Chapter 9: Complications

For those of who have already read before the changes last Saturday, then you probably have read this chapter.

Sister 419 was awoken by her deep thoughts by the sound of metal scraping against concrete. She recognized it as the approach of a Spider Splicer.

419 bent her knees and prepared for a fight. Spider Splicers were fast and could attack in a split second. But her blood ran cold when she hears the scream. When she looked through the window she saw a group of Spider Splicer's surrounding a Little Sister.

Not wanting to waste time, Sister 419 backed up a few paces and then ran through the glass at full speed. She landed with a dull thud a few feet from the Little Sister. She straightened up and with a deafening screech, pulled several large pieces of debris around her orbiting like planets around a star. One by one she hurled the debris at the Splicer's.

The first two projectiles hit their mark and hurled a few Spider Splicer a hundred feet backwards. A second Splicer charged forward and swiped at her with his metal hooks. 419 just managed to dodge the attack by leaning back. In response to the assault, her leg shoot up and hit the Splicer hard in the face. She could hear the sound of metal colliding with breaking bone and flesh. The mutated monster collapsed back in pain.

The last Splicer looked around his friends were dead or about to be. He looked up and saw the creature that was responsible staring back at him. Sister 419 approached the destrout Splicer, who appeared to be rooted to the ground in fear. As she drew nearer, undoubtedly to deliver a deadly assault, the last Splicer collapsed to his feet.

"Please don't kill me." He said sobbing and grabbing her heavy metal boots. She kicked him off and stared down at the pathetic creature. She could have easily killed him, it would have taken less then the flick of the wrist, and it is what she would have done in the past.

But now things have changed. She used to believe that Splicer's were evil scum that must be wiped off the planet. But she has come to realize that that is what they wanted her to think. She had her life stolen away, even from her mind, and after she became too old, she was programmed like a machine to do what they said.

Sister 419 looked down at the sobbing Splicer again, than turned on her heel. She could hear his sighs of relief as he got to his feet and fled the other way. Sister 419 walked back to where the Little Sister had been trapped against the wall.

As she approached the Little Sister, she could feel sadness inside. Someone had taken a sweet child and stole away her life just to supply the city with the very thing that tore it apart.

She bent down and looked the Little Sister right in the eyes. They were a unearthly glowing yellow and her face was a pale grey with her dirty brown hair pulled back in a pony tail. This seemed to be the normal dress code for the Little Sister's though no one knew why. Most people saw them as filthy inhuman creatures, but they weren't. They were little girls that had the misfortune of being born in the wrong place.

"Big Sister?" The child asked in her singsong voice. 419 realized what she must do. She placed her hand on the Little Sister's head and concentrated. Inside the Little Sister's stomach, the parasitic slug that had been residing there for a year died and the girl was released from her dreamlike state.

The girl looked at Sister 419, her eyes now a chocolate brown, and smiled. The girl wrapped her small arms around the nightmarish creature. "Thank you." Was all she could manage to say before darting into the nearest vent.

It made perfect sense to 419 to save the girl. She was trying to prevent what happened to herself happen to that innocent child. But now she had some extra ADAM which she didn't know what to do with. She passed by a Gather's Garden and decided to upgrade her plasmid arsenal.

Sister 419 took the needle and plasmid container's that had just been dispensed from the machine, and filled the needle with the plasmid. Her suit had been adapted like all Big Sister's with holes on the glove for the plasmid, as well a an inveinous tube for ADAM and EVE.

But something was wrong as soon as she began to feel the ADAM flow through her veins, something changed inside her. Her vision began to become blurred, but it was not like last time. She felt some strange sensation build through her body before she lost all control.

When Sister 419 regained composure of her body, she found that she was surrounded by a unnatural silence. Throughout the area the bodies of Splicers. What concerned her were the bodies of Big Daddies.

She heard the faint sound of someone crying. She headed towards the sound and saw that it was the Little Sister sobbing by the lifeless body of her former protector.

"Why did you do it Big Sister?" She said as 419 approached. Upon hearing this, she stopped dead in her tracks. "You killed all of them. Why?"

She did this? But how? She didn't remember a thing. This was not like her assignments to clear an area. She at least had some composure and the only target were Splicers, and the occasional Big Sister that disturbed her. But she would never hurt a Big Daddy, she had to much love and respect for them.

Looking at the dead Big Daddy brought a pain in the depths of her stomach. It slowly began to build to the point that it was unbearable. She placed her hands on her helmet and collapsed onto the ground. What was wrong with her?

Sister 419 still sat on the ground. By now she had started to sob. It sounded like a dying creature's cries, echoing through a long metal pipeline. She was stupid to think that she could change. She was a monster, there was no use in trying to deny it.

If she had got to the surface what then? It was doubtful that she would have been accepted as normal. And even if she had found somewhere to hide from her past, it would have only been a matter of time before something like this happened again. She was a monster and no one could change that.