Chapter 53: Phaaze
A wormhole opened, and out of it came a single ship.
Samus' ship.
With Sweetie Belle sitting on it.
Before them, a planet entirely blue, glowing with Phazon which it was entirely made of.
Phaaze.
And between the sentient planet and the ship, an armada of spaceships, ranging from hundreds of the little fighters to some huge and powerful destroyers with their three massive pongs circling a large front-mounted cannon (Sweetie Belle remembered that the ship that flew above the temple in the fiery region of Bryyo before the fight against Rundas was one of these). One of these ships was probably the Colossus because of which this whole debacle started. On all these ships, Phazon growths were visible on their hull.
A force that would have easily been able to face the Federation fleet.
But what they were about to face instead was much more powerful than a Federation fleet.
With a smirk, Sweetie Belle flew from Samus' ship toward the pirate armada, charging right at the closest destroyer. She crashed into the central cannon, and a huge explosion followed, disemboweling the massive ship. Sweetie Belle then flew out of it and began to cut in pieces the fighters that had approached with her swords, also slicing in two a nearby pirate frigate.
The majority of the pirate fleet began to attack the filly while some instead fired at Samus' ship as it tried to pass. The ship was easily able to avoid the shots, but Sweetie Belle still came and used her mirrors to deflect them, opening the way to Phaaze's surface.
Samus' ship successfully passed and reached Phaaze's atmosphere, leaving behind Sweetie Belle to deal with the pirates.
A spot at the surface, among countless giant tendrils of Phazon like there had been on the Pirate Homeworld, was found, and the ship landed on the rock-like Phazon that composed it. Samus then came out of the ship only to be immediately overloaded by all the Phazon of the planet, getting her stuck in this state constantly. This made the PED Suit trigger the emergency vent override, causing all the Energy Tanks to vent to prevent total corruption.
It was now a race. She had to find Dark Samus and the Aurora Unit 313 and destroy them before she fell to the corruption. She will have to constantly vent the Phazon accumulating inside her by the uses of the Hyper weapons she got through this adventure.
So she began to run on the only path accessible to her from where she landed, ignoring the plant-life that was present around. She quickly was stopped by a door that was actually an organic maw contained within a thin layer of Phazon energy. They worked like any other door, but they could only be opened by Phazon-based weapons.
Well, it wasn't like Samus could use any other kinds of weapons right now.
So she fired at the door with a beam of Phazon and continued, beginning her descent into the depths of Phaaze to find her targets.
She quickly had to fight local Phazon-based lifeforms, starting with creatures called Jelsacs that could expand their body to fill it with Phazon-based venom until they exploding, sending the venom in all directions. Hopping Metroids and Phazon Hoppers quickly followed after jumping to a lower level, among black crystallized Phazon.
After eliminating all threats, she used the Hyper Grapple to destroy a mass with pink crystals like there had been on the Pirate Homeworld. Overloading it allowed Samus to pour in it a lot of the Phazon that had accumulated in her, lowering its level a lot. She noted to use the Hyper Grapple more often on the local fauna to rid herself of the Phazon more effectively.
After the pink crystals was a hole down which she jumped, getting deeper inside Phaaze. Her path was then blocked by a cavern filled with small tendrils of Phazon that would tangle around anything getting too close, with Metroid eggs saturated with Phazon present too.
Thankfully, the tendrils couldn't do anything against the Morph Ball, so Samus rolled until there were no more tendrils. Phaz-Ings were present afterward, but Samus made short work of them with the grapple before she fired a Hyper Missile at a large cluster of big crystals blocking the path. More Phaz-Ings came after it until she reached the next door.
Now, she had to enter a Morph Ball tunnel and use the Hyper Ball to destroy Fleshlike blooms that fed energy into a Phazon mass to damage said mass and open the way. She had to destroy two groups of these blooms before she could reach the exit of the tunnel where a Phazon Puffer waited for her, a mutated Puffer that fed on Phazon energy from others and used that energy to attack, still easily killed.
Samus then had to go down a large cavern, jumping from ledge to ledge while fighting more Jelsacs as well as Phazon Metroids and while also using missiles to destroy more crystals. After passing another door, she used her Morph Ball to pass a small hole and enter a room where she had to kill some Hopping Metroids. Once they were all killed, she used the Hyper Ball again to destroy several growths to make a massive mass of Phazon with a shell explode, opening another hole down which she let herself drop.
She fell in a similar room to the previous one, this time with Phazon Hoppers. Once they were all killed, she destroyed the growths like before, destroying another shelled mass and opening another hole. This repeated a third time, this time with a Phazon Puffer guarding the room.
She then fell a long shaft and right into the mouth of some giant worm creature that didn't last long against the Hyper Ball.
After it was a cavern with a membrane that was the entrance to a nest full of Metroids, said creatures constantly comming out of it to attack her, so she didn't remain here long only to be stopped by the optical organ of some creature protected by thick plating. She had to fire at antennae randomly coming out of other plating to remove what protected the optical organ and be able to fire at it, destroying it. All the while, she had to fight off the Metroids coming out of the nest.
A mass of Phazon like the one on Norion was her next obstacle, and she had to kill all the Phazon Hoppers that spawned here, a good dozen, to destroy it. Its destruction released Phaz-Ings.
She then jumped down another long shaft only to be snatched by a big creature in the wall. The thing had five eyes and a really big mouth ready to gobble her, but Samus fired right in it, making its eyes explode one my one until she killed it, making the creature release her.
More Phazon Metroids came after Samus passed the door at the bottom of the shaft, and once she killed them, she fired at some hardened Phazon blocking an opening in the ground, letting her jump down another hole.
She then traversed a cavern with a Leviathan Womb, one of the places where the Leviathans were created. It was right above a seal covering a lower chamber.
Strangely, there were also molten husks of creatures on various ledges.
So, after killing some Phazon Metroids present, she used the grapple to tear off a soft tissue at the side of the womb, opening it and revealing the Leviathan infant inside it. As for Metroids as well as Jelsacs came from tunnels around only to be killed, Samus then fired at the Leviathan infant until it escaped to the other side of the womb. So Samus jumped on the opposite ledge and teared off the soft tissue here before she fired again at the Leviathan infant that was now here.
The Leviathan infant took a lot of hits to be killed, and all the while Samus had to defend herself against the Phazon Metroids and the Jelsacs constantly coming. The Leviathan infant escaped again to the opposite side of the bomb, forthing Samus to jump back on the first ledge to continue her assault on it. Finally, the Leviathan exploded along with the womb, destroying the seal under it.
Finally, Samus jumped into the lower chamber, and after a long drop, she landed on a circular hatch, the only technology she encountered on the planet.
The hatch was surrounded by a circular-motif grating above a pool of liquid Phazon, and a wall of jagged, crystallized Phazon surrounded all this. Outside of this wall, several Phazon-based lifeforms could be seen.
The hatch began to open, and Samus quickly moved away to not fall under it. Floating out of it was Dark Samus, now in a more physical form looking almost exactly like Samus with her Suit, excepted that hers was colored a metallic blue with veins of Phazon and looked more smooth. The hatch then closed and the dark doppelganger landed on it before she pointed her cannon at the Hunter.
Samus chuckled. "Found you."
Suddenly, in a flash of light, Samus turned into Sweetie Belle.
"Surprise!"
Dark Samus recoiled, clearly not expecting this and remembering her encounter with the filly back on Elysia.
Sweetie Belle laughed. "Ahahah! You expected Samus, but it was me, Sweetie Belle! Sorry, but Samus isn't coming."
Before the assault on Phaaze...
"So, what did you want to say?" Admiral Dane asked to Sweetie Belle in the Reunion Room where he had previously briefed Samus and the other bounty hunters before the pirates' assault on Norion.
Samus was also present to hear the plan, as well as Ghor, Gandrayda, and several high-ranking officers of the Olympus.
"I have a plan that will avoid having to send your fleet to a battle that will probably result in the destruction of a good part of it in the best case."
Castor Dane frowned, nonplussed. "Go on. I personally don't see any other way this could go."
"Yes, but the problem with your plan is that sending Samus to Phaaze will be very risky. Sorry Samus," Sweetie Belle quickly said to her Hunter friend who just gave a shrug in return. "Phaaze is entirely made of Phazon after all, so what do you think will happen once she lands on it?"
"She will start to constantly absorb the Phazon of the planet, entering as a result in a perpetual state of overload that could end up corrupting her like it happened for me, Gandrayda, and Rundas," Ghor answered.
"Damn. She would have to constantly fight it as long as she would remain on Phaaze," Gandrayda said in realisation. "And at all moment, she could lose the fight and make this whole operation fail, which would result in the whole universe being doomed."
"Exact, without forgetting that the pirates will defend Phaaze in number and will be ready, so even in case of victory, thousands of feds will be killed in the battle," Sweetie Belle said. "If not the entire fleet. So, instead, let's go with my plan: we don't send the fleet, and we don't send Samus."
"Then, who would go?" a very perplexed Admiral asked.
Sweetie Belle grinned. "Me, of course. If Samus doesn't mind being stolen the spotlight for the final act of this whole Phazon crisis, then I will go deal with Dark Samus myself. As Gandrayda may have told you, I'm totally immune to Phazon and its corruption."
All eyes turned to Samus who shrugged again. "No objection. I perfectly understand that this would be better this way. The fate of the universe is at hand after all. No place for bruised ego."
Sweetie Belle smiled at her before she looked back at everyone else. "However, after our little encounter back on Elysia, Dark Samus will probably try to escape Phaaze as soon as she sees me. I don't know if she would be able to survive even after the destruction of the planet since it will cause all the Phazon of the universe to vanish, but let's not give it to chance. If I have to go on Phaaze, I will have to disguise myself." She looked back at Samus before her body flashed and she transformed into the Hunter, Suit included. "So?"
Gandrayda laughed before she transformed too into Samus.
"This is getting out of hand. Now there are three of them," one of the officers around muttered, making many others laugh or groan.
"Anyway. Of course, disguised as you, I will have to borrow your ship if you don't mind."
"Only after I show you how to pilot it. I want the ship back in one piece," Samus said.
Sweetie Belle nodded before she looked back to the others. "Then, once I land on Phaaze, I will do as if I really was Samus and simulate as if I was on Overload to ensure that Dark Samus won't see that I am not the real one."
"And what about the pirate armada? You won't be able to pass it with Samus' ship without help," Dane remainded.
"I was coming to this," Sweetie Belle said before she looked at Gandrayda who had transformed back to her usual appearance. "Gandrayda taking my appearance should be more than enough to do the job."
"Say what?!" Gandrayda asked.
"I will have to train you a bit to better use my powers, but you will be more than enough to take on the pirate armada. So Dark Samus will think that I will be too busy dealing with the pirates to come to her and will lower her guard thinking that she will just face Samus."
Dane stared at Sweetie Belle thinking a long moment, before he sighed. He had personally seen how powerful Gandrayda was while taking the filly's form as she slaughtered the pirates by the hundreds on the Pirate Homeworld, so he knew that if she said that she could take on the pirate armada by herself then she wasn't kidding.
"I have a question," Ghor then said. "Why not simply blow up Phaaze with a beam like the one that you used against Dark Samus on Elysia?"
"Because Dark Samus wouldn't then get the beat down she deserves after everything she did. A quick death by planet blowing up would be too nice for her. Also, fighting Dark Samus will be funnier than simply blowing up Phaaze."
"Makes sense," Gandrayda said. "Alright, I'm in."
"So, what do you think? Impressive, uh?" Sweetie Belle asked as she finished some popcorn.
She and Dark Samus were now sitting on chairs that the filly had materialized, facing a large screen thanks to which Sweetie Belle had shown the scene. Dark Samus also had a big bucket of popcorn on her lap, but she hadn't touched it.
"Ah! Despite all your puppeting and masterminding, you haven't seen this plan coming! And now..." the filly suddenly grabbed her bucket of popcorn and put it on Dark Samus' head, causing the bucket on her lap to fall and spill its contents. "It's time to continue from where we left off on Elysia!"
Dark Samus immediately jumped away and ripped the bucket on her head in pieces with her hand before she fired at Sweetie Belle with scattershot beams.
Sweetie Belle avoided the shots by teleporting and appearing right in front of Dark Samus before she punched her in the gut, making her bend. The filly then gave an uppercut right into the helmet's visor, sending Dark Samus flying to land on her back several meters away. Before she could go up, Sweetie Belle flew up and surrounded herself in Phazon energy before she dropped back toward Dark Samus, only for the dark Hunter to turn into Morph Ball and to roll away. However, when she crashed on the ground, Sweetie Belle sent a powerful shockwave of Phazon that Dark Samus wasn't able to avoid while in Morph Ball, propelling her against the wall surrounding the arena.
Dark Samus got out of her Morph Ball form and began to float before she created two copies of herself but before they could do anything, Sweetie Belle teleported to one of the copies (they could be differentiated from the real Dark Samus thanks to the visor. The real one glowed blue) and blasted it to pieces before she teleported to the other and did the same. She then teleported to the real Dark Samus and blasted her too, sending her flying again. However, this time, Dark Samus recovered quickly enough mid-flight to send her grapple toward Sweetie Belle, catching her. She then brought the filly toward her as she readied a fist.
Sweetie Belle quickly summoned one of her swords, avoided Dark Samus' punch, and pierced her in the abdomen. Despite this, Dark Samus managed to blast the filly away before she recreated her two clones who moved away. Then, she began to absorb energy from Phaaze, and the clones mimicked her, serving as decoys.
Of course, this didn't work on Sweetie Belle, but she simply watched as Samus used the absorbed energy to heal herself.
"Impressive. Thanks to Phaaze, you have an infinite source of energy to heal yourself. If I don't stop you from absorbing it, the fight will last forever," Sweetie Belle said. "But as nice as it sounds, I have other stuff to do elsewhere so you will excuse me if I cut our fun short."
At this moment, Dark Samus fired toward the ceiling, and Sweetie Belle had to avoid a huge pillar of Phazon falling from it and planting itself in the grating around the hatch. Sweetie Belle replied by firing a beam of Phazon at least three times her size, and Dark Samus quickly got out of the way as the beam went right through the wall of crystallized Phazon and destroyed everything in its path.
"Hey, I just thought of something!" Sweetie Belle suddenly exclaimed. "Since you are a double of Samus, wouldn't it be fair that a double of her nemesis deals with you?" she said with a smirk before she transformed into Ridley.
The difference between her and the real Ridley was that her scaled skin was entirely white where Ridley was purple, and she didn't have his mechanical augmentations and other pieces of armor.
She chuckled. "Warning, what will follow won't be for children. The fight will get bloody! Or phazony. Whatever."
Sweetie Belle immediately followed her words by charging claws first toward Dark Samus. The dark Hunter tried to kept her distance by floating backward while she fired, but Sweetie Belle was faster and easily avoided the shots by spinning and she caught up before she grabbed the legs and threw Dark Samus right into one of the pillars of Phazon that had fallen earlier, destroying it before Dark Samus crashed on the grating.
Sweetie Belle dive bombed toward her, and like before, Dark Samus turned into her Morph Ball to escape. But Sweetie Belle knew the trick now and managed to catch the Morph Ball before she smashed it on the ground several times. She then put it in her mouth and pressed, biting it badly while she also fired fireballs at point blank, the fireballs exploding on Dark Samus inside her mouth. But Dark Samus eventually used a bomb, forcing her to spat her. Sweetie Belle quickly made her pay by smashing the ball mid-air with a claw, sending it crashing into another pillar of Phazon.
Dark Samus quickly left the Morph Ball mode and floated up before creating two clones again. she then began to absorb energy only to be pierced by Sweetie Belle's tail. Then, as she freed her tail from Dark Samus' body, she grabbed her by the helmet and did like she did against the real Ridley, violently dragging her on the ground by the head o cause a lot of damage. However, instead of throwing Dark Samus afterward, she pinned her under her weird before she began to repeatedly slash her.
But Dark Samus turned into her Morph Ball and escaped between Sweetie's legs, leaving behind a bomb that didn't look like the usual bombs that Sweetie Belle saw Samus use until now, the bomb beeping. Understanding that it was bad news, Sweetie Belle kicked it away before the bomb blew up, creating a huge explosion of Phazon that covered a big part of the arena so it still managed to hurt her while it also destroyed a part of the crystallized wall around.
"Urg... This must be one of these Power Bombs Samus mentioned. Darn... They pack a punch..."
Sweetie Belle then quickly lowered her head to avoid a rather big missile before she flew up to avoid a few more. When Dark Samus continued to fire them, Sweetie Belle sent fireballs to blow them up, only for the dark double to create two clones who also fired these big missiles from different directions.
Sweetie Belle flew around to avoid them, continuing to send fireballs to blow up some of them. After a time, however, she managed to hit one at the side with her claw, making it spin mid-air to the point that it flew back toward the real Dark Samus who moved to avoid it.
Sweetie Belle suddenly landed right between the real Dark Samus and one of the clones. Once the two fired their big missiles at her, she flew up again, and the two missiles passed beside each other, the clone's now going toward the real Dark Samus. Again, Dark Samus moved to avoid it only for Sweetie Belle to hit the second clone's missile like before to make it fly toward her while intercepting her. This time, Dark Samus couldn't avoid it and she took the missile right on the torso, the big explosion of Phazon that resulted sending her on the floor on her back.
Before she could recover, Sweetie Belle flew toward her and grabbed her by the head again before using her as a meat shield against the missiles of the clones who quickly stopped attacking.
While still holding her, Sweetie Belle then pierced Dark Samus with the tail one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight times before she smashed her on the floor. By this point, the clones had disappeared, but Sweetie Belle wasn't finished as she began to violently stamp her.
Suddenly, the hatch in the center of the arena opened, and out of it came the Aurora Unit 313 itself, now corrupted. Its shell was a dark grey, and it had now four red ports at its sides. Its optics were also blood red, and the brain was mounted on a giant mechanical spine.
While Sweetie Belle was busy staring at it, Dark Samus fired another big missile at her head, sending her flying. then, with some difficulty, she rose and flew up to the Aurora Unit with who she merged.
Sweetie Belle saw this as she recovered and turned back to her normal appearance. Then, as the Aurora Unit readied itself to attack, tentacles of Phazon coming out of its ports, the filly sighed.
"Fun is over."
Then, from her horn, she fired a giant beam of Phazon that totally enveloped the Aurora Unit. Little by little, the Unit disintegrated starting by the shell, exposing its organic brain for a couple of seconds before it disappeared too, leaving behind Dark Samus. The dark Hunter tried to resist, but the Phazon overloaded her until she disappeared into particles with a yell of agony.
With the destruction of the Aurora Unit, a chain reaction began all over Phaaze.
The planet was about to explode.
Not losing time, Sweetie Belle teleported back to Samus' ship and took off.
Above Phaaze, all that was left of the pirate armada was a field of debris, and when she saw the ship, Gandrayda, still in Sweetie's form, flew toward it.
Samus, still in the Olympus with Dane and Ghor, on the bridge, immediately felt when Dark Samus died. Suddenly contracting in pain, she felt the Seed inside her disappearing along with all the Phazon in her body. By the time it was over, her Suit was back to the colors it had before the fight against the Mogenar.
Taking some heavy breathes, she turned to look at Dane who was now staring at her along with everyone else, some feds coming to check if she was alright.
"She did it. Dark Samus is dead. You should open the wormhole again."
Dane nodded. "Leviathan Command, fire the portal beam. Be quick, before Phaaze explodes and the Leviathan disappears along with all the Phazon."
It wasn't long before the Leviathan battleship fired its portal beam, opening a wormhole. Almost immediately, Samus' ship came out of it, Gandrayda, still as Sweetie Belle, siting on it.
Just a few seconds later, the Leviathan battleship disintegrated, and the wormhole closed.
For a moment, everyone watched as the ship went to fly below the Olympus to go to a docking bay before Samus eventually said, "Well, Admiral..." She gave him a thumb up. "Mission complete."
The Admiral returned the thumb up with a military salute. "It was an honor."
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The trolling Sweetie Belle did, would have my Bionicle OC's seal of approval.
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And you know the best part? That "watching the flashback like in a theater before giving Dark Samus a bucket on the head" was a spur of the moment. I hadn't planned for this at the origin, just the flashback.
Nice Star Wars reference!
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She'd still get his seal of approval.
Well,that was entertaining.now now one or a pair of afther-match chapters and into the next universe!
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True, but of Fox I don't know too much but I don't imagine many investigation in Vampires... Metroid leaving aside Dark Samus, the metroid are the most similar to a vampire and Megaman is more or robots that Vampires, not even sure what version of Megaman are you even going to play as there are too many. And Sweetie just returned from Kirby verse so unless Nintendo make a game this year with a Vampire, something I doubt, I can't be sure that they find that
P.S: Congratulations, in the final score, surely Sweetie get a SS Rank finish
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*laughs in Shade Man, especially since his weapon is Mega Man's down aerial*
EDIT: I was remembering SSF2 apparently.
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So, there we have it, the Vampire created by science... Congratulations
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Well would you look at that. A robot vampire. I had totally forgotten about him. Too bad however it's just the look. I went to the wiki and the only thing he can do is to send sound waves (and fly).
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How's the next chapter looking by now?
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Considering this one only came out yesterday? I don't condone the downvote, but I understand it.
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I barely started it.
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Cat 1 gods: Category 1 gods. Or are you asking about Galeem and Dharkon?
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Ah. Yes, it will be them.
Ah,a man of culture I see…nice addition.
Talking about Jojo’s,part 6 anime It’s gonna break internet for second time once it’s come around.
Also,killer Queen already touched this comment.