Author's Note

Hello! I just woke up and it's past 3 in the afternoon. Yay... I was up until past 2 last night, and I'm paying for it now. But on the bright side, I almost beat the boss battles on Super Smash Bros.! XD Yep! Well as I said, I've started this chapter a little early, so I'm pretty happy. Oh, the spell check stillisn't working, so don't blame me. Okay, and I NEED REVIEWS. I only have one, and I thank that person, but more reviews equal more views, and quite frankly, they've been going down like crazy. It's like the economy on Fanfiction! Insane, right? Anyway, I think that's enough, so PLEASE R&R, and enjoy!

-Do I even have to say it?-Disclaimer: I do not own Bioshock, but I do own my OCs.

"Pull harder Dean! That bastard's got my dress!" Ruby yells at me, clinging to my back.

"I am! Why do you way so friggin much?" I yell back, trying to heave us both up into the air vent with my hooks.

"Well that alpha's got my friggin dress!" she says, panicking.

"Well pull on it!" I say, struggling to keep the hooks in the vent and not be pulled down by the alpha that has Ruby's dress. I hear a ripping noise, and we both go flying forward. I smack face first into the dead-end, and Ruby bounces off me and lays sprawled out on the steel lining.

"That was close." she says, pulling herself up.

"Yeah." I reply, doing the same.

"Why the hell did you even piss off that alpha in the first place?" she asks, rubbing her side.

"My hook slipped." I reply.

"Well whatever the hell happened, we gotta keep moving." she grunts, easily standing in the cramped vent. She turns and starts walking. I hit my head on the top at least 5 times as I crawl behind her. We finally come to a hole, and Ruby jumps through. I squeeze out, and drop through.

Looking around, I realize that we're in the same room as when I first met Violet. Suddenly, pain sears through my brain, and a memory comes back to me. I remember...

There's a girl that looks like a younger Violet, with shorter hair. I reach out, but there's a glass between us. I scream something to her, but the thing I'm in takes off, and she disappears.

I come back to the real world, and I realize that Ruby is going through the door. I run to catch up.

We walk, always on the alert for big daddies and other splicers. Ruby rides on my back when we come in contact with water-she can't swim- but other than that, she walks. I find myself crawling sometimes, but I think that's just because these hooks are so damn heavy. I've already decided to not get all spliced up and start drinking Adam, besides, apparently Ruby is trying to find my "old suit". She keeps saying something about a bouncer.

"Dean! Splicer up ahead!" Ruby screams, running behind me as I see a thuggish splicer come running after me, shouting stuff about "Giving back that child", and "Back away from her you monster" and other bullshit like that.

"Got her." I reply, throwing my right hook like a boomerang. It slices right through her neck, decapitating her, then comes flying back to me. I catch it with ease; I'm getting pretty good.

"Alright, let's keep going." I tell her, walking ahead. She follows behind me, sniffing the air.

"Hey Dean..." she says carefully.

"Yeah?" I ask her, still walking.

"...above you." she replies, worriedly, jumping on my back.

"Wha-?" I look up in time to see the glass break. Sea water comes crashing in. I trip, and get swept up in the water. I crash into the wall with a moan, and Ruby follows me,tumbling onto my lap. A small robot appears from the waterfall. It looks like the one from the dock, except, well, more like a girl. Ruby yelps and hides behind me as the monster walks up. I try to make a move to grab my hooks, but it's hard, and I ache all over. The monster walks up to me, but stops.

"Hey, Heather, you better come look at this," it says, and I realize it's a girl. Another one appears next to it-her.

"He doesn't look like a splicer..." the other one says-Heather-.

"...But he has hooks." the original one says.

"Lemme take a closer look, my helmet's all dirty." Heather says, then takes off her helmet. The other one does too.

"Yep, he sure doesn't look like a splicer, especially not a spider." the nameless one says. She has light brown hair pulled into a pony tail, with bright blue eyes.

"He's cute!" Heather says with a grin. Her long blond hair sweeps over her shoulder, and her neon green eyes remind me of someone, but I can't place it.

I hear Ruby whimper behind me, and the two teenage girls look over my shoulder.

"Awww it's a little sister." the brown-haired girl says.

"You think he stole her?" Heather asks.

"No, I don't even think he's a splicer Heather. I really don't." she says.

"Looks can be deceiving Star." Heather says.

Suddenly, Ruby comes out from behind me, and stands on my legs, glaring at me.

"So? Miss Violet puts her trust in you, then you let two big sisters almost take me? Protect me you lazy slob!" she yells at me. I feebly reach for my hook, but I can't reach, and give up, letting out a groan.

"Pussy." Ruby glares at me, then points to my hook. "Can you hand me that?" she asks Star. Star nods, and hands her the hook.

Ruby grunts her thanks, then gets a good grip on the hook, and promptly whacks me over the head with it. Luckily, it was the rounded side, and she didn't crack my skull open. I then suddenly stand up, and lean against the wall.

"I'm up! I'm up!" I say, my head spinning.

"Good." she grunts, then turns to the big sisters. "Do you by any chance know where the Fort Frolic auditorium is?"

"Oh! Take a left, then two rights, and then one more left, and you should be there." Heather says, pointing.

"Thank you! Let's go shithead." she tells me, and something itches in my mind again.

That sounds...very familiar...

Ruby nags at me the whole way there, saying things like, "You couldn't protect me against a freaking fly!" and, "Why the hell where you even born?" and other bullshit like that. It's getting on my nerves.

But, because I'm a good person, I just keep walking.

Finally, we reach it.

It's huge, with a giant staircase and stage. Doorways lead off to different places, and spotlights shine down on random spots throughout the entire auditorium. For a moment, it's silent, but a loud moan-like cry breaks through the serenity of the quietness. And I recognize it immediately as one of those monsters from the deck. Both our heads whip towards the direction of it, and look just in time to see a dead one drop to the floor, and another one standing over it, it's lights red as lasers. It gives another loud moan when it sees us, after a moment or two, it charges toward us. Ruby screams, we both jump sideways. But I don't in time, and it lashes at me with its fist, and I go smashing against the wall.

"Dean!" Ruby yells for the first time, as the "big daddy" picks her up. I moan as the thing walks out of the room, holding Ruby.

And that's the last thing I see

I wake up to find myself in the same position as when I blacked-out. But, my hooks are gone.

And some bastard stole my clothes.

Sighing, I pull myself up, knowing that I'll have to go save Ruby now. I walk steadily towards the door which the thing left with her, but something catches my eye, and I stop short. Looking towards the stage, something glistens dully. Walking up, I realize it's a suit.

A big daddy suit. Looking around, I see there's no one here. Zipping on the suit, I feel like a part of me, lost before, has just come back. Then, putting on the helmet, something...something...amazing happens.

I remember.

Sorry for the long wait again! I promise the next one should be out sooner than this one. Anyway, remember to R&R and I hope you enjoyed chapter 3 of Return!