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Kaleth sat quietly, not moving a great deal, in fact he hadn't hardly moved or said much of anything the entire trip, sitting stoically in the passenger compartment of the shuttle which was ferrying himself and another hunter to the target destination, the vessel the two of them would use was still in dry dock currently and was not quite ready yet, thus he sat impassively, with only the strange biomechanical organism sitting across from him, a product of his people's ingenuity and the Federation's resources, reminiscent of the Aurora Units, but far more sophisticated(and less likely to be corrupted by Phazon, though the possibility of that substance causing any problems didn't exist anymore).

In truth, while he'd been briefed, his own government had told him to be suspicious of the Fed's motives, the story they'd given Kaleth as to why Samus had gone rogue and why he and the creation of the joint research agreement were after her...something about it didn't add up, all he knew was that Samus had apparently stolen technology, including research on Metroids, and blown the station and SR-388 to hell, but the whole thing felt so out of character for the legendary bounty hunter that he and his government had felt something was really off about the story.

There was something, that the Federation was not telling them, which of course could be anything and for the most part they could be telling the full truth, no way to find out but to find the bounty hunter herself, both of them had order's to incapacitate, not kill at any cost. Which was definitely going to make thing's much harder, but order's were orders, the Federation wanted Aran back alive, a corpse wasn't going to tell them much of anything.

Then there was the other thing that bothered him about the situation, his superior's had told him that something was going on in the politics of the Feds, something carefully concealed...but it was heated, whatever it was, there was turmoil beneath the normally placid appearing waves of the Federation, tides that could suck you under in a heartbeat, but all intelligence had been able to say was it had to do with Samus, as for what...

Was anyone's guess really, he grunted, the first sound he'd made in over two hours, the sound that of satisfaction as the pilot informed them they'd arrived at Mirran, an oceanic world, which evidently Samus had fled to and even more interestingly...contained Chozo ruins, that had been undiscovered before, a flush of excitement and some fear surged through the Kriteans, Samus would be alright as the ruins would recognize her as Chozo(despite her human heritage, she had enough Chozo blood for the avian races technology to treat her like one, but as a human at the same time, which spoke volumes of how advanced the tech was).

For him and 'Project Scyla'(Scyla for short of course) it would be more interesting, as the ruins would likely tag them as intruder's, and if they had any automated defenses...things could get hot, really fast, though Kaleth reacted to this prospect as phlegmatically as he did a lot of other things, as if it was all another day at work, he rarely reacted to a lot of things in his job with an extreme emotional response.

Which he hoped would be a soothing, balancing force for Scyla, as the young A.I. had the mind of a very young child, very very advanced and developed in other respects but...emotionally, it would be good for her that Kaleth was a stoic, quiet individual not given to emotional outbursts, and spoke only when he felt it was important to do so, some thought he was aloof and standoffish, but the truth was Kaleth just frequently didn't have anything of value to say.

He felt the shuttle dive underwater and then broke the silence "Are you ready?"

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