Chapter III

"Hey Johnny I've been looking everywhere for ya!"

"Grrrrr…"

"Uh hey Cassie heh heh…" Johnny was very nervous. This Big Sister for some reason had it in her head that HE was the one that she needed to protect. So far she has not taken to kindly to anyone getting near him. He figured the only reason why the three Brutes were even able to touch him was because he ran ahead of her.

"Hey! Who the hell is this? You go in get yourself a girlfriend while I was gone?"

"W-WHAT-"

"How did you escape from that Big Sister anyway?" Cassie asked before Johnny could respond to her first question.

Johnny looked to the Big Sister and looked to the ground, then looked up to Cassie.

"Um Cassie this may seem weird but this is that Big Sister that carried me off. See she has an ADAM harvester and everything."

Cassie looked back at the extremely tall skinny teenage girl and got a better look at the gear she was carrying. It was indeed that of a Big Sisters, all that was missing was the helmet which she was holding in her right hand.

'Oh shit…' Cassie looked at the Big Sister and then at Johnny. They had to get out of here, that monster would turn on them at any second. Cassie narrowed her eyes and hid her frost covered left hand behind her ready to release at a moments notice.

The Big Sister narrowed her eyes noticing the concentration of ADAM and EVE coming from the neutral party. Big Daddies and Big Sisters basically viewed things that could be a threat to them or their charge but are not actively acting out against them as neutral. Big Daddies only act when they are attacked first. Big Sisters however view anything that comes within a foot radius of their charge as a threat. Her charge seemed to know the woman so she would not attack right now but as soon she released that plasmid she thought she was concealing so well she was good as dead. No one will hurt him under her watch. Nobody.

Johnny who was completely unaware of the tension building between the Big Sister and the Elite Houdini Splicer continued to talk.

"This is Rose." Johnny said pointing to the Big Sister.

'Rose' looked at Johnny and smiled. Although she cannot remember very well some how she knew that that was actually her name before she became a Big Sister. He always managed to give her this happy feeling. She would be damned before she would let this human harm him!

Cassie just narrowed her icy cold blue eyes. 'What is he thinking giving this thing a name?! Just because it has not attacked yet does not mean its not going to!' Cassie has had enough. It was obvious that Johnny thought that his crappy Hypnotize plasmid actually had an effect on the Big Sister.

So when Rose was looking at Johnny she let out a barrage of ice and froze the sister in place. She quickly ran up to Johnny and they both disappeared in plum of bluish smoke.

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They teleported closer to the hideout, they were almost there. Johnny looked up at Cassie and yelled.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"

"SAVING YOUR ASS THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING!" If this kid did not wise up to the rules around Rapture he was going to get his self and possibly someone else killed.

"I told you before that Hypnotize plasmid is unstable! I once met a guy who tried out an unstable Teleport plasmid and he was twisted from the inside out and all his organs spilled out onto the floor! Your lucky you didn't put yourself in a comma with that thing, and if you don't die from using an unstable plasmid they rarely work correctly!" Cassie for the life of her did not know why this idiot was not listening to her! Johnny was just standing there looking all around him nervously.

"Oh and another thing…YOU CAN'T HYPNOTIZE BIG SISTERS!"

"SHIEAAAAARRRRRIEEEK!"

Johnny just put his palm in his face and shook his head.

"Aw shit you pissed her off…"

"SHIEAAARRRRRRRRRRIEEEEEEEEK!"

"What do you mean, she was already pissed!" Cassie exclaimed.

"No she wasn't pissed, I don't know why but she has been following me and protecting me from things that would do me harm. Hell, she even guarded me for twenty-four hours straight! And something tells me she will kill anything that she deems a threat to me…friend or not." Johnny was getting very nervous now. Something told him that Rose was beyond pissed.

"SHEAAAARRRRRRRRRRIEEEEK!"

Rose busted through the wall closest to Cassie and immediately tried to run her through. Cassie cart wheeled out of the way just in time. But Rose was not done. No, she was not just going to kill this human. She was going to annihilate her. How dare she try to take the one thing that she has left in this world! Not only does she kidnap him but she attacks her as well! This was a threat that had to be dealt with immediately…

Using her acrobatic skills Rose cart wheeled over to Cassie and repeatedly tried to stab her. Cassie being both Houdini, Lead Head, and Spider Splicer used her acrobatics and hooks to dodge and attack…barely.

This went on for a couple of minutes. To the observer it looked as if they were dancing. It was a beautiful but deadly sight to behold.

'Wow…' Johnny knew this was getting intense, if he did not stop this one of them would end up getting seriously hurt, but how? They were beginning to use offensive plasmids like Incinerate and Telekinesis he had to think fast!

'That's it!' Johnny switched to the only other plasmid he had in his arsenal.

'Heh heh heh…' Rose found an opening in Cassie's defense and was about to take advantage of it when both her and Cassie were thrown into a wall temporarily disorientating them.

"Both of you stop fighting right now…" Johnny said in a voice that left no room for arguments. He had one of the rarest plasmids in Rapture…Sonic Boom.

"But-"

"Quiet Cassie! If Rose wanted to kill me she would have already done so you need to learn the difference between a man, or girl in this case, and a monster I just recently had to learn that difference myself." Johnny turned to Rose.

"I just came into contact with my grandmother recently and she had a run in with someone a lot like you Rose." Rose just cocked her head curiously.

"You could have killed me easily, you could have killed me in my sleep but you didn't. You protect, you love. No monster does that…"

Rose leaned in to hear what he had to say. He walked up to her and patted her head gently in what he hoped was an affectionate way.

"A thinking girl does that."