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Rapture, time: unknown:
"Drip"
"Drip"
"Drip"
The sound of water seemed to penetrate Jacob's ear, it was agonizing to hear ever time a drop made contact with the ground. As he began to regain consciousness he heard something else...a murmur.
"What IS THAT?!" said a harsh raspy voice, like it swallowed an urchin,
"I don't know" said another one in what seemed like a hiss like voice, then Jacob felt like he was being poked with something, maybe a pipe or a wrench.
"It looks kinda like them big daddies...but smells like Adam like the brats they escort" it said,
"Don't poke it, you will-",
Jacob turned and looked only to jump up to his feet when he found himself starring face to face with two splicers, one of them being a thugish splicers as one carried a bloody wrench and the other had a crowbar.
"Its awake!" Yelped the one with the crowbar, jumping back startled as the light in Jacob's helmet turned from a green to a dangerous red.
Both splicers might not know what Jacob was, but they did know by experience that anything that had a light that was red spelled trouble for them.
Reacting quicker than both of them did Jacob stabbed and slashed the one on the left before impaling the last on in the chest with his harvester, killing them both quickly and effectively.
Holding back some curse words Jacob looked around in shock at the state of the room where he was.
It seemed to have once been a large shopping area, but right now it was hard to tell what exactly was for it was broken down, there was water leaking everywhere from the faulty pipes, the lights were broken giving the place a rather dark and spooky look.
How? How was this possible?! Rapture had been rebuilt, the splicer threat eliminated..this had to be a nightmare...yes...a nightmare.
Hitting himself on top his helmet he cringed as the sound echoed through his helmet.
"Okay...I am not dreaming..." Said Jacob slowly as the realization sank in, if he was not dreaming then...what happened? Where was he? Was he in some sort of dimension or something like in the twilight zone?
He wracked his mind trying to find the answers he seek, but found nothing, he remember Rapture was fine...he and his friends rebuilt it...but then why was it like it? How did it even got like this? He didn't know or remember.
"You don't remember" he heard,
"Who said that!?" growled Jacob turning around, the light inside his helmet turning from yellow to red again as he looked around, holding out his harvester in a menacing way.
"Surprise you? well I was expecting that, a simple hello would have been nice" said the voice again as his radio had sparked to life.
That voice...no..it couldn't be...
"Sophie?" asked Jacob in awe, he couldn't believe he was hearing the voice of his twin whom lives in the surface,
"You were always soo good at guessing" said Sophie praising him before saying "Come on, you have to get moving, there is a lot to do in Rapture and not enough time",
"Wait, how is it possible? Where are you? Whats going on?" asked Jacob even more confused,
"You will find out soon enough" said Sophie mysteriously before the communication ended.
Looking around Sophie was right about one thing, standing still in this Rapture would make him an easy target, so turning around he began to make his way out of the supposed shopping area.
There was a lot of damage, the ceiling was slightly cracked, debris was everywhere, columns were destroyed and scattered everywhere along with other things making this place like an obstacle course of sorts.
Crawling under or jumping over obstacles Jacob slowly made his way around to an airlock on the bottom floor.
Pulling the handle down Jacob started the opening cycle before saying "How is this possible Sophie? Rapture was fine and you...how are you even here?",
"The answer will come in time and the question here is not whether I am here or not..but how are you feeling? feeling anything different?" said Sophie.
Jacob paused for a minute, not saying anything, touching his arm he said "I feel...okay...but something is not right, my mind, its all a big jumble, like a puzzle which I can't seem to put together..the splicers...i could have seen them coming...but..I didn't...something is blocking my ability to predict the future.. And your not here..I know your not here...your just some form of delusion in my mind",
"It depends, all I can say is that you know what your supposed to do so trust yourself, like you always did" said Sophie,
"How can I? again I don't know what is going on or how I got here and why?" said Jacob,
"The who, what and why will be answered eventually, I suggest you get your priorities straight, now where would you go in a place like this?" said Sophie,
"I don't know...maybe..I think I would try to find a bathyingsphere and try to access other areas of Rapture, see what I can find" said Jacob as the cycle ended and the door opened.
"Good luck" said Sophie as the radio turned off as Jacob entered the room.
It seemed to be a large ballroom of sorts, maybe it was used to hold parties or something as it seemed to be decorated for an extravagant event.
Tables were layer out with all sorts of fancy goods, such as whine, champagne and fruit, it was all putrified now but you could see that once it would have held a fancy party, there were tattered curtains hung around and a rather ripped banner that said "Happy new year 1959"
That date Jacob knew all too well, it was the beginning of the end for Rapture, it was the year when the riots started, splicers took over rapture and eventually the suppose to be utopia turned into a hell hole.
"Seems the theory of being in the twilight zone is turning into a fact" muttered Jacob, it had become very obvoius that somehow he either traveled back in time or he got into a dimension where Rapture was abandoned or aoemthing like that, before continuing to walk through the broken place of Rapture hoping to either find a bathyingsphere station or at least something that can pin point where he is.
Walking over to what seemed like an exit he pushed away some of the debry before walking out into a hallway and up some steps.
Careful to keep quiet he kept an eye open for potential splicer threat or ambush for he knew splicers that attack alone are quite rare especially in such a large, dark and rather desolate area such as this.
Hearing some foot steps Jacob quickly but quietly ran over into a store and duck behind the counter.
"Well I am telling ya Charlie, I know what I saw" said somebody, splicer, he was close to the store,
"No ya don't you big stupid clog, you Ray was so drunk that you hallucinated" said 'Charlie',
"I ain't drunk and I know I saw and IT said that something mighty fishy is on in Rapture" said 'Ray',
"Ya right, the last time you's said that there was a hole with another world" said 'Charlie' "you crazier than I am",
"CALL ME CRAZY AGAIN AND I SWARE ON MY DEAR MOMMIES GRAVE THAT I WILL HIT YOU SO HAR YOU'RE HEAD WILL SPIN" 'Ray' threatened loudly,
"You don't threat me" yelled 'Charlie' before they began to fight, then there were foot steps as one of them ran away while the other was in for a chase,
"Come back here you coward!" yelled one of them, soon everything was quiet again.
"That was close" though Jacob as he got out from behind the counter,
"I don't get it Jacob, your twice as strong yet you choose to hide" said Sophie,
"I learned a long time ago to pick my battles...those two were not worth blowing my cover or wasting my energy" said Jacob as he looked around the broken store.
It could have been a music store, there was an old broken piano, broken instruments everywhere, some records thrown around the floor along with music sheet, the walls had some crooked or rather ripped.
His eyes narrowed down a bit as he stared at one of the posters, it had two people in it, one was a man dressed finely signing in one of the old microphones, but he mattered little as Jacob was paying attention to the woman, "Songbird" as the poster had said the woman was, she has long dark brown hair...her face...her eyes..there was something extremely familiar about it.
Then there was a flash...the woman...she was laying on the ground looking at him..
"Gha" hissed Jacob as the flash left his mind,
"Whats wrong?" Asked Sophie,
"My ability..its activating again...I can see the future or at least a piece of it.. I saw that woman" said Jacob,
"Are you sure that was your future?" Asked Sophie seriously,
"Do you doubt me?" Said Jacob,
"no, but there is a big difference between seeing your future and seeing what your supposed to do" answered Sophie cryptically.
Rolling his eyes at his sisters comment Jacob slowly left the store and walked back into the hallway where in a shirt walk he found a directory.
"Okay...lets see where we are" muttered Jacob quietly as he used the light in his helmet to get a better view.
He was in this place called High street, ya he remembered that, it used to be where all the rich citizens in Rapture would do their shopping and mingle before the first splicer attack, in his time or dimension it was remodeled to be a market...because they needed extra space to grow stuff in Arcadia, seriously feeding his people was a mayor priority to him.
"I am over here...the bathyngsphere station is over there...shit..forgot those things have a dna lock or code in this time" muttered Jacob as he stepped back, it was time to think of a plan b.
"Maybe I can swim over to other buildings, provided that there is nothing out there to blow me to bits" muttered Jacob before jumping as he heard a sound...music.
Normally in this time and place Jacob wouldn't have followed the music..he would have stayed as far away for most of the time noise meant either an ambush or a trap, but this time curiosity was getting the better of him as he decided followed it.
The sound came from a restaurant or bar called Le Temps Perdu...it meant the lost time if Jacobs French was any good.
Slowly entering he slowed down his foot steps, being as quiet as possible as he heard talking,
"Fatalist, thats what you are" said a man's voice,
"I am a physics, can you blame me for being rational" a womans voice answered,
"No, your a fatalist, every time you see something you see death and tragedy" said the mans voice,
"what about you? You always see bright suns and rainbows when you know life is not always like that, beside so far I have been right, what starts with tragedy ends with tragedy" said the womans.
Getting closer Jacob peeked from behind a pillar to see who those people were, much to his shock they were two ordinary people or maybe they were splicers but they haven't used enough Adam for their bodies to wrap and change.
They both looked like twins of sorts, they had the same orangy red hair, same freckles, same blue eyes, even their clothing was similar with their cream color suit tops, brown pants and skirt, she wore a belt to accentuate her waist and white gloves while he wore a cream color fedora hat.
"You know its not polite to stare, didn't your mum taught you that?" the woman said as she interrupted Jacob's thoughts about the odd pair,
"how could she spot me?" Though Jacob, he was well hidden...wasn't he?
"Again its not polite to stare...much less lurk on doorways, people might mistake you for a stalker" said the woman,
"Come on Rosalind, he has a lot of questions in mind...plus his experiences tells him we could be enemies" said the man to the woman whose name was Rosalind,
"Your right Robert, but we have a lot to do and if he cooperates we will be on our way" said Rosalind,
"What are you two talking about?" Jacob finally asked as he came out of his hiding spot, facing the two twins.
Both Rosalind and Robert laughed a bit before Robert said "Its not what we want",
"But at the same time it is" Said Rosalind,
"We help you" began Robert,
"By you helping us" Rosalind finished,
"I don't follow" said Jacob crossing his arms,
the pair said nothing at first before "The girl is your way back home" said Robert as he took out a small cigaret box from the pocket of his suit and pushed it over to Jacob.
Tacking it Jacob opened it, inside were several small pics, one was of a vita-chamber, another was of some kind of device and the last was of a girl...Elizabeth...wait a sec..the flash he got from the future...was it something that he was supposed to do...what they were supposed to do?
"Okay, I see but how will she-" Jacob looked up and grew quiet, the twins...they vanished...that's not possible...maybe they teleported out or something, ya that's logical.
"I was not done asking questions" muttered Jacob, wisely deciding to ask questions later as he looked again at the small cigaret case, taking the pic of the strange device he looked and turned the picture, looking at the back, a message.
"Fontaines Department store, Silver Fin restaurant, input 56, 27, 29, 43",
"Looks like that is where I am headed" though Jacob as he turned and left, he needed to find an airlock to take him outside of Rapture.
To be continued..
Author's note: What do the Lutece twins want to do this time? Humm we shall see, so please remember to review and stay tuned for the next chapter.