Chapter 1: Stranded
"Everything was going according to plan, we were making a trade route to the Xehaleth system to deliver a dark matter reactor. Why exactly? They had a huge battleship, and it mainly runs on dark matter. However, while passing planet B2-034, fighters intercepted the shuttle, cutting it off completely. Suffering major damage, the ship crashed into the neighboring watery world. Now here I am, stranded in lifepod 007." I said into the recorder. Shutting it off I started speaking to myself. "Great, just great. the Sirius crashed, with little hope of being repaired, and for all I know, I'M THE ONLY SURVIVOR" Grieving in anger, I checked the small storage compartment. "Sea glide, titanium, and glass. That's not gonna do me good, but what's outside. I've been in here for days bored out of my mind. I guess it's about time I checked." I climbed up the metal ladder, with the sea glide in my other hand. The hatch clicked and hissed open, and I glared all about me. The Sirius to the north, nothing else in sight. I took a deep breath, held it, then jumped straight into the water. I peeked through my eyes to see what was before me, then I screamed. A small fish, but with a huge eye, just swam right in front of me. I panicked to the surface, and stumbled to the hatch. Forgetting to use the ladder, I fell to the floor of the escape pod. "Now I know what to do the titanium and glass." I took them out of the storage compartment, and put them in the fabricator. It whizzed and whirred as it made goggles for me. I grabbed them, and held them against my face. "Not bad, but that drained the power a bit." I said noticing the power go down on the scale. I climbed up the ladder again, and dove into the water. Then I hit my head on a coral reef. With the goggles on my face, and the seaglide in hand, i started zooming around to investigate the strange planet. Occasionally popping up above the water line for air. The planet wasn't all that bad really. Just the fish shoals swimming about, the coral growing alongside the sea grass, it truly was beautiful. Then I saw sand being thrown everywhere to my left. I swam closer to investigate. But what was there definitely saw me before I saw it.
Chapter 2: Pursuit
A huge armored creature erupted from the sand, and came straight for me its four eyes glowing red with hatred, and its needle sharp teeth were itching to get a bite out of me. I dashed for safety, the sea glide was blasting me through the water like a jet. But the fish was not far behind. It was catching up to me. I soon noticed that we were right above a shallow ravine. I dashed for cover here, but the angry predator knew exactly where I was going. "He is desperate for a meal isn't he." I said to myself. But just then bulky fish, with one eye, and red skin, came popping out of plants. They went for the predator not for me, thank goodness. But they started to inflate, and then BOOOM! The plant fish exploded. The predator didn't take much of a hit, because of it's armor. But it dashed right out of the ravine. Presumably back to where it came from. "Thats right you bone head! Go back to the sand pit you came from!" I dashed to the surface for a big gulp of air, and went to my escape pod. Except, it wasn't my escape pod. My escape pod had the number seven on its side, but this one had an eighteen on it. "Holy laser balls!" I shouted, then without caution, I dove right into the hatch. Only to black out.
Chapter 3: Casey
I woke up, tied to the ladder in the mysterious escape pod. "So, have to come to eat my intestines like sausages, or drink my blood like egg drop soup?" The figure said holding a knife up to my neck. "What are you talking about? The only thing I've had for the past days were nutrient blocks." The figure lowered its knife. Then untied me. Then the figure lowered its hood, and shot me a friendly glance. "The name's Casey, what's yours?" she said. I rubbed the lump on my forehead, "Logan," I said. "Did you really have to hit me so hard? This lump is gonna be on me for a while." She snickered, with her hand over her mouth. " I think you look funny." She said, with more snickers. "Have you seen what kind of things are outside" I asked. She nodded then replied. "All I know about the smaller ones is that you can eat them." We sat in silence for a while, until she perked up. "What is it?!" I shouted excitedly! "We can make a scanner!" She said "Not like a radar, an ANIMAL scanner! So we can learn more about them!" My jaw dropped, then I shouted "That's brilliant! But we need the supplies." We sat in silence longer that time. "Follow me" She said. She climbed the ladder, following I put my hands on the ladder, and swung myself up. We shifted our weight on top of the escape pod, until it balanced. She jumped in the water, and I followed. We swam towards a cave, and she moved a couple of plants, until there it was.
Chapter 4: The Cyclops
"I launched it right before the Sirius crashed. It took some major damage, but I managed to repair it with a welder, and a lot, and I mean A LOT of titanium." She said while climbing inside the massive submarine. I soon followed climbing inside the hatch, and following her up the ladder at the end of the hall. As soon as my head poked up above the ladder, I saw something amazing. "THE CYCLOPS IS SO COOL LOOKIN'! I LOVE IT!" I shouted, looking at everything that whizzed, whirred, and glowed. Casey got onto the driver's station, and started the thing up. Enthusiastically, she said to me, "Hey since you think this is cool, wait 'till you see what's under us!" She pulled the steering wheel up to herself, and we started to go deeper, and deeper. Everything was black, until she turned on the lights at the front. Then in front of me, huge glowing mushrooms appeared. "Whoa" We both said, as the enormous fungi shimmered and glowed, with all the deep sea, bioluminescent fish, it made it majestic. We started going up, then broad daylight greeted us once more. "We need to scavenge the Sirius if we are going to survive in this blasted planet." Casey said in a low tone. Then a voice over the intercom said, "WARNING ENTERING TOXIC AREA TURN BACK" Casey sighed, and turned the cyclops back around. "Wait, you said there are bare minerals here right?" I said trying to lighten up Casey's mood. "Also, we can use the fabricator to make the stuff we need, right?" Casey said nothing and parked the cyclops back in its spot. We both swam out and back into the life pods. "I'M SAYIN' WE CAN REBUILD THE SIRIUS!" I said in the life pod. "WE CAN GET OUT OF HERE!" "I know, but I just got a message on my PDA." She played the message on her PDA. The scratchy female voice of her PDA said, "The dark matter reactor aboard the Sirius is about to burst in ten seconds." We went on top of the escape pod. "Five, f-oo-ur ,th-r-ee two, on-e" the PDA uttered. Then the Sirius EXPLODED! Red and yellow bursts of plasma covered the ship as the massive fireball swallowed the ship whole. Chunks and parts flew in all directions. The blast was so powerful it knocked us into the ocean. We swam back up to the surface. "Rebuild the Sirius, eh?" Casey said rolling her eyes.
Chapter 5: Sea Base Alpha
"Log 7152: It's been one week since the Sirius blew it's fuse. LITERALLY! Me and Casey managed to build an sea base. It has almost everything needed to survive. We have a fabricator, several tools, two beds, we take shifts for those. One of us sleeps, while the other, goes out and scavenge. I let Casey sleep longer than I do. Just to be polite. Logan out." I shut off the recorder and went out of the hatch. The crepevine forest glowed with its seed clusters. I went out to harvest some acid mushrooms, to make more batteries. Then I saw it. "That DEFINITELY wasn't there before. A hole in the ground was right below me. I went back to the base to tell Casey about the pit. As soon as I entered the hatch I went straight to Casey's bed. " CASEY! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I FOUND!" then Casey came out of a new room. "A pit into nothingness" She said calmly. "Scanner room. We have camera drones now." She was holding one in her hand. "Cute little thing" I said walking into the new room. One thing on the wall said: Lithium, Titanium, Copper, Lead, and Silver. "I built this, so we can find minerals, that will help us." Casey said pressing a button on the table, which made it show a geo reading of the nearby area. " This is a geo reading of the area around us, the base. See, here's the crepevine forest, the pit, the jelly shroom caves…" I interrupted Casey, and said, "Wait, isn't that the glowing mushroom cave, with those snake things?" Casey rolled her eyes "of course you doofus!" she groaned. "Anyways, we can find recourses we need, like lead. If we want to go to the ship, we need lead suits to resist the radiation. I'm going to hook this little guy up to the cyclops so we can look for it while exploring new biomes." She exited the room, holding the camera drone. I followed, and we went outside. She moved the plants, and went into the cave. There it is again, the cyclops!
Chapter 6: The Sea Treader Path
" HEY LOGAN! COME AND GET IT, I COOKED SOME SPADEFISH THIS TIME!" shouted Casey on the lower deck. I charged for the ladder, forgot my bearings, and fell to the floor. Casey instantly started laughing at my fall. "You really need to start watching for the ladders! Anyways here is your spadefish." I got up off the ground, and took the alien fish on the plate Casey held out for me. "Thanks for the fish Captain of the Cyclops, Casey." Casey punched me in the back, and said. "I told you to stop calling me that!" The punch didn't hurt, that bad, it was a friend punch. More like a shove. I ate the spadefish and went back to driving the cyclops. "Holy moly" I said to myself. I tapped on the button with a camera sticker on it, and the whole window of the cyclops, turned into a screen. The camera drone casey hooked up on the bottom of the cyclops, was being controlled manually. I moved the camera drone around below the cyclops, to inspect strange 3 legged creatures. The top left part of the screen said we were at the Sea Treaders Path. I ran to grab Casey. "You won't believe what I found!" I shouted down to the lower section of the cyclops."WHAT IS IT!" She said. "Come up here and see!" I could soon see Casey climbing up the ladder, and she walked over to me. "Well? What is it?" She said. I pulled up the screen from the camera drone, and it showed those three legged creatures. "NO WAY! Did we really reach a new biome?" She said, eyes wide in astonishment. "You really do know your way around Lieutenant Logan!" she snickered, and walked into the other room. Soon after she left, the male voice of the cyclops A.I. said, "Low power, please resort to life saver mode." Casey said right after that, "Just push the red button on the steering wheel." I did as she said, and pushed the button with my hand. The lights then dimmed, and the cyclops's voice said, "To save power, i will be offline, be vigilant, since I won't be able to warn you of large predators. Signing out captain." The silence was nice, the cheers and clicks of the 3 legged creatures kept me company in the dark, until Casey grabbed me by the hand, and led me into the other room. "Lookie here at what i made while you and chet were chattering away!" She said, pointing at a miniature submarine. "Whoa, can we both fit in that thing?" I said inspecting it. "It's a seamoth, 2 passenger class. The original seamoth, that i found, could only hold one person. I modified it, so 2 people could sit in the front of the sub. I buffed the engine, and the storage compartment. It has an upgrade module, that we can insert modules into, to give it an edge in the ocean, such as extended crush depth, radar, and power efficiency, but we have none of those. We have to get to the ship to get them." Shocked, open jawed, and wide eyed. I slapped myself in the face to get myself out of the amazement. "Are we gonna take her for a spin or what?" I asked walking closer to the docked seamoth. "If you say so." We both climbed into the micro submarine and the robotic arms dropped us into the ocean. The ocean filled with roars of large predators.
Chapter 7: The Grand Reef