AN: Yes I know and remember that this is Delta's story but I think I need to give the characters more back ground. Just be glad there are only two OC's that I need to give background to. Also I won't stay in full context with Bioshock 2, just FYI.
It was along ride to Pauper's Drop, and it was almost midnight according to the clock on the train. Nate sighed, he couldn't sleep, to him it felt like the start of the civil war. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a cross made of three nails. He held it in his fist, and took in a deep breath, his mind wandered back to the day he first led his troops.
Flashback
BOOM! BANG! The sounds of battle went on for days now. The last of the sane citizens of Rapture, led by Commander Cedric Robinson VI at the time, walked the streets of Rapture hunting down splicers, and scavenging supplies, including what ADAM and Little sisters they found. Nathan held tight to his shotgun as the scouting party walked past The Fish-bowl Diner, waiting for something to pop out of nowhere as it normally did. Then, a spider splicer dropped and landed on the man next to Nate and began his brutish attacks, Nate kicked the splicer in the head, knocking it down and off his teammate, stood on it, and then fired a solid slug into the splicer's chest and face.
Suddenly, they were shot at from all directions. The team took cover in the diner, setting trap bolts, proxy-mines, and some trap rivets found on a dead big daddy. Within minutes they turned the diner into a fort.
"Hold your ground, men!" he shouted, "Be ready for anything and everything!"
"Sir, yes, Sir!" They shouted back.
Back in the present
"Nate," Krystal said with a caring tone, "Are you Okay?"
Nate shook himself back from the memory.
"What, yeah," He said still half out of it, "I'm fine just remembered a buried memory."
"About what?"
"Why do you have to be so nosey?" He shot back harshly.
"Well SORRY! You don't have to be a dick about it." She responded
"No, I'm sorry," Nate said with a sigh. "Just… don't worry about it."
There was a sudden stop; Delta walked to the train car.
"Well this is it: Pauper's drop." He said.
Nate and Krystal put their helmets back on, grabbed their weapons and exited the train. Looking about it they all couldn't help but think… 'What a shithole!' Nate suddenly felt a cold chill run up his spine, like something or someone was watching him. For the first time in a long time he felt fear, hoping not to encounter any living memories of this place. They walked as stealthily as possible in their suits. When they passed The Fish-bowl Diner, Nate froze; the memories flooded his mind like a monsoon.
Flashback
"Lieutenant," A young women said to Nate, who was on watch that night, "Do you need some company, sir."
"How many times do I need to tell you that I don't care about rank, private?" He said with a smile
"Sorry, Nate, just not used to being able to speak so freely with a superior."
Suddenly a hand smashed through the window, grabbing the girl trying to pull her out. Nate grabbed a nearby meat cleaver and cut the hand off. Then two splicers dropped from a whole in the ceiling. Both of them rushed at Nate. Nate stood his ground, driving the meat cleaver into the first splicers head. The second splicer went up behind him and with her claw like nails tried desperately to get him off her ally. Nate pushed her off him, causing her nails to cut from the left side of his chin up to the right corner of his forehead, missing his eye luckily. Nate grabbed his face trying to stop the bleeding. The splicer tried to sneak up behind him once more, but this time ended up getting a face full of buck shot from the private who had grabbed Nate's nearby shotgun.
"Nate," She cried rushing to his side, "Are you okay."
She called for a medic, and there whole team of ten ran into the room. The medic went straight to work on patching up Nate, the soldiers to guard in case of another attack.
"You're going to be okay Nate." She said as he went unconscious, "you're going to be okay."
Back to present
"Nate!" Delta shouted, "you sure you're alright, you're drifting a bit."
"Yes, I'm sure, let's get going." Nate said moving on.
Later…
"You ready, Guys?" Delta asked his two allies, "As soon as I bash down this barrier it's going to be one bushwhack of a fight."
Nate fastened his three-nail cross around his neck, reloaded his shotgun and machine gun and nodded to Delta, as did Krystal. Delta drill charged and shattered the rubble barrier. Nate and Krystal quickly moved in; Nate took aim at the splicer on the third floor balcony and fired a shot between the splicers eyes. Krystal climbed to the second floor and took out three splicers with one of her spears mounted to her wrist. Delta had whipped out his .50 cal. Machine gun and sprayed down the waves of splicers coming from the stairs, which Nate started charging head on to with his trench knife in one hand and a machete he um, barrowed from a fallen splicer. Delta stopped firing and watched as Nate cut down one splicer after another with an animalistic rage.
Pulling the Knife out of the head of the last unlucky splicer, Nate moved further up the stairs. Then they all heard clapping, followed by maniacal laughter.
"I know you, boy," The psycho said, laughing insanely, "You're the one who took off my hand at the Fish-bowl so many years ago.
"Go on Delta, I got this." Nate said, twirling the machete like he was some gladiator.
Then Nate charged, stabbing the trench knife into it shoulder, flipping so he was behind it. Delta and Krystal kept moving in order to get to Grace. As they walked down the halls they saw what felt like pieces of a lost age.
Later…
They finally made it to the level were Grace was, or supposed to be anyways. They walked into her home, and it looked like any other house. Delta found what he assumed was Eleanor's room, from years before. Just to see her old room, made him realize that he had missed so much, course he was dead so not his fault. He found one of Eleanor's old audio diaries, he would listen to it when he wasn't doing something important. He walked into what appeared to be Grace's room.
"It's a dead end Delta." Krystal told him.
Delta looked around the room, and saw a poster of Sophia on the wall. He shot it, and then saw something behind the poster. He tore it down and found a button. He pushed it and the back of the closet slid down, revealing a hind hallway to a saferoom.
"You didn't look hard enough." Delta smirked, resulting in the finger.
They walked down the hidden hallway to the door. Delta wiped the thick layer of dust from the glass, and saw Grace. He opened the door before she could say anything. Grace stared at him, not fearing the worst. Delta was going to do something, but his anger dissipated, grabbed the key, and started to walk out only to stop and say one thing to her.
"I spare you, not for my sake, but for Eleanor's sake. I stomp the seeds of my hate, if only to prove I'm no monster, and set the example for my daughter."
He walked out.
o.0.o
When Delta and Krystal got down stairs again there was a large pile of dead bodies, and not far from them was Nate with blood stained hands, on his knees praying as tears rolled down his cheeks.
Krystal stood there, speechless. Delta thought of what to say.
"Nate," He said trying to keep calm, "what did you do?"
Nate stood back up, without looking to Delta, or Krystal.
"There's something I've been keeping from you two. I'll tell you when we are on the train again."
They walked out into an ambush, at least the walk back would be interesting.
…
"So, care to explain?" Delta asked as they went on.
"I guess now's as good a time as any." He said, now clean of blood, "Sophia did more than just give me the ten year youth tonic, she did other genetic experiments on me as well, so I would be able to be a better guard for Eleanor. One failed, It was called "Inner Beast", and it couldn't have been more appropriately named. It takes all your rage, all your fear, all ability to reason, and makes you go "ferial", in a manner of speaking."
"So, basically, don't piss you off." Krystal said
"No, it's only certain events, like what happened in Paupers drop, had a lot of memories there and that splicer I should have finished off years ago, well the beast was unleashed."
"Another surprises I should know about?" Delta asked.
"Other than my favorite color is green and my unholy love of cheese and Arcadia Merlot? No, not really."
He laughed slightly at his own joke, only to pull out a bottle of said drink. Then there was the sound of static.
"Thou shall not reach the Lambe of God!" The mad man said.
Than a torpedo hit the train, causing the three armored hero's to fall to the ocean floor, and Delta fell unconscious.
A/N: There it's been updated and I hope to update again after I find a new copy of Bioshock 2, damn my little bro! Still, review!