Super Smash Bros.
THE SUBSPACE EVANGELIST
ACT I: The Beginning
"WARNING: Collision course with unknown substance. Request immediate evacuation of vessel." The warning blared throughout the skeleton-like hull of the dead ship, drifting through space. It drifted slowly and lumberingly.
Finally, after several cycles of the warning noise, the flashing lights flickered to a halt and the droning voice stopped. There was a small blue light in a room, then suddenly a flash as the blue reflected off a frozen pod as it opened slowly. Out stepped a man, large, about 7 feet in height, encased entirely in sage green armor.
"Good. You're awake," the blue light said in a soft woman's voice.
"Cortana," the man said, shaking the sleep off quickly, despite the year and a half he'd been in cryosleep.
"In your head, Chief." He put his hand over the terminal nearby and absorbed the AI Cortana into his central AI port in his helmet. The warm sensation rushed over him as he felt her in his consciousness once more. It helped dull the cold he was feeling.
Suddenly, the alarm went on again, going through a full cycle.
"Unknown substance?" Master Chief asked after the alarm had died down again.
"I don't know. I haven't had a chance to observe it. All weapons, thrusters, and occular devices on this ship have been disabled. And at the rate you're in, you look like you have quite a bit of oxygen left, but we need to find something soon." He nodded.
He began drifting through the ship and outside, grabbing parts of the decayed vessel on his way to the top. Upon reaching the very top of the ship, he looked forward to see a floating pool of black, incandescent liquid. The warning echoed from inside the ship, but almost too little for them to hear.
"What is that?" the Chief asked.
"That... I don't know."
"You don't know?" he queried quietly. "Then it's nothing we've encountered before."
"Correct. So what are we going to do?" He paused a moment, then began scaling the ship down to the front, until the substance was directly overhead. "Oh no. Chief, we're not going to-"
"Give me a trajectory."
"...you'll hit it."
"Good," he replied, coiling himself into crouched position and springing upward toward the substance. He slowly drifted, up and up towards it. Finally, he slowly floated inside the peculiar cloud of almost glowing liquid. He looked around. In his mind's eye, battles were playing out. He reached out slowly and his finger tapped the liquid. Then there was a flash and everything went dark.
PART 2: The Slayer
He awoke roughly. He was panting and was covered in a cold sweat. Looking around, he could find no source for his nightmare. He dreamed of something different then the undead he constantly faced for once. He dreamed of something much more horrifying, but he couldn't place it, exactly.
He got up and grabbed his shotgun, and donned his police outfit. Walking outside and getting in his car, he flipped on the police radio. Already, there was a call.
"Missing persons in the area of West Monroe Street. Leon, you there?" He picked up the radio reciever.
"Copy that. Status?"
"People saw them one second, the next they disappeared. Not a normal missing persons case. I want you in there. You deal with the... abnormal." Leon Kennedy nodded.
"Acknowledged. I'll be there soon."
"Over and out." Leon cruised down the street, knowing where the street was he was looking for. After a while, he found a building on West Monroe and people crowding outside. He stepped out of his car and began pressing through the crowd.
"Pardon me, excuse me, police officer, coming through." He pressed people aside until he made it into the house, ducking under the police tape. Several CSI were there, snapping pictures of the scene. At first, he couldn't see anything to take pictures of. Nothing seemed abnormal. Until he followed their gaze. On the ground was a pool of shining black liquid. It seemed to almost glow and pulse on its own as he stared. Slowly, he knelt near it and put one finger out, tapping the liquid.
He felt himself cry out, but heard nothing. Felt the electrifying pain as he convulsed and saw the flash as his vision blurred into nothingness.