8.5. Foreboding
Metroid Equis
Chapter 8.5
Foreboding
The cold silence of space... only punctuates the feeling of singularity and void. Trillions of stars, billions of galaxies, yet still so much empty space... empty. Silent. Yet this silence and emptiness was purged when an enormous slip-space rupture revealed an gargantuan ship, followed by eight more large ruptures in space-time, which were in turn followed by dozens of minuscule ruptures. The modest fleet of warships slowed their speed to cruising, ensuring strict formation of capital ships and patrolling fighters.
The small spacecraft were garden-variety and comprised of the standard makeup of fighters, fighter-bombers, interceptors, and bombers, all running their normal patrols around their host ships. Their bluish hued, almost tadpole-esque hulls of the fighters cruised lazily in their premeditated patterns along with their slightly more attractive looking counter-classes. The larger ships were of Frigate classes, or at least six of them were. Of those six, four were Conqueror-class Frigates and the remaining two were both research and battle Frigates. The two remaining other ships were transport vessels. Unlike their much smaller fighters, these ships took on a more elegant look with more angled hulls... they looked ready to decimate anything in their paths. Their formation evenly surrounded the first ship, although there was a gap on the larger ship's side where another Frigate was undoubtedly supposed to be positioned. If one was to stumble across the fleet's registry, one would find the missing Frigate to be under the name of Orpheon. However, it's brethren, the Siriacus and the Vol Paragom were present on opposite sides of the central capital ship.
The largest of the capital ships, undoubtedly the flagship, was a Mothership-class cruiser. It had a definitive red hue to it... and it was unmistakable to certain individuals who would lay eyes on it. The fall of Zebes was not kind to the original bastion of Space Pirate might, as the Hunter took their base of operations and everything else with it in her escape. This ship, however, was freshly launched just days before the fall of Tallon IV. It arrived too late to relieve the Pirate force on the ground, or more importantly, retrieve the valuable experiments and other Phazon related data. However, when the newly commissioned fleet finally arrived at Tallon IV, not all appeared to be lost.
Pirate commanders did not expect to find the intact remains (although the word 'intact' would be used very loosely) of the Commander of Space Pirate Security Forces. With the help of several ships, their advanced technology, and a bit of specifically targeted cloning and printing, the second resurrection was complete. The fruits of that project sat in his lair within the Mothership, gawking at space as it passed by. However, even his enormous size couldn't even begin to put a dent in the space of this particular Mothership cruiser, as it was built nearly one and a half times as large. Nevertheless, he sat with his legs folded and weight on his haunches... his enormous organic and metallic wingspan pressed lazily against his back.
Ridley was alive. Pride and body marred by enormous lacerations (the latter of which was replaced by more augmentations of metal and composite material), yet very much alive. His bright orange eyes scanned space, as if expecting to see the intended destination.
Soon, however, a door rather far away to the rear had its shield deactivated and it opened, revealing a Pirate Admiral, dressed in full Pirate Naval attire. He stopped to give a salute and bow. Ridley barely acknowledged him until he spoke:
"Lord Ridley, please pardon my intrusion..." the Admiral spoke with slightly (but unusually) higher pitch than normal Pirates. He was obviously younger. Ridley barely even craned his long neck and head towards him. He responded with his iconic screeches, squawks, and grunts... but of course translators had been created for a reason.
"What is it, Admiral?"
"Our scouting parties have reported back from the suspected planets of the strike. All were negative, save for one."
Ridley remained silent. The Admiral took this as a cue to continue.
"One of our scout teams on a planet designated as VK109H by Federation directories. Decryptions reveal it's colloquial name as Equis. They landed in a lush forest but were subsequently wiped out."
"Why do you waste my time with these sickening reports of our scouts being destroyed?! I have little patience for their bumbling around and getting disposed of by the fauna like the weaklings they are!" Ridley roared. The Admiral kept his composure on the outside.
On the outside...
"That's just it, My Lord. The last transmission that we received, seconds before all communications went dark, was 'The Hunter is here!'"
Ridley said nothing for tens of seconds, but to the Admiral, it felt like hours. He could also make out a low growl of indignation from the Shipmaster himself. Meta-Ridley then let loose one giant roar of determination.
"Set course for Equis. If the Hunter is there, the Phazon meteor will certainly be there as well," he ordered.
"My Lord, please forgive me but does that necessarily mean that the meteor has--"
"A former shipmaster once made the mistake of questioning my judgement and orders, Admiral. What I am certain of is that you certainly will not make the same mistake," Ridley interjected and added the last word with a venom.
"Indeed not, Lord Ridley. Course will be set for Equis. All fighters and bombers are ready to launch in minutes notice and ground troops are ready to deploy planet-side when we arrive. Calculating the projected time before-hand revealed approximately five-day's travel unto our destination."
"Very well. See to it. Dismissed."
The Admiral didn't reply, but merely bowed and saluted once more before he strode off, the door closing and sealing behind him with a green glow.
The Metallic Dragon himself turned back towards the empty void of space, looking straight ahead as the ships all kept formation and changed course, entering slipspace once more with many things on his mind.
A score to settle was one of them.
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3152013 Lol I can see sarcasm doesn't go well in text. You're mistaken in identity, as you'll find out soon enough ;)
awww yeah! ridley is one of my favorite Nintendo villains, oh boy is equestrian in for a rough ride, fortunately they have samus on there being awesome like always.
I trust that, when they meet, you won't be going with some... ah; other misinterpertation...
3151203 3154158 Yeh, I figured "Not Ridley" there. That'd imply that he was ancient.
Hmm...very nice.
I have the strange feeling the "Night Dragon" refers to some ancient member of Ridley's species who was involved with some other space going group.
Just wait till the ponies get a glance of Ridley!
What's going through my head right now: OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT! NOW THINGS JUST GOT INTERESTING! ALL HAIL RIDLEY!
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Since Dark Samus is the reason more of these Phazon Meteors hit planets, would we be seeing her soon since this is set after Prime 2 where she reformed and took control of the Pirates sometime after?
Even in the. Fanfiction he lives how the hell does keep xpmong back its like star wars dark empire with palpatine clones
The Space Pirates are converging upon Equis? WE'RE DOOMED!
Ridley vs Equis dragons! MAKE IT HAPPEN! I WANT A BEAT DOWN!
Please? 
I love this story and I love Metroid lore. Let's see if I can get this right:
This takes place after Prime 2 but before Prime 3 (since Phazon still exists and there were mentions of the Ing and Aether previously).
Ridley is still in his Meta Ridley form after being recovered from his defeat at the end of Prime 1 (Omega Ridley comes in part way through Prime 3 and he returns to full organic glory in Super Metroid).
Dark Samus most likely will not appear in this. After its defeat at the end of Prime 2, it was recovered by a Pirate frigate and reformed with a new body. It then proceeds to kill and enslave the Pirates on board, search for the planet Phaaze, steal an Aurora Unit, launches a Leviathan at the Pirate Homeworld and commanding the Pirates itself, all before launching three more Leviathans at the beginning of the events of Prime 3. Therefore, I cannot see Dark Samus appearing in this story save for some brief mentions of events in Prime 2 and as the Metroid Prime (hooray for long winded explanations).
Discord will just make everything too easy for either side so he will not likely make an appearance (and may or may not be in stone depending on the FiM timeline).
I look forward to any and all surprises you manage to through in this as well as the eventual fight with Meta Ridley. Thanks for writing it.
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There shall be a beatdown the likes of which you can only dream of, my friend, mark my words. This is only the prelude to something so spectacular, so monumentally gargantuan, so amazing, you'll have to wear a condom just to read it to avoid creaming your pants.
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Jesus Christ xD
Fuckin' lol
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Now you know what's at stake, Flammen. Now you understand the potential this story has. With great potential, comes great badassery... or great failure, depending on what you choose to do. Here's hoping you choose correctly.
I had to make an account just to tell you how well written your story is. It completely captures the essence of a Metroid game. You've given Samus a satisfying personality, serious at points when needed but also a more humorous feeling. The suspense of the story is also building for what will be coming in the near future. You sir have earned a follow.
This story shows promise. Don't let me down.
Well Equestrian dragons are only about 10 times Ridley's size. Not to mention dragon killing weapons...
...smack the fleet with the moon...
3161748 I can just gleefully see luna just slapping those ships around with her giant rock. The entire fleet shows up at night, Luna looks at it rather bored, and with a shrug and a "meh," scoots the moon just enough to crash into the fleet xD
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... That is a sickeningly obvious course of action... Oh my god... Luna is awesome...
4250864 Of course! Why else would the Covenant have left Equus alone for so long?
Because the F***ing Sun and Moon can be used as superheavy AA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AAA? no, that's not correct. AAA weapons are meant for small vessels in atmosphere.
What you're thinking of is Orbital Defense platforms. or in this case, Orbital Defense Celestial Bodies. hmm, ODCB sounds pretty cool.
I don't normally post comments about how an author goes about writing their stories, but the author's note at the beginning of the chapters are unnecessary. Especially when it tells you what's about to happen in said chapter. I'm not one to care about "OMG Spoilers". But those notes at the beginning feel like you're going to the movies with a friend who has already seen the movie and nonstop nudges you at every scene going "oh watch this, it's really surprising!"
Maybe save them for after the end of future chapters? Either way, it's been a fun read.
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Oh boy, it's Ridley! Yaaaay Ridley!
Being a space pirate is probably the only job in the entire multiverse where you can say "My boss is a f*kin' Pterodactyl."
Ah, Ridley. Can't stay dead, can you?
6596278 No
Welp. Here comes the pain!
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I think you mean AA, sir.
And your right, Anti-Air is called Anti-Air for a reason.
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AAA is short for Anti-Aircraft Artillery.
You've played KOTOR 1 haven't you? I see what you did there, thinking you're Sly lol. I love it