AN:
Wow! Two chapters in a row. I must really love you guys.
Let me explain some things from the last chapter:
Siren was able to sense Cheshire because of her extrasensory perception, a power that she is not fully aware of and just passes it off with instincts.
The fire attack that she did was based on the Firebird Strike from inFamous 2. Check the inFamous wiki if you don't know this game, which by the way is one of the best games that I have ever played! XD
Chapter 13
After the completion of the mission, the Team returned to the Cave to report to Batman.
"Good job, Team," the Dark Knight congratulated them, "You were able to trick the enemy with a decoy while holding your own against highly trained assassins. This shows careful planning and preparation and it let's me know that you can handle any situation. But there are more important matters at hand..."
"Like how is it that your father is still alive when you specifically informed us otherwise?" Batman leveled a glare at Siren who became nervous under his famous glare.
Subject Delta growled at the man. It didn't sound like a person growling but it was more of the growls of an animal and a big one at that. They were able to hear it through the mind link that Miss Martian established and they were really starting to regret it now.
"He did die," she replied as she pulled her hood down to reveal her face, "But it was just his body that died."
The Team and the Justice League members: Red Tornado, Green Arrow, and Batman were shocked beyond belief.
"You see, when I harvest the…DNA of a person who had been spliced and consume it, I also take their skills, powers, and memories," the Alpha Big Sister explained to them, "My father was spliced up so much that he was able to retain his mind and awareness when I harvested his DNA while he was dying. He's been talking to me this whole time and I believe that he was the reason why it is difficult for telepaths to read my thoughts for he was subconsciously blocking them."
"It still doesn't explain how he was able to die several more times before that," Batman remarked.
"There were…some details that I may have left out," she sheepishly scratched her chin with a finger.
{It would be better if I show you instead of telling you the old-fashioned way.} the Big Daddy interrupted whatever they were going to say.
"Are you sure, Father?"
{Yes, I am.}
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Rapture Almost Ten Years Ago
They (with the exception of Red Tornado) were now in a room that resembled the inside of a submarine. The wall beside them was giant window that showed what appeared to be an underwater city like Atlantis except the buildings were of human design instead of looking like it was a part of the corals. Either way, it was a sight to behold as they all stared in awe at the structures.
"Where are we?" Kid Flash asked as he glanced around the room.
"This is Rapture. The city where I was born in," the former Little Sister answered as she had the look of nostalgia on her face.
"This is where you were born?" Artemis turned to look at the Rapturian, "Doesn't look so bad."
The said girl simply turned around and vanished from midair. She didn't vanish in the same way of teleporting but she disappeared like she was never there to begin with.
Before they could attempt to search for her, they heard the sounds of heavy footsteps that could only belong to someone who was pretty big. A giant of a man who was wearing a metal diving suit then stepped into the light. He looked exactly like the memory of the little girls' that M'gann had showed them. Only Artemis and the Justice League members didn't recognize who the metal golem was.
Subject Delta slowly approached a hole in the wall. The design of the metallic plate around the hole was made to look like a sunflower with the hole being where the flower was. He got up to it and pounded on the rim. Shortly after, a young girl of six climbed out of the hole. And it was a young Eleanor!
"Eleanor!" Superboy widened his eyes in shock at the younger incarnation of his new teammate.
She wore a simple dress and held a doll in one hand and a syringe that was a smaller version of the one she used when they met her in the present time. But what was the most shocking feature of the young Siren was the fact that her eyes were glowing yellow. The white of her eyes were completely drowned out by the light and it gave her an inhuman appearance. They couldn't help but be unsettled by this even though she was still a young girl.
"Look Daddy. It's you," her ominous voice echoed across the hall as she held out the doll that had a similar appearance to the Protector. The voice made her inhuman qualities even more apparent as they had to stop themselves from attacking the owner of the voice on instinct.
Her father carried her out of the hole and placed her on the floor with a gentleness that betrayed his stature.
"Let's go out to play, Daddy," she innocently said to him as she held his massive hand. She began to lead the metal giant to wherever destination they were going. She suddenly let go of his hand and ran off ahead.
They followed the Big Daddy to where she went. The sight before them was another shocking revelation of the young Eleanor Lamb.
The young girl was kneeling over a body of a woman who was clearly dead. She was using her syringe to extract blood from the fresh corpse. After extracting the blood, she placed the container where the blood was stored on her lips and began to…drink it!
"HOLY CRAP! She's a vampire!" Kid Flash screamed in fear. Artemis chose this time to smack the young speedster at the back of his head.
"OW! What was that for?" he indignantly demanded as he rubbed his sore head.
"Mmm." It was as if she was eating her most favorite food in the world instead of gulping down the vital fluids of a human being.
She sniffed the air and then she had an excited look on her face that a child usually have when it was Christmas.
"More Angels, Daddy. This way!" she announced to her silent parent as she ran off again. It was quite strange that not even once that the girl's father said anything to her.
They once again followed after the Big Daddy. They then entered what seemed to be a masquerade party. Every guest that noticed the metal man backed away in fear.
Robin chuckled at the man who knocked over a punch bowl to quickly get away from the giant.
It was not long till they left the party when they heard a scream.
"ELEANOR!" Superboy cried out before racing off to where the scream originated from with the now enraged Delta. The rest swiftly ran after them.
"Let's go!" Batman ordered the others.
"DADDY!"
They arrived to see a group of four that contained men and women trying to abduct the young Eleanor.
The Kryptonian was prepared to jump down and rescue her even though it was just a memory. And it seemed that her father was thinking the same as he jumped down from the staircase and landed on the head of one of the kidnappers with a bloody splat.
"You want some big guy," one of them men taunted as he injected himself with something. His left arm was suddenly surging with electricity.
He then shot a bolt at the Big Daddy, which left him stunned for a few moments. But he quickly recovered and attached a drill to his right arm, replacing his right hand with it. The drill whirled in preparation to sink into their flesh.
The other man who didn't shoot him with lightning wore a welder's mask over his face and wielded a crowbar. He then charged at the giant with weapon ready to strike but the golem of Rapture impaled him with his drill. The drill tore through the poor man's body like it was paper. Delta paid no heed to the blood that splashed unto his suit.
After gruesomely dealing with the second attacker that made most of the spectators nauseated at the sight, he backhanded the woman and knocked her back with a sick snap. They could tell that the blow had snapped the woman's neck.
"Yikes! Don't want to make him angry," Green Arrow grimaced at the brutal display.
"Get out of here, freak!" the last man yelled at him.
He responded by knocking him to the ground. It looked like that the battle, which was more like a massacre, was about to come to a close.
He slammed the drill down at the man to perform the coup de grace but his target was able to roll out of the way in time. The man then threw a green object at the Big Daddy.
He immediately ceased his assault after being hit by the mysterious substance. His body was shaking in an attempt to break free from the thrall.
"There, there," the voice of Sofia Lamb called out to the young Eleanor as they saw her approach her, "It's perfectly safe now."
"This is not your daughter," the woman told him, "Her name is Eleanor and she is mine."
"Now, kneel please," she ordered the giant, which he instantly obeyed.
"Remove your helmet."
He undid the latches around his helmet and removed it, releasing pressurized air and revealing his face.
His skin was pale as a corpse's skin. His eyes were shrunken beneath his skull and he his upper and lower lips were so deformed that it was no longer there. It was like staring at the face of a rotting corpse. There was also a large scar located on his throat, which explained why he wasn't talking
"Now, take the pistol," she offered a pistol that he took. It looked ridiculously small in his tremendous hand.
"Placed it against your head."
"What?!" Aqualad exclaimed, suspecting what was coming next like everyone else did.
"Fire."
He struggled to disobey the command but his hand aimed the gun against his head without his consent. He looked at his pseudo daughter one last time with tears in his eyes.
"DAAADDYYY!" she cried out to the man who wasn't her real father and ran to him as he pulled the trigger.
Everything around them went black as the memory ended.
"This was only just the beginning," they all heard the present Eleanor tell them through the darkness.
The next years of memories made the Team immensely regret their demand for answers.