Complications
"That little bitch." Regina was mad, no she was furious. That girl…she wasn't Johnny's fiancé, she was his Little Sister. Dylan had told her of the bonds that the Big Daddies and Little Sisters share. When the two had explained Rapture to Dylan and his team they didn't really get into the Gatherer/Protector Program…must have been a touchy subject. But they told them enough for Regina to get a clear idea of what was going.
Big Daddies were basically slaves sealed into metal suits.
Their reason for being was to protect their Little Sister from harms way, to do whatever their Little Sister tells them to do. Has Eleanor been controlling Johnny this whole time? Taking advantage of him so that she could satisfy herself? Regina stopped in the middle of the hallway she was walking down and balled her hands into fists. No, Johnny didn't seem like he was being controlled as he had just confessed his love to Eleanor. The pure sadness and grief that radiated off of him felt to true to be fabricated. No, he wasn't being controlled mentally, but he was being controlled emotionally. Eleanor was his Little Sister, he would do ANYTHING to make that girl happy.
Regina slammed a fist into a wall with enough force to put a hole through it.
"Shit! This isn't fair! W-why did he have to g-go on that Godforsaken mission? If he hadn't gone he would still b-be with me. Now that little bitch has him under her every whim." There was nothing that Regina could do, nothing that she could do to awaken Johnny's memory and make him remember HER. How they had dropped into hell every single battle they participated in. Regina clutched at her stomach as she leaned up against a wall. Tears flowed freely from her scarlet eyes. She sniffled and attempted to calm herself.
"We have t-to much to worry about right now for me to be riled up over this. I'm in charge of a team and they are expecting me to get them out of this hellhole alive." Regina wiped the tears from her face and pushed herself off of the wall. Eleanor bringing Johnny into a warm embrace…that image would NEVER be gone from her mind.
Those ten years Johnny was gone, all her dreams consisted of was him. Johnny and herself, spending time together like they use to. Regina clutched her chest and squeezed her eyes shut in an attempt to keep the tears from flowing freely down her face once again.
"G-get it together Regina! Higher ups already think women are to emotional to go to war. Don't prove them right." Regina shook her head and walked down a set of stairs. Her mind was so preoccupied on Johnny that she didn't realize that she didn't even take a set of stairs to get to the room she saw the pair in.
Regina traveled down the stairs silently. She just needed to walk, to kill, do SOMETHING to get her mind off of Johnny and Eleanor. It made her sick that Eleanor, a figure that was suppose to be Johnny's daughter in a way, would take advantage of him like that.
"No, stop thinking about it. There's t-to much to do." Regina stuttered as she descended the stairs, her brilliant scarlet red eyes have lost their luster and were now blank and dull. She was just going through the motion at the moment, she wasn't paying attention. So, when she walked face first into a metal door she was thoroughly surprised. Regina cursed at her lack of attention.
'I have to get my shit together, what if I was being stalked by an enemy. I could have been sniped…or disemboweled.' Regina berated herself. The vermillion haired woman scrutinized the metal door in front of her with narrowed crimson eyes. It had a small window on it that allowed whoever was behind the door to see who or whatever was outside of the door. The small, rectangular window was at the moment covered by a metal plate. Regina leaned forward to scrutinize the door even more and even knocked on it a couple of times.
"Hello, is anybody in there?" 'Of course no one is in there, this place is freaking Dino, mutant city.' Regina shrugged her shoulders and turned away from the door. Just as she turned away, a circular piece of steel slid away at the door's far right side and the barrel of a sniper rifle quietly snaked it's way out of it. The click of a gun's safety being switched off rang through the dark basement of the hotel. Regina definitely heard it but she pretended to oblivious to the noise.
Regina rolled to the left just as the trigger of the rifle was pulled, the bullet instead connected with a wall. Regina hastily pulled out her AK47 and fired at the hole in the wall. Her attacker withdrew his/her gun back into he door and sealed the hole tight with a circular piece of metal.
"What the hell?" Regina walked over to the door silently and slowly, whoever was in there was obviously intelligent enough to NOT be considered as one of those homicidal mutants running around.
"Die you red eyed freak of nature!" A masculine German voice buzzed over an intercom. Suddenly, the wall to both her right and her left lit up with a white light. The light was emitting from the ground and revealed six pods, three on each side, but what shocked Regina was what was in the pods.
They were Cyborgs, twisted forms of flesh and metal in the shape of women. They had a mess of pitch black wires atop their heads for hair and their faces were pearly white and made of some kind of synthetic flesh like fiber molded into the form of beautiful feminine faces. Their necks were mechanical in nature as well as the joints of their bodies. Their torsos were surprisingly organic and looked like any other human females, no clothing attempted to hide their well endowed breasts. Their legs were long and shapely but robotic and were a fusion of wires, metallic joints, and metal; the same went for their arms and hands as well.
Regina took a step backwards when all of their eyes snapped open, they glowed with a hellish red light and their lips opened to emit a sadistic mechanical laughter. The pod doors' slid open and they all took a step forward, Regina noticed that their feet were in the shape of high heels. They all reached a hand behind themselves and took out what seemed to be rather advanced rifles. They raised their rifles and smirked sadistically.
"Unauthorized personal detected, you will be killed and removed from this designated area."
The Cyborgs all droned out at once.
'Aw shit."
The Cyborgs fired their rifles simultaneously, a hail of fiery hot lead descended upon the vermilion haired Marine. Regina sprinted to her left, right in the path of a Cyborg, she then twirled her self around so that she was now in back of the mechanized monstrosity and hooked her left arm around the mechanical woman's neck. The vermillion haired woman smirked as she unloaded her AK47 into the three Cyborgs in front of her, protected by her 'improvised cover.' The Cyborgs gurgled and coughed up blood as the hot lead penetrated their bodies and they crumpled to the ground in a heap of flesh and scrap metal. Regina then emptied a round into the head of the Cyborg that she was holding hostage and rolled forward just in time to avoid a shotgun blast.
There were two Cyborgs left, one was armed with what looked to be an advanced looking Shotgun and one was armed with an advanced Assault Rifle. Regina's eyes shifted from one to the other as she held her AK47 tightly in her hands. The one with the Shotgun sprinted towards her with surprising speed and aimed to side kick Regina in the head. The scarlet eyed soldier ducked the spin kick, hooked her left arm around the Cyborgs neck and forced her to fire her Shotgun at her remaining ally. The cybernetic woman was sent careening backwards at the force of the shotgun blast. Regina then yanked the Shotgun out of her enemy's hands, smashed the butt of the rifle across her face, and fired a blast of buck into her robotic skull. Blood spattered across Regina's face but she paid it no mind. Regina just stood there, trying to catch her breath while aiming her newly acquired Shotgun all which way.
"Aw hell, do you know how hard it is to find one of those things that won't kill you when you look at it you red eyed mutant? Not to mention how hard it is to repair and hack them!" The Germanic voice shouted in anger from over the speaker. Regina glared up at the intercom.
"You fucking asshole! You want me dead? Then come out here and fight me yourself you pussy ass bitch!" Regina was already irritable, she was kind of hoping that whoever was on the other end of the door was going to send more monstrous machines after her so she could send them back to the scrap heap.
"…."
"…."
"You're not one of the Many…are you?"
Regina's eyebrow twitched but she forced herself to calm down.
"No, I'm a U.S Marine you dick. Wait…what the hell is the Many?" Regina asked curiously. The crimson haired soldier heard some shuffling noises emitting from the speakers and she yawned in boredom as she awaited the voice to come back over the intercom.
"Ah, yes the Marines. You are put through many extensive physical and mental training in preparation for the battlefield, correct?"
Regina huffed.
"Yes, that's right."
The German voice chuckled.
"You. Are. Perfect."
Regina raised a rust colored eyebrow at this.
"Wow, wow hold on Mac, you didn't even take me out to dinner. How do you know if I'm perfect?" Regina joked.
"What?…No, no, no not that! Just come in."
Regina smirked, glad that she could get the man flustered up so easily and walked up to the door. She however wasn't letting her guard down, that would be stupid. The metal door opened by sliding up into the ceiling. The inside of the room was like something out of a science fiction movie. It was a laboratory full of containers, test tubes, robotic parts and the like. There was a huge computer at the far end of the room with a man that looked to be in his forties typing away at the machine. The man perked up, looked towards Regina and smiled. His hair was black with a touch of grey and his skin was very pale almost like he hasn't seen sun light in months. He wore glasses that had slim rectangular frame, a white lab coat, a white button up dress shirt, black dress pant and black dress shoes. Regina looked him over one more time.
'Hmm, he doesn't look half bad.' Regina thought to herself.
"Ah, there you are. Um, could you come in fully so the door can shut? I don't want any of the Many getting in here." The German man practically hissed the word 'Many'. Regina nodded and fully entered the lab facility, the door slamming shut behind her. Regina eyed the man as he finished typing up a couple of things on his keyboard.
"There we are." The man then turned to Regina, his sharp blue eyes boring in her scarlet red. "I desperately need your help."
Regina scoffed.
"Coming from the man who tried to kill me with overly sexualized robots."
"The Cyborg Midwives? You dispatched them without even hardly breaking a sweat, a testament to how much skill you possess."
Regina stood there with arms crossed, her eyes boring into the man's own. Her eyes then diverted to the ground.
"If you are attempting to flatter me…it's kind of working." Regina mumbled to herself. The vermillion haired soldier then walked forward, gazing at the various pieces of lab equipment as she did so.
"What exactly are the Many?" Regina asked as she grew closer to the man. "And what do you need my help with?"
The German scientist sighed and gestured to a seat beside him.
"Take a seat please, this is going to take a few minutes to explain."