"The Kraidian upgrade." Samus selected from the machine. While she wasn't happy about the upgrade for Ridley's species, she was somewhat curious about the entry for Kraid's species. She took the upgrade from the machine and inserted it into her zero suit, waiting for the change to begin.

Samus' suit began to glow, before the suit began to recede, shrinking as her skin began to tingle. On her back, her skin began to darken into a green colour, while her front and from her underarm to her palms remained skin-coloured, although fading to a more yellow tan, a few green veins at the outsides of the normal skin. Her skin began to tingle on the green part of her skin, becoming scaly and bumpy like a reptile, while her zero suit finished shrinking, splitting into two pieces and resembling a bikini, exposing her cleavage in the small amount of fabric left. The normal part of her skin tingled for a moment as well, still soft, but tougher than before, while a series of spikes began to grow up her back, from just above her rear to her neck, white and sharp enough to impale something on. Just above her bikini bottom, a large nub began to protrude through her skin, growing longer and wider into a thick tail, Samus readjusting her position as it slid across the ground behind her, covered in the same bumpy scales as the rest of her body.

On her now bare feet, her toes merge into three large ones on each foot, the toenails growing rounder and longer into large claws, scraping the ground as Samus adjusted her footing. Her fingers grew thicker and gained similar long, raking talons on the ends, perfectly ready for attacking. Her face was left mostly unchanged, although her teeth sharpened and her tongue lengthened into a reptilian one, and both her upper and lower canines grew long enough to not fit completely in her mouth and rested on her lips.

On her abdominals, Samus felt a slight amount of pain and looked down to see her belly button growing bigger, forming a large hole, while two more were opening up, one below her rips, and the other right below her breasts. Samus figured this was the reason for the skimpier zero suit, as well as the spikes on her back and the tail. She felt a pressure coming from the holes, and looked back down to see three spikes pushing their way through the holes, the distinctive two pronged spikes that Kraid had used against her. They remained stationary and didn't move around as she moved, and retracted in as Samus bent over, thankfully not impaling herself by accident.

With her transformation complete, Samus walked over to the mirror, conscious of the clacking sound her talons were making on the metal, taking a look at herself. While she wasn't a big fan of the bikini design, she thought she definitely looked much like her old foe, and wondered if she could fire her abdominal spikes like he could. She turned around to face an empty wall, and attempted to force some pressure onto her belly, a moment of straining rewarded by the spike shooting out, an odd sensation, but not a painful one, that resulted in the spike hurtling towards the steel wall, and penetrating it, sticking out of the solid steel, quivering slightly. Samus felt another spike sliding out to replace it, another odd feeling. Samus attempted to apply the same pressure rest of her abdominals, successfully firing all three at the wall, with similar results and another set of spikes sliding out.

"I sssupposse thiss could be ussseful…" Samus said, lisping on the words thanks to her new fangs as she lined up a target on the wall, to see if she could fire her spikes more accurately.