"All systems online. Preparing to launch. Launching early…"

The man in the seat opened his eyes, and looked around the small room. The man groaned and grabbed his head, a large bruise on his forehead. The man tapped the release button on his chair to get up, then lifted the bar in front of him, got up while looking around.

The room had a small monitor near a Fabricator, a ladder near the Fabricator, and a hatch on the floor right next to the ladder. The man looked at the floor, seeing a fire extinguisher and a first aid kit. The man looked up after hearing a beep.

"Five hours after deployment. Four and a forty-five minutes since landing. Ocean planet. Five pieces of land all around the planet. Nitrogen-Oxygen thick air. 19% Oxygen, 68% Nitrogen, 4% Hydrogen and 9% Mixture. Many useful minerals are underwater, atmosphere with similar composition to Earth. Hello. I am your survival guide. This lifeboat contains a contact system, fabricator, storage, health systems, life support systems, and a constructor on the wall next to your all-environment suit. Call me Sydney."

"Well Sydney, how in the world do you think I will be able to breathe underwater?"

"There is a large tank that comes with the all environment suit, and a small filter on the back of the tank that takes in oxygen. If you aren't panicking, you have about a minute of oxygen before you start to feel a little off, and another 20 seconds for you to black out."

The man got in the suit and grabbed the constructor, setting off through the bottom hatch. The man was amazed at all the life. The man, Ned, looked closely at a large fish that had two membranes. Ned snatched it and put it into the suits storage in the front. He grabbed small and large quartz crystals and some salt in a little baggies until he was full, when he went back to the life pod.

"Say, Sydney." Ned said, cooking a fish called a "Peeper" and converting another fish, "Airsack" into water.

"Yes?"

"Could you make a map of how the ship crashed, with a key?"

"Yes… Loading onto screen."

Ned looked around and saw a screen with a small box in the corner, labeling green as the recorded escape pod, red as the huge part of the ship, white as the bridge, and blue as the front, and grey as little pieces, and there was a pale blue ocean.

It shoved the pale blue a long ways away and red being huge, everything intact. The green flew out and slowed down as the Aurora hit the water and stopped, hitting a sandbar, then white flew off and hit the water a few hundred meters away, but floated, then the blue fell down, deep down, then went out of radar. Grey went everywhere.

"The front split into two pieces just before it got out of sight, and the escape pod shown was the second pod launched. Your pod landed nearly two miles away."

"Wait, my pod wasn't recorded?"

"No."

"And where is the second one, could restart the map with the second pod as purple?"

"Loading…"

The purple one had landed nearly 15 miles away, then sank after nearly a minute.

"There was a message from that pod… It isn't fully loaded, want me to work on that?"

"Sure." Ned ate the Peeper and drank some water, dumped all his stuff on the ground and said, "I want you to scan this and see what things I could make with my current tools."

Ned jumped in and started to collect again, this time finding an area where the water had a green fog, and large "Creepvine" rose to the surface, some with gold, glowing seeds.

Ned returned to the pod and dumped all his stuff again then asked,

"What can I make?"

"Glass. If you got meat cured food. With the stuff you just put down you could make silicone rubber, and if you got titanium, you could make a knife. If you got a knife, you could get more things. You can break little pieces of rock of the wall that pop out and get minerals."

Ned went back into the blue, now tried breaking rock outcroppings, and got a lot of odd looking stuff, fused with the rock. He got back to the pod and dumped his stuff.

"Now?"

"A knife, and if you got something containing lots of acid, or similar, you could make a battery. Want me to make that knife? It will take two minutes to extract titanium from the rock and only seconds to make the knife so expect it soon."

"Yes, make the knife please."

Ned dropped down into the sea again. The original cheer had faded and boredom and sadness had set in. Ned filled himself up with lots of purple mushrooms that he quickly learned to pick with care. Ned surfaced and breathing in Oxygen after being underwater for too long.

The knife was sitting on the Fabricator, then Ned dumped his stuff, though was careful with the mushshrooms, and asked the repetitive question.

"Two batteries, and a computer chip. If you make both, you can make a Builder, in which you can build a larger base, and I can download myself into."

"Could you make it?"

"It will be finished in about five minutes."

Ned was off again, this time he brought back some pieces of the Aurora for Sydney to scan. Ned then left, bringing heaps of the metal in.

Ned got in the pod and dumped a large piece with a clatter.

"The Aurora was made of primarily Titanium, Copper, Silver, gold, and many other resources. The outer skin was 66% Titanium, and with what you have, I could get you a nearly a pound of Titanium."

"Please make it."

"Builder finished. Battery finished."

Ned took the Builder and spent a few minutes looking at the stuff there was to build, then sat up. Ned looked at all the stuff.

"Sydney, please extract all useful resources from all of this, just the resources."

"Yes."

Ned dropped down with an idea. If he could establish a base a little far off, he would be able to get more resources while being in a good area.

He had finished picking a few "Acid Mushrooms" when something bit down on his leg, hard. Ned looked back and shook his leg, tearing his skin and causing way more pain.

Ned freaked out and kicked at the creature as it released and went for a more direct bite. Ned stabbed the knife into the creature as it closed itself around his chest.

Ned took out the knife then rammed the knife into the eye of the creature, then it released him and swam off with his knife still in it's eye. Ned quickly swam off, feeling weak and lightheaded. Ned surfaced, breathing in the oxygen, the sweet, life sustaining oxygen.

Ned returned to the pod and laid down on the small bed that was in the pod and suddenly the small opening closed and… Nothing. Ned sat there, blinking.

"Scanning… Scanning…"

When Ned heard this he understood. The pod was initializing the emergency health sequence.

"Deep punctures on leg and chest, and a fractured rib. Blunt force trauma has damaged nerves in the Frontal lobe. Healing flesh wounds will take five minutes, fixing the fractured rib will take seven minutes and the nerve damage… Fixable."

"Sydney, how much will it take until you're done?"

"Five hours to seven hours. Would you like me to fix your nerve damage now or when you sleep. While you're sleeping will be convenient and easier, and more of a chance to not kill you." Sydney said.

"What is the chance I'll die?" Ned asked, sitting there, hoping the best.

"99.9999999, etc%. If you don't let me help, that is. If you let me help, 97%. If I do this in your sleep, it drops to 67%."

"Then I guess you'll fix my brain up later, now please, go faster, how long have I been in here already?"

"Three minutes, five seconds and 83 milliseconds on the time you ended your question. And you would know when I started to operate."

"Why? Why Sydney? Sydney?" Ned asked, the yelled as pain prickled through his body. "What the- Sydney?"

Ned felt pain intensifying on his legs and chest, until it felt like hot metal that was sitting in the sun for hours was wrapped around his chest and leg. After a bit the pain on his leg started to cool down until it felt like normal, then after a long time Ned felt his chest start to cool.

"Operation complete. Extra suits are where you found your first one. I advise using the ripped one for resources, such as some silicone rubber. Or bags." Sydney said, opening the opening to the bed.

"Sydney I would like you to use titanium and as much of this suit you need to make a bigger and sharper knife." Ned said, getting out of the suit and being surprised by what he was wearing.

Ned was wearing a shirt that said,

I Love

Planets

"Yes."

Ned grabbed another suit and slipped into it, but this one had goggles and small flippers. Ned climbed up the ladder, then got up on the top.

Ned looked out at the Aurora, it's glory had faded as it's skin burnt and it's insides melted. Ned remembered one thing about the Aurora's structure, that it was meant for very light, gentle care, and it's nuclear burners were in the back, along with most power related things.

Ned jumped off the side of the pod and dived down a few meters then swam towards the green area to collect more seeds. Ned filled himself with seeds then returned for his knife, which looked a little bit like a large dagger than a knife now.

Ned went back into the water, searching for outcroppings that he could easily break off. He wrapped his arm around one and twisted, breaking it off. Ned moved a few meters to the Aurora and saw a gigantic tube or coral.

Ned entered it, and as far as he could see, which wasn't far, there were little outcroppings. Ned swam up for some oxygen the dove down and into the tube, propelling himself in a bit before starting to gather the resources.

Ned used his knife to carve out some of the soft flesh on the inside of the tube before leaving. Ned left quickly for the surface and swam towards as it suddenly went from decently bright to dark.

Ned climbed into the pod from the bottom and heard a beep.

"Message has been successfully downloaded. Play it on the transmitter."

Ned kicked over a bunch of rock to get to the transmitter. Ned looked at the controls then just pressed a button. It beeped then spoke in a slightly male voice.

"Playing message. Occurs in 5. 4. 3. 2. 1."

Ned listened as a female's voice played.

"Help, I landed far out away from the Aurora and the floatation devices failed to deploy correctly and got teared, I am attempting to repair them, expect radio to cut *Beep*."

"Message ended."

Ned sighed. There was no way she survived. If she had survived the impact, which she had, she had sunk, and there was nothing to rest on for miles.

Ned looked down at the mess on the floor and started picking some of it up and putting it in the storage of the pod. He looked around for the Fabricator and looked through what he wanted to build.

Ned stopped scrolling when he saw something called "SeaGlide". Ned checked what he needed, then shouted,

"Sydney!"

"Yes?"

Ned checked the SeaGlide again for what he exactly needed then read it out to Sydney.

"To make that, it will take about ten minutes. I recommend sleep. Now."

Ned sighed and took off the suit and crawled into bed. He looked up at the ceiling as the opening shut.

"Initializing sleep enhancer."

Ned felt himself slip off in a matter of seconds into blissful nothingness, all the pain slipping away like a bad dream. But he wouldn't be away from it for long…

A/U: No pre-typing means a longer time between chapters, but expect a chapter each month at the very least.

I accept suggestions (criticism), and OC's, though I will only accept three OC's, unless it's a animal.