Chapter 1 - Arriving

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As the fogginess in my mind clears up, I could hear voices. My eyes still wouldn’t open yet, but I could hear a young voice talking to another older voice.

“Twilight, what is that thing?” I heard the younger voice ask. It sounded like a young child.

“I don’t know, but it could be dangerous Spike. Can you go get the others and bring them here?” The older voice said, definitely female. I decide to finally try to open my eyes.

When I managed open my eyes, everything appeared to be in a green tint. But that’s not what shocked me. What shocked me was the purple unicorn in front of me. “GAH!” I yell, backing up to the wall behind me.

As I was backing up, I felt something wrong with my hand. I look down at my right hand to notice I couldn’t see it. All I saw instead was a familiar green arm cannon. I think back for a minute to remember why I was wearing this costume. But the strange thing is that the arm cannon looked like it was made of something else than what I made it out of. I looked back up to see the purple unicorn looking at me with curiosity.

“What are you?” I flinched back as she said that. I would have thought someone else said it if I didn’t watch her move her mouth while the words came out. But that brought the question to my mind, where am I? I was quickly thinking through all the possibilities of where I was at. Throughout my life, my father has taken me to almost every part of Earth, but this place feels different that Earth. It feels like there is something in the air, like… magic. Could I be in an alternate universe? That would be the only thing that makes sense. I look back at the pony, before trying to stand up.

Once I succeeded in standing up, I decided to answer her question. “I’m a human. May I ask what are you?” The pony flinched back that time.

“You can speak?” She asked, flabbergasted.

“And so can you. Now can you please tell me where I’m at. I feel like I’m no longer on Earth.” She looked confused.

“What’s Earth? This is Equestria.” Equestria? Like as in horses?

“Earth is my home planet, I guess. Never thought I would say that.” I said with a chuckle. “Now not to be rude, but perhaps some introductions are in order. My name is Samuel Aran. What’s yours?” Dad always did tell me to be polite.

“I’m Twilight Sparkle.” She answered. “Now can you please explain why you just appeared in my house all of a sudden!”

“I don’t know. All I know is that I was attending a con, and some merchant called me over and showed me his wares. He had some decent stuff, but what caught my eye was a symbol from the video game the character I’m dressed up as is from. Next thing I know after buying it was that I passed out and woke up here.” Twilight seemed intrigued by this.

“Why are you wearing that armor anyway?” She asked, pulling over a note pad.

“Like I said, I was attending a convention. People usually dress up in costumes for one. I decided to dress up as my favorite video game character, Samus Aran. Normally she’s a female, but I cared more about the suit because of how awesome it is. Now I can imagine what you’re gonna say, something about how my name is similar to hers. My parents just named me like that, so it’s kinda a coincidence a game came out a few years later with a character of a similar name.” I finished talking, before taking a deep breath. I always got too talkative when asked about my costume.

Before Twilight said anything, the door to the house burst open, and a blue pegasus with a rainbow mane, followed by an orange pony with no extra characteristics entered the house, first looking at Twilight, then at me. Immediately, the blue pegasus fly right at me, slamming into my chest.

I expected to be in pain and my costume broken, but what surprised me was that my costume almost seemed to be powering up. I looked over to the pegasus to see her clutching her hooves. I looked around for the orange pony, finding her when I fell over, because a rope was tied around my legs. Before she could tie the rest of me, I pointed my arm cannon at the rope next to my feet, and somehow fired a ball of energy that destroyed the rope.

In the zone, having almost no control over my actions, I flipped off the ground, charging up my arm cannon, before pointing it at the orange pony. She looked scared as if she was going to die. Before I did anything, I decided to ask Twilight. “Twilight, do you know these two?”

“Yes, they’re my friends, please don’t hurt them!” Twilight cried out. At her request and my judgement, I put down my arm cannon, shutting off the power flow to it. After I did that, everyone took a deep breath.

I decided to speak up first. “Sorry if I hurt or scared either of you.” They both looked confused. “You attacked me first, and I thought you were going to hurt either of us, so I went on the offensive.” The orange pony just nodded.

“I can understand that. I would probably do the same thing too.” The orange pony replied with a southern accent. “My name’s Applejack.” She held out her hoof, which I would have shaken with my right hand, but I had to use my left.

“Samuel Aran, but you can just call me Sam.” After shaking, I pointed my head to the other pony. “Is she gonna be alright?”

“Yeah, Rainbow will be fine. But that is some mighty strong armor you got there.” How do they all know I have armor on? “And you were able to destroy my rope like that. I don’t know many creatures, but I haven’t seen anything like you before.”

“I’m a human. I think I’m from a different universe, and somehow my costume became real.” I said with a smile, that probably isn’t visible behind my helmet. Wait, my helmet. I decide to pay a bit of attention to my visor, which appears to have gotten a HUD similar to the Metroid Prime games. Though the interesting thing was all the gear I have. I decided to go through it later, because the other pony is recovering.

Instead of talking, this one kept on flying into me, slamming into my helmet and all over my armor. “WHY WON’T YOU GO DOWN!” She yelled, until she was covered in a purple light, and was pulled over to Twilight, whose horn is glowing with the same light. Makes sense that a unicorn could use magic.

“Rainbow! Don’t treat our guest like that! He’s stuck in a place he doesn’t know!” This Rainbow looked like she was about to complain. “Now say you’re sorry!”

“I’m sorry.” She said, saying the last part softly.

Twilight was about to tell her to say it louder, but I cut her off. “It’s okay, I forgive you. Let’s let bygones be bygones.” I held out my left hand for her to shake, which she reluctantly looked at for a second before shaking it back. “I’m Sam Aran.”

“Rainbow Dash, Fastest pony in all of Equestria!” She boasted.

“Wow Sam, you’re really forgiving.” Twilight pointed out.

I just shrugged. “My father taught me to forgive those that hurt me. It would be better to make friends with your enemies, than just let them hurt you more.”

“Your father sounds like a wise man.” I nodded my head.

“Yeah he was. He was the one who individually made our family’s fortune. He never forgot his roots and raised me to care for others. He died last year.” I said solemnly.

“I’m sorry to hear that Sam. I know what it’s like, losing your family. I lost my parents when I was a little filly, and now all I have left is my brother and little sister, and my granny.” Applejack said sympathetically.

My stomach growled before we could say anything else. I let out a little laugh. “I guess I’m hungry. Is there any good place to eat nearby?” I asked.

“We could try to go to Sugarcube Corner. One of our friends works there, and she would be happy to meet somepony new.” Twilight mentioned.

“Sounds good.” The door slammed open and a small creature walked in.

“Twilight!” He took a couple of breaths. “I-got-AJ-and-Rainbow-Dash.” He almost fell down, but I caught him. I looked down to see him sleeping.

“Is this the other voice I heard when I woke up?” I looked to Twilight.

“Yes, that’s Spike, he’s my number one assistant!” She said proudly.

“What is he?” I said, fearing the answer.

“He’s a dragon.” I almost flinched back, but I had to tell myself that he isn’t Ridley.

“You okay sugarcube?” Applejack asked.

“Yeah, it’s just that when I woke up in this universe, I felt much different than normal. I feel like I also became Samus, except for the looks and the gender. And Samus Aran’s family was murdered by a purple space dragon named Ridley.” They all looked shocked and disgusted at that. Though Applejack and Rainbow just looked confused.

While explaining to the two ponies about what I know, Twilight took Spike upstairs to his bed. After she came back, we all left the building, heading to a place called Sugarcube Corner.

While double checking my plans, I felt a disturbance in the town those weak ponies call Ponyville. I used my magic to create an orb to let me see what was going on. What I saw only slightly shocked me. "So, the Hunter appears." I dispelled the magic, before sending a message to my minions in space. "No matter. He will not stand a chance against my master plan." I sent a few more bursts of magic out, making sure my control over key ponies is still strong. While doing so, I started laughing. "Yes! Soon all of the world will be mine! And it shall fall to darkness!"

Chapter 2 - Get her away from me!

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As we walked to Sugarcube Corner, I was telling Applejack and Rainbow Dash my story and who Samus Aran is. Rainbow Dash didn’t seem all that impressed.

“She doesn’t sound very strong. I bet I could take her.” I laughed a bit at that.

“I doubt it. She’s taken down beings much bigger than her. She battled the same dragon over and over again.” Rainbow smirked a bit at that.

“So you’re saying that she keeps on losing to a weak dragon?” She asked, the smirk never leaving her face.

“No, I’m saying she kills him every time, but his space pirates keep bringing them back. Ridley is one of the scariest dragons I can think of. He can fire energy and flames at you. He can fly incredibly fast. He’s intelligent. He keeps on changing. Plus, every time Samus sees him, she has to remember the time she saw him murder her parents and everyone she knew. Try dealing with that.” I replied with as smirk on my face.

“How could anypony kill another in cold blood like that?” Twilight asked.

“Some creatures just don’t care for others.” I stated.

“HUUUUUMMMMMMAAAAANNNNN!” I heard a voice call out as a mint blur tackled me to the ground. My instincts quickly kicked in, rolling into a morph ball, underneath the blur, and rolling out of the way before returning back to normal.

“Whoa, that felt weird.” I said when I stood back up. I looked to where I was tackled, to see a mint colored unicorn desperately searching the ground for me.

“Lyra, are you okay?” Twilight asked. Lyra looked up at her, tears in her eyes, before she noticed me. Right as she pounced, I turned back into a morph ball, and rolled over to Twilight, who looked at me curiously.

“Will you please stop jumping at me.” I asked kindly, after returning back to my biped form.

“NO!” She yelled rather dramatically, before trying to jump on me again, only to be stopped by Twilight.

“Why are you tackling Sam, Lyra?” She asked, trying to keep the struggling unicorn under control.

“I finally found a human! After so many years of looking, my wishes have finally come true! Now everypony will see I’m not insane!" She let out an insane laugh after she said that. "Now let me go so I can take my new pet with me back to my house! I shall name him Humberg and he shall be mine! He will do all the chores, and he will please me and obey my every wish because I summoned him with my own wishes!” Unbeknownst to either of them, I started getting angry at being called a pet. I had a bad history with being called that. I looked around, noticing how there are no other creatures around but us, so I switched my cannon to wave beam and started charging it up.

“Listen here Lyra.” I said that name with venom. “I am NO ONE’s pet, now I suggest you apologize before I send volts of electricity into your body.” I held up my cannon to emphasize the point.

“Why don’t you listen up Humberg! I am your master! Now get this pony to let go of me!” She said in an angry tone. I looked at Twilight for a second, before she nodded, and I discharged my wave beam into Lyra, who was dropped to the ground when Twilight let her go. We all watched as Lyra was spasming on the ground, drooling uncontrollably.

“Sorry about that, Lyra’s kinda obsessive about humans. Before we all thought that she was just crazy, and humans don’t exist, but now I guess she’s just crazy.” I just kept on staring at her spasming body, memories going through my mind.

“Let’s get out of here before she stops spasming.” The others agreed we kept on walking. On the way, I decided to start working on my HUD. By the time we got to Sugarcube Corner, I had finished setting up most of the programs on my visor. I had my weapons systems all up, and from what I could see, not only did I have stuff like the four beams in Metroid Prime, but I had both the Light and Dark beams, along with the Annihilator, a switchable Nova beam. I even had a Hypermode and a Hyper beam. I gave a small smile at the thought of using those two, so I decided to save them for a surprise against an enemy. I noticed I had all the missile upgrades, which I can switch from, and I had 230 missiles on me, along with 50 super missiles, AND 20 full energy tanks. I had to resist screaming in delight at the thought of all of this. But it’s like I have a stronger control over my emotions.

I looked over to see that Sugarcube Corner looked like a giant gingerbread house. “Is it supposed to look like a gingerbread house?” I asked Twilight who just giggled.

“Well it is a bakery.” She said, rolling her eyes. I just sighed, before looking around, noticing that there are no ponies around except for the ones with me..

“Where are all the ponies? It’s the middle of the day, wouldn’t there be at least some ponies around?” The others noticed this too, looking around.

“Well, there is a new critter in town.” Applejack pointed out, talking about me. “Maybe they’re all just frightened and hiding in their homes?” Another thing I noticed was the fact that through the doors to Sugarcube Corner, I couldn’t see any lights and I heard faint speaking coming from inside.

I activated my thermal-visor, noticing a vast quantity of ponies in the building, crouching down. “Are they having a surprise party in there?” I asked Twilight, who was shaken out of her thoughts of why no one is around.

“Well, our friend Pinkie Pie is a bit strange. She might have known that there is somepony new in town, and is waiting for you to arrive so she can surprise you.” Twilight’s eyes widened when she realized something. “Wait... how did you see in there through the walls?”

I turned to face her, before tapping on the side of my helmet. “Thermal visor. I can see heat signatures through walls and stuff.” She looked curious, and was about to ask a question, when I just walked into the building, and the lights turned on, with ponies jumping out from behind furniture, yelling ‘Surprise!’.

I just stood there, waiting at the door, watching as a few seconds went by before everyone started freaking out. “Monster!” They yelled. Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack quickly walked in and calmed everyone down.

“He’s not a monster everypony!” Twilight announced to the still panicking crowd. “He’s a human, and he was just sent to this universe.” They started to calm down now.

“So Lyra isn’t crazy?” A random pony blurted out.

“No, I’m pretty sure she’s downright psychotic. She tried to enslave me on the way here.” I said in a joking manner. “Anyways, my name is Samuel Aran. Nice to meet you.”

A few ponies laughed at the Lyra comment, while they still mostly looked afraid. Before I could do anything however, a pink blob suddenly appeared on the front of my helmet. My instincts kicked in, turning me into a morph ball, before rolling away. I was about to blast it with a morph ball bomb, but the blob let go and I could tell it was a pink pony instead of a metroid.

“Whoa! That’s really cool! You can just roll up into a ball and roll away. I can do that too, but whenever I try, and I can’t roll up into a perfect ball like you do. How do you do it?” The pink pony said rapidly after I returned to my standing position. I was gonna scan her, but then I remembered that I don’t have any data about this world in my database. And I don’t have a database. Maybe I’ll make a database, I do have the plans in my files on this visor.

When I feel my arm cannon moving, I look over to see the pink pony messing around with it. I pull it out of her hooves, and then she looks me right in the face. “Oh, silly me! I forgot to introduce myself. I’m Pinkie Pie! The premiere party planner of Ponyville!” She crossed her eyes for a second before giggling out loud. “Try saying that three times fast!”

While Pinkie was laughing to herself over her slightly humorous joke, I heard three small voices to my left. I looked to see three small fillies, pushing each other over to me. “You go Applebloom.” “No you Sweetie.” “How about you Scootaloo.” They kept on doing that for a minute, while I just smiled at their cute antics.

After a while, I just crouched down, pushing my arm cannon against the ground, and holding out my left hand. “Hello.” I said softly, getting their attention, and causing them to stop fighting. “My name’s Sam, what’s yours?”

“Applebloom.” The yellow regular pony with a bow started.

“Sweetie Belle.” The white unicorn with a pink and purple mane continued.

“Scootaloo.” The orange pegasus with a purple mane finished.

“I assume you three were fighting over who was going to talk to me first?” They all nodded, surprised at my Batman level detective skills. “If you wanted to talk to me, you could just, you know, talk to me.”

Applebloom worked up the courage to talk first. “Are you an alien?” She asked bluntly. I noticed she had a southern accent, and looked similar to Applejack.

I gave a small smile. “I don’t know if I am. I’m from a different universe. For all I know, this is the same planet I’m from, it’s just a different timeline.”

“Can you fly?” Scootaloo asked. She sounded similar to Rainbow Dash.

“No, I don’t think I can. Would be cool if I could though. I have abilities similar to flying, like double jump, and wall climb.” She looked amazed at that.

“Can you do magic?” Sweetie Belle squeaked out.

“Not that I know of. No human in my world could do magic. We get along with plain old technology.” They all looked dumbfounded at this. Before we could continue speaking, Applejack and a white unicorn walked up to me.

“I see you met our sisters, Sam?” Applejack said, I just nodded.

“So, I’m assuming that Sweetie Belle is your sister, Miss…” I asked the white unicorn with a purple mane.

“It’s Rarity. And yes, Sweetie Belle is my sister, Mr. Aran.” I smile a bit at the formalities. She doesn’t seem like she’s faking, but I’m totally faking this. I had a feeling by the way Rarity carried herself, she was a high-society pony.

“Please, just call me Sam. Mr. Aran was my father.” I was getting tired to standing up, so I sat down at a nearby table. This armor is heavier than it looks. Sure the energy tanks help reduce it’s weight, but it’s still pretty heavy.

“So, Sam, I’m sure you would want to change out of that ghastly armor.” I gave her an unseen look behind my visor. “And it just so happens that I run the Carousel Boutique, one of the only clothing stores in Ponyville.”

“I’m sorry Rarity, but I don’t know how to take this armor off. I figured out how to remove the helmet, but the rest of my armor, I don’t know. Besides, I like this armor. It’s a relic of an extinct race of wise bird-people called the Chozo.” Man, I’m starting to act like that is my past.

Pinkie appears right in front of me a second later with a cupcake on a plate, and puts it down in front of me. I looked at it, and it had frosting on it that said; ‘Welcome to Equestria, Sam!’. The colors of the cupcake even match the colors of the Varia Suit.

I was about to take off my helmet, and try to eat it, when I realized something. Horses, ponies included, like sugar, so maybe this cupcake has too much sugar in it. I start scanning it, and my visor gave the following results;

Analysis:

Subject: Cupcake.
Age: 1 hour.
Ingredients: See list.

Diagnostics: Cupcake, while similar to common cupcakes found on Earth, contains high amounts of sugar related substances. Also contains a high amount of love.

Conclusion: Fatal to User life.

I sighed, and pushed the plate away from me. I looked up to see all the ponies, gathered around looking at me expectantly. Twilight was using her magic to hold a quill and some paper, ready to take notes. “I’m sorry Pinkie Pie. I can’t eat this cupcake.” Everyone gasped.

“What! Why not! I’ll have you know I made that with 75.35246% love!” Pinkie yelled flabbergasted.

“And the rest is sugar. I scanned it, and the results said that it is too sugary for me to eat without dying. As much as I would love to eat that cupcake, I’m sure you don’t want to be seen as a murderer for an entire species.” All the ponies just had their jaws touching the ground.

“But how can it be too sugary! Everypony loves my cupcakes! Right everypony!” She said that last part in a demonic voice, looking to the crowd of ponies.

“Exactly. Everypony. Humans can’t eat high amounts of sugar like ponies can.” I stood up out of my seat, everyone still shocked. “I’m sorry Pinkie, but thanks for the party.” I walked out of the bakery, and just stood out in the middle of the road.

“Man, I was hungry too.” I said, putting my hand against my stomach. I was thinking about what to do now, when a sharp pain hit me in the back, sending me flying forward for a second, before crashing into a wall.

Chapter 3 - Meet the Princesses

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After I pushed myself off the crater I left in the wall, I looked up to find the creature that attacked me. Actually it was two ponies. One pony had a white coat with a pastel flowing mane, a horn that looks like it could go straight through this armor, and almost come out the other side, and some wings. The other pony was smaller, had a dark blue coat with a flowing midnight blue mane. She also had a horn and wings. But the thing that stands out most, are the two crowns on each of their heads. ‘So they must be rulers or something.’

“How dare thee alien! Attacking thine subjects with thee aircraft!” The blue one yelled in a loud voice. ‘Aircraft? What aircraft?’

“We will not allow your kind to hurt our subjects, alien!” The white one yelled, before launching a beam of yellow magic at me. I quickly jumped to the side, before scanning their glowing horns, trying to determine what kind of magic they’re using.

Subject contains high amounts of solar energy.

Subject contains high amounts of lunar energy.

I gave a small smirk, as I first fired my ice beam at the smaller pony, who created a shield just in time to block the blast. “Thou thinkst that thine magic can pierce our shield!” She said with a laugh. I fired a few more blasts of my ice beam at her, while avoiding the white one’s attacks.

After making sure she was primarily using her shield, I change from my ice beam, to my wave beam, before sending a few blasts at the blue one. She expected my attacks to hit the shield, but to her surprise, they went through the shield, and hit her before she could do anything. The white one teleported over to her ally, who was lightly spasming. I used this time to send an ice missile straight between them, which temporarily froze them.

When they both unfroze, they gave me the death glare, before they both charged at me, horns pointed straight ahead. Right before they reached me, I jumped over them, before jumping again, landing on the other side of them. Before they could realize what I did, I sent a blast of my light beam into the blue one, and my dark beam into the white one.

As I expected, they both turned around, partially wounded and breathing hard. I noticed both their horns were glowing, as I found myself floating in midair. I could feel them increasing the pressure in their magic, and I watched as my energy tanks rapidly go down. Before I got to 10 energy tanks left, I thought of an idea.

I quickly turned into morph ball mode, which let me fall through their magic because it was accommodating my regular size, not my morph ball state. Right after I escaped, I quickly dropped a morph ball bomb, before using the boost ball upgrade to get away from the explosion.

After I got a good distance away, I stood back up, as I watched them recover from the bomb. I started running at them this time, trying to activate the speed booster, but right before it activated, Twilight ran in front of me, yelling at me to stop.

After stopping, Twilight was about to speak, before I was blasted by a combination of yellow and blue magic. I landed on my back, partially dazed. Before I could get up, both ponies were on top of me, about to finish me off with their magic. I closed my eyes, expecting to die, when I heard a loud scream.

Chapter 4 - Repercussions

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We all looked over to see a young filly screaming. I looked up just a bit more to notice that one of the missed spells by the two ponies struck near the filly, whose leg is now trapped by fallen stones, and she’s about to get squashed by a big rock that’s almost going to fall off of it’s place on a wall of a building.

I gave out a loud yell of anger, as I felt a new power surging through me. I barely noticed the blue sparks coming off of me, as I started to feel stronger, better, quicker. I immediately pushed the two ponies off of me, before rushing over to the filly faster than I could have done before. Once I got there, I shielded the filly with my body, right before the debris fell.

Once the debris hit me, I noticed my energy go down by almost a full bar. Once it was safe again, I stood back up, before noticing something I missed. A shard from the debris fell right where the filly’s trapped leg is, almost completely cutting through the leg. I quickly removed the rubble covering her leg, before picking her up, being careful about the leg.

Once she was safe in my arms, I looked over to the confused big ponies before yelling at them. “We need a doctor!” They just looked confused again. “NOW!” While they went over to get a doctor, I walked over to the middle of the street, before putting her down. I barely noticed all the ponies around me, watching to see what I would do.

Knowing that I couldn’t close up the wound by cauterizing it, I did the next best thing I could do. Giving the filly energy. I put my open hand on her chest, calming her down with words, as I started pumping my energy into her to keep her alive. I did this until the doctors showed up with the two big ponies, and picked her up with magic, before carrying her away to the hospital, or whatever they have here.

I turned to face the two big ponies with an angry glare on my face. “Do you understand what you have done?” I said in a soft tone that put fear into all the ponies. “You could have just ruined that little filly’s life.” The two ponies just looked confused at this. “You must not have been paying attention then. If you were paying attention to the battlefield as well as the battle, you would have noticed that a spell you missed hit near that filly, trapping her, and making the structure around her weak.” After I said this, the big white pony had a sudden look of realization, before her eyes started filling with sorrow. The blue pony on the other hand.

“How dare you talk to us like that alien! Do you know who we are!” She yelled, stomping her hoof on the ground for extra effect.

“You’re the princesses of this land. I could tell because your crowns were too small to be a queen’s. You want to know how I noticed this? Because I paid attention! If you paid attention at all, you would have noticed that I wasn’t a threat to your ponies at all! You would have known that I arrived in Twilight Sparkle’s house suddenly, so I don’t have an aircraft! You would have known that you almost killed a filly!” I started to slightly calm down, but the blue princess was just starting to get angry.

“Listen alien! You better show us respect or we shall send you to down to Tartarus!” The blue one is starting to speak normally for some reason.

“For what? For acting in self-defense? Just because you two are rulers, doesn’t mean that if you attack me, I won’t attack back.” The blue one looked shock at that, before charging up her horn.

I was about to brace for the attack, when the white one extended her wing, stopping the blue one. “Leave it Luna. It’s in the right. We did attack it first, without any proof saying that it’s an alien invader. And it did save the filly, hurting itself in the process.”

“I’m not an it, I’m a he.” I said, finally calmed down.

“We’re sorry about attacking you unfairly creature. Our student Twilight sent us a letter saying a strange creature clad in armor appeared in her house. And a few minutes later, we got a letter saying that an aircraft of the same color as Twilight described crashed right outside Manehatten.” I had to refrain from smiling at that name.

“It’s okay, I forgive you.” Everyone around us looked shocked at that statement.

“What?” All the ponies asked out loud at the same time.

“You were attacking because you were worried about the ponies. Most humans would have probably done the same. But anyways, my name’s Samuel Aran, but you can just call me Sam.” I stuck my left hand out to shake.

The white one looked at it for a second before shaking it. “My name’s Princess Celestia.”

The blue one clearly looked like she didn’t want to shake hands/hoofs, but a discreet nudge from Princess Celestia’s wings forced her to shake. “Princess Luna.”

“I’m going to go back inside Sugarcube Corner and just sit down. That battle took a lot out of me.” I could see Luna smirked a bit at that, while Celestia looked concerned. I just walked back into Sugarcube Corner, and took a vacant seat. It took only a second, before I was starting to get swarmed by ponies who wanted to know how I fought the princesses like that.

Before I could do anything however, Celestia asked them all to leave me alone for now, and then she sat down on the other seat of the booth. Celestia looked like she wanted to talk, but when Pinkie walked up, and put down a plate of the same-looking cupcake as earlier, I gave her a look.

“Pinkie, I told you earlier, there’s too much sugar in that cupcake for me to eat safely.” Pinkie just gave a big ear to ear smile.

“Silly Sam. This is a different cupcake. I just made it. It has less sugar in it, so hopefully you can eat it. Though I don’t know how you could survive without eating lots of sugar. I know I couldn’t.” Pinkie started laughing a bit, before being dragged away hastily by Twilight’s magic.

Not believing the pink menace, I did a quick scan of the cupcake, and while I was doing this, Celestia was eyeing my visor, looking at the words that come across. Once my visor (surprisingly) revealed that the cupcake was safe for my consumption, I took a deep breath, and deactivated my helmet.

All the ponies watched as my helmet disappeared in a bright light, before revealing my head. They all looked surprised at the appearance of my face, some ponies even passing bags of money over to others. I had a feeling that not only do I have Samus’s armor, abilities, and (slight) knowledge, I probably have a similar appearance to her too.

I took a small bite out of the cupcake, noticing that I had sharper and longer top canines. After swallowing, I devoured the rest quickly. ‘I has been a while since I’ve eaten.’

When I was done, I turned to face Pinkie who was right next to me somehow. “It was good Pinkie. Thank you.” Pinkie literally burst with excitement, before Twilight pulled her away again. I looked over to see all the confetti and papers that said excitement on them that came out of Pinkie.

“So.” I turned to Princess Celestia, who was addressing me. “What exactly are you?”

I gave a small sigh, before looking at my hand. “I don’t know. I think I’m still human.”

Celestia looked confused. “What do you mean, you don’t know? How can you not know your own race?”

“I should start from the beginning. In my universe, I was heading to a convention for video game lovers. I was dressed up as my favorite video game character ever; Samus Aran. So, near the end of the convention, I noticed a shady-looking merchant, who had this very well made object that shows the symbol of the Metroid games, where Samus is from.” As I said this, I pulled out the small circular object. It was a red disk, with a silver ‘S’ on it. The red part of it was surrounded by another silver. “After I bought it, a few minutes later I passed out, and woke up in Twilight Sparkle’s library, wearing this armor, which instead of being the weak costume I originally had, it was a fully powered version of Samus’s own armor, called a power suit. I found out shortly after I had all of Samus’s training in my mind, along with all of the upgrades she’s had throughout the games.”

Celestia took a breath in, trying to figure out all this information. “So, what are all these ‘upgrades’ you mentioned?”

“My armor has it’s morph ball mode, which is where I shrink into a little ball, and I can plant small but powerful bombs while doing this. I can boost and climb certain walls as well in morph ball mode. In my regular mode, I can fire several different kinds of beams.” I held up my arm cannon, and started switching through some of them. “I have my normal power beam, my ice beam, wave beam, plasma beam, nova beam, light beam, dark beam, and other kinds of beams. I can fire a small projectile out of my arm cannon as well, called a missile, that can blow up on contact with an object. I have a grapple beam that allows me to grab and pull objects from a distance, but also I can transfer energy using it. I can double jump, run faster using speed booster, can survive in most environments, stay suspended in air while travelling long distances, and…” I took a deep breath. “I think I can absorb energy without the suit, as well as feast on an extinct alien parasite.” I looked over to see Twilight was furiously taking notes.

“What do you mean? You said that last part like it was a bad thing.” Celestia asked.

“Samus, after a certain incident, was infected with the alien parasite that I mentioned. It takes control over organisms, so Samus’s life was at stake. The doctors tried to save her, and while doing so, found a cure for the virus. Metroid DNA. Metroids are another race of parasites that feast on this kind of parasite called the x-parasite. But previously, Samus was paid to exterminate all the metroids due to them being a dangerous species that absorbs energy from other species, leaving them lifeless husks. They didn’t know about the x-parasite at that time. So one metroid was left, which was a newborn metroid that just imprinted on Samus. Samus sparred it, and brought it to scientists to study for the benefit of humanity. But Samus’s long time rival Ridley stole the baby metroid, and cloned it to make more of the deadly species. Samus followed Ridley, destroying all the metroids, until she came across the baby, who was all big and attacked Samus, not recognizing her. After absorbing most of her energy, the baby metroid realized who she was and flew away, leaving Samus to try to survive with only one bit of energy left. So during the fight with a creature called Mother Brain, who was a leader of a murderous group called the space pirates, Samus almost died, but the baby metroid came back, absorbing energy from Mother Brain, almost killing it, before giving the energy to Samus, fully restoring her and giving her a new attack called the hyper beam, a powerful beam attack. While the metroid was giving Samus energy, Mother Brain killed the baby metroid, leaving only a small amount of skin on Samus, which was found and used as a cure that turned Samus part metroid, allowing her to absorb the x-parasite and use it as health.” I took a deep breath. “So, I’m probably part metroid as well.” I looked around, to see all the ponies were crying, or holding back tears.

I looked at Celestia, who seemed to be shocked at this story. But before I could ask her a question, she beat me to it. “What was that blue thing you did when we had you trapped?”

I was taken back, not remembering exactly what happened. All I could remember was seeing the filly in trouble, and getting angry, before getting a strange burst of power, and saving the filly. Although I do remember a bit of blue sparks or something. It looked similar to… OH CRAP. “I think it was something called Hypermode. I didn’t know I activated it at first. I thought I locked it so I wouldn’t endanger myself using it.” Celestia just looked confused.

“How could it endanger you?” I just sighed before responding.

“Hypermode, utilizes a very dangerous, radioactive, and mutagenic substance called Phazon. Phazon, when in contact with creatures, will mutate and drive the creature crazy. Samus had a few encounters with Phazon, primarily dealing with it on a planet that once had the race that brought up Samus, and the Space Pirates being controlled by another Samus made of Phazon. During a battle with Dark Samus, Samus and 3 other bounty hunters were infected with Phazon in such a way that they all could produce Phazon inside of them. Later, Samus was given an upgrade that allows her to use the Phazon as a weapon. But the longer she had the Phazon in her, the more infected she would become, to the point that she had blue veins across her face. While Hypermode is very useful with the power it gives you, there’s a chance you’ll get trapped in that mode, being overloaded with Phazon, until you become corrupted and become a bad guy, or die. Hopefully, using Hypermode won’t produce Phazon in my body, slowly corrupting me.” I looked down at the table. “I don’t want to die. I’m the last member of my family.” I didn’t notice the look Celestia gave me.

“If you do become ‘corrupted’, we will try everything in our power to free you.” I lifted my head back up, before giving a small smile.

I decided to change the subject. “So, you mentioned an aircraft earlier. I have a feeling that it belongs to me, due to it being Samus’s ship.”

Celestia looked surprised at my mood change. “Yes, I suppose so. I had it moved to Canterlot for study and safe-keeping. But it’s getting late, so I suppose it will have to wait until tomorrow. I’ll send a chariot around 10am to pick you and the elements up.” Celestia turned to face Twilight. “Twilight, do you think you can offer Sam a place to stay for tonight?”

Twilight’s head shot up from her notes fast enough to break the speed of sound. Her eyes sparkled with interest. “I’ll be glad to, Princess! Plus this will give me a chance to study him!” She sounded excited.

“Well, I have to get back to my castle. Sorry again about attacking you Sam, I hope we’ll see you again tomorrow.” Celestia got up, and walked out of the building with Luna, who gave me one last glance, before they got back in their chariot and flew back to their castle. I eventually walked out of the bakery, Twilight in tow.

Once outside, I gestured to Twilight to take the lead, and she did, as we walked back to her house. On the way, Twilight finally decided to start asking questions. She asked questions ranging from why I don’t take off the rest of my power suit, to what I eat (which she kinda regretted asking). By the time we got to her house, she didn’t seem to run out of questions. But it was at this time I realized she lived in a library, inside a tree.

When we went inside, I took a bigger look at the place, noticing that all the books were in the shelves, but they weren’t organized well. I just shrugged before sitting down against a wall, and trying to get comfy.

Twilight stopped asking questions, and looked at me like I was stupid. “You’re not going to sleep in a bed?”

“Nope. My power suit would probably break the bed.” Twilight was about to ask another question. “And no, I will not take off my power suit.” The reasoning I gave her earlier was that I just didn’t trust anyone here yet. Twilight was about to ask again, when I interrupted her. “It’s getting late Twilight, and I’m tired.”

Twilight finally got annoyed enough to disappear upstairs, and then turn off the lights down here. I gave a small smile, before reactivating my helmet, checking over my current health. ‘Only 1 energy tank left.’ I sighed, before closing my eyes, and starting to fall asleep, hoping that the ship would allow me to heal up.

As I fell asleep, the power suit realized this, and adjusted it’s settings to help me sleep. Mainly, turning off the HUD. As the HUD was dimming down, before turning off, a soft blue message appeared on it.

Phazon Corruption: 10%

Chapter 5 - Hunter-class Gunship

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As I woke up, I could hear some light talking coming from the kitchen. I opened my eyes to see my HUD starting up. I slowly got to my feet, expecting a pain in my back, but surprisingly the power suit was comfy to sleep in. Not as comfy as a bed, but comfy enough to help me sleep.

I walked over to the kitchen, to see Spike and Twilight conversing. Spike was putting plates of food on the table, while Twilight was sitting down. Twilight noticed me first. “Ah Sam, you’re awake.”

I just gave a nod, too tired to speak. Since the chairs were too small to sit in without breaking, I just sat down on the ground, with my upper body above the table as if I were sitting in a chair. How they even sit in chairs, I don’t know, but I was too hungry to think about it.

I looked down at the plate of food that Spike put in front of me. It looked like just regular pancakes, but I scanned them to be sure.

Once making sure that the pancakes were safe to eat, I deactivated my helmet, to the surprise of Spike, and picked up a fork using my only hand, before eating up the pancakes.

While we were eating, Spike decided to speak up. “So, you’re an alien?”

‘Real original Spike.’ Instead of answering I just nodded.

“Can you speak at all?” Spike asked, both of them wondering why I wasn’t speaking.

Instead of speaking out and saying; ‘Yes I can speak Spike.’ I decided to just nodded again, much to the frustration of Spike.

“So, why don’t you speak?” I just shrugged, before finishing up my breakfast. Just in time too, because a knock was heard at the door. I got up, and opened the door to see two guards wearing gold armor. A few seconds after I opened the door, the guards immediately threatened me with their spears.

“Halt creature! What have you done with Twilight Sparkle and the one known as Samus Aran?!” I mentally sigh, as Twilight comes walking up to the door, trying to figure out why there was yelling. It was at this point, I realized what I was just called.

“Why are you pointing spears at my friend?” Twilight asked, a hint of rage in her voice. The guards took notice of this, and lowered the spears.

“We’re sorry. We were told to pick up you and the one known as Samus Aran. We were not told that Samus Aran was a monster.” I didn’t take offense from the insult because I was busy trying to think of why they called me Samus. The only logical reason would be that the Princesses told them that I was called Samus Aran. Maybe they want that to be my codename or something.

“He’s not a monster, he’s a human.” No difference there really. “And I assume that you two are here to take us to Canterlot?” The guards nodded, and walked over to the two chariots.

Twilight’s other friends were all being led to the chariots. While most didn’t have anything with them, Rarity had several large bags of clothes being carried by Sweetie Belle, who was barely visible.

When we all got on the chariots, Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and I were on one, and the other three were on the other. I watched as Ponyville slowly got smaller and smaller, the closer we got to Canterlot. Twilight at some point, decided to ask me a question.

“What is this aircraft that the Princess is going to give you?” Rainbow Dash’s ears perked up at this, and she was instantly awake, instead of napping.

“I bet it’s like a spaceship that can fire lasers and go anywhere in space!” She said enthusiastically.

“Rainbow! That’s ridiculous. No aircraft could survive in space! The oxygen would run out.” I chuckled a bit at what Twilight was saying.

“Actually, Rainbow Dash is pretty spot on.” Twilight looked at me, unbelievingly. “If it is Samus’s ship, then it would look like my power suit, which is what I’m wearing. It is a spaceship, that travels through space to other planets.”

“I’ll believe it when I see it.” Twilight said, still not believing me. No more questions were asked for the rest of the trip.

When we got to Canterlot, I was only slightly impressed. Sure, It was beautiful, and the only thing that would make it better would be a giant rainbow in the background. But I’ve seen even more beautiful things on Earth, like TV. Or puppies. Or puppies on TV. As we were being led to the castle, I noticed the nobles looking at me, and overheard their insults.

I clenched my left fist, not able to do so with my right one, lest I fire some of my attacks. The ponies around me noticed this, and started to get nervous, fearing that I would attack. We got to the castle gates before too long.

Once we got inside, we were led to what appeared to be a giant open space in a garden full of several different species of plants. But that’s not what everyone had their eyes on. Everyone in the room was looking at the big spaceship, standing in the garden.

The spaceship looked like a combination of all of Samus’s ships. It had the same coloration and the weapons (grapple included) that the ship had in Corruption, with the three jets on the bottom of it like in Metroid Prime. It’s wings were similar to the ones in Fusion, as they were currently the landing gear. I could tell it also had the beam system that allowed Samus to get inside like in Fusion. It’s shape was similar to Samus’s iconic ship. I had to resist screaming in joy at the sight of it.

“That’s supposed to be a spaceship?” Rainbow Dash asked, not believing due to what it looked like. Sure it looked silly, but it has all the features from the games.

“Would you look at the colors of that monstrosity! It’s a crime against fashion!” Rarity said, over-dramatically

“You think everything’s a crime against fashion!” Applejack said irritated. I ignored their arguments, and walked forward to talk to the Princesses.

I noticed the Princesses talking to some scientists, and while Celestia looked calm, Luna looked angry. When they noticed me, Luna decided to talk first.

“You finally arrive, alien.” She said with venom. “We see that you try to keep your dangerous secrets locked up.” Celestia stopped her from saying any more.

“Forgive my sister, Samus.” There it is again. “I was hoping you could tell us about this aircraft?”

“I can try my best.” I take a deep breath. “While I’ve never been in this ship, or seen it with my own eyes before, I am a huge Metroid fan, so I know a few things about the ship. It looks like a combination of all of Samus’s ships throughout the series. It can fire high powered missiles at targets, which can cause a lot of damage. It has a grapple beam, that allows it to pick up heavy items. It could probably go faster than light, and travel in space. It can restock my ammo, and health, and probably provides a home for Samus. It also has strong armor surrounding it, making it hard to destroy. It should have an auto-repair function, that allows it to fix itself. And, I think I can control it from my suit, which would be useful, due to the fact that the ship looks like it’s off.” Luna just seems to be getting even angrier every time I mentioned something. She leaned over to Celestia, and talked in her ear. Too bad for them, I could hear everything they were saying.

“Celestia, we must destroy this before the alien uses it to destroy us. You heard what it said, how powerful it is. Not even our best scientists could get it open.” Luna urged.

“No Luna, Sam could prove to be a useful ally. If we try to destroy him or his ship, he could get angry, and attack us. And judging from what he said yesterday, I think he was holding back yesterday.” Luna didn’t look like she believed that.

“That what he wants us to think! He tried all of his attacks on us yesterday, and they didn’t quite damage us.” I decide to butt into their conversation.

“No, I actually was holding back.” They looked surprised that I could hear them. “Don’t be so surprised I could hear you, you weren’t exactly whispering. But anyways, I was holding back. I figured out why you were attacking me, the second I saw you two. I didn’t want to fight, but you two did, so I tried to stop you without much pain. That’s why I froze you.”

“How dare you listen into our conversation! We are your Princesses!” Luna angrily yelled at me.

“No, you’re not.” I stated. “I’m not exactly a citizen of Equestria, now am I? And I doubt that you would even allow me citizenship, because of how much you love to call me an alien.” Luna was about to respond, when I beat her to it. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna figure out how to get in the ship.”

I turned on my command visor, and turned on the ship. When I did so, the ship’s cockpit lit up, and the entire thing started humming with power. My smile was hidden under the helmet, as I walked forward, went underneath the ship, and a flash of light later, I was onboard. I looked around, the grin on my face even wider.

The first thing I check out was the loading HUD screen in the cockpit. I sat down in the seat, finding it perfectly comfortable, as I watched the ship quickly start up the important processes. I deactivated my helmet while waiting, hoping that the ship won't kill me or anything for not being Samus. A minute later, the ship was finished starting up, and a voice spoke out.

“Samus! Good to see that your okay!” The familiar voice rang out. It sounded like Adam Malkovich’s voice, which makes sense, due to Samus having his AI on the ship. “I lost your signal a few days ago, and when I found it on this planet, I was struck with something that turned off the systems. I couldn’t re-activate until you did so.”

Interesting, so he thinks I’m Samus? Does he think I’m female too? Only one way to find out. “Adam, bring up a display of me without the power suit on.” He probably be a bit confused by this, but he did so anyways.

I took a close look at my data, finding out that it indeed says that I’m male, and even providing a background of me, almost identical to Samus’ background. I checked my DNA, noticing that I’m indeed part Chozo and Metroid. I decided to ask another question on my mind. “Adam, what was the last thing I was doing before I arrived on this planet?”

“You were attacking a space pirate colony that held members of a human cargo ship captive. Right as you activated the self-destruct sequence, you disappeared.” That got me thinking, was there a Samus in this universe, and I somehow swapped places with him? While I was thinking, I noticed a flashing file on the screen.

As I leaned in closer to see what it says, I only had one thing on my mind at that time.

“What’s a displaced?”

Chapter 6 - Space Pirates

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After (somehow) sending out a token of the famous Metroid symbol, and realizing that the Metroid background was created when I came into this universe, I reactivated my helmet, and activated the teleporting beam to get me back outside.

While the light was fading, I heard the usual sound the game makes when you save in the first Metroid Prime game. I walked up to the Princesses, who were looking at the ship suspiciously. They didn’t notice me when I walked up to them. I cleared my throat, and when they finally noticed me, I spoke up.

“It does appear to be my ship. The AI in it says I’m the owner of the ship.” They looked confused when I said ‘AI’. “AI means artificial Intelligence. It’s like a machine, that acts like a person.” I could hear Adam take offense to that.

“I’ll have you know, slavery is illegal in Equestria!” Luna speaks up.

“What slavery? Adam was my superior officer in the Galactic Federation and a good friend, and when he died the GF had his consciousness on a computer which they gave to me in my ship. So technically he’s there by his superior’s orders.” My smirk was hidden by my visor, but Luna clearly looked angry. I don’t know what her problem is anyways.

When Luna began talking with Celestia in private, and she used a soundproof shield, I just walked over to Twilight and her friends. I also was scanning everything in sight like in the Metroid Prime games. Twilight noticed me, and decided to talk first.

“Sam, did you make that machine light up?” She asked curiously.

I nodded, before responding. “I have different uses for my visor” I tapped my visor to point out what it a visor is. “I can scan stuff to find out about it, and I can control my ship to.” Pinkie Pie immediately appeared on top of my head, and pushed her face into my helmet.

“Can you scan me! HUH! HUH! HUH!” I cut her off my pulling her off my head, and dropping her to the ground. I decided to scan her, just to see what it says.

Subject: Pinkamena Diane Pie

Age: 26 years
Race: Earth Pony

Coat color: Pink

Mane/tail Color: Dark Pink

Personality: Cheerful/dark

Analysis: ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! Subject Pinkie Pie does not compute! ERROR!

After getting rid of the error signs, I looked at Pinkie Pie with a look of fear. The way she was looking at me, told me that she still wanted to know what it said. “It... broke, scanning you.” After I said this, Twilight’s friends all started laughing.

“Yeah, that’s Pinkie for ya.” Rainbow Dash said, trying to calm herself back down. After another minute of laughing, she decided to ask to be scanned next. I sighed, and complied.

Subject: Rainbow Dash
Age: 25 years
Race: Pegasus
Coat Color: Light blue
Mane/tail Color: Rainbow
Personality: Arrogant, self -centered, loyal.

Analysis: As the Element of Loyalty, Rainbow Dash would do almost anything for her friends. She is the self-entitled ‘fastest thing in Equestria’ and has the skills to back it up. She is the only pony recorded to do a ‘Sonic Rainboom’, winner of the Best Young Flyer Competition, has proven to be 20% cooler, and is known to be able to fly around mach 5.

After saying all this information out loud, and evidently building up Rainbow Dash’s pride, the other ponies asked for their scan info, except shy pony behind all of them, who is apparently Fluttershy. When I finished telling them all their scan info, I heard some familiar sounds coming from the sky.

I looked up, trying to place the sounds, when I saw what was making them. “Space Pirates.” I said in a hushed whisper.

“What are those!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Everyone! Get inside now! The city is under attack!” I yell, as the explosions the Space Pirates are making made my point clearer. I picked up Fluttershy, carrying her into the building, due to how afraid she was.

Once everyone was safely inside the buildings, I was tackled by a dark blue blur. When we stopped, I noticed it was Princess Luna, who had an angry look on her face. “We knew you were an invader, alien! You have sent a message to your race to attack our ponies! We will not go down easily!” She started charging up her horn, as I struggled to get out.

Before she could do fire the spell, a large explosion nearby knocked her off of me. I quickly jumped up, destroying the Space Pirate carrier, but not before a few Space Pirates jumped out, aiming at me and Luna, who was still recovering.

I quickly jumped over to Luna, shielding her from the blasts, as I took the blasts meant for her. I retaliated by firing a missile at each of them, quickly disposing the Space Pirates in the area. I made sure that the coast was clear, before helping Luna up.

Luna looked at me like I was stupid. “I don’t need your help, alien scum!” She tried to charge her horn again, but I put my left hand out to tell her to stop.

“Do you want to fight me? The only creature on this planet that has experience dealing with the Space Pirates? Or do you want to help save your ponies? I assure you I didn’t summon them here.” Luna looked unconvinced, but when we heard some ponies scream from the inside of the castle, and she reluctantly agreed.

When we ran inside, we quickly killed all the Space Pirates in the hallway, before entering what looked like the the throne room. The ponies looked beaten, and they were surrounded by Space Pirates. Even Celestia looked tired, and has several burn marks.

When all saw the Pirates all charging their beams at the same time, I knew I had to get their attention to save the ponies. “HEY SPACE PIRATES!” My plan worked, as they all turned to face me, looks of surprise on their faces. Luna just facepalmed.

“Why did you do that? We had the element of surprise.” Luna said, as we prepared to attack.

“They were about to attack, and unless you want some dead ponies, I did the best I could.” I gave a small smirk. “Besides, they have the disadvantage.”

I quickly ran forward, activated my speed booster, and firing a few beams at some Pirates, missiles at others. I jumped on an unlucky Space Pirate, snapping his neck with my feet, before sliding across the ground, using his body as a surf board. My inertia made it so I wasn’t hit once.

When I made it to the inner circle with the ponies, and Luna teleporting next to me. I did a quick look of the situation. “It looks like they have back-up.” I said out loud, as they began charging up their beams again, knowing that if I tried to dodge, it would kill one of the ponies behind me.

“Sam, do you have a plan?” Celestia whispered to me.

“Yes, but I don’t like it. It could easily kill all of these Pirates, but we have ponies in the area, and I don’t want to hurt them. If you could lift them all high enough, I could do it.” I said grimly.

“I can lift them in the air for a limited time. How high should we be?” Celestia responded.

“About the height of the roof.” Celestia gave me a look like I’m crazy, before faintly seeing the serious look in my eyes, and started levitating the ponies to the roof with Luna. Luckily there are no aerotroopers in the room.

When the ponies were a safe enough distance away, I noticed the Space Pirates were trying to speak to me in their natural language, which I can’t understand. But it explains why I’m not dead yet.

I take a step forward, and starting preparing for my attack. I put one foot in front of the other, sliding the other foot back, so I would still have balance, and be prepared for the recoil of my attack. Once I activated the attack, I held my arm cannon forward, watching as its tip quickly floated off the arm cannon, and started expanding and spinning. My arm cannon quickly expanded, glowing with bright energy, as I start to fire it.

Once it starts to fire, a giant beam comes out, completely disintegrating the Space Pirates in its range, as I quickly spun around, killing every Space Pirate in the room. When I stopped the beam, my body started glowing, as I crouched down.

The ponies quickly ran up to me, to see what was wrong, when I finally got up in a flash of light, my power suit disappeared, revealing me in my own zero suit. The ponies all gasped, surprised to see me without my power suit, as I began looking over myself, noticing the stun pistol at my waist.

“What are you wearing! It’s a crime against fashion!” Rarity exclaimed.

“It’s my zero suit. When I use my Zero Laser, it uses all my suit’s energy, causing it to disappear.” When I said this, I could see Luna had an evil smirk.

Luna immediately tried to jump on me, trying to kill me in my weaker state. But to everyone’s surprise, I quickly dodged her by sliding underneath her. I quickly unsheathed my pistol, before firing a quick charge shot at her, causing her to be mostly paralyzed. Luckily my powers aren’t exactly the same like in the games.

I kneel down so I’m closer to Luna’s face. “Why do you keep attacking me? I just killed all the Space Pirates that attacked. There are no more in the city, but you keep attacking me, and have never once called me by my name.”

Luna growled, before responding. “And why should I believe that? You sent a message to those aliens to invade our planet. You attacked two princesses of Equestria. You’re nothing but alien scum!”

Celestia walked forward before I could respond. “Luna, while it’s clear that Sam here knows those aliens” Luna had a big grin on her face. “But he only attacked in self-defense. We attacked him first yesterday. And you tried to attack him just a few minutes ago.” Luna’s grin fell, and Celestia turned to me. “Sam, what can you tell us about those aliens?”

“Those aliens are called Space Pirates. They follow the orders of one stronger than them. Samus has battled them many times. It was Space Pirates who attack Samus’s home colony of K-2L when she was just a kid. Samus’s parents died saving her.” All the ponies eyes widened, including the princesses. “A race called the Chozo came along, and stopped the Space Pirates, and adopted Samus too. Then, years later a creation of the Chozo to control Metroids went crazy and took over the Space Pirates. The creature was called Mother Brain. Samus defeated her, and defeated her again some time later. Ridley, the space dragon, is the usual leader of the Space Pirates. Ridley was the one who lead the attack on K-2L and killed Samus’s parents. Samus and Ridley became mortal enemies, battling to the death everytime. The Space Pirates have also been lead by Dark Samus, a creature created when Metroid Prime pulled the Phazon out of Samus to try and save itself. Dark Samus is evil, and tried to corrupt all the planets with Phazon.” I took a deep breath, noticing most of the ponies are crying.

“Well, at least they’re all gone now.” Twilight stated. “And you’re not exactly Samus Aran. You don’t have the same past.” I sighed at that.

“Well, I kinda do. A year ago, my father, mother and I were on a trip around the world, when we were attacked by pirates. The leader of the pirates was called Ridley, and he killed my parents. I barely managed to escape.” The ponies all looked shocked at this. Even Luna, who was finally able to stand again, had a look of regret on her face. “Now if you‘ll excuse me, I’m going to get my suit back.”

The second I started walking back to my ship, a loud roar pierced the air. We all looked up to see a giant purple dragon rip a hole in the roof and fly in, giving off a loud screech. “Crap! It's Ridley!” When I yelled this so the others would know who it was, Ridley noticed me, and charged.

Chapter 7 - Ridley

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I was barely able to avoid the attack as I ran through the doorway, running back to my ship, Ridley on my tail. I heard him screech again, and I ducked to avoid his lunge, as he impacted the wall. I quickly turned the corner and kept on running, knowing I’m getting close to my ship.

I heard another screech and briefly turned my head to see Ridley was about to charge again, but a few quick bursts of magic impacted him, and I noticed Celestia and Luna are distracting him. I looked back down the way I was running, in time to turn the corner. I saw the doors to the garden up ahead, and quickly burst through them, before running to my ship.

I was barely inside my ship for a second, before I started refilling my energy and weapons, causing my power suit to come back. I teleported myself out of the ship, feeling the familiar weight of the suit again, before running back into the castle.

After running for about a minute, I found out that the princesses lured Ridley back into the throne room. I saw Ridley about to attack, and quickly fired a super missile at his back. His loud screech told me that I hit my mark.

Ridley quickly spun around to face me, anger evident in his eyes. He charged once more, but this time I jumped up, using my space jump to land on his back. Once I grabbed hold of his wings, I started firing my nova beam into his back, causing his skin to slightly burn.

Ridley quickly flew into the air, spinning around, and causing me to fall off. I landed on the ground with a thud, and looked up to notice that he wasn’t all that effected by the high temperature of my Nova beam. ‘Guess it only really works on Omega Ridley.’

Ridley opened his mouth, and I noticed something about his charging attack. It’s glowing. As I charged up a charge shot, I heard Twilight yell from a distance. “Don’t hit the glowing part!” I just roll my eyes, knowing that it’s Ridley’s weak spot.

Right before he fired, I fired first, causing his attack to blow up in his throat, damaging him. I smirked under my helmet. While he was recovering, I quickly ran over to the wall near him, and using my wall jump to climb the wall and land on his head.

I used my feet to spread apart his jaws, and started firing super missile after super missile into his mouth, clearly damaging him. After I went through all my regular super missile ammo, I quickly turned into morph ball form, falling into his mouth, but placing a power bomb in his stomach.

Once it blew up, destroying most of Ridley’s torso. I rolled out of his stomach, landing on the ground and standing back up. I turned around to see Ridley’s guts everywhere, and Ridley’s lifeless head and neck laying on the ground.

I took a deep breath, knowing that I just killed Samus’s most recurring enemy, and I didn’t take any damage. I decided to do what perhaps any Metroid fan would do in this situation. I spun around, before placing my left hand against my head as if I were saluting, and quickly pulling my hand back to my side, like Samus did in Super Smash Bros Universe.

After my taunt, which I had to resist squealing in delight over the fact that I did it perfectly, I walked over to the shocked ponies. I noticed that Celestia and Luna were both shocked as well, but were hiding it.

“What was that explosion?” Celestia asked, finally able to speak.

“My power bomb. One of my most powerful attacks. But leaves lots of collateral damage. I would have used it sooner, but I’m not risking innocent ponies being disintegrated.” I gestured to the six shocked ponies.

“For that, I must thank you Sam.” I just nod, before walking over to the ponies, leaving Celestia and Luna to talk to each other.

“You six okay?” They nodded, still shocked, before Twilight spoke up.

“How could you just kill it! It was a living creature!” Twilight exclaimed. I just sighed.

“So, you’re saying that you should have died, and I should have let Ridley kill even more? He’s a mass murderer. Besides, I bet he’ll be back later. The Space Pirates will probably revive him as Meta Ridley again.” I said with a serious voice.

“But he was still a living creature. We could have just sent him to Tartarus!” I quickly went through my database to figure out what she meant.

“Oh yeah. Like that would have gone over well. Let’s put one of the most dangerous creatures in the entire galaxy in a prison with other creatures. You know what will happen next?” They all shake their heads. “The Space Pirates will find the gates to Tartarus, and open them, allowing Ridley to have one of the most powerful armies known to Equestria. Totally smart idea.” My voice was almost dripping with sarcasm.

Before anything else was said, Celestia and Luna walked over to our group. Celestia addressed me first. “Sam, you said that Ridley might be brought back?” I nodded. “And he will probably be back to attack Equestria with more of these Space Pirates.” Another nod. “If that’s the case, I hereby grant you the use of your space ship, only if you help Equestria and it’s citizens.”

“What about other countries?” I asked.

“If they need help, they can ask for help. But we would like to keep you mostly hidden from other countries. Also, we would like to grant you this.” Celestia spawned a small box, and when she opened it, it revealed a small medal. I picked it up, and examined it. “This is the Equestrian Medal of Valor. It is given to ponies who put the lives of others above their own. You have risked your life to save others, even when they have treated you badly. It is a great honor.”

The ponies behind me gasp, as I thought over what to say. “Thank you Princesses.” I put it in a small pocket hidden inside the suit.

“Also, I have arranged carriages for the Elements of Harmony for the trip back to Ponyville. I trust you can ride your ship back?” I nod.

“I can also live in it. so I won’t need housing. Or food for that matter. I have a food synthesiser.” I start walking off to my ship. “So if you need me, I’ll be in Ponyville.”

“Wait.” Celestia called out, and I turned around, curious of what else she wants. I noticed the six ponies are gone from the room now. “You said you were a bounty hunter earlier?”

“Samus was a bounty hunter. But since I have all of Samus’s abilities, I guess I could be considered a bounty hunter. Why?” I asked, kinda knowing the answer.

“We might have need of a bounty hunter in the future.” These peaceful ponies? Well, I imagine it takes a lot of work to keep a nation peaceful.

I pull out something that resembles the Metroid games symbol. It was red with a silver outline, and had a silver ‘S’ on it. I toss it to Celestia, who catches it in her magic, and looks at it. “That works as a communicator. Just hold it close or something, and say ‘Samus Aran’ and then relay a message. I’ll get it on my computer.” I walked back over to the door that leads me closest to the garden. “I’ll also expect some form of payment for doing a bounty.” I go through the door and walk back to my ship.

On the way I came across a stupid and ugly looking unicorn who acted like he was better than anyone else. “What is a monster doing here!” He yelled to a guard, who looked like he was ready to kill this unicorn.

“Oh you know. Defending Equestria from a Space Pirate invasion. Getting the Equestrian Medal of Valor.” I said, instantly hating this guy.

“How dare you speak to me like that! Do you know who I am!” He yelled, holding his snout up in the air, as if he expected me to start bowing to him.

“The cleaner of the royal toilets?” I said in a tone that made me actually sound serious. These mental changes are interesting. I have almost complete control over my emotions.

The pony took extra offense to this, and ordered a guard to have me arrested. Which they didn’t, due to the fact I did nothing illegal. I noticed we were being watched by more guards, wanting to know what the outcome will be. The pony called himself Prince Blueblood, and said he was Celestia’s nephew.

Curious to see if this was the truth, I scanned him, comparing it to Celestia’s. “Interesting you said that. Because I just compared you to Celestia and it says that you are hardly related.” Also, wouldn’t he be Luna’s son or something?

“You dare speak to me like that peasant! I assure you I am closely related to Princess Celestia!” He stomps his hoof in frustration.

“I’m richer than you. My father became the richest person on my planet, closing in on one trillion dollars. And besides, I don’t think you want to get on the bad side of a human. Last time we had nobility like you, we overthrew them, and cut off their heads, and stuck them on pikes.” His eyes slowly opened in fear as I said this. I gave an hidden smile, before speaking again. “I may not have a guillotine, but I have an armada of deadly beams.” I charged up my plasma beam, and I heard a sound similar to water dripping rapidly.

It took me a minute to realize I just made him wet himself. He quickly ran away and I just burst out laughing at the hilarity of the situation. I noticed some of the other guards were laughing too.

After another minute of laughing, the closest guard spoke up. “Thanks for doing that Samus. None of the guards like being around Prince Blueblood.” I just gave a quick nod.

“Yeah I understand that. I’m glad my father raised me right, or I might have ended up like that.” I said with a small chuckle.

“Well, the guard owe you one now for putting Blueblood in his place.” I started walking back to my ship again, giving a small wave to the guard.

Once I got back to my ship, I walked over to the controls, and started flying back to Ponyville. I landed on a hill just outside of Ponyville, and noticed that it was getting pretty dark. I deactivated my suit, before finding my bed and falling asleep.

"I'm sorry we failed Mistress." The Space Pirate said, crouching low on the ground in front of the dark figure. "We didn't expect the Hunter to be this strong."

"Excuses? I put you in charge of a very expansive group of Space Pirates, AND Ridley, and YOU still failed to kill a single insignificant worm!" With a charge of her horn, the dark figure destroyed the Space Pirate in front of her. The other Space Pirates flinched at the death of their comrade, before continuing to bow. "No matter. I will just have to send in some of the others." The dark figure tilted her head to a Space Pirate next to her. "Bring in those parasites. Let's see how the alien can deal with those."

Chapter 8 - Bullies

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When I woke up, I remembered I haven’t eaten since yesterday morning. I found the eating area, and decided to have some holographic meatloaf (yum). After eating my highly nutritious meal, I did a quick check of the ship’s systems, making sure that the food synthesizer will start working, before respawning my suit, and teleporting out of my ship.

I decided to just visit that one shy pegasus, Fluttershy, because we were never properly introduced. After checking with my map of the area, I found the way to go to find Fluttershy’s cottage. I noticed I needed to walk through town, so I deactivated my helmet, before entering town.

As I was walking, I noticed ponies running into their houses, and watching me from behind their windows. I guess they’re still afraid of me. I shrug, before continuing my walk.

After about half a minute, I heard the sounds of someone yelling, and someone faintly crying. Deciding to see what was happening, I started running, activating my speed booster and my helmet. I arrived at the edge of the town square, to see the pony I was hoping to meet slowly backing away from an angry griffon. I quickly scanned the griffon, trying to figure out what the problem was.

Subject: Gilda
Race: Griffon
Age: Who gives a crap.

Analysis: A bully who was self-exiled out of Ponyville after freaking out, and publicly insulting Pinkie Pie. She was once an old friend of Rainbow Dash, as both went to the same flying school. Has also committed crimes.

Crimes: Stealing of (one) apple.

Bullying Fluttershy.

Made Pinkie Pie seem like she’s jealous.

Destroyed property of another.

Attempted assassination of a king.

Disturbing the peace.

Using terrible slang and insults.

‘So, it seems this Gilda is a criminal. And now she’s scaring Fluttershy. I better listen in to the conversation, so I don’t accidently attack her if she’s trying to apologize.’ I activate my helmet’s ability to eavesdrop, their conversation appearing on my HUD

“Please don’t hurt me.”

“It’s too late for that. Since no one is around, I can kill you, and Dash will never know what happened. Once I’ve killed all of her friends, I can go and comfort Dash, and we will be friends again. She doesn’t need to be friends with losers like you.”

After hearing what Gilda said, I deactivate my eavesdropping mode, before using my speed booster to run over and help Fluttershy.

“Any last words?” I raised my talon up, and was about to bring it down, when I felt something stop it. I turned my head, to see a giant orange creature holding my talon back. I struggled to break it free, but it was like the creature had a grip of steel. I decided to play it cool, and make it become afraid. “Let me go you overgrown tin can. You don’t know who your dealing with.”

“An overgrown turkey that’s who.” It replied, not even caring about what I said. I instantly got angry, wanting to punish the idiot who insulted me. I kicked my back legs out, pushing the creature back, and making it let go of my talon. I quickly turned around, finally getting a good look at the idiot who decided to mess with me.

It looked like a giant orange and red monkey, with a green face. I instantly charged at it, too fast for it to react, and I swiped my talons across it’s chest. When I did, I felt my talons sting, as I only made light sparks come off of the chest plate. As I jumped back, preparing for another attack, The creature pointed it’s dark green cylinder-like arm at me. I noticed it filling with some weird light purple stuff, and it shot it out, but before I could react, my body started spasming, as I felt a sharp pain go over my entire body.

The creature walked up to me, and pointed it’s arm cylinder at me, which was full of some white stuff, and I could feel extreme cold coming from it. I stopped spasming quick enough to lunge up at the creature, who fired it's cylinder again, causing me to be covered in ice. As much as I wanted to, I couldn’t move. I was forced to watch, as the creature pushed me away from the stupid pegasus.

Once the ice thawed, I charged at the creature again, only for this time, to feel a burning pain on my chest. I looked down to see some of my feathers were burnt away, leaving a burn mark on my chest. I looked back up at the creature, who’s cylinder was full of red stuff. ‘I will not submit to a stupid tin can!’

I charged forward again, this time feeling a burning sensation in my left eye, but I kept on running. Right before I reached the creature, I was instantly on my back, the creature standing over me, charging up another red thing. I quickly got back up, to only get slapped by the creature’s other arm.

Right as I was about to charge again, a blue blur quickly appeared in between us. Once the blur was cleared, I could see that Dash was standing in between us, a look of anger on her face.

‘My missile message seemed to have worked. While Gilda was distracted, I was able to fire a missile into the sky, that blew up, to hopefully get Rainbow Dash’s attention, who I could see flying around, near the edge of town.’ Gilda spoke up before Rainbow Dash.

“Dash! Good you’re here. This overgrown tin can was trying to attack that pegasus, I tried to stop it, but it keeps on beating me up. Together we can stop it!” Gilda took a step forward. I looked at the burnt eye I gave her earlier when she was charging at me. I thought losing an eye would have made her see how futile it is to continue that battle.

“Sam, is this true?” Rainbow Dash asked in a tone that told me she didn’t exactly believe Gilda. Gilda didn’t pick up on this though, as she was smirking like she thinks that she just won.

“No.” Gilda flinched, clearly forgetting that I could speak. “I was going for a walk, looking for Fluttershy, because we haven’t been properly introduced. So, because of the ponies not being used to me, they were hiding from me. Gilda used this to her advantage, and was going to kill Fluttershy. She mentioned that if she killed all of your friends, she could comfort you, and you could become friends again.” I stated, telling Rainbow the truth.

“Lair! I would never do that! You have no proof!” Gilda yelled, but I smirked underneath my helmet, before activated audio playback.

“Please don’t hurt me.”

After playing this out loud, I watched as Gilda’s face turned even whiter somehow. Rainbow Dash looked shocked, but I could see that she was really angry. Rainbow Dash turned around to face Gilda before speaking. “So G, is this true?”

“W-what! Of course not Dash! This stupid tin can is clearly messing with you. That sounded nothing like me.” Gilda took a step back.

“Oh, I think it sounded a lot like you.” Rainbow Dash said, with a surprisingly menacing voice.

“Dash, how could you side with a random stranger, over your best friend?” Gilda asked, accusingly.

“You stop being my friend when you treated my other friends like dirt! And now you think that killing my friends will help you become my friend again? I thought you might change when you left Ponyville, but now I can see that you got even worse. I don’t think I ever want to see you again.” Even I flinched back when Rainbow Dash said this, not expecting it.

“GAH! My plan would have worked so perfectly! It’s all because of you, you piece of scrap metal!” Gilda yelled out in a way that kinda reminded me of those breakdowns in Phoenix Wright. Gilda immediately charged past Rainbow Dash, and started swiping at me, to almost no effect. She was making my energy go down by about one point per minute.

Wanting to test an idea, I grabbed Gilda, to her surprise, and jumped up and used the high-jump, before activating my screw attack, which as it turns out can be used to get higher, instead of just going sideways. Once my screwattack stopped, I was already rather high above Ponyville, and while looking down, I noticed that some ponies are gathering around, and Gilda is disoriented.

As we started to gall, I put Gilda underneath me and quickly used my space jump before we hit the ground, to slow our fall, but still using enough force to almost break all of Gilda’s bones. Once we were back on the ground, I took a few steps back, waiting for Gilda to get back up, before speaking. “Do you want to leave? Or do I need to put you in more pain until you finally decide to give up?”

Gilda looked around, noticing the angry faces of the ponies, before charging at me again, giving off an angry yell. “DIE!”

Right before she got to me, I hit her with my wave beam, causing her to start spasming again, before I pulled my fist back, and then punching her straight in the face, using Smash Bros logic to send her flying out of town.

After Gilda did a Team Rocket style exit, I turned to face Rainbow Dash, before speaking. “Sorry.”

Rainbow Dash was confused by that. “Sorry? Why would you be sorry? You defended my friend, and managed to hold back Gilda.”

“Well, she was your friend at some point. I imagine it would be hard to see one of your friends try to attack others like that.” I said, before scanning Fluttershy to make sure she was okay.

“I was mostly over it last time she threatened my friends. Although I never imagined she would go far enough to try and kill another. By the way, do you know what happened to her eye?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“She tried charging me, so I used a non-lethal version of my plasma beam on her, first I hit her chest, but she ignored that, and kept charging, so I hit her in the eye, hoping that it would stop her.” My shoulders sagged. “I guess it didn’t work.”

“Eh, she had it coming. But thanks for protecting Fluttershy for me.” Rainbow said with a shrug. I decided to deactivate my helmet, now that the battle is over.

“It was no problem.” I looked around, to notice all the ponies that were watching the battle. When I looked at each pony, they all started panicking, and running back into their homes. “I guess the ponies are still afraid of me.”

“Don’t worry. They get used to you… eventually.” I didn’t quite believe that. Before I could say anything else, my HUD told me I got a message on my ship.

“I got to go.” I start running back to my ship, waving to Rainbow Dash. “See ya.”

After a minute or two, I arrived at my ship, and teleported myself inside. I sat down in my chair, before checking on the message.

Message start:

Sam Aran… if you can hear this, this is Princess Celestia. Can you arrive at the Canterlot Castle? We have a possible mission for you.

Message end.

A bounty? I let out a small smile, at the thought of my first mission.

Chapter 9 - First Mission

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As I flew to Canterlot in my ship, I managed to find a way to get to the gardens to land without being seen. I first went high up in the atmosphere, then I flew fast and quick across the sky, before descending and going around the giant mountain Canterlot is on, and then landing on the garden that is on the opposite side of the castle, compared to the rest of Canterlot.

Once I landed, I made sure my helmet was back on, before leaving my ship, with the always satisfying sound that the games played when I saved in the Metroid Prime games. I noticed Celestia was already waiting for me, with some guards, but Luna was nowhere to be found. I walked up to Celestia.

“Hello again Sam.” Celestia started. I just nodded. “We’ve gotten reports that a griffon leader is preparing to wage war on Equestria. He thinks that Equestria is weak due to the fact that we were overtaken by invaders. If he successfully wages war, we will be thrown into a world war. Countless ponies will die.” She hands me a folder with information in it. I scan the folder, instantly downloading all the information, and handed it back. “Do you think you can take care of it?”

“Depends. Do you want me to kill? Or go non-lethal?” I asked, and the guards flinched, not expecting me to be so careless about killing. In truth, I’m as surprised that it doesn’t seem to bother me.

“If he survives, he’ll still try to attack Equestria.” Celestia took a deep breath. “I need you to kill him.” I nod. “And if you can do anything that will hinder their troops, incase someone else takes his place.”

“Anything else?”

“That should be all. Can you do it Sam?”

“Yes I can.” I walk back to my ship, before stopping for a second, and turning my head. “And call me Samus.” I guess I could use Samus as my codename. I teleported into my ship, and took off, heading to the Griffon Kingdom.

After flying for an hour, I arrived near my destination, and it was dark, so I had the element of surprise. I landed on the edge of the Griffon’s, who apparently is named Griffon, castle. When I left my ship, I commanded it to fly off to a safe area. I started walking forward, sticking to the shadows, as to not be noticed. After a minute of running in the shadows, I finally got close enough to the castle, to have a chance of entering it.

I stood in a dark alleyway, analyzing the area. ‘I could try the front entrance, but the guards would notice me, and probably set off an alarm.’ I open up the map of the area on my HUD. ‘It looks like there is a small side entrance on the right of the castle. Let’s see how that area looks.’ I start to make my way to the side entrance.

Once I got there, I noticed that it was conveniently right behind a dumpster. I scanned the dumpster, to surprisingly find that it was made of talloric alloy. I gave a small smirk, and turned into a morph ball, and dropped a bomb, destroying the dumpster. I quickly rolled into the small hole, before any guards came by.

After rolling through the hole for a while, I luckily exited on top of some kind of small catwalk, above a room full of guards and civilians. I slowly made my way across, heading to some kind of door on the other side that would take me closer to Griffon.

I used my thermal-visor, to see that there were three guards in the next room, and one of them was close to something that works like an alarm bell. I quickly opened the door, and fired a quick three blasts from my nova beam at the griffon near the alarm, quickly disintegrating the griffon.

Before the other two could realize what happened, they were already disintegrated. I quickly looked around for anymore I missed, and when I didn’t see any, I ran over to the next door I needed to go through.

My thermal-visor told me that it was a hallway, leading to the room with Griffon. I noticed the alarm on the far side of the room, and took several steps back, before running forward, blasting open the door, and plowing through all the guards, instantly killing them, as I used my speed booster.

By the time I killed the last guard in the room, I realized I was too slow, because one guard activated an alarm, causing flashing lights to go off. ‘Red. It’s always red lights.’ I burst through the door, entering the room with Griffon.

I immediately noticed the four guards pointing their spears at me, and slowly closing in, thinking I couldn’t escape, due to no room to move. Griffon got off of his chair, before walking over to me, examining me. “Are you the intruder who was attacking my guards? You don’t look so tough lass.” I smirked under my helmet, as I realized the disguise program works.

I should elaborate. Earlier on the way here, I found out that I can change the look of my suit, to look like the different versions of the power suit Samus has used. While I usually use my default one, that looks like a male version of the power suit, I found that changing my outside look, doesn’t change the inside appearance. I could make my suit look like Samus’s suit from Super Smash Bros Universe (which also makes me look female), but the inside of the suit looks the same. I decided to use this, to throw off my opponents, similar to the way Samus did it by looking male.

“Now, I wonder why you would decide to attack me? Could it be that Celestia decided to buy some outside help? Too weak to fight her own fights?” Griffon taunted. “Now I can see that you are a talented individual, since you were able to get past an entire room of my guards. So I’ll make you a deal; I pay you double what Celestia is paying if you can weaken her guards. Her guards need to be weakened, so she will still be weak when I attack, because she is a weak leader.”

‘That didn’t make that much sense. But what is Celestia paying me? Screw it, I already have a mission.’ “No.” Clearly I caught him by surprise, as he either didn’t expect me to speak, or for me to deny, even when it seems like I’m trapped.

“Are you really denying such an offer? Even when your life is at stake?!” He asked. I just smiled under my HUD.

“Who said my life is at stake?” Before he could realize what I meant, I quickly turned into my morph ball mode, dropped a power bomb, and rolled forward, before standing back up, and grabbing Griffon before the bomb went off, shielding him from the blast.

A few seconds passed, before Griffon realized what just happened. He looked past my sides, to see the ashes of his guards on the ground, before looking at my visor, fear in his eyes. I just stood up, pointing my arm cannon at him, charging up a nova beam. “Who are you?”

“Samus Aran.” I said, before I fired, completely disintegrating Griffon. I heard the door behind me open, as several heavily armed guards came into the room, all looking at me. “There’s the intruder! Get them!”

I quickly jumped over Griffon’s desk, before running straight through the window, and falling down the vertical side of the building.

“Did you see that sir? It just jumped out the window!” One of the privates said as they walked to the window where Sam jumped out.

“Well, looks like our job is done. No way a creature who can’t fly could survive that fall.” The captain said, turning around.

“Sir, you better come see this.” The private said, looking out the shattered window.

When the captain walked over, his beak fell as he saw Sam quickly run down the side of the building, using the speed booster to do so. “Impossible. Bring in the big guns. I want that creature mounted on my fireplace!”

After I reached the bottom of the building, I kept on running forward, heading to the edge of town to get back in my ship and escape. After running for a few more seconds, I was suddenly hit in the back, causing me to stumble, and lose my speed for my speed booster. I quickly recovered before I could fall, and I looked around, noticing that I was already surrounded in the fraction of a second I was stopped.

As I analyzed these guards, I quickly realized that most of my normal attacks wouldn’t work on them. They all had ranged weapons readied, and melee weapons by their sides. They were also all wearing armor, that my scan visor told me would block most of my beams.

‘Which beam to use then? Power, ice, plasma, wave, light, dark, and nova are all out. I could try the annihilator, but then they would start to attack, and I would be in danger as I wouldn’t be able to kill them all before they kill me. Missiles are too slow, and have a similar problem. Power bomb won’t work unless they are all nearby. Hyper beam still wouldn’t let me kill them all quickly. Zero laser is too dangerous, as I would lose my suit, and if they’re are more guards, I would be screwed. I guess I only have one option.’ I sigh, before activating hypermode.

My body instantly started glowing blue, and before any of the guards could do anything, I was killing several of them, using a charged hyper beam attack. I felt the power surging through me, and while it felt wrong, it also felt right. I was about to have fully vented my energy tank, when I suddenly was put into corrupted hypermode. I quickly utilized this, and was able to quickly defeat the rest of the guards, venting out the rest of the energy at the same time.

I quickly started running again, and this time, I made it to the edge of town, summoning my ship, and entering it before flying back to Canterlot before I could get attacked. I was about to sit down, but before I could, I dropped to the floor, deactivated my helmet, and started to puke blue stuff.

A minute later, I was done puking, and I sat down in my chair. “Are you okay Samus? I detect a high amount of Phazon in the puddle of puke you vomited up.”

“I don’t know Adam. I don’t know.” As I said this, I was looking at the results of a scan of me, noticing something that put some fear into my heart.

Phazon Corruption: 25%

Chapter 10 - School

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When I arrived back at Canterlot castle, I told Celestia (most of) what transpired. She gave me a bag full of gold coins, which is apparently Equestrian currency. A quick scan told me that there were 20,000 bits in the bag.

I just dropped the bag on my ship, before flying back to Ponyville. I landed in the exact same spot I landed on earlier. Noticing that it was late, I just went over to my bed, deactivate my suit, and fell asleep.

The next morning was rather hectic, a giant four headed hydra was attacking Ponyville, so I was able to get it to go back to it’s swampy home after attacking it in my ship. When I landed again, I exited my ship, and was checking to make sure that my ship wasn’t ‘injured.’

While fixing a small crack in the part that stores the fuel gel, I noticed my visor showed someone approaching me from behind. I turned around to notice it was that small white unicorn. Sweetie Belle if I remember correctly. I quickly turned back around, continuing my work, to see if she could start the conversation.

It took a minute or two, but she finally worked up the courage to talk to me. “Umm… Mr. Aran?” I had a small smile, as I turned around, and deactivated my helmet.

“Yes?” I could tell that Sweetie Belle was really nervous. She was visibly shaking, and now trying to make herself seem as small as possible. I took pity on her, and bent down, and pulled her into a hug.

I could tell that she was incredibly nervous for the first few seconds, but then she calmed down, and a minute later, I let go of her. “Does that help?” I asked.

“A little. But anyways, today is ‘bring your hero to school day’ and my big sister Rarity has important orders to fill, so she can’t come. So I was wondering if you could come with me today?” Sweetie Belle asked, not as nervous as she was a minute ago.

“Why would ask me? I’m not much of a hero.” Heroes usually help others for free. I’m just a bounty hunter.

“Well, on the day you arrived, you risked your life to save Dinky.” I forgot about her. “And Rarity told me that the other day you saved her and her friends lives from a bunch of monsters. And just earlier today, you fought off a giant hydra. If you weren’t a hero, you wouldn’t do those things.”

“I suppose.” I stood back up. “I’ll try to be there. What time do I need to be there?” I gave a small smile at Sweetie Belle’s big smile.

“Just be at the schoolhouse in an hour.” She pointed to a building off in the distance. “That’s the school house. See you there!” She squeaked, and ran off. I just shrugged, before reactivating my helmet, and continuing the repairs.

An hour later found me walking to the schoolhouse. As I approached it, three familiar fillies ran up to greet me. “Sam! You came!” Sweetie Belle squeaked. I noticed the other two were nervous. I crouched down, and deactivated my helmet.

“Relax, I wouldn’t hurt a child.” Wait, if I have Samus’s background, then… “In fact I even spared a newborn baby of a race that would kill countless creatures by sucking out their energy.” The fillies looked mesmerized by this. I was about to say something when I heard the voice of a snobby filly. I quickly reactivated my helmet, turned into a morph ball, and rolled into a bush, staying there, watching the conversation.

“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the blank flanks. What losers did you bring to class today?” A pink filly with a tiara on her head walked over to the three fillies. She was accompanied by a grey filly.

“We didn’t bring losers!” Scootaloo replied, angrily. “I brought the awesome Rainbow Dash.”

“And I brought my big sister Applejack!” Applebloom replied.

“And let me guess, you brought your failure of a sister?” The pink one asked Sweetie Belle. I noticed a light of realization in her eyes, as she realized why I hid, before speaking.

“Nope. I brought somepony that is a true hero. Too bad you’ll have to wait for class to see them.”

“Yeah right, like you know a ‘true hero.’ Everypony you know are all losers.” I could practically hear that whistle from the Spongebob episode with Kevin.

“Rainbow Dash is not a loser!” Scootaloo defended.

“She is a loser. She hardly works. And all she can do is brag about how she thinks she’s better than everypony else.” I noticed a small rainbow blur in the sky as she said this.

“But she’s also an Element of Harmony.” Rainbow Dash said as she landed behind the three fillies.

“You don’t even deserve to be an Element of Harmony.” The pink one said with venom. “I would make a better Element of Harmony than all of your worthless friends.” I could see that Rainbow Dash was starting to get angry, so I decided to do something.

“Wow, you would totally make a good Element of Honesty with those lies.” I said, as I stood back up, making my suit look like it did with the Phazon upgrade from Metroid Prime one, easily making myself scarier.

“MONSTER!” Both annoying fillies screamed as they ran away. I deactivated my helmet as I started to laugh along with Rainbow Dash.

“That was priceless!” Rainbow Dash said, after calming down. “Anypony who can do a prank like that, is good in my book.” She lightly punched my armored shoulder, and I lightly punched her back.

“Yeah well people like that give rich people a bad name. You should have seen what I did to some ugly prince I came across in the castle the other day. Made me so scared he pissed himself.” I said with a smile, as Rainbow Dash tried to figure out what I meant. When she did, she started laughing again.

“You should tell Rarity that. Blueblood was a jerk to her a while back.” I made a mental note to tell Rarity later, before changing my suit back to normal. “So, what are you doing here?”

“Sweetie Belle said that her sister was too busy, and asked me to come today.” I said with a shrug. “When I noticed two clearly snobby ponies walking up to these three” I gestured to the three fillies. “I decided that if they treat them bad, I would scare them, so I hid in the bush.”

Before we could continue, the school bell rang, and the colts and fillies all started running into the schoolhouse. Rainbow Dash and I followed the three fillies into the schoolhouse, Applejack joining up with us. When we entered the schoolhouse, I decided to pull another prank, turning into my morph ball, before following Sweetie Belle.

As Sweetie Belle sat down, I rolled right next to her, stopping right next to her saddlebags. I had a small smile on my face, as a pinkish pony walks up to the blackboard, and started speaking. “Good morning class. I’m glad to see that none of you were harmed by the hydra attack this morning.” A colt’s hoof raised, and the pony called on them.

“What was that weird orange, red, and green thing that attacked the hydra? I’ve never seen a creature like that.” The adult pony (I can’t scan in morph ball mode) had a sad look on her face.

“I’m sorry Pipsqueak, I don’t know.” Rainbow Dash spoke up after that.

“I know what it was. It was the spaceship of the alien in town.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Ms. Dash! There is a time for fantasy, but this is not it!” So the pony didn’t know about me. Rainbow Dash was about to reply, when the pony cut her off. “Now wait to speak until it’s your turn.”

“Now as you all know, it’s ‘Bring your hero to school’ day. So I will call you up one at a time, to bring up your hero, and explain why you consider them your hero.” With that the pony started calling up ponies one by one, showing everyone their heroes.

After maybe an hour, the snobby pony (who I learned was named Diamond Tiara), was wrapping up her speech about her father, Filthy Rich. Sweetie Belle’s name was called up next, and as Sweetie Belle ran up to the front, I rolled after her.

“So, Sweetie Belle, who did you bring?” The big pony, who I found out was named Ms. Cheerilee, asked, looking around.

“Here he is.” She gestured to my morph ball form.

“Sweetie Belle, now is not the time for games. Were you able to bring in somepony?” Cheerilee asked.

“Yes she did, and I would appreciate you don’t insult a friend of mine.” I spoke, and as everyone looked around for the voice, I stood back up, noticing how I wasn’t sore from being a small little ball for so long. Everyone gasped as they saw me, and Diamond Tiara and her minion both screamed.

“MONSTER!” I flinched at the title, and Cheerilee scolded the two fillies.

After scolding, Cheerilee started talking with me. “So, Sweetie Belle brought you in? Can you speak?” I rolled my eyes.

“I believe we already established both of those.” Everyone gasped again, not expecting my to speak. “So, introductions, my name is Sam Aran.”

“Sam is like a superhero! He goes throughout space, fighting crime!” Sweetie Belle spoke out.

“That is only partially true, I’m not really a superhero. I’m just a human who was well trained by the Chozo, given some Chozo DNA, and work as a bounty hunter for the Galactic Federation. I also have a really cool power suit, as you can see.” I deactivated my helmet, causing all the ponies to gasp again.

Diamond Tiara spoke up. “Why are you so ugly?” Another round of gasps.

“I could ask you the same thing. Don’t you know that plastic surgery only makes you uglier? Not to mention who you are on the inside matters a lot more than on the outside.” Sweetie Belle and her friends all start giggling.

“How dare you speak to me like that! Do you know who my father is!?” Diamond Tiara yelled.

I sighed. “He’s right there. And I was here for the past hour, listening into all the conversations in the room. Infact I have an interesting one right here.” I reactivated my helmet, before playing an audio playback.

“I can’t believe that we’re forced to be in the same room with those blank flanks!”

“I know! They should just all be arrested for taking up valuable space!”

“I LIKE CHEESE!”

I deactivated my helmet again, looking at the shocked faces of two fillies, and one embarrassed colt. I didn’t expect that final sentence to play.

“Diamond is this true?” Filthy Rich asked his daughter.

“Of course not daddy! It’s a monster! It tried to replicate our voices!” Diamond Tiara tried to explain.

“This might clear up the problem.” I create a hologram that shows the event. ‘Not sure where the projector came from.’

I could see Diamond Tiara and her friend start getting nervous at the overwhelming proof of what they did. When Filthy Rich took his daughter outside, Sweetie Belle started her small speech, and I corrected her on the exaggerated parts, and filled in the gaps of stuff she didn’t know.

When Sweetie Belle was finished giving her speech about me, every hoof in the room was instantly raised. I decided to answer some of their questions.

“How can you walk on two legs?”

“By putting one foot in front of the other.” I remember watching that scene with my parents.

“What’s your cutie mark?”

“Human’s don’t get cutie marks.”

“Then how do you know what you’re destiny is?”

“We don’t. We can be good at a lot of things.”

“Can you do magic?”

“No, but I can get close to using magic. If we go outside, I can show you, without fear of destroying the schoolhouse.” I looked to Cheerilee, who agreed, and we all went outside.

Once outside, I stood a safe distance from all the kids, and prepared for a few of my abilities. “This is called the grapple beam.” I pointed my hand to a big piece of flat metal, and a beam shot out of my hand, latching onto the metal.

“Is that all? Seems rather lame.” Diamond Tiara’s minion asked.

With a flick of my wrist, and a pull of my arm, the metal was sent flying into the sky, and landed behind me. All the kids ‘ooh’ed and ‘ahh’ed. “I also have an ability called the screw attack. It is highly dangerous, as touching it could kill you. So stay clear.” When they were all clear, I ran in the opposite direction of the kids, before jumping up, and activated my screwattack.

When I stopped it, landing on the ground a ways away, I could hear a lot of clapping. I started running back to them, by body glowing blue, as my speed increased. I stopped just in front of them, kicking up some dirt. “That, is my speed booster. It can give me supersonic speeds, but I don’t know how fast I can go.”

“Then why don’t we test out to see how fast you can run? I would love to prove myself faster than an alien.” I gave Rainbow Dash a glare. “Sorry.”

“Sure, but can it wait ‘till later? I still have a few things I want to show these kids.” I said, preparing my next trick.

“Fine, I’ll be at the race track over there.” Rainbow Dash pointed to a race track, and flew away.

“Now, check out this.” I pointed my arm cannon up, before firing a modded missile up into the air, which exploded, but was similar to a firework, as the light of the explosion, reflected off the shards of ice in the missile. “That’s all my party tricks.” The kids all groaned. “Well, I’m sorry but my other abilities involve harming others, so unless any of you want to be disintegrated.”

“And since Mr. Aran is finished with his presentation, I believe that class is now over.” Cheerilee said, and all the kids started walking back into the schoolhouse to get their things. I was about to head to the race track, when a heard Sweetie Belle behind me.

“Thanks for coming, Mr. Aran.” Sweetie Belle squeaked. I crouched down, before patting her on the head.

“Your welcome. And please, just call me Sam.” I stood back up, before turning around, and seeing Diamond Tiara standing there, clearly angry.

“Figures blank flanks would stick together.” She said, surprising my with the fact that actual venom wasn’t coming out of her mouth.

“What do you want?” I asked, not caring for her.

“I want you to kill yourself, but I doubt you have the balls to do such a thing.” This kid knows some language. Too bad I know more.

“Well, neither do you.”

“You’re just a freak of nature. You shouldn’t even exist.”

“Says the pony who insults others for a living.”

“I’m not insulting anypony! I'm simply showing them why I’m superior to them.”

“No one is better than another.”

“You keep believing that, freak.”

“I know bullies. You’re trying to get under my skin. Well, no matter how hard you try, you won’t even get under this armor.”

“You haven’t seen nothing yet.”

“Well, try all you want, but you won’t succeed. I was forced to watch as my parents were murdered right in front of me.”

“I can think of worse.”

“Like what?”

“Your death.” There’s something wrong with this filly. I did a quick scan of her, and found out something that terrified me.

“Sweetie Belle, stay close.” She looked confused, especially at the urgency in my voice.

“Why, it’s just Diamond Tiara. You fought creatures stronger than her right?”

“That’s not Diamond Tiara. Not anymore.” I said with a shake of my head. “That’s an X parasite.”

Chapter 11 - X Invasion

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I stood there, waiting to see what the X parasite would do, with Sweetie Belle right behind me, visibly scared, as she remembered what I told the class about these creatures. I point my arm cannon at her, preparing to blast her, when Filthy Rich came out from around the corner.

“Diamond, honey, leave these two alone.” He said, thinking that his daughter was bullying Sweetie Belle again.

“Nah, I don’t feel like it. But I am hungry.” The parasite leaves Diamond’s body, before charging at a shocked Filthy Rich. I quickly ran in between them, grabbing the parasite, and feeling it get absorbed into my body. I did a quick scan of Diamond Tiara’s body, before looking at Filthy Rich.

“I’m sorry, but she didn’t survive.” I walk over, and close her eyes. I heard Filthy Rich try to figure out what just happened. “You wouldn’t know this, but that was an X parasite. They’re a parasitic species that take’s over another creature’s body. While they are in control, they slowly destroy the creature they are in. They only have one predator, metroid, which were wiped out a while back, but I have some metroid DNA in me, enough to absorb them. But I’m sorry, the X parasite killed your daughter.”

I walked over to Sweetie Belle, who was crying, and I picked her up, before walking her back inside, and talking to Cheerilee. “Cheerilee, we have a problem.”

“What’s wrong?” She acted nervous at my tone.

“Diamond Tiara was murdered.” She gasped. “It was an alien parasite that was thought to be extinct. I managed to stop it, but there are perhaps countless more. If you see anyone acting the slightest bit strange, alert me immediately. I got to tell the elements.” I put down Sweetie Belle. “Can you make sure Sweetie Belle gets home safely?” Cheerilee nodded, and I could see some tears coming from her eyes.

I ran out of the schoolhouse, and activated my speed booster, before running over to the track Rainbow Dash was waiting at. After arriving, Rainbow Dash immediately flew over to me. “‘Bout time you show up! I’ve been waiting for like an hour!”

“Now is not the time for that Rainbow Dash.” Rainbow Dash flinched at my tone, knowing something bad is happening. “An alien parasite has appeared in Equestria. It already has killed Diamond Tiara.”

“Alien parasite? Well, I’ll just kick it’s butt!” Rainbow Dash acted like she was punching something in mid-air.

“You can’t. If you touch it, it will take over your body. You can’t fight it. Eventually it will act like you, and slowly kill you. Metroids are the only things that can kill them.” Rainbow Dash looked a little bit nervous now. I was about to say something else, when I noticed a small group of ponies walk up the the track.

I did a quick scan, finding out that they were infected. “Rainbow Dash, they’re infected. Be careful, and don’t let any colorful blobs touch you.” There were five ponies, I don’t recognize any of them, but Rainbow Dash seemed to.

“Rainbow, you would believe the words of an alien, over us?” One of them asked, and I could see that Rainbow flinched.

“Don’t believe them Rainbow Dash.”

“GAH! I don’t know who to believe!” Rainbow Dash yelled, before flying up, away from both of the groups.

“Believe us Rainbow! This alien should be killed.” The ponies all say at once.

“I’m not going to persuade you to choose either group, Rainbow Dash. That’s your decision. You’re an adult, and you can make your own decisions.” I stated.

“I just don’t know!” Rainbow Dash yelled, grabbing her head with her hooves. As she was doing this, I noticed one of the ponies flying up to Rainbow Dash, while her eyes were closed.

“RAINBOW DASH! LOOK OUT!” I yelled, and Rainbow Dash opened her eyes in time to dodge the tackle by the pegasus. I noticed the yellow X parasite leave the pegasus, before charging at Rainbow Dash. I quickly used both my high jump, and my space jump, managing to grab the X, and absorb it, before it could touch the rainbow pegasus.

As I was falling, I quickly aimed at the the ponies, quickly killing each of them. The second I landed, I dashed forward, touching all the X parasites, absorbing them. When I absorbed all the parasites, I walked over to the bodies, before deactivating my helmet, and crying.

Rainbow Dash landed next to me, not exactly understanding why I was crying. “Relax Sam, they’re just alien invaders.”

“No, they weren’t. The X parasites were the invaders. The ponies were innocent. There’s no real way to extract them from the bodies, without killing them. I was infected once, and the only way I was saved, was when the remains of the last metroid in existence was used to make me part metroid.” Rainbow Dash started crying, realizing what happened.

“You mean…” I just nodded, tears still falling.

Eventually I stood back up. “We need to stop all the X. I think we should tell Twilight and the other elements of harmony. If any of them get infected, you won’t be able to use the elements.”

“You’re right.” Rainbow Dash was about to fly off, when I grabbed her to stop her.

“We need to stick together. You could be infected without me. Plus we need witnesses to prove the invasion.” I put her on my back. “At least now you get to see my speed booster. Hang on.” I started running, and before long, activated my speed booster, making it to Twilight’s house within a few seconds. While I was running, I realized that Samus never used the full speed of the booster due to the small spaces in the game.

When I stopped right in front of Twilight’s house, I let Rainbow Dash get off, noticing how she was affected by the wind. “That was awesome!”

“Glad you liked it. Now come on, the fate of the world is on our shoulders.” I opened the door, noticing Twilight and Spike were reading or something.

“Sam? What are you doing here?” Twilight asked. I quickly scanned her, noticing how she was clean, but when I scanned Spike, I started holding back tears. I deactivated my helmet to talk to Twilight.

“Twilight, I need to talk to you, it’s very important.” Twilight heard the seriousness in my voice, and I followed her into a back room. While she was turned around, I looked at Rainbow Dash, and pointed at Spike, who wasn’t paying attention. Rainbow Dash nodded, before keeping an eye on Spike.

“So, what is this about?” Twilight asked, after we entered the room, and closed the door. I took a deep breath, before I started crying. “Sam, are you okay?”

“No. And neither is Equestria.” I took another breath. “An old enemy is trying to take over Equestria.” Twilight gasped. “It’s called the X parasite.” I made a hologram of what they usually look like. “They are incredibly dangerous. They infect a host, taking over their bodies, and acting like a perfect replica of them. But as they do this, the host slowly dies. I counted six pony casualties so far, Diamond Tiara is already dead, and a group of other ponies tried to infect Rainbow Dash. I… I had to kill them.” I started crying again. “I don’t want to kill innocents.”

“This sounds bad. We should tell the princess. I’ll get Spike right away.” I stopped her before she could continue forth.

“Don’t. I haven’t told you the worst part yet.” After making sure she was listening, I spoke again. “Spike is infected.”

The sound of stone cracking was like music to my ears. I was finally able to gather all the chaos energy I needed to escape. As I was stretching after my stone prison was broken, I talked to myself, glad to here my own voice again. "Oh boy! I'm glad that Ponyville had all those recent bursts of chaos energy lately." Snapping my fingers, I teleported to the small town. "Now, lets see what could have caused the chaos."

I disguised myself as a bagel, and started looking around, noticing some ponies looked like they were infected with something. After a few seconds of searching, I found the purple unicorn's tree-house. Looking in a window, I saw my little chaos-maker. "Oh boy, this is going to be fun. Let's see how much chaos you can cause little human."

Chapter 12 - The Cure

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“There has to be a way to save him! He’s like a brother to me!” Twilight said, as she looked through all the books in the room. It took a while for her to understand what’s happening, and believe me when I told her about Spike. “Are you sure that there are no more of these ‘metroids?’”

“Yes. I should be the only creature alive capable to defeating the X. But I can’t force them to leave the bodies. And that’s if they don’t decide to quickly kill him.”

“Can’t we make a cure from your blood?”

“My blood has three different races in it. And if the X finds out we know, it might decide to kill him. The elements might work, but it could kill Spike the second you fire.” We heard some loud screaming and some explosions coming from outside. “I’m going to go check that out. DO NOT let Spike know we know. And be careful around anything that looks like an X.”

I quickly ran outside, to see a bipedal figure destroying the town by firing missiles into stuff. I ran over to the figure, firing a few wave beams at it, causing it to turn around and face me. When I saw who it was though, I gasped.

It looked like Lyra, but it was humanoid. It’s skin looked similar to my power suit, and I noticed that it’s right hand was similar to an arm cannon. I did a quick scan of the creature.

Subject: Lyra Heartstrings

Species: Unknown.

Analysis: Subject has been infected with the SA-X, thus giving the subject the form and abilities of User’s power suit.

Suggestion: KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

“I’m finally a human! I shall spread this joy to everyone!” Lyra yelled, clearly happy. “And you can’t stop me hunter!” She quickly fired a few missiles at me.

I expertly dodged the missiles, firing a few power beams at Lyra, who wasn’t able to dodge in time. ‘She’s not used to the body yet. I can use that to my advantage.’

I used my speed booster to charge at Lyra, and the second before I hit her, I turned into a morph ball, and rolled underneath her legs, placing a powerbomb. I got a good distance away, and watched as Lyra was hurt by the powerbomb. ‘Luckily there was no creatures nearby, allowing me to use that attack.’

When Lyra recovered, she quickly fired a few ice beams at me, I barely dodged, firing a few plasma beams at her. I heard her scream in pain, as the plasma started to burn her. I was about to attack again, when I was struck in the back. I looked behind me, seeing a bunch of ponies of all races preparing to attack me. ‘I can’t handle these many hostiles.’

I rolled out of the way of a few more magic blasts, before shooting a few thrown projectiles out of the air. I backflipped over the charging pegasi. I quickly sidestepped Lyra’s beams. ‘Maybe I can do this.’

Right after I thought that, I was hit in the back by a powerful beam. When I recovered, I saw an enraged Luna. “YOU DARE ATTACK OUR SUBJECTS! YOU CAN'T DENY THIS! WE HAVE SEEN YOU ATTACK OUR SUBJECTS!”

I was about to reply, before I noticed an X about to charge Luna. I reacted quickly, running over to her, tackling her down, and grabbing the X. I turned around to face the infected ponies. “No more innocents. No more innocents shall die!”

I flipped over Lyra’s ice beams, landing on a big piece of floating debris, firing a missile at it the second I jump, and using the explosion to propel me onto another piece of debris. I did this over and over again, and firing my hyper beam at Lyra. I was about to jump again, when Luna tackled me.

“WE SHALL STOP YOU ALIEN!” I pushed Luna of of me.

“I’m not the enemy here! Look at your subjects! They’re infected with a virus, and I’m trying to stop it from infecting anymore! I don’t want to kill them! I want to find a way to save them! But I have to take care of the SA-X Lyra before I can! Now, are you going to attack the only predator to the X parasites?” To answer my question, Luna blasted me again, sending me flying.

I crashed into a wall, and quickly pushed myself off. “WE WILL NOT FALL FOR YOUR TRICKS ALIEN SCUM!” ‘I have to stop her from attacking me, I’m taking too much damage.’ Before I could do anything, an X parasite flew right at her

“LUNA! LOOK OUT!” She didn’t believe me, and as she took a step forward, the X flew into her, and started infecting her. Powered by rage, I quickly activated hypermode, and started firing a constant barrage of phazon blasts at Lyra.

I kept on firing a constant blast of phazon at her, ignoring the attacks the others were giving me. “NO MORE SHALL FALL!” Eventually I heard Lyra scream in pain, as she disappeared in a flash of light. In her place was a spiky core-x. I quickly fired a few hyper missiles at it, breaking the shield. After I did this, my hypermode exited out, and I ran forward grabbing the upgrade.

As my body starting glowing, and the upgrade started integrating with my suit, a few words appeared across my visor that made me smile.

Upgrade acquired: X Parasite Cure.

By firing this beam upgrade at any creature infected with the X parasite, the X parasite is purged from the host, saving the host and preventing them from being infected again. By firing this at a free X parasite, it will instantly terminate the parasite.

I quickly activated the beam, and started firing it at all the infected ponies, noticing how the beam was similar in color to a metroid. Once everyone nearby was cured, I started running back to Twilight’s place, firing the beam at any parasites nearby.

I got to Twilight’s house, bursting down the door, to see a crying Rainbow Dash and Twilight, standing over Spike. I did a quick scan, seeing that Rainbow Dash and Twilight were clean. I walked over to Spike, and fired my beam at him, destroying the x parasite.

I expected Spike to get up, but when I did a quick scan, I noticed I was too late. “Spike’s dead.” I said, tears starting to form in my eyes.

“He figured out that we knew, and then he let out a yell of pain, and fell down.” Twilight said, still crying.

“I was too late. I just got an upgrade that would have cured him, but if I didn’t spend all that time curing others, I could have saved him.” I fell to my knees, deactivating my helmet, before letting out a large cry. “I said that no more would die. Why did he have to die?”

As we all sat there, crying, Luna burst through the doors, her horn glowing, as she looked between me and Spike’s body, with rage in her eyes. “YOU HAVE KILLED THE YOUNG DRAKE! YOU MONSTER!” She fired her horn at me, sending me flying into a wall and hitting my head pretty hard.

Unlike the other times Luna has done this, I didn’t react. I didn’t react as she fired spell after spell into me. I didn’t react as I watched my energy tanks go down fast. I didn’t react as my consciousness slipped, and everything went dark.

'Good. You're awake.'

'I'm not awake. I'm unconscious. And what are you doing in my mind?'

'I should be asking you that question. After all, you are in my body.'

"Mistress! We received word that a ship is coming towards the planet." A Space Pirate ran towards the dark figure, before bowing down.

"What kind of ship?" The dark figure asked curiously.

"It seemed to be a Chozo ship. Our scans showed that it perhaps held the last of the Chozo species, the species that raised and trained the Hunter." The Space Pirate informed the dark figure.

"I will deal with it. Get back to work." The dark figure said without a care. The Space Pirates immediately left the room, hoping not to get killed by the dark figure. When the room was empty, except for the dark figure, she started cackling madly. "If I can get the alien angry enough, then I won't have to do much work! It'll try to kill me and it will be executed for the act!"

"Don't! Please don't do this! A quieter voice spoke out. The dark figure stopped laughing, before using her magic to summon a mirror in front of her. In the mirror held an almost identical copy of the dark figure. The only difference is the small changes in appearance. For one was the Princess of the Night, and the other was the Bringer of Eternal Night.

"Oh, you're still here? I thought I got rid of you." The dark figure said indifferently.

"Of course I'm here! You're in my body! Now I begging you! Please don't do this!" The figure in the mirror pleaded. The dark figure just started laughing.

"Oh, of course I'm going to do this. I need to show the world that I'M THE RIGHTFUL RULER OF THE PLANET! THAT THE WORLD SHOULD BE CAST INTO ETERNAL NIGHT!" Then with a glow of her horn, the dark figure permanently removed the figure in the mirror from existence. "And now. I don't have to worry about those pesky Elements of Harmony turning me back into a cowardly second-best ruler." The dark figure used her magic to remove the mirror, then summoned a small magic viewing orb. "Speaking of the Elements of Harmony, best make sure they don't figure out what happened, and try to stop me." With another glow of her horn, not only the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, but the Princess of the Sun, had their brains mentally altered to obey the dark figure, without realizing it.

Chapter 13 - The Chozo

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I talked a bit with Samus Aran, would apparently is also in my mind, and just now had the power to manifest himself as a voice in my mind. It also explained the reason why I acted almost like an expert in the power suit. After a while, I decided it was time to wake up.

“Is he going to be alright?” I heard a voice say as I slowly started waking up.

“I don’t know. If any pony were to receive these injuries, they might not wake for weeks. But we know nothing of a creature like this. It’s blood contains not only primate DNA, but also avian DNA, and some kind of parasite DNA. Not to mention the strange blue liquid contained within it’s body. It might not wake for months, or even…” I quickly shot up in the bed, staring at the seven ponies in front of me. “Right now.” The doctor said softly.

“Sam!” I was suddenly tackled by a pink blur, that somehow slowed down right before it hit me, not causing me any harm. When I finally realized it was Pinkie, I grabbed her, and pulled her off my body.

“What happened?” I asked, setting Pinkie Pie back on the ground. The ponies all looked nervous, rubbing their hooves, and averting eye contact. ‘Some things just don’t change between species.’

Finally, Twilight decided to speak. “After you came back to the library, you tried to cure Spike, but when you found out that you were too late, you let out a large cry. Apparently, Luna heard this cry, and burst into the library, and noticed that you were kneeling over Spike’s…” She sniffed, tears about to fall again. Twilight was comforted by her friends. “b-body. She immediately thought that you killed him.”

“I don’t get it though, why would the princess do such a thing?” Applejack asked.

“Because she’s xenophobic.” The ponies that understood what that meant, flinched back, as if expecting me to be smited.

“What’s zenifobic?” Pinkie Pie asked, noticing that some of the ponies reacted to that word.

“‘Xenophobia’ is the fear of aliens.” I said with a small chuckle at the fact that Pinkie Pie mispronounced it.

“I’m sure that the princess doesn’t hate you.” Twilight said, nervously.

“She tries to find any excuse to hurt me. She automatically assumes that I’m an invader. Attacks me when I save her. She never tries to get all the facts, she just attacks.” Rhymes. “She thought I was attacking Ponyville, when there was clearly a mutated pony nearby that’s shooting explosions at me. Speaking of which, what happened to the rest of the X parasites?”

“The princesses managed to copy that beam you used against them, and were able to track them all down. By the way, the doctor mentioned you have some sort of strange liquid in your body. He took a sample of it, and the doctors said they couldn’t even remotely figure out what it was.” When Twilight said this, I shot up from my sitting position.

“You have to destroy it.” I said in a serious tone. Twilight’s head tilted, telling me that she didn’t understand.

“Why? You act like it’s a dangerous chemical that can destroy entire civilizations.” She said with a small laugh. I instantly stopped her laugh with my glare.

“Because that’s what it is. It’s called Phazon.” Twilight’s face suddenly paled. “And yes, I am talking about the stuff I told Celestia. You see this?” I pointed to a vine on my face that I noticed earlier. “That is the effect of Phazon poisoning on my body. I’m 50% corrupted, and I’m having trouble keeping myself in control. If ponies get mutated like that, this world might be destroyed.”

“What do you mean, 50% corrupted?” I heard Fluttershy ask. I looked to her, noticing that it must have taken a lot of courage for her to ask.

“It means that whenever I use hypermode, my body starts getting more affected by Phazon. I don’t want to know what would happen if I become too much corrupted.” I shivered in fear.

Before anyone could say anything else, the door opened, and both princesses walked in. I noticed Celestia had a worried look on her face, but Luna was clearly trying to kill me just by looking at me. “Are you okay Sam?” Celestia asked.

I gave a small smile. “I’ve been through worse.” Images of me on various planets went through my mind. ‘That was me, not you.’

“That’s good to see.” Celestia said, snapping me out of my thoughts. “But I think Princess Luna owes you an apology.” Celestia nudged Luna forth, Luna visibly looking angry.

“I’m sorry for rightly attacking you, alien.” I rolled my eyes at her ‘sincerity.’ Celestia apparently didn’t notice this, and gave a small smile, thinking we’re getting along.

“I accept your apology, winged unicorn.” The element bearers all gasped. “What? If she wants to give me a nickname based off of what I apparently am, I think she would want one too.” I said with a shrug and a small smile. I noticed Luna was seething.

“We are not a ‘winged unicorn,’ we are a noble alicorn princess and demand to be treated as such.” Luna stomped her hoof, trying to get the point across that she despises me.

“And I am not an ‘alien,’ I am a human, and as soon as you address me by that, I’ll address you by your race. If you address me by my name, then I will address you by your title.” I noticed Luna’s pupils change size, and I quickly rolled off the bed, landing on my feet, as Luna jumped on the bed, her horn piercing where my heart was a second ago.

The element bearers yelled in shock, as Celestia tried to stop Luna. I didn’t activate my power suit, wanting to resolve this peacefully. “Why do you hate me so much? Did an alien kill your parents? Or were all Equestrians this racist a thousand years ago?” Luna jumped at me again, and I let her tackle me, pinning me to the floor as she charged up her horn.

“We hate thou because thou is an alien invader! Thou wants to summon warships to our peaceful planet! We know thou plan alien!” ‘Is she foaming at the mouth?’ Right before she fired her spell, I quickly summoned my pistol to my hands (it works like the power suit, just concentrate to have it appear.) and pointed it at a hook on a wall, before activating it’s grappling feature, pulling me out from Luna using cartoon physics.

When she charged again, Samus took over, and I flipped over her, landing on the ground, before lightly pushing against an open window, pushing it open all the way, before jumping out. I quickly reactivated my power suit, before grabbing the flat wall, and jumping up. ‘If Megaman can do it, so should we.’

As I quickly jumped up the wall, much to the shock of the ponies in the rooms, I heard a loud screech, as Luna flew out of the window, looking at me with absolute hatred in her eyes. I quickly reached the roof, landing with a quick slide, before dashing over to the other side. ‘This hospital reminds me of the ones on Earth, except with a lot more concrete.’ I shook my head, temporarily getting rid of the other personality in my head. ‘Gotta focus.’

Right before I reached the other side, a bright flash appeared over the edge, and I could see Luna, staring at me with a glare that would petrify a normal person. Not stopping, I jumped, activating both high-jump, and space jump, allowing me to completely jump over Luna’s head, and start falling. ‘I’m in Canterlot.’ I quickly used my grapple beam to grab onto a protruding piece of metal sticking off of a building.

Once I got a hold of it, I swung forward, before making a complete 90 degree turn, and leaping onto a smaller building. I ran forward, jumping from building to building, avoiding Luna’s blasts of magic. After about a minute, by visor detected something.

High amounts of solar magic present.

‘Celestia.’ I quickly went into my morph ball mode, rolling out of a telekinetic grab, before rolling off the edge of a building. I unfurled, noticing I just fell off the edge of Canterlot, and am now falling down into a forest that is still quite a ways down. After falling for around a minute, I quickly activated my space jump, jumping right before I hit the ground, negating all damage from the fall. When I finally touched ground, I started running, activating my speed booster and weaving in between the trees, heading in the direction of Ponyville, so I can get to my ship.

“Curses! We almost had the alien!” Luna turned around to face her older sister. “We would have had that murdering alien if you didn’t stop us!”

“Luna, why do you hate Sam so much? He saved the life of a filly that we put in danger.” Celestia started.

“It probably lied. No alien like that would tell the truth. It just wants more of our ponies for it’s race to eat and torture.” Luna replied.

“He saved all of us from the Space Pirates.” Celestia continued.

“It summoned them here! It was all a ruse so we would trust it!” Luna said angrily.

“He saved the element of kindness.” Celestia was starting to get angry.

“Of course it didn’t! It was a lie!”

“He stopped most of the X-parasites!”

“No it didn’t! I developed the cure beam!” Luna lied, knowing that Celestia wasn’t there, so she said that she figured out the magic to destroy the X-parasites without harming the host. “Why do you believe the alien! Why can’t you see how much of a monster it is!”

“Why can’t you see Luna! He grieved over Spike’s body because he regretted not being able to save him! If you didn’t attack him, he could have saved Spike!” Celestia yelled, not caring that the mane six were watching this verbal fight from a distance.

“Princesses! Please calm down!” Twilight said, hoping to get the two princesses to stop fighting. When the princesses both calmed down, they looked at Twilight, who took a deep breath, glad that they didn’t continue fighting. “Princess Luna, we have no proof that he is what you say he is. And to be fair, you have attacked him about every time you’ve seen him.”

“You all believe the alien’s lies?” The ponies all hesitantly nodded. “Fine! But don’t come crying to me when you see how much of a monster it is.” Luna’s horn lit up, and she teleported back to the castle.

Celestia sighed, before turning to face the mane six. “Thank you Twilight for intervening.” Celestia then walked over to the edge of the building, not seeing Sam anywhere. “I hope he’s alright.”

“Where do you think he went?” Twilight asked.

Celestia was about to respond when Pinkie spoke up. “OOO! I know! I know!” Pinkie was suddenly on the edge of the building, pointing to the sky above Ponyville. “He would go to Ponyville! Not only is there an alien ship above it, but his own ship is there!”

The gathered ponies all looked at the sky above Ponyville, to notice single ship was entering the atmosphere above Ponyville. “Princess, do you think that it is another Space Pirate ship?” Twilight asked, concerned.

“It might. But it doesn’t look the same.” Celestia responded. “The Space Pirates ships looked like they were made in a scrapyard, but this looks like it’s based off of an avian.”

“Avian means bird right?” Rainbow Dash asked, and everyone looked at her, surprised. “What? I learned a few things about birds in flight school.” She said with a shrug.

“Yes it does Rainbow Dash, and I imagine, friend or foe, that Sam will be there.” Celestia teleported them back to the castle, before getting a chariot due to the fact that Celestia couldn’t teleport as far as Ponyville.

As I finally left the forest, I saw Ponyville in the distance. But what concerned me more was the giant ship appearing in orbit above the town. ‘More aliens? Are they Space Pirates?’ ‘No you idiot, those are Chozo ships!’ I rolled my eyes, being back in control of my body for several minutes already. ‘Aren’t the Chozo dead?’ ‘They were thought to be. They could have escaped Tallon IV before the Phazon was sent there.’ ‘Or Zebes before Mother Brain.’

As I started running again, activating my speed booster and running as fast as I could to Ponyville, one to protect the town incase they’re evil aliens, and two to restore my energy, as I only have 3 energy tanks left. ‘If they are Chozo, you think that there are any you know? Or any that know you?’ ‘They all should know me, but there might not be any I know.’ ‘You think Old Bird might be there?' ‘...I don’t know.... But I hope.’

After a few more minutes, we arrived in Ponyville, and got to the certain of town right as the ship landed there. I let Samus take over temporarily due to the fact that he has the skills, and we have very little health left. A few seconds later, the hatch on the ship opened up, and a few bipedal creatures walked out.

When the dramatic smoke effect cleared, I could easily see the creatures that landed their ship in Ponyville. “Chozo.” We both muttered to ourselves in disbelief, as the bird-like aliens walked forward, noticing us.

“Hatchling, it is good to see you again.” A voice spoke that I recognized.

“Old Bird?” I spoke with slight hesitation, and with tears forming in my eyes.

“Yes, it is me hatchling. It is good to see you again.” Old Bird motions for a hug, which I return, tears already falling at the reunion.

“I thought the Chozo went extinct. How did you survive what happened on Zebes?” I deactivated my helmet, showing my tear-soaked face to my foster father.

“We managed to escape the Space Pirates in time. We went into hiding for several cycles before we noticed something seriously wrong with you hatchling. There was some sort of universal anomaly right where you were at. Do you know what happened?” Old Bird asked concerned.

I sighed, deciding to tell him the truth. “I think I know what happened. I somehow merged with another universe’s counterpart of me. We’ve been in the same body for a while now. He said that he was on a less advanced version of Earth, and went to a convention dressed up as another version of me that was female, and bought an object from a merchant, and got sent from his universe into my body, which was teleported into one the house of one of the natives.”

“We haven’t figured that part out yet.” Sam said after I finished talking. ‘Mind if I introduce myself?’ ‘Fine, go ahead.’ “Sorry, my name is Samuel Aran. I’m from the alternate universe.”

“Fascinating. It seems like your spirits have merged, and your body is hosting two minds. Who usually controls the body?” Old Bird asked.

“We keep on switching. Samus seems slightly annoyed at the company, but he knows that what happened was out of my control. He usually is the one that fights, and does the important stuff due to having the training and the skills. But I’m the one that usually interacts with people due to my past. I think he’s glad that I know stuff about this universe though.” ‘Better than you knowing nothing.’

Before he could respond, two chariots landed nearby, and the elements of harmony and Princess Celestia all exited out, looking at the Chozo with hesitant eyes. Old Bird noticed the slightly concerned look I gave them, and spoke up. “Friends of yours?”

“I might consider them friends. Not sure about Samus though.” ‘More friends means more people to protect, and more ways to hurt me. I don’t need friends.’ ‘What about Adam Malkovich?’ ‘...Screw you.’ ‘And let’s not forget about the Super Met...’ ‘Finish that sentence and I will end you.’ ‘Fine. Sorry about that though, must have been hard.’ ‘It was. Saved my life twice.’

Celestia walked over to us, and I could tell she was preparing for a fight. “Calm down Celestia. These are the Chozo, they’re the race that raised me when Ridley killed my home colony. They’re a peaceful race.”

At that, Celestia calmed down, before introducing herself. “My apologizes. I am Princess Celestia, diarch of Equestria. We were recently attacked by two different alien races, so please excuse some of my subjects skepticism in a peaceful alien race.”

“I am Old Bird, one of the last of the Chozo. It is an honor to make your acquaintance. But may I ask what aliens attacked this planet?” Old Bird said with a bow.

“The first time they were Space Pirates. The second they were a race of floating blobs called the X-Parasites.” Celestia recalled, not knowing about the Chozo’s history with X-Parasites.

When Old Bird heard the word ‘X-Parasites,’ he froze up. “How can that be? We made the metroids specifically to stop the X-parasites.”

“Yeah, about that…” ‘Hey, can’t blame me, you went to SR388. You could have declined that mission.’ “I was sent on a mission to exterminate the Metroids on SR388.” Old Bird’s face fell even more. “We didn’t know about the X-Parasites until it was too late, and I was infected. They gave me the DNA of a metroid that imprinted on me to repel the parasite.” ‘...’

“So does the Metroid DNA have anything to do with the tendril across your face.” ‘Are you going to tell him?’ ‘I have to. It obviously isn’t a part of a Metroid.’ ‘Good luck.’

“No… that is because I’m affected by Phazon.” I didn’t think it was even more possible for Old Bird’s face to fall any more. “I had to use an upgrade for my power suit to save a young filly’s life. It seems whenever I use it, I increase my corruption. I’m at 50% corruption.” I looked down, ashamed at the fact that I’m making the very thing that wiped out the Chozo on Tallon IV.

I waited, clenching my fists, expecting to be killed or something so Phazon can’t spread anymore. I flinched when I felt something touch my armored shoulder. I looked up to see the face of my foster father, who also had a look of worry on his face. “Don’t worry Hatchling. We can try to find a cure for you.” He gestured for me to come into the ship. “Can you please come into the ship? I’ll lead you to the medical bay.” I nodded, following him into the ship. I spared a quick glance at Celestia, who was watching me carefully, as she talked to the other ponies.

We walked for a few more minutes, before I heard a sound I haven’t heard in a while. I quickly tensed, activating my helmet, and bringing my arm cannon up and turning on my x-ray visor. When I noticed nothing happened, I heard a faint laughing sound. ‘You seriously heard that?! How did you know what that sound meant?!’ ‘I don’t know. I hear all kinds of sounds and music while doing stuff. But how did you play that?’ ‘I activated it from my memories. Do you remember this?’ I shivered when I heard the sound. ‘SA-X.’ ‘Those things were creepy in the game, I can’t even imagine how creepy they would have been in real life.’

Old Bird stopped, before opening a door that led to a room with medical equipment. ‘They really like trees.’ I just nodded, noticing how the room on the ship looked like something I would expect on Tallon IV, even with walls that look like they are parts of trees.

With a quick flash, I teleported onto the alien invaders’ ship. I quickly looked around, not seeing any guards. I let loose a small smile, as I ran through the ship, before finding the room with the most energy in it.

I entered the room, noticing how it must be the power central for the warship. After making sure that there were no guards in the room, I quickly charged up my horn, before firing a powerful blast of magic at the power core, causing it to start to overheat and blow up.

I quickly teleported back to Canterlot, watching the ship blow up from my balcony. “That’s why you don’t try to invade Equestria, aliens.”

As Old Bird was using a device to scan me, a loud alarm went off, and red lights started flashing everywhere. “Engine overloading. Self destruction imminent.” I noticed Old Bird looking confused for a brief second, before he quickly started pressing buttons, freeing me from the device, and trying to figure out what happened.

“Something sabotaged the engine room. The ship is going to blow up!” Old Bird started pushing me through the door, and we started running to the exit. I activated my power suit to protect me, and noticed the countdown timer on my visor.

Seeing as we had a few seconds left, I grabbed Old Bird, somehow managing to hold him on my back. I activated the speed booster, running at the fastest speed I could. ‘We’re not going to make it!’ ‘Yes we are!’ I suddenly felt Sam take partial control, and making us run through the walls while constantly moving faster. ‘What?’ ‘Gamer’s instinct. It felt like the walls might be made of the material that breaks when using the speed booster.’

We ran through a final wall, right as the ship blew up. The explosion pushed us forward, before we landed on the ground, managing to stop our forward momentum. We quickly turned around, and put Old Bird back down, before watching the ship blow up.

The explosion was powerful enough it destroyed most of the ship. But it was also controlled enough to not damage anything nearby. After making sure that no one else was harmed, I quickly turned around, and checked on Old Bird.

I grimaced at the sight of what happened to my foster father. His skin and feathers were burnt, he had a few pieces of debris in him, and he already had a pool of blood forming underneath him. “No.” I crouched down, using my scan visor to try and figure out a way to save him.

I barely heard the faint sound of ponies approaching me from behind. “Hatchling...d-do not seek re-revenge for me.” I heard him faintly say. I deactivated my helmet when I realized I couldn’t save him.

“Don’t die on me Old Bird. Please don’t die on me. I lost you once, I can’t lose you again.” Tears were streaming down my face at this point. I stood there, holding Old Bird’s lifeless body for several more minutes. ‘We should try to figure out how this happened.’ I heard Sam say.

Agreeing, I stood up, and pushed myself past the ponies, before walking over to the debris. I climbed on top of the debris, before using my various visors to scan the wreckage. Eventually, I picked up a piece of the ship, noticing a familiar energy on it.

I threw it at the ground near Celestia’s feet, before walking over to her and the other ponies. “Tell me princess. Can you tell whose energy is on this piece of metal?” I noticed Celestia’s horn glowing, before her eyes widened.

“Sam… I’m sorry. But please don’t do anything drastic.” Celestia said, trying to calm me.

“Oh… I won’t. I’ll just give the same treatment to Luna that she gave to my foster father.” Celestia’s eyes widened as I started to summon my ship. “She committed xenocide. She killed the last of the Chozo. She can insult and attack me as much as she wants, but she destroyed on of the most peaceful species in the universe. I will make sure she realized what she did.” By this time, my ship arrived, and landed on the ground.

I started walking over to my ship, before Celestia teleported in front of me. “Please don’t do this Sam! Luna didn’t mean it!” I was about to push her out of the way, before I felt a sharp pain in my head.

“Of course she meant it! She has been nothing but racist to me this entire time! Now she committed xenocide! She deserves to die!” I felt the pain in my head worsen.

“NO! You will not kill her!” Sam said. The ponies started looking confused as we started fighting for control.

“LET ME GET MY REVENGE!”

“NO! What would Old Bird say if he saw what you are trying to do?!”

“OLD BIRD’S DEAD!”

“I’m sorry. but I have to do this.” I watched as my arm cannon started to rise, and all of the power suit’s energy started to go into the arm cannon.

“NO!” I tried to force the arm cannon down, but it only stopped when it pointed straight up to the sky. It started glowing, and the tip of it came off, and started floating around the arm cannon. “NO! I MUST HAVE REVENGE!”

“OVER MY DEAD BODY!” The arm cannon fired the zero laser into the sky, and kept firing until all the energy in the suit was depleted. When the beam stopped, the power suit faded, and we fell to our knees. “No…more...revenge.”

I walked past the guards protecting the doors deep within the mountain. As I kept walking down the hallway that not even my sister knows about, I was thinking about the recent alien invasion. ‘That large beam was probably for the alien to summon more allies to take over our planet. Well, I won’t let it.’

I was snapped out of my thoughts when I passed by one final door, and entered the room. I looked at the large vat containing the creature that attacked Canterlot the other day. “You and your minions are clearly heroes if you fight that alien menace.” I handed one of the scientists the vial of the blue liquid in the alien's body. “And with that mutagenic gift combined with the other heroic alien species, you will be even stronger and can help me save Equestria from that alien.”

Chapter 14 - When Worlds Collide

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'LET ME OUT!'

'Not until you calm down.'

'I AM CALM!'

'No you're not. You're Samus Aran! It doesn't matter that you're a different gender compared to the one I know! You're supposed to be a calm and collected mysterious bounty hunter!'

'I need to get revenge on Luna! She killed an entire species!'

'But think about what would happen. If you try to attack Luna, she'll win, even if you kill her. She wants us to seem like an evil alien invader. Do you want her to win? Besides, we would have an entire army of ponies after us. Where would we go?'

'The Griffons.'

'They hate us, remember? We killed their leader. The dragons are out, because of your past. Diamond Dogs are too stupid to live with, and Changelings would try to brainwash us.'

'What about the minotaurs?'

'A lot is unknown about them, but they are allied with the ponies.'

'We could head to space. They can't get us there.'

'But Celestia can breath in space. She is a very big unknown. I don't really want to be charred in a sun, or asphyxiate in space.'

'...You're right. I let my rage get ahold of me. I won't attack Luna. But I at least want to get some kind of revenge on her.'

'We might not have to wait very long. The more Luna acts like that, the closer we come to Celestia acting against Luna.'

'Can I leave now? We should make sure the ponies don't take the Chozo technology, we don't want them advancing too much.'

'Agreed. But let me talk to the ponies first.'

I stood back up, looking over at the ponies who were looking at me with fear in their eyes. Ignoring them, but feeling guilty over my counterparts actions, I walked over to Celestia. "Princess Celestia... I'm sorry about my actions." Celestia seemed genuinely surprised at my apology. I decided to continue. "The half of me that is Samus, got angry at the destruction of the race that raised him, and wanted revenge. I managed to convince him that doing so would be wrong, and have terrible after-effects."

Celestia accepted my apology. "And I'm sorry for my sister's actions. I knew she was holding a serious grudge against you, but I never expected her to destroy an entire race like that."

"I know I don't really have the right to ask this, but can you at least slightly punish Luna? She might be a princess, but in my world, not even the people highest in the government could get away with doing this." Celestia nodded, but didn't understand that last part.

"What happens to the people in your world?" She asked, a hint of nervousness in her voice.

"When nobles abused their power, we cut off their heads in front of everyone. When Stalin used propaganda and 'mysterious disappearances' to control an entire country by fear, we fought against them, killing them with small fast moving objects made of metal. When we lost our rights, we rebelled against our king, and fought for our own country, and won when the odds were clearly against us. When our own kind of a different color were being enslaved, we fought a bloody civil war for their rights. I may not be fully human, but I have a gunship and a power suit. Just imagine what I could do." I walked over to my ship, teleporting inside, and getting my power suit back, before teleporting outside, and commanding the ship to pick up the pile of debris left over from the ship.

I gave a small nod, as I noticed none of the rubble of the ship fell off from my ship's grapple beam. But to my surprise, a small canister fell out of the pile, landing on the ground with a soft 'tink.' Curious, I walked up to it, noticing it's similarity to an upgrade from the games. I quickly scanned it.

No information found.

Even more curious now, I picked it up, and it suddenly disappeared in a flash of light, but I felt a something different about my arm cannon as it glowed

Cosmic Beam Acquired.

A beam made from the very energy of the universe.

'Cosmic beam? Have any idea?' 'No, maybe the Chozo made it for me, and weren't able to give it to me in time.' 'Is it supposed to feel weird?' 'Yes.'

"Alright Twilight, try it one more time." I said, trying to teach Twilight how to make a portal because of a promise I made to Spike to let him relax for a day.

The purple pony scrunches her face, as her horn glowed it's usual purple color, before turning into a cosmic purple, as a small portal slowly appears. I give a small smile at her progress, before taking a step back as Twilight lost control.

"Darn it Twilight! You messed up the quantum entanglement! It's gonna collapse on itself!" I notice Twilight used her magic to make herself stick to the ground, as I lost traction on the ground, and quickly fell into the portal. Before I disappeared, I yelled at the bane of my existence. "Screw you Twilight!"

'Man, I really hate amateur portal traveling.' After about half a minute falling through the void, I saw the end of the tunnel. 'Finally! Now where am I gonna end... CRAP!" As I was about to leave the tunnel, I saw I was pretty high above Ponyville, and with my brain slightly on the fritz from what Twilight did, I can't figure out a safest way to land.'

Right as I left the portal, I heard a sound I haven't heard for a few years. "Oh crap." I was suddenly rocketed forward at super sonic speeds, flying straight for Ponyville, with no way to slow my decent. I closed my eyes, and braced for impact, and when I hit something, it felt weird, as it got pushed forward without being instantly destroyed, and I got pushed back, landing on the ground, tumbling a bit as my speed slowed down.

When I stopped, I was able to slowly get up my bones cracking into place, and the first thing I saw was a familiar greenish blue miniature cannon pointing straight at my head.

It's been about a day since Luna destroyed an entire race, and I was walking around in my power suit, going through the memories Samus is showing me, so I would have an idea how to fight in this suit if something bad happened to Samus. I barely heard a giant boom happening in the sky, and before I could do anything, I was hit in the back by something moving really fast, causing me to stumble forward. When I stopped, I noticed my energy was already at half of it's total value. 'Whatever just hit us, is clearly powerful and hostile, we have to beat it quickly, before it uses an attack like that again.

We quickly turned around, and dashed forward towards the small crater, using the thermal visor to locate the target in all the dust brought up. When the dust cleared, I saw the creature that crashed into me, staring straight at my arm cannon. 'A kid?' 'Probably a space pirate trick or something. It's clearly the object that hit us. And it can't be normal if it survived the impact without a single wound. And look at it's arm.' Nodding to myself, I quickly fired my charged shot at it, expecting to hit it easily at point-blank.

I watched with surprise on my face, as my charge shot hit empty ground. 'What the!' 'Where did he go?!' Noticing a blip on the radar/compass, we quickly turned around to see the same kid just standing there, arms crossed. "How?!" I We gaped.

The kid just smiled in response. Getting a bit angry, I fired a barrage of power beams at him, which he surprisingly dodged all the beams. Figuring he could dodge power beams, I decided to fire a homing missile at him.

I saw his eyes narrow at the sight of the missile. I was about to smirk, but my jaw almost dropped as he quickly grabbed the missile, spun a bit, before launching it up, where it harmlessly blew up above the town. I noticed that the kid stole my smile, as he was smirking at me with a look in his eyes that seemingly asked if that was all I had.

Getting angry now, I was about to fire a super missile at him, when I noticed a familiar rainbow trail flying through the sky, before making a sharp turn, aiming for the kid. I gave a small smile, as I fired a super missile at him, thinking he couldn't dodge both a super missile, and a Rainbow missile.

I stood there, shocked, as the kid not only caught the super missile with his organic looking arm, but pushed Rainbow Dash into a pillow wagon with his robotic looking arm. He then looked at me, while holding the super missile, and spoke.

Chapter 15 - Cosmic King vs The Hunter

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"My turn." The kid said with a smile, as he crushed the super missile and vaporizing it, before charging at me, delivering a powerful punch into my chest, taking me down a few energy tanks. My eyes widened at the sight of the power this kid has.

As the kid was jumping back, I quickly switched beams, and activated the flame thrower, scorching the area in flame, but Connor expertly jumped over all the flames being produced without a single burn. Frowning, I cut of the beam, before switching to the wave beam, firing several homing shots at him.

To my surprise, he didn't even try to dodge, as the electric beams hit him. I was surprised again when he didn't even seem affected, as the electricity just sparked across his body. He looked at me, with a smile on his face. "You shouldn't have done that. You see, I got my powers from electricity. I control electricity." I didn't even have time to react, as he fired a powerful beam of electricity at me, taking down some tanks.

When he stopped firing, my systems were messed up for a second, before I recovered, and fired a charged ice beam at him, which he wasn't able to dodge due to his cool down. When he was frozen in ice, I quickly fired several missile, shattering the ice, sending his body pieces everywhere. I let out a small breath, before trying to check on the ponies. Before I could even take two steps, I saw his limbs moving a bit, before they starting floating, and reattaching his body where I destroyed it at.

When all the body pieces got put next to each other in their rightful place, a small glow came out of his body, fixing up all the wounds. I stood there shocked, as the kid looked at me, with a smirk on his face. "Regenerative factor." The kid then disappeared, and reappeared behind me, delivering a quick punch to my back, taking me down about half a tank. I quickly turned around, firing several barrages of different beams at him.

He swatted away the hyper beams, dodged the nova beams and plasma beams, sidestepped the spazer beam, and countered the light and dark beams with his own versions. Deciding to use one of the last beams I have, I charged it up, and fired the annihilator beam at him. The kid looked surprised at the sight of the beam, before trying to catch it, and being sent back a few feet. The kid looked nervous for a second, before he looked up a me with a smile on his face.

Getting pretty nervous, I watched the kid smash the powerful beam, and absorb it. The grey energy flowed through his body, until it converged in his metal arm, which he raised, as it started to spin. As his arm spun, it started to change, and before long, it took on the familiar shape of my arm cannon. He fired several annihilator beams at me, the first one hitting me, but I dodged the others.

'How are we supposed to defeat this kid?' I don't know. He was able to avoid, destroy, or use all of our beams. We don't have any beams left.' 'Wait! The cosmic beam we picked up earlier from the Chozo ship.' '... I hope it works. It's our only shot.' I changed my beam to the cosmic beam, and fired a fast moving shot at the kid.

The kid barely had the time to look surprised, before he tried to stop it with his hand. The beam fizzled out, and I almost was about to go Hypermode on him, when I noticed that his hand was badly burnt, and wasn't healing fast. 'He's weak to the cosmic beam!' 'Then let's show him our power!' Finally getting the upper hand, I fired several cosmic beams at him, which he barely dodged in time.

I fired a charged cosmic beam, which quickly hit him, tearing his shirt up, and sending him flying back a bit. The kid charged forward before I could fire another shot, and delivered a massive punch to me that knocked me down to my final energy tank. I quickly recovered, firing several more shots at him, which he was able to dodge, before one hit him in the leg. I had a small smile on my face, as the kid and I realized that with an injured leg, he wouldn't be fast enough to dodge the beams.

The kid, stood back up, and charged forward again at a much slower speed. Prepared this time, I lifted my arm cannon, and charged up a shot, and waited until he was close enough that he wouldn't be able to dodge. When he was, I smirked, as I fired the shot, which went through his chest, and came out the other side.

As the kid realized what happened, he already had plenty of inertia and strength left that he was able to punch me one last time, leaving me at one point of energy left, as the kid ran forward past me, and fell down, passing out from the pain and blood loss.

Chapter 16 - WHAT THE CRAP IS THAT!!!!

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My eyes shoot open, and then my body follows soon after. I cringe at the pain through my chest. "Not the smartest move Connor." I take a deep breath, and paused when I realized I was only getting half the oxygen I should. Looking down at my chest, and currently not able to use my x-ray vision, I take my right hand, and jab it into my chest, making a hole big enough to see. "Crap." I said when I realized that my left lung is destroyed.

As the wound I created healed back up, leaving only a small scar from the cosmic beam, I looked around, taking in my surroundings. "Trapped in a room, strapped to a table. I can easily escape." I just lay back down, and focus on restoring some of my powers, and not trying to escape. Eventually, when my full vision was working again, I opened my eyes, and saw a group of guards coming down the hall to my room. I let out a small smile.

The guards entered the room, and I sat up. The guard in front looked at me with anger in his eyes before speaking. "You're coming with us monster." Not really caring what a red-shirt said about me, I nodded, breaking off the chains that kept me strapped to the table, and stood up, watching all the guards almost piss themselves when they saw a creature effortlessly break chains meant to hold even the most dangerous and powerful creatures.

"Lead the way." I motioned for them to start walking. The guards quickly pointed their spears at me, as they lead me to the throne room. When we got to the throne room, I was moved in front of the throne, and when most of the guards bowed, they growled at me because I didn't bow.

"Bow creature." One guard said, as he slammed the butt of his spear into the back of my legs, breaking the spear, and doing nothing to me. I let out a small smile, as I looked around the room. I saw Celestia on the throne, a slightly angry look on her face. Luna was next to her, nearly foaming at the mouth. I turned my head to see the person who I battled earlier, still wearing their power suit. Next to him was the mane six, each looking at me with angry expressions, but Fluttershy was looking at me with a worried expression, and hiding behind AJ.

"You should bow before us alien." Luna said, making me roll my eyes.

"Technically, it's the other way around. But then again, I hate it when people bow to me just because I rule the multiverse." I stated, getting some confused looks. Luna was about to reply, when Celestia stopped her with a wing, and spoke.

"Why did you attack Ponyville creature?" Celestia asked, in a calm manner.

"I didn't. I acted in self-defense." Most of them looked confused at that.

The person dressed as Samus took a step forward, and spoke. "You attacked me first. I was the one who acted in self-defense." I just gave him a small 'seriously?' look.

"Perhaps it would be better if I explained the whole story. See, I'm from a different universe, and I was teaching my Twilight how to create portals to deliver messages easier. She messed up a bit, creating a singularity in her portal, and I got sucked in. As I was flung through the portal, I built up speed, and when I left the portal in the sky above your Ponyville, the speed finally kicked in, sending me crashing down as supersonic speeds. My senses were still messed up from the portal, so I wasn't able to calculate a way to prevent anyone from being hit. So, because of that, I hit Samus over there, who naturally thought I attacked first, and tried to defeat me. Not sure why he didn't kill me, or why there is a male Samus on this planet, but after he tried to attack me a few times, I was able to attack back. When I realized that the element bearers were going to try and attack me, I painlessly stopped them." I said, leaving all the ponies confused.

"Another universe?! You expect us to believe those lies!" Luna yelled, before turning to her sister. "Sister, that alien is just trying to take over the planet. We have to stop it!" I started laughing at that.

"Why would I want to take over the planet? I rule the multiverse! I already rule over this planet." Celestia looked confused at that.

"You said you rule the multiverse, but only the Cosmic King does that." Celestia said, getting slightly nervous.

"Yes, I am the Cosmic King." I stated, leaving the mane six confused, Celestia unsure, and Luna foaming at the mouth.

"If thee really are the Cosmic King, prove it! But we doubt thee are telling the truth, as the Cosmic King would never be such an ugly alien invader!" And she's talking in 'ye olde speak.'

"You want proof, here it is." A bright flash later, and I was in my Cosmic Form. "This enough proof for you?" When I looked at both of the princesses, I saw that Luna was unimpressed, clearly still not believing me, and Celestia was getting nervous.

"So you are the Cosmic King." Celestia flew off her throne, landing right in front of me, and surprised everyone when she bowed down to me. "It is an honor to have you in our kingdom."

I sighed, as I turned back to normal, and motioned for Celestia to rise. "You don't need to bow to me Celestia, I hate it when people bow to me."

I noticed Luna was on the verge of attacking me. "Thou clearly aren't the Cosmic King! Where is thine crown! Or the power to destroy the planet just by breathing! Thou ar't an imposter!"

"I'm pretty sure I am the Cosmic King. Or at least a part of it. I'm split up into several different universes, and I only have a third of the full power. I know someone else has the destruction powers, but I don't know where the other third is." I stated. "Also, are you supposed to be the biggest racist since Hitler?" I asked Luna.

"I'm not RACIST! I'M TRYING TO PROTECT MY SUBJECTS FROM VILLAINS LIKE YOU!" Luna yelled, flying into the air, and was about to charge at me, but I snapped my fingers, teleporting her to her bed asleep.

I looked over at the scared mares, before replying. "What, it's past her bedtime, and she was getting cranky." I noticed the Samus person, and walked over. "Name's Connor, the Cosmic King." I held out my right hand, which the person shook, before responding.

"I'm Sam Aran." I noticed strange when he said this, like he had another voice in his head. "Sorry for attacking you yesterday."

"It's okay. Completely natural. In my universe when I showed up, I was attacked by almost everyone. Then I saved the Cutie Mark Crusaders from being crushed. Now everyone considers me a hero." I said with a shrug.

I felt a weight on my head, and the familiar face of Pinkie showed up in front of me. I let out a small smile, as she started talking. "OH MY GOSH! I HAVE TO THROW YOU A 'WELCOME TO THIS UNIVERSE PARTY'! YOU SHOULD COME WITH US BACK TO PONYVILLE, WHERE WE CAN BE BEST FRIENDS!"

"Sure Pinkie." I said with a smile, as I pulled her off my head, and put her on the ground. The second after I put Pinkie on the ground, Rainbow was in my face.

Rainbow was clearly mad that I was able to easily beat her. "I'm on to you buster. I won't let you harm my friends." I rolled my eyes.

"Which is why I won't hurt them." I pushed Rainbow away, to notice Rarity was walking up to me.

"Darling, why would a king wear such dreaded clothes?" She used her magic to grab my shirt, which repaired itself while I was sleeping. I negated her magic.

"I'll have you know, that the Rarity from my universe made these." Rarity gasped.

"But how could any version of me make such boring clothes for a king!" Rarity said dramatically.

"Because I asked her to. And I like these clothes. So if you try to change my clothes, I will turn your mane green." Rarity seemed appalled at the idea, and walked off. I walked over to Sam, who was looking at me suspiciously. "So... I'm going to need to stay on this planet for a while. I have a lack of experience escaping universes, and I need to build up the energy to do it correctly."

"Why are you telling me this? Shouldn't you be telling Celestia?" Sam stated.

"Because I could care less about them. You're the hero for this planet, so I didn't want you to feel like I was taking your job." I was about to walk away, when I thought of something. "Wait, how is a gender-bent Metroid's Samus Aran in Equestria?"

"I'm a displaced." He replied, not really caring.

"Displaced? Wait... I seem to remember hearing about them." I thought for few more seconds, before remembering. "Now I remember! Displaced are the group of people who go to conventions, and buy something from the Merchant, and get sent to Equestria as the character for the thing they bought." I frowned. "I hate the Merchant. I met him a few times, but he escaped before I could get him. Every time he displaces someone, it messes up the multiverse."

"I honestly don't quite care what he did to me. In my old life, I might have been rich, but my parents died a year back. We were on a trip around the world, as we do at least once a year, and we were attacked by some pirates. Their leader, named Ridley, killed everyone on the ship in front of me. I escaped, and killed him, but I've been alone since then." Sam shrugged, before continuing. "I was a huge Metroid fan, my name was Sam Aran, before Metroid ever came out. Now I'm in Equestria, as my favorite game character, with the voice of male Samus Aran in my head." He tapped his helmet. "What's your story?"

"I was a normal kid in high school, and another student started shooting. My best friend tried to confront him, but I pushed my friend out of the way right before the bullet was fired, and I took the shot. I was shot again in the head, and when I died, a bolt of lightning came down, giving me the powers of the Cosmic King. Well, a third of them. Murphy, the guy who killed me got another third, and became a god of destruction, but I'm unsure where the final third went." I answered.

"Is your Luna as crazy and racist as mine?" Sam asked, making me chuckle.

"No. But she does get angry a bit easily. Is your Twilight a psychopath?"

"Depends on what you mean by psychopath."

"Twilight would constantly kidnap me, and torture me in experiments. I one time activated, with Twilight standing over me, breathing heavily."

"I don't think this Twilight is that crazy. Lyra is the crazy one." We both chuckled at that.

"Tell me about it. On my last birthday, Lyra got me a plastic mare crotch." I think Sam just did a spit-take.

A couple hours passed, and we all started heading back to Ponyville. The mane six took some chariots, while Sam let me ride in his ship with him. I didn't care that much, because I've been in Samus's ship before. But what surprised me, was when we touched down, and we both got out, and I saw that we landed on the very same hill that the tree I like to rest on is on. I noticed the tree wasn't here, so I assumed that it's just in my universe.

We entered Sugarcube Corner, because both Sam and I were hungry. I ordered us some cupcakes, and paid for them, and when we sat down, and started eating, I devoured a whole cupcake, before spitting it out. "YUCK!" I ripped out my tongue, and destroyed it and the cupcake remains, before regenerating another tongue.

"Is something wrong Connor?" Pinkie asked, appearing next to us, with a worried expression on her face.

"Of course there is something wrong!" I grabbed another cupcake, and held it front of me for emphasis. "These cupcakes are bland. There's hardly enough sugar in them."

"What are you talking about? Any more sugar, and it would be enough to kill a human instantly." Sam asked.

"Well, I'm not human, and I can regenerate the damage caused by Pinkie's cupcakes." I turned back to Pinkie, who was excitedly holding an entire trey of cupcakes, which I could tell had lots of sugar on them. I had a big smile on my face, as I started devouring the cupcakes, several at a time.

I was standing against a wall at Pinkie's party, taking periodic sips from a plastic drink cup. While my helmet may have been off, I wasn't taking off my suit. At first, all the ponies were scared of Connor, except Lyra, who stayed away from him when she realized that he wasn't human. 'We should totally try that at one point. Maybe she'll finally leave us alone.' 'But we're still part human. It might work for Connor, who is no longer human, but we just have small amounts of Chozo and Metroid DNA' 'I guess.'

I eventually noticed Connor, walk away from the party, a depressed look on his face. I decided to follow him outside, where he was standing there, looking at the sky. "You okay?"

Connor turned to look at me. "No, I've never been okay. Ever since I got my powers, I've had one bad turn after another. I can't sleep without having a nightmare about the future or the past. I have terrible luck. Everyone around me always gets hurt. I'm immortal. And I also only have one lung now." I cringed, knowing that it was my fault, as I scanned his body when we brought it to Canterlot, and found all the injuries on him.

"How did you survive that blast anyways? You said that Cosmic energy of a different type than the one your made of can severely weaken the regeneration of that wound." I asked.

"Well, you shot my in the lung, and it went all the way through. You could probably tell I wasn't even trying in the battle, but when I started charging forward at you that last time, and you fired the shot, I was able to move fast enough to use a regenerative factor I keep in my arm. Although I'm quite surprised that you have a cosmic beam. Where did you get it?" I sighed, thinking back to the incident the other day.

"The other day, the Chozo came to Ponyville." Connor looked surprised. "Old Bird, my foster father, was there and he was trying to help me with curing me of Phazon. While he was working, Luna teleported aboard the ship, and made the ship's core blow up, killing all the Chozo including Old Bird. I eventually grabbed the remains of the ship with my ship, and the upgrade fell out." I noticed Connor was thinking. "You know what Phazon is right?"

Connor nodded. "Yeah, first Metroid game I played and completed was Corruption. I basically grew up with the Wii, Gamecube, and GBA SP." Connor was about to say something else, when a loud screech was heard. We both looked to the sky near Canterlot, and saw a shadow rapidly approaching. "What the crap is that?"

The shadow quickly landed near us, and with another loud screech, which made my blood run cold, we both saw what it was. As the creature fired a beam of energy at the town, destroying a few buildings, Connor and I managed to get behind something. "IT'S RIDLEY!" I yelled to Connor, who was looking pretty terrified at the sight of Ridley's new form.

"Stupid Cosmic King." I grumble to myself as I pace around my room. After he snapped his fingers, I was teleported to my room, strapped to my bed in his cosmic energy. It took me over an hour to get free, so I know he knows how to use his powers. After I got free, I sent a message to my minions to free the dragon and unleash it on Ponyville. But, since the Cosmic King is here, he'll probably stop it. "Wait, if the Cosmic King is here, and is from a different universe, he might notice the different personality." I sat down on my bed, trying to think about what to do. After another minute, I figured out a solution. I looked over at my mirror, and charged up a magic spell, which I cast upon myself. "Hopefully, he'll be stupid enough to fall for this." I cast another spell, which hid my essence, so the Cosmic King couldn't figure out who I am.

Chapter 17 - Finding the Truth behind the Matter

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"IT'S RIDLEY!" I yelled to Connor, who while he looked terrified a minute ago, was no charging at the dragon, who simply screeched in response. While he was distracting Ridley, I was steeling my nerves. I pointed my arm cannon at the dragon, and unleashed several powerful hyper beams at him.

Ridley, while mostly focused on Connor, still somehow managed to block all my beams. I noticed Connor jumped on top of Ridley, and a bright flash appeared in Connor's hand, as he brought down a sword onto Ridley's back. 'Is that the master sword?" 'It does look like it.' Ridley screeched in pain, as Connor stuck his sword into the dragon, who was now jerking violently, trying to get the teenage god off his back.

"Sam! Wave beam!" Connor yelled, struggling to hold on to Ridley's back. Instantly understanding his plan, I charged and fired several wave beams towards Ridley, and they all curved upwards and converged on Connor, who was now sparking with electricity. Connor brought his hands down on the master sword, sending all the electricity into Ridley's body.

Ridley's started spasming wildly, and he fell to the ground, struggling to gain control of his body again. Connor took advantage of this, and grabbed Ridley's neck, before flying into the air, and pulling his head back so Ridley's chest is open. 'Of course the kid can fly.' Seeing Ridley's weak point open, I charged forward, delivering hyper beam after hyper beam into his chest. Eventually Ridley somehow released a major power surge, sending both Connor, the master sword, and I flying back.

I safely caught myself in midair, allowing me to quickly recover, but Connor wasn't so lucky. He got impaled on a metal pole sticking out of a wall. Connor pulled himself off the pole, and grasped his (lack of) chest as the gaping wound quickly regrew his heart and chest. 'Kid's been through a lot. It takes a harden veteran to not even care that they've been mortally wounded.' 'Yeah, you can see it in his eyes. He's been through worse than both of us combined have been through.'

"Got any ideas?" Connor asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.

We both stare at the upgraded Ridley who is also recovering from his wounds. "Well, he took several powerful shots to the chest, and is still moving and acting normal. So I'm gonna to say that we need to deal much more damage."

"Well, doing that will be hard. I mean look at him!" Connor gestured to the dragon. "It's like he's a combination of regular Ridley, and Meta Ridley..." Connor started.

"And Neo-Ridley..." I continued.

"And Omega Ridley." Connor finished. "Plus he's got some abilities I'm pretty sure he didn't have in the games. It's like he's Ultimate Ridley or something." Connor's entire body flashed, as he appeared in his Cosmic Form. "Let's mess him up." We both charged forward, and while Connor was throwing powerful and fast punches at the dragons face, I was firing all my best weaponry at him.

I got slammed back into another wall. When I got back on the ground, I watched as Connor got swatted away by Ridley's tail. 'Nothing we're doing is working on him!' In the past ten minutes, Ridley has swatted away each of my beams and missiles, even the cosmic beam had almost no effect on him. Ridley also seems to be learning, and is avoiding everything Connor is trying to do to get me a better shot. 'There is one beam we haven't tried yet.' 'Fine. Maybe Connor can cure me if I use it.' Taking a deep breath, I activated my hypermode, feeling the familiar feeling of Phazon pumping through my veins. "HEY RIDLEY!" I yelled, getting the dragon's attention. "TAKE THIS!" I yelled, as I fired the most powerful burst of Phazon I have ever fired.

I watched, as the beam started tearing up Ridley. Ridley tried to protect himself using his arms and wings, but they got disintegrated. Eventually hypermode wore off, and Ridley was severely weakened and lacked both arms and wings. I was pretty exhausted, but I saw Connor run up to me. "You used hypermode did you?" Connor said, not really a question, but more like a statement. "Well, it doesn't matter much if Ridley kills everyone in town." Connor took a deep breath. "Now I'm gonna ask you a question. Do you want me to permanently kill Ridley?"

Not really getting why he's asking this, I decided to relay the question to Samus. 'Should we?' 'Definitely. The universe will be a much better place without Ridley.' I nodded, which caused Connor to close his eyes, and he pointed his right hand at the body of Ridley, who was trying to not act scared at the fact that he's defenseless. "What are you going to do?"

"An ability I don't usually use. I call it the Smite. It completely erases the target from the current universe." I was surprised at that. 'This kid has that kind of power?' I watched as Connor kept his hand pointing at Ridley, before he snapped, and Ridley blinked from existence. Connor immediately fell to his knees, breathing heavily. "Sorry about that. I'm not used to using that power, and it takes a lot out of me.

I helped Connor back up, and the second Connor was standing again, a bright flash appeared where Ridley was a moment ago. "What the?" We both said at the same time, as we walked up to the identical floating containers.

"Upgrades. Figures. You usually do get an upgrade from a boss." Connor remarked, as I just stood there scanning the upgrade. My visor didn't find any information about it, similar to when I found the cosmic beam. Getting curious, I reached out and grabbed the upgrade, which disappeared like the last one. But this one made my entire suit glow, as it disappeared, leaving me just in my zero suit. The glowing stopped a second later, with me not really feeling any different. "Whoa." Connor said, looking at me with wide eyes.

"What? What is it?" I asked, and Connor handed me a mirror shard from nearby. When I looked in the shard, I nearly dropped it in disbelief. "Seriously!" I yelled when I got a good look at my face. My pupils were now slits and the rest of my eyes were orange and farther apart, which reminded me of only one thing. 'Dragon eyes.' I noticed my teeth were all sharper, each resembling canines, and my tongue was now much longer, and could retract back into my mouth which was now pulled out, giving my face an appearance very close to Ridley's face.. My skin felt harder, similar to scales, and all my senses were increased. My fingers and toes were more similar to claws now, and my body had a few ridges on it.

"That's gotta suck." Connor said, cringing at the fact that I'm now part dragon as well as Metroid and Chozo. "Wait, can you activate your power suit? There might be some differences in it now." I gave him a glare, as I activated my suit. The second the light faded away, I looked in the glass shard again, to see all my changes.

My power suit looked relatively normal, but the main differences were that I now had an armored tail, with a spike on the end, and I had two armored wings, similar to Meta Ridley's. But what bothered me the most, was that my helmet was very similar to what Ridley's head looked like. My helmet had a mouth that could open and close with my mouth and had a guard to prevent my open mouth from being attacked, and my visor was split up, one green lens in front of each eye. I let out a loud hiss, as I realized that I was now definitely part space dragon. "Why do I have to be part dragon?"

"I don't know. But what I do know is how similar you are to a dragon now." Seeing my confused and angry look, he decided to continue. "You should already know that you have Metroid and Chozo DNA. Combined with your natural human DNA, and the recently gained space dragon DNA, I figured out each amount of DNA you have." He snapped his fingers, and a small pie graph was next to him, with small pictures of Ridley, me, a metroid, and a Chozo on it. "You have about 15% metroid DNA, and 15% Chozo DNA." As he said this, the part of the circle with the Chozo and metroid got bigger. "But you also now have 35% human DNA, and 35% Space Dragon DNA. Meaning, you are as much a dragon, as you are human." Another snap of his fingers and the graph was gone. "And if you notice closely, your reproductive system is also similar to a dragon." My eyes widened, as I looked down, and noticed the weird feeling down there. "You might want to stay away from other dragons though. Would be pretty creepy to be hit on by a similar race to the one that destroyed your kind.

"Aren't you a bit too young to be talking about this to someone twice as old as you?" I said with a small smile, which Connor returned.

"I didn't realize that you're 4218 years old." Connor replied. He turned to look at the other upgrade, which looked like the exact same upgrade I got. He picked it up, and it disappeared in a glow like mine did, but this time, only Connor's robotic arm glowed. When it stopped, Connor pressed a few buttons, that just happened to show up, on his arm and then his veins started glowing. When they stopped, Connor didn't look different at all. "Good. now I can turn into a dragon at will." We both heard a familiar sound, rapidly approaching, and we both jumped out of the way of a blast of lunar magic.

"You may have defeated my dragon aliens, but now I will stop you from taking over this planet!" Luna yelled when she landed on the ground. She instantly charged at Connor, who dropped down, and started spinning, letting Luna jump over him. When Luna landed on the ground, she turned around, and was about to charge again, when she fell down, unable to get back up. "What dark magic did you cast on me alien!"

"It wasn't dark magic. I tapped your pressure points at high speeds, causing your body to be in a state similar to paralysis." Connor walked up to Luna, who was struggling to get up. "You see, I think something is seriously wrong with you if you keep on trying to kill or harm innocents just to kill two people who you think are alien invaders." Connor crouched down in front of her, and put his hands on the sides of Luna's head, who was now snarling at Connor, and trying to cast magic in Connor's dampening field. "This won't hurt at all." Connor said, as his hands started glowing, and the glowing spread to Luna's head, where when they reached the back to Luna's brain, they all started to violently glow. "Okay, now this will hurt." Connor's right hand went ethereal, went inside Luna's head, and pulled out a small chip. Connor's left hand was glowing purple, as he was healing Luna's brain from the damage caused by the chip being placed and removed.

Luna passed out, and Connor stood up, and brought the chip over to me. "So that's what made Luna go Donkey-Kong crap crazy?" I blinked at what I said. Connor just smiled.

"I hate curse words. And yes, this is it. But what do you notice about it? Except for the fact that it's seriously primitive compared to the chips in my body." He held up the chip.

"Manure!" 'Tabuu's off waves you Connor.' "It's Space Pirate technology." I said as I recognized the shape and color.

"Yep. So it's safe to say that the Space Pirates were controlling Luna. And this type of device makes you perfectly aware of your actions."I heard a soft tapping on my leg. I looked down to see an incredibly scared Luna, who has clearly been crying.

"I'm sorry." I barely heard Luna say anything, but my visor picked it up.

"It's okay. You weren't in control." I replied. There was suddenly a bright flash, as Celestia appeared in front of us, her gaze clearly angry at what Luna has done.

"Sister!" Celestia started. "I don't know why you followed this current path. But you have put many of our subjects in danger. For that, I must banish you to Tartarus." Celestia's horn started glowing, but Connor quickly stood in between the two princesses.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you Celestia." Connor said in a harsh tone.

"Get out of my way Cosmic King. I need to enforce justice in my kingdom." Celestia replied.

Connor shook his head. "I can't let you do that. You see, Luna was being brainwashed, and was in no way in control of her actions, but was also forced to watch the crimes she committed. If you banish her, I would have to exact punishment on you."

Celestia looked confused, and looked at me. "Sam, is he telling the truth?" I nodded.

"Yes. We found a Space Pirate microchip in her brain. It was controlling her. I was planning on tracing the signal back to the base, and destroying all of them." Celestia looked relieved, and immediately flew to Luna, and they both wrapped each other in a tear filled hug. I walked over to Connor, who was just looking at the two with a small smile on his face. "You want to come along? I could use some back-up."

"Yeah, that sounds good."

We were in Sam's ship, getting ready to take off. While Sam was piloting, I was tracing the signal back. "Got it. Sending coordinates." I said when I found the location of the Space Pirate. I heard a beeping sound coming from the cockpit, as Sam received the coordinates.

"Got it. Setting flight path and starting take-off. You might want to get yourself seated." Ignoring him, I walked up to behind his seat, and just altered reality around my body so I wouldn't be flung around.

As we were leaving the atmosphere, I remembered something I heard back before I got my powers. With a smile on my face, I started singing. "In the suit and on the ship."

"My iron fist making you zip." He said in such a normal tone, but I could tell it bugged him.

"So, you seen that video?" I asked, as we were flying off the to Space Pirate base.

"Metroid fan, remember. I have a question for you. What's your favorite Nintendo franchise?"

"Pokemon. Hands down. Metroid was pretty high up there though. I only beat two Metroid games in my life. Corruption, and Prime one. Could never get a copy of the first two. Got stuck during the huge wall jumping part in Super. Got bored of Echoes. Hunters was boring. Was close to finishing Zero Mission, but I missed a few upgrades, and then stopped playing when I got bored. Had to return my brother's copy of fusion before I could finish it. Never got Other M. People say it's a terrible game, but I'd prefer to make my own opinion of it." I answered. Before Sam could respond, we were already at our destination.

We stopped the ship right next to the Space Pirates ship. Sam got up from his chair, and I grabbed his power suit's shoulder, and teleported us inside. As I took a breather (For me, close range teleportation is still pretty tough), Sam was surveying the area. "They don't know we're here yet. Your cloaking system worked."

"It should. It's 51st century Lakarvarian. They make some of the best modern technology is most universes. And they weren't wiped out millennia ago." I stood back up, and we started running.

As we were running through the halls, killing any space pirates that we see, we enter a large room. This large room just happened to be full of at least 250 space pirates. Sam and I shared a look, and both ran into the battle, expertly killing Space Pirates. I charged forward, plowing through a few of them, and instantly disintegrating the ones I ran through. I eventually stopped, and jumped on one's head, snapping his neck, before taking out the staff I keep in my arm, and start killing Space Pirate after Space Pirate.

100 dead Space Pirates later, I whacked one over to Sam, who flung it into a wall with his tail, before spearing another with it. Getting a bit bored, I decided to do a combo. "SAM! COMBO!" I ran over to him, jumping on his back, as he flew into the air. As we were in the air, Sam started spinning, and I formed a small energy barrier around as, as we both fired some of our strongest attacks at the barrier (which was also spinning) and causing the energy to spin around us as well.

"NOW!" Sam yelled, and I snapped my fingers, sending the barrier, and all the energy in it outward, destroying the rest of the Space Pirates. Sam landed, and I jumped off his back, before giving him a high-five. "That was pretty cool."

"Yeah. You knew what I was planning the second I started running at you." I replied. We both started moving, running down a long corridor.

"Yeah, I think this dragon form has some advantages. I can charge a mouth beam without worrying about being attack there, and the tail and wings are useful. Although I don't quite like looking like this. I was able to sense your movements, and figure out what you were about to do." Sam answered.

After running for about a minute, a glass wall came down in front of us and behind us, causing us to stop. When we did, a Space Pirate wearing a lab coat walked out of a room, and over to a control panel in the wall. He pushed a few buttons, before turning to us and speaking. Well, he was speaking in Space Pirate language, which I was able to understand due to having the languages of every creature in the multiverse seared into my brain. Except French. I don't think the cosmic community ever considered the French to be creatures. Well, in their defense, they went to France on a national mime day, where everyone had to act like mimes. No race in the entire multiverse has mimes, except for France. Needless to say, it kinda freaked the cosmic community out.

"We have you now Hunter, and other creature." The Space Pirate said. Let's see how you like Phazon!" He pulled a lever, and pushed a few more buttons, causing the floor to disappear, and the gravity to increase heavily, causing us to plummet into the large Phazon pool. As my body was rapidly transforming because of the Phazon, I faintly heard the Space Pirate's laughs, and faintly saw Sam's suit change to the PED suit (with dragon attachments). Then, everything went black.

I climbed out of the Phazon pool, and turned around, hoping to see Connor. When I saw his left hand sticking out of the Phazon, I thought he was going to be okay, but when the hand started glowing a tint of blue, and blue veins appeared on it, I hightailed it out of the chamber, not wanting to fight a corrupted Connor.

Chapter 18 - Losing Control

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A dark hand pulls itself out of the pool of Phazon, it's veins filled with the very same liquid. Following it, is a hand made out of a combination of unknown metals, which helped pull the almost deformed body out of the pool. When the body crawled onto the ground next to the Phazon, it started coughing, the blue liquid coming out of the mouth. When it started to stand up, it's hideous body was on display. It's skin was as dark as night, and it's eyes were no longer it's usual electric yellow, but now a dim golden yellow. The creature's entire body showed bright blue veins, filled with Phazon. It's head looked more like a human skull, and it's body looked like it was made of armor. Normally, nothing could mutate that harshly, that quickly without dying, but it's powerful regenerative factor kept it alive, and accelerated the transformation.

As I continued on, having a suspicion that I'd be fighting Connor soon, I ran faster, quietly running through the halls at a fast pace. Eventually, I found the door to the command room, planning on blowing the ship up, and escaping on my ship. But when I opened the door, my blood ran cold. In the next room, there wasn't just one Omega Pirate, or two, not even three. There were 50 Omega Pirates in the room. And they all turned to face me. I gulped, as I looked around, seeing no Phazon for them to absorb nearby. 'Guess we're the only source of Phazon nearby.' 'This is going to suck.'

I activated Hypermode, and started firing several big and powerful shots of Phazon at the Omega Pirates, which they each caught, and started absorbing. As they were vulnerable, I switched back to normal mode, and fired hyper beam after hyper beam at them.

I hit the ground, and was barely able to roll out of the way of another attack. I've been trying to kill these guys for about an hour, constantly switching between Hypermode and regular. I've killed maybe 25 so far, but I'm already at one-forth energy. 'Can't survive much longer. Gonna run out of energy. Phazon blasts don't last as long as the Phazon they absorbed in the game.' I went into Hypermode, pumping my body full of Phazon again, as I prepared another round of attacks on the pirates.

Before I could fire though, several purple blasts came out from behind me (my back is at the door I entered through). I then saw a familiar purple form jump over me, and started blasting the Omega Pirates. They absorbed the attacks, and sent them back at the purple shape, which was hit by them, and sent flying into a wall. "Oh, you want to do it like that? We'll do it like that." He pushed himself off the wall, and pointed his right hand at one, before snapping, making the Omega Pirate disappear. He did this 14 more times, before the purple shape turned back into Connor. Connor snapped 5 more times, before he almost fell down, and his breathing was getting erratic. I was about to help him, but he gave me a look that clearly told me not to interfere.

When Connor used his Smite on the final Omega Pirate, he did fall down, and his nose was bleeding. I ran over to him, helping him up. "That was pretty cool. You removed 25 Omega Pirates from existence."

"While it may have been cool, I'm almost completely drained of power." Connor started walking to the ships controls. "Now let's blow this place up, and I'll use some of my remaining power to teleport us back to your ship." Connor clicked a few buttons, until a flashing warning appeared around the ship.

I couldn't understand what the warning said, but I understood the gist. Connor walked over to me, putting his arm around my shoulder. "Come on, we got a minute. That enough time for you? Or do you need to run through a complicated tunnel leading up, and jump on inch wide platforms one by one?" I gave him a small smile at his joke, but right before he started glowing, and was about to teleport us, I fell down in pain.

"Gah! It's coming out!" I yelled, as I grabbed my stomach, my body entirely in pain, as I felt the Phazon take hold. Connor seemed to understand what was happening, and with a snap of his fingers, we were both back in Ponyville. I noticed my armor quickly turning darker, as it took on a shade of blue. Connor, who was breathing heavily, ran off. "It hurts!" I yelled, as the dragon characteristics I had seemed to disappear, as I started looking more and more like Dark Samus.

As Sam started transforming, I ran as fast as I could with barely any energy left to find the mane six. After a minute, I found them eating lunch together at a restaurant. I ran up to them, breathing heavily. Before I could speak, Pinkie spoke first. "Wow Connor! You look really tired! You look like you just ran a marathon, and then some! Did you just run from one part of space to this one just to join us for lunch? Where's Sam?"

"Girls." I said, unable to put my usual commanding tone in my voice.

"King Connor," 'It's Cosmic King Connor' "You're clothes look simply dreadful! Were you swimming in a pool of blueberry jam?" Rarity asked.

"Girls."

"Were you off saving an alien race from going extinct?" Fluttershy meekly asked.

Getting angry, I slammed my my hand down on the table, breaking it, and spilling their lunch everywhere. Before they could complain, I spoke over them. "SAM NEEDS HELP!" They seemed to understand the message, and followed me back to Sam, who was mostly transformed at this time.

"What's wrong with him?" Fluttershy asked.

"He's becoming corrupted on Phazon. He's going to become Dark Samus, and try to corrupt entire planets with Phazon." I could hear the ponies gulp.

"If he's going to be that strong, then what are we supposed to do against him? He could equally battle the Princesses without even trying." Twilight asked. The others nodded.

"I'll distract him long enough for you to use the elements. They have a 95.8888462452475244% chance of working." The ponies nodded, but before they all walked off, I got Twilight's attention. "Twilight, do you have a spell that fires electricity?" She nodded. "Fire a continuous beam at me."

"But, won't that hurt you?" I let out a small chuckle.

"No, it will get me some strength back. Enough for me to battle him, and distract him." Twilight hesitantly nodded, and fired a powerful electricity spell into me. "Yes! I can feel the power!" After about half a minute, Twilight stopped, before running off to get the elements.

With my body surrounded with electricity, I took a few steps to Sam, who was fully corrupted now. I pressed a button on my arm, that caused the electricity to be converted into energy, giving me the power I need to stall Sam. "Prepare to be corrupted." Dark Sam said, with a voice that was very raspy, and almost electronic. Sam charged at me, and tried to hit me with a close range Phazon attack, but I dodged.

I retaliated with a powerful cosmic blast, sending Sam back a few feet. Sam fired a fast missile at me, which I quickly blasted out of the air, before I slammed my foot on the ground, creating a miniature earthquake, heading right for Sam. Sam jumped up, and flew in the air (somehow, I never figured out Dark Samus flew in the games) and fired five Phazon blasts at me.

I expertly sidestepped one, before kicking another out of the air. I flipped over the third, and landed in time to duck under the fourth. I jumped back to avoid the fifth. When area between Sam and I was covered in the smoke caused by the blasts, I pointed my right arm at the figure of Sam (which I could see thanks to my x-ray and thermal vision) and let my arm fire a powerful cosmic blast, that almost pushed me back a few inches, but sent Sam flying into the town hall nearby.

Sam recovered quickly, and fired a blast of Phazon at me faster than I could react. As I got pushed back, I felt my chest burning with a familiar feeling. 'Phazon enhanced cosmic blasts? I won't be able to deal with too many of those. Hope the girls get the elements soon.' I sidestepped out of the way of another blast, keeping an eye on Sam, before he blinked out of existence. 'What the?' I heard a small beeping sound from underneath me, which when I looked down, I saw a familiar looking bomb, and Sam rolling away. "CRAP!" The power bomb blew up before I could react, destroying my legs.

I fell down, my body quickly trying to restore my legs. Sam walked up to me, and pointed his arm cannon at me while in my 'defenseless' state. Before he could fire, I created my four tendrils out of my back, and jumped away. While Sam was surprised, I slingshotted my self towards him, impacted him with both of my arms.

When we both recovered, Sam looked like he was getting fed up, and brought both of his hands up to the sky. "This world will be corrupted!" After he said that, a wormhole opened up above the planet, bringing a leviathan to the planet.

I looked at the object that could destroy this planet with fear in my eyes. I then looked back at Sam, who was floating in the air. "You will not destroy this planet!" I yelled, as I slingshotted at him again, but this time grabbing him in midair, sending us both down to the ground, as I started pummeling him with my fists. Sam created some kind of explosive field of Phazon around him, sending me flying back. But as I was flying back, I fired a strong blast of Cosmic energy at Sam, causing Sam to be flying back, as he hit a wall.

We both recovered quickly, and Sam started firing rapid cosmic blasts. My legs were still regenerating, and I wasn't as agile with my tendrils, so I wasn't able to dodge all the shots. Luckily, I was able to create a small shield, preventing my body from being destroyed. Although I did get shoved against a wall, shattering the shield. My legs were regenerated at this time, and I jumped in between the blasts. I noticed out of the corner of my eye, that the mane six had their elements, and were preparing for their 'taste the rainbow' attack.

I knew that Sam is smart enough to avoid the beam, so as I ran up to Sam, who was currently floating in midair, trying to blast me. When I got close enough, I jumped up, and over Sam, before turning around in midair, and grabbing onto Sam, using my powers to lock us into place. "NOW GIRLS!"

They seemed to get the message, before charging up their beam. I heard Sam speaking to me, while he was struggling. "YOU FOOL! YOU KNOW THAT THE ELEMENTS WILL DESTROY YOU TOO!" I sighed, knowing that the elements of harmony are always extremely racist. You have to be connected to the elements being used against you to prevent being affected by them. Since I'm not connected to this world's elements, I'll be affected, and I don't know what will happen to me.

"Do you think I care what happens to me?! As Cosmic King, it is my duty to risk my own life to save another! You will be leaving my friend today! Now prepare to taste the rainbow!" As I said this, the rainbow struck us, and I watched with a small smile as Dark Sam(us) was ejected from Sam's body.

Then, I watched with a small amount of fear in my eyes, as the rainbow started affecting me. The Cosmic energy that makes up my body was rapidly slowing down, until it stopped, and was turned to stone. I watched as the rest of my body was overtaken by stone. Before my face was frozen, I decided to part with a small smile, at the fact I helped stop Sam's corruption.

As the rainbow stopped, the mane six looked over, with smiles on their faces as they saw Sam laying on the ground, unconscious and laying in his zero suit. But their smiles fell, when they saw a statue of Connor land right next to him. Sam woke up soon after, and before noticing Connor, he stood up, and looked at the leviathan breaking the atmosphere, before pointing his hand at it, and clenching his hand, causing the leviathan to implode, without any debris falling.

Sam then noticed Connor, who was still frozen in stone, before turning to the mane six, his eyes asking them if they can reverse it. Twilight nodded, before she and her friends got in position again, and fired the rainbow at the stoned god's body. When the light cleared though, Connor was still a statue. They stared in shock at the statue, before they flinched back when the statue cracked open, and Connor tumbled out, coughing up blood.

"Ugh. That hurt. Do you know what it's like to have every single cell in your body slowed down until they turned to stone? When I was a statue, I literally lost my existence." When Connor was done coughing up blood, he stood up, wiping the remaining blood from his mouth. Connor then looked at Sam, who was back in his power suit with the dragon upgrades, but didn't have the helmet activated. "Interesting. Sam, did you know you have control over Phazon now? The elements blasted away the bad of Dark Samus, but left some of the abilities."

Sam looked shocked at the news, then he remembered what he did when he woke up. "I stopped the leviathan just by clenching my fist." Sam said with surprise. "Wait. If I control Phazon now, do I have to worry about side effects? Like becoming corrupted again?"

"Nope. Just imagine you're already Dark Samus, just good. You could probably infinitely use hypermode, and summon any amount of Phazon at will." Connor said, as he stretched his limbs.

"But wait, where does the Phazon come from? I thought all Phazon was rendered inert at the end of Corruption." Sam asked both Connor and Samus at the same time, but he realized he couldn't feel Samus's other mind in him.

"Phaze isn't the only planet with Phazon in this universe." Connor said, pulling up a holographic map of the universe, and a few points light up, showing where all the Phazon in the universe comes from.

"Speaking of Phazon, how did you survive the pool of Phazon without being corrupted?" Sam asked, almost forgetting that Connor was with him when they fell.

As I crawled out of the pool of Phazon, I noticed my body was heavily mutated by the substance. As I stood up, and took a few steps forward, my mind started fighting against the corruption, and I fell back down. "Ugh. This stuff tastes terrible." I coughed up some of the Phazon from my lungs, as my regenerative factor started to get to work, purging the corruption from my body. "Gotta love having an AI of myself in my arm to provide backup for my own brain."

I noticed my arm turning back to normal, and I stood up, my spine cracking back to it's place. I drove both of my hands into each side of my skull, pulling it out a bit, fixing up my head. As my body turned back to 'normal,' I walked over to the nearby wall, and put my hand against it, weak from using my regenerative factor to restore my body. As I put my hand against the wall, I pushed a secret button, causing a hole in the wall to open it, revealing a secret room.

"So, in the room was a computer that had all the Space Pirate's plans on it." I noticed Sam raise an eyebrow. "Apparently, the Space Pirates have been here for over a year. They wanted to take a resource abundantly found on this planet, called Element Zero." Sam tilted his head. "It's a valuable resource for space travel. I'll tell you about it later. Anyways, they knew they wouldn't be able to take any of the Element Zero without Celestia knowing, and they knew Celestia could easily beat them. So, while Luna was banished to the moon, they planted a chip in her brain, to control her. They thought that when Nightmare Moon returned, she would easily beat Celestia, and take control of the country, allowing the Space Pirates to harvest the Element Zero. But when Nightmare Moon was defeated, they tried to make Luna become Nightmare Moon again, knowing she would be stronger than last time. But then you showed up, making the Space Pirates' panic. They made Luna act racist to you, hoping ponies would start to see you as evil, and eventually, they attacked Canterlot, hoping to stop you. You defeated them, and they got revenge by using the X-parasites, and destroying the Chozo. The Chozo, being more connected to spiritual stuff than others, would have been able to tell that Luna was not acting out of her own will. They also had Luna rebuild Ridley, who failed."

"You were able to find all that info from a computer in a hidden room, inside a room full of Phazon?" Sam asked, skeptically.

"Well, it was more of a small terminal, that I hacked, gaining entrance to all the Space Pirate's data. It was child's play to hack." I said with a small chuckle.

Suddenly, Pinkie popped up next to us. "You know what this calls for?!" A bunch of confetti appeared out of nowhere. "A party!" Pinkie disappeared again.

Sam, rubbing his forehead with his armored hand, decides to speak up. "Is it possible to understand that pony?"

Chuckling again, I responded. "It's completely possible. She's distantly related to the Cosmic Being of Saturday Morning Cartoons." Sam gave me a 'seriously?' look. "Hey, Saturday morning cartoons are important to the Cosmic Kingdom!" I blinked, and we were both in Sugarcube Corner, as the ponies around us started partying.

Getting hungry, I grabbed a cupcake nearby, and devoured it in one bite, before spitting it back up in my hand. Pinkie appeared next to me, a sad look on her face. "What's wrong Connor? Do you not like my cupcakes?" Her lip trembled, as she acted like she was going to cry.

"It's not that I don't like it. It's that it tastes terrible." I held up the cupcake to show Pinkie. "It tastes bland. Where's the sugar?" Pinkie's eyes widened at that, before she disappeared and reappeared with a tray of sugary cupcakes. I turned back around to face Sam.

"Connor, you do realize that the cupcake you just ate had a safe amount of sugar in it. Pinkie's usual cupcakes are too sugary for a human to handle, without dying." I gave him a look as I devoured the rest of the cupcakes in a few bites. "Oh yeah, you're not human, and you wouldn't die of sugar overload or whatever."

"Anyways, I have to go. I need to get back to my universe. Who knows what kind of chaos Twilight's caused." I reach behind me, and grab a few objects. "Also, I have a few parting gifts for you." Sam looked surprised. I first pulled out a small microchip. "This is a chip I made that can upgrade your visor, telling you if someone is a cosmic. Also it vastly increases your scan visor, so you have some knowledge of the universe." Sam took the chip, and inserted it in a small slot on the side of his neck. I pulled out a Metroid style upgrade, that had the usual Metroid symbol on it. "This one can allow you to hide your dragon appearance in your power suit. You'll still be part dragon, but with this you can surprise others that don't expect you to be able to fly and stuff." Sam took it, immediately activating it, making him look normal again. I then pull out a small chain that has three cosmic purple portals on it in the same fashion as my symbol. "Lastly, this is a charm or whatever you can use to summon me back if you need my help. Just hold it, and call for me. It may not be a displaced token, but many would consider it an honor to have this." He took it, looking at it, before putting it away... somewhere. "So now, it's time to go." I was about to walk away, but I stopped real quick, before turning around. "Oh yeah, you know that weird voice in your head you had earlier?" Sam nodded. "That wasn't Samus, that was Discord. He was trying to mess with your mind, playing off your memories of the Metroid series to act like a male Samus. Technically, you're Samus, the skills Samus learned are just in your mind from being sent into this universe. I suggest going to Canterlot, and stopping Discord." I ran off, opening a random broom closet, and created a portal in it, before entering and closing the portal.

"Discord, huh?" I said to myself, as I watched Connor disappear in a portal. "I wonder if the elements of harmony know about him?"

Chapter 19 - A Discordian Utopia

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After Connor left, leaving me with the mysterious message about how Samus was actually Discord, I ran out of the party, running over to Twilight's house. When I entered the library, I saw Twilight returning books to the shelves. As I was about to speak up, I noticed Twilight's coloration seemed off. "Twilight?" Twilight's head turned, and took one look at me, before making a 'hmmp' sound, and getting back to work. "Twilight? Are you okay?" I asked, getting a bit worried.

"Why would you ask if I'm okay?" She said in a sneering tone. "It's not like we're friends, so you shouldn't even care about me.'

'I thought I was done getting this kind of treatment when Connor helped Luna.' "Well, we might not be friends, but I can still be concerned about you." I replied.

"Well you shouldn't. In fact, you should kill yourself to spare everypony from your ugly face." 'Harsh.' Getting more worried, I activated my scan visor, and did a quick scan of Twilight.

Subject: Twilight Sparkle

I skipped the personal information about her, and went straight to the analysis.

Analysis: Twilight Sparkle has been magically corrupted. Her personality and her element have been reversed.

'That doesn't sound good.' Before I could do anything else, some more info showed up on my visor.

Connor's Analysis: Twilight has been corrupted by the chaotic spirit Discord. His plan is to prevent the elements of harmony from being used. Having Twilight remember her memories of her friends is one of the only ways to help her. Also, you could defeat Discord, who would reverse the effects if beaten in battle.

'I guess that's what Connor meant when he mentioned the extra information.'

"Twilight, do you know who Discord is?" Twilight didn't even react.

"If I did, I wouldn't tell you." She stated. Figuring that I wouldn't get any info from her, I ran out of the library, deciding to try and find the other elements, starting with Rarity, as she is the closest.

As I was running to the boutique, I came across Pinkie Pie, who also looked discolored. Getting more worried, I decided to ask her if she knows Discord. "Hey Pinkie!" She stopped, and looked at me. "You feeling okay?"

"Why would you want to know? Looking to make a joke out of me like everypony else?" She said in a harsh tone.

"Do you know a creature named Discord?"

"Why do you even care? Shouldn't you be laughing at me?" 'So, Twilight became the opposite of friendship, and Pinkie thinks everyone is laughing at her, instead of with her. Wait, what would happen if Pinkie became Pinkamena while corrupted? Would Pinkamena be a murderous even crazier regular Pinkie?' Deciding to leave Pinkie alone, I hurried to Rarity's.

When I reached the door, I cautiously opened it, to see it was very chaotic inside. Taking a step inside, I called for Rarity. "Rarity? You here?"

Suddenly, I was grabbed by magic. I noticed Rarity coming out from a corner, looking very crazy. "Everything is mine! Including your suit! Now give it to me!" She tried to remove me from my power suit, and only succeeded in causing me to lose one point of energy. Sighing, I turned into a morph ball, and escaped the magic field.

When I stood back up, I quickly activated my grapple beam, and grabbed Rarity's horn with it. Before she could figure out what I just did, I used the grapple voltage and took all of her excess magic, using it to give me energy. I let go of her horn when she passed out, and quickly left the building. 'That actually worked?'

Running to Applejack's place, I noticed Rainbow Dash sleeping on a cloud. 'Not going to deal with her.' Before I got to the edge of town, I came across Applejack, who was also discolored. Deciding to test something, I spoke out to her. "Hey Applejack! What's five plus five?"

"27." She said, her eyes shifting everywhere. 'Either corrupted, or stupid.'

"Are apples better than oranges?" 'If she can't tell the truth, this will show it.'

"Oranges are better than apples." Her eyes shifted again. 'Definitely corrupted. Better go see the Princesses.' I ran all the way to my ship, and quickly entered, before flying as fast as I could to Canterlot. I landed in the usual place outside the castle, and quickly ran to the throne room. Before I entered, I heard a noble talking to Celestia.

"So, if we kill off all the peasants, and let us nobles have the lands, we can increase our own money." 'What did I just hear?' I burst open the doors, surprising everyone inside. "Hey! I'm talking to the princesses here! Wait your turn!"

I walked past the noble, and closer to Celestia. "Celestia, we have a problem. Someone called Discord might be free." Celestia's eyes widened, and she teleported somewhere. While I was waiting, I turned around to face the noble. "You should get out of here."

"But I wanted to talk to the Princess!" He stamped his hoof. 'That sounded similar to a snap. But he couldn't have snapped without fingers.'

I pointed my arm cannon at him. "That wasn't a question." Then to my surprise, he sighed, before a snapping sound was heard. The pony disappeared in a bright flash, before being replaced by one of the ugliest creatures I've ever seen. "Dude, you ugly." The creature looked like a mix of several other creatures. He had a lion paw, a snake tail, a cloven hoof, and mismatched everything.

He seemed to take offense at that, and put his paw on his chest. "I'm not ugly, I'm beautiful." A bunch of cameras appeared out of nowhere, and started taking pictures while he posed. 'Willing to bet this guy is Discord.' I decided to scan him while he was distracted.

Subject: Discord

Species: Draconequus/Cosmic Being

Before I could continue reading the information, Discord appeared in my visor. "What 'chu doing?" He was looking around in my visor. 'What do I do?' "Now this helmet is going to get in the way of our conversation. I want to be able to see your face." And with a snap of his fingers, the helmet disappeared, and I couldn't feel it in the area I summon it from. Discord appeared in front of me, dressed up like a fashion designer. "In fact, let's just scrap the whole outfit." And with another snap, not only my entire power suit disappeared, but my zero suit. When I looked down, I realized I was wearing the same clothes I wore underneath the power suit to the convention before I arrived here. 'Wait, it's not just that, but I'm not Samus any more.' I looked over my body, seeing the familiar scars I got a while back in my previous life. 'He took my powers. I'm not even part Metroid or Space Dragon anymore.' "Now don't you look much better?"

I looked back at Discord, who was grinning. At this time, I was at a loss for words. It took a minute, before I asked him a question. "Why do you do what you do?"

Discord suddenly turned into a Thinker version of himself, for a minute, before responding. "I guess I just do it for the chaos."

'Could I perhaps paradox him?' With a smile on my face, I continued speaking. "Well, if you do it for the chaos, then did you ever consider this?" He looked at me with a curious expression. "Chaos is the opposite of order, and it's the same vice versa. So, if you cause chaos, it would be considered order for you, because you're used to it, while it would be chaos to those not used to it. So, technically, order would be considered chaos to you, because you're not used to it, and it is chaotic compared to the chaos you're used to. So, if you were to bring what order is to everyone, you would be causing chaos, because you're not used to it."

Discord looked like he was thinking about it for a minute, and then his head blew up, and I noticed my power suit was returned. Then a second later, Discord's head reappeared laughing, and my power suit disappeared again. "You thought that would work on me!" He said in between his laughter. "It was a good attempt, but it would only work if I wasn't insane already!" Then, with a snap of his paw, he was behind me, dressed like Ness, and swung a baseball bat at me, sending me flying out through the castle walls, and out of Canterlot. "HOME RUN!"

As I was flying through the air, I was screaming for my life. I mean, who wouldn't? I saw Ponyville closing in, and I knew I was done for, so I closed my eyes, and braced for impact, hoping for some kind of deus ex machina to save me. Right before I thought I was done for, I felt myself stop moving, and I heard a voice. "Don't worry Sam! We got ya!" I opened my eyes, to see Applebloom holding onto me. I turned my head to see the other crusaders also holding on to me.

"Oh thank you!" 'You're welcome.' 'Connor? Is that you?' 'Yes and no. That chip Connor gave you was a small AI of him which happened to be me. I was providing the information. 'Why did he give me an AI of him?' 'Well, he considered you a good friend, and whenever he has a friend, they are usually hurt by his enemies. So he tries to protect them. You asked for some kind of deus ex machina, so I got you one.' 'How... you know, I'm not even going to ask, and just be thankful.' 'Good, it would be better for everyone if you didn't. Now, I'm going to go, and you probably won't see me again.' "So, what are you doing 500 feet above Ponyville?"

"Trying to get our cutie marks in parachuting." Scootaloo replied, not realizing how dangerous that is. Especially with their patchwork parachutes.

"Kinda dangerous, but you did save me." Sweetie Belle had a curious look on her face.

"What happened to your armor?" The other two murmured words of agreement.

"Some guy called Discord is free, and he managed to turn me back to the form I had before I was transported to this world. So, basically I have no powers." The three fillies faces paled.

"I swear we didn't free him this time!" Applebloom blurted out.

I raised an eyebrow. "This time?" They told me what happened last time. "Well, I'm pretty sure you didn't cause this." They breathed a sigh of relief. "He was freed from the recent chaos happening in this world." I looked down, noticing we have about 100 feet left to fall.

"Hey!" Scootaloo shouted. "Maybe we could come along with you, and help you stop Discord!" The other two nodded at this. "We could be CUTIE MARK EVIL CHAOTIC GOD STOPPERS!" I flinched from their loud voices.

"That sounds completely stu..." I stop, and think about it. 'They could help me.' I sigh, before responding. "Sure, I could use the help. Now, here's the plan."

Discord was sitting on his new throne, idly playing around with the sun and moon, while the corrupted elements of harmony served him. He rubbed the head of his new pet, which happened to be Celestia, who was turned into a household dog. As he took a deep breath, looking around his new chaotic kingdom, he spoke to himself. "This is the life. God powers, servants, and no hero to stop me." Right after he said that, a small ball rolled in through the window, landing in the middle of the room, before creating a massive smoke screen.

While everyone was coughing from the smoke, and Discord was trying to figure out what was happening, a figure burst out of the same window, and fired a single blast at each of the corrupted servants, making them each spasm with electricity, and pass out. With a snap, Discord cleared the smoke, to see a familiar orange figure standing there. "Nice to see you again Discord." The figure said said.

While Discord was shocked, he recovered quickly. "I thought I got rid of you! And your powers too! Now get out of here!" He snapped his fingers, and to his surprise, the power suit didn't disappear like last time.

"Oh, you thought it was going to be that easy?" The figure chuckled. "I prepared for your little tricks this time Discord. Now, you have no power over me."

Chapter 20 - Fighting Back

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Discord looked at the figure nervously for a second, before he realized who he was. "No matter. I can still defeat you Sam." Discord snapped his fingers, and the floor around the figure turned to lava. Right before the figure fell into the lava, it jumped to the side, landing on clear ground. While the figure still had momentum, Discord made the entire floor ice. The figure slid, before touching a wall, and holding on to it.

Discord snapped his fingers, and a bunch of swords with rockets strapped to the back of them appeared in front of Discord, and flew at the figure. The figure, with no way to dodge the missiles while on ice, got hit by each of the missiles, causing the figure to fly across the room, and be slammed into the wall. Discord snapped his fingers again, and a large sword appeared, and impaled the figure in the chest.

"See, what did I tell you? I can defeat you. You know why! I'm the King of Chaos!!!" Discord yelled, building his ego. Then, to Discord's surprise, the figure broke in two, and fell to the ground.

"Oww." A small voice was heard from the suit.

"What the?" Discord flew over to the suit, and realized Sam was never in it. Instead of Sam, it was the Cutie Mark Crusaders. And not only that, but the suit wasn't the same kind of power suit that Sam wears. Instead, it looked like it was made on the fly, with random materials. "How?"

"Surprise!" A voice yelled, falling onto Discord's back, and wrapped a rope around Discord's paw and claw, preventing him from snapping.

Discord looked, to see Sam was on his back. With a sigh, Discord used his tail to snap, and teleport to the other side of the room. Sam fell to the ground, but landed on his feet. When Discord got the rope off, he asked Sam; "How?"

Sam, with a chuckle, answered. "Easy. You threw me to Ponyville, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders caught me, bringing me down to the ground. Then, I made a plan. We built a flawed replica of the power suit, complete with magical enchantments for some of the powers. Then, we enchanted the suit to be immune to your snapping. So, while you were dealing with the suit being controlled by the Cutie Mark Crusaders, I was getting into position."

"But how did you build the suit again? Even if it's a flawed replica?" Discord asked, and Sam looked up for a fraction of a second, before looking back at Discord.

"You might not know this, but I built the suit I wore to the convention, by myself in a few hours. With the help of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and magic, I was able to build it quicker. And then I also prepared this." With a snap of Sam's fingers, a loud explosion was heard above Discord, and the ceiling came crashing down on the chaotic god. Sam quickly ran over to the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

"Quick girls, get out of here! I'll take care of Discord." I said urgently. The Cutie Mark Crusaders moaned, before they ran out of the building. I quickly grabbed the fallen arm cannon of the suit, holding it in my hands, and turned around.

"You know! I really hate it when creatures do that! Especially if said creature doesn't learn their place!" Discord yelled, as he tried to pull himself free of the wreckage.

"You're right. You really should learn your place!" I reply back, and fired a few magical electric shots from the arm cannon at Discord, who hasn't fully pulled himself out yet. Since he wasn't able to dodge the shots, he got hit, and started spasming for a minute, before he fell back down, and was unable to move for a few minutes. Smiling, I ran over, and started unloaded several more electric shots into Discord, before I took the sword I had on me, and cut off all the fingers on Discord's paw and claw, before picking them up, and throwing them across the room.

"YOU REALLY PISSED ME OFF THIS TIME, WORTHLESS MORTAL!" Discord yelled, as a snapping sound was heard, and Discord was free of the rubble, and with his fingers back. I took a step back in surprise. "Oh you want to know how I snapped, even without fingers?" He showed me his tail, which at the moment looked like a hand. "Face it, to me, you're nothing but a weak, unimportant, mortal."

"Says the god who is too stupid to realize that he fell for the same trick twice." I said with a smile, as a bang was heard, and the ceiling started to fall on Discord again.

But before the debris hit Discord, he snapped his way out of it. "HA! You thought I would fall for the same trick again?"

"Honestly? Yes. But I prepared for the situation if you don't fall for it again." I answered, and with another loud bang, Discord looked up, expecting to see the ceiling fall, but when he looked back down, he saw the flying pieces of the fake power suit, flying right at him.

"Get it off!" Discord yelled, as the power suit pieces (including the arm cannon) stuck to him, and prevented him from using any of his snaps. Before too long, a loud bang was heard, as the pieces of the suit blew up on Discord.

As Discord was laying in a smoke pile, I walked up to him, and pulled out a gun I made in secret. "Puny god." I was about to shoot him, but he snapped again, and the room was restored, and so was Discord.

"I'm not dead yet!" I pointed my gun at Discord. He snapped his fingers, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders where floating above him, in orbs of chaos. "It's your decision. Put the gun down, and give up, or I'll kill these three."

My eyes widened at the choice. 'I made this gun with some anti-chaotic bullets, and I know that they should kill Discord. but if they don't work, or Take a bit of time to work, Discord can kill those three. I don't want to take that chance, and have to live the rest of my life with that memory.' I sigh, and close my eyes, before throwing the gun to the side.

"Fool!" Discord yelled with a laugh. "Now nothing is stopping me from killing these three!" He started to compact the orbs the fillies were in.

"NO!" I yelled, and by instinct, raised my right hand up, pointing it at Discord. And to my surprise, my arm glowed with a familiar light, and a beam of cosmic energy shot out, hitting Discord in the face, causing Discord to be flung back, and the fillies to drop back to the ground. "GO!" I yell to the three, and they quickly run out of the room.

"How?" Discord asked as he got back up.

Ignoring him, I spoke. "You thought you could trick me?! Trying to kill three innocent lives?! You're not a god, you're a monster!" I took a step forward, and my suit started materializing around me. When the helmet came up, the visor said one thing.

Anti-Chaos suit acquired

I put my hand on my arm cannon, and fired several anti-chaos shots at Discord, which he was unable to dodge, and got pushed into the wall. I ran forward, and jumped, slamming my spike knee into Discord chest, making him cough up blood. "NO ONE HARMS A CHILD!" I shoved my arm cannon into his mouth, and unloaded anti-chaos missile after anti-chaos missile into his throat.

Eventually, Discord manages to push me off, and used his remaining magic to heal his wound on his chest. "YOU STILL CANNOT DEFEAT ME! I'M DISCORD! THE MASTER OF CHAOS!"

"You may be that, but you're not very bright." I said with a smirk on my face. Discord tilted his head, not understanding what I meant. "You lost all your chaos magic, that means everything you've done to this world has been reversed." Discord's eyes widened in time, for him to turn around, to see the Elements of Harmony firing a massive blast of rainbow magic at Discord, turning him to stone.

"NOOOOO!" He yelled, before he got turned to stone, and fell to the ground.

When Discord was clearly stopped, I fell down, and just laid on the ground for a while. "Finally. Some rest."

Before too long, I heard some hoof steps approach me, and I looked over to see Celestia walking up to me. I got back onto my feet, and deactivated my helmet. Then, to my surprise, Celestia bowed to me. "Thank you Sam. Thank you for protecting Equestria and it's subjects."

Chuckling a bit, I respond. "No problem. But I'm not the only one you should thank." I turn my body for my head to face the door to the throne room. "You can come in now girls! I know you're there!" The door slowly opened, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders slowly entered.

"Sweetie Belle! What are you doing here!" Rarity exclaimed.

I motioned for the three fillies to come to me. When they did, I picked them each up. "These three saved my life when Discord threw me to Ponyville. And they helped me make a plan to stop Discord. They're each as much of a hero as I am." All the other ponies in the room looked shocked.

Celestia was the first to respond. "Well then. Thank you, you three for helping save Equestria."

"Aw shucks. It was nothing, Princess Celestia." Applebloom replied.

And with that, the ponies all ran up to us, and started asking questions, which we all answered. Except I didn't exaggerate. I listened into some of the parts the three fillies said.

"And then, a hundred ninjas came out from nowhere, and I was all like; 'You want to do this the hard way? We'll do it the hard way!' And I went all rainbowy, and fought them all in ten seconds flat!"

I chuckled at that.

I wander into the next town, and while sticking to the shadows, keep an eye out for any of the guards. When I made sure I was clear, I looked down at my hands, and smiled as I stretched them. "Soon. Soon, all their magic will be mine."

Chapter 21- It's ENERGY, not magic!

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It's been about a year since Discord got stoned, and then a few months later, he was freed, and 'reformed.' I didn't quite buy it, and still don't. And every time I see that monster, he glares back at me, with both anger and fear in his eyes. I know the Cutie Mark Crusaders are also afraid of him. A lot of stuff has happened in the past year though. Twilight became an alicorn, we helped some creatures called Breezies return back to their home, Discord got 'sick,' we met Pinkie Pie's sister (who was very emotional, I caught some scam artists selling scams (forget their names. Something like Scim and Scam), we went to some sort of trading convention (which reminded me a lot of the convention I went to), and the ponies had their olympics (which took place in some kind of kingdom made of crystal, where I had to stop the second return of some dark lord (which I did by reflecting light beams off each crystal, powering them up), and as a hero of the city of whatever, I got to light the torch at the beginning, and the fire works at the end (after destroying a giant spiky ball of ice). But now, Twilight and I were flying to Canterlot, in my ship, because of some important reason.

We quickly landed in the usual spot, and got led to a meeting room. And for the next couple of minutes, were told the story of a guy named Tirek, who was banished to Tartarus a thousand years ago. Then, the princesses said that Discord will be the one to find Tirek and stop him. "You can't be serious! Discord! He's the one person most likely to betray us!"

"Calm down Sam. Discord has no reason to betray us." Celestia tried to reassure me.

"I can think of one! If Tirek convinces Discord to help him, with the reward of being able to create chaos again, Tirek would have the help of a powerful god, who could easily stop all four of you, and steal your magic! And don't tell me Discord won't do that! I've kept a close eye on him since he was 'reformed.' He hates having to be good!" I try to tell the princesses.

"That's not a valid reason." Celestia replied calmly, making me want to slam my head into the table.

"IT'S A PERFECTLY VALID REASON!" I yelled.

"Now Sam. There's no reason to yell. Discord is the most trustworthy of all of us." That time I really did slam my head into the table.

I was about to reply, when I realized nothing I could say would change their minds. "Fine. But don't come crying to me when Discord betrays you." I stood up and walked to the door. I opened the door, and before walking through, turned my head to face Twilight. "Sorry Twilight, but you'll have to find your own way back to Ponyville." I walked out, closing the door, spawning my helmet, punching Blueblood in the face, and walking to my ship.

About a day later, and I was floating high in the atmosphere above the planet, keeping a watch on Ponyville, as I was investigating a high amount of dark magic. It was higher than the regular ponies can use, and much more ancient than regular dark magic. But the strangest thing was that it was on the moon. I was thinking about investigating, but suddenly, the alarms on my ship went off, and I activated the cameras on the ship. I watched as the creature I assume was Tirek absorbed the magic of five of the elements of harmony, while Discord was watching. "Knew it."

Activating my suit, I set the ship to keep floating in the atmosphere, while I stood up, activating my suit, and climbed out the manual top exit. I walked over to the side of my ship overlooking Ponyville, and activated my wings, before performing a dive-bomb on the ugly monkey centaur thing.

Tirek dropped Discord, having fully absorbed the chaos magic. Discord weakly managed to reply to the traitor, who was walking away. "But you said this was a sign of your gratitude and loyalty. A gift from someone close to you."

Tirek quickly replied. "My brother who betrayed me. It is as worthless as he is."

And as Tirek walked away, Applejack spoke out to Discord, while comforting the sobbing Fluttershy. "Surely you saw this comin'."

Discord was about to say something, but noticed out of the corner of his eye, an orange figure falling through the atmosphere. That put a smile on his face, as he struggled to get up. "Tirek!" The monster turned around to face the weakened god. "I may not have seen your betrayal coming, but you didn't see this coming."

Before Tirek could respond, Sam slammed into the Side of Tirek's body, injuring Tirek, and knocking him down. Sam quickly recovered, and jumped back to his feet, before giving off a loud screech at Tirek. When Tirek recovered, he took one look at Sam, before a smile appeared on his face. "Ah, more magic for me to consume. I must thank you for coming to me, so I wouldn't have to seek you out." Tirek fired a shot of magic powerful enough to knock down the princesses for a few minutes. But to everyone's surprise, Sam fired a few shots of energy into it, dispelling the ball of magic like it was nothing. "What! What kind of magic is that?!"

Sam smiled behind his helmet, before charging a powerful hyper beam. "Why don't you try it out, and tell me what you think?" He fired the beam at Tirek, which caused all the ponies (and Discord) to facehoof/paw/claw. Tirek smiled, before opening him mouth, which allowed the full beam to enter his mouth. But to his surprise, when the beam entered his mouth, instead of being able to absorb it, it instead badly burnt the back of his throat.

While Tirek was grabbing his throat in pain, he managed to wheeze out a few words. "What kind of magic is that?"

Sam, who started charging up another hyper beam, replied with a hidden smile. "It's not magic, it's energy. You may be able to absorb magic, but clearly not energy." Sam then fired the charged shot, and several more hyper beams at Tirek. Tirek, who was too big to dodge the fast moving beams at close range, got hit, and took quite a bit of damage, and fell down.

Tirek pushed himself up, before letting out a loud roar, and charging at Sam with new-found speed. But Sam quickly flew into the air, before landing on Tirek's back, and unloaded hyper beam after hyper beam at Tirek's legs. Eventually, he managed to get Sam off, and fired the strongest magic he had at Sam.

Sam, who was too close range to dodge, got hit, and flung back into a wall. When Sam pushed himself off the wall, he cracked his neck. "You want to do it like that? We'll do it like that." Sam activated Phazon mode, the mode he unlocked when he got cured of his Phazon poisoning a year ago, and gained total control of Phazon. Basically, Phazon mode looks like the regular varia suit, but has Phazon blue electricity sparking across it, and Sam's visor turns blue.

Sam quickly flew to Tirek, who thought he won, and was monologuing. Before Tirek could realize his mistake, Sam fired a powerful burst of Phazon combined with the regular hyper beam at Tirek. Tirek, who wasn't able to block or dodge it, got hit (and subsequently corrupted) by the Phazon blast. Tirek quickly recovered, and was about to attack back, when he started puking Phazon. "What the? What is this stuff?!"

Sam quickly landed next to him, before answering. "It's called Phazon. It's a mutagenic poison that drastically changes living organisms. I have total control over all forms of it, and corrupted you with it, to the point where you won't mutate, but will painfully die from it." To emphasize his control, he lifted his left hand, before making a fist, and Tirek screamed in pain, as he felt his body being destroyed from the inside.

"Sam! What are you doing! You can't do that to anypony! Even if they're a monster like Tirek, you can't do that to them!" Twilight yelled. Twilight flew in a few minutes ago, and was trying to help her friends out, and also was watching the battle.

Sam sighed, and unclenched his fist, before pulling his hand back a bit, and making all the Phazon leave Tirek's body, before going back into Sam, who then deactivated Phazon mode. Sam, then quickly got into a fighting pose, as Tirek slowly got up. "You think your tricks will defeat me! I'm Tirek! I TRICKED DISCORD! You're no match against me!"

Tirek fired another powerful blast at Sam, who quickly dodged, before flying into Tirek's side, and slamming his spiky knee into him. Before Tirek could hit him, Sam flew back again, and started chuckling. "Oh, is that all? Let me tell you what I did. I tricked Discord several times, battled on par with both princesses at once, stopped a gigantic brain from controlling/destroying the galaxy twice, wiped out the Metroids, wiped out the X-parasites twice, stopped a planet from being corrupted, stopped a planet from being split into two different sides, stopped several more planets from being corrupted, and killed the same creature over and over again. You got nothing on me." Sam lifted up his arm cannon, putting all of his energy into it. "And I'll show you why." Then, with a loud yell, fired the zero cannon at Tirek, finishing off the monster before he held a pony hostage.

When the light cleared away, Sam (in his zero suit) walked over to Tirek's burnt corpse, and picked up the upgrade dropped by Tirek.

Magic Suit Acquired

'Wait, how did I know I got that, without my suit?' I looked down, and noticed I got the suit back as well. But the strange thing was that the suit looked different. It looked like combination of several different colors just spun around in a circle on my suit. 'Well, that's convenient, and interesting.' Then, I noticed a magic meter filling up on my screen. 'What is this? Legend of Zelda?' The meter also looked like it was from Legend of Zelda too. Then, out of curiosity, I snapped my fingers, and a small spark of orange magic appeared around my fingers. 'Technology is Samus's thing, not magic.' Disliking the suit already, I was about to change back to the normal varia suit, when I realized the ponies still lost their magic. I turned around, and ran over to the five element bearers (Twilight never lost her magic), deciding to lightly touch them, which restored their magic. I let go of the breath I didn't know I was holding. 'Worried I would give them too much magic.' I looked over at Discord, who was lying on the ground, powerless.

I walk over to him, and stood over his body. "So, what are you going to do? Kill me? Because that's what you hero's do right? Kill others." Discord shut his eyes, and I surprised him when I restored his magic as much as I could. Discord pushed himself back up, looking at himself, before snapping his fingers, and making a small pink cloud that rains chocolate. "You gave me back my powers? Why?" He said astounded.

I smirked behind my helmet. "It's no fun killing someone if they don't pose a challenge." I then shrugged. "Plus, I didn't want to have to be the 'God of Chaos' for this place." I dropped my smile. "Now I suggest you get out of here before I kill you." Discord took the hint, and disappeared with a snap.

Before I could do anything, I heard a voice speak up. "You killed him." I looked over to see Twilight and her friends staring at Tirek's corpse.

"He was about to threaten to kill one of you. I could see it in his eyes. It was his only option." I reply.

"But he wouldn't have killed us. Nopony ever kills anyone. not even the darkest of creatures would." Twilight stated in a monotone voice.

"No, he would have killed you. Discord was going to kill the Cutie Mark Crusaders, but I stopped him." I stated.

"You're lying."

"Would you want to take that chance? His life vs yours? You're a princess, and Equestria needs you." I look over at Tirek's body. "The world doesn't need a monster like him."

"But that doesn't give you the right to kill a living sapient creature!" Twilight yelled.

"He would have killed you all!" I roared back. Literally, I roared. 'Stupid space dragon DNA.' I looked at my magic meter, to notice it was barely spent. 'Probably from the ponies he took it from.' Getting an idea, I decided to ask Twilight something. "Twilight. I have the magic of the ponies Tirek magic raped. I need you to give it to them." Twilight looked confused for a second, and before she could respond, my grappling beam was attached to her horn, and I used the grapple voltage to transfer all the magic I had to her. When I was done, I switched back to my varia suit mode, and quickly flew back up to my ship, and continued to investigate the dark magic usage, not caring about my magic abilities.

A dark figure stood over an orb, showing the events of certain days in the past year. Events showing an orange clad warrior fighting two alicorns, the same warrior battling a draconequus, the warrior fighting against an athromorphic pony, and also a purple colored fighter. The dark figure cackled madly. "Yes. Everything is falling into place." The orb switched images to show the ponies under the figure's command. It showed a white alicorn, a purple alicorn, a draconequus, five normal looking ponies, a group of small floating blobs, a larger group of strange reptilian-like creatures with futuristic tech, and a group of famous parasites that resemble balls of jelly with meatballs inside them. "Yes. Soon everything will be mine." The figure looked out at the planet below the grey satellite the figure was on. "Soon, everything will obey the moon." The figure's loud cackles were unheard in the small atmosphere of the satellite of Equus.

Chapter 22 - Metroid: Brother F

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---Sam POV---

I had just finished helping a pony rebuild a house after Tirek destroyed it in the attack. After accepting the pony’s thanks, I was walking along when the Cutie Mark Crusaders ran up to me, holding something in their hooves.

“Sam! Check out this thing we found!” Sweetie Belle started.

“We think it might be alien!” Scootaloo continued.

“And since you’re an alien, you might know what it is!” Applebloom continued, making me almost cringe at the over the top southern accent. ‘Forgot she had that accent.’

Bending down, the fillies handed me the object, where I got a good look at it. It seemed to be a golden coin, a bit bigger than the palm of my hand and almost an inch thick. Emblazoned upon it seemed to be the face of the Golden Freddy crash screen from Five Nights At Freddy’s one, but it seemed to be...Smiling. When I held it, the thing seemed to faintly vibrate, and white noise came out.

“KSHSHSHHHHH-Cra-SHSH- HA! FIXED IT! Okay sorry ‘bout that I’ve been having trouble fixing my token’s message. Name’ s Golden Freddy, if you need a guy to do god-tier sorts of favors or hang out etc etc then you can summon me with this.” I took a step back in surprise at the voice coming out.

“A Displaced token?”

“Yup!” The coin echoed. Smiling to myself, thinking of something I could use a god-tier for, I looked back at the curious and shocked faces of the Crusaders.

“Hey, you girls should go along and play. This item is way too dangerous for children to be around.” The fillies started to complain, but I convinced them to leave by somehow staring at them with my helmet, as if it was a face.

With the fillies out of the way, I ran the opposite direction, and quickly activated the speed booster. Within seconds, I was back near my ship. Looking back down at the coin, I held it out in front of me, and talked to the coin. “Golden Freddy, if you’re available, and your words are true, I would like your assistance.”

The coin remained silent. Someone poked me on the shoulder and whispered. “Try talking louder.”

Flinching, my instincts kicked in, and I rolled to the side, before pointing my arm cannon in the direction I was poked. ‘How did I get poked through my armor?’ Standing there giving me a great big shit-eating grin was Golden Freddy himself. He stood at about seven feet tall, and oddly enough his eyes were mismatched. One eye was pure black with a single white pinprick of white light in it for a pupil. The other was pure black as well, but with a golden iris and a slit pupil. He gave me a slight wave. “Hellloooooo!”

“Well, you’re just as scary in real-life as in the game.” Not taking down my arm cannon, I continued. “How do I know I can trust you? You might be Discord playing a trick on me again.”

The smile faded and he looked at me with a hate filled glare. “Alright then let’s play that game. See kid, back in my world, you wanna kn0w what I did? I killed Discord. See, I’m a bit of a mixed bag of nuts. When I first got to Equestria I got my brain scrambled by the sister bitches, brainwashed by Discord and then locked in stone with him for a thousand years. I learned chaos magic from him, and in my dealings I got to be a bit more… Sadistic than him. Ended up killing the guy for trying to control me, ironically. Jerk made his own death. After that I ruled a bit, met some Displaced got a major power boost, did I mention already that I also absorbed Discord and ate him like a potato chip Cuz I did. Anyway where was I… Oh yeah! Met some Displaced, some were chill and I made friends, others I made enemies. After that I decided to do some of those friends a favor and give Equestria a chance to not be a bag of dicks to me. Payed off decently, fixed all of the damage I wrought and erased all memory that I ever existed there. I let Sunbutt and Moonpie remember me though, and Cadenza helped me get Discord’s shit out of my head. She’s nice by the way, if you haven’t met her you should. Anyway, I’ve kept up being neutral after all that. I don’t actively fuck shit up as long as the same courtesy is afforded me. And I keep up with the fact that if another Displaced wants an evil Discord dead, then I kill those Discords too. But I AM NOT HIM!”

While he was talking, I did a quick scan of him, trying to see if he’s telling the truth. When I did, I found an absolute avalanche of error messages. The only thing that still told me info was the small AI Cosmic King Connor gave me.

‘He’s telling the truth Sam.’ The screen flashed, as my scan visor restarted quickly, and fixed itself.

Putting down my arm cannon, I finally responded. “You’ve been screwed over too? Discord put himself in my brain, acting like I had a male version of Samus Aran in my head. While this was happening, Luna was being brainwashed by some Space Pirates, and attacked me over and over again. She killed several ponies without remorse, and even brought back Ridley. Eventually, a friend of mine, Cosmic King Connor removed the mind control, and helped me wipe out the space pirates, and get me cured of the Phazon is my body. Connor told me that Discord was in my mind, and I went to stop him. He almost killed the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and turned me back to who I was before I got Displaced. I was able to battle him by tricking him and using explosives and crystals, and even cut off all his fingers. He just snapped everything back to normal. Although, it was a good distraction for the Elements of Harmony to stone him. Later, they let him free, where he helped Tirek, a magic absorbing monster, take over Equestria. He was betrayed later, and I had to kill Tirek. So if you want to kill my universe’s Discord, I’ll be all too happy to watch.” I deactivated my helmet, and showed him my smile, before extending my armored hand. “I’m Sam Aran.”

He took it and gave it a shake. “Golden Freddy Fazbear at your service then. Hmm. How about I give you something for emergencies too? If memory serves that power armor of Samus’ can fail in moments of great emotional flapdoodle and such, so how about I give you somehting to use without?”

I chuckled at the word ‘flapdoodle.’ “Well, it sounds nice. All I have is a stun pistol, and years of training I never actually had.” I deactivated my suit, before spreading my dragon wings. “I’m also part Space Dragon.”

“Hmm. Nice. Anyway...Hmm lemme think of something clever and useful… Aha! Shapow!”

“There ya go! The helmet’ll highlight enemy weakpoints as well as stuff like shields that are there to protect them. Though in some cases it won’t be able to give details other than the fact that defenses are simply there. The cannon will work like the one Samus has in Super Smash Brothers, but with a golden glow and a tendency to randomly make whatever is blasted gain an intelligence of its own. Like you zap Ridleys arm, should he return, and his arm’ll start flailing around of its own accord for a bit. And the costuming?”

Suddenly I was on the ground and Freddy was bringing an axe down on me. I couldn’t move but suddenly I watched the axe shatter against the new cannon.

“Is super durable, and is able to poke a sun, if only for a split second. Sorry bout the scare, but I figured that’d get the point across.”

Suddenly the new cannon and mask seemed to fade in a wave of gold light. On my wrist was a simple gold band with a Fazbear face on it. There was a latch as well to it that seemed to be a voice/fingerprint lock.

“You can get that off by putting any of your fingers on it and telling it to unlock. It’s got a rudimentary intelligence too, so it’ll know if someone is trying to unlock it by forcing your finger to it and using a fake voice clip. Activates just by thought. That may seem weird, but considering it’s meant for emergencies I figure that voice commands may not always be an option.”

My regular armor returned after that. He waved at me. “BRB Sammy!”

He flashed gold and disappeared. After a few minutes he reappeared, wearing a headband with horns that seemed suspiciously similar to Discord’s. He took it off and threw it to me. “Souvenir!”

He bent his neck to either side as if popping it. He looked back at me.

“Anyhoo, douche ex machina achieved. Guy is dead now. Those are his horns btw, I can just poof ‘em unless you want to keep them. Oh and I made sure none of the elements or idiots giving him mercy saw it. As far as they will know from the dummy I left behind then the jerk literally slipped on an ice cube.”

“What was his reaction?” I said with a small smile on my face, as I looked over the Discord horn headband. Freddy put a paw to his chin in thought. He snapped his finger and a puppet made to look like a mini Discord appeared. It put its paws to either side of its head.

“Turned every little bit of him into energy, body, mind, magic, and soul. It okay if I just absorb this or do you want a power boost for your ship?”

“You can keep it, I got an infinite amount of energy for my ship somehow.” I put the Discord head band away, before asking a question. “Hey, since you have got-tier powers, can you sense if Luna is still evil? My systems mess up whenever I try.”

He gave me a thumbs-up. He snapped a paw and disappeared, only to reappear after a second. He looked at me.

“Yeah she’s got Nightmare Moon in her noggin.”

I sigh, face palming, while deciding how to deal with Luna. “Okay, thanks for your help. I can deal with Luna. But this time, I won’t show mercy.”

Freddy shrugged. “Sure, but remember: These ponies LOVE jumping to conclusions. It’s like their equivalent of human greed. If you fight her then make sure that it either looks like she started it with the intent to kill or make sure they know who she really is. And you can’t just use my word as proof. A magical bear from another dimension won’t fly. And just as well, be careful. I got enough power to curbstomp them but the princesses are no joke. But I think you know that regardless. So, you need anything else or should I go? Either way, you wanna swap tokens? You already have mine.”

I tossed him my Metroid symbol token, before asking another question. “You know any good asteroids nearby? I wanna make it look like she was crushed by one. These ponies aren’t really bright either.”

He grinned and snapped his paw. “Well I hearsay there’s this asteroid that just appeared in orbit, made to be able to survive reentry and is completely invisible to any form of scanners except that...”

With the last word he pointed a paw at my helmet as well as my ships console. Both flashed with a notification of the new asteroid.

“I also hear that that Sam Aran guy has scanners that can find it. Anyway, see ya later Sammy!”

With a smile on my face, I said the words I remember reading. “Our contract is complete.”

He gave me a wave and dissolved into golden light after I watched him place my token into his chest and eat the ball of energy. He left with an echo.

“BaaaiiiiiI!”

Smiling to myself about how to kill Luna, I turned around to see the hiding faces of the Cuite Mark Crusaders.

Chapter 23 - The Star-Spangled Pony's a Phony

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"Sam?" Applebloom cautiously asked. "Are you really going to kill Princess Luna?" The other Crusaders nodded in unison.

I sigh, thinking about what to say. "Yes." I sit down on the ground, still trying to think about how to say this to the three young fillies. "But Princess Luna isn't Princess Luna right now. She's Nightmare Moon. And I think Nightmare Moon completely got rid of Luna, so there is no chance to save Luna."

"Are you sure?" Sweetie Belle asked.

I nodded my head. "Yes. And I have to stop her, or she would destroy the planet by bringing it eternal night."

"I remember the other day, hearing my sister Applejack speaking weird. But she was asleep." I looked at Applebloom curiously. "She was saying something like 'Yes Mistress' and she was tossing and turning, as if she was fighting something."

Sweetie Belle's face lighted up. "I remember Rarity doing the same thing." When she said this, my face slightly paled.

"They could be under a form of magical mind-control." I start remembering what I read on my ship a while back. "When under the effects of any type of magical mind-control, the victim will try to fight it in their sleep, and in their dreams, they will obey the one mind-controlling them." I stopped for a second. 'Wait, from what I remember, that kind of mind-control is very ancient. Which makes sense if Luna is Nightmare Moon.'

"Is there anyway to reverse the mind-control thingy?" Scootaloo asked.

"You have to get the person using the spell to stop and reverse the effects." I stood up, and reactivated my helmet. "You three should go. Try to spend some time with your family. Nightmare Moon might be able to kill them off during the battle." The three all saluted, and ran off in various directions to spend time with their family. I turned around, and ran over to my ship.

Once in my ship, I walked over to the controls, and sat down. "Adam, can you find the asteroid Golden Freddy mentioned?"

The screen opened up the map of the solar system I'm in, before pointing out a sizable asteroid near the planet. "Right here Samus."

Nodding, I set the coordinates, and we took off towards the asteroid. When we got there, I noticed a grappling point on the asteroid, and used my ship to pick it up. I went through my screen, making sure the asteroid is good to use. "Let's see; regular sized asteroid. Good, so no one would think it was anything different compared to the other asteroids that hit the moon. I should put some Phazon in it, so If I weaken Nightmare Moon enough, I can cause it crashing down upon her. But I only have one shot." Leaving my ship through the manual exit, I activated my dragon suit, and flew down to the asteroid.

Once I landed, I crouched down, and pointed my arm cannon straight at the center of the large rock. I then, charged up a powerful blast of Phazon, and fired it. The second it hit the rock, I took control of it, and separated the Phazon enough, to pass straight through to the center of the asteroid. Once it got to the center, I had it expand, and create the core of the rock. "That should do it."

I looked at the planet below with a stern face. "Where is that alien?" I said to myself, as I tried to track down the only one who has a chance to stop me and my plans to bring eternal night. He disappeared a while ago, and I can't seem to find out where he is now. I was currently in my true form, making sure I'm powerful enough to stop the alien.

"Looking for me?" I heard a voice, and quickly turned around, to see the alien slowly walking towards me. "You're pretty sneaky, tricking everyone that you're just Luna, when you became Nightmare Moon a while ago. But I finally got you alone, and on the moon no less."

"How did you find me? In fact, how did you prevent me from tracking you?!" I yelled as I took a step back, getting worried.

"I guess Golden Freddy messed up your tracking. As for finding you, you do emit a large amount of dark energy, which is easy to track." He stopped walking, and just stood there, several yards from me, his hand on his miniature cannon.

"No matter, I'll still defeat you." Then, with a yell, I charged at the armored alien, firing several advanced spells that could destroy a weaker pony.

Seeing Nightmare Moon's attacks, I ran forward, before flipping over one, and rolling underneath another. I continued dodging attacks, until I was close enough to Nightmare Moon to uppercut her with my arm cannon. The second my arm cannon touched her, I fired a super missile straight into her, sending her flying up.

I quickly back-flipped to dodge her powerful laser beam, which left a large new crater on the ground. I pointed my arm cannon straight up at the pony, before being tackled by her. When he got me against the ground, she fired spell after spell into my suit, and kept slamming her magically-enhanced hooves into me. Noticing my health was dropping rapidly, I knew I had to get her off. "Didn't know you like it kinky."

That caught her off guard, as she stopped hitting me long enough for me to slam my spiky knee into her side. I then punched her off, before jumping back, and unloading hyper beam after hyper beam at her.

The first of the hyper beams hit, but she got wiser, and dodged the rest. Then, she did something that surprised me. She stopped moving, and starting charging up her horn with dark magic. 'Idiot.' I activated my grapple beam, and swung it to attach to her horn. Before she could realize what I was about to do, I started absorbing her dark magic straight from her.

After a minute of absorbing her magic, my grapple voltage stopped, and returned to me. Nightmare Moon fell to the ground, breathing heavily as most of her power was taken away. Taking this chance, I ran forward, activated my speed booster, before slamming into her at super sonic speeds.

When she landed on her back, I stopped running, and put my boot on her neck, before pointing my arm cannon at her head, and charging up a light beam. Though, before I fired I saw her pupils shrink, before I was blasted away.

I quickly recovered my footing in time, before being slammed into my Nightmare Moon who was looking absolutely angry. "I SHALL NOT LOSE TO A WORTHLESS ALIEN!" Then, at close range, she fired a powerful spell at me, sending me flying back even farther.

When I landed, I slowly got back up to my feet, and looked at Nightmare Moon through my cracking visor. She was charging up an even more powerful spell.

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'Looks like I only got one choice.' Getting better footing, I pointing my arm cannon forward, before activating my Zero Laser.

"PREPARE TO DIE!!!!!" Nightmare Moon yelled, as she fired her spell at me.

"NEVER!!!" I yelled back, as I fired my Zero Laser at the beam of magic. They both hit, and as me and Nightmare Moon push our beams against the other, eventually they blew up, sending us both flying back. As I got up, my suit started falling around me. 'Never thought I would be glad for the Space Dragon DNA.' Because of my Space Dragon DNA, I don't have to breath in space.

I looked over to see Nightmare Moon was getting up as well. She looked over to where I'm at with a smile on her face, before she realized I'm still standing. Taking advantage of her shock, I quickly flew over to her, before punching her in the face, sending her flying back.

She got up, and tried to fire a spell at me, but it fizzled out. "Oh, out of magic? Out of power? Too bad I'm not." Before she could question it, my hand glowed blue, as I raised it up, before bringing it down fast. She looked up, to see a giant rock coming down to crash into her. "See you later Nightmare Moon." I spread my wings, before taking off to my ship.

As I was flying, I watched as the asteroid crashed into her, and the moon glowed blue with Phazon for a split second. I stopped flying, and put my hand out, and felt using the Phazon that Nightmare Moon died. Sighing, I destroyed the Phazon on the moon, before continuing to fly to my ship.

"You are?!" Celestia exclaimed as I told her my plan.

"But you can't leave! There is so much to learn!" Twilight whined.

"And I have to throw you a farewell party!" Pinkie added.

I stopped them by lifting up my hand. "Yes I know. But as long as I'm here on this planet, trouble will keep on coming for your ponies. You already lost your sister to both madness and death, and I don't want to cause anymore trouble." It's been about a day since I killed Nightmare Moon, and the ponies all think she was crushed by an asteroid on the moon while as Nightmare Moon. The mind-control spells wore off of everyone, and Celestia realized Luna was Nightmare Moon this entire time. "And besides, I want to explore the universe, seeing locations from the games."

"But what do we do if we're attacked again?" Celestia asked.

"You still have that device to contact me. If you need help, just contact me, and I'll try to get here to help." I reactivated my helmet, before turning around and walking over to my ship. "But now, I have to leave. Thanks for allowing me to stay on your planet for so long." The ponies were all teary-eyed as I teleported onto my ship, and took off. I waved back to them from my cock-pit, before my ship turned around, and blasted out of the atmosphere.

"Now, where to go?" I ask myself as I open up a map of the known universe and looked at all the planets. Seeing some locations I want to visit, a smile slowly appeared across my face.

Bonus Chapter - Returning to Equestria

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"Sam, I don't know if you getting this, or even if you're still alive, but we need your help. Equestria needs your help. We're under attack by the Changelings, and they're getting help from something else.Something alien.Please! Help! Ponies are dying!

"There she is! Get her!"

"No! Stay away!"

"We have the Princess! Let's bring her to the Queen!

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I leaned forward in my seat, thinking about it. 'So, Celestia finally needs help? What's it been? 50 years?" I chuckled at the memories. 'Yep, 50 years. 50 years of slow aging, and bounty hunting, and exploring.' I started typing into the controls, setting my next location to be Equestria. I looked out of my cockpit to see the planet Norion below. 'Well, it'll be nice to see them again.' With a final push of a button, I set my course to Equestria, and starting flying there.

I watched with a smile on my face as my Changelings buzzed around me. "With the alien's help, this came along much better!" I looked over to see the struggling ponies that foiled my plans this time. I looked over at the two ponies that threw me out with the power of their 'love.' "And with you two captured, and kept away from each other, nothing can stop me now!"

"My Queen!" A Changeling shouted, as he ran forward, before saluting in front of me. "We have captured the Princess!" After he said this, a group of my Changelings brought in the captured princess.

Laughing at the shocked gasps of the ponies, I walked up to Celestia. "I heard you once had a warrior to fight for you. One that matched Discord and defeated Sombra during his second return. But, now I see that it was just a story." I started laughing again, before I heard the sounds of heavy fighting from outside the throne room.

I looked up in time to see the doors to the throne room knocked off their hinges, and a figure walking through the smoke. Snarling, I threw Celestia into a wall, before charging up my horn. "Who said it was a story?" The figure said in a low voice, and as the smoke cleared, all the ponies gasped.

Standing several yards in front of me, was a bipedal creature wearing a big set of orange armor. On it's face was a green spot, where the eyes were barely visible. One arm had an orange hand with a small green glowing light on the back of it, while the other arm had a hand that was of a different color. "Who are you!" I shouted.

It spoke in a low voice still. "I matched Discord, even without my powers. I slayed Sombra with a beam of light. I dought off both Princesses at the same time without trying. I conquered the abilities of Phazon. I battled with a god. I ended a parasitic infection of Ponyville. I killed Ridley the Space Dragon, and then killed his reincarnation. I fought off many Omega Pirates. I ended many species. I am Sam Aran, the being you should fear."

I started to laugh at the bold claims. "So, you're saying that you're the 'Great Warrior' that saved Equestria?! You look barely worth my time! Those stories were probably made up." I said with dismissal. But before I could blink, the figure was in front of my, grasping my throat.

"I am no 'Great Warrior.' I am only a hunter and defender of innocents." Then, it leaned in close to my face. "And you're harming innocents." Starting to get scared, I teleported out of it's grip, before reappearing on the far side of the room.

Smiling to myself, I responded, while charging my horn. "Then if you're really so strong, take this!" I fired one of my most powerful spells at it.

The ponies all gasped, before Sam stuck out his green right arm caught the magic in his hand. Chrysalis stopped laughing, as she stood there, mouth agape, at the prowess Sam had shown. Sam then clenched his hand, crushing the ball of magic as if it was made of nothing. Chrysalis quickly reacted, and called in all the Changelings around the city.

When the assembled Changelings quickly arrived to help their queen, Chrysalis started laughing again. "You think you can take on my army! Changelings attack!" And with a loud yell, the large group of Changelings charged at Sam. Sam only activated his arm cannon, turning his right hand back into it's familiar shape, before pointing it at the rapidly approaching Changelings.

Then, with precision that only one with experience can have, Sam shot down all the Changelings before they could even reach him. He then pointed his arm cannon at Chrysalis, who was too shocked to do anything, before being hit by a wave beam, which caused her to spasm a bit.

When Chrysalis recovered, she stared at Sam with anger and fear in her eyes. "What are you? You took down my army with ease."

"I'm the best at what I do. But what I do isn't very nice." Sam replied, quoting a line from his past.

"Well, then let's see how to do against yourself!" Then, Chrysalis was covered in green flames, before appearing to be a copy of Sam's power suit. She then laughed, which looked ridiculous in a power suit. She put her hands to her hips, and leaned back, giving some sort of silly villain laugh.

"I've already battled myself, but you shouldn't be much different." Sam responded. Then, Chrysalis charged at Sam, before trying to slam her arm cannon into the original. Sam caught the arm cannon, before jumping up into the air, and landing on the other side of Chrysalis, and slammed his boot into her back, forcing her down, and causing her arm cannon to be torn off. "Just like I thought. It's made of chitin, so it's much weaker. You can't replicate Chozo tech. Many have tried and failed."

Chrysalis quickly crawled away, staring at the exposed innards of her appendage in fear. She then looked back up at Sam, who put his arm cannon against her face. "Good night." He started to charge up another wave beam, before Chrysalis threw a small box across the room. Sam stopped charging in the beam to look at the box, which started glowing, before expanding into a brain-like shape Sam is familiar with. "Mother Brain." Sam said with a scowl.

Instead of speaking normally, Mother Brain spoke out telepathically with the Metroid DNA inside Sam. 'Samus.'

"So, you're the one helping Chrysalis?" Sam said, gesturing to the slowly escaping Changeling Queen, before firing a charged wave beam at her, causing her to pass out. He then noticed Metroids slowly appearing in the room out of the corner of his eyes.

'Indeed I am. And now, since you're here, I shall cleverly reveal my entire plan to you.' Sam turned around, and killed the Metroid slowly sneaking up on him

"So, I'm just going to assume that you want some resource on this planet, and want to spread the Metroids, so you used Chrysalis as a front or something." Sam responded, as he started killing all the Metroids showing up in the room.

Mother Brain was silent for a while, as her plan was revealed before she could say it out loud. 'Yes.'

"Well, that won't work." Sam responded, as he killed the last Metroids in the room. "Because you're going to be destroyed." Sam ran forward, dodging the rings of energy flying at him. When he reach Mother Brain, he turned into a morph ball, and dropped a new type of bomb he picked up on his journeys at the base of Mother Brain, before rolling away. "You see, I got several new upgrades during my exploration. One such upgrade is a bomb much more powerful than a power bomb, but also much more controlled." Sam then clenched his fist, causing the bomb to blow up, and disintegrate Mother Brain.

Then, with a small smirk on his face, he shot a power beam at each of the gooey bindings holding the ponies captive. Once free of their bindings, the Elements of Harmony all charged at him, before trying to tackle him, and failing. Sam dodged in time, and watched as the ponies struggle to free themselves from their pile.

While the ponies were trying to free themselves, I walked up to Celestia, who was checking on the other two ponies. "So, you all got caught by a bunch of overpowered bugs, who were given love by a creature who betrayed a race, and kills others." I nodded a bit, before responding. "Seems legit."

Celestia just smiled, before speaking. "Thank you Sam. I was worried you might be dead, and wouldn't get the message."

I just chuckled. "I'm hard to kill. Plus, the Chozo DNA, and the Space Dragon DNA makes me slow aging. I'll probably be able to live to the age of 500 or something."

"So. You're the alien who helped save Equestria several times 50 years ago." A unicorn with greying blue hair walked up to me. "And you just left us to defend ourselves against aliens! What kind of hero are you supposed to be?!"

"I'm not a hero. I'm a bounty hunter. And besides, I caused much more trouble to this un-advanced planet than it should receive." The pony seemed to take offense at that.

"We're not un-advanced! We've got all kinds of fancy technology!" He said with some pride.

"What's the speed most ships are required to be able to pass before being declared a space ship?" I asked, knowing he wouldn't know it.

"Uhhhh... nachos and hoofball?" My eyebrows raised at that.

"Faster than Light." I said, making my point.

"Shoot, I thought I had it." The stallion said, with seriousness in his voice. 'This is going to be a long reunion.'

The rest of the day was spent with me catching up with the ponies (not that I was really interested in what they did), and me telling them my stories since I left (which they begged to hear). Maybe, sometime I'll tell you too.

Author's Notes:

Sorry if this seems kinds rushed. I want to get my mind off this story, so I could work on my next stories. But yeah, there might be a sequel, but it would be hard, because it has to do with ponies. And most of Metroid doesn't have ponies. But if anyone wants a crossover with Sam, just PM me. Also, if you see any errors in it, or think I should have made something a bit different, don't be afraid to tell me.

Hints for my next two stories;

(Story one) When five aliens break free of their stone prison, they will show Equestria what the true meaning of Tokusentai is. And when seven magic balls appear on the planet, they may just have their work cut out for them.

(Story two) Four friends get sent to Equestria as their favorite video game characters. But when children go missing, they will have to take a bite out of a mystery that's been around since before '87.

Super Secret Chapter You Don't Expect That Reveals More of the Story

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"You coming, Sam!?" My father yelled, as I hurriedly grabbed my bags, and opened my door, about to leave, before remembering something. I quickly turned around, and grabbed my Nintendo 3DS, before booking it out of my room, and getting in the family limo with my parents. The reason I wanted to bring my 3DS with me is because my family and I are going to go on our annual trip around the world where we visit all kinds of cool places, and I wanted to bring my favorite game series with me. In my 3DS is a game cartridge that Nintendo released a few months ago, that contains Metroid one through four, and is updated to be playable on the 3DS.

Metroid has always been my favorite series, ever since it first came out a few years after I was born. I still laugh whenever I remember I share a name with the main character of the Metroid series, Samus Aran. It was a really big coincidence that my parents named my Samuel Aran. I open up my 3DS, and play Metroid Fusion on the way to our boat. But while I was running from the SA-X, I overheard a small part of my parents' conversation.

"Are you sure this is a safe idea, honey?" My mom asked my dad.

"Well, those pirates don't seem to patrol the waters our boat is going to travel, so I'm not worried." My father said with the utmost confidence. It took me a second to get what he meant by pirates, before I remembered the recent crisis of piracy on the ocean. I started to get worried, but I trusted my father, so I calmed down.

A few minutes later, we arrived at our private boat, and started loading our luggage onto the ship. While most people would think a rich (extremely rich) family like mine would have bulters, or bulters for our bulters, but my father worked hard for his money, and always taught me that doing stuff for yourself is much more satisfying than having other people do your work for you. Which he was completely right, and I was raised doing my own work, instead of having butlers.

So eventually, we got on the boat, and took off. It wasn't a big cruise boat kind of boat, it was small, and fast, and had a few rooms, a bedroom for me, and one for my parents, a small dining room-like room, and it had a small walking space on the top, front, and back of it where we could sit down on a chair, and just watch the surroundings go by. My father was the one who ~~piloted~~ ~~drove~~ ~~controlled~~ operated it, and I entered the small room he stays in while operating the boat, to talk to him.

"So, dad, are you sure that we'll be safe? I personally don't want to be 'K-2L'ed by some pirates on this trip." I said with a fake chuckle, only making a joke to lighten the mood.

"Don't worry Sam. And besides, you've been taking some self-defense classes, so you should know what to do if they attack." My father said without even blinking at my question.

"Yeah, but they'll probably have guns or something! I can't dodge bullets!" I said, throwing my arms in the air for emphasis.

"Well, you're probably going to go to your room to play one of your Metroid games, and be playing it under the covers of your bed like you usually do. But if we are attacked, I'll try to do something that'll make a lot of noise so you can hear it, and escape. Or Batman everyone. But I'd prefer it if you escape." 'I swear he is psychic or something.'

"Fine, I'll go down into my room." I said, trying to hide my smile at how my father accurately predicted me. So, I climbed down the stairs, and walked over to my room, before closing the doors, picking up my still on 3DS, and climbing under the covers of my bed, before continuing to play Metroid.

It was a hour or two later, when I was snapped out of my game playing by hearing some loud banging coming from the top of the ship. 'Crap! Crap! Crap!' I grabbed my 3DS, pulling myself out of my covers, before heading over to the door to my room.

I stopped when I heard voices coming from outside my room. "Come on. We need to check these rooms for anyone else. We don't want anyone playing hero." 'Crap! Crap! Crap!'

I was about to go hide in my closet, when I realized something. 'Wait, they would have to pass mom's room first, and that would maybe take 3 minutes because of how crafty mom is.' I looked over at my messy bed. 'I can fix that in time.' I quickly ran over to my bed, and fixed it, making sure they wouldn't think someone was in this room, before I ran over to my closet, and hid in it.

I crouched down to make myself as hidden as possible, before I heard the scream of my mother, as they finally got to her. 'No. Mom.' I heard her struggling, as they brought her back to the top of the ship. When I couldn't hear them anymore, I started crying.

Eventually, another pirate came by, and heard my crying, and came into my room, and opened the closet I was in. But I surprised them, by grabbing the guy who opened the closet, and slamming his head into my knee, knocking him out. When his body fell to the ground, I grabbed his knife, and ran out of my room, to see another pirate walking down the small hallway with a gun. He quickly noticed me, and I entered my room again, to avoid the incoming barrage of bullets.

"All right. Come on out kid, and I won't shoot you." The pirate said, and I heard him reload his gun, as he slowly walked forward. I waited until the exact moment where he was in front of my doorway, before jumping out, and stabbing him in the neck with the knife. I pulled out the knife, and watched as he quickly grabbed his neck, trying to keep the blood in, before he finally died. I gasped, realizing I just killed someone, before steeling myself, and picking up his gun. 'You gotta stay focused Sam. You can think about what you just did later, when your entire family is safe. But now you need to be a hero!'

Holding his assault rifle, I quickly surveyed the hallway, before quickly running through it, and climbing up the stairs. I saw a pirate slowly coming towards the stairs to check out the noise down here, but I quickly shot him dead with a few precise shots. 'Good thing dad had me get taught how to use all kinds of weapons.' I heard some muffled yells coming from the front of the ship, so I slowly made my way towards the front. But, I heard a loud thumping behind me, and I felt something hit my head, before I lost consciousness.

"Well, well, well. Look whose finally getting up." I heard a voice say as I slowly woke back up. I tried to open my eyes, but everything was too bright, so I waited a minute, before opening them again, and looking up at the face of the person who was talking. "Up and at 'em boy." He said, before laughing.

While he was laughing, I looked over at my parents, who were on the other side of the ship, and had tape over their mouths, while being tied to individual chairs. I looked down, to notice I was tied to the chair as well, by rope, and I didn't have duct tape over my mouth. When the guy finally finished laughing, I spoke up. "What do you want with us?" I gave him a glare, as I said that.

"Well, I was just sailing the seas, looking for a ship to pirate, when I get so lucky as to see a perfectly good ship sailing right there. So, I thought; 'Maybe I should pillage that ship' and I decided to. And as my luck would have it, it wasn't any normal ship, it was a ship belonging to the Arans! The most richest family in the world!" Quicker than I could process, he pulled out a knife, and put it against my throat. "So, what I want is money." He kept the knife at my throat, and looked me in the eyes. "Well, I wanted money, but then I find out you killed all three of my men, so now I want revenge."

"Well, why don't you take it?" I ask, not flinching as I returned his glare.

"Well, I could just kill you and get it over with." He pulled the knife away from my throat, before slowly walking away. "But, I thought of a better way to get my revenge." He pulled out a gun, before pointing it at the chest of my father. "Three lives for three lives." And he fired one shot into the chest of my father, and another into the chest of my mother, all while I was force to watch. But he wasn't done, as he quickly ran forward, and kicked the chairs holding my parents into the ocean, knowing that my parents weren't killed by the bullets.

"NO!" I yelled, as I struggled against my bindings. After half a minute of pointless struggling, I stopped, and started crying. "Why? Why did you kill them instead of me?" I looked up at his smiling face, tears messing up my vision.

"Because, like I said, three lives for three lives." He pointed the gun at me, and I closed my eyes, and looked down, prepared to die. "I ended two, and changed another." Then, before I could open my eyes to figure out what he meant, I felt a sharp pain on my crotch. I quickly open my eyes to find that he took his knife, and jabbed it straight in my crotch, leaving it in there, as I looked at the torn remains of a part of my body. I let out a soft scream of pain, as even more tears came out of my eyes. "I could have killed you, but I remembered that your name is similar to the main character of Metroid, and I realized I have the same name as the most famous Metroid enemy."

I looked at him, fear in my eyes at what he was going to do next. "You mean your name is..."

"Yep. I'm Ridley, leader of the Space Pirate group of pirates." He mockingly bowed, before standing up again. "And you now fit the gender of the person you are in this story." He took his knife, and held it right above my right eye, which is forced open. "So, now I can force you to be my slave. So, you will obey me, or I will do something you don't want me to do." 'I should probably give up... No. I won't give up. I will survive. I MUST SURVIVE!'

"Suck the pieces of my torn dick." I said with a small chuckle as I started to lose it.

Ridley smiled, before responding. "Well, I hope you like living the life of a girl, because you'll have to for the rest of your life, as you serve me... Samus." He pulled his knife back, before twirling it around, and trying to bring the butt of the knife down on my head. But, I quickly leaned back, causing my chair to fall down, and avoid the butt of the knife. Before Ridley could react, I kicked my unrestrained legs up, hitting him in the crotch.

"You try to make me a girl, I'll make you a girl." I said with a sadistic smile on my face, before breaking the bones in both my arms, allowing me to escape the rope bindings, and grab Ridley's knife that he dropped. He tried to get up, but I kicked him in the face, causing him to fall back down. I kicked him in the side over and over again to prevent him from getting up. Finally, I took the knife, and drove it straight through both of his legs, preventing him from using his legs. I then stabbed both of his hands, before pulling the knife up and down, causing his hands to be unusable. Then, I put my foot on his chest, before bending down, and putting the knife against his throat.

"What are you?" He asked with fear clearly in his voice.

I answered by giving a sadistic smile, and spoke. "I'm Sam Aran. And YOU PISSED ME OFF!" I stuck the knife straight in his throat, before kicking him into the water. "Go to hell."

Those events were almost a year ago. Having inherited my parents' fortune, I continued on their memories, by helping those who need it. I can barely remember what happened that day except for my parents dying, and my crotch being stabbed. Luckily, science was able to help me, and I got my crotch restored. Thank god for organic synthesizers and all that other stuff created around a few years ago. But now, I was donning the costume of my favorite character ever, Samus Aran. I somehow managed to create the suit to make it look exactly like Samus's varia suit, without making it look any different because of it being meant to fit a guy.

I was heading to a big convention a state over, and I was putting on my costume, while my chauffeur drove me, because I couldn't drive yet. I just put on the helmet, complete with images on it to make it look like the visor from Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, when we arrived at the convention. As I made to get out of the car, I told my chauffeur to pick me up in about 4 hours. After I got out of the car, he drove off to do the thing he does when he's not driving me places.

I entered the convention to see all kinds of cool things. A lot of people were wearing cool costumes, and a lot asked for pictures with me because of how well detailed my costume is. I checked out a few of the stalls, like one that sold some old relics from a company called Sega. I could vaguely remember that they only became famous because of their game with the fast hedgehog, but after like four or five of those games, they went bankrupt. So eventually, after buying a few things, and checking out all the costumes, it was about time for me to leave. And right as I was heading back to the entrance to leave, a certain merchant stall attracted my attention. I walked over to it, and noticed all kinds of cool things. It looked like he had an accurate replica of some of the masks of Majora's Mask, an Ocarina of Time, a Wind Waker, a Mario and Luigi cap, a super star thingy, Fox's blaster, DK's tie, a smaller replica of Kirby's Warpstar, a plushie of a Mr. Saturn, a plushie of a Metroid, and something that really caught my attention. A small medallion that looked like the famous Metroid symbol. Upon seeing that, and the Metroid plushie, I immediately wanted both.

"See anything you like?" A voice spoke out, causing me to almost jump. I looked over to see it was just the merchant of the stall talking. But, I took a step back when I realized the merchant was the Happy Mask Salesman. I would have walked away at that, but I really wanted that Metroid plushie, and the medallion, so I stayed.

"Yes. How much for the Metroid plushie?" The merchant seemed shocked by that, as his shoulders slumped.

"Seven dollars." I handed him seven bucks, and grabbed the Metroid plushie. I was going to walk away, but the medallion caught my eye again.

"How much for the Metroid Medallion?" The merchant seemed to perk up at that, before getting in the classic Happy Mask Salesman pose.

"Oh yes. It's a fine piece of work. Normally, it would be ten dollars, but because of how good it goes with your costume, I'm willing to sell it at the nice price of five dollars." 'Whoa, kinda a steal. Wait, why did he offer the deal for that, but not Fluffles, the Metroid I just bought?'

"Nah, I think I'm going to pass." I turned around, and started to walk away, when the merchant grabbed my hand, and yelled.

"NO! You must take this!" He then shoved the medallion into my hand, before pushing me away. "Have fun!"

I was about to question what he meant, and return the medallion, when I noticed it was glowing. "Wait, what!" Then, a bright flash of light overtook everything, and as I felt myself losing consciousness, I heard the Happy Mask Salesman laugh.

"And that's my story." I said, as I leaned back in my chair, looking at the shocked and disgusted faces of the ponies in front of me.

"That's horrible! How could anyone do that to another!" The unicorn said.

"But I can't believe you were able to fight back against the bad pirate! You're like a super hero." The small child added.

"It must have been hard to lose your parents like that. My sister and I have lost our parents to monsters as well, so I know how you must have felt." The pony of the moon said with a nod.

"That was the most stupidest story I've ever heard! You were rich but you didn't order people around! What kind of freak are you!" The small brat yelled, which caused the others to look at her in anger. "What? It's true."

"Well, you don't have to believe me, just like I don't have to acknowledge you." I said, turning my chair around. I heard the brat panicking.

"No wait! I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! Don't make me go away!" She yelled, which caused me to turn back around, and smile.

"Remember, you may be stronger than just hallucinations of those I failed to save, but I still have control over you guys. So I suggest you behave." I heard them all give murmurs of acknowledgement. "Hey, I don't want to deal with you guys either, I'm spending my own years trying to help you, so you could at least appreciate it." I looked back at them, taking in their forms. Spike the Dragon, who fell to the SA-X; Lyra Heartstrings, who I failed to save as well from the SA-X; Princess Luna, who fell to her dark self; and Diamond Tiara, who also fell to the SA-X. And Fluffles, the living version of the Metroid I bought that fateful day.

War of Shadows

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I quickly flew away from the destruction of the planet below. Taking a deep breath, I sit back down in the seat of my ship, glad that the whole ordeal is over. “Freakin’ Space Pirates, always having a self-destructing base.” But before I could relax for very long, I felt a presence behind me. Quickly getting up out of my seat, I spun around, and pointed my arm cannon at the person in my ship. “Who are you, and how did you get here?”

But instead of a person, a see-through sphere the size of a ponies head. What seemed to be a floating Lightsaber and Scythe sparked with lighting. A male voice spoke out:

“Hello! You have been selected to join the War of Shadows! My name is Time Spinner, and two fellow human/Displaced are having at it. Crush the orb, and one or more of my assistants will explain everything you ask.”

“Oh, a Displaced thing.” I sigh, putting down my arm cannon, before reaching over, and crushing the orb. It wasn’t hard and felt like air.

Two glowing red pony forms appeared. The red faded, and two ponies stood there. The first looked like Rainbow Dash, but with a more greyish coat, and mane. She had two black metal rods instead of ears. Her cutie mark was a grey, green, and black version of the original lightning bolt and cloud. Her wings seemed darker and metallic too. The other looked like Pinkie Pie, but more reddish, and a straight mane, and faded blue eyes. Her cutie mark was three cupcakes, one a dark tan, the other two were red.

The Rainbow Dash look alike stepped forward, smiling. “What’s up?” Her voice was static-like.

“Nothing much. Just blowing up planets that have a race of alien pirates on them.” Sam replied, putting some snarkiness in his voice.

The Pinkie Pie look-alike growled. “Be nicer. I eat rude people.” This one sounded like she was trying to sound high pitched and female and it was almost horrible.

“Shush! We’re trying to get recruits here!” The Rainbow Dash one scolded.

“Recruits for what exactly?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.

The Rainbow Dash one placed a hoof to her chest. “First, let’s get introductions outta the way! I’m Rainbine, second in command of the Elements of Insanity. This here is Pinkis Cupcake… She eats people…” Rainbine trailed off as she saw Pinkis nibbling on a piece of meat. A gun popped out of Rainbine’s hoof and she shot it into oblivion. “And you?”

“Samuel Aran. Expert bounty hunter.” Sam replied, resisting the urge to eat the meat that ‘Pinkis’ was eating.

“Anyway. Like the Mega Token says, you’re invited, or eligible, to join the War of Shadows. Basically, two Displaced are in a MASSIVE rivalry. Lee Connors, and Darth Folteren. Lee and Folteren are fighting over who has control over the firsts world. Lee is displaced as Venom and is an Anti-villain, and Folteren is displaced as Revan. Whichever side you join, you’ll be getting a reward. Folteren’s is better though.” Rainbine said.

Pinkis Cupcake smirked. “Either side you choose, you’ll come out a winner. If you fail at helping Lee, then you’ll be sent home with the good guys reward for helping. If you fail helping Folteren, it’s the same, but better reward. You will be unable to die, and it isn’t for a while. Either way, you either help, or harm.”

“What are both of their goals?” I asked. “I mean, does one of them want to destroy all life on the other’s world?”

“Folteren wants to take over because Lee blew up his castle. And Lee’s trying to protect his world.” Rainbine explained.

“And the reward if awesome! Folteren is offering an Insanity Gem, and Lee’s offering a Sanity Gem. Both increase abilities a gives extra powers.” Pinkis listed.

I thought about it for a minute, considering in both points of view. ‘I have had a lot of insanity to deal with. Might be a good idea to go with Lee.’ Nodding my head, I answered. “I’ll go with Lee.”

“Great! We have a lot of good guys!” Pinkis said with sarcasm. Rainbine slapped her on the head.

“Ok. Samuel Aran. Welcome to the Alliance of Heroines.” Rainbine announced. “If you need any information, here is my time token.”

Rainbine gave me a green and black version of the Element of Loyalty.

“But before we go. Need anymore information?” Pinkis Cupcake asked.

“Yeah, why is it called the ‘Alliance of Heroines’? That means that it’s an alliance of only female heroes.” I asked, curious about it.

Rainbine froze. “Whoops… Darn, I messed that up. How do you say it?”

“The word for multiple heroes? It’s just heroes. That can imply both male and female members, along with those without a gender, or those of another gender.” I answered.

“Rarifruit told me it was Heroines… Crap! Thanks, I’d have been going around making myself look like a dork! Anything else?”

“Yeah, one last question. What time will I be needed, and how long will I be gone from my universe?” I asked, because I needed to make sure it wouldn’t interfere with a mission.

“It won't be for a while. Heck, it hasn’t even happened yet. We’ll call you a bit before it starts. As for how long? Depends on how many Displaced we can get. I think you’re the fifth. But, time is messed up when you are a time traveler. But they do exist, and it’ll start soon.” Rainbine replied.

“So… I guess that’s all. Do I need to say the special phrase? Or can you take care of that?” I said, trying to not be offensive. “Wait a second. I have a group of displaced friends that might want to help on the sidelines. They have some orbs that can grant about any wish, so they could revive any one who dies.”

Rainbine shrugged. “That’d be great! Well be on the sidelines. Well, if you come by anyone who wants to help in this, give ‘em this.” She hoofed me an orb like the one I crushed.

“You can’t break this one. Give it to them and explain to them this. Tell them to think of what side they want to be on, and poof!” Pinkis shrugged.

“Okay. I will. So… goodbye?” I said, wanting to finally be able to relax after my previous mission.

“Sure. Later!” Rainbine said as she and Pinkis started glowing red. They disappeared, leaving little trace.

I sighed, before finally sitting back down in my chair, and deactivating my helmet. “Guess I got my work cut out for me.” I turned around in my seat, and started plugging in coordinates to take me to the universe the Ginyu Force is from, so I could tell them.

Metroid, Displaced in Equestria

by Theyellowninja13

Chapter 1 - Arriving

Chapter 2 - Get her away from me!

Chapter 3 - Meet the Princesses

Chapter 4 - Repercussions

Chapter 5 - Hunter-class Gunship

Chapter 6 - Space Pirates

Chapter 7 - Ridley

Chapter 8 - Bullies

Chapter 9 - First Mission

Chapter 10 - School

Chapter 11 - X Invasion

Chapter 12 - The Cure

Chapter 13 - The Chozo

Chapter 14 - When Worlds Collide

Chapter 15 - Cosmic King vs The Hunter

Chapter 16 - WHAT THE CRAP IS THAT!!!!

Chapter 17 - Finding the Truth behind the Matter

Chapter 18 - Losing Control

Chapter 19 - A Discordian Utopia

Chapter 20 - Fighting Back

Chapter 21- It's ENERGY, not magic!

Chapter 22 - Metroid: Brother F

Chapter 23 - The Star-Spangled Pony's a Phony

Bonus Chapter - Returning to Equestria

Super Secret Chapter You Don't Expect That Reveals More of the Story

War of Shadows