his chaotic nature by doing something they would not expect.
6730753 Straightforward Reverse Psychology. It's simply as complicated as that.
6730781 It is glorious.
All the more reason to be at full power.
Understandable, the damn guy's ridiculously resiliant.
This would be funny if it weren't so facepalm worthy.
Shit.
It's about as terrifying as you think.
I can imagine.
Nice work.
Smart move.
Well, what works, works.
Care to fix that Spike? Also, you double spaced between Spike and Apparently.
Considering Ridley's as bad a boss as General Grevious, no. It wouldn't. He does it all the time.
That sounds VERY satisfying.
Holy shit.
That, and she's a One Woman Army on her own.
Ah, I see.
Which displeased Dark Samus I'll bet.
6730501 Twilight and co are a sledge hammer. Twilight alone is a short sword acting like a scalpel. The equestrian military are an anvil where as Luna and Celestia are different weighted sledge hammers. Do the metaphor from there, and consider Samus a sniper rifle that sets its self up and aims for you before blowing the target apart by brushing the trigger. Spike is a Swiss Army knife sized to be a sword with teeth.
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And Discord is an octopus.
If anyone gets the webcomic that's referencing, I will be very happy.
6731029 I have no clue about the reference but that made me smile. Just picturing the tool shed with all of this stuff in, and then there is Discord on a shelf just looking around.
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I believe is A girl and her Fed reference, as it's the only one that comes to mind, but I am not positive
6731017 Id consider Spike a flying cannon with aim-bot integrated.
As for Twilight and co, yes they take care of things in a more......stealthy way, but they MO is more rusty Knife then Scalpel.
6731215 still better for precise work than a sledge hammer
Discord is being chaotic by being orderly and logical.
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Yup, that's it!
Speedy: You know the saying "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight"? Well, I brought a gun. He's broken, damaged, and has plenty of issues, but he's still a gun. You? You brought an octopus!
Wouldn't Samus herself be a one-woman sledgehammer? She leaves most planets with either most or all life dead in her wake. Then again, in comparison to an entire federal military...
It's official, Spike is gonna become Batman.
Great chapter... but Discord using Logic at the end just has me feeling like the universe turned upside down.
6729825 Or burns them to ashes, eats them, or just plain uses them as chew toys.
So if Spike some how consumed the planet would he be the level of a " God".
6730939 Care to elaborate on the Don't remind me quote?
6820420 Basically, Twilight is Celestia's Samus.
6733012 Titan. God is a religious deity. The gods were not as great as the Titans, it was only careful planning and an all out attack by all gods to take out the Titans ONE BY ONE.
They still think he's Ridley huh.
First Yes tailor made tools to fit jobs, Celstia should know that and secondly why is she looking at Twilight like that?
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Because Twilight is essentially Equestria's version of a Bounty Hunter. She winds up handling all the bullshit the normal military is either too incompetent to handle, or simply wasn't designed to handle.
Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis (though granted that is very technically a military win), Sombra, Tirek... you name it, if it wasn't an army, she's faced it.
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And with the changelings during the wedding incident, even her not having faced an army is debatable.