Prey: Lost

A week later

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I drifted endlessly through the dark, inky abyss that was called space. I could feel my mind slowly going into insanity even though I convinced myself I wasn’t. I wondered to myself “Did anyone even survive the Typhon outbreak?”

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I remembered something my boss had told me a few months earlier. There was also a base on the moon that was experimenting with Typhon neuromods just like on Talos I. I then looked at a radio broadcast channel on the control pad and heard no response

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This was it. If the Typhon had gotten to the moon, they surely would have gotten to earth by now. I wondered if everyone was dead, shouldn’t I be as well.

I then realized that I could end all the misery of my life, right then and there. I could finally go see my mom, who had passed away when I was just a baby from a overdose

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20 years before.......

“Dad, what ever happened to mom?” I asked
“That’s a story for another time, my wee lad.” he said in his thick Irish accent.

I asked again “Dad will you please tell me what happened to mom?” He said that we would discuss it when I was older. I never knew older ment the next day.

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My dad got home from work at about 6:30 pm. I was busy working on a science project centered around gravity. He the went into his room where my Aunt, Amelia followed him into his room.

I snuck outside the door and I heard little snippets of what they were saying.

“ Amelia, I don’t know what to do. I got fired from my job......” and the rest of the chatter from him I didn’t hear. My aunt, drinking her glass of vodka (like she always does) said to my father. “ So now your a failure, just like your father. I told ye that going into that business was a bad idea, but you never listened to me”

“ WELL IT’S NOT MY FAULT THIS SHITE ENSUED!!!” My dad roared at Amelia. “I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HIS MUM WAS ADDICTED TO METH!!!”

I was confused. “What does that even mean?!?” I thought to myself. Just as I went down the stairs, my aunt saw me. With a mad rage in her eyes, she struck me with her glass.

The pain was unlike anything I had ever imagined. It dropped down my face like endless cascades of rain droplets. My father saw me and immediately went to the phone.

I never understood what happened when I was 13, but I obviously knew that the place I was sent to was a boarding school.

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I returned back to reality. I pointed the gun to my head. “This was it” I thought “Vanessa, I’m sorry if I couldn’t see you then, but I can see you now.”

Just as I was about to hold the trigger, a portal opened. The pod immediately started gravitating towards the portal and I got sucked in.

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I was pressed against the wall as if a drunken sailor was about to hit me with one of those fresh bottles of beer when I started seeing really strange things.

I thought that my mother’s hallucinations had finally gotten to me. As I drifted through the portal, I saw different dimensions. MANY, many different dimensions.

At last I resurfaced through one of the portals. I noticed that my pod was hurtling towards a frozen area of the planet. “Oh boy......” I thought as I hurtled into the atmosphere.

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I woke up to my pod completely buried in snow.
I wondered since there was snow on this planet, could there also be some sort of life.

Then I started to search for my supplies. I found my Artemis golden gun as well as my shotgun, Q-beam and wrench. I also scavenged some neuromods and cans of food and some tea that I had brought along with me.

I left the rest of the food in the pod and locked it. It would only respond to voice commands from the Talos I crew, so I was alright there.

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After a while, I was wandering far from the pod. I was lost. Both figuratively and literally. Only thing I had keeping me alive now was some tea, food, and my life support.

I soon laid down in the snow, exhausted from the rigorous hinting I had did earlier. Although when I laid down, something very peculiar happened.

I was suddenly laying in a type of gateway with lush grass surrounding me and a crystal gate above my head. I thought to myself “Is this Heaven?!!”

I soon noticed a structure that looked a spire. My mind went racing. I said to myself “Looks like Fermi was wrong and right, in a way.”

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I waited until night so I wouldn’t be detected by any of the life forms living there. I slowly crept towards the spire. It seemed to be made up of some sort of crystalline substance. I slowly ascended the stairs till I came to what seemed like a throne room.

I looked around the corner and saw some guards standing near the throne with what looked to be a pony with a mane that was a mix of purple pink and yellow and had a pink body. Next to he was....... A unicorn that had a white body and blue hair as well as a horn position on its or “His” upper forehead.

Just as I was observing them, I dropped my can of tea. I instantly knew I was screwed.

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The guard’s weapons seemed to me primitive than anything I found on Talos I. They used spears and some form of kinetic energy using their horns as catalysts.

As I ran away, one of the guards punctured my suit. It wasn’t going to harm me because the planet was filled with oxygen, but it would be difficult to survive the extreme cold outside of what seemed to be a paradise.

As soon as I ran down the stairs, a group of six equines stood in the doorway. The one that was supposedly the leader of the group looked shocked and pinned me down with some field while the one wit an orange mane kicked me in the head with both her hind legs

What happened after was strange to me, although I remembered none of it. All I remembered was that I woke up in a prison. Yes