srwug_alpha_rp | A quiet night

[Late night in the Chalice. Most of the personnel is already asleep hours ago, the place is calm and silent, and the lights are a bit more dim. It's quite peaceful compared to the hustle and bustle and noise coming from the hangars that are the norm during the day.

For whatever reason, however, you are going around the corridors, be it because you have business somewhere, needed to go to the bathroom, simply to enjoy the quiet, or any of a myriad other reasons...

...but despite the apparent peace, if you're in any way observant you'll probably soon feel stalked. Something is observing around the empty, long corridors this particular night. Every now and then there's very quiet, metallic pitter-patter sounds that stop whenever anyone looks around. And sometimes, a low, quiet creak like that of an ungreased old door hinges' opening can be heard, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right. And overall, a definite feeling of observation.

Definitely unnerving stuff.

How do you react?]

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[Not going to hurry, because if Devon's theory is correct then she knows where the creature is going anyway.]

[And indeed, by the time you reach the Arboretum you'll find Samus under her tree, and the creature climbing around the branches like the world's ugliest squirrel]

I found your Metroid.

It found you, rather, from the look of things.

[The creature is jumping around the branches happily. It's quite notable how agile a single metamorphosis has turned it]

It was in the ventilation shafts. Not the best place to wander around if you do not want to be taken for an invading alien.

So, it seems to have survived the metamorphosis unharmed and well. Good.

It has gained several new senses. It seems to be wanting to explore its running ground with them.

New senses? Something absent in humans?

I expect so. But it already had some of those.

I was primarily referring to eyesight.

It could not see before. Hmm...

I did not realize that.

[Nod]

As far as I have been able to ascertain, larval metroids navigate through a combination of electromagnetic and vibration senses, and an ability to feel the auras of living creatures. But now it has eyes, and it is probably trying to associate images to the feels it knew already.

I wonder what it must feel, knowing how you and other people actually look like.

I as well. But I d not presume to even suspect it. Metroids are very strange creatures, like so many old Chozo creations.

Metroids... were created by Chozo? The same race that raised you.

Yes.

Why?

To kill something that could not be killed.

Go on.

[Though Devon has a pretty good idea on where this is going.]

It is ancient history by now. The Chozo ruled the galaxy undisputed, and then the Parasite came. It could take the forms of living beings and technology, it could not be killed even when its bodies were destroyed, and it multiplied from its essence no matter how many were destroyed.

So the metroids were created to bypass all this.

Sounds like Phazon to me.

Not even close.

Phazon is simply a killer abomination - it is hungry and unnatural, but in the end, destructible. The Parasite stood on the brink of annihilating an empire that controlled all the stars in the entire galaxy.

Hmm.

What happened to it in the end, then?

Seeing as the Parasite is extinct in the present day, we can only surmise the plan succeeded.

It seems Metroids proved effective, then.

Too effective.

Effective enough. That monster would continue to haunt the galaxy if not exterminated. Even as I grew up, the Parasite was still a terror story to scare the young children, few of us as there were, despite it having been destroyed over five thousand years ago.

I see.

I have wondered for a while already.
Your hate for Space Pirates rages strong. But what are your thoughts about metroids? On one side, you know well how to kill them effectively. On the other.

[Devon gestures at the larva... though it's no longer a larva really, as it climbs around the trees.]
What feelings lie behind that stone mask of a face, Samus Aran, the bounty hunter?

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chozo_girl - 2013-09-10 08:04 (UTC) - Expand