Lost Beneath the Waves
Ch. 11
Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia or Bioshock.
As the water drained away from the airlock Tenenbaum started to talk to Delta from the radio.
"Ah, Herr Delta ... you arrive, as the Little Ones said you would. Come upstairs to the ticket booth, und I will offer what I know of you."
The door to the Atlantic Express slowly slid open and the metal daddy walked into the long hallway. As he walked he could hear someone yelling as a song could be heard playing ever so faintly in the background. Delta just tightened his grip on his rivet gun and sighed. So far voices always meant enemies to fight and this would probably be no different.
'Such is life in Rapture.' Delta thought as he walked father into the building.
Eventually Delta made it to the Repair Platform and when he got there he wasn't surprised to see yet another crazed person standing there. This man was just as mutated as the rest of people that he had seen here. Upon seeing the metal protector the man quickly closed the metal door.
Tenenbaum just sighed before she said "Now, most who survive are like this: Splicers. They are drug addicts, vicious animals."
The woman sighed yet again before she said "You can sometimes trick the security system into opening a door. But you must have the proper tool. See if you can find it somewhere."
Well, the only place the Big Daddy could go was into the small room that was next to the locked door so he went into it. Luckily, there was a hack tool in the room, and a remote hack tool dart dispenser in the room. It took a couple of seconds to figure out how the thing worked, but the diagram on the wall helped him figure it out. Once he was sure he knew how the thing worked Delta shot a hack dark out the broken window at the door control and within a few seconds the door control was hacked and the door was open. '
Well, that was easy.' Delta thought as he walked through the door.
Sitting near the door was a deactivated Security Bot, and while it took the Big Daddy a bit longer to hack the bot he was still able to pull it off. After successfully hacking the thing the lights on the robot started to shine a bright green color. The bot beeped a few times before its propellers starts moving and it slowly flew up into the air. Once the bot was in the air Delta continued on his way. As he walked he noticed that someone had made handprint butterflies around on the walls and floors, and someone had written yet another strange message on the wall.
We will be reborn
Delta didn't even try to figure out what that was about. He just kept walking until he eventually reached the Train workshop. The second he stepped into the room the train car that was hanging from the ceiling fell to the ground with a loud thud.
"You shouldn't have come here!" A splicer woman yelled out as she ran toward Delta.
Delta's bot beeped a few times before it started shooting at the woman. The woman focused her attention on the bot, but her companion started racing toward Delta.
"I'll get him!" The spliced man yelled.
'No you won't.' Delta thought.
A few rivet shots to the face brought the man down, and the bot was able to bring the woman down on its own. Delta quickly searched the area for any more rivets. He was able to find a few, and in his search he found yet another audio dairy by Andrew Ryan himself lying on a table that was covered in mechanical parts.
I am told that the people grow tense and isolated in the absence of the sun. Now... they clamor for a psychiatrist. Do they miss the state censor, I wonder? Wartime seizure of private assets? Or the Cheka police, vanishing them in the night? Regardless, this Lamb woman is said to be the foremost practitioner in her "field." Fine. If she can quiet the rattling of the great chain's weakest links... I will leave her to it.
'I guess Ryan is the reason why Lamb is down here.' Delta thought. He sure didn't sound overly enthusiastic about bringing her down here though. Of course right when Delta thought this he heard Lamb start to talk over the PA system again.
This is Sofia Lamb. Andrew Ryan is dead, but the tyrant lives on. Remember: we reject the gene; we reject the self; we reject the tyrant.
'Andrew Ryan is dead?!' Delta thought in surprise.
Well, that certainly explained why Lamb was able to yell out massages over the PA system. However, Delta couldn't help but wonder just how the former leader of Rapture died. He also wondered just when the guy died, but considering the fact that the Big Daddy couldn't even figure out how long it had been since he died he figured that was just another question that he would never get an answer to. The Big Daddy sighed as he continued on his way. Eventually, he reached a small security booth of some sort.
Most of the security screens were off, and the few that were on didn't have anything interesting on them. The windows were covered up by metal screens. The gate control was also located in the room, and the Big Daddy figured that if he pulled it a door would open up somewhere and he could continue on his way. However, when the Big Daddy pulled the lever all of the lights went off and a metal gate quickly slid out of the door frame and blocked Delta's only path out of the room. The Big Daddy was left standing in complete and utter darkness, but after a few seconds had passed all of the security screens started to flicker back on. Lamb's face was on every screen and she stared at Delta as if he were a piece of trash.
"I know you. That symbol on your hand marks you a dead man." Lamb said calmly. "Ten years, Subject Delta, since I watched you put a gun to your head — and pull the trigger. But take heart: Out of your pain, paradise was born."
'It's been ten years since I died?' Delta thought.
That was certainly a long time to be out of commission. Eleanor had to be at least seventeen years old by now. The Big Daddy had to wonder just what happened to Rapture to cause this, but he quickly forgot about that when he heard Lamb start speaking again.
"I don't know how you survived, but your suffering is over now. These men will ease your burden. Please understand that like all I have done, this … is an act of love."
The metal screens that were covering the windows slowly lifted up off the windows only to revel that a bunch of splicers waiting outside. They all had guns with them, and a few of them had a few of handmade molotov cocktails in their hands.
"It is Sofia Lamb! She has found you!" Tenenbaum yelled out over the radio.
'You don't say!" Delta thought in annoyance, but he had no way to say this out loud.
All he could do was let out a loud annoyed groan. The splicers started shooting at him and a few of them started tossing in the molotov cocktails. The floor started to catch fire and a rain of bullets was pounding into the Big Daddy. However, even over all the chaos the Big Daddy could hear the wooden floor under his feet start to groan and creek. Before the Big Daddy could even react the floor beneath his feet broke and the metal daddy found himself falling.
He didn't know how many floors down her fell, but after what felt like hours he crashed into the flooded ground floor area of the building. The Big Daddy grunted a little in pain, but he tried to ignore the pain and just thank his lucky stars that he was out of Lamb's trap. Since he was in water his Fountain of Youth Tonic started to kick in and Delta could feel the wounds that he received from the splicers slowly close. The radio that Delta had buzzed to life and the familiar voice of Tenenbaum started to speak once more.
"Now you know of the enemy we share: Sofia Lamb. The camera in your helmet allows me to watch through your eyes — and help you to fight her."
The woman sighed before she said "Please hurry to the ticket booth."
The Big Daddy didn't respond to that he just moved through the water toward the small staircase that brought him out of the water and into a small storage room. Upon getting out of the water the Big Daddy was slightly surprised to see his bot flying about around his head. Then again the bot had been in the security booth with him when he was attacked so the thing must have just flown through the hole in the floor and followed him down.
Still, Delta couldn't help but be amazed that his bot was able to get out of trap without being destroyed. Delta continued on his way, and eventually after a lot of walking Delta reached the Jet Postal room. Inside the room was yet another red wagon filled with pillows. Sitting on the pillows were two jars full of lightning bugs and a single Plasmid. A childish drawling of the sun was left on the floor, and a single message had been scribbled onto the wall with crayons.
Hope this helps.
Delta took a step toward the wagon, but he stopped when he felt a sudden headache appear out of nowhere. Once again an image appeared in his head, but this time it was an image of a young woman with dark brown hair wearing a pure white dress. Just as the image appeared in his mind the voice of a young woman started to speak to him in his mind.
"Father…It's me Eleanor. I know your awake in there I can feel it. Mother won't be able to… to toy with you like that, ever again. This Plasmid is for you. If I'm right, you can use it now! Please… find me!"
The image quickly faded from his mind, and Delta was left standing there in confusion.
'How the heck is she able to do that?' The Big Daddy wondered.
It was definitely an interesting skill to say the least, but Delta wished it wouldn't give him such a headache.
'Well, no point on dwelling on it now.' The Big Daddy thought as he picked up the Plasmid.
The word Telekinesis was printed on the bottle. Delta immediately used the Plasmid and gave a mental sigh of relief when he didn't freak out like he did when he used his first Plasmid. The Big Daddy looked around the room to see if there was anything else of interest in the area. There was a staircase leading upstairs near the back of the room, and sitting near the red wagon was a switch with two red buttons on it. Delta pressed the red button only to hear a loud noise come from somewhere in the back of the room.
The metal protector turned around just in time to see a thermos come flying out of the big metal tube that was hanging above the wall. The thermos landed on the ground with a loud thump before it slowly rolled over to Delta. The Big Daddy knelt down and picked the thermos up. It had the words coffee written across it in big bold letters.
'Isn't coffee supposed to be good for restoring EVE?' Delta thought.
Well, he did need to restore his EVE so he might as well try it. Thing is he had absolutely no idea what coffee tasted like. Delta shrugged a little before he pulled the cap off of the thermos before he tossed the cap behind him. He could see steam rising up out of the thermos so it was obviously still warm. The Big Daddy took his helmet off and he was immediately hit with all sorts of smells.
Without the helmet on he could smell things without any problems. The briny scent of the ocean was almost overwhelming, but over the scent of ocean water the man could smell something burning somewhere. Delta brought the coffee close to him and took a sniff only to find out that it actually smelled pretty good. However, when the protector took a small sip of the drink he ended up finding out that its taste was nothing like the smell. Delta couldn't help but cringe in disgust and let out a loud grunt of distaste.
'How can something that smells so good taste so bad?' Delta thought.
The coffee hadn't gone bad, but for some reason Delta really just hated how it tasted. However, if he wanted the EVE restoring powers that the damn drink could provide he was going to have to drink it all. The desire for a nice hot cup of tea hit the Big Daddy immediately, but their wasn't much he could do to fulfill that desire. Here in Rapture you didn't have the luxury to eat and drink what you wanted. The Big Daddy quickly drank the rest of the nasty concoction, and once the thermos was empty he tossed it to the floor. The Big Daddy quickly put his helmet back on before he sighed.
'OK note to self don't drink coffee unless you really have to.' He thought.
The metal tube was still shooting food out of it.
'I should probably turn that off.'
Delta pressed the red button expecting it to turn off. However, when he pressed the button he heard a loud banging sound which was quickly followed by food being tossed out of the pipe at rapid speed. A can of Beef-e slammed into his helmeted head, and a bag of chips went flying past his view and smashed against the wall. Food was being thrown out of pipe at rapid speeds, and Delta could only scramble about to try and avoid getting another can tossed at his head.
"What did you do?!" Tenenbaum yelled out over the radio.
Delta could only groan in confusion. He thought he was turning it off, but evidently that wasn't the case. The Big Daddy quickly scrambled up the staircase, but even when he was at the top of the stairs he could faintly hear cans of food being tossed into the wall. Delta just sighed as he looked at the wall. Yet another message was written on the wall, but it was written in blood this time.
She knows the way.
Delta didn't even try to figure out what this meant he just walked out into the next room. However, Delta stopped when he heard voices talking. Delta looked down from his perch on the second floor only to see three splicers gathered around a trashcan. The trashcan's contents were on fire and the splicers were standing as close as they could to the fire. A splicer that was wearing a cat mask was waving his gun about and talking about somebody.
"I'm telling you he's up topside now highballing it with all the Can-can girls, and if anyone gets lippy pow! He's got the bomb that he can use to shut them up."
The only woman splicer in the area snorted at this and crossed her arms.
"Nuts! He saved a whole Kindergarten full of cutesy little brats and went up happy ever after. He was a pansy."
The women glared at the cat mask wearing splicer before she said "End of story."
A splicer wearing a broken rabbit mask just waved his wrench about as he said "You think I give half a shit about what he's done? He's gone now, and doc Lamb is the news now."
The two other splicers grumbled a little, but they didn't say anything else.
'Who were they talking about?' Delta thought. 'Also, what was this bomb thing that they were talking about?'
Looks like Delta was getting was more questions that the metal daddy probably wouldn't get any answers to. Delta sighed before he looked around the area. If he wanted to continue on his way to the ticket booth he was going to have to deal with those splicers. There were a bunch of canisters lined up in a neat row near where the Big Daddy was standing. The words 'highly flammable' were printed on all of the orange canisters.
Upon seeing those words an idea suddenly popped up into the Big Daddy's head. The Big Daddy used Telekinesis to pick up one of the canisters and chucked it down at the splicers. The fiery explosion that the canister and fire caused ended up sending the splicers flying. One poor unfortunate splicers clothes ended up catching on fire, and he was now running around screaming his head off. Delta's bot beeped a few times and started shooting at the man that was on fire while Delta just tossed a few more of the canisters down at the splicers.
After tossing about five canisters down at the splicers Delta stopped and looked down at the destruction. He could see a few splicer corpses spread out in the room, and he couldn't hear any of them talking. Satisfied with the amount of destruction he had caused the metal protector moved down the steps and continued on his way. He did stop briefly though when he found an audio dairy lying on the ground. The name Prentice Mill had been written on the audio dairy. He picked the audio dairy up and listened to it as he looted the bodies.
There would be no Rapture without me. No city without the Atlantic Express. Ryan took his first grand tour on my flagship coach! But these days, personal bathyspheres are all the rage. My rails only connect the oldest parts of Rapture now, and the city's just... just left me behind. Plenty of cash in the bank, though. This private vehicle craze will blow over soon.
OK, so that wasn't the happiest sounding audio dairy that the Big Daddy had found but it was informative.
'So the railway only connected to the oldest parts of Rapture, huh? I wonder if the train could bring me to Eleanor.' Delta wondered. 'Hopefully Eleanor is somewhere in the oldest parts of Rapture.'
The Big Daddy was about to move on, but he stopped when he noticed something sitting in the corner of the room. Sitting in the very corner of the room was a mattress. There were small lights strung up above the makeshift bed and a few cans of food were spread out on the floor. Sitting on top of the filthy mattress was an audio dairy, and Delta could see Mark Meltzer's name scratched into the machine.
'Mark was here?' Delta thought. 'How was he able to make it all the way over here?'
Delta picked the audio dairy up and pressed the play button.
These... people are hooked on some kind of genetic wonder-drug called ADAM. I've read the word "Splicers" scribbled on walls like a warning. One of them... cornered me, and Christ, his face - I had a gun, but I choked - and then out of nowhere we both heard this... singing, and he took off like hell on wheels. It sounded like a kid - a little girl! Cindy's alive... I know it in my gut.
'I wonder if I'll ever find Mark here?' Delta wondered. 'It would be sort of nice to have another sane person to interact with.'
Of course right when Delta thought that he quickly realized that while he would be happy to see that guy Mark might not react as well to him. Delta was a Big Daddy and he couldn't really communicate. If Mark saw him approaching he might think he was some sort of monster coming to attack him. That thought instantly soured his mood. Delta sighed as he continued on his way, but he was stopped when a giant metal door slammed shut in front of him. Delta turned to look to the right just in time to look through a window and see a splicer run up to the gears that must have controlled the door. The splicer quickly slammed a pipe in between the gears before he ran off. The pipe could easily be yanked out with the use of Telekinesis, but unfortunately the thick glass of the windows kept the Big Daddy from doing so.
Luckily, there was a door near the windows and with any luck that door may lead Delta to the gears. As Delta walked through the door he could hear Tenenbaum start to talk.
"Ach, Sofia Lamb is using the Splicers against you."
Delta didn't respond to that, but he did smile a little when he saw that a hole had been bashed into the wall near the door. He had a nice view of the gears from the hole which meant he would be able to pull the pipe out of place. Hopefully once the pipe was gone the doors would open back up. Delta used his Plasmid to pull the pipe out, and once the pipe had been yanked out of the gears Delta could hear the metal door slowly creek back open. As Delta walked back to the now cleared path Delta could hear his guide start to speak again.
"You know most Big Daddies are like Lamb's slaves, guarding the Little Ones. But someone has awakened you."
The way she said someone made it seem like she knew perfectly well who had awoken him, but for whatever reason she wasn't telling him who. Delta knew that Eleanor had a hand in awakening him, but he wasn't quite sure how she pulled it off. Of course right when he thought that he heard Lamb start to speak to him over the radio.
"I know of your bond with Eleanor. To save yourself, you will come for her. But Eleanor has a destiny, one you cannot share. There is no place for you in paradise."
Delta scowled a little at this and let out an angry groan. What the hell was this paradise that she was going on about? So far all he had seen was a sinking hellish nightmare filled with drugged up monsters. There was no paradise here and if her paradise looked anything like this living nightmare then Delta was perfectly happy to not be a part of it. Also, if the visions that he was getting from Eleanor was anything to go by it was obvious that the girl didn't want to be a part of this paradise either.
The idea that Lamb's own daughter didn't care about her crazy paradise made the Big Daddy smirk a little, but it didn't do much to rid him of his anger. The Big Daddy continued on his way and angrily stomped up the small staircase, but once he reached the top a Big Sister fell down of the ceiling and landed in front of him. Delta froze for a few seconds expecting the Big Sister to attack him, but instead of attacking him she raced off deeper into the room and disappeared from sight.
Delta waited for a second to see if she would come back, but when she didn't the Big Daddy sighed a little in relief before he walked into the room. He seemed to be standing in the Switching Hub area of the Atlantic Express area, but the Big Daddy didn't get to really examine his surroundings. The second he stepped into the large room splicers started to crawl out of their hiding places and they were all aiming for Delta. The second the splicers started shooting at the Big Daddy Delta's bot started beeping before it started shooting back.
"Quickly! Head for the elevator!" Tenenbaum shouted.
Delta quickly scrambled toward the small elevator, and once he was inside he pushed the small button that would make the thing start up. The elevator doors slowly lid shut behind him and once the door was shut the elevator started going up. Delta turned away from the elevator buttons just in time to see a splicer smash his bot into the ground. Delta was a little sad to see the metal machine get smash into pieces. It had been rather helpful. Delta looked away from the fallen bot and instead stared at the group of splicers that had gathered around the elevator doors only to stand there and curse at him, but as the elevator went up they quickly disappeared from view. Once they were gone from view Tenenbaum started talking.
"Now; Here is what the children tell me. You are a very old Big Daddy, bonded for life to a single Little One."
Yeah, he sort of knew that already. Delta groaned an annoyance at the worthless information, but Tenenbaum ignored him and kept talking.
"When you are apart for too long, your body begins to shut down, like a coma. As long as the girl is in Rapture, you are trapped here as well. The name of your Little One is Eleanor Lamb, daughter of Sofia. She is kept at Fontaine Futuristics, on the other side of the city. You must go there und save her … before it is too late." '
Too late for me or too late for her?' Delta wondered.
She was probably talking about him, but after hearing Lamb babble about paradise and destiny a few times Delta just knew that Eleanor wasn't exactly safe either.
'Hopefully, she's alright.' Delta thought.
The Big Daddy just tried to rid himself of these thoughts for now. Thinking about it made him nervous, and that was honestly the last feeling that the metal daddy needed right now. Eventually the elevator reached the top floor, and when it reached the top floor Delta was a little surprised to see a splicer examining a corpse that was sitting right outside his door. The splicer was wearing a white rabbit mask that was covered in bright yellow designs.
Upon seeing Delta the splicer started running toward the door that lead out of the room. However, Delta quickly noticed a bunch of rivets that were attached to the wall. A soft red light was being emitted from the rivets which told the Big Daddy that they were not normal. Sitting near the door were a few boxes that had the words 'trap rivets' printed on it so the metal protector knew what the rivets were now. When the splicer walked into the light the rivets shot off the wall and slammed into the splicer. The splicer let out a week yell before he fell to the ground and died.
'OK, splicers are not all that bright.' Delta thought.
The door to the elevator opened up and Delta walked over to the remaining rivets. He was able to pry them off of the wall which means he could use them for latter, and he grabbed the unused rivets that were sitting on top of the boxes near the door. Once he had the rivets he walked into the room and looked around. Sitting right across from where he was standing was a metal door, and next to the doorway that he just walked in through was another doorway that opened up into a small office. Delta glanced into the office, but the second he looked into the room he started to wish that he didn't.
Sitting in a chair in front of the desk was a dead woman. There was blood covering the chair and the desk, and there was even a pistol sitting on the ground next to her. Sitting near the desk was an armchair and there was the body of a dead man sitting in the chair. The man had a bullet hole going through his head and the wall behind the dead man was splattered with blood. It was obvious that the woman had killed him, and after she killed him she killed herself. It wasn't a pretty scene and Delta couldn't help but feel sorry for the people. The idea of looting the corpses for anything useful popped into the protector's mind, but he quickly decided that he wasn't doing that. He couldn't bring himself to loot the bodies of these unfortunate people. Delta looked away from the corpses only to notice an audio dairy was sticking out of one of the filling cabinets in the back of the room.
Delta slowly moved over to the cabinet and grabbed the audio dairy. He pressed the play button and the voice started to speak. The dairy was about how Big Daddies would protect Little Sisters when they were being attacked, but if the girls weren't being attacked they would ignore them. The man muttered something about creating a stronger bond, but Delta wasn't really paying attention to that. He was too busy realizing that he actually knew the person who made the audio dairy. Well, OK he never met the guy in person, but he knew it was Dr. Gilbert Alexander.
Eleanor used to call him Uncle Alexander, and Delta remembered that the man was ordering them around when they were in the Proving Grounds. It was sort of interesting to find an audio dairy by the man. Delta couldn't help but wonder if the man was still alive, but he quickly decided that it probably didn't matter anymore. Delta moved out of the office and over to the metal door. The metal door slowly slid open and the Big Daddy walked into a sort of waiting room. He walked over to the next metal door that was located across the room, and when he went through this door he finally ended up at the ticket booth area.
The metal gates that lead to the train station were locked, and the windows to the booth were covered with metal covers. Through the bars of the gates Delta could see a security camera, and there was a splicer woman banging on the ticket booth window. A few rivets to the head killed the splicer, and a quick hack dart shot through the metal bars at the camera made it so the camera now worked for him. With the camera having been dealt with Delta moved over to the ticket booth window. There was a small green button next to the booth windows, and when Delta pressed the button and the metal covers that were covering up the windows slowly slid up out of sight.
Delta could see inside the ticket booth now. Standing inside the ticket booth was an older woman. Her gray hair was pulled back into a ponytail and she looked utterly exhausted. Two little girls who were probably only six years old were sitting on the floor playing with blocks. Another little girl was sitting on the shelf in the ticket booth, and she was watching Tenenbaum work. However, the girl did turn to look at Delta and when she saw him she smiled at him before she turned to look back at Tenebaum. When the woman spotted Delta she walked over to the window and looked right at the Big Daddy.
The woman gave him a week smile before she placed her hand on the girl's shoulder and said "You see this is why I must fight Sofia Lamb. She is using the new Little Ones for something, und I have returned to rescue them. If I do not more children will die for my sins, and the Rapture nightmare will repeat forever."
The woman sighed before she said "Now we must talk-"
Before Tenebaum could finish her sentence Lamb started talking over the PA system. The TV that was in the ticket booth started to show Lamb's face. The little girl that was sitting on the shelf tapped Tenebaum's arm before she pointed at the TV screen. The woman turned to look at the TV, and the girls who were playing with the blocks stopped what they were doing and stared at the TV screen in surprise.
"Citizens of Rapture! This is Subject Delta." Lamb called out.
A picture of Delta appeared on the screen, and the Big Daddy mentally cursed upon seeing his picture.
"Behind that mask hides an enemy of the people, without soul or sympathy. It is a beast apart, and as Family we must tear off its jaw and drive it back into the sea."
A siren suddenly started to go off, and the girls who were sitting on the floor quickly got up and rushed out of view. Tenebaum picked the girl who was sitting on the shelf up and placed her on the ground and the child quickly rushed off in the same direction as the other girls.
"Lamb will tear this place apart to try and find you. Please hold back the splicers until we escape." Tenebaum said.
The woman quickly pressed a button that was inside the both and the metal covers covered up the window once again. The gates slowly creaked open, and the wave of splicers suddenly started running toward him.
"How dare you try to attack the family!" A splicer girl yelled as she raced toward Delta. Delta responded to this by throwing a garbage can into her face. The woman shrieked and stumbled back a little, and one of the male splicers yelled out "What kind of freak hits a lady with a trash can?!"
Delta just scowled and shot the man with a few rivets.
'What kind of lady tries to hit a guy with a frying pan?'
When the woman tried running toward him again Delta just tossed the metal trash can back into her face with his Plasmid. As he whacked any unfortunate splicer that came near him with the trash can Delta could hear his camera's alarm going which was soon followed by the sound of security bots flying into the area. The bots started shooting at everyone that the camera could see while Delta was using Telekinesis to whack the splicers with whatever he could get his hands on. Usually those things consisted of masks, trash cans, and dead splicers. After fighting for what must have been five minutes the splicers finally stopped showing up, and the bots flew off. Delta just looked around at the destruction, and as he looked around Tenebaum started to talk to him over the radio.
"Thank you. Now I must leave you, and I am sorry for this. But there are others I must help before the city drowns."
'What other people does she have to help?' Delta thought.
He wouldn't get an answer to this, but the woman did end up telling him something interesting.
"This man Sinclair, he is an ally and will guide you to Eleanor. Goodbye, Herr Delta, und good luck."
Right after she said this another voice started to speak to Delta, and this voice was not one that he recognized.
"Well, look at you! A bona fide knight in armor, complete with iron horse." A man with a smooth southern accent said over the radio. "The name's Augustus Sinclair, sport. Esquire. Ol' Tenenbaum an' I share an interest in the ol' Fontaine buildin' — the very same place you'll find Eleanor Lamb. I think you an' I can do business. Take the train to Ryan Amusements. I'll see you shortly."
Delta sighed a little before he looked around the area. Well, he might as well loot the splicer corpses before he gets onto the train. As the Big Daddy looted the corpses he noticed an audio dairy sitting on a wooden bench near the train. He grabbed the audio dairy and pushed play only to hear Tenenbaum's voice.
Sofia Lamb has taken Rapture, and is responsible for stealing children from the surface. Her Splicers destroyed my submersible and forced me to run. But the ticket booth here is secure... and though I cannot trust him, Sinclair is a valuable ally. I have already rescued a few of the new Little Ones from Lamb. They all want to know how we will get home. I wish I had the right words for them.
So Tenenbaum didn't trust Sinclair? That wasn't very comforting although the Big Daddy figured there wasn't much that he could do about it. The Big Daddy started to move toward the train, but he stopped when he noticed another audio dairy sitting nearby. The dairy was tucked away in the corner, and it was honestly a miracle that the metal daddy saw it at all.
Delta picked the dairy up only to see that Sinclair's name was written on it. Delta looked at the dairy for a few seconds before he moved onto the train. Once he was on the train he pulled the lever that would start the train up. Once he pulled the lever the doors to the train closed, and the metal gate that was covering the tracks slowly lifted up to clear the path. Once the gate was open the train started to move, and it was only when the train started moving did the Big Daddy finally sit down on the floor. Once he was sitting the Big Daddy pushed the play button that was the audio dairy that he just picked up.
I hear often, "Mister Sinclair, you just got a heart of stone, don't you wanna share with your fellow man?" And I tell 'em, "Listen, I hail from sunny Panama, and my grand daddy - he got himself drowned building the big ditch, went on and on about "doing it for the people, for the world entire." Well, not for me - thank you. I came to Georgia to strike it rich, and Rapture all the more so, you won't catch me blowing my last bubble for any other personage - plural or singular.
The audio dairy turned off after its message had been played and Delta was left sitting their staring at the audio dairy. This guy was going to be his guide to Eleanor? The fact that Tenenbaum didn't trust him was already making him nervous, and this audio dairy really wasn't helping. The Big Daddy sighed as he leaned back against the door that lead to the passenger compartment of the train car. Well, this trip had just started and Delta could already tell that his adventure through Rapture wasn't exactly going to be a fun filled journey …
Coffee: England likes tea, but I'm not sure how he feels about coffee. Personally, I always thought that he probably doesn't like the taste of coffee. That and I think he would sort of fall into the mindset of 'why have coffee when you can have tea'. As for the smell thing personally I hate the taste of coffee, but I think coffee smells really good. Sticking with my own personal headcannon that while England dislikes coffee I think he would think coffee smells good.
Sinclair's 'heart of stone' Audio dairy: This audio dairy can't be found in the game, but it could be found on the Cult of Rapture website. It's a shame it wasn't in the game because it's one of my favorite audio logs by Sinclair. However, you can listen to it on the Bioshock wiki.
Also, for anyone who was wondering what the 'big ditch' that Sinclair is talking about is he's talking about the Panama Canal.
The food delivery system in the Jet Postal room: In the Jet Postal room if you push a button in their it will start launching food at you. Other then being a thing that you can use to get some free ADAM and EVE I think it's mostly their so that you can practice using telekinesis by grabbing the food in midair and chucking it off somewhere with the Plasmid. I think if you leave it alone it will turn off on it's own, but if you continuously push the button it will just start rapidly chucking food at you. If you ever watch someone let's play Bioshock 2 it's not uncommon to see someone push the button thinking it will turn it off only to get a can of peaches chucked at their head in return. I once had a can of meat hit me in the head so hard that I lost a bit of health. It wasn't a big deal, but it was sort of comical.
That's chapter 11 for you all. I'll have the next chapter up as soon as possible.