Marion entered the main lobby of Fontain Futuristics, she expected to be something out of place, but then she recall that it had been barely a week since she had been there. She wondered what Catherine would had mean by being caution? It was truth that Dr. Alexander hadn't been to the fight or at least was what Takako had told her on their way to see Dr. Lamb, so she wondered where he could had been.

Marion started walking around the place looking for any signal of the doctor. She had to admit that being in the lobby with nothing more than the diving suit and the boots make her feel a bit uncomfortable. She did wish to find the doctor as quickly as she could to get her new gear, so she walked toward the post of security. Marion knew that from there she could contact the doctor. As she entered the room a security bot entered behind her.

"Who are you?!" it demanded in high pitch voice.

Marion turned and faced it, it was a strange security bot, it had bright purple lights, and a bit screen in front of it, with a single eye in display. Marion looked at it with surprised.

"I'm a Big Sister…" she said.

"Yeah, I can see that by your suit," it said, and then it circle her. "Though you could be a splicer trying to pose as a Big Sister, so you could get access to all that I had created here!"

"No!" said Marion and she added hastily. "Doctor Lamb send me, she said you had a new gear for me… Dr. Alexander?"

"I'm not doctor Alexander! I'm Gilbert Alexander! One of the greatest minds in all Rapture! Wait a minute, I'm doctor Alexander, forgive me child… sometimes I forgot who I am. Still… I'm one of the greatest minds in Rapture, or was, well will be… only of course if doctor Lamb decide to continue her experiment, yet…" the bot said as it pace through the small space.

Marion was thinking there was something terrible wrong with the doctor, what had happen to him? The last time she had seen him he had been fine as a matter of fact, could this behavior be a result of the experiment Dr. Lamb and he had been working on? Suddenly the bot seem to go out of his trance and looked at the girl.

"Why are you here Big Sister?"

"To… to retrieve the new gear that doctor Lamb asked you to make me?" hadn't she already told him?

"Oh, right child, this way if you would be so kind to follow me," said the bot and as they started to made their way it turned to Marion and added. "I'm sorry that I wasn't able to go for you on person, but dude to my state, I preferred to travel this way, I'm sure you will understand, by the way child, what is your name?"

"Marion, doctor…"

"Marion, that's a nice name. Shame no one will ever call you by it again…"

"What do you mean doctor?"

"Don't you know? You are getting a designation. Didn't doctor Lamb told you? Well maybe she didn't as she hadn't talk to me about continuing the experiment, but who I'm to question the doctor, this way Marion."

Marion decided to remain silence for the rest of the way toward what seem to be the assembly area of the Big Daddies.

As they made their way the bot turned to see her. "I hope you don't mind that the lights are turn out, the light… it really hurts my eyes now, so I can barely see or stand the light."

Marion didn't answered but simply looked around, just before they entered the dark room, she saw a corpse of a death wielder, she approached it and took the protection goggles, and step inside the dark room following the bot.

The only light were the purple light that the bot had on the ends of its propeller and a small spotlight that was above the screen, Marion tried to follow the bot but she started hitting herself with everything that was in the room. After the fifth hit she decided to search for the lights switches and turned them on. They weren't that difficult to find and when she turned them on the bot hurried to where she was and screamed at her.

"What had you done? I told you I can barely stand the light!"

"I'm sorry doctor, but I could barely see anything."

Then she saw something in the corner her eye as the bot flew away. It was something that moved real quickly but was a bit small. Marion walked toward it, as it hid itself behind some stairs and entered a small ventilation vent.

"Doctor? Is that you doctor?" Marion bended over and entered the vent only to see a small man bending himself over and hugging his legs.

"There is too much light…" he sobbed. "My eyes, they hurt…"

Marion was scared of what she was seeing but decided to press on, she got herself into the vent and left the dark goggles right behind the man and then went out. She called from the entering of the vent.

"Doctor I… I left you some goggles that might help you stand the light…" Marion said a bit worried, she wondered if the man would come out at all.

She heard what seemed to be someone crawling out of the vent and then she saw him. She felt a mixture of fear, surprised and sorrow when she saw him. Doctor Alexander looked like nothing Marion had seen before.

The man that stood in front of her wasn't the same man she remembered. He had reduce stature and seem curly. He had lumps on his back and had but a few locks of hair left in his head, all disperse over, she could also see that most of his facial features were melting down into one flat surface, without a nose or a mouth with lips. His ears also seem to be getting attach to his head. He had long arms, but extremely thin, with bony hands and on their end what seem to be dark nails that looked like small claws, also in between the fingers there was membrane. The man looked at her and smiled, he had what seem to be small razor teeth, two sets of them.

Marion took several steps backward, she was far more than afraid, she was petrified. The man closed the distance that was in between them and quickly grabbed her hand. She had wanted to pulled it back but she thought that doing that would cause the man to turn hostile or retreat himself to his hiding spot again. The man smiled at her again and said clearly.

"This way dear," as he pointed to another part.

He moved quite quickly, yet it was a strange movement. He stopped in front of a desk that had some parts of a Big Sister suit. On the surface of the desk were the leather elements of the suit and the metallic protection that goes on the legs, alongside the needle and the harpoon. Marion jumped over the desk to put some space between the two of them and quickly started putting on the corset and the hot pants. Then she proceeded to put on the kneepad and then the right metallic protection. She took of the boot and then quickly put it on. She finished with the right leg and bended it several times, then a squeak was heard. The man quickly moved to where she was and grabbed her leg and bended it again.

"It seems that is a bit rusty perhaps…" he said as he looked at the metallic union at the height of the knee. "With a bit of oil it will stop squeaking. If you wait here I will be able to get the oil and make it stop squeaking," and with that said he crossed the room in no time and disappeared.

Marion was grateful that the man was gone, if she could call him a man anymore. She hurried herself to finished putting on the rest of the suit. She grabbed her new extraction needle and saw that a small knife had been added to the lower part of it, just like Riza's and Takako's own needle. She put it on and felt the small pitch that the intravenous connection made each time the extraction needle was put on the arm. She grabbed the handle that the needle had and then looked at the small button that was set in one side of the handle, and pressed it. The knife moved forward, so she guessed that was the control. She turned around and put the metal weight around her waist and then proceeded to put on the other glove, the one that had the harpoon. As soon as she was putting it, she heard doctor Alexander talking to her.

"Oh, my dear child, I'm sorry I wasn't able to find a decent weapon for you, but your sisters told me that you like to use knife so… I make one for you," he said as he approached her, he turned over her arm and show her were the blade was. "It is a retractile blade, I wish I had all this sometime ago, but with all the voices, I can barely think sometimes. Would you like some ADAM fruit? I just got them before I got here," he said as he pulled out what seem to be a couple of fruits made entirely of ADAM, or something that resemble it. Then he also pulled out the oil and quickly put some oil in both articulations of the legs protections.

Marion looked at the fruit that the doctor was offering her, she was hungry. She hadn't ate anything in the last five days not to mention that she didn't had any ADAM left and it was so full of ADAM. She hesitated but finished taking off her helmet and accepting the fruit. She bit it and tasted it, it was really sweet, she finished devouring the whole fruit and whishing she had another one. She looked up and saw that the man was smiling at her, she smiled back at him. Marion finished putting on the rest of her suit and turned to look at the man.

"Thank you doctor," she said.

"You are welcome, Alpha," he said smiling and in a serious tone to her.

"Alpha?" she asked.

"That's your new designation child," he said as he grabbed her right hand and show her the engrave symbol on it. "There weren't any number left above one with the exception of zero. I mean zero would had been such a complicated designation, as it can be think as a worthless number yet it doesn't have a sign making it a really important one."

Marion didn't understand it, she thought that the doctor would gave her an actual number not a letter. It didn't matter that she had defeated One and nearly killed her, still she would be different from them. Always the different one, had the doctor actually done it on purpose?

"You look sad child… as if you wanted something else," he sound concerned.

"I'm alright doctor, I just need some time to think about some things that all," she said smiling at him in a sad way. "Thanks again for everything," and with that said she made her way toward the exit of Fontaine Futuristics.