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“Lady”
His voice, no not Adam’s voice, the robotic voice of Adam, a friend long passed pulls her out of her train of thought
“Yes Adam?” she responds turning her head towards the computer
“Are you going to open the crate?”
Ah yes the crate, a rather large package sent by the federation, big enough to fit a person, definitely big enough to fit a person bigger than her, sitting now in her living room, she stands just a foot away in her zero suit, her living room modest, just like the rest of her small house on a remote planet, far away from any problems, a relaxing place where she can talk with Adam when she’s not needed to save the galaxy, the few times that she does get to be here it brings her peace, but now with the package in her living room she’s filled with unease.
“Yes Adam” she responds and nods deciding to open the crate, putting her uneasy thoughts of a trap behind, she trusts Adam to activate her suit remotely and have it on standby just incase this is some sort of trap, after what happened on ZDR, the dread never really left her, it doesn’t help that she spends time every night fixated on her scars from her temporary transformation into a metroid, three scars one on her stomach, the other one on her side, and one on her back, her mind has never been steady since then, despite all the reassurance Adam, that sweet computer can muster, she still feels uneasy.
“Its a rather large box, someone could fit in it, your suit is ready incase” as she predicted, Adam thinks of everything
“Thank you Adam.”
She steps forward finally, and slowly in no hurry at all begins to punch in the code the federation sent with the box to open it.
A few long moments and the box begins to open, the side of it that's facing her sliding upwards like a door, and as it opens her eyes widen and she lets out a gasp.
Standing within the box is what appears to be for all intensive purposes Adam Malkovich himself, dressed in his officers uniform, but more curiously partly robotic Adam Malkovich.
Part of his left cheek and extending down his neck, is metal plating, and his right arm seems to be a robotic arm now, but the rest of what she can see of him is Adam, looking just the way he did the day she lost him.
Her brows furrow when the shock wears off, is the federation mocking her in some way, rather rudely she says to the computer console on the wall next to her across from her couch “Adam analyze this shit, what the hell is going on!?”
The computer doesn’t respond for a few moments and Samus takes a step back, frozen by the sheer gravity of the situation, seeing an old dead friend like this, her fight or flight has taken over and she is frozen, if its some form of trap she’s fighting it in her zero suit “Adam!” she calls to the computer, no response.
After just a few seconds more Adam, the figure at least that represents Adam in front of her opens his eyes, fluttering slowly as if he is real
“S-s-s-Samus” the man mutters as if trying to learn to talk, he begins to move his limbs slowly trying to get his bearings.
Samus is starting to feel even more afraid, the man has Adam’s voice, not the robotic voice from the computer, no this sounds like Adam
“T-trying t-to g-get bearings, haven’t f-felt in awhile” he speech is starting to get better as he steps out of the crate, and then his mouth controls, a few ways at first before finally reaching a smile
Samus finally starts to understand she looks at the computer and then back at Adam “they gave you a body Adam?”
Adam continues to smile at her, “to gaze at you with real eyes again……..its a pleasure i had forgotten” he tries to take another step and stumbles slightly catching himself
“The federation…….” Samus mutters "they're playing God now?”
Adam waits a few moments as if trying to figure out how then chuckles “No, everything I feel is simulated, I could never be completely real, but im damn close” then a few more moments of looking at her as if drinking in the sight of her through real eyes “this cost my whole inheritance, life insurance, and a lot of funding from my family” he says with a smile, trying to alleviate the mood, as Samus looks like she’d strike at him at any moment.
“your’e…….. Adam i find this hard to believe” she regards him for a moment and then finally asks quietly “why?”
He doesn’t answer right away, instead he steps forward and reaches out to hug her, she hesitates but doesn't pull away, and he wraps his arms around her, she doesn't move, doesn't hug him back, just stands there still in shock for a long while, until Adam pulls away slightly, grabbing both her arms gently he smiles warmly at her and says “happy birthday”
Samus’s eyes widened, for a few moments, then her eyes slowly narrowed “you remembered?” Adam had never mentioned her birthday since he had died and became the computer, and tears started to well in her eyes.
“You’ve told me before, despite your preference to work alone, you have longed companionship, i figured for you birthday i’d give you that companionship back” Adam says as he quickly reaches a hand up using his thumb to wipe away a tear that had escaped her right eye
“Oh Adam” she says quietly and brings her hands up, her gloved zero suit hands reach up slowly and rest on his cheeks.
Adam flinches when he gets touched, and a look of concern flits over Samus’s face, he quickly reassures her “Sorry lady, not used to feeling yet, or this artificial heart pumping in my chest or just having a body, it’ll take me some time.
She giggles slightly, she never laughs, Adam is the only person who's ever heard a laugh other than the Chozo that raised her “we have time, we have time” she says with a smile, she’s the happiest she’s been since ZDR.
“You’ve been so bothered by ZDR” he says “I figured it’d help put your mind at ease about being human, Chozo, and a little metroid if you have a cyborg roaming around your house.”
“My mind is far from at ease” she says with a little playfulness still smiling her eyes wandering over her face “im not supposed to get a happy ending, im not the type of person to get one, try not to explode on me”
Adam chuckles lightly in response, his arms weaving around her waist “anything else you’d like to add before we figure out how to be happy for once?”
“Yes” she replies “im going to kiss you, any objections, Adam?”
His response comes quickly “None at all, lady”
Her gloved hands on his face, his arms around her waist they both lean in and kiss, a wonderful long awaited kiss.