Other M Chapter 21/24A –Naruto Style–
The travel was rough, especially when having to deal with the still surviving Nightmare (in the first fight it was been knocked unconscious). But, she had returned to the location of the Bioweapons Research Center on the BOTTLE SHIP. But she was given quite a surprise upon reentering the room with the computers: the body of a dead Federation Trooper. Sakura Haruno was nowhere to be seen in the room, but the body of the trooper urges her to the corpse. Once more, she was given a shock. The face that greeted her behind the shattered helmet...
"Shikamaru," Naruto whispers.
She pieced the details together about her thought of "The Deleter": it was Shikamaru Nara who was the traitor in Sarutobi's group.
"Huh?"
Standing up from Shikamaru's body, she saw a door that wasn't there before. Preparing herself, she rushes through the door and down the hallway, soon entering an elevator shaft that begins its descent to a lower level. But what she didn't know was that more surprises would await her path...
In the deeper levels, Orochimaru was resting, and still recovering from his injuries against Naruto. Slow, deep ragged breaths, exhale... the fiend heard the sound of large shutters slamming open, and the slow heavy footfalls of a heavy creature. He shrieks out a threatening warning to whatever was lumbering from the darkness, wings spreading. However, this is the last that Orochimaru would do as it takes up a low spread stand, readying its harpoon tail. The creature that revealed itself in the low lightning of that chamber lunges out with a reptilian roar. Orochimaru was unable to retaliate.
Her eyes open briefly, as if a shock of cold touched her. Naruto did not like that sudden foreboding feeling that temporarily overwhelmed her senses. DING! The elevator opens, and she trains her gun arm out. Seeing no hostiles on her radar, she quickly runs, traveling the hallways. She had some trials to overcome, but nothing too troubling, although the surprising weapon defense did startle her in the form of firing Rinkas.
"Hm..."
She sees the blood on the ground. Looking around, she spies the hole in the roof, the metal torn and cables sparking as the exposed wires continue to be fed power from the station. She walks forward, keeping herself ready for an attack, but the silence made her nervous of what to expect. She was however greeted upon the sight of Orochimaru in the corner.
His cold, lifeless body, etched with the final preservation of a cry in mid-release.
"Orochimaru..."
She couldn't believe it. She recognized the state Orochimaru was in: Metroid Predation.
"What could have happened...?"
Regardless, she had to continue. Soon, she had reached Room MW, and the door she had passed through, sealed itself on her with a red light confirming locks were set in place. No turning back now. The room was large, with six empty specimen tanks evenly spaced in the massive room. She had searched through the sealed doors, until one door window showed a human inside. She had bubblegum pink hair, and was curled up, holding herself tightly. She brought her hand up, and gently knocks on the plated glass. The woman gave a startled cry, as she turns and begins to back away, seeing a stranger.
"No!" she cries.
"No," Naruto said, giving a shake of her head.
"Stay away!" The woman yells.
"No, you have it all wrong!"
The woman had gotten up and her hand slammed on a computer nearby, unswervingly activating the door seals.
"I'm here to rescue you."
Naruto heard the loud crack of shutters opening, and across from her, large steel doors open with a jolt, and then jam up. Visor flashing, she brings her cannon up and rushes over to investigate. And as she slowly crosses the threshold, she makes a horrifying discovery...
"Wait..."
The doors unfreeze and open all the way, slowly.
"Metroid eggs..."
Her visor highlights the broken shells of the alien eggs. Naruto couldn't believe what she was seeing. And then it hit her. The only way that Metroid Eggs could be produced was by a Queen... a fully-mature Queen Metroid. A rumbling sound echoed. It was like a massive foot making the sounds. Coming in from the darkness, was her worse nightmare relived. She instinctively backs up, as a massive clawed foot smashes one of the egg shell remnants. It was large, massive, like an alien crocodile crossed with that of a dinosaur. Its massive shell was dark green, covered in slime residue and thick burly scales. Its underbelly shoed its fully-developed nucleus and pulsating brain-like membranes but the underbelly itself was covered by a translucent-like shell armoring. Four massive legs, two/three claws, a long tail that was split at the end into two tube-like holes. The head was large, and its compound eyes glowed with malicious intent. It was on a stretching neck, as it lets out a challenging roar at Naruto, revealing its double-rowed sharp teeth, and side fangs like mandible claws.
She fires her weapon but its armoring was resistant to the attacks as it lunges. She barely escapes its closing jaws as she continues to back flip, then lands on the other side of the room, on her feet. It had walked out of the room, the doors sealing shut. With another roar, its sacs on its shell explode, releasing two Metroids. She quickly sprints out of its charge, it destroying the tanks in the path while the Metroids themselves shriek and cry, chasing after Naruto. She makes timed leaps from their lunges, and fires at them with fully-charged shots. The freezing effects of her combined beams freeze them into icy shells. Two Super Missiles destroy them. The Queen roars again, and produces four more Metroids from is remaining eggsacs on its shell. Again, Naruto had to dodge the Queen's rampant attacks when it gets to close for comfort, as well as dodge and freeze the Metroids. More than once, one would get lucky and snatch her, and begin to drain her suit's energies, but rolling into Morph Ball mode and dropping bombs would dislodge them. Eventually, after the first few minutes of tense, heart-racing, blood-pumping action and scare-filled thrills, the last of the hatched Metroids the Queen carried on its shell was vaporized.
Naruto, from her position, stares down the Queen, as it angrily snarls and then makes a room-shaking roar. The specimen tanks had since been destroyed smashed down by the Queen's few rampage attacks. It "stares" at Naruto, before shaking its head, and with the sound of what would akin to breaking glass, shards of pulsating purple crystals that elude visible white auras explode from the head, and run up the entirety of its long neck. Sparks of embers escape the mouth, and then with a roar, expels a sweeping blast of flames but Naruto barely escapes with a full backward flip over the fiery atomic breath.
"Shit! Never knew it could breathe fire!"
The Queen roars and charges at her, and Naruto ran out of its attack whilst charging her arm cannon. She takes aim, targeting the crystal growths, then fires. But it swerves around, blocking the attack with a heavy thump of its front feet, displacing a shockwave of air. She growls, and moves to a better position, this time switching to her Seeker Missiles. When it moves at her and she dodged out of the way, she fires a barrage of missiles and destroyed half of the crystal growths. The Queen roars, and resumes its fire attack, clipping Naruto painfully as she's sent crashing to the ground. She flips to her feet and barely evades its lunging charge. But, Naruto finally destroys the last of the crystals after a tense six minutes of countering and timing her precise strikes. It roars when the Super Missile impacted it, stunning it as it slumps down with a heavy thud. All was silent, and Naruto only heard the pants of her breath as she stares the beast down. She knew it wasn't dead. She trains her gun at it again when it raises its head, and lets out a low-gurgling growl. Then, with a roar of anger, it regenerates its crystals once again, shocking Naruto.
This facility will intercept Galactic Federation orbit in approximately 30 seconds.
Naruto felt the Queen's aura from the crystals, as the ship continue its path.
This facility will intercept Galactic Federation orbit in approximately 30 seconds.
It roars out at her once again, and Naruto recalls the sacrifices two people important to her had made... Sasuke from when Orochimaru emerged, and how the fiend knocked him off the platform and towards the lava below with a sweep of its tail. His death caused her to go to a blind fury and attack Orochimaru until his inevitable escape.
20 seconds.
And Sarutobi... when he prevented her from killing herself, and took her place in the destruction of Sector Zero and the unfreezable Metroids, therefore sacrificing his life in order to protect hers. She clenches her hand, brings it up and performs a Concentration, replenishing her health and missile count; she was fully prepared to do battle once again, and takes aim as the Queen begins a final charge across the room to her.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3-
Suddenly, a blaring alarm rings out.
WARNING. Emergency brakes engaged. Brace for impact.
Naruto and the Queen Metroid are thrown off their feet. The Bottle Ship grinds to a halt and the engines shut down, as Naruto crashes to the ground with a pained grunt. The Queen however...
WARNING. Emergency brakes engaged. Brace for impact.
The Queen was on its side, and was now like a turtle: unable to fully flip back onto its feet. It was stunned from the force of its entire weight knocking it down. Naruto was the first to recover from this sudden turn of events, and she took her advantage the opportunity presented, by attacking its fully-exposed underbelly with a series of Plasma Beam attacks. But then it flips onto its feet, and was in a blind rage. The crystals shined brighter but this time, it extends its neck out all the way high, and begins to build a growing ball of energy deep within its body beginning to elude the throat. Naruto however did something drastic: she lassos with her Grapple Beam and yanks herself into its mouth, curling into Morph Ball mode.
Now she was inside its stomach and rapidly getting energy drained, but in the few seconds between being swallowed, she had fully charged up, and releases a Power Bomb. It detonates, and the Queen was obliterated with a fading roar, as the superheated explosion shockwaves, destroying Room MW. As the smoke and dust slowly fades, the destruction the Power Bomb revealed damaged walls, floor, and ceiling. Tanks were melted, sparks flying from destroyed wall sections. However, the door that contained the pink-haired woman was torn off its hinges, buckled like bread balled in someone's fist. The opening was wide enough, allowing her to climb out in escape. The woman was in awe at the destruction that ravaged the room, slowly backing off.
Naruto stood up from the crater she made, the Queen's remains strewn all over. Her footfalls echoed on the metallic floor, escaping into the other chamber with a swish and slam of emergency doors. Naruto sighed. Preparing her Concentration once more, she gives chase after the fleeing survivor.