"I will let you fall in battle, but this is the only thing you are allowed to feed me." With that, Isaac's hand was driven into the throat of the doctor, and he felt tendrils writhing under the skin of his forearm when they burst through his sleeve and entered the corpse at multiple spots quickly draining the body of blood, at the same time, Isaac felt the wounds to his back and shoulder squirm and itch and when they stopped, Isaac's hand was removed from the throat and the tendrils withdrew into his arm and the flesh they tore rapidly closed and healed. Right then his control returned and he fell to his knees." What the hell did they do to me while I was out?" Isaac said to himself.
He swore he heard his voice laughing.
Isaac was thinking at a million miles a minute,'What is happening to me? Am I turning into a Necromorph? None of the others took so long to transform.'He stopped,'The others? Am I already thinking of myself as one of those things? I REFUSE to accept that. I am human. I am not a monster.'
He looked at the corpse that now looked eighty years old, got up and walked through the door next to him. As soon as he was through the door and into the elevator, though, he received a video communication,"Clarke, Isaac Clarke, is that you?" Isaac stopped in his tracks," Who are you?" he asked."My name is Daina, I'm the one trying to rescue you." Isaac looked skeptical, after all, he always turned out to be the one rescuing others, and even that didn't usually work...
'Nicole' he thought. Her memory brought sadness, then anger as he was reminded that he was in a conversation with someone trying to rescue him, "Why? What's going on?" he asked. The blonde woman's answer made him pale," You are suffering from a unique form of Dementia, Isaac. Something you contracted on Aegis 7." Isaac was shocked not only at the news, but the fact she had it."How do you know that? How do you know so much about me?" she checked something to her right, then answered, "Your Dementia WILL kill you, but if you can get here, I can treat you and get you to safety." Isaac scowled," Why should I trust you?" She looked annoyed," Because I'm not the one shooting at you!"she shouted. 'you don't exactly have a clear shot either.' he thought. "Fuck" he said. "Follow your locator" she ordered. The video cut out, and the elevator door opened.
He walked down the hallway and saw a corpse lying there in front of the door to the living room of the asylum, he walked up to it and it's arm twitched. He quickly stomped down on it's head and was surprised that not only did the skull flatten easier than he remembered but his foot was sore and there was an indentation in the metal floor where he stomped. He turned into the doorway of the living room and navigated past the bodies and tables till he got near the tv. The damn thing turned on with an ear shattering screech and he promptly threw a chair at it and broke it."Scared the shit out of me." he mumbled.
He left the living room and walked to a door down the hall that led into a room filled with steam. Maintenance, he realized. Isaac walked to the adjacent room but stopped when his vision started turning red and he felt tendrils writhing under his skin."No."he said firmly and he forced it back. "What the hell?"
He saw a maintenance hatch and walked over to it. Luckily it still recognized him as a C.E.C. Engineer and he was able to enter it. He climbed in and began shuffling through the crawlspace, bending and contorting around the first turn. As soon as he got around it he saw a wicked scythe shaped blade on what looked to be a tail shoot out of his vision and down the other side of the crawlspace. He waited for the sounds of moving to stop before advancing the rest of the way through the shaft.
Once he got to a point that it looked like he was going to have to crawl upwards, the floor fell out from under him and he was barely able to keep himself from smacking his head on the ground. When he looked up the first thing he saw was a dead surgery patient floating on a Kinesis bed. he got up and looked around the room to find he was in a surgery observation chamber. he went over to the Kinesis console, tore off the panel and pulled out the Kinesis module which he attached to his left arm. "Ah, Kinesis how I've missed you", he thought.
Isaac used the module to send a metal spike of obscure origin through the nearest window. Then, in a moment of immaturity, Isaac threw another spike through the window on the other side of the room, smashing it and consequently waking up the Necromorphs in either hallway. His grin dissipated and he cursed as he frantically flung another spike at the monster, pinning it to the wall and killing it.
He heard a thump behind him and backhanded the sneaking Necromorph in the neck, tearing its head off and slamming into the adjacent wall. Shocked, Isaac looked at his left arm and saw strange red lines under his skin, perfectly straight, and only bending in ninety degree angles if they did, making his arm look like it was covered in bloody circuits. The lined disappeared rather quickly but when they did Isaac was left with a ridiculously unbearable itch. "Ah,ah,ahAAA it itches!" he cried, but as soon as it came it was gone.
"Huh", he said,"I'm not sure whether I like that or not,"
Isaac left the room and got into the elevator at the end of both hallways, bringing a spike with him. When he emerged into another hallway he saw a Necromorph laying in a suspiciously comfortable-looking position against the wall. Caution winning over reason, he shot the spike into its head impaling it to the wall, it didn't move.
"Dammit", he muttered. He moved to the corpse and tried to pull the spike out of the wall but it wouldn't budge. He looked down and saw a credit card was knocked off of the corpse in the impact. He picked it up and continued onward.
When he went through the door at the end of the hallway and was immediately greeted by the sound of gibbered attempts to beg for life,"Help me!", the voice shouted. Isaac looked through the window on his left to see the source of the screams... a man on a surgical table with a familiar set of three blue lasers pointing into his open chest.
Isaac frantically ran into the room to help the man." Hey man, help. Can you help?", asked the man Isaac didn't reply but instead ran up to the auto-surgery console and ripped the panel off. "You're gonna be okay. he said," Is that a tissue laser? A plasma cutter?" He asked almost eagerly.
"Hurry up!" the man shouted. Isaac looked up from his work to see a Necromorph in the doorway."Oh shit!" he said, and began working as fast a he could
"What the fuck are you doing man?!" the person screamed. Isaac was too late however as the corpse wasted no time in tearing first the mans leg then his arm and head off. Isaac finally managed to pull the cutter out of the console and immediately shot off its two left arms. The thing twitched, fell over, and stopped moving.
Isaac let out a breath as he walked past it only for it to spring to life and slice off three fingers of Isaac's left hand. He screamed and shot its head off, jumped on it and began punching it with his good hand till all that was left was a pulpy mess where its head once was. He looked at his left hand and had a thought as he saw the red marks under his skin.
He placed his hand on the chest of the creature and felt something primal pushing in his mind. He let it go, just a little bit, and the tendrils from earlier shot out of his wound, latched on, and tore three fingers off of the corpse. The fingers attached themselves to Isaac's hand and began merging and healing until the only difference between these fingers and the ones he just had was a slight skin tone difference.
He had to grin, he just healed a wound that would take hours of surgery in half a minute. "Ok, its decided. I like it."
I am REALLY sorry for the month wait, I didn't mean for it to go on so long. When I wrote the author note up top I was having problems with rewriting the chapter, and even now it is shorter than I wanted. But I figured you had waited long enough so I gave you this. The reasons for the lateness are stated above and I found out Star Wars: The Old Republic was free to play, those are my excuses.
