Last time our heroes came face to face with the horrors of Rapture, encountering not only Splicers, Little Sisters and Big Daddies, but also experiencing the polarizing extremes of Ryan and Atlas. After recklessly trying to rescue a Little Sister, then trying to help a wounded Splicer, Kairi got more than she bargained for in the form of three bullets to her torso. 'Nuff said, on with the show!
Chapter 3: A Very Special Plasmid
"She's hurt bad!" said Rachael as she pulled out a first aid kit.
"Gee, it must be Obvious Day at Camp Stupid!" snapped Tess, "of course she's hurt, she's been shot!"
"Kairi's always been there to heal us," said Riku in a stunned tone as Rachael, Chrissie and Travis tried to stop the bleeding, "but when she gets hurt…"
"She's going to be fine!" said Sora defiantly, "Kairi's going to be fine and don't you forget it!"
"She may not be fine for much longer," said Chrissie, "we've slowed the bleeding down but the bullets are still in her."
"Just be glad they're normal bullets and not antipersonnel," said Joshua as he examined the revolver that was used to shoot Kairi.
"Normal first aid isn't enough," said Rachael, "we've got to get her to Dr. Tenenbaum."
"I thought Dr. Tenenbaum was a doctor of science, not medicine," said Malcolm.
"In times like this, she's both," said Liza, "now help me scrounge up some stuff to make a stretcher! Where's a U-Invent when you need one?"
"Will this do?" Aiden asked after he transmuted a pile of trash into a stretcher.
"How'd you do that?" Liza asked, "and don't tell me it's magic," she then stubbornly crossed her arms, "there's no such thing as magic, only science."
"Then how do you explain our Keyblades?" Aiden asked as Sora, Riku and Travis carefully placed Kairi in the stretcher.
"Science, of course," said Liza, "some form of psycho-kinetic manipulation of thought to matter, maybe you have the power to store items in a pocket dimension."
"Vanishing and summoning items is one of the basic forms of magic we learn where I come from," said Malcolm.
"Science is science," said Liza stubbornly.
"Anything supernatural can be explained logically," said Calvin as Sora and Riku lifted Kairi up and they all hurried out of the area, "if modern means can't explain it, it will be as technology improves."
"So you'll be able to put a label on magic and call it another form of science?" Tess asked.
"Why are we having this conversation at a time like this!?" Sora exclaimed, "Kairi's bleeding to death and you're having a magic vs. science debate?!"
"She's not going to die, Sora," said Riku, "just calm down."
"How can I calm down when Kairi's been shot?!" exclaimed Sora, "she's probably in more pain than she's ever been in her life."
"The Tracker Jacker hurt more," said Kairi in a weak but stable tone as she leaned her head up, "just calm down, Sora, I'll be fine."
"You're not fine!" exclaimed Sora, "you're bleeding to death!"
"It takes a while to bleed to death from a belly wound," said Kairi, "and the bullets missed my vital organs, so stop freaking out already."
"I'M NOT FREAKING OUT!" shouted Sora, only to be slapped in the face by Rachael.
"I know someone freaking out when I see it," said Rachael, "you're freaking out."
"Sora, you take the point," said Chrissie, "if my memory serves me right, we're less than fifty yards from a shortcut to our hideout. Joshua, go with him. Travis, you help carry Kairi."
"We'll stay with her, Sora," said Tess, "go ahead and see if the path is clear."
"Go, Sora!" Kairi insisted, "having a mental breakdown won't help me."
"Uh…okay," said Sora in a subdued tone. With that he and Joshua hurried ahead.
"Is he gone?" Kairi asked.
"He's gone," said Aiden.
"Good," groaned Kairi as she collapsed onto the stretcher, cringing in agony, "I didn't want him to see me like this!"
"I thought the Tracker Jacker sting hurt more," said Malcolm.
"I lied!" moaned Kairi as she clutched at her midsection, the bandages around her wounds beginning to soak with blood, "this is the worst pain ever!"
"Just hang on, Kairi," said Riku in a reassuring tone, "we'll get to you to Dr. Tenenbaum," he looked at Chrissie, "she can help Kairi, right?"
"She's probably the only one in Rapture who can," said Chrissie, "come on, let's get going."
"If we can just get to the siding without running into any more Splicers," said Rachael.
"What siding?" Tess asked.
"That siding," said Chrissie as she pointed at a nearby window. Out in the freezing water was a large, half-buried pipe leading from the section of the city to another.
"You want us to crawl through that pipe?" Aiden asked, "Kairi won't last that long."
"That's not a pipe, it's a train tunnel," said Liza.
"Atlantic Express," said Chrissie, "a train system connecting different areas of Rapture. It's mostly shutdown thanks to the Bathysphere System, but the maintenance sidings are still open."
"That's how we've been able to get around Rapture so easily," said Travis.
They found Sora and Joshua at pile of rubbish that Chrissie and her group pushed aside, revealing a hidden airlock that they opened. Inside the airlock was a large handcar on a track that went off into the tunnel.
"This one leads to Olympic Heights," said Chrissie as they all climbed aboard the handcar, "from there it's just a hop, skip and a jump to our hideout."
"We hope," said Travis.
At that Sora, Riku, Aiden and Malcolm stood on one side of the pump handles, Travis, Calvin, Joshua and Chrissie on the other, with Tess, Liza and Rachael sitting with Kairi. Those at the hand pump moved the handles up and down and the car began moving into the gloominess of the tunnel.
A short time later the handcar arrived at the other end of the tunnel in a room identical to the one our heroes had just left. Sora and Joshua picked up the stretcher carrying Kairi as Chrissie opened the door to the city section, then pushed aside the concealing rubbish.
"Coast's clear," said Chrissie after she looked around.
"Exactly how far is a hop, skip and jump in Rapture?" Tess asked as our heroes hurried through the city section with Aiden taking the lead.
"We're less than five minutes away," said Chrissie.
"Assuming we don't run into any Splicers," said Travis.
"They haven't figured out that we're using the sidings," said Joshua.
"And I don't smell any pheromones," said Liza.
"What is it about the pheromones?" Malcolm asked.
"That's how Ryan controls the Splicers," said Calvin, "heightened senses are a side effect of Plasmid abuse, especially the sense of smell."
"I just happen to have a naturally gifted nose," said Liza, "Big Daddies, on the other hand, they have their own pheromones that I can't pick up."
"We usually hear them first," said Rachael, "but sometimes they're so quiet, we don't know they're there until we run right into the,."
"You mean like now?" a visibly nervous Malcolm asked.
"What?" Aiden asked as he looked back, seeing that everyone was looking ahead with a frightened expression on their faces. Aiden looked ahead just as he bumped right into a Bouncer type Big Daddy that was escorting a Little Sister.
Aiden looked up at the creature as its eyes turned red and it groaned menacingly. "Uh…sorry…" said Aiden, just before the Big Daddy backhanded him into the wall. The creature then let out a wrathful grunt as steam jetted from its helmet, while it scooped its Little Sister onto its back.
"Hurt him, Mr. B!" exclaimed the Little Sister, "Tear him to bits!"
The creature's drill arm spun rapidly as it charged at Aiden, intending to impale and rip him apart. Aiden barely managed to duck and roll out of the way, then rolled away again as the creature tried to crush his head.
"Get away from my friend, you metal monster!" shouted Tess as she aimed and fired her Keyblade Shotgun at the Big Daddy. The blast significantly damaged the creature but it rushed at Tess and knocked her down, then backhanded Malcolm with its drill arm.
"Eat mercy, you pile of scrap!" shouted Joshua as he loaded another chemical tank into his Chemical Thrower, aimed and shot a stream of blue liquid that crackled with energy. The liquid hit the Big Daddy, stopping it in its tracks as electricity coursed through its body.
"Let 'em have it!" shouted Riku as he and everyone aimed and shot their weapons at the Big Daddy, with a grenade from Calvin finishing the creature off.
"Alright, we did it!" said Aiden triumphantly.
"But, what have we done?" Riku asked as he saw the Little Sister, distraughtly bawling over the destroyed Big Daddy.
"Get up, Mr. Bubbles!" wailed the Little Sister as she clutched at the fallen creature, "Please! Get up!"
"What do we do?" Sora asked as he looked at the mutated child.
"We take her with us," said Chrissie, "Dr. Tenenbaum will know what to do."
"Are you serious?!" Travis asked as he reloaded his shotgun, "we can't take a Little Sister? She'll bring down another Big Daddy before we can blink! Or worse, attract a horde of Splicers."
"Then we'd better get out of here before she does," said Chrissie, "help me with her!" with that she and Rachael rushed up to the Little Sister and picked her up.
"NO!" shouted the Little Sister as she struggled weakly against Chrissie and Rachael, "NO! NO NO!"
"Somebody gag the little freak," groaned Tess as Riku helped her up, her left arm limp at her side and a gash was bleeding across her forehead, "and anybody got an aspirin?"
"You think you're suffering?" Malcolm moaned as Aiden helped him up, "I think I'm bleeding internally," he gently felt his midsection and winced, "oh, yes, I've got a ruptured squeedily spooch."
"You've got a what?" Travis asked as he and Sora picked up Kairi's stretcher, "never mind, let's just go."
They hurried through the city section, ever watchful for more Splicers or another Big Daddy, all the while Rachael and Chrissie held onto the struggling Little Sister.
Eventually they reached a door concealed behind a faded and scratched poster advertising various Plasmids. Past the door lay a staircase that lead down to another door, this one much larger.
Rachael pulled out one of her wrenches and knocked twice, then three times, then one more. At that the door opened and there stood a woman in her early 30's with long brown hair, green eyes and wearing a mildly ragged blouse and skirt with brown shoes.
"Thank goodness, you all made it," said Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum.
"Some of us are hurt pretty bad, Dr. T." said Chrissie as she and the others hurried inside the hideout, with Dr. Tenenbaum closing and locking the door behind them. Inside the sanctuary lay various pieces of old and slightly damaged furniture, boxes of food and ammunition and various bric-a-brac strewn about the floor. A handful of men, women and children were scattered about the area, while one side of the room was set up as a makeshift laboratory.
"Kairi's been shot!" said Sora.
"I'm fine," said Kairi weakly as she tried to sit up, only to be gently pushed down by Aiden and Riku, "help Tess and Malcolm!"
"Three bullet wounds trump a dislocated arm and a concussion," said Tess as Liza brought a gauze pad to her forehead.
"What's a ruptured Squeedily Spooch compared to getting shot?" Malcolm asked, he then glared at Tess, "but we wouldn't be in this mess if someone hadn't given away all our healing items."
"So it's my fault that Kairi got shot, you're bleeding internally and my skull's half crushed!?" exclaimed Tess, "just wait until I pop my arm back into my shoulder! I'll hit you so hard, your ancestors and descendents will feel it!"
"There'll be no violence in this place of refuge!" insisted Dr. Tenenbaum, "this is a place of safety and sanity against the insanity into which Rapture has descended into. Now, you younglings can either lay aside your hostility and allow me to help your friend, or you can leave and settle your differences like barbarians, outside."
"I'm no barbarian," said Malcolm, "and I'm sorry, Tess. But I'm still pissed."
"I'm still hurt, but I accept your apology," said Tess, "now what about Kairi?"
"Bring the child here," said Dr. Tenenbaum as she walked over to her makeshift laboratory, "I believe I have something that will help her."
"If you're going to operate," said Kairi, "you should know, I'm allergic to morphine."
"You never told me that," said a surprised Sora.
"You never asked," said Kairi.
"I'd prefer to keep surgery as a last resort," said Dr. Tenenbaum as she went to a makeshift refrigerator and pulled out a corked vial full of a glowing blue liquid, "but this will heal the wounds and neutralize any infections organisms in said wounds."
"Is that…what is that, Dr. T?" Liza asked.
"It's a Plasmid, isn't it," said Chrissie.
"A single-use Plasmid," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "one I had hoped would cure Splicers of their addiction and reverse their physical and psychological mutations."
"And you're gonna inject that stuff into Kairi?!" exclaimed Sora, "over my dead body, you are!"
"Don't argue with her, Sora," insisted Chrissie, "if Dr. Tenenbaum says it can help Kairi, it will."
"But Plasmids helped destroy Rapture," said Riku, "it drove so many people mad and wiped out so many more."
"You guys said you too were on the brink of going crazy," said Aiden.
"We still can," said Travis as he walked to another refrigerator and pulled out several syringes full of a different glowing blue liquid and handed one each to his friends, keeping one for himself. They all injected the liquids into their left wrists, sighing with relief as the liquid coursed through their veins.
"What was that crap you just mainlined?" Riku asked.
"EVE," said Rachael as she smiled with content, "it recharges Plasmid abilities.
"And keeps us from wanting more ADAM," said Travis, "at least the batches that Dr. T. has been making," he then looked at his friends with serious eyes, "but it won't matter much longer, there's only a few shots left of the special brand."
"I used the last of my stored ADAM to make it," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "and I no longer have access to fresh ADAM slugs."
"Couldn't we use normal EVE?" Liza asked, "there's plenty of EVE Hypos all over Rapture."
"We start using normal EVE, we'll start wanting more Plasmids and Gene Tonics," said Chrissie, "next thing you know, we'll be just another half dozen Splicers."
"It won't come to that, my friends," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "I've been working on a plan to acquire more ADAM to manufacture the special EVE," she then looked at Sora, "but first, let me assure you that this special Plasmid will not alter your friend's genetic code, merely stimulate her own body's healing."
"Should you get the bullets out first?" Tess asked.
"The healing Plasmid will neutralize the bullets," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "at least I believe it will."
"You haven't tested it yet, have you," said Malcolm.
"No way are you injecting Kairi with some experimental drug!" insisted Sora as she stood between Kairi and Dr. Tenenbaum, "especially one that may or may not dissolve bullets or whatever it's supposed to do."
"I can get the bullets out, Sora," said Malcolm, "a simple translocation spell should do the trick."
"Oh boy, here we go again with the magic," sighed Liza, "Dr. T., please tell them that there's no such thing as magic."
"If there's one thing I've learned as a scientist," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "is to keep an open mind."
"Alright then," said Liza, "let's see you pull the bullets out, without hurting Kairi."
"Gladly," said Malcolm as he cracked his knuckles. He walked over to Kairi, grabbing an empty coffee can, "I'll be as gentle as possible."
"Just get them out," said Kairi through gritted teeth.
"Here I go, then!" said Malcolm as he held his hands over Kairi's wounds and chanted a spell. There was a flash of light and the first bullet clattered into the coffee can. Five seconds later there was a slightly weaker flash and the second bullet fell into the coffee can. Malcom's brow furrowed as he repeated the spell, then repeated it again. There was a final, almost miniscule flash and the last bullet fell into the coffee can.
"You did it!" said Sora, while Liza and her friends looked on with astonished eyes.
"Barely," said a slightly winded Malcolm as he wiped sweat from his brow, "the spell should have gotten all three bullets out at once. Something's messing with my mojo."
"We'll worry about that later," said Riku, "let's just get Kairi healed up."
"I still don't like it," said Sora, "I don't want Kairi injected with drugs."
"It's either that or operate to repair the internal damage," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "and considering that this is hardly the time or place for a major operation, I humbly suggest you let me help your friend in the best way I can."
"Let her do it, Sora," said Chrissie.
"Unless you want a messy and potentially lethal operation," said Tess, "in that case, I hope there's plenty of blood donors here who share the same type as Kairi."
"But…" said Sora.
"Don't be an idiot, Sora," said Kairi in a harsh whisper, "let Dr. Tenenbaum do what she has to do."
At that Sora tried to argue further but words failed him as he stood aside.
"This may feel somewhat unpleasant," said Dr. Tenenbaum as she soaked a strip of bandage in alcohol and sterilized the crook of Kairi's elbow, "but you should start to heal within seconds."
"If it works," said Aiden.
"If Dr. Tenenbaum says it works, it will work," insisted Calvin.
"I won't blame you if it doesn't," said Kairi, "I'm not afraid."
"That's good," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "you may need that courage." At that she injected the Plasmid into Kairi.
Almost immediately, Kairi tensed up, her face a grimace of pain as the foreign substance coursed through her blood vessels.
"It didn't work!" said Sora as Kairi began convulsing on the stretcher, "she's hurting more now than ever!"
"No, it's just the ADAM stimulating her genetic code," said Dr. Tenenbaum. "It's accelerating her natural healing prowess."
"You hope, you mean," said Tess.
But after a few seconds Kairi relaxed stopped moving, sighing with relief as she passed out.
Sora and Chrissie carefully removed the bandages and to everyone's astonishment, the three bullet holes were slowly closing up.
"You did it, Dr. Tenenbaum!" said Rachael, "you are a genius."
"I'm just a gifted amateur," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "and fortunate to have my talents recognized and exploited by the right people when so many of my fellow countrymen were slaughtered."
"Either way, you made something incredible," said Malcolm, "any chance I can have some of that healing Plasmid for my Squeedily Spooch?"
"And what about my concussion?" Tess asked as she had Riku hold her left hand tightly. She jerked back, wincing as her arm popped back into its socket, "and my shoulder's sore too!" she said as she grimaced against the pain.
"Those can be treated with some normal medicine," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "Normal for Rapture that is," she then looked at Sora, "as for your friend, she'll need plenty of rest, but she will be fine."
"Thank goodness," said Sora as he held Kairi's hand. He then looked at Dr. Tenenbaum, "how can I ever repay you?"
"You can by helping me atone for my greatest failure," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "by freeing the Little Sisters from the curse they've been placed under."
"And what curse is that?" Riku asked.
"See for yourself," said Dr. Tenenbaum as she indicated the captured Little Sister, whom was struggling to get away from Travis and Joshua, "they've lost so much of their humanity, retaining a fragment of innocence that has been perverted by their conditioning to collect ADAM from the dead. It shames me that my discovery lead to such abominations.
"When I first saw what was done to these girls, I was sickened and wanted nothing to do with them. But as a scientist, I had to try to understand what they had become. The more I studied the Little Sisters, the more I was disgusted by them, but one day I found that I did care for them, enough so to want to do something about their horrific fates."
She then walked back to the refrigerator and pulled out a vial filled with a red liquid, "my greatest achievement yet, greater than any Plasmid marketed by Fontaine Futuristics. With this Plasmid, you will be able to restore to the Little Sisters what was so wrongfully taken from them; their souls."
"Have you really done it, Dr. Tenenbaum?" Chrissie asked, "you figured out how to save them?"
"If I have, there is only one way to find out," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "and for that, I must ask one of you to do the unthinkable."
"You want one of us to use this new Plasmid," said Rachael.
"But you guys are recovering addicts or something like that," said Malcolm.
"But we also owe Dr. T. for our lives and sanity," said Liza, "in Rapture, you pay what's owed. I'll do it, I'll take the new Plasmid," she then rolled up the sleeve of her left hand, "hit me!"
"No, I'll do it!" said Calvin, "you've taken plenty of Plasmids as it is."
"I have three Plasmid abilities and a standard set of Gene Tonics, just like the rest of us," said Liza, "I'm just as strong, smart and fast as you and the others are, even smarter in some cases. I'm just as capable of getting around Rapture and I'm probably braver than you are, big brother."
"That still doesn't make it right," said Calvin.
"No, it isn't," said Chrissie as she found a box of straws, pulled out six, cut one in half and mixed it in with the rest, then held them in one fist at random lengths, "whoever draws the short one is the guinea pig."
"Do you even know what a guinea pig is?" Joshua asked after he and Travis finished tying up the struggling Little Sister.
"Have you even seen a real guinea pig?" Travis asked.
"No, and I bet neither have you," said Chrissie, "but fair is fair."
"Truer words have never been spoken," said Rachael. One by one she and the others drew straws, with the short straw going to Liza.
"Looks like I'm the guinea pig after all," said Liza as she smiled smugly.
"You cheated," said Calvin stubbornly.
"I never cheat," said Liza, "I'm just lucky," she then looked at Dr. Tenenbaum, "hit me, Doc."
"I cannot say that this will be easy for you, young Eliza," said Dr. Tenenbaum as she swabbed alcohol on Liza's left palm, "the temptation to acquire more ADAM for yourself will only grow stronger, but so long as you hold onto that which you value the most, your heart, you'll overcome the desire to commit an act of unforgivable evil."
"What's she mean by that?" Tess asked, "what act of unforgivable evil?"
"One of the side effects of the special Plasmid is that it will extract the ADAM from the Little Sister," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "one way or another."
"She means I'll want more ADAM than I'll get from freeing a Little Sister," said Liza, "and to get that ADAM, I'll want to rip open the Little Sister to get the ADAM slug in her belly."
"That's horrible!" exclaimed Kairi as she sat up, then almost fell over dizzily, "you can't make her take something that'll make her want to kill a little girl!"
"Kairi, you need to lie down!" said Sora as he and Aiden gently pushed Kairi down, "you're still weak."
"I'm strong enough to stop Liza from being turned into a murdering psychopath!" said Kairi.
"I want this, Kairi!" said Liza, "I have to do it, even at the risk of my own sanity and soul."
"So you did cheat," said Calvin, "but I get why."
"I don't get it," said Malcolm, while Riku, Aiden and Tess shook their head.
"It's not her," said Liza as she looked at the captive Little Sister, "but one of them is…was…may still be…my best friend from when I was little. I refuse to believe that my friend is lost forever. If Dr. T's new Plasmid can cure this one Little Sister here, than I can use it to save my friend from herself," she then looked at Dr. Tenenbaum, "do it before someone else tries to change my mind."
At that Dr. Tenenbaum injected the Plasmid into Liza. She winced and nearly lost her balance as her DNA was altered. But she stood up straight and smiled a bit after a few seconds.
"You okay?" Sora asked.
"My head hurts a bit, but yeah, I'm fine," said Liza. "Let's see if this stuff works," with that she walked over to the captive Little Sister and untied her. The mutated girl tried to run but Liza grabbed her in an iron grip and lifted her up with her left hand, while her the blood vessels glowed with bright purple energy.
"NO!" protested the Little Sister as she tried to push herself free of Liza, "NO! NO NO!" but then Liza touched the Little Sister's forehead. The energy from Liza's right hand passed into the Little Sister, lighting up her eyes and blood vessels until a white light engulfed them both.
When the light faded, Liza released the Little Sister and sat back, sighing with exhaustion, while the Little Sister's skin and eyes had returned to that of a normal child's.
"Are you alright?" Liza asked.
"I…yes, I'm okay," said the child, "what…what happened?"
"You've been having a horrible nightmare, little one," said Dr. Tenenbaum as she smiled warmly at the child, "but you're awake, at long last, you're awake."
"Then…did it work?" Aiden asked as Chrissie and Rachael led the child away to get something to eat, "is that girl no longer a Little Sister?"
"She's no longer a slave to the Little Sister conditioning," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "no longer an ageless abomination with only the collection of ADAM on her mind. However, she has the ADAM slug implanted in her system, and will keep it in her until the day she dies."
"The slugs are like a hyped-up immune system," said Joshua, "take it out and she'll die within minutes if not sooner."
"But she's not an ADAM factory anymore," said Liza, "in fact," she then felt her stomach and winced with slightly discomfort, "I think I sucked out some of what she already had."
"We'd better get it out of you before you decide to use it," said Calvin, "if we can get it out, that is."
"That's what the ADAM syringes are for," said Dr. Tenenbaum as she picked said device up, "unless you'd rather not suffer any more needles today."
"After what I just experienced," said Liza as she took they syringe, "a needle to my gut sounds like a cakewalk." She then jabbed herself in the stomach and withdrew several milliliters of glowing red liquid.
"You can't expect us to believe that that didn't hurt," said Riku.
"It did!" cried Liza as she clutched at her stomach, "I think I'm gonna be sick!" she then ran for the bathroom.
"Good thing most of the plumbing in Rapture still works," said Travis as Calvin ran after Liza.
"So, by restoring a Little Sister's humanity," said Sora, "you also get more ADAM."
"Enough to make more of the special EVE young Chrysanthemum and her friends need," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "as well as the healing Plasmid your friend Kairi is enjoying."
"It's still wrong," said Kairi as she tried to sit up again.
"It is, but it makes sense," said Aiden, "and I know what you want from us, Dr. Tenenbaum; we help you rescue Little Sisters as payment for helping Kairi. But it's not quite equal in my eye."
"True," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "there's something more you need, the one thing you travelers came to Rapture for."
"You'd help us find the missing power?" Sora asked.
"What missing power?" Chrissie asked as she and Rachael came back.
"Long story," said Aiden.
"And an interesting one at that," said Dr. Tenenbaum, "but yes, if one of you were to partake of the Rescue Plasmid and help liberate the Little Sisters, then yes, I will help you find this missing power of yours."
"You want one of us to shoot that ADAM garbage into our system and Splice up?!" exclaimed Tess.
"If it means helping Cinderella and the others back home, then yes," said Aiden, "that would be an equivalent exchange."
The End of Chapter 3.
Next chapter finds our heroes fighting their way through Rapture to liberate the Little Sisters, unaware that the worst horrors are yet to come. Reviews will be rewarded with cake and pie. See you then!
