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Biography

Samus Aran was born on the planet K2-L. She was the daughter of Virginia Aran and an unnamed father. Her family ran the local mining operation of Afloradite. When she as three years old, a Chozo (a bird like race of creatures with incredible intelligence) came to the mine to ask for Afloradite. Samus met the old bird, and the two became close friends, despite Samus being only three years old. She affectionally came to name him "Bird Granpa". Unfortunately, the Chozo was turned down because of regulations, and left the planet. A day later, a fleet of Space Pirates-a sinister criminal organization in the galaxy-caught a scan of the leaving Chozo ship, and discovered the Afloradite mine. Afloradite was a unstable mineral, but was an incredible fuel and explosive. Immediately the planet was raided, and in the process, Samus's mother was killed. Unwilling to die by the Pirate's hands and sacrifice the Afloradite, Samus's father intentionally detonated the whole payload, killing many of the Space Pirates, save for their leader, the dragonic Ridley.

A few hours later, the same Chozo detected the explosion, and came to investigate, finding the young Samus as the only survivor.

The Hatchling

After the raid of K2-L, the Chozo returned Samus to their own planet, Zebes. It was uninhabitable by humans, and Samus had only days to live. Bird Granpa, becoming emotionally attached to Samus, did the only thing to have her live. She was put into an incubator and infused with the blood of the Chozo, giving her abilities far above any human, and enabling her to survive on the harsh conditions of Zebes. For eleven years she lived with the Chozo uneventfully, training to be a soldier. As a gift to her, the Chozo gave Samus her most efficient weapon: the Power Suit.

It was a suit of armor that encompassed her entire body, increasing her powers even more, and giving her the arm cannon (a cannon on the power suit that covered her right arm). One day, Samus stumbled upon a group of flowers. Thinking them as beautiful things, she showed them to all the Chozo. It was immediately realized by Bird grandpa that they were poisonous, the deadly "Bajar Glove". They were incinerated, but the poison had spread to some local species of giant butterfly. The insects grew hostile, and Samus fended them off. They were also incinerated, to Samus's horror. It was then that Bird grandpa knew that Samus had the skills to leave Zebes. He sent her off-to her dismay- stating that she was ready to protect the universe.

Zero Mission

Years passed with Samus doing simple tasks for various customers. One day she got a call from an official at the Galactic Federation. The Galactic Federation was the government of the Universe, and they had a task for Samus. The Space Pirates were back, and had cultivated an army of Metroids, which were deadly aliens parasites capable of generating energy. With that many Metroids, the Space Pirates posed a serious threat to the galaxy, and could destroy planets. Immediately accepting the job, Samus heads off to her home planet and the new base of the Space Pirates: Planet Zebes. Landing, Samus explores the planet, and defeats one of the Pirates's generals, the giant monstrosity known as Kraid. Eventually finding Ridley, she extracts her vengeance upon him by seemingly destroying him. Working her way down the complex, Samus destroys many Metroids, and finds the true mastermind behind the organization: Mother Brain, the Chozo's former leader. Engaging in a long battle with Mother Brain, Samus eventually destroys it, and escapes seconds before the base explodes. As Samus flies off in her ship, she takes massive anti-air fire from A Space Pirate Mothership above Zebes. She crashes, but survives. Unfortunately, her suit is destroyed, and Samus is now much more vulnerable in her Zero Suit. She sneaks into the landed Pirate Mothership equipped only with her Zero Suit and her Paralyzer pistol (which temporarily stuns a enemy).

She sneaks through the Mothership, which connects to some old Chozo ruins. In the ruins she finds an odd Chozo relic. It attacks Samus, but Samus damages it enough to break it. The burst of energy that follows gives Samus her suit-fully upgraded-back Samus then goes on a rampage through the Mothership, obliterating all Pirate forces she encounters. But there is one last enemy for her to defeat.....in a dark room, something hulking enters. It is a robot version of Ridley. Samus battles the monstrosity, and destroys it's form. However, the door remains locked. Suddenly, the robots eye turns back on. As it's last act, it activates the self-destruct mechanism for the entire ship. Samus bursts through the Mothership, fighting her way through Space Pirate forces. She heads to the docking bay, and steals a Pirate fighter ship. She flies out of the Mothership (and flies through a Pirate in the process) as it explodes. The Zero Mission was complete....

Metroid Prime

While flying through the galaxy looking for work, Samus picks up the location of a Space Pirate outpost. Investigating, she finds it has been decimate by some unknown assailant. It was really attacked from within, creatures created by the Space Pirates with the usage of Phazon, a chemical that can greatly increase abilities, but mutates you and causes severe harm to your body. Samus discovers that the Space Pirates have been trying to create an army of biologic monsters. Samus continues into the facility, and is attacked by a giant parasite queen. She destroys it, but it falls into the reactor, forcing Samus to escape the facility before it self-destructs. On the way out, she finds that Ridley has been repaired by the Pirates, and reincarnated as Meta Ridley, a half organic, half-machine monstrosity. Samus escapes, but in a explosion loses most of her abilities. She follows Ridley onto the planet Tallon IV, and discovers another Pirate operation here. By defeating many Pirate creations, Samus regains her abilities and more. Inside of the core complex, she finds Metroids are still alive, and are being experimented on by the Pirates. Continuing, she defeats the Omega Pirate, a giant, a gigantic Space Pirate infused with Phazon. After it has been destroyed, it falls on her, leaking Phazon into her suit. Instead of killing her, the suit absorbs it and changes into the Phazon suit. She soon defeats Ridley, and goes into the crater core, the place where a meteorite of Phazon stuck the planet, infecting it with Phazon and killing all the Chozo. In it she finds the final product of Metroid Phazon poisoning-Metroid Prime.

She defeats it, but in the process it takes her Phazon suit and adsorbs it. Samus escapes seconds before the Crater collapses, and flies off the planet.

Aether

Weeks later, Samus receives a distress call from Planet Aether. Flying through the planets unstable atmosphere, a lightning bolt hits her ship, forcing her to land for repairs. It is here where she learns the origin of the distress call-a Galactic Federation transport ship. It crashed in the same manner as hers did. Unlike her, all of the crew is dead, killed by some unknown source. She checks the ships log files, and watches a video-tape of the crews last moments. Hundreds of creatures attacked the crew, and killed them all. Samus investigates, and discovers that the planet is really two planets. A meteor of Phazon hit Aether, and the disturbance split the planet in two: Light Aether and Dark Aether. She finds the one true indigenous species of Aether: The Luminoth. Only one remains awake, the rest are in cryo-stasis. U-Mos is the sentinel of the Luminoth. Long have they waged war on the Ing, which are the species that inhabit Dark Aether. They can possess creatures, and use them for their own bidding. Samus discovers this the first time she enters Dark Aether, for the Ing possess Space Pirates. Samus is badly damaged, and pieces of her suit have been stolen by the creatures. She barely escapes Dark Aether. U-Mos informs her of the only way to truly destroy the dark realm: To find and steal the focused energy from the temples of Dark Aether, and bring them to U-Mos. She enters Dark Aether, and systematically finds the temples, destroys their guardians, regains her components, and steals the energy. But she finds out some disturbing news: A fierce Dark version of herself has been tracking her. She defeats it, and discovers that Dark Samus is really Metroid Prime, after it absorbed her Phazon suit. It somehow survived the explosion at the crater, and followed Samus to Aether. Upon defeating Dark Samus, Samus gets the rest of the energy and brings it to U-Mos. It is here where she must begin the final phase of the plan: To enter the Ing hive, and steal the final energy. She gets there, and is confronted with the last guardian: The Emperor Ing. After a long and fierce battle, Samus defeats it, and Dark Aether begins to collapse with it’s energy gone. As Samus begins the escape, she is confronted with Dark Samus once more. With time running out until the realm explodes, Samus enters the final battle with Dark Samus. She reflects it’s own beams back at her, and destroys her finally. Samus escapes Dark Aether seconds before it explodes, and is greeted by the race of the Luminoth, now safe from the violent Ing. She waves off their thanks, and flies away from Aether forever.

Metroid Prime Hunters

This mission occurs after the first two Metroid Prime's. The Galactic Federation received a message, saying that the key to the "ultimate power" was in Alimbic Solar system. The Federation chose Samus to investigate this so-called power. The Federation actually chose six hunters, but these hunters wanted this power for their own. When Samus arrived at this complex system, she found that this civilization was destroyed, and Samus started to investigate 2 planets that were orbiting the Sun of Alimbic. The society of Alimbic was very spiritual, but one day a meteor fell into the planet, and in the meteor, there was Gorea, a creature, a monster. Gorea took the cellular structure of the Society, and mimicked the Alimbic weapons and then destroyed the Alimbics. The last act of the civilization was to try and trap Gorea, so that it could not destroy everything else. All the Alimbics fusioned themselves together into telepathic energy, and made Gorea a "Seal Sphere" and sent it into a ship named "Oubliette". The Oublitte would only launch if the Infinity Void was activated, only when 8 "Octoliths" were assembled. Samus collected the 8 Octoliths and then opened the Infinity Void. The six bounty hunters came together and engaged with Gorea in a battle, but the monster took the powers of all the hunters. Samus also had these powers, and each one had a specific color, so if she matched the colors that Gorea generated, she could defeat and transform it in it's real form. Samus defeated it in the last showdown, and she used the "Omega Cannon". It's possible that this was the weapon that was the "Ultimate Power" that the Federation wanted. After defeated Gorea, she escaped from the Oubliette and the Void, as it was exploding. The rest of the hunters also survived.

The Hunters

Samus Aran: An orphan, she was given her Power Suit by her adopted Chozo parents. She is a bounty hunter, and often works for the Galactic Federation. Samus often completes missions that other hunters would say that are impossible. Samus can transform into a small ball form, a "Morph Ball". While in this form, she can drop bombs. This form of Samus is called a Alt-form(all other hunters have a Alt-form).

Sylux: Sylux is like Samus, but he hates the Federation. His ship, and all his equipment and armor, were stolen from the Federation. His Alt-form is the Lockjaw, a small craft that, like Samus, can drop bombs, but if he puts three bombs forming a triangle, he causes terrible damage to anyone inside the triangle. His special weapon is the Shock Coil, which is an electric weapon that drains the energy of his enemies, and with this he can heal himself.

Kanden: Kanden is a lab experiment, and a powerful hunter. No one quite knows his origin, but it is speculated that he was a Federation experiment gone insane. He investigates the Alimbrics to have the ultimate power and prove the Federation that he is the ultimate hunter. Kanden can morph into the Stinglarva, a robotic worm that releases his tail to create explosions. Kanden prefers a rare electric weapon-the Volt Driver. This weapon distorts his enemy's vision.

Weavel: Weavel was a pirate general, whom Samus almost killed on Brinstar. Weavel was repaired and upgraded by the other Pirates, and in doing so, gave him many robotic systems that he needed to live. This makes him a advanced cyborg. The only things that Weavel have in his body that are organic is his brain and his spinal cord. Weavel's Alt-form is the Half Turret. This Alt-form is very unique, as he splits into two separate parts. One is a turret that shoots his enemies-this half is his legs, transformed-and the other half has him moving quickly using his arms, and slashing his enemies with a energy sabre connected to one of his arms. This Alt-form makes him very vulnerable, as he is in two weaker sections. His special weapon is the Battle Hammer which is a fast shooting energy weapon, much like the Power Beam. This weapon is very popular within the Space Pirates.

Noxus: A rare Vhozan that is a "law enforcer" hunter. He wanted the Alimbics power to keep in a safe place. His Alt-form is Vhoscythe, a top with a blade that extends to damage enemies. He prefers the Judicater weapon. This weapon is like the Ice Beam that Samus uses, but the Judicator fires missiles which bounce everywhere, and when fully charged the Judicator freezes everything.

Trace: He is from the Kriken Empire, and his main purpose is to search for a planet that the Kriken can invade, and therefore be the conqueror. He morphs into a Triskelion, an insectoid that attacks by slashing anyone with his sharp claws. Trace is the most hated hunter of them all.

Corruption

Approximately six months after the incident on Planet Aether, Samus is contacted again by the Federation. She boards the G.F.S. Olympus, and meets Admiral Dane, the commander of the Federation fleet. Samus also meets three other hunters, Hunter Ghor (who has the ability to control and join with machines), Hunter Rundas (who has the ability to generate and control ice), and Hunter Ghandrayda (who has the ability to shape-shift). Dane hired them all to solve a massive problem concerning the Federation. For twenty years, the G.F. had been using organic supercomputers known as "Aurora Units" to co-ordinate and serve the G.F. But, mysteriously, a virus spread among the AU's, which numbered in the thousands. The G.F. cut off the infected AU's from the rest, essentially crippling the entire Federation from maintaining important contact. In the process, a training ship, the G.F.S. Valhalla, was attacked and presumably destroyed. The Admirable hired the four Hunters to go to the infected AU's and purge them of the virus. Without the system online, the Federation was in serious danger of Pirate attacks. Samus and the other Hunters meet the Olympus's AU, AU 242. Just then, a red alert spreads among the fleet.....a Pirate Attack had begun. The planet the fleet had been orbiting was Norion, which was the main center for the Federation Navy. If it was destroyed, all hope for the Federation was lost. Dane orders them all to go and defend the planet. Samus makes her way down the flagship, but is attacked several times by Pirate boarding parties. She defeats them all and makes it to her ship in the docking bays. Out of nowhere, Samus is attacked by a Berserker Lord-a giant Pirate trooper mutated by Phazon. Samus battles and defeats it, knocking it out of the docking bay into space, where it collides with a Pirate fighter. Samus enters her ship and flies down to Norion. Upon her landing, she learns that a giant bioform, a "Leviathan Seed" has appeared approaching the planet. It is on a direct collision course. If it were to collide, the entire planet would be decimated. Samus is tasked with activating the base's main generator to power the orbital defense cannon. She makes her way through the besieged base, and defeats several Pirates. Samus activates one generator with slight assistance from Gandrayda. While crossing a bridge, Samus is attacked by several Pirate carriers and troopers. She defeats some, but is saved by Rundas, who destroys the rest. The two go the separate ways to activate the generators. On the way to hers, Samus watches Ghor-who is piloting a giant mech-defeat a Berserker Knight. He guards the way for her. Rundas activates his generator, and Samus readies the last generator for activation when she hears a roar above her. Looking up, Samus sees Ridley, repaired and upgraded. Flying down, he knocks Samus off her platform and into the gaping chasm below the generator. Samus and Ridley engage in a fierce battle while plummeting down the 2000 meter long pit. Getting the upper hand, Samus pries open Ridleys mouth and fires a blast into it, knocking the colossal creature dragon out. Rundas-using one of his ice slides-goes down the pit and grabs Samus, taking her back up to the top. He leaves her to activate the generator. Samus does, and rushes to the control room to fire the orbital defense cannon. The Hunters arrive in the top of the control tower and it's main room, but are suddenly attack by a revived Dark Samus. A short skirmish ensues, but Dark Samus unleashes a massive beam, and defeats all of the Hunters, and flies away. Gandrayda, Ghor, and Rundas are all down, but a severely wounded Samus manages to activate the cannon before slipping into unconsciousness. The cannon successfully fires, and destroys the giant Leviathan Seed before it can collide with the planet.

Samus awakes a month later on the Olympus. It is revealed to her by a Federation scientist that her body has been self-generating Phazon-a side effect of the beam from Dark Samus. It is also revealed that the Federation outfitted Samus's armor with a PED, a Phazon Enhancement Device (which Samus had seen Federation Troopers using earlier on Norion, to outstanding effect), which allows Samus to temporarily enter "Hypermode", a powerful state where Samus is invincible and deals destructive Phazon weaponry. The other Hunters had awoken two weeks earlier, and were sent on their missions to destroy Levianthan Seeds that had collided with other planets. Contact with all the Hunters ceased seven days earlier. Samus is sent to accomplish the tasks that the other Hunters seemingly failed. She firsts heads to planet Bryyo, a primeval planet once inhabited by a genius race. However, all that remains of the society are ruins. Samus explores the planet, and encounters several pirates. She discovers that the Leviathan Seed on the planet has a energy shield guarding it-she cannot destroy the Seed while the shield is online. Samus deactivates one of the shield generators, but while deactivating the other, she is attacked by Pirates. She fends them off, and as more approach, there are cut off by giant pieces of ice, and retreat. Rundas appears, and attacks Samus, seemingly not in his right mind. Samus battles him, and defeats him. He is then killed by his own ice-powers going wild, as three icecicles impale him. Dark Samus suddenly materializes, and absorbs Rundas, while a stunned Samus stands by. Dark Samus disappears, and Samus deactivates the shield generators. She also destroys the anti-air turrets guarding the other shield generators, and bombs them with her ship. With the Seed vulnerable, Samus enters it. Making her way deeper in, she finds the core of the Seed, and it keeper, the giant golem Mogenar. Samus fights and defeats it, and destroys the core bu overloading it with Phazon, but in the process has even more phazon enter her body. She flies away from Bryyo as the Seed explodes.

The next planet that has a Seed on it is planet Eysia. Skytown, a giant, deserted research station in the sky, in the closest area to the Seed, and Samus lands there. She soon finds another Aurora Unit in the installation. Samus purges the AU of the Phazon Virus, and reactivates it. It is still cut off from the main system, so Samus enters its processing area to connect it. She is suddenly attacked by Ghor-also seemingly mad-and in the ensuing short fight, the mechanics that allow the AU to connect to the system are damaged. Ghor retreats. The only thing that could repair the AU would be Ghor's Nova Cannon. Samus sets off the hunt him down, but does not need to search far as she receives a distress call from her ship. Something was attacking it. Samus rushes back to it, and finds Ghor, back in his mech, pounding away. He lifts the entire ship and hurls it at Samus in an attempt to kill her, but she dodges and orders her ship to fly away. Samus battles Ghor, and defeats him in a large battle. Again, Dark Samus appears to absorb the Hunter, and Samus tries to-in vain-stop it. She fails as her Power Beam shots only go harmlessly through Dark Samus, and the Phazon spawned creature flies off. Samus retrieves Ghor' Nova Cannon, and goes back to the AU. She repairs it and connects it to the system. The AU adivises Samus on how to destroy the shield to the Seed, as the shield generator is inaccessable. Samus must assemble a Theronian Bomb, a massive, Nuclear Bomb like weapon capable of destroying the Seed. Samus gathers the neccessary parts and assembles them. Then she moves to a large spire platform that allows housing for the Theronian Bomb. She must now guard the Spire until it is directly above the Seed. While on the Spire, several Pirates board and attack in an attempt to destroy it. Samus fends them off, and the Spire makes it above the Seed. Samus deactivates it's engines, giving her five minutes to makes it out of harms way. The escape pod rises to let Samus board, but a malfunction prevents it from taking off. Quickly, Samus Morph-Balls and unjams the Escape Pod, boards it, and escapes the Spire as it falls. The Theronian Bomb detonates, and a massive explosion occurs. The Seed shield had been destroyed. Samus, once again, enters the Seed. She makes her way to the core and battles it's guardian, the robotic Helios. She defeats it, destroys the core, and escapes, flying off of planet Elysia. Again, her body is more corrupted by the Phazon.

While floating above Elysia, Samus receives a transmission from Aurora Unit 242. The Valhalla had been found, almost destroyed. She is also told that the Federation is preparing for an attack on the Pirate Homeworld. Samus lands on the Homeworld, and is stopped from advancing by a perpetual fall of acid rain. However, Samus receives a transmission from a G.F. Trooper, captured during the attack on Norion. He had escaped confinement, and had vital information on how to bypass the acid rain. But he couldn't hold out for long. Samus meets with the Trooper, and rescues him from some Pirates. The two activate an elevator that the Trooper says will bring Samus to the area where the personal shields to repel acid rain are being processed. However, at the top of the lift, nothing is there but an empty room. Suddenly, the Trooper attacks Samus, and it is revealed that the Trooper is really Gandrayda. She had been fooling Samus, hoping to get a chance to finish her. The two have a battle, where Gandrayda mimics Berserker Lords, Ghor, Rundas, and Samus herself, but she is defeated by Samus and subsequently absorbed by Dark Samus. Samus then flies off world back to Elysia, and retrieves the Spider-Ball, which will allow her to enter the Hazard Shield building area. She goes back to the homeworld and retrieves a Hazard Shield, allowing her to pass through the acid rain harmlessly. Samus is contacted again, by Admirable Dane, and is instructed to deactivate the planet's defence shield, allowing the Federation to attack. Samus deactivates it, and the Federation launches a full scale attack on the planet. Samus protects G.F. Demolition Troopers, as they are the only ones with the neccessary explosives to bypass several Pirate areas. After a long battle, the way to the Seed is blown clear. Samus enters the massive bioform, and makes her way to the core. She then meets the Homeworlds guardian, a new and Phazon enhanced Ridley. After another long battle, Samus defeats the dragon, seemingly once and for all. She overloads the core yet again, and destroys the final Leviathan Seed. She is even more corrupted, her body 75% inhabited by Phazon. The AU from Elysia then discovers-by figuring out the trajectory and speed of the Seeds-where the Leviathans came from. A planet, composed almost entirely of Phazon, had been spawning the Seeds. The Federation discovers that the only way for the Leviathans to move such a far distance away would be to open a wormhole, and it is deduced that the Leviathans have this ability. One is found orbiting the Pirate Homeworld, but the Federation have no way to control it and attack the Phazon planet, named Phaaze by AU 242. Samus investigates the Valhalla, and not only finds the command codes to control the Leviathan, but finds that the AU for the Valhalla had mysteriously disppeared. Nevertheless, Samus uses a warp on the Homeworld to board the Leviathan, and orders it open a wormhole to Phaaze. It does, and the entire Federation fleet goes through and launches a full-scale attack on the planet, where Dark Samus (who had been in control of the Pirates this entire time by Corrupting them. It was also discovered that she had Corrupted the other Hunters with the Phazon inside of them, taking control and attacking Samus with them) and the main Pirate Force are stationed. A massive battle occurs in orbit of Phaaze, and Samus slips by and lands on the planet. As soon as her feet touch the surface, she is overloaded by massive amounts of Phazon. The only way for her to survive was to vent all of her Energy Tanks, putting her in permanent Hypermode. As long as she did not have too much more Phazon enter her body, she would survive. She makes her way down the Sentient planet, and drops down several long tunnel/pits to reach the core, where she destroys a infant Leviathan while battling Phazon Metroids (also noted is, inside crevices in the walls are husks of many Metroid Primes). After the infant is destroyed, a final, massive tunnel appears in the ground, and Samus jumps down. Slamming into the bottom, Samus encounters Dark Samus, and the two opposite beings dual for one last time.

Samus repels the creature, but just then, the stolen Aurora Unit from the Valhalla emerges out of the core of the very planet, corrupted by Phazon. Dark Samus merges with it, and attacks Samus. Prying open it's weak spot, Samus blows apart the joints connecting the AU to the core. Then, after a final long and blistering battle, Samus destroys the AU. Dark Samus reemerges, and explodes is a final shower of Phazon by Samus, ending the menace of the Doppelganger once and for all. Samus appears to be finished, but the Phazon is purged from her body. The Pirate Fleet battling the Federation all self-destruct as the control established by Dark Samus fails. Opening a wormhole, the Fleet manages to escape just as the Planet explodes, with the last Leviathan Seed destroyed in the blast.

The Federation fleet suffered 37% casualties, but for the most part, survived. No contact between Samus and the rest of the Fleet had been established. It is assumed that Samus died in the explosion. But, finally, Samus flies by the G.F.S. Olympus, and sends one message to the Flagship.

Mission Complete.

With a thumbs up and a salute passing between Samus and Admiable Dane, Samus flies off. She lands on Elysia, and thinks back to the three Hunters that she served beside. She then removes her suit, enters her ship, and flies away, entering Hyperspace. Seconds after Samus's ship disappears, one emerges in orbit around Elysia. It is none other than an enemy of Samus's, Sylux's ship. It takes off after her.....

Genocide

Not wanting to repeat the incident with the Space Pirates, the Galactic Federation sent several strike teams to the Metroid homeworld of SR-388 to destroy the Metroids. None of them returned. Eventually realizing that only one person could fully do this task, the Federation contacts Samus again, and commands her to go to SR-388 and annihilate the entire Metroid species. Samus accepts the job, lands on the planet, and works her way down the maze that is SR-388. She fights several Metroids. She observes that the Metroids evolve during their lifetime, from the small jelly-fish creature to massive, lizard-like Omega Metroids. She defeats all of the Metroids save for one: the Queen. Engaging in a battle with it, Samus destroys the Queen, ending the threat of the Metroids. However, with the Queens destruction, the volcano that is the nest of the Metroids begins to erupt, and Samus runs to her ship. On the way, she finds one last Metroid egg. As she prepares to destroy it, it hatches, and imprints on her, as it thinks it is it’s mother. With one moment of humanity is this mission of genocide, Samus spares it’s life, and escapes with it. Flying off the planet, Samus realizes the massive scientific opportunities that the Metroid possesses, and hands it over to the Ceres Space colony for examination.

Return to Zebes

While wandering the galaxy, Samus gets a distress call from the Ceres Space Colony. It was under attack! Rushing to the colony, Samus finds it in ruins and the scientists are all dead. Suddenly, Ridley flies by and away, holding the Metroid hatchling! He had activated the self-destruct system, and Samus races out of the Colony and escapes. The colony explodes behind her, but Samus only cares about the Hatchling, and follows Ridley to planet Zebes. She finds that the base she destroyed in her first trip to the planet has been rebuilt. She goes through every area, and destroys each general, including a rebuilt Kraid and Ridley. Working her way down Tourian, the core of the base, Samus finds several genetically engineered Metroids. She destroys them all. About to enter the final area, she is attacked by a massive Metroid. It drains her power away, and flies off. Samus realizes that the Metroid was really the Hatchling, and it had been growing to a giant size. Recovering, Samus enters the final area, and finds a rebuilt Mother Brain. She destroys it, and is about to leave when it attaches itself to a giant robot body, and unleashes an colossal energy beam at Samus, nearly destroying her.

As Mother Brain is about to finish her off, the Metroid Hatchling attacks it, saving Samus. It drains power away from Mother Brain, and gives the energy it stole earlier and the power to Samus, recovering her. Mother Brain recovers, and destroys the Metroid, leaving it’s remains on Samus. With new power, Samus unleashes the incredibly powerful Hyper Beam on Mother Brain, destroying it once and for all. Doing so activates the self-destruct system, and Samus escapes as the planet explodes behind,. On the way, she saves some of the planet’s indigenous species: Etecoons and Dachoras.

To Save The Universe

Months later, Samus received a job offer from the Federation once more. They wanted her to escort and bodyguard a group of scientists looking to collect creatures of SR-388. Samus accepted, and touched down on the planet. On the first expedition, a hostile creature attacked the scientists. Samus destroyed it, but then something else came. A free-floating parasite-like creature emerged from the hostile, and attacked Samus. Not seeing any apparent injuries, the group of scientists decide that they are finished and leave the planet with Samus following. As she begins to depart, she blacks out at the controls of her ship, and drifts into an asteroid belt. Moments before the collision, her ship ejects the escape pod with Samus in it, and the Biologic Space Labs ship picks it up drifting. It turns out that the parasite creature infects it’s host, ultimately killing it and stealing it’s body. Samus was only given a short time to live. Then, someone found a cure. It seemed that the Federation had preserved a DNA sampling of the Metroid Hatchling. Metroids were the main predator of the parasites, now being called the “X”. The DNA is made into a vaccine right away, and injected into Samus. The X present in her neutral system are destroyed, but parts of her suit are infected also, and had to be permanently removed. Samus is given a new lease on life, with a new suit the “Fusion” suit.

She realizes that she owes the Metroid Hatchling her life twice over. Samus is given a ship, but as a price, it has a A.I. CO on it, and she must complete a mission. She has been tasked with investigating the vessel where her parts and the infected creatures were stored. It seems an explosion has rocked the station, and none of the personnel are responding. Samus lands on the station, and finds it desolate. The only person she has for company is the A.I. CO that is giving her orders. She investigates the station, and finds that the explosion originated in the Quarantine Bay where the X hosts were being stored! The X have escaped their captivity, and quickly move through the entire station, which is composed of various habitats for creatures, like a dangerous Zoo. After trying several times to destroy the X, the A.I. CO reveals to Samus that the one that caused the explosion was none other than an X that remade her using the infected components of her suit. It is named the SA-X by the CO, who Samus names Adam, for the AI reminds Samus of her him, her first CO. The SA-X is superior to Samus in the way that it has all of her weaponry. It then becomes the duos main priority to get Samus to her full power, so she can end the X once and for all. While investigating the station, she finds that the same Etecoons and Dachoras she rescued from Zebes have been in captivity in the station. She frees them, and they hide out in her ship, after the CO has checked to make sure that they are free of X parasites. From gathering various support data the Federation, Samus is soon at full power. She is nearly at full battle capacity, and during a task from the CO she discovers a secret entrance, and enters a off-limits area of the station. It is there that she finds dozens of Metroids in captivity. While investigating, an explosion rocks the section, and Samus finds the SA-X trying to destroy the Metroids. The damage is sufficient enough to begin to detach the section from the rest of the station, and Samus escapes seconds before it separates and explodes. Getting back to the CO, she finds a fully healthy Ridley in cryo storage, frozen. Before her very eyes, a X parasite infects the frozen monster, and Ridley falls apart. She follows the X, and it turns into an evolved form of Ridley. After a long battle, Samus defeats it, and regains her most powerful attack: the Screwball. She makes her way back to a comms room to talk with the AI. The CO reveals to her that after she gave the Metroid Hatchling to the Federation, they cloned it using it’s DNA samples. That is how the cure for the X virus was found so fast, and that is why there were Metroids in captivity. The Federation were speed growing them, and within weeks the Metroids were evolving from the basic form the giant Omega Metroids. However, the X sensed the biggest threat to them was the Metroids, so the SA-X attacked them instead of Samus. It is then revealed to Samus that-since the X reproduce asexually-there are no less than ten SA-X’s on the station. Samus gets angry, and insists that they must destroy the station. However, the CO locks her in the room, telling her that the Federation will come and capture the X for military purposes. Samus says that it is madness, the X will devour those that come aboard, and use their memories to gain knowledge, and will ultimately destroy all sentient life in the universe. Samus pleads will the AI, and inadvertedly calls the AI Adam. The AL begins to question Samus about Adam, and it is revealed that Adam died to let Samus live. Having a change of heart suddenly, the AI tells Samus that the only way to truly eradicate the X would be to program the station to crash into SR-388, wiping them out from both areas. Adam unlocks the doors, and asks Samus “Any objectives, Lady?’, like Adam did to her. She rushes off the main control room, and right before the control room, another SA-X attacks her. Samus proves to be more than a match for it, and destroys it. As she is about to absorb the X parasite, it floats off and escapes. Samus programs the course to crash on SR-388, and is only given 6 minutes to escape to the Docking Bay. Samus arrives, but her ship is no where to be seen, and there is a broken Metroid egg. Suddenly, a monstrous Omega Metroid attacks Samus, and catches her off guard, almost destroying her. Before it can strike the final blow, the SA-X comes and rescues Samus, sensing that the Omega Metroid was a bigger threat. It is destroyed, however, and Samus absorbs the X parasite, gaining back the Ice Beam, a Metroid’s one true weakness. She battles the Omega Metroid, and destroys it. Suddenly, her ship flies in and picks her up, and she escapes. The B.S.L. station crashes into SR-388, and both are destroyed, and the X eradicated. Samus had no idea that the Federation implants the memories and minds of dead CO’s into AI’s. Adam is alive again to Samus. However, something still troubles her. Her ship could only be piloted manually, and Adam couldn’t do it himself. She asks him, and he responds “They gave me a hand”, and shows her that the Etecoons and Dachoras piloted the ship as a repayment to Samus, saving her. Samus is left to ponder how the citizens of the universe will handle her actions, but then dismisses it. Someone will understand. They have to.

Timeline

The Metroid timeline is confusing, but this is exactly what it is. The only comic that is truly canon in the Metroid series is the Manga (thankfully). All others were non-canon appearances or off the mark adaptations. Here is the official Metroid timeline, straight from Nintendo:

*Metroid Manga (One Girl In All The World. The Hatchling section)
*Metroid (Zero Mission section)
*Metroid Prime (Metroid Prime section)
*Metroid Prime 2 (Aether section)
*Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Corruption section)
*Metroid 2: The Return Of Samus (Genocide section)

*Super Metroid (Return to Zebes section)
*Metroid Fusion (To Save The Universe section)

Powers and Abilities

Throughout the Metroid timeline, Samus has received a massive variety of weapons and items. Outside of her suit, she is already well above any human capability, inside her suit, she is superhuman with amazing speed and strength (as evidenced in the Manga when Samus easily smashes a Chozo assault robot with one hand, and one punch). She has her arm cannon, which shoots devastating energy rounds, but has many other beams. At it’s maximum potential, her arm cannon has devastating capabilities, with rounds that can go through enemies and simultaneously freeze them, and it’s rounds go through walls. It can also shoot massive missiles which-demonstrated in Metroid Fusion-have sufficent damage capacity to easily destroy large structures. They can also freeze tougher enemies, and discharge in a wide freezing raidus. Her arm cannon can also switch between a variety of beams, including burning beams, freezing beams, and homing beams that disrupt electrical devices. With every beam, it has a combo using a super missile, creating an incredible energy weapon. Some combos go so far as to create a small supernova, and a small black hole. Samus has also retrieved other weapons capable with her beam, including Sniper Rifles, Flamthrowers, Grenade Launchers, and Shock Coils. Samus also can fly using her Space Jump, and she can go hyper speed (as quoted from the AI in Metroid Fusion. “A creature that can move at hyper-speed”. It is describing the creature that Samus steals the ability from, meaning Samus can do it herself), and while moving at such speed, easily punches through solid steel walls. She also has the Power Bomb, which unleashes a massive explosion in a large radius. By far her most devastating attack is the Screwball. Samus activates it while Somersaulting through the air. While doing the Screwball attack, Samus is invincible, and any organic material that touches her is instantly destroyed. It kills no matter where the body is hit, as the destruction moves through the body (IE: In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, no matter where you hit the victim, the atomic destruction spreads throughout the body). Samus has only one suit, but though her adventures, it has been upgraded multiple times. Common variations are: the Varia Suit (allows her to take massive temperatures and take no damage in lava temperatures), the Gravity Suit (allows her to move freely in water), and the Phazon suit (her most powerful suit. In it she can unleash dreaded Phazon beams, which destroy anything not organically imbued with Phazon). When the suit is upgraded, it keeps all abilites it had as well as gains new ones. When Samus has the maximum capacity suit, she is nigh unstoppable.

Personality

Samus has a unique personality created from her years of isolation from other humans. Originally, she was a happy girl with ordinary aspirations. However, after the Pirate raid that killed her parents, her attitude darkened. After she left the Chozo, her hate towards the Space Pirates grew, and now she hunts them with the intention of wiping them out forever. She generally dislikes to kill sentient creatures, but she will not hesitate to destroy them should they get in her way. She is very intelligent, and has the best interest of the universe in mind. Despite having the title of "Bounty Hunter", Samus only accepts jobs that do not go against her beliefs, and will never work for anyone related to the Space Pirates.

Game List

*Metroid
*Metroid II: Return of Samus
*Super Metroid
*Metroid Fusion
*Metroid Prime
*Metroid Zero Mission
*Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
*Metroid Prime Pinball
*Metroid Prime: Hunters
*Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

*Super Smash Bros
*Super Smash Bros Brawl
*Super Smash Bros Melee

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