It's been about a week, since I went to the pawn shop, and since I used my first plasmid. I had the power to control lightning, and furthermore, I liked it. I built a makeshift scope for my rifle, it wasn't the best looking, but it worked. I took a metal tube, and took two shards of a broken window, I put a bigger piece at one end and a smaller piece closer to my eye. I used what I knew about light reflection and all the scientific facts of how light bends. Using the two shards of the mirror, I could see about thirty yards away, again not the best scope but better than nothing. I had enough supplies to last awhile and truthfully didn't feel like going anywhere today, so I sat around at the base. My knee was still a bit messed up, making it difficult to sit and stand. Every movement I made I cringed from the pain. I laid down on my makeshift bed, thinking about the way my life was working out. I was twenty years old, I lived in the bunker until about two or three weeks ago. I never really knew my parents, meaning I never met them. They were both killed in a splicer attack, the day I was born. The doctors ordered them to go home, and along the way the splicers broke in and killed them, looking for ADAM. I was never really informed of the incident until I was nine-teen, this was one of the reasons I left, how could you leave a child's parent's deaths a secret? I laid on that bed in this daydreaming state for a few hours. I wondered how everyone in the bunker was doing, if anyone noticed my disappearance, or if anyone even cared. Then I realized, that I didn't care about them anymore, they were a part of my life I wanted to leave behind. I was struck from my stupor by an odd sound.
"MR. BUBBLES! HELP ME!" Came the sound.
"What?" I said jumping out of bed, forgetting about my injured leg, the pain shot through my body, "Ah!"
"MR. BUBBLES!" Came the sound again.
I grabbed my rifle and limped to the window, upon arriving I noticed a splicer grabbing a little girl. I scanned the splicer looking for any type of gun. Upon finding none, I noticed that this was the same splicer I met my first day after leaving the bunker, I raised the rifle, looked down the scope, held my breath and took a quick shot. The splicer fell limp, with a bullet inside it's head. The little girl looked around and pointed at me.
"Thank you, mister." She said waving, when suddenly the loud clanging from before came again, this time faster, "Mr. Bubbles," she said as the large circular object drew near. As it came into view, I noticed that it was a human like object. It had a massive drill in one hand and it's helmet was red.
"Your late Mr. Bubbles," the girl had said as she pointed in my direction, "That nice man up there saved me." This Mr. Bubbles' helmet turned yellow, as it looked in my direction, and for a second there it looked as though it waved. "Come on Daddy," the little girl said as she grabbed the hand of Mr. Bubbles.
What was that? I thought, then I realized, the little girl, was in fact a little sister, and the Mr. Bubbles, was her Big Daddy. Oh, well hopefully I'm on good terms with it now. I laid the rifle back down, and continued to lay on the bed, I rested my eyes for a little while. After a short while I fell into a sleep like state, in which, I forgot about all the problems of the world, for once in all twenty years I was alive, I was happy. Well not happy exactly, I was content with what was going on. Out here in this wasteland, I felt alive. I love my experiences when I first came out here, I was weak and almost defenseless now I feel all powerful, I mean I can control lightning after all. I laid there for a few more seconds, just relaxed, and calm, and after a short period of time, fell asleep.
I awoke in the morning. My leg didn't hurt as bad, and I felt rejuvenated. I got up to walk around. I made a now daily run of the building. Examining all exits and entrances. Afterwords, I grabbed my expedition gear and headed for the nearby hardware store, I needed a melee weapon. As I neared, I noticed a run down building, in which there was as sign that read "Antique Blades," I figured it was a sword shop or something. I opened the door, which creaked very slightly, when I got the door open, I noticed that there was an array of swords and other bladed weapons on one side, and on the other there were guns and ammo, I grabbed some ammo for each of my guns, and a professional, military grade scope for my rifle. I walked over to the swords and picked up a sleek sword, it was light, and fast, it felt comfy to the hand. As I was walking out I heard a slight, soft sound. I reached for my revolver, and turned quickly, when I turned, I saw an elderly man standing there.
"You gonna pay for those?" He said laughing, "Nah I'm just kidding, we're good, I'll even throw in a room to sleep in, and a few lessons on how to use that bad boy," He continued pointing towards my sword.
"I'd sure appreciate it sir," I replied as I set my stuff on the ground near me.
"Please, Call me Correy," the man said as he lead me into another room.
A few hours passed, and the old man had motioned towards the back of the store. He told me to follow him, and he lead me to the room I would be staying in, I laid down on the bed he had left for me. It was comfier than the bed I was used to, I fell asleep almost immediately. I awoke early in the morning, grabbed my gear, and walked back to my base. I left a note thanking the old man.
As I walked home, I noticed a small group of splicers, they instantly turned their heads as I started to walk by, I took out the sword, and rushed towards the group. I sliced one down in a short amount of time, he fell. The others rushed towards me with their pipes, I used a technique Correy taught me to parry each of their attacks, cutting the pipes in two, I went with a quick slice and took apart both of them, vertically from the stomach. I stood back a few feet, just in time to dodge the last ones pipe from hitting me across the face. Sweat was pouring down from my face, I pushed my other hand out, and lightning went from me to the last splicer, with a yelp he fell dead. I searched for anymore of this ADAM stuff, apparently it's the base of life, so I'm gonna need some. I thought about the little sisters, but having to deal with a big daddy would suck. I sat there for a few seconds catching my breath. I looked around found out where I was and continued down my path. Along the way I saw several dead bodies, they looked as though they were attacked by a bear, or something. As I walked a little farther I heard a small yelp. Followed by that clanging from earlier. My head started to hurt again. I looked a few yards ahead, there was a big daddy, this one looked different than the one I saw before, his helmet eye thing was red, and his drill was worn down, and the armor looked different. I tried to hide from him, but was too late, he already spotted me and started rushing towards me. I grabbed my sword and blocked the drill a few inches from my face, I pushed with all my might, I pushed it back a few feet and grabbed my shotgun from my bag, I pulled the trigger, sending the Big Daddy back a few feet. I put the shotgun back, and ran electricity from my other hand, into the sword, I sliced several times at my target, some hit but all in all, it was hopeless, nothing was working. I pulled my SMG, and fired off a few shots into him. He stumbled back, but got right back up, I grabbed the revolver, and the sword. I rushed at him, with the electrified sword, I hit him a few more times, shooting at the visible flesh with the revolver. He stumbled back a few more feet, I stopped to catch my breath when he jumped through the air at me, drill spinning. I pulled up the sword just in time to block his attack, I fell back. The sword busted in to about ten pieces and the Big Daddy was right above me. I prepared for the worst. I felt the pain of the drill going through my stomach, the light started to fade, then suddenly the Bid Daddy went flying through the air. Another Big Daddy, the one I helped before, stood there drill raised.
It rushed at the other Big Daddy, the Little Sister ran up to me.
"Come on mister," She said grabbing my hand and leading me away from the fight, "My daddy can handle him, we need to find his Little sister."
"And how do you suppose we do that?" I asked looking around
"She'll come out of hiding soon," The little girl answered.
"Okay, this better work." I looked back towards the two Big Daddies fighting.
The one that traveled with the Little Sister I saved, had the other on the ground, drill in his face. He stood there for a while then sent the drill crushing into his skull, shortly after the other Little Sister, ran out of it's hiding place, the surviving Big Daddy grabbed her, and using some kind of plasmid, took the ADAM out of her and turned her into a normal little girl. She took off afterwords. I stood in awe, a Big Daddy, just saved my life. I was shocked, how could I not be. I walked up to the Big Daddy, and gave him his little sister, and together they walked off, I headed for my home.
Upon arriving home, I noticed that my door was open, I grabbed my revolver, reloaded it, and went through the house. I found the intruder on the first floor.
"You," I said gun raised, "Tell me why your here."
"I need shelter, I have nowhere to go," The figure turned around, I noticed that it was a young girl about my age. She had Brownish red hair, and hazel eyes. "Do you mind if I stay here, with you. I swear you won't even notice I'm here."
"You'll have to stay on the second floor. If that's not a problem then your free to stay." I said as I looked around, "And as long as you don't have any friends. I'll barely be able to feed us, but two isn't as big of a problem as three or more. I stay on the third floor. You able to defend yourself?" I asked.
"I made it this far haven't I?" She answered.
"Good point."
"The name's Kait." She said extending her hand
"William," I said reaching for her hand.
"Nice to meet you, William."
"Same for you."
And with that we went up to the upper floors.
