Wow, thanks for the reviews, favorites, and alerts, guys! I really appreciate them and I'm glad you enjoyed the first chapter! Because of that, I've got the next chapter as well! I also thought I'd mention that while there will be humor a lot of the time, other times, there won't be. With that in mind, enjoy this next chapter!

DISCLAIMER: Everyone belongs to Visceral Games and EA.


Once the white light cleared away, the inside of the Kellion came back into view, and Isaac picked up the controller. "Wow, I can rotate the camera now," he announced to the others.

"Aww, look at you!" Nicole cooed, "Just looking around silently." She smiled widely.

"They make me look so innocent," Isaac replied, grinning wolfishly.

Kendra snorted into her hand. "We all know you're not that innocent, Isaac Clarke," she teased, "I saw you and Nicole at the bar a few nights ago."

"Hey, that was only one drink I had," Isaac responded, pointing at the computer specialist. Kendra winked and quieted down just as game-Kendra and game-Hammond began to argue.

"Is everyone okay?" game-Hammond asked worriedly.

"What?" game-Kendra stammered, "What the hell were you thinking? Were you trying to get us killed?"

"I just saved our asses, Miss Daniels. If we had aborted at that speed and distance, we would have smashed right into the side of the Ishimura! Now, let's settle down and get to work. Corporal, report!"

"I see the game got your personalities right," Mercer mused, nodding at Kendra and Hammond.

"Oh, come on!" Hammond replied, "We don't fight that much. Do we?"

Kyne, Mercer, Nicole, and Isaac all glanced at each other and smirked. "Okay, so maybe we have…minor discussions sometimes," Kendra admitted, "But we get along for the most part. Right, Hammond?"

"Of course, Miss Daniels," Hammond replied, winking at her. They then turned their attention back to the screen as the camera rotated to a fixed position. At the moment, game-Isaac was slipping a helmet on over his head.

"Damn," Isaac cursed under his breath, "I guess we weren't supposed to see my face."

"Was that a spoiler?" Kyne asked, shrugging.

"I guess for the game," Hammond answered, "But we know what he looks like already, so I guess not in real life."

"Was that the game's attempt to make me this mysterious character?" Isaac asked as they all watched game-Kendra sync their RIGs so that the bars on the back were green.

"Looks like it," Nicole quipped, "But you're already a great guy."

Everyone turned back to the screen as game-Hammond finished talking and all the characters began to exit the Kellion, leaving game-Isaac by himself. The camera rotated until Isaac was finally allowed to control himself. "This is so weird," he muttered to himself as an information box appeared in front of him.

"Use 'Run' to move quickly," a clipped, English, female voice explained as Isaac began to test the controls.

"Like we don't all know how to run already," Mercer replied, and everyone laughed.

"Aren't you going to tire yourself out like that, Mr. Clarke?" Kyne asked, "If you force yourself to run the whole time?"

"Game characters never get tired," Nicole retorted, "You know that, Dr. Kyne."

"Besides," Isaac added, "I won't need to run everywhere, will I?" They all quieted down as game-Kendra turned to game-Isaac and said something else.

"You didn't lost power to the port booster," she scolded, "You lost the port booster! Unbelievable!"

"Who?" Isaac asked, "Me?"

"I guess so," Kendra quipped, "But why am I scolding you? You didn't do anything." Isaac shrugged and continued to guide himself over to his destination, where everyone else was waiting. In front of his character, "Objective Complete" flashed, and everyone stood outside the locked door up ahead, not doing anything.

"Guess the power's down everywhere," game-Hammond deduced, "Isaac, get over here and hack the door pad."

Everyone burst out laughing and glanced at Hammond. "Now that's Hammond to a T!" Kendra teased as Hammond rolled his eyes.

"I'm not that bossy," he replied, but Isaac glanced over at him with a smirk on his face.

"Sure you aren't," he said, "Now, how do I hack this door?"

"Look for blue holograms to activate," the same voice from before explained to Isaac.

"So according to this," Isaac began, "I only have to press a button and the door will open? Why can't it be that simple in real life?"

"Hey, that looks like your Xbox," Nicole suddenly spoke up, pointing to the glowing box next to game-Isaac as the door in front of them opened. As Isaac turned himself to the left slightly, he picked up some credits and a small med pack.

"What are those going to do?" Kyne asked.

"I guess we'll find out." Everyone fell silent as the game-Kendra and game-Hammond began to exchange words again.

"Seems like everyone was trying to pack in a hurry."

"There should be a security detail in here."

"Yeah, well, there's not. There's nobody here. I can't pick up any broadcasts."

"That security console is still live. Isaac, log in and see what you can find. Kendra, get that elevator back online."

"Power's dead. I can't!"

"Then reroute the damn power! Look, if we all cooperate, we can figure this out a lot sooner. Let's get that computer display up, Isaac."

"Shit," Kendra cursed, "Are we going to be fighting like this the whole time, Hammond?"

"I hope not," Hammond replied, "They're making me sound like an angry asshole!"

"Don't you have anything to say, Isaac?" Nicole asked, tilting her head to the side.

"Apparently not," Isaac muttered as he figured out how to use the navigator, which he nicknamed "Bread Crumbs". After seeing that Bread Crumbs was pointing him to a door right next to him, he guided his game counterpart into the next area, where he proceeded to log into the computer, just like Hammond had asked.

"It doesn't look good," one of the other guys commented, "She's taken a lot of damage."

"The tram system's offline," game-Hammond piped up, "Getting around is going to be difficult. The air seems to be flowing again. That's a start."

"Why do I feel like something's going to happen?" Mercer asked, and then everyone gasped and jumped as the lights in the game flickered and shut off. An alarm accompanied the startling sound.

"Scary call, Mercer," Kendra whispered, shuddering.

"What the hell was that?"

"Automatic quarantine must have tripped when the filtration system restarted. Everybody relax," game-Hammond replied in a calm voice.

Nobody could say anything as game-Kendra continued. "What was that? Did you hear that?" she asked as they must have heard a small noise.

"I'm not sure…"

Suddenly, something burst through a vent in the room. "What the hell?" Isaac muttered as he gripped the controller in his hands.

"What the hell?"

"I don't know!" game-Kendra cried, "Something's in the room with us!"

"Oh, shit," Hammond hissed under his breath, "I'm getting nervous now. Why'd you turn the lights off, Nicole?" Nicole shrugged as they continued to watch the Necromorph on the screen sneak up on one of the other Kellion crewmembers.

"What is that?" Kyne asked.

"Oh, Jesus!" game-Hammond yelled, "Open fire! Open fire! Kendra, power! Kendra!"

"Oh, crap!" Kendra gasped, "What's going on? I don't know if I'm going to like this game too much! One of those other guys is dead already!" They all listened to the sound of a flat line as she said this.

"And I'm not reacting again," Isaac commented, "You're not the only one that looks like an asshole, Hammond."

"Come on…come on…got it!" game-Kendra shouted.

"Isaac!" game-Hammond ordered, "Get the hell out of there!"

"The door is unlocked! Run!" Soon, the Necromorph from the other room made its way into the area where game-Isaac was.

"Isaac! Run!" Nicole shouted, shoving the controller back into her boyfriend's hands, and picking it up again, Isaac began to make himself run through the dark hallways while he heard snarling behind him.

"Shit!" Isaac cursed, "Hammond's right! This is pretty nerve wracking right now!"

"Don't get yourself killed, Mr. Clarke!" Kyne advised the engineer. Everyone watched in silence as Isaac controlled himself. Just as he made it to the elevator in front of him, the Necromorph appeared behind him and slashed at him.

"AHH!" Nicole screamed, clutching Isaac's arm.

"Come on, come on, come on!" Isaac growled, "Open up, you stupid elevator!" As soon as he said that, the door opened, and Isaac forced his counterpart into the lift as he pushed the button to go down. Everything went quiet, and everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

Boom! With a burst of fury, the same Necromorph forced its way through the elevator doors, causing everyone, even the guys, to let out a scream of surprise. "What the fuck is that?" Hammond asked as he clutched his chest.

"Whatever it is, it's hell bent on killing me," Isaac retorted just as the doors closed and sliced the monster in half.

"Christ," Kendra gasped, "What game did you buy, Isaac? Are you sure you want to keep playing?"

"I'm not stopping now!" Isaac protested, "I have to see what else is going on here!"

"I'd like to know where I am in this game," Nicole decided firmly.

"And I want to see myself actually speak eventually," Isaac added, "I must be feeling scared right now."

"Isaac Clarke," Kendra teased, "The man of few words."

Isaac narrowed his eyes at her in mock anger. "Hardly."

As the elevator doors in the game opened, Isaac made himself stomp on one of the Xbox-like boxes on the floor, where he found goods inside of it. "So Xboxes give us credits and ammo now?" Hammond asked, "Let's destroy yours, Isaac, so we can see if there's anything inside."

"Careful, Hammond," Isaac warned, "You might get the Red Ring of Death if you do that."

Everyone cracked up in order to lighten up the mood a little bit after their scare from before. Meanwhile, in the game, game-Isaac was reading a message written in blood on the walls.

"Cut off their limbs," Isaac read from where he sat on the floor, "Is that how you're supposed to kill them?"

"Looks like it," Kyne answered, "Hey look, a Plasma Cutter!"

"Where?"

"Right in front of you! Pick it up!"

And with the touch of a button, Isaac equipped his game character with the tool, as well as the extra Plasma Energy in his inventory. He then guided game-Isaac over to the locked door in the distance, where he proceeded to aim the Plasma Cutter and shoot at the fuse.

"A Plasma Cutter as a weapon?" Isaac asked as the door unlocked, "That's pretty badass." He opened the door just in time to see someone getting mauled by a similar monster, and once the kill was done, the beast moved on to game-Isaac.

"Look out!" Hammond cried from next to Kendra, and nobody said anything as Isaac tried to fight off the Necromorph. In a flash, it grabbed him, and the letter "A" appeared over game-Isaac's shoulder.

"Shit!" Isaac cursed, hammering the "A" button on his controller as the Necromorph tried to chew his neck. After a few more seconds, game-Isaac managed to fight the enemy off as Isaac got used to the shooting controls.

"This is awkward," he commented.

"This should be a piece of cake for you!" Kendra admonished, "You know how to use a Plasma Cutter!"

"It's kind of hard to control myself in a game setting," Isaac reasoned as he learned to reload his Plasma Cutter in the game.

"I hope we're okay," Hammond piped up, gesturing to himself and Kendra.

"And not fighting anymore," Kendra added.

"Knowing you two," Nicole piped up, "You probably are."

"Very funny," Kendra said as Isaac continued to move himself through the next few dark hallways. They were quiet, which made everyone worried that something else was going to pop out, but eventually, Isaac made it to the next Save Station.

"Isaac? Isaac!" game-Kendra cried, "God, I can't believe he made it."

"Isaac," game-Hammond began, "We ran into more of them on the way here. Are you okay?"

"More what? What the hell are those things? Is that the crew?"

"Keep your voice down! Whatever they are, they're not friendly, and half the doors on this ship are locked because of the quarantine. Now, we have to get to the Bridge, but first, we've got to repair the tram system."

"No, shit," Kendra mumbled to herself, and Hammond glared at her for a minute.

"You're crazy, Hammond!" game-Kendra accused, "You're going to get us all killed!"

"I don't think you're crazy," Kendra commented, "Just thought I'd put that out there. The game is getting my personality wrong."

"If you listen to me, I will get you out of here alive. Now, what's wrong with the tram?"

"The data board is fried, but there should be another one in the Maintenance Bay. There's also a broken tram blocking the tunnel that needs to be repaired. Damn it. Everything's on the other side of the quarantine. We can't reach it from here."

"I see where this is going now," Isaac commented out loud as everyone instinctively turned to face him, "This is looking more like a normal day at the office."

"No, we can't. But you can. Isaac, if I can get to the Bridge, I should be able to access the personnel files. You fix the tram, and I'll help you find Nicole."

"Aww," everyone cooed as he or she turned to face the Senior Medical Officer, who was beginning to blush.

"Don't worry, Nicole," Isaac assured her as he saved the game, "I'll find you in the game. We'll see where you are." It looked like they were going to be in for a bumpy ride.