In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, a Flying Ing Cache is an airborne Darkling used by the Ing to hide the Sky Temple Keys on Dark Aether.
Description
Ing Caches have an innate cloaking ability and can only be seen by using the Dark Visor. After being shot, however, they overload the Dark Visor and appear in the normal visual spectrum. A faint outline of them can be seen on Light Aether when the Dark Visor is used, though they cannot be shot or interacted with. Samus encounters nine of them on Dark Aether, each holding one of the Keys to the Sky Temple. They are hidden in the dark version of the room where the body of the Luminoth Keybearer who captured that key still lays. Some are protected by large numbers of Ing, while others are behind devilish puzzles, or just hidden in inclement places.
The shape of these darklings is very similar to that of an Alimbic Datashade.
A Flying Ing Cache viewed through the Dark Visor.
Locations
- Battleground
- Dark Oasis
- Poisoned Bog
- Dungeon
- Hive Entrance
- Hive Dynamo Works
- Accursed Lake
- Ing Reliquary
- Defiled Shrine
Logbook entry
Flying Ing Cache
Morphology: Flying Ing Cache. Flying bearer unit of the Ing Horde. Creature ingests objects of value to the Hive. Only its death will release the object within.
The Flying Cache was bred and trained to be a living storage unit. It employs a limited stealth field that renders it unseen to most enemies. The fact that the creature must be killed to obtain the object it stores is of little consequence to the Ing.
See also
| Ing | |
|---|---|
| Ruling caste | Emperor Ing |
| Battle forms | Warrior Ing • Hunter Ing • Boost Guardian • Jump Guardian • Ingstorm • Darkling Tentacle |
| Submissive | Darkling • Inglet • Ing Webtrap • Flying Ing Cache |
| Immobile | Bladepod • Ingsphere Cache • Ingworm Cache • Ingworm • Webling • Ingclaw |
| Misc | Black fog • Ing Horde • Ing Larva • Fusion attack • Transdimensional energy • Phaz-Ing |
| Aquatic organisms | |
|---|---|
| Tallon IV | Aqua Reaper • Aqua Sac • Chomper Fish • Fish • Jelzap • Tangle Weed • Tallon Crab |
| Aether | Blogg • Bloggling • Alpha Blogg • Fish • Brizgee • Dark Blogg • Grenchler • Hydling • Krocuss • Phlogus |
| Dark Aether | Chykka • Dark Blogg • Dark Grenchler • Dark Phlogus • Dark Shredder • Flying Ing Cache • Venom Weed • Watchdrone |
| Zebes | Botwoon • Bull • Cacatac • Choot • Draygon • Evir • Gadora • Gamet • Oum • Owtch • Powamp • Puyo • Sciser • Skultera • Tatori • Tatori, Jr. • Yapping Maw • Yard • Zoa |
| BOTTLE SHIP | Fish • Skultera |
| BSL | Aqua Zebesian • Evir • Gadora • Owtch • Powamp • Sciser • Serris • Skultera • Yard |
| Containers | |
|---|---|
| Non-Organic | Coin chest • Hunters • Galactic Federation Crate • Heavy Phazon Canister Bryyo Coffer • Luminoth Tech Crate • Metal crate • Phazon crate • Pickup Crate • SkyTown Storage Unit Small crate • Space Pirate Crate • Storage device • Storage unit • Xenome Containment Unit |
| Organic | Agon Bearerpod • Aqua Sac • Bladepod • Flying Ing Cache • Ingsphere Cache • Ingworm Cache • Kashh Plant • Mature Kashh Plant • Sap Sac • Torvus Bearerpod Torvus Hanging Pod |