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Please read this. And you probably already scrolled down the page to read the new chapter. Disregard the previous sentence if you really are not skipping the author's note this time (admit it, you've been ignoring most AN of every fanfic you have read until you realized that they were important sometimes).

Well anyway, sorry that my update was so late. It was because I had a euro trip with my family and I didn't have any time to write the new chapter. But the trip gave me some inspirations that I know you will love so to my faithful readers: you will not guess on how I'm going to end this fanfiction.

I'm also currently toying with the idea of a Metal Gear Rising and Borderlands crossover after I finish with this. Honestly, I have some ideas on how Raiden would react to the things and people on Pandora and I plan for Jack the Ripper to seriously own Handsome Jack. PM me if you think it's a good idea.

Finally, can anyone give me any ideas for Eleanor's superhero name because I want to give her a codename that sets her apart from the regular Big Sisters. And I think that it sounds weird when grown men like Batman for example refer to someone younger that himself as "Big Sister".

Response to reviews:

Mister E- did you just read my mind or something?

darkangelwp- I forgot to mention that Eleanor had an ocean burial for him, which I will show in a flashback. Also, the Mr. Bubbles from the girls' memories was Delta. They just saw him as Mr. Bubbles or Mr. B like all the other Little Sisters did with their Big Daddies.

The Light isn't a mini government. It's more of a massive criminal organization. Their ideals also matched with Andrew Ryan's and I'm pretty sure that not all the money he used to build Rapture was obtained legally. I also stated in my last chapter that not only was he a part of the Light, he was also one of the founding members.

As for Rapture, just wait and see for what I have in store for you.

thesightstillhauntsme- Delta can't talk because of the surgeries done onto his throat but he can think freely. So he's actually projecting his thoughts to Eleanor since he's a part of her now. Just imagine a deep whale like voice for him, okay.

Yes, I totally agree that Ryan was more sadistic than Freddy Krueger mixed with Winnie the Pooh. Strangely, that was also the first thing that came to my mind when Jack went to kill the guy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice or Bioshock 2.

Chapter Five

Eleanor Lamb, one of the last living children of Rapture, told the young heroes about the history of the underwater city. She started with how a man named Andrew Ryan founded the city and brought the greatest minds of the world to it. She told them that the city had technology more advanced than the technology from twenty years ago. They were able to also harness energy from geothermal vents long before the method was invented. It was a technological paradise.

The reactions of the young heroes were unexpected after listening to an unbelievable story such as this. They all had a look of disbelief on their faces. Kid Flash and Robin looked at her like she was insane but they didn't voice their opinions because she could easily kill them with literally just a thought. Miss Martian was trying to recall if Atlantis was the only city underwater or if there were others on Earth. Aqualad was the most concerned out of the group.

"Isn't Atlantis the only city under the sea on Earth?" asked the Martian.

"The only recorded city underwater," was the simple reply from the Rapturian.

"But how can another city remain undetected from my people for so long?" the Atlantean asked but more like demanded.

"Rapture was equipped with state of the art cloaking technology that covers a five thousand kilometers radius. It disables any technology attempting to find like satellites and sonar. It also sends a frequency that affects the marine wildlife that causes them to ignore the city."

"Which explains why the surrounding marine life went wild!" the Boy Wonder realized. He even snapped his fingers as well.

"I guess it must have been damaged by the explosives charges that were set off when we escaped."

The speedster wasn't really paying attention but he focused on Eleanor's British accent because he had to admit that her accent sounds kind of hot. He pulled himself out of his fantasizing to ask the question that everyone on the team wanted to ask the English girl.

"So, is that how you got your powers? Do you have some kind of gizmo that allows you shoot out fire from your hands?"

The girl shook her head in response and performed a demonstration by removing her glove and setting her hand on fire.

"I got my abilities for the same reason why these girls were taken from their homes," the Rapturian's expression darkened and everyone except the little girls felt a chill up their spines, "The scientists there found a way to give someone powers. Be it super strength or telekinesis. Any bum with enough money down there could get one because of that."

"You were experimented on. The same with them too." Superboy stated feeling sympathy for the girl despite the fact that she tried to kill them earlier.

He was also an experiment since he was a clone of one the most powerful heroes in the world. When the kryptonian first met Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad, he had attacked the trio and got them imprisoned by his creators even though they were trying to help him. He did what he was ordered to and he wasn't treated like a person for it. He was treated as a thing, an "it". The same must have been the case for her too but at least he only experienced it for only a few hours while she must have went through it for years unless she was also tank-bred like him.

His eyes then widened in shock when he noticed that the skin on her lit hand were being burned.

"Hey! Your hand!" the Kryptonian exclaimed as he made a move to stop the girl from burning herself even more.

The flames on Eleanor's hand immediately went out when he grabbed it. Her smooth hand was warm to the touch and didn't have any trace whatsoever that it was burning.

"Wha- but your hand?" they all gaped at the hand that Superboy was holding in his.

"Um, can you please let go of my hand now?" she gestured to her hand that he was still holding.

"Oh, sorry." he apologized, feeling a bit embarrassed as he complied.

"Doesn't that hurt?" Robin gave a questioning glance at her hand.

"Only when I first manifested the ability, but not anymore," responded the British girl with a shrug of her shoulders.

"As I was saying, the scientists of Rapture discovered a way to rewrite a person's genetic code thus giving them powers in the process. The powers that needed to be called upon to use such as telekinesis and pyrokinesis were called plasmids while the passive powers like enhanced senses were called tonics. They began to sell them to whoever had enough money to afford it. Anyone who bought and used these was called Splicers. My father and I were experiments to help with the production. The girls also underwent the same experiments that were done to so we don't fall under the category of being called a Splicer."

"What about your dad?" Miss Martian couldn't help but ask.

"…My father was one of the first people that the plasmids were tested on. After that, he was made into a mindless experiment in a metal diver suit. The only clear thought he had in his mind was to protect me from anything that wished to harm me since I didn't manifested my powers yet after the experiments. So my father also wasn't a Splicer but he was a Protector."

"A Protector? A protector of what?" Aqualad inquired.

"Us," was her short reply as she turned to look at the girls. Her was expression full of sadness.

Everything except for the soothing sounds of the waves went quiet.

"Okay, I can tell that this story going to take longer than we thought so we should take everyone to Justice League and you can finish later," the speedster broke the silence and the serious atmosphere faltered.

"Right, the Bioship can carry all of us but it would be a little cramped though," the Martian agreed with the speedster as she had a bright smile on her face.

"Then let's go already," Superboy quickly cut in before Kid Flash would make a flirtatious comment to Miss Martian for the umpteenth time.

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Eleanor wasn't ready tell them her whole story. She'll just tell them what they needed to know and leave out the personal parts, like her father being forced to shoot himself, and her mother trying to make her into some sort of Messiah. They will find out that last one though because the Dark Knight himself wanted to interrogate her mother and she seriously doubt he won't get the information he wants if his reputation was anything like it was said to be.

Right now, she took a moment to observe the young heroes that introduced themselves and explained that they weren't a part of the Justice League. The Robin and the boy in yellow seem to be the jokesters of the group while the dark-skinned boy, who she guessed to be an Atlantean, was obviously the leader amongst them. The green skinned girl also seemed to friendly and the Rapturian doubted she could be helpful in a fight if it wasn't for the fact that she threw her really hard with telekinesis.

The bruises would have healed by now but it still hurt.

As for the boy in the black t-shirt, she… she wasn't entirely sure on what to make of him. It was like he understood her and felt some sympathy towards her when she told them that she was experimented on. Eleanor was surprised that a complete stranger would worry about her wellbeing and she could feel her face burning up from the physical contact of their hands since she never held anyone's hand besides her Big Daddy's. It was a new and strange experience that she couldn't entirely explain with words.

"Could the same had happened to him?" she wondered.

She was slightly grateful that her story had to be withheld for later. She still wasn't ready to tell them but she was going to have to tell it sooner or later. She needed the League to trust her so she shouldn't keep secrets from them.

So without further ado, she led the little ones unto what they called the "Bioship". She had a sense of satisfaction at seeing her mother being cuffed by Robin.

"That's a bit bloody tight, don't you think?!" she heard the older woman exclaim.

"My bad," the Boy Wonder apologized with a mischievous smirk on his face that gave no indication that he was actually apologizing to her. He then proceeded to make the handcuffs even tighter than they were.

Eleanor could also feel a smirk of her own threatening to appear on her face at the scene. It was one of the most difficult battles she had ever experienced, but the smirk won in the end.

With one last glance at the bathysphere, she thought back to her first day on the surface.

Flashback

Her father's body lay on the deck of the vessel. He seemed to be final at peace even though the helmet with the usually glowing portholes, which were switched off like a light bulb, was covering his face. It was as if he was just sleeping and would awaken anytime now. But Eleanor that this was not the case.

His body may have been dead though but his mind lives on within Eleanor's. Through this, they will no longer be separated.

The current that they were now facing was what they should do with the body. She couldn't keep it because even though she loves her father, having his body lying around like a decoration for the house was quite disturbing. So this plan was immediately thrown away and set alight. She also didn't want to dump his body back into the ocean because it didn't seem right that he would return to the hell that they worked so hard to escape from. In the end, it was her own father that provided the answer to their predicament.

{Burn it.}

It was simple and relatively easy to do considering Eleanor's plasmids.

She was hesitant to do it though, but it was the right thing to do. It was fitting and he very much deserved something this as well as all the other Big Daddies that died to protect their Little Sisters.

All the former Little Sisters gathered around their savior's body to say their good-byes and gratitude to the metal giant. Most of them cried, while others embraced the Monster of Rapture or as Eleanor dubbed him: the true Messiah of Rapture. For Eleanor, she gave the man one last kiss on his helmet. No words were needed between those two.

She raised her hand preparing to snap her fingers like she had done so many times on the Splicers her mother sent to kill them. She took a deep breath before she snapped her fingers.

The sound echoed through the ears of everyone on the now silent bathysphere as the body of the Big Daddy known as Subject Delta was engulfed in flames. It still looked like he was just resting as the funeral pyre reduced him to ashes.

The wind then blew the ashes away, spreading across the horizon. It was as if he was becoming one with the winds and waves around them.

The child of Rapture stared at the sunset as she wore a sad smile on her face with tears falling from her eyes. The image of her father before the separation was fresh in her mind.

"Who knew that someone that seemed so invincible would be so gentle and caring?"

Flashback End

She tore herself from her reminiscing to wonder what's going to happen now. There were so many things that she can do now that the team told her that they will take care of returning the girls to their families. Her first plan to carry out on the surface was actually accomplished faster than she expected to be done. Give or take, it would've taken her a couple of months for her to finish it. After that, she was going go search for Jack Ryan but if not even the team knew about his existence when she asked them earlier then he most likely doesn't want to be found. So all of her plans went out the metaphorical window and she had no idea on what to do now or what will happen.

"Only one way to find out," she thought as she took a step into what the others called the Bioship.

That was a decision that she will come to regret for the rest of her life.