I tore off the front of the console revealing circuitry so complex it was nearly mind boggling. The lights flickered and I had to hold back vomit as I stood in the trail of blood lining the floor and walls. Every scrape, every scratch, every small ticking noise of even a can dropping made me jump.

"Why again? Why was I going through this again?" I asked myself. I shook my head and reached into the console and felt for the circuitry. I removed only the three welds that kept the door lock on and identifying those became harder and harder every time. I had finally finished and I activated the door. The motors whirred to life and it screeched open. I passed through and the sound of it shutting behind me made me jump and hold my plasma cutter at it.

"This is insane," I said aloud.

I turned around and my heart nearly stopped at the sight of Nicole. "You left me Isaac," she said. Her voice haunted my very soul; if I had one… "You left me to die! Don't deny it!"

"Go away! You're not real! Stop tormenting me!" I screamed at the hallucination.

A loud shriek echoed through the halls and a sharp pain pulsed through my head. Flashes of symbols came before my eyes as the shriek got louder and louder and suddenly stopped when Nicole disappeared. I deactivated my helmet to take a few fresh breaths. I fell to the floor and dropped my weapon. My legs were weak and I could only exert enough energy to sob.

"Isaac!" a voice said from my comm. "Isaac, where are you? I need your help! I can't get out of this room! Please Isaac!"

I pulled myself together and stood up grasping the plasma cutter in my hand.

"I'm not insane," I thought, "I know the images aren't real…" I took a hesitant step forward as I approached the next door. I heard more scratching in the vent above me and I froze. I stopped blinking. I stopped breathing. Suddenly, a loud bang sounded followed by a mass falling from the vent on top of me. I could see the distorted face; the jaw bone having formed into large fangs. It's arms had sprouted large blades and it grasped me and seemed to hug me as I tried to push it off. I really was in the middle of the shit again… I didn't see an escape from this one.