This is a fan-made novel. @huntedskelly for music This might become an actually mod for Subnautica. Note and credits. SUBNAUTICA: THE UPSIDE DOWN A FAN-MADE MINI NOVEL Part 1 The Aurora’s Down It was a normal tuesday, I was just walking down to the cafeteria, my friend Ozzy ran it. All the sudden, red lights started flashing, The overhead speaker blurted out, “Strange energy pulses are coming from the planet we’re orbiting, seems to be focusing at something.” I ran to the window, something was glowing neon green down on the planet, and it looked like it was aimed at us. “Get us out of here there’s something aimed at us!” I yelled. “What!?!” A bunch of people ran to the windows to watch, but instead of watching I ran. I ran for dear life towards the escape pods. “We have been hit, please remain calm and go towards the Lifepods, scratch that we took on some serious damage, run!” I knew that I had a much higher chance of surviving if i got an Atlas. I reached the deploying deck, and climbed into an Atlas. “Welcome aboard captain, please remain seated as we descend into the atmosphere.” I punched in the launch code, sat down in the cockpit; and started the descent. The Architects Welcome to Lifepod 99, an Atlas. An Atlas is a submersible with 2 floors and power cells, glass slanted dome cockpit with conductor bridge instead of flooring, 5 water bottles and 7 nutrition blocks in the emergency container. This… uhh world, seems to have a lot of alien technology, like a GIANT barrier made out of some unidentified substance, I call it Keneriyte. Its harder than diamonds and titanium. This place also has alien fauna and flora like Lapefish which are (or look like) descendants of jellyfish except they change colors as they move. Creeper mines, giant caves with exploding fish, and a porodox. A porodox is a long serpentine creature with five mandibles (sometimes four) on it’s face, and a mouth on the chest or on the face and tail. I've gotten lots of distress signals but they’re too far away to get to, and i mean like, thousands of meters. Ryley from Lifepod 5 has been sending info about whats up there Something that’s interested me was the reaper leviathan, same as one of my porodoxs; long serpentine creatures (not friendly) and have ONLY four mandibles on its face but only has a mouth on his face. Some creature has been calling me through my mind. This creature i’m calling ‘Voice-over’ told me that there were other creatures, called the architects (A.K.A. The Precursors). They are a highly technologically advanced alien civilization that visited here and built everything. The Voice over said he didn't know if any of them were still alive though, but if they were, they could help me get home. I was oh so very excited because I couldn't survive very long with the supplies I had on me currently. And nutrition blocks don’t exactly taste that good. continues in notes and credits
The end (For the sunbeam) When I woke up I heard this “This is the trading vessel sunbeam, we came to help Aurora. Please respond,- Man we come out the entire way here for an S.O.S. and we make it here and what do you know… no answer- anyways can I have a sandwich?” “What type?” “Oh, you know, the regular.” At this point I decided to send distress signal and go explore. As I left the Atlas, I met a big creature with a gaping mouth, and a few too many teeth. I decided to run or well swim. It chased me up this giant hole. In the first time in five days I saw the sun. Or at least what looked like it. The creature stopped quite a long time ago back in the hole I continued upward to the surface 15 O2 remaining, 10, 3, 2, I breached the surface just in time. I knew I had to go back down to my base but for the time being I decided to not. As i dove back down I saw a light coming towards me fast. A seamoth with someone inside! But… behind it was a monster, serpentine with three bioluminescent fins that ran all the way down its body; its face was like an anglerfish, rough and bumpy. The survivor was killed by the monster. I heard the voice again, but this time it was arguing with another creature. “Stand down!” my creature shouted. “He’s in my territory now!” the creature that killed one of my only hopes to survive, the survivor. “I am Cthulhu the last heir to the throne of the Upside down! The alien is under my protection!” ‘Cthulhu’ said. The serpent reacted and gave up dove into the ocean. I saw something below me, and I noticed that the monster that chased me up the hole must’ve been watch me. I swam with my seaglide away from the hole. Cthulhu and enzyme 88 “I’m Cthulhu, sorry Blaza attacked you. you left the Upside-Down, if you want to survive, you have to come back. You have been infected with Kharaa, a world ending disease. I will give you enzyme 88, the only cure for the upside down Kharaa an even more deadly virus. Head east for now to the Precursor Base. Precursors are Friendly? Back on earth we had cars, here? Seamoths. I was piloting my seamoth when the hull got breached on an invisible surface. As I clambered out I noticed a lot of blue dots below me and get bigger, i notice it was another long serpentine creature trying to eat me. I swam as fast as I could towards a door looking thing I entered and fell onto the ground. When I got up and looked around I saw a centaur thing except a robot pointing some sort of energy rifle at me. My hands shot upwards, “Who are you?” It said. “I’m Nova of altera my ship cra-” It put its hand up to silence me “I am Tusk-gar, distant relative of Al-an, I’ve heard he is unwell” Said Tusk-Gar, Sighing. “Anyways shall I ask where your from? Your clearly an alien.” He said. “Umm, sure. I’m from Earth.” I said. “So your from 2318F” It stated. “How do you know the planetary code?!” I exclaimed. “Simple you stated your planet.” It said. “What do you need help with?” “I need help going home.” I said. “You would have to wait till the Quarantine Enforcement Platform (QEP) is turned off.” “When will that happen?” I asked “We don’t know.” “Who’s ‘we’?” “Well there USED to be more of us but, we have been dying. I am the only one left.” “I’m sorry” “Its okay.” “Can you like teleport me to the upside down or whatever it is?” “You were correct the first time but yes, yes I can.” “Thanks!” “TP request broadcast mode initiated please stay still.” The next second I was back in my atlas. Part 2 coming soon
