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Samus Aran ([personal profile] morphballin) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2014-04-05 12:45 pm

Back in the Saddle, For Better or Worse

Characters: Samus and you!
Setting: Dorms, Floor 100, Floor 90
Format: Prose.
Summary: Samus is back and has a lot of change to learn about.
Warnings: Homesickness, violence against horrible crab monsters.

Dormitories

Time was all Samus had for a very, very long period. However, she didn't bother tracking it after a while. All she knew was that she'd been gone for a long time, wandering a dead universe on her own. And while she generally liked the solitude, it started to get to her after a while. No jobs to do, no old friends to have call at inopportune times, not even any space pirates causing trouble.

Old Bird and Grey Voice had charged her with bringing peace to the galaxy, but this? This wasn't what they had in mind.

Once Samus woke up in the tower, it was disorienting at first, but once she sat up and noted the room, and the things lying around - it all came rushing back to her. How terrible this place was - but on the upshot, there were people here. People in trouble. For the first time in months, Samus actually feels vigor. She dons her power suit in a flash, and heads out.

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Floor 100

It's not soon that Samus realizes things have changed - she's moderately certain that there are more dorm floors than before, and that broken-off floor is definitely new. Passing it by, however, she comes to the floor below, and stops cold. Chozo architecture, as far as the eye can see. Samus' helmet flickers out of existence so she can view this with her own eyes. Those passing by will definitely be able to tell she's fell for the illusion.

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Floor 90

After managing to realize what she saw wasn't real, and getting rather mad about it, Samus ventured on, opting to ignore some of the stranger floors - seriously, was that a ball pit floor - and instead explore the ones that looked a bit more normal. In this case, the lagoon looks rather interesting, so Samus disembarks from the stairs, and moves along the paths - though at one point, the path loops around a wide body of water. There are what looks like rocks poking out of the water, and so Samus decides to use them as stepping stones, hopping from rock to rock. The first one gives way a bit, which is worrisome, but Samus keeps going. The others have a similar feel, and after landing on solid ground, she turns to look.

What she thought were rocks were actually carapaces of mirelurks, that are now rather irritated and heading her way. Not too much of a problem she figures, but there are a fair amount of them.

Samus raises her blaster arm, and begins to open fire as she steps backwards...

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