Ash

Riya awakens alone in the bleeding‑streaked corridors of the KOI‑442 station, the emergency lights flashing a frantic red‑green. As she pieces together the carnage, the computer keeps urging her to reset the failing systems. When power flickers back, the scanner reports an intruder inside the habitat. She follows the signal and comes face‑to‑face with a suited figure who cries out for mercy – it is Brion, the orbital monitor who should have been outside the station.

Brion’s desperate pleas are a ruse. By pressing a finger into the wound on Riya’s temple, he forces her to relive the moment when a parasitic life‑form, first carried aboard as moss and sprouting plants, took control of a crew member. The parasite killed the astronaut, then leapt into Riya’s exposed head wound, hijacking her mind and projecting the illusion of Brion to manipulate her. The alien entity is not a single monster but a swarm that can inhabit any body, using hallucinatory visions to sow guilt and confusion.

Realising she is the host, Riya fights the infestation. She rips away infected flesh, forces the parasite to reveal itself, and uses the station’s medical scanner to confirm its presence. With grim determination she performs a makeshift surgery, tearing the creature from her cranium. The parasite’s last defense is to animate Brion’s dead body into a grotesque, slithering monster. Riya confronts this final form, destroying it and, in the process, igniting the station’s core.

The fire forces her to abandon the doomed outpost. She scrambles to the escape shuttle, launches from KOI‑442’s surface, and watches the burning station recede into the alien night. Though the film never shows her arrival on Earth, the closing images—Riya’s battered but breathing form drifting away, haunted by flashes of her lost teammates—make it clear she has escaped the parasite’s grasp and survived to return to the base, carrying the memory of the crew and the knowledge of the alien threat she has left behind.

Last Updated: October 09, 2025 at 07:42