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One, thank you for stating the obvious, and two...oooooooooowwwwwwwwww...

"Look's like I'm not the only one experiencing a killer headache...and everything else ache."

Welcome to the club, Viv. Also, where were the life jackets again?

"A few compartments up, but I think the section just teleported in some plastic aqua armor."

Sure enough, a nearby dressing area revealed two sets of plastic aqua armor, custom made for the both of us. Hooray for small mercies.

Hastily putting on the armor, we managed to crawl into a partially flooded compartment, after which we exited the now submerged wreck and took in our surroundings...wait, why does that fish have eyes that are so big.

And what was that distant roar?

...Oh way, I know that fish. It's a peeper from Subnautica...wait, now I remember what made that roar.

...And it was coming from behind us.

Turning around, I found myself staring at the enormous form of a Reaper Leviathan - the most common predatory leviathan on Planet 4546B, the setting of Subnautica. And it was staring at us, its eyes full of...pain?

A moment of examination revealed the reason for this - the creature was pinned down under the wreck, and clearly struggling to escape.

Any fear that I had for the creature dissipated - all that I felt now was pity. Also, the piece of the wreck pinning it down didn't seem to be too thoroughly attached to the rest of the metal, so it shouldn't be too hard to remove...and someone other than Viv is watching me. I can feel it.

"Ryley Robinson appears to have noticed us."

"I see. Can you keep him busy while I calm and free the reaper so it doesn't eat us?"

"...Sure."

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Ryley watched as the girl swam up to him while the boy swam toward the giant death oarfish creature that his PDA called a Reaper Leviathan, apparently uncaring of the danger the beast presented. Did he have a death wish?

The girl tried to talk to him, but Ryley knew that it was pointless - his vocal chords had been damaged on the landing, and even after days hadn't healed completely. He did at least type up that he was fine on his PDA.

The boy was the one who held Robinson's attention, though - when he was within attack distance of the reaper, the teen held out his hands, which suddenly glowed blue. Moments later, so did the reaper's eyes, with the leviathan itself beginning to calm down. Soon, the creature was docile enough for the boy to pet it.

Once the creature was no longer a danger, the teen pulled something out of his pocket, placed it on the wreck pinning the leviathan down, and pressed some buttons before pushing off. The object flashed three times, then exploded, breaking off the loose piece of the wreck and allowing the leviathan to swim freely. Instead of eating the one who had freed it, though, the apex predator instead swam up to a nearby bulkhead while the teen typed on a keypad. A few minutes later, and a shark carcass suddenly shot out of the bulkhead, which the leviathan greedily devoured.

Hunger sated, the leviathan promptly began exploring the wreck, while the teen swam over to join Ryley and the girl. Noticing his oxygen levels were running low, Riley gestured for them to head upwards

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With the reaper no longer a threat, I rejoined Viv and decided to introduce myself to Ryley. We decided to go with the names we'd used to converse with the Prehistoric Park staff, which was enough for Ryley, who had apparently suffered vocal damage during the crash and couldn't talk. A pity.

Ryley had asked if we were psychic (which Viv reluctantly answered to the affirmative) before asking us if we had been sent to fight the Khaara on the Frontier. I stared at him for a moment before remembering that Subnautica was in the same universe as Natural Selection...and that the bacteria on this planet that caused most life to die out was a different strain of the same one that had created the aliens in Natural Selection.

Slowly, we made headway with Robinson. It had been a few days since he had arrived on planet. Apparently he hadn't found all of the lifepods yet, though I doubted that anyone had survived aside from him. Ryley only really survived the initial landing due to luck, so there wasn't much in favor of these sods defying fate and surviving where they had died in canon. Oh well.

Also, Ryley had only just explored the Quarantine Enforcement Platform, with our arrival being what had told him it was a weapon. Fortunately, that meant that the Sunbeam hadn't arrived yet. Even more fortunately, Ryley had managed to set up a small base on this island, complete with a radio.

It had only taken us a matter of moments to successfully send out a warning telling the Sunbeam not to land, with enough info to convince them to hold tight until we could make things safer. Now came the hard part: actually shutting down the QEP.

...Oh, and Ryley hadn't yet used the Alien Arch on the Mountain Island yet...well, time to exploit that.

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We watched as Ryley stared at the inactive arch, before placing an ion cube within. Once the arch activated, Ryley stared at it a while longer, before finally stepping inside. I followed after Ryley was teleported away, with Vivian joining me a moment later.

Once we were on the otherside (and beat up all the cave crawlers trying to eat us), we made our way outside the cave and onto the main part of the floating island, where Ryley promptly gawked at the abandoned Degasi base. Also, I found the first difference between the real Subnautica world and the game one - this island had other critters on it besides cave crawlers. In front of us were a group of eurypterid-like creatures grazing on the ground, while two people watched them in confusion...wait what?

...Yep, there were two other people here...wait, three. Going by logs from the game, they were CTO Yu, Officer Keen, and Berkeley...and they were staring at us.

Oh boy, this was gonna require a lot of explaining.

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