Dead Space Equestria: Regenerated

Blood. The overwhelming pungent odor wafted through  Issac's air filters and into his nostrils. It would've made the hardened engineer gag...if he hadn't trekked through the blood baths that were the U.S.G Ishimura and the city 'The Sprawl'.

Issac's pulse rifle roared to life as he gunned down yet another Slasher necromorph that leaped into his path, its claws flailing wildly. The man continued sprinting, gunning down any of the alien monstrosities, while the girl clinging to his back rattled around violently with his exaggerated motions.

“Hey Nel, how you holding up?” Isaac asked the little auburn headed girl, his breath was ragged from running.

The little girl bobbed her head, “Yeah, I'm fine Mr.Izzy.” The girl barely whispered.

Isaac acknowledged her with a slight incline of his head, continuing his mad dash through the blood slicked halls of the U.S.G Epsilon. “Ellie, you almost there?” The man spoke into his speaker comms.

The familiar one-eyed visage of Ellie popped up on Isaac's vid screeen. “Yeah I'm here and waiting love. Better hurry up...” Ellie turned to the right in the image, firing a hail of shots from her plasma cutter into something off screen. “They're closing in on my location Izzy.”

Issac simply grunted and pushed his legs further down the limit, pumping his legs as if alien monsters were hot on his heels... which they were.

The human dropped a grenade and kept running from the shrieking behind him. The man smiled as an explosion tore through the shrieks, silencing the alien monsters.

Isaac rounded the corner...and was almost impaled by a waiting slasher. The engineer slammed the butt of his rifle into the monsters head knocking it to the ground. He fired a few rounds into the limbs of the creature, expertly dismantling it...all without breaking stride.

The man huffed along through the maze of blood slicked hallways, occasionally checking his Rig as he barreled through the dark hell of the U.S.G Epsilon.

….

“Come on, hurry it up! We're going to be late for the WONDER BOLTS!” Rainbow Dash complained hotly, rolling her eyes impatiently at her companions.

A snow white unicorn rolled her eyes right back, “Well honestly Rainbow Dash you can't expect to rush a lady.” Rarity said as she ran a hoof through her mane.

“Besides Rainbow, not all of us can well, I don't know...FLY!” The lavender unicorn Twilight Sparkle pointed out with very well placed logic...that the hot headed pegasus most certainly lacked.

Rainbow Dash groaned, “Well I'm sooooory. It's just that this show is gonna be the most awesomest show EVER! Even Celestia and Luna are going to be there! I mean come on!”

The five of her friends chuckled around huddled in their little air balloon, as it began to float down to the cloud city of Cloudsdale.

Applejack  stared at the cloudy surface nervously, shifting from hoof to hoof. “Oh even though ah know Twilight has 'er fancy magic, ah still don't feel right walking on clouds. Don't feel natural fer an Earth Pony to be in the clouds if yeh can feel me.”

Twilight chuckled her horn glowed with a lavender aura of magic as she waved it over each of her friends. “Relax Applejack, nothing can possibly go wrong!”

Pinkie Pie gasped, “Twily! Never say that! That just gives the author an excuse to thicken the plot by MAKING something happen.” Pinkie's hoof extends out through my computer screen hitting me in the eye.

“Pinkie! What the hell!!?!?” I rub my eye furiously as I glare at my computer screen.

Pinkie shoots me a sheepish smile, “I sowwy The Fluttershy Guy.”

I can't help but say “Daww.” at Pinkie. “ It's okay Pinkie, just don't do it again, okay?”

Pinkie Pie bobs her head furiously, “Okie Dokie Lokie!”

Every pony glances around, “Pinkie, who in the hay are you talking to?” The entire gang asks in unison.

Pinkie shoots around to face her friends shooting a hoof in the air, pointing straight at me. “The author of course!”

Every pony face hooves in unison before trotting off towards the stadium that was hosting the Wonder Bolts show.

…

“Alright, give me a second to hack the security codes on the door and open it. Cover me.” Issac grunts over his shoulder while pulling the panel off the wall.

Ellie simply nods, aiming her plasma cutter down the narrow hall. Nel simply wraps her tiny arms tightly around Isaac’s neck as he works.

After a minute of mind numbing silence, the door slides open and lights flicker on, revealing the room containing the escape pods.

Isaac took a step into the flickering light of the massive chamber when an ear shattering scream emanated from behind. The engineer whirled around and... Ellie had a massive clawed hand protruding from her chest, erupting from her back. A waterfall of blood poured from the woman as the scream she emitted slowly died out along with her.

A massive necromorph, larger than a brute, gurgled out an odd sounding roar. The lumbering creature tore its way into the room and flung Ellie's corpse to the side, where her body skidded along the floor leaving a trail of blood behind her.

Issac's mouth was agape. Ellie. Ellie of all people just...died. Murdered by... Issac roared at the top of his lungs, unleashing hell from his pulse rifle into the unusually large monster.

The rounds tore into the massive creature, ripping its flesh apart and both arms fell to the ground in tattered pieces. The very moment those massive clawed limbs clattered to the floor, brand new limbs bubbled forth from its flesh.

Great. Fan-fucking-tastic. A Brute Ubermorph. Issac threw a ball of stasis at the lumbering creature, practically freezing it in place. The man whirled around and darted over to the mainframe in control of all the escaped pods.

The mans fingers stroked over keys and the doors of an escape pod hissed open. “Nel. Run inside. Quick!” The man felt the girl drop from his shoulders, and he could hear the pitter patter of her feet as she scurried to the escape pod.

Isaac's fingers danced across another screen, eyes searching for something very specific. The man found it...and the he couldn't keep the smile off of his face.

“Engines overheating. Cooling systems offline. Self-Destruct is imminent. Please evacuate to minimum safe distance.” A robotic voice announced all over the dead ship.

Isaac turned towards the open escape pod...and choked back tears. The massive ubermorph had somehow broken free of its stasis early and...its clawed arm had extended a good twenty feet to impale Nel as she had reached the escape pod.

Blood spurted everywhere as the little girls corpse fell off of the creatures extended limb. The clawed limb retracted back into the brute ubermorphs body and the thing simply cocked its head to the side, as if studying Isaac.

Isaac dropped to his knees, ignoring all sense. The man ignored the brute ubermorph lumbering over to him. He ignored the alarms blaring about an imminent self destruct. The engineer ignored it all. Instead, he just crawled over to and cradled the blood soaked body of the little girl with auburn colored hair.

The beast loomed over the sobbing engineer as he rocked back and forth holding the girls corpse. The creature raised a limb over Isaac, its flesh writhed and pulse as the limb grew into a man sized meaty, club-like paw.

The creature began to swing the limb and Isaac dropped the body. The man whirled around, roaring at the top of his lungs. His pulse rifle flared into life, cutting into the flesh of the limb severing it from the creatures body.

Isaac wasted no time and quickly dismembered the creature, even as its arm stubble began to bubble and grow new flesh. Isaac fired round after round into it, bringing it to legless stubs before hitting it with a blast of stasis. As the creatures limbs slowly bubbled forth, Isaac simply dropped an shock grenade. The man turned and walked to the escape pod, leaving the creature to die in the blast of the exploding ship.

The human boarded the escape pod, making sure to shut the door quickly after glancing around for any lurking surprises. The man hurriedly danced his fingers across the key pad, activating the pod before his body jarred as the craft was launched into space.

Isaac sank into a chair in the pod, utterly...dead inside. The man went through the motions of strapping himself into the seat he had dropped into, he watched the ship explode into a brilliant ball of flame. But instead of feeling accomplishment...he felt like he failed. And he did fail. He couldn't protect them. Any... of them.

The man almost began to cry when the pod door was ripped off of its hinges. Alarms tried to blare, but there was no oxygen in space for the sound to travel through, but Isaac saw it. The brute ubermorph cocked its head to the side, its eye stalks blinked once slowly before aiming its massive clawed limb at Isaac.

Isaac ripped through the belt fastening him to the seat and rolled to the side of the small pod as the clawed limb shot into the pod, ripping through the metal as if it were paper. Alarms blared without making noise, and lights flickered, bathing the small pod in a mixed light of orange and red.

The creature tore the opening into the pod open further, before clamoring into the enclosed space. The man raised his Pulse Rifle and fired a grenade straight into the monsters face, loosening its grip on the pod.

Isaac spared a glance at the monitors, the pod was entering orbit of a planet the was nearby. Isaac smiled as he saw flames licking around the entrance of the pod, dancing its way onto the monstrosity as the ship entered the atmosphere.

Isaac took a step back, there was only eight feet between him and the recovering yet burning monster and he needed some space for what he was about to do. The engineer sprinted and slammed right into the brute ubermorph. The creatures already precarious grip on the pod was lost and the man fell into free fall with the alien monstrosity.

Man and monster fell through the blue sky, the sun illuminating the creatures struggle with the small human. The wind rushed through Isaacs helmet, the sound blocked out every other noise as man and alien traded blows while falling.

Isaac fired a hail of rounds into the creatures face, knocking the head clean off. Isaac grabbed onto the creature as a meaty paw raised above it headless stump as it prepared to strike. A plasma blade  fizzled to life from Isaacs wrist piece on his armor. The man sliced clean through the monsters limb, severing it from the shoulder.

Isaac fired a ball of stasis into the monster, freezing it in time. The man shifted both feet against the creature before kicking off from it. The engineer looked down and noticed...a fucking city in the clouds. No, a city made of clouds.

He could see lamp posts, buildings, parks everything a city would have and he realized...he was falling towards a massive stadium filled to the brim with all sorts of colored dots.

The human blinked as he neared the “ground”. The closer he got he noticed the little dots were...little...colorful...horses? The man shook his head as he neared closer and closer to the spectacle, as he realized they were staring up at him in awe.

“What...what in the hay are you?” A voice asked right next to his head.

Isaac whirled his head around and he came face to face with...a miniature pegasus...in a weird ass looking spandex suit. The little pony had a mane that was colored like fire and was gazing at him with a look like, 'what in the fuck are you?'

Isaac grunted, “Huh. I must be really crazy. Now I'm seeing fucking talking horses.”

The pony looked offended and gave a surprised gasp, “I'm not a talking horse. I'm a pegasus. My name is Spit Fire. Now what in the buck are you?”

Isaac looked around, “Human. Now where did big and fucking ugly go?” The moment those words left Isaac's mouth, the human noticed the creature...

The engineer grabbed onto the mare despite her hot protests and threw her away from him as a meaty claw swiped at the air she was in only a moment ago.

“Fly away little Spit Fire. FLY!” Isaac practically laughed as he fired another hail of bullets into the monster. Isaac slammed into the cloud and...

Wait...

He didn't fall through...

The human glanced around...yeah he was definitely on a cloud. In the middle of the stadium made of clouds.

And the ponies were definitely screaming in panic.

And this definitely should NOT be possible. 'How in the fuck did I not fall through the cloud?' Isaac though to himself as he simply laid there.

The brute ubermorph gurgled out a roar and Isaac stood shakily up to face it.

“Enough! You will be gone from here monsters!” Two voices called out in unison. Isaac and the creature glanced at the source, two winged horses with horns stood on the clouds in between the monster and human, forming a triangle.

One was a pristine white, with a weird ass mane that looked like a rainbow, only it was constantly shifting and moving. The other was a dark blue with a mane much like the others. Only it's mane looked like the starry night sky.

And surrounding stood six very different looking ponies. But Isaac didn't care about any of them. He clicked his helmet and the thing broke itself down, revealing his worn down and haggard face.

The human engineer pointed a finger menacingly at them and shouted at the top of his lungs, “THIS IS MY FUCKING FIGHT! STAY OUT OF IT!”

Isaac didn't care enough to drink in their reactions, instead he glared at the monster before him. He was far too filled with a mixture of hatred, anger, sadness and insanity to care about anything else but one thing. “And you, you killed sweet little Neliel. She was like a daughter to me! And you fucked Ellie over too! You fucking killed everything important to me! I. AM. GOING. TO. FUCK. YOU. UP!!!” As the human ranted, his rage boiled over as fresh memories of Ellie and little Nel poured into his head.

The brute charged, gurgling its strange roar. The man mirrored the monster surging forward while his pulse rifle blazed into life. The monstrosity ignored the fact that one of its arms were torn clean off in the hail of fire, instead it swung its other meaty limb.

The plasma blade on Isaacs wrist whirred into life and he sliced through the incoming limb at the elbow. The engineer stabbed the blade straight through the monsters face. Isaac quickly pulled the blade free and severed its head before spinning down and slicing off a leg.

The man stepped back, glancing around quickly to look for anything that might be able to help. The two unicorn-pegasus hybrids watched with...poker faces? Huh? Didn't expect that after being cussed out.

Isaac swore when he found nothing of use, instead he opted to face the creature that now had a massive, meaty paw in the air that was ready to crush him. The engineer wasted no time, gunning down the limb as it came crashing down.

The limb severed from the elbow down as the monster continued bringing down the useless stump of limb. Ding! An idea wormed its way into Isaacs head and he grinned mischievously. The man clicked something from his suit and shoved it in the elbow of the useless appendage.

The monster swung its other limb, which Isaac barely managed to duck away in time. The human pulled the trigger and... nothing happened. Isaac looked down briefly and swore when he noticed that the pulse rifle was out of ammo.

The human threw the now useless hunk of metal to the side and pulled out his ever faithful plasma cutter. The creature whirled around and instead swinging another limb...a barbed tentacle shot out of the monsters chest.

The human barely dodged to the right, firing three rapid shots at the base of the creatures new appendage. As soon as the tentacle plopped to the ground Isaac threw another of the strange devices into creature. The moment the tiny device plopped into its flesh, new flesh grew around it in the form of a new tentacle.

Fantastic! Great! A-grade shit right there man! Brute, Ubermorph and mutating to boot!

The familiar spurt sound of a new limb erupted and Isaac, yet again, barely manages to dodge as  another barbed tentacled stabs at him from somewhere on the creatures back. Isaac fire three rapid shots from his ever faithful plasma cutter. Again severing the creatures head. Isaac threw yet another small device. With a dull thunk, the device plopped into the soft flesh of the monsters neck.

It was unnerving. This particular ubermorph regenerated so quickly compared to the others. What the hell was causing the rapid mutations? Isaac couldn't answer for he was busy trying to dodge yet another barbed tentacle that had sprouted from the monstrosities shoulder.

The engineer rolled to the right as a meaty limb smashed through the cloud floor where he was not a moment before. Isaac, again, fired three shots in quick succession into the creature's torso, and before the wounds could close, the human chucked a handful of the strange devices into the flesh.

Another clawed, meaty paw swung through the air. Again, the human dodged, and again he threw more of the small devices into its flesh as new flesh replaced the removed fleshy matter.

Human and monster danced around one another, the creature desperately tried to kill Isaac, but the engineer was far too quick and used to fighting necromorphs to be done in by the lumbering brute. The human continually gunned down limbs and kept filling the creatures flesh with small, metal devices as the monster tried and tried again to kill it.

A meek 'Eep!' erupted from their left. Isaacs head swiveled to the left, to the source. Right there was a...

Isaac blinked...the butter colored pegasus...looked almost identical to Nel. Same bangs, different color, and those same orbs. He could hear a feminine voice call out, “Fluttershy! Get out of there!”

Time slowed down for Isaac as he saw the pegasus cower before the tentacles that aimed themselves at the poor thing. Isaacs mind went into over-drive, processing and analyzing every little detail as time crawled down.

The engineer could only think of Nel as he slammed the pegasus out of the way...

Blood.

Blood and pain.

Isaac put his hand to the stuff that was pouring out of him. There was a tentacle in his stomach, and blood poured out of the wound. The creature reared itself up and cocked its head, looking over him with those creepy eye stalks.

Isaac began to...laugh. The engineer laughed and laughed and laughed some more. He could hear the colored ponies shouting something but Isaac didn't hear them nor did he care. He held up a small device with a single button in his fist.

He chuckled out, blood frothed from his lips but he didn't care. “Boom. Boom.” The human pressed the button and all throughout the flesh of the monster lights started to blink rapidly. Miniature shock mines.

Isaac Clarke laughed and laughed, his maniacal laughter echoing throughout  the cloud stadium. “IF I'M GONNA DIE IN THE WORLD OF TALKING FUCKING PONIES...I'M TAKING YOU WITH ME MOTHER FUCKER!!!!” Isaac roared as loud as his lungs would let him.

As soon as the lights stopped blinking...something... enveloped the engineer. Three somethings to be precise. He could see a dark blue aura mixing with a lavender and pure golden aura surrounding his body as the massive explosion tore apart the monster.

Isaac could see the flames engulf him, he could even feel the heat from the inferno but it didn't burn him as the aura's tugged him to some unknown location. He didn't care. Ellie. Nel. The thing that killed them was most definitely dead, the U.S.G Epsilon was destroyed and the human could finally know peace.

Well a semblance of peace. He had failed the two most important people in his life.

Isaac blinked, struggling to stay awake as he was set down amongst the heavenly soft clouds. He was surrounded. Surrounded by multi-colored pastel colored ponies. Some had wings and others had horns, some even lacked both.  There were the two large ones with both, a couple of the horned ones, the one that looked like Nel and...Spit Fire. And some other pegasus with a crazy rainbow mane. One of the fucking things even had a cowbow hat. All of them look extremely worried, especially the Nel look alike. That one was sobbing staring at the bloody hole in his chest, its hooves covering its snout.

Isaac coughed up blood and chuckled some more, “I went through hell and back...* cough * only to survive hell, again, at the Sprawl. So many times I should have died... * gasp * and I die in a land filled with pastel colored ponies.”

Isaac laughed, a little trickle of blood leaking from his lips. He could feel it. The all encompassing feeling of death tugging at his mind when the pristine white and regal looking hybrid spoke up. “You shall not die here strange creature. You sacrificed yourself for one of my little ponies. And saved the life of another For that, your life shall saved. Save your voice, save your strength. I will freeze you in time so as to prolong your death while we put our full efforts into saving you.”

A golden glow filled Isaacs vision and all of the pain drained from Isaacs being. Isaacs eyes began to flutter and he struggled to keep his eyes open. “Sleep creature. Sleep.” The same regal looking horse thing commanded and Isaac...gave in.

…

The weird creatures eyes finally closed. His chest, for he was undoubtedly male after listening to him talk, rose and fell slowly as he breathed quietly.

“Oh my gosh Princess...w-w-will he be a-a-alright?” Fluttershy sobbed, tears streaked down her fur as she eyed over the massive wound in the creatures chest.

“If we hurry, yes he will be perfectly fine. But there is absolutely no time to waste.” Princess Celestia eyed the creature once more before her horn focused her magic.

In a brilliant golden flash, all six of the worry filled elements of harmony, Celestia and her sister and even Spite Fire vanished from the scene in Clouds Dale.

To Be Continued...

HELLLLL YEAH! Yeah I'm having a lot of fun with this re-write. For those of you worried about massive changes to the story, this one had the MOST changes. The rest of the story is fundamentally the same, with some minor additions. The story is just going to have a lot more action, longer story and a few added elements. Oh, it's also gonna clear up glaring plot holes the original had. Thanks so much for reading and sticking with my terriba writing. Btw, the only reason this was up so quickly is because we had a field trip to the mountains over the past two days...the bus ride itself was three hours... so yeah. ENJOY!