The next ten minutes were a blur of desperate, citrus-colored terror. Yuzu couldn’t slide through one-tile gaps—she was too round. She couldn’t destroy the central power cores—she had no beams. All she had was speed and a surprisingly tough shell.
She activated her comms.
Yuzu, still glowing faintly, bobbed to the surface of the rising lava. Her shell was scorched black in places, but intact. She floated to a service ladder, uncurled, and shook off the droplets. yuzu metroid dread
Her mission, uploaded by the Thoha colony before the signal went dark, was simple: Locate and extract rare X-parasite biomass for vaccine synthesis. But the colony was dead. And something else was hunting.
Yuzu did the only thing her programming allowed. She curled into a perfect sphere—not to roll, but to reflect . The next ten minutes were a blur of
She looked at the melted E.M.M.I., then at the faint, distant blip on her scanner marking the X-parasite’s new hiding spot.
The E.M.M.I. cornered her in a magma-chamber. The door behind her hissed shut. The red eye glowed. The face-plate opened. All she had was speed and a surprisingly tough shell
"Thoha command? I found your missing unit. Tell them… the yuzu is ripe."