The skid touched down on Phobos and it was surprisingly busy for a place that was a burning hellscape a few years ago apparently U.A.C. operations were resuming and the facilities were being rebuilt.
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Ah hell, its hell
“I want constant battle stations at all times. Anything from hell is to be terminated without hesitation.” She spoke as she addressed her remaining troops.
Hunter encounter
Samus was monitoring the subspace chatter and caught wind of something that put a sadistic grin on her face. Apparently Akira did something to piss Ridley off enough to pl;ace a substantial bounty on her head. Samus knew that the more ruthless hunters like Sylux,Kanden and Weavel would be after her not to mention Samus had heard rumors of a new hunter working for Ridley named Sorlag but she was not able to dig up much information about this new hunter all she knew about Sorlag was that the hunter appeared out of nowhere and works almost exclusively for Ridley. If there was one thing Samus hated it was a lack of intel on a enemy. Despite closing herself off from most people she couldn’t help but be comfortable around Akira and she was not about to let Ridley’s hired guns find her or her hive of metroids. Samus activated the tracking beacon she placed on Akira’s ship last time she was there and proceeded to her last known location.
Akira had finished off another hunter, but left him alive with a parasite she put in his system that was based on the infection she suffered long ago. In 12 hours he would hollowfy, and he would tear himself and others around him apart. Which is why his ship was flying toward’s ridley’s base.
Akira broke off her mask and stretched, sighing. “Thats the 5th one this week.”
Meanwhile Samus managed to locate Akira’s ship Samus patched into the comms “This is Samus Aran requesting to board.”
“Starboard side samus, mind the wet floors though.” Akira replied. As the bay opened, a blue barrier formed, keeping the vacuum of space on the outside.
Samus exited her gunship while scanning the hangar there were signs of a scuffle Samus guessed it was from a fight with one of the lesser hunters. “Akira i came to check up on you since Ridley decided to add you to the pirate confederation’s most wanted. So far i am the only one on that list that’s still alive I’m here to make sure that you don’t end up as the next deadly statistic.
“He’ll be taking the bounty off soon. Otherwise I’ll start turning entire battalions against him. I recently made a discovery with my hollow powers. I can infect someone with a bite. If they are too weak to fight the effects they die in 12 hours and become a monster bent on destruction. Their flesh with burn away soon after. The first hunter blew up in one of my chambers when I bit him on accident. The next 4 were sent on their merry way.”
“Knowing Ridley he probably killed the hunters for turning up empty handed and started experimenting with their corpses but still that is a useful ability are there any drawbacks to using it?
“Don’t be near the infected. They explode in 12 hours and 5 minutes regardless of external factors. During those 5 minutes theyll either kill other things or themselves.”
“So what did you do to piss him off?” Samus asked.
“The pirates were digging into a chozo site. They got an arm cannon, i stole it.” She listed.
Samus grinned “I wish i could’ve seen his face, he has been trying to reverse engineer my armor ever since i first killed him. I think he actually might be more obsessed with my armor than he is with the metroids. I encountered some pirates on Talon IV with reverse engineered arm cannons they had the power of the chozo made prototypes. I hope you destroyed that arm cannon. The only reason the federation didn’t ”acquire” my armor was because the chozo had the foresight to give the armor a genetic lock so only i can use it but if the news of having a unmarked arm cannon got out you would have to deal the federation and private military corporations hunting you as well. If you were able to outsmart Ridley and deal with his hunters you are obviously able to take care of yourself but it would be only a matter of time before you or someone you care about gets hurt.”
She took her to the arm cannon. It was being scanned, the data being analyzed. “It would be a shame to destroy it.”
“I agree the destruction of a chozo relic is always saddening, But possessing this paints a giant target on your back that everyone will be gunning for.” As if on cue the ship shook withstanding a missile blast. It appears another hunter found Akira.
The arm cannon glowed briefly at Akira when she neared it. She didn’t think anything of it. “Wait here Samus…” she donned her mask. “And dont touch anything.”
The attacking ship was a horrific monstrosity. It was a ancient rusty freighter but it was covered in spikes had hundreds of corpses tied to it. (Think a raider base from fallout turned into a spaceship) . The hatch opened and a large armored saurian being excited the spacecraft and leapt onto the skid climbing over the hull like a gecko.
Akira joined him on the side of her ship clad in armor. She was silent this time but the killer intent she radiated could choke a man.
The killer intent would’ve choked out a lesser being but against Sorlag it just brought back memories of the quake arena and made her grin sadistically She waved at Akira and blasted a hole in the stern of the skid with her rocket launcher and crawled inside.
Akira chased her down, the room lit up with turret rounds intending to turn this hunter into swiss cheese.
Sorlag sprinted down the ship shooting the turrets with her super nail gun perforating them with ease. Meanwhile with Samus she was examining the cannon a bit closer.
The ship alarms blared loudly. The jolly roger drones got into their battle stations to apprehend or kill the intruder.
Sorlag just let loose a hissing laugh did her quarry really think these machines could stop her? hell clutch was put together better than these things and she fragged the automaton countless times.
The last drone that was in the arm cannon’s room had snagged the weapon from its perch and brought it to Akira. “….i know astrid’s gonna tan my pale ass for this but id rather her punishment than to be bested by a reptilian bounty hunter.” She grabbed the cannon and integrated it to her suit. She took aim and unleashed a volley of power beam shots.
Sorlag tried to dodge the onslaught of projectiles but her large frame was hit multiple times she fell over backwards. The odor of scorched flesh permeated the air. Sorlag’s breathing was labored but she refused to leave empty handed it would damage her reputation in the eyes of her new leader. Sorlag staggared to her feet and pulled out a super shotgun the same kind that was used by a certain green space marine and unleashed a volley of her own.
The rounds struck her overshields. “You fight well… tell you what… you get 2 choices. 1. I kill you here and now and at least you can go out with a bang. 2. You drop ridley as an employer and work for me. He’s got money, but i have something more, that no money can buy.”
Sorlag growled she was not going to betray her mate for this human and she didn’t want to die. Respawning was a bitch in this universe involving lengthy cloning processes. She went for a third option she grabbed her rocket launcher and blasted a hole in the hull behind her and got sucked out into space while giving Akira the bird. She latched onto her gristly ship and entered slipspace as quickly as she could.
“Should we track her?”
“No.” Akira spoke as the arm cannon pulled apart before bonding into the armor, restoring her armor to its default configuration. “We’ll just keep moving.” Akira used her hyper drive and warped out.
Samus was still in the chamber of the ship that was scanning the arm cannon she noticed Akira walk back in “Has your guest been dealt with?” Samus asked while drinking from a silver flask she usually keeps hidden from the public eye.
“She bailed.. damaged my ship. I need to land in Norion for Repairs.”
“There is a repair bay even closer on the moon Phobos” Samus said “The feds will probably notice a brood of metroids the U.A.C. on the other hand is unconcerned with biological weapons to my knowledge (I’m just throwing this out as a excuse to start another RP this time with Doomguy.)
She gave samus a look. “Oh hell… fine. But if there is even a zombie looking at my ship funny, i’m glassing the entire martian system.”
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this looks so fucking cool please use this design
BITTE!! ;^;
I’m gonna be real here. I’m actually excited to see these designs and have great desire to see it in reality. Why? It looks futuristic and appeasing to the eyes.
The bottles has changed before, it can change now. I’m all in favor of having new bottles like this.
YOU COULD SET THEM ON THEIR SIDES IN THE FRIDGE AND THEY WOULDN’T ROLL
