Metroid: X

The Return Of Arachnus

Samus found herself in a cave that slowly changed colour and shape until it eventually revealed itself as the entrance to some ancient chozo ruins. She stood a few feet above the ground, the cave itself was littered with broken pillar columns and bits of the ceiling that had caved in. The walls were a rusted gold colour and glyphs of the old chozo language lined the walls. In the center of the room was a pile of debris which seemed to be covering something.
Samus jumped down and slowly walked up to the debris .

- the debris began shaking before suddenly being flung in all directions as something burst out from underneath! It was a dark green ball which unfolded as it landed, revealing itself to be an animal! It's body was covered in thick dark red skin and it's jaw was elongated .  Like Serris she had seen this creature before .

"Morphology: Arachnus X.  Target can curl into its shell for defence and possess several razor sharp claws for offensive measures.  The natural abilities of the Arachnus have been enhanced due to infection and it's hide can now withstand even more powerful impacts. Caution is advised "

Arachnus x rolled into its shell and charged at Samus just like their last fight . She jumped to the left and sent a super missile flying toward its face as it emerged. The creature roared and swiped its claws in the air sending a small energy wave outward. Samus screw attacked through the waves and toward arachnus, who responded by leaping at her while in its shell. The impact of the screw attack knocked it backwards and it landed in some debris. She grabbed it with the grapple beam and pulled it toward her before leaping above it as it smacked into a broken column , she hit its face with another super missile as it turned around which caused it to smack its head off the wall and fall onto the ground. She sprinted over to it and fired a charge shot into its left eye as it got up. 

Arachnus screamed and began to collapse inward on itself until its body gave away to the form of the core x that was possessing it.  This one was different from the last and it seemed to have a thicker and more durable shell. It flew around the room quickly and released multiple parasites into the air. Samus moved with speed that she never knew she was even capable of, ducking, rolling and jumping around the room almost as if she was taking part in a dance of death. She eliminated all of the x that had been spawned and set her sights on the core .

She fired missile after missile at it but its durable shell protected it each time. An orange patch glowed on its silver surface before firing a standard power beam shot without warning.

"It's integrated chozo weaponry into itself.. shit"

She fired a regular shot annihilator beam right as  she predicted the core would fire at her next, her timing paid off, as soon as the orange patch appeared her shot collided and released a shockwave that blasted apart the shell and finally exposed the x within!  She swiftly finished it off with another shot but right as it dissipated into the air, something fell onto the ground as the x died .

Samus walked over and was stunned when she realised what had been dropped.

"A Varia suit brain chip!. That's how the x was able to protect itself.  It merged with a varia suit!"

She picked up the chip and it instantly vanished as brown energy traveled up her arm and then surrounded her own suit. She was surrounded in a bright light for a moment before it too vanished and she was able to see with her own eyes what had happened. She looked down at her arm and then her chest and her arm cannon, her varia suit had been upgraded!  Her suit was now pink, with the chest and abdomen being brown coloured.

"Scans have revealed that the core x merged with the suit it absorbed and became one with the suit , resulting in the creation of a new type of armour.  This armour is now apart of your own .  The x suit seemingly gives off a unique energy signal that tells other parasites that this is one of them."

She chuckled and rolled her head back in delight.  "Theyre not even going to bother me anymore. Who would have thought fate would have been this favourable to me? "  

She turned toward the wall in the opposite direction of where she entered from and walked toward it , right as she was about to scan for a weakness the wall exploded and she was knocked back , suddenly being reminded of her first encounter with weavel.  She tried to raise her head but fell back down and moaned as she lost consciousness.