When Landon finally made it back home he couldn't believe his eyes. Everything was in ruins, bodies were scattered all over the courtyard. Blood spattered on the ground and walls. And he knew them all.

He had lived with some of them from the very beginning, ten years ago...

He ran to the bedrooms praying for the best, more bodies, and more blood.

But no Jennifer, Jimmy, or Walter. He didn't see the new boy Antony's body either, or Brendan.

But lying next to Jennifer's bed was Crystal...

Landon's hands were shaking as he lifted Crystal up and placed her on the bed. And covered her up with a sheet, then he did the same for the others. Forcing himself to find every one and take them to that room and lying them down. Next to each other.

After that was done he pondered what weather to try seal the room, or cremate the bodies.

His blood boiled at the thought of Lambs lackeys or slaves defacing his friends... his families bodies...

So Landon found some gasoline and poured it all around the room, by the end the floor and the ends of the beds were soaked, and then he carefully made his way to the doorway, and looked back at the sight...

"I... am so sorry... Sofia Lamb will pay for this... I promise you!"

He lit a match and threw it into the room, quickly backing away from the door and taking a broken pipe beating the manual lever to the door until he was sure it wasn't going to open. Then he sat and waited. For a while he could feel the heat that radiated on the other side of the door. He knew the fire wouldn't spread to the rest of the hideout because all that fire in that room would use up all the air before that happened, before long it would be smothered. And besides that the men who made Rapture took in account that it was possible a fire would spread uncontrollably threw Rapture if given the chase, so the ground and walls are made of materials that can't burn, and the only real way to start a fire is with kindling or gasoline.

Landon was silent for a long time; he hoped to find flowers or something so that later he might come back and pay his respects. But for now he had to find the others... and kill Sofia Lamb.

Landon took out the radio. "Tenenbaum? Can you hear me?"

"Yes, what is it?"

"I want you to keep an eye out for a group of four or five, four guys and a girl."

"Alright, where are you going?"

"To find Lamb."

Tenenbaum didn't say anything, but he could feel that she wasn't too happy with his plans...

Before he left the hideout he went upstairs in hoped of finding a key code Antony had whipped up to help him in his search. It worked like any genetic key except this one was a all access pass, unlike that other ones that open only one door, or bathysphere. But, unfortunately, they were all gone. Either his friends had them... or Lamb did...

Luckily the splicers didn't take their time raiding the place, because under the desk was a door to the basement, where all of their weapons and supplies where stored. He filled up on all he could carry, ate some food, packed it all up and left.

He decided to catch the train out of the area, it wasn't safe but it was better then swimming out of there.

He was almost to the train when he heard someone yelling. He ran to find out what was going on.

A Big Sister was attacking a man. Landon opened fire on it, and it screeched at him, jumping on him, and jabbing it's needle into his arm. The other man shot it too, and it ran off.

The man Landon helped pulled him up. "Are you okay?"

Landon nodded as he began to wrap his wound. "Yeah, fine."

"I can't believe I'm actually meeting someone normal down here."

Landon paused. "Down here? Who are you?"

The man straightened. "My name is Mark. Mark Meltzer. I'm looking for my daughter Cindy. She was brought here by that thing."

Landon was stumped for a moment. "Then you're from the surface."

Mark nodded. "Yes."

Landon was dumbfounded for a moment. "I'm sorry."

"About what?"

"Your daughter."

Mark glared at him. "What do you mean?"

Landon shook his head. "I mean her being kidnapped..."

Mark nodded. "Yeah, right, sorry. But do you know where I could find her?"

Landon shook his head. "No. If she was brought here by the Big Sister she could be anywhere in Rapture."

"Big Sister?"

"Yeah that's what those things are called. My names At-... Landon by the way."

"Yeah, right, Landon. Sorry to be so-"

Landon stood up. "No I understand."

Mark let out a bitter laugh. "No offense, but I doubt that."

"I'm looking for someone I... love too. She's out there somewhere. If you're planning on saving your daughter you'll need to learn what's what around here. Follow me."

Landon started a fire trying to warm himself up. "Take a seat."

Landon told Mark about the Big Daddies, Little Sister, and finally the cause of both of their grief.

"So that woman I keep hearing over the intercom is behind this?"

Landon nodded. "Yes, don't know why, but she's the master of all the Big Sisters."

"All? So there's more than one of those monsters?"

"Afraid so."

"Jesus..."

Just then Tenenbaum chimed up over the radio. "Landon, I think I've found them!"

"What!"

"A group of five! Four men and a woman? That is what you're looking for?"

"Yes! Yes! Are they alright, do they look hurt? Where are they?"

"No, they look fine. If you take the train downtown you may be able to catch them."

Landon stood up. "Look I- you-"

Mark stood up too. "Let's go."

Landon ran to the train station, Mark close behind him.

"Here we are These trains can take us to other parts of the city, but only the older parts to get to the rest we'll need bathyspheres."

Mark just nodded, and Landon got the feeling he really wasn't paying too much attention.

They climbed onto the train and Landon got it going. It was a long awkward ride. Landon couldn't get his mind off of his friends.

"It'll be a while until we get there." Landon pulled out some of his food and water. "Here, and get some sleep if you can. It's rare to find a place to rest here to take advantage of times like this, okay?"

Mark nodded, taking the food offered to him. "It takes a lot to survive here huh?"

"Yeah, I guess..."

"How long have you been here?"

Landon sighed. "Since I was born I guess..."

"You've spent your entire life in this... place?"

Landon stared out of the window. "It wasn't always the wreck it is now... when I was a kid... it was really beautiful..."

"It's hard to imagine."

Landon laughed. "Yeah, no kidding. Eat and get some rest okay?" Mark pulled out his wallet and stared at the picture inside, a little girl with blond hair. Probably his daughter Cindy. Landon leaned back and closed his eyes, listening to the train.

He woke up to the train stopping. He was a little disoriented, the stood up, stretching. "Mark?"

Mark was sitting across from him, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "Uh... yeah?"

"We're here. You ready?"

Mark nodded, grabbing his gun. "As I'll ever be."

The two ran off the train. "Tenenbaum, are they still here?"

"Yes, keep going that way and you'll reach them in no time at all."

He looked back at Mark. "After this, I promise we'll find your daughter."

Mark nodded. "Thanks."

As the two headed for the hotel that Tenenbaum had seen them, suddenly then doors in front and behind them shut and locked.

"Landon? What's going on!"

"I- I don't know!"

"Well. Landon, it seems you're going to be more troublesome then I had though."

"Is that Sofia Lamb?"

"Yes."

"No matter, soon you will no longer be a concern. Goodbye Landon Barker."

Lambs voice faded from the intercom as a loud screech echoed through the air.

"Shit, she's sicking the Big Sister on us!"

"What do we do?"

Landon started placing trap bolts on the floor. "Just get ready! Buy some ammo!"

Mark ran to the vender as Landon scrambled to prepare for the Big Sister's arrival. Then He heard two screams, sending Landon's blood cold.

There's more than one...

"Shit! Tenenbaum! Can you open the doors?"

"No, but I can send you some help... Landon... I'm- I am sorry... I-"

Just then he heard another shriek and then Mark. "She's here!"

Landon was tackled by one of the sisters, he began bashing it over the head wildly as they were both shaken by Mark shooting the Big Sister from behind, the first one shrieked and jumped back as the other one started shooting fire at them, which caught his coat on fire. He cried out as he ripped off his coat before the flames could burn him, then threw it at the Big Sis, catching her on fire. The security bots Tenenbaum had sent were twirling around, but seeming to cause no damage. Landon loaded his grenade launcher and opened fire on the Big Sister, until the first one fell.

"YES!"

"You did it! We're almost-"

The other Big Sister ran at Mark cutting him with her syringe, Landon went to shoot her but he was out of grenade launcher ammo.

"Fuck!"

Landon ran to Mark, shooting the Big Sister with a shotgun, grabbing his arm and pulling him away.

"I'm out of ammo!"

Landon pulled the trigger of his shotgun a few times. "Me too!"

"We can't kill her... we're-"

Then a roar broke out, and from the balcony above Landon could see a Big Daddy. It jumped down and attacked the Big Sister! It stumbled and waved its drill at them menacingly. Landon could see blood trickling all around it, and from its 'eyes'.

"What's going on?"

Landon shook his head. "I dunno, but let's take advantage of it!"

Landon and Mark ran to the door trying to hack it, but nothing was working. They could hear the fight between the Big Sister and the rogue Big Daddy escalating.

"It's no good. I'm sorry Mark... I can't hack this... no matter who wins that fight, the winner will..."

"DAMNIT! There's got to be something we can do!"

As Mark kicked the door sparks shot out at the bottom, slowly working its way up in two straight vertical lines. Someone was cutting through the door!

Landon grabbed Mark and pulled him back as the door was burst open, and in the dust stood Brendan holding some explosives.

"Atlas! Let's move!"

The three ran from the room to a large elevator, Brendan pressed the button and they headed down.

"Brendon... it's good to see you!"

Brendon smiled and patted his shoulder. "You too. I'm glad you made it." His eyes turned to Mark. "Who's this?"

"A friend, I'll explain more later but until then. Mark Meltzer. Mark this is Brendan."

Mark nodded a hello as they reached the bottom and left the elevator Brendan went ahead first.

"Atlas?" Mark whispered.

"It's a sort of alias I took... to... sort of give people hope. Jennifer thought it would be better than throwing a know-nothing kid out there and saying 'hey follow me!' you know?"

Mark nodded. "Yeah I get you, so who's Jennifer?"

Landon sighed. "Someone very important to me."

Brendan opened a door and called. "Hey everyone! You'll never guess who I found!"

Inside Jimmy, Walter, and Antony stood up, and ran out to greet him.

"Thank god. I thought you'd been killed in the raid!"

He shook his head. "No, but just barely. He looked around. "Where's Jennifer?"

"Jennifer?"

Landon heard something from the other room and ran to it, inside was a young woman... but it wasn't Jennifer. He turned back to the others. "Who the hell is this?"

Walter rubbed the back of his neck. "Her name is Katie... she helped us escape from Lambs splicers."

"When I heard what Doctor Lamb was planning... I couldn't just-"

Landon cut her off, his heart racing. "Where the hell is Jennifer!"

They were all silent. Then Antony looked him in the eye. "We were cornered, we were separated from Jennifer in the fight... we lost her."