A/N: Alright! Next chapter. R&R.

Disclaimer: I don't own Metroid or Mass Effect... but I'm working on it.

Metroid Effect: Zero

Chapter 1- Find of the Century

Location: Unknown

Time: approximately 50,000 years before Saren's attack on the Citadel

The sun shined on the three lifeless planets in orbiting around it. The darkness of space around them was silent. Near one of the planets a hole began to grow. Colors pouring out; lighting the darkness around it with color it had never known. The hole grew until it was big enough for a small ship.

Samus' ship shot out of the portal, spinning and shaking, trying to maintain some control of the ship. Electricity sparked off areas of the ship's hull. The portal had been more unstable than expected. The ship was holding together, but barely.

Samus groaned, slowly opening her eyes. What the hell happened? Feels like I got ran over by a train. Wait scratch that, getting ran over by a train is more pleasant than how I'm feeling. Samus looked around the cockpit, the damage was massive. Nearly all consoles were shorting out, or there was no power going to them.

"Computer, stats report," groaned Samus. A soft beep came for the back of the small ship, drawing Samus' eyes behind the chair she was in. That's not a good sign. Internal speaker are out. With this Samus dragged herself out of the chair, toward the computer room. She opened the door and grabbed the emergence headset.

"Computer, stats report," spoke Samus into the mic.

"Stats," replied the computer in a feminine tone, "Damage to ship greater than expected. Portal was massively unstable. All secondary functions are offline. Leaking atmosphere. Power line to ship engines, damaged. Navigation, damaged. Energy to mass converter, online. Onboard fuel converter, online. Power core, online. Fuel supply, 20 % max and dropping."

"Just great," hissed Samus grabbing her side. Think I broke a rib. Or all of them. This wasn't how Samus wanted to start this fun journey. Good thing the Luminoth though ahead and isolated some of the systems. But that didn't change the fact that the ship was running out of fuel, she was running out of air, and she can't land anywhere with the engines off line.

"Computer, how much fuel would be needed to fix the leak?"

"Approximately five percent. Lines from power core to energy-to-mass converter are online," chimed the AI.

"How about to getting the engines up and running?"

"Fuel would be at 5%."

That's going to cut it close, thought Samus.

"Is there a planet nearby that could be used for creating fuel," plead Samus.

"Checking," voiced the AI. "Planet with necessary gases in atmosphere found. Short distance to travel. Fuel needed would cost 3%."

"Good. Start the stasis pod, use emergency energy in pod first and only recharge if needed. Next begin repairs on fuel leak after which fix the engines." Samus leaned on the door frame to the computer core, hand on her forehead. "After that, move to the planet in question and begin fuel production, and also began work on the rest of the repairs at safe fuel levels. Once all repairs are done and 75% of fuel tank is filled, wake me up."

"Understood. Do you want estimate time for repairs?"

"No," stated Samus. With that she pushed herself off the door frame and made her way to the back of the ship; to the stasis pod. The pod was much like the one the Luminoth were placed into during the war with the Ing. She could sleep for a thousand years in this pod and it would only feel like a few minutes.

Samus pushed a few buttons on the stasis pod, and it hissed. Slowly opening itself to allow Samus to step into to its cold grip. Samus laid down in the pod and as it slowly closed around her. The lid closed and she felt her senses began to slow. Her breathe slowed down; her heart beat slowed to a gentle rhyme. Soon sleep grabbed hold of her. From there all active slowed until it seemed to disappear.

And Samus slept. While the rest of the galaxy screamed in agony.

Location: Newly found system, aboard Salarian Frigate.

Date: 2033 CE

The Salarian frigate moved lazy through space. The ship had been sent by the Council to explore and discovery any resources or habitable planets in this newly discovered system. The small frigate was small enough, and most of technology on the ship was a good fifty years old, that most pirates won't waste the time to try to rob them. The exploration of the system was to last for about a month. From there they would document what they had found to the Council. Sure, this took longer, but after the Rachni Wars, it was better to be safe than sorry.

"We have arrived in the system Captain," spoke one of the crewmen.

"Good," replied Captian Solus. "Began scan of system. I want number of planets, their size, and basic atmosphere."

"Yes, Captain," and with that the crew of about 30 got to work. The tapping of keyboards, the occasion chatter between the crew to compare resolutes. The crew worked quickly and quietly; an hour past before basic resolutes were done. "Sir there are only three planets in the system. The largest of which is a gas planet, near the outer edge of the system. The other two are small planets, with the second one from the sun seems to have basic plant life that's just start within, maybe, the last century"

"Good, good," replied Solus quickly, "Let's start with the gas planet. Get gas components, see if there is anything that could be used."

The small frigate moved toward the gas planet, gaining a large orbit around the planet, when the ship's alarms went off.

"What's going on," yell the Captain.

"Sir we detected a small ship," replied one of the crewmen.

Solus moved quickly to scan terminal, looking over the crewmen stationed there. "What's the size of the ship? Is it pirates?"

"Um, no sir. We didn't get the reading until we got near the planet. The power levels, are low. If the ship's sensors weren't top of the line, we would have missed it until someone did a full scan of the planet."

Captain Solus pondered this for a moment. "Is it in a orbit around the planet or on the planet?"

"Well, um," the young Salarian rubbed his hands together, becoming extremely nerves. Some of the other crew stopped what they were doing, listen to the conversation. Finally he spoke up, "If I'm reading this right, its um, in orbit inside the atmosphere."

With that everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at the him. The air became still, no noise was made at all. Finally one of the engineers spoke up.

"You're joking, right? The mass effect drive need to do that would have to be massive."

"I'm not lying," yelled the Salarian scanner. "I'm just telling you what the ship is reading!"

"Quite, both of you," Solus replied calmly. He quickly proceeded to another station, looking at the crewmen sitting there. "Send a probe to get an actuate reading."

"Um , yes-s… yes sir," he replied. He quickly pushed a few buttons; Getting coordinates for this, so called ship. "Probe sent."

With that everything went silent again. Seconds seem to pass by like minutes. No one making a sound; afraid of breaking the very atmosphere of the ship.

"Scan resolutes in, there is a ship in orbit inside the atmosphere. Amazing."

The Captain's eyes grew wide, well wider then usually. This find was huge. This ship was far more advance then any ship in Citadel space. This could be a completely new race or it could even be a Prothean ship!

"Captain, should I sent a transmission to the Council on this find," replied the Salarian in charge of communications.

Solus stopped and began to think. Council needs to know of this, however transmission could be hacked. Too big of a risk. Couldn't defend the ship if we needed to. No weapons. Go back and get a fleet? NO! Waste too much time, someone else could take ship before we get back. What to do? What to do?

"Um, sir," Solus turned to look at the Salarian that had spoken up. "We could take it we us."

"Excuse me?"

"The ship is about the size of shuttle ship, sir. We could easily put it in the cargo hold."

Half the crew stared in awe at the ship that laid in the cargo hold. They had to eject about two thirds of the cargo, but it was worth it. The ship was small, could hold about two to maybe six people. The ship was mostly orange in color, with stripes of red on the wings to the sides of the main body of the ship. The front of the ship had a massively large window when compared to the rest of the ship; green in color.

"Men," shouted Captain Solus. "We are about to go down in history! We have found the biggest find of the century!"

With that the crew went into cheers, hurrying to their stations to prepare for the return trip back to the Citadel. A smile spread across Solus' face. Never had he been as happy as he was now. He made one last glance at the ship, and then began to making his way up to the bridge.

A/N: Sweet! Another Chapter done. Short then want I originally going to do, but felt like i stop at a good spot. hope the pacing was better too. ALSO. hey we meet Mordin's Great-great-grandpa( or something along those lines). As you can guess, I suck at going up with names, but for this chapter who CAREs. I used Solus because it was far enough back in time that i could get away with it. And before another complains that Samus could die of old age before the events of Mass Effect, lat me say... DON"T WORRY ABOUT IT. I already have the whole story planned out, for the most part. This is a prequel for Metroid Effect.

Till Next time, stay sane

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