Dark Samus turned to stare at Samus, her gaze still burning despite her having no reason to be angry. She remained silent for a while, but then responded.<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">We are not on the same side. I have merely formed a temporary truce.</span></span>She returned her gaze to the battle, seeing the next combatant enter. She didn't even pay any attention to the Darknut that appeared. Such an enemy was far below her. Her interest was on the Hollow. It intrigued her. What if she were to corrupt it and somehow separate the Hollow from the Soul Reaper? Such an entity would be a powerful soldier in her conquest. Then she was alerted to a fluctuation in phazon energy that could only represent her non-avatar counterpart showing herself to the group, at which point she stated,<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">I will return shortly.</span></span>She then stepped back and sank into one of the pools of red phazon that were scattered about, heading for the world of Metroid Prime 2 to replace the non-avatar Dark Samus as the first Dark Samus duel in that world. The unstable and erratic version from that world would be torn apart by the other avatars, which just would not do.