AN: I am going to change the amount of time Julia has been away from rapture from 6 years to 9 years. The reason for this i cannot reveal because it might mess up the plot. The thing i can tell you all is that Julia will be back a little less than 1 year before the events of Bioshock 2. Now on with the story, and exspect more rapid updates or now on.
Julia slowly began to regain consciousness. Her whole body was aching, and it felt like a hammer was hitting the inside of her head. The only things she could see at the moment were black and white blotches, slowly fading in and out. She could hear voices behind her, but she couldent make out anything they were saying because her head was hurting so bad. Julia let out a painful moan as her vision began to come back. It felt like she was sitting in a very uncomfortable chair, but she didn't have the energy to even attempt to get herself up.
"Oh, i think she is waking up." said a voice from behind her that sounded like it came from a man.
"Its about time, i was beginning to think that she slipped into a coma." said a obviously feminine voice from behind her.
Julia's vision was now fully back, although her whole body was still in pain. She quickly took a scan of her surroundings. She was in a room with a steel walls, no windows, and large lights on the ceiling. Overall, the room was rather small as far as Julia was concerned. There was many electrical appliances and desks along the walls. The desks all had vials, microscopes, and other things that made it look like a science lab of some sorts.
Julia then heard three chairs being pushed back behind her, followed by three sets of footsteps. Julia tried to get up out of her seat so she coud turn around, but her arms and legs were being held down by something. Julia quickly looked down and to her horror she saw that her wrists and ankles were tied to the chair by ropes. Julia also realized that she wasn't wearing her white casual dress anymore, but was now wearing a white hospital gown, and it felt like there was nothing underneath it either.
Julias eyes turned as wide as dinner plates as she heard the footsteps drawing closer. She desperately tried to break out of her chair, but the ropes binded her wrists and ankles very firmly to the chair.
"You shouldent waste your time trying to break out." said a voice directly in front of her. Julia looked up and through her raven black hair, which was now blocking her eyes, saw three figures seated directly in front of her.
Julia screamed in fright, causing each of the figures to jump in surprise.
"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME." Julia screamed as she once again tried to break out of her binds.
"Wow wow wow wow, take it easy Julia, we are not going to hurt you." Reassured a man sitting in the middle of the three.
"HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW MY NAME, WHERE THE HELL AM I, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME?" Julia screamed in a panic. She had no idea who these people were, or why they kidnapped her, and right now she was terrified.
"Calm down now, don't worry, we are not going to do anything to you." Calmly said a women sitting to the right of the trio seated directly in front of Julia.
Julia finally got a good look at the three people seated in front of her. All of them were wearing white scrubs, and white surgical masks over their faces as well as a white cap over their heads. The one on the left was holding a clipboard, and he was obviously a man. The one in the center was also a man, but he was wearing large circular glasses. The one on the right was a woman, and she was also holding a clipboard.
Julia began to hyperventilate, she had no idea what was going on. She began to clench her hands into fists as her headache worsened. Her headache started acting up again, which caused her to wince in pain as it felt like a hammer was banging the inside of her skull.
"Are you okay?" asked the female doctor in a rather worried tone.
"NO." screamed back Julia. She again to break out of her binds, but soon gave up.
After about five minutes, Julia finally calmed down.
"Julia, we need to run some tests, if thats okay with you?" Asked the doctor sitting in the middle.
"First tell me what the hell you have done with me, and untie me." Julia demanded sternly, her electric blue eyes now staring the trio down.
"Okay, okay." Replied the doctor. "William, go make sure the door is locked, and Cynthia, go untie Julia."
The other two doctors did what they were asked. Julia assumed William was the guy and that Cynthia was the girl. William proceeded to pull a lever by the door, and Cynthia proceeded to untie Julia's wrists.
"There you go darling." Cynthia said as she finished untying Julia's wrists and then proceeded to untie her Ankles. Julia immediately began massaging her sore wrists, where were both red and swollen from her struggling. Julia had calmed down, but she was still frightened.
Both Cynthia and William took their seats again directly in front of Julia.
"We appreciate you for volunteering yourself into the program Julia." said the man in the middle.
"I did not volunteer for anything, you freaks kidnapped ME" Julia countered in a harsh tone, nearly screaming. Julia was usually fairly calm, but this entire situation so far has pushed her over the edge.
"Technically, we did not kidnap you, that was somebody else." Said William in an unusually calm voice.
Julia looked at the doctors in disgust, if they even were doctors, which Julia was now seriously doubting.
"We would also like you know ahead of time that your clothing is over there, just in case you were wondering." said Cynthia as she pointed behind Julia. Julia turned around and sure enough, her clothing was on a desk behind her, all of it neatly folded, even her undergarments to her horror.
Julia then looked down at her neck and realized that her necklace was missing.
"Ahhhh, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO WITH MY NECLACE?" Julia screamed in a panic. That necklace was her prised posession, and she would freak out if these people stole it.
"Dont worry, i got it right here." Said Cynthia as she reached behind her and picked up Julias necklace. "It was getting in the way of our proccedure, so we had to remove it."
Cynthia handed the necklace back to Julia, who imediately put it back around her neck.
"Okay, what do you guys mean by 'Procedure'" Julia questioned the trio with a quizzical and frightened look on her face, afraid of what their answer may be.
"Well first, we would like to inform you that the procedure was a success." said the middle doctor in a happy tone the creeped Julia out a bit.
"Are you familiar with ADAM?" Asked William.
"Yes i am." Said Julia. "It's that red goo that people use to give them super powers and stuff right?"
"Correct." Said the middle doctor. "I take it that this isnt you first time in Rapture."
"This is my second time here." Julia said, still with a hint of caution n her voice. "I was here 9 yeas ago to visit my Aunt and Uncle, both of whom are probably worried sick about me, because you KIDNAPPED ME."
"Well, alot has changed since your last visit to Rapture Julia." said William, ignoring her last statement entirely.
"Indeed William, but before we delve deeper into that subject, I believe that Julia should know what we have done with her." Said the middle doctor.
"Okay, Julia, you are a very special subject. You are the first human to ever be implanted with a blue ADAM slug, and survive the process."
Julia's eyes widened in horror. did he just say that they planted a SLUG inside of her. Julia then felt like something was moving inside of her gut. She clenched her teeth in agony and yelped in pain as she gripped her stomach with her hands. Her eyes grew even wider as she realized what must be causing the pain within her. Julia's face immediately turned green as she threw her head over the side of the chair and vomited. She tried to catch her breath, but she just vomited again and again. The doctors were just sitting there taking notes as she writhed in agony, clutching her stomach in pain, a single tear fell from her smooth cheek.
"Dont worry, upset stomachs are normal after any ADAM slug implantation." Said Willaim in a futile attempt to calm Julia down.
Julia moved her raven black bangs from her eyes and then wiped the vomit from her mouth with her sleeve. She couldn't believe that there was a, a, a SLUG, living inside her. She could still feel it moving in her stomach. Julia has heard of ADAM slugs before. She knew that they were the source of ADAM, but that was about it.
"Julia, try to take deep breaths. If you are calm, the slug will be calm as well."
Julia followed the doctors instructions, closed her eyes, and began to take deep, controlled breaths. The thing in her stomach began to stop moving, just as the doctors said.
"You see Julia, since you have been gone, ADAM has become much harder to find. Most of Raptures people became hooked on the stuff. You see, ADAM drives the mind crazy, deforms you, and turns you homicidal. As a result, after a large riot during new years of 1959, most of Rapture fell into anarchy. The place where your Aunt and Uncle live is the only sector of the city free of splicers, you see..."
"Wait a moment, what is a splicer?" Julia interupted, her curiosity now peaked by the tale the doctor was telling.
"An excellent question Julia. A splicer is a term used for the citizens of Rapture who are hooked on ADAM." answered the Doctor happily. "Now, not to long after you left Rapture 9 years ago, ADAM slugs were becoming increasingly harder to find, and we needed a new source of ADAM. After much extensive research, we discovered that if an ADAM slug was planted into a host, preferable a prepubescent girl, combined with the proper mental conditioning, a girl could ingest the blood of a diseased splicer, and the ADAM slug in her stomach will filter the ADAM out of the blood, and the girl will later regurgitate reusable ADAM."
"So you guys took little girls away from their families, brainwashed them, placed a slug in their stomach, all just to get ADAM?" Julia asked in fear and disgust.
"Nobody said anything about kidnapping." Proclaimed the William. "All of our initial subjects were taken from orphanages, they already had no families."
That still did not make the situation any better in Julia's opinion. They still brainwashed little girls and put slugs inside of them.
The doctor continued his story. "Now at first everything was a huge success, but then the splicers started to go after the little sisters for thier ADAM. The girls slugs did however grant them incredible healing powers due to their ability to mass produce stem cells, but that did not stop the splicers from ripping the slugs out of the girls stomachs, killing them in the process. We knew that we needed a far more effective way to protect the Girls, so we developed gaurdians for the girls who would accompany them around the city. The girls promptly named them 'Big Daddies'. These protectors were men who had their skin and organs grafted into massive diving suits, and they were mentally conditioned to do nothing but protect the girls. At first, the protectors did not protect the girls, and we knew that we needed to find a way to make them inseparable. So we later bonded a Big Daddy alpha series named subject Delta to a girl named Eleanor Lamb, about the same time you left from Rapture."
"Hold on a moment." Julia once again interupted. "If you implanted a slug in me, why didnt you brainwash me as well?"
"Ah, another exelent question Julia." Said the doctor once again in a disturbingly happy tone. "You see, the reason why all of our other subjects were young girls is because hormones, namely estrogen, neutralize any brainwashing. This is why we stick with prepubesent subjects."
"Then why did you kidnap me?" Julia asked harshly. "WHy didn't you just get some other, younger girl for your creepy experiments?"
"Well Julia, the blue ADAM slug is a very special and rare species of ADAM slug. It is capable of producing much more potent ADAM then the more common red ADAM slugs can. Blue ADAM slugs also have the ability to create ADAM from ingesting some of the food you eat which makes it very valuable as a source of ADAM. Blue ADAM slugs are also far larger than their red relatives, and they wont fit inside of any of our younger subjects, so we had to get someone who was larger, so we got you."
"Wait, since this... this THING is making ADAM inside of me, w-w-wouldent it turn me into one of those splicer things you guys were talking about?" Julia asked with a very worried look on her face. The more she found out on what these people did to her, the more worried she became.
"Dont worry Julia." reassured the female doctor. "Having a slug inside of you will take away any possibility of genetic damage to yourself, regardless of how much ADAM is in your system."
Julia let out a sigh of relief, at lest she wouldn't turn into a mutant.
"So, why exactly did you guys do this to me?" Julia finally asked.
"Well Julia, we dont require you to do the same jobs as our younger subjects, in fact, we encourage to try to live on a normal life for the time being. The real reason we did this to you was to test the full potential of power ADAM has, and we have high hopes that once you can learn to harness your power, you will become the most deadly weapon on the planet."
Julias eyes shot wide open. She did not want to be a weapon, she hated violence. It was violence that killed her father in europe.
"I refuse to be any sort of weapon for anyone." Julia said sternly, her arms crossed against her chest.
"We will see about that." Said the middle doctor rather creepily. " Come on now, it is time to meet your protector."
"Wait, why would i need a protector if i am sopposed to be the worlds greatest weapon?" Julia asked stubbornly, her arms still crossed over her chest.
"Like we said earlier, your slug is a very rare breed, and we cant afford to take any chances. Also, you will not be able to harness your powers for sometime, so we paired you to a big daddy called subject Epsilon. now come, he is waiting."
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