Games - SA-X

	Games - SA-X

The SA-X (pronounced ess-ay ex) is a fictional video game character in Nintendo's Metroid Fusion.

The SA-X is an X Parasite that copied Samus Aran's abilities on one of her trips to SR388 and dwelled within her until it was surgically and bilogically removed. The SA-X's name means that is an X copy of Samus. The letters S, A, and X stand for Samus Aran and X (as in "X Parasite" or representing an unknown or different version), respectively. The infected Power Suit was transported to a B.S.L. Research Station in orbit above SR388. But it escaped its containment cell using one of Samus' Power Bombs and set free all the X Parasites in the Quarantine Bay. Samus was sent to the station to find all crew members dead and the X infesting several sections of the station. Her initial investigations accidentally allowed the X access to some of the breeding environments by releasing security locks. Subsequently, the SA-X manipulated Samus by destroying doors and wreaking havoc in certain areas to release all the security locks and allow the X Parasites access to all breeding areas.

During the course of the game, Samus discovers a secret laboratory on the station that is cultivating Metroids, which the SA-X promptly destroys. After the lab is detached from the station with the SA-X on board, Adam, Samus' computerized CO, explains that the SA-X has been reproducing and that now there are over ten.

The SA-X is extremely dangerous in close combat, mimicking Samus at the height of her powers. It is equipped with the Screw Attack and Space Jump, and fires beam shots appearing to be a combination of the Plasma, Ice, and Wave beams. It cannot be damaged by Samus until the final fight against the SA-X, and the only method of combat usable against it is to fire Ice Missiles to slow it down while running for cover.

Samus prevails over another SA-X in close combat, which morphed into a large monster after several Charge Beam shots. After the SA-X physical form, monster and Core-X are destroyed, the parasitic SA-X escapes before she can absorb it (as she did other X Parasites). This SA-X resurfaces a short time later, after Samus had set the B.S.L. station on a collision course, during Samus' final battle with the Omega Metroid, when Samus is about to be killed. The SA-X fends off the Omega Metroid but is then fatally wounded, returning it to its parasitic state. It is then absorbed by Samus, which fused with her original power with her new fusion suit abilities and completes her. This new suit, the Omega Suit, now colored in her trademark orange, yellow, and red, also finally gives back Samus's Ice Beam. Using her newly restored power, she defeats the Omega Metroid using the Ice Beam and clears the way. The computerized CO, with the help of the Etecoons and Dachoras, pilot Samus' ship to pick her up before the station crashes into the SR388, eliminating any X Parasites on it (and therefore all the existing SA-X).

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