Disclaimer: Subnautica is not my game; this story is not canon to the actual Subnautica Story.
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Rated M for Mature due to excessive use of language.

Subnautica

Ghosts of the Past

It has been four years since the Alterra corp vessel, the Aurora crash-landed on an unknown planet and life pod 5 was jettisoned with one lone occupant on board. Having survived the Aurora's catastrophic hull failure incident the lone survivor began to search for resources to help him survive on the planet as he waited for the highly unlikely chance of a rescue to be attempted. During this time the Aurora's Dark-matter ion drive containment failed and the crash-site was irradiated in the explosion, a few days later the survivor repaired the containment field and his PDA began to interface with the Aurora's Black-box recording software but due to the highly irradiated air the PDA was suffering from severe interference so the survivor, fed up of things not going well for him, decided to try and repair the containment field in the Aurora. As he began to contemplate how he would repair the containment breaches he gathered resources to make a welder and a radiation suit and after doing that he swam over to the Aurora and made his way to the drive core, while avoiding the hostile creatures in and around the wreckage of the Aurora. Having repaired the dark-matter ion drive containment field the lone survivor returned to his life pod and began to plan his new home but to his dismay the blueprints on his PDA were limited at best, he had no creature comforts, not even a bed yet despite this he managed to rest well and a few hours later had built himself a habitat, it was more spacious than the life pod anyway and he began to hunt for food for his indefinite stay on this planet.

Unknown planet, date unknown

Time 0800hrs

The sun was just rising in the east when the survivor woke up to the sounds of an unknown creature bellowing in the air and said, "well at least it can be used as an alarm clock, so how long has it been now since I crash-landed on this godforsaken rock? Five years? Six years? I can't remember anymore; not since that last message from the Sunbeam trading vessel, I hope it got my warning to evade this planet I don't want anyone else to suffer the fate of the Aurora and Degassi crews. I don't even give a shit if I am alone on this goddamned planet for the rest of my fuckin' life as long as they get home safely. Wait what the fuck is that noise?" As the survivor listened he heard the sound of a ship descending to the planet and his Communications array intercepted communications from someone.

"Captain, a new message has arrived" as he looked at the communications relay its light flashed red and it chimed to which he said "oh god please no! Don't let it be what I think it is!" He played the message

"Attention any survivors of the Aurora, this is the captain of the trading vessel Sunbeam we are here to… wait what the fuck is that light! Oh shit the Sunbeam has been hit! I repeat the sunbeam has been hit! Jettison all life pods right away! All hands abandon ship!" Hearing the commotion the survivor had a flashback of his time of arrival

"Emergency! Hull failure imminent, all personnel abandon ship!" hearing the ship wide announcement in his memory clear as a bell, he remembered himself running down the evacuation corridors to the life pods and slid down the hatch into Life pod 5 and activated it as the Aurora was hit by an unknown energy projectile, as he left the ship the Aurora exploded sending a large shockwave that hit his pod and accelerated its descent, then a bit of debris hit his life pod and everything went wrong, the life pod systems failed and the panel that covered the electronics fell onto the life pod floor, then after another energy pulse hit the pod the panel smacked the survivor in the face rendering him unconscious for three hours as his pod landed in the water, luckily the flotation devices triggered and stopped the pod from capsizing, then as he woke up he saw a fire inside his pod and said "oh shit! This ain't good now where the fuck is my fire extinguisher?! Ah there it is!" he picked it up and decided to extinguish the flames as best as he could and after a while the fire was put out and his PDA activated in emergency mode "Greetings survivor great job not dying to assist you further, you have been issued this personal data assistant…." As the survivor listened to the electronic voice of his PDA he rolled his eyes and said in a very disgruntled tone "Yeah thanks you tactless piece of shit, 'great job not dying', what a fuckin' joke!"

Annoyed at what had happened he threw his PDA on the ground and climbed out of his pod to stare at the smoking Aurora and said "Great what else can go wrong?" Then to piss him off further he PDA spoke up again and said "Attention Seismic readings indicate that a quantum detonation has occurred in the Aurora drive core…" the minute the PDA said that the survivor said "Oh my and my big mouth!" then as soon as the PDA counted down backwards from ten and reached zero the Aurora exploded even more. A soon as the Aurora exploded in his flashback he returned to reality and saw the Sunbeam make planet fall and he screamed out in despair "YOU FUCKING MORONS! I TOLD YOU NOT TO COME HERE! WHY THE FUCK DID YOU NOT LISTEN?" he then grabbed his Seaglide and climbed out of his habitat as he made his way to the crash site of the Sunbeam upset at his failure to prevent another Degassi disaster. When he arrived at the crash-site his Geiger counter went crazy and his PDA said "Warning! High levels of radiation detected, radiation level above tolerable limit, suggest maintaining a range of..." getting even more irate by the PDA he just switched it off and said "No way in HELL am I letting these people suffer the same fate as the Aurora and Degassi." with that he pulled out his laser cutting tool and cut his way into the belly of the Sunbeam saying "I hope to god that there are people alive here, if so then I can help them survive longer here, hey I may even find a special someone to survive with, but my main priority now is finding ANY survivors and keeping them safe, then one day we may find the cause for these energy projectiles and stop them from harming anyone else or maybe even enabling survivors to get off this planet. Well failing that we can all make a fresh start on this planet."

As he entered the sunbeam the survivor was overcome by a sense of sorrow and rage seeing that there was no one alive in the vessel at all, so with a heavy heart he explored what was left of the sunbeam and said "Well, there may not be any survivors around but maybe I can salvage some things from the ship that can assist me in my goal to survive, I do need a few things to strengthen my base," after his long exploration of the Sunbeam the survivor returned to his Habitat and noticed that the light was flashing on the communications array again to which he said "Oh? This may be interesting." he then played the message
"This is first technician Amythyst Triton of the Sunbeam trading vessel, My life pod has made planetfall and I am stranded seven hundred and fifty meters from my ships crash site, I am injured and my first aid kit fabricator isn't working, neither is my fabricator so please if anyone is out there send me help as soon as possible; my co-ordinates are attached, message repeats" As he listened to the message the survivor shook his head and said "nah, no way is that real, last message that gave me co-ordinates like that led me to an abandoned life pod, no way is she still alive... but on the other hand that last message that was sent to me before this one was already being broadcasted while my array was offline, and since that last message from the sunbeam I hadn't received any other messages... up until now! What is the time stamp in the message... holy shit! That message was broadcasted half an hour ago?" Feeling hope for the first time in five years the survivor set out to find the source of the message and when he got there he saw a life pod similar to his right down to the number on the side and said "Life pod 5? Hmm nah it's gotta be a coincidence, I hope she's okay." With that he climbed into the pod and saw a beautiful young lady with midnight blue hair and multiple lacerations on her body and limbs, as he stared at her he used his modified scanner to check her life signs and they were stable, to which he gently tried to wake her up but to no avail and said "She's alive but she needs medical attention fast, I will take her to my habitat and place her in the infirmary that I built but why I built it though, I have no idea." After that he picked her up and carried her bridal style out of her damaged life pod and made his way back to his habitat where he gently laid the unconscious Amythyst on the infirmary bed and left her to wake up straight after he bound her wounds.

As the hours passed Amythyst showed no signs of waking up so the survivor decided to go and see if she was still alive but no sooner had he entered the infirmary there was an explosion and the lights in the habitat went out to which the base CPU announced "Emergency, Multiple breaches in base hull detected! Activating water expulsion systems, sealing all bulkheads" after hearing the announcement the survivor decided to seal up the infirmary while he went to repair the hull breaches in his base to which he chundered "that is the fourth time now! The fourth fuckin' time! What the hell is causing these hull breaches?!"as he went to the first breach and began to weld it shut the base CPU announced "Attention, unauthorised systems access detected," hearing this the lone survivor sighed and said "goddamn it not now, I must seal these breaches before I find myself sleeping with the fishes... again." after a few hours all hull breaches were sealed and the survivor returned to the infirmary only to find that Amythyst was no longer on the infirmary bed and before he turned around he heard the sound of his stasis rifle charging up then before he could act he was surrounded by a stasis field and could not move to which he said "Ah shit." he then felt a heavy smack on the back of his head and was knocked out. A few minutes later he woke up and found himself tied down to the infirmary bed that originally held Amythyst and as he looked up he found himself staring into a pair of beautiful teal eyes as Amythyst sat there with a bemused look on her face to which she said "well hello there handsome, I wanted to thank you for saving me but first, who the hell are you?! How did you get me out of my pod and into this structurally weakened base of yours and what is your business here?" the survivor didn't reply to which Amythyst said "well at least you didn't take liberties with my unconscious body, I'm thankful for that and I know you haven't because my PDA would have told me, since it is connected to my biometrics just like yours is connected to you so I'll ask you again survivor, who are you?" After an awkward silence the survivor sighed and said in a joking tone "If I'd have known you would be nagging me like an old hag I would've left you in your pod, you are as bad as my PDA when it comes to nagging, but if you must know my name is Richard Scepton and I managed to drag your heavy ass out of your pod using my arms and in regards to what my business here is, well originally it was to stop morons like your captain from coming to this planet and getting shot out of the sky but we all know how that went simply by looking at you."

Hearing Richard being snide to her Amythyst walked over to him, punched him in the nose and said "there is no need to be an asshole! I just want to know what the hell is going on and why the hell I am stranded on this endless ocean with a bitter prick like you." annoyed at Amythyst's reply Richard said in an equally upset tone "Well excuse me for being bitter you bitch; but you would be the same way if you suffered as long as I have on this goddamned rock! It's been five years since I had proper human contact, FIVE FUCKIN' YEARS! So yeah I'm bitter... deal with it!" this argument continued long into the night with neither one giving way until finally something happened to the habitat causing the power to shut down and the CPU announced "Main power offline, base on emergency power, oxygen generation offline" realising that they had a short time before they'd suffocate both Amythyst and Richard put their differences aside and bailed out of the base only to see a massive Reaper Leviathan swimming their way with its jaws wide open...

To be continued...