Dead Geass
Chapter 3: Safe Haven, My Ass
Tamaki, Dalton and one of the Marines entered the ADS control room.
As the gravity plating was offline, there wasn't a problem of getting plastered to the ceiling.
"What the hell is with all the plastic?"
The Marine shrugged.
"What, you don't talk?"
He pointed at his throat.
There was a hole in it.
Tamaki shut up.
Dalton pulled out a large mining tool.
"A Handheld Graviton Accelerator?"
Two Leapers appeared, and Darlton used his new weapon against them.
"I think 'Force Gun' is a better name!"
Ishimura Mining Storage Deck
Ohgi, Guilford and Alfred G. Darlton made their way into the Cargo Bay, and found the missing Marine, Ronald Pinkerton, building a machine of sorts.
He looked at them, then went back to work.
The Necromorphs were leaving him alone, and they wanted to know why.
"Hey, uh, Ron. You OK?"
Then they saw a tiny double helix inside the machine.
They saw posters for a religion called Unitology, and the thing inside the machine looked just like the emblem that Unitology used.
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. Then the traveler in the dark, Thanks you for your tiny spark, He could not see which way to go, If you did not twinkle so. Though I know not what you are, Twinkle, twinkle, little star..."
"What the hell?"
"I guess it's a recording."
Alfred picked up a blue rock. Ron, who looked like an insane man on drugs, (AN: Best way to describe it) turned to look at them.
"You can have that if you want."
His tone was more that of a child looking at a teacher or parent.
Which, in this situation, was really fucking creepy.
"Okay, that was fucking creepy."
Ohgi put the rock in his backpack and nodded.
"Amen to that."
Ishimura flight deck
"Plastic shit everywhere, Necromorphs, and more of those mines you guys laid."
"What do you expect, a KMF?"
"That actually would've been helpful."
The argument was more playful then actually arguing.
Bart L. Darlton actually liked this Eleven.
If circumstances were different, they could've been friends.
"Damned shame! I'm actually started to like you!"
"You're likable, that's for sure!"
Their Marine escort was dead, thanks to a Necromorph that split apart when they killed it.
They called it the Divider, and the parts, Components.
Chiba's new Contact Beam (mostly the secondary fire mode) ripped any Necromorph that got close to pieces.
"Where did you find that thing?"
"Someone dropped it nearby."
Ishimura bridge
"Damn, that's a lot of dead bodies."
"Issac must've been through here."
Then the alarm sounded.
"Warning. Anomalous substance detected. Quarantine activated."
"Oh, shit."
Two large, and hulking monsters jumped down.
They were Brutes, but blackened, and heavier armored.
"Enhanced Brutes! Cornelia, Suzaku, take the one on the left! Q-1, with me!"
The team split up, and Zero used his new Stasis module to slow down the Enhanced Brute.
Kallen planted two grenades inside it, and by the time it realized it was screwed...BOOM!
The huge arms slammed into the other Brute, stunning it.
Suzaku tried planting a grenade on it, but the Brute simply swung it's arms and threw Suzaku into a wall.
50 meters away.
Zero was pissed.
He pulled out the Hand Cannon.
"BANG! BANG! BANG!"
The Enhanced Brute didn't stand a chance.
Kallen chuckled.
"Real space. Real terror. Real foam."
Zero ran over to Suzaku's side.
"He's got at least three broken ribs and a fractured skull! Q-1, secure the bridge! Cornelia, we're heading to Med Deck. I refuse to let anyone die because of these Necromorphs!"
Ishimura engineering deck: engine room
"HOLY FUCK!"
A dead body was trying to kill the small group of marines.
Well, it didn't look infected, but now some Venus fly trap thing was trying to kill them! The surviving marines referred to them as Grabbers. (AN: An enemy in Dead Space: Extraction. Fucking hated them)
"Shit! That sucked!"
"Marines, report!"
"We're safe, for now! But-"
A trio of fast moving Slashers started attacking them and killing them. Tamaki and Darlton ran inside and saw the marines getting killed.
"Holy shit!"
"This is the Ishimura! Unholy shit!"
The two-their marine escort was killed earlier by a Divider. (his head was cut off and the Head Component fit into the neck, it the body was around somewhere)
The Twitchers, as Tamaki was about to coin them, were killed by his new weapon: the Detonator.
"See those lines, assholes? Those are the 'cross this and die' lines!"
The Twitchers ran at them, and soon died from the explosion.
Darlton and Tamaki were blackened slightly, but they were otherwise alive.
"Trigger happy, were we?"
"They're dead. Why are you complaining? Zero, buddy, come in!"
"What is it Tamaki?"
"Something bad happen?"
"Kururugi's badly wounded. I'm trying to call the tram, but-Ironic. It's stuck at Medical! Screw it. Issac suffered worse and didn't need medical attention. He simply used a health pack. Report!"
"Marines are dead."
"What? Those were 30 people!"
"People trained to make headshots, not limb dismemberments!"
"This is bad."
Ishimura cargo bay
Ohgi, Bart and Guilford were confused.
Not one Necromorph had attacked them since they last saw Ron.
"Do you think the deck's deserted?"
"No. There's got to be a reason."
They picked up a vidlog.
"This is Ronald Pinkerton, Holy Honorary Britannian Marine Corps. The Emperor wanted me-me, personally!-to investigate the USG Ishimura. As the HHBMC's OSI operative, I was chosen for this. My research has led to to this: Britannia will need the Markers once these things are released into the world. They cannot swim, and are barely able to fly. This ship will give Britannia the edge in the next world war, and these 'Necromorphs', as Zero and the Overseers from EarthGov call them, are the perfect soldiers: they cannot be killed through normal means, and the Infectors can create more from dead bodies. And once they have done their job, we launch the Markers on a one-way trip to Aegis VII. After all, we won't need them anymore, and we don't want any Britannians to get caught in the crossfire. All Hail Britannia."
The Knight was disgusted with his Emperor's actions now.
He knew everything about this and he didn't bother to warn them?
"Keep the vidlog. Everyone needs to see this."
Then the two looked back and ran toward where Ron was.
He was gone.
"He was pretending to be insane!"
"Correct, Gilbert!"
Two Plasma rounds passed by his head.
Ron was standing there, holding a Plasma Cutter.
Around his neck was a mini-Marker.
The two men took cover.
"That thing's going to drive you insane!"
"It's too damn small to do anything but keep the Necromorphs away from me!"
The OSI agent pointed to something in the distance.
It was a larger version of the Marker around his neck. It was a good 15 feet high, and bright red.
"That is a True Marker! That took me over five hours to create with the knowledge in my mind! Soon, there will be no Earth! Only the Holy Britannian Empire! All Hail Britannia!"
He held up a piece of the Site 12 Marker.
It was about the size of a golf ball, and blacker then the night.
"THIS is the ultimate weapon! Not guns, not spaceships, not Knightmare Frames! THIS!"
Guilford picked up a Plasma Cutter.
"Yeah, well you're insane, Pinkerton!"
He took aim at the Marker shard, then fired.
The shard was split, and a piece went into Ron's left eye.
"Let's get the hell out of here!"
Ron groaned in pain and fell to the deck.
"To hell with the Empire! Long live Japan!"
Ishimura bridge
"Ohgi, come in!"
"Kallen? Oh, fuck me-Guilford, get down!"
Sounds of Plasma Cutter fire blasted through the radio.
"Ohgi?"
"We found Ron! He's a fucking OSI agent!"
OSI.
The Office of Secret Intelligence.
Kallen thought Ohgi was kidding.
"WHAT?"
"HE'S OS-FUCKING-I! He was planning on building a Marker for the Britannians!"
"Kaname, if we die here, it's your fault he didn't escape in time!"
"Guilford, if we die, it's RON'S fault!"
"Die, you bastards! Lord V.V and the Emperor demand it!"
"Ohgi, get back up here, NOW!"
The radio died on her.
"OHGI! Ohgi! Answer me, damn it!"
Ishimura bridge deck: Tram Station
Suzaku woke up with one hell of a headache.
His uniform was gone, as he was wearing the same clothes as Cornelia and Zero.
"Glad to see you're alright, Suzaku."
"Zero, I just got a call from Ohgi! Ron's OSI!"
"The Office of Secret Intelligence, the Emperor's private investigative service, and there a fucking agent on this ship?"
"He was planning on creating something called a Marker."
"Oh, shit. I hacked into the files transferred from the Sprawl. Issac created one of them. In fact, that's why there's Necromorphs on this ship!"
"Ohgi and Guilford are on their way to the bridge. And-"
"Zero! I've got bad news for you!"
It was Ron, wearing a RIG similar to Stross', only in OSI black and blue, with the Britannian flag on the left shoulder.
"You!"
"Yes, me! Thanks to Guilford, I can control them!"
Then an Infector crawled up to the Station.
Cornelia's new Pulse Rifle aimed at the Infector, but it stopped moving.
Suzaku pointed a new Plasma Cutter at it.
"See? I now control an army! All with my thoughts!"
Cornelia destroyed it.
After all, it was a threat.
"For the glory of the Britannian Empire!"
Ishimura bridge
Kallen screamed.
"This guy is fucking nuts!"
"I know, but Guilford just told me that there's a piece of the Marker in his left eye." "Shit. All teams, this is Zero! RTB to the bridge!"
"We're on our way!" The masked man, Cornelia, and a limping Suzaku entered the bridge.
"Well, it's about time."
They turned to see a woman with black hair and violet eyes.
It was Empress Marianne 'The Flash' vi Britannia.
This isn't good at all.
The Red Marker is back, Ron's got control of the fucking Necromorphs, and now the Flash is back from the dead.
As for why the Red Marker was built so fast: An audiolog from DS2 said that a mini-Marker was formed overnight. Without anyone doing shit.
Ron could've made it faster.
And the Necromorph control: most of the time, it's the fucking Marker itself that controls them: the Hive Mind was the only exception.
After all, it wasn't meant to cause convergence.
And the message? It involves a character who appeared in the two Dead Space console games for the Xbox 360 and PS3. It isn't I See Dead People. My message has 24 letters. That's 12.
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