Will let out an inhuman scream as he jumped at the metal door again, slashing at it and using the last bit of his ADAM to try and burn his way through it. "NO!!!" he screamed again as he realized that now all of his ADAM was gone. He started crying and banging on the floor, despaired by his loss. William was a splicer. He didn't mean to become one, but it had just turned out that way. He'd only had two types of plasmids in his entire life. He cursed. He'd tried his first plasmid, Telekinesis, because everyone had been talking about how good the things were, and he figured it would be good to have telekinesis anyways. He remembered when he came to Rapture in 1957, called down by Andrew Ryan himself. Personally, he thought Ryan was a crazy man, but the opportunities of the utopia known as Rapture was to great to pass up.

He looked up, tears staining his face. He screamed loudly again, and attacked the door, going more insane by the moment. He banged on the floor for a few hours until his hands were to broken to continue, and he just stared at the now dented metal floor. He eventually fell asleep, and he slept for two weeks.

When he woke up, there were five plates of food on the floor. He ate ravenously, and afterwards he was in a much better state of mind than before. He started to piece his life back together as he sat in the corner, shivering from ADAM withdrawal. His name was William, and he'd come to Rapture on September 25th, 1957.

Before that, he'd been a weapons specialist for the United States Weapons Division. He'd taken his first EVE hypo on December 21st of that same here. He'd become addicted about a week later, and had started working for Frank Fontaine for the ADAM needed to control his addiction. He'd kept it under control until about April of '58, and he needed more ADAM than before, so he started working a second job. This second job consisted of working with a man named Suchong, who was working on a project known as the Protector Project.

He didn't dare steal EVE hypos from the man for fear of being fired and not being able to pay for anymore ADAM. His brain had started to work near full capacity for a few weeks, and in that time he'd created the Electric Buckshot, before subsequently falling to his addiction again. He'd learned about the planned attack for New Years, and he decided that he would stay out of it. Since he was technically associated with both sides, he knew the exact place to hide.

That didn't exactly pan out, though. A third party had ambushed him, and he'd woken up in this cell a few days later, extremely low on ADAM. William sighed, for he was partially glad that his mind was getting closer to being in working order again. He then fell back asleep, not to wake up again for another few weeks.

The next time he woke up, there was a feast of food on the ground, and once again he ate gladly. Afterwards, he threw up some of it, and he fell to the floor from severe muscle cramps, cursing loudly. Eventually he fell asleep, but this time only for two days. He woke up and saw only one plate of food. But this is not what mattered to him. Next to the plate and bottle of water was a hypodermic needle. Being the addict that he was, he assumed it was EVE and quickly injected himself.

Instantly he was in immense pain, crying out like a child. He threw up five times before settling in the corner, to sulk in his pain. He started coughing, and he spit, to find that his spit was an orange-grayish color. He cursed, and after a little while the withdrawal symptoms stopped again. He groggily crawled over to the other items at the door, and drank the whole bottle of water before eating the food.

He looked up to the metal door and saw that a small slit was opened towards the bottom. He ran towards the door, but the thing looking through dropped a small radio and another hypo into the room and then slammed shut the small opening. He screamed many curse words, before his mind registered that the thing had dropped another hypo. He started to reach for it when the radio turned on and a deep voice spoke to him.

"Hello, William. My name is Mr. Sierra. Your ADAM withdrawal is almost complete. That hypo you took a few minutes ago took both the Telekinesis and Incinerate plasmids out of your system. Please, take the hypo on the floor next to you. It is a strength plasmid." At that last part William immediately grabbed the hypo and injected himself. He waited patiently for the rush, and he slammed his fist into the wall when it didn't come.

"Sorry, William, but it was a necessary lie. You will soon pass out, and be moved to a room more suitable for you now that you are more human than before. You will become the protector of Rapture, and all the remaining human inhabitants. You will go through some surgeries before you wake up in your next room. This all be explained when you wake up." It was then that William fell asleep.

When he woke up five days later, he had a terrible stomachache. He groaned, and looked at his surroundings. His room had a bunk bed, which had a person on the top bunk, a toilet, sink, two showers, and a set of workout equipment. He groaned, and felt his stomach. He stopped when he felt a bump. He looked around, and saw a radio sitting on the floor next to him.

"Hello, William. It's good to see you've woken up. That thing in your stomach is called a sea slug, and it produces ADAM. Also, we replaced the muscles in your left arm with cybernetic parts. Your left arm is now as powerful as three fully-grown men. Also, a needle will come out of your arm at will that can extract ADAM from dead bodies. Your feet have been skinned and had strength hypos directly injected to that portion of your body. We've covered this up with Big Daddy boots.

On the bed behind you is Kali, the first little sister. As you can see, she is not little anymore. She has gone through augmentations similar to yours. You two will stay in this room until we deem that you are both stable again. We will periodically pull one of you out to add more augmentations."

At the mention of a little sister he impulsive stood up and tried to run to her, but found that he was chained to the wall. He cursed. "Also, you two will be chained up for a week, so that you can learn to play nice." The recording cut off quickly, and it was silent a few moments.

"Are you going to kill me?" the little sister asked. It wasn't in a small girly tone, but a grown-up matter of fact tone. She was definitely not a 10-year-old little girl, it actually seemed that she was in her early twenties. He was breathing heavy for a moment, before replying letting out a sob and saying quietly, "I don't know!" She looked up at him, and she got out of the bed, and he saw that she too was chained.

"What is your name, mister? Mine is Kali." She said, in a slightly more happy tone. "W… Wi… William. My name is William. Last thing I remember I was hiding from Fontaine and Ryan's war on New Years." She nodded. "I was locked in a cell somewhere, and I took my first EVE hypo right before the splicers got to me."

"Were you in a cell to?" he asked, and she nodded. He jumped as the shackles on both of their feet cracked in half. He stood up quickly, and she put her hands in a defensive position. It was quiet for a moment, and he said, "I have to take a dump." She nodded slowly, and he ran to the toilet. She would be on her guard, but for the moment she needed to relax and sleep. She lay quickly on the bed, and as Will finished his dump, she noticed he looked jittery.

He went over to the workout machines and started to work out at a rapid pace, mostly just to have something to burn off all this energy with. After a few hours he went and got on the bottom bunk and fell asleep.

"How long until they are ready?" Rick asked him. "I do not know, but in the meantime we must prepare ourselves to reclaim Rapture ourselves." Sierra replied. Rick grinned and nodded, before saying, "Long live the Brotherhood!" this cry was answered by the twenty other people in the room, "Long live the Brotherhood!" Sierra grinned, and turned back to his work on the armor that would eventually be worn by the two people currently on the security screen. "We have big plans for you two." He whispered.


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