AN: Kirby is the same size as little sisters in this story.

Now on with the chapter. enjoy.


Zan didn't like this place. It wasn't just that they were underwater in a city that appeared to have experienced some sort of crisis. That speech Andrew Ryan had given to the group in the bathysphere…Zan was familiar with what despots sounded like. She knew how to recognize them because of hyness.

"So which way?" dedede asked, leaving Kirby to lead the way. Kirby then points to the left.

"This way." he said before the group made their way into a hallway and paused as Dedede noticed writing on the wall. 'Play me'. An arrow pointed down. They looked down. There was an odd sort of tape player.

"What is this?"

Meta knight came over and picked it up.

"Seems someone left a message." He hit play.

"Hello." Male man's voice said from the recording.

"My name is Jack. I don't know how you got to Rapture, but you are in great danger, so listen to me if you want to survive this underwater hell hole. First rule: Don't inject yourself with ADAM, it is a glowing red liquid. That shit is extremely addictive as the stem cells are unstable by nature. it'll drive you insane and give you tumours. I almost lost my sanity when I injected ADAM into my blood stream. Second rule: find a weapon to defend yourself with."

That wouldn't be an issue.

"I'm gonna leave some more of these tape recordings. Only so much tape in one of these. Keep a sharp eye out." The recording stopped.

"Guess somebody knew people were gonna come down here." Dedede noted.

There was another tape recording a few feet away.

"Rule three: Stay away from Big Daddies. tough mindless sons of bitches, these things are. They used to be human but now they are mindless beasts. They are encased in armoured divine suits so simply putting them down won't be easy, they might be slow but their charges are devastatingly fast, luckily the attack uses a lot of stamina and they can only charge in one direction at a time. They'll leave you alone if you leave them alone though so don't attack them. Ever. Don't attack the Little Sisters either. You only see them around Big Daddies, and Big Daddies were created to protect the Little Sisters."

This info made Kirby pounder on the vision he had. The creature he looked through, he was wearing a divine suit as well. Kirby is most certainly that he looked through the eyes of a big daddy. If that's the case, then Eleanor is a little sister.

"Alright, I'm confused now." admitted dedede, snapping Kirby out of his train of thought.

Meta knight was frowning under his mask.

"This man, named Jack, he's obviously familiar with the terms. He may have left out information unintentionally, or he ran out of tape and had to make do with the bare minimum."

"How'd he come up with those names?" asked bandana dee.

"I'm sure it makes sense to him," said zan.

She frowned.

"If he's the one who came up with the terms."

Kirby decided that was enough talk and the group started forward again. The hallway ended at some stairs that went up to a balcony overlooking more of the building. Another doorway was a few feet to the right. They all walked through it.

They were now in a very tall room with a wall completely composed of glass to show off the outside environment. There was a door in the wall of glass, but the tunnel it led to was visibly broken beyond repair. Suddenly struck by a sense of unease, Meta knight turned and looked around.

There was no way out.

It was also quiet, too quiet. A lack of sound to this extent was just unnatural, and it left the group on edge and straining to hear sounds that weren't there.

It was probably why Zan heard the scratching sounds above. Zan looked up, realised what she was seeing, and promptly used her thunder magic to shock whatever was up there. Her target then fell down dead bandana dee got startled as he readied his spear.

"Where'd he come from?" asked bandana dee.

"The ceiling," answered zan. She was looking around to make sure there were no more of…whatever that had been crawling around above them. She didn't see any, but it was dark up there. Kirby took out a flashlight and turned it on. No need to deal with glare from the sun down here anyway. Still didn't see anything so Kirby turned off the flashlight and zan held back her magic.

"It was crawling on the ceiling."

Meta knight examined the body.

"Well, it was human." He frowned.

"Has some sort of facial deformity." He held up a hand that was holding a wicked looking hook. He shrugged and dropped it before noticing something else. He pulled up a foot, which was deformed. It was curved with sharp claws at the end. Meta knight checked the other foot, which also was curved with claws. He was done examining the body.

"Odd deformity, very odd indeed"

Kirby scanned the ceiling again.

"Could it happen again?"

Meta knight shrugged.

"If it happens once, it can happen again, but the chances of seeing it twice in such a small population are incredibly small, unless there's been significant inbreeding, but I'd say that's unlikely."

It didn't make the group feel any better. They scanned the ceiling a third time to convince themselves that nothing was up there. They finally went up the stairs to be greeted by a vending machine that was selling bottles of glowing red liquid, most likely this ADAM stuff mentioned in the recordings. Bandana dee saw another tape recorder so he ran up and picked it up.

"I found another recording!" He announced it to the group.

"Well let's see what great wisdom this Jack guy has to offer with this one." Dedede said. Bandana dee pressed play.

"This is a Gatherer's Garden. Don't ever use one of these. Otherwise, you'll become like those deformed bastards you might have seen by now."

Bandana dee passed the recording to meta knight.

"They're called splicers because they splice plasmids into their DNA. It makes them tougher, gives them powers, drives them completely insane. There's no reasoning with them, leading to Rule Four: Always aim for the head. Almost all of Rapture's population is made up of splicers now, so keep an eye out for them. There's a few sane people still around, but they're holed up so you won't see them. Might be able to get some help from them if you find a decent radio though."

"Hmm, this man seems to know more than we anticipated." Meta knight said. Kirby didn't know why but he felt like they were being watched. Kirby could tell the others felt it too. Kirby and the others quickly turned around in a fighting stance but were completely caught off guard when the only thing they saw was a little girl. Like Eleanor, she had glowing yellow eyes too.

"A little girl?" Bandana dee asked as he tilted his head.

"Could be one of those little sisters the recording mentioned." Dedede suggested, causing meta knight and zan to look for anything wearing a divine suit. The little sister smiled at Kirby as she approached him.

"Eleanor knew you were coming. Help her daddy find her and he'll be all better." The little girl told the puffball, leaving the group shocked. Eleanor, the girl that Kirby and his friends came here to save, she knew of Kirby? The best way to find an answer is to ask.

"Wait, how does Eleanor know of-" but before he could ask, the little sister was snatched by a fast moving person in a divine suit. The little sister shrieked in surprise as the person ran to a doorway.

"Hey! Come back here and put the girl down!" Dedede shouts before the group runs after the kidnaper.

"Was that one of those big daddies?" bandana dee asked.

"Unlikely. The recording said that big daddies are slow moving and this creature is fast. Sure the recording says their charges make them go faster but the attack costs stamina and only goes one direction at a time." Zan replied, not looking towards bandana dee. They chase the creature down the corridor before the creature runs into a room and the group runs in the room as well but saw it was empty.

"Where'd it go?" Meta knight demanded. Kirby looks up and his eyes widened.

"Look, up there!" He said, causing the others to look up. They saw the creature with the little sister in one arm and holding onto a metal pipe with the other near the ceiling. The creature then slips into a large vent and gets away.

"We lost it." Zan growled. Then all the doors around the room begin to slide down except the one the group came through.

"What just happened?" Dedede asked.

"Must be some kind of glitch in the system that operates the doors." Zan assumed.

Bandana dee looks over to the way they came in.

"Yeah but the door we came through is still open. If you ask me, that's kinda sus." Bandana dee said before being slapped in the back of the head by dedede.

"Don't make among us references!"

"S-sorry, great king."

"I found the control panel to the doors" announced meta knight as he stood by a control panel.

"Let me see what I can do with it." He started typing at the console.

"I used to work these things at a younger age. If I can hack into this, I should be able to operate the doors." He explained but he huffed in annoyance.

"This Confounded thing uses an antique programming…This might take a while."

The monitors snapped on. The group looks over to meta knight.

"…That wasn't me."

Kirby suddenly hears static. He pulls out the communication device he received from magolor. Someone is trying to contact him.

'Hello?' came a woman's voice with a German accent.

"Hello? Who is this?" Kirby asked.

'No time for introductions! You all need to leave, she has found you!"

"Who found us?"

All that came next was static.

The fuzz on the screen resolved into a stern looking woman in glasses. While this is a new face to the others, Kirby instantly recognised the woman to be the woman from his vision.

"Who exactly are you? WHAT exactly are you?" The woman demanded. Kirby shook his head and introduced himself.

"Hi, I'm Kirby and the one in the mask is meta knight, the one with the bandana is bandana dee, the penguin with the hammer and wearing the robe is king dedede and the yellow haired girl is zan partizanne."

"We came here to find a little girl that is somewhere in this city and we have no plans on staying. Kirby had a vision and relived a memory of a man in a diving suit and a little girl. He says that the man was being mind controlled by a woman and that woman made him put a gun against his head and pulled the trigger." Zan explained, unaware that she is talking to the woman from the vision.

"I know who you are talking about." the woman said, surprising the group, excluding kirby.

"You do?" dedede asked.

"Yes because I AM the woman from that vision." she told them, shocking them.

"I know you are after Eleanor and for that, all of you are a menace to the rapture family and I can allow you to go no further." the woman said before the group could hear shouting and yelling at the end of the hallway from the door the group came through.

"I think those splicers are coming this way and by the sound of it, a lot of them." bandana dee said.

"And one more thing, Kirby, was it?" the woman said, gaining Kirby's attention.

"That memory you relived…"

"What about it?" Kirby asked.

"All of that happened 10 years ago."

The woman's image disappeared from the screens.

Meta knight was typing at the computer again.

"C'mon, c'mon."

"Don't worry, we can take them!" dedede shouted as he readied his hammer.

"We don't know how many there are!" Zan told dedede.

"Oh, haven't thought about that."

Kirby looked over to some rubble and an idea popped into his head. He began to inhale the debris as the shouting became louder. Then three splicers were in view as Kirby just finished inhaling the debris. Zan saw this and shouted.

"Take cover!"

Just as the splicers were at the door frame, Kirby spat out the debris which turned into a large star. The star was nearly as big as the hallway, big enough to push away and kill the splicers.

Meta knight grinned under his mask.

"Got it!" The door to the hallway slammed shut. Someone soon started banging on it.

"Now, let's see if I can get the other door open."

"Guys, didn't you hear what that woman said?" Kirby asked the others.

"She said that memory took place ten years ago."

"So that means that Eleanor is probably a young adult." bandana dee said.

Meta knight opens the other doors.

"That doesn't change our objective." meta knight said.

The communication device started acting up again. The group circled around the device.

'Hello?' the German woman called out.

"Hello." kirby responded

'Ahh, at last… a signal. Listen. My name is tenenbaum.'

"Hi, I'm kirby."

"I'm meta knight."

"I'm bandana dee."

"I'm king dedede."

"And I am Zan partizanne or Zan if you have trouble remembering."

'I am in much need of your help, all of your help. Find me at the Atlantic express train station.'

That is going to be an issue

"Um, yeah, we don't know where that is so could you give us some directions?" bandana dee asked.

Dedede found a map.

"Hey, I found a map and it shows us where this train station is."

'Good. but you have met our common enemy, Sofia Lamb.'

"That woman, Sofia Lamb, she basically showed us she's an enemy but why is she yours?" meta knight asked.

'She has been turning innocent little girls into little sisters, which I am sure you have seen one of them.'

"Yeah but she was snatched away by a creature in a divine suit but it wasn't a big daddy like the recordings mentioned. We found recordings that were guides of surviving rapture by a man named jack." dedede explained.

'So that is why he left those recordings. Yes, big daddies protect the little ones but the creature you saw was a big sister. They are called that because they used to be little sisters. Like a big daddy, a big sister protects the little ones but instead of brute strength, a big sister would use speed and agility.'

"Thank you for telling us, miss tenenbaum. We will head to the train station now." Kirby said.

'Good luck, herr Kirby, I will meet you all there.'

Tenenbaum hung up. The group looked at each other and nodded.

"Onward!" Kirby shouts and the group runs out of the room to the train station.

Soon they will meet a big daddy that is very different from all the other big daddies.