Well, to answer you DevoutRelic yes I plan on having a twist in this story other than just a retelling of my gameplay. I'm hoping to get further into the tech side of the story plus a few other things that are in the works. It may stray from cannon a little.

Also thank you so much! I really appreciate it! Here's chapter two just for you.

Sleep on a metal floor wasn't the greatest. When the woman slowly pulled herself to consciousness she groaned as her sore muscles made themselves known.

"Okay, I really should have worked out more." She hissed as she sat up. Every part of her was horribly aching, and she still needed more things to find so that the rescue teams could find her. "It's really irresponsible for them not to have repair tool onboard." She muttered to herself. "What if I couldn't leave the pod. What then, Alterra?"

She took a sip of water already wishing she was back on the Aurora with some version of toothpaste. Instead she had to sip on lukewarm slightly strange tasting water with a headache threatening to shatter her thoughts. Damn minor head trauma. After a while she finally pulled herself up and out of the pod grunting with the effort. The sky was already a vivid blue, speaking to just how much she had slept. The water seemed rather calm, a slightly breeze creating a mesmerizing effect as small waves all moved in the same direction. The water itself was a mixture of cyan and turquoise too clear to hide the bright spots of coral underneath.

The woman took in the scene breathing in the calm. It could have counted as serene if she could see trails of smoke like undulating grey silk in the sky streaming out the burning wreckage of her former ship. She tried to avoid the sight, but her eyes kept flickering over to the hulking mass. She wasn't quite sure what she was looking for, but she could feel a slow building storm in her chest when she failed to find it.

"Okay then...I guess I'll go look at those….twisty things." She muttered before pushing herself into the water. Bubbles rolled up her body and she stiffened automatically when the suit created goggles once more. The woman wasn't sure she liked that her suit was so advanced. She wondered just how much it was monitoring her.

It took a few minutes of twisting in place wincing at the motion before she saw the slow moving masses in the distance. With the light of the day she could now see them for what they were. Seaweed with large yellow pods held in tight knit clusters at various places on the long stalks. It took her a few minutes of swimming, well more thrashing with how sore she was, before she ended up near the huge stalks of seaweed.

"Life on this planet grows in distinct and diverse ecological biomes." Karen suddenly spoke. "Further study recommended."

"How do you know that?" The woman sassed but she was staring down deeper in the water. She stuck her face underneath just to be sure.

The soft and sandy look that was around her pod seemed to fall away into a more green tinged….what she could only describe as a forest of seaweed. It was much deeper and as she watched she could see what looked like swordfish slowly meandering much further down. A shiver rolled through her body at the sight. She decided to stay away from the deeper part and only mess with the seaweed in front of her.

She tried to tug a tendril of it off, but it simply moved with her. Determined she tugged harder but only succeeded in making her arms ache even worse and left her in a mad rush to get air. Once she stabilized her breathing she went back down deciding she could tear a leaf off just yet. She swam a bit further down and grabbed onto a large yellow pod. It felt like a balloon filled with water if its skin was a bit thicker and the water was more oil-like. Gritting her teeth she ripped herself backward and spluttered when the pod came loose easily sending her into a half flip that left her upside down in the water.

The woman grabbed a few more of the large pods then decided to swim back to her temporary home. The suit might not know what it was, but if she shoved them into the fabricator she could figure it out. Soon enough she was dripping onto the floor of number 5 shoving the pod underneath the fabricator. It seemed to take a moment to scan the item before a new option popped onto screen. The woman curiously let her finger hover over the holo-button.

Silicone Rubber it read in small neat letters off to the side.

The woman grinned and clicked the option. The fabricator came to life with a smooth hum. It quickly rendered the material down and after a moment a small roll of rubber sat before her. The woman pressed a finger into the material amused at the bouncy texture.

"Okay I have silicone rubber and titanium." She said triumphantly. "What else do I need?"

"You currently possess all the materials needed to create a survival knife in the fabricator."

"No, I meant for the repair tool. Wait I can make a knife?"

"Correct." Karen answered. "Remaining materials for the repair tool: sulfur."

"Okay…" She mumbled her mind spinning. "So I need to be near a volcanic area." She muttered as she tucked the rolls of rubber into a side compartment along with the chunk of titanium. "Well not true." She muttered as she pulled herself up and out of the hatch again. "I really don't want to wind up near an active volcano. I don't really need to be near one either, seeing as the whole point of this is to survive until they can send a rescue ship." She sighed and let herself slip back into the ocean.

Hours of exploring later and while she had found some interesting things like acidic mushrooms and a lot more titanium and had even managed to catch more boomerangs and bladderfish. But no sulfur. She surfaced and glanced toward the burning wreckage just to reassure herself that they weren't leaving without her. She had started to take longer and longer breaks as her body reached its limit for the day. Her limbs felt like lead, dragging her down rather than keeping her afloat. Still she searched ducking back beneath the water.

She had found a system of caves that were still close enough to the shallow waters to be considered safe. She had wandered all about the sandy area seeing that it was surrounded on all sides by the deeper seaweed places except for the few places which had red grass like plants all along the bottom. She had avoided leaving the shallows until now, only trailing on the outskirts of the seaweed places to grab more of the yellow pods.

She paused outside of one some instinct telling her that the caves were dangerous. She ignored the feeling and swam into the mouth of the cave letting her hands trail along the bottom kicking up sand as she went. She pushed deeper into the cave and took a small turn until she was completely swallowed.

"Be advised: a common complication for cave divers is loss of orientation, followed by eventual asphyxiation." Karen rattled off helpfully.

The woman immediately wanted to bolt, but the little tube of a cave twisted further in and her curiosity got the better of her. She would save her breath instead of berating Karen for just how unhelpful that little comment was. Of course spelunking is dangerous, but this was a little cave and the woman wanted to try every possible avenue before heading into the deeper and darker kelp infested region.

There was suddenly a flash of movement as a little red fish burst out of a small pod-like thing embedded in the wall. She could hear a high pitched sound through the water, as it barreled toward her the sound increasing in volume and pitch until the water nearly vibrated against her skin. The woman twisted trying to propel herself away from what looked to be a red pufferfish cyclops abomination but instead slammed into rock.

A small explosion rocked the cave. The woman screamed, losing precious oxygen. Red tendrils swirled around her, but she was already ripping herself outside painfully aware that her side was entirely made of fire.

"Elevated levels of adrenaline indicate you feel you are in danger." Karen sounded far away. "Tissue damaged detected." The woman exited the cave and flailed upward. When her head broke surface she took a breath and then let out a strangled sound that was a cross between a sob and a scream. "You have taken damage. Nearest medical assistance: Lifepod 5."

"What?" The woman wondered why the wounds stung so badly, but realized that she was in salt water. She half-assed paddled back to lifepod 5 trying to ignore the way a few fish trailed after her in the small curls of red she was leaving behind.

Pulling herself up into the pod was harder than expected, but when she finally rested on the floor panting she could see the tiny barbs sticking out of her side. They were bone white and she realized belatedly that the fish had literally exploded to send the shrapnel into her side. It must have been frightened to react so strongly.

"Accessing Medical Kit Fabricator." Karen sounded off. There was a small pop and hiss. "Panel opened, please retrieve the med-kit."

The woman simply lay there breathing heavily. It hurt and the panel required standing up.

"Please retrieve the med-kit." Karen repeated with the exact same tone. The woman wished that the system could sound more determined, or scared, or anything actually resembling human.

"You sound human in the actual sound of your voice," she babbled as she pulled herself up unsteadily to her feet. "But, you're so lacking in emotion that it's disturbing." She moved to the panel, which she realized she had never really looked at before, and pulled out a small familiar square.

"Nano and stim tech." She mumbled opening the package to reveal a small aerosol can and a small tube. "Right. Okay, first things first." She grabbed the can and popped the lid off. She glanced at her suit which she realized had slowly been trying to repair itself around the embedded spines. There were about six in all that had actually hit her. Four were in her side, one was further down in her thigh and the last was on her arm.

"Karen, temporarily disable suit repair." The training felt distant, but she had been drilled about this so many times the information seemed to bypass the head trauma that kept most of her memories hazy and out of reach. Things like her name. Or why she was needed to settle a new world.

"Suit repair disabled." Karen responded.

The woman huffed out a long breath and grit her teeth. "Okay now comes the hard part." She reached over and took a hold of the spine in her arm. "Normally you don't remove something if you've been stabbed. It could be the one thing keeping you from bleeding out." She explained to Karen needing the distraction. "But in a case where you can't get to a medical bay, but have a med kit you can remove it. This spray is chock full of nanos that will cauterize the wound and begin to rebuild the tissue." She ripped the barb out with a grunt that quickly became a shriek through gritted teeth. With a shaking hand she sprayed the wound. It felt like a brand. Everything was dancing at the edges but she managed to put the can down and grab the tube.

"This helps with tissue regeneration, and along with the nanobots it can rebuild the skin and blood vessels in my arm." She told Karen squirting some into the wound. It was cold, but she had to move on. The next spine she ripped out was just shy of hitting the side of her breast. It had lodged itself into the bone, and the woman nearly passed out ripping the barb out. Each wound she treated with the nano spray and then the stim serum. By the time she got them all out she was shaking with exertion.

"Karen." She mumbled as she sat on her 'bed' which was more just a tucked away spot in the corner. "Enable suit repair."

"Suit repair enabled." She felt the suit slither and repair itself over her wounds. "Tissue damage detected." Karen rattled off.

"Yeah no shit." The woman bit out.

"Sedatives are recommended. Linking with nano spray to more effectively remove biological waste." She continued.

The woman didn't care. She sat quietly. It wasn't until she noticed bits of blood and tissue leaking out of the places where her wounds were that she bothered to take notice.

"Karen what are you doing?"

"Monitoring vital signs, scanning local area, removing biological waste, attempting to connect with Alterran ship Aurora, communicating with lifepod 5's onboard-"

"Okay. Stop." As she instructed Karen fell silent. "Explain the removal of biological waste."

"This system is designed to, when needed, connect with nanobuilders that are found in med-kits to more effectively help them heal. As the nanobots removed damaged and unusable tissue and fluids this system moves the biological waste away from the wound to promote healing."

"Right, that's neat."

She slowly but surely fell asleep to the sounds of the waves lapping on the hull of her lifepod.