Rapture family:
Fontaine Futuristics, Rapture:
Ryan recently woke up in the Fontaine Futuristics building. Among other things, he finally found another, sane, living being. An adult female called Sofia Lamb.
Ryan was now inside a Vita-chamber being scanned.
"Interesting." Muttered the Security-bot as it floated in place In front of a monitor displaying the results of the scan.
"Interesting? what's interesting?" asked Ryan.
"What are you?" asked the bot, ignoring Ryan's question.
"A brother...a Little Brother." He answered back, a little embarrassed
"Your not so little anymore." It joked. Ryan already knew that, but what was the point of all these scans?
There was a pause, then the bot opened the pod, letting Ryan out. Soon another bot came flying into view before stopping right next to the first.
"Follow this Security Bot, it will take you to a room where you can rest, give a shout if you need anything" the first bot said before it flew away.
Ryan watched it leave before following the security bot. As they walked Ryan examined the mini helicopter he was following. This model was a bit older then the first and it didn't have any communication features. This was clearly a combat model, due to the small gun and box of ammo that made up most of the body of it. His musings were cut off as they stopped.
The bot gestured to the door a few feet away with it's gun several times and then flew away, making a low beeping sound, as all combat models do.
Entering the room he first noticed it was clean, which was always nice. The room was overall at least four times the size of the room in the back of his hidey hole. The bed was enormous, it alone wouldn't have fit in his old room. Queen, maybe king size, he assumed.
He wanted nothing more then to run up to the bed, throw himself on it and sleep for eternity but when you live in rapture you develop some pretty strict habits to keep yourself alive. Turning around he locked the door, getting a chair from the nearby desk and propping it against the door he made sure it was securely closed before turning around. It wouldn't keep any determined Splicers out but it would give him fair warning to get a weapon or escape.
'Speaking of which...' Ryan mused to himself, closely examining the room his trained mind told him that the only exit besides the door was a small ventilation shaft, about the size of his head, and the only weapons in the room were the letter opener on the desk, the coat rack right next to him, and the lamp on the nightstand by the bed.
It wasn't much but he could take out an average Splicer with those if needed.
"I can work with this." muttered Ryan as he walked over and sat on the bed. Thinking for a second he got back up and grabbed the letter opener before walking back and laying it on the nightstand.
Normally he would be a bit more strung out about sleeping anywhere but the total safety of his Hidey Hole but Ryan was too tired to care at this point.
It took a bit of getting used to, as the pillows were practically air compared to his usual bedding's, but he was sound asleep within five minutes.
Persephone, Rapture:
Sofia was smiling, her new army of Big Sisters was ready.
"You did an excellent job on the Big Sister suit." Sofia complimented the creator of the suits as she inspected them.
"Anything for you." said Daniel as he stood next to her, letting a small amount of pride slip through his controlled mask before he continued. "I'll do my part as long as you do yours."
"Of course I will." She replied, actually sounding offended.
"You'll give me my son?" Daniel reminded, in a dead serious tone.
She turned to look him in the eye, "I will."
"Exactly the way he was, not a Little Brother." He clarified, his tone still grave.
She nodded, "I am a woman of my word."
Daniel nodded and walked away to tend to his other projects. Passing a Security Bot on his way out.
Sofia looked at the floating machine, "Gil, anything interesting?" She asked, the security bot took its time before responding. "Yes, it turns out that the scientists injected Ryan with a small amount of Big Daddy hormones, the slug they used must have been from a fallen Little Sister. Once implanted into him the slug accepted him like a Little Sister would accept her Big Daddy."
Sofia chuckled, "Andrew, Andrew, Andrew... You always were a sneaky one."
"What are you planning to do with the boy?" asked Gil.
"Simple, I realize that there will always be people out there that will reject the people's daughter, try to get rid of her, revolt against her." began Sofia.
"Yes yes I realize this. But what does that have to do with the boy?" He sounded offended, she talked as if he was half-witted enough not to think of these types of things.
"That is where the boy comes in my dear Gil. He will be Eleanor's protector, her general. The leader of my new Big Sister army." said Sofia.
Gil took a few moments to think of the possibilities before asking, "But what about Daniel? The promised you made him?"
Sofia chuckled a bit before looking back to her army as they trained and got used to their new suits. "You let me handle that."
Fontaine Futuristics, Rapture:
After what seemed like months Ryan woke up, an unpleasant empty feeling gnawing at his stomach. He was starving! Moaning he got out of bed, grabbed the letter opener, shoving it in the waist-band of his pants, and began to move the barricade he put up. Slowly opening the door he peaked his head out, seeing nothing he opened the door carefully.
Once he was out in the hallway he spotted a vending machine a few dozen feet away. Sneaking carefully he was quickly examining the various food stuffs with the machine.
Glancing around again and straining his ears he once again detected no one so he took off his shirt and wrapped it around his hand before hitting the glass with all his might, breaking it.
He hissed a bit in pain before reaching in, grabbing some chips, crackers, and some candy bars, before sprinting back to his room. Quickly and quietly re-applying his barricade he threw his prize on the bed and with a single thought of, 'Fooood.' He ravenously ripped into and ate the plundered food.
For eating to fast he was rewarded with a stomach ache but he didn't care, it was much better than the empty feeling of starving.
After a couple minutes of eating and one more of cleaning himself off he heard a voice through the intercom, "Ryan Andrew, report to Gil's office. I repeat, Ryan Andrew, report to Gil's office."
So he once again took down his barricade and ventured into the hall. Seeing a sign on his left with the words Offices written on it he started walking that way.
It only took a couple of minutes to arrive at a door labeled 'Gil'. Opening the door he saw the first bot from before hovering above a chair behind a desk.
"Ryan...Rapture has changed, its getting more vicious, and life threatening every day. It's dangerous to go out alone, use this." Gil said as he flew over to a metal pile on the couch.
With a bit of looking Ryan Found the metal pile was actually a suit. The diving suit was reminiscent of the Big Daddy suit, but the suit was smaller, sleeker. He knew just by looking at it he wouldn't be as protected as the big daddies were, but he would have much greater mobility. The suit even looked hand made to be as light and protective as possible. Three accessories caught his interest however.
The helmet, which consists of a large metal sphere with an opening on the front made of, most likely, bulletproof glass, was almost identical to the Delta Series Big Daddy he had seen following Eleanor around way back when.
There was a forearm mounted harvester, with a start he recognized it was his old one. He had engraved his name upon the suction device. The needle was new though, easily two feet long.
On the back of the chest piece there was some sort of metal basket for something, or someone, to ride in.
"Try it on, see if it fits." Gil prompted, breaking Ryan from his examining.
It took an hour of learning but now Ryan was confident he could get in and out of his suit within five minutes. Putting on the suit once again he tightened the harvester and secured the helmet before looking back at Gil.
"Perfect." The bot chirped, "Now Sofia wants to see you, she has heard a lot about you."
'Sofia Lamb, who on earth is she?' Ryan had never heard of her, but apparently she knew about him.
To be continued...