7Chapter Five: Friend Or Foe?
Sub-Chapter 1: Return From the Dead
The two of them, Sonic and Samus, were speechless. They both knew Gamma to be an ally in the end, severing all ties with Dr. Robotnik and destroying his siblings, E-101, 103, 104, and 105. But to the extent of their knowledge, he had been destroyed with the final shot of E-101 Modified.
"How'd you survive?" Sonic questioned.
"Unable to comply."
"Command: Access memory banks: Last Week," Sonic repeated in a different computer language.
"Access denied. Memory of 'Last Week' is unavailable."
"Well, I guess we'll just find out the hard way," Samus announced and then shot a single Missile at Gamma's chest, rendering him inactive but still operational. They plugged him into a huge supercomputer behind them and searched for the data. It was found, but when they tried to open the files, they were completely blank. No audio, no video, none of anything.
"Apparently, someone wants to use him," Samus concluded.
Sub-Chapter 2: The Fight
About 30 seconds after Samus and Sonic plugged Gamma in he came back to life. He said a single phrase.
"Battle Mode."
"Apparently, he wants to fight. I knew I should have finished him when I had the chance, when we were on the Egg Carrier. Amy didn't know what she was talking about," Sonic replied.
Sonic and Gamma fought. Sonic tried to use a Homing Attack, but Gamma activated a shield at the last second. Gamma tried his gun but the shot was dodged. Sonic used his new suit to hit Gamma with an Ice Beam. When he thawed, Gamma found himself tied down to a metal post.
"Okay, we have one more question. Why are all these Pirates dead?"
"Unable to comply"
"Command: Access memory banks: Last 5 hours"
"Four Pirates were watching a creature in a container. It looked like a jellyfish. They called it 'metroid'. They seemed intrigued and mentioned something about it being able to drain life force from any creature. They motioned for me to bring the Chaos Emerald. I placed it into a machine. A claw brought the Emerald to the metroid. It mutated into a large form with several tentacles. A black shell formed around it. It killed the Pirates with its clawed tentacles and left the room. I was unaffected because I blended with my surroundings and was not found. I retrieved the Chaos Emerald. Two other beings walked into the room. One found a DNA match within my memory but the identity was denied. The other was entirely unidentified. They requested memory of the last week. Data was unavailable. They fired a projectile weapon. I found myself about to be attacked by the first of the two. I activated my shield. I fired a shot. It was dodged—"
"Wait, what did you say the Metroid mutated into?" Samus requested.
"It mutated into a large form with several tentacles. A black shell formed around it."
"We've got another Metroid Prime."
"What's that?" Sonic asked.
"It's a huge black six-legged creature that can adapt its carapace to deflect any beam weapon, but only three of four at a time, and can emerge into a large octopus-like creature that can cause a massive shockwave effect and spew pure Phazon into small pools."
"What's Phazon?"
"The most powerful mutagenic substance in the galaxy."
"So we should be afraid?"
"Yes."
Gamma broke in,
"If this creature is that powerful, would you require my assistance?"
"Yeah, that would probably be a good idea."
Little did they know that Gamma had other plans.
