[Hey guys, SavageCaliber22 here. If you're starting the series with Subnautica, I'd HIGHLY encourage you to read DDLC FULLDIVE lest you want to be lost. FULLDIVE 2 - SUBNAUTICA, is a sequel to DDLC FULLDIVE. This story spends a lot of time in the real world, as this episode focuses on character development that wasn't present in DDLC FULLDIVE. Also, I won't post this nearly as often as DDLC, probably every other friday. With that out of the way enjoy the story, this is SavageCaliber22, Over and Out.]

It's been about a month since I escaped from DDLC, while I haven't been able to get back into VR as I'm really fucking busy, I have been able to chat with Monika. Apparently everything is completely normal. I found out that my game was recorded the whole time, which was useful when I had to tell my friends what happened, as none of them believed me.

I'm walking through the outdoor hallways of my school, which just ended. I just finished taking the SAT, I'm really exhausted. I just wanna go home, but I've got my tutor today so I can't. I'm walking past couples making out (Ew, get a room) and a group of boys blasting modern rap (God I fucking hate the rap the kids listen to these days.) I hear someone running up on me. "Hi Sarah." I say, grinning. "Goddamnit. I was trying to sneak up on you." Sarah says while she slows down to match my pace. "You're really predictable." I reply, trying to make her annoyed. "Fuck you." she miffed. I laughed in response. She shook her head and proceeded to look me in the eyes "Anyway, what're you doing after-school?" she asked.

"I'm probably going to look for more games compatible with Fulldive." I reply nonchalantly. Sarah thinks for a moment, "Have you heard of Subnautica?" I look at her curiously, "Yeah, Jacksepticeye and Markiplier play it constantly, I want to watch their series but they're already like, 100 episodes or so, Dan Bull made a rap about it too. Why? Is it on Fulldive?" Sarah nods, "Yeah, I've been watching Mark's playthrough, it's really cool! You should get it." We're in the school parking lot, I turn to Sarah. "Well, I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for telling me about it." Sarah winks, "Have fun." she joked before getting into her Focus. I get into my Nissan 350z and I take the top down, I have to go see my tutor today so I drive out of the lot and drive off.

Later…

I sit on my computer and boot up Youtube, I search up the trailer.

"...sunlight, I've been dreaming of it for months...but it's hard to enjoy it alone."

I watch the rest of the trailer. "Looks pretty good." I chirp to myself before hitting buy on the steam page.

I wait for it to download, Notepad opens up and I see a message

"What are you doing?"

It's Monika. I waste no time in replying

"Just downloading a new game, why?"

"We're all waiting for you to come back. The others are starting to lose their minds."

"I will, but I need some time to forget."

"Ok…"

"Yeah, sorry."

"What game are you downloading?"

"This game called Subnautica."

"Is it Fulldive?"

"Yeah."

"Let me see if I can somehow join you…"

"What?"

"I...also need to forget. So I figured, let's have some fun! (Also I really want to spend time with you~)"

"Uhm...Ok."

The game finishes downloading.

"Game's done downloading, see you, I guess?"

I lay down on my bed. I grab the headset from my bedside table, I put on my CPAP mask as well, don't want to have a sleep apnea episode while I'm in there. I plop the headset on my head, the three prongs stab into my neck, "Ow! Fuck I forgot about that!" I shout in pain. "Starting in 30 seconds" read a pop-up on the Visor. "Back in the saddle again." I mutter. I close my eyes and wait to start the dive…

Sunbeams

Diffracted and fractured like young dreams

Lost chances to capture these sunbeams

Splintered and shattered like young dreams

That no longer matter.

My vision faded into a vision of a sunset over the ocean, blocky letters spelling "SUBNAUTICA" hover just over the waves. I'm suspended in the air above said waves, there's a menu in front of me. I hit 'play' and am greeted with a save menu, I hit 'new save.' I'm greeted with game modes. I hit 'survival' and are greeted with a loading screen…

"Ok...loading screen...crashing ship…" I droned.

Then my vision went black…

Well, I just got hit in the head with a panel and now my lifepod's on fire.

I pick up a fire extinguisher and put out the fire, "Red Alert." plays in the background. "This game's got a nice soundtrack." I say to myself. I find a PDA on the ground and turn it on, it takes a while so I tap on the screen a couple of times.

[Booting in emergency mode]

I hear a chime come from the PDA "Alterraa…"

A simulated female voice comes through immediately after.

"You have suffered minor head trauma, this is considered an optimal outcome."

"This PDA has now rebooted in emergency mode with one directive: to keep you alive on an alien world."

"Please refer to the databank for detailed survival advice. Good luck."

This game has subtitles, nifty.

I take a look around the lifepod, I notice text pop up describing each thing I look at, there's a hud in the bottom left corner of my vision. Oxygen, health, hunger and thirst are all there. I look to a small panel on my left "Medkit fabricator" is what it reads. I pop open the panel to reveal a small pouch with a red cross on it, I grab it and it disappears. I glance at my PDA to see it in one of the slots in my inventory.

To my right, I see a panel with exposed, sparking wires. It reads "Damaged communications array." I look a little bit farther to see a Fabricator. "A crafting station?" I ask myself, tapping on it. It unfolds into a small table with little projectors over it. A touch menu appears in front of me. I find the repair tool.

Silicone Rubber, cave sulfur, and titanium.

Titanium? Shouldn't that be hard to find?

I scroll up to find a scanner, description reads: "Spectroscope scanner used to acquire technology blueprints and data on living organisms."

That might be the most important thing I'll get.

Battery, Titanium

Again, isn't titanium a rare alloy? Maybe it's just the basic crafting material.

I check to see what it costs to make a battery.

2 Acid mushrooms and copper.

I decide to leave the fabricator alone.

Time to see what this game has to offer. I climb up the ladder and exit my lifepod, a couple of alien birds (Skyrays) fly off of my lifepod and off into the distance. I poke my head out of the lifepod, the first thing I notice is The Aurora looming over me. I completely exit my lifepod and look at my surroundings, the I notice is a huge planet in the sky. I look down at the ocean level, there's another lifepod floating in the distance, though it's far away. I look down at the water. "Here we go." I shout, jumping off the lifepod and into the water. I feel the bubbles disperse around me and I open my eyes. I'm startled by a peeper studying me, it makes a squeak and darts away, leaving behind basically an underwater contrail. I'm holding my breath and it's starting to hurt. I exhale, not noticing any bubbles in front of my face, I inhale...I can breathe.

I still notice my Oxygen meter drop as I'm breathing normally. So I still have to surface even though I'm breathing fine...then again, this is all simulated, there's no water to fill my real lungs. That's aside from the distilled water humidifier in my CPAP. I look around the reef I've found myself, there are bladderfish, boomerangs, peepers, and garryfish everywhere. A rabbit ray glides past my face, startling me. I look down to see the purple mushrooms I'm looking for. I snatch a couple. "Copper and Titanium…" I think to myself. I'm interrupted by an alarm

(Beep beep!) "Oxygen."

My eyes go wide and I swim to the surface. My oxygen meter refills, I dive back down and swim around. I notice text saying "Break limestone outcrop, tap 3 times." above a discolored chunk of rock. I swim up to it and tap it thrice. It shatters and a black metal falls out of it. I look at it and it's labeled "Titanium ore."

How bout that?

I grab it and break another chunk, I get copper from it.

(Beep beep!) "Oxygen."

I refill my O2 and re-enter my lifepod.

I craft the scanner.

Now for the repair tool. Silicone rubber requires a creepvine seed cluster, I think I saw some in this huge kelp forest. As for cave sulfur, I'm not sure. I figured out how to open a web browser, but that's a little cheap. I'm going to swim into this cave and gra_

Oh shit what the hell is that sound?!

This large fish flies toward me making a loud screech. I can't swim away fast enough and it, quite literally, DRIFTS LIKE A HACHI-ROKU into me. [A/N: please tell me I'm not the only one who sees Crashfish do that.] I attempt to push it away, but as I touch it. IT FUCKING EXPLODES. I yell out in pain, it hurts so much. As I'm trying to recover from the pain, I manage to say "System...turn off pain simulation!" then the pain just fades away. I take a minute to recompose myself and check my health. Ouch, that thing got me really good, I check my oxy_

(Beep beep!) "Oxygen."

...That.

I surface and swim into the cave, there's this red...flower thing that fish came out of. There's a powder inside of it.

"Cave Sulfur."

Neato. I snatch it up...wait do I have to get blown up every time I need sulfur? That sucks, I grab the PDA from a little pouch on my thigh. I use the medkit I ha_

(Beep beep!) "Oxygen."

Oh my god, if I have to hear that every 15 seconds I'm uninstalling...ok maybe not. I surface and dive back down. Breaking another limestone chunk to get more titanium. I'm nearby one of those big kelp forests. I'm about to grab one of the seeds from one of the kelp...sorry "Creepvine" trees, but I'm stopped by something big snarling from behind me. I turn around to see a blue, barracuda like creature charging at me with it's mouth wide open.

That's a lot of teeth. Fortunately, I've scuba'd with enough sharks to know how to deal with this.

I grab its snout and shove it to the side, causing it to glide past me. The text reads "Stalker." when I look at it. The stalker swims off and grabs a big chunk of debris from the ship. I grab the seed cluster and move on, grabbing a piece of copper on the way. As I'm swimming back, I find a crate, just lying on the ground. I look inside it to see a machine, the text reads "Seaglide fragment." I attempt to pick it up to no avail. Wait, doesn't the scanner collect blueprints? I scan it with the scanner and it disappears. I hear a loud musical tone.

"Integrating new PDA data."

I see in the top left corner of my vision, text reading "½ blueprints collected."

Huh, I can craft new things by colle_

(Beep beep!) "Oxygen."

ENOUGH!

I craft the repair tool and fix up the damaged wires and the radio, as I do it plays a very obnoxious text-to-speech voice

"CAPTAIN. 2 NEW MESSAGES HAVE ARRIVED."

I tap it.

"PLAYING MESSAGE 1."

"This is Aurora. Distress signal received.

Rescue operation will be dispatched to your location in 9...9...9...9...9...hours.

Continue to monitor for emergency transmissions from other lifepods."

"PLAYING BACK PRE-RECORDED DISTRESS CALL."

"This is Lifepod 3, uploading our co-ordinates. We're plugging some holes in our emergency Seaglide, so if we're late for the rendezvous, don't panic.

Also, don't go home without us. Seriously. 3 out."

"INCOMING TRANSMISSION FROM LIFEPOD 35"

I hear Monika come through the radio

"Uh...Ryan? Can you hear me? What am I saying? This is a one way transmission. I've managed to get myself in here, don't ask how I got here. It sucked. Anyway, If you're hearing this you also fixed up your radio. I can see your lifepod out in the distance, but I don't think I can get there. Ok, listen carefully. I've done a little research, if you haven't already, get yourself a Seaglide. Next scan Mobile Vehicle bay and Seamoth Submersible fragments. Once you have a Seamoth, use it to get to my location, I'll leave this beacon online so you know where to find me. Monika in lifepod 35 out."

Ok...lemme see if I can send one back.

Drat, I can't.

Whelp, I'll play some more tomorrow.

-User logout-

Among a thousand galaxies, each with a thousand stars

You're bound to find another like ours

Submerged and immersed in a version of earth

From innumerable years before your birth

Crash landed on an aquatic planet, stranded

Surrounded by oceanic expanses and no answers

A load of questions and no language to ask 'em in

But the fact is that I'm fascinated, so fasten in.