In Space With Markiplier, Part III: Fixer-Upper

👍 Great Job Mack 👍

Good morning, Captain.
Coffee is en route.
Current ship status is nominal.

What the hell? I was back in my chamber, waking up to my computer.
Nothing felt different.

Was it back to normal? Did I do it?!

The chamber pod door opened. Everything seemed to be running the same, I definitely perked up once I saw many of the colonists enter the bridge and began working. Mark's chamber didn't open just yet.

I walked over to the monitors to see that everything was working perfectly.
I had a great sigh of relief. Feeling happy with what I've done. I got a small wave from one of the colonists as they left the bridge.

"Coffee Captain?" I heard from behind me.

Turned around, happy to see Mark.
"Thanks Ma-"
But it wasn't him.

A man who dressed like Mark handed me a cup of coffee smiling.
I recognized him though.
"Mar- uh..." I didn't know what to say.

"Mack?" He finished, shrugging his shoulder.

I still didn't respond. I just stared at him in shock. I thought I fixed this. Why is he here? More importantly, why him?

"Captain, you feeling alright?" He asked. "Is cryo-sleep getting to you again?"

I decided to play along to what ever was happening.
"Um yeah, still not used to it."

He giggled. "Yeah, I get it, it sucks but nothing a good cup of coffee can't fix." He raised his mug towards me as I hesitatingly click my cup against his.

As we took a sip in sync, he gave me an evil glare, as if he was disgusted by my presence.
The glare dropped when he lowered his cup.

I was extremely uncomfortable being near him again, remembering my first encounter with him. However he was unable to remember our encounter, which made me slightly better.

He stared down at me in silence for a while, I glanced over to my side every now and then, hopping he would drop the stare but he didn't.
After what felt like a full minute, Celci walked into the bridge and called out to me.

Mack and I turned towards the door to see Celci standing there. She motioned for me to follow her which I quickly did, escaping the room.

I walked with her down the hallway.
"So, I wanted to talk to about a problem we've issued."

I was praying she was going to say something about Mack, but she didn't. In fact, she started bringing up a conversation that I've already heard.

"I don't think it affected too much, but our ventilation system was offline for a while. Luckily we restarted it before something happened. Do you have any ideas on what might've went wrong?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "Maybe it was tampered with."

"Why would someone mess around with something like that?"

"It might've had an issue that they tried to fix. I'm not exactly sure." I admitted.

I pressed my hand against the wall for a second but brought it back once my hand was shocked.
Celci stared at me for a second. "You good?" She asked calmly.

I was confused. "Um yeah, I just got shocked, must've hit something electric."

"Oh, okay be careful."
Celci sighed and continued walking down to cryo. "I'll let you know if anything else happens."

Once she was gone, I looked down at my hand and quickly noticed that the crystal was still attached to my hand, along with the portable generator.
No wonder Mack was here, my idea didn't work. What am I supposed to do now?