Chapter 166: Lower Norfair
Samus had to use the Space Jump right away to reach the ledge from which they entered Draygon’s room. After that, it was a matter of backtracking until reaching the shaft with the walls made of grapple points where a metal door now unlocked awaited them. Now that Samus could “fly”, it was very easy. But Samus not having yet the Screw Attack, she had to drop on whatever surface she could so she could fire at the Mochtroids. At least, Sweetie had her back so such stops didn’t happen a lot.
In the shaft, they took the metal door and entered a large room with lots of spikes where Samus had to use the Space Jump to go through the passages while Sweetie defeated the Blue Cacatacs. Before long, they reached the exit, entering a shaft with more Cacatacs. At the bottom, they took the door and found themselves back in that small room under the quicksand in upper Maridia where a metal door had blocked the path. One door later and they were back in the cavern leading to the tube.
Hey. Thanks to your Space Jump, you will be able to reach that metal door up there, Sweetie exclaimed, remembering said metal door they briefly saw the first time.
That’s right. And I think that I will love the upgrade that is certainly hidden behind.
So they returned to the part of the cavern out of water and, from here, Samus Space Jumped until reaching the metal door after which was a shaft full of Choots and Puyos. Reaching the top, again, was very easy thanks to the Space Jump while Sweetie eliminated the critters in the way.
At the top, they entered a small tunnel with a colony of Puyos before they reached a room with Pink Space Pirates. Sweetie began to deal with them while Samus dropped until reaching a Chozo statue holding what revealed to be the Plasma Beam. Samus had an evil smirk at that.
She immediately turned around and fired at a Pink Space Pirate. The beam proved to be stronger than the armor, and the pirate was dead in one hit, Ice Beam deactivated.
“Ah! Feeling less smug now, right motherfucker?”
And so, after a jump to reach the level above, she began to fire around to help Sweetie kill the pirates still alive, which weren’t many.
Once all the pirates were dead, Sweetie asked, “New beam?”
“Yes. And probably the most powerful one I will ever find in this mission. There aren’t many who can survive the Plasma Beam, as you saw. Those pirates never stood a chance.”
“Mmh… I think that this is everything in Maridia. Unless I’m missing something.”
“Well, actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those quicksands lead to secret caverns, but I don’t feel like re-exploring Maridia all over again to test the quicksands one by one.”
“Fair enough. Then, what next?”
“Next… Back to Norfair. Now that I can go into the lava, I wouldn’t be surprised to find a new path, and I think that I know where to search.”
“Mmmmmh… That suspicious room full of lava that had been behind a yellow door at the bottom of a shaft?”
“That one.”
“Ok.”
So they returned to the tube, back to the underwater section of Maridia. After many Feyeshes, Armights, Puppits and a couple of Shaydas, they dropped back to the tunnel leading to Kraid’s lair and went on the elevator to Norfair.
Back in Norfair, they descended the elevator shaft, finding Cymuls, before they passed the door to the recharge station (the more direct path at the bottom of the shaft was blocked by the metal gate which had indeed closed and could only be opened by a Super Missile on the other side). After using it to replenish ammunitions, they took the opposite door to the long tunnel that had been blocked which was now full of Subspace creatures, starting with a giant horned beetle-like enemy with strange green legs, a Shellpod, which the shell was destroyed after a bit to reveal a weird creature that was easily defeated after that. Several chickens, named Tickens, followed, then a second Shellpod, then a sleeping ram-like enemy that was awakened by the noise of the battle against the Shellpod and went on the offensive by charging at Samus whilst emitting electricity. Sweetie stopped the ram, a Towtow, with a shield in its path. More Tickens followed along with Metal Primids before the girls finally reached the exit which was guarded by an Autolance.
They traversed the following cavern, then entered the purple room under the large bubble room, then descended the shaft under it before they traversed the lava-filled tunnel that followed, fighting Primids, including Fire Primids, on the way. Finally, they were back in the shaft leading to the room which was their objective. After fighting more Primids and Tickens as well as a couple of Floows, they entered said room.
Before jumping into the lava, Sweetie said, “I remark that we are fighting more and more Subspace minions. They are really sending everything now.”
“Yeah. Not that they last long against you and me now that I have the Plasma Beam.”
Sweetie giggled. “Too bad Ridley escaped. I would have loved to see him facing the both of us.”
At that, they jumped into the lava, which revealed to be full of cousins of the Funes, Namihes, which were totally invincible to the Plasma Beam, meaning that Sweetie had to be the one dealing with them. Once at the bottom of the lava lake, Samus used the Space Jump to get back out on the other side, reaching a sculpted head of Ridley leading to an elevator. At the other side of the elevator was a door to a recharge station in case Samus needed to replenish. They took the elevator.
They arrived in what must be a really old temple deep underground (the pillars were cracked). The temperature here was suffocating, and instead of lava, there was acid.
“Welcome to Lower Norfair. When I think of Hell, this place comes to mind,” Samus said.
Sweetie looked around, especially at the cavern glowing red and even seemingly moving because of the heat visible beyond the temple’s wall. “I went through my fair share of hellish places, but I think that this one takes the cake. I doubt anyone would survive without your suit or my powers.”
“It shows how determined the Chozos were to build a temple all the way down here. I question why they did that.”
“If even you don’t know, then the only ones who would know are the Chozos themselves. Anyway, which direction?”
“This place isn’t mapped. We will have to go blind and choose.”
At that, Samus faced one direction randomly and walked this way. The chosen path revealed to lead to a platforming section with black Dragons firing fireballs from the acid and fire jets on some pillars. Fire Primids were present on the pillars that didn’t have fire jets. Samus simply Space Jumped near the ceiling, passing above the obstacles while Sweetie eliminated the Dragons and Primids.
In the next room was a large gap filled with acid. No choice but to use the Space Jump to reach the other side. Once there, a scan revealed a wall that could be destroyed with a Power Bomb, revealing a Chozo statue standing, like in the wrecked ship. So Samus curled into her Morph Ball and jumped onto the statue’s hand which lowered like a lever. The room then shook, and the acid drained until none was left, revealing a small passage at the bottom.
“What’s with these statues that affect the environment? We’ve seen a few of them now,” Sweetie Void asked.
“Chozo security measure. They may have overlooked the fact that Urthic ore is renowned for its stability for construction, but is not exactly well known for or even really that good at suppressing warping tech of any kind,” Samus explained. “Still useful for keeping areas closed off to outsiders, obviously.”
After going through a Morph Ball passage, they reached another platforming section on pillars above acid. However, this time, there were a Magdolite and flying round horned one-eyed robots about Sweetie’s size named Holtz. These last ones seemed to have heavy armor, but thankfully, the Plasma Beam made short work of them.
In the next room was a Missile Expansion. However, it was revealed to be at the other side of a part of the floor that collapsed so, while Samus fell, Sweetie flew to the expansion and took it.
Samus fell in a large, empty room. At the end was a metal door. Samus took the Missile Expansion from Sweetie, then walked toward the metal door. Suddenly, Sweetie’s whip was wrapped around Samus’ waist, and she was pulled back before a Chozo statue dropped from the ceiling where she had been.
Understandably, this statue was revealed to be a Torizo.
A Golden Torizo.
“Aw shit,” Samus groaned.
“So, how bad is it?” Sweetie asked.
“Watch.”
Samus fired a Super Missile only for the Torizo to catch it before throwing it back at Samus who jumped away to avoid it.
“Oh, ok, it can casually catch missiles,” Sweetie said as they moved away from the approaching Torizo.
“Yeah, and Super Missiles are the best way to damage it. Without them, the fight will last a while.”
“Well then…”
In the blink of an eye, Sweetie Void suddenly charged right through the Torizo, leaving behind a large hole in its torso. The Torizo stopped moving, then exploded. Sweetie shook off the liquid that had been inside the robot.
“There we go,” she finished.
Samus, immobile, stared at her in amazement.
“Come on, I’m sure it was guarding something,” Sweetie said, waving at Samus to come after her. She then moved toward the metal door which was now unlocked.
Samus shook her head to recover her senses. “This filly scares me.”
Before leaving the room, Samus scanned around, like always, and found a piece of the ceiling that could be destroyed. She fired at it until she had enough space to be able to land after jumping there. Then, she used a Power Bomb to find a Super Missile Expansion
Once done, they left the room and found themselves before a Chozo statue holding an orb.
This orb revealed containing something that made Samus whoop: the Screw Attack. She almost wanted to cackle.
“Now, I will be unstoppable,” she said instead.
Sweetie grinned. “Now, they shall run in fear of not only me, but you too.”
Samus used the Screw Attack right away to destroy the ceiling, revealing a shaft with a blue door to a Power Bomb Recharge Unit. Back in the shaft, Samus destroyed the ceiling with the Screw Attack again to reveal a small room with a blue door.
In the next room, filled with acid, were very fast Ripper II that Samus shredded with the Screw Attack. After them was a metal gate with a green light, meaning that she had to use a Super Missile to open it. A blue door followed, leading to a small room with another blue door and a destructible part of the ceiling leading to a shaft after destroying the floor with a Power Bomb. At the bottom of the shaft was a blue door leading back to the elevator room. At the top, under Chozo statue heads with their beak open, was another blue door that the girls decided not to take, taking first the blue door in the room at the bottom.
The next room had rising acid. Samus used the Screw Attack to go through pillars and reach the exit door. Entering a shaft, Sweetie killed the Namihe while Samus used the Screw Attack to shred through Gold Space Pirates and Shaydas before going through the ceiling to a second section of the shaft where there were more Namihes and Gold Space Pirates. Instead of taking the door, Samus went through the ceiling again to enter a small room with a part of the floor that could be destroyed.
After destroying another floor, they landed on a floor that collapsed under them. Just before it collapsed, they saw a small passage. Sweetie went into it and returned a few seconds later with a Missile Expansion. After that, they went through more floors with Multiviolas and Roturrets before reaching a corridor with Desgeegas (large ones, not the small ones encountered in Upper Norfair) and Metal Primids. Plasma Beam and superpowerful magical beams made short work of them.
“They really don’t want us going any further, do they?” Samus thought out loud.
“Not exactly surprising. Escalation of enemy numbers tends to happen to me a lot. You should have seen the amount of stuff we had to fight by the end of the adventure with the Beast Pack,” Sweetie replied.
“Well, to be fair, by the time I got that message, I was in the middle of fighting a Zeta Metroid, which is much harder to fight than a normal Metroid,” Samus explained.
They were back in the shaft with the door they hadn’t taken earlier, from the top. From here, they returned to the shaft with all the gold pirates which was now filled with Shaydas easily shredded by the Screw Attack. At the top of the shaft, they took the door they passed by earlier.
They entered a large room filled with Gold Space Pirates, Shaydas, and little white and blue sumo-like enemies that Samus said were named Nagagogs. They didn’t have time to fight them however because acid was rising. So while Samus climbed the room to reach the exit, Sweetie Void eliminated them with piercing beams, not giving time for the Nagagogs to become their giant red selves.
They entered the next room which was a small one with two Chozo head statues. A blue door was on the opposite side, and parts of the floor could be destroyed. They decided to destroy the floor first to see where it led to and they discovered a new shaft with Red Kihunters (which were surprisingly resistant to the Plasma Beam but were killed in one hit by the Screw Attack), Fire Primids, Shaydas, large Chozo statues that were different from the usual ones (some of which had their head destroyed), and toppled columns. After exploring it completely, discovering a blue door midway through and a passage at the bottom, they decided to take the door at the top first to see where it led.
They entered a cavern with a large monster head that may or may not be Ridley sculpted into the rock, mouth open with a passage in it guarded by a Fune that Sweetie quickly eliminated. It was colder here for some reason, so it wasn’t glowing hot red. Fireflies were present, indicating that the cavern would certainly be dark without them. There was also a path passing above the head.
“Before going up, I think that we should go down first. We must not be far from the bottom of these caverns,” Samus said.
“But first, let’s see where this passage in the mouth leads. I’m feeling an Energy Tank under us,” Sweetie Void said.
So they jumped above spikes and entered the mouth, reaching a drop to a giant sculpted three-clawed arm. Another drop and they reached a platform above spikes, and from it, they could see another platform with the Energy Tank Sweetie felt. The filly went to grab it before Samus used the Space Jump to climb back to the entrance of the cavern.
They returned in the shaft with the statues and toppled columns and, this time, after fighting more Shaydas, they tested the door in the middle, entering a recharge station room. Finally, they took the passage at the bottom, leading to a Koma statue that Samus was able to destroy, revealing a room with more Komas and a yellow door in the floor. The following Power Bomb destroyed all the Komas.
Taking the opened door, they dropped right on a large Chozo statue surrounded by jets or fire and spikes and two alcoves. Samus spotted hidden among the spikes a pole that she fired at to make it rise so she could land on it without touching the spikes. She then bombed the suspicious alcove that was just beside it, revealing a passage to a large room with Desgeegas, Nagagogs, Shaydas, and some kind of purple portal dropping little green, yellow, and red stickmen, Mites, in great numbers.
“The portal is somehow solid, it can be destroyed,” Samus revealed.
Sweetie destroyed the portal right away, stopping the influx of Mites while Samus began to shred the Shaydas and Desgeegas with the Screw Attack. This left the Mites and Nagagogs to Sweetie who easily eliminated them with her swords despite the Nagagogs growing to their giant red selves.
Chozo head statues decorated the room under the ceiling, and there were three large statues at the end, including one that was partially destroyed. A scan revealed that a Power Bomb could fully destroy this last statue, revealing a secret passage. There was also another passage under a rock that could be bombed at the end of the room leading to a Power Bomb Expansion.
Destroying the statue revealed a narrow shaft with spiked platforms. In order to go down, Sweetie Void and Samus had to go on these platforms, wait for them to drop down, then move out of the platform as it went back up before going down to the next platform. They had to be careful of spikes present on the walls alternatively left and right. At the bottom, they also had to be careful to not fall into the acid.
A green door led to the next room, which revealed to be a monitor room with two Silver Space Pirates. These ones were revealed to have armor too resistant for Samus, even against the Screw Attack. In addition to that, while these pirates didn’t fire lasers, they instead used martial arts and threw their claws rapidly and repeatedly. Thankfully, a scan revealed that their armor had a flaw: it occasionally weakened to allow the pirates to do their more acrobatic moves, such as a diving kick, leaving them vulnerable. Even with the armor weakened, they still asked only Missiles, Super Missiles and Charged Shots (not Screw Attack surprisingly) to damage them.
Samus took one while Sweetie took the other. Even Sweetie had difficulty overpowering the armor. It took her a lot of energy to get the necessary power to break through, energy that was still limited. So she managed to behead the pirate with her sword, but at great cost.
For Samus, it was a matter of patience, dodging the pirate’s attacks until the armor turned golden and firing Super Missiles at him.
Once the pirates were dead, Sweetie looked at the monitors and giggled. “I’m sure that Ridley watched us through them.”
“And you gave him quite the scare.”
Eliminating the pirates unlocked the metal door at the end, allowing them to go to the next room which had acid and was full of Holtz and of Zebbos coming out of three pipes. The Screw Attack made short work of them while Samus traversed the room.
Next room was a platforming section above acid while eliminating Violas and Zebbos. Again, Screw Attack worked well. At the end was one of these monster doors, indicating that the next room would have certainly been Ridley’s room if he hadn’t escaped.
As they entered the room, they discovered that the fight against Ridley would have been difficult for Samus. The prepared arena was very small, a command could make acid rise, and there was a lot of space for Ridley to fly.
“What an awful fight it would have been,” Samus said.
“Not with me around,” Sweetie reassured. “Even with my limited energy, it would have been easy for me to defeat him.”
“I don’t doubt it.”
“Let’s go to the next room. I can feel the Void Energy moving there, and a lot of heat coming out.”
They passed the exit door and entered a small room with a broken capsule and a two-pronged machine. One of the prongs absorbed Void Energy, and the other released heat. Because of that, the room was scalding hot, hotter than anywhere else, to the point that everything was melting.
Sweetie destroyed the machine right away.
“And I’m back in action!”
“You are already in action.”
“You know what I mean!”
Samus then looked down at the broken capsule. “This is the capsule that contained the baby.”
“Well, we estimated that it was somewhere behind these golden statues. We didn’t expect to find it here in Norfair, even if it would have been logical to hide it in the deepest part guarded by Ridley.”
“Well now, just one place to explore before we return to the statues.”
“Yeah, let’s return to that room with the giant head.”
But before they left the room, Samus found an Energy Tank in a wall under the door.
The backtracking had lots of fights, mainly against Fire Primids and Shaydas, but also some Silver Space Pirates, Red Kihunters, Zebbos, Tickens, Bytans, creatures with trumpets for heads blowing air to push them into the acid named Borboras, and an Armank in the room with the three Chozo statues.
Back in the cavern with the head, they took the path above, avoiding (or destroying) rolling boulders while Sweetie killed Funes. At the top was a door leading to a dead end, so they took the small tunnel to another door. After it were spike pits with Alcoons, Buckots, and a Borboras blowing strong winds at them to push them into the spikes, before a shaft with Glires and Bombeds. At the top, instead of taking the door, they took a tunnel to a metallic structure with a Missile Expansion.
Behind the expansion were several pieces of wall that could be destroyed. Samus destroyed all of them with a Power Bomb, revealing a Morph Ball passage into the structure. At the other side was a blue door in the floor between two Komas. The door led to the room that had been a dead end, but on the other side of the wall. They were able to destroy the Komas here, then jump on the walls to make them collapse and reveal a Power Bomb Expansion.
They returned to the top of the shaft, fighting more Bombeds, Buckots, and Fire Primids on the way, before they took the door they had ignored earlier.
Now, they were in a room with acid rising and lowering, and Komas sending fire. They had to wait for the acid to lower to go through a Morph Ball passage and reach a shaft. Before climbing it, Samus found a secret passage leading to a Missile Expansion. They were just under the room with the Wave Beam upgrade!
“I think that I know where we are going,” Samus said.
They climbed the shaft, fighting Red Kihunters, Fire Primids, Bombeds, Glires, and Cymuls, before they went through the ceiling and found a blue door. They then followed the path, went through collapsing floors, destroyed walls, until reaching a Morph Ball passage leading back to the shaft to the upper level of the large bubble cavern.
“And now, we are done exploring,” Samus said.
“Next stop, the golden statues.”
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Which game is this world based on again?
Something Twilight repeatedly raged over in the story. Maybe you should even go back and add yet another bit of Twilight raging about this in a time where it applied.
As I said, the Subspace Army gets to respawn, while the canon enemies don't.
Especially since this is his canonical death. Could also drive a wedge between the two of them when Sweetie gets him cloned behind Samus' back that would allow Metroid Fusion to happen without endangering the rest of the cast.
It's worth repeating, canon Ridley was confident enough in this setup that he either didn't have or didn't use an exit strategy. Canon Ridley didn't have to deal with Sweetie Void.
With both characters having flight at this point, these guys are pretty much completely harmless.
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Super Metroid.
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Thanks for the advice.
Sweetie won't clone Ridley. The corrupted members of the Federation will do it like in canon.
And the planet blowing up definitively ended up. No way for the pirates to bring him back this time.
It shows the pirates' stupidity to send them only now. The pirates didn't send them earlier because they estimated them to be useless (they just blow wind, which is very lame for the pirates), but they are getting desperate.
Metroid games have relatively few places where they could be effective, to be fair. Especially against a foe who actively prefers to keep her distance, so there isn't even the protective use case.