Grand Finale! Samus vs Raziel

Arena: Chaotica - The universal remainder. This is the place where all physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, orderly and chaotic aspects of the universe go when they can no longer be accomodated by the very fabric of existence. This is where all of the pieces of the universal puzzle that are either not needed, or don't fit, end up. The actual visualization of such a place is impossible to precisely determine. It is a whirling mass of locales, events and people. One second, the combatants could be fighting against one another in the midst of an alien war that never actually took place. The next second, they could wind up fighting in an upscale, New York restaurant that was never constructed. There is no geography, symmentry or reason to Chaotica. To find yourself here means to be expelled from everything. To find yourself here means ultimate exile.

In the Red corner, the Chozo's prophsied Defender, the armor-clad star-berserker, from Metroid: Samus Aran!!!

And in the Blue Corner, the first of Kain's lieutenants, the plane-shifting soul-devourer, from Soul Reaver: Raziel!!!

Our two combatants don't recieve the courtesy of an approach. They simply find themselves whisked away to the swarming, turbulent mass of the universal remainder, standing what could be ten feet from one another, or two miles from one another. Regardless, they are fully aware of each other's presence. Each one sizes up the other, taking note of their obvious advantages, and structuring their first moves around them. As the maelstrom of Chaotica whirls around them, suddenly, their locale is locked: they find themselves atop a giant tower with a perfectly flat, circular top, constrcuted possibly miles into the sky, rising above the cloud line. Their battle surface is no more than 500 feet in diameter. It won't be long, however, before the instability of Chaotica transports them to a vastly different location. Wasting no time, both instantly make their first moves, and the Grand Finale begins...

Space jump, blah blah blah, screw attack, blah blah blah, miles in the sky don't matter to Samus, blah blah blah, so yeah.

[A VERY interesting arguement WetWired.... Thank you SOOOOO much for showing us your AMAZING intelligence.


The world shifts so much, isn't it possible for someone a mile in the air, to suddenly be on the ground? Or, if a building suddenly shifts where Raziel is standing, he's protected by the top of it.


To win this, some aeril manovering by Samus could be used, but I think a ground battle would work nicely.


Samus had a slight advantage. She has long-range weaponry. A ton of it. Raziel has his little Force Projectiles. They wouldn't be enought to win, when facing Samus' arsenal.

He would have to devise a way to get near her to use his Reavers. With the world changing, he could be very near her, ready to strike. And then he might be fifty feet away from her.

How would Spectral Shift work here? Would he be able to switch to it and stay there? Or would he sort of switch back and forth?

It'd be interesting to see how the spectral realm looks in a place like this.

I have a question. When Raziel returns to the material realm, can he choose where to return, or is it preditermined by his former location based upon (or not) his movement in the spectral realm?

If he has the ability to choose where he returns, then he is at a major advantage, as he has the ability to teleport for all practical purposes. If he does not have the ability, then he either returns where he shifted or to a translation of where he shifted based upon his movement. In either situation, I would have to question whether or not his phyical location would be the same.

Example:
They are fighting on a tower. Raziel shifts to heal. He comes back without the ability to choose where he goes. (Either he is in the same place, or he is say... 10 feet forward, as he decided to walk 10 feet forward in the spectral realm.) Is he still on top of the tower, or does he have the same X,Y,Z coordinates as before? If the setting has shifted to a moon of Saturn, is Raziel 30 feet from Samus as he was before?

I would find it hard to believe that he would still be standing on the tower that may have never existed in the first place, but these are not my laws of physics...

No, Bob, Raziel requires the use of a "shift point" in the Spectral Realm in order to shift back into the Material Realm. He can shift into Spectral whenever and wherever he wants, but shifting out of the Spectral Realm requires a shift point.

So, he can essentially teleport, it's just that he'll always teleport to the same place.

Oh, and considering that time doesn't exist in the Spectral Realm, no, the arena could not shift while he was in Spectral. To his opponent, his shift to and from Spectral is instantaneous.