Zebes: Wrecked Ship
It didn't take long for Fluttershy to make fast friends with the Etecoons and Dachoras once Samus had opened the ship for her. She had squealed happily at the sight of the Dachora's infant, eagerly scooping it up to cuddle. The mother Dachora had greeted this with surprise, followed by bemused tolerance, plainly recognizing that Fluttershy wasn't a threat.
Fluttershy had been quick to make space for the five critters in the lands around her cottage, making them feel at home. The Etecoons were actually able to help build their own preferred environment, as well as the Dachoras, working alongside Twilight, Rarity, and Ghor under Fluttershy's directions to assemble an area to allow them to frolic as they chose. When Fluttershy moved to feed the other critters under her care before coming back for more story time, the Etecoons eagerly lent a few helping hand-paws.
Celestia shook her head in wonder as she watched this. "You weren't kidding about how intelligent they are, Samus," she marveled. "Normally animals don't show this much ability to cooperate with ponies unless they've been living alongside them for a year or more...but the Etecoons are anticipating Fluttershy's needs and finding ways to help without being asked, and they've only just met her!"
"They flew their own escape craft," Samus pointed out. "Honestly, I think the only reason they don't use technology as advanced as I do is because they don't want to." Even Samus was startled when this statement was followed by one of the Etecoons shooting her a thumbs-up.
"Well, Fluttershy's going to be a while tending to her critters," Discord mentioned as he hovered overhead. "So how about you tell us a bit more about Zebes while she's at it?"
"I can listen while I work!" Fluttershy hastened to assure Samus. "And my animal friends love a good story! I even have a book club with them every other Thursday."
Samus glanced around at the gathered critters, everything from squirrels to birds to rabbits to a full grown bear. She tried hard not to imagine how they could all hold books. "Well, our ship told us that a rather significant upgrade - a new Gravity Suit - was available to the east, so we headed that way. Improved water mobility is a big advantage for exploring planets."
"We found it on an old wrecked ship," Spike added. "Unfortunately, the power was out, which made the path to the suit inaccessible. Turning the power back on, though..."
The oppressive atmosphere of the wrecked ship pressed down on Samus and Spike as they made their way through, keeping their eyes peeled for anything that might attack them. The fact that nothing was only made them even more on edge. Spike's non-physical senses were going crazy, knowing that there was something there that was a danger, just out of sight. Strange specters that looked like several human faces had been fused together and partially melted appeared here and there, but didn't actually attack them. The specters merely floated, waiting to be dispersed with energy blasts...which was oddly more unnerving than if they'd lunged at the pair with hair raising shrieks.
Even the ship wasn't fully intact. Bits of the walls crumbled from a touch or a low power shot...only to reshape behind them when they left the room. Defunct robotics creaked as entropy weathered their circuits. It was almost a relief when the path led them to another organic door cover like what had blocked the entrance to Kraid's chamber. A single super missile cleared the way for the pair to enter.
As they entered the small chamber, the door sealed behind them. Blue flames like will-o-wisps appeared in a circle, staring at the pair before spinning around before collapsing inward to a central point...and a horrific apparition appeared.
It was green, shaped roughly like a severed human head, but had no face. There was no apparent hair or ears, and tendrils hung down from its sides. It flew slowly around the room, only half in reality, dropping the eyeball flames as it swung around. After a few passes, its jaw opened wide as it let out a roar...revealing a single eye inside the mouth. More flames spun out from it in a circle.
Much to Spike's frustration, his own breath attacks were useless against the creature, only managing to extinguish the flame eyes. Even Samus could only harm the creature with missiles, super missiles, or charged beam shots when the eye was open. At any other time, it wasn't physically there enough to be harmed...or inflict harm, thankfully.
After the initial roar, it vanished, continuing to drop flames while hidden. It then appeared all at once with a roar, dropping flames from the ceiling. This pattern continued as Samus struggled to inflict enough damage on the creature to take it down.
After five super missiles managed to hit the exposed eye, the creature fluctuated in and out of reality before finally dissipating completely...and power returned to the ship.
"That was not fun," Samus concluded, in what the listeners laughingly referred to as the 'understatement of the day'.
"And it wasn't much better with the power back on," Spike continued. "With that, the ship's own systems began to attack us, and any exposed wires dripped sparks to damage us."
"Not to mention the native creatures that had infested the ship coming out of the woodwork to attack us," Samus added. "Once I managed to get the Gravity Suit, I was glad to see the back of that place and never return."
"And then you went on to an underwater region?" Rainbow Dash asked eagerly as the group returned to the crystal castle, Fluttershy's animals tended to and the Etecoons and Dachoras properly settled.
"Yup," Spike confirmed. "Next stop...Maridia."
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Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Good GODS I hated the Wrecked Ship. Phantoon was a true pain and really freaking annoying, especially when i found out that you needed to disable your Ice Beam in order to keep him from vanishing, while Super Missles made him freak the hells out. Seriously, screw that guy!
PhontoonPhantoon. Honestly a bit of a pain in Super Metroid.Other M, however, is one of the single toughest bosses outside the hardest difficulty settings for the Metroid Prime games. Especially the unique- and overly-complicated -targeting systems in that game make using missiles a trial.
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well he IS the final boss...
Ahhh, screw phantoom. He's a pain.
Bit of a error, it's meant to be "will-o'-the-wisps" or "will-o'-wisps" given that they're referring to the will of the wisps themselves, since they were basically known to be ghosts, as the flames had minds of their own, seemingly.
Or something like that, I dunno.
Oh jeez, I hated this part of the game. Mostly the parts with water. Phantoon wasn't that bad.
Again, if you're trying to kill us with cuteness, you're well on your way.
Considering the world of Metroid, I can see why. It'd get them involved in who knows how much chaos, so they'd rather live their lives as it is. Besides, they're happy without the tech, so why not?
No resistance from liquids and the ability to move in lava without trouble. Also reduced damage from outside sources.
Not so easy, between the creepy ghosts and Phantoon...
Speak of the Devil.
No kidding. I mean I never actually died to Phantoon, only Ridley ever did that, but it was not an easy fight.
Yes. Maridia, both lovely, and frustrating as hell. Lovely looking, enemies aren't that bad for the most part, but oh the quicksand and the goddamn puzzles!
Called it.
Got to wonder how Effective Pinkie Pie would be against Phantoon, given her Giggle at the Ghostie song. The only good thing about him is you get to force feed him missiles and shoot him in the eye at the same time.
6877400 Don't care. Author writes story, author better use common sense.
I was a little kid when I played Super Metroid. As you can probably guess, I put the game down and didn't touch it for two months straight when I found this place. Stupid Phantoon...
6877549 Poor baby can't handle a dose of fiction in their story based on a science fiction video game? You're one hell of a wet blanket.
And since when do you give a damn about scientific accuracy, Mr. YOUNG-EARTH-CREATIONIST?
6893203 To be fair, RC is usually decent to putting some thought into things..... except his Sacred Cow. After all, what kind of amateur-hour bullshit would 'christian teaching' be without some "Don't look at the man behind the curtain" programming built into it?
I wonder if the Little Writer RC in his head is/has ever been pounding on the glass bubble that the Little Missionary has built around itself, shouting "THAT SCRIPT MAKES NO SENSE! THE FUCKING PLOTHOLES ALONE!"
6896358 Just wondering what you mean by "Dont look at the man behind the curtain"?
Not Christian myself, just curiosity.
7621373 Wizard of oz reference
sorry for being late.
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His/her names pretty ironic don't u think?
The Ghost boss, Phantoon.....
I HATE that fight. H.A.T.E it.
Quite smart
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Ditto ,but with enough practice I got through it with little to no wear... probably helps I watch the Runaway guy's let's Play on super Metroid before playing it myself on my new 3DS and then later my switch in my 20s. And honestly I recommend finding a lot of super missiles and energy tanks plus reserve tanks if possible before going in, although in all honesty I find draygon to be more of nuisance than phantoon on account if you don't know the secret way of beating him that the battle takes so damn long not to mention the damn grapples.