Dead Space: Resurrection
Chapter 2: welcome the end
Location: Fort Valor, Aegis VII
Time: 0900 hours
ID: Pvt. Joshua Harding
Pvt. Joshua Harding followed the Sergeant to his brigade, the base on Aegis VII was made up of marines from the orbiting military ship, the USM Phoenix, home of the most famous brigade ever, the 23rd Fireskull infantry brigade, housed right here on Aegis VII, their orders were to train to combat alien creatures called 'Necromorphs', known as 'The holy ones' by the unitologist psychos on the planet, they viewed the RIG-log of Engineer Isaac Clarke of the USG Kellion, and saw what he saw two years ago, many hardened veterans gagged and even vomited at the sight of what the Necromorphs could do, seeing people mutilated and slaughtered, but everyone was silent when they saw the log of the USM Valor, Joshua lost his brother on that ship, everyone paid their respect in silence to those that died on the Valor. After their briefing and training exercises, which taught them to dismember the creatures, Joshua was on his way out when someone placed a firm hand on his shoulder, "Oi newbie you ready for this when the shit hits the fan?", He looked at the soldier, he was slightly built and had grey-blue eyes, scruffy dirty-blonde hair and a scar on his cheek, "The name is Lee, and you are?" Joshua looked at him and said "Private Joshua Harding, just transferred here today." Lee laughed at him and said, 'First day on the rock I see, well welcome to Aegis VII, top brass says Isaac Clarke is coming down here to supervise us and provide actual training methods than the watered down ones given to us." Then loud shouting was heard, Joshua gave him a worried look and said, "What the hell is that?", Lee only chuckled and said, "God damn unitologist crack heads at it again, shall we go quell the civil unrest?"
Joshua smiled and said "Would be me pleasure lee." They grabbed PSEC pistols and tazer batons and headed to Aegis VII's center plaza, where a female unitologist spoke to the public, "Do not be fooled by the lies fed to you by the CEC, the holy ones do not kill, they only convert, death is only part of the transformation, please heed our message, they will come to punish the wicked and the unjust, and save the righteous, join us for we are the chosen ones." Lee tapped his baton on a metal case and said "All right, all right break it up you are disturbing the peace please vacate the area or we will have to detain you." She glared at him and said 'Do as you wish, but we will find the marker, and there are more of the holy ones on the Ishimura, do not worry, the day will come, and it is coming soon."
Lee looked at her and scoffed, "Yeah yeah the sooner the better I get to cut their limbs to bits." He gave her a wicked look, then an engineer ran to the Lee and Joshua, covered in blood, he then screamed at the two soldiers, "Help! The Necromorphs are here!!!" with that a slasher came and stabbed its claw into the man's stomach, and moved it upward, tearing him in two, Lee and Joshua looked at the creature then it looked at them, and ran towards them screaming a guttural yell only heard from a dying animal, Lee then looked at Joshua and said, "What ya waiting for?! Go for the limbs!! The limbs! Shoot the bloody limbs!!" they opened fire at the legs and arms, ripping it to shreds, they looked at each other and said, "What the fuck." Lee grabbed his comm, and said, "this is Corporal Lee, can anyone tell me why I just saw a fucking Necromorph?!" Then the brigade leader came on the comms, "This is Captain Jonathan Morales, all marines are to report to the briefing room immediately."
Joshua looked at him and said, "Guess we better go, then right?" Lee looked at him then stomped his boot on the Necromorph's head, "Yeah we better go" they then ran to Fort Valor for their briefing, as they did more sightings of the Necromorphs came in and more RIGs went offline, Aegis VII was falling, and half of the marines didn't know what to do to help, Captain Morales turned to the troops and said, "We all know why we are here, to provide security for the colonists of Aegis VII, and now that time has come, as you can see by these security images some hardcore unitologists paid a visit to the USG Ishimura, and brought back some of their 'holy' gods, meaning they brought the necros down on Aegis VII to convert everyone, well looks like that backfired and now they are loose killing everyone in their path, our orders are to evacuate as many colonists to Fort Valor and hold out until more ships arrive is that clear soldiers?" They all saluted and said, "Sir, yes sir!" Captain Morales smiled, "All right, Haul Ass troopers!" they all suited up In their standard gear, which was a pulse rifle and a Desert Eagle, and stormed out of the base, outside the screams of colonists echoed throughout, as the robotic voice on the P.A. said: "attention citizens of Aegis VII, please evacuate calmly to Fort Valor, thank you for your cooperation." The marines moved into the colony sweeping for survivors and killing Necromorphs that got in the way of that, so far the mission status showed that 65% of the populace was in Fort Valor, while others remained to be found, Joshua and Lee peered into a small shop only to find a slasher snacking on the owner, they immediately they opened fire, shredding the creature to bits, then the radio buzzed as Sgt. Richards of the 75th armored reported in, gunfire and screams could be heard in the background, "This is Richards, we are in the mining area, so far, no survivors, wait what the fuck?! I-I-It's the Leviathan, fall back! Fall Bac--" Joshua and lee looked at each other, and saw many of their fellow marines running back to the base with survivors, Lee grabbed one and said, "SO? What the fuck do we do now?" he looked at lee and said, "fall back to base, Captain's orders." Lee let go of the panicking marine and said, "You want to fucking die? Come on!" they both ran as they saw a giant tentacle rising out of the ground, swiping anyone and anything in its path a cargo tram landed in front of lee and Joshua, and all went black.