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Hey, y'all! This is THE war machine. I have decided to veer off of the Code Lyoko subject of fanfiction, and experimenting with the video game "Bioshock" for one time around. This takes place before the game starts, when Rapture is falling, and rapture's government fights to keep society together. Enjoy, and let the atmosphere envelope you…
Resurgence
By TheSovietWarMachine
Chapter 1: Remnants
Michael Renderman ran down the see-through corridor. He had an urgent meeting with Andrew Ryan. Rapture was starting to deteriorate. Not physically, for Rapture was in perfect shape. Except for the Medical pavilion(Dr. Steinman was too busy working on patients to tend to the freezing pipes). No, it was a social deterioration. Mike should have known. After all these years, it was bound to happen. Rapture was too good to be true, and prolonged use of genetic modification? They were lucky it didn't happen sooner. But, still, it was great while it lasted…
Rapture had been built underwater for several years. It had been constructed by Andrew Ryan, a man who believed in a place where "the great would not be weakened by the small". An escape from the "parasite," as he called it. He was, of course, referring to the people in life who lived off of others, feeding off of the wealth and reputation of those who worked to earn their pride. Rapture was not a single building or one big housing facility. No, this was a great, thriving city that resided beneath the water that was prowled by the very government that Rapture was made as an escape from. Only several months after Rapture's founding, the scientific breakthroughs began.
Without the government to cover up or ban the many scientific discoveries made on the surface, many new technologies saw creation. The most amazing was Adam, a kind of genetic modification compound that could be experimented with, and used to create Plasmids, which were injected into the veins. This rewrote the genetic code of the user, and he was given a special kind of ability. Within weeks, citizens were able to start fires, zap electricity, and mentally bring objects toward them with simple flicks of their fingers. Mike could hardly believe it when this started happening.
Of course, little sisters, young girls were issued to harvest Adam from corpses to recycle it for later use. Big Daddies, powerful unknown people in giant diver suits, were issued to protect the little sisters from potential attackers. So, Rapture was unlike any other city in the world. But now, the genetic modifier use had taken its tolls on the citizens of the under water province. Civilians had succumbed to insanity from brain damage and Adam addiction. People were barricading their homes, and civil wars had begun over provisions of Adam. Andrew Ryan had decided to send out soldiers and security guards to stop the madness.
Mike was part of a squad of soldiers who had been sent to break up civil warfare in Neptune's Bounty. He had broken off and let them search homes for Adam and weapons. He needed to talk to Ryan now. At last, the final door screwed open, and he ran in. Ryan's office was in Hephaestus, the energy source of Rapture, where the great generator stood. He ran into the room, and opened the door to Ryan's office…