Dead Space: New Horizons
Chapter 2
Previous Chapter"And, it is time for you to witness your Creation's evolution onto the populace of New Horizons."
Jeremy's eyes widen and his face paled about what Danik had said. As he tries to get up, the Circle Soldiers then flanked him and then they brought his face to the floor. He then attempts to struggle free from his captors' grips as the man in white looked at him with amusement.
"Let me go!" Jeremy yelled as he's still trying to break free.
Danik looked at him with a hurtful frown "Why not, Brother?" he said with a subtle mock sadness.
"Because. Because I'm not Jeremy Hanson." Jeremy lied.
Danik's frown deepened "If you're not Jeremy Hanson." he then pulls out his tablet again from his satchel as he shows the engineer his profile. "Then tell me this."
"I *Grunt* I told you. I'm not Jeremy Hanson. Now, let. Me. go!"
"I'm afraid I can't do that, 'Engineer'. Because if you're not 'the' Jeremy Hanson" he then scrolls down to another profile "Then I shall find this 'alien'; Michael Hanson. A first alien 'Jeremy Hanson' has founded and adopted 'him' to be 'his' father." Danik emphasize his son's name and gender in a slight disgust. Causing Jeremy's anger inside of him to grow as he slowly narrowed his eyes at Danik in rage.
"I'm afraid that you're taking your time," Danik chuckled "It's not that I'm trying to not give away secrets and tried to planned out loudly." he heartily laughs before stopping and glaring at Jeremy.
He then pulls out his Revolver from it's holster as he then threatens the engineer by pointing it at him "Now tell me." he then cocks the hammer back "Where is Jeremy and Michael Hanson, because you're starting to lose my patience." he said through his gritted teeth in slight anger as he then shoves his revolver's barrel onto Jeremy's forehead as he continue his threat "If not, I'll find this 'abomination' and I will make sure Mr.Hanson will see his 'son' scream in agony for existing and angering our prophet, Altman." he then swiftly pull his revolver away from Jeremy to wait for the event to unfold.
Jeremy loses it as he then lashes out at Danik "MOTHERFUCKER, I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU TRIED TO TOUCH MY SON! YOU SON OF A BITCH!" he screams in anger as he violently shoves his two captors, disorienting them as he tries to strangle Danik in rage. Only to be pistol whipped by a calm looking Danik as he felt a heavy blow on his head. He struggles to stand up as his vision darkened by a concussion Danik gave to him as he then blacked out.
Danik looked at the unconscious engineer with a remorseful look "I should have warned you, Mr.Hanson. You should've done this peacefully." he then looks at his two downed soldiers as they struggle to stand up "You two, if you have already done your thing. Please bring Mr.Hanson to the gunship that I have already contact." he order his men as he uncock the hammer and holstered it.
The two soldiers who have regained their composure then looked at Danik as they saluted "Yes, sir!" after they said that, Danik then marches outside as his helmet emerged from his rig and assembled onto his head as he then patiently waits for the gunship to arrive. While he was waiting outside the workshop, he then looks back to see his men who have already wearing their helmets on and are dragging an unconscious engineer with his helmet on towards Danik. He then heard a low hum as he looks up to see an incoming Unitologist gunship heading towards them with a smirk on his face.
As they're waiting, they did not notice a pair of greenish-blue eyes watching the entire event unfold earlier.
*Michael's POV*
*During the Interrogation*
As I hid in the darkness like dad said. I waited patiently for dad to call off the Security. As I heard the airlock door opened, I heard grunts as my face turned into worry about my dad's safety as I slowly poked my head out from my hiding spot. Only to my horror, I see... Oh fuck. I-I see The Circle looking at dad as he struggles to breathe. Thanks to my equine ears, I heard everything they said. And as this man in white tell my father about me. I immediately hide as I heard this man in white coat talking about capturing me and threatening my dad as he then talks about torturing me in front of his eyes. Making my ears flop down on my head as I am visibly shaken by this man's threat. The word 'abomination' made me slumped further as I quietly whimpered.
"MOTHERFUCKER, I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU TRIED TO TOUCH MY SON! YOU SON OF A BITCH!" I heard my dad yelled as I heard grunts and then I heard someone getting hit by something heavy. Slowly raising my head again, I then slowly peeked out again to see my dad is unconscious. My eyes widened in fear and worry as the man in white looked at his unconscious form in remorse before ordering his men to take my dad away.
I was paralyzed in fear as the soldiers are now dragging my dad outside and are heading towards their shuttle. I. I don't know what to do. As the airlock door closes, I finally regained control of my body as I then ran towards the door with pure worry on my face. As I've managed to open the door, I covered both of my eyes from the sudden blinding light. As it dies down, I rapidly blinked my eyes to see the Unitologist ship hovering above me.
Then I heard static as the video link screen appears in front of me, as it clears up, I saw the man of white himself with a smirk on his face "Ah, hello there, Michael Hanson." he mockingly said my name, I slightly flinched "Enjoy the show, I hope? As much as I like to talk to you unfortunately. I have a show your father need to watch so, goodbye and hope we meet each other again." he waved at me before cutting the video link as the ship that was above me starts fly away from me and headed towards the colony.
I ran a few steps before stopping as I am reaching out my left hoof towards the shrinking ship "Dad." I weakly said with a saddened look on my face. I then closed my eyes as I breathe in and out.
Then, my eyes opened and narrowed with a determined look on my face as I'm heading back towards the abandoned workshop. As I entered the workshop, I then look around to find something until I realized about the power unit my dad dropped, as I am heading towards to where it is. As I reached to where it is. Fortunately, the power unit is still there. With a grateful smile, I then activated my kinesis and start bringing the battery towards the power slot. When I reached there and after I plugged the battery in, I've heard a familiar sound of a BENCH being online so I went towards where it is.
The centuries old frame building BENCH looks very old from the modern day nano circuit BENCH. Guess that's technology for you, they advanced every year while the obsolete tech will be either scrapped or still being used to this day.
Like that big old Planetcracker Ship, THE USG Ishimura. Unfortunately, I did not have a chance to see it up close years ago. Because the Ishimura was being attacked by terroists 5 years ago and was brought to The Sprawl for repairs until 2 years later, the Colony's reactor malfunctions and destroyed both of them by the explosion. I still had that small model of it though, I wonder what it's like to be inside of that old big ship.
Moving on,
As I've reached the BENCH and started to turn it on, it's rusted frame suddenly scraped each other as it makes an ear-splitting screech while I cringed from it when it began to flip down it's aged Holoscreen.
After the holoscreen flips down, the BENCH unfortunately powered down abruptly. With a frutstrated sigh, I began to trot towards the side of the BENCH then I started to pull out the old circuit panel and started to rewire this old scrap. After a few moments of sparks and curses, the workbench then comes online and hopefully did not blow up.
With a hopeful look on my face, the workbench works properly. Without wasting time by celebrating, I entered a copy of my dad's RIG onto the machine to fabricate something that my father never told me to use it since I was young. But only use it for desperate measures. As the machine done fabricated the tool I ordered, I pulled it out and began to inspect it.
It's the perfect replica of dad's former tool, a tool of which caused him his scarring. And the only faulty tool he ever kept it as a reminder of his past mistakes that he will never forget.
The Unstable Contact Beam.
