Dead Space Tentacle Death

I have an idea.

----

"Oh come on!" Yuuki shouted in frustration as she throws her arms in the air. The door that leads to the Government Section of the station was in locked down mode meaning she has to backtrack and find another way into the Government section and fighting another horde of necromorphs. Yuuki let out a stressed sigh and kicks a random box to vent her anger.

"Hopefully there's a panel I can use." She muttered softly. So she searches the entire room for a panel that was linked to the door but little did she know that something large slithered past her back. Oblivious to the danger, Yuuki continued her search but she couldn't help but feel something was amiss. Her gut was telling her something dangerous was near and she should get out now.

Yet Yuuki ignored the feeling and continued her search.

A small swarm of tentacles slithered quietly to her feet and immediately wraps itself around her legs like a viper.

Yuuki had only a second to react until she felt a strong tug which sends her falling face first on the metal floor. A loud bang echoed the halls as her metal visor guard makes contact with the hard metal floor and breaking a piece of the guard.

Yuuki eyes widen in shock and fear as looks back to see several grotesque tentacles wrap around her legs. She twists her to get an angle so that she can use her Plasma Cutter to free herself.

With her weapon now in hand, she aims the laser directly on the tentacles but was careful not to aim it at her foot. Before she could pull the trigger, another swarm of the same tentacles wraps around her dominant hand holding her weapon and with a small tug, the Plasma cutter was ripped out of her hand and thrown carelessly to the other side of the room leaving Yuuki defenseless.

Her eyes widen as more tentacles swarm around her each wrapping itself around her body making her mind panic in fear. Her calm mind was now overridden with self-preservation and struggled to free herself from the strong grip of the tentacles.

But in reality, she was just tiring herself out even more. Yuuki screamed in fear and tried calling for help but no one was even close to hearing her pleas for help as they were either dead or a necromorph.

Yuuki felt her body lifted in the air as the tentacles carry and dragged her to a large hole on the side of the wall in the room.

"Not like this! I don't want to die like this!" She screamed out with tears trailing down her eyes and reach her hand out to grab something to save herself.

The tentacles suddenly jerk upwards to the ceiling making Yuuki hit the back of her head hard.

She could feel her energy drained from her body instantly and her conscious slowly fading into blackness but her ears manage to register a voice. A deep ancient voice that held power in it.

"This is not your grave.....but you are welcome in it..."

And so her vision went black.

-later-

Yuuki slowly opens her eyes but her vision was blurry as she sees rows of lights on a ceiling. Yuuki felt a strong tug again making mind shot wide awake as the blurriness of her vision instantly clears. She looks at her body wrapped in the same grotesque tentacles from before and immediately remembers what happened.

She tried to free herself but couldn't while the tentacles dragged her body across the hallway in a serpentine pattern before going up straight to reveal a massive open room with brown grotesque flesh covering the walls. In front of her was by far the most massive necromorph she as saw in her life. It dwarfs her entire being as it looks like a mutated abomination of a Venus flytrap and a worm of sorts.

"What is that..." She whispered to herself with wide eyes while feeling a sense of dread at what the massive necromorph might do to her.

But the necromorph did something she never expected in her entire life.

"I? I am the monument to all your sins." It spoke with the same ancient and powerful voice she heard before she fell unconscious.

Yuuki hears someone grunting loudly and looks up to her right to see another person being carried by several tentacles. The closer the person got, she immediately knows that this armored person was a Unitolegist militia trooper.

The man was struggling against the tentacles wrapped around his limbs and waist.

"Relax." She called out to the trooper. "I rather not pissed this thing off."

The trooper then notices Yuuki's presence and snarls at and responds with a hostile tone. "Heretic!"

She was about to respond in kind but hearing a loud gurgling sound mix with sniffing made her remember of the massive worm-plant necromorph in front of her as it brings its split jaw head near her.

"This one machine and flesh but has its mind concluded." It said and moves its attention to the Unitologist. "This one is but flesh and faith, and is the more deluded."

"Kill me or release me abomination." The trooper spat. "But do not waste my time with talk."

The necromorph seemingly ignored the trooper insult and speaks again. "There is much talk, and I have listened through rock and metal and time, now I shall talk and you shall listen."

Soon two tentacles emerge from below the massive necromorph, the one on its right seems to be wrapped around some metal orb with a blood red glowing eye while the one on the left was a Unitologist priest merged into it and was alive.

"Greetings." The orb speaks with a male voice which surprised both Yuuki and the trooper. "I am 2401 Mendicant Bias. I am the combat monitor of planet 25033 of the Empire."

Next was the infected human priest. "And I am the Father Samuel, Prophet of the Unitologist Covenant!"

The Orb took note of Yuuki's appearance and flies up to her in excitement. "Your are not indoctrinated by the markers! Splendid. We much to do young one! We must hurry to dispose of the marker here in this station if we are to contain this outbreak."

"Stay where you are! Nothing can be done until my sermon is complete!" Samuel shouted out to the AI orb.

Mendicant Bias again floats back towards the priest and responded. "Irrelevant. The Markers are a threat to all biological life in the galaxy and must be properly disposed of immediately. That is my function and duty to the Empire."

"Then they do not know of the Great Journey!"

Instantly Mendicant Bias gentleman voice disappear and was replaced with a hostile robotic voice. "And you know nothing of containment meatbag! You have complete disregard for even the most basic protocol! Not only that, your illogical religion has put the galaxy in serious danger!"

It was then the worm-like necromorph joins in and gestures to the priest. "This one's great journey." Shaking its head disgust and gestures to Mendicant. "This one's containment and destroy." A nod of agreement from the necromorph which again both surprise Yuuki and the trooper that a necromorph was agreeing with the machine.

"Are the same." It said as it puts Mendicant and Samuel away.

"Huh? Augh! AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Was the priest screaming in fear in the background.

"Your foolish Prophets have promised you freedom from a doomed existence, but you will find no salvation with the markers. Those who built the markers knew what they wrought; do not mistake their intent or all will perish as they did before. As well as many others." It said.

Never in her life, Yuuki thought that she would be agreeing with a necromorph on the subject in hand. She turns her head to face the trooper. "This thing is right. The markers will bring us to extinction. Your Prophets are making a big mistake."

The trooper again snarled at Yuuki. "Your ignorance already destroyed one of the sacred markers, heretic. It shall not harm another."

This made the necromorph in front of them annoyed at the trooper's blind loyalty and again speaks. "If you will not hear the truth, then I will show it to you. There is still time to stop the key from turning, but first, it must be found." It stated with a growl. The necromorph turns its head to Yuuki. "You will search one likely spot."

Turning its head to the trooper. "And you will search another."

Bringing its head back. The ancient being continues. "Fate had us meet as foes, but this station will make us brothers and sisters!" It stated and teleports the two to where it wants them to be.