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It’s been a fairly boring day for the galaxy trotting bounty hunter, Samus Aran. She’d been on a bit of a break from saving the galaxy and elected to take a little job helping a local scientist on the Irenis space station. Apparently he needed some information on the various life forms here, and it was just dangerous enough to justify paying someone for help. Not like she was complaining though, really did beat fighting for her life.
She’d be propped against a nearby tree, watching the man in a lab coat poke and prod at the latest subject they’d sedated, taking various tissue and other samples to properly process at the lab. She wasn’t exactly one to let her guard down, but admittedly they’d done quite well on avoiding trouble. Eventually she’d feel the call of nature hit, and while usually she’d have her suit set up for long terms within it to avoid leaving undefended, she figured there wasn’t much concern with this job so alas she kinda had to worry a little. “Scream if something spooks you.” Samus calls, starting from her speaker on the helmet before her unprocessed voice is heard, back of her suit opening up allowing her to step out. The scientist merely nods and soon Samus was off!
As she’s concluding her business a distance away, Samus can’t help but feel naked. Apart from well, having ditched her zero suit and all. Definitely wanted to finish and get back to the suit. Just as she was cleaned up and ready to leave, the feeling of being naked gets even worse when she hears a noise behind her. Whipping around, her eyes widen as she spots a large, six legged, three eyed reptile the size of a car rush out from the woods charging towards her, mouth opening far wider than she figured it could, like a crocodile in structure.
She’d leap up and manage to just barely get stop it, taking a running leap and jumping again, landing with a soft grunt from her, cursing herself for not keeping her bra on in the process. She didn’t have much time to think of that though as the creature turns around, green scales glinting in the sun, tail whipping around as a large nodule on the end suddenly bursting in Samus’ direction, just a bit too quickly for her to completely dodge, the sticky fluid getting all over her face and body, a stinging sensation crossing over every point of contact, muscles numbing with each passing second. It made her unfortunately an easy target as the creature charged again.
Samus’s sidestep to try and get to her suit ending with her falling into the mud and that big maw wrapped around her, though instead of a chomp and death, instead the creature begins to pull her inward whole, the numbing of her muscles spread to her legs as she tried to kick at the interior, mouth failing to get open to actually shout for the scientist to get his ass over here. Down the slimy sticky passage of this creature’s throat she went, more of the fluid from that nodule covering her now. It squeezed and constricted her in ways that Samus couldn’t help but admit she found hot, though she couldn’t exactly consider jilling it to this at the moment, instead she’d vainly try struggling though it felt like it only made things worse for her as more of that fluid would cost her with each minuscule movement. Then, the passage would open up to drop her in what had to be its stomach, now Samus forced into a fetal position. Even with her Chozo DNA, there wasn’t a lick of light to try and make out the inside of this place. Perhaps she considered herself lucky as she struggled to move her head or lift her arms.
In the outside, the scientist that Samus was escorting had wandered over where she had been swallowed, now finding the reptile resting peacefully nearby, curled up almost like a dog, its belly bulging from the size of its meal. He’d smile and with a scanner in hand would point it at the reptile. Sure, maybe it’s unethical, but hey. Data is data, right?
To Samus it might not be much of a consolation as its stomach was starting to squeeze and compress, any free space that wasn’t taken up by her was starting to be flooded with this thing’s stomach acid, already her body starting to loose definition, though despite this it would take far longer before anything major happens so for the next couple hours she was stuck hoping that the numbness across her body would cease so she could start kicking. Not the first time she’s had to get out of something’s stomach, after all. Sadly for her, it doesn’t seem to have any sort of ebb to it, Samus losing hope quickly as she starts to feel her limbs begin to melt away. The scanner was giving off plenty of interesting readings, patterns in this thing’s mind almost looks like it’s psionic in some capacity, or at least it seemed to have a brain larger than it should ever be for its size. So at least someone was happy.
Six hours later, poor Samus was no more, all that remained was a thick mush of dissolved nutrients and fat with a few bones floating within, a human skull most notably. And that mush was soon pushed through the reptile’s body and stripped of any useful nutrients before being expelled in a forest clearing not too dissimilar to where Samus had been ambushed before, a human skull topping the fresh pile. The scientist was surprised at how easily that happened, but when he was concluding his scans he noticed the strangest thing. The portion of its brain matter that seemed unused in a manner like a psionic when not actively using its abilities, was now lighting up like something was going on, and from what he was seeing it was like a second mind was now present. This… Gave him an idea. It might take a bit though, alas.
Six months later, and an egg incubator later, Samus would find herself in an… Odd situation. She’d died, clearly, yet she wasn’t! Because she was alive.
Only problem? Instead of a pile of shit on a planet, or walking away with a handful of credits as a human, she was in the body of one of the things that ate her.
“…Samus, I am quite sorry.” The scientist says. It was clear he didn’t care, but between the glass wall of the cage she was kept in and the fact her body was still only six months old it wasn’t like she could act on what she wanted to do to him. Leaving her to die, get eaten, clearly didn’t do anything since he knew the exact one that ate her, and worst of all, she was pretty sure she was a male whatever that thing is, so that’s great.
Welp. At least the food tastes alright. She’ll get her revenge. Assuming she doesn’t get pawned off to a zoo.