Chapter 1: An unexpected twist

(This chapter begins at the end of the Dead Space 1 game, but with an altered plot line for this story)

"I just can't stop. I can't stop to think or even wonder if this would really work" I thought to myself as I was guiding the relic along the rail system back to it's resting pedestal. "I have to trust Dr. Kyne in saying that returning this 'marker' as he referred to it to it's resting place will seal the hive mind and stop these Necromorphs.

I thought about all those who had been lost...lost to these abominations of nature. I knew over 50 people on the USG Ishimura, 50 out of the 1000+ crew members. One person though, stood out more then the others...Nicole, my girlfriend. Nicole had been serving on the USG Ishimura mining ship as a doctor when the necromorphs made it onboard from the colony via a utility ship. I love her and I would do anything to see her and I live through this...nightmare.

Just as I was about to move the marker to the loader that would raise it up to the pedestal, I heard a disturbing, spine shivering growling and roaring sound I knew too well from surviving on the USG Ishimura for over two days. "Slashers" I said to myself. I whipped around from the excavation site where the pedestal was towards the direction of the massive grey metal wall that was the outside of the colonial transit hub and warehouse. The colony dwarfed not only me and the marker, but also the group of beings standing on a metal walkway between the pedestal and the colony.

On the metal walkway where I was, I could see two disgusting, mutated, black necromorphs standing there. They each had glowing red eyes that could pierce anyone's mind with fear. They had lethal scythes growing from mutated arms coming out of their back. They were standing there scythes poised to strike as one of them was slobbering black fluid from it's missing jaw. The other was slowly waving it's mutated arms around, almost like a warning before the strike.

I readied one of my 5 weapons I had. (A/N: In dead space, you can carry only 4 weapons at once, but I added another into the inventory for more flexible combat scenes.) I readied my military grade pulse rifle that I had acquired on the USG Ishimura and readied it to shoulder height. The weapon projected out 4 blue aiming lasers along with the standard flashlight beam for making aiming easier and illuminating dark spaces respectively. I could see a holographic display coming from the right side of the weapon that listed a blue '30' to show that there were 30 pulse rounds in the current magazine.

Just as I was about to fire, going for the head to blind the slasher on the right; I heard a deep growl behind me, a sound which I feared even more than the two alien undead that were in front of me. I spun around, only to be picked up by a Brute necromorph, which look like over grown tan and red fleshy gorilla's. It dangled me in front of it's face. It's disfigured and mutated face. Then I felt the beast throw me over the railing that followed the metal walkway, and I hit the marker with my back.

I hit the marker with such force that I had the wind knocked out of me. I crawled over to my pulse rifle as quickly as I could, taking use of the 30+ feet the creature had thrown me, and put my hand on the stock of my rifle. Then, I heard a loud whir and the sound of surging electricity. I looked to my right to see the marker glowing blue now instead of red, which I never remembered any log stating the marker's codes changing color.

I didn't want to stay around and find out what it was doing though. I turned to try to run, but suddenly I felt frozen in place. No matter how hard I struggled to move, I was stuck...a prisoner of this relic. I then saw an electrical field being emitted from the marker that quickly spread out in a dome around me and the necromorphs on the platform. I only managed to glace out of my right eye to see that the number of necromorphs had more than tripled, with more coming out of a loading dock in the transit hub. They were standing there, but oddly enough; they weren't moving much. They were still growling and howling in disturbing gibberish of voices, but they weren't walking towards me. "This is new to me" I thought in desperation.

Out of the 18 some Necromorphs that were standing on the walkway, about 3 of them were Infectors. The Infectors look like tan and red bat like beings with no face, but rather a needle like proboscis in place to be used in the process of mutation.

Suddenly, I felt an a horrible pain so sharp and so suddenly, I screamed in agony. It felt like I was being electrocuted by a power line and being struck by lightning. I then felt my vision whiteout rapidly. Then... I felt nothing.

Authors note: Before I end the chapter, let me clarify a few things. 1st) The Chipmunks and the Chipettes will come into play, in their original versions, not the CGI versions, in the next chapter. 2nd )I will explain the appearance of all the necromorphs that will appear in each chapter before it begins. Last and most important, please review, whether good or bad ( I would especially like reviews telling me whether or not this story is too difficult to understand), but no flames.