Lost Beneath the Waves

Ch. 6

Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia or Bioshock.

Pauper's Drop was one of the worst places in Rapture. The rich citizens of Rapture knew it, the people who were forced to live there knew it, and the Big Daddy known as Delta knew it. Delta didn't relish the idea of going into worst district in Rapture, but there were plenty of ADAM filled corpses their and the Big Daddy was supposed to go wherever the ADAM was. So it was thanks to this need to be where the ADAM was that the Big Daddy now found himself standing in the train station banging on the Little Sister vent. It only took two hits to the vent for Eleanor to poke her head out of the hole. Upon seeing her protector a large smile appeared on the girl's face.

"Hello daddy!" Eleanor greeted cheerfully.

Delta just groaned out his own greeting before he pulled the girl out of the vent and placed her on the floor. The second the girl's feet touched the floor she started skipping off into the main hub of Pauper's Drop.

"The angels are this way daddy!" The girl called out.

Delta just followed after the girl, and once they walked into the large area they immediately stumbled upon a body. The corpse was of some young man leaning up against a small booth. Eleanor immediately went to work at harvesting the ADAM, and the Big Daddy just stood beside her and started to check out their surroundings. There were a few people out in the streets, but they stood far away from them. The Fishbowl Diner that stood nearby was packed with people. The Big Daddy could see the people staring at him and Eleanor, and he could even see a few people point at them. He couldn't hear what they were saying about him or Eleanor, but he didn't really care. No one was trying to hurt him or his little girl, and as long as no one tried to attack them the Big Daddy could care less about what they did.

Eventually Eleanor finished harvesting the corpse, and when she was done she got up and started to skip along to the next ADAM filled corpse. As the pair walked by the diner the Big Daddy could see all of the people staring at him in fear and slight confusion. However, right when they walked past the door to the diner they heard someone shout out the Little Sister's name.

"Eleanor!"

The Big Daddy and Little Sister turned around just in time to see a woman come running toward them. She was a beautiful woman with short black hair, big brown eyes, and a bright yellow dress that made her stick out amongst the dark and dreary setting that was Pauper's Drop. Before the Big Daddy or the Little Sister could react the women raced over to the girl and hugged her. The Big Daddy was at a loss as to what he should do. The woman was touching Eleanor and that was a bad thing to do, but she was hugging the child not harming her. Eleanor seemed to be just as confused as her protector. The girl looked like she didn't know if she should scream or just stand there and do nothing. The woman who was hugging Eleanor seemed to be completely oblivious to the fact that she was confusing the heck out of the metal daddy and the brown haired gather.

"Oh, baby girl I finally found you." The women murmured.

The women pulled away slightly from the girl and looked into the girl's glowing eyes. She seemed rather surprised to see that girl in such a state, but the Big Daddy didn't know why she was so surprised. As far as Delta knew the girl had always looked like that. However, when the women's shock finally wore off a look of pure sadness appeared to take its place.

"Eleanor what did they do to you?" She asked sadly.

Eleanor said nothing to that, but she did seem to make up her mind about what she should do.

"Daddy!" Eleanor yelled out.

That yell was all that Delta needed to hear to decide that he needed to deal with the women. Delta quickly punched the women in the face, and the second his fist connected with her jaw the metal daddy could just feel something braking. The women slammed into the diner wall and a few of the random pedestrians who were walking about started yelling. The people who had been sitting at the window that the women had just slammed into quickly scrambled away from the window. Delta picked Eleanor up and placed her on his shoulder before he quickly walked away from the women. The Big Daddy only glanced back at the women once, and when he looked back he saw that she was still alive.

A few people had gone over to the women once the Big Daddy had moved away from her, and they were now helping the women to stand back up. The woman was holding her hand up against her jaw, and a look of pain could be seen on her face. However, when the women saw that Delta was looking at her she gave the metal protector the most hateful glare that a human could possibly muster. Delta just turned away from her and proceeded to walk toward one of the tunnels that would take him to another part of Pauper's Drop.

The Big Daddy stopped moving when he realized that he had a choice of either going on to the Sinclair Deluxe or he could go down to Skid Row. Delta didn't really know which way to go so he grunted, pointed at the signs, and hoped that Eleanor would be able to figure out that he was asking for her to choose. Luckily she seemed to understand what he was asking because the girl pointed down the hall.

"I smell ADAM over there." The child exclaimed.

Delta groaned a little before he slowly started to move down the hall that would take them to Skid Row. The tunnels were empty, but Skid Row was packed full of people. There were ramshackle stands set up all around Skid Row, and they were selling all sorts of odds and ends. Some man was standing on a box outside of one of the few shops that were on Skid Row yelling out some sort of sales pitch to the people who were gathered around him. It was very noisy there, but somehow the Big Daddy was able to hear Eleanor's voice over the crowd.

"The ADAM is right there daddy!" The girl yelled out as she pointed at the corpse that was lying next to an empty stand.

Of course the stand had to be sitting right next to the guy who was yelling his lungs out. The Big Daddy sighed, but it slowly moved off to the corpse. The crowed parted for the metal daddy as he moved toward the corpse. Obviously no one wanted to be near him which was fine with the Big Daddy. Once he reached the corpse he put Eleanor down and the little girl went to work at gathering the ADAM. While he waited for her to finish he couldn't help but listen to the man's sale pitch.

"Do you find yourselves afflicted with the Plasmid blues?" The man shouted out. "Are you dizzy? Nauseous? Seeing ghosts?"

Delta could hear some of the people crowed mummer that they had indeed been experiencing these symptoms. The salesman just grinned at that, and he held up some sort of medicine bottle and started yelling some more.

"Well my friends you need to try Dr. Hollcroft's Cure-All and Pick-Me-up it has all the restorative power of genuine ADAM, at half the price!"

The crowd that had gathered around the man went ballistic at this, and they all started yelling out that they wanted a bottle. The noise was almost overwhelming to the Big Daddy, and it was also really annoying him. The metal daddy could barely make out anything that was being said, but he was able to hear his child yell out to him.

"Daddy!" Eleanor screamed.

The Big Daddy looked down only to see that some man had grabbed a hold of his child's arm, and he was holding a small knife above her head. The man froze when he saw that the Big Daddy was looking at him. The Big Daddy let out a loud angry roar that could be heard by everyone in Skid Row. The roar caused everyone to fall silent, but the silence was soon replaced by screaming when everyone in the area saw the Big Daddy reave up his drill and slam it down into the man's face. Some people ran away from the area in horror, but a few people were frozen with fear. They couldn't tear their eyes away from the violent sight, and some people couldn't even muster up a scream upon seeing the man's blood splatter about the place. When the man was dead Delta turned the drill off and lifted it up. He was covered in blood, but Eleanor was completely untouched. The girl was safe and the fact that it was now quite in Skid Row was just an added bonus to Delta.

Eleanor just smiled at Delta and said "I'm ready for dreamtime daddy."

The Big Daddy picked the girl up and placed her on his shoulder before he walked away from the scene and started to look for a Little Sister vent. The few people who were still standing there at the scene of the murder couldn't believe that they could walk away from the scene and act like nothing had happened. What they didn't know was the fact that to Eleanor the man ceased to exist. She was attacked, and her daddy saved her like the knight in shining armor that she saw him as. Her attacker had disappeared from her happy little wonderland the second that he died. To the Big Daddy the man had been nothing more than a creature who had dared to harm his child. The man was no longer a danger to them, and so he was no longer worth thinking about.

The Big Daddy was able to find a vent, and he helped his daughter into the vent. The girl wished her father a goodnight and while the metal creature grunted his equivalent of a goodnight back to her he knew he would see her again within a couple of hours. Once Eleanor was safe in her vent the Big Daddy started to make his way back to the train station. He was done here in Pauper's Drop, and he was more than ready to leave this gloomy place. Delta more or less ignored everyone that he passed by, but when he got back to the diner he noticed two women staring at them. At first he didn't pay them much attention, but then they started talking and they weren't talking quietly.

"Good lord he's covered in blood." An older woman with graying brown hair hissed out.

"Didn't you hear? He killed a boy over at Skid Row right in front of Dr. Hollcroft's pharmacy!" The other women said none too quietly.

The old brunet gasped and the blond women shouted "And that's not all that he did! He punched Grace too. I hear he broke her jaw!"

"The thing is a monster!" The brunet shouted out. "I can't believe they let that thing wonder around the city."

Delta turned to look at the two women when he heard them all him a monster. The women noticed him looking in their direction, and when they noticed him looking right at them they froze up like a pair of statues. They stared at the metal daddy with wide eyes, and the Big Daddy just stared right back at them. They really didn't do anything wrong, but for some reason hearing them call him a monster just annoyed Delta. Honestly, it was probably something that he shouldn't be bothered by.

These people didn't matter in the long run, and as long as his child was never afraid of him he was happy. Yet, even though he knew that he was still bothered by being called a monster. After staring at them for three minutes the Big Daddy turned away. The second the protector was no longer looking at them the women ran away. The Big Daddy could hear them running, but he didn't care. He just continued to make his way out of Pauper's Drop. However, as the Big Daddy left Pauper's Drop he decided that he and his daughter would not be coming back anytime soon…

Info Time!

Attacker's corpses: I know that from the eyes of a Little Sister everything is nice and peaceful, but they can be snapped out of their happy vision for a few seconds when they are surprised (first attacked). They are also capable of seeing their Big Daddy's fight off enemies even if they are in happy vision mode if some of the comments that they make when you fight enemies are anything to go by.

However, I always wondered how they viewed the corpses of any enemies that the Big Daddy brings down. Dead bodies don't exactly fit in with the happy little wonderland view that the Little Sisters got. They can see 'angels', but angels are only corpses that have enough ADAM in their bodies that can be harvested. For bodies that don't have ADAM (either because they have already been harvested or they never had any ADAM in them to begin with) they don't show up on the Little Sister's radar. So to them bodies that don't have ADAM just don't appear in their wonderland vision or they only appear as harmless obstacles. So I figure that when an enemy is defeated they sort of poof out of existence or they become 'angels' that the little sisters can harvest ADAM from. When an enemy poofs out of existence the Little Sister knows that the Big Daddy has defeated the monster, and if they become 'angels' the Little Sister will just think that Big Daddy 'put them to sleep'.

Anyway, I'll try and get the next chapter out as soon as possible so please review and don't flame.