Chapter 4 Epsilon
Subject Delta and Subject Epsilon walked through the Lower Wharf of the Fontaine Fisheries toward the vent to get their Little Sisters. Epsilon was the second successful Big Daddy that was bonded, his Little Sister; Bee, who always wore a yellow dress that seemed to go with her blond hair. The most intriguing thing about Subject Epsilon was that he was the youngest person to become a Big Daddy, he was only 19 the day they dragged him out his cell to become a protector.
Delta knocked three times on the vent and Eleanor Lamb popped out and he helped her to the ground. Epsilon walked up to the vent and drove his entire arm down the vent, Eleanor and Delta both looked at him as if he was crazy. Epsilon kept feeling around until he grabbed something, he pulled his arm from the vent and found out that he had grabbed Bee by her left foot as she dangled upside down in front of his helmet.
"Hi daddy" she said and then turned her head, "Hi Eleanor".
Eleanor only waved her hand at her, if she started a conversation with this Little Sister than there would be no getting out of it.
All four started toward the Wharf Master's where Eleanor found two ADAM bodies side by side and out in the open. She and Delta claimed the one on the right thinking that Bee and Epsilon would use the left one, but they looked back to see that they made no attempts to go near the body.
"Don't you want this Angel?" asked Eleanor to Bee.
"I'm not going near that dead guy, he looks icky and smells like a dead kitty." Bee responded and refused to go any further.
Eleanor shrugged and starting draining the first body. Delta spoke to Epsilon in whale moans, Really? What's her problem?
Problem? Isn't it normal for a seven year old girl to not want to be around dead guys day after day? Epsilon said in his defense.
Eleanor's six and she's ok with it.
Your kid is younger than mine and she loves corpses? What's her problem? Epsilon countered.
THAT"S NOT THE POINT! Delta screamed, This is why you are what you are now; a protector. What are you even protecting her from?
Diseases that she may get from that body. Epsilon concluded. While the two Alpha Series were arguing, Bee noticed a crate of still moving fish. She slipped away from her Big Daddy and grabbed one of the fish from the wooden crate. She ran towards Subject Epsilon and slapped his foot with the fish.
"FISHY FIGHT!" she screamed.
Epsilon playfully accepted the challenge and ran to the crate and took another fish. The Big Daddy and Little Sister were using the fish as swords and tried to hit each other. Epsilon was of course only playing with her. A Bouncer and his Little Sister entered through the door and saw the Alpha Series fighting the little girl with fish. Before the Little Sister could say anything the Bouncer only took her by the hand and walked backwards through the door not wanting anything to do with it.
Epsilon finally landed a light hit on Bee, but it was a little too hard and ended up sending the seven year old flying across the room right into the crate of fish. Epsilon sprinted toward the crate fearing the worse, but a small hand popped out from the crate and then another until Bee finally pulled herself out of the crate. She fell from the crate and onto the floor.
"Let's do that again!" she yelled.
The next five minutes consisted of Eleanor and Delta gathering ADAM and Bee being thrown by Epsilon into the crate over and over again. Her screams of WEE and I'M FLYING filled the room.
Just then, a squad of splicers burst through the door screaming and demanding ADAM, Epsilon took Bee out of the crate and hide behind a large spool to avoid the gunfire. Subject Delta fired his rivet gun from behind another spool with Eleanor behind him.
After Delta eliminated all of them, only a Nitro Splicer remained. The Nitro threw a grenade, it rolled over the spool that Epsilon and Bee were hiding behind and landed two inched away from them. The Alpha Series took his screaming Little Sister in his arms and hugged her preparing for the explosion.
Nothing happened; Epsilon looked back and saw that the Splicer had made the fuse too long. Epsilon grabbed it and looked it over; he then stood up and threw the bomb like a football to the Splicer.
"GO LONG." Bee screamed to the Splicer.
The Nitro Splicer looked back and saw the incoming grenade; he saw it as a canister of ADAM because his mind wasn't right. He ran toward it and caught it and began celebrating with a dance, until he noticed that it wasn't a canister if what he craved most. Before he could scream the grenade blew up in his hands.
"TOUCHDOWN!" screamed Bee and Epsilon knelt down to her level to high five her. Still got it he thought.
After the two Alpha Series had escorted their sisters to the vent, they made their way to a bathysphere station.
You are unbelievable. You know that? Delta scolded Epsilon.
At least my kid has fun. You know, I think she could do more things than stab dead dudes down here. Instead of being Eleanor's bodyguard, why don't you try being a dad to her? Epsilon retorted.
Leave her out of this. As far as I know you give the Alpha Series a bad name. Delta said.
The bathysphere came up. Before they could enter Subject Beta came out with a metallic little sister in his hand that he had ripped from a Gather's Garden Machine.
Hi Delta. Hi Epsilon. Me and my daughter here are going to play with the Angels. The brawn with no brains made his way out of the station and into the Fisheries.
I give what a bad name Delta? Epsilon asked Delta sarcastically.
