Dead Space 3
CH. 1
MARS
Three years after the sprawl.
Isaac Clarke woke up to Ellie Langford's nude body straddling him.
"Ellie what the hell are you…" Isaac started before she cut him off with a deep kiss.
The kiss surprised him; it felt like the last kiss he shared with Nicole before she left for the Ishimora. Unfortunately it was just as brief, because she pulled away too soon.
"I love you Isaac, I always loved you." Said Ellie, but instead of Ellie's voice, it was Nicole's!
Isaac was about to say something, but a Slasher arm was driven into her spine and out her chest. Spewing blood on Isaac's face before her limp body was tossed to off the bed.
Isaac looked from Ellie's dead body back to where she was to find Nicole's dead, bloody, glowing face staring at him. Then she morphed into the sweat woman that he fell in love with.
"Why did you betray me Isaac?" Nicole asked with pain in her voice and a tear in her eye, "Why did you leave me for her?"
She leaned in as if to kiss him, but instead screamed "MAKE US WHOLE!"
Then he was back on the sprawl, surrounded by Necromorphes. He didn't have time to get up before he had to take out the first few.
A Slasher ran at him, so he shot off a limb with his plasma-cutter. He soon realized that he somehow got his suit and load out from the Sprawl; which includes a kinesis module. Using said module, Isaac picked up the spiked limb and shot it at its previous owner.
After getting off the ground, Isaac was swarmed by all kinds of Necros. He lasted about ten minutes before he was out of ammo; he hadn't missed a single shot.
It wasn't long after his ammo ran out that a Slasher got to him. Isaac felt every heart stopping rip, stab, and slice.
The Slasher went for Isaac's arms first, ripping through flesh and bone like paper with its blade-like arms. Then it stabbed both of its arms into Isaac's gut and ripped outward, cutting him in half. Isaac wasn't dead yet though, he had to withstand the pain for a few seconds before the Slasher bit his head off.
Isaac awoke from that nightmare for the third time that week, but this time it was a whole dream instead of just a fragment. Being the paranoid person that he is, (and who wouldn't be after surviving two Necromorph outbreaks?) he checked the floor by the bed were he thought Ellie's dead mutilated body might lie.
Seeing that she wasn't there, he decided to call her. He forgot however, to look at the time first.
Ellie's eye's adjusted to the light of the screen as she answered the call. She then narrowed them as she saw that it was Isaac.
"Isaac" she started with a calm voice. "This must be pretty fucking import if you're wakening me up at 3:00 o'clock in the damn morning" she said with sarcasm in her voice.
"I had a bad dream" Isaac replied.
"Do you want me to read you a fucking bead-time story, or sing you a lullaby?"
"NO! Well anything but 'Twinkle Twinkle little Star', but just listen!" Isaac snapped. "You died! … I just needed to make sure that you are ok."
"I will be ok when I get back to sleep!" Ellie almost yelled, but then her face and voice calmed. "Isaac… it was just a dream. Nothing bad will happen to me." She reassured him. "Nothing bad has happened to earthier of us sense The Sprawl… Hell, I even got my eye back."
It was true; she got her eye replaced with a mechanical one a few months after they escaped. There also has been no repercussions; no dementia, no Earth Gov or Unitalogist ass holes chasing them, and no more Markers!
"So how did I die anyway?" Ellie asked.
"Nicole killed you." Isaac answered.
"Well why did she do that?"
"I don't know" Isaac lied
"Ok well, why do you think you had this dream?" Ellie asked. I sound like a shrink, She thought to herself.
"May be because you are going to Capital City." He said; also thinking she sounded like a shrink.
"Nothing will happen, and before you say anything; I know that the marker is there. At least it is the original marker, so it is not corrupted." Ellie explained. "And I will be on the opposite side of the city anyway. I'm not going to get any were near it. Not that I would want to, but still; there is nothing to worry about."
Isaac had to agree with her. Not that he wanted to, but she was right.
"Ok, but call me when you get to the city, I need to know that you are safe." Said Isaac.
"All right Mom," Ellie said sarcastically.
"So why don't you like 'Twinkle Twinkle little Star'?" asked Ellie.
"Good night Ellie." Said Isaac as he ended the transmission; not answering her question.
Truth be told it wasn't the song itself that he didn't like; it was the fact that he could hear it being played in the background ever time he was being haunted by his dead girl friend Nicole.
As long as were on the subject of relationships; Isaac and Ellie are not in a relationship, and they have never been in one. Well except for this one time at a New Years Eve party, but they both decided to forget it ever happened. But other than that… nothing.
CH. 2
The Next Morning
Ellie woke up the next morning a little tired. Damn it Isaac, why did you have to wake me up at 3:00 in the morning thought Ellie as she got ready for work. And what was with that 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' comment? She started to think out loud.
Don't get her wrong, she knows why Isaac is so paranoid. She is too, just not as much. He has been like a brother to her sense they escaped the sprawl together. (Well except for that one New Years Eve.)
She felt responsible for him, and for his sanity; so anything she can do to keep him in a good state of mind, she will do. AND I MEEN ANYTHING! (Just like New Years Eve.).But lately, she has started to feel like she might want a little bit more from her engineering friend.
Ellie maintained her job as a pilot for the CEC; she flew cargo, and supply ships all over the galaxy. But today however, she had to run some special cargo to Capital city which is orbiting the Earth.
"Can you get someone else to do it?" she had asked her boss when she was given the assignment.
"NO!" He replied, "You're the best pilot I got, and they need it there intact… look, I don't know what your problems are with the city but; if you do it I will give you that promotion you wanted." So with no hesitation she took the job.
"Are we set to go?" Ellie asked her copilot Adam.