BIOSHOCK: CROSSING
Delta floated through the dark water towards the ocean floor. He felt content with his actions; Eleanor and the little sisters were safely out of Rapture. He could finally rest in
peace, his work was done. As these thoughts swam through his head a large figure coiled a monstrous tentacle around Delta's floating form. Delta could barely make out the
massive form of Alex the Great before blacking out.
The girls had tried cheering her up, but it was no use. Eleanor was in a state of deep depression. Her father was gone, she was alone again, and she had no idea what to do.
Her main objective had been to escape rapture with her father, she hadn't really thought ahead of getting topside. The more she thought about it the more she realized how
truly backed into a corner she was. She knew about where she was from the map in Sinclair's lifeboat other than that nothing. Should she contact authorities? No, no if they
found out about Rapture they'd just end up bringing the nightmare to the surface with them. That left her with only one option, Jack Ryan. She'd heard of Andrew Ryan's son
who escaped rapture after killing his father and Fontaine, maybe he could help her too. Eleanor stood and walked back to the map, Sinclair had been tracking Jack's
movement using a tracker Andrew Ryan had planted in the back of his skull. His last known position, New York City, Eleanor figured she could be there in a couple weeks.
She hoped the food would last until then. As she inputted the coordinates one of the little sisters showed her one of the toys she'd been playing with. When Eleanor was done
she smiled and rubbed the young girl's head, maybe she wasn't alone after all.
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"How's he doing?"
"We've stabilized him for now sir"
Delta was still much disorientated; he could only faintly make out the voices.
"We've got him on a steady supply, he should be tip top so-"
"Cut him off"
"Sir?!"
"I said cut him off"
"But he only has enough for three weeks!"
"Exactly"
Then Delta woke up.
He was sitting in front of a vita-chamber which glowed with brilliance. Upon surveying his surroundings he found he was back in Fontaine Futuristics. He got up slowly as to
not harm his still sore body. He moved slowly at first until the soreness faded away. How was he still alive? Last thing he remembered was floating toward the ocean floor,
now he's back here. "Well look who's finally awoken!" said a voice from Delta's radio "you know if you hadn't put in extra work hours last time I would have had to deduct
that from your pay" Delta gave a low moan in reply as he continued walking. Alex the Great wasn't having any of that "Oh Delta" he said "where do you plan on going now?"
delta stopped "I mean we all know retirement's been difficult for the past years and, well me and the guys are worried for your state of mind-" as Alex went on rambling
Delta wondered, where was he planning to go anyway? In order for Eleanor and the girls to live a quiet and peaceful life they were going to have to shed their pasts in
rapture, including him. This thought barely started registering in Delta's head when he began feeling empty. He'd completed his duty in life, what purpose did he have now?
Would he become like the rest of the Alphas, would he slowly drown madness until he was a screaming monster. Eleanor wouldn't have wanted that, she would have wanted
him to live out his days in relative peace. Delta turned off his radio as he entered the lobby of Fontaine Futuristics, he'd kept the thing on for so long to receive info from
Sinclair. Now with Alex's mad ramblings delta found no reason to keep it on. As delta walked across the lobby he noticed something strange, an Alpha was sitting on one of
the benches staring at the ceiling as if he were day-dreaming. Delta had only ever seen Alphas screaming and charging with un-bridled rage so this was intriguing to him. As
Delta neared the Alpha noticed him "well I'll be a monkey's uncle" he said in a familiar accent "looks like I wasn't the only one spared from Mr. Reaper eh kid?"
Delta remembered painfully the image of Sinclair's broken body bleeding out back in Persephone, now he was casually laying back on a bench. Sinclair must have noticed his
puzzled silence "Well it seems ol' Alex did us both a little favor kid" he said getting up "I gotta tell you these things are just as heavy as they look".Sinclair watched as Delta
began to trudge off and, with nothing better to do, followed him.
They went to the ADAM labs, with both of them wearing diving suits they were fully protected. As they approached the main chamber they could hear a conversation taking
place. They entered the main chamber, the form of Alex the Great seemed to smile at them from inside the large viewing structure "Gentlemen! my associate and I were just
discussing your work reports." said Alex nodding towards a lone splicer who stood in front of the tank "I must say your performance is better than exceptionally, keep doing
good and I may have to give you guys a raise"
"Thank you sir" Sinclair said playing along "but Delta and I were just wondering why you helped us out"
"Oh that" Alex said nonchalantly "well I just had to pull Delta outta the gutter for all that overtime he's been putting in, I'll have to deduct that from your next check however."
Alex the great paused considering something "Andy was supposed to remind me of that" he realized "oh well I'll just have to fire him later-"
"AHEM" Sinclair said reminding the madman of the current conversation
"Oh yes! So Delta I consider us even" Alex said nodding furiously before looking at Sinclair "You, however, were brought back as part of a business proclamation by my associate here."
Alex the Great's 'associate' turned and gave the two a small bow, he wore a grimy black suit and had tried to cover the signs of his ADAM abuse with make-up. The splicer smiled at Delta and Sinclair "good day gentlemen" he said extending his hand toward them
"I am Sander Cohen"