What's up guys, Diamond here bringing you guys something new from me. I present to you guys, my first Dead Space fic. I have been playing a lot of Dead Space recently and I wanted to try my hand at this. My Destiny fic is not being stopped at all, I'm just writing this because the idea came up while playing Dead Space 2's multiplayer. I will actually be trying to do all three games with the DLC's included in some way or another, but no promises. This is also in a different universe than my Destiny story, so I will not know what my Guardian version will be doing in the Destiny universe. Oh, and the multiverse theory is in effect with most of my stories unless I specify otherwise. I will also be doing the story description after this paragraph.
It was just another day for me until I played Dead Space at night. Now I'm apparently Isaac's brother who came with him on to the USG Ishimura to find out what happened. Now I have to deal with Necromporphs, a bitchy woman, bad luck, and a Marker that decided that it was hilarious to taunt me. "And can someone get this Hunter to stop hugging me!"
A normal night… ish
I had just gotten home from another tech engineering job, so I decided to play some games online with friends. Oh, I forgot to mention that I decided to play the Dead Space series at night starting with the first game. Once it reached night I started up Dead Space and waited for the main menu to show up. Once it showed up I looked outside to see a lightning storm going on outside. "Dang, I hope the game doesn't fail on me when I play. Or hits my house, I don't want to know what kind of damage would happen then." I said to myself as I pressed new game. But, as soon as I pressed New Game the storm decided that it should do as I hoped it wouldn't and hit my house with lightning as I pressed the A button on my controller.
"Ah!" I yell out as my house went dark from the sudden lightning strike. I then notice that my house wasn't completely dark due to the TV, mainly because it showed a bunch of static and playing white noise loudly. "Ugh, I think I hit my head while I fell. I'm …suddenly…feeling…tired…" I said while trying and losing to keep awake. I then looked at my TV screen with half-lidded eyes as I saw a meaty and dried blood covered tentacle come out of the screen as I blacked out.
Welp, this is great
I soon awoke in a sitting position to see a screen in front of me.
CEC MISSION ER529
Status update…
USG Kellion en route to AEGIS SYSTEM
PRIMARY MISSION ASSETS…
…Isaac Clarke – ENGINEERING AND SHIP SYSTEMS SPECIALIST…
…Jeremy Clarke – SECURITY AND TECHNICIAN SPACIALIST… (EX EARTH GOV)
…Kendra Daniels – COMPUTER SPECIALIST…
…Zach Hammond – CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER…
DIRECTIVE A: LOCATE MINING VESSEL USG ISHIMURA…
DIRECTIVE B: DIAGNOSE AND REPAIR COMMUNICATIONS BLACKOUT…
TIME TO CONTACT POINT: 3 MINUTES…
Well, isn't that just fantastic. I thought to myself bitterly. Now then, why the hell am I in Dead Space? I thought to myself. And as if some unseen force heard my thought another screen popped up.
"Greetings Jeremy, I am the Advisor." The heavily distorted person on-screen spoke. "I figured that you would safely make the trip to this universe, so I fabricated some memories for you so that you can live this life easier. To put it short, you are an ex Earth Gov Security and Tech specialist that met Zach Hammond during both of your tours with Earth Gov. You have been good friends since then and heard from Zach that he is going to be a security chief for a repair mission for the CEC and that your brother, Isaac, is in his crew, so he wanted you along with him on this mission. This is also a recording and you also have a customized Pulse Rifle with you to start you off. You know the rest due to me giving you the memories, and I also built up your muscles and gave you the necessary muscle memory to wield any gun you choose. Now, I will finish this recording by saying that you also have the ability to upgrade your Pulse Rifle and any other weapon you make from any workbench from Dead Space 3 on the Ishimura that you find, as well as any blueprints you made from your main save on Dead Space 3 playthrough. Good luck, Advisor out." The Advisor said as the recording ended, and the screen went away.
I then noticed my brother, Isaac, watching that video his girlfriend, Nicole, sent him. "Have a nice nap Jeremy?" Zach asked me. Usually it should be Kendra asking me that, but she is talking with my brother. "You know me Zach, rather be rested for anything than tired with enemies all around me." I said to him in a snarky remark with a smile on my face. "Yeah, well smartass that hasn't worked for you before." Zach said in a knowing way with a smile on his face. "One time, it only happened one time and you know it." I pointed at him, trying to drive in the point. "I know, but it's always fun to joke with you." Zach said to me. I then rolled my eyes and saw that Isaac was done watching the video. "Hey bro, I'm sure we will get to see Nicole. And you can finally introduce me to her." I said as I realized I never met her. Nor will I get the chance to if things go the same way it goes in the game.
"Yeah, I hope you get to meet her too bro. You'll like her as well." Isaac told me. I honestly wish I could meet her, but hopefully she isn't dead yet. I thought to myself. I then noticed the kind of armor I'm wearing. It seemed to be a black camo heavily armored version of the Patrol suit Weller had in the Dead Space 2 dlc Severed. And Isaac had the starting engineering suit you had at the beginning of the game. I also saw a mirror and seen what I look like. I was 28 years old and had short dark brown hair with a short beard that connected with my mustache and a scar over my left eye with a red robotic replacement there instead of my natural Hazel eye. I then noticed my collapsed Pulse Rifle on my right hip just in case I needed it. Oh, who am I kidding. Of course I need it. I thought to myself. I then looked into my inventory on my RIG and saw I had my usual amount of medkits from DS3 with the ammo from DS3 as well, meaning I most likely won't have to scrounge up ammo of every type of gun. I then saw I had what I called a 'Skeleton key', I called it that because it can open doors that only high-ranking members of either Earth Gov or any high-ranking personnel can enter.
"Hey Zach, how long till we leave shock space?" I asked Zach. "Any second now Jeremy." Zach said to me. Our main pilot then started to count down. "We're leaving shock space in 5…4…3…2…1!" The pilot finished as we exited shock space to see Aegis VII outside the viewport.
"All this trouble over that chunk of rock…" Kendra said as we saw a huge hole on the planet's surface. Zach then looked at Kendra and said "Deep space mining is a lucrative business, Ms. Daniels. Aegis 7 is a gold mine, according to prospector's reports. Cobalt, Silicon, Osmium... now, where is she?" Hammond said as he looked for the Ishimura. Then after he said it a ship that vaguely looked like a human ribcage slowly grew in size due to us drawing closer to it. "Ah, there she is. We now have visual contact." Hammonds said as he spotted the now nearing ship.
"So that's the Ishimura, impressive." Kendra said as she saw the Planet Cracker in it's dark glory. Zach then started to fill Kendra in on Planet Cracking and how the Ishimura is the first Planet Cracker, until I interrupted. "Uh guys, shouldn't there be lights on?" I asked to everyone on board. "There should be… Corporal, try to get the Ishimura on comms." Zach ordered. "USG Ishimura this is the USG Kellion responding to your distress call, Come in Ishimura." The Corporal said on his comms headset. "Corporal, take us in closer for a better look." Zach said to our pilots. And that is when the comms unit came up. We all heard static at first and then a growl came out of the static as the line was cut. "Hmm, it seems like a busted comms array." Isaac said right next to me now leaning forward in his seat. "USG Ishimura, we are proceeding with landing. We'll have your comms fixed in no time." Zach said as our pilot activated the shielding. "We're pulling in now, should be there in a few seconds." The Corporal said as we were heading for one of the docks. That is when the tethers on the Ishimura gave us the middle finger. "Sir, it seems their docking tethers have been damaged! I can't stop us from being pulled into the hull!" The Corporal yelled out to all of us. "Then switch to manual and try to land at one of the docs!" yelled to the Corporal. "No, we shouldn't risk it. We need to leave!" Kendra tried to argue back but it seemed everyone just ignored her. It was then that the viewport was closed and we crashed into the Ishimura with me seeing a small necromorph run across the screen. "WHAT the hell were you THINKING!? Were you trying to get us killed!" Kendra started yelling at Zach. "Hey Ms. Daniels, Zach just saved our lives by doing that. If we abandoned our course, we would have definitely ran into one of the asteroids in that asteroid field." I stated to Kendra as I was stretching to pop out any kinks. "Fine, hold still I'm linking up everyone's RIG to the ship." Kendra said as she typed on her pad and lights on my RIG showed up with full health of eight bars. Strange, I didn't know I had THAT much health. Probably was from the Advisor. I thought to myself as Kendra moved on to Isaac. "Sir, I'm not getting any reading from our port booster. It might be malfunctioning." The Corporal said to Zach.
I had already walked out by then with my helmet in my hands. "You alright bro?" Isaac said from behind me outside the ship. "Yeah, just have a sense of dread from this place. I want you to be careful while here, this place just doesn't sit well with me at all." I said to him as I put on my helmet activating the two-red lights right where the right eye would be. I then brought my Pulse Rifle to bear. Sadly, everything went as it normally would with the beginning of the game except when Isaac was to activate a security panel. "Isaac, Jeremy, go and activate that security panel so that we can know what the extent of the damage is." Zach said to us brothers. "Will do." I said as Isaac nodded. Isaac opened the door and went though first but stopped. "Oh my God…" Isaac said out loud. "What is it bro?" I asked but already knew. Isaac moved to the left so that I could see the long bloodstain on the ground. "Damn." Is all I could say about it. We then proceeded to the panel and activated it. The same scene played out but this time me and Isaac ran down the hallway to get away from the necromorphs who were right behind us. Me and Isaac finally made it to the elevator at the end and got in. We were just about to go down when a Slasher opened the doors with its bone scythes and thoroughly decapitated itself while leaving one of its' arms with us. I could see that Isaac was already starting to freak out. "Hey bro, remain calm. I don't want you getting hurt from these things." I said to Isaac as he looked at me. "How can I remain calm after that, and how are you so calm as well?" Isaac asked me, still shaking like a leaf. "I'm not to be honest. But you don't have a weapon on you, and I need you alive. Can't go home without my brother now, can I?" I said to Isaac.
We finally reached the bottom to go into a room that had a body at a table with written above it. 'CUT OFF THEIR LIMBS' "Well, isn't that a nice message." I said with sarcasm heavy in my voice. We then heard screaming and banging on the door that was locked. I aimed my Pulse Rifle at the door while Isaac aimed his newly found Plasma Cutter as well. I then motioned Isaac to shoot the fuse for the door and to get ready. I then opened the door to see a worker in a yellow jumpsuit fall in front of me with a necromorph right on him. The Slasher that was on top of him was about to stab him, but I quickly intervened and shot off its' arms with my Pulse Rifle while Isaac shot off its' legs. The worker even joined in by stomping its head into the metal floor. "Oh thank God, thank you guys." The worker said as he approached us. "I'm Bill Stratton, an engineer on this horrible ship." The now newly known Bill said while shaking a bit. I was also shaken up by that and I can tell Isaac is too. "Nice to meet you Bill, I'm Jeremy Clarke and this is my brother Isaac Clarke. We were on a CEC ship heading here to respond to your distress call." I said explaining to Bill. "Really, then I can get out of this hell-hole." Bill said as he tried to go past us. "No can-do Bill, we lost a port booster and both of our pilots died to those things." I said to Bill, quickly dashing his hopes. He then had a sad look on his face. "Then, I'm going to die here." Bill said with all hope lost in his voice. "Nope. You're coming with us." I said to Bill as he looked like he was going into a depression. "Why would I do that? I'm of no use to you guys." Bill said to me. "Of course you are man. You know this ship better than we do, and all we have to do is find you a weapon." I said while crouching next to the worker. "Now come on, I have a good feeling that we should go where you came from Bill." I said to both Bill and Isaac.
We then reached a room with shutters over a viewport. How do I know they were shutters and not some dark hallway? Well because all three of us nearly shat ourselves when the shutters opened up. Then both mine and Isaac's RIG brought up a video feed of Zach and Kendra. "Jeremy, Isaac are you guys ok?" Kendra asked us through the feed. We didn't even get to answer before Zach said. "Keep your voices down! There could be more of those things out there." We all saw Kendra and Zach standing outside at the tram station. "And who is that with you?" Kendra then asked us as I patched Bill's RIG in with our channel. "I'm Bill Stratton, Chief Technician of the USG Ishimura. Jeremy and Isaac saved me from one of those things." Bill explained to Zach and Kendra. "Bill what are those things?" Zach asked this time. "They used to be the crew here. And I don't want to know how they turned." Bill said to us all. "Hey Bill, got something for ya." I said as I threw a Plasma Cutter to Bill. As I did that Kendra and Zach started arguing on if we should stay and figure out what happened or try and leave this place. I then headed to a door towards the way to fix the tram. "And where do you think you're going?" Kendra asked, annoyed that I was walking away. "To fix the tram. Isaac, with me. Bill I need you to stay here. There is plenty of ammo here for you, and all you need to do is aim for their limbs to kill them. But not their head, I have a feeling that would just piss them off." I said as I continued walking to the door. I could hear Kendra growling angrily while Zach chuckled a little bit.
Long story short, Isaac got his stasis unit and I removed the damaged train and we got the things we needed to fix the trams. We made it back to Bill to see three dead necromorphs and Bill standing at the store buying some things before he got in and came out in what looked like a Titan Sprawl Security suit, but instead of having 'Titan Sprawl Security' on it, it said 'USG Ishimura Security'. "Nice suit Bill." I said to him. He turned around with yellow lights as his light color. "Thanks, I've been saving up my credits for something else, but these will do." Bill said as he hefted up his military issued Pulse Rifle with his Plasma Cutter on his left hip. I then see a workbench from Dead Space 3 in the room and walk towards it. In my safe I see some weapons that REALLY make my day. In my safe I have three weapons from when I played Dead Space 3, one is my mainly used weapon: a Automatic Rifle with Shotgun under barrel with Ammo Magnet and Acid Bath attachments. Two: Is a Planet Cracker class Plasma Cutter with Stasis Ammo and Medkit Dispenser (Forgot what it's actually called, but it heals teammate). And number three: A revolver with Acid Bath and Ammo Magnet. All of these guns had +3 Damage +3 Clip, +3 Damage +3 Fire Rate, and +3 Damage +3 Reload Speed. So, they were essentially already awesome guns on steroids. I could just slightly aim over a Slashers head with my Shot Rifle (as I like to call it (aka it's the Rifle with shotgun)) and take off its' whole entire upper body with arms included. And the Acid Bath also helps with using the Rifle part in racking up damage to easily kill with it, also doesn't help they're the upgraded rifle and shotgun pieces for more accurate shooting.
"Hey Isaac, got a present for you." I said as I threw my Shot Rifle to him. "What is this?" Isaac asked confused as to why I have this. "It's a prototype weapon I made, the upper part of the gun is an Automatic Rifle while the bottom part is a Shotgun. And the bullets are coated in acid." I explained to Isaac, who soon had a look of awe at it. "Why are you giving it to me?" Isaac asked me. "Because you only have one weapon. And that gun is pretty powerful, by the way might want to aim slightly above the necromorphs head when shooting the shotgun." I explained to him hoping he would listen to what I said. "Wait, 'necromorphs'?" I heard Kendra ask. "The creatures that used to be the crew. 'Necro' due to them being undead and 'morph' due to them being morphed into the things we're currently fighting." I explained to everyone when they all had curious looks. "That…makes sense in a way." Zach said to me. It was at that point that me and Isaac had started towards the Kellion and done that whole shebang. Eventually we made it to the tram where Bill was waiting for us. "Enjoy your trip?" Bill asked in a 'know-it-all' way. "Loved it. Had some Pina Colladas while there and saw some strippers." I replied like a smartass. "Well welcome back to hell then." Bill said causing all three of us to mirthlessly chuckle. "We might as well get some rest while on the tram, they tend to take a while." Bill said as we got on. "Alright, I'll take a nap." I said as I slowly closed my eyes while leaning back.
And…cut. That is the first chapter of my new Dead Space story. I hoped you guys liked it because I loved writing it. I also decided why not save the person you see get killed after you get the Plasma Cutter. You can also tell this story will follow the main story in a different way than normal, such as my character being friends with Hammond and saving Bill at the beginning. I normally see in most stories that the people in it would watch the worker die THEN kill the Slasher, but I figured that I should at least let the poor guy live.
I feel excited to continue this story because I can just do anything to it and still keep it canon as much as possible. I really enjoyed writing a little bit of Bill's lines for this chapter as well. I will not be stopping my Destiny fic at all. And just like I said in the intro I will be using the multiverse theory in my stories unless specified. But I will write more of this story soon and hopefully more of my Destiny story soon as well. Have y'all a good morning, evening, or night. And remember kids, if you see a necromorph laying down untouched then it's playing dead.
Diamond out.