Earth Year 2840. The Crashed Dreadnought.
"Go, go, go, everyone move out!"
Commander Maroon roared kicking the top hatch open.
"to the cargo ramp now!"
Captain Eva screamed grabbing Chang and dragging him behind a piece of shattered hull plating.
As Zeon sprinted through a crossfire of vaporizing plasma but before a plasma bolt could hit Zeon and Ruby’s skin, N032 swung his massive sword upward in a crescent arc.
The resulting shockwave of holy Light and pitch black Abyss colliding with the plasma threw Zeon into the shadow of the cargo ramp.
"Get inside the ship, now!"
N032 barked but then a bolt hit the pilot killing him as he was about to flee.
Commander Maroon and his heavy marines laid down suppression fire as the squad the dive into the dreadnought’s pitch black belly.
Inside the hanger, Zeon tapped his holoband to light the graveyard of twisted metal and overturned transports.
"What is that smell?"
Ruby gagged against the mixed with rotting meat.
"Captain... look at the walls,"
Daniel voice trembled looking at thick pulsating veins of dark fleshy sludge overgrowing the titanium plating and electrical conduits .
"It’s just a localized infection, It has to be some kind of rapid growth fungal parasite from the dimensional rift, nothing to worry about"
Maroon rationalized.
"That is not a fungus, Commander, because the Abyss doesn’t just kill but also recycles,"
N032 warned before the cavernous bay echoed with the scraping sound of a heavy military boot dragging against the floor.
"Hold your fire and identify yourself!"
Eva ordered, raising her plasma pistol at a limping engineer clutching his stomach.
"Help... please... is there a medic?"
the engineer begged.
"Stand down, marines, it’s one of ours,"
Maroon ordered.
"Corporal, get over here and report the status of the upper decks,"
Maroon commanded.
"I know him, that’s Miller from the engine bays! Miller, we have a medic, just keep walking toward us!"
Zeon called out.
"Do not take another step toward it,"
N032’s voice snapped as he raised his heavy blade.
"Stand down, N032, that is an order!"
Maroon barked furiously.
"Look at his shadow,"
N032 replied coldly as Zeon froze shining his weapon light to reveal a massive silhouette with thorny appendages and a split jaw that completely mismatched the limping engineer.
"Help..."
Miller said again though his lips didn’t move as the voice echoed from deep within his chest revealing an open, organ less abdomen filled with glowing eyeballs just as his spine snapped at an unnatural angle.
"His arm is fusing with the deck!"
Chang screamed in horror.
"Open fire!"
Maroon roared as the marines fired into Miller’s chest but the creature shrieked like tearing metal and lunged.
"It shattered the kinetic shielding!"
Eva yelled as Miller’s elongated arm hurled a heavy marine backward into a bulkhead.
Zeon fired plasma bursts searing the flesh but the Abyss instantly regenerated the tissue by feeding off the dreadnought’s ambient power grid.
"Look up at the ceiling!"
Ruby screamed as dozens of corrupted abominations of crew members dropped like spiders from the ceiling.
"Form a defensive perimeter!"
Eva screamed, firing at a navigator whose jaw unhinged to reveal metallic teeth.
"Stars weep,"
Zeon as his rifle jammed in front of a mutated mechanic raising a hydraulic saw blade.
Suddenly, a flash of twilight energy stepped in front of Zeon and effortlessly parried the saw blade shattering the mechanic’s mutated arm into dust.
N032 cleaved the creature in half with his holy Light.
"Stars weep,"
N032 repeating Zeon’s exact obscure curse.
"How the hell does he know that phrase?"
Zeon panicked as hundreds of abominations poured from the ventilation shafts.
"We move to the armory now while I cut the path! Do not stop running or you will become apart of this ship!"
the armored anomaly warned as he charged into the horde.