Chapter 2. I needed to get through the apartment area.

In the janitor closet I was in, was a power node bench. An upgrade bench. I move over to it, and place my weapon on it as it folds out. The display screen shows upgrade spots for my RIG, stasis, and gun. I choose my RIG, and put a couple of nodes into the first two things, HP and air. The air was for space walks. HP is obvious.

Then, I chose the plasma cutter. Once I did, I put a power node in the damage and capacity node points. Then, I exited the bench. I made my way back to the store, and bought some ammo and a few health packs, then exit the closet.

Making my way into the glass viewport hallway, I switch to my ax, to conserve ammo. I see the moving side walk to the right as I turn left out the door, and the store fronts to the left of me. I remember a jumpscare around here, and make my way to the side walk. I see beside it is a few credits, so I grab them and then activate the sidewalk. Like I remember, the necromorph that was playing dead jumps up. And starts to run at me. As he gets close, I swing my ax as if to chop wood, and cleave him down the middle.

Then, I hear some more necros come out of vents, and turn to face off against them. Pull out my cutter, and start to shoot at a few as they charge closer, and one or two go down. Move down the corridor, and make it to the door to the apartments. I see the power node room, and move to get inside, placing a power node into the slot, and opening the door. I then just grab everything, and move to the apartment door. I activate it, and grip my ax tighter, ready for the necromorphs.

As the door opens, I hear people screaming, and I see at the end of the hall, a lady is getting killed by a necromorph. After it has killed her, it sees me, and charges. I swing like I am cutting wood again, but it dodges left, and then jumps on me. I fall back to the floor, and keep the ax between us, trying to not get stabbed.

The Slasher keeps trying to stab me with it's arm baldes, but I barely hold it back. I am able to get a leg between us, and shove it of, and scramble to my feet, backing off and swinging my ax as I retreat. I cut off one of its blades, and it roars, then tears back to stab me, and I cut it in half. The upper torso falls to the floor, and it doesn't move again. I move into the area, and towards the elevator.

Turning the corner at the body of the dead lady, I reach the elevator. Getting in, I see that I can only stop on the fourth floor. I push the button, and the elevator starts to move. Though, after a few seconds, the elevator power goes out, and it stops. After a second, I hear pounding on the outside of the doors, and then a few seconds later, they open.

I reach down, and pull the struggling man into the car, him yelling and crying the whole time. We barely make it, but he gets in the car just as a necromorph comes to collect the guy. Now, I remember from the original game, there was a contest to create a dismemberment held before the game was made. The winner would have the dismemberment put in the game, and they would be made into an NPC that would be killed. This was that man. The doors close, and the elevator continues.

"Hey, you good? What's your name?" I ask.

"Dan Emmerson. Yours?" He replies.

"Isaac Clarke. CEC Engineer. Where you heading?"

"I was heading to my workplace in the farming sector. My wife works over there, and she called me when this started and told me she was going to hide, and where. I was going to rescue her, and get off the Sprawl. Can you help me?" I nod.

"Yeah. Yeah I can. But, when I tell you to hide or something, you do, and don't come out, and stay hidden until I tell you its okay. Also, when we get out this elevator, I am going to point a direction to you, and you go and stand over there. Trust me, it is for your benefit." He nods, not questioning me. I nod back, and the elevator opens to the fourth floor.

I point over in front to the left, by some doors, and Dan runs over there. I then get a call on my RIG.

'Isaac! Isaac! Over here!'
"Isaac! Isaac! Over here!"

I look to where I here the voice coming, and back away from the railing that drops to the center courtyard like area. He starts to speak into the RIG.

"Nolan, the fuck you want?" I say. He doesn't even notice I cussed him out.

'It's the drugs, Isaac. They gave us drugs to make us forget, But it's all coming back...' I can see him get a horrified expression on his face.

"I know. Go, I got whatever is coming." He points, and then cuts the call, running off. Just as the Leapers come over the rail. I pull out my ax, and he jumps me, tackling me.

While I am lying on the ground, the Leaper snapping at my face, I blocking it with the ax. I manage to throw it off, and stand up, as the Leaper tries to run. I grab it's tail, and drag it towards me, saying.

"GET OVER HERE!!!"

I then bring the tail tip over my shoulder, and start to stomp on it's head. After two stomps, the head is crushed. I pick up the Leaper, and toss it a little away from me. Then, while it is disoriented, I bring my ax around, and cut off one arm, and swing again to cut off the tail. The Leaper dies.

And thus, I performed the Meat Cello, the dismemberment that Dan Emmerson created for Dead Space 2.

I looked at Dan, and he nodded, coming out of his hiding area. We move towards the end of the hall, and I tell him to move away from the door. He does, and I open it, to see two people, one male, one female. The female is screaming, trying to go back to her apartment, and the male is telling her they need to go, dragging her away. And then, right in front of me, a necromorph bursts out of one of the door, and jumps at me. I swing my ax, and cleave him from shoulder to hip. He gurgles, then dies. I move forward, towards the door that the lady was trying to get to, and move in, towards the open bathroom.

A Puker comes crawling out, it's lower half missing. It starts to build up some puke, to hurl at me, but I pull out my cutter, and put it out of it's misery. I stomp the corpse, grab the loot, and turn around. And further away, out the room, a slasher drops down. I aim, and start to shoot it, cutting off the limbs quickly. I sigh, releasing some pent up tension, and move to collect Dan from his hiding spot. We both then move on.

Into a laundry room.

With something crying out inside one of the washers.

I ignore it, and tell Dan to as well, but I do go and grab the money beside it. I then tell Dan, to hide back behind one of them. I help him move it so he can get behind it, and then, I move towards the door, after having switched to my ax. I move to the door to leave, but suddenly, it shorts out. The power goes out, the lights turn off, and I prepare. Then, the first slasher drops in, and I start to swing and cut, getting blood all over, and the leapers come in, trying to tackle me. I smack them out the air, and cleave limbs from them. After ten minutes, the power comes on, and I am in the red. I am bloody, cut, and in pain, but I stand over the bodies of the necromorphs that had attacked. In the game, it was about ten that attacked. I believe it was twenty for this attack.

I stood panting. Then I called Dan to come out. We moved through the door, and into an area of the central courtyard. The door to the right was the direction we needed to go, so we went through it, into some more apartments.

I grabbed whatever loot was there, and then we moved to the elevator down, as it was the direction to go.

We get in the elevator, and head down. We are silent, not talking, each of us in our own thoughts.

I was thinking of home. And how, when I get back, I am taking a bath. And giving the girls some love. And we're was Satan, she was home when I started this, so where is she? The elevator opened, and we stepped out. I hand Dan my cutter, and we go forward.

I used into an open door for an apartment, and into the bathroom shower, to get most of the blood off me, and we move on. As we move to the door, and get close, a necromorph bursts out of the door to our right. It lands in front of us, and I cut into it, slicing an arm off. Dan shoots the other arm off, and we move on through the door.

The hall beyond was filled with luggage, and dark as hell. I had Dan give me the cutter back, and we moved into the room. I heard a vent break, and heard a Leaper start to run. I waited, Nd it came around the corner, and charged at us. I quickly blew it to pieces. We head forward.

We get to the end of the hall, and are at the door to move forward, when we hear a whining scream. I remember the necro that makes the noise. The burster. It has a giant sac of pus like crap on its right arm, and it explodes when it gets close to you by slamming it on the ground. I turn, and shoot down the hall at the necro coming for us. I hit the pus sac, just as a few slanders decided to drop down near it, and it explodes, killing all of them. I turn, as I heard another coming out of a vent closer to me, and shoot the sac, exploding it. I do it for about three more, and then the necromorphs stop coming. I move back to the door, and Dan and I move through.

Into a part that I can't do. At least, with Dan. It was the train part. I move forward, not betraying the fact I might have to leave him behind, or he might die. As I go through, I get a headache, but I keep moving, seeing the dementia induced hallucinations come in. I see the TV screens around me start to flicker with Nicoles face, as she speaks.

'You know what. I will be fair, and get rid of the flying through the air part. But, it will still crash. I want to see what you will do with that.' I continue forward, up the ramp into the waiting area for the tram, and see her sitting on the back of one of the benches. She looks at me, and I nod, agreeing to her terms for the game. She nods back, and flickers out, letting the word return to normal.

Just as a flaming train goes screaming across behind where she had been sitting, blasting me and Dan with hot air. We stagger back, and then look at each other, before I point to the train still in the station.

"So, here is the kicker Dan. You and me, are going to board that train. Then, when we do, we head to the back, hack the train, and then it will start to move. How much do you wanna bet that a lot of necromorphs are going to attack us? Because they will. Then, the train will crash. So, I recommend looking around for a helmet or something, cause it is going to hurt. Also, here is the ax." He looks at me.

"How the fuck do you know this?" I sigh.

"Look Dan, I am not actually from here. Isaac Clarke, is. I have, by way of the stupid FUCKING marker, here on this station, taken over Isaac's body. My real name, is Cameron Ruff. I have taken Isaac Clarke over, to help him escape. Now, how I know that the train will crash, and will be overrun by a butt load of necromorphs will attack, is because where I am from, this isn't actually real. It is part of a video game, the name of which doesn't actually matter. I happen to know, that you, where supposed to die when I saw you. I remember the moment, and you getting stabbed in the back by a slasher, and dragged away. Also, the cool thing is, you know how I stomped on the head of that necromorph that tackled me not moments after you and I got off the elevator. That was a thing that you had made, my worlds equivalent of you. He made that dismemberment up, and one the contest to be killed in this game. Now, I am playing the worlds worst/best video game, because a demon and the marker, decided to have some fun. But, I changed the rules on them, so they are pretty pissed at me. So, that is how I know most of what is going to happen, and why I have you hide at certain points. Understand?" He stands there, looking at me like i am some kind of freak.

"Dan, I need you to understand, I want to help you. That is why I made sure you didn't die. I am trying to get to the next store, to give you a gun, and maybe a suit, and then you can be on your way to your wife, and get off this ship. So, I need you to follow me for a little longer, okay?" He shakes, and then nods.

"You seriously aren't from here? And this is a video game?" I nod, and then say.

"We need to move. The longer we stand here, the more likely we are to get attacked by necromorphs. By the way, dismember them. It's the only way to kill them." He nods, and we move towards the train. I turn back, and say one more thing.

"Hey, I want you to go for the little flying thing that will appear, okay. I'll take the slasher." He nods, and raises the ax. As we approach the train, an Infector comes into view, behind the closed door, and infects a body. After it has transformed, the door opens, and me and Dan attack the two abominations. He swings the ax into the Infector, and splits it's remaining bit of spine, then swings it like a golf club, and slices it in two. I cut the arms off the slasher, and it dropped to the ground. We enter the train.

Heading to the back, we encounter no more enemies. I make it to the panel to start the train, and rip it off, reaching up inside, feeling for the fuses. I find them, and turn the first one until it is blue. I continue with the other two, and the reset bar didn't even drop into the white. I was always good with those hacks.

The train started, and I pointed to the right, facing away from the panel on the back of the train.

Two seconds later, a puker busted the window, and I shot it in the face, making it lose its hold, and falling out the window.

After that, more necromorphs bust into the train car, and I shot most of them down, and Dan would get the stagglers. Seven necro later, and we moved towards the next car. Entering the next car, we repeated the process, blasting our way through three more train cars. Dan HAD managed to find at least a helmet, and had put it on. The car lurched, and I tell Dan.

"Get ready!" And the train lurches forward, making us fall over. Then, the train tilts, and we start sliding, passing necromorphs as we slide down.and see the end, an open door that leads to a small drop.

We slide out the door, but my foot had got caught on a cable, and I am jerked to a stop, upside down and hanging. Dan fell and knocked his head, and was out cold. I knew what would happen, so I aimed as best I could, and the necromorphs came. Slashers, a few Pukers, and two three Bursters came crawling at us, and I was able to kill them all, though Dan had almost been killed by a burster. Dan started to wake up, as we heard roaring coming from in the train.

I looked up, and a Brute appeared in the door above me. It roared, and slammed the floor. I stasised it, and shot at its left shoulder, aiming for yellow flesh. After five shots, the arm burst, making the brute roar. It slammed the floor one more time, and caused me to fall into the ground below me. Dan started to help me up, when a suitcase fell and hit my shoulder. We looked up, at the train starting to come down. I scrambled up, and we started to run from it.

It came crashing to the ground, and started to explode. Then, a violent boom was let off, and the train exploded in a ball of fire, throwing us off our feet. We stood up, and looked at the damage. I sighed, and gave Daina a call on my RIG.

"Daina, I need a new route."

'What happened? I thought we lost you?'

"I lost my train of thought. It got derailed." Dan laughs maniacally at the pun, and Daina just sighs.

'Fine, I'll get you another route. Just keep moving, Tiedmann is still looking for you.'

"Okay. Isaac out." After I hang up, I look at Dan.

"You okay? Sounding a bit crazed there." He nods.

"Yeah, just needed a good laugh is all. It felt good to laugh like that. I swear, I am okay." I nod, then say.

"Sit here for a sec. I'm gonna look around for some ammo or health pack's." I then move around the warehouse area we got dropped in, and find more ammo, some health pack's, and a power node over in a corner. I went back Dan, and we both moved on up the ramp and out of the warehouse.

Dan kept the ax, and I held the cutter. We moved into a maintenance tunnel, and went down the hall. We could see a shadow on the wall, one that looked like a child. As we got closer, we heard a shriek, and the shadow disppeared. We went around the corner, ready for monsters, and I saw some bodies lying on the floor. I raised my cutter, and shot the "dead" necromorph trying to ambush us. His leg was gone after the first shot, and Dan cuts off an arm and leg with the ax. We move up the ramp to the left of the necro, and up the ramp after that.

We exited to a spot I remember, and I groan. Dan looks at me, and I explain.

"The Pack. A group of necromorph children that run around in a pack. I am going to need the ax." He nods, and gives it to me. "Now, when I say run, run." He nods.

We look around the corner, and I say.

"RUN!" And we take off to the left of the door. We hear the shrieks of the Pack as we sprint for the store over there. I make him stand behind me, as I brandish the ax.

As the first child comes near, I swing the ax at it, and it passes through the child at the waist. It goes so smooth, I even hit the child behind it. I keep swinung, and the Pack keeps falling. But they keep coming. Dan has grabbed a nearby metal pole, about the size of a baseball bat, and started to swing at children running at him.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see a slasher fall from the vents. It gets up, and start to run at us. But before it really gets anywhere, it up and collapses, having some sort of seizure.

I don't look again, and keep.killing the pack. After what might have been the thousandth pack member, but was probably the hundredth, the Pack was no more, and we started to loot the bodies. As I was moving through, I saw one of the bodies start to get up. Slowly, not trying to ambush me. I pull out the plasma cutter, and aim it at the necro.

And then, it turns to look at me. The creature is small, a white faceplate with no eyes, two small horn like protrusions from its faceplate, and looks like a little girl. I lower my weapon, and say.

"Fuck Lucy, I just about shot you. Come here you little demon." And I give my daughter a hug. She looks up at me and says.

"I am here to get you out daddy. This demon is weak. It can't hold you from me. Can we go?"

I nod, saying.

"Yeah, just give me a sec. I need to do something. NICOLE!!!" The demon comes out. I hold up a finger, and she nods. I then walk over to the store, and get the gun out of my safe, and find the engineer suit in the store. I give the gun to Dan, and have him step into get the suit. After he is done, I say.

"You k ow your way to agriculture from here?" He nods.

"Thanks for the help. I wouldn't have made it without you." I nod.

"Well, you need to go find your wife. Remember, go for the limbs. That's the way to kill them." He nods, then takes off. I turn to Nicole, and say.

"You know, if it wasn't for the fact that you pulled me in here against my will, I would have been fine playing this game like this. But, I am going, and then you are going to be purged from my XBox. So, bye bye." I turn to Satan. She goes to a door. And then Nicole speaks.

"Wait, please don't make me leave? I don't have anywhere to go. I was forced out of tartarus, and they won't let me back in. Please, I don't want to leave." I look at her, and sigh.

"Fine. But don't ever do this again, unless I ask, got it? Otherwise, you will be going." She nods.

"I wasn't even going to keep you long. I just wanted someone to play with me. Will you come back?" I nod.

"I already said I would. Now, Satan, let's go home." She nods happily, taking my hand and pulling me towards a door nearby. She opens it and walks through, and I follow close behind.

As I step through the door, I flew out of my tv onto my couch. I then proceeded to fall off it, and crash onto the floor. I groggily get up, and look around. The house was just as I left it. I realized I was still a bit heavy, and looked down. I saw that I was still wearing the elite Advanced suit. I looked at the inventory, and I saw that I still had the plasma cutter, ammo, and the ax. I pull out the ax, and look at it. Then, I hand it to Satan.

"Here, have an ax." She takes it, and looks at it happily. She hugs me.

"Thank you daddy." then she skips off to her room to put it away. I take off the suit, and store it in my hammerspace, then head to the bathroom.

I really need a shower.

The next day, the girls returned home. It was around six in the afternoon, and they all just bust through my door, and collapsed in the living room. They all looked unhappy, but still happy.

"Well, what happened to you six?" They collectively groaned, and Rarity says.

"We went to the village, and then we had our cutiemarks stripped from us. We were then detained for almost twenty four hours, and then, we had to fight a unicorn on par with Twilight. All with no food or water,very little sleep, and no bath." I nod.

"Well, I got sucked into my favorite video game, and had to shoot my way through zombies, and the last enemy I faced was about a hundred fucking kid zombies. Also, I was suffering from a killer dead girlfriend, who constantly made me hallucinate. And the dead girlfriend was a part of the games story, not an actual person. I had to do most of that while low on ammo, very little health, and at one point, no arms. Because straight jacket." The girls looked at me. Rainbow Dash was the first to talk again.

"That is fucking bullshit. No way that actually happened." The tv turns on by itself, Nicole's face appearing.

'It is true. I pulled him into a game, and attacked him.' she then disappears.

"And that was the demon that pulled me in. But hey, we all are okay, and we got to come home and rest, right?"

Just then, the doorbell rang. I looked to the door, and then the girls, before going downstairs and answering it. Standing outside is Faust, and she looks sad.

"Cameron, your mother has passed away."

Author's Note

Hey guys, this is the end of the game. I might come back to the game demon, but not now. Now is time for the arc I was talking about, that I have already set up to happen. You all are probably going to like this arc a lot, but that is my opinion. Well, time to start writing it.

Have a Jivin day!