"AAAAAAAAAAHHHH ..BUBBLES NO!" I heard screamed. I know what is happening. A big daddy is dying. And his little sister will be harvested for adam. I stand up intending to run away. And I do start running but I am running towards the fight instead of away from it. I can't believe I am doing this. This is so stupid. I turn the corner and I see I am not to late.
I see a big daddy, a bouncer to be precise is on one knee with three splicers in front of him. I unholster my sawn off shotgun and charge. I am on the wharfs in Neptune's bounty and don't have much room to maneuver but then again it's like that everywhere in rapture. So I improvise.
I run up behind the big daddy and jump when I am six feet away. I land on his head with one foot and jump off to land behind one of the splicers. I freeze the one I am behind with Winter blast. He freezes and I fire a slug in to him. I turn from the now shattered splicer and fire another slug at the one beside him, but I hurried the shot and it only took off his ear. I feels something hit me hard in the back and fall to the ground.
I turn to see what hit me and see a thuggish splicer standing over me with a crowbar. He swings at me again and I hold my left hand to block. His blow connects with my Winter blast arm and It cracks my frozen hand. He lifts his crowbar for another hit and I know it will shatter my hand this time. Just as he starts to bring down the crowbar the big daddy charges and rams him. The thug is sent flying into a wall. I have to reload my shotgun. I dropped one of the bullets don't have time to grab it So I just load one bullet in it. I stand up to face the next enemy.
The big daddy punches his drill through the splicer whose ear I shot off. I hear something to my right and turn to see the thug standing back up. The big daddy turns to him and I notice his left arm is not being used. It's just dangling there. He charges the thug but the thug drops his weapons and activates his plasmid. He fires a powerful arc of lighting at the big daddy. The big daddy is stopped in his tracks.
The splicer is totally focused on the big daddy. If I run now I will be able to get away. I turn to run and see the little girl in the corner crying.
"Mr. Bubbles no. Don't leave me Mr. Bubbles. I need you." And I can't do it. I know she is a little sister but she is still just a kid. I can't leave her alone. But I can t just let her protector die either. I turn back around and run up to the thug. He turns to look at me and I fire my Winter blast at hims and only his arms freeze, but that's all I need.
"What the hell. The fucks wrong with you kid. Why you helping the metal man and the little sister. You know this is how things are done down her. The fucks wrong with you boy." He screams at me. I pull my gun out and point it at his face.
"I'm sorry but this is not how I do things." I tell him and fire my only shot into his head. His head explodes and he falls to the ground. I turn to the big daddy that is on his knees on the ground. He stands up and walks up to me. He raises his drill. I take a step back scared as hell. I'm out of EVE and I definitely don't have time to reload.
"W..W...Wait man. I just helped you. You don't have to do this. I can help you still. I have a safe place you can hid till you fix yourself." I tell him. He continues to advance.
"Mr. B stop. Don t harm him." I hear. I look over and the little sister has moved. She is standing about a foot to the left of her big daddy. "Do you really have a safe place we can hide at."
"Y...Yes. I do. I...I can t...Take you there just please don't kill me." I tell them. She eyes me for a couple of seconds then turn to the big daddy.
"Mr.B we are going with him. We will hide in this safe place until it is safe to leave. You lead the way." She says the last part to me before climbing on the big daddy's back. As I walk toward my home all I can think is what have I gotten myself into.
You probably want some answers. Well let's see. My name is Frost. Its Cause I use Winter Blast. It's not my real name. It's the nickname I was given because i use the Winter Blast plasmid. I live in what used to be one of the world's most advanced and prosperous cities: Rapture. It's under the pacific ocean. It used to be an amazing place. Now it's a hell hole and a war zone.
I live in one of the old shopping centers. It just a run down junk area. There is not actual name for this shopping district. Me and my group just call it junk town. Which brings me to the gang. There are six of us in all. First I guess is scrap. He got the name because he likes to scrap things. He makes junk into more helpful and useful junk. He use the telekinesis and telepathy plasmids. He is actually quite strong but he is a pacifist. Next is lighting. She uses the shock bolt plasmid. She is much stronger than me but we are both pretty low on the food chain.
The three of us live in junk town. The other three don't. There is a small splicer market area that is relatively safe a little ways from our base. That's where Brainiac and Blaze live. Brainiac use telepathy and security evasion plasmids while blaze is a thuggish splicer that uses the inferno plasmid. Lastly is spider. She is a young spider splicer with the swarm plasmid. She prefers to be on her own most of the time. But she is still one of us.
Again no those are not our real names. We don't use are real names very often. These are the nicknames or code names given to us by the others. We were all born in rapture and intend to live as long as we can. I am the second youngest at eighteen years old. Blaze is twenty-three and Brainiac is twenty-four. Scrap is also twenty-four. Lighting bug is twenty and Spider is sixteen.
We get to the entrance to the base. It's a hidden area. There is a wall that moves and makes a big door way. There is also a few vents that we can crawl into to get in. Once in the place has three rooms. The first room is the main room. It's four times bigger than a normal living room. The other rooms are a bathroom and a walkin freezer. I walk up to the vent. I tap it three times with my shotgun.
"Scrap open up quick. I need to get in." I say to the vent. I hear shuffling and know scrap is moving the blockade out of the way. I turn to the big daddy and little sister. "Stand in front of the wall. It opens up into a big area we can hide in. But it has to be open from the inside. I will open it and let you in. Ok?"
"Ok. But if you leave us out her Mr. Bubbles will break the wall down." She tells me. I nod my understanding and crawl in through the vent. When I get in I see scrap is sitting at his desk working on one of his projects. He is taller than I am by about four inch. He has bright orange hair and freckles all over his face and arms. He is big but he is not aggressive. I walk over to him.
"So .um .We have a bit of a .um ..problem." I tell him. He looks up at me.
"What did you do now boy?" He asks me.
"I...Well. There was this. I can't explain it very well. I need to open the door and you will see for yourself." I tell him.\
"Open the door? What for. We only open it if there is an emergency." He tells me obviously annoyed.
"I know. And this is an emergency." I tell him.
"Why? What is on the other side?" He asks me getting angry.
"Look I don't have time for this. If we don't open it in about twenty seconds then it won't be a door it will be a hole." I tell him. His face goes slightly pale which is impressive considering he is naturally pale. The door is the only thing that keeps splicers way from us. If not for it looking like a wall we would have been discovered a long time ago.
"Alright let's open the door." He says. He walks over to the door and Grabs the switch that opens the door. After a moment of hesitation he flips it and the door slide open. He jumps back at the sight before him. There standing in the doorway are the big daddy and his little sister. The big daddy walks in and finds the corner farthest away from us. I flip the switch back down to close the door hopefully before anyone sees it open.
Scrap grabs my arm and pulls me over to his desk as far away from the big daddy and little sister as possible.
"What the fuck. What the fuck are you thinking. That thing is going to kill us." He whispers to me ferociously. I know What I did was stupid but I don't like to be told off and I don't like to back down.
"He is not going to hurt us. He will only attack if we threaten the little sister." I tell him. "He is injured and can't fight to his best so he won't try anything if we don't.
Scrap looks away from me and at the big daddy. He notice s the left arm that seems to just be dangling there.
"What the fuck. This is so stupid and reckless and downright irresponsible. How can we know it won t kill us in our sleep." he says with a pointed look at the things drill.
"I don't know. I guess I did not think of that. I just kinda felt the need to help it and the girl." I tell him. His expression softens a little at my words.
"Alright alright. So they are here no and there is nothing we can do about it." So tell me how it happened. And I did. I told him how I was searching for batteries and that I suddenly heard the little sister scream for Mr. Bubbles. How I ran toward it and joined the fight. At the end her look shocked.
"You have to be the stupidest, most reckless, thickheaded, numb skulled, person in rapture. You hear a big daddy getting kill and run toward the commotion and then Decide to fight the guys killing it and then decide to take it and it's little sister home with you."
"Yeah. I guess. But I could not leave her man. She may be a little sister but she is still just a kid. And I had to help the big daddy to cause he is her protector. He is all she has got. It's sad really." I tell him. And I mean it. I find the little sister s lives to be sad one's.
"Of course it's sad. But she is more than just a child." He tells me. I look over at her. She is sitting in the big daddy's lap snuggled up to it's cold metal body. She seems to be sleeping. I look at her face and can see the trust she has for it and the peace the thing gives her. He is all she has know as good and secure and safe.
"Look at that." I tell him. And he does. And I can tell he see s what I see. "Look at that and tell me you would have killed her. No. That you would have let that thug kill her. Harvest her. And for what. Adam. A fix for his addiction that never ends. Tell you would have just let her die and I ll freeze them right now and blow there heads off." He looks at them for a little while. I can see the war in his eye's. We could do it to. I have recovered enough that I could freeze them and kill them with a single shot each. He knows I am strong enough. I see his mouth open and his tongue move. And then his eyes look again at the little girl instead of the big daddy. He see's her yawn and rub her eyes and clamps his mouth shut.
"Yeah. that's what I thought. You would not be able to watch her die either."
"Ok ok. Fine. But what are we going to tell Lightning. She is not going to like this."
"I know I know. I will handle her." I say. He gives me a damning smile. Lightning is a handful and she hates big daddy's. She was almost killed by one when we found her.
I go over to the little sister and the big daddy a couple minutes later. The girl is just waking up and I wanna talk to them. I get within three feet and the big daddy growls a warning growl and holds up his drill.
"Ok ok. I get it. I won t come any closer. I don't mean to harm you I just wanna talk." I tell him. He lowers his drill but continues to growl but much more quietly. The little sister sits up fully and looks me right in the eye's. "I wanted to ask you if you were hunger."
"Yes I am. Do you have food here?" She asks me. I walk over to a shelf and grab a can of peaches. I walk up to about three feet and lay the can down. I then take six steps back and wait. Sure enough the little sister stands up and gets the can of peaches before sitting back down in the big daddy s lap.
"So how are you feeling?" I ask her. She glares at me and continues to eat. Just when I am about to ask her something else she speaks.
"I am fine. But Mr. Bubbles her is not doing well. He can not lift his left arm. I think it's his left one."
"It's his left." I tell her and she looks at me coldly again with suspicion in her eyes. "I have need seen him move it like his other arm since we encountered each other so I assumed he injured it."
"Injured it .NO. HE CAN T BE INJURED. HE CAN T DIE." She yells and I see tears are streaking down her face. The big daddy is getting agitated. I go down to one leg and stare the little girl in the eye's.
"Look at me I demand." She looks up and I see the sadness in her eye's. It's then and there I decide on something. I freeze my hand and Hold it up. "I don t have the tools to save him right now. But do you see this." She nods her head silent. "This is power. I have power. And I promise you I will use this power to get the things we need to save him. But I need you to stop crying and be brave." She still looks read to cry but nods her head and lays back in her big daddy's lap. I stand up and turn around and see Scrap standing at his desk looking at me. I walk back over to him.
"So I guess I better start looking into where we can find these tools you speak of." He tells me and turns back to his work.
I lean against the wall and relax. Looks like things are going to be more complicated than I thought when I woke up this morning. That's when the overhead vent exploded inward and Lighting launched through and landed in front of me.
"We have company." She says as she stands to turn. To late. A spider splicer is already in the air and another is just now jumping out of the vent. I step forward and get hit in the chest with a sonic boom from the second splicer. I hit the wall and slide down. I can't breath and my vision is blurring. I think I can see Lighting locking shocks with the other splicer. The one that hit me advances on me ready to kill me.
It stands above me and for the second time that day I am certain that I m going to die. That's when for the second time that day I am saved by the same force. As the splicer raises his hook to kill me a drill is shove through his back and out his chest. When he falls I see the big daddy standing there. After a second the big daddy goes down to one knee. I stand up and it growls when I take a step towards it. I decide to finish the fight before worrying about injuries. I turn and see the other splicer trading blows with lighting.
She is keeping up for now but I know it's just a matter of time before she is worn out. I walk over to the fight and fire my Winter blast freezing the splicer. Lighting then swing with all her might at the splicers head. It shatters into dozens of pieces.
"Thanks for that."She tells me.
"Don't thank me. Thank him. If not for him I would have died and never been able to help you." I say as I point toward the big daddy. I see her eye s follow my finger. When they rest on the big daddy I can see the rage spark in her eye's. Her hand lights up with brilliant blue lighting.
"What the FUCK is that thing doing here." He demands of me. I step up in front of her blocking her view of the big daddy.
"I brought it here. It nee-." I stumble backward from the electrified punch she just delivered to my gut. I catch myself on the wall and keep from falling. She starts to walk towards the big daddy and I step up between her and him.
"They need our help he's i-." She hits me again but this time in the face. I straighten back up. "He is injured. I found them and promised I-." I stumble once more from another hit to my face.
"I PROMISED THE LITTLE GIRL THAT I WOULD SAVE HIM." I yell. She hits me again and again. I fall down and get back up and she continues. After a few minutes I am on the ground again. I get up and stand, with my arms and legs spread, between her and the big daddy. She raises her wrench and swings. I don t even flinch when it stops centimeters from my head.
"You don't have to help me. I won't ask you to help me fix him. But I won't let you harm him." I tell her. I look her directly in the eyes daring her to challenge me. I see the grip on her wrench tighten and she is ready to hit me again. But then the moment passes and she drops her wrench. She turns on her heel and stalks over to her bed. She sits down on it and won t look at me.
I walk over to the big daddy and help him over to the wall. He collapses once there. I will have to check him in the morning. I think his energy is draining. I walk around and clean things up around the place for about an hour. Finally I can't avoid it anymore and I walk over to lighting.
I walk up to her and stand right in front of her. She has tears streaming down her face. I know how hard this is on her. I knew it from the start. But I did it anyway. And I would do it again in a heartbeat. But that does not make this any easier. I spread my arms open and she jumps up and crashes into me with a hug. She crushes me at first but finally loosens but does not let go.
"I'm sorry I hit you." She whispers to me and I know she means it. I don't care. Even if she did not apologize I would not care about her hitting me. I squeeze her tighter for a second to let her know I heard.
"I just. I lost it. I...I hate them so much." She continues to whisper to me.
"I know. I know." Tell her just as quietly.
"Then why? Why did you bring it here?" She asks me and this time she pushes away a little bit so she can look me in the eye s. I can see the sadness. From what I did and from how she reacted. Gone for over a week and the first thing she does is hit me.
"Do you remember when I saved you?" I ask her and she shakes her head yes. It was two years ago. She had been in this district for two weeks. I watched her every chance I got. After the first week I went out and talked to her. She nearly blew my head off. She shot me in the leg and ran off after she found out I was just a sixteen year old.
The next day when she came by our place searching for something I stumbled out and said hi. That time she did shoot at me. Luckily she missed me. She told me i was an idiot. I told her I knew that. I talked to her everyday after that. She had no family and no friends. She was all on her own. Then one day I was standing outside waiting for her and she did not show up. I started to stumble around after. I heard something a little ways off and I ghosted after her. My leg was almost completely healed by now. Finally I rounded a corner and saw her.
She was lying on the ground with a big daddy looming near her. She tried to get up but collapsed instead. The big daddy was in a rage. I could not see a little sister. The big daddy was a Rosie. It started to walk towards her. I reacted without thinking. I grabbed my shotgun in my right hand and a lead pipe in my left. I ran in and smacked it with the led pipe so hard I fractured my hand. It turned as if I had done nothing more than annoy it. I was so scared I could not think.
My body moved without command. My right arm lifted up, perfectly synchronized with the Rosie. When it was facing me my shotgun was in it's face. I pumped both shots into it head and it collapsed almost immediately. I dropped my gun and started to walk over to the girl on the ground. I stopped a few feet from her and looked down at the plasmid I almost stepped on. It was the shock plasmid. I picked it up and put it in my pocket. I then finished walking over to her. I picked her up only to find she was somehow still conscious.
She squirmed in my arms and screamed from the pain. When she settled down she looked me in the eye s again.
"Why...did you...come...for me? Are you ..stupid ..or some ..thing?" She asks me. I lean down and whisper in her ear. She passes out and I take her back to the fort. She has been with us ever since.
Back in the present she looks me in the eye with tears still in her eye's.
"Yes I am stupid. I save them because they were in trouble just like you." I tell her.
"That's hardly the same. I'm human." She tells me as she pulls away.
"so is that little girl." I tell her with conviction. "And I refuse to just sit back and watch a little girl die."
"Your such and idiot Frost." She tells me with a small smile.
"Look I wont ask you to help me get the big guy fixed and back on his feet, but I will ask you to play nice until they are gone." I tell her.
"Fine. Do whatever you want. But don't get yourself killed." She tells me. "Your my brother first and a good guy second."
"Understood." I tell her. I walk off and head over to my futon. I lay down on it and just stare at the ceiling. My mind wont stop replaying the events from today. It's actually quite amazing how quickly everything changes. And all it takes is one stupid decision.