I made this story to show what Delta thinks. This is no offense to other writers, but I see alot of stories where Delta speaks his mind with ablility to talk. The problem is, I don't understand how he was able to talk all of the sudden. So, I hope you all enjoy my own version of it.
The Pen
Delta was making his way to the Elevator in the Atlantic Express train station. He was in a hurried pace, trying to get to the elevator before more splicers showed up. Everything in his mind was racing, given the events that had just partaken not so long ago. Some how, he was alive after being shot in the head 10 years ago. And so far, all of the events that were transpiring around him, were just making him wonder if he was alive, or just in hell.
He had woken up in the place he was shot in, and tried to find out what was going on. After he was able to restore power to some of the place, he came in contact with a woman who called herself Tanenbaum. He also became acquainted with a few of the residence of the new world that was Rapture. Tanenbaum told him that he needed to get to her at the Atlantic Express train station. But along the way, he ran into a very strange type of enemy, apparently called a "Big Sister". From just these few events alone, he was seriously starting to think that he was in hell.
After a quick walk outside (courtesy of the Big Sister flooding the Adonis Luxury Resort), Delta was able to make his way around the city to a new airlock into Atlantic Express. Upon looking at how large the city was, he was immediately awestruck. It was truly a sight to behold, that few would ever have a chance to see. But his attention was brought away from the city, for he had other things on his mind. The question that kept popping up in his head was, Where's Eleanor? It had been the primary question on his mind, even before he regained full consciousness.
After taking a quick jump down, he made his way to an airlock that would bring him to the train station. And after learning a new few new tricks with a new device he picked up, he was able to move on through. The the device he picked up was actually a hacking tool, that would allow the user of it to fire remotely operated darts from a distance. With this new trick learned, he was able to make a new robotic friend along his way.
After tacking care of a few of the freaks that were in the train repair station, he had to find a way into the next room. While he was trying to find a way into the next area, he couldn't help but notice all of the writing in the wall. He thought it was strange, but decided not to think about it. He was a man on a mission, and he was not going to let anything get in his way. As he entered the control room that, the ominous red glow made him slightly nervous. But he figured that if it was the only way to move forward, he would have to work past his felling that something was going to go wrong.
He pulled the lever down, thinking it was going to open the doors that lead to the next room. But he soon found that his gut was in the right place to worry. The lights all went out in the small room, and he found himself in the dark (this time in a literal sense). After a few seconds of being alone, the numerous televisions that were in the room all sprang to life. As all of the screens lit up, Delta couldn't help but get the feeling that he it probably wasn't good for him to be in there.
Just as he was thinking that, the screens started flickering to reveal an image. That's when he heard that voice, the one he had heard a few times over but never truly paid it any mind. It was his enemy, Sofia Lamb. "I know you. That symbol on your hand marks you a dead man." from seeing her over the screens, and hearing her, Delta took a slight step back. He then quickly looked down to his left hand, and noticed the symbol Lamb spoke of, then returned his eyes to the screens. "Ten years, Subject Delta, since I watched you put a gun to your head – and pull the trigger. But take heart: Out of your pain paradise is born. I don't know how you survived, but your suffering is over now. These men will ease your burden. Please understand that like all I have done, this... is an act of love."
The screens went blank again, and once lamb could no longer be seen, the metal coverings of the windows rolled down. On the other side of the glass, were several of those splicers, all carrying sub-machine guns. They started firing at Delta, but the glass to be fairly resilient to the bullets. "It is Sofia Lamb! She has found you!" Tanenbaum frantically said over the radio. Wow, really? Was the only thing Delta thought after her comment (because he thought it was just plain stupid to state the obvious), but he had more important things to worry about, for the glass was starting to become weaker from the endless onslaught of bullets.
Finally, the glass failed, leaving Delta unprotected against the splicers. He tried to fight them off through the glass, but they just wouldn't stop. Then, one of the bastards threw a Molotov cocktail through the broken window. The glass of the bottle shattered at Delta's feet, and he had to put his hand in front of hit eyes to block the sudden flash of light. The floor immediately caught fire, and began to spread rapidly. Delta darted his head around, trying to find a way that he might be able to escape from. He then got a thought, that maybe he could get through the shattered window. But before he could even attempt to get out, the floor beneath him dropped out a bit. And before he could even look down, the floor completely gave under his weight.
Delta fell through the burning floor, howling on the way down. He hit the bottom, but it was actually a pool of water that he landed in. The feeling of the cool water made his burns feel better, and he eventually kept going. After a brief encounter with a few splicers, and learning how to hack a security camera, Delta came across something very strange. It was a toy wagon, and it had a plasmid in it. Just as he approached the thing, he vision went into a slight ting of pink. It had happened once before, but before it wasn't as clear. Then he saw a pair of blue eyes in his vision, and a voice that sounded very familiar.
"Father, it's me Eleanor." he heard the voice say, and as it spoke, he couldn't move. "I know your awake in there, I can feel it. Mother will never be able to... to toy with you like that ever again. This plasmid is for you. If I'm right, you can use it now. Please, find me." Then the vision stopped, and he was able to move again. I'm Coming, he thought to himself, as if someone could hear what he was thinking. After that, he took the plasmid and practiced with it a little. After he got the full feel for it, he pressed on.
He got into another confrontation with a few more splicers, but made short work of them with his new plasmid and his marksmanship. He found another another audio diary recorded by that man Mark Meltzer. From what Delta heard, he was on a mission much like his: Find my daughter. Just as he was about to go into the next area, the giant door literally slammed in front of him. Next to him, he looked through the window to see a splicer jamming the door gears to keep it from opening.
It didn't deter him though, he just pulled the pipe out to let the door go back up again. He did it through the use of his new telekinesis plasmid. After he got the door back up, he kept going. But just as he got into the next room, Lamb came over the radio again. "I know of your bond with Eleanor. To save yourself, you will come for her. But Eleanor has a destiny, one you cannot share. There is no place for you in paradise." Delta just scoffed at her, not caring if she could hear him. He just did it as his own personal way of say "I don't really care what you say".
After another confrontation with some more splicers, he was at the elevator. He dashed into it and hit the button, then turned to see if there was anything following him. Just as the door shut behind, more splicers came to get him. Just as he was heading up, the splicers were all just shouting out things to him that he probably wouldn't remember later. Just before they were out of sight, he gave them a smug little wave goodbye. He was safe, for the moment anyway.
On his way up, Tanebaum came over the radio again. "Now, here is what the children tell me. You are a very old big daddy bound for life to a single little one." Delta wasn't interested in that, because it was information he already knew when he was trained as a big daddy. "When you are apart too long, your body begins to shut down, like a coma. As long as the girl is in Rapture, you are trapped here as well. The name of your little one is Eleanor Lamb, daughter of Sofia." And again, that was more useless information to him, because he already knew that. What he really needed to know, was where Eleanor was. "She is kept at Fontaine Futuristics, on the other side of the city. You must go there und save her... before it is too late."
Now Delta had the information he needed: Get to Fontaine Futuristics. But he just felt like everyone thought he was stupid or something. The reason he thought that, was because everyone thought it necessary to inform him of every single thing going on. But, he didn't let it bother him too much. But he was still wishing that he could have some form of communication.
As he came to the top, he saw a splicer looting the body of another dead splicer. Just as she turned around to see him, she took off to get away from him. Just as she got to a small set of steps, some strange devices were set off, killing her as she passed through them. The thing that Delta thought was really odd, was the fact that those traps were in plain view for everyone to see. Brainless moron, Delta commented about the splicer in his mind. The elevator opened, and he got out to go where Tanenbaum said she was.
Delta went over to where that female splicer got hit by the traps, and inspected what they were. They appeared to be a type of ammunition to that could use for his rivet gun. Upon inspecting the boxes that were next to them, he found out that they were indeed rivet. But they were called "trap rivets". He decided to take them, but it was very tedious to remove them from the wall. He stowed them away with his other ammo, and decided to look around the room for anything useful.
He walked up into what appeared to be an office, and decided to look around for stuff. He found some more of those trap rivets while he was in there. He looked up, and saw there was an audio tape sticking out of a filing cabinet. He took it out of the drawer, and pressed the play button. It turned out to be a recording of a man named Doctor Gil Alexander, and he was talking about how he was one of the people who was helping to make the big daddies.
Delta let out a sigh, and then tucked the audio diary away with the other ones that he already had. He was just thinking that it wasn't fair that everyone except him had a way to communicate. He just overlooked over it for a moment, and thought that maybe there could be some useful items in the desk in the small room. He opened the drawer, and inside were a few dollars. He took the money out, and just tucked it away for later. That's when he noticed something in the drawer. It was a small skinny object, but he couldn't help but pick it up. This object that he found, turned out to be a pen.
He looked at the pen for a few seconds, and then thought of something that could help him with that thing he was thinking about. He looked at the top of the desk, and noticed there were a few books stacked up on the it. He looked at all of the books, and noticed one in particular. It was the book all the way in the back. Unlike the other ones, it wasn't wet. Delta pulled it out, and as eh held it in his hand, it fell open. On the inside of the book, it was completely blank. It didn't take him long to com up with a decision on what he was going to do either. This blank book, was now going to be his journal.
He picked the pen back up off of the desk, and then closed the book so he could see the cover. He put the pen to the cover, and wrote on the front "My Journal", and then drew the symbol from on his hand underneath the words. He then looked down from the book to the corpse on the chair. He pushed the body out of the chair, and then spun it so he could sit down it. As he sat down, he heard part of the chair crack under his weight. He then opened the book to the first page, and began to write what would be the begging of a very long story.
"My name is Subject Delta, at least for now. I don't know my real name, so it's going to be my name for now. I've been turned into something that doesn't have a name, only a number. I am in this place known as Rapture, an underwater city. I used to know this place 10 years ago, when it wasn't the hell it is now. But now it's just become a place these mindless freaks, known as splicers. I don't know what happened here, or for that matter how I am alive. I was shot in the head 10 years ago, by the woman who is the mother of my child: Sofia Lamb. She and I never had anything, and I would never go near anything like that. Not after what she did to me. She hurt me, in more ways then one. She took my Eleanor from me, and I'm gonna get her back.
I have no way to speak, for vocal cords have been modified so that I can't. There only thing that I can do now, is make some sort of whale noise. There is so much I would like to say, but alas I can't. That is why I am writing in this book. People around here use things known as "audio diaries", but I can't use those. So, I'm going have to state my mind the old fashion way: Through writing. For centuries people kept journals, and now I am. Whatever happens to me in the future, I want people to know about what I had to go through. Because if I'm right, this will not be an easy trip.
Lambs going to be relentless to try and stop me, but I don't care. I have a job to do, even if I didn't agree to it. My job is to protect Eleanor and keep her safe, even at the cost of my life. I did it unwillingly before, but it's my choice now. Even though I have to save her to save myself, it's not about that. From what I've seen, Eleanor doesn't want to be here. And if she want's me to help her, then I will. I don't care what gets in my way, or what's up ahead. All I know is, if anything gets in my way, they will not survive."
Delta then closed the book, and thought of something before he put it away. He thought that it was going to be very wet in rapture, and the book might get soggy. He got up off the chair, and creaked from his weight coming off of it. He looked back through the drawers of the desk, and found what he wanted. It was a plastic sleeve, used to protect books from damage. He put the book inside the sleeve, and then folded it so it could be tucked into one of his pockets easily. He tucked the book away, and went to see where Tanenbaum was.
Delta made it to the ticket booth, and it the button to open the window. Tanenbaum gave him a quick sum up of what was going on, and what she wanted done. But just as she was about to tell him her plan, Lamb decided to make an unwanted announcement. After Lambs announcement to all the splicers of rapture, Tanenbaum told him that she need to go, and he needed to hold them off while her and they few little girls she had escaped.
Delta didn't have time to react, he just knew that Lamb sent a whole lot of shit his way and he needed to deal with it. He quickly hacked the security camera in the room, and then waited for what he knew was coming. Suddenly, an explosion went off, and Delta turned to see what was going on. There was a giant hole in the wall, and he heard voices coming down it. Thinking fast, delta noticed one of those barrels that were filled with highly explosive material, and picked it up with his telekinesis plasmid. Just as the splicers were coming to the end of that hole in the wall, Delta shot the barrel into the hole. The barrel hit with such force, that it exploded on impact. All of the splicer in the tunnel caught fire, and eventually were burned to death. One of the splicers got out of the tunnel without being burned, but Delta quickly took care of him with a single shot to the head from his rivet gun.
Just then, delta heard another explosion from behind him. He spun himself around to see yet another giant hole in the wall. Delta didn't have enough time to find another explosive before they came rushing out. They started to jump out of the hole, and rushing at him. Delta then realized that the splicers were walking through water, and quickly went into action using it to his advantage. He used his electro-bolt plasmid, and shot it directly into the pool of water the splicers were in. All of the ones that landed in the pool were shocked for a few moments, bu then fell over dead. It only left on with a pistol, and Delta sent a few rivets her way to finish her off.
Delta let out a victorious sigh, and then Tanenbaum came over the Radio again. "Thank you. Now I must leave you, and I am sorry for this. But there are others I must help before the city drowns. This man Sinclair, he is an ally and will guide you to Eleanor. Goodbye, Herr Delta, und good luck." And with that, Tanenbaum was gone. Delta wished he could have thanked her for her help, but knew that he couldn't. "Well look at you!" a male voice said over Delta's radio, "A bona fide knight in armor, complete with iron horse. The name's Augustus Sinclair, sport. Esquire. Ol' Tanenbaum an' I share an interest in the ol' Fontaine buildin', the same place you'll find Eleanor Lamb. I think you an' I can do buisness. Take the train to Ryan Amusement. I'll see you shortly."
Delta didn't question his new help (mainly because he couldn't), and went over to where the train was. He looked at the map, and noticed the red light was on over the area he was at. He looked over the map, and noticed the next stop was Ryan Amusement. He boarded the train, and was readying himself to get going. That's when his arm bushed up against his side, and he felt the bulge of where his new journal was. I'll write more on the way, he thought to himself. And then he pulled the lever down to get the train moving, and got ready for a long trip.
Well, he's off. And before I go, I just want to say thank you to my Beta reader. Fire Nerbil, your awesome man. More to come later.