A/N: Sorry for the long delay guys, been sick for the last couple of days and been trying to get back on my feet. But I'm back again with some new updates to add.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bioshock.
Ever since he first arrived in Columbia, there have been many strange and unbelievable things that left him wondering if the definition of possible and impossible had been switched when he had jumped through time.
Even after meeting Elizabeth and learning about her ability to open tears in the fabric of space and time itself had left him wondering how things like that were even probable.
But at that moment, the traveler felt as though his whole world had been turned on it's head. Looking up at the large poster depicting him as some kind of figure head that had helped spark the Vox's revolution against Comstock and his regime over the floating city.
Elizabeth turned to her companion slowly, almost as stunned as he was as she spoke. "I-In this world...Reece...your a hero. You helped start the Vox's revolution against Comstock."
Reece ran a hand through his hair, his mind turning non-stop trying to comprehend the situation that they were now in. "This...this is just too-" Like a lightning bolt, his head felt as though someone had struck him with a sledgehammer. His rifle clattered to the ground and he fell to his knees; memories flashed before his mind's eye. Images of events that had happened that he had no knowledge of before.
Hands clenching the sides of his head, the traveler felt as though his brain was going to explode from the overload of memories. Some of them not clear enough to understand, but others clear as though they happened moments ago.
"Reece! Reece talk to me!" Elizabeth screamed, kneeling in front of her companion. Worry filling her eyes as he slowly lowered his hands.
"I...I remember." he groaned as the pain slowly began to ebb away. "I led the Vox, I...Slate and I...burned down the Hall of Heros...We executed Comstock's men, those that survived...God...what did I do?"
"Reece...your nose. You're bleeding." Elizabeth said seeing the red fluid dripping down over his upper lip.
Wiping the blood away on the back of his jacket's sleeve, the traveler slowly stood up on shakey legs. "Hard to think...there are two sets of memories in my head of the same place." he said drowsily attempting to take a step and dropping down to a kneeling position when he couldn't stay balanced.
"Reece," Elizabeth held his face in her hands and made him look into her eyes. "Come back to me. We're going to find Daisy Fitzroy, and we're getting on the First Lady." she dragged her thumb over his upper lip and wiped away the last traces of blood from it.
"Then...we're getting out of here." said her companion as the haze finally left his eyes and he was able to hold himself upright again. "Thanks for that, it was hard to focus with all the new memories. What's all that about anyway?" he asked picking his rifle back up as they started moving again.
"In theory...each different world we go to must have a different version of us. And when we jump through the tears we assume their position in that reality. And in doing so, we acquire their memories somehow." the young woman explained while trying to understand it herself.
Reece stopped mid-step as one of the memories he had recieved came to the forefront of his mind. His face paling a little as he realized a horrifing truth. "I think I know why I got the memories." he said getting Elizabeth's attention. "You remember all the men I killed in the last universes? What happened to them when we jumped dimensions?"
After a moment, his charge's eyes widened and her skin paled as well. "Reece...are you saying that-" he nodded grimly.
"Yes. In this universe...I died."
The tense silence that occurred between them ended when they heard a zepplin fly overhead. Looking up, the teens saw the First Lady hover over a few buildings. Without waiting they moved faster down the pathways until they came upon a gathering of people. All of them looking up at the airship as Fitzroy's face appeared in a black and white projection on the side of it.
"Reece Vega died for this day!" her voice boomed from the zepplin. "It was he who spoke with one voice of the people! Now is the time to stand true to his cause. Now is the time for Fink to fall!" The crowd gathered on the streets of Shantytown all roared in approval, really getting behind the Vox's leader and her words.
Reece looked at Elizabeth, both shooting confused glances at each other before turning back to the First Lady. "To the factory! Let the mighty be laid low! For the people, for Reece Vega, and the true voice!" Fitzroy preached as the airship began to ascend higher into the air. "We're going to the factory, and we're not just gonna burn it down! Only way to be sure is to pull it up from the roots!"
Slipping past the crowds, the duo headed back toward the elevator they had used to get to the town in the first place. Stepping on to the lift, Reece hit the button and the doors slid shut before they began rising.
"In this world, you were a martyr." Elizabeth said looking out the main window before turning to him.
"They need a better class of hero. I'm just a kid from Rhoad Island, not some military leader." Reece said leaning against the wall behind him. "I may have a glimps of what the 'other me' had done here, but I'm not Him. His choices weren't mine."
Elizabeth nodded, "True. But from what I can understand of the changes that are made around us, they are the choices that you could have made if the situation was different enough."
The traveler ran a hand over his face, his head still feeling as though it were being pressed in on itself but thankfully not debilitating like it had been before. "Just when I think I begin to understand what's going on, something like this gets chucked at us." he thought bitterly. "We still have to get out of here. So let's hope Chen-Lin came through with the guns so we can complete our deal and get out of this place."
"What about all the fighting going on?" asked the young woman.
"This isn't our fight Elizabeth. Even though I can understand where Fitzroy and the Vox are coming from, their methods can at times be just as vicious and immoral as Comstock's men." Reece replied. "Basically...the only difference between Comstock and Fitzroy is how you spell the name."
The elevator stopped in the docking bay that would lead back to the square where the gunsmith's shop was located. They stepped off and saw several rebels running by them out to the docks where another firefight was taking place outside.
Keeping his rifle ready, Reece lead Elizabeth through the station while keeping a look out for hostiles. Stopping by a doorway that had been torn open revealing an empty armory inside. The only thing left in the room was a single bottle on an overturned crate which turned out to be a Vigor.
The teal colored bottle was in the shape of a Ram's skull and had an image of a similar skull with a crack in the center of it on the front of the bottle. Reece picked up the Vigor and saw a small banner on the neck of the container reading 'Charge'. "Wonder what this one does." he said outloud pulling the cork out and taking a long drink from it.
Immediately, his vision hazed as the bottle clattered to the floor. Wind began to gather around the teen's hands and create miniature tornados along his arms; energy channeling along his skin as the new power settled into his being with a final flash.
Shaking himself out of the slight stupor, Reece felt the knowledge of his new power settle in before hefting his rifle and turning to Elizabeth. "Shall we?" he asked motioning to the doorway leading out into the docks.
Stepping out into the open, the teens saw an airship containing a half dozen soldiers fighting for the Prophet was struck with a volley of rockets. One of the engines exploding causing the craft to pitch to the side and fall out of the sky with the men on it screaming in terror as they vanished into the clouds.
Reece raised his rifle and put down two of Comstock's men while Elizabeth opened a tear bringing an automated turret into existance that assisted the Vox in their fight.
Clip now empty, the traveler slipped the rifle on his shoulder and channeled his new power through his body. Wind gathering around his body before he shot off like a bullet, slamming his shoulder into a soldier's chest and sending him crashing through a stack of crates with the speed of a wrecking ball.
"Reece sniper!" Elizabeth screamed as her companion's barrier shattered from the deadly round that impacted against it. The traveler leapt and rolled across the planks under him and behind a metal barrel just as a second round struck the opposite side.
"A little help here!" he called out as the sniper kept him pinned down. His charge shot her hand out and opened another tear on the wall across from the docks. A freight hook appeared with a bright flash. Giving the traveler an opening as he took out his sky-hook and ran for the edge of the platform.
Leaping off and latching on to the hook, feet pressed against the wall as he rebounded off and on to the catwalk that was above the docks. His right foot connecting hard with the surprised sniper's chest and sending him slamming into the wall behind him.
The sniper was disoriented from the sudden attack as he tried to stand. Reece's sky-hook connected hard with the side of his head. His right foot swinging up and striking the opposite side and sending the man spinning off of the raised platform and landing on the docks below head-first causing his neck to snap loudly.
Threat cleared, the traveler hopped back down to the lower level as Elizabeth jogged up to join him. Most of the Vox had already cleared out, all of Comstock's men laid dead around them with only one of two rebels among them proving that the Vox really had more dedication then their cause.
"Gotta give these guys credit," Reece said taking out his burst rifle and reloading a fresh clip. "They're well organized and fight like a force to be reckoned with."
"Being kept under Comstocks thumb for so long, and dealing with prejudice and injustice committed against them must have given them a lot of fuel to fight." said Elizabeth as they headed toward the door leading back toward Lin's shop. "Anger can be a good motivator for a good rebellion."
Passing through the doors, Reece pulled the same lever he had used when they went through the docks the first time. The freight cars blocking their way to the square beginning to move down the tracks.
"Well...I guess we did it." said Elizabeth as they waited for the path to clear. "I don't know if I brought us to a world where the Vox had weapons...or I created one."
"Either way helps in the long run." said her companion as the freight cars finally passed. "Your abilities...it's hard to even comprehend. But what your able to do is something truly amazing." he turned to her, "They say that the greatest power to have is the chance to control time and space itself. And you have the compassion to only use it when you have to, not because others demand it."
A blush dusted the young woman's cheeks. "It's not that amazing." she said brushing a strand of hair behind her ear.
Reece smiled, "It's not just the powers either, Elizabeth. Everything happens for a reason, maybe you got these powers to do something important with them. And from what I've seen, they couldn't have been instilled in a better person."
Elizabeth's blush darkened a shade or two as the path before them finally cleared. Hearing a gun battle going on, on the other side, Reece raised his rifle and kicked the doors open. Snapping the sight to his eye as he put three rounds through a man's head on the porch across from where they were coming out.
Down below in the courtyard, two Vox members were convulsing as a Shocker hit them with powerful electric bolts. The traveler reaimed and squeezed the trigger several times, the electric-man shook with each round that pierced him before falling to the ground. The rebels dropped to their knees finally free from the attack as blood pooled around their assailant.
An automated turret kicked on at the other end of the square forcing everyone into cover as it sent rounds everywhere. Reece stood out of cover and sent a combination of fire blasts and electric bolts until the gun exploded in a shower of fire and salvage.
The rebels that survived the attack were looking at him in slight awe, whether out of hero worship because the way the Vox looked to him in this world or with how he handled himself in a fight he didn't care as he and Elizabeth walked around the clocktower and toward Lin's shop.
Both teens froze seeing the doors leading inside wide open and no sounds coming from within. "Oh no..." Reece mumbled taking out his hand cannon and running up the steps two at a time, the sight that greeted him killed what hope he had.
Chen and Sarah Lin laid dead in a pool of blood in the middle of the shop, the doors leading farther into the building barricaded by debris from around the place. The traveler lowered his weapon and turned away.
Elizabeth came in a moment later and gasped, covering her mouth in horror. "No...no, this...this isn't what I meant to have happen." she said with tears cascading down her face.
"Elizabeth-" Reece tried reaching for her.
She spun out of his reach and glared at him, "They're dead, Reece! They're DEAD! I thought opening that tear would help things! It just made things worse! This is the curse of what I can do...It's just wish fulfillment." She shook her head and wrapped her arms around herself. "It's all my fault...I...I didn't want..."
Reece grabbed her shoulders and made her look up at him, "Elizabeth! This isn't your fault!" He shouted making her jump. "None of this is. Only thing you did was open the door, your not responsible for what the people here have done. YOU didn't kill them. Given what we've seen either side could be responsible for this."
He reached up and stroked her face, wiping the last treds of her tears away. "I've got enough blood on my hands from this place. And I'll make damn sure that not a drop will touch yours. I'm barely keeping the guilt and regret in for what I've had to do, I won't let you go through that." he promised.
Elizabeth's eyes shined from unshed tears, reaching her own hands up and touching Reece's as her face was cradled gently between them. "Reece..I..."
"We're getting out of here. We'll head to the factory and get our airship from Fitzroy. Enough's enough." he said releasing her and taking out his rifle again. Casting one last look at the dead couple before leading his charge out of the shop and toward a large set of doors across from it that would lead them to the factory.
The rebels burned their ways through the lock opening the way and charging in guns ready. The duo followed behind and found the large room beyond in flames around the outside. Staying in the center of the room away from the blaze as they approached the next door.
"Brothers and sisters, I wish to speak plainly to ya." Daisy's voice echoed over the PA system. "When you look at yourself, you see a face of a person, yes? A human being. But do you know what Fink sees? He sees livestock. He sees the nag that pulls his plow. The monkey that shovels his coal. If he could feed you hay, he'd feed you hay."
The doors opened and the rebels charged with a battle cry across the small bridge leading to the factory. Turrets outside the building on the other end came to life and opened fire as a handful of soldiers around them got into position.
"If he could bed you down in straw, he'd bed you down in straw. " Fitzroy continued. "And when your arms get frail and your legs grow weak, they'll bleed you dry, boil off your skin and turn you into chop."
Reece raised his hand and fired a Possession into one of the turrets to keep the enemy soldiers pinned down while he looked down sight and put a burst into a man's head when he stood up. Elizabeth opened a tear and bringing forth a crate filled with medical supplies that the Vox dug into when they saw it to help their wounded.
"Patriot!" the young woman shouted seeing the automated president stomping down the steps and opening fire on the rebels.
The traveler fired another Possession into it giving the Vox time to focus on it while it turned on the other side. Bringing it down when its back was turned exposing the gears. The remaining soldiers barely stood a chance against the rebels and the powered teens behind them providing support.
"Now, if you wanna be a mule, well, go on and be my guest. But if you wanna be a PERSON, well...then you best come talk to the Vox."
"Christ, does everyone in this place like hearing the sound of their own voice?" Reece wondered outloud as he popped the lid off of a Salt and drank it fast before sending a Bronco shockwave at the last two soldiers in their way and allowing the Vox to take them down.
More soldiers poured out of the factory to defend. But the resistance was there waiting for them. Another tear was opened thanks to Elizabeth, a rocket turret locked on to the oncoming squad and fired. Reducing Finks guards to burning piles of meat.
"Open that gate and the factory is ours!" one of the Vox shouted as the other cheered before running toward the factory. They all barely made it the rest of the way when loud engines resounded through the sector of the city. From behind the building, a zepplin as big as the First Lady came out into the open.
Reece's eyes narrowed, then snapped open wide when he saw flashes along the airships underbelly and multiple fire balls came screaming toward them. "RUN!" he shouted to everyone as explosions rippled across the bridge, shaking its foundation and sending a couple men flying.
Reece pulled Elizabeth down behind a steel pillar as the structure shook from each explosion. "We need to move! The bridge won't last long with this much fire raining down on it!" he said over the blasts.
Elizabeth peeked out from behind their hiding place in time to see a crate explode from one of the fireballs. The two rebels that were behind it were sent flying over the edge of the bridge and to their deaths in the process. "How? There's too much fire coming down." she said getting back down.
The traveler timed the explosions for a moment before shouldering his rifle. Scooping Elizabeth in his arms as he channeled energy through himself before he launched himself across the crippling bridge leaving a tornado in his wake before coming to a stop safely on the other side.
Behind the wall next to the door leading inside and startling the hell out of the three Vox members that were hunkered down in the same spot. "You! You're-" one of the rebels started after seeing Reece.
"I know who I am." the traveler cut him off setting Elizabeth on the ground. "Why haven't you gone inside yet?" he asked leaning against the wall and looking out at the attacking zepplin.
"No way to open the gates with that airship firing on us!" one of the rebels shouted over the explosions. "If we want any hope at getting in there, that airship has to be taken out!"
Reece looked back out as the zepplin continued its attack. His green eyes locking on a skyway that wound around the bridge and went right past where it was hovering in the air above. Looking over at his charge, he found her crouched down covering her ears from the blasts going on around them.
"We won't stand a chance if that thing keeps attacking us. And I can't risk Elizabeth's safety." he thought as a serious expression covered his face. "Only one chance...one option."
"Alright listen up!" he shouted making the four others perk up. "That airship is coming down, I need you three to keep this girl safe. Do you understand me?!" The rebels looked at one another as he got into one's face. "If you know who I am then you know what I'm about. If ANYONE tries to come at her that isn't me you kill them! Understand?!"
"Y-Yes sir!" the rebel replied standing at attention. The others doing the same snapping salutes at the teen.
Nodding, Reece drew his sky-hook and his hand cannon before rolling his shoulders. "Reece? Reece what are you doing?" Elizabeth asked with a feeling of dread filling her stomach.
Her companion grinned at her, "Something stupid." with that he ran out into the open.
"REECE NO!" the young woman screamed trying to run after him but was held back by one of the rebels.
"Ma'am we can't let you go out there, it's too dangerous!" he said keeping her safely behind the wall. "We'll keep you safe, we all owe Vega our lives. We won't let him down."
The other members of the Vox nodded in agreement as they kept their weapons ready incase more of Fink's men came after them. Elizabeth continued to struggle as she lost sight of Reece. Prayers ringing through her head as she hoped nothing happened to him.
X
He kept moving, his boots hitting the wood under him as he ran full sprint toward the skyway. Fire continuing to rain down around him shaking the bridge and causing it to groan loud from the strain.
Reece leapt from the edge of the platform and latched his sky-hook onto the railing, taking off at max speed to avoid being blown apart in the onslaught. The rails leading him out of the airships range and around a cluster of buildings, through a couple others as the skyway doubled back and had the teen flying past the zepplins left side.
Seeing an opening, Reece slowed his sky-hook down and leapt off. Landing with a roll on the airships wing and shocking the guard that had been standing there. He never got the chance to recover as the teen slammed his gauntleted hand against his head and fired a round into his chest sending him off of the wing completely.
"Alright, I got on the thing. Now what?" Reece thought outloud switching out for his machine gun. A gun turret set up on the outside of the zepplin sprang to life, forcing him into cover behind the propeller. The moment there was a pause in between the rounds fired the teen leapt up and dumped a whole clip into the automation, throwing a fire-grenade in the process destroying the automation.
Dropping down to the outer deck, Reece reloaded his machine gun and pumped a handful of rounds into a guard's chest when he tried firing on him. Crouching low, he approached the opening that lead into the zepplin's interior, weapon ready as he spun in.
Three men saw him and immediately opened fire. His shileld taking most of the damage as he gunned them down before it could break. An electric bolt firing from his palm and stunning a fourth man as he came in from the other side of the outer deck before a the rest of his clip finished him off.
"Protect freedom!" Reece's shield shattered and a round grazed his right leg from a patriot that came online from the back of the room. Leaping over one of the consoles at the bow of the ship, he reloaded his weapon and checked his injury.
It wasn't bad, the round just skimming over his thigh and slicing the skin a little. Not close to the first graze he recieved before and didn't bleed as much. But it burned regardless, thankfully not enough to keep him down.
Gripping the machine gun, he waited for his shield to come back before getting up and spraying rounds everywhere. The two remaining men on the bridge scattered for cover while the patriot continued to fire its crank gun.
Reece held out his hand and threw a Possession into it, making the machine stutter before turning on the men and tearing them to bloody ribbons with the powerful gun.
With the new opporotunity open. The traveler put the machine gun away, drawing his hand cannon again as he ran at the automation as the Possession began to wear off. Leaping up on to its back and firing rounds into the exposes portions of its armor.
The patriot thrashed a little back and forth trying to dislodge the human holding onto it. But Reece held on as tightly as he could so he wasn't thrown into a wall.
Looking at the exposed gears close to him, he saw a chance. Firing one last round before hopping down off the still stuttering machine before drawing his sky-hook again. Revving the device a few times before driving it into the gears.
The hard metal hooks tearing apart the interworkings and causing smoke and sparks to fly out of the automations form. Causing it to jerk widly as it started to lose motor functions.
When the hooks tore through completely, the patriot took a shaking step forward before collapsing face forward on to the deck. Offline and no longer a threat.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Reece looked at the machine the patriot had been standing in front of. He recognized an engine when he saw one. And this particular engine was bigger than his 4X4. A system of various cables and conduits all forming together to create a way to keep the zepplin afloat and allow control as it flew.
Giving the engine a good once over, like every other engine he had ever done in the past, he found a way to shut it down. A small cluster of steel cables at the front, all leading to seperate parts of the system keeping the power regulated. "This looks important." the teen said holding up his sky-hook and revving it up.
The hooks spun fast before he slammed them into the cables. Slicing straight through them in a shower of sparks followed quickly by a small explosion. Reece backpeddaled, coughing into his arm as the airship's bridge filled with smoke. Red warning lights and alarms rang out around him as the vessel began to groan and lose altitude.
"Oh SHIT!" the teen shouted before making a b-line for the nearest exit. "Note to self, don't take down a zepplin when you're still in it!" He stood at the doorway looking out at the open air. The bridge below was coming up fast, and so was the skyway he used to get up here in the first place.
Bracing himself, the traveler threw himself out the opening. Sky-hook leading the way as he attached it to the rails and rode them away from the doomed zepplin. Jumping off and hitting the bridge hard, the pain in his leg flaring up a little making him grunt as he got to his feet and saw the doomed airship pitch to the right.
The front end scraping the side of a couple buildings, the interior ablaze and spreading fast as it completely lost power and dropped into the clouds. Leaving a trail of black smoke in its wake.
There had been silence as he watched the airship, then there were loud cheers roaring through the air. "VEGA! VEGA! VEGA! VEGA!" The Vox had seen what he had done and were chanting his name as though he were a king.
"REECE!" spining around, he saw Elizabeth running up to him. A breath of relief coming out seeing that the rebels he left her with did what he had demanded.
"Hay. Sorry about-"
'SLAP!' Reece recoiled and held his face as his charge looked at him with angry, tear shined eyes. A sob breaking through her lips as she burrowed her face in his chest. "Don't...EVER...do that again." she said into his shirt.
Wrapping his arms around her, her companion nodded into her hair. "Can't promise that, but I'll do what I can." he said honestly.
Elizabeth sighed in return, but smiled. "You have a lot of fans out here." she said as they stepped apart. The rebels all over the place cheering for their 'hero' who was somehow back from the dead.
"So it would seem. Come on, let's find Fitzroy in the factory before they start wanting my autograph." Reece said taking out his burst rifle as they headed up the steps toward the buildings front gates.
The gathered rebels broke the locks and stormed the place in seconds. "The gates are open! NOW LET'S TAKE THEIR HEADS!" one of the men roared as gunfire resounded from within. The duo stuck close together as they stayed a safe distance back from the attacking Vox.
This turned out to be a good thing, the windows on their left shattered as fireballs flew into the entrance room and exploded on the opposite wall. More rebels repelled inside through the openings and followed after their brothers and sisters into the factory. "They're hitting this place hard. Fink doesn't stand a chance." Reece commented as they entered the large atrium.
What little guards that had been stationed within were taken down in moments before the Vox moved on. A couple of them shooting rounds into the florescent sign with Fink's name on it and destroying it before following their comrades.
Keeping to themselves, Reece and Elizabeth went through one of the doors and farther into the atrium. Past the bodies of more guards and a small fire off to the side as they approached the only working elevator.
"Do you think she'll still just hand over the ship?" Elizabeth asked as Reece hit the switch on the wall.
"If she doesn't we'll just have to convince her otherwise. The last thing we need is both sides trying to kill us." said the traveler as the lift began taking them up. Past several floors where Vigors, weapons, patriots, and other devices were being built.
"They're just right for each other, aren't they?" Elizabeth asked all of a sudden. "Fitzroy and Comstock, I mean." she shook her head slowly. "I was...I was so set on getting to Paris. I didn't think that all of this..."
Reece approached her and rubbed her back slowly. "It's still not your fault."
She laughed bitterly, "Even if that was true, I still had a role in this catastrophe. We're not exactly innocent in this-" she was cut off when the lift came to an abrupt stop. The phone in the nearby corner started ringing in the silence.
"This looks familiar..." Reece thought as he pressed the button on the device. "Hello?" he asked stiffly.
There was slight static on the other end, then a familiar voice resounded through the space. "I watched you die, Reece." said Daisy Fitzroy. "Saw it with my own eyes." her voice sounded distant, unbelieving like she had seen a ghost.
"Fitzroy. Listen, we did what we could for our deal. We're here for the airship." Reece said getting to the point.
"But my Reece Vega died for the Vox Populi. You either an imposter...or a ghost. My Reece Vega was a hero to the cause." the leader continued oblivious to what he said. "A story to tell your children. You...you just complicate the narrative." the line cut out leaving a very unsettling feeling in the air.
"What...do you think she meant?" Elizabeth asked as the lift started again.
Reece pulled the bolt back on his rifle. Chambering a fresh round as he turned to her. "Don't know...but I don't like it."
The elevator rose up one more level and came to a stop. Doors opening revealing Fink's once lavish office. Now nothing but a torn up and ransacked shell of it's former glory depicting the business mogul of Columbia.
Three Vox members were standing around a fallen clock where the bodies of three of Comstock's men laying in a large pool of blood. Each of them having been recently executed by the men now standing over their corpses.
Hearing the lift stop behind them, the rebels turned and faced the new arrivals just as the PA system kicked on. "My brothers and sisters...there is an imposter in our midst! A lone man smearing the image and good name of Reece Vega! We cannot let such a travesty go unpunished. This snake must be dealt with, so that the name of our cause's hero will no longer be tainted!" FItzroy's voice rang out like a dark shadow that filled every corner of the factory.
The three rebels looked from the closest speaker to the teens, hands gripping their weapons tighter as they leered at Reece who felt all of his nerves go on high alert. "You can't be FUCKING serious!" he thought getting ready to fight.
"Find this snake, kill him in the name of the Vox! Kill him in the name of our cause! KILL HIM IN THE NAME OF REECE VEGA!" At the words of their leader, the members of the Vox opened fire without thinking twice.
Reece shoved Elizabeth back into the elevator and stood infront of the door. His barrier absorbing the rounds as he fired a shockwave from his hand. Suspending the now hostile men in the air and picking them off with quick three-round bursts from his rifle.
Two more rebels ran out from behind the wall in the center of the room and raised their weapons only to be zapped with electric bolts and meet the same fate as their comrades.
"They...They've turned on us." Elizabeth said in disbelief. "I don't understand, this doesn't make any sense at all! They were on our side before!"
Reloading a fresh clip into his rifle, Reece looked down at the bodies of the rebels he had killed and shook his head. "Not anymore. Now they think I'm an imposter of my counterpart in this universe and it's pissing them off. As hard as it is to believe, we're back to being public enemies in this never ending stream of shit." he said pinching the bridge of his nose. "The situation hasn't changed, we still need to get the airship."
"What about Daisy? With what she's said I don't think she'll just hand it over to us now." said Elizabeth.
"We'll worry about that when we find her." replied her companion. "But right now we need to keep moving, from what we've seen the Vox are a lot more vicious than those following Fink and Comstock. We'll need to be more careful from here on out."
Gathering what supplies they could from the dead, the dup began making their way farther into the factory. Elizabeth sticking a little closer to Reece's side as the traveler kept his rifle ready at all times. His eyes hard with focus as he searched for threats.
"This day couldn't possibly get any worse..."
A/N: Right when they think things might start working out, the fates have made them their bitch once again. And now all of Columbia is after them with no allies on their side, but if these two are pretty good with anything it's being able to adapt. And they really need that in spades if they want to get through the new obstacles before them.
Update coming soon.
