Dead Space: Armageddon
Part 1
Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I do not own the Dead Space Franchise; this story is made as a tribute to the franchise.
This is my first story so try not to grill me please.
Isaac and Carver, despite their efforts to quickly make it back to Earth in time to warn of the horror that lurks and creeps in deep space towards Earth, it was too late. The moons had reached Earth, their colossal sizes eclipsed the sun's light on the Earth and their monstrous howls echoed through the entire planet distracted by the horror of seeing their home being destroyed one of the moons intercepts the C.M.S Terra Nova before they could do anything to get out of its path. The duos were subdued by the dementia induced by the moons both fell into a deep darkness; Isaac hears a voice yelling out to him,
"Isaac, wake up!"
Isaac then wakes to find him in a bedroom in a house in what looked like a suburban community, Isaac looks around as he gets out of bed to notice a wedding band on his ring finger he tries to piece together what is happening he before he is startled by the Ellie's voice who then rushes into the bedroom.
"Goddamn it am late, Isaac, oh good your up listen I'm late for work I need you to take Dean to school alright."
Still confused he thinks to himself, "Was it all a dream, The Ishimura, The Sprawl, Tau Volantis, jest one long awful dream?"
Ellie rushes into the room again to see him sitting still on the bed with his head bowed; concerned she asks if he's well,
"Isaac are you alright, hay what's going on?
He looks into her eyes and smiles, "I'm fine, everything's fine."
"Are you sure you look a bit under the weather."
"I'm ok really."
"Alright, well I gotta hurry and get to work, Dean is late for school again, his teacher is going to be pissed."
"Don't worry I'll take him."
"Thanks." [She kisses him]
Isaac puts on his CEC uniform and meets Ellie and his son Dean down stairs in the kitchen before he enters he walks down a hall with pictures of him and his family, he stops to watch a wedding photo of Ellie and himself and another of all of them at an amusement park, and lastly Ellie and himself at a beach. Isaac then had a feeling that he felt as if he hadn't been happy for a long time and looking at these photos made him feel happy, he easily forgot about the strange dream he had and went on to the kitchen.
"Morning daddy."
"Morning kiddo, how'd you sleep?"
"Ok."
"What do want for breakfast, cereal, eggs, pancakes what are you hungry for?"
"Pancakes!"
"Pancakes it is."
Ellie walks into the kitchen in her CEC uniform to say bye to Dean and Isaac as she goes off to work.
"Alright I'm off see you later Dean behave at school you hear me."
"Ok mom."
"I'm out of here, oh and I'm going to be working late tonight so I might be late for dinner."
"Ok, I'll be home early to pick up Dean so don't worry."
"Bye I love you." [Both kiss]
"Honey, where's your RIG."
"Damn it, seriously I a total mess this morning."
"In my opinion you look sexy when you're in a rush."
"Oh really, I'm flattered." [Isaac wraps his arms around her waist, pulling her closer]
"Isaac, come on not now I really have to go."
"Alright, alright hay if you have a hard day at work I'll be more than happy to help feel better tonight after Deans asleep of course."
"Oh Isaac, I hate it when you do that."
"Ugh, get a room." [said Dean]
"Yeah Isaac, not on front of Dean my god."
"I'll go get your RIG."
"No, it's fine I'll get it."
Soon after she starts walking a painful headache strikes Isaac and causing him to nearly fall to the ground, things slow down all around him, his sight became orange and red, he turns his head to a newspaper only to see all the words on it as unitology text. He then hears a familiar voice yelling in his head the same voice he thought he heard in his dream.
"Isaac wake up, wake up, wake uuuuppppp!"
His vision returns to normal but briefly he quickly looks towards Ellie whose about to go through the hallway up stairs an Enhanced Slasher appears out of thin air roaring fiercely and violently attacks and pins Ellie to the wall with its pincers. Isaac grabs Dean who is screaming for her in terror away from the table.
"Ahhh, get Dean out of here ahhhhh!"
"Mommy, mommy!"
"Come on, let's go!"
Dean and Isaac run to the front door of their house to find Wasters, Leapers and Slashers running towards the doorway. Isaac quickly slams the door; both run up stairs to the bathroom and locked themselves in. Isaac breaks the bathroom window, both climb out Isaac jumps first to the ground while Dean Jumps after him and Isaac catches him then both run away from the house.
Chapter 2
After running from their house suddenly the suburban community vanishes, Dean also vanishes into thin air right in Isaac's arms. He looks desperately for Dean, calls out his name many times the only thing hears is his own voice echoing through the air and the roars of Necromorphs in the distance. The world around him then became a place that was all too familiar to him, a place to him where the nightmare started the USG Ishimura, Isaac could barely believe what he was seeing soon after he walks in the Flight deck passed the main hanger had flashbacks from years ago when he first came on board the Ishimura to look for Nicole. It pained him to see this place once again bringing back memories he tried for so long and hard to forget he had the feeling that his only way out of this strange world is to go through ahead. As he went on he recognized a few places he's been in the past he comes to a large room with a view of the tram stop across the tram tracks. Then sees shadows of two people he hears familiar voices that shock him.
"Isaac! Isaac! God I can't believe you made."
"Isaac, we ran into more of them on the way here are you ok?"
"More what!", "What the hell are those things is that the crew!?"
"Keep your voice down, whatever they are there're not friendly and half the doors on his ship are locked because of the quarantine. Now we have to get to the bridge but first we gotta repair the tram system."
"You're crazy Hammond you're going to get us all killed."
"If you listen to me I'll get you out of here alive, now what's wrong with the tram?"
"The data board is fried, but there should be a spare in the maintenance bay, there's also a broken tram blocking the tunnel that needs to be repaired."
"Damn it, everything is on the other side of this quarantine we can't reach it from here!"
"No we can't but you can, Isaac if we can make to the bridge I can access the personnel files, you fix the tram and I'll help you find Nicole."
"Kendra, Hammond?" [Recognizing them]
Both shadows look towards him and disappear, Isaac continues on into the ship and eventually makes it to the centrifuge chamber where in the center lied a portal like doorway, making his way to it he's suddenly attacked by three Brutes and a hoard of Pact. After killing them all he having picked up a Plasma Cutter and found a suit kiosk he walks into the portal and finds himself at the main room of the Government Sector of the Sprawl. Isaac mumbles to himself
"Not this shit again."
After fighting his way through the Government Sector to the Marker chamber he finds another portal that takes him to the Alien City on Tau Volantis, fighting through yet another onslaught of necromorphs he finally reaches the top of the alien machine were he remembered activating the Codex, stepping close to the machine Isaac is warped into hellish realm similar to the battle that took place in his mind against the Marker. In this place five makers stand on a platform that formed the ground under him, in the distance a large marker the size of a skyscraper stood tall in front of him. Suddenly a shadow like apparition appeared before Isaac the figure was an evil shadow clone of Isaac similar to the one he fought on the Terra Nova that impersonated Caver. With little hesitation it shoots at Isaac. He runs for cover and notices one of the markers started glowing.
"Ha, I get it just like the Terra Nova at least I know how to destroy you!"
Isaac shoots and destroys one of the glowing markers rendering Shadow Isaac vulnerable. The clone falls to its knees Isaac comes out of cover and shoots it endlessly until it exploded, soon after it vanishes the large marker opens to reveal a grotesque, pulsating red heart with yellow glowing sacks. Isaac destroys one the sacks on the heart thus permanently destroying one of the platform markers, he repeats this process until only one sack on the marker heart remained. Isaac then hears the voice again telling him to wake.
"Isaac you have to wake up, now, wake up, wake up!"
He takes one final shot at the heart and I violently exploded releasing marker symbols everywhere in all directions the world around him becomes engulfed in blinding bright light, and then there's darkness. Isaac wakes to Carver shaking him awake.
"Isaac, Isaac Hay! There you are, snap out of it."
"What the Hell, Carver where hell are we?"
"Earth, we're on an EarthGove ship, we made it but the bastards got here first the fuckers slapped us right out of space into planet side we had to make a crash landing. You been unconscious for almost half an hour and I've been trying to wake you up and covering you since we crashed."
"Well that must've been fun."
"Ah, Shut up."
"Where are we going?"
"An EarthGove instillation, they're trying to save as many people as possible, gathering them up there and then get them off world up to the fleet."
"Evacuating Earth damn how's the progress?"
"Not good, seven ships had to be shot down from orbit, people on the shuttles started turning, necromorph contagions were detected on their ships a lot of the passengers were families and children."
"God damn it."
Their gunship reached the EarthGove base perimeter to see it surrounded by millions of necromorphs with EarthGove forces stationed behind and up top security walls struggling to hold back the undead legions.
"Oh my god there everywhere."
"Yeah, let's get down there!" [To Pilots]
The ship flew over the wall and landed in the facilities hanger both Isaac and Carver walked down the boarding ramp.
"Sargent Carver, Isaac Clarke? I'm Commander Adrian Rosen follow me."
"Rosen, is been what two years?"
"Three."
"Rosen?"
"Yeah, this is Mark Rosen's older brother and Adrian about Mark."
"He's dead isn't he?" [Carver Nods] "I'm sorry."
"Doesn't matter he was always an asshole most of his life, he probably had it coming… anyway we're proceeding with evacuation across the entire planet with what's left of EarthGove, that bastard Jacob Danik did crippling damage to us we lost a lot of resources and people and every few minutes more of my soldiers get ripped apart by the Necros, I'm going to call all forces back here and we are leaving Earth." The first, second and third fleets as well as the heavy fleets are distracting the moons as much as they can while shuttles make it off world to the fleets."
"Isaac Clarke, damn last time I saw you, you were comatose."
"You were there at Titan Station… when your friends were using me."
"Isaac, I know you have a deep distrust and hatred for Unitologist and EarthGove but I swear I didn't know they intended to use you to make Markers."
"Bullshit."
"Commander, the Necromorphs are trying break through the east and south gate!"
"Damn it shore up the defenses at the gates, evac is not completed yet!"
"How many more shuttles left to evac?"
"Eleven, we're trying to squeeze in as many survivors as possible in them."
"Sir, our forces have been overwhelmed at the northeast side of the security walls; Necros are climbing up the walls!"
"Son of a... Adrian to Central the Necros are breaking through, get all refugees to shuttles and get them the hell out of here now, and someone get me the research division!"
"Still no words on them sir comms are a mess."
"Clarke, Carver get your asses to the elevator an get to the research wing, someone will meet you and escort you there."
"Why what's down there?"
"Important research, stuff that may give us an edge if it works, look for Dr. Hawk."
"What stuff!?"
"Isaac, I promise I'll answer all the questions you have once we and the civilians are off world now get down there see happening."
"I'm holding you to that."
Both take the elevator to the lower levels of the facility and were escorted to the R&D wing. Both walked down a long hall till they got to the central lab on the way to the lab doors Isaac looks to his right to see a room with half a dozen markers inside containers, upon seeing them his vision turned blood red and orange marker symbols appeared everywhere briefly right before his vision returns to normal.
"Isaac, please tell me you see these too…the markers."
"I don't think we're hallucinating Carver if we were we'd be felling it."
"What the hell are they doing with markers here!?"
"I don't know, I guess we're about to find out."
Both enter the lab to see Dr. Hawk.
"Get those markers into their containers and load them into the transport hurry!"
"Are you Dr. Hawk?"
"Isaac…Isaac Clarke?"
"Yeah, you know me?"
"Yes… you have your father's eyes."
"What my father, you knew my father?"
"Oh yes a long very time ago."
"Sorry to interrupt but Commander Adrian wants to know what was going on here."
"Yes, the comms are going haywire; it's the signal from the Moons they are trying to jam us probably to hinder our evacuation. We can receive transmissions but can't reply back to them."
"Doctor all Markers are loaded and ready for transport."
"Good, all personnel to your evac stations let's move. Isaac, Carver go back to the surface and tell Adrian we're ready and evact is a go."
"Right."
Both return to the surface.
"Isaac, Carver what happened?"
"Nothing comm errors jest like up here Dr. Hawk said that they are ready, evac is a go."
"About fucking time, Adrian to Central Evacuation is a go I repeat is a go let's get out of here! All forces abandon your posts and get to your transports immediately!"
Chapter 3
"Commander Adrian, This is Admiral Williams use caution I think the Moons know your trying to escape we'll keep attacking and try to distract them."
"Alright we're about to exit the atmosphere."
All shuttles and ships had escaped and flew towards the EarthGove, evading all the space bound necromorphs and the Brethren Moons moving to intercept what they can. Isaac catches a glimpse of the biggest Moon moving towards the fleet Isaac's vision again becomes red and orange and hears it speak in a demonic voice.
"Destroy them all, make them suffer!"
Isaac's dementia subsides leaving him with a splitting headache and a high pitch ringing in his ears.
"Argh, damn it ah!" [In Immense Pain]
"Hay Isaac hay, you alright?!"
"My head, I can hear him talking in my head."
Suddenly Isaac is warped into his mind once again and finds himself fighting to survive the fight with his demons, he fights many shadow necromorphs and barely escapes. In a hellish realm similar to Earth a Marker sits in the middle of a valley. Isaac runs as fast as he could to it and quickly shoots and destroys it, with its destruction the shadow necromorphs vanish in and the same voice of the Moons again speak to him.
"You can run all you want Isaac but you cannot escape nor stop the inevitable, I created that dream world for you so that you may be happy, but you destroy my gift to you and choose to remain in misery, you could have been happy with Ellie, you could have had whatever you wanted, Ellie, a family, a child perhaps you could have been happy for once in your miserable, insignificant life! When the time comes we will be waiting for you, I will take great pleasure in killing you jest as I took your Father."
"Shut up! Shut up!"
Isaac breaks free of the dementia and returns to reality and awakes to being carried by medics to the ships med bay.
"Isaac you alright you passed out again."
"I'm fine."
"We're about to enter Shockspace hold on."
"Entering Shockspace in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1."
The entire fleet has escaped and fled into shockspace and is now safe for the moment with half of humanity on board Isaac and Carver both rest in the med bay later on Dr. Hawk visits Isaac.
"Isaac glad to see you both made it."
"Yeah, that was one hell of an evacuation; I can't believe we got so many off world."
"So am I, sadly a lot didn't make it."
"At least we tried, hay about the short talk we had before."
"Ah, yes I thought you would want to hear more, well what do you want to know?"
"When did you and my dad meet?"
"Hmm, we met back when we both were in collage many years before he met your mother."
"I take you two used to be close?"
"Yes, for a while Poul and I were more than jest friends."
"Do you know?"
"Do I know what happened to him? No. I wish I knew." [saddened]
"On numerous occasions I tried looking for him or anything that might hint at what happened that he just disappeared."
"Isaac I'm so sorry you had to go through all you did, when you were little trying to coup with your father being gone from your life for a long time and, even your mother, losing her to those Unitologist bastards, I'm sorry I understand if you don't want to get into that."
"No its ok."
"How are you feeling I heard you passed out on the shuttle on the way to the fleet."
"I should go and get back to work, I'll talk to you later for now get some rest if you can, and jest know you still have family Isaac."
"Thanks that mean a lot to me." [Walks Out]