Epilogue

Peter stood still with his head lowered as Harry approached him.

"I know what it's like to lose a father."

Harry stopped and turned his gaze away. "I didn't lose him… he was taken away from me." He slowly raised his head to look into Peter's bright blue eyes, "Spider Man will pay.. by my father's grave, I will make Spider Man pay for what he has done."

Harry walked past Peter without another word.

Peter lowered his head sadly and then heard footsteps coming toward him. He raised his head up to see Mary Jane approaching him.

Mary Jane smiled, but sadly as she stood before him, "Hey, Pete.. It's really terrible that this had to happen to Harry.. I feel bad for him."

Peter nodded, "Yeah, me too.. I know exactly how he feels."

Mary Jane's smile disappeared and she lowered her head, "Um.. Peter.. I was wondering if all that stuff you said at the hospital was true." She raised her head up to ask, "Do you love me Peter?"

Peter smiled slightly and slowly nodded.

Mary Jane smiled and asked, "You're going out with Samus still right?"

Peter blinked and replied, "Yeah, we are… Why?"

Mary Jane turned her gaze away, "Just wondering… I hope it works out for you two." She turned and walked away.

Peter lowered his head and closed his eyes. There goes the one I've loved since kindergarten. Peter thought sadly.

Samus stood beside a tree that stood at the edge of the cemetery and watched as Mary Jane turned to walk away from where Peter stood.

She returned her gaze to Peter as he lowered his head.

Samus lowered her head then turned it to look at the spot where Harry's dad was buried.

She half closed her eyes and muttered softly, "Death is such a sad thing… Why does it have to happen?"

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Peter stood at the shore, watching as Samus with her back turned and wearing her power suit without her helmet, as she made repairs on to the exterior of her starship.

Samus stopped what she was doing and sighed heavily. "Stop feeling that way.. I promise I'll come back to visit."

"You haven't even been here that long. You haven't seen how huge this ahem planet is." Peter said.

Samus lowered her head and smirked foolishly, "Uhh, sorry about that.. but I've never encountered a planet with so many contagious and deadly viruses… and I thought my X parasite infection was bad!"

Peter made a puzzled look, "X parasite infection?"

Samus turned to Peter as she raised her head up and smiled, "Just be glad that it isn't here."

I don't know if I should tell him I risked my life to destroy the X parasites and to keep them from taking over the universe. Samus thought.

"I've explored planets larger than this one, Peter. I've encountered so many life forms, that I've lost track of how much there were!… but I haven't got the whole view of this planet yet."

Peter's eyes grew and his frown turned into a smile as he realized that possibly Samus would stay on his planet.

"So that means you'll stay?"

Samus frowned and shook her head, "No, but it means I'll come back and you can show me your planet."

Peter's smile quickly vanished.

Samus turned her head away and thought, Maybe I could ask him to come with me. She raised her head to look into Peter's blue eyes and asked, "Would you… like to come with me?"

Peter blinked in surprise and thought, Go with Samus… into outer space?!

"I-I would love to! As the top science-wiz of my class, this would be the greatest honor and discovery of space in my life!"

Samus smiled, "It's nothing special, wiz-kid. Just hop in whenever you're ready."

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Peter stood beside the chair Samus sat in and he looked out the window of the starship with eyes wide with astonishment.

"Wow! This is amazing! I can't believe I'm really doing this! Going out into space and being able to see it all!"

Samus chuckled, "Yeah, but I don't think I could take you to see it all in this hunk of junk. I need to make repairs at Galactic HQ and possibly go to the bird people to ask them a favor."

If you're gonna go into space and adventuring with me, you're gonna have to have a power suit like mine to be able to survive.

Peter turned his head to look down at Samus, "Bird people?"

Samus smiled, "The Chozo. They were the ones that found me after a Space Pirate attack on the colony where I was born."

Peter raised an eyebrow, "You never told me about any of that."

Samus closed her eyes and tilted her head back with a smirk on her lips, "Then you'll just have to be shown the universe in which I lived… I'll start from the beginning to make things simpler."

Peter returned his gaze back to the main window to look into space once again and then he knew form that moment that Spider Man would be able to see the life of Samus Aran, the galaxies' greatest bounty hunter, and to be able to be at her side to see it all.

*******Note from me: For those of you who have read and those of you who are reading this story, I'm very sorry that I have not produced a sequel, yet. I am, however, working on it and hopefully will get it done… someday.

Samus Aran and any other information from the Metroid games is Nintendo's stuff. Spider Man and any other information regarding Spider-Man stuff, all belongs to Marvel.

          Thank you for taking your time to read my story : )

          P.S. I want to take a vote. I'm not sure if I want to add in one of my own characters. For those of you who have read my other story, Metroid Destiny(once known as Genesis) with Kyan, aka, Tolebar Zahan Kileos Gatso-Vaulidor. I need to know your input if I should or should not put in this character.

          Credits: I would like to thank Tedronai (from Square-Forums) for helping me with an equal amount of smart ass remarks.