Subnautica, Ghosts of the past

by Vesper110

it has been 5 years since the aurora exploded and the lone survivor recieves a message from another vessel that responded to the Aurora's distress signal and fearing the worst the survivor frantically sends a message to warn the vessel away but it fails and just like the ships before it the ship crash-lands and forces the survivor to stop history repeating itself

4. Chapter 4 Triage

Chapter 4: Triage

After they set off to save the newbie Amythyst started to feel a little bit guilty, she hadn't told the man she loved the whole truth about her, yes she told him of the experiments done on her but she didn't tell him what she actually was and it started to drive her crazy so she said to herself so only she could hear it "I can't tell Richard what I really am or can I? I am worried at how he would take it, then again how would a human that has had no human contact for five nearly six years react if he was told that the woman who loves him is a vampire? Because technically I am not human, damn it I've come this far so why can't I tell him the truth?" as she began to worry she tensed up and Richard felt it to which he said "hey nagatha, why are you so tense?" to which Amythyst just smiled and shook her head before saying in a playful voice "hey chief running mouth can it will you? I'm just nervous that's all, I haven't seen my sister in a long time and I didn't even know that she was on the same ship as me, oh by the way she is my little sister and the last picture I got of her was after she got pierced on her fourteenth birthday, we parted ways at a young age. Well I say she is my little sister but she is actually my half-sister and I am glad that she's alright so let's not talk until we get to her okay?" Richard rolled his eyes and sighed before nodding in silence. With that, they both put their arms around each other's waist and took hold of the Seaglide when they left the habitat. After searching for hours they returned home to which Richard said "where is her life pod, it's nowhere to be found, oh I know, I'll use my scanner room to find the pod," with that as an upset Amythyst went to bed, Richard put the Seaglide on charge he then headed to his scanner room and started to search for Sapphire's life pod.

8 hours later

After scanning the surrounding area for a while not finding anything, Richard increased the range and speed of the scanner room until finally he found the pod and smiled before saying "Heh, I've found it but man is it far away, more of a reason to use my Shadowhound again," having said that, Richard headed to his Seamoth dock and unsealed the bulkhead saying "and I thought my exploratory days were over." He then launched his minisub and left in the dark of night turning off his Seamoth lights in order to avoid hostile local fauna that would turn him into their dinner. As he approached the lifepod he brought up his PDA it said "Low level bioreadings detected, suggest a cautious approach." Hearing that he reduced the speed of his Seamoth and when he got to the lifepod he climbed in cautiously, when he got into the pod it was like the set of a horror movie with blood all over the walls and floor, worried about his safety he placed his hand on his survival knife and cautiously looked around. Satisfied that he was safe he got out his modified scanner and looked around for the occupant of the pod, it was then he noticed a beautiful young lady laying slumped against the wall of the lifepod with a panel embedded deep within her abdomen. Worried about this young lady's life, he scanned her and saw that she was in critical condition so he decided to give her a shot of adrenaline in the heart to keep her alive, before returning to Amythyst with the grim news. It took him 3 hours to get back to the habitat with his Seamoth as it had very low energy from lack of use, the power cell had begun to decay so he decided that once he got home he'd replace it and that is what he did, after he replaced the power cell he headed to his room as the base CPU announced his return making Amythyst rush out to meet him with hope in her heart and this made it worse for Richard, he could see how hopeful she was and it killed him inside. As he escorted Amythyst to her room he let out a sad sigh to which Amythyst said "what's wrong Richard, is Sapphire okay?" to which Richard said "Amythyst you may want to sit down," as Amythyst sat down she began to tremble to which Richard continued, "look there is no easy way for me to say this but your sister Sapphire has been fatally wounded, the panel that normally covers the lifepod systems had come loose in the explosion of the sunbeam and your sister has been impaled through the stomach by it; Her life signs are critical but luckily I have stabilised her just long enough for me to come back and get a few supplies to help her. Now I am going to need a lot of bandages, a lot of antibiotics, tonnes and tonnes of gauze, lots of painkillers and finally a medical suit to put her in. my Seamoth can hold everything so I will just make those supplies with our fabricator and then I will do what I can to help Sapphire, but you need to stay here and sit tight while I do what I can, I will be making a temporary medical base near her life pod because my Seamoth is a one person vehicle, so I won't be returning anytime soon however, I will be in touch via the communications array and I promise that I will bring Sapphire back to you alive." with those words he gave Amythyst a comforting hug before setting off to save Sapphire

4 hours later: Sapphire's lifepod

As Richard drew close to the pod he could hear a lot of Bonesharks screeching in the distance with the deep undertone of the Reaper Leviathan's roar as he climbed out of his Seamoth taking the supplies out of the storage compartments and began to work on the fatally wounded Sapphire, he first started by scanning her once again to see if she was still alive and as he drew close to her in an effort to check her pulse he could hear her breathing heavily, which made him breathe a sigh of relief before he quietly said to himself, "you are one tough lady Sapphire, I am surprised that you responded well to the adrenaline, but now I'm gonna have to treat your wounds here just enough for me to be able to transfer you to the medical base below." He then took the panel and pulled it out of her stomach causing blood to spray everywhere to which he quickly put pressure on the wound to reduce the bleeding, he then took a load of gauze and placed it over her injury, he then followed with a dressing and finally a load of bandages to bind her wound just enough to stop her for bleeding out, he then intraveniously administered the antibiotics to kill any infection and made sure she was fit enough to be moved which she was, so he took her down to the medical base and laid her on the infirmary bed before placing a heart monitor over her chest and locked it into place before inserting an IV into her arm to administer the nutrients she needed to recover. as he watched the heart monitor scan Sapphire he sighed and said to himself "This poor girl, how the hell has she survived this long? Could she have been modified just like Amythyst has? Well i'm not going to check, not without her permission, I guess I am gonna have to observe her for a while." then just like that he left the infirmary and entered the observation room and just watched while she recovered as he occasionally checked his PDA to view the progress of her recovery, after watching Sapphire for a few hours, Richard decided to send a message to Amythyst about Sapphire's recovery progress. "Amythyst this is Richard, I have stabilised your sister and she seems to be responding well to treatment but still, she is in a bad way; she is stable, however I don't think she will recover anytime soon so I will be staying here and keeping an eye on her. My rough estimate is that she will return to consciousness in about ten days so she may be up and about on your birthday, oh and regarding that, a few days after you arrived here I looked for some jewellery blueprints in my PDA and I found one a few days ago so if you go into my room and check my shelving you should see a little box giftwrapped and addressed to you, open it and consider it an early birthday gift from me, happy birthday Amythyst and don't you worry about Sapphire, she will be fine I promise." hearing the message Amythyst did as Richard said and when she opened the box she found a beautiful diamond ring inside it, then as she picked it up she cried tears of joy, for the first time in her life, she felt like someone cared, meanwhile back at the medical base Richard paid close attention to Sapphire's vital signs however he started to get really sleepy and finally, he just blacked out and fell asleep in his chair.
As he slept Richard's mind was assaulted by another Aurora flashback that lead up to the destruction of it

*Alarm bells ringing*
"ATTENTION! ATTENTION! UNKNOWN ENERGY MASS ON A COLLISON COURSE WITH AURORA HULL! ALL HANDS BEGIN EVACUATION" As the bells rang out Richard found himself running from the captains office, he had just been promoted to third technician and was part of the phasegate installation team, with his knowledge of precursor technology he was one of the most important members of the team, he remembered his time that he spent looking at salvaged precursor technology in the museum on his own planet and could create a working small scale model of a precursor artefact, he was noticed by the captain of the Aurora when he visited Richard's university to give a lecture on the Phasegate programme that was in the development stages and it was Richard who asked most of the questions, impressed with his eagerness to learn the captain invited him to join the Aurora crew after he graduated to which Richard eagerly accepted, fast forward three years to Richard's graduation where he graduated with honours at the top of his class for an amazing dissertation on the precursor civilisation, the captain read it and gave Richard the position of third technician. Now on board the Aurora, Richard felt accomplished but there was a doubt in his mind about his commission, something felt off and it gave him a bad feeling. He told the captain who foolishly dismissed it as pre-mission jitters and told Richard to relax and enjoy the flight, but time and time again Richard addressed the issue with the captain who just nodded and smiled not paying attention at all, the fourteenth time Richard went to address this issue with the captain he overheard the main communications relay receiving a distress signal from the Degassi and then it hit him, when he heard the description of the energy projectile he immediately knew that it was precursor technology that had fired upon the Degassi and they were heading right for it! True to his instinct as they approached the last known position of the Degassi they were also fired upon and hit; causing them to go down on the planet. As the Aurora crash landed in his flashback once again he woke up with a start to see a frightened Sapphire banging on the door of the infirmary shouting out "Help! Someone please help me, get me out of here! I HATE being closed in! Please let me out of here!" With that Richard woke up and sprinted down to the infirmary door and opened it only to be jumped at by Sapphire who was sobbing uncontrollably, then after a while she got angry and began to hit Richard as hard as she could, but being weak due to her wounds she didn't do much damage to him and ended up collapsing into his arms as she breathed heavily, to which Richard escorted her to an open room where she could recover.

As Sapphire recovered Richard looked at the digital calendar and saw that only two days had passed since he treated Sapphire's wounds and already she was up and about, this amazed him and he tried to use logic to come to a conclusion on how she recovered so fast but in the end he had no clue and said to himself "now I KNOW that she is enhanced; no one can recover from wounds like hers as fast as she did, not even I recover that fast so who the fuck is she really and how the hell are both Sapphire and Amythyst sisters? They look completely different from each other." As he tried to focus he found a pair of piercing purple eyes staring at him angrilly to which Sapphire said "Okay who the hell are you and why the fuck does my stomach hurt so bad? Have you done something to me? Well you can talk can't you?! So FUCKIN ANSWER ME!" Stunned at Sapphire's words Richard said nothing to which Sapphire said "Oh for fucks sake," before pulling out her PDA which told her everything that happened to which she felt bad for being rude to Richard who just grinned at her and said "Well now I KNOW you and Amythyst are related; even if you are her half-sister," to which Sapphire replied by saying "what the fuck are you talking about? You don't know me, I am NOT Amythyst's half-sister you buffoon! I am her full-blooded sister and while we are at it, how the hell do you know my sister? She's been dead for years you sick bastard! Are you trying to hurt me?" after hearing Sapphire's rant Richard grew confused, how the hell was Sapphire Amythyst's full-blooded sister? According to Amythyst her mother died in childbirth after she was born so how?

To Be Continued...