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"Mommy, wake up." Sophie demanded as she shook the woman's shoulder. Jumping off the bed, she ran to her father and tugged on his hand until he followed her into the room and stopped at the bed of the woman.
Leaning over her, he ever so gently lifted the woman into his arms. Her warmth being felt through the gear on his body, and this was the first time he was so close to a woman in a long time.
"Let's go out to play Daddy." Sophie sang as she skipped ahead, her mother in the crook of his massive arm. He stopped only once when the woman shifted, before falling back into a deep slumber as he into a long stride.
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Maddy was awaken by a horrible smell and the jarring stomps of feet. Opening her eyes, She yelped as the big metal man stopped.
"LEMME GO NOW!" She yelled, her heart in her throat when he looked down to her before he obeyed.
Maddy skipped back and pressed her back into the wall, taking deep breaths as she examined the new area she was in. The walls were metal, tile floors, steel tables, filing cabinets and test tubes everywhere.
Maddy Shannon was in a lab. She excitedly looked around, surely she could use this to make a new portal and return to her family.
Approaching a filing cabinet, she yanked open the drawer and pulled out a file.
There was a black and white photo of a girl, before and after she was changed into a yellow eyed thing. Maddy felt her stomach drop. These were children, innocent children turned into monsters. The metal man in the photo next to the child's was a normal man on one side and a metal diving suit on the other.
Normal people were being made into monsters. The file sported a stamp that said 'TERMINATED" on it, as did all others she came across except the oldest, dustiest file.
She opened it and found a photo of an olive skinned girl with pale eyes and a man that looked similar, but his skin wasn't so dark.
Above the girl's photo read the name Sophie Reynolds, age:2, status: Alive. Occupation: Gatherer. What was that?
Looking at the man his name said Mark, Age:18, status; Alive. Occupation: Protector. That made more sense. And Sophie did seem to look for something when she stabbed the bodies. As she was doing to one now.
"Sophie?" The little girl swiveled her head and smiled at Maddy.
"Mommy knows my name Daddy." She smiled and turned back to her work.
Looking through more of the file, she found medical papers, and evaluations, also a paper about ADAM, Plasmids, and the little girl's mental conditioning. The last of the information shocked her as she read the complicated extant of it.
Sophie was completely insane.
"Sophie?" Maddy called as the tiny child stood up and skipped to her. "What do I look like?" She asked, knowing her dress was worn and dirty.
"A princess Mommy, you're a princess." She twirled and took her father's hand. "And Daddy's the knight that saves you form the castle." She giggled as he stood up a little straighter.
"And this," She pointed to blood, but the little girl had no fear of it.
"The prettiest roses I ever saw." Maddy swallowed, they made them see other things so they would continue to work. Looking through the papers again she found no information on Mark being mentally conditioned.
She sighed and stood up as the child sniffed the air and said something about another angel.
Maddy jumped when she felt her free hand engulfed by the Big Man in the diving suit's glove. She was surprised by how gentle he was with her and felt a warmth to the little rings on the tips of the gloved hand.
Sophie excitedly ran ahead and knelt at another dead body, this one horribly decomposed, as she started her work.
Maddy watched the little girl as she sang and extracted this ADAM substance. Her father standing over her as a guard.
Maddy laid against the glass of the tunnel and closed her eyes, things are not going to get easier. And it didn't as a loud battle cry was heard.
Sophie didn't seem affected, but as soon as a deformed man holding a wrench charged them Mark stepped in front of them and revved up his powerful drill. Porthole glowing red he swung out and Maddy listened in sickening horror as a crack was heard. Mark raised the dead man, his drill sunk deep into his chest, and flung his arm to the side, effectively throwing the monster to the side.
"Mommy, I'm tired, let's go home." That was it, that's what they did during the day.
"Mark," She was going to ask him what to do, but as soon as he heard his name, he let out a deep sorrowful groan and leaned against the glass wall.
"Mommy, you made Daddy sad!" She little girl reprimanded before Maddy reached out and patted his large bicep. His drill seemed to pushed out then swiveled, showing his other hand as it gently covered Maddy's.
"How did you get like this, I'm sure I can fix it, if you show me." She saw the yellow porthole turn to a mint green at her as he stood up straight and lifted Sophie onto his shoulder.
Taking Maddy, his placed one hand beneath her knees, and another behind her back as he carried her. Running at full speed the entered the labs again, the little girl giggle in delight.
He quickly ran up the stairs and ran at a set of doors, which Maddy was sure they would crash into.
But they sensed his presence and automatically swooshed open to allow them in. As Mark set them down he dragged Maddy to a machine placed on the wall. Switches on the side, he stepped on a scale and showed her a paper with steps to voice boxes.
She turned each knob, dividing his weight and multiplying it to get the correct calculations. He easily stepped off the scale and into the wall machine, where he took off his helmet.
Oh Wow. As soon as the helmet clanged to the floor, Maddy stood breathless, he was gorgeous while his blue eyes watched her, black hair trimmed short.
A loud whale like note came from him, reminding her that she needed to activate the machine.
The machine started with a whirl and she couldn't see what it was doing to him from her position. All she knew was it stopped and he turned to her, stepping out of the machine.
"That's better." His voice was still deep, but he could speak. "Now, I'm Mark Reynolds." He smirked at her, his thin lips pale. "And apparently you are my daughter's mother." Taking her hand he laid a kiss on her knuckles.
"I'm sure you have plenty of questions." Maddy nodded silently as he lifted his helmet with one hand. "Let's start with what we are." He waved at Sophie and him, and she nodded again. That machine gave him his voice.
"Now I'm a Alpha Series Protector, but people call us big guys, Big Daddies…"
