Several Days Later.
When word of the attack got out, many nations sent relief and funding so the school could rebuild. Over the last few days I.S. Academy worked on cleaning up the mess from the invasion. Most of the staff and many of the personal I.S. users were injured in the attack. The school itself received massive damage and most of class rooms were not fit for teaching. The dorms were also damaged, but nowhere near as bad as the arenas, where most of the fighting took place.
Out of the all the unmanned units, over 210 core were found by the school. Seth was able to find 30 cores himself and hid them in [B.L.A.Z.E.]. When he recovered, he would transport them to the moon. The world went nuts. A U.N. meeting was held and after days of debate, the U.N. decided to split the cores among several world nations and 40 were sent to I.S. academy. The agreement was for any nation that received a new pseudo core, they would have to fund a new I.S. for the Academy, but they had no legal ownership of the machine or the core. It would be property of the school.
Seth's wound was healing, but at a slow rate. The hole's size has decreased, but it was still there. Seth wore bandages to cover the hole. Out of all the people injured, Seth was most extreme. The girls fought over who got to take care of him, and the winner was Tatenashi. Seth was surprised at how caring she acted. Almost like a housewife.
Currently Seth was out of his room and went to get a snack from the vending machine. It was so noisy as a lot of machines were working to repair the school. Seth picked his food and now walked back. As he walked back to his room, he noticed a strange red sphere. Seth wondered what it was. He reached his hand out.
"Seth wait!" Blaze yelled, but it was too late. It was at this time at Cecilia saw Seth, but she noticed a weird look on his face. To her Seth reached his hand out to nothing, but suddenly he started to disappeared.
"Seth!?" Cecilia saw Seth disappear into thin air.
Meanwhile.
"What the- The Void!?" Seth suddenly found himself inside of the void between time and space.
"MAKE US WHOLE!" A female voice screamed. Seth tried to activated [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.], but neither worked. He couldn't even talk to them. Seth saw the end of the tunnel approaching. He readied himself for anything. As soon as Seth exited the portal he slammed head first into a wall. He was instantly knocked out.
A Few Hours Later.
Seth opened his eyes and found himself in a bed. Which instantly put him on alert. Seth learned that the hole in his chest was now fully healed and that he had a strange object on his back. Before he could check what the object was, a person entered the room.
"You're awake." The woman said. Seth looked at the clothes she was wearing and guess that she was a nurse.
"Um excuse me, where am I?" Seth asked.
"You're in the medical section of Titan station. You suffered a nasty wound and were brought here for treatment. You healed incredibly fast after we applied the medical Gel." The nurse brought up a hologram at showed Seth's current medical data. Seth knew he was in a world that was hundreds of years more advance than his. Seth started to wonder why blaze or flame weren't talking, but the nurse began to talk again.
"Well CEC engineer Seth Fairs, you're clear to leave." The woman said. Seth wonder what she was talking about. Suddenly a hologram appeared in front of Seth. It was a fake I.D. For Seth. It stated that he was born on earth. Graduated at the age of 13 from a university with a master in Engineering and moved to Titan station for work. Seth was really confused, but he looked down to his wrists and figured it out. Even though he couldn't talk to them, Blaze and Flame were still helping him, but Seth knew he couldn't use either of them. To activate his I.S. a mental connection was needed, even when Seth had no clue about Blaze, he still had a mental connection with her.
Seth began to hear faint a faint whispering. He looked around, but saw nothing. He paid no attention to it and began to move around, but soon he hear screaming.
Seth made his way to the screaming and as he got closer to the screaming, he saw blood splattered over the walls and body parts scattered around.
"NO! PLEASE SOMEONE SAVE ME!" A woman screamed. She heard several more painful screams before they stopped. Seth heard something enter a vent. Seth entered the room and saw a woman's body that was horribly mutilated. Her arms were dismembered and her internal organs were ripped out of her body. They were located only a few feet away. The worst part was the look on her face. Pure terror are the words that described the look she had.
The lights in the room suddenly went out. Seth heard something near him, but it was so dark he couldn't see it. The lights flickered back on for a second and the woman's dead body was gone. Seth quickly looked around and the lights shut off again. Seth felt his life was in danger and jumped back. The lights flickered back on and he finally saw what was attacking him. It was humanoid in shape, but it was anything but that. Its flesh was brown in color and its intestines were hanging out. The lower jaw was missing and had these small tentacles dangling from its mouth. Its arms were bent in a way not possible for a normal person. Sticking out of the hands were these two large razor sharp blades. This creature had these glowing yellow eyes that struck fear into Seth's heart.
The slasher that just tried to kill Seth got one of its arm blades stuck in the wall. Seth took this chance to grab a nearby surgery tray and smashed the slasher with in. Even though Seth's super human strength was currently suppressed, he still hit the slasher with force to sever the head from the body. The slasher fell down to the ground.
"What the hell is this thing?!" Seth asked. He heard some nearby scream and was wondering what the fuck was going on. Suddenly something pounced on Seth. He looked to see what attack him and it was the slasher from earlier. The slasher was missing its head, but that wasn't stopping it from trying to kill Seth. The slasher used one of it blades, but Seth caught it. The slasher used its other blade, but Seth caught this one as well. Now with Seth pinned down, the slasher continued to try and kill Seth. If Seth had his superhuman strength than this would be no problem, but right now Seth was just a little bit stronger than a normal person.
Seth finally saw a chance to counterattack. He brought up his left leg and kicked the slasher dead center in its chest. The slasher was pushed off of Seth, and the white hair boy got up. Seth knew that he could still use some of his Nova powers, but they were significantly weaker. He hoped they were enough. Seth deployed a Freezing field and brought out [Kurikara]. The Freezing field trapped the slasher and Seth slashed at it. He cut across the waistline and slasher was cut in half. Seth had little time to celebrate as a new slasher arrived. Seth as this new one and was instantly filled with fear. The body was the same one he saw dead just a few minutes ago. Suddenly more of these creatures appeared. Seth knew he couldn't fight them all in his weaken state. He had to run.
Seth saw an opening and he took it. The creatures chased after him. Seth ran without any hesitation of stopping. He saw a door about to be sealed off. He rushed and slid just before the doors closed. One of the creatures chasing him tried to follow Seth, but was crushed by the door. Seth got up and saw a man that looked like he was in his forties. He looked like he seen some really bad shit.
"Hi." Seth said in a friendly voice. The man replied to Seth by extending his hand out. Seth took it.
"Thanks uh..."
"Isaac. My name is Isaac Clarke." Isaac said.
"Isaac, thanks. My name is Seth fairs." Suddenly two a slasher and a Spitter appeared. Seth and Isaac brought out their weapons. Seth used freezing on the slashers and used [Kurikara] to cut them in half. Isaac used stasis and slowed down the spitter. He used his V-211 plasma cutter and dismembered the limbs of the puker. Isaac saw that Seth didn't dismember the slashers. He used kinesis module to pick up the limbs of the puker and used them to impale the still moving slashers. They were finally dead.
"Hey, how did you kill them?" Seth asked.
"You have to dismember them." Isaac said. Someone opened a call with Isaac.
"Isaac what happen? You missed your window." A woman said.
"Sorry, got caught up. Diana how did a necromorph outbreak occur?" Isaac asked.
"I don't know, but you gain a strange form of dementia. Isaac your dementia will kill you if you don't reach me in time. Hurry, I've sent a new path for you to follow." Diana said as she finished the transmission.
"Wait why is earthgov after me?" Isaac asked, but Diana already cut the call. Isaac asked if Seth would be willing to travel with him because there was safety in numbers. Seth said he would.
Seth asked what was the thing on his back and Isaac seemed extremely shocked at his question. Seth lied and said he had amnesia and Isaac believe him. He told Seth that it was called a [RIG] and it measured his body's health. Isaac looked through [RIG]'s data and found Seth profile. It said that like him, Seth was an engineer. He had access to supplies. Together they made their way to a strange yellow object. It was a suit kiosk. Thankfully they were both able to get a suit from it. Isaac's was the standard CEC Engineer suit that was brown in color and had blue lights. Seth's was the same suit, but his was grey in color and the lights were green. Seth discovered that the [RIG] unit has an ability to store objects away like an I.S. Seth also discovered several useful tools the [RIG] had installed in it. Like the path finder. Now Seth could survive in the cold vacuum of space if he need to. The two of them continued to walk until a tentacle wrapped itself around Isaac's leg.
"Isaac!" Seth followed after Isaac and learned what was attacking them. It was not a single corpse that reanimate, it was several that fused together. It had long arms and was tall. It had three glowing spots on it. Two were on its arms and the one on the tongue. The tripod tried to crush Isaac, but Seth used stasis and slowed the necromorph down. Seth cut whatever was grabbing Isaac and the tripod screeched. It tried to attack Seth, but Isaac shot the glowing spots on it.
With the beast on its last leg, it used its tongue to attack the duo, but this exposed the last weak point. Seth avoided he tongue that tried to stab him. He grabbed it and Isaac shot the last weak point, killing the necromorph.
A little bit later.
The duo made their way and reached a store where a bench was located. The store they were in had a lot of spare parts and Isaac made a second plasma cutter for Seth. He also made a few new weapons that they could use. Seth was thankful for the weapons as he knew he couldn't keep using [Kurikara]. If a swarm of necromorphs came, then he would be in a bad situation.
The now duo made it to a part of Titan station called Titan heights. It was the luxury sector of Titan station, but now it was a living hell. The scream of people filled the the hall and necromorph roars were also heard.
"NO! I NEED TO GO BACK FOR MY MOM!" A woman screamed.
"LEAVE HER! SHE'S ALREADY DEAD!" The man said as he was pulling the woman with him. Seth heard the couple even though they were out of his sight. Suddenly a necromorph roared and he heard the sound of a heart beat monitor flatlining. Seth knew that if a person died, then the [RIG] would let out a flatlining noise.
The two of them were jumped by two necromorphs that popped out of nearby doors. They quickly dismembered them, but a new type of necromorph appeared. It was like a person was ripped in half then reanimated. It was called a leaper. The leaper leaped on to Seth and Isaac found himself fighting several slashers. The leaper kept trying to bite Seth's jugular for a quick kill, but Seth was holding it back. Seth overpowered the leaper and forced it off. He grabbed the leaper by the tail like flesh appendage and stomp its fucking brains on the ground. Grey matter was platter on the ground. Seth brought out a recently build javelin needle gun and impaled another necromorph to a wall. The two of them knew that they would be overrun if they stayed and fight. The two of them rushed for a nearby elevator and got on. A man tried to get on the elevator with them, but he was attacked and killed by a slasher. Seth would never forget the look of pure terror on the man's face as the necromorph ripped him apart.
The two of them made their way to the train station. If they were able to get a train up and running, then they would have a straight shot to Diana who could cure Isaac and may have some answers for Seth. As the duo was about to start repairing the train, they both started to have a massive head headache.
"Seth..." A soft but familiar voice said. Seth looked towards the source of the voice and was shocked.
"Blaze?" Seth saw Blaze in her human form standing next to the train.
"Seth, please you need to help us." Seth wondered if Flame and she were in danger.
"You need to make us whole." Blaze said as she disappeared.
Seth looked around and saw no trace of blaze. Isaac didn't see Seth act strange as he saw a hallucination as well. He saw his girlfriend Nicole, but she's been dead for over three years. Seth was wondering what blaze meant by make her whole.
After dealing with some necromorphs Seth and Isaac got the sky train up and running, but the dead bodies on the train got up and transformed into grotesque necromorphs. The two of them were holding off the undead monster, when a section of the train separated.
"Shit, move!" Isaac yelled. The two of them used the thrusted located in their suits. Seth was the first to jump from the cart. Isaac followed as soon as Seth was a little bit ahead of him. Seth saw that one of the doors on the train cart in front of them was about to fly off. He warn Isaac before moving out of the way and both of them dodged the door. The second door now flew off and the two of them barely avoided it. Seth landed first inside the cart and now waited for Isaac to join him. The entrance of the door was just a bit too far for him, but Seth held his hand out and Isaac reached it. Seth pulled the engineer into the cart and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, but it was short lived as there were necromorph on this train cart as well. Seth and Isaac were about to start shooting the necromorphs when something big landed on top of the moving train. The thing was so heavy that it caused the train to be derailed and the two of them started to fall down.
The two of them traveled down the train carts and fell to the ground below. Seth landed on the ground, but Isaac got his foot stuck. He was hanging upside down and necromorph were surrounding them. Seth began to shoot the incoming necromorphs so Isaac could free himself. These necromorphs were a new type that Seth hasn't seen before. They were skinny, but they had this large glowing yellow sack filled with some strange goo. Seth discovered that the sacks were highly explosive. Seth was shooting the incoming exploders, but soon the large thing that derailed the train showed itself.
"What the fuck is that!?" Seth saw the brute. It was a cluster of bodies and was horribly grotesque. The brute tried to reach for Isaac, but both he and Seth shot at the glowing part of the brute and it backed off. Isaac and Seth were both on the ground and the brute joined them. It was about to charge at them, when the two of them used their kinesis and brought down the train, crushing it. With the train now derailed, they need a new path to Cassini towers.
"Diana, the train got derailed. We need a new path." Isaac said.
"What?! Hold on...there I've set a new path, you two need to hurry, Tiedemann is setting jam..." The connection was cut.
With a path now set, the two of them now continued to travel. Seth started to see these strange graffiti all over the place. He saw these in Titan heights as well, but he couldn't really ask questions then, but now was different.
"They're unitologists symbols." Isaac said.
"Unitologists?"
"They're a group of people that believe the marks are divine and will help humanity ascend into the next life, but as you can see the necromorphs are caused by the marker." Isaac began to tell about the church of Unitology and his hatred of them. Seth couldn't believe it. The church of Unitology was nothing more than a cult. Seth was surprised by the fact that the church got to be so powerful. Seth didn't realize that he was seeing symbols that weren't there.
Isaac and Seth traveled forward and were confronted by yet another new type of necromorph. However unlike before, these work as a team. They were calls the Pack. The pack were necromorph versions of children. Seth hesitated at first, but he had to kill them. It was either them or him. Seth and Isaac huddled back to back and fended off the members of the Pack. When only one remained, it ran away. Seth hated the fact that he had to kill these things as when they died they let out a child like scream. Isaac received a call from this strange man that called him before. He called himself Nolan stross. The man showed clear signs of mental instability. Before they could ask him any questions, Nolan cut the call.
Later.
Now the duo quickly followed the path set by Diana, they were being followed by a group of necromorphs. They suddenly were met by a gunship.
"Are you fucking kidding me!" Isaac yelled. The duo now ran into a nearby structure avoiding the gunship fire. As they got out of the gunship's line of fire they were finally able to see where they were.
"Daina, the Church of Unitology? Why here?" Isaac didn't want to be
"It's one of the few places on Titan Station Tiedemann can't monitor. Separation of Church and State."
"No Daina, we shouldn't be in here. This is the last place we want to be right now."
"Isaac! My brother died trying to rescue you. This is important. This will work. I'm in a safe room at the top of the Church. Meet me there okay?" Diana ended the call with Isaac. Reluctantly the two of them entered the church.
Something was wrong. They were in the heart of the church and they haven't seen any necromorphs. They were following the path they were given and now in front of a large metal door. As they were about to open the door, something big slammed on said door. It was so powerful that the metal door was dented.
"We're not going that way." Seth stated.
"Agreed." Isaac said. Neither one of them wanted to find out what made that large dent. Who knows what the necromorphs could transform into. Diana sent them a new path for them to follow, but Isaac and Seth had some new guest.
"We've got company." Seth said as something extremely fast began to surround them. Seth heard these things yell out a high pitch screech and chirps. He was wondering if they were communicating with each other. Suddenly one of them revealed themselves. It had these long arms. Their long arms are equipped with long talons. With it they can impale, knock down, and rend their victims. The ribcage is spread wide open, though as with most Necromorphs, there is a lack of any digestive organs, and only vestigial remains of previously vital organs. They had these strange almost bird like skull. They were called stalkers. One of the stalkers charged at the group, Seth used stasis on it and slowed it down. Isaac used his kinesis module to pick up a nearby metal spike and impaled the slow moving necromorph. It let out a slowed down and lowered shriek of pain thanks to the stasis. The other swarmers didn't like that Seth and Isaac killed one of their brethren. Now the stalkers began to circle around the duo. Another stalker charged at the duo and it met the same fate. Seth and Isaac were so focus on the stalker that they didn't notice an Infector above them. It jumped down and attack Isaac.
"Shit! Seth help me!" The Infector tried to stab Isaac with its proboscis to transform him. Isaac grabbed it and held on it so it wouldn't stab him.
"Isaac!" Seth bashed the Infector with his plasma cutter, but he left his defense wide open. A stalker charged at the duo, but Isaac equipped his Line gun and dismembered both legs with one of its arms. The stalker, even though it was heavily damaged, stilled tried to attack the duo. It crawled towards the two of them at a fast pace. Seth timed his strike just right and when the stalker was close enough, he stomped on its head, smashing its skull in the ground.
"JUST FUCKING DIE, MOTHERFUCKER!" Seth yelled as he continued to stomp the stalker. Bones could be heard cracking, and a disgusting squishing noise was being made. When it was no longer recognizable as any solid form Seth stopped. The stalker was nothing more then a slushing pulp of organs and body parts. The worst part was that Seth liked doing that.
"What the hell is happening to me?" Seth asked himself.
"You're desiring to make us whole, Seth." Another familiar voice said. Seth turned his head and saw Flame in her human form.
"Flame!" Seth couldn't believe that he was see her.
"Seth please help us." Flame said.
"What's the problem?" Seth asked.
"Make us whole." Flame said before she disappeared.
"Seth, hey Seth. Hey!" Isaac shook Seth's shoulder and Seth came back to reality.
"Huh?" Seth looked like he was in a daze.
"Seth, what happened?" Isaac asked.
"Nothing." Seth stated. Isaac took a few second to stare at Seth, but they soon heard more Necromorph coming. They had to move.
As the two of them moved down the newly set path Isaac was attacked by the ghost of his dead girlfriend. Nicole was trying to stab Isaac in the eye with a needle.
"MAKE US WHOLE!" Nicole yelled as she pressed down the needle inching closer to his eye. Suddenly Isaac found it a lot easier to fight back and was able to force the needle away from his eye. When Isaac stopped hallucinating, he saw that he tried to himself, but Seth grabbed on to his arms and held the needle back.
"Isaac what the fuck happened to you?!" Seth couldn't believe that Isaac just tried to kill himself.
"We need to hurry, my dementia is getting worse." Isaac knew that he was running out of time. He had to move quickly.
In the church.
Seth and Isaac had to go back to the entrance of the church and go down a different path. They entered a cryostats chamber that was used for storing dead bodies. Diana asked that they have some respect for the dead. As soon as they set foot inside the chamber, they both had an episode.
Isaac saw that dead bodies start scream and were horribly tormented. Seth hallucination was much worse. To him the dead bodies took the form of all those he cared about and they were horribly transformed. They were missing body parts and twitching. They began to scream.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE US!" They all screamed. As soon as the hallucinations appeared, they left. Seth knew now that like Isaac, he was suffering Dementia and it was getting progressively worse. He hoped Diana had the cure for him as well.
Seth and Isaac quickly got out of there and made their way towards Cassini towers. As they were getting closer towards the tower they encounter another Tripod. This one was different the the one earlier. It was reanimated from a female corpse. It wrapped its tentacle around Seth and started to drag him. Seth grabbed onto a nearby pillar when he passed it, and Isaac began to shoot at the tripod. The tripod eventually let go of Seth and now the two of them attacked it. Seth unloaded a full clip from his assault rifle that he found on a dead body. Isaac was unleashing a torrent of flames from a flamethrower he made. It worked. The tripod ceased to move allowing the two of them to breath a sigh of relief.
The break that they were enjoying was short lived. Now over 20 members of the pack appeared along with a few pikers and exploders.
"Shit! Seth got a spare clip?" Isaac asked.
"Here, take this." Seth handed Isaac several plasma cutter ammo clips.
After surviving the horde of necromorphs Seth and Isaac finally made their way to Cassini tower, but Seth had a bad feeling about this. As soon as the duo entered the room they were both grabbed by a person.
"What the hell?" Seth said.
"Diana the fuck is this?!" Isaac yelled at the woman.
"I'm sorry Isaac, I lied about there being a cure. I need a way to bring you and the secrets your mind holds."
"What the fuck are you talking about! Let me go!" Isaac tried to break free, but couldn't. Seth was waiting for the perfect chance to strike.
"The marker left blueprints in your mind and you're going to help the church of Unitology make markers and glorious convergence will occur." Diana said.
"But first we-" Seth elbowed the man holding him in the gut. Seth grabbed the man's head and snapped his neck, killing him instantly. He used his freezing power to stop Diana and the other man before they could move. Seth was about to shoot them, but a gunship appeared and started to unload a hailstorm of bullets. Diana was ripped to shreds by the gunfire and the man holding Isaac was sucked into the vacuum of space He wasn't wearing a protective suit. When the gunship shot the window, the vacuum of space started to suck both Seth and Isaac into it. Seth opened up nearby hatch and held his hand out for Isaac. Once the engineer took it, they both fell into the hatch. They finally were safe. Or So they thought.
*Thump*
"Oh no."
*Thump* *Thump* *Thump* Finally the beast making all the noise showed itself. It was massive. There was no way this thing was made from a single dead body. It has these elongated massive arms. It has this long neck and inside of the massive jaws were a pair of mandibles. This monster was called the tormentor.
"RUN!" Both Seth and Isaac yelled. The duo ran straight forward. They had no idea if it was a way out, but they had to get away from the tormentor. The tormentor's massive weight couldn't be supported by the air vent. It fell and metal objects fell with it. The duo were under the tormentor as it fell and now were tangled up in the mess of metal and flesh. Seth was the closest to the jaws of the monster and it tried to bit his head off. Luckily Isaac shot a weak point. The tormentor now focused on Isaac, but Seth started to shoot it. Seth shot the tormentor but it grabbed him and started to smash him into several metal object. Isaac shot the glowing point on the tormentor and he severed the arm holding Seth. The white hair boy got up and started to run.
A large metal wall was blocking their path and the tormentor was getting up. The wall could be moved if they used kinesis, but the tormentor would kill them before they could move it and they were all out of stasis. Seth suddenly got an idea. A blue hexagonal pattern appeared on the ground and the tormentor was unable to move.
"Isaac hurry! I don't know how long I can hold this!" Seth said. With his weaken body, he had no idea how long he could deploy a freezing field. Isaac quickly worked to get the wall out of the way. The tormentor started to take a step forward. Seth's freezing field was weakening.
"Seth! It's open!" Isaac yelled. Seth stopped his freezing field and now entered the open path. Together the two of them used their kinesis module and closed the door before the tormentor could reach them, but that wasn't going to stop it. The tormentor started to slam on the door and it wouldn't hold it for long. Just then a light started to shine on the duo.
"Fuck." The gunship started to unload on Isaac and Seth. It destroyed the glass and exposed the duo to the vacuum of space. The tormentor had also broken through and was sucked up by the vacuum of space. The tormentor grabbed Seth and dragged him into space. The emergency shutters for the window kicked in and Isaac was still inside.
Seth now grabbed onto the nearest thing he could while in the vacuum of space, which happened to be the side of the gunship that was attacking them. The torment also grabbed onto the gunship and now attacked Seth. The white hair boy avoided several of the tormentors attack. In the process damaging the gunship and exposing several highly flammable canisters that fueled the ship. The tormentor grabbed on to Seth and was about to chop his head clean off, when Seth shot one of the red canisters causing an explosion. The blast was so powerful that it killed the tormentor and destroyed the ship. Seth was able to survive the explosion and luckily he flew into a window.
Seth got up and now looked around him. His [RIG] was red and his suit was heavily damaged. He needed to get a new one. It didn't help that he was low on ammo and now he was alone. He could hear several necromorph and they sounded close.