Lost Beneath the Waves
Ch.14
Disclaimer: I do not own Bioshock or Hetalia.
By the time Delta reached the hall of the future his stomach was no longer hurting, but he did have a major migraine going on. However, when he reached the door that lead into the Hall of the Future is headache was momentarily forgotten when the door slid open. Standing in the middle of a huge hall were two splicers. Located in the middle of the hall was a turret and a male splicer was knelt down beside it working on it. A woman splicer was standing next to him hugging a golf club close to her chest. The male splicer was cursing up a storm, but eventually he snapped and turned his attention over to the woman.
"Damn it Mary this is your entire fault!" The man yelled.
The woman flinched a little before she said "I barely even touched the thing."
The man just snorted before he turned back to the turret. "Typical broad stay away from things you don't know nothing about!"
The woman looked like she was going to yell at him, but by now Delta was done watching them. He shot the turret with a hack dart, and after a few seconds of hacking the turret was under his control. The turret was able to kill the splicers, and once they were dead Delta moved into the hall. Lined up along both sides of the wall were TV screens that were playing cartons that demonstrated the effects of plasmids. A large painting of happy smiling people using plasmids to better their lives decorated the back wall, and the words 'pick a plasmid and evolve' had been writing on the wall above the painting.
There was a door on the right side of the room near the painting that would take him deeper into the room. As Delta approached the door his radio buzzed to life and Lamb's calm emotionless voice started to come out of it.
"So... you would drain the people of their life's blood. Rapture is a body, Delta. I am the voice... and Big Sister is the hand. When Rapture speaks of you, it says only this: Sleep now. Your day is done."
Delta just snorted at this and thought 'So Rapture consists of a rotting body, an emotionless crazy voice, and a violent creature as a sort of police force? That sounds about right at this point.'
When Delta reached the door it quickly slid open only to reveal that there was a large set of windows looking out into the sea nearby. Standing on a bunch of rocks outside was a Big Sister, but the second she spotted Delta she quickly swam out of view. The Big Daddy proceeded to ignore everything and quickly race off to the Gather's Garden machine that was there in the room. The machine was pretty loud so he was able to find it pretty fast. Leaning up against the machine was an audio dairy by Gilbert Alexander. Delta picked the dairy up and pressed play.
We lost another of the Alpha Series Protectors today in testing. Somewhere outside the city limits, he simply vanished. For these men, Rapture has no walls. We must find a method of conditioning them against abandonment of the Little Sisters. Something physical... possibly even lethal. The lab aides are starting to call them "Big Daddies"... perhaps there's some genius to that. Bonded pairs... connected by a love that kills.
'A love that kills, huh?' Delta thought. 'Well, that is an interesting way to put it.'
Delta quickly shook his head turned his attention back to the Gather's Garden. The man really didn't have time to think about this. The protector looked through the list of Plasmids that he could buy only to find that Incinerate was the only one available. Delta shrugged a bit at this before he brought the fire based Plasmid. Delta quickly used the Plasmid and after he used the Plasmid he activated it. Small flames started to dance about on his fingertips and he could feel a comfortable warm feeling spread out throughout his body.
"Congratulations on your recent purchase of your Incinerate Plasmid!"
Delta jumped a bit in surprise upon hearing the voice, but he calmed down once he realized that it was just a recorded message. Delta turned around only to finally notice a display was set up behind him. The display consisted of a fireplace and a man and woman dummy sitting on a couch.
Delta approached the display and the recorded voice of the man cheerfully said "Say Tom here is having a romantic evening with a gal! What would impress her more than lighting the fireplace with a snap of your fingers?"
Well, considering the fact that there was oil on the ground that lead from the fireplace all the way over to the dummies Delta was pretty sure that the 'gal' was going to be burnt to a crisp and not impressed. Still Delta lit the fireplace as instructed and he wasn't at all surprised to see the fire light up the oil which then proceeded to set the dummies alight.
The display that was set up next to the burning couple one lit up and Delta just stared at it. This display consisted of a bunch of dummies standing around a bar. However, all of the dummies had been burnt to a crisp which told Delta that the previous customers who had brought Incinerate had really bad aim.
"Oh a party, but this party has just hit the skids. Carl needs a light for his cigar and no one can help him." The recorded voice of the man spouted out.
Delta could see the dummy with the fake cigar and he tried to light it. However, Delta ended up using a bit more power than intended and instead of lighting the cigar up he ended up lighting up the cigar and the dummy's head. The burning head fell off of the doll and crashed to the ground, and the second that it crashed to the ground Delta quickly scurried out of the room. However, when he got back into the large hallway he heard the loud screeching of a Big Sister.
All of the TV screens that were in the hall shattered from the loud screech and even some of the lights that lit the hallway broke. Delta couldn't help but freeze up when he heard that screech. His last encounter with a Big Sister hadn't gone well, and he wasn't relishing the idea of fighting another one. However, he couldn't stay there forever and through he really didn't want to he started to move over to the door that would take him out to Ryan's Amusements.
When Delta approached the door he was a little surprised to see the door get ripped right out of the door frame. The door was quickly flung out of the way and Delta wasn't at all surprised to see a Big Sister standing their waiting for him. Bright blood red light was streaming out of her porthole, and a bunch of different sized chunks of rocks that had probably fallen from the ceiling was floating around her. Delta also noticed that she was standing on some spilled oil and the Big Daddy wasted no time in igniting the oil with his Incinerate Plasmid.
The screeching banshee lit up like a piece of paper and the rocks that were levitating around her quickly fell to the ground. As she let out that ear-piercing screech of hers Delta immediately started to shoot her with his machine gun. When the fire died down a little she quickly jumped to the side and started to lift up the rocks with her Telekinesis Plasmid again. She obviously wanted to fling the rocks at him, but a quick zap from the Electro Bolt Plasmid caused her to drop the rocks once again. She didn't stay stunned for long and she quickly started flinging fireballs at the protector. Delta let out a loud moan of pain upon feeling the fire burn his body, but he didn't stop shooting.
The Big Daddy quickly ducked behind one of the directory maps that were set up in the lobby of Ryan's Amusements and continued to shoot from behind his cover. The Big Sister let out an annoyed screech before she quickly started racing toward him. She was obviously planning to stab Delta with her syringe, but he wasn't going to give her the chance.
When the Big Sister got close enough Delta swung his machine gun and smacked her across the face with it. The Big Sister stumbled back a little and the Big Daddy wasted no time in grabbing the Big Sister. Once he got a grip on he started to slam her into the wall again and again. The Big Sister let out a loud screech and tried to stab Delta, but the protector just ignored all of this. He continued to bash her against the wall as hard as he could, and he didn't stop until her screeching finally fell silent and red light finally went off. When the light went off Delta stopped slamming her into the wall, but he didn't let her go. He stared at the Big Sister as if waiting for her to try and attack him again, but she didn't move.
Delta let go of her and the Big Sister fell to the ground like an old ragdoll. Delta was panting from exhaustion, but he didn't dare try to rest. He knelt down and quickly checked the Big Sister to see if she had anything useful on her. She had a small vial of ADAM and while it wasn't a lot it was enough to buy a Tonic from a Gather's Garden.
As the Big Daddy took the vial he heard Sinclair say "Holy Moses, son, not even a Big Sister can keep you down! Well, come on back and melt the ice, an' we can say goodbye to this two-bit carny ride."
Delta was more than ready to say goodbye to this place. He stood up and quickly made his way back to the train station. The Big Daddy walked over to the frozen door and used Incinerate on it. The ice melted immediately and Sinclair started talking.
"Outstandin', sport, You're provin' to be quite a windfall. Now just open the train tunnel from the security booth there, and I'll come out an' jump on."
Delta grunted before he went into the security booth. When he got inside he was a little surprised to see two audio dairies in there. One audio dairy had been dropped onto the floor, and the second audio dairy was sitting on a chair that was in the room. Delta picked the audio dairy up from the floor and pressed play.
He's gone. James was the only man I ever loved... now it's like he never even came to Rapture. He heard me sing at the Limbo Room, came up all bashful. He liked hearin' songs about what it's really like to live in this town... I think he's been trying to organize folks against Ryan, and now he's gone, and I'm here, singing "Rise, Rapture, Rise"... scared to death they're gonna come for me!
Strange, the name James sounded sort of familiar. Then again maybe that wasn't strange. He had been finding a lot of things that sound familiar, but he could never figure out why they sounded familiar. Delta glanced at the name on the audio dairy only to see the name Grace Holloway had been written on it. Her name wasn't ringing any bells, but the Limbo Room was something that Delta knew about.
It was the name of a business down in Pauper's Drop. Delta had only been at the Drop once, but they had enough advertisements for the place up hanging around in the drop that Delta could definitely remember seeing the name. Delta picked up the audio dairy that was sitting on the chair, and upon seeing Gilbert Alexander's name on it he immediately pressed play.
The Little Sisters are getting older... which is troubling. As they reach adolescence, they become aggressive, feral. Worse, the ADAM they ingest contains traces of lethal Plasmids left over from the war. The Splicers are becoming far more effective predators as well. Our Big Daddies are falling left and right. Perhaps... perhaps the elder Sisters could be trained to sniff out the lost ADAM, and reclaim it for us. Yes... from what I've seen, they certainly wouldn't have to wait for the culprit to die...
'War?' Delta thought. 'What war?'
The Big Daddy seriously had to wonder what happened to this city while he was out of commission. On another note Delta didn't like what he heard on this audio dairy. If he understood it correctly the guy was more or less saying that they were turning elder Little Sisters into Big Sisters. He probably shouldn't have been surprised by this Big Sisters had to come from somewhere after all. However, that didn't make the fact that the once innocent Little Sisters were turned into those screeching creatures any less sad.
Although if anything this audio dairy just strengthened Delta's resolve to save every Little Sister that he came across. He wasn't going to allow any more Little Sisters to be turned into Big Sisters. With this thought in mind Delta pulled the lever that would unlock the train gate. The second that Delta pulled the lever the door a door that was located near the train gate opened up.
A man ran out and ran all the way over to the security booth that Delta was standing in. Once the man had reached the security booth he stopped and stared at Delta, and Delta stared right back at him. For the first time ever Delta was finally able to see what Sinclair looked like. Sinclair was a normal human man who looked like he was in his late thirties or early forties. He had dark black hair and he had pretty honey brown eyes. He was wearing a white button up shirt, a red tie, some suspenders, and gray pants. The man had a pistol tucked away into its holster, and the man was holding a black cigarette holder in his hand. A shortwave radio was hooked onto his belt and Delta knew that the man had been using that radio to talk to him.
The man smiled a little at Delta before he said "I like to look a man in the eye when I give him my word. You and me, kid, we're going places."
The man then turned around and calmly walked over to the train. Sinclair walked into the train, and the second the train door closed behind him Lamb started speaking to Delta through the radio.
"I had thought you some golem of Sinclair's, brought here to hold Rapture's arms as he rifles through her pockets." Lamb said. "But no... you are aware of your plight. Who, I wonder, would be so cruel? To force a mirror on a man with no face... "
'If she thought I was some unaware creature why did she bother talking to me?' Delta wondered.
He didn't get a lot of time to think about this because without warning a bunch of splicers came racing out of Ryan's Amusements. A few of the splicers raced over to the security booth that Delta was standing in and tried to bash the windows in while the rest of the splicers ran over to the train and started peeking through the windows trying to spot Sinclair.
"Lamb was waitin' for us! Come out shootin' and start the train!" Sinclair shouted out.
Delta stepped out of the security booth and opened fire on the splicers. Compared to the Big Sister these splicers were pushovers. They were quickly dealt with and once they were all dead and Delta was sure that no more splicers would come out of Ryan's Amusements Delta took a quick peak into the room that Sinclair had come out of. He wasn't sure if there would be anything interesting in there, but he took a quick look wouldn't hurt. The room seemed to be a large security room, and it looked like Sinclair had been camping out in the room for a while now. A matrass was sitting on the floor and a bunch of tiny TVs had been set up next to the matrass, but all of the TVs were off. A bunch of candles had been set up around the room, and they were the only thing that offered any sort of light in the dark gloomy room.
'I wonder how long Sinclair had to stay here?' Delta thought.
The thought of being forced to stay in this dark room all alone for a long time was depressing. Although, it's not like the rest of Rapture was any better. However, for some reason the thought of being stuck in the dark all alone without anyone to interact with seriously bothered the protector. Delta was about to leave, but just before he started to turn away he quickly noticed an audio dairy sitting on the floor next to the mattress. He picked the audio dairy up only to see that it was made by Sinclair himself. Eager to know more about his guide Delta quickly pressed play and listened to the audio dairy.
Andrew Ryan. He reckoned the free market was some kinda holy spirit gonna lead us all over the rainbow - and I reckon it's a big fat hooker too dim to spot a wooden nickel. So old Andy went an' became his own ghost, and I whittled nickels 'till I made a mint.
'Well, that was definitely an interesting way to describe the free market.' Delta thought.
With nothing left to do Delta made his way over to the train and stepped inside. Once he was in the train he pulled the lever that would make the train move. The gates to tracks opened up and the train slowly descended into the water and started to make its way down the rails. Once the train was officially out of the train station and working its way down the rails Delta debated sitting down and resting, but he was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the door to the passenger car open up behind him. Delta quickly turned around only to see Sinclair standing there.
"Get in here kid; we got a lot to talk about." Sinclair said.
The man moved out of the way and the Big Daddy slowly moved into the passenger car. The train car had a bit to wear and tear to it, but it was in remarkably good condition. The cushioned benches were a little worn, but they were clean and they looked very comfortable. A few boxes of supplies had been carefully stacked up near the door to the train's control room. Pieces of paper had been hastily attached to the boxes. Written on the pieces of paper were what seemed to be a list of supplies.
First Aid Kits and EVE Hypos were the only words that Delta would pick out from the small list. It was a little hard to read considering the fact that whoever wrote it had really tiny handwriting and it was a little hard to read from where he was standing. However, Delta was able to notice that the pieces of paper were covered in drawings. Surrounding the neatly written words were childish doodles of flowers, stars, and smiling blobs that were supposed to be jellyfish.
A table had been placed in the back of the car and sitting on the table were a bunch of TVs. All the TVs were attached to some sort of control counsel that had been set up on the desk.
Sinclair noticed that Delta was looking at everything in the train car and said "Tenenbaum helped set this up for us in exchange for some information and supplies."
Sinclair motioned over to the table and said "Most of the TVs are hooked up to the camera that's attached to your helmet."
The man smiled a little before he said "However, the rest of the TVs are hooked up to a few of the cameras that are set up around Rapture. That control counsel will allow me to change what cameras are synched up to the TVs."
Sinclair then pointed at the boxes sitting near the door. "Tenenbaum also gave us some basic supplies. It's not a lot and you'll want to get most of your supplies while you're out in the field, but if you ever hurtin' for some supplies just come back to the train and I'll see what I can do for you."
Well, that was nice but Delta was a little surprised that Tenenbaum gave them such supplies. He let out a soft almost confused sounding moan as he motioned to the boxes.
Somehow Sinclair was able to understand what he was trying to say because he smiled and said "Tenenbaum had a lot of supplies and I had a lot of food. The ol' gal needs a lot of food to keep the girls that she saved fed. I offered to trade my food for some supplies and she agreed to the trade."
Oh, well that explained a lot. Delta also thought it was pretty safe to assume that the doodles on the lists were probably made by the girls that Tenenbaum had with her. Seeing that the protector was satisfied with his answer the black haired man motioned toward one of the cushioned seats.
"Why don't you sit down Chief? I have a lot to tell you, and I would rather be sitting then standing."
The protector stared at him for a couple of seconds before he walked over to one of the seats and sat down. Luckily the seats were big enough that the Big Daddy had enough room to sit on it even with his air tank pack on his back. Sinclair sat down on the seat that was across from the Big Daddy. The man is leaning back in his seat smoking his cigarette without a care it the world. As Sinclair looks at him Delta notices that the brown eyed man was looking at him as if Delta was a normal human being. He was used to having people give him hate filled glares or fearful glances that actually having someone look at him as if he were just another normal person was rather new. It was also something that Delta appreciated, but he wasn't sure if Sinclair really knew just how much he truly appreciated it. The fact that the man could relax so much within the presence of a Big Daddy was also amazing.
The Big Daddy was snapped out of these thoughts of his when he heard Sinclair say "Ten years is a long time to be dead."
The Big Daddy just stared at the man as he took a puff of his cigarette.
"You missed a lot while you were gone, but you already know that." The man said. "However, the only things worthy of any real note are the war and ol' Ryan's death."
The man seemed to stare right into the protector's eyes as he asked "Has Tenenbaum told you about the war and Andy's death?"
Delta had no real way of answering him and Sinclair just gave the metal daddy a small smile before he said "Thumbs up for yes. Thumbs down for no."
Delta immediately gave the man a thumbs down and Sinclair sighed before he said "Right, well how should I start this?"
The man seemed to be thinking it over in his head for a bit before he said "Well, I suppose if you were to ask people who participated in the war they would say it was a war between the poor and the rich."
The man took another puff of his cigarette before he said "The truth of the matter is the war was really just a battle between Frank Fontaine and Andrew Ryan."
"Fontaine had a smuggling business and Ryan had been fighting a mini war over that for a long time. Eventually during one of these fights between Frank's smugglers and Ryan's security Frank was supposedly killed." The man sighed a little before he said "He wasn't killed through. Frank tricked everyone into thinking he was dead, and once everyone thought he was gone he reappeared as some revolutionary known as Atlas."
'Atlas?' Delta thought.
It wasn't a name that he was familiar with, but he was pretty sure it was the name of some mythological figure. However, the Big Daddy couldn't remember where the mythological figure came from. Sinclair didn't even notice that the Big Daddy was deep in thought he just kept talking.
"As Atlas he was seen as some sort of hero for the poor, and he was able to create an army with them. On the night that you were killed Atlas had his army attack a place called the Kashmir Restaurant. At the time it was filled to the brim with Ryan's supporters."
The brown eyed man glanced at the Big Daddy and said "I don't think I need to tell you what they did to the unlucky folks in the restaurant."
He really didn't need to. Delta knew that anyone who was in the place were killed or injured. Although, being able to get out of that situation with just a few injuries was probably the best that anyone was able to get away with.
"After the riots at Kashmir the war was in full swing. Ryan's forces and Atlas' army started splicing up so that they could have a better chance at killing each other, and bystanders started splicing up just so that they could stay safe." Sinclair said. "Now you have seen what years of ADAM abuse does to a person so I don't think I need to tell you why this was all a bad idea."
Delta knew why it was a bad idea, and the Big Daddy was quickly starting to understand just how Rapture became the destroyed hellhole that it is.
Sinclair sighed before he said "There really isn't much more to say about the subject. Both the men who kept this war going are dead, and the war and ADAM abuse caused this city to crumble."
Sinclair leaned back in his seat before he said "The only thing worth mentioning now is just how the two men died. Back in 1960 a plane crashed over Rapture and some unlucky soul survived and came down to the city."
Upon hearing Sinclair say plane crash what seemed to be a memory flashed in his mind. The memory of being trapped in pitch darkness only being able to hear the screaming of people all around him flashed in his mind, but it disappeared as fast as it came. Delta let out a confused grunt before he placed a hand on his helmet.
'What the hell was that?' Delta thought.
Sinclair had went silent when he heard the metal protector groan and he watched in slight confusion as the Alpha series put his hand on his helmet as if in an attempt to hold his head in his hands.
"You alright chief?" The brown eyed man asked.
Delta just removed his hand from his helmet and made the thumbs up sign to say that yes he was fine. The black haired continued to man stared at him for a few seconds as if trying to see if Delta was really alright, but after a few seconds had passed Sinclair talk again.
"Anyway, by the time this man got to the city Fontaine was in hiding. He was somehow able to get ahold of the kid, and he fooled him with his Atlas disguise. Somehow he was able to get the boy to go off and try to assassinate Ryan."
Sinclair gazed at the small trill of smoke that came from his cigarette and said "The whole time that kid was making his way to Ryan he was saving every Little Sister that he came across much in the same way that you saved the little lady in Ryan's Amusements. I imagine Tenenbaum had a hand in giving the boy the ability to save the girls."
Delta couldn't help but be rather intrigued by all of this. The fact that an ordinary man had been gone through the hell that was Rapture and saved any Little Sisters that he could find was interesting. Heck, it downright heroic even. Those girls most likely had Big Daddies with them, and the fact that an average human bothered to fight them just so he could save them was impressive. Delta knew that the man got some ADAM from the girls, but the fact that he chose to save the girls to get the ADAM instead of just tearing the slug out of them so that he could get a lot of ADAM was amazing.
However, Delta had to wonder what happened to the man. Delta let out a low whale like groan that was so very similar to a whale song. Sinclair just smiled a little at this before he said "The boy was able to make it to Ryan and he killed him just as he was ordered. Of course Fontaine then proceeded to stab the kid in the back. The kid responded to this by hunting Fontaine down and killing him. Once the two big guys were dead the boy went up the surface with Tenenbaum and the girls he saved."
The man titled his head slightly to the side as he said "Of course Tenenbaum came back so she could try to save the girls that Lamb kidnapped."
The man shrugged a little before he said "Once Ryan and Fontaine died Lamb stepped up as the new leader of Rapture, and she didn't waste any time in letting the whole city know that Ryan and Fontaine are dead."
Sinclair rolled his eyes before he says "Lord knows Lamb played the recording of Ryan's death enough times on all of Rapture's TV screens. I think almost everyone in the city has that moment burned into their minds."
The man shook his head and said "Anyway, Tenenbaum gave me some information on the incident, but she didn't reveal a lot. However, she did tell me something interesting about the boy."
Delta looked at Sinclair in confusion and Sinclair just smirked before he said "Turns out that boy was Ryan's son."
Delta let out a surprised grunt and Sinclair just laughed a little at hearing it. Hearing someone give a normal laugh and not some insane crackle was something new, but Delta decided that he liked it.
When the man finally stopped chuckling he said "The fact that the boy's plane crashed over Rapture of all places is a bit too convenient, but the only people who know the truth as to how the kid got here would be the boy and Tenenbaum. However, the boy is gone and Tenenbaum isn't talking."
The man shrugged before he said "I suppose it doesn't matter. The past is the past and it had nothin' to do with us."
Delta thought that maybe the man was done talking so he was a little surprised when Sinclair kept talking to him. "So now that he are done talking about the past let's talk about the present."
Delta looked at the man in confusion and Sinclair just smiled as he said "Now our goal is to get to the Fontaine Futuristics, but that's not all."
Delta groaned in confusion, but the black haired man ignored this.
"The tracks stop at Fontaine Futuristics which is good because we need to get there if we want to get to Persephone."
Delta would have titled his head in confusion if he could, but the helmet made it pretty impossible. Instead the protector just gave yet another confused groan, but the brown eyed man ignored it yet again.
"Persephone is a sort of prison building. I used to own it, but Lamb took over a long time ago. Anyway, at this building there are two important things waiting for us."
Sinclair held up a finger and said "The first thing is little Eleanor."
The man then held up another finger and said "The second thing is my lifeboat. Now the game plan is that we get into Persephone, grab Eleanor, and then get on the lifeboat and take it up the surface."
Sinclair frowned and said "Now as great as it would be if we could just take the train right to Fontaine Futuristics I know Lamb isn't going to let us get their without a fight."
As soon as Sinclair said this the train slowly screeched to a halt. Delta glanced out the window only to see that they had stopped at one of the train stations. A siren started going off and after a couple of minutes of blaring away it fell silent only to have the sound of Lamb's voice replace it. The walls of the train slightly muffled the voice from the PA, but they could still hear what she had to say.
"Attention: Subject Delta is trapped in Pauper's Drop. All rail car travel is suspended until he is found! Remember... the enemy is alone, we are the Family!"
"Speak of the devil…" Sinclair said.
The man stood up and grabbed and picked up an ashtray that was sitting on the table. Strange, Delta hadn't even noticed the tray the first time he looked at the table. Sinclair calmly disposed his cigarette into the tray before he looked over at Delta.
"Lamb's trying to box us in, kid—this is a city-wide lockdown. To keep the train movin' you need the security override key from the local 'governor,' Grace Holloway." Sinclair explained. "She kicked me out of my own hotel down here, The Sinclair Deluxe. Find her, an' get that key."
Upon receiving his orders Delta got up from his seat and moved up to the front of the train. Once he was in the train control room the door to the passenger cart closed behind him. The door that would take him outside opened up. Delta glanced out the door and sighed before he finally stepped out of the train...
Info Time!
Grace's audio dairy: You actually find this audio dairy sitting in a fountain frozen in a block of ice, but I moved to the security booth.
Alexander's audio dairy on Big Sisters: You technically find this audio dairy in Dionysus' Park, but I moved it to Ryan's Amusements. I did this mostly because I wanted England/Delta to know exactly what Big Sisters are. Granted the name alone sort of gives you an idea as to what they are. Big Sisters have to come from somewhere and the fact that they have sisters in the name gives you a pretty good idea of where they come from. However, I wanted Delta to know without a shadow of a doubt that once upon a time ago the Big Sisters used to be Little Sisters.
Anyway, I'll try and get the next chapter out as soon as possible so please review and don't flame.