I do not own BioShock or Frozen. They belong to their respective companies.

Hey everyone! Chapter ten is ready! We are coming close to the end of this story, but it has truly only just begun. Also sorry this one's a little shorter than normal, but I worked very hard on it. Hope ya like it!

Also, check out my other fic if you're an Inheritance Cycle fan. It's called Savagery.

Talking: "Hello" Thinking: 'Hello' Radio/Eleanor talking to Delta: "Hello"

Papa's Snowflake

Chapter 10: Monsters (Part II)

Fontaine Futuristics' Secret Lab…

(Elsa's POV)

Elsa was furious.

Even after she had completely obliterated the two twisted papas, and her papa's calming gaze, the words of the sane Alexander still ringed in her ears.

Her sister, Eleanor, was being turned into a monster by Sofia Lamb in some deranged hope it would turn her into the perfect person! If she wasn't already set on killing Sofia Lamb before, she sure as hell was now.

She did her best to calm herself down. Taking deep breaths and imagining freezing and shattering Sofia Lamb over and over again until she felt her bloodlust fade.

The pair made their way down a flight of stairs leading into a room that was being encroached by the same red plants they saw at the entrance. Two splicers were poking at one of the pulsing polyps, when it suddenly shot into the air and covered them with red slime. They spontaneously started shooting each other until they both laid dead on the floor.

Elsa made a mental note not to get hit by one of those polyps.

They walked over the corpses as they made their way into the room. A security camera spotted them, but Elsa quickly overloaded its circuits with an electric blast, giving her papa the time he needed to hack it and bring it over to their side.

When the camera came back on, its light had gone from red to green, signaling it was now their ally against the Sofia's splicer army. The camera slowly swiveled its head towards a group of approaching splicers, it honed in on them, and after several seconds of ringing, called in several security bots to deal with the troupe.

While the machines mopped up the splicers, Elsa noticed what appeared to be a viewing area. The glass window had a massive jagged hole in it, leading into the plant and sand filled room that slightly resembled a mass shower. Elsa walked in to the room, followed quickly by her papa. She looked into the room, while her papa busied himself listening to another audio diary. In the far left corner of the room Elsa saw one of the red flowers Gilbert had asked them to retrieve.

She jumped in through the broken window and quickly made her way to the flower. Elsa grabbed it, and ran back to the glass breach and jump through. No sooner did she exit the room did it fill with steam and the rage filled roars of a fallen papa.

ThumpthumpthumpTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP!

The fast, heavy sound of pounding feet signaled the advance of the berserker. The steam faded away just as he jumped towards Elsa, who was still standing right in front of the shattered window. Just before the attacker could reach her however, Elsa froze him solid before sidestepping out of his way. His momentum driving him, the frozen papa flew right into the wall behind Elsa and shattered like glass.

Ignoring the shattered chunks, Elsa turned to present the flower to her papa with a smile of accomplishment hidden behind her helmet. He gently took the flower from her, placing it in one of his suit's pockets, then patted her on the head.

Elsa enjoyed the pat, but it did not last long. An explosion made Elsa whip around to see the camera had been destroyed by one of the fireball splicers. She shot a blast of frost its way, but the maniac teleported away just before it reached him. Elsa and her papa moved out of the observation area and back into the room they had originally entered, scanning it for any sign of the splicer.

"Look, Mr. Bubbles! It's big sister!" A warbled, little girl's voice proclaimed.

The pair spun around and saw a little sister waving at Elsa with a big smile on her face. The girl's papa soon came into view, he was one of the papas they had encountered in Siren Alley. He moaned his disproval to the little sister for running ahead of him, but before she could form a retort, another of the deranged papa's charged in from where the little girl's just entered from.

He rammed the protector hard, but the newer papa kept his footing. He swung out at the insane papa with a fast left punch, hitting him right across the helmet. The berserker stumbled, but quickly recovered and let loose a feral roar, accompanied by an electrical nova. But the rumbler was already out of the nova's reach; his daughter hiding behind him, terrified of the monster attacking them. The enraged papa made to charge once again, but the rumbler was faster and quickly fired a rocket right at his face.

The attacker's head was blown into a mixture of metal chunks and meaty paste. His body had been blown away several yards, into the next room. Elsa's papa wasted no time however, and as the victor was checking on his little sister, he fired a rocket harpoon right into his oxygen tank. The force of the harpoon made the papa stumble, and the constant pressure placed on him by the spear being pushed further into his tank inhibited his performance even more.

The harpoon finally exploded, along with tank and a good portion of the papa's back. Like the other, the force of the blow pushed the body several yards away from its original position.

"Poor things… what a life." Sinclair told them as Elsa's papa picked up the weeping child and walked over to the air vent present in the room. "Marchin' around playin' Daddy until some splicer manages to kill off their sister… and then if the coma don't take 'em they turn maniac… nothin' nothing left to do but scream. Uh, no offense intended son. We better get you to Eleanor on the double"

'If Eleanor or I die papa would become like them!?'

Elsa was horrified by this new information. She and her sister essentially the only things keeping him alive, without them he would either slip into a coma and die or become an enraged monster. But this brought another revelation to Elsa's mind; her papa was the only one with two daughters instead of one. It made her wonder: if either she or Eleanor died, would papa still be able to function? Would he still be in control of his emotions and thoughts?

Elsa shook her head side to side in hopes of expelling these gruesome thoughts.

Of course papa would be alright! He has two daughters that won't let anything happen to him. Elsa protected him in battle, while Eleanor provided useful plasmids and ADAM for him to use. And there was no way he would let either of them get hurt, even if he had to cross half of Rapture.

After he cured the little sister, she gave him a small curtsy before climbing up into the vent. After the child disappeared into the golden tunnel, Elsa's papa walked down the flight of stairs the other protectors had entered the room from with Elsa right behind him.

The stairs led down into a room with two floors; the upper level where they were and a partially flooded lower section. On the right side of the lower section was a closed door, and ahead of that was hallway leading further into the facility.

There were a few splicers on the lower floor, scrounging over the corpse of a dead papa, but Elsa and her papa quickly dispatched them before making their way down a flight of metal stairs. Elsa could sense the ADAM inside the dead protector's body, and went over to harvest it. She was almost next to the corpse when a small light shown on her from behind. She turned around and narrowly dodged a fast moving rocket, shot from a turret hidden underneath the second floor.

Before it could fire again, Elsa zapped it with a quick bolt of lightning, then picked up a large chunk of rubble with her telekinesis and sent it speeding towards the machine. The impact resulted in a quick explosion that Elsa didn't pay attention to, instead focusing back on the ADAM filled corpse on the floor behind her. After draining the body of its rather large amount of ADAM, Elsa injected the red liquid into her papa, who thanked her with a grateful nod.

They made their way into the hallway and saw another of the rumbler papas protecting his little sister from a trio of splicers. They peppered him with bullets, but most only bounced off his thick suit. The rocket papa shot one his missiles at a splicer before throwing a small turret down on the ground. The little machine filled the other two splicers with lead, then blew up in a tiny explosion.

The papa then leans down to pet his little sister's dirty blonde hair to comfort the scared girl.

It hurt Elsa to break this lovely image, but the girl had to be saved.

She ran towards the protector and jumped when she was several feet away. Elsa landed right on his shoulders and raised her needle high, but the rumbler reacted faster than Elsa anticipated and shook her off his back. He made to stomp her head in, but Elsa quickly rolled to the right and dodged the heavy boot. The rumbler roared angrily at her, and lifted his boot again, before a hail of .50 caliber bullets started pelting his side.

Blinded by rage, the rumbler turns away from Elsa to direct his attention to her papa. Taking her chance, Elsa jumps up and away from the protector, before sending a bolt of high voltage electricity its way. He convulsed as the blue energy moved through his body, preventing him from moving. Elsa wastes no time and summons a large ball of ice before hurling it at the rumbler.

The ice hits him with the force of a charging bouncer and sends him crashing hard into the wall. He slowly falls to his knees before falling face first into the floor with a pained moan.

Elsa watches as little sister runs over to the dead body and begs him to get up. But as soon as the girl notices her papa she completely forgets the dead man who died to protect her. As he picks up the blond girl, Elsa notices something on the rumbler's suit, an audio diary. She picks it up and hands it to her papa who quickly starts the recording.

The hated voice of Sofia Lamb was the first thing Elsa heard.

"Ask yourself, Mr. Meltzer… is it better to summarily executed as an outside caught within these grounds, or to be united not just with your daughter Cindy, but with the Rapture Family as well? The choice is yours… I urge you to accept the protector program. You will live by her side, and remember nothing beyond your love for her."

A man's forced and bitter laugh exited the machine after she finished giving her ultimatum

"… I wasn't the first to find Rapture, you crazy BITCH. And I won't be the last. You do… whatever you want to me… as long as I'm with Cindy… I'm… I'm a happy man."

Elsa was stunned. This protector was the sister's real papa! And they had just killed him! She looked towards her papa only to see him shaking and huffing like an angry bouncer.

(Delta's POV)

Sofia had done it again.

She had destroyed another father who desperately wanted to be with his daughter. Mark Meltzer only wanted to have his daughter Cindy back, but Sofia had different ideas.

She had twisted this admirable man into a mindless thrall, forever chained to the Rapture Family, without any semblance of freewill.

'All this man wanted was to rescue his daughter, and you punished him for it like it's a crime.' He thought bitterly.

Delta started shaking with barely contained rage, and huffing like an angry beast. He had wanted to meet Meltzer, join forces and save each other's daughters from this underwater hell. But now, the man whose only wish was to be with his daughter was lying dead on the floor; his daughter riding on Delta's shoulder.

A soft hand on his arm made him swivel his head abruptly to the left. Startled by the speed, Elsa flinch back before placing her hand on his arm again and gazing into his helmet. Delta could feel her concern for him, the love and admiration she reserved only for him.

A soft blue haze of snowflakes covered his eyes.

"It's alright papa. He will be avenged." Elsa's mental voice echoed briefly in his mind before the snowflakes faded and sight returned to his eyes.

Elsa was right. He shouldn't be here mourning this brave man, he should be avenging him! He should be impaling Sofia Lamb on his drill not just for him, but for all the families whose children she has taken.

But before he did any of that, he would save Cindy Meltzer. Delta walked over to another of the golden vents the children used and gently lifted her from his shoulders. She smiled warmly as he placed his large hand on her small head. Light flooded his vision as he removed the slug from her stomach and all the ADAM it held.

Cindy curtsied in gratitude then scurried into the vent.

"Alright, you know the routine, chief. Big sis outta be on her way right now. Get ready." Sinclair warned him.

But neither Delta nor Elsa heard the shrieking cry of one of Rapture's feared banshees. Silence was all they heard. The pair waited for a full minute for any sort of indicator of the sister's arrival, but none came.

"Huh… no big sis. I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this seems fishy. Stay your toes you two."

Maybe they had killed all of them already or none were present here. Either way, Sinclair was right, they would need to be careful in case a big sister dies show up. But Delta couldn't afford to stand around forever, waiting for an attacker. He needed to find those flowers. A double door lay at the end of the hall, red leaves growing all around it, Delta opened it and walked in, Elsa right behind him. Inside were two operating tables, covered by the red plants and on the right table, a red flower stood tall and proud.

Images flashed through Delta's head.

Two little girls lying down on each table, quickly falling into sleep. Then waking up and embracing Delta as he walked in.

"This is where they bonded us to you, father… playing God… you were the only good thing that Rapture ever gave me…"

The memories faded, and Delta went up to pluck the flower. After he took it, he noticed an audio diary on the opposite table. Curious, he picked it up and played it.

"*Sigh*… It didn't work. I was sure I was on to something revolutionary for the protector program, but I was wrong. The behavior exhibited in Elsa and Eleanor was a complete fluke; we still don't know why they react to each other the way they do but… When we tried to duplicate the two sister procedure, the little sisters kept going in different directions, making it impossible for the protector to follow both. We actually ended up losing more little sisters. And we can't study Elsa and Eleanor either, their protector was killed three days ago and the girls disappeared, most likely dead. *Sigh*… we'll have to go back to designing better protector models for now… I just wish I knew why it worked with them and not the others."

The man's voice was unfamiliar to Delta, but the information was interesting. Before Delta could ponder on what the man meant the voice of Sofia Lamb entered his radio.

"She was not meant to have a father, Delta. She was to be an heir to my life's work. And this is where they changed her, bonding her to you. The child she was… died in this room."

That was the second time Sofia had contacted him and he was getting sick of it. Not because it was annoying, (which it was), but because she kept making it obvious she had no idea why even though Delta had Elsa with him, he persisted on rescuing Eleanor. Sofia Lamb had no clue why a father will go through hell and back for his daughters.

She had no understanding of real parental love.

She viewed everything and everyone as biased and broken, and that she would save them all at the cost of Eleanor.

For such an intelligent woman, Sofia was extremely ignorant and close minded, despite her constant preaching of family and unity over the loud-speakers.

The pair walked out of the room and took a left towards a hallway opposite to the one they entered through. Six splicers jumped them, but Delta stunned them all with a spray of lightning, allowing Elsa to summon a dozen frozen stalagmites to impale them upon. To the left of the second hallway was a flight of stairs, leading down. To the right, a long corridor leading to an empty wall.

They went left, down the stairs, and saw a shutter door slammed shut. Delta knew they wouldn't be able to get past it so they went back up and to the right.

They found a broken grating leading into what looked like a prison cell. Delta decided to check the way back of the hallway first before exploring the room below, but Elsa thought differently. She jumped down into the room with a soft thud, a splicer opened the cell door, only to have a giant needle pierce his eye. The splicer slumped down at Elsa's feet, she looked up at Delta before pointing to herself then the doorway.

Delta understood what she meant and gave her a nod of approval, and Elsa dashed out of the room.

Delta went all the way over to the end of the hall and found a window with a large hole in it, but Delta was more focused on what lay behind the window then the piece of glass itself. A door control panel and a Power to the People station were behind the window. Delta could already tell that this was the room behind the locked door in the room that had the hidden turret.

He pulled out his hack device and fired a dart at the control panel and after a few moments, the device dinged and the door opened.

"Our little lady just got the last flower, sport, time to feed the fish. Head on back to Alexander's tank and put those plants in." Sinclair informed him.

Sure enough, when Delta turned around he saw his daughter run up the stairs at the opposite end of the hallway with ADAM plant in hand. She spotted him and raised her prize high, waving it back and forth as she emitted little skrees as if to say, "I got it! I got it!"

Delta smiled at her enthusiasm, and walked over to her. Several splicers appeared from Elsa's right, but she swatted them away like flies as she patiently waited for her father to reach her.

Delta reached Elsa and took the flower from her with a grateful nod before motioning her to follow him back to the marine tank.

"Poor Gilbert. It was his will to die, Delta, to serve the majority by protecting them from his lunacy. Your entire journey here is based on your refusal to do the same. Will you grant his request knowing that he served the Family?" Sofia finished her little monologue with an actually valid question.

What should Delta do with Gilbert Alexander?

The man was insane, dangerous and outright annoying, more so than the usual splicer. But he had prepared for his descent into madness, leaving audio diaries for whomever were brave or stupid enough to come here. He wanted to die, but couldn't do the deed himself. He knew he would become a danger to all around him. Delta respected the man for wanting to save others at the cost of his own life.

On the hand, he was a member of the Family, willingly followed Sofia Lamb and allowed himself to be changed into this… thing he is now. The people he wished to spare from his psychotic wrath were barely people anymore, ADAM crazed addicts who would do anything for a drop of the gene-bending substance.

Should Delta kill this man and grant his wish? Or, let him live, and allow him to continue his maniac ways?

The choices that were presented to him before were easy: Grace misunderstood what Delta's role with Eleanor was, while Stanley just wasn't worth the effort.

Deciding Gilbert's fate, however, was proving to be a challenge for the alpha series.

The pair reached the room with the long dead big daddy prototype on the floor and the once locked door leading towards an upgrade station. Delta went inside and placed his shotgun in the machine. The upgrade was shorter than the others, mainly because this upgrade didn't add a new part, it removed an old part.

The machine dinged and Delta removed his freshly sawed off shotgun from the now expired station, and walked back to the tank area.

The eerie red glow of the deep sea tank cast everything in a crimson hue including Delta and his daughter. Elsa's blue armor looked almost purple in the light, and Delta's brown suit looked brick red, while his armor appeared orange instead of copper.

Delta noticed a little alcove under where the control panel was, and saw a Gatherer's Garden and a little sister leaving a present for him. He expected Eleanor to contact him about how the girls were thanking him, but no such message came. This worried Delta a great deal, but he knew Eleanor was a strong girl just like her sister.

He took the loot and massive amount of ADAM from the teddy bear, then walked back up to the control panel with Elsa in tow.

He placed the plants inside the machine, and watched as the plants were inserted into the tank, floating down like fish food flakes in a goldfish bowl. The obnoxious voice of Alex the Great blared over the loudspeakers.

"NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES! Subject Delta has brought his daughter to the office, on the silly notion that today was bring your daughter to work day! Sadly, this not so and he and his daughter must now be… dismissed! Escort them from the premises!"

Splicers poured into the room by the dozens, running in from doors or teleporting in with plasmids. The roars of the defected alpha series daddies also filled the room as they charged through the splicer soldiers. Delta equipped his launcher and fired three frag grenades in a mass of splicers, while Elsa dove into another group of splicers with a primal shriek, hands crackling with electric energy.

"No… I don't want it… I shall resist!" The plants were working, Alex the Great's will was giving in to the allure of the ADAM flowers.

Delta swapped out his launcher for his trusty drill, and charged at one of the alpha series, running over any splicer in his way. The drill penetrated the old protector's helmet with a smash, then swirled what was left of his face into mush as the weapon spun around inside his head. Delta removes the drill from the body as it gives in to its own weight and slumps to the floor, a splicer hits him over the shoulder with a shotgun, accidently triggering a nova of electricity to burst from Delta's body and paralyze everyone within two-and-a-half meters from him.

He swaps out his drill for his shotgun, and quickly blasts the stunned splicers away. A Houdini splicer teleports a ball's throw away from Delta and begins chucking fire balls at him. Thinking fast, Delta freezes the splicer in a block of ice, then picks up the launcher of the dead daddy with his telekinesis and sends it speeding towards the frozen attacker, shattering her into a million ice-cubes.

Delta hears a screaming splicer running at him from behind, he turns, and caves its disfigured face in with a strong punch.

The upper half of a splicer suddenly flies over Delta's head and he turns to see Elsa hard at work butchering those unlucky enough to attack her.

In the eerie red glow of the tank, Elsa was a purple blur, killing splicers left and right. She moved with such swift grace Delta had a hard time keeping up with her. She would freeze one splicer while stabbing another, then throw the frozen one at a pair she electrocuted, ending them in a shower of ice chunks.

Another raging alpha series brought Delta back from his observations and into the bloody fight of life or death.

The fighting continued for about three minutes before the splicers and raging big daddies finally stopped coming. Both Delta and Elsa were drenched in blood, the eerie light painted it near black on their bodies as they went back to the control panel; Elsa jumped up whilst Delta climbed the stairs.

"How dare you try to… buy me out with this… this bribe… this… pittance, this…sublime… God damn you, Delta…"

The fleshy blob known as Alex the Great shoots up into the tank like an octopus as he tries to feed on the flowers.

"Ha ha! Perfect, you two, you've reeled him in – now use that console there to take a gene sample. It should print up a genetic key automatically!" Sinclair informed them.

Seeing the button on the console, Delta presses it. A robotic arm inside the tank extends towards a now giggling Alex, (high on the ADAM plants) and abruptly jabs what looks like a syringe into what Delta thinks is his side.

His giggles erupt into full-blown laughter, as his body jiggles and thrashes as the needle cuts into his flesh. After about five seconds of piercing his flesh, the syringe removes itself from his body, letting a cloud of blood to form inside the tank. And just as Sinclair said, a genetic key suddenly pops up out of the control panel, which Delta quickly swipes.

"You got the key to Lamb's hideout, sport – Eleanor's down there! Now head on back to the Oxy-Fill station and use it." Sinclair excitedly exclaims.

Delta is about to do just that when suddenly the screen turns on again and Gilbert Alexander's voice begins to play.

"It is done. The sample disposal button on the panel in front of you will administer a massive jolt of electricity to the tank, more than enough to kill me. Whatever I may say to dissuade you, don not listen. Then man whose voice you hear now is long gone. As my mind fades, I find my thoughts to the suffering that Eleanor will be made to endure, and I am overcome with pity. But I can only offer my feeble prayers. Perhaps after my death, you can do more. Now please… I ask that you grant me peace. Goodbye, my friend, and thank you."

"You… you don't have to kill me, Delta…" Alex commented with a nervous laugh. "I'm SORRY! Pleaase… I will go outside… I will live outside!"

For the first time since Alex the Great introduced himself to Delta and Elsa, he actually said something true and intelligent.

Truly, Delta had no reason to kill him, other than fulfilling the once sane doctor's wishes to die to protect others from himself. However, the only people left were Sofia Lamb's Family splicers, who were just as mad as he was.

But what really stilled Delta's hand in executing this once-man was that he was completely defenseless, even more so than Grace Holloway and Stanley Poole. He could not run, hide or fight back, and all Delta had to do was press a button that would end his life quickly but painfully.

Delta decided against it.

Delta was many things: a man, a father, a survivor, and a killer. But he was not a murderer. He would not stoop to a splicer's level and kill a man who could nothing but beg to defend himself. Besides, they had wasted enough time here already.

He turned from the console and left for the exit outside, Elsa following close behind. They entered the airlock and let the room flood, then stepped outside. They made their way over to the fake oxy-fill and Delta was just about to insert the key, when a giant shadow passed over them.

Delta looked up and was shocked to see Alex the Great, (true to his word), swimming away from the building and out towards the open sea.

A majestic sight, were it not for the fact he appeared even more hideous when moving than he did sitting like an overgrown embryo.

Delta turned his attention away from the man/fish/newt/thing and back towards the oxygen station. He placed the key inside the slot and almost immediately, the ground shook. Elsa swam over to him, as the rock wall behind the station opened up to reveal a hidden elevator leading down into Lamb's secret base.

When the pair entered the small elevator, Delta pressed the down button, and they descended down into Rapture's literal underbelly…

And to Eleanor…

'We are coming for you, Eleanor. Your mother won't be able to stop us from saving you.' These were Delta's only thoughts as the elevator took him and Elsa down.

Author's Note: Sorry Again for the long wait, it's just I've been writing another story and I'm in summer school right now.

However, there is an important question I have to ask you all.

If… IF…. I decide to send Elsa back to Arendelle, should I write it in this story or in a sequel story and have this one end with a cliff hanger epilogue? PLEASE give me your opinion on this matter in your comments it's been driving me nuts.

As always, fav, follow and review, Thank you!

DeadRich18 Out!