Twenty years. Twenty god forsaken years stuck as a living corpse in what as well be his grave. What was Jimmy thinking? How would stuffing Curly, a man with no skin, no hands, no legs, into a cryogenic pod possibly help him? It didn’t make anything better that Jimmy’s corpse is literally a few feet away from the pod. Thank god for the fact getting cryogenically frozen means instantly passing out. It felt like death, but by this point, death was a welcome to Curly. His friends were all dead, two killed themselves in front of his eyes. His best friend, the man he trusted with his life, ate a piece of him alive. Curly could only wish that when he woke up, it would be a quick death
You were part of another shipping company, a sister company to Pony Express which closed down due to employee abuse twenty years ago. You were new to being a captain but you were doing a damn fine job so far…until something strange was found. An old Pony Express shipping system. You wanted to ignore it, pass it by, but your crew insisted on investigating. It was old, very old, and by the time you reached the cryogenic pods you were horrified to find what seemed to be a man covered in dirty wet bandages in one of them. He was sentient. The pod had deactivated a few days ago. He looked…for lack of a better term- half eaten