Queen of Rapture

Chapter 2


Eleanor rose up from the dingy bed in the large lifeboat, noticing Alice was still asleep curled up in her arms. Eleanor gently covered her with the blanket and then walked out onto the hull. She looked ahead and saw something yellowish on the horizon, followed by green. She quickly put her helmet on, using its zoom function to see what it was.

The object looked like a hand holding a torch, and as the boat got closer she could see a full body come into view. She finally realized that this was the statue of liberty that she had read about; it looked much more inspiring in person than in a book. She then saw the tall towers of New York, so she quickly got back inside and rummaged through the clothes that Sinclair had stored in here. Finding some woman's business clothes she quickly changed. She then woke up Alice and had her change into a cleaner version of her dress.

Alice was amazed at the site ahead of them, the city was much larger than Rapture ever was, though its height was about the same, perhaps even shorter. Eleanor manned the controls of the boat and made sure to go into the abandoned warehouse that the maps had marked. As she docked she then made sure she had everything she needed, drinking the rest of the ADAM and had Alice do so too, she could make more easily later on. She then took all of the plasmids that were left as there was no need to inject two of the same kind. She neatly stored them in the back of the truck that was left in the warehouse with the money; obviously Sinclair had many escape plans. Eleanor then jumped into the driver's seat and then froze, realizing that she had no idea how to drive this thing.

"Relax Eleanor; it can't be that much harder than a boat or sub." She experimented and with her quick mind got the idea quickly. She had Alice come in and she drove out of the warehouse into the busy streets of New York.


Eleanor drove to the marker on the map, she was going to somebody that Sinclair had known who would provide her with an ID, for a price. She would need this to get any source of legal income on the Surface so she drove to the building. It was a dingy apartment with many hastily repaired windows. She walked in and searched for the door with the number 528. Eleanor found it eventually and knocked, waiting for an answer.

The door creaked open a bit, a small chain could be seen holding it to the wall, then a voiced came out from behind it.

"What is paradise?" Eleanor smirked.

"Rapture." The man smile and closed the door, opening it full a second after. The man was short and unshaven, wearing a tank top and slacks with overall straps hanging from them. He gestured for her to come in.

"Come in, come in. You must know Sinclair! How is that old con artist?" Eleanor flinched a bit, remembering how he was tortured and transformed into an Alpha-series, eventually her father killing him and putting him out of his misery. Eleanor decided to censer that bit out.

"He was killed, last I saw him he told me to find you, told me you could get a girl some ID." The man's mood plummeted, seemed he was a friend.

"Oh that's... horrible, who killed him?" Eleanor shrugged, definitively not going to tell him it was her Father. He nodded, thinking of how easily someone can get away with murder these days.

"A-anyway, what was that about an ID? I can give you more than that! I can get ya a life-long record! Diplomas and everything! Ehem, uh, for a price, of course." Eleanor Lamb smiled deviously, she had lots of money to spend.


Eleanor had driven to what she deduced was a bank after she had made sure that her new records had circulated through the system for a while. She put sunglasses on to hide her eyes and carried two of the suitcases of money that she had, having Alice carry one also, leaving three more for emergency funds.

When she walked in everyone looked strangely at the woman and child holding large suitcases. She approached the teller and dropped the cases on the counter opening them to show the money.

"I'd like to make an account and deposit." The teller stared wide eyed for a few second but then nodded as he did not want to mess this up. Then someone over in the waiting area pulled something out of his duffel bag.

"Everyone get down to the ground and no one will get hurt, this is a stick up!" Eleanor sighed and started walking calmly to the man holding what looked to be a machine gun, more advanced than the standard one in Rapture but wouldn't compare to an upgraded one.

"Hey bitch! Stay down like the rest, I said stay down!" His hand shook a bit when she did not stop, then he pulled the trigger, letting out a trail of gunfire that Eleanor dodged, making sure to make her movements mostly humanly possible. She ducked under the blaze and rose back up uppercutting the man in the chin, sending him flying. She then tidied up her suit and went back to the counter.

"Now where were we?"


Eleanor was getting irritated, after she had dispatched the thug the police had come and started pestering her with questions, she just told them she was a black belt in karate and in their ignorance they accepted it. She had finally managed to deposit her money and left with a couple thousand to hire some people to repair Rapture.

She would have to keep the group to less than a hundred if she was going to protect them from the remaining splicers in Rapture but that should do for now, she just had to fix one of the surf scrapers in Rapture to fit in a couple hundred people. The she could have the Industrial and Commercial areas fixed up. But before all of that Hephaestus had to be brought back up to speed.

She decided to make sure she had somewhere to live first though, one step at a time.


Eleanor looked around the apartment that she had just bought, it didn't look as luxurious as most of the ones in Rapture but that was to be expected, Rapture had been at first built entirely for the elite so even the poor areas had been lavishly decorated, the only one that wasn't was pauper's drop as that was a new development. She set down her crates of plasmids and mechanical parts. Then she got to work making a primitive plasmid creation machine. This was basically built like one of the first ones ever built but it should do the job.

She then started splicing the genes in some ADAM and turning it into a brand new plasmid. She introduced some chemicals that were common in the human brain and finalized the procedure by locking down the DNA, making the plasmid, the whole procedure taking up about five hours.

"So here it is, a mind control plasmid. Surprisingly simple to make, I guess that Ryan just didn't like these so he must have discreetly gotten rid of them. This should be useful in business meetings."

She injected the plasmid, discretely testing out her new powers on a maid who was passing by in the hall, she got a slightly disappointing result in which the subject only got strong suggestions to do something, at least there wasn't any visible or hearable effect as that would be troublesome with her plans. Maybe the effectiveness results will vary with people who have weaker or stronger will.

"Alright, time to set up the rest, and hide this device, can't let some random trespasser come across it." She then put the device in a large trunk to hide it. After that she brought Alice to the couch, they would get furniture and things in the morning.


Alice woke up before Eleanor, she walked to the luggage and took out a bit of canned fish, they still having not bought surface food. She had noticed that her constant hunger for ADAM had gone away after her feast. All she wanted now was food. She ate then shook Eleanor a bit, making her jump and brought up her arm like she still was wearing her needle. She visibly relaxed at the sight of Alice.

"Sorry Alice, still jumpy." Eleanor stretched and grabbed some money from the stash that they had, going outside with Alice to go get essentials and comforts.


Eleanor had been rather jittery when she entered the crowds of New York; she was not used to so many people. She made her way to the "Grocery Store" and bought as much food as she could fit into her cart, she then bought some furniture and appliances and had them delivered to her house.

She went back home, putting everything away and setting up furniture. She then started recording in her last Autodiary from Rapture.

"Day two on the Surface: I have had made fake ID and established a base of operations. Now I will have to start setting up businesses to generate income and hiring engineers to repair Rapture. The Surface Dwellers are so easygoing; it gives me hope that I can have Rapture like that again.

"I still remember vaguely Rapture before the fall, even before I was a Little Sister. It was beautiful and if I remember the conversations right, an escape from the restraints of the surface. I must bring back Rapture, as that is my home, not this 'Surface' this will never be my true home, which is I guess my true reason for bringing Rapture back. I want my home again, I want it to be glorious." Eleanor stopped recording and looked sadly at the Autodiary, Rapture had fallen so far yet she still thought of it as her home. She just felt more resolve to bring it back now.

She stood up and started to draw up her plan for Rapture's comeback, of course making many plans like B, C, D, E, etc. She smiled, Rapture would be reborn, but her way this time...


I love Bioshock, the story, the characters, especially the mindfucks. I really did not like infinite though, the fact that it wasn't in Rapture just ruined it for me. But alas, you aren't here to hear me ramble and rant, I'll be done with the next chapter soon hopefully.