Authors note: Okay...now you will all know who is impersonating Pearl Porter.
Helping out and discoveries:
Rapture, Hephaestus:
Sophie and Gear krept through the halls of Hepheastus.
Gear stopped her, shushed and poked his head around the corner,
"There are soldier there" he whispered,
"What do we do?" whispered Sophie,
"Easy, you're going to see why I am the head of the Gadget brother force" said Gear.
Snapping his hands he placed them on the wall, the currents of electricity left his hands and into the wall.
Then an alarm sounded, there were gun shots and screaming, then there was silence,
"Ladies first" said Gear, rolling her eyes Sophie went to look, was surprised to see the soldiers on the ground on a heap of blood.
"There are security cameras and such around here, I can hack them with ease" said Gear as he opened the gate of the harmonic core and let Sophie in.
Gear checked the core,
"It's not bad… I just need to wield the wires in and it will be fixed" said Gear taking out some tools,
"That is good-"Sophie's voice was cut off as a loud crackling whine went through her radio, Gear heard it too as he placed his hands where his ears should be.
"I think I caught your attention" said a voice, it sounded old, yet firm and cold...it kind of reminded Sophie of her third grades teachers voice, Mister Jonathan.
"Names Commander Nero" said the newly named Nero,
"Nero? Like the old Roman emperor?" asked Gear, though he made the question sound like he was mocking the commander.
"Ha ha ha Charlie, always the jokester aren't we" said Nero,
"You know him?" asked Sophie,
"Ya, let's just say he is the one that leads the enemy army" said Gear,
"True, but I am not here to talk to you Gear, I am here to talk to Sophie" said Nero.
Sophie grew mad, but didn't let it show,
"What do you want?" she spatted,
"Sophie Sophie, Sophie Andrew, daughter of the Eleanor Lamb the first free will sister and Ryan Andrew the first successful little brother, but mostly known in Rapture as the General" said Nero.
It made Sophie sweat, how did this guy knew about her?,
"Your hear for your brother, he came here and saved Rapture a few years back" said Nero then added "Your brother has been a mayor pest, a cockroach that I can't seem to kill or defeat, I guess it would be fair that I destroy you, yes I'll go with that".
With that there was an explosion.
"Their coming" said Gear snapping his hands,
"Like they say in Russia Dashdivania Sophie Andrew" said Nero before tuning off his radio.
Soon enough soldiers came around, some wore very bulky and heavy armor, others carry explosives and such, other were more simpler,
"Be careful with the Bomb brigade (Soldiers that carry bombs and explosives) and don't let the Bulkheads (Ones wearing the bulky armor) hit you, they can give you quite a knockout" said Gear as he began to shoot lightning at them and hitting them with his wrench or stabbing them with his harvester.
Sophie followed his example, it was a good minute when one of them seeing they weren't winning the battle they decided to call for reinforcements.
By reinforcement it was a Big daddy, it was mad bouncer, hitting the walls and roaring.
Sophie pointed her harvester; Gear took it and lowered it
"No, Big daddies are part of the Rapture family" said Gear,
"Gear we got an extremely furious Big daddy that will attack anything, what are we suppose to do? Let him kill us?" said Sophie frustrated, Gear didn't answer just looked.
Before Sophie could do anything there was a shriek like roar, a figure which Sophie recognized as Alex appeared out of nowhere in a burst of red and black ash.
The air around him grew hazy, it launched forward knocking the Big daddy down.
Running to the Big daddy Alex grabbed the something around the Bouncers neck and pulled, it snapped off.
Once off the Bouncer's light turned green, it relaxed,
"You okay James?" asked Alex, the Big daddy moaned in response as he got up on his feet,
"You're welcome" said Alex.
Then he turned to Gear and Sophie, showed them what looked like a technological collar and said "Many Big daddy's are victims of this thing… when the soldiers need back up they pressed a button and it activates this collar which shocks the Big daddy to the point of violence...It's very painful and inhumane" with that Alex destroyed the collar like it was nothing.
"You're always there to back us up Alex" said Gear,
"Like any fair leader should, after all were all friends here" said Alex as he began to leave,
"Where are you going?" asked Sophie,
"I am going down to arcadia…the soldiers are trying to set that place on fire again" said Alex with that he disappeared in a burst of red and black ash,
"Why doesn't he come with us?" though Sophie, almost as if reading her mind Gear said "Arcadia is important; all of our food and oxygen come from there, if the soldiers destroy it that is it for us".
"Oh" said Sophie,
"Come on…you help me restore the power, now let me help you with your Big daddy problem" said Gear,
"Thanks Gear" said Sophie then added
"Pearl, if your hearing me were going to help your husband".
The radio came crackling on and Pearl said
"Thank you both kindly, please head over to Minervas den, to the Thinker, I'll meet you there".
Sophie smirked as she looked down at the soldiers, and then noticed an audio diary hanging from a hook.
Taking it Sophie pressed the play button on it a message came out, it was Nero.
"Porter, brilliant yet a fool at the same time. Tried to hide Rapture's secrets, but he can't hide it from us. It was very easy to lure him back into the city and have him tell us where it is. You see his darling Pearl had died, but left him a comforting gift which she hid from him. Little after a few years of being married to him Pearl had a child with Porter, worried about the bombings Pearl, after giving birth to the boy in secret sent the baby boy Brent away. Brent was dead, so was his wife when we went to look for them, but as luck could have it they had a son, a boy named Charlie, probably around 19 right now. A genius like his grandfather at a very young age. First we though he was dead too…but Charlie is very alive and living in Rapture…it was just too perfect of an opportunity to pass out"
Sophie had to re-hear the whole message again….Pearl was dead? If she was then who was she talking to?
Minervas den, rapture:
Sophie stayed quiet…worried as she and Gear made their way back to Minervas Den.
"You have been pretty quiet Sophie, what's wrong?" asked Gear,
"Nothing" lied Sophie "Just thinking",
Gear stayed quiet before asking
"What is your story?",
"My story?" asked Sophie,
"Ya every bodies got a story here" said Gear,
"Well…I am here cause my brother is here in Rapture, I am looking for him" said Sophie then added "Its sort of my fault he is here",
"Oh" said Gear,
"What is your story?" asked Sophie.
Sighting Gear said "My father tried to kill me when I was a few months old",
Sophie gave him a shocked looked, wondering if she heard right, probably guessing her silence was due to doubting his word Gear said "My father was mentally unstable… one day nobody knows why but he killed my mom, took me to the pier in New York to try an drown me, people noticed that my dad wasn't okay so he was stopped before he could have done anything to me…My dad was sentenced to death for slaughter and attempt of murdering an infant plus child abuse. I was put up for adoption sometime later".
Sophie felt sympathy for Gear, which was horrible to think that some parents would dare to kill there on.
It makes you think of all the bad things going on in the world.
The sphere entered the elevator and rose…this time to a different room.
"I wasn't here before" said Sophie as they both got out of the sphere.
Taking out what looked like a mini computer Gear pushed a few buttons and said
"Looks like were in the Thinker's core…or atleast near it though" said Gear,
"The Thinker? What is that?" asked Sophie,
"According to the research I have done while exploring Rapture the Thinker is a very highly intelligent computer, it was built by some guy name Charles Milton Porter. The thinker is capable of controlling the city's automated security systems and various workings and functions of the city's infrastructure" explained Gear then took a breath before saying "There was also a rumor going around with the splicer that Porter tried to humanized The thinker, allowing it to think and behave like a human person",
"Really?" asked Sophie,
"The last part its just a rumor, there is no way a computer can act and think like a human person, if it is true then it takes a lot of equations, physics and psychology to even get it close to behaving like a person" said Gear,
"Your sure know a lot" said Sophie,
"Make it my business to know" said Gear proudly with that they made their way to through the core.
"Guy!" they heard, jumping they pointed their harvesters,
"Calm down, its me Mathew" said Mathew as he revealed himself,
"Mathew what are you doing here?" asked Sophie,
"Your friend Pearl asked me to find you guys here at the Thinker's core" said Mathew,
Walking they reached the core of the thinker, the lights turned on revealing the thinker.
"Welcome" they heard...it was Pearl,
"Pearl?" asked Sophie,
"I am sorry…the person named Pearl died a long time ago" the machine said using Pearls voice.
They all stared shocked….the person they though Pearl was was not a person at all, it was a machine.
"Let me explain" said The Thinker.
To be continued….