Authors Note: Takes place two years after Isaac escaped that hell hold of a ship. This story revolves around a young man named Sirhc James Volcov. Just hope that this comes out, as I wanted

Disclaimer: do not own dead space or its creatures. Don't own ****!

Chapter I

Sirhc yawned as he woke up from his nap in his small room on the new planet cracker just made called the phoenix. The phoenix was made bigger and better in the memory of the USG Ishimura after it went missing. The ship he was presently on was headed for the same area the Ishimura went down in hopes of finishing what it started. Sirhc could never understand why it took so long for the process to go under way. For some reason the government was stalling the process but wouldn't say why. In the end some official had to come aboard the ship and watch over the mining process. Sirhc was only ship security so it went above his head; he never paid much attention to politics and company affairs unless it affected his job directly. Sirhc's a normal, simple man; grew up with a loving family, had a passion for snow boarding and martial arts, and liked his job for it was good pay and if he stayed on long enough he could get a good job some where else. Plus it had benefits, going into space is very expensive now a days so this is probably the only way he will be able to go this far out and he gets to use some awesome guns. And probably the only time he'll ever get to play Z ball for free.

Getting off his bed stretching to his full six-foot height and yawning as he looked around his new home for the time being. It was a simple room with a desk, lamp, ceiling fan, bed, a small window that allowed him to glance at the stars and two doors one leading to the hallway another to his small bathroom with a shower, toilet, and sink. He swatted at his uniform that was all black. Black denim pants that were a little long dropping over his black polished boots, a black muscle shirt hugging tight to his sculpted muscles with security in big white print, with a black tight jacket with small print on the top right. Strapped to his side was a black metal baton with rubber grip for the stun feature. Sirhc went into the bathroom making sure his uniform was right. As he looked into the mirror from his dark skin to his scalp seeing his nap messed up his hair he grabbed a brush to attempt smoothing out his short black hair. Seeing as his shift was going to start soon Sirhc decided he might as well start heading over to the security room.

For a big ship it was fairly easy to get around. It was getting busier as they were only a day away from their destination. Thinking it over the guard decided to make a small stop to the engineering bay. Sirhc had made good friends with a girl down there he was hoping to… get acquainted with. Being friends with said girl made the trip easier and seemed to go by quicker. During his off time he was ether with her or sleeping.

Along the way he made small talk with a few people here and there, when on the tram he ran into a doctor he'd heard about around the ship. Rumor had it man was a legend; He served in the Brazil war as a medic and had lost his left leg in the line of duty. Then went on to become a doctor solving many a medical mysteries. To Sirhc it was amazing that the man was on this ship instead of in some fancy ass mansion on a beach. The doctor was in his mid forties and still had his looks he appeared to be about five-six, long dark black hair with some gray streaks, his lightly bronzed face looked young and healthy but in his brown eyes there was a worn down tired look in them. He was in the standard white doctor uniform issued for these ships. Plus the money and fame there was no shortage to the woman that threw them selves at him. Besides the two women staring at the man trying to decide which one of them would talk to him first. The poor doctor looked a little annoyed probably because he'd been 'approached' by almost the entire ship staff since the begging of the trip. Deciding to save him the trouble Sirhc walked over to the man to stir up a conversation.

"Excuse me, you wouldn't happen to be… umm," asked Sirhc trying to recall the doctors name from memory.

"Nicholas," sighed the man as he looked down probably thinking the security guard was another fan. "Nicholas Voinovich."

"Ah, Ya that guy, so how's life on the ship treating you."

"Not… bad its different," answered Nicholas a little shocked Sirhc wasn't asking for an autograph, recommendation, or on the rarity his number.

"Cool, cool… so if you don't mind me asking, why are you on a planet cracker anyway thought you had your own hospital or something."

"Ummm… wanted something different really, plus I don't go into space much so this seemed like a good choice," answered the doctor enjoying the nice discussion.

"Well that's nice," Responded the guard as he noticed the tram was starting to slow. " Well here's my stop nice talking to you."

"Likewise," answered the doctor.

As Sirhc stood up to leave the tram the two girls that decided to just jump the doctor at the same time. He could hear giggles, and squeals along with the poor doctor's sighs as the door closed.

It was still pretty quiet in the engineering bay, as there was nothing that needed to be fixed at the moment so most of the people were just sitting around playing cards here and there, sleeping or eating. Towards the back in a chair with her legs on a work bench reading a book she had read almost a thousand times by the looks of the spine. The light from her lamp made her tanned skin glisten. As she looked up to Sirhc calling her name some of the woman's black hair fell from behind her ear in-front of her brown rimed glasses hiding her emerald green eyes. Smiling, showing off her pearly white teeth as she stood up the black overalls she was wearing had grease spots from a previous job. The pant legs were a little baggy falling over her dirty dark brown shoes with dirty white shirt under the overalls.

"Sup Mary," asked Sirhc as he gave the girl a hug.

"Little bored hoping for something to break so that I might have something to do," laughed the girl as she returned the hug. Standing at full height her for-head was under Sirhc's chin.

"Personally I'd rather nothing gets broken while I'm still out here."

"You know what I mean," said Mary giving him a joking glare, "what brings you down here."

"Thought I'd stop by on the way to my shift and say good morning… or… afternoon… or night," Sirhc stumbled trying to remember the time.

"It would be evening, if my watch is still correct which it is it's six-ten."

"Damn damn damn damn damn, I'm so fucking late," yelled Sirhc as he bolted out of the engineering bay. Mary just shook her head, as once again Sirhc didn't check the time before heading over.

Sirhc was lucky today as the head of security wasn't on shift this time. As he ran into the room almost breaking the door down, his friend just smiled and turned around in the wheelie chair.

"Damn" said Sirhc out of breathe as he was running and cursing the whole way over to the Security room.

"Late again" laughed the Thai man.

"Shut up Dam," said the other guard as he walked over to the check in/out box to see his card was already clipped. "Thanks" muttered Sirhc as he sat down in the other chair. Damian was in the same uniform as Sirhc with a light tan and short black hair. Probably an inch taller then Sirhc was. Damian just smiled his gray eyes reflecting the overhead light bulbs. "So what I miss"

"Nothing really just the norm" said Damian as the two guards turned to the WIDE wall with many T.V screens showing what every camera saw spread out across the ship.

"Dang should have brought Dissidia," muttered the dark skinned man referencing to one of his favorite old video games.

"You still play that game," laughed Damian

"Hey man classics are the best," Sirhc laughed.

The rest of the day went by like normal, Damian and Sirhc joking about work, head of security taking over his shift after Damian checked out. Then Sirhc after another guard showed up. Sirhc stopped by Mary's room to talk for a bit exchanging a few jokes before heading off to his room to fall asleep after getting tomorrows uniform ready.