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How I see Samus Aran's story
By SJD764
Prologue.
Hello.
I am a very big fan of Samus Aran, and if you are too, you may very well saw how there are different interpretations of Samus Aran throught the Metroid Games and manga. There is so much in fact that one can come to all sorts of conclusions when it comes to her story -- from where she starts to where in fact she was last seen.
It's been 30+ years now that Samus Aran and the Metroids exists and Nintendo barely (if not at all) mentionned this fact. Sadenning for such fans like myself. I admit it, she is my favorite female superhero.
I decided to share my fandom of Samus by writing what I believe is her story according to what I've red, saw and concluded throughout the years.
Of course, I like to mention that I do not own Samus Aran or Metroid, so if Nintendo is reading this, please don't sue. This is merely a "thing" I decided to do as some sort of book report and to see if some other fans of this series might share my opinions and ideas.
Of course, I invite anybody to partake in this interpretation and write in their own ideas. The main goal here is to come up with a more concrete storyline while taking notice of the one that already exists.
But two points before I start:
1) English is not my first language.
2) There will be spoilers.
Enjoy the read.
Part 10 - Zero Mission
From the very moment Samus lands on Zebes, you can see that the ship is different from the other games -- the wallnut ship. That is because, to me, it isn't. As you might have red from my previous chapters, it is a prototype of a Chozo ship designed by the Galactic Federation. It doesn't even look like a human made ship, imh.
From the very first screen, you can read that her mission goes as follow : Emergency order. Exterminate all metroid from planet Zebes... and defeat the mechanical life-form. Mother-Brain.
The difference now is that Samus gave herself this order from the very start. She could very well plant this message and only say she was following orders. She knows the Space Pirates will be on Zebes, but if she destroys MotherBrain, all of them will loose interest in this planet (project) and leave. And so she came to this conclusion for the better of the Galaxy.
But if you were to follow my own interpretation, you would see that from the very moment Samus arrives on Zebes, there are no Space Pirates. Only mutations and genetic creations.
First of all, amongst the first words that appear in the game, Samus writes (as a recollection) : "Planet Zebes... I called this place home once, in peaceful times, long before evil haunted the caverns below. Now, I shall finally tell the tale of my first battle here... My first Zero Mission." With what I've written so far into my own interpretation of the lore, you could just say "[...] tell the tale of my first battle here... My first Zero Mission."
MotherBrain, in her growing paranoia, did in fact create an environment of social and military turmoil. This led Kraid to rely more on his pets/creations instead of lesser intellect that consists of the Space Pirates left under his orders from Space Pirate HQ. After all, Space Pirates are just that : pirates. They rummage, steal and, worst of all, betray and kill. The best way for Kraid to ensure the safety of MotherBrain until the destruction of the Galactic Federation and Samus are to leave her locked-up inside Tourian and hide himself from any Space Pirate willing to gain appeal and betray him and Ridley.
To him, since now that the secrets of cloning and genetic manipulations are now known to them, the Space Pirates already under his orders -- and that have heard MotherBrain's proposal of tempting a coup against their leaders -- have become expendable. There are plenty enough dangers and monsters across Zebes to stop the Federation soldiers and Samus when they come. So until they are ready to attack, and before they are betrayed, Kraid takes the decision to kill every pirate on Zebes under his rule, feeding them to their beasts, just as MotherBrain predicted he would.
This pushes Ridley to get to a ship before thinking Krai might betray him also -- suspiciously. "I, um... I have to organize the fleet for the attack on the Galactic Federation... you know... these guys are helpless without us, I mean, am I right?" he might have said to Kraid.
And so Samus enters a world that's been locked on itself, filled with fear and danger. She needs both missiles, super-missiles and mines to get through every pathways and corridors on her way to MotherBrain.
The Alpha suit already has most weapons that she already trained with. It only lacks the amount of energy to get those options available for her as she goes through Crateria, Brinstar and Norfair. Fortunately, she remembers that MotherBrain left statues depicting the Chozo holding a ball -- MotherBrain's surveillance spheres and flying tools where they can charge up. Through them, Samus gains more energy to activate weapons and proceed ever so powerfull through the course of her mission.
The SkrewAttack, Shinespark and SpeedBooster are effective, relying on a temporal shield that her suit generates, but she encounters some blueprints to some weapons that are incompatible to her armor. Samus barely gives it any attention. Only MotherBrain is important now.
She encouters monsters and genetically augmented creatures such as giant sidehoppers, the larvas the Chozo named KiruGiru, and the monstrous Imago which is born of it. The plantlife (X-39) she once knew ate those wasp-like creatures (especially when they were smaller, as the zeb) are now giant and eat everything. The bite of certain parasites have become lethal until she can gain enough energy to summon the Varia features. The KingWorm and Mua let her believe that MotherBrain has been busy creating some guardians for herself in the absence of Space Pirates. Finally, the amount of acid ponds and underground lakes leave her to believe that the Space Pirates and MotherBrain have developped crude pockets of environments for developping bigger and more hostile creatures of Zebes.
When she meets Kraid, she recognizes a life-form not of Zebes. I imagine him laughing at her : "So! Here you are! MotherBrain's worst fear! I knew you'd come. Only, I thought that you'd come with your new friends of the Galactic Federation. This changes everything. How about we make a deal : Disconnect MotherBrain from Zebes intranet and I will tear every secret out of her neurons. Everything you ever wanted to know without the hassle of letting her bore you to death with her fears."
Of course, Samus doesn't listen. She recognized a way leading to Tourian blocked by a stoneface representing him with the message of MotherBrain inviting the Space Pirates to kill him and Ridley to open the doors. She kills him, just as she did her biggest pets. But in his dying moment, Kraid calls upon Ridley. First of all, he wants to warn him, but then remembers that he left him in this time of need. So before composing a message, before dying, he only says : Samus Aran is on Zebes. With any chance, he believes Ridley will believe Samus to be with the Galactic Federation and so, will arrive to save their work with the entire Zebesian fleet as a safe precaution.
Ridley does hears it, but does not know she is alone. He turns the Space Pirates Mother Ship and a hefty garnison of warships towards Zebes.
Plans for the invasion of the Galactic Federation will have to wait, he mutters. So the metroids are returned to the Space Pirates Homeworld... until the next time.
Ridley encounters Samus soon enough, but he doesn't recognizes her, which surprises our heroin. But she battles the Space Pirates' leader nonotheless (believing trauma might have given him amnesia) and wins. Her revenge furfilled at last, she now seeks to destroy the metroids and MotherBrain.
The doors leading to Tourian unlocked, her power armor charged up to almost maximum efficiency, she enters a room where she soon enough encounters the metroids. Fortunately for her, the Alpha armour adapts itself to situations and foreign weaponry, nomatter it's form. When visiting Crateria, she visited a deserted lab belonging to the Space Pirates where she got ahold of notes from the Space Pirates. She discovered that these creatures were vulnerable to ice weapons. She gets her hands on such weapons and converts it to work with her own arm cannon. Thanks to this, she runs through Tourian, freezing and destroying every metroid she encounters, along with many Space Pirate cadavers on her way; these are left there as a reminder of MotherBrain's first signs of insurrection against Kraid and Ridley -- as you recall, their job was to assist her cloning metroids. This accomplished, she didn't need the Space Pirate science team anymore and killed them, thus making sure (or so she thought) that she was the only one with the Ultimate Weapon.
As she is preparing for her battle, MotherBrain calls upon her : "Samus, you were right about the Space Pirates. I should have listen to you. I made a mistake. But so did you. By joining with the Galactic Federation, you created an even bigger monster. Don't you understand, Samus : THEY are what's to become the Great Living Menace against the galaxy. Just like the Space Pirates, they are hungry for technology, not only to better themselves, but there are some that are in this only for themselves. There are admirals and generals amongst them that, from the very start, since K2L actually, wanted nothing more than to gain an advantage to pursue their own agenda. Ridley predicted it. They are as deeply burried inside the inner workings of the Federation as these faults are inside the human heart. But I could help you find them, Samus."
---"How do you know about transmissions from K2L?" she asks.
---"Samus, I am sorry, but just like you, I could not decypher who amongst the colonists were to be trusted or not. I have knowledge that can topple worlds Samus. Those humans (the FDC) could use it to conquer these worlds."
---"And so you killed them all!!"
---"I did nothing of the sort. Ridley killed them, ensuring that the worst of humans could not get a single hand of Chozo technology. They are the great menace, Samus. That's why the Chozo left. They knew eventually you would bare witness to their betrayal. As an ambassador, they would think of you as a figurehead, then conquer worlds on your behalf. All for the benefit of mankind. There wouldn't be a single non-human species that would resent you for beeing such a hypocritical spy. The suit I made for you would have been your protection, but not for yourself. The Chozo knew you. They knew your heart. They raised you to be a valuable, intelligent, good and wyse ambassador, representing the human race in all it's strengh and glory. And so you wouldn't be able to live with yourself. Ridley knew this from the very beginning. They'll destroy themselves, just as they almost did many times in the past, and the great war for the galaxy will begin anew, just like when the Chozo reigned fire upon the stars. Where will it end Samus!
Join me, Samus. Together, we will not feel alone. We will find those traitors inside the Federation before they become this great menace I have foreseen. We will stop them, and all that will get in our way will receive the metroids' deadly kiss. I know how to harness their power. They can both take and give if need be. I know how to control them. We will make the galaxy as perfect as the Chozo wished it and then, we will find them again and tell them the great news. The children of the Chozo, their holy trinity : the power, the wisdom and the knowledge... all working together."
The possibility that humankind will become (in this reality that is) an evil Star-Wars-like empire in the future, is something that is hinted in the Manga, but also in this insithfull video made by Macintyre in a youtube video called "The tragedy of Samus Aran".
---"You are forgetting one thing, MotherBrain. I am human. Therefore, I am not perfect. Just like the galaxy's inhabitants. The Chozo knew this. They left because they knew that nothing is, and they trusted us to find our own way into this chaos. Even if we have to be alone. You didn't find a way. You created more chaos. And that's why you cannot continue to exist. You are not a teacher. If you cannot embrace disorder, then you cannot be a part of this world."
And so she pursued by destroying MotherBrain who, in her last breath, called out to Samus : "You will not embrace the Chozo's dream, then embrace oblivion!!" And so a self-destruction mechanism ensued.
Samus left just in time aboard the Red Manta, but finds in the way the Space Pirates army that escorted their mothership, and they deeply resent Samus for what she did. They attack and destroy the Red Manta, but not before Samus escapes the Federation ship.
"The timing of my escape couldn't have been worst, she records, just in case the wreckage is found by allies. I was attacked by Space Pirates and left nearly defenseless, stripped of my power suit. All I had for protection was my rather useless emergency pistol. Infiltrating the Space Pirate Mother Ship so armed may have been foolish, but I had no choice..."
Though the Alpha suit isn't responding, short-circuited by the Red Manta's bridge exploding (she owes her life to the Alpha suit protecting her), Samus must now escape a Space Pirate ridden world. They are now farming for every DNA samples they can get for cloning purposes. Samus' mission now is to just get out of there and alert the Federation; now that MB has been destroyed, there is nothing that the DFC can salvage of her for their own profit.
She knows there are escape pods inside the MotherShip and so she climbs on board, searching for such a ship. While on board, she encounters Space Pirates, but also strange droids that she once saw on Zebes, walking, getting in their way. She recognises old orbs that inspired the Chozo when making the spherical probes and tools for MotherBrain; she saw some in a lab before the Space Pirates came on Zebes. Just like the cylindrical-shaped robots that look like a can. They come from a long forgotten ship the Chozo told her not to visit. A place of evil. She barely thinks of them and evade as much traps and Space Pirates as she can. They are now firing plasma beams, a weapon devised by MotherBrain that could very well kill her.
In her exploration of the Mother ship, she finds that is has docked to an archeological facility (Chozodia) and her instincts tell her to follow this path. She finds then the room where she remembers Old Bird bringing her to visit once, telling her that there is a weapon here to fit the greatest warrior : The Omega armor.
There is a lock though preventing anybody from getting their hands on it. The space pirates believe now to be able to forge a way to it and more of the Chozo's ruins thanks to a bomb discovered in the halls of war (we can see sometimes a Space Pirate carrying a Power Bomb from one room to another). The locking mechanism is both very complex while simple : It shows your darkest self to which you have to survive his blows if you are proven worthy of the armor; hence why we can see a reflection on Samus inside the bubble mirroring her movements.
She is the first of what will become fights with her dark self.
By chosing a world of chaos, solitude and imperfection instead of Chozo rule, she is proven worthy and the armor now covers the Alpha, unlocking antigravity units such as the Antigravity suit (option), Spring ball (althought unmentionned), plasma beam and SpaceJump. Using those, she gets to the bridge of the ship, destroys communication, weapons, shields, all that could make this a fair fight for when the Galactic Federation will arrive. She comes across one of those PowerBombs and her suit adapts itself for her to use them as a part of her arsenal, replicating them as her energy grows.
But as she makes way for the shipyard, she comes across Ridley. The first Ridley. She then recognises that the Space Pirates have cloning technology and that the Ridley she fought was indeed a clone. This is the Ridley that killed her parents and that her dad thought he'd kill when blowing the ship filled with Afloraltite. He is still alive, but barely. He's kept alive with life support systems while holding weapons to protect himself from intruders... such as her, but more crude.
According to the manga lore of Metroids, Ridley survived the explosion on K2L set off by Rodney Aran by devouring the corpses of the colonists until he was rescued -- including possibly Samus' parents. This let me to question my own vision. The Chozo returned, took Samus, and then dissapeared. Why did they leave in such a hurry? Why not look for survivors? If they had found Ridley, they could have taken him, save his life and hold him as a living hostage to hold off the remaining Space Pirates at bay. Furthermore, they could have ask MotherBrain to scrounge in his head what secrets he gave the Space Pirates during all those years and gather strategic knowledge if the Space Pirates would become the Great Living Menace foretold -- unknowingly that MB would have rather killed Ridley before letting the Chozo learn her implication on K2L. My best guest is that the Afloraltite refining factory, when it blew up, left deadly radiations across the lands, forcing the Chozo to come, rescue survivors (turns out there was only ONE survivor), then get out ASAP. This is also why 1) they couldn't rescue people closer to the reffinery and b) even the Space Pirates couldn't come and look for survivors themselves, thus leaving Ridley to fend off for himself for a time. He could very well had eaten the colonists to sustain himself, and furthermore Samus' mother, before the Space Pirates could fend off the radiations and rescue him.
But even more gruesome, I imagine him keeping the heads as trophies to remind himself, even thought he lost big in the Humiliation of K2L, he did also win.
"I know of you, he hisses while clawing his way to her, his red cyborg eye zooming on her. You are a human girl. You destroyed MotherBrain...?!" And proceeds trying to kill her.
But Samus counter-attacks, peacefull revenge flods through her.
Remember when I wrote that Ridley, when facing Samus and Amanda in the ruins of K2L, I wrote that he said : "This is what I was afraid of? How insignificant". At that moment, when delivering the final blow, I imagine Samus showing her eyes to Ridley who is now too afraid to make any assumptions. But he recognises her eyes nonotheless as beeing the same as one of his trophies. He imagines a ghost. "Who... are you?" I see him saying.
Samus saying only : "Significant." And kdelivering the last blow.
But Ridley has one trick left up his sleeve. Because some of his crew could have been tempted by MotherBrain's invitation for insurrection, he built an autodestruct sequence linked to his heartbeat, just so the Zebesian Space Pirates would know the cost of tempting a coup against him.
But Samus, once again, flees the grounds by taking a Space Pirate escape pod, leaving Zebes and what's left of the MotherShip for the Federation.
So ends my interpretation of the Metroid Zero Mission game.
But Samus' story is just beginning.
See you in part 11
SJD
By SJD764
Prologue.
Hello.
I am a very big fan of Samus Aran, and if you are too, you may very well saw how there are different interpretations of Samus Aran throught the Metroid Games and manga. There is so much in fact that one can come to all sorts of conclusions when it comes to her story -- from where she starts to where in fact she was last seen.
It's been 30+ years now that Samus Aran and the Metroids exists and Nintendo barely (if not at all) mentionned this fact. Sadenning for such fans like myself. I admit it, she is my favorite female superhero.
I decided to share my fandom of Samus by writing what I believe is her story according to what I've red, saw and concluded throughout the years.
Of course, I like to mention that I do not own Samus Aran or Metroid, so if Nintendo is reading this, please don't sue. This is merely a "thing" I decided to do as some sort of book report and to see if some other fans of this series might share my opinions and ideas.
Of course, I invite anybody to partake in this interpretation and write in their own ideas. The main goal here is to come up with a more concrete storyline while taking notice of the one that already exists.
But two points before I start:
1) English is not my first language.
2) There will be spoilers.
Enjoy the read.
Part 10 - Zero Mission
From the very moment Samus lands on Zebes, you can see that the ship is different from the other games -- the wallnut ship. That is because, to me, it isn't. As you might have red from my previous chapters, it is a prototype of a Chozo ship designed by the Galactic Federation. It doesn't even look like a human made ship, imh.
From the very first screen, you can read that her mission goes as follow : Emergency order. Exterminate all metroid from planet Zebes... and defeat the mechanical life-form. Mother-Brain.
The difference now is that Samus gave herself this order from the very start. She could very well plant this message and only say she was following orders. She knows the Space Pirates will be on Zebes, but if she destroys MotherBrain, all of them will loose interest in this planet (project) and leave. And so she came to this conclusion for the better of the Galaxy.
But if you were to follow my own interpretation, you would see that from the very moment Samus arrives on Zebes, there are no Space Pirates. Only mutations and genetic creations.
First of all, amongst the first words that appear in the game, Samus writes (as a recollection) : "Planet Zebes... I called this place home once, in peaceful times, long before evil haunted the caverns below. Now, I shall finally tell the tale of my first battle here... My first Zero Mission." With what I've written so far into my own interpretation of the lore, you could just say "[...] tell the tale of my first battle here... My first Zero Mission."
MotherBrain, in her growing paranoia, did in fact create an environment of social and military turmoil. This led Kraid to rely more on his pets/creations instead of lesser intellect that consists of the Space Pirates left under his orders from Space Pirate HQ. After all, Space Pirates are just that : pirates. They rummage, steal and, worst of all, betray and kill. The best way for Kraid to ensure the safety of MotherBrain until the destruction of the Galactic Federation and Samus are to leave her locked-up inside Tourian and hide himself from any Space Pirate willing to gain appeal and betray him and Ridley.
To him, since now that the secrets of cloning and genetic manipulations are now known to them, the Space Pirates already under his orders -- and that have heard MotherBrain's proposal of tempting a coup against their leaders -- have become expendable. There are plenty enough dangers and monsters across Zebes to stop the Federation soldiers and Samus when they come. So until they are ready to attack, and before they are betrayed, Kraid takes the decision to kill every pirate on Zebes under his rule, feeding them to their beasts, just as MotherBrain predicted he would.
This pushes Ridley to get to a ship before thinking Krai might betray him also -- suspiciously. "I, um... I have to organize the fleet for the attack on the Galactic Federation... you know... these guys are helpless without us, I mean, am I right?" he might have said to Kraid.
And so Samus enters a world that's been locked on itself, filled with fear and danger. She needs both missiles, super-missiles and mines to get through every pathways and corridors on her way to MotherBrain.
The Alpha suit already has most weapons that she already trained with. It only lacks the amount of energy to get those options available for her as she goes through Crateria, Brinstar and Norfair. Fortunately, she remembers that MotherBrain left statues depicting the Chozo holding a ball -- MotherBrain's surveillance spheres and flying tools where they can charge up. Through them, Samus gains more energy to activate weapons and proceed ever so powerfull through the course of her mission.
The SkrewAttack, Shinespark and SpeedBooster are effective, relying on a temporal shield that her suit generates, but she encounters some blueprints to some weapons that are incompatible to her armor. Samus barely gives it any attention. Only MotherBrain is important now.
She encouters monsters and genetically augmented creatures such as giant sidehoppers, the larvas the Chozo named KiruGiru, and the monstrous Imago which is born of it. The plantlife (X-39) she once knew ate those wasp-like creatures (especially when they were smaller, as the zeb) are now giant and eat everything. The bite of certain parasites have become lethal until she can gain enough energy to summon the Varia features. The KingWorm and Mua let her believe that MotherBrain has been busy creating some guardians for herself in the absence of Space Pirates. Finally, the amount of acid ponds and underground lakes leave her to believe that the Space Pirates and MotherBrain have developped crude pockets of environments for developping bigger and more hostile creatures of Zebes.
When she meets Kraid, she recognizes a life-form not of Zebes. I imagine him laughing at her : "So! Here you are! MotherBrain's worst fear! I knew you'd come. Only, I thought that you'd come with your new friends of the Galactic Federation. This changes everything. How about we make a deal : Disconnect MotherBrain from Zebes intranet and I will tear every secret out of her neurons. Everything you ever wanted to know without the hassle of letting her bore you to death with her fears."
Of course, Samus doesn't listen. She recognized a way leading to Tourian blocked by a stoneface representing him with the message of MotherBrain inviting the Space Pirates to kill him and Ridley to open the doors. She kills him, just as she did her biggest pets. But in his dying moment, Kraid calls upon Ridley. First of all, he wants to warn him, but then remembers that he left him in this time of need. So before composing a message, before dying, he only says : Samus Aran is on Zebes. With any chance, he believes Ridley will believe Samus to be with the Galactic Federation and so, will arrive to save their work with the entire Zebesian fleet as a safe precaution.
Ridley does hears it, but does not know she is alone. He turns the Space Pirates Mother Ship and a hefty garnison of warships towards Zebes.
Plans for the invasion of the Galactic Federation will have to wait, he mutters. So the metroids are returned to the Space Pirates Homeworld... until the next time.
Ridley encounters Samus soon enough, but he doesn't recognizes her, which surprises our heroin. But she battles the Space Pirates' leader nonotheless (believing trauma might have given him amnesia) and wins. Her revenge furfilled at last, she now seeks to destroy the metroids and MotherBrain.
The doors leading to Tourian unlocked, her power armor charged up to almost maximum efficiency, she enters a room where she soon enough encounters the metroids. Fortunately for her, the Alpha armour adapts itself to situations and foreign weaponry, nomatter it's form. When visiting Crateria, she visited a deserted lab belonging to the Space Pirates where she got ahold of notes from the Space Pirates. She discovered that these creatures were vulnerable to ice weapons. She gets her hands on such weapons and converts it to work with her own arm cannon. Thanks to this, she runs through Tourian, freezing and destroying every metroid she encounters, along with many Space Pirate cadavers on her way; these are left there as a reminder of MotherBrain's first signs of insurrection against Kraid and Ridley -- as you recall, their job was to assist her cloning metroids. This accomplished, she didn't need the Space Pirate science team anymore and killed them, thus making sure (or so she thought) that she was the only one with the Ultimate Weapon.
As she is preparing for her battle, MotherBrain calls upon her : "Samus, you were right about the Space Pirates. I should have listen to you. I made a mistake. But so did you. By joining with the Galactic Federation, you created an even bigger monster. Don't you understand, Samus : THEY are what's to become the Great Living Menace against the galaxy. Just like the Space Pirates, they are hungry for technology, not only to better themselves, but there are some that are in this only for themselves. There are admirals and generals amongst them that, from the very start, since K2L actually, wanted nothing more than to gain an advantage to pursue their own agenda. Ridley predicted it. They are as deeply burried inside the inner workings of the Federation as these faults are inside the human heart. But I could help you find them, Samus."
---"How do you know about transmissions from K2L?" she asks.
---"Samus, I am sorry, but just like you, I could not decypher who amongst the colonists were to be trusted or not. I have knowledge that can topple worlds Samus. Those humans (the FDC) could use it to conquer these worlds."
---"And so you killed them all!!"
---"I did nothing of the sort. Ridley killed them, ensuring that the worst of humans could not get a single hand of Chozo technology. They are the great menace, Samus. That's why the Chozo left. They knew eventually you would bare witness to their betrayal. As an ambassador, they would think of you as a figurehead, then conquer worlds on your behalf. All for the benefit of mankind. There wouldn't be a single non-human species that would resent you for beeing such a hypocritical spy. The suit I made for you would have been your protection, but not for yourself. The Chozo knew you. They knew your heart. They raised you to be a valuable, intelligent, good and wyse ambassador, representing the human race in all it's strengh and glory. And so you wouldn't be able to live with yourself. Ridley knew this from the very beginning. They'll destroy themselves, just as they almost did many times in the past, and the great war for the galaxy will begin anew, just like when the Chozo reigned fire upon the stars. Where will it end Samus!
Join me, Samus. Together, we will not feel alone. We will find those traitors inside the Federation before they become this great menace I have foreseen. We will stop them, and all that will get in our way will receive the metroids' deadly kiss. I know how to harness their power. They can both take and give if need be. I know how to control them. We will make the galaxy as perfect as the Chozo wished it and then, we will find them again and tell them the great news. The children of the Chozo, their holy trinity : the power, the wisdom and the knowledge... all working together."
The possibility that humankind will become (in this reality that is) an evil Star-Wars-like empire in the future, is something that is hinted in the Manga, but also in this insithfull video made by Macintyre in a youtube video called "The tragedy of Samus Aran".
---"You are forgetting one thing, MotherBrain. I am human. Therefore, I am not perfect. Just like the galaxy's inhabitants. The Chozo knew this. They left because they knew that nothing is, and they trusted us to find our own way into this chaos. Even if we have to be alone. You didn't find a way. You created more chaos. And that's why you cannot continue to exist. You are not a teacher. If you cannot embrace disorder, then you cannot be a part of this world."
And so she pursued by destroying MotherBrain who, in her last breath, called out to Samus : "You will not embrace the Chozo's dream, then embrace oblivion!!" And so a self-destruction mechanism ensued.
Samus left just in time aboard the Red Manta, but finds in the way the Space Pirates army that escorted their mothership, and they deeply resent Samus for what she did. They attack and destroy the Red Manta, but not before Samus escapes the Federation ship.
"The timing of my escape couldn't have been worst, she records, just in case the wreckage is found by allies. I was attacked by Space Pirates and left nearly defenseless, stripped of my power suit. All I had for protection was my rather useless emergency pistol. Infiltrating the Space Pirate Mother Ship so armed may have been foolish, but I had no choice..."
Though the Alpha suit isn't responding, short-circuited by the Red Manta's bridge exploding (she owes her life to the Alpha suit protecting her), Samus must now escape a Space Pirate ridden world. They are now farming for every DNA samples they can get for cloning purposes. Samus' mission now is to just get out of there and alert the Federation; now that MB has been destroyed, there is nothing that the DFC can salvage of her for their own profit.
She knows there are escape pods inside the MotherShip and so she climbs on board, searching for such a ship. While on board, she encounters Space Pirates, but also strange droids that she once saw on Zebes, walking, getting in their way. She recognises old orbs that inspired the Chozo when making the spherical probes and tools for MotherBrain; she saw some in a lab before the Space Pirates came on Zebes. Just like the cylindrical-shaped robots that look like a can. They come from a long forgotten ship the Chozo told her not to visit. A place of evil. She barely thinks of them and evade as much traps and Space Pirates as she can. They are now firing plasma beams, a weapon devised by MotherBrain that could very well kill her.
In her exploration of the Mother ship, she finds that is has docked to an archeological facility (Chozodia) and her instincts tell her to follow this path. She finds then the room where she remembers Old Bird bringing her to visit once, telling her that there is a weapon here to fit the greatest warrior : The Omega armor.
There is a lock though preventing anybody from getting their hands on it. The space pirates believe now to be able to forge a way to it and more of the Chozo's ruins thanks to a bomb discovered in the halls of war (we can see sometimes a Space Pirate carrying a Power Bomb from one room to another). The locking mechanism is both very complex while simple : It shows your darkest self to which you have to survive his blows if you are proven worthy of the armor; hence why we can see a reflection on Samus inside the bubble mirroring her movements.
She is the first of what will become fights with her dark self.
By chosing a world of chaos, solitude and imperfection instead of Chozo rule, she is proven worthy and the armor now covers the Alpha, unlocking antigravity units such as the Antigravity suit (option), Spring ball (althought unmentionned), plasma beam and SpaceJump. Using those, she gets to the bridge of the ship, destroys communication, weapons, shields, all that could make this a fair fight for when the Galactic Federation will arrive. She comes across one of those PowerBombs and her suit adapts itself for her to use them as a part of her arsenal, replicating them as her energy grows.
But as she makes way for the shipyard, she comes across Ridley. The first Ridley. She then recognises that the Space Pirates have cloning technology and that the Ridley she fought was indeed a clone. This is the Ridley that killed her parents and that her dad thought he'd kill when blowing the ship filled with Afloraltite. He is still alive, but barely. He's kept alive with life support systems while holding weapons to protect himself from intruders... such as her, but more crude.
According to the manga lore of Metroids, Ridley survived the explosion on K2L set off by Rodney Aran by devouring the corpses of the colonists until he was rescued -- including possibly Samus' parents. This let me to question my own vision. The Chozo returned, took Samus, and then dissapeared. Why did they leave in such a hurry? Why not look for survivors? If they had found Ridley, they could have taken him, save his life and hold him as a living hostage to hold off the remaining Space Pirates at bay. Furthermore, they could have ask MotherBrain to scrounge in his head what secrets he gave the Space Pirates during all those years and gather strategic knowledge if the Space Pirates would become the Great Living Menace foretold -- unknowingly that MB would have rather killed Ridley before letting the Chozo learn her implication on K2L. My best guest is that the Afloraltite refining factory, when it blew up, left deadly radiations across the lands, forcing the Chozo to come, rescue survivors (turns out there was only ONE survivor), then get out ASAP. This is also why 1) they couldn't rescue people closer to the reffinery and b) even the Space Pirates couldn't come and look for survivors themselves, thus leaving Ridley to fend off for himself for a time. He could very well had eaten the colonists to sustain himself, and furthermore Samus' mother, before the Space Pirates could fend off the radiations and rescue him.
But even more gruesome, I imagine him keeping the heads as trophies to remind himself, even thought he lost big in the Humiliation of K2L, he did also win.
"I know of you, he hisses while clawing his way to her, his red cyborg eye zooming on her. You are a human girl. You destroyed MotherBrain...?!" And proceeds trying to kill her.
But Samus counter-attacks, peacefull revenge flods through her.
Remember when I wrote that Ridley, when facing Samus and Amanda in the ruins of K2L, I wrote that he said : "This is what I was afraid of? How insignificant". At that moment, when delivering the final blow, I imagine Samus showing her eyes to Ridley who is now too afraid to make any assumptions. But he recognises her eyes nonotheless as beeing the same as one of his trophies. He imagines a ghost. "Who... are you?" I see him saying.
Samus saying only : "Significant." And kdelivering the last blow.
But Ridley has one trick left up his sleeve. Because some of his crew could have been tempted by MotherBrain's invitation for insurrection, he built an autodestruct sequence linked to his heartbeat, just so the Zebesian Space Pirates would know the cost of tempting a coup against him.
But Samus, once again, flees the grounds by taking a Space Pirate escape pod, leaving Zebes and what's left of the MotherShip for the Federation.
So ends my interpretation of the Metroid Zero Mission game.
But Samus' story is just beginning.
See you in part 11
SJD
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