Chapter 10- An Old Secret
In the abandoned part of Rapture(Formerly known as the Water Treatment Station)
Jennifer, Mark, Jack, Susie, and Mindy got out of the bathysphere and walked in a hallway that led to the entrance of the station. The hallway was pitch black.
"Hey Mindy, Susie, could you put your helmets on and shed some light, I can't see shit."
"Sure." Mindy said before she and Susie put their helmets on which illuminated their path with red light.
They continued to walk down the hallway, Susie focused on the door, while Mindy looked at the walls, and the floor. The walls were made with gray bricks, they were dusty, and they seemed old. The floor was filthy, even some water was spread around the floor. But then Mindy saw a sign.
"Hey look." Mindy said as she read the sign aloud.
"Welcome to Rapture's Water Treatment Center, the cleanest place in Rapture." Mindy said as she read the sign.
"Well I have to disagree with that sign, this place is as filthy as a dumpster." Susie said.
"Okay, lets focus on the door now." Mark said before he attempted to open the door by pushing it.
"I don't think that's going to work, let me try….now everyone stand back." Mindy said before everyone stood away from the metal door.
Mindy outstretched both of her arms, and clenched her hands slowly as the door began to dent, after that she threw the door against the wall.
"I love using telekinesis." Mindy said as she wiped her shoulders as if it were nothing.
"Nice." Jack said as he high-fived Mindy.
"Now lets go in." Mark said.
Meanwhile RSF headquarters
Eleanor and Subject Omega(Augustus Sinclair) were discussing their adventures that led them up to this point.
"So Amir is your husband, well he must love you a lot to deal with death threats from Delta when you guys were first dating." Omega said as he chuckled.
"Yeah, he's a nice guy, but father still might cause some trouble for fun."
"That does sound like Delta."
Suddenly Amir came over.
"Hey honey." Amir said before he kissed Eleanor.
Amir then noticed Omega.
"Sinclair, this is Amir my husband." Eleanor said.
"Nice to meet you Amir." Omega said as he extended his hand for a hand shake.
"Hello…."
"Omega, but you can call me Sinclair, I'm Eleanor's friend."
"Oh, well nice to meet you Sinclair….ah, your crushing my hand." Amir said as Omega released his grip, Amir tried to ignore the pain and began to speak again.
"Wow, what a grip." Amir said as he rubbed his hand.
"Sorry about that, so Eleanor where's Delta?" Sinclair asked.
At that moment Delta walked through the entrance while holding hands with Jamie. Before Delta(Johnny) could greet everyone he stared at Omega.
"Who…wait…is that…..Sinclair?"
"That's my name, and who are you?" Sinclair asked.
"Oh its me Delta, Tenenbaum just removed my suit to modify it."
"Well its nice to see you again boy." Sinclair said before he and Delta shared a manly hug.
"Its also nice to hear your southern accent again." Delta said as they hugged.
"Someone forgot to introduce someone." Bobby said.
"Oh right, this is Bobby he's a companion that helped me find you." Sinclair said as he put Bobby on the nearby counter.
"Hello everyone." Bobby said.
"That's a cool ball." Amir said as he stared at Bobby.
"Sphere, and stop staring at me, haven't you seen any talking spheres in your life."
"Uh….no." Amir said.
"Don't start Bobby." Sinclair said.
"Fine I won't."
Back at the Water Treatment Station
They all entered the station, it was mostly dark with only a small amount of lights here-and-there. There were grey columns around the area as well. Everything else couldn't be seen in the dark.
"Okay, first we need to find a light switch, Susie go with Jack and Jennifer while I go with Mindy, if you find the light switch turn it on then we'll meet back here, go." Mark said.
The team split up and searched for the light switch. Mark moved some crates that were near a column while Mindy illuminated his path.
"Why is it so hard to find a damn light switch?" Mark asked.
After Mark moved some crates he left to check the other columns as Mindy followed after he searched all the sides of most of the columns he found the light switch.
"Finally." Mark said as he flicked the switch.
The entire water treatment station was illuminated, Mark looked around and saw small offices, papers scattered around the floor, tubes on the ceiling that supposedly used to transfer water throughout Rapture. But there were signs that the station was falling apart, some columns were knocked down, a few lights were flickering, there was a leak from a nearby window which caused water from the ocean to leak in the station, and in the middle of the station was a water tower where the tubes connected.
Mark contacted the others while Mindy turned off her light.
"Hey, I found the light switch, have you guys found anything interesting?"
"Oh yeah, we'll show you when we rendezvous." Jack said.
"Roger that." Mark said.
The two groups met back at their rendezvous point.
"So what did you find?" Mindy asked.
"This Susie said as she put down a skeleton looking robotic, its eyes were dim, it was an assassin bot.
Back at RSF headquarters
"So why are you here Sinclair?" Delta asked.
"I was here to find you and Eleanor, but now I'm here to tell you that robots are attacking."
"What do you mean?" Eleanor asked.
"Well when I was in Minerva's Den, I encountered a bunch of bots, I think the current leader, another sphere called Harry is trying to take control of Rapture."
"Wait did you see any bots that looked like spiders?" Amir asked.
"Yes." Sinclair said.
"Minerva's Den has been compromised to a military base consisting of bots both spider and assassin bots." Bobby said.
"Assassin bots?" Amir asked.
"Bots made specifically to assassinate leaders of enemy organizations and assist in military operations. I fear that Harry will use an army of bots to try to take control of Rapture in the name of the Rapture Family."
"But didn't we destroy the Rapture Family a long time ago?" Eleanor asked.
"Well it looks we'll going to have to stop the bots before they assemble an entire army."
(Interesting) Jamie thought.
"Well we better devise an attack before they attack, I'll converse with Gary on the situation." Amir said before he left.
Back At the Water Treatment Station
"I'll take some pictures to show Tenenbaum this." Jack said before he took out his camera and took photos of the bot.
"That's weird." Mindy said.
"What?" Susie asked.
"I can't reach H.Q. its like something's blocking the signal."
"It doesn't matter lets just continue our mission." Mark said.
"What is our mission anyway?" Jennifer asked.
"To find Squad G they've gone missing, H.Q. tracked them to this location." Mark said.
"I should become a photographer." Jack said before he took various pictures of the bot from different angles until he fell on a crate, the crate tumbled over, and an audio diary fell out. Jennifer ran to Jack's aid and helped him up.
"Well there goes your dream of becoming a photographer." Jennifer said with a grin as she pulled Jack up to his feet.
"Thanks." Jack said.
Jennifer picked up the audio diary and looked at it with curiosity.
"Why would an audio diary be here?" Jennifer asked before she read the title and speaker.
She read it and it said Love of my life, the speaker was Drew Hamilton he began to speak.
"I'm so happy today, my wife, Rose McClain, gave birth to two beautiful twins, they don't look alike we've decided to name them-" The diary suddenly ended.
Jennifer looked at the diary with confusion.
"What's wrong?" Jack asked.
"That voice….and name….its so familiar." Jennifer said.