It's here! The Twentieth Chapter of Recollection of Rapture! Now I got to tell you when I first started this I had no idea that I would manage to come this far and actually make a story with a plot line! But thanks to that added extension with Bioshock Infinite that had the original Bioshock I was inspired to write this...
David: Your acting as if the story is over on this chapter.
I am? Well I suppose I am, but fear not people who are actually enjoying this story! IT! ISN'T! OVER! YET!
Disclaimer: I don't own Bioshock and I fear I never will...darn...but I do own these sandwiches! *Starts eating*
The shaking of the Bathysphere docking in the Olympus Heights Metro woke the tired Reality Controller up slightly before he fell back into a slight doze that threatens to overtake him again, but the sound of a couple footsteps approaching the metal sphere makes him unable to fall fully back to sleep while still remaining in a much more frail and non-battle ready state "Well look who's here...the brat that cracked my skull open. Oh boys! It's time for some payback!" A woman's voice announced before the sound of multiple gun's hammers being cocked into an ready to fire position: However, before anyone could fire at the defenseless pre-teen the area shakes as an mechanical roar -that sounds pretty pissed- echos throughout the area which causes the assembled group to mutter uncertainly as the sound of heavy boots rapidly hitting the floor gets louder "What are you waiting for!? The Tin Daddy won't harm us! We aren't going after it's precious Little Sister yet! Now fire!" The woman screeches her demands which must have made the people refocus their attention on dozing thirteen year-old because a scream of surprise and the sound of a drill being mercilessly shoved through a person's body is heard, and then the ever so distinct sound of flames being sprayed about invades the ears of the still half-asleep hybrid causing him to wake a bit more.
His eyelids open enough for him to see the slightest bit of the carnage that is taking place, and the scene showed the ever familiar Mr. B slaughtering a group of Leadheads with it's drill and uniquely attached chemical thrower on the back of it's left hand "Oh...it's Mr. B... going nighty night now." He lazily thinks as he closes his eyes shut in an attempt to return to his personal dreamland while the screams of horror and pain continue, and then when the noise finally subsides the sickening smell of burning flesh fills the pre-teen's nostrils making him slightly queasy before a large hand gently makes him get up onto his feet while he groans in protest "Let me sleep... Need some sleep..." The Thirteen year-old's words slurred as he spoke, and the hand helps him up onto a massive shoulder before David leans against the thick metal gated head in an attempt to get comfortable enough to rest more while the massive figure starts walking up the stairs with it's heavy iron boats making a loud thud with every step it makes.
The tired hybrid dozes away as his companion continues it's way to somewhere, and after a while he is roused again from his sleep making him open his eyes with a lot of effort before seeing that he is back in Dr. T's hideout with the young girls below him looking up at him worried "How did I get here...?" David wondered as he shakily slid off of Mr. B's shoulder and escorted to the closest bed where he promptly fell onto it, and it didn't take long for everything to blank out as he fell into one of the deepest sleeps he has had in a long time.
Hours later the thirteen year-old stirred before opening his eyes and groggily sitting up with a loud yawn "What happened?" He asked aloud as he swung his feet over the side of the bottom bunk of the bunk bed he was on "We were hopping you would tell us that." Instantly reacting David drew his favored .45 Magnum Revolver and aimed it at the head of the person who startled him before pausing as he sees the unconscious man that he carried out of the Artemis Suites now awake with his dark green eyes staring at him "...Your awake now. Good." The hybrid states while lowering his weapon "I've been awake for the last five hours. I was told to wait for you to wake up so you can tell us about Fontaine." He explains while David puts away his Revolver, and immediately after the Man finished talking the Doctor's voice rings out as well "Since your awake you can inform us now." This causes the thirteen year-old look over in the operating room he saw her in last time, and of course she is either back in that room or never left it "God she needs to come out and be social or something." He thinks before getting up and stretching his body in order to relieve the stiffness in his muscles, and after a few minutes of that he calmly looks over at the two and states "Fontaine is making himself insanely strong- strong enough to punch through a Big Daddy with no effort- by pumping into himself pure ADAM, he has an army of Splicers of all kinds just in the area I saw him in which makes me believe he has more in the other area's of Rapture. I fought him myself and in the end I could only deal enough Damage to stun him long enough for me to barely escape. Oh and he's getting strong as we speak because he has a ADAM harvester on him."
It took a few moments for the entirety of the message to sink in, but when it did the man I rescued sunk onto a nearby bed pale as a ghost with his hand against his forehead "It's even worse then I thought..." The Doctor's statement makes David frown at their expressions "So that's it? No plan? No ideas? Not even any optimism? We need to get rid of Fontaine in order to keep the children safe." He says with determination laced into his voice, but while the other two obviously agree there still was one thing that needed to be pointed out "How?" The pre-teen looks over at the man and inquires "How what?" The man's eyes lock with his own before expanding his question" How can we get rid of Fontaine? According to everything you've said he is practically invincible." This makes David shake his head in disagreement "Not invincible just powerful, but his power streams from the ADAM in his system right?" The Doctor's silhouette straightens up as if in realization "Yes...but if we can remove it from his system..." She trails off and the Aviation Hybrid finishes with a smile "He will become vulnerable to any assault." This realization makes everyone start getting a sense of hope, but it is quickly dispelled when the Man asks "How would we do that?"
David sighs at that before shrugging "I...don't know yet." He admits before thinking about how to do this "How could we do this? If we tried to get close to him we would get slaughtered by either his strength or his army...heck because of the army we wouldn't even be able to get close to him... wait... what if..." As a crazy plan starts forming in his mind David slowly gets a smile on his face which gets Dr. T's attention "Based on the grin on your face you have a plan?" The pre-teen glances over at her silhouette before nodding "I do...but it may seem rather insane." He warned them, but with no other ideas present the Man gets off the bed "What's the plan?" He inquires while sitting down next to David.
The former hybrid rubs his neck nervously before starting "Alright... as you know Fontaine has an army at his beck and call while he uses some of his splicers to get ADAM and get stronger right , so in order to get to him we need a force of our own to combat his ...soldiers I guess. If I can get the children's Big Daddies assembled I can upgrade them with certain things to make them more deadly." At this moment Dr. T decides to cut in "Even if you could manage that Fontaine would appear himself and deal with the Big Daddies. You say you saw him dispatch an elite easily." At that point David is forced to conceded, but he presses on undeterred "True, but until he does we could decimate his forces to a good degree; However, I realize the Big Daddies alone would not be good enough to win this fight... we would need to enlist the aid of some splicers ourselves." At that the Man looks at him as if he is crazy "How would we do that? They are all loyal to Fontaine now that Ryan is gone." Before the statement was even half way done the former experiment is shaking his head "Not all of them are...in order for this plan to work we would have to gain the aid of... Sander Cohen." He states firmly causing the other two to truly regard him as if he was insane.
"This would never work. Cohen is only interested in his so called 'art' he doesn't do anything for anyone and he thinks everyone else hates his art thus making them his enemies." The Doctor says with a voice that practically states that this is an impossible task, and apparently the Man has encountered Sander himself because he agreed with what Dr. T said "It's true! In the middle of me 'helping' him in order to get access to the Metro he had me kill four men to complete his insane Masterpiece. After the third picture was taken he turned on me and sent his Splicers on me because he thought I was a 'doubter'." The man shakes his head in exasperation before finishing "He can't be trusted." While this does make David get slightly discouraged he still presses on in the hopes of making the two see "Well when I met him he was enthralled at the piece of music I played on a baby grand piano. After he approached me he expressed that he had taken interest into me and rather liked my 'artistic' touch, so I think I'm in a favorable position to convince him." He pauses as his allies consider this before continuing "Despite this I'm afraid that this might not be enough to stop him...that's when I to pull in a personal friend."
This had to confuse the Doctor a lot since her next question is "A personal friend? The only other person that wouldn't be in the conflict if you get Cohen would be Andrew Ryan and he is dead and if the person was on the surface you would never be able to send him a message to help us." At this David remains quiet since he knows it is time to tell them about what he can really do "...I need you to listen to me and try to keep an open mind about what I'm going to tell you ok? Now... I've already admitted to being a genetic experiment, but I need to tell you the rest." His statement only receives a surprised nod from both of his comrades.
Seeing that he has both of their undivided attentions he begins "...Like I said before I am a Genetic Experiment from the companion of Itex. I can only hope you have never heard of such a company, but regardless I was taken at a young age to their facility affectionately called the School. Their my D.N.A was spliced causing me to have two percent Raven D.N.A while the rest of my D.N.A remained human; However, the small change caused my bones to hollow out, my lungs to transform into air sacs and for twin black wings to grow out of my upper back, but that wasn't enough for the bastards that held me..." His teeth become clenched as he spoke "They took me...laid me on an operation table and strapped me down before sawing my head open without knocking me out... I was forced to endure the pain as they poked and prodded my brain causing my body to involuntarily twitch, move, or spastically swing wildly...after a wild of screaming I finally passed out; However, that relief was short lived since when I woke up they were still messing with my mind in a literal way! After that they threw me back into my Dog Cage- that was barely big enough to fit me inside- and I started to feel...strange... like something in me was changed even more then when they altered me genetically. Then next day it became obvious why I felt like that when I accidentally...blew a person up...by imagining it. With their messing with my mind and genetic changes they accidentally gave me the ability to control reality itself." Once again he paused in order to let the information sink in, and after a few moments he continued.
" With my new ability in hand I could create anything out of nothing, destroy something with a mere thought, and even erase things from existence...I had the ability to do anything, but unfortunately my body can't take the practically infinite power I can use so if I use too much I can become drained of my energy really quickly so I do have limits; However, over the years my body has adjusted to the flow of power and I have learned to use it more efficiently allowing me to preform more amazing feats. At one point of time I had gained enough control over my power to break the boundaries of Reality allowing me to enter the realm between, and by using the same process that allowed me to enter the realm I used it to break the boundaries of another universe. In short I became a universal wander of sorts... although I have really only been in one other universe -not counting my original universe- but I made one friend in that universe that is more powerful then Fontaine could ever hope to be." This causes his comrades to focus more on the thirteen year-old "Well who is it?" The Doctor inquires curiously.
At that question Aviation Hybrid begins to shift nervously "Um...his name is Alex Mercer...and he is kinda the embodiment of a deadly Virus that has destroyed a large city and turned many of it's inhabitants into mutated Zombies, creatures and monsters that can tear through steel shrug off bullets, be unaffected by explosives and has gotten so bad that the city was put into quarantine while the army came in only to be utterly devastated by the infected forces..." He trails off when he sees the man with his jaw dropped in disbelief, so he hurries to reassure them " B-but Alex still has his sanity and isn't a slave to the infection! I believe I can convince him to help us."
The silence that follows is a rather tense one, but after a few minutes the Doctor finally speaks up "Your right...that plan is insane on multiple levels...however since it has merit and it is the only plan we have...we'll have to go with it." David smiles slightly with the thought of a goal in mind, but then remembers he wasn't done saying his plan "Oh... wait the plan wasn't over yet. You see I was designing a more portable and agile drone that could protect Mary...but I think I can alter the design and make it into something that could get in close and harvest ADAM from Fontaine. I'll just need the part that I have finished and some extra materials in order to finish it." He finished before the Man sitting next to him sums up what needs to happen "So basically we need to convince an insane 'artist', upgrade all the Big Daddies, Get someone from another universe and gather materials for your device... why not? I'll help."
David grins knowing that they're going to help "And if I can convince Alex to help we would have a truly destructive force on our side... I think we could actually win this!" The pre-teen thinks optimistically for once before realizing something "Wait... I have no idea what this guy's name is...Well that gonna be awkward." He thinks before turning to the man who is going to help him "Um...may I ask you a question?" He asks while the Man was getting up "Hm? Go ahead." The Man says before David asks "What's...your name?" This catches the Man off guard until he laughs slightly "My name is Jack." He greets as the thirteen year-old gets up from the bed as well.
"Nice to meet you Jack. My name is David Graves." He replies while stretching again "Alright...everyone is ready... it's time to start the plan. Starting with getting Cohen on our side." He begins to ponder how to do this while making his way towards the exit "I'll be back soon." He calls behind him before exiting the hideout.
A plan has been made, David's past has been revealed to his comrades, that man now has a name and the start of Fontaine's end has begun! I know this isn't as long as a chapter as the other one's but it is more of an informational one then an action packed one. So on the next chapter Sander Cohen is back, but on who's side? Fontaine's? David's? His own? Find out next time and please for the love of god review so I have the motivation to continue!
~DeathOnWings1203~