## Charlotte - Shadow Entity's Dining Hall
 

**Munch, munch, munch.** 

The dark hallways of Shadow Entity's lair were lit by the thin but powerful halo emanating from the semi-closed door leading to the dining room. The room itself was completely illuminated by the giant chandelier in the very center of the ceiling while lit candles were spread all over the refined furniture. An endless noise of crunches could be heard from that very area and echoed throughout the large base. Charlotte was the only living being inside the room, surrounded by what appeared to be sweets, fresh bakeries straight from the kitchen. The little critter had went on a rampage of consumption, eating cake slice after cake slice without ever considering a limit. 

"**Raspberry Pie! Hot!**" 

She screamed as the piece of pie she had dug her bizarre teeth into was extremely hot and steaming. This prompted her to throw it in the air and have it land on the floor. Speaking of which, crumbs and half eaten foods were lying all over the table and floor, as if a small child had came across the table and didn't have a spoon or fork in its disposition. The unceasing massacre of fresh cuisine was halted as the little witch heard footsteps coming from one of the nearby hallways.  

It hopped off the now awfully stained table and proceeded to skip around through the corresponding corridors, attracted by the noise the footsteps were causing. Through this little adventure, she had stepped in the gloomy hangar engulfed in darkness. She couldn't see much, so she performed a slight jump to the right, landing her small body on the light switch. Many lights had activated in response to this, the largest machines being directly illuminated. 

She fell back down on her face and noticed Dio nearby. 

"**Dio! Dio! Your hair stole my cheese! Cheeeeeese!**" 

She stayed on the floor, fussing around like a child as she tried to get Dio to come closer so she could eat hit blond hair. Yes, his hair reminded her of Cheese. 

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## Meta-Ridley - Awakened in the Shadow Entity's hangar
 

As Charlotte had illuminated the more obscure parts of the hangar, the great Space Pirate leader, Ridley, had awoken from its previous maintenance. At the far end of the hangar, directly shined by a large circle of light, the cyborg alien dragon was plugged to many machines destined to "clean" the creature's systems and allow it to rest. Being nearly 85% robot, Ridley was obligated to perform machine-like rituals to keep its systems in check, something it had the time to get used to after all its encounters with the Bounty Hunter. 

Deep in its mind, it remembered the hunter Samus Aran, the only one who had managed to defeat it more than once, and no matter how strong it got. It hated humans because of her, and dreamed of annihilating them all if he had the absolute power to. However, in his current state, he had no choice by to ally himself to an organization that wasn't above hiring humans to do the job. He knew his place in the organization, and he believed firmly that he was among the elite fighters, although as a leader his ego was always brought to the position of leadership, bringing him to always consider himself as something superior. 

Without saying a word, it used both its legs to step out of the system it was linked to, ripping out the large cords bounded to him. Its eyes were not really opened yet and its beak kept facing the floor. It would only be after a few more screeching twists of its articulations that its orange, plasma charged eyes glared directly toward the blond man who had entered the room not too long ago. The invisible pupils in the heated eyesockets ventured from left to right, scanning both Charlotte's figure and the bizarre Helicopter's. The scans were conclusive, they were indeed his "colleagues". Standing stiff and straight, he finally stretched out his wings. Proportionally to his near 8m height, the wings were as large as one would expect. 

"**Dio Brando. Why have you brought that creature with you?**" 

Ridley's raspy and mechanized voice was loud and was designed to intimidate those who were already frightened by his size. He was referring to Charlotte and seemed rather irritated that her little shenanigans woke him up earlier than expected. But he was wise enough to know that blaming something like Charlotte was pointless in every way.