Stuck:
Good Jacob:The train was hissing as it went through the tracks, Jacob, feeling rather tired, had fallen asleep in the seat he was lounging in. Sparrow had gotten into a comfortable position before going to slee- er... went temporarily offline.
Suddenly the train jerked into a stop tossing both Jacob and Sparrow onto the control panel and the floor respectively.
Getting up they both looked around. This seemed awfully familiar.
"Ja...b... J...cob... get out of there now!" Shouted a voice from his radio.
Deciding to heed its warning Jacob took out the katana and smashed the nearest window. Thankfully the train wasn't underwater, so it was easy to hop out the window and onto Raptures version of a sidewalk, Sparrow followed behind him.
The train continued moving for almost five more seconds before violently exploding.
"What was that?" Jacob asked. Thinking he was asking it, Sparrow beeped twice. While two beeps would normally mean no Jacob was sure it was more along the lines of 'I don't know' in this situation.
"Jacob, Jacob! Are you there!"
"Red?" Jacob asked.
"No, its Gear here. Thank goodness, I thought you had been in the rain when it blew." Said Gear, relieved,
"Gear what happened back there?" asked Jacob.
"Its the Big Brother General. He's after you. It's very important that you tell me where you are right now." Gear said, panic slipping into voice.
"I don't know. I just got blown off course, literally. I'll look around then tell you where I am after I get some more information." Jacob said.
"Good, but be careful." Gear warned before logging off.
Looking around Jacob began to move forward.
"Red, you there?" Jacob asked into the static, Red didn't answer. He shrugged, he didn't think it would work, but it was worth a shot. Speaking of which... glancing over at Sparrow he couldn't help but joke.
I don't suppose you know anything about Red do you"
*Beep*
"Wait what? Really?" Jacob blurted out in surprise. He didn't expected that to work either.
Sparrow began to beep continually at Jacob, trying to tell him something.
"Okay" Jacob said, sort of freaked out. Sparrow seemed rather panicked, whatever he was saying must be important.
Wandering around slowly he noticed a light. when he got there he found himself back where he started, in the Upper Atrium.
"Welcome back Jacob. I guess..." Red spoke up for the first time in a while.
"Red there you are. What have you been doing?" Jacob asked.
"Don't worry Jacob, you'll find out real soon."
Sparrow suddenly went crazy, it let out a loud long beep before it slammed into Jacob's helmet. Covering his visor almost completely.
"Sparrow!" Jacob shouted as he tried to get the drone off of his face...helmet, whatever. At the same time wondering what has gotten into the drone. Once he got a good grip he got Sparrow off of his helmet. The drone beeped angrily as it pointed to Jacob's helmet with his talon like feet.
"Sparrow, what has gotten into you, behave!" Jacob yelled. The drone let out an angry hiss in response. It obviously didn't like Red for some reason.
"Kid, why do you want to come here?" Red asked, either unaware or not caring about the struggle the drone was making.
"Oh, I'm on my way to Hephaestus."
"Wait a minute. Hephaestus... I was going to ask you to go there." Red said, more speaking to himself then anything.
"Really? Wait why would you want me to go there?"
"Its our ticket out of here."
"awesome, but it seems we had a little detour. The General Big brother... he uhh, sort of doesn't want me to get there in one piece." Jacob admitted.
"Wait a minute. General Big Brother? Well this changes things. The Big Brother General is one tough cookie. I don't think your ready to face him." Red mused.
"How strong is he?" asked Jacob.
"He's very strong. Not as strong as the first Big Brother, your father, The first General." Admitted.
"Wait a second. My dad's never been a general. He's never been in a war, or the military at all."
"That's where your wrong Jacob. You see, back then he was THE General, the leader of the Big Sisters', their commander and what not. They obeyed him without question, mostly because the Bis Sisters saw a leader that cared about the Sisters, unlike Lamb who was obviously just using them like one would any other tool. Yep, Splicer's feared him quite a bit, they'd have rather faced a Big Daddy than him. Enough history lessons though. The Big Brother General, there's only one at any given moment. The position goes to the strongest Brother in rapture. Although that rule has been rather useless as the General we have now is the ONLY general we've ever had, aside from your dad.
He lives here in the upper atrium which means. Your in his territory, he has all the latest in both plasmids and weaponry. He's deadly and merciless, Jacob your outmatched, plain and simple. Unless of course, you somehow find a way to outmatch him in defense and/or offensive skill. Either will do really."
Jacob thought about it. That Big Brother was dangerous, that much was obvious. But what could Jacob do? what could he do to defeat this Big Brother? Sighing, he began to wander around the Atrium, hoping that an idea would fall out of the sky.
He reached his fathers hidey hole a few minutes later. The one he used when he was a Little Brother.
"Wait a minute... that drawing wasn't there the last time." Jacob realized as he saw a new drawing on the wall. It has him with a few little sisters around him. One riding in his sphere cage, another on his shoulders and one holding his hand as they walked.
Curious, he reached into the hidey hole again. To his surprise he pulled out a plasmid and an audio diary. Taking the audio diary he pressed the play button and waited a moment for it to start before sitting at the base of the hidey hole.
I came back here. I hoped with all of my heart that my nightmares were just dreams. But they weren't. Somebody's running Rapture now. Who, I don't know. I just made my way through the halls of the same place that I spent my childhood in. where I faced my worst nightmares. Then I met him... the same Big Brother that I had to face in order to escape during that last fight right after I watched my family and friends escape in the bathysphere I fixed.
How is he still alive? He was there, standing, as if he was warning me to leave, then he was gone. What more will I fi- *BANG!* *BANG!*
The audio diary ended after hearing two gunshots, silence, and then footsteps. Was this what happened after his father came Rapture? Before he was kidnapped? But most importantly, he faced another Big Brother before his great escape. He never told him that. Come to think of it, he'd never really been very specific about that last battle, now that Jacob thought about.
Picking up the plasmid Jacob looked away, ignoring the needle, and stuck it into his arm.
Almost instantly his hand went cold and numb, looking at it Jacob found it was covered in ice. He would usually panic but this was kinda cool... literally,
"What no panic attack?" asked Red.
"No." Jacob said with a smirk.
Maybe with this he can outmatch the Big Brother General? "Red, where is the Big Brother General located?"
"He lives in the fleet hall, a place where people once used to exhibit and admire art... well, mostly Sander Cohens art, so i'm using the term loosely." Red grinned.
"Jack told me about that guy. He said he was the king of the crazies."
"Well uncle Jackie is wrong. To me, the king of the crazies was Andrew. Always has been and always will be."
Shrugging, Jacob began to walk into that direction. Then he stopped. A Big Brother/ Sister was in one of the floors of the Atrium, Jacob hold his breath hoping this one didn't notice him, unfortunately, it did, it had to be blind not to see him, to be fair. A ninja he was not.
It looked at him, its light a friendly green. Looking over it Jacob noticed two things. One, it was the same Big Brother/Sister that followed him around on the surface and two, due to his newfound experience dealing with the residents of rapture he could safely say the figure was male, a Big Brother.
"Hello." Jacob began, but the Big Brother stared, "Uhh..." Jacob finished lamely, his mind coming up with a blank as to what to say.
The Big brother threw a Big Daddy Doll at him. Jacob caught it, looking it over he noticed a folded piece of paper strapped to the chest of the doll.
Looking up from the doll at the Brother who'd thrown it to him he found the space the Big Brother was occupying a few seconds prior empty.
'Weird.' Jacob thought as he opened the piece of paper. He saw it was a hand drawn map, drawn with what looked like crayon. That man wanted him to go to back to the foundation.
Debating it for a few seconds Jacob decided to do as the Big Brother recommended. who knows, maybe he could get some more things that he could use to out match the Big Brother General?
Heading back towards the wreckage of the train Jacob began to follow the map. Down and Down he walked, taking the usual left and right turns, the monotonous pattern only broken by an odd flight of stairs here and there. Finally Jacob reached a room, looking down he saw a hatch on the floor, opening it up it revealed an entrance underground, no bigger than the size of the sewers in New york.
Entering Jacob found himself in another hall way. It was dry, walking forward he opened a door and found himself in a large room. It had a bunk bed, some toys, and lamps to light the place. There were papers thrown across the floor.
Walking over to a desk he found an audio diary, pressing the play button it began to play as Jacob started picking up the papers on the floor, listening as he worked.
"I hope your not joking with me."
"Andrew, you think I would joke around with my best friend?"
"I highly doubt it Daniel."
"Anyway, here they are. Feast your eyes on the new generation."
"They're small, fascinating."
"Well yes, they look like normal five year old but they possess many amazing mental abilities that neither of us could dream of possessing."
"Really, well that's..."
"Waaaahhhh!"
"Ryan, Ryan what is it?"
"You... wah...you invited the mean men here."
"What what are you talking about?"
"Daniel what is this?"
"This is Ryan, he's a little sensitive. He can see into the future. This usually happens only in his sleep, although recently he's been using the ability when he's awake more and more often."
"You...you Andrew..."
"How do you know my name?"
"Your going to kill lots of innocent people. Your the bloody king of Rapture."
"RYAN!"
"Gil... your going to be next... your going to try and kill me."
"He is going to WHAT?"
"Roan, NO, don't you dare tou-NOOOO!"
"CRASH"The audio diary ended there.Jacob shivered. That didn't sound very good. Sitting down on the floor he looked over the papers. They were drawings. One was of Rapture, the other was a ballroom of some sort, there were decorations and stuff people dancing, a banner was hung, it said happy new year.
The next picture was the same only people were dead, slaughtered, the walls were covered in blood, and everything was destroyed.
The next one was what looked like Jack Ryan. He was with a few Little Sisters. The next was him taking them to the surface.
Then there was another drawing, it was Jacob's father. He knew cause he was wearing his armor.
Looking at the last picture Jacob was sort of shocked.
The city in the drawing was huge and beautiful. He was sure his father used all of his crayons drawing it. It was huge, the lights made it look like it was Atlantis. Drawn on the other side of the paper was a huge room, it was filled with light, decorated with colorful streamers and banners, the people inside were dressed in fine tuxedo's or dresses. They all greeted the person drawn in the middle.
This person was dressed finer than all of them, but there was a gentle air to him, he had a crown drawn on top of his head, but the face was messed up cause of some liquid that fell on the drawing.
"That's is too bad." Jacob said as he put the drawings on the desk. Then he noticed something else. a book? Picking it up Jacob found it was the remaining piece of the diary.
Journal entry #9 This is my last entry. After Roans attack I realized the mistake I made. I shouldn't have played god. So I decided to give them the new memories quickly. If I can I will also deactivate their ability, they will live life as normal children, just as they deserve.
Finally I began to work on fabricating the memories i'm going to give them. Its hard because of all the details I have to give, everything has to be perfect to work.
Then, they came.
Andrew's men stormed in. They demanded that I give them one of my twins. I begged them to leave them alone, that they're just children. They said that they only needed Roan. That he was the one they needed to unlock the human beings full potential. I put up a fight. But they won, they took away Roan. Where, I don't know. In the end all that I could do was implant Ryan's memory. I made him forget his twin. After living the life of a child for a month, laughing, playing, I recognized the new plasmid on the market. The one called Telekinesis I began to fear the worst...that they had killed Roan. Roan I'm sorry that I let you down.Setting the pages down Jacob felt awful. He was close to tears. "He...hello...somebody...heeeelllpppp!" a voice female through his radio, providing a much needed distraction.
"Hello? Who's this?" Jacob asked.
"Oh thank goodness. My name is Mrs. Henry, please help us. I'm in some place... I don't know where, with a bunch of other people. There are things here that want to kill us. Please help us!" She begged.
"Look, it will take a while, but I'll get there." Jacob said, recognizing his kindergarten teachers voice. Easier said than done, those teachers could be anywhere in Rapture. Even if Jacob found them there was going to be the huge possibility that they could be dead.
Suddenly there was a small thud. Spinning around Jacob saw it was the same Big Brother that has been stalking him.
"If there's anything you can do to help I would greatly appreciate it." Jacob said, he probably didn't know what was going on but it was worth a shot. The Brother was silent for a second before it pulled a plasmid from behind his back and tossed it to Jacob.
Then he was gone, just like that. Poof. Like a Houdini Splicer.
"Wow." Jacob said, impressed.
Taking the plasmid Jacob injected it into his arm. He didn't feel any different than before...
looking at the plasmid he found this one actually had a label, it said "Teleportation Plasmid"
But... that didn't make any sense. According to grandpa Delta's stories they were never able to stabilize the plasmid. The Houdini splicers were just a mutation. Their ability had nothing to do with the plasmid itself...
"Kid. What's taking so long?" Red demanded.
"Sorry, have to help some of my teachers. On a completely unrelated note, how do you use the Teleportation Plasmid?" Jacob asked, ever so subtly.
"Easy, all you have to do is think about the place you want to go. At least I think that's how it works. I've never used the plasmid myself." Red explained.
Jacob shrugged and decided to take a leap of faith.
Closing his eyes he imagined his teachers. He tried not to focus on what was around where they could be and kept the mental image of them purposely blurry and let the plasmid fill in the rest. After a few seconds of waiting he felt and odd weightlessness envelope him before his world turned white. A small ripping sound and a bit of bright red dust that quickly dissipated being the only indication that he had ever been there.
Rapture, Bathysphere StationJacob immediately found himself in the middle of a small battle between a small group of leadhead splicers and some of the first sane people Jacob had seen in quite a while.
Jumping into action Jacob immediately began to fight the group. The splicers quickly fled at the sight of him freezing, stabbing, and slicing through them.
Turning his attention to the group Jacob saw they were only two teachers. He recognize both of them right away. Mrs. Henry, the teacher of the kindergarten class and Mr. Jonathan. Who was quite possibly the only human being Jacob could safely say he would stab in the face and laugh about it afterwards.
"No... please don't kill us, take this plasmid... take her if you want." Jonathan simpered.
"WHAT?" Mrs. Henry shouted. Not quite believing what he said. As amusing it was to see the man panicking, Jacob had to keep the peace.
"Don't worry. I don't mean any harm, I came to help." The panicking group started to settle down at that announcement.
"Oh thank goodness. Thank you whoever you are. Here, take the plasmid." Henry said giving a plasmid Jar to Jacob.
It was obvious that they didn't knew who Jacob was, Injecting himself with the plasmid Jacob found it was Electro-bolt.
"Please, we need your help. There's a bathysphere down there. We need to get to it escape" Jonathan said.
"no, we need to find the children first." Mrs. Henry, it wasn't a request. Jacob had to respect her for that, she was a teacher through and through. Even in the face of certain death she was worried about her students.
"Children, children, children, is that all you care about?" Jonathan said angrily.
"Their parents trusted us." she simply.
"I had enough of you!" Jonathan screamed before pistol whipping her with his revolver.
Jonathan looked at Jacob warily as his helmet light went from a still cautious yellow to a burning red. Jacob's hand balled into a fists, Jonathan wasn't a teacher any more...he never was, really. He was no better then a splicer now... and like all splicers he had to be eliminated.
Seemingly ignoring the single shot Jonathan had left in the chamber as it ricocheted off of his forearm he walked forward and gripped Jonathan's neck before slamming him into the wall behind him.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT? WHY DO YOU ALWAYS TREAT PEOPLE LIKE THIS?" Jacob demanded as he let go of his neck and let him fall to the ground. Pointing his harvester at Jonathan's face so he didn't get away he waited for a response.
After several seconds of silence Jacob dropped his arm to his side and laughed. "So that's it? Wheres all the bravado you showed on the surface! … your nothing but scum Jonathan."
"Who are you? How do you know my name?" Jonathan asked.
"oh? I'm hurt Jonathan. I thought you were trying to become my new daddy?" Jacob mocked.
"Jacob? N-no, you can't be. Who are you really?" Jonathon yelled.
"I already told you," Jacob said slowly. Reaching up he took off his helmet and lifted it slowly. "I'm Jacob Andrew."
Jonathan's mouth moved but no sound came out as he was to stunned by what he was seeing.
Putting his helmet back on he walked over to Ms. Henry's unconscious body and gently picked her up bridal style before turning his head to look at Jonathan. "Your not even worth killing. Have fun dealing with all the Splicers with your ammo-less revolver and your total cowardice.
"Wait! Come back here you little brat!" shouted Jonathan, seemingly forgetting WHAT he was yelling at as he found out who it was inside the armor.
. . . Later . . .Jacob checked Mrs. Henry's wounds. She had quite a few injuries and he was fairly certain she was dying.
"Jacob? Is it true what I heard?" She asked weakly as he laid her on the ground. He nodded nodded.
Mrs. Henry smiled and said "This is what I always wanted."
"What do you mean?" Jacob asked.
"I always wanted to see my students grow up into mature responsible adults. Although I know your still a child in mind and heart, you have shown more maturity and responsibility than any other child I have seen." Mrs. Henry said.
"But I haven't done anything..." Jacob replied.
"That is what you may think Jacob, but you have done a lot more than any adult would do. Remember, a child makes a mess, but it takes a man to clean it up." She smiled as she took a deep ragged breath.
"Jacob, I want you to do me a favor before I leave."
"Anything."
"I want you to save my students. they're all good children. Even the bullies, they're just children that are misunderstood. Maybe they feel ignored by the world or their just misguided and feel lonely. But they're all good, deep down, you just have to find it inside of them."
After thinking it over Jacob found that she was right. Stretch, Gerald, Harold, all of them had a reason why they became bullies.
Tears came to his eyes. "Good bye Mrs. Henry. I'm going to miss you, you were my favorite teacher."
"I'm going to miss you too Jacob. I'm sorry I gave you that F on the report you did on Rapture." she said with a weak laugh before she closed her eyes and went limp.
Jacob mourned for a few minutes. He was going to honor his favorite teacher by keeping his promise to her. He was going to save all of the students, even all of the bullies, no matter what it took.
Getting up Jacob walked away, Sparrow floating behind him, he was going to come back later to give his teacher a proper burial.
Later, in the Bathysphere stationJonathan was up on his feet, working hard trying to make the sphere work, but it was no use. It had no power or gas to run on.
Suddenly he stopped, looking behind him he saw what looked like a Big Brother, his helmet light glowing red.
"Wait a minute. What are you doi- no, NO, AHHH-" Evil Jacob:
Suddenly the train jerked into a stop tossing both Jacob and Sparrow onto the control panel and the floor respectively.
Getting up they both looked around. This seemed awfully familiar.
"Ja...b... J...cob... get out of there now!" Shouted a voice from his radio.
Deciding to heed its warning Jacob took out the katana and smashed the nearest window. Thankfully the train wasn't underwater, so it was easy to hop out the window and onto Raptures version of a sidewalk, Sparrow followed behind him.
The train continued moving for almost five more seconds before violently exploding.
"What was that?" Jacob asked. Thinking he was asking it, Sparrow beeped twice. While two beeps would normally mean no Jacob was sure it was more along the lines of 'I don't know' in this situation.
"Jacob, Jacob! Are you there!"
"Red?" Jacob asked.
"No, its Gear here. I'm glad your alive. I thought I lost the only decent conversationalist left in Rapture." Said Gear, relieved,
"Love you to buddy." Jacob quipped.
"Anyway, that was the Big Brother General. He's after you. It's very important that you tell me where you are right now." Gear said, panic slipping into voice.
"I don't know. I'll look around then tell you where I am after I get some more information." Jacob said.
"Good, try not to die." Gear warned before logging off.
Looking around Jacob began to move forward.
"Red, you there?" Jacob asked into the static, Red didn't answer. He shrugged, he didn't think it would work, but it was worth a shot. Speaking of which... glancing over at Sparrow he couldn't help but joke.
I don't suppose you know anything about Red do you?"
*Beep*
"Wait what? Really?" Jacob blurted out in surprise. He didn't expected that to work either.
Sparrow began to beep continually at Jacob, trying to tell him something.
"Oooookay..." Jacob deadpanned.
Wandering around slowly he noticed a light. when he got there he found himself back where he started, in the Upper Atrium.
"Welcome back Jacob. I guess..." Red spoke up for the first time in a while.
"Red, there you are. What have you been doing?" Jacob asked.
"Don't worry Jacob, you'll find out real soon."
Sparrow suddenly went crazy, it let out a loud long beep before it slammed into Jacob's helmet. Covering his visor almost completely.
"Sparrow!" Jacob shouted as he tried to get the drone off of his face...helmet, whatever. At the same time wondering what has gotten into the drone. Once he got a good grip he got Sparrow off of his helmet. The drone beeped angrily as it pointed to Jacob's helmet with his talon like feet.
"Sparrow, you keep acting like this and your scrap metal!" Jacob yelled. The drone let out an angry hiss in response. It obviously didn't like Red for some reason.
"Kid, why do you want to come here?" Red asked, either unaware or not caring about the struggle the drone was making.
"Oh, I'm on my way to Hephaestus."
"Wait a minute. Hephaestus... I was going to ask you to go there." Red said, more speaking to himself then anything.
"Really? Wait why would you want me to go there?"
"Its our ticket out of here."
"Awesome, but it seems we had a little detour. The General Big brother decided he doesn't like trains and blew mine up." Jacob joked.
"Wait a minute. Big Brother General? Well this changes things. The Big Brother General is one tough cookie. I don't think your ready to face him." Red mused.
"How strong is he?" Jacob asked.
"He's very strong. Not as strong as the first Big Brother, your father, The first General." Admitted.
"Wait a second. My dad's never been a general. He's never been in a war, or the military at all."
"That's where your wrong Jacob. You see, back then he was THE General, the leader of the Big Sisters', their commander and what not. They obeyed him without question, mostly because the Bis Sisters saw a leader that cared about the Sisters, unlike Lamb who was obviously just using them like one would any other tool. Yep, Splicer's feared him quite a bit, they'd have rather faced a Big Daddy than him. Enough history lessons though. The Big Brother General, there's only one at any given moment. The position goes to the strongest Brother in rapture. Although that rule has been rather useless as the General we have now is the ONLY general we've ever had, aside from your dad.
He lives here in the upper atrium which means. Your in his territory, he has all the latest in both plasmids and weaponry. He's deadly and merciless, Jacob your outmatched, plain and simple. Unless of course, you somehow find a way to outmatch him in defense and/or offensive skill. Either will do really."
Jacob thought about it. F he beat the Big Brother General then conquering the rest of rapture would be childs play.
He reached his fathers hidey hole a few minutes later. The one he used when he was a Little Brother.
"Wait a minute... that drawing wasn't there the last time." Jacob realized as he saw a new drawing on the wall. It has him with a few little sisters around him. One riding in his sphere cage, another on his shoulders and one holding his hand as they walked.
Curious, he reached into the hidey hole again. To his surprise he pulled out a plasmid and an audio diary. Taking the audio diary he pressed the play button and waited a moment for it to start before sitting at the base of the hidey hole.
I came back here. I hoped with all of my heart that my nightmares were just dreams. But they weren't. Somebody's running Rapture now. Who, I don't know. I just made my way through the halls of the same place that I spent my childhood in. where I faced my worst nightmares. Then I met him... the same Big Brother that I had to face in order to escape during that last fight right after I watched my family and friends escape in the bathysphere I fixed.
How is he still alive? He was there, standing, as if he was warning me to leave, then he was gone. What more will I fi- *BANG!* *BANG!*
The audio diary ended after hearing two gunshots, silence, and then footsteps.
So his dad faced another Big Brother before his great escape. He never told him that. Come to think of it, he'd never really been very specific about that last battle, now that Jacob thought about.
Picking up the plasmid he stuck it into his arm.
Almost instantly his hand went cold and numb, looking at it Jacob found it was covered in ice. He would usually panic but this was kinda cool... literally, Maybe with this he could outmatch the Big Brother General?
"Red, where is the Big Brother General located?"
"He lives in the fleet hall, a place where people once used to exhibit and admire art... well, mostly Sander Cohens art, so i'm using the term loosely." Red grinned.
"Jack told me about that guy. He said he was the king of the crazies."
"Well uncle Jackie is wrong. To me, the king of the crazies was Andrew. Always has been and always will be."
Shrugging, Jacob began to walk into that direction. Then he stopped. A Big Brother/ Sister was in one of the floors of the Atrium, Jacob covered his hand in ice and pulled out his sword with the other, preparing for a fight.
It looked at him, its light a friendly green, which confused Jacob as he was fully prepared to chop him to pieces. Looking over it Jacob noticed two things. One, it was the same Big Brother/Sister that followed him around on the surface and two, due to his newfound experience dealing with the residents of rapture he could safely say the figure was male, a Big Brother.
"Hello." Jacob began, if this was the person that lead him to rapture he could at least attempt to become his ally in thanks.
The Big brother threw a Big Daddy Doll at him. Jacob caught it, looking it over he noticed a folded piece of paper strapped to the chest of the doll.
Looking up from the doll at the Brother who'd thrown it to him he found the space the Big Brother was occupying a few seconds prior empty.
'Odd.' Jacob thought as he opened the piece of paper. He saw it was a hand drawn map, drawn with what looked like crayon. That man wanted him to go to back to the foundation.
Debating it for a few seconds Jacob decided to do as the Big Brother recommended. Heading back towards the wreckage of the train Jacob began to follow the map. Down and Down he walked, taking the usual left and right turns, the monotonous pattern only broken by an odd flight of stairs here and there. Finally Jacob reached a room, looking down he saw a hatch on the floor, opening it up it revealed an entrance underground, no bigger than the size of the sewers in New york.
Entering, Jacob found himself in another hall way. It was dry, walking forward he opened a door and found himself in a large room. It had a bunk bed, some toys, and lamps to light the place. There were papers thrown across the floor.
Walking over to a desk he found an audio diary, pressing the play button it began to play as Jacob started picking up the papers on the floor, listening as he worked.
"I hope your not joking with me."
"Andrew, you think I would joke around with my best friend?"
"I highly doubt it Daniel."
"Anyway, here they are. Feast your eyes on the new generation."
"They're small, fascinating."
"Well yes, they look like normal five year old but they possess many amazing mental abilities that neither of us could dream of possessing."
"Really, well that's..."
"Waaaahhhh!"
"Ryan, Ryan what is it?"
"You... wah...you invited the mean men here."
"What what are you talking about?"
"Daniel what is this?"
"This is Ryan, he's a little sensitive. He can see into the future. This usually happens only in his sleep, although recently he's been using the ability when he's awake more and more often."
"You...you Andrew..."
"How do you know my name?"
"Your going to kill lots of innocent people. Your the bloody king of Rapture."
"RYAN!"
"Gil... your going to be next... your going to try and kill me."
"He is going to WHAT?"
"Roan, NO, don't you dare tou-NOOOO!"
"CRASH"The audio diary ended there.Jacob laughed. Roan sounded like his kinda guy, protect your allies and they would do the same, loyalty had it's perks it seemed. Sitting down on the floor he looked over the papers. They were drawings. One was of Rapture, the other was a ballroom of some sort, there were decorations and stuff people dancing, a banner was hung, it said 'Happy New Year!'.
The next picture was the same only people were dead, slaughtered, the walls were covered in blood, and everything was destroyed.
The next one was what looked like Jack Ryan. He was with a few Little Sisters. The next was him taking them to the surface.
Then there was another drawing, it was Jacob's father. He knew cause he was wearing his armor.
Looking at the last picture Jacob found himself surprised.
It was the surface, but there were bodies and blood everywhere. He saw several building that looked newer then the soon-to-be-rubble surrounding them. They looked like the buildings in rapture. Looking a little further he found Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Big Daddies, and Little Sisters wandering around. Some were fighting Splicers, some fighting normal looking people. He liked this image, maybe this is what he could do once he took control of rapture? Turn his conquest to surface?
Admiring the picture for a few more seconds he noticed something else. A book? Picking it up Jacob found it was the remaining piece of the diary.
Journal entry #9 This is my last entry. After Roans attack I realized the mistake I made. I shouldn't have played god. So I decided to give them the new memories quickly. If I can I will also deactivate their ability, they will live life as normal children, just as they deserve.
Finally I began to work on fabricating the memories i'm going to give them. Its hard because of all the details I have to give, everything has to be perfect to work.
Then, they came.
Andrew's men stormed in. They demanded that I give them one of my twins. I begged them to leave them alone, that they're just children. They said that they only needed Roan. That he was the one they needed to unlock the human beings full potential. I put up a fight. But they won, they took away Roan. Where, I don't know. In the end all that I could do was implant Ryan's memory. I made him forget his twin. After living the life of a child for a month, laughing, playing, I recognized the new plasmid on the market. The one called Telekinesis I began to fear the worst...that they had killed Roan. Roan I'm sorry that I let you down.Looking up from the diary Jacob felt like burning someone. He rather like this Roan fella, and it sounds like he was killed for his power. "He... hello... somebody... heeeelllpppp!" A female voice shouted through his radio.
"Hello? Who's this?" Jacob asked.
"Oh thank goodness. My name is Mrs. Henry, please help us. I'm in some place... I don't know where, with a bunch of other people. There are things here that want to kill us. Please help us!" She begged.
"I'll be there, hold on." Jacob said, recognizing his kindergarten teachers voice. Easier said than done, those teachers could be anywhere in Rapture. Even if Jacob found them there was going to be the huge possibility that they could be dead, then again, all the Splicers attacking them could be worth a decent amount of Adam...
Suddenly there was a small thud. Spinning around, his hand already poised to hurl an electro-bolt, he saw it was the same Big Brother that had been stalking him.
"If there's anything you can do to help I would greatly appreciate it." Jacob said, trying to be civil. So far every time he showed up he provided something to help him. The Brother was silent for a second before it pulled a plasmid from behind his back and tossed it to Jacob.
Then he was gone, just like that. Poof. Like a Houdini Splicer.
"Awesome." Jacob said, impressed.
Taking the plasmid Jacob injected it into his arm. He didn't feel any different than before...
looking at the plasmid he found this one actually had a label, it said 'Teleportation Plasmid.'
But... that didn't make any sense. According to grandpa Delta's stories they were never able to stabilize the plasmid. The Houdini splicers were just a mutation. Their ability had nothing to do with the plasmid itself...
"Kid. What's taking so long?" Red demanded.
"Sorry, have to help some of my teachers, possibly getting quite a bit of Adam in the process. On a completely unrelated note, how do you use the Teleportation Plasmid?" Jacob asked, ever so subtly.
"Easy, all you have to do is think about the place you want to go. At least I think that's how it works. I've never used the plasmid myself." Red explained.
Jacob shrugged and decided to try it out.
Closing his eyes he imagined his teachers. He tried not to focus on what was around where they could be and kept the mental image of them purposely blurry and let the plasmid fill in the rest. After a few seconds of waiting he felt and odd weightlessness envelope him before his world turned white. A small ripping sound and a bit of bright red dust that quickly dissipated being the only indication that he had ever been there.
Rapture, Bathysphere StationJacob immediately found himself in the middle of a small battle between a small group of leadhead splicers and some of the first sane people Jacob had seen in quite a while.
Jumping into action Jacob immediately began to fight the group. The splicers quickly fled at the sight of him freezing, stabbing, and slicing through them.
Harvesting what Adam he could from their bodies Jacob was able to fill two whole jars. Turning his attention to the group Jacob saw they were only two teachers. He recognize both of them right away. Mrs. Henry, the teacher of the kindergarten class and Mr. Jonathan. The asshole who was trying to bed his mom.
He was going to enjoy this...
"No... please don't kill us, take this plasmid... take her if you want." Jonathan simpered.
"WHAT?" Mrs. Henry shouted. Not quite believing what he said. As amusing it was to see the man panicking, Jacob had to keep the peace.
"Don't worry. I don't mean any harm, I came to help." He lied, The panicking group started to settle down at that announcement.
"Oh thank goodness. Thank you whoever you are. Here, take the plasmid." Henry said giving a plasmid Jar to Jacob.
It was obvious that they didn't knew who Jacob was. Inspecting the Plasmid he found out if was Electro-bolt. Tossing it over his shoulder he turned back to the simpering idiot and Mrs. Henry, who was swaying rather dangerously.
"Please, we need your help. There's a bathysphere down there. We need to get to it escape" Jonathan said.
"No, we need to find the children first." Mrs. Henry snapped, it wasn't a request. Jacob had to respect her for that, she was a teacher through and through. Even in the face of certain death she was worried about her students.
"Children, children, children, is that all you care about?" Jonathan said angrily.
"Their parents trusted us." she said simply.
"I had enough of you!" Jonathan screamed before pistol whipping her with his revolver.
Jonathan looked at Jacob warily as his helmet light went from a still cautious yellow to a burning red.
Walking towards him slowly Jacob relished in the Sheer terror on Jonathan's face. His hands were shaking to much to shoot accurately and the single shot he had left missed by several feet.
Unsheathing his sword slowly Jacob's left hand blurred forward and froze the puddle Jonathan was standing in, trapping him in place. As Jonathan was looking at the ice below him Jacob swung twice as fast and he could and severed his arms at the shoulder. Jonathan slowly looked at both his shoulder in disbelief for several long seconds before a bloodcurdling scream tore it's way through his throat.
Ignoring the screaming, trapped, armless man Jacob walked over to Mrs Henry. What he saw wasn't pretty. She had a gunshot wound on her shoulder and judging by how thin she was she hadn't eaten in quite a while. Gritting his teeth he remembered that Jonathan looked perfectly healthy. That meant one thing, he was hogging all the food they found.
Turning around he focused on Jonathan. He had a large puddle of blood pooling below him and his screams were growing weaker. He was suffering, but that was only for his mother and him. He still had to be punished for hurting Mrs. Henry, whom was Jacobs favourite teacher.
Switching Plasmids he threw a weak fireball at Jonathan's back. Instantly his entire back was covered in flames and his screams renewed. Satisfied, Jacob turned back to the only actual teacher of the two. Noticing her lack of movement he let out a sigh, such a waste. She could have told him how long they had been down here, among other things.
He couldn't exactly give her a proper burial, but cremation was the best he could do. Picking her up he set her down on a dry patch of ground. Flicking both his wrists he dropped a few weak fireballs onto her and started walking away.
Noticing Jonathan was dead but still burning he shot another blast of ice at him, this time at his chest, covering him in ice and putting out the fire. Cremation was to good for the likes of him. He would serve as a warning to all those who would oppose him until he melted. And then he would rot, like he deserved.
Securing his newly filled Adam jars better under his armor he walked away. Satisfied he would never have to deal with that little hurdle in his life ever again.
To Be Continued...
BETA'd by: Slicerness