It had all happened relatively quickly for Samus. She had been sleeping before being woken up by an emergency alarm. She had rushed to get her suit on and leave, having practically avoided the questions of the ponies. Now she was talking to top security officials of the galaxy.

"I came as quick as I could," Samus said.

One of them nodded.

"Very good. Our situation, however, is not," he sighed.

"You see," another man began, "someone broke into the DNA Storage Hub."

Samus gasped.

"What did they steal?" she questioned.

"They stole everything and burned the place to the ground," he replied.

"Weren't there DNA samples there that could potentially be used to recreate...metroids?" she questioned.

"Yes," replied a familiar voice.

Samus looked around and spotted a familiar black-haired woman.

Lyrid.

Samus locked her eys on Lyrid, shocked and confused by her precense here.

"You, I've seen you before," stated Samus.

"You...have?" questioned Lyrid with a sly grin.

Samus stepped forward.

"What do you know that I don't?" Samus questioned, sounding slightly annoyed.

Lyrid shrugged.

"I don't know what you mean, sorry. Oh, what is that behind you?" she questioned.

Samus looked behind her to see nothing. Suddenly she heard an noise that sounded like an explosion as smoke filled the room.

"Emergency! It's an emergency! Evacuate this place immediately!" screamed a man from the top floor.

Samus looked around and spotted Lyrid running off.

"Not this time," Samus muttered to herself as she chased after her.

Samus could barely see in front of her, but she continued to follow the sound of footsteps. The hallways felt long and endless, and she was starting to run out of breath.

She stopped for a second and looked around. She could know smell flames burning, and the far-off footsteps were now hard to track down.

She looked up and saw a small vent she could crawl through. With a well-timed jump she grabbed the ledge and crawled in. She was glad the vent was big enought to crawl through instead of having to use her Morph Ball she no longer had.

Before long she jumped down in a new room. Her suit began giving her a temperature warning, indicating the room was very hot. In front of her stood Lyrid, however.

Samus prepared her arm cannon, and was ready to shoot befoe Lyrid interrupted you.

"Do you really think you can use that puny little...pea shooter to defeat me?" she asked with a laugh.

Samus fired a few shots, and Lyrid dodged them easily.

Lyrid immediately retaliated and rushed towards Samus, pinning her to the wall.

"I could kill you right now, but that would be no fun. Instead, I'll just leave you here. Give you a slow and painless death. Really is a shame that the great bounty hunter Samus Aran is gonna kick the bucket this way, isn't it?" mocked Lyrid.

Lyrid let go of Samus and stepped back, and Samus collapsed to the ground. She pulled out a mysterious device and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Samus tried to stand up, but quickly began to slip from a conscious state.

"Not this...way," she groaned. It seemed the heat was destined to kill her. Even if it didn't, the flames around the room surely would.

In a poof of purple-hued magic, it seemed that the purple alicorn from before had appeared. Samus passed out, that her last vision. She had prayed to any gods above that she would wake up.

Author's Note

Kinda ended this chapter on a cliffhanger, but you know what will happen. Maybe Samus really was lucky to have met these ponies!