Chapter 2

The first thing he noticed was a loud ringing in his ears.

Oh my god my HEAD...

Wasabi slowly stirred, grabbing his head.

Who's burning rubber... OH GOD

He jolted up straight and saw the source of the smell. The life pod was on fire.

"..shit."

Wasabi pressed release on the pod chair, but it didn't release. He began frantically pounding the button with his fist until it finally lifted the restraint bar. He scrambled out of the seat and covered his face to protect himself from the smoke. He quickly scanned the life pod for a fire extinguisher until he found it and grabbed it off of the floor. Facing the fire he aimed and fired the extinguisher, vanquishing the fire. Once the fire was out, he let out a huge sigh of relief and slid down to the floor. His head was still pounding, and got worse as his adrenaline wore off. He was acutely aware of some blood trailing down his face.

... so what the hell just happened? Okay, Wasab, take a deep breath. What did our emergency procedures class tell us... First we assess our bodily situation, then turn our PDA to emergency mode, sync our suits to the PDA, broadcast the emergency signal if it hasn't been already... Let's just start with turing the PDA on.

Wasabi took out his PDA, switching it to the emergency mode. It shut down, then started the emergency boot up sequence. It played the Alterra jingle before displaying a loading screen.

"Greetings, survivor. Great job not dying."

Wasabi rolled his eyes.

Good ol Jake and his sassy AI...

"This PDA has now rebooted in emergency mode with one directive: to keep you alive on an alien world."

"To assist you in further survival in emergency situations, you have been issued this personal data assistant. The interface visible now will organize your inventory, display currently available construction blueprints, and holds other valuable information. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with it."

The PDA finished booting up and showed an array of different icons, one of which would help take inventory of his storage cube. The storage cube was made about 30 years ago, and was a huge success selling. The storage cube can store things inside of it, shrinking them down to a very small and storable size that can fit in your pocket. No more need for purses. Wasabi looked at the fire extinguisher in his hand and decided to save it for later, just in case anything decided to spontaneously combust. Wasabi tapped on the different icons, looking about at the different schematics, informative data and more while the PDA finished connecting his vitals, the life pod systems and began to assess the current situation.

"The Aurora has suffered catastrophic hull failure. Cause: Unknown. Zero human life signs detected in 100m range."

Oh great. He thought. Just what I needed.

"Herra, how long has it been since we've touched down?"

The PDA chirped.

"It has been 3 hours since planetfall."

Wasabi sighed. He stood up and turned on the HUD of his suit. As it booted up, his vitals and depth meter appeared in the corners of his vision.

Just like a video game... I was really hoping I would never have to use this. I am going to have one huge, killer headache soon.

"Self assessment: you have suffered minor head trauma. This is considered an optimal outcome."

He then began to root around in the life pod to see what was in the storage cubes. He opened the biggest locker first, finding inside of it two flares, two nutrient blocks, and two bottles of water. He took out one of each, leaving the others for later when he needed them most.

"Guess it's time to see what our situation is."

Wasabi started to climb the ladder up and slowly opened the hatch, and muttered out some startled words when he saw a bird like alien sitting on top of the life pod. It flew away when he popped out of the hole. He was greeted with one of his worst nightmares.

A full on water planet, with the Aurora in the distance, engines ripped apart and on fire.

"... well fuck."

Hello again! It was somewhere in the files someone saw that the player model was named Wasabi 1 so thats why I went with Wasabi as his name. I am mixing in the older and newest versions of the game together! Please leave a like and comment if you see anything that needs to be fixed or just say hello!