when omega ridley was defeated by samus he was heavily wounded and taken by a space pirate shutle where dispite in mortal parrel he watched the battle between samus and dark samus. Thinking dark samus would win easily in the when phaaze blew up. ridley not prepared for this got caught in the explosion. later he regenerated but because of dark samus genes he wasnt normal ridley but fused with the dark suit he than went to zebes but by now zebes was destroyed by samus so he found some pirate genes among the debris cloned them one of witch was his brother kraid threating to corrupt the kraid joined imediantly but one of the pirates refused ridley corrupted him bending him to his will ridley then remade zebes but made it doubled in size moving norfair to the bottom he the clone and army and re