Dead Space

Disclaimer: Isaac Clarke, Ellie, necromorphs and all mentioned characters, events, and locations from the Dead Space franchise are property of Electronic Arts and Visceral games. All characters, events and locations from the Kim possible series are property of Disney corporation. In other words I own nothing but some of the plot.

A/N: careful this fic WILL contain extreme violence, gore and profuse language. Oh and thoughts are italicized.

Chapter 3:

Where'd you come from, where'd you go?

Ellie had to do something. She had to warn them. "Get that thing out of there! Destroy it! Something, Just don't keep it there!"

Kim looked at the woman curiously. "It's a stone, the worst it could do is fall on someone."

Isaac was the next to speak. "You don't get it! That thing is dangerous!"

Ron was keeping quiet, something about the way the people, Isaac and Ellie, reacted made him think something is truly is dangerous about it.

Kim raised one hand. "Listen, I'm sure you people are a little disoriented from the crash. Get back here and we'll talk about the big evil rock." Kim's voiced was laced with sarcasm and everyone in the jet knew it.

Isaac just dropped his head. "Your funeral..." This comment was not lost on Ron, The certainty and lack of emotion in Isaac's voice chilled Ron to the bone.

Ron and Kim quickly said their goodbyes and I love you's then disconnected. As soon as he put the Ronnunicator away he signaled the pilot to take off and turned to the two survivors. "Alright, Kim may not believed you but I do. Something is up with that freaky rock and you're going to spill what it is." The Teen sat on the bench, arms crossed and his serious face on.

Isaac looked at Ellie. The woman simply nodded. "Well, The Marker, that's what the stone is called, is an ancient and sacred artifact. Where we come from there is a religion called Unitology, they worship these Markers. They seem to think that they'll forward mankind, that they're some sort of holy grail..."

Ron raised one eyebrow. "That seems harmless. I mean, I know that some religious artifacts can be dangerous..." Ron thought about his Mystical Monkey Power and how he acquired it from statues of monkeys...

Isaac retracted his helmet into his suit and set his plasma cutter down. "You know that thing that was on our shuttle? Well A Marker created it."

Ron stared at him in disbelief. "What? I Mean...what was it anyway..?"

This time Ellie fielded the question. "They're called Necromorphs...the best way to describe them is that they're zombies, Reanimated corpses that The Marker controls."

Ron's jaw dropped. Zombies? That's hard to believe...but he saw it with his own two eyes. So he knew what what these things were and where they came from. He decided to ask. "Alright, so where are you people from?"

Isaac and Ellie looked at each other, unsure of what to say. Ellie spoke up first. "As far as I can tell we're either from an Alternate universe or the future...or both." She decided to figure this out as soon as possible.

Ron nodded, unsure of how to respond to that. So he asked his next question. "Okay, what is this?" He motioned to his RIG then Isaac's. "And what is the CEC?"

Isaac, being the one who had the more storied history decided to explain himself and the CEC. "I'm Isaac Clarke, CEC engineer and survivor of the first and second Necromorph attacks...The first was on a mining ship called the USG Ishimura, which was owned and operated by the CEC. They were doing a routine excavation when they stumbled across the Red Marker...The Red Marker was reverse engineered off the original Black Marker found on Earth...The Marker had symbols on it...some say it represents DNA...now the marker had a dead space field around it that held the Necromorph contagion...well that's what I was told anyway. When the miners dug it up they started to go mad, and when they got too close...the Necromorph outbreak started, some of the miners took a ship up to the Ishimura, brought the infection, and the marker aboard. The Ishimura was soon overrun..." Isaac trailed off, thinking about the Ishimura and his experience aboard the cursed ship.

Ron saw the man space out. It was something the young man often did himself. So he snapped in Isaac's face. "Hey dude? Ya there?" Isaac shook his head and focused on Ron.

"Sorry...bad things happened on that ship...it's hard to talk about..." He regained his composure. "Then the ship I was on, The USG Kellion was sent to check up on the Ishimura. I, and a small crew of soldiers and were dispatched to check on it...Everyone died within the first couple of minutes except me, Kendra Daniels...and Zach Hammond..." Isaac sent his respects to Hammond silently. The man was a good soldier who didn't need to die. "Needless to say...we got most of the ship's systems operational...i went do wn to the surface to destroy the cause of all of it when Kendra betrayed me, the Marker had taken her over. I had to kill her...but I didn't get the chance, a huge monster killed her first...I escaped, destroying the monster, the necromorphs and the Marker in my wake..."

Ron had never heard such a story, not in his wildest dreams. Such heroism out of one man...Ron didn't think even Kim could do what that man did. Ron was so intrigued by Isaac's story, he didn't want it to end. "What happened next...?"

Isaac sighed, reliving this was not something he wanted to do. "Listen kid...Ron. I don't like to talk about it...okay..?" Ron nodded sullenly. "Now about the CEC. The Concordance Extraction Corporation. They're a mining company that mines planets, moons, asteroids, any terrestrial body and sends the resources back to Earth and her colonies. They own the Ishimura and the creators of the planet cracker ships. Myself and Ellie both work...worked for them."

Ron again nodded. He decided not to ask about the suit, Isaac had said enough, He looked at one of the readouts near him. "We're almost there. Hopefully we can stop them from getting to close to that Marker." Both of the other passengers nodded.

Isaac holstered his "weapon" as did Ellie. Ron looked at the plasma cutter on his thigh, he would learn to use it later. He looked out of one of the windows and saw the ground open and the huge tunnel that led to the landing pad exposed.

All three passengers silently hoped that everyone in the facility was alright. Little did they know that there prayers would go unanswered.

AN: Ending on a cliffhanger is what I like to do. As you can see this chapter was nothing but some backstory for those who haven't played Dead Space. Of course Isaac only covered the events of DS1, not DS2. He and Ellie will cover that later. I know this chapter will be considered filler...but hey, at least I updated it.