"Not important now, we've got a situation on our hands. Cortana will brief you." A blue hologram sprang to life on a control panel, projecting the four-inch tall woman the Master Chief knew so well.
"We've analyzed some samples of the Flood recently, which helped us to estimate the current situation happening on Gydydon IV. It's a small colony-planet we had been interested in for its possible resource harvesting." The Master Chief nodded, the hydraulics in his suit whispered before the artificial intelligence program continued. ;Two weeks ago they sent out a distress signal" visual was lost somehow, but the audio was simple enough: 'They're taking over the men, and then they're not human anymore.'"
"Sounds like the Flood to me." Said the Master Chief, hefting an SMG up onto his shoulder with a clank. "What do I do?" The Major gestured to a map projected onto the wall.
"The facility is on top of the planet's tallest mountain, on the eastern side of its mountain ranges. Our plan is to drop you and a team of marines onto the research facility, have you wipe the area, then extract you before the Flood can find a way off that planet and onto our residential areas on Katrinidon XI." Earth's poster child for the war against the Covenant saluted the Major, then made his way out to the waiting dropship...
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As the Master Chief's 5-man squad of marines began unloading their gear from the packs lining the sides of the squad's Warthog, another ship began its descent towards the doomed research facility. The crew paused in its un-packing, staring at the bright trail of heat given off by the approaching ship.
"Who do you think it is Master Chief?" Asked a younger marine, squinting towards the horizon. The marine caught himself leaning over a steep cliff face, and jumped back hurriedly.
"It's not answering hailing frequencies, and I don't recognize the ship on any of the military schematics." Answered Cortana from a speaker on the Master Chief's helmet. "Whatever it is, it's not one of ours."
"Think I should welcome it with one of these?" The marine replied, lifting a rocket launcher's scope to his eye. "I'll bet I can drop it before it even-" The marine's sentence was cut short as three inches of slimy black tubing ending in a series of teeth broke out of his forehead. The mouth pulled itself out from behind the marine's head and slid into a second mouth drooling with some kind of thick saliva. The Master Chief raised his rifle at the new strain of the flood and opened fire, splitting the things head apart in a spray of green blood. The blood splashed onto the four remaining marines and himself, burning into his suit and their skin with an audible hissing sound. Another marine sitting inside the Warthog was caught staring at the monster, causing his eyes to take a thin spray of its acidic blood. With a scream, he jerked inside the heavy vehicle's driver seat, sending it into reverse towards the cliff side. The Master Chief felt the bumper smash into his armored hip before feeling the ground fall out from under him, and everything went black.
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"Stupid marines, probably never seen a metroid in their lives, let alone knew what to expect with this new strain." Thought Samus Aran, emerging from the top of her ship. "They've been infected too by now, just adds more problems to the list." She hoped they would be dead when she got to them, or some kind of monsters; anything but talking or struggling. That was the worst, killing men when they didn't know it was an act of mercy. She had scanned the facility on her approach, between 40 and 50 things human-sized, and one seemingly dormant creature the size of her ship. It was keeping very still, though it seemed similar to the kinds of winged monsters she'd beaten before. She tried not to think about it as her suit scanned the doorway's control panel and opened it with a hiss.
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"Chief? Chief! On your feet soldier!" Cortana's voice seemed filled with concern, it made the chief chuckle as he got to his feet.
"You're awfully worked up for an AI." He said, looking up towards the cliff he had fallen from. The Warthog's smoldering chassis was beside him, only a foot from where his head had been.
"Your suit has enough battery life to keep me running for the next 2,000 years, maybe less if I feel like sending a distress signal or playing Solitaire. It'd rather not have that happen to me." The Master Chief chuckled as he began climbing up the rocky side of the mountain.
"Wait, wait" He panted, reaching towards the next rock that looked strong enough to hold him. "This suit plays Solitaire?"
The match: The Master Chief: Samus: VS. Aliens: Rodent King fucked around with this message on 04-12-2005 at 09:39 PM.
VS.
If any of you had seen me play AVP2 you'd agree wtih me.
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Did they say why, Ruvyen, why they want you to terminate my command?
The Master Chief all the way. I mean, he single-handedly destroyed an entire planet (Yes, Halo was a planet, synthetic or no). That pretty much trumps anything both Samus and the Aliens have done, and probably anything they can do.
Sadly, no. You are considering his achievements, but not his disadvantages in this melee.
Fact: Xenomorphs (hereafter: bugs) are faster, stealthier, and deadlier in close range. Even against his plasma sword, which is little more than a "HAY LOOK AT ME AS IF YOU COULDN'T SEE ME EASILY ENOUGH ALREADY" beacon to the bug threat.
Fact: Samus could kick his ass easily. Superior weaponry, superior mobility, and definitely superior intelligence.
Opinion: It's a brutal Samus/bug grudgematch, and you're simply a fanboy.
It's not something people hear about.
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Sean attempted to be funny by writing:
Sadly, no. You are considering his achievements, but not his disadvantages in this melee.Fact: Xenomorphs (hereafter: bugs) are faster, stealthier, and deadlier in close range. Even against his plasma sword, which is little more than a "HAY LOOK AT ME AS IF YOU COULDN'T SEE ME EASILY ENOUGH ALREADY" beacon to the bug threat.
Fact: Samus could kick his ass easily. Superior weaponry, superior mobility, and definitely superior intelligence.
Opinion: It's a brutal Samus/bug grudgematch, and you're simply a fanboy.
Yes, Samus does have superior weaponry. However, MC has energy shields that can take one hell of a beating, and they recharge on their own after only a few seconds of not being hit. Plus, Samus may have superior mobility as well, but she can't dodge an attack she doesn't know about. All MC needs is a sniper rifle.
At least we can rule out the Aliens. 
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Ruvyen had this to say about John Romero:
Yes, Samus does have superior weaponry. However, MC has energy shields that can take one hell of a beating, and they recharge on their own after only a few seconds of not being hit. Plus, Samus may have superior mobility as well, but she can't dodge an attack she doesn't know about. All MC needs is a sniper rifle.At least we can rule out the Aliens.
When I read the situation, it didn't seem like sniping would be an option...
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Sean said:
Sadly, no. You are considering his achievements, but not his disadvantages in this melee.Fact: Xenomorphs (hereafter: bugs) are faster, stealthier, and deadlier in close range. Even against his plasma sword, which is little more than a "HAY LOOK AT ME AS IF YOU COULDN'T SEE ME EASILY ENOUGH ALREADY" beacon to the bug threat.
Fact: Samus could kick his ass easily. Superior weaponry, superior mobility, and definitely superior intelligence.
Opinion: It's a brutal Samus/bug grudgematch, and you're simply a fanboy.
Your facts regarding the MC, are a little bit off. According to the books (which are canon) the MC's reflexes, strength and resilance are alot better than everything Samus or a group of xenomorphs have to offer.
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Your facts regarding the MC, are a little bit off. According to the books (which are canon) the MC's reflexes, strength and resilance are alot better than everything Samus or a group of xenomorphs have to offer.
Thank you! MC isn't human, at least not in the sense we think of human. He can easily outperform any Olympic athlete without his awesome armour. With Mjolnir Mark VI and Cortana to help him he'd make short work of Samus and Aliens. His new armour has better shield (recharge twice as fast as the Mark V and take more of a beating). Also Cortana could provide him tactical advice.
Heh... he'd probably just stick Samus, "Whoops, 'nade in your face."
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From the book of Tarquinn, chapter 3, verse 16:
Your facts regarding the MC, are a little bit off. According to the books (which are canon) the MC's reflexes, strength and resilance are alot better than everything Samus or a group of xenomorphs have to offer.
How are the Halo books anyway?
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Check out the big brain on Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael!
Depends on which Samus gear loadout we're talking. Basic suit, nah. She's in deep doodoo. If she's got the full loadout, though, Master Chief is facing all sorts of trouble. Formidable as he is, he can still only carry two weapons. In a protracted battle, all Samus has to do is keep mobile until Master Chief is forced to scramble for ammo, then she starts tossing freaky shit at him from her suit's loadout of weapons that don't need replenishing (the missiles are the only thing that don't regenerate or have unlimited ammo, as I recall)
I agree with 'Deth. Given a good loadout, Samus is going to win this one.
Master Chief is in REAL trouble if there's Chozo stuff on that planet. If Samus grabs a Morph Ball module, she's good to go. If Master Chief grabs it without knowing what it does... well, let's just say that his body isn't supposed to bend like that. Nasty way to die.
I've only played Halo 2.. And only once with my BF on his XBox.. I sucked at it. ESPECIALLY tried to drive those alien-shipamathings.
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A sleep deprived Alaan stammered:
How are the Halo books anyway?
No idea, haven't read them.
But I hangout alot at www.spacebattles.com, and there are quite a few Halo nerds there. I'd say the books are average game books. One book of the series is said to be rather boring, though.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about Tron:
Depends on which Samus gear loadout we're talking. Basic suit, nah. She's in deep doodoo. If she's got the full loadout, though, Master Chief is facing all sorts of trouble. Formidable as he is, he can still only carry two weapons. In a protracted battle, all Samus has to do is keep mobile until Master Chief is forced to scramble for ammo, then she starts tossing freaky shit at him from her suit's loadout of weapons that don't need replenishing (the missiles are the only thing that don't regenerate or have unlimited ammo, as I recall)
As formidable as Samus is with all her nice weapons, the Chief just needs one well-placed grenade or a rocket (they're guided now 
). Or if you really want to make things unfair, give the Chief active camo from Halo 1 and he could perform her coup-de-grace with his wang. After all, she can't target what she can't see!
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Alek rode by in a mouse drawn chariot while shouting:
As formidable as Samus is with all her nice weapons, the Chief just needs one well-placed grenade or a rocket (they're guided now). Or if you really want to make things unfair, give the Chief active camo from Halo 1 and he could perform her coup-de-grace with his wang. After all, she can't target what she can't see!
First of all, let's assume that she has the loadout from the end of Metroid: Prime.
She can take a grenade or rocket fairly easily. In fact, she's been getting smacked around by rockets launched by flying Space Pirates for quite some time before then, and had no problem with it.
Second, she has Thermal and X-Ray visors to deal with invisible foes. Master Chief wouldn't be the first target she's gone up against that tries that trick.
Third, she has the morph ball, and all its toys. Boost ball for speed, super bombs for heavy area of effect damage, and it allows her to fit into smaller areas than MC can. Perfect for hit and run tactics.
Fourth, many of her weapons will lock onto target and home in, even if the target tries to evade. It's nasty when the Wave beam or a missile does it. It's really nasty when a Super Missile does it. And if she switches to the continous plasma stream weapon and gets a lock on, he's screwed. And if, for some reason, there was a puddle of Phazon nearby, he'd be fucked up the ass sideways.
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Palador ChibiDragon obviously shouldn't have said:
First of all, let's assume that she has the loadout from the end of Metroid: Prime.She can take a grenade or rocket fairly easily. In fact, she's been getting smacked around by rockets launched by flying Space Pirates for quite some time before then, and had no problem with it.
Second, she has Thermal and X-Ray visors to deal with invisible foes. Master Chief wouldn't be the first target she's gone up against that tries that trick.
Third, she has the morph ball, and all its toys. Boost ball for speed, super bombs for heavy area of effect damage, and it allows her to fit into smaller areas than MC can. Perfect for hit and run tactics.
Fourth, many of her weapons will lock onto target and home in, even if the target tries to evade. It's nasty when the Wave beam or a missile does it. It's really nasty when a Super Missile does it. And if she switches to the continous plasma stream weapon and gets a lock on, he's screwed. And if, for some reason, there was a puddle of Phazon nearby, he'd be fucked up the ass sideways.
True, but you're assuming her weapons do what they do in the game, which by that train of thought MC just needs a headshot or a back attack. Also, he's a better strategist and tactician than Samus, exponentially so with Cortana on-board. Not to mention that Cortana could easily hi-jack any technology with computers in it, alien or otherwise.
Edit: MC wouldn't win by brute force, that's not his style. He'd win by tenacity and superior tactics. After all, if he relied on brute force, the Covenant would have kicked his ass a million times over. Alek fucked around with this message on 04-13-2005 at 01:16 PM.
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True, but you're assuming her weapons do what they do in the game, which by that train of thought MC just needs a headshot or a back attack. Also, he's a better strategist and tactician than Samus, exponentially so with Cortana on-board. Not to mention that Cortana could easily hi-jack any technology with computers in it, alien or otherwise.
Samus's suit also hacks technology, including alien tech. I would say they're at a stalemate there.
You can't discount the nastyness of Samus's lock-on weapons after making mention of MC's guided weapons.
As for the headshot or back attack, I think you underestimate the nastyness of Samus's armor. Also, there's plenty of armor in the back of her suit, if you've ever taken a good look at it. If he managed a shot right through the visor, he might take her out. But I notice his faceplate/visor is alot bigger and easier to hit than hers is...
And finally, her longrange sensors warn her of large scale hazards and details, while her short range scanner can actually pinpoint weaknesses in objects, machines, and lifeforms. That, plus her experience (don't forget, she was such a nasty bounty hunter that in the first game they sent her to Planet Zebes totally solo) makes me think that they're on par for tactics.
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Palador ChibiDragon wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
First of all, let's assume that she has the loadout from the end of Metroid: Prime.She can take a grenade or rocket fairly easily. In fact, she's been getting smacked around by rockets launched by flying Space Pirates for quite some time before then, and had no problem with it.
Second, she has Thermal and X-Ray visors to deal with invisible foes. Master Chief wouldn't be the first target she's gone up against that tries that trick.
Third, she has the morph ball, and all its toys. Boost ball for speed, super bombs for heavy area of effect damage, and it allows her to fit into smaller areas than MC can. Perfect for hit and run tactics.
Fourth, many of her weapons will lock onto target and home in, even if the target tries to evade. It's nasty when the Wave beam or a missile does it. It's really nasty when a Super Missile does it. And if she switches to the continous plasma stream weapon and gets a lock on, he's screwed. And if, for some reason, there was a puddle of Phazon nearby, he'd be fucked up the ass sideways.
Couldn't have put it better myself
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Alaan had this to say about Duck Tales:
How are the Halo books anyway?
First and 3rd ones rock. The 2nd one is filler mostly, but kinda usefull.
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Alaan enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
How are the Halo books anyway?
I rather enjoyed The Fall of Reach which details the time between the beginning of the Mjolnir program and the time they jump to Halo.
You're also assuming that Samus has afull loadout.
As soon as she lands there will be some catastrophic explosion and/or new metroid that will destroy/steal all but her basic suit and laser. Dr. Gee fucked around with this message on 04-13-2005 at 02:42 PM.
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Nobody really understood why Rodent King wrote:
To clarify, him falling off the cliff was a plot point to get him away from the marines being killed. I didn't think the Master Chief would get sent out on his own for this kind of mission, but I didn't want to make the match unfair by having the marines around. He's climbing up the cliff to get into the building. (Probably a different entrance, use your imagination.) The facility is essentially the standard futuristic environments seen in most Aliens movies. (Lots of air ducts for aliens and Samus-sized balls to go through.)
It seems to me then that the MC is at a serious disadvantage here. But lets look at the facts. If Samus is given every upgrade, what's to say that MC does not have his, active camo and the overshield, and is given his weapons of choice, which would probably be the rocket/battle rifle (this is to say no alien tech). The recharging shields give him a serious advantage over samus's armour, but the thing is that she has only a finite ammount of health. With even a little cover, the MC would be fully ready to fight again, with the missles blasting either pillars, or some a wall of some sort. Going by the book also, thermal vision can do nothing, as the MC's Mjolnir armour can change it's temperature. With Cortana with him, Spartan 117 would easily beat Samus.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Alt-F4 said:
The recharging shields give him a serious advantage over samus's armour, but the thing is that she has only a finite ammount of health.
I was wondering when someone would mention this...
You forget the third party in this little fight, the Xenomorphs. They will fall before Samus easily, and her Chozo-crafted armor absorbs residual life force left behind by things she has killed. (Yes, Samus's armor is somewhat vampiric.)
With the aliens around, she also has a ready source of power to recharge from.
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Palador ChibiDragon had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
I was wondering when someone would mention this...You forget the third party in this little fight, the Xenomorphs. They will fall before Samus easily, and her Chozo-crafted armor absorbs residual life force left behind by things she has killed. (Yes, Samus's armor is somewhat vampiric.)
With the aliens around, she also has a ready source of power to recharge from.
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Rodent King Model 2000 was programmed to say:
She had scanned the facility on her approach, between 40 and 50 things human-sized, and one seemingly dormant creature the size of her ship.
Doesn't seem there would be enough to keep her going as long as those shields can. It also means that she would have to go out of her way to kill the Xenomorphs, with the MC hot on her heels.
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Doesn't seem there would be enough to keep her going as long as those shields can. It also means that she would have to go out of her way to kill the Xenomorphs, with the MC hot on her heels.
I will admit that I'm not too clear on just how well MC's shields will hold up against her weapons. It's possible that it might not be enough.
However, it's not just a case of having to hunt them down. Xenomorphs are fairly agressive. Both Samus and MC will have to fight them off, she'll just be getting a recharge out of it at the same time.
Also, something I had forgotten: The wave beam has some interesting abilities. When charged, it homes in on the target. It passes through solid objects to hit the target. And it disrupts energy. If a couple hits from that make it through MC's shields, he might be in more trouble than expected.
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Nobody really understood why Palador ChibiDragon wrote:
I will admit that I'm not too clear on just how well MC's shields will hold up against her weapons. It's possible that it might not be enough.However, it's not just a case of having to hunt them down. Xenomorphs are fairly agressive. Both Samus and MC will have to fight them off, she'll just be getting a recharge out of it at the same time.
Also, something I had forgotten: The wave beam has some interesting abilities. When charged, it homes in on the target. It passes through solid objects to hit the target. And it disrupts energy. If a couple hits from that make it through MC's shields, he might be in more trouble than expected.
But wouldn't the Xenomorph be more of a problem in the first place? I would think that both of them would wait to fight each other until all the Xenomoprhs are killed, then go back to fighting each other.
edit: IMO it would be a kick ass fight, MC vs Samus. Alt-F4 fucked around with this message on 04-13-2005 at 03:24 PM.
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Alt-F4 was listening to Cher while typing:
But wouldn't the Xenomorph be more of a problem in the first place? I would think that both of them would wait to fight each other until all the Xenomoprhs are killed, then go back to fighting each other.edit: IMO it would be a kick ass fight, MC vs Samus.
Nah, I'm pretty sure they both can plow through Xenomorphs with no problem. Samus's basic weapon has a high rate of fire, does good damage, and has killer range. I would say a few normal shots or one charged shot of that will kill one. And if a flamethrower can take one out, then her plasma beam will really rip through them. I'm sure MC has his own way of killing them just as fast.
In a melee, it would be extremely close. Close enough for any non-dead xenomorph to effortlessly pwn the victor, unless they both make sure to kill them all first. However, I'd have to say MC wins this one. Samus may have all kinds of crazy energy weapons, but I'll bet she doesn't have much defense against a shotgun to the face.
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Meow meow meow meow. Meow meow meow meow. Meow meow meow meow Ruvyen meow meow meow.
Once again, all MC needs is a sniper rifle. If there's one person in the universe that can take out Samus from an extremely long distance with a single bullet, it's the Master Chief.
That's a big "if".
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael probably says this to all the girls:
Couldn't have put it better myself
I concur.
