Editing Samus Aran

===The X Infestation===

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====Return to SR388====

Some time after her return from the Bottle Ship, Samus is tasked with guarding a group of [[Biologic Space Labs Research Station|Biologic Space Labs research station]] employees who are studying the life-forms of SR388 now that the planet is devoid of Metroids.<ref>{{cite|I'd been assigned to watch over Biologic's research team, so I once again found myself on the surface of SR388.|Samus Aran|Metroid Fusion}}</ref> While exploring an underground cavern, Samus encounters and dispatches a [[Hornoad]] with a Missile before being infected by an unknown, amorphous organism known as an [[X Parasite]].<ref>{{cite|It was there that I was attacked by a life-form I had never encountered before. It was only later that I learned the identity of my attacker: the parasitic organism we now know as X. Unaware of my condition, I was returning to the station when disaster struck.|Samus Aran|Metroid Fusion}}</ref> As Samus begins to return to the B.S.L Research Station, the X infects her central nervous system, causing her to lose consciousness and control of her ship, which crashes into a nearby asteroid belt after ejecting an escape pod with Samus inside.<ref>{{cite|Once the X had infested my central nervous system, I lost consciousness and my ship drifted into an asteroid belt. The ship's emergency systems automatically ejected the escape pod before impact. Biologic's vessel recovered it and transported me to Galactic Federation HQ.|Samus Aran|Metroid Fusion}}</ref> B.S.L. employees find the pod and transport it to Galactic Federation headquarters, during which time the X multiplies inside Samus's body, leaving her in critical condition.<ref>{{cite|However, during the journey, the X multiplied within me, corrupting large areas of my Power Suit.|Samus Aran|Metroid Fusion}}</ref> Infected organic portions of Samus's suit are surgically removed, dramatically altering her physical appearance, but ultimately the X were too deeply embedded in her nervous system to be removed and she was given a minimal chance of survival.<ref>{{cite|It then came to light that the organic components of my Power Suit had become so integrated with my system that it could not be removed while I was unconscious. Large portions of my suit had to be surgically removed, dramatically altering my physical appearance. However, the X in my central nervous system were too embedded to be removed safely. I was given a minimal chance of survival.|Samus Aran|Metroid Fusion}}</ref> Shortly thereafter, a vaccine is developed from the DNA of the Metroid Hatchling to rid Samus of the X inside her body, granting her the ability to absorb the X to regain health and weapons.<ref>{{cite|Then, someone found a cure. They proposed using a Metroid cell to make an anti-X vaccine. It seems that the Federation had managed to preserve a cell culture from the last infant Metroid from SR388. The serum was prepared and injected without delay. The X parasites were immediately and completely destroyed. As for me, one life ended... yet I survived, reborn as something different. Pondering this fact, I realize... I owe the Metroid hatchling my life twice over.|Samus Aran|Metroid Fusion}}</ref> She also inherits the Metroids' weakness to cold.