Rapture: Revelation Chapter #2

The bathosphere took us into Rapture. I walked onto the land that I once fought on… It pains me to walk these halls without Munroe, my little sister. I turn to them, still unsure of what to do. "What do you think it wants with us, Nicholas?" Johnny asked him in a low and calm tone. "I don't know… can they talk?"

I raise my hand and wave it. Surprised, the two guys jump back. They didn't look anything like a normal splicer. Maybe they weren't addicted! The two of them look at each other and shrug. They wave at me. I open my mouth behind my helmet, I'm about to speak for the first time in my life. "H-he-hell…" My deep voice echoed throughout the hallway. "Is… he trying to talk to us?" Nicholas said.

"How do we know we can trust him?" Johnny said.

"I haven't tried to kill you." I said, surprised at my voice. I put one hand over my throat.

Nicholas and Johnny snapped their necks the big daddy's way. "You can talk?!" They both said in unison.

"Be quiet!" I promptly said. "You don't want the splicers to hear you." I'm still surprised I can talk.

"We've been told that Big Daddy's cannot talk at all! Who… or WHAT are you?"

"I'm a lancer, I haven't found much reason to talk."

"This whole thing will have to wait. Our ships sunk and we have no way of getting home, we need to find some way now." Johnny took a few steps forward. "Are those splicers still around?"

"What year is it?" I asked them.

"1971." Nicholas said.

I jolted back. "I've been asleep for 2 years…"

The sailors, surprised of this asked "How?"

"Well I don't-" A loud scream. "I hope you have your plasmids at the ready." I told them. The splicers are coming. 5 of them came rushing out and then stopped abruptly. "New people? WITH ADAM?!" One splicer with a switch blade said. I stayed silent, not wanting to blow my cover as a talking big daddy. "STEP ASIDE, TIN DADDY! OR WE'LL TEAR YOU APART!" Realizing that all three of us were armed with only plasmids I struggled to try and remember which one that I had. Just then, water splashed the 5 of them and they fell to the ground, I extended my hand to activate whatever plasmid I had with me. A frozen blast over took the splicers, then they froze in place. "Take their guns." I told them. The two rushed over to the pistols and collected ammunition from them. Great. Now I have to help these two clowns get out of Rapture, without blowing my cover when I'll get a whole bunch of Big Daddies on our tail. Beautiful, JUST BEAUTIFUL, but if they can leave, I CAN leave, and I won't have to worry about my survival anymore… but… Mary… I've got to find Mary… I can't leave my little sister out there to die… plus the little sisters that are STILL here… I've got to take some with me, I've always felt bad about it, but I've never had any chance to take another big daddy's little sister and escape with her… If I can get these two idiots to follow me around and adopt little sisters, I can take them, and escape with as many as I can! It's been 3 years since I've last seen Mary… I hope she's out there…

A loud shriek was out in the distance. "Let's go." I told them.

(Going to Johnny's eyes.)

I loaded this pistol that was pretty old. The two of us followed the guy room to room, surprisingly it's less populated than what Eleanor described, and then again it HAS been two years. In one of the rooms, filled with masks… and corpses, we found this old audio tape. It was marked "Brigid Tenenbaum", then it started playing:

"August 5th, 1958, this is Will Johnson speaking, to whoever listens to this, I'm just a concerned citizen of the beautiful world of Rapture, and I'm no one important, but you might as well have the opinion of the public as well as the main people." A voice said on the speaker.

"The people of Rapture are getting antsy; the people of Rapture are getting violent and uneasy… I can sense a war is going to happen… and soon." The tape stops, then begins again.

"December 30th, 1958, Will Johnson speaking. Rapture is on the brink of war. Word on the street is that the civil war is starting tomorrow, at the masquerade party. You can bet your life that you're not gonna catch me at that party. Now I have my personal thoughts but I don't feel up to dying for them… I'm taking the next boat out of Rapture; in fact I'm going to start packing now."

Johnny tucked the tape into his water proof bag. "We'll need to document what we can." Echo looked over at Johnny, shook his mask and kept on walking. Johnny sighed. Nicholas was taking pictures of the torn walls and banners. "This is going to be some mad money, ey, Johnny?" Johnny nodded slightly. Echo scoffed. They were in the Kashmir Restaurant; the very restaurant that the civil war started, Johnny guessed.