The Universe Awaits (Various Youtubers X Ocs)

Chapter 6

*3rd Person POV*

It all started with a crash.

Escape pods were scattered around an uncharted planet, two people per escape pod. They have to survive to the best of their ability if they want to find their way home.

*Mark POV*

I woke up and found myself in a place other than my bed. Looking around it was similar to the life pod in Subnautica, except there wasn’t a fire burning although the pod was in a bit of disrepair like at the start of the game. Getting up I looked for the fire extinguisher only to find an empty spot in its place. Being thoroughly confused, I checked my PDA only to see a set of coordinates to the side marked with a green human shaped figure.

I was thrown out of my thoughts by the sound of the lower hatch opening. Turning around, I was met with Jack.

“Oh hey, you're awake. I put out the fire and started to collect some supplies so we can survive.” He explained briefly when met with my questioning look.

“Alright, well while you do that I think I'll go look for everyone else, they should be here right?? Oh well I don't know how this whole saving the universe thing works.” I said just before climbing the ladder to leave the pod and get a sense of where we are.

Not too far away there was another life pod floating in the water, so I set off to see just who was in life pod number three.

Upon my arrival, nobody was inside, so I decided to search the area nearby. In the distance I could see a familiar figure. I was about to run out of oxygen so I went up to the surface to replenish my air supply. While up there the familiar I saw surfaced and swam towards me as I  yelled out his name.

“ETHAN!!!”

“Mark?! Is that really you?”

“Boy am I glad that I found you.”

“Who else is in your pod?”

“Tyler, what about you?”

“I'm with Jack.”

*Dan’s POV*

I woke up to a burning heat to my left. Looking it that direction I saw a fire rising and tried to get up from whatever I was sitting on. Turning my head to the right I quickly spotted the fire extinguisher. While trying to get up I was met with resistance, filled with panic I barely saw the controls on the left arm of the chair like object I was in. I slammed it with the palm of my hand until I was released. Following that I quickly grabbed the fire extinguisher and put out the fire.

A few seconds after the fire was put out I had calmed down, and I heard someone grumble as if they had just woken up. Looking around I saw a compartment that was previously blocked by the flames, and Phil trying to get out of his chair type thing.

“Hey, there’s a control panel on the left arm.” I said while looking through the meager supplies we had, there was a nutrient block, filtered water, and flare for each of us.

“What have we got?” Phil asked as he looked at a tablet thing he had.

“Not much, one thing of food, water and one flare each. I can go looking for stuff we can use to make some items.” I had moved on from the compartment and started looking at what was called a fabricator.

“Do you think the others are nearby?” Phil asks with a bit of a concerned look on his face.

“I thinks so, it might be best if we split up. One of us looks for the others while the other looks for supplies.”

“Alright, you already mentioned looking for supplies, so I’ll look for the others I guess.” Phil smiled and headed to the ladder.

I looked at him worryingly, “Be careful out there. It might be a bit dangerous.”

“I will, you be careful as well, we don’t entirely know what we’re going into.” Phil said just as he opened the hatch and left.

“I hope the others are ok.” I mumble to myself and sigh lightly before leaving.

Once I was outside the small pod I realized that we were in the middle of an ocean. I wasted no time in diving into the water, if we don’t do anything then we fail and the universe is doomed. Not long after I would some type of metal on the floor and swam towards it to see if it would be useful. As I was swimming I noticed another figure moving towards it as well. When I reached the metal, I noticed it was a piece of salvage from a shipwreck so I picked it up and was about to move around look for other items when someone grabbed onto my ankle. I kicked it and swam onto the surface.

“What the hell was that for?” They asked sounding hurt after surfacing.

“Bloody hell, I didn’t know it was you! How was I supposed to know?” I retaliated.

“Sorry I just saw you from a distance and I thought you saw me.” Jack said

“I saw something from a distance, I couldn’t tell who it was or what for that matter.” I said softly turning to face him.

“Anyways, I wanted to tell you I got put with Merk in pod one and we’re in that direction.” He said pointing to a spot in the distance.

“I’m with Phil, we’re just over there in pod two, should we meet up at your pod later maybe night time?”

“That sounds good, then we can all get together and see where everyone ended up as well as talk about building a base so we can stay together.” Jack said putting things in perspective as we planned things out, he also gave me the coordinates for his pod to put in my PDA.

“Alright I'll let everyone that I see know about this.”

“I’ll do the same, see you then.”