Harmony of Heroes: Ultimate Multiverse Explorers

by Lucar

Chapter 164: Exploring the Wrecked Ship

Author's Note:

Chapter made by me and Cyrus.

I have edited the two previous chapters to add stuff. I thought that it would be weird for Samus to know the names of Phantoon and Draygon since they are in no database from the Chozo or the Federation, so I added a part where she downloaded a database from the pirates and got by the same occasion a file with the names of the Subspace creatures, so she knows about them starting from after the 'fight' against Kraid.

Sweetie Void and Samus exited Phantoon’s room and returned to the previous one where they took note of the waves that were sparking now that the current was back. They will have to be careful of such wires to avoid a nasty shock.

They moved through the small passage to the main part of the room and saw that the robots were now reactivated, walking around and randomly firing shots before them without any targets. Sweetie decided to destroy them, less risks. There were also Atomics now present, flying toward the girls.

They returned to the Map Room to download the ship’s map.

“The Coverns have stopped appearing. Phantoon really had something to do with them,” Samus said.

“Or maybe it’s because the lights are on,” Sweetie Void guessed. “Ghosts tend to not like lights.”

“True.”

They returned to the stairwell and, after climbing a bit and fighting some Floows, took the first door that was now unlocked, entering a room with a Super Missile Expansion, careful of all the sparking wires.

Then, they took the passage that had previously been blocked and entered a new room with conveyors (that were now activated), robots, spikes (at both ends of the conveyors, of course), and some kind of floating spherical plants, Bulls, that revealed to be rather solid as the girls fired at them to stop them from ramming them. At the end of the room, they found a secret passage leading to another Super Missile Expansion.

Climbing the stairwell again, fighting more Floows as well as a couple of little black creatures with bombs for heads known as Bombeds (“Again a name they didn’t have to think long…” Samus said) while also killing some Atomics on the way, they arrived at another unlocked door that led to a room full of water. Because of the water, Samus couldn’t jump high enough to reach the other side of the room, so they had to leave it for now.

Above the room was the recharge station now activated, allowing Samus to replenish her energy and missiles.

Finally, after more climbing, killing more Atomics, Floows, and Bombeds, Sweetie and Samus reached what seemed to be the top of the stairwell, only for Samus to reveal that part of the ceiling can be destroyed, revealing a passage to another level of the stairwell that wasn’t even mapped. So they climbed again until reaching a blue door in the ceiling.

In the room above, they found themselves surrounded by Kihunters, yellow ones no doubt stronger than the ones the girls encountered until now. Atomics and colored one-eyed balls, Bytans, were also present, as well as pillar pods on the floor and suspended from the ceiling, cylindrical with broken glass domes that were sparking. The sparks even rained down from the suspended ones. And to make it worse, the entrance door locked itself with a metal door behind them.

The Kihunters were the closest threat, so the girls attacked them first before they could even do their swoop attacks. Once the closest Kihunters were eliminated, Sweetie and Samus targeted the Atomics and Bytans that were coming too close, targeting especially the Bytans who were multiplying fast. Sweetie quickly had to change targets to kill more Kihunters approaching. Thank the stars Samus had the Ice Beam to freeze the enemies and stop them from approaching too much. Finally, the room was cleared of all hostile life, and the doors were unlocked, both the one they came from and two others at both ends of the room.

Not minding the Zebetites present in the back of the room, they took one of the unlocked doors and entered a room with conveyors, lots of sparking wires, spikes at the bottom of gaps between the conveyors, and Work Robots firing right toward the entrance. Sweetie destroyed the robots right away, opening the path to the end of the room where a Missile Expansion awaited them.

Back in the previous room, they now took the other unlocked door which led them outside the ship where they spotted right away platform Rippers flying back and forth beside a wall. Having some suspicion, Sweetie flew toward the wall and fired at it near the highest Ripper, discovering a Missile Expansion that she then brought to Samus.

After that, they dropped from the door’s platform to find another blue door back into the ship. However, it led to a room that revealed to be a dead end, so they left and went instead to explore the large ledge which was actually the roof of the cavern with the scaffoldings. At first sight, there was nothing, but one scan later and Samus discovered two points in which the ground could be destroyed. So Samus and Sweetie separated to see where these passages led. Sweetie ended up finding a Missile Expansion while Samus found, after a water-filled room, a bridge to a door leading back to the ship guarded by a single Metal Primid.

Inside the ship again, they found themselves in a spike-lined room with grapple points to traverse and reach a Chozo statue. This statue was different from the others. Instead of sitting, it was up. A metal door closed behind the girls.

Samus used the grapple to reach the statue, having to hurry up in the second half of the room because some points threatened to crumble under her weight. Once they were both before the statue, Sweetie Void wondered what to do. The statue’s hand was outstretched, and yet, it wasn’t holding anything.

“The statues are all holding an orb, so this is probably what this one is waiting for,” Samus said. “I think I know what to do.”

At this, Samus jumped on the hand and curled into her Morph Ball. After a few seconds, her idea seemed to work because the statue activated and began to walk on the spikes. Sweetie followed after it.

Eventually, the statue reached a secret staircase among the spikes and descended to a room below where it eventually released Samus right before a blue door. Samus landed on a piece of floor that collapsed under her, revealing more damaged floor that could be destroyed. Wanting to see where it led first, she took the revealed passage instead of passing the blue door. The passage led to a dead end, but Samus guessed that it wasn’t the end of it, so she used a Power Bomb to reveal the end of the passage.

The girls were now before Work Robots that Sweetie destroyed, allowing Samus to reach a Chozo statue with a Missile Expansion, careful of the gaps with the spikes. The statue was quite damaged however, so Samus scanned it and found out that it could be destroyed with a Power Bomb. This revealed a secret room with a conveyor and a small shaft at the end.

Samus guessed that she had to use the Shinespark, however, because of the gaps, she didn’t have enough space to activate the Speed Booster. Thankfully, Sweetie was here.

“Can you put shields on the gaps so I can run? Normally, I’m guessing that I should have used the robots to step on, but since you destroyed them…”

“Yeah, sorry. Alright! Shields coming right up!”

This worked, and Samus was able to use the Shinespark to jump up the shaft and reach the top. From here, she quickly found a room with a Reserve Tank. After getting it, she just had to fall down a hole and through some floors that collapsed under her to return to the room with the conveyor. Then, it was just a matter of using the Speed Booster again (with Sweetie’s shields again) to break a wall and return in the passage to the room with the statue.

They took the blue door and entered a small room with a single upgrade orb in the center. Samus opened it and screamed in joy right away upon seeing what was inside.

“The Gravity Suit! Finally!”

She grabbed the Suit, and in a flash of light, her orange Suit turned purple.

“So, now, no limit?” Sweetie asked.

“No limit. I can go everywhere except in the most potent acids and in the most extreme heat.”

“So Maridia is now open to us!”

At this, they left the room by the opposite door and exited the ship. After a small drop, they returned into the ship by the long corridor with all the Zebetites, which were now activated and glowing green. The room was also now full of Primids. They then returned to the room with the water where Samus was now able to jump high enough to reach the other side (after killing a Bull).

Another room with water, with spikes and bottom-spiked platforms dropping from the ceiling. Samus had to carefully jump on the platforms to avoid the spikes and reach the other side of the room.

After a door, they reached another stairwell with water. They climbed it and fought more Floows as well as a Shaydas to reach a door that led outside the ship, into a submerged cavern with scaffoldings. Deciding to not go there right now because it was probably the path to Maridia, they returned in the ship and continued to climb the stairwell until reaching the top where a Power Bomb revealed another level with a red door to a submerged room.

grapple points and green platforms were present to reach an Energy Tank. Instead, Sweetie flew to it to bring it back to Samus.

With this, the exploration of the ship seemed to be over.

“And now, we can continue,” Samus said.

Sweetie nodded, and so, they returned to the cavern with the scaffoldings, ready to go to Maridia.

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Back in Ponyville, with Crocy.

The last thing Dream Warper was expecting when Rarity Void asked her and the girls to meet her at Timid’s house, considering the chaos in town, was a peaceful creature that looked like it would be carnivorous shoveling iron ore into its maw. That said, she wasn’t against a creature being peaceful despite its look.

Though there was the matter of one question that she needed to ask, “So Rarity, where did you say it came from?”

“Sweetie Void sent him over, something about not having time for proper presentations, though I am quite relieved that I won’t be having to upscale my own mining trips to include a supply to feed him,” Rarity Void answered with a breath of relief. “Though, that does raise the question of where Pinkie got the amount of ore she did,” she then continued as both she and Dream Warper looked at the pile of ore that easily equaled the creature itself in height.

Dream Warper looked between it and Surprise, the pink pony currently hauling another duffle bag full of ore from… wherever she’s getting it, then said, “Probably better that we don’t ask.”

“Yes, you’re probably right about that, darling,” Rarity Void replied as she adjusted Spiky, whom Sweetie Void had left in her care, while he napped on her back.

Meanwhile, a little white rabbit hopped its way up to Crocy, then gave the much larger creature a stink eye. As the rabbit pulled out a carrot, Timid pulled it out from its paw.

“Angel, be nice, he’s just staying here until Sweetie Void comes back,” the typically shy pegasus scolded as the rabbit crossed its forelegs.

Discord, who had managed to keep quiet for this amount of time (moreso because he was still laughing at the panic of the ponies in town), then spoke up, “Ah yes, well speaking of which, it is getting late, so while Fluttershy and I get Crocy settled mayhaps the rest of you get some well needed rest? Besides, something tells me that Sweetie Void isn’t the only one to get a new pet.”

“OH! By the way, my Pinkie Sense went off while I was on my way here, and Jackie hasn’t gotten here yet, so do you think you can make it to Black Apples cute-ceañera and her new friend’s “Welcome to Ponyville” party tomorrow?” Surprise suddenly burst out loud to everyone.

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“Black Apple got her Cutie Mark?” Everypony asked at once as Discord opened a viewing rift and Crocy just stared at Surprise in… surprise.

“And a new Fri~end!” the pink pony replied, chipper as ever. “Ooh speaking of friends, Crocy, meet my pet gator, Gummy.” Surprise said, following with her placing her pet toothless alligator on the Crocomire’s head.

Their eyes moved to meet, Gummy’s two eyes each meeting four of Crocy’s, the two staring at one another, as the larger reptile swallowed its current mouthful of iron.

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Later that night

Shadow Speedster lay in her bed, trying to sleep. Trying being the key word.

Ideas of how she could catch up to Sweetie Void and Black Apple in fighting ability spun through her mind as quickly as her beloved Shadow Raven. Finally, with a resigned groan, Shadow Speedster threw her sheets off of her, went to the desk in her room, laid out a sheet of paper, and began jotting down notes, muttering to herself all the while.

By the time she was finally tired enough to go to sleep, she had a solid idea of what she could do to have her own way to fight. Now she just needed some help to make it real.

Comments

[Herald of Opera]

guarded by a single Metal Primid

Which would mean it was completely empty in the original game.

“Can you put shields on the gaps so I can run? Normally, I’m guessing that I should have used the robots to step on, but since you destroyed them…”

In the game, enemies will respawn for stuff like this. Lorewise, that only works for the Subspace Army goons here.

Ideas of how she could catch up to Sweetie Void and Black Apple in fighting ability spun through her mind as quickly as her beloved Shadow Raven.

Even with its relatively low durability, most things aren't going to like getting hit by a future-car.

[Lucar]

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Even with its relatively low durability, most things aren't going to like getting hit by a future-car.

Yeah, generally, it's bad for the health to be rammed by something moving at the speed of sound. Not much of you remains afterward.