Author's Note Part 1: God… Fucking… Damn it… All… To… Hell… I fucking hate my imagination! Now, not only am I attempting to carry out on my New Year's Resolution with my other stories on this site, but I've also started three, no, fournew stories! God damn it all to hell! For once can my brain just stick to one topic and not jump back and forth between multiple stories?! Curse you ADD!

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Sorry… I got a little emotional there what with the fact that I now have to worry about a "Camp Lakebottom" Fanfic, along with this one, and a "Mass Effect" one added on to the multiple stories already posted to the site, and some others that aren't posted… All this writing is really starting to take its toll on my mentality at the moment. The only upside that I can see to this is that despite all this, my grades in school haven't dropped below B-, so that means that you are still be able to read the chapters I post, since if that weren't the case and my grades were slipping, then I'd be focusing on school work, and I wouldn't start typing my stories again until my next term started.

Anyways, I apologize for going off like that and for those of you reading the story (And don't want to curse me for starting another one) and actually want to get to reading it, I guess I should tell you about the things I've added to this so that you won't be confused when they come up.

Now, as you can tell from the title, as well as the tags, this is going to be a Fanfiction where Isaac will have a partner in his work. He (yes he, no, there will be no romancing between these two since they will be more like brothers and I'm sticking to canon in terms of pairings) is going to have been with Isaac ever since the beginning of his career. Meaning that he has become Isaac's best friend, pseudo-brother, and the person that he turns to in his times of need. Another thing to know is that I'm going to actually have Isaac talk in the first story. (Yes, just like in my Mass Effect series, this is going to be split up over the games.) I'm doing this because just writing out the story without Isaac talking would get a little awkward after a little while, don't you think? Another thing to note, I will be changing certain plot points because my character will be a part of this and cause different outcomes. One of which, will most likely have many of you who played the game or watched someone else play it jumping to your feet to dance due to happiness. But, I'll get to that change when it happens.

Now, I want you all to know that for this story, I've actually put in the effort of googling stuff for the lore of the game. The reason I'm doing that for this story and not my others is because with this story, only some things are explained as it goes on, and many things are left unanswered. But for my other stories, I've based almost all of them on TV shows that have entire backstories explained as the show continues. So I'm able to get character development and the like by watching more episodes from the show. However, for Dead Space, as well as Mass Effect, they are games that still leave us with many questions unanswered if you only play the games. Also, I've taken the liberty to not only google the lore, but watch a playthrough of all three games before typing this out, that way the idea is fresh in my mind, and I'll already have some knowledge that I won't need to look up. I'd like to thank the YouTuber theRadBrad, since by watching his playthrough, I was given the inspiration to write this out. (And to theRadBrad if you're reading this, if you get hate from people who are telling you off for being the cause of me starting another Fanfiction… Sorry, but your playthroughs are awesome, and I just couldn't help myself after watching your Dead Space one, as well as your Dead Space 2 and 3 playthroughs.)

Another thing to note. Even though I'm implementing my own OC from the beginning of the series onwards, that does not mean that I'm taking out John Carver from the third game. I mean, the guy brings too much to the story to leave him out. That, and him and Isaac actually develop a friendship over the game. Granted, it may take a longer or shorter time with my own Character being present in the timeline, though I haven't decided yet. But, I have two whole games/stories to make that decision. That's more than enough time.

(Important Note: There will be death scenes from the game(s) in here for both Isaac, as well as my OC… As for how the story of the two engineers continues after one of the two, or both, die on the Ishimura… Well, you'll just have to wait and see… Yes, I'm a bastard who won't tell you how things work out at the start, deal with it. The only hint that I'm going to give you is that it has to do with a certain game mechanic being tampered with.)

I think that's all I have to say for now. I'd like to thank all of you who are reading this right now (and don't want to kill me) for doing so, as you guys are who inspire me to continue doing this. (I'd also like to again apologize for starting another story, as it means that updates will take longer for everything else.) But with all that out of the way, along with this 1,000 words long Author's Note, I give you the first chapter of "Dead Space: The Engineer Duo"!

Chapter 1: What the Hell Happened Here…?

3rd Person POV:

CEC Mission ER529

Status Update…

USG Kellionen route to Aegis system

Primary Mission Assets…

…Isaac Clarke – Engineering and ship systems specialist

…Mark Davis – Engineering and ship systems specialist

… Kendra Daniels – Computer specialist…

…Zach Hammond – Chief security officer…

Directive A: Locate mining vessel USG Ishimura…

Directive B: Diagnose and repair communications blackout…

Time to Contact Point: 3 Minutes…

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"Isaac it's me… I wish I could talk to you… ~Sigh~ I'm sorry… I'm sorry about everything… I wish I could just talk to someone. It's all falling apart here, I can't believe what's happening… ~Sigh~ its strange… Such a little thing… ~Static~" Suddenly, the video message that Isaac Clarke was watching gives way to static, before shutting off as Kendra Daniels walks by in front of him in the bridge of the USG Kellion.

"How many times did you watch that thing?" She asks him, before continuing on without waiting for a response. "Guess you really miss her. Don't worry, we're almost there." She tells him before turning to look out the spaceshield into the shockspace they were traveling through, which was pretty much this universe's version of hyperspace. "You'll be able to look her up once we're on board." She tells him as she turns around to face him, and then typing away on her tablet. "Sounds like you two have a lot of catching up to do." She comments as the USG Kellion exits shockspace, and the view of a planet and debris can be seen out of the spaceshield.

"Alright everyone, we're here. Syncing our orbit now." Zach Hammond tells the team, making Kendra walk over to stand next to him. Isaac watches this from his seat, before he feels a hand lie itself on his shoulder. He turns to his right to see his best friend and brother figure, Mark Davis, laying his hand on his shoulder with a small smile on his face. Mark was the same age of Isaac, 43, yet neither of them looked a day over 30. While Isaac had blue-grey eyes, Mark had cobalt colored ones. Each had black hair, and neither had any wrinkles on their faces.

"Hey, don't worry too much about it Isaac. You'll be able to see her again soon." He says, patting his friend on the shoulder and getting a small nod in response, before the two hear Kendra speak up near the front of the bridge.

"All this trouble over that chunk of rock." She says, making Zach turn to look at her with a slight scowl.

"Deep space mining is a lucrative business Ms. Daniels. Aegis VII is a gold mine according to prospector's reports. Cobalt, Silicon, Osmium." He tells her, listing off some of the raw minerals that could be found on the planet before turning back to look out the spaceshield. "Now, where is she?" He asks, searching for the ship that they were sent in to find. A couple seconds later, the USG Ishimura can be seen floating into view around the planet's orbit as a piece of debris moves out of the way. "There she is. We have visual contact." He announces to the people on the bridge, making Mark look over his gear since he knows that they'll be boarding soon.

"So that's the Ishimura. Impressive." Kendra comments. However, Zach turns to look at her again.

"The USG, Ishimura." He tells her, putting an emphasis on the "USG" part. "The biggest planet cracker in her class. And it looks like they already popped the cork." He comments, before the ship gets closer and Mark notices something odd. And Kendra notices the same thing.

"Why is it all dark? I don't see any running lights." She says, leaning to the sides slightly in order to get different viewing angles. Mark furrows his brows at this, a sense of foreboding settling in for reasons unknown to him as he subconsciously grips his Plasma Cutter a bit tighter. Incidentally, Isaac does the same in his seat a few feet away.

"Corporal, take us in closer and hail them. And stay clear of the debris field, we're here to fix, they're ship, not the other way around." He tells the pilot of the ship, getting a small chuckle out of Mark at the comment, despite how tense the engineer had become. The Corporal does just that, bringing the ship closer to the USG Ishimura, while talking into the com in order to get the attention of the planet cracker.

"USG Ishimura, this is the emergency maintenance team of the USG Kellion, responding to your distress call. Come in Ishimura." The Corporal says as Kendra walks back towards Mark and Isaac, shaking her head before turning around and walking back to stand beside Zach.

"You're gonna need to boost the signal if their power's low." She says to him in, Mark's opinion, a demanding voice.

"Yes we know." Zach tells her, before turning back to face the Corporal. "Boost the signal." He tells him, the Corporal responding by doing just that. Unfortunately, nothing comes through, and Zach tells the Corporal to raise it again. However, nothing gets through again, and Kendra decides to speak up.

"Never heard of a total communications black out on one of these things. You'd think with a thousand people on board someone would pick up the phone." She says in annoyance as Mark glances at Isaac out of the corner of his eyes, knowing full well who his engineering partner was probably subconsciously hoping would do just that. However, a second later, the crew of the Kellion gets a response from the Ishimura… Just not the kind that they'd like. A holo-screen appears one the terminal, and the line in the middle begins to move, showing that sound is coming from the other end. However, the only thing that comes through is garbled sounds, and something that sounds suspiciously like growling. At this, Isaac and Mark share a glance, the feeling of foreboding heightening at that. And for some reason, Mark feels a sharp pain in his chest for a split second… Almost as if he'd been stabbed by a knife, before it goes away.

He pushes it off as his ribcage still growing, since that's what he'd been told caused those pains as a teenager. So, he took solace in the fact that he was still growing… Not for one second did he realize that his analogy to being stabbed by a knife had been quite close to what had actually happened… Nor did he notice the Corporal flinch as the exact same pain went through him as he continued to fly the Kellion towards the Ishimura. "What is that?" The Corporal asks after getting over the pain in his chest.

"It's a busted array like we thought. Sounds like they're having problems with their encoder. You get us down there, and Isaac, Mark and I can fix it. Forty-eight hours max." She tells the three in the front.

"Alright you heard the lady. Take us in and we'll see what needs fixing." Zach says, turning to look out the spaceshield as the Corporal engages the gravity tethers, and lets the automatic docking procedures start. However, not five seconds pass before things start to go wrong, and the machinery in the Kellion begins to spark. "What the hell?!" Zach exclaims as he and Kendra each take a hold of the seats in front of them to keep from falling to the floor.

"Sir! The automatic dock-!" The Corporal cuts himself off as he messes with the terminal, and Zach speaks up.

"What is it?" He demands.

"We're off draft. We're gonna hit the hull!" The Corporal exclaims.

"Hit the blast shields!" Zach exclaims as Mark and Isaac share another look, before tightening the straps that they had for their chairs, happy that they had been able to get them before the others. "Thank god the tether's damaged, switch to manual, now!" He exclaims, making Kendra look at him like he's crazy.

"Inside the magnetic field?! Are you insane?! Abort!" She shouts at the Corporal, making Zach look at her.

"No! We can still make it in time! Corporal, I gave you an order!" He exclaims, making sure that the Corporal switches to manual as Kendra activates the blast shield in front of the spaceshield. A holo-screen appears, showing the outside of the ship as the Corporal attempts to position them. However, the field proves to be too strong, and everyone inside the ship is jostled as the Kellion impacts the Ishimura. Everything goes black for those inside the ship, and because of this, none of them notice the small, brown and red figure that skitters across the wall of the Ishimura on the holo-screen before disappearing into one of the cracks in the wall.

After a few minutes of unconsciousness out for those inside the Kellion, they all wake up and shake the bleariness from their eyes. "Is everyone alright?" Zach asks them as he and Kendra push themselves up off the floor, and Isaac and Mark steady themselves in their seats. At this question, Kendra looks at him with a scathing look.

"What? What the hell were you thinking?! Were you trying to get us killed?!" She exclaims, throwing her arm out for emphasis. At this, Mark speaks up.

"Kendra! It's likely that Zach just saved our lives! Imagine what would have happened if we'd stayed in automatic. The Kellion might just as well have been torn apart by the gravity tether if we'd continued on the path that it had attempted to set for us." He tells the computer specialist, making Zach send a small nod of appreciation his way, before turning back to Kendra.

"Mark is right Ms. Daniels, now settle down, and let's get to work." He says, before turning back to the front. As Zach talks to the Corporal, Mark and Isaac take the time to put on their engineering helmets. Then they unstrap from their seats, and stand up as Kendra turns around, shaking her head as she walks over to the two.

"Hold still you two. I'm syncing up everyone to the ship." She says, typing away at her tablet for a few seconds, before the RIG's on Isaac and Mark's backs fill up to show that they have full health. "Alright we're done. Full bill of health for everyone." She announces over her shoulder.

"Alright, we've still got a job to do. We're moving out." Zach announces as the Corporal and the co-pilot stand up and start to make their way out of the Kellion, Kendra and Zach close behind. As this happens, Mark takes the time to look at, not for the first time, just how different his and Isaac's RIG's are. While Isaac's suit underneath the RIG was a light grey, and the RIG itself being silver colored with blue lights emitting from his helmet, his was slightly different. His RIG was black, with the suit underneath being a dark grey, and the lights emitting from his visor were green colored. After a few more seconds of the two checking their Plasma Cutters and Pulse Rifles for any damage, they follow the others outside to the docking bay of the Ishimura. As they walk out, they see Kendra look back at the Kellion with surprise.

"You didn't lose power to the port booster… You lost the port booster… Unbelievable" She tells Zach, making Mark chuckle lowly beneath his helmet, the metal making it so the sound didn't escape into the open air for the others to hear. As the two walk with the others to the door, Mark sees the screen above giving details about the Ishimura, and rolls his eyes.

Self-promoting… Of course. He thinks to himself, before they get to the door, and Zach notices that the door isn't powered.

"Looks like the power's down everywhere. Isaac, can you hack the door pad?" He asks, getting a nod from the engineer in response.

"Yeah, sure thing." Isaac responds, doing just that, and making it so that the door opens for them. Isaac and Mark are the first ones in, and as they walk in, the lights turn on in order for them to look around. The rest of the group walks in, and Kendra makes her way over to the door, before looking around and turning to face Zach.

"Seems like everyone was trying to pack in a hurry." She comments, making Zach look around as well before responding.

"The ship has security detail." He says, seemingly confused as to why there's nobody around. Mark does the same as Kendra argues with him, before his head suddenly gets a quick burst of pain, and he thinks that, just for a moment, he can see a humanoid shape standing in front of him, before the same sharp pain in his chest from earlier appears. He shakes his head at that, trying to clear the weird vision, and pain, from his mind, and succeeds in doing so. When he snaps out of it, it's just in time to hear Zach speak up again.

"That security console still has power to it… Isaac, log in and see what you can find." He says, before turning to Kendra as Isaac nods, and walks through the door to get to the console. For some reason, Mark gets a feeling to follow him, and after a moment's pause, decides to follow it. The first thing that he notices when he walks in is Isaac's still form as the door closes behind him.

"My God..." He hears his friend mutter with horror present in his voice.

"Isaac? What's- Oh… Oh my God." Mark says when he sees just what Isaac had seen. That being the large splotches of blood staining the metal floor inside the security booth. "What the hell happened here…?" Mark asks with horror present in his voice.

"I don't know…But I think I know how to find out." Isaac says, heading towards the security console. Mark does the same after a few seconds, the two of them making sure to step around the blood present on the floor. Isaac starts to work with the console, and a few seconds later, a report of the ship appears. The Chief looks on from the other side, watching all the parts of the ship that are flashing red before speaking up.

"Huh. Doesn't look good. She's taken a lot of damage." He says, Zach looking at the same holo-screen from across the room.

"The tram system's offline. Getting around is going to be a lot harder." He comments, before looking at the screen for a few more seconds. "Power seems to be flowing again, that's a start." He says, getting a nod from agreement from Mark in response. However, everyone is surprised when the emergency lights turn on in the room, and an alarm starts blaring. As this happens, the console turns as red as the blood on the ground, and one word flashes over and over on the screen. "Quarantine!" Mark looks at it for a moment, his eyes widening slightly at the word as he fears what it may mean, Isaac having the same thought process. Evidently, the Chief has the same, since he'd taken out his Pulse Rifle and was looking around the room with it. However, that stops when Zach speaks up.

"The automatic quarantine must have been tripped when the filtration system re-started. Everybody, relax." He reasons, making the Chief lower his Pulse Rifle, and stopping Mark from reaching for his own that was stationed at his hip for defense. However, they're put on edge again when Kendra speaks up.

"What was that, did anybody hear that?" She asks, looking around the room with fear present in her eyes.

"I'm not sure…" Zach comments, looking around the room as well. Suddenly, one of the vents in the ceiling comes crashing to the floor, making Isaac and Mark whip their heads to look at it, while those in the room weren't able to see which one it was since they're stuck in the dark.

"The hell…?" The Chief asks, shining his light around in search for what made the noise.

"I don't know! Something's in the room with us!" Kendra exclaims as Isaac and Mark make out a shadow moving around with the other four people in their group. Then, the quarantine light gives them a clear view of what it was that was in the room with the others. It had a humanoid shape, but that was the last thing that was human about it. The thing's "skin" was a dark brown, with what looked like dried blood covering some parts of it. The "eyes" were a blood red as well, and seemed to slightly glow, unnerving the two engineers. Then, it's "arms" were long and spindly, with the bottom half seemingly replaced by some kind of organic blade. It was hunched over, and the two couldn't get a good look at the thing's legs. But what they did see was the thing suddenly lash out with its bladed arms and kill the Chief.

"Chief! Open fire, open fire!" Zach calls to the other three still in the room with the thing. Unfortunately, the bullets shot from the guns hardly seem to do anything, and Mark idly notices how the guns that the others have on them are regular assault rifles, instead of Pulse Rifles. Why this is, he has no idea, and another part of his brain wonders how the hell he notices this as he watches the horror in front of him with Isaac. "Kendra, power! Kendra!" Zach shouts in desperation as the thing kills the Corporal as well. A second later, a spark shoots out of the door a few feet away from them.

"I got it!" Kendra exclaims as the door in their part also opens, and the abomination leaps back into the ventilation system.

"Isaac! Mark! Get out of there!" Zach exclaims as him and Kendra rush through the open door before it closes behind them. The two waste no time, and do just that. Rushing through the door that Kendra had unlocked for them, and then let it close as the thing crashes through the vent that had been in the wall of the part they had been in. They continue running, pushing further and further as more of the things crash through the vents in the walls and ceiling and they continuously turn corners to get away from them, until they finally reach a lift. The two leap in, Isaac scrambling to his feet and activating it, making the doors close and shut the two off from the horrors outside. Isaac stumbles back as the adrenaline starts to wear off, and Mark shakily gets to his legs.

"My God… What the fu-" However, Mark is suddenly cut off as one of the things from before suddenly uses its bladed appendages to attempt to pry open the doors, many others standing behind it, ready to slice them up once the one at the doors opens them. "Gahh!" Mark shouts out in fear, falling onto his ass as Isaac does the same while the thing continues to try to pry open the doors, multiple other creatures behind it as they wait for the doors to be opened and allow them to kill the engineers on the other side. The two in question scramble back to the far wall of the lift, and fear what may happen to them. However, fate wasn't done with them yet it seems, as the doors forcefully close when the thing finally pushes them open, beheading it and leaving its head in the lift with the two as it descends. The two stare at the head for a few seconds, before Mark finally finds his voice and speaks up once again. "What… The fuck, happened here…?" He breathes out, fear clear in his voice from what just happened.

"I don't know Mark… I just don't know." Isaac answers as the lift doors open, and the two tense up as they expect another one of those things to appear. After a few seconds of nothing happening, they let out relieved breathes, and shakily make their way to their legs, before stepping out and into the room. As they do this, their eyes are drawn to the horrific sight of to their left, where at one of the terminals, a member of the crew can be seen amputated and leaning against the wall. However, their eyes are drawn to the writing present on the terminal, appearing to be written in the person's blood. It reads:

Cut off their limbs

The two engineers share a look at this, before looking at the amputated person. "Cut off…" Mark begins.

"Their limbs." Isaac finishes, before turning to look at his pseudo-brother. "You don't think…" He trails off as Mark looks up at him.

"That this is why they sent out the distress beacon, and that they figured out how to hold those things off until now? Yeah, I do." Mark says with a grim facial expression, before the two hear the sounds of someone struggling on the other side of the doorway. The two share a look, before rushing towards the door. The only problem is that there's a fuse box next to it that's keeping it locked. Mark takes care of that by using the Plasma Cutter to take care of the fuse, and allowing Isaac to open the door. The sight that meets them is as horrifying as when the Chief was killed. As the door opens, the two see what they presume to be a member of the crew stumble backwards, before falling to the ground as one of the creatures from before leaps on top of him, and stabs him through the head and heart, effectively killing him. Then, it turns to the engineers, making the two stumble backwards. The thing leaps out at them, and by some instinct deep within themselves, they raise their Plasma Cutters, and dismember the thing. Isaac takes care of the thing's arms, while Mark takes out its legs. Then, he beheads the thing for good measure. A few seconds after the thing goes still, the two realize what just happened. "Oh, oh my God." Mark says, before unsealing his helmet, turning to the side, and puking. Isaac does much the same thing. After a minute, they raise their heads to look at one another.

"We just… We just killed that thing." Isaac says in a voice that says he can't believe what happened. But Mark couldn't blame him, because he was much the same way.

"Yeah… Yeah, we did." He says. The two take another few minutes, before they eventually reseal their helmets, and stumble into the hallway, taking care to step around the body of the thing, and the body of the crew member, before they continue down the hallway. After a couple turns, they reach an elevator, and call it to their level. When it arrives, they step in, and Isaac activates it, making it head to the floor that it was connected to. When the elevator arrives, they step out, lifting their Plasma Cutters in case any more of those things show up, before lowering them and starting down the walkway. However, they stop when a holo-screen appears in front of them.

"Health Packs detected. Collect Health Packs to heal." Their suits' VI's announce, making the two share a glance, before looking down and seeing two Small Health Packs at their feet. The two bend down, and scoop them up before storing them in their suit's storage space. After what they ran into over the past few minutes… They had a feeling that they would be needing a good amount of them. As they walk down the ramp towards another elevator, Mark notices something on the ground.

"Hey Isaac." He says, picking up the object, and showing that it was actually an audio log. They two share another look, before Mark activates it. A male voice immediately starts talking.

"This is Patrick! Everybody listen up! They use the vents! That's how they get around the ship!- Stay away! Get back! Get bac- Aaaahhhh!" ~Growl-Hiss-Screech~ "Aaaahhhh!" The recording ends and the two share a look of horror, though the facial expressions are hidden beneath their helmets. After another minute, the two continue onwards, and walk into the next room. When they do, the lights in their room, and the one connected to it, turn on, and the two of them receive a call from Kendra.

"Isaac! Mark!" She exclaims as the screen is filled with static for a few seconds, before it clears up and she hands it over to Zach. "God I can't believe they made it." She says in surprise and relief as Zach steadies out the picture.

"Isaac, Mark." Zach says, before letting off a relived breath. "We ran into more of them on the way over here. Are you two okay?" He asks them.

"Yeah, we ran into a few of our own, but I think we're fine." Isaac responds, leaving out the part about how they had to kill one. Mark doesn't speak, seeing as that's probably a good idea. Then, Kendra speaks up.

"Now what?! What the hell are those things? Is that the crew?!" She exclaims, making Isaac's and Mark's eyes widen as they look at one another. They hadn't even thought of that possibility and yet… It made sense. Mark already knew that Isaac was afraid of what may have happened to Nicole if that was the case.

"Keep your voice down. Whatever they are, they're not friendly and half the doors on this ship are locked because of the quarantine." He tells her in a quiet voice, before turning to look back at the screen, and the other two. "Now we have to get to the bridge. But first, you two have to repair the tram system." He tells them, only for Kendra to speak up again.

"You're crazy Hammond. You're gonna get us all killed!" She says with a tremor in her voice from the fear she was feeling. Zach just turns to look at her.

"Listen to me. I will get you out of here alive… Now what's wrong with the tram?" He asks her, most likely to take her mind off the situation at hand. Kendra walks a few feet away, taking a few breathes to no doubt calm herself.

"The data board is fried. But there should be a spare in the maintenance bay. There's also a broken tram blocking the tunnel that needs to be repaired… Hammond, everything is on the other side of this quarantine, we can't reach it from here!" She exclaims as quietly as she can.

"We can't." He agrees, before turning back to the holo-screen that Isaac and Mark are looking at. "But you can. Isaac, Mark. If I can get to the bridge, I should be able to access the personnel files. You two fix the tram, and I'll help you find Nicole, Isaac." He says, making Isaac stand stiff, before Zach cuts the call. The two stand there for another few seconds, looking at Kendra and Zach on the other side, before they shake themselves out of their stupor, and start to get to work. Isaac with a bit more motive behind his actions. They quickly make their way towards the door, but stop by a couple unlocked lockers. They share a look, before they open them up, and find some small Health Packs, as well as some clips for their Plasma Cutters. The two stash the resources, and then make their way out of the room. Neither one of them notices the fairly large terminal by the door which scans the two of them, and then unfolds and lets off a soft beep. As the door closes behind the two, the terminal opens, and two lines are shown at the top.

Isaac Clarke, Date: February 16th, 2508

Mark Davis, Date: February 16th, 2508

Author's Note Part 2: Well guys, guess you weren't expecting this kind of story, were you? Yeah, so after watching theRadBrad's playthroughs of the games, I decided that I wanted to write out a story for this. Now, as you can see, I haven't really done much in this chapter besides add in a little extra dialogue. However, as we get further in, I plan on writing out more changes to what actually happens to the game, as well as more lengthy conversations between characters.

Now, as I said in the first AN, I won't be messing with canon pairings. So, for the first time in one of my stories, my OC will not be paired with anyone! (At least as far as I know. Who knows, maybe I'll change things up a little in the third game. (Points to those of you who know what I'm talking about, and I don't mean pairing my guy with John).) Surprising, right? But, that's just how it's gonna be since I don't want to bring in any other OC's, because this is the kind of series that one OC is already changing events drastically, and with any more, it's likely that I'd have to change practically everything that occurs from the point their introduced onwards.

Well, I think that's about it for this first chapter, so I thank you all for taking the time out of your day to read this, and I hope to see you all next time!