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Darien stared out at the city. He stared at the glowing lights, the neon signs, the trams and railways leading from building to building. It was the city that was home… Rapture. Darien remembered everything with crystal clarity, the civil war, ADAM, the splicers, and Ryan… The man who was responsible for life beneath the sea, and Darien's current situation. Darien had been hired by Ryan to do scientific research, and his field was genetics. While the other geneticists had done research into "plasmids" and "ADAM", Darien worked on a virus. The virus which he had planned split the genetic code, modified it, recorded what it did, and then set up a residence, where it would continue monitoring, changing, manipulating, and defending its host. In its early forms, the virus made random changes (100% lethal). When Civil war had broke out, and Rapture went insane, Darien just shut his labs, locked them down, set security, and kept working. It took him many years to perfect it, all the while testing it on splicers that came too close. Darien was old, nearly 70 when he perfected it, and he called it the "Descolidia Virus" after a virus which it was based upon. When he tried it on his most recent subject, a female splicer, he met with a surprisingly amazing result. Not only did she live, with the plasmids now incorporated into her code cleanly, but she regained her sanity and her former looks. When she was let into one of the labs where he examined her, he found that though she was 80 years, she now looked only twenty. She told him her name, mere seconds before he incinerated everything in the chamber which she resided.

Cadence was dead.

Darien injected himself with the virus, before releasing an agent that turned it into a blood-to-blood-only delivery. He stood in front of a mirror watching as his skin tightened, his body filled out, his mind grew more alert, his eyesight sharpened, his smell and hearing more acute, and his muscles strengthened. He laughed with the voice of an 18 year old man, in his prime, and with the world ahead of him. Taking blood samples for later study, he stared at his collection of plasmids, ranging from lighting to intelligence. Darien knew about the effects of plasmids when injected with more than 2 at once, yet he believed this virus could change that. He placed a trap in one of his labs, opened a pathway that would allow the next splicer to enter, and set a recording of a little sister who had just lost her guardian Big Daddy to play. He didn't have to wait long, as a small band of splicers came to investigate the promise of ADAM. After locking down the labs they were in, he loosed a sleeper agent, and sent in a robot to move them to separate labs. After that was done, he locked those labs, turned off the recording, and let loose a mini virus that exhausted itself after a minute, and killed both itself and those it infected. The group of splicers that had stopped outside the entrance was killed in a relatively quick and painless manner.

Inside the labs, the various splicers began waking, and so he recorded everything that happened to them. They began screaming for their various families, for ADAM, for their various comforts in Rapture, and just plain screaming. When he loosed the D-virus they screamed louder. When he loosed the pathogen that he used for himself, they screamed even louder. It was a course of 2 weeks that the Descolidia had finally managed to quell the cries of the last splicer, and now all were back to their former selves. At this point Darien turned on the screens that were installed in each lab, and initiated a 13-way conference between them. It took two full days to reiterate what he had done, what he planned to do, and what was going to happen to the people. By the end of those two day, each person had accepted what he told them, and were now working with him in his lab. They were named: Tammy, Rose, Courtney, Andrew, Sydney, Miriam, Maggie, Jerome, Brian, Kevin, Tom, and Eric.