Hey guys, only one more chapter after this until the story is over. Also I changed Shad's brother Tom's name to Link, the name of Pokeaddict's OC. Well, let's get started.
The next day, I was playing with Sapphire at the base when I heard a scream from Jake's. I knew immediately something was up, so I grabbed my tranquilizer pistol and ran for his room. What I saw horrified me. Simon just cut off Jake's left arm with his machete. "Simon!" I shouted at my partner. The look in his eyes told me everything; he just lost it. Apparently, Rose had heard the scream too because Simon was thrown against the wall the next second, right before he could go for me if the way he stiffened up was any indication. While he was down, I hit him with a tranq dart for good measure and he was knocked out in a matter seconds.
"The fuck happened?!" I asked Jake, anger clear in my tone. I just saw one of my best friends cut off another friend's arm, who wouldn't be.
"I don't know," Jake started with heavy breath. "I was just working on the next job and then Simon was just hacking away at my arm." He was clearly pissed off. I knew I had to do something or my friends would be in trouble.
"Let's put Simon in the insanity room till he calms down," I suggested. "He can explain why he did this when he comes to his senses." The insanity room was a room me and Jake put up in secret in case Simon ever lost it like he did now. It was an empty, padded room with no windows and a vent on the ceiling that no one could reach without help. Basically, we ripped off a room from a stereotypical insane asylum.
"Good idea," Rose agreed from the doorway. "While we're at, it let's see if we can find what made Simon go insane in the first place." While she clearly hated Simon, she had a point. We needed to see what caused this since Simon would never attack us without warning, insane or not. He would at least laugh first.
Rose and I threw him into the insanity room after restraining him with a pair of reinforced plastic handcuffs. They were the only things he couldn't break through with his current plasmid and tonic set. After that, we went to check on Songbird only to see something equally shocking as what happened to Jake, if not more shocking. Simon had torn off Songbird's wing before going for Jake. But why would Simon want to cripple his own friends? We'd find out when we got to Jake with his results. Sapphire was in the room with Jake when we came back, dangling her legs off a chair and humming a song she learned in school recently. Jake had apparently found something judging by how he had someone's profile up on the computer screen.
"I found someone who could have done this," he told us, nursing the bandages where his arm used to be. He pointed at the screen with his nearly non existent arm. Damn, that couldn't have felt good when it was cut off. Anyway, there was a teenager's mugshot on the computer. His name was Will, and he had black hair, grayish skin like my little girl's, and he had green eyes. According to his profile, he was the leader of the Splicers, and originated from Rapture like Rose did. He wore a black checkered shirt, worn jeans, and gray and black shoes. He also wore bandages on his knuckles and carried a hunting knife around at all times.
"This," Jake started, "is the Splicer who made Simon go insane years ago. He has every plasmid and splicer known on the internet at his command, with the exception of a few stragglers and mercs. I got a lock on his base, but he's moving somewhere else soon. If we don't go now, he could get away." Then my phone rang, it was Kur on the line.
"Wha-" I started only to be cut off by my dad. "Shad, listen to me." An explosion and gunshots almost blew out the speaker on my phone and I heard my father curse before continuing. "We're being attacked over at my house right now and I know that you can take these guys out easily, don't ask how right now. Damn it kids, I said to keep your heads down! I have the police force coming to back me up, but I can't hold these guys off for much longer. Please son, I'm sorry for rejecting your little girl at first, but your brothers and I are in danger here! Help u-" the line went dead. Dad's was a quick trip from here if I went by rooftop, but I'd miss Will if I went to help them. I had to make a choice and fast.