Sorry about the recent time of no updates, I've been have a bit of a writers block. Any way, here's Part 12


Part 12: Hell of the Past

Jack started up his truck, and drove off to where Delta and Sofia had told him they'd come from. As they were driving, Delta took a look outside the window, seeing more people start to open up different stores. "You guys mind music?" Jack asked them, they just looked at him and shook their heads. With that, Jack turned a small knob on the radio, and it started to play music. "What you want…baby I got it…What you need…Do you know I got it?" sang the woman over the radio, which Sofia seemed to enjoy. She didn't show it like Delta did, who seemed to show no reaction to the music, she just smiled and listened on. "Seems like something Grace would've liked." Delta said as he looked out the window, observing the building going by. One caught his attention again, it was very big, and had a huge sign adorning the front, it said, "Coming this September, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid."

"What's that?" Delta asked Jack while he pointed at the building. Jack took a glance over, "That's a movie theater," he replied putting his eyes back on the road, "a place where you can go watch motion pictures of recently produced films. I don't usually watch a lot of movies though." Delta raised his eyebrows in a knowing fashion, and then went back to watching the scenery go by. After a few more minutes of driving, they finally arrived at the dock that Sofia and Delta said they came from. Before they got out though, jack turned to them and looked very deeply at them, "You had better be serious about this, or you will regret it, do you understand?" Both them just gave him bewildered and scared nods, "Good" he said in a slightly less tense tone, and then opened his door to get out. They didn't know it at the time, but he had packed a few other things with him when they left, namely his old shotgun and his wrench. Both of them got out, and then circled around to the side of the truck he was at. "So, what are we going to do?" Sofia asked Jack, "It's a little tricky," jack said as he was reaching into the back, "but I do have a plan."

Back down at the bathysphere, many of the younger girls were becoming restless. So to help calm them down, Eleanor decided to tell the girls the rest of the story of her past. "So after a little while of walking, we came into this room, and it had small table in it with light beaming down on it. They had taken him somewhere else, and told me that he was going to be joining us in a short while. They told me to lie down on the table, but I didn't want to at first. One of them said to me 'it's alright, we aren't going to hurt you, and you won't feel a thing'. It gave me a slight bit of reassurance as I walked up to the table, and then one of them picked me up and laid me down on it. The table was almost the perfect size for me, only it was slightly longer, and I was resting my head on a piece of what felt like foam. They turned on the lights; they were so bright that I squinted my eyes. I turned my head a little, and a man was holding a mask close to my face, he told me it was going to make me go to sleep. Just as he put the mask over my face, I heard the door open, and I lifted my head a little to see what it was. They wheeled in a bed, and I could see who it was, and it was him again. He looked a little different, because they completely shaved his head and face." Some of the girls giggled at the thought of that, and Eleanor just continued on. "He looked over at me, he still looked very tired, and then his eyes got wide. He lifted himself up very weakly and said, 'please, do what you want with me, but don't do anything to that child.' One of the doctors said to sedate him, and then one went over and put a needle in a tube in his arm. A few seconds after he injected it, his head fell back to his bed and he fell asleep, and then they wheeled him off to another room. I then heard a hissing noise, I looked over at the doctor, and he told me to breath deeply. As I started inhaling, I got dizzy, and then the next thing I knew I was asleep."

There were then footsteps heard over the top of the dock, they could hear it because the door to the bathysphere was open. Eleanor immediately darted to the door to see if someone was coming. "Who's there?" Eleanor called out to the footsteps. "Its only me" A voice said from the stairs that led to the top of the dock, and Eleanor immediately recognized it as her mothers and let out a sigh of relief. Eleanor stepped outside to see her mother approaching the sub, and then began to walk to her. "Where's father?" Eleanor asked as she and her mother finally met face-to-face, "He's up top," Sofia said to her, "He's preparing something to help our escape with Mr. Ryan." "Mr. Ryan?" Eleanor queried.

On the top, Delta and Jack broke into the fish processing plant near the dock. "So what's the plan?" Delta asked Jack, "There's no way this is going to go unnoticed," Jack replied, "So, we've got to make this look like an accident." He turned to a very old machine, which had a lot of old steel drums around it. "Perfect," said Jack, " these old fish processors, they ran off of oil. When this place got abandon, they left a lot of barrels of oil behind. Under the right conditions, they could blow up. We just need to add a few more accelerants to the mixture, to make sure that nothing gets left behind." Delta just gave him a stare that consisted of shock and confusion, and then finally spoke to him, "Well, how the hell are we going to do that?" Jack gave him a mischievous grin, "Well, I didn't pack all of that stuff for show." Jack went back out side for a few seconds, and then came back with a canister of gasoline, and 5 fragmentation grenades.

Jack handed the gas to Delta and told him to speed it around the machine and barrels. While he was doing that, Jack placed the grenades in a few special areas around the barrels. Once Jack was done placing the grenades, he turned to Delta and let out a sigh. "I don't quite get you." He said to Delta, "What?" Delta asked, "I don't understand how you could forgive that woman so quickly." Jack started, "I mean for gods sake, she killed you once, and almost did it again. If I were you, I wouldn't be forgiving so quickly." Delta starred at him for a few moments and then answered him, "I respect your opinion, but there is a reason as to why I'm doing this." He took a momentary pause and went on, "When I was in Rapture, just like you, I didn't have much choice of anything. The choices that I did have though, were that of people's lives. Life is the greatest gifts in the world. When I was given a choice to forgive someone, I always did, because I want to show that there is good in this world. True, she did take my life, an again made another attempt on my life, but forgave her. Why? Because I don't want my past to cloud my future. I will always remember what happened there, but if you can't let go of your past, how can you move forward. I chose to forgive her not just for my sake, but hers, Eleanor's, and of those children." Jack just stood there in awe; he was amazed at the actual reasoning behind this. "I'm sorry" Jack apologized, "I guess may own experience with people has left me untrusting." "There's no reason to apologize Jack," Delta said, "You've just had a rough experience like me, but you hardly had anyone from your past to rely on. I mean, your own father had you kill him, and then you find out your life is a lie. I don't blame you for being untrustworthy." Jack gave him a small grin, and then both of them walked back outside to begin part two.

Sofia and Eleanor started to make their way back up the stair, with the girls in tow. Sofia took a little time to explain where they were going, and what they were doing before leading them upstairs. "So what are they doing?" Eleanor asked, "I'm not quite sure, but I think it will be dramatic." Sofia answered. When Eleanor got to the top of the pier, she was immediately wide eyed at the sight of the city. "Good lord" were the only words that could escape her lips, for there were few she could think of do describe it. As the other girls got to the top, the sight too wowed them. "Yes, it really is something to behold, isn't it?" Sofia said as she watched the girls look on at the city. Just then two sets of footsteps were heard, and all of them turned their heads to see who it was.

They saw Delta walking backwards, pouring gas generously on the dock. Another man, who had another tank of gas, was following him and had six grenades tucked under his arm. Delta turned his head slightly and saw he was about to walk into Eleanor. "Oh right," he said and then cleared his throat, "Mr. Ryan, this is my daughter Eleanor." He made a gesture toward Eleanor. "Hello sir," she greeted him, "it's a pleasure to meet you." "The pleasure all mine," he said in a hasty fashion, "but if you'll excuse us, we need to get this done quickly." "Get what done?" Sofia asked. "You'll see soon enough." Delta responded, "Ok, you guys get in the truck, but the girls and Eleanor are going to have to hide down in the back." Jack quickly said. Sofia and the girls quickly got to Jacks truck, then he and Delta made their way down to the bathysphere, with Delta pouring the gas all the way down. When they got down to the bathysphere, Jack told Delta to pour the next canister of gas all along the inside of the vessel. Delta and Jack made their way inside the bathysphere, Delta poured the gas everywhere, and Jack once again began placing grenades in spots he thought would be appropriate for a perfect explosion.

"So how do you know this thing will blow up good enough to destroy all of it?" Delta asked Jack, "Well, with the combination of the gas, the grenades, the oil, and the fuel these bathyspheres run off of, I can guarantee there will be one hell of an explosion." Delta decided that he was probably right, and then emptied the rest of the gas. They made their way back upstairs, as Delta gave one final look at it, before it was blown to hell.

Back at the truck, Sofia was helping Eleanor load the children into the back of the truck. Once they were all loaded in, Eleanor got in herself, and then Sofia started draping the other trap over them. Before she put the rest of the tarp on, she spoke to Eleanor, "No matter what you hear, keep yourself down, and don't let any of the other girls get up either. When we get to where we need to be, I will come around and pull up the tarp myself. Do you understand?" Eleanor nodded her head, and then Sofia put the tarp down and got in the truck herself. Just as she got in, Jack and Delta had finally made it to the truck. Delta got in and shut the door, and then looked at Sofia with an unsure look. There was a lot going through his mind, but one thing he found he was asking himself was, What if Jack's right? "What's wrong?" Sofia asked him, "Nothing," he replied, "just a little apprehensive." Just after he said that, Jack jumped into the truck and shut his door. He looked to Delta and said, "Ok, light it." Delta nodded and stuck his head out the window.

He looked out and saw a small puddle of gas, he stuck his hand out, and with a flick of his wrist, a small flame appeared in the gas. It took a second to light, but then it took of down a trail of laid down gasoline. "It's lit" Delta said as he pulled his head back into the window. Once he heard the words, Jack press the peddle to the floor and they took off down the road. "Alright, it should be about ninety seconds before that thing blows." Jack said tensely. The fire started snaking down the trail of gas, managing to stay lit as it made its way to the drums of oil, and down to the bathysphere. The heat from the burning wood and gasoline started to make the grenades and oil drum bulge.

Jack decided to take a more scenic route back, because he knew that nothing was more suspicious then a car driving away from an accident. As they were approaching the ninety-second mark, Delta began to get worried. "Are you sure that this things going to work?" Delta asked Jack. Almost immediately after he asked, a very loud explosion was heard. Delta looked back, and he saw a very large cloud behind them, and he knew what it was from. Jack then replied to him in a very sarcastic tone, "You know, I just don't know."


Well, once agian any mentioning of songs goes to the respective own. I'm going to write a prequel to this, so next time your in look for my new story, Saving Them.