Chapter 00: One Man's Dream
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Disclaimer: I do not own Bioshock, Naruto, or Ranma ½. They are owned by 2K Games, Masashi Kishimoto, and Rumiko Takahashi respectively. Please enjoy.
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Andrew Ryan was many things. He was a visionary, an industrialist, an entrepreneur, and much more. His ideas differed from what the rest of the world wanted, so he secluded himself away from it. He built a paradise for those who shared his ideas. Artist, scientists, musicians, and many more joined him in his hidden world beneath the sea. Rapture.
The idea of Rapture did not care for race, age, or gender. It was a place for any and all who wished to free themselves from the world above. A true utopia.
The discovery of ADAM was the turning point for Andrew Ryan's great vision. With Brigid Tenenbaum's discovery, life in Rapture changed. At first, ADAM as a curiosity, nothing more than Tenenbaum's inane experiment that started when a dock worker was bitten by a sea slug, and his crippled hand was restored to working order.
Once Frank Fontaine agreed to back her research, Tenenbaum took the sea slug the dock worker gave her and began experimenting. Tenenbaum called the substance harvested and processed from the Sea Slug ADAM. She hypothesized that ADAM, a viscous green liquid in its raw form, acted as a catalyst to cause formation of potent stem cells that had the ability to differentiate into any cell type. She thought ADAM could be genetically manipulated to produce tissue and functions that would not normally be present in the human body, acting as seemingly benign form of cancer. While the structure of ADAM was unstable, it was this instability that gives it its amazing properties.
When ADAM put out on the market, it was a hit. In the beginning, it we medical wonder drug, healing every wound and ill that it came in contact with. Soon it made its way in to cosmetic surgeries, and finally, granting man power beyond any other. The demands for ADAM and its miracle abilities were in high demand, and the Sea Slugs alone could not provide enough ADAM for marketing consumer products. Rapture's own laws allowed them to do what they thought was necessary to create ADAM.
Fontaine hired more scientists and doctors to assist Tenenbaum with her research, and acquired 'volunteers' for the tests. It was found that when a slug is embedded in a host's stomach, it generated twenty to thirty times the yield of usable ADAM. Unfortunately, they discovered that only young girls could act as viable hosts.
When Fontaine received this news, he created the Little Sister's Orphanage as a front to exploit the girls who were brought in to act as hosts and increase ADAM production. It worked like a charm, many families that couldn't afford to raise a child brought their little girls to one of the many orphanages he setup. They were not able to use every child brought in as a host, most were too young or too old, but the ones they could use seemingly disappeared overnight.
Most of these girls came from poor families that couldn't, or wouldn't take care of their daughters. But every once in a while, a young girl with no family would be brought in. These little girls were special, their lives as orphans on the streets made them the perfect hosts for the slugs, as there was no family coming back to check up on, or even retrieve, their daughters.
By 1956, Fontaine's ADAM based empire was flourishing. They had a steady stream of ADAM being produced by the converted children was enough to keep the market brimming with ADAM, but Fontaine wanted more. He began seeking out children with heightened abilities, ones that would be odd in comparison to the average little girl. He wanted to know the effects of the process on these special children, and he had found two perfect subjects.
The first, a small blond that had appeared with a man in the depths of Rapture, only to be left behind. The second, a feisty little child that led his men on chase that would have left most adults gasping for breath. One child appearing with unknown means, and another with superior physical skill. While they would be a good start, Fontaine decided to keep an eye out for more.
Unfortunately for him, these two would be the only ones he and his men would find, but what they would learn from the two girls was astonishing. They would learn more about humanity, its capabilities, and how terrifying those answers were.
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Author's Note: I want to give a shout out to Kamon772. This story was just collecting dust until they sent me a PM and we got started talking back and forth. The talk gave me the inspiration to take another look at this story and revamp it. The first chapter, which introduces our two main Little Ones, will be out by the end of this week at the latest.