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He fell into the lava below.

Samus ran. She sprinted through Tourian, her legs burning, her suit sparking. She burst out of the complex just as the world turned white behind her. Her gunship was waiting on a plateau.

A massive, dragon-like ship descended. Ridley. The cunning god of the Space Pirates. He hadn't been in his lair. He’d been waiting. Metroid- Zero Mission

She crawled through ventilation shafts, her heart pounding loud enough to mask the skittering of the Zebesian bugs. She stunned, strangled, and avoided. She was no longer a juggernaut. She was a ghost. She found a secret Chozo shrine hidden beneath the wreckage—a place the Pirates had never discovered. In the center, a statue held out a gift: a simple, unadorned handgun. The Legendary Power Suit.

She hit the Tourian checkpoint, and the world went silent. No bugs. No Geemers. Just the low thrum of a cloning machine. And then they came. Metroids. He fell into the lava below

The first few hours were a dance of memory and adaptation. She found the old missile tanks, the energy reserves she’d marked on her first visit. But something was different. The Pirates had learned. New barriers hummed with violet energy—force fields keyed to specific biological signatures. They’d scattered Chozo artifacts throughout the labyrinth, forcing her to hunt.

She made it three steps toward it when a golden energy beam sliced the air a foot from her face. She burst out of the complex just as

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.