Saisei - Rebirth

Subject Delta left the main lobby, passing an advert picture slowly fading for goodness knows how long and had managed to climb up the stairs. That was when he noticed glowing eyes peeking out of the flower shaped vent and then vanished into the tunnel. He made to the hallway filled with coral and debris. Easily breaking through with his drill, he then ducked beneath a broken pillar and had almost missed a shadow of a little sister running into the next room. He followed the shadow and was met with an unpleasant surprise. A tall gangly creature was holding onto one of the statues and when it saw him, it growled then leaped a few statues away from him and ended with jumping up into a broken ceiling. While it had jumped, one of the statues broke from its place and crashed into the drained swimming pool.

Delta had never seen the likes of a creature before and when he looked around the swimming pool, it had jogged up a memory from the past.

"Daddy look! A swimming pool! The other girls said that they saw people swim like fishies while others swim like sharks and mermaids! Can we go daddy?"

A woman chuckled and knelt to the child's level to talk.

"Sweetpea, you can't go into the pool with your dress."

The girl pouted. She always sulked whenever her mummy tells her reasons not to. But her mother was always right.

"Why not mummy?"

"Two reasons sweetheart. One: it is bad manners to go in with casual wear, so you must wear a swimsuit. And Two: Your dress will be soaking wet. You don't want to find angels in your soggy dress now, would you?"

The girl scrunched up her nose when she heard that.

"Ew! No! The other girls will make fun of me."

Her mother laughed as she held up the girl and passed her to Delta. His little sister always loved her laugh. She would always say that her mummy sounded just like a real angel unlike the ones lying on the floor in silence.

"So, fancy a swim? I'll get you a swimsuit and we will teach you how to swim like a mermaid."

The child gasped and clapped her hands in excitement.

"Oooh! Really mummy?! You too Daddy?"

Delta could only groan as usual, but it was a yes from him.

"Then let's get to it little guppy! Swim school starts today."

The fog of a memory soon parted away and returned to reality. Delta remembered an event which involved his little sister and a stranger. A woman who his charge called her mummy. Were they related? However, her face was somewhat blurry. Perhaps in time they would clear. He continued onwards and spotted a generator which was sparking uncontrollably. He noticed an audio diary next to the generator, curiosity peaked him and played the recorder:

"Lesson one, mop jockeys: You are under the ocean now. If you feel the soft patter of rain on your hat, you're already fired. Lesson two: you can jumpstart a dead generator with a direct spark but clear the guests out of the pool first! Scares these rich pricks to watch a workin' stiff hurlin' thunderbolts, ya follow me?"

The tape ended and Delta and found the name tag behind it: "Big Kate" O'malley. He confiscates the diary into his fishing net, and he begins to loot for any useful ammunition or rations nearby, he went down the stairs and heard a voice.

"Gah! I need this! Do you hear me?!" And empty cans were hurled across.

He went the left side to the therapy room; he hears an unmistakeably sound of gunshots. Tensing up, he readies his drill and witnesses a woman being shot from the back and falling dead. Then another voice- a man said: "You definitely provided a service for the Family alright. By joining the dead, hahaha."

The man came out the therapy room and soon made a double take of the Big Daddy's sudden appearance and tried to add more bullets into his gun only to be drilled open by Delta. With him dead, Delta decided to inspect both corpses and realised that they did not look human. Well, not anymore. They were severely disfigured from the drug abuse which Delta hated it: ADAM. He remembered from the doctors instructing him and his charge to gather ADAM from corpses and in turn; both he and the citizens of Rapture would ingest it for many purposes. That did not mean he liked using it though. But there were questions that left unanswered bothering him from the start: What happened here and how long was he dead?

Standing here would do nothing to earn his answers. He enters the room and finds yet another audio diary with a name tag: Tommy Hanrahan.

"This Scout plasmid is great! Be somewhere you ain't... tough to get yer head around, huh? But the ol' skin & bones takes a load off while the mind goes for a stroll. I can see whatever I want, wherever I want. Gonna splice up with Scout, then head down to the ladies' dressing rooms at the Adonis Resort... heh heh heh!"

When the tape finished, Delta shuddered at the man's lecherous plan. Then another flashback memory returned with a vengeance.

"OH MY GOD!"

"EEK!"

"Whoa!"

CRASH!

The man fell from the bucket he was standing on in the front of the door as the two girls hurriedly dress themselves up.

"What do you think you're doing?! You disgusting, perverted, child molesting Mongrel!"

"H-hey now lady! Didn't mean ta enter yer dressing room with yer kid. I never touched a single hair on kids!"

But the woman did not believe a single word coming out of his mouth.

"Enter?! You were snooping around with that awful plasmid, I thought I was imagining things but no! You were using it to access our code locked rooms to break in and see it for yourself! Get out or I will call the security!"

"C'mon now. There's no need fer that!"

But it was too late for him to get out the moment when the yellow eyed girl screamed from the top of her lungs.

"DADDY HELP!"

The man cried in terror when an angry Big Daddy barged in the room, leaving a large gaping hole for everyone to witness a soon would be murder.

That was when the visitors gasped at the sight:

"Dear god! It's him again."

"That fucking creep was the one who peeped my sister!"

"Look! That Peeping Tom was snooping on a woman and her daughter."

"Not just her daughter. She's also a Little Sister!"

"Well, I hope that sneaky bastard gets what's coming to him. With an angry Big Daddy being in the same room, I wouldn't be surprised what happens next."

Said Peeping Tom in question was trying not to wet himself when Delta's eyes glowed orange (As in being close to being enraged).

The woman holding his little sister gulped and cleared her throat to bring both men's attention:

"Delta dear. This man has not harmed us, yet he was looking where he should not be. Could you take him away to the security please? I will explain to the authorities once we're properly clothed."

Delta felt hesitant of letting the man live. But killing a defenceless yet slightly spliced man in front the woman would not be pleasant. With a heaved sigh, he dragged the man who in turn started kicking and screaming, thinking that he was going to be killed.

After the mess at the dressing room, the owners did not press charges at the woman for property damage when there was very protective Big Daddy at her side, making them anxious. The visitors on the other than did sent complaints to the man who had been peeping and in fact he had molested women before. After that, Tommy Hanrahan was arrested and never to be seen again.

Then the mother bought ice cream for herself, the girl and Delta which ended in joys of laughter when he smushed the ice cream in front of his Porthole.

When it was over; he felt relieved, but his stomach churned. There were times he had wished he killed him. It was his inner programming along with protecting his charge.

But deep down something had awoken before his rebirth, before the fall of Rapture and even after he was converted into a Big Daddy. He could not remember what it was but the moment he set his eyes on that unique, mysterious, pretty woman. The last description made him blush as his porthole turned slightly pink. Shaking his head, he focuses on looting the bodies which had a few Rapture dollars (With the face of a man that made him want to hate) and walked down until he noticed a large picture frame on his right.

Six people were in it and the title had said: RAPTURE'S BEST AND BRIGHTEST – 1952.

He immediately recognised Andrew Ryan at the centre. The rest however were unfamiliar to him.

Until he saw the woman's face behind Ryan which made his blood boil, and it did not help that it was also adorned on the other side of the room as if she were worshipped like a holy figure. He ripped the woman's face from the picture frame then he defaced the other picture by bashing it with a drill over and over until it was nothing but peeled fresco. After his outburst he found an EVE dispenser which would come in handy later.

He finds a Gatherer's Garden at the end of the room and an old recording with voice of a child echoed around.

"My Daddy's SMARTER than Einstein, STRONGER than Hercules and lights a fire with a SNAP of his fingers. Are you as good as my daddy mister? Not if you don't visit the Gatherer's Garden you aren't! Smart daddies get spliced, at the gardens!"

After the advertisement, he noticed a wagon filled with toys and a jar of fireflies (perhaps from Arcadia?) and messages scribbled on the walls and on the floor along with drawings no doubt from the children.

Come soon to come find me. Please hurry daddy. From Eleanor.

Delta felt touched at the messages. But when he read the name, he tried to remember. He tried so hard but only a few jumbled pieces came in.

"Let them go!"

"There- safe now."

"Not- ter. Her name is El- mine."

"Kneel- "

"Re- helmet."

"Stop it!"

"Take the Pistol- head"

"No! Don't- Please!"

"Place it- "

"Delta no!"

"Fire."

"DADDY!"

"NOOOOOO!"

He roared in agony as grabbed the sides of his helm where it hurt. He heard his Little Sister, her mother and that vile woman's commanding voice. It had to be her. The one he had just defaced moments ago.

When he would find that wretched hag; he would strangle her or better yet, drown her.

What was worse was the screams of the other girls. He hopes that they were alive after the city fell.

Afterwards, he looked in each room before he inspects the plasmid which was conveniently placed within the machine. One room was a dead and very much burnt corpse while the other had dollars lying on the chair. Lucky him.

The he went back to the Gatherer's Garden when something invaded his mind. Or rather someone. A young child, perhaps a teenager with short dark hair and beautiful Ela eyes were staring back at him with worry and… Hope?

"Father…"

That was the only thing he heard until she vanished from sight. He shook his head and grabbed the plasmid which had a needle for him to place into his special injection hole meant for all Big Daddies. He inspected the bottle which read Electrobolt on the label. He despised needles but he had no choice. Soon he quickly injected himself into his wrist and waited for the effects to come.

His patience was slowly wanning so- HOLY MOLY, THAT HURTS LIKE A-

A sudden burst of electricity sprouted from his hand then his other one and it felt like he was on fire. He grunted at first, hoping to hold in the pain until it became so unbearable, he screamed. Or rather roared. He falls to his knees until he released huge jolts of lightning from his hands and landed on his fours, finally the pain subsided.

His vision was blurry when he sees a shadow approaching before him and looks up to see a Little Sister. He blinked a few times until he finally focused on her. Hear outfit was so different compared to the other Little Sisters when he was with Eleanor. Yet her dress and pinafore looked exactly like his charge. Her messy hair tied up into a ponytail rather than braids and she was holding the doll exactly looking like him.

"Daddy was sleeping. For such a long time. Mommy and Eleanor have missed you, find them and you'll be all better." She said with a smile on her face as she approached him.

Delta was baffled at her explanation. Eleanor? That was his charge's name, wasn't it? And her mother, it was that kind woman whom the child adored her.

Unfortunately, just as he was about to pick her up to carry her, the same tall gangly creature returned and snatched her from him, dropping her doll in the process. The Little Sister gave out scream and cried out: "Daddy!"

The creature snarled and damaged the bulkhead door behind it, sealing him in the room.

Delta heaved himself up and growled at the creature who rudely barged in and stole the girl.

He quickly makes to the door but not before picking up a few EVE hypos for caution. He needed that to fuel his plasmid and then sent a shock to the control to open the door.

He enters the sauna room which was locked with a key code left on the door from an unfortunate victim who was shrivelled up like a dried fruit. Finding her audio diary, he plays it with the name says Rachelle Jacques:

"My husband is such a perfect idiot. Throws away all his spending money on Gene Tonics to affect a look of physical fitness… so he'll have an excuse to sit on his rear all day listening to radio serials! "Stephen," I tell him, "If you want to be fit, come swim laps with me, the old-fashioned way. It's your mind that's atrophying." Maybe I'll start sneaking some Brain Boost into his daily regimen…"

He walks up back to the swimming pool greeted by two splicers:

"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great… You see, Ryan? Run from God, and He striketh you twice over!"

"This ambiance… strictly sub-par! If any place needed a talented decorator, this would be it!"

He starts with the splicer at the end of the board by electrocuting him and bashed him with his drill which made him fall into the empty pool. The did the same to the female splicer and was silent once more.

He remembered Big Kate's diary mentioned about jumpstarting with electricity to the generator. He did so and the whole room lit up like a Christmas tree and music started playing Daddy Won't You Please Come Home by Annete Hanshaw. The doors which held the glass slowly opened though one got stuck took a good look at a lone Big Daddy walking away.

Suddenly the radio transmission burst into life with a woman's voice at the end.

"Ah! At last, a signal! You, who are bringing this dead city to life, listen. My name, it is Tenenbaum. I know who you are. Und I am in much need of your help. Please, find me in the Atlantic Express train station."

Finally, someone who could help explain what had happened here. He exits the swimming area after the now released bulkhead door and finds another Big Daddy who seals the flood with his rivets. After his work was done, he takes his leave.

Delta scoured around the bathrooms and electrocuting another splicer. He finds the next Audio Diary with the name he despises, Sofia Lamb:

"To my daughter, Eleanor. Soon, you will be born, and Rapture will be your home. You shall be raised as I was, to advance the common good through social psychiatry. This city's potential is immeasurable, Eleanor... yet our beliefs are unwelcome here. Life will be difficult, but the price of revolution is always dear. If we are patient with her... Rapture will come to us."

Wait. That did not make any sense. Eleanor already has a mother. A brunette hair woman and her eyes… He could not tell if it was green or blue, yet it bared an eerie resemblance of Eleanor's.

More and more questions were filling up inside his head but decided to hold off until he finds that Tenenbaum woman. The second door revealed two splicers scouring in the middle of the water filled pond, unaware that Delta was right behind them. And they seem to be conversing one another:

"I haven't had a taste of ADAM in weeks."

"I don't need to hear your grousing! Go running to Lamb if you're so desperate."

"Maybe I will. I'm sick of digging through muck for a scrap to eat."

"I said quit complaining! Tiresome, filthy (unintelligible)…hag!"

With that said, Delta's mind brought a bright idea. Heh. He shocks them both in the water with Electrobolt. Water plus Lightning equals fried splicers.

With that done he picks up his fourth Audio Diary, but the PA System interrupted him before the play.

"This is Doctor Sofia Lamb, with a message for the people. Remember, you are not alone. Think of me not as leader, but as a mother to the Rapture Family."

Delta ignored her played it nonetheless, which belonged none other than Tenenbaum:

"I am back in Rapture, after so many years. The Little Ones I rescued are grown up and think of me no more. After what I once did to them, it was a joy to be forgotten. But now, all around the world - children vanish by the sea. Kidnapped. And so, I return... in fear of what I already know: Someone is making new Little Ones... continuing my work, my sins. Even if I am to die for it - I must stop them."

Tenenbaum. Come to think of it, he remembered her somewhere. He looks at the same picture above the bench and finds her face on the far left. The radio's photo on the other hand looked like she had aged for quite some time. She was one of the scientists that the other girls once adored her.

How long?

How long?

How many years had passed before his eyes?

And now more children. From the surface no less were kidnapped to become new Little Sisters. What happened to the first ones?

What had Sofia Lamb done to his Little Sister?

He growled in frustration until she smashed Lamb's photo again with his bare fist. He soon regains his posture and moves one after he loots more useful objects from dead splicers.

There was a problem. A very much dead Big Daddy was lying there, and his Rivet Gun was blocking the bulkhead door which continuously smash down on it.

Still, he manages to pull out the gun and thinks that it could be useful weapon. He begins his target practice by shooting the splicer up ahead with success then shooting the other coming out from the other room.

He checks around the small medical room when something caught the corner of his eye. He finds an Audio Diary laid within the suitcase, along with a teddy in its pristine condition and a pair of odd looking googles too. He starts with the diary first and the photo was new and colourful surprised him and the name was Mark Meltzer:

"Barely made it down alive, but here it is - and it's real. Rapture. This is where that thing took my... my poor baby girl. From what I saw in the sub, most of the city's in ruins. But there were lights here and there. And shapes, moving... I'm rambling. Scared, I guess. But maybe - if I find this "Doctor Lamb" I keep hearing over the PA... I'll find Cindy too."

But while Delta listened, he immediately noticed voices in the background trying to pay attention as well. He played one more time and realised that Mark was not the only one who came to Rapture from the surface. They sounded like- Children, yet older. Why the hell would Mark bring a couple of teenagers when he was searching for his stolen daughter? Did they volunteer as well? He shook his head in utter disappointment. Kids these days were getting more reckless like he did. Or was...? His memory before the conversion was blank so it was best to ignore it. He decides to grab the Teddy Bear and the pair of googles and heads back to hallway.

Some screens were turned on until Delta shoots the one with Lamb's image, ignoring the other a cartoon version of a Big Daddy and Little Sister.

He walks up the stairs and right before him in the dark room was another Little Sister, unaware while she was harvesting ADAM from a corpse. When was done and retracting her needle, she turned around to find Delta. The girl smiled and hopped up to him to which Delta finds it adorable. Until the child's face fell when a screech was heard around the room. The child tried to shush him and said:

"Daddy, Big Sister doesn't want you playing with me."

She ran off to the nearest vent while Delta looked around to find the source and found it. The 'Big Sister' as the girl called it had arrived at the now light filled room and growled at him. She suddenly jumped onto the globe and then landed on Delta, catching him off guard. The angle was awkward that the Big Sister was standing above Delta while he froze, not knowing what to do.

All to quickly she jumped off him and prepared her needle only to be electrocuted by Delta. In return she hurled fireballs at him earning a grunt of pain. The brawl dragged on until Delta had somehow managed to dent the Big Sister's armour with his Rivet Gun and she retaliated by kicking him then shrieked. The room trembled then she ran off towards the blocked doorway and broke through.

Delta breathed heavily as he tried to regain his strength when Sofia Lamb's next PA started:

"This is Doctor Sofia Lamb, with a message for the people. Remember, Big Sister is always watching. To steal ADAM is to steal from the Rapture family, your family."

Delta rolled his eyes. Well, gee thanks for the info lady. He explores the broken room and finds some first aid kits to heal him, some EVE hypos, money, food, ammunition, and another Audio Diary served on a plate?

And this time it was Andrew Ryan himself:

"(Short sigh) Diane insisted that we spend a weekend at the Adonis, and already I find myself seeking a respite from my vacation. When she deems it necessary to chide me for working, the words dissolve into an endless, animal bleat. I founded Rapture to be free of law and God... to live among those for whom work is our wage! Yet, when Diane speaks of bearing my child... I am

given pause. Until now, I had never considered my legacy. Perhaps... perhaps after the New Year."

This made Delta pause as well. Did Ryan have a child? Or was it too lost to Rapture's madness like the rest of these people? Eithar way, he stashes it once more and enters the broken doorway where the Big Sister had run off to.

He finds her coming out of the hole and ran away from him and hears her eerie laugh. He shivers at the sound and finds another message on the wall, no doubt from the splicers: We Will Be Reborn in The Cold Womb of The Ocean.

He hated it so much. The message had such utter ridiculousness and immediately jumps down below to the flooded dining room. The floorboards created a loud sound from his excessive weight and Delta searched around for the Big Sister.

She started to make a giant leap and scratched the enormous, dirty glass window. Why would she do that though? Until he notices the cracks were forming and the seawater slowly breaking through it. Horrified, he tries to back away against the window and flattens himself to the walls, preparing for the impending hit.

Meanwhile the Big sister was proud of her work, unfortunately her needle had broken into pieces whilst damaging the window screamed in pain and quickly hides within the hole near her.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

The water barged in like a tsunami and washed Delta away like a leaf being blown from the wind and spiralling into the water. He panics at first when he had forgotten that he was wearing a diving suit which protected him from the massive damage. When it was over, he lands safely to the now seabed floor.

It seems the Big Sister had vanished during the washout and begins his journey out to the sea.

Tenenbaum's message comes alive as the sign falls out from its hinges.

"In that suit, even the ocean cannot harm you. This is good. But Rapture is the death of many great men. Alone, you will not last long. You can still reach the train station. Find us there."

He grunts as a way of saying yes, he walks and jumps when he finds a downed Bathysphere. Within the transport were two drowned, rotten bodies laying forgotten. Delta's heart twisted at the sight of it, they had looked like a young couple trying to escape and finds an Audio Diary lying next to them. The diary had somehow miraculously played within the ocean. The name tag was written Sammy Fletcher.

"All right, Diary - last entry!...Lizzy and I... we found a 'sphere and we're going home! Ain't that right, baby? Next stop, topside!"

"Oh, I love you. It was you who saved us, Sammy. It was you, button. I - what was that? What's that sound?"

"She's seen us! It's Lamb! Torpedo!...I'll try to - (Screaming, gurgling)"

When it ended abruptly, Delta felt a twinge of sadness for the unfortunate couple. They were so close to leave out of this hellhole only to be brought down by Lamb's own torpedoes.

He shakes his head and continues on. He noticed odd shapes in the dark behind the glass window and recognised a Little Sister followed by a Big Daddy. Although he had not seen this before, it had to be a new model. Holding a large canon on his shoulders while walking casually. All of a sudden, they were ambushed by splicers only to be put down quickly by the Big Daddy. He launched rockets and dispatched a small round odd object that shoots bullets, rippling on the splicers quickly. When all was over, they walked away as if it had never happened.

Delta turns to his right and finds a gigantic skeleton of a whale while on the other side were more supplies and broken medical equipment. When he looked up however made him wish he could rub his eyes within his helmet. On the cliff was an airplane. Well, only the half of it. How on earth did that get here? It seemed that it was here for quite a long time.

He decided that was enough and walked faster into a cave and that moment he turned around the corner…

The city was in ruins, yet it was also hauntingly beautiful. The sign had said: Welcome to Rapture, Your Beautiful City.

Yeah Right.

And above him was the glaring bust of Andrew Ryan.

Aaaaand he jumps away from the creepy statue.

Finally descended, he finds the Atlantic Express Airlock area. Perfect. But then the Big Sister showed up, clearly alive from the blast jumps up and swims away from him. Just vanishing behind the building where he was heading.

He sighed. This is going to be a loooooong journey.

He enters the airlock and pulls down the lever. The door shuts behind him as the water begins to drain.

He hopes that he would meet Tenenbaum and finds the answers he was looking for.

And here's to hoping to reach for the survivors who came to Rapture before it is too late.

End Chapter 3

Chapter 3 is done!

I have an announcement: I will the split the chapters to POV Between Delta and Digimon- Like the game- Mark was ahead of Delta. So i will try to make up as I go on how Mark and his associates went through Rapture before they meet Subject Delta and his new accomplice that you'll meet soon.

Over and out! Spacelady2012