Mathew looked in horror as he realized his prey was about to escape. "No, no, nooooo! Shoot them. Stop them. Kiiilllll them!"

But his efforts were in vain. Eleanor's eyes shown yellow and a gust of wind surrounded them. Suddenly water swirled in a ball then froze around Eleanor and her friends. The brutes tried to shatter the ice but their rounds were ineffective.

Eleanor's eyes went from bright yellow to sky blue and blazed with intense light. "Hold onto me," she shouted to her friends.

Stanley gripped Billy around his waist and held him to his chest while using his free hand to clasp Eleanor's shoulder. Eleanor turned toward Fred who also had a hand clasped to her shoulder. He held fear in his eyes but he nodded to her. He trusted her and that was all she needed to know.

Several explosions from missile rounds threatened to shatter their icy dome of protection. A third round was about to hit when a bright light flashed from the center of the circle. The light quickly brightened and even Mathew had to shield his eyes. He opened his eyes a second later to find the the light had dissipated and all his brute splicers were incased in ice. Even the missile round the brute splicer had fired had been frozen in it tracks.

Mathew peered around the frozen statues and saw that Eleanor had escaped. Escaped with his last harvester.

"Damn it to hell," he swore stomping his feet. "Could this day get any worse!"

The missile round suspended in ice exploded causing several frozen brute splicer to shatter into red chunks. Mathew roared in fury, blood lusting for revenge.

Eleanor and co reappeared right outside the train station. Stanley was the first to say something because Billy was biting his hand. "Auugh," he shouted dropping the boy. "The bugger bit me!"

Fred laughed with relief and caught the boy before he could run off. "I'd bite you too if you held me like that. Eleanor, th-that was incredible… are you feeling okay?"

Eleanor leaned against the railway car and vomited a little. She wiped her mouth off and breathed deeply. "I feel better now," she replied smiling. "Let's go."

"Ah yes, onto Fontaine Futuristics," hollered Stanley who apparently was happy to leave the place he had once called home.

Eleanor was the last to board. She looked behind her and whispered a 'goodbye' before she boarded. The door closed behind her and she entered the back cabin. She noticed Stanley's arm still bleeding a little from where Billy had bitten him. She knelt beside him.

"I'm going to heal your arm before it gets infected."

Stanley blushed a little. "Oh, okay. I mean if it's not too much trouble."

Eleanor placed her hand over Stanley's wound. Her hand glowed softly and she watched his skin stitch itself together. The entire time she was healing his hand, Eleanor noticed that Stanley was staring away from her.

"What is it?"

"Well um, you see," Stanley stuttered.

"What he's trying to say is that you're still in your underwear," Fred jumped in. He had been looking at Stanley to see if the man would stare. Heads would have indeed rolled had Stanley done so.

"Oh yes. I had completely forgotten. I was wondering why it felt so cold in here. You guys do not have any spare clothes do you?"

"Well nothing that would fit but we did retrieve this before looking for you. Thought you might need it." Fred retrieved a rolled bundle strapped to an old backpack he had snagged. He unrolled it to reveal Eleanor's diving suit.

Eleanor looked at the suit and shrugged. "Better than nothing." She walked into the conductor's control room and closed the door to save what decency she had left. A moment later she entered the room wearing the diving suit.

She sat down and sighed from exhaustion. She laid her head back against the seat and closed her eyes. Suddenly something heavy rested on her lap. She looked down to see Billy sleeping with his head across her lap. He was curled up in the fetal position and sucking his thumb. Eleanor looked at her friends. "What is he doing?"

"Sleeping soundly is what it looks like," replied Fred. "When the doors to the railcar closed I let him loose and he crawled to that corner. Been squatting there ever since just staring at us." Fred snapped his fingers. "I bet he thinks that you're a big sister."

"You think he does?" Eleanor quietly laughed while stroking the boy's hair. He was definitely cute. "I don't think that he is a true little brother."

"What do you mean?"

"Well Mathew said that Billy was a failure. And his skin is not pale nor his eyes glowing yellow. Not to mention all trials to make little brothers ended up in failures. I was told their testosterone levels combined with the splicing at such an early age gave them mood swings."

"Hmm, that's interesting. But his name is Billy? Did you give him that name?"

Eleanor licked the thumb of her glove and proceeded to wipe a smudge of dirt off the boy's nose. "No, Mathew said that was his name. I think it fits."

"Well we're gonna have to watch him and make sure he doesn't get hurt. If he doesn't have the same traits of little sisters than I'm afraid he can't heal like one either."

"I know," she replied yawning. "I'll protect him. I'll protect you." Eleanor's head drooped slightly. "I'll protect you." Blessed sleep quickly came to her aching muscles. She was glad to have such good friends surrounding her.

Author's Notes: So my fellow readers, another area completed and the start of another. The good news for me is that i feel i did a pretty good job of the area. Kinda wished to use the theater a bit more (loved that area) but oh well. Bad news for you is that i will need a little bit of time to figure Fontaine Futuristics out. If there is anything you would like to see in the next area please let me know and i will absolutly take it into consideration. Ciao.