As Peach and Samus left Sammi's closet, they found Old Bird quietly speaking with Sammi. Sammi herself had an unusually sad look on her usually perky face. The old avian creature looked over at Samus and her changed clothing, and then looked over to Peach with an stern state.
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"I though we made it clear Lady Peach that if you brought these boos to our palace to harass us again we would send a couple to our biologist to dissect them." Old Bird sternly said.
"Hey I only brought one, and Lady Bow promised to not cause trouble here." Peach said somewhat salty about the threat.
"Hm and yet you seem to have her harassing our guest. Hm those eyes, you gave her those contacts didn't you? Your going to pay for those eye transplants if she desires them."
"But she..."
"Is a valued guest at our palace, now have Lady Bow leave Lady Samus's body before we have to force her out."
"Fine..."
The greenish blue blob left Samus's body, and the bounty hunter had to give a sigh of relief. She normally could fight off these angry spirits, but the element of surprise and their different feel of the possession threw her off. The whole thing of sending a few boo's to be dissected kind of disturbed her because of the whole chozo life appreciation philosophy, but judging how annoying the one she encountered was and how apparently this palace had an infestation of them before she guessed even Old Bird had his limits.
"I know you probably wish to get some more sensible clothing, but I have something that I must inform you as soon as possible. Could you follow me to a more private room to discuss this matter." Old Bird said with a calmer tone.
"Um sure.." Samus said, having a bad feeling in her gut.
Samus lifted up the hem of the dress she was forced into and made very small careful steps as she followed Old Bird. The huge petticoats really felt kind weird tickling her legs and it honestly felt a little awkward to have her dress occupy a huge space. Honestly as she was walking with the old avian she bumped into a few pedestals holding seemingly valuable objects, a few said objects fell on the floor though Old Bird did not look even the least bit phased by it. If anything his face just had a look of passive sadness in them.
"I would like to apologize for these unwanted alterations to your body, we will fix it. We'll even call our palace doctors back from vacation early if you wish it done as soon as possible, though of course their is a needed period of rest between removing the corset, replacing your eyes, and well shrinking your chest."
"Sigh It's alright...." Samus said not really wanting to show her anger to her beloved mentor/ father figure.
"Hm do not be afraid to express yourself Lady Samus, I understand you are not appreciative of these alterations. The chest is the easiest to deal with, but the corset is a bit fiddly since to allow you to breath normally despite the constrictions they connect an external air source to your lungs to make up for lost effort. Your not suppose to wear those without a doctor's permission because of the things that could go wrong with that infernal device, I assure you that Princess Sammi will be punished for letting you just wear it without knowledge of it's risks. But honestly you'll find among all life that some will go to extreme lengths to enhance their appearance, it just with new technology they'll go further."
"Okay, but what was that about an eye transplant?" Samus asked.
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Samus awkwardly walked over to a chair and lifted up her dress and petticoats until she found her bottom and sat down on the chair covering it with the dress. Honestly Samus had no idea how anyone could do anything in this sort of dress. Old Bird sat at a chair right across the table and took a deep breath.
"Samus you are aware of the theory of other universes correct?"
"Yes the theory more or less is their are separate universe isolated from our current one. Some of them could even have life on them, though most of the universes would be dead. When quantum physics first started getting traction on Terran, some theorized the idea that the universe splits into parallel universes for different thing that could happen." Samus said recalling her academic teachings.
"Good, I see your body is not the only thing you've trained. Now your aware of Princess's Sammi friends are from other universes, and we are able to connect to them with relative ease. This is not a natural phenomenon, I'm sure our other guest mentioned this smash bro's tournament they participate in correct? Well these universes were connected by a being only known as Master Hand for this inter-dimensional tournament. This more or less means that doorways were easier to open between the connected universes, and more relevant synch up the universe's clocks. Forgive us for the intrusion, we looked at your suit's non encrypted files to see a basic star map of your galaxy. The door to your universe while not open enough to send a living creature, we were able to send a nonliving hyperspace probe. First off we found that your universe's time was not synched up to our clocks, judging from the deviance of the stars from the star map roughly three hundred years has passed in your universe and still probably going."
"Hm okay that a bit troublesome, they'd probably took my ship in that time period. Still give me a ship for the trip home and I'll just get a holonews or whatever they use now and get myself caught up, it not like I had anyone I really cared for that still alive." Samus flatly said.
"If it was just that, we could let you go home however.....Let me ask you a question first in your universe did you have a creature known as a Metroid?"
"We did have Metroids, though they were becoming a problem for the galaxy so the federation hired me to exterminate them all. We had one ch1ld metroid still living, but well an incident with the space pirates killed off that one."
"Ah that we're it went wrong....."
"What are you talking about?"
"Do you know why the Chozo made the metroids?
"No, by the time I grew up most of the Chozo disappeared without a trace. You were more or less the only one left until you finally dispersed as well."
"Hm...well the reason that metroids were created was to combat something horrid. Hundreds of years ago our kind encountered a parasitic being that would infect it's host and take over it's body. It had an unnatural ability to adapt technology into it's body, and like all diseases it main purpose was to infect and reproduce. If it was to ever infect an able pilot of a starship it could spread very quickly throughout the galaxy." Old bird explained.
"Okay but what does that have to do with getting me back home?"
"Our probe found on several planets in your universe to be completely infected with the parasite, we did not have time to more thoroughly explore it to find if any non infected life because then our probe was captured by a infected ship. That probe contained information of where the gateway you used was, if we left it open we'd risk be targeted by those parasites, and then every universe connected to ours would be next. We had to destroy the gateway to your world for our safety, I'm sorry." Old Bird grimly said.
Samus stared blankly for a few moments as the words of the Chozo elder sunk into her mind. She tightly clenched her silk covered hands and jumped over the table tackling Old Bird to the floor. Her eyes held a primal rage that was not dulled by the cutesy pink heart.
"Your lying! You just want to keep me here to be a fucking plaything for your little Princess, admit it!" Samus shouted.
"I understand this is a lot to take in Lady Samus, but I assure you we are not lying about this. I will give you the data-files for you to judge for yourself."
"You probably manufactured those, I bet the gate still open, waiting for you to gather an army to conquer my universe. Well you may look like someone I cared for, but I will not let you decive m.....AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Samus started to say before she felt a huge surge of electricty going through her body before falling limp to the ground.
Adam walked into the room with a stun pistol in hand. He had a couple of the workers carry off Samus's body to a free room to rest. He then helped the old Chozo up to his feet. The avian creature dusted off his robes and looked at Adam with a stern look.
"Hm do you not think that was a little excessive Adam?" Old Bird questioned.
"Hey the way I saw it, she was just about ready snap your neck. I not going to be left alone in making sure Princess doesn't drown us in shopping debt." Adam said with a chuckle.
"Hm fair enough, though her reaction is expected. You humans say that denial is the first stage of grief right?"
"Yeah, hopefully she'll cool off when she wakes up...though we're keeping it guarded by our best on hand just in case she gets violent again. I do sympathetic with her, I really do, but I'm not going to just stand here and let her hurt anyone."
"Fair enough."
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