M: Fishing for Answers
Once the laughter started to die down, Samus took pity on Anthony's embarrassment and quickly continued the tale. "After Anthony headed off on his mission, Spike and I made our way into a new part of the Pyrosphere, the Blast Furnace area. We figured starting somewhere new was better than retreading old ground, as Adam would have informed us if the creature was somewhere we'd already explored."
"Of course, the actual passage through the Blast Furnace itself wasn't exactly smooth," Spike explained. "Even as we were making our way in, activating grapple points to hover so Mom could make her own way through, a giant magma fish leapt out and tried to eat one."
"Which meant we had to fight it once we made it into the main part of the Blast Furnace," Samus explained.
After opening the path into the Blast Furnace, Samus used one of the Grapple Points to swing out over the lava, only to have to leap free as the massive magma fish creature leapt out of the lava to try and eat her. She managed to barely leap clear, coming in for a landing on a stone platform after spotting the grapple point it had previously eaten lodged in the back of its throat.
Spike quickly joined her on the stone platform. "The thermals are too strong for me to fly safely," he grunted, "and the fish is too heavily armored for me to meet it in the lava. The only weak point I saw were some engorged nodules on its underbelly, but we'll need to make it expose those."
Samus quickly rolled to the side as the fish splashed into the lava, launching a sphere of flame towards them. "I think I have an idea," she muttered. "We just need to get it to open its mouth wide near us."
Spike grinned, having seen the grapple point as well. "I like fishing," he agreed.
Samus kept her grapple beam ready, letting Spike fire at the engorged nodules whenever the fish exposed them in its leaping. Eventually, the fish reared near the edge of the paltform with its mouth wide open. Samus locked on and dragged it onto the rocks with her Grapple Beam. She and Spike then leapt to the attack, Samus using her beam and missiles and Spike digging in with claws and fangs.
The gigantic fish, for its part, flopped around madly until it was able to get back into the lava, but it had already taken heavy damage. As it struggled in the magma, Spike dove in after it, going low before coming up underneath it, delivering a heavy strike to its vulnerable underbelly with his tail, making it once more rear out of the lava, roaring. Samus once more grappled it out of the magma, letting the pair inflict even more damage.
When it came back out of the lava again, it had managed to swallow the grapple point completely, meaning Samus could no longer fish it out, but it had taken enough damage that it didn't take much longer to finish it off, letting the grapple point float back where it belonged as the lava drained out of the chamber.
"...huh," Applejack muttered. "Never thought o' fishin' as an extreme sport before."
"Guess it all depends on how you do it!" Rainbow snickered as the others tittered.
Samus chuckled softly, but continued the tale. "Not long after, Adam contacted me, informing us that the creature we were after was heading for the Geothermal Electric Power Generator," she explained. "Since that was where Anthony was headed, we didn't need to be told twice to get after it fast."
"Even with the map coordinates, it was going to take a while to get there, though," Spike added. "Was rather worrisome for us. We didn't want to think about what it would mean if Anthony got there first."
"And of course, there was always the chance it would be the Deleter android pretending to be Anthony when we got there," Samus continued. "Plenty of worries for that trip. Thankfully, the path was mostly straightforward, making it easy for us to make it through rapidly."
"Did you have any trouble along the way?" Shining asked curiously.
"You could say that," Samus confirmed.
After a long, winding path upward, Spike and Samus charged into a new chamber, only to have to instantly dive to either side to evade the bio-mech from before trying to catch them off guard by smashing through a small tower. It immediately moved in to try and take them down, lashing with its arms and firing its missiles. Samus noticed in passing that either it had grown its horns back, or there was more than one of these creatures.
Some concentrated fire from Samus and Spike's Ice Breath froze the base of its horns again...at which point it took to the air. Unlike before, the chamber was big enough for Spike to pursue it in the air, and despite its seeming ability to float, Spike had more aerial combat experience. Before long, a heavy blow knocked it out the open roof of the chamber, sending it tumbling down into the pit below.
Spike moved to pursue it, but Samus quickly called out to him. "That thing's not our priority!" she barked out. "Come on!"
Spike grumbled, but turned back. "I don't like leaving it alive to chase us," he complained.
"We'll get it eventually," Samus assured him. "But if we delay too long now, Anthony might pay the price."
"Right," Spike agreed, his head hanging, feeling ashamed he'd forgotten about that.
Samus stroked his muzzle comfortingly. "Come on," she ordered. "We'd better hurry."
"We didn't encounter any other major hurdles," Samus admitted. "Unfortunately...what was waiting for us..."
Samus and Spike both fell silent.
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Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
Wait, does it use electricity to make geothermal power, or use geothermal power to produce electricity?
It really shouldn't be surprising considering how common things like this seem to be, but sometimes it just baffles me how a creature like that could evolve. Any environment hot enough to have open pools of lava pretty much precludes the development of life itself, and for far more reasons than just the heat, and any creatures that wound up there would bug out or die out long before they could ever adapt to it.
And yet, time and again, such places seem riddled with life, including alpha-predators far larger than what even that absurd amount of habitation could possibly support, and I just can't seem to fathom how!
And don't even bother bringing up magical cheaters like dragons.
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Yes. How do you think they keep the Pyrosphere running?
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Considering the entire station is about engineering bio-weapons...
7069193
plus, Magma isn't able to be seen through, is molten rock, and is not a pure liquid
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And what of the planets with lava stages and "home grown" magma monsters? I know better than to believe there aren't any, and these guys had have had something to work off of.
Like I said, it really shouldn't get to me by now, but sometimes it just slaps me across the face with a giant magma fish.
And here it comes. Tatsurou... let's see how you handle one of the most hated scenes in Metroid history.
7069141 it uses geothermal energy to produce electricity
Tats, what's Spike's relative age at this point? I know it's been quite a few years since he first showed up in Samus' life, but the games have never given dates, much less a time frame as to how many years each mission was apart from the others.
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Believe it or not, there are actually bacteria that are able to survive in toxic or super-hot environments that would kill other life-forms. Lava vents along fault lines have been found to have bacteria nearby that are alive despite intense heat. Then there are the ones that can live in highly acidic environments found in caves.
No, I don't find it beyond belief that a creature can actually survive in lava. In an infinite universe, all things are possible. I even have formed the opinion that astrobiologists are wrong to assume that life needs both liquid water and planet-based gravity to evolve. And not just because I'm a Christian either; I feel that assumption is stupid from a purely scientific standpoint.
Wasn't that the Nightmare? It's been a while since I played Other M, and that's the only bio-mech I know.(Besides B.O.X., but he doesn't show up till Fusion.
)
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On a space station? Where they are already making the Geothermal energy for the environment systems in the pyrosphere? that would be utterly redundant, and moreover wasteful. It's using electricity to create geothermal energy.
7069278 sonar
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Considering one of such creatures seems to be made of sentient lava, I choose not to question.
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Well, he was six in Corruption, so...8.
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No, it was not the Nightmare.
7069460 Gotcha.
*Them
Did you mean to put "Which" before "was"?
7069460
Huh, must be a shorter time frame than I originally thought.
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No.
7069706 No? Doesn't really flow as well without it in my opinion but it's your story so *shrug*
I realize you have been doing this story the way you have for a while, and it's worked, but it seems like there's an update every 3-4 days of the week. Now, this is just my thoughts, but wouldn't it be better to get 1 or 2 updates a week, with the same content, just merged together? So like, instead of having this chapter, and then the next chapter tomorrow, why not have 2 chapters one day with a small merger added in to make it flow? I'm not trying to criticize how YOU write, or asking you to change it for one person, it's just a thought of mine. It's just, getting 3-4 updates for one story a week, makes it feel sort of like you just sit down, and pretty much copy-paste the story from all the games and make a few changes to make it seem like there were multiple beings there, and I feel like there hasn't really been much character progression as of late. Sure, you get the odd joke, and Spike's comments on taste, but other than that, it seems, again, almost like a copy-paste of the story. Again, just my thoughts. Don't change if you don't want to, it's a free country and all that politically correct BS.
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I write two chapters a day, one for each of two stories, minimum length of 1000 words each. I do this six days a week.
And when writing a crossover like this, the characters going through the games is the vast majority of the story, and what I have to write with. That's just the type of story it is.
>/oblig
EDIT: 7069835 Hey Tat, is there going to be a point (maybe after all the game scenes are complete) where (for instance) Ridley shows up in Equestria or some such? Sort of like the last 9 chapters of Nopony I'd Rather Be? That bit was brilliant by the way.
Is this going to be that Lava Whale boss with the Grapple Node in it's throat?
Called it!
Smart thinking.
That has GOT to hurt. Man I wish we could use Spike in real Metroid games, while there are talented programmers out there sure, to turn a one player game into a 2 player and properly program everything about Spike, his own health, his own tricks, his own power, his AI or not, whatever, it'd be tough.
I guess so, huh?
Define, you could say that...
Ever the pragmatist, eh, Samus?
Oh dear.
(You have a gift. You have a true gift, not just in writing, and keeping a consistent schedule, but cliffhanger wise, you manage to make a cliffhanger almost all the time, and you keep me wanting more, yet unlike most cliffhangers, it isn't annoying. Seriously, you are truly gifted.)
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Thanks for the praise.
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I meant every word.
7069303 Wasn't one of the Angels (Evangelion) fought inside a volcano? Yeah, I'd say that bio-terror weapons would be a prereq, like that one boss in Starfox 64 that swam in solar goddamned plasma (a substance that, what, a couple hundred tonnes per cubic inch). Natural evolution--- well, big universe, and could depend on what you mean by lava. Like I do know that 'cold' volcanoes exist: ice 'volcanoes' that more a quirk of pressure dynamics, mud volcanoes that're more the same but with silty goop, and 'cool' volcanoes that the rock is a kind with a lower melting point.
I found this.... I thought it was just a myth but it warrants its own Wiki article...
Spotting.