A/N – I guess you could call this a crossover, but it really isn't, since the plot will change every chapter depending on what game they're in. The chapter titles will coincide with the game in question. If you've never played the game before, scroll down to the end of the chapter and I'll give a short summary on it. Either that or look at Wikipedia. For this fic, assume the series is true, not the two new movies. Enjoy!

Key:

"Test" = Speech

"Test"= Thought/Different Language

Chapter 1: Introduction/Dead Space

"Hey guys, thanks again for letting me tag along! I promise, I'll stay out of the way," the only one that's been talking during the entire car ride continues to babble on, causing the annoyed red head to gently bang her head on the window.

"Keeping your mouth shut would help, too. We're here to work, not play," Asuka snapped out her first comment of the day. Shinji really didn't mind being in the back with Kensuke – at least this way he could keep Asuka from hitting him too often. Not like there was much of a choice in the matter, as the German leaped in the front seat as if she was being chased by a lion, "Misato? Mind telling me who approved this?"

"This came right up from the top. It's not that bad – you'll be in your Eva the whole time, you won't even hear him," somehow, this didn't give either pilot much satisfaction, "Kensuke, I noticed you brought a tape recorder with you. You're free to use it, but we'll go over it before you leave to ensure you don't say anything that could… harm the security of Nerv."

"Actually, it's not a tape recorder. It's a micro flash drive with a built in speaker so I'm able to record on it. Twenty gigabytes! And it has WiFi! With the press of a button, all the data I recorded will shoot to my computer at home. Isn't that amazing? It's smaller than a pack of gum!" Asuka sighed just a little louder than really needed, earning a stern look from her guardian.

"Whatever, you get my point. Just make sure you stay out of the way when we're running the tests, because we're testing out some new equipment," the dirver reaches down and pulls a file from under her seat, "Speaking of, I need to talk to you two. We're trying to make it safer for you to pilot, so you won't actually be inside the Eva anymore if this works out. We're going to try and make everything digital – you'll still be in your entry plugs, but not in the Eva. All audio, video, and neural transmissions will be done digitally… at least, that's the plan," it was an unspoken question, but all four members wondered why it's taken Nerv this long to produce a technology that didn't put them in harm's way.

"Amazing!" typically, Kensuke was the first to respond.

"Is it dangerous?" Shinji's always been the cautious type, which is quite ironic for a boy who stares down forty-story monsters on a monthly basis.

"No, it's supposed to make your job less dangerous actually. Like I just said. Germany is the one that supposedly perfected this technology, and they haven't let us down before," just slightly proud of her heritage, Asuka let out an unnoticed smirk, "You'll see, it shouldn't be that big of a deal," the car comes to the bottom, and out of habit, Shinji and Asuka go to their respective locker rooms.

"At least they kept our old plug suits," while still under the custody of the German branch of Nerv, Asuka always despised how frequently they updated equipment, including her plug suit. To her, it seemed as if once she felt at home in one plug suit, they'd bring out another, increasingly more revealing one. With a small huff, she walked past the still blabbering Kensuke and crawled into her second home – the entry plug, "That kid needs to be checked for worms."

"Okay Asuka, we'll go ahead and link you up first. Just act as if this is a normal sync test," Akagi walked her through the painfully short set of instructions as her entry plug goes black. A very small part of Asuka was worried about this new technology – in her eyes, why fix something if it's not broken?

"Another two hours of my life I'll never get back…" with a deep breath, she let her hands rest on the controls. About ten minutes pass before so much as a single sound could be heard, but even when sound did penetrate her ears, she cringed, "Akagi! Get the stooge away from the microphone! I can hear every word he's saying," a fleeting part of her wondered how long it would take for the bubbles to stop if he was, say, held underwater…

"Asuka? What are you doing here?" unbeknownst to her, Shinji was surprised at being able to see Asuka, but more surprised at being able to see all of her. And here he thought that quick glance when they first met was nice. She noticed his nudity, but was far from gawking as he was.

"God Third, cover yourself up. No one needs to see that," they both realize they were completely nude at the same time, letting out a yelp in perfect unison, "Turn around!" in a feeble attempt to stay decent, Asuka covers herself up with both hands. As if that kept the boy's eyes from wandering, "Damn it, Akagi! Get me out of here! And shut Kensuke up!" still no reply.

"D-Do you think something's wrong with the audio? Maybe they can't hear us," enjoying the silent show in front of him, Shinji tried to speak without too much nervousness. He failed miserably.

"Impossible! I can hear that stooge just fine! And why can we see each other? And I'm freaking naked! I shouldn't have to go through this!" in anger, the teen punches the side of her entry plug, only to find her fist went straight through as if nothing was there, "What the hell? Shinji, try to move," the more she tried to struggle in her seat, the more she felt it disintegrate under her.

"Why? Oh…" finally, she looks over and catches Shinji staring at her, face completely red.

"Cover your eyes!" somehow, she managed to reason that Shinji has a small lung capacity. She duly noted this observation, "You better run when we get out of here, I swear."

"I-I didn't mean to! What's happening?" through the Third's incessant whining, Asuka caught wind of Kensuke saying something out of the ordinary.

"Shut up, listen," something's happening out there…

"Okay Kensuke, they're going to be in there for a while. Why don't I drive you home?" Kensuke replied with a hesitant acceptance, "I was listening to you record, everything's fine. Just go ahead and turn it off though, we're going to be walking for a bit."

"Okay, one second," a deafening clicking sound echoed through the abyss, and before their brains had time to register everything, both Shinji and Asuka fell to an unseen floor.

"Damn!" both children hold their backs in pain, "This is just getting annoying! Get me out of here!"

"Stop yelling, they can't hear us," as soon as he began to speak, a loud whirring sound filled the apparent room they were in, and Shinji screamed like the girl he is as the room filled with a blinding light.

"What now?" getting exponentially annoyed, Asuka covered her eyes with a forearm, and soon found herself standing on solid ground, "It's about time!" while she didn't exactly know what to expect, what she did know was that she didn't like the looks of wherever she was. A large, glass roof space ship was her location; the occasional unnoticed blood smear on the wall broke the smooth metallic surface of the walls behind countless command consoles. Truly a horrid sight, she thought, "Is this supposed to be cute?"

"Um… Asuka?" she turns to yell at him for gawking again, only to find herself fully clothed in a black, armored plug suit – at least, this was her assertion of it. In reality, it was a state-of-the-art space suit, and Shinji was wearing the exact same thing, minus the curves and plus a helmet with a glowing blue H for vision, "Is this supposed to happen?" a loud moaning comes from all directions, sending a chill up the two children's spines.

"This isn't funny, Akagi! Get us out of here!" for the first time, Shinji heard fear in Asuka's voice. In his mind, this was a perfectly good time to have an anxiety attack. If the demon girl herself can't keep a composure, how could anyone possibly expect him to? "Shinji, what are…" the boy caught a glimpse of the terror first, though he was just now taking in all the details of it. Unable to speak, he simply pointed to the small demon on the floor behind Asuka, "Oh God," she turns around and sighs with a smile in relief, "It's just a baby! You're such a drama queen," while she'd never point this out publicly, she was quite the mothering figure when it came to young children. This small, defenseless baby warmed her heart, though it simultaneously angered her to think someone left it here. Smiling down at the child, she knelt down to pick it up, only to have a ringing screech fill the room as four tentacles – all at least six feet tall – shot out the back of the child, "Teufel Kind!" reverting back to her old 'spider on the floor' tactics, she screamed like a child and stomped on the demon with all her might, "Dieser Test ist verdammt mir auf die Nerven!"

"I think it's dead, Asuka," though the head was a bloody bowl by now, Asuka insisted on making damn sure it was down. Turns out that mothering instinct only works on cute babies.

"Where the hell are we?" releasing the pent up anger she's apparently able to hold for no more than five seconds, the girl whips around and yells at him – though she found it difficult, considering he looked almost as scary as the baby, "And take off that damn helmet!" not one to object, he followed orders and dropped it to the floor.

"Maybe we should try and find some help. I'm sure this is just a glitch or something."

"I'm not moving from this spot!" she crossed her arms and stomped a foot for emphasis, "What if there are more of those things? I'm not going on a freaking adventure!" with a casual shrug, Shinji turned and began walking away, "Hey! Where are you going? Hey!"

"Just wait there. Alone. In the dark. I'll bring back help eventually," his display of a pair made her fume, but she wasn't about to move. This is just a computer glitch! There's no reason to be scared! Surely, someone will come soon and help her. Why bother going off to look?

… though, that distant moaning was starting to get to her…

"Hold on! I'm coming with!" by now, he'd already turned a corner and was long gone. Sprinting in the general direction he went, she quickly came to a fork in the road, "Left!"

Funny thing about forks in the road. Generally speaking, there's a fifty-fifty chance of a person ending up where they actually want to be, or ending up on the complete opposite area of where they wanted to be. These statistics seem somewhat off, as no matter which direction people tend to choose, then end up going the wrong way. Some would call that karma, others would call that annoying. Asuka was the latter type of person.

"This is absolutely crazy! How could he leave me alone? Some man he is," tired from running, she took up walking with crossed arms. She realized that she chose the wrong direction, but she made the rash decision of crossing several more forks and corners, leaving her completely lost, "Come on already! Where are you?" her high pitched voice rang through the empty, increasingly dark hallways. The maternal instinct she had for God only knows what reason turned out to be a major downfall in this life, as when she came across a man lying on the floor in the distance, she couldn't help but try and help, "Hey, buddy! You okay? Wake up," she slowly approached to find the man shirtless, with several lesions and boils covering his back. His face couldn't be seen from her angle, but even at this gruesome sight, she chose to continue to close the distance, "I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay," feeling her hands start to shake, she took a final step towards the body, narrowing the gap to three feet, "Idiot, wake up," with a gentle tap of her toe on his head, the body popped up with a deafening, low pitched screech.

Asuka was not above running and squealing like a pig.

Almost as soon as she began to run, she heard a noise that was half gratifying, and half horrifying. To her, it resembled a shotgun blast, but something much more alien, at least to her ears. Taking a moment to stop running, she turns to see the monster just standing there, arms up as if it was still chasing. Slowly but surely, the monster split down the middle, top to bottom, and the sides fell out of the way to show Shinji holding something along the lines of a table saw. Somehow through all this, he had an awkward smile on.

"Look what I found," if she wasn't so furious, she probably would have hugged him.

"What if you had hit me? Idiot!" with a running start, she kicked out all of her rage in a single blow to his chest. Luckily for him, the armor wasn't exactly cheap.

"Here," nonchalantly, he hands her a gun labeled 'laser cutter', with three barrels aligned parallel with the floor, "Aim for the limbs or head, torso shots don't do anything," to him, Asuka seemed just a little too comfortable holding the gun.

"Oh, so you get the big bad table saw, and the girl gets the pistol. Real cute," making her jump, he shot off the blade right next to her on the floor, "Cut that out!" with a smile and a pointing finger, he directed her to the baby, now split in two.

"That's why I get the good one. Now come on, we need to find a way out of here. There's only so much ammo," she had no idea how he was being so calm about all of this. 'He knows something I don't… he's hiding something.' The duo walked through the labyrinth of corridors, taking out the occasional monster along the way, and what seemed like an eternity passed before they came across anything that wasn't a plain metal wall. What they saw didn't exactly comfort them.

"This is terrible… who would do something like this?" in awe of the sight, Asuka lost the attitude and slumped her shoulders. Countless jars of a clear, green liquid lined the walls, and a good third of them had a baby fetus in them. Some were barely visible, and others we so far along in the term that they look as if they could be born right now, "What's going on, Shinji?"

"Let's just keep going. We have to come across something eventually," forcing her feet to move was becoming a more and more strenuous act – not out of exhaustion, but out of fear. The fact that she can feel these monsters means they could touch her, which leads her to believe they could also hurt her. This wasn't a settling conclusion. They've been lucky so far, but how long could they possibly last with limited ammo? This thought made her nauseous.

"We need to rest. My legs are killing me," she leans up against the cold metal wall and lets a whine escape her throat, "I just want to go home…"

"Okay, we can take a break. I'll keep an eye open, just tell me when you're ready," she slid down the wall until she was sitting, hugging her thighs and resting her head on the knees in front of her. 'This is crazy! I have to be dreaming, there's no way this is real. I just need to wake up, that's it. Come on Asuka, wake up… wake up…' this, of course, proved to be fruitless. Roughly five minutes of complete silence passed before she forced herself to her feet.

"Let's go," and with that, the two continued their trek down the dark hallways. No more than ten seconds passed before she spoke up again, "Why are you so calm? What do you know about this place?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," he spoke with a matter-of-fact tone that just grinded on her nerves, "But we'll be fine, trust me."

"No! Tell me!" he let out a long sigh before continuing.

"This is a video game. An old game, but still a game. I can't remember the name of it, but Kensuke showed me it a few weeks ago. He just bought a new gaming computer, so he's installed nearly every game there is," predictably, the redhead let out an overly sarcastic laugh, "See? I said you wouldn't believe it."

"Are you stupid? You're really going to stand there and tell me that we're in a video game? You're insane!" for the first time since she got here, she broke a smile, "For future reference, think before you speak, Third."

"Hey, it's just a theory," her laughter broke in an instant as he shot another monster in front of them, leaving the hallways quiet once again, "I… have an idea…"

"What now? You're gonna say we're dead?"

"No, I'm still going with the game theory. But I bet if we beat the level or even the game, we could get out of here. Just humor me until you come up with a better plan," with a scuff, the pair continued to walk down the hallways. The occasional obstacle here, the rare monster there, nothing exactly too challenging or too easy for them to handle. Specifically speaking, Shinji was the designated shooter – Asuka, so far, has only shot monsters that were clearly dead, if only to make damn sure. To Asuka, it seemed as if they've been walking for days, when in reality barely three hours have passed since they first were dropped in. Time has a way of getting lost amongst the fear and darkness.

"I think Nerv is just playing some joke on us. It'd be just like your father to put us through some kind of mental strain test," he wasn't about to argue that opinion, "Even if you're right, how do you propose we get out? Something tells me that if we are playing a game, we're not going the right way. Not enough action."

"Yeah, I was thinking the same thing actually, but think about it – this is really the only way to go. All those forks in the road eventually wind around to meet each other; it's just a matter of which one is faster. That's how I found you after we got separated. So we must be going the right way," his logic didn't ease her mind in the least. As he spoke, the entered a large room with what appeared to be a train station on the far side of it, "See?"

"See what? Great, it's a train. I'll bet you anything it's filled with monsters, and even if we can get it running, it'll only take us to a more difficult part of the game," she was clearly starting to believe Shinji's idea, "Or wherever we are."

"Doesn't seem like we have much choice," he began walking toward the train as Asuka followed with a sigh. For once, it turns out the redhead was completely correct – roughly five men, of course in the monster form, were waiting for them when they opened the doors. Shinji made quick work of them as Asuka jumped and set of her gun, luckily hitting one of them. As soon as Shinji pressed the large, blood-covered button inside the train, the entire world once again went black and the two started floating.

"Danken Gott!" completely overlooking the fact that they were both once again nude, Asuka screamed in joy, "Now get us out of here, damn it!" either she didn't realize her current state of bareness or didn't care, because she didn't try in the least to cover anything. Shinji didn't mind.

A/N – There you go, chapter one of my new story. How do you all like the direction this is going? Personally, I enjoyed writing it. Just as a quick list of games I'll be doing (probably) in the future; Ratchet and Clank, Mirror's Edge, Black Ops, Devil May Cry, and Rock Band. Feel free to suggest a different game or vote on what I listed off! I'll only do games that I've played, and I've never owned an Xbox, so don't even bother suggesting a game exclusive to that. Outside of that, I have a gaming PC, and both PS2 and PS3. Thanks for reading, I'll see you next time, and keep on keepin' on!

Summary: In Dead Space, you and a crew go to investigate the mining ship Ishimura after it fell silent on a distant planet. Mere minutes after you and your crew enter the ship, all but you and two others are killed by horrifying, humanoid monsters. Now you must fight your way through the onslaught of horror in order to survive, and possibly save mankind.