M: Dangerous Creatures
"From the sound of it, the Bottleship mission didn't really have anything of big interest for rather large gaps," Twilight mused as Samus paused in her tale. "Why is that?"
Samus shrugged. "We were going up against creatures of the sort we'd faced hundreds of times before, on an enclosed station, and Spike still had all his abilities. Even with some of the abilities of the creatures which seemed designed with countering his abilities in mind - which, in hindsight, really should have rung a few alarm bells - we had no trouble coasting through for most of it. Not to mention if things really got tough, I could always reactivate more of my abilities."
"Assuming you got permission," Spike grumbled, turning a glare towards Adam, who ignored it.
"At any rate," Samus continued quickly, "it wasn't long after the worm that we encountered another unusual hurdle...a large hive of insectoid creatures that proved more difficult to take down. It also happened to be the first step towards a rather...rough reunion..."
Samus and Spike scanned their surroundings after sliding down the long tube. They found themselves in a large chamber with beetle like creatures scuttling around a good distance away. Nothing seemed all that interested in attacking them...until something let out a loud, piercing, almost human shriek. All the beetles rose up on their abdomens and turned to attack the pair even as several large insectoids resembling dragonflies began to dive bomb them.
Spike and Samus did their best to evade, countering with the Diffusion Beam and Spike's various breath weapons, along with striking physically when the enemies grew too close. They continued to blast away at the creatures that attacked, but the creatures continued to drop out of a large structure above them, the very structure they'd slid through to reach the chamber.
After a time, five blooms on the branches holding the hive up opened, projecting energy towards the pair. Acting on experience and practice working together, each of them took on one, Spike using his claws to tear his bloom to shreds, Samus destroying hers with a missile. The branches broke apart into bits from the destruction, and the remaining two blooms closed up, and more dragonfly like insectoids descended, and ones without wings crawled up out of the ground to attack as well.
The pattern repeated, but working together they were able to take out the fifth bloom before it could close, Samus targeting the bloom while Spike kept the insects that attacked at bay. With that, the hive fell to the ground and broke open, revealing the 'queen' creature embedded in the hive's structure, and a mess of their 'honey'. Several creatures tried to protect the 'queen', but Samus and Spike were too thorough, and before long all were dead. The hive turned black, and the few surviving creatures fled.
A loud growling echoed nearby. The 'Little Birdie' could be seen, eagerly devouring the honey from a hive piece with a long wet tongue that gleamed blood red, and tearing the hive chunk to bits with sharp teeth. Seeing its voracity, it was no longer cute, and Samus felt sick at the way the creature fed off her power like that, using her and Spike to get it the food they needed.
Spike snarled his own distaste, spitting a bit of fire at the creature out of spite, but it dodged to the side, hissing at him before returning to its grisly feast.
"Ridley was the source of the shriek, wasn't he?" Fluttershy asked softly. "He did that to make you fight the insects so he could get the honey?"
"Yeah, that's right," Samus confirmed. "It's what he needed to jumpstart his metamorphosis to his next stage...though we didn't discover that until later."
"At that point I directed them to the Biosphere Test Area in that sector," Adam spoke up. "A rendezvous with the whole unit was planned at the Exam Center there, as it held important information about the Bottleship."
"But the trip there wasn't as smooth as it could have been," Spike added. "I still don't understand why you didn't approve the Gravity Suit for when we had to go into the water."
"Because every approved piece of equipment meant more attention drawn to Samus," Adam explained. "The more of her tech was active, the stronger her communications signal became...and the easier it was for whoever else was on the station to track you both down. Besides, you can swim. It's not like she needed the Gravity Suit to maneuver underwater as long as you were there."
Spike blinked, shocked. "You already thought someone or something on the station was trying to kill us at that point?"
"When on a mission, I always assume that someone or something from an unexpected direction is trying to kill me and the men and women under my command," Adam countered.
"Which is why before that mission, our unit had such a low casualty rate," Anthony added with a smirk.
"And if I'd gotten a bit more information sooner, I could have saved everyone there, too," Adam stated curtly, not meeting anyone's eyes.
Silence greeted that statement at first. Then Celestia quietly set her teacup down. "Commander," she said softly, "I think, when next we take a break from this story, you should join my sister, my former student, and I for some tea."
Adam frowned. "I'm not so sure-"
"I've long been of the opinion that lessons were best learned through experiencing them," she continued, "but you have brought to my attention that, sometimes, this method can be...unnecessarily cruel. As Twilight is now a Princess, she is also a leader of our little ponies...and she has already proven herself time and again on the field of battle. However, I'm sure you know as well as I that sometimes, a leader will lose some of those who look to them for guidance." She smiled beatifically at him. "I thought it might be good if my sister and I passed on the lessons we've learned for dealing with such things, especially ways to handle the guilt, before she needed them. Perhaps you'd care to listen in? If only for cultural comparisons?"
Adam was silent for a time, but eventually nodded, taking a sip of his tea. He seemed...far less tense than before.
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And a darker turn in the current time for this story is starting.
That's deep.
grisly
Other M was such a mess.
You can't save everyone..........
Weren't those War Wasps? I don't remember.
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Not entirely. Neither Samus nor Spike could bear to watch him eat.
...I'll fix it.
Why do I smell the start of Adam/Celestia shipping?
Freaking Ridley, you snakey (for lack of a better term) bastard. In the words of Kefka in Dissidia Duodecim: "... You can't even die properly!"
It would be nice if they were to trade skills and techniques, Adam and Celestia
6994364 Huh...You think it'd work?
6994443 I dunno.
6994320 Can't remember what those things were called, but War Wasps are as of yet only seen in the Prime trilogy.
holy shit i think you just crated a justifiable reason for that bullshit in other M
6994663 In this setting? Yes... Which is pretty fucking impressive... Game canon doesn't get a pass though, as game Adam can't go "But Spike was with you."
6994709 I think he was talking about the signal thing. It makes sense even in the canon setting, as Samus' various equipment would require a complex and likely easily readable method of communication between each other to prevent crossed commands and the like. Ergo. the more of her stuff is active, the easier it becomes to find her by scanning for that signal chatter.
...Yep, mind's still blown. Nice plot hole cover, Tatsurou.
6994758 Ok, I can't argue with that. But certain moments are pretty damn inexcusable, ever for that reasoning. Looking at you volcano section!
6994824 Yeah, that was ridiculous...
6994278 you can't save them all? ...true. however, it won't stop many of us from trying.
6994758 The cannon explanation (for those who bothered paying attention at all) was that Samus's standard weaponry could reduce your standard human to ashes in a few seconds, so avoiding friendly fire was Adam's main concern (still doesn't explain why Samus couldn't use her defensive suit functions like Varia and Gravity, but hey, they tried.) And Adam DID know that one of the troopers was a mole, so this theory still works.
I realize that the events of fusion are going to be slightly different, since at least Adam lives.
Also you skipped Prime Hunters Tatsurou.
Interesting.
Define rough reunion...
Try blowing that thing up.
That works. Also, I know what those things are, they're KiHunters. HATE those things.
Yeesh.
Yep.
Good point.
Properly paranoid.
This is why your rendition of Celestia is one of my favorite ones, she just feels warm and motherly, yet at the same time, a ruler, this is why you are easily THE best author I've ever encountered. Yes I even include authors or physical books. You're that good.
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I believe Tatsurou said that he wasn't going to cover that.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
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That was only why Power Bombs were expressly forbidden.
And there was no mole, it was MB.
6995809 Take a closer look, There WAS a mole, who was killed by MB. My biggest evidence for this? Because Mb was not the trooper piloting the Freight Mech boss. (goes off to take a closer look myself)
Yep, The Mole was the trooper piloting the RB176 Ferrocrusher, this is when Samus first met MB, And MB was not the one driving that Mech. The mole does kill off some of the squad, while MB uses the wildlife to take out the others, and the mole. (I will never call him 'the deleter' that's just stupid)
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No. It was Adam, trying to kill MB.
6996337 http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Deleter#The_Deleter
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The wiki is wrong.
The only reason Samus comes to the conclusion of a mole/assassin is because she doesn't realize that MB orchestrated the entire thing. The soldier on the tractor is confirmed to be Adam trying to kill MB, andMB is confirmed as being the one who killed everyone else during the endgame arc once the real Madeline Bergman shows up and talks to Samus.
6996374 then What about the troopers who were explicitly killed by another trooper? Are you accusing Adam? We have in game cutscenes of this happening.
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Killed by trooper weapons, taken from a trooper killed by animals. There's even a cutscene of MB shooting one of the troopers in the back with a trooper issued rifle.
6996391 The cutscene found by recovering Adam's helmet shows that Adam was still at the control room after Samus fought the RB176 Ferrocrusher, and only leaves the control room after he sees Samus talking to MB. This of course means that he was still in the control room while Samus was fighting the RB176 Ferrocrusher.
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The Ferrocrusher fight is after Samus talks with MB, and results in Samus being separated from MB. That cutscene is what proves it was Adam in the Ferrocrusher, since he rushed to stop MB since he knew by sight that she wasn't Madeline.
6996428 The order of events is, Samus first sees MB, who flees. Samus follows her, and is attacked by the RB176 Ferrocrusher. Samus defeats the RB176 Ferrocrusher, and has her conversation with MB at a later point in the game. It's this third part that Adam witnesses. Also, Adam left his helmet in the control room, and the trooper piloting the Mech is helmeted. /watch?v=Q4kaor22N9k And to compare, the Ferocrusher fight /watch?v=UBHEeTA9TU0 . Adam calls Samus Immediately after the fight, meaning he was still in the control room.
I think Shining Armor and Adam need to play some war games together. I can see the two of them staring at one another over a game table and moving miniature Federation/Pony forces around to get a feel for each race's tactics. Still, I almost feel sorry for Ridley when he makes himself known, everyone listening to the story will want to take him down hard.
6994494 Those, my friend, are Kiihunters. Annoying bastards in every game they appear in.
6999403 Ah yes, now I remember them. Hated those things in Fusion.
6999493 They were way worse in Ridley's lair in super. If you didn't have any power bombs or the screw attack, you just plain couldn't kill them. I will admit though, They were very annoying in Fusion just after restoring the station's power.
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Actually, that boss wasn't helmeted. I seem to recall that all but the head was shown during the boss fight, as the top of the Ferrocrusher's seat was level with the trooper's neck. Upon examination, the trooper was either the size of Adam or Anthony, though James was almost as tall.
Hmm curiouser and curiouser.