Metroid- Zero Mission -

Her suit powered up with a familiar hum, the orange and red visor reflecting the desolate landscape. She dropped from the ship like a meteor, landing in the caverns of Brinstar with a seismic thud. Immediately, the sensors picked up movement. Zoomers. Geemers. The small fry of this haunted world. They skittered away from her as she curled into a morph ball, rolling through a narrow vent that no human should have been able to fit through.

Get up. The voice wasn’t hers. It was a memory. Old Bird, the Chozo elder who had raised her. You are the last hunter. Get. Up. Metroid- Zero Mission

When she woke, her power suit was gone. Dead. Offline. She was wearing only the blue Zero Suit—a second skin of flexible alloy and regret. Her suit powered up with a familiar hum,

She was Samus Aran. A woman. In the dark. Surrounded by the creatures she’d been vaporizing for hours. Zoomers

Her worst fear, floating toward her with malevolent patience. She pumped ice beam after ice beam into the first one, shattering its membrane with a missile. The second, third, and fourth were harder. They were faster. Smarter. By the sixth, she was relying on raw instinct, backflipping over their lunge attacks, her energy tank ticking down to critical.

Alarms blared. “Self-destruct sequence initiated.”