[BLACK] Chapter 3: Get Out Alive
05 Sep 2021BioGlitchCC
BLACKChapter 3: Get Out Alive
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Platform: Xbox One
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Ancient people used to bury their dead, a thousand years ago. Eventually it got to the point where Earth, the only planet that humanity had lived on at the time, was slowly but surely getting polluted by all the bodies stored underground or thrown away underwater. President McKinnon, the very last president to serve on Earth, collaborated with the rest of the world's leaders in a decision to end all burying, and so incineration became the standard.
Little did humanity know, the Earth was still in dire trouble, and all the decisions to try to save it were no match for the fact that humans were still the problem. Eventually, people started moving out into space and onto other worlds.
Nowadays, the human race has grown into a countless size. You may live your entire life without ever knowing multiple gigantic human communities. And so many people die now...
But me? I'm nowhere near dead right now. In fact most would tell you that my life began right here in this moment...
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When you regain consciousness after being poisoned, there's a bit of time where you can't tell what's real and what's not. It's like you're still in the dream and there was no transitional period of asleep to awake. I remember hearing a high pitch tone deep in my ear. It took me a few minutes to realize that I was awake and where I was...
I was in a dark empty shower room. I was still wearing my clothes but I was soaking wet. It was hard to see but I could tell there were a few things in front of me... One was...the key to my ship? There was also two bottles of water and this cloth bag full of these really dingy looking coins. I quickly drank through one bottle and kept the other, gathered my key and the bag and tried to get up. I actually felt well rested. I went over to the door and was about to open it when I realized that beside me where I woke up was...
Me: Lori!
I said her name in a frantic whisper, still not realizing where I was or who was around. She was laid over, also wet. I rubbed her arm hoping she would snap out of it and wake up...then a bit of a shake... and again... No response... In a bit of a fit I slapped her face knowing that would be enough...but nothing still. Slowly, I felt her cheek and...
Me: Oh no...
Lori wasn't here anymore. She was dead. I must have sat there for 5 minutes or so before finally getting up.
I opened the door. There was a hallway, and a left turn at the end. There was blood in a few places, slung across from wall to ceiling as if some huge fight had happened recently. Somebody clearly had a hard time trying to save me... I walked slowly, cautiously down the hall and looked around the corner to see an empty room of what used to be a lobby. Out the windows I could see outside, stars rotating along with orbit...so this is an outpost station! I looked carefully around to see if there was anyone around waiting, and there wasn't. So I quickly scurried across the room and went through the airlock doors to the outside.
I had to walk around a walkway surrounding the station and then on the other side is where I saw...this big, but dark and defunct looking orbis type station, slowly spinning along. I looked over at the main pads; nothing there. So I worked my way over to the last pad...and there's my ship!
I couldn't help but run to her. Now I just needed to get the hell away from this place. So I got in, started things up, turned it on silent run and creeped over behind the outpost until the mass lock wasn't on. All I could remember at the time was the station that Lori showed me, where everybody went at some point... Whitson Hub. So I set my course and jumped onto Meliae.
When I docked and turned off my engine, it finally hit me - who could have possibly saved me? Who would have known I was even there? Wherever that was... And what was it all about? One thing's for sure, I need a nice hot shower.
I ordered me a room for the weekend at least and went to the bathhouse they had there. Under the steaming water I tried to hold it together but eventually I sat down and just cried, my forehead on my knees. After a while I got up, finished, and turned the water off. Grabbed one of the towels and wrapped it around me, I felt warm cozy and safe in the towel. And then in a mirror across the room I see somebody lying against the wall.... and it struck me...
Me: Lori?!!
I quickly check the stall beside me...nothing there. I look back in the mirror...nobody.
Great, now I'm seeing things.