AN:

I'm going to wrap up the Rapture memory sequence in this chapter.

To those wondering about the timeline

August 3 & 4: the events of the episode "Schooled" occurred

August 5: The Team meets Eleanor. She joins them and becomes Siren.

August 6-7: the events of the chapter "Test" occurred. After that, Siren bonds with the Team.

August 8: The events of "Infiltrator" occurs and the ongoing events of the chapters "Memory"

Chapter 15

"I didn't want to see an old woman get impaled by my drill either," Delta told the Team and the two Justice League members after sensing their relief.

"After getting what I needed to continue my journey, I boarded a train car with another ally named Augustus Sinclair who provided guidance to me as I traveled the city on foot. But my efforts were hindered by another one of Lamb's lieutenants, Father Simon Wales, a Splicer that lead the Rapture Family. They are the majority of the Splicer population in Rapture and you will most likely encounter them when you arrive to Rapture." The last statement was directed to the two League members.

Delta was sitting in a train carriage with another man. The man had slicked back hair and was a bit on the portly side. He wore a worn out business suit except without the coat and he had a standard utility belt, one for construction workers and not like the ones that Batman and Robin used.

They were suddenly tossed aside as something crashed onto the side of the train. The Big Daddy was hurled from the craft and he was sent crashing down to the ocean floor. He would have drowned if it weren't for the diving suit that his body was grafted to.

"I then made my way to Siren Alley to get a new train car since a certain wannabe preacher blew up the first one. The ones who stood in my way were the man and his brother, Daniel Wales."

"What can you tell me about Simon Wales and his brother?" Batman asked the Big Daddy.

A man wearing tattered clothes of a preacher and a hat that hid most of his face appeared before them as if delivering a sermon. On closer inspection, his face was melted and deformed and his hands and feet were converted into claws.

"Hear me, O ye who would murder the Lamb of God! Ye shall never reach her garden!" the Splicer screamed at Subject Delta.

"Whoa, are you telling us that those guys actually worshipped Sofia Lamb?" Robin couldn't help but ask when he heard the comment of "Lamb".

"No. They didn't."

The world around them exploded into a gigantic swarm of bright blue butterflies. All the butterflies then gathered together to form a painting depicting a woman in a flowing white dress with a butterfly for a face.

"Sofia Lamb teaches us: What is in common is good. What is irreducible is right. She guides us all to the indivisible, along a river of ADAM. Rapture's Daughter, Eleanor, shall be our vessel, in her we shall be reborn!" They heard the voice of Father Wales proclaim to them followed by the sounds of many people cheering for their supposed savior.

"Whoa, that's pretty heavy," Kid Flash said after a long awkward moment of silence.

"Wally, if you make any flirtatious comment about my daughter being a holy vessel or some other form divinity, you will suffer unimaginable pain up to the point where you'll be begging for me to kill you, which I will be perfectly happy to oblige. Do you understand?" Delta threatened him for he suspected that the boy would say anything to get lucky with Eleanor or any other female and he wanted to make sure that he won't say something, which will be discomfort to his daughter.

"Yes, sir," the speedster gulped as he nearly wet himself.

"Good. Carrying on, Sofia Lamb told me that Father Wales had no fear for death and for Eleanor, he would burn with a smile."

"And she was right."

They could now see Delta releasing a fireball at the mutated preacher. The Splicer still attempted to slice the Big Daddy to death with meat hooks even as he was slowly being burned to a crisp. The whole time he wore a twisted mockery of a smile on his deformed features.

"After I ended the man's life, I overloaded the pumps to Siren Alley, flooding it and allowing me access to Dionysus Park where I could find a new train car. Upon entering the park, I found the train cars locked down, courtesy of Stanley Poole, a spineless rat who sell his own family for money." The mindscape around them rumbled in anger at the mere thought of the man. Judging from Delta's reaction, this man must have done something to incur the wrath of the metal giant.

"He promised to open the trains up again if I empty Dionysus Park of its Little Sisters."

"Why would he want you to remove the Little Sisters when you said earlier that he worked for Sofia Lamb?" Artemis spoke up.

"As my daughter stated before, ADAM allows a trait or memory to be preserved within the DNA. The ADAM in the Dionysus Park held memories of incriminating evidence that he didn't want Lamb to know."

"What was the thing that he didn't want anyone to find out?"

"He was the one who abducted Eleanor from Grace Holloway and turned her in to the Little Sisters Orphanage where she was converted into a Little Sister."

The Team was enraged by this revelation. They may have known the Rapturian only for a few days but she quickly earned their trust with her selfless acts of protecting the children that went missing in the previous year. Miss Martian even saw her as a sister despite their obvious differences. Robin sympathized with her because they both lost someone dear to them while Aqualad and Kid Flash were very understanding (at least the Atlatnean was. Kid Flash probably accepted her quickly because she was cute). Although Artemis barely knew Siren, she was the first one to defend the archer from the speedster when he made her first mission difficult for her today. It was quite clear to everyone that Superboy was a bit protective of her.

Sure her dad may be intimidating sometimes but he was just being protective of her like any other dad would be with their daughter.

"When I finally confronted him, I…dealt with him appropriately."

"You killed him, didn't you?" Green Arrow had a feeling on what he meant with dealing with the man "appropriately".

"Even though I was given full control over myself, it was nearly impossible to repress the rage that I had for the man. It only became worse when we met face-to-face. I may have hated the man but I regret losing control over myself. But what's done is done."

"I opened up the trains again and rode one to Fontaine Futuristics, the corporate headquarters that produced Plasmids and Big Daddies. When made it there, a man named Gilbert Alexander once again halted me. I required his DNA to proceed because I needed it to get to where my daughter was being held for he was one of the only people with enough authority to access passage to that place."

"As I traveled through the area, I discovered Audio Diaries that the man left for anyone to find before his descent into madness. In the audio logs that he left behind, it was revealed to me that he was subjected to the same experiments that Eleanor went through in an attempt to become the first 'utopian'."

Everyone tensed at this information. Siren was already powerful enough even though the experiments done to her were incomplete. Someone who underwent the same process could be a highly potential threat to the Justice League.

"There was also another thing that I found in the Laboratories."

A new Big Daddy with a somewhat thinner in appearance than the other Big Daddy that was shown to them earlier, appeared before them. It had less external armor and a more humanoid appearance. Its helmet had six portholes, two in front (one slightly larger than the other) and four on the sides. It wore an armored diving suit with multiple buckles latching a shoulder-mounted Grenade Launcher in place. The shoulder-mounted RPG cannon that it had looked like a Grenade Launcher with the back end sawed off.

This new type of Big Daddy was being a led by a Little Sister with short blond hair.

"Hey that's Cindy, Mark Meltzer's daughter!" Robin cheerfully pointed out while the frown that the Dark Knight wore deepened.

"Isn't that the guy who disappeared while looking for his daughter?" Kid Flash tried to recall the man who had assisted Batman and the League in the investigations last year.

"He found her," Siren said as she suddenly materialized behind them.

"Really? Good for him," the Boy Wonder's mood brightened up because he felt glad for the man who tirelessly searched for his daughter and was convinced that it was his fault that she was kidnapped.

"Yes," the Rapturian nodded as she gestured to the Big Daddy and Little Sister, "He's right there with her now."

"You mean that-" Aqualad began to say but was cut off by Siren.

"That is not just her Big Daddy but her actual biological father," she finished.

They could only stare at the scene in silence while Batman clenched his hands into fists so hard that they were bleeding from under the gloves.

"Cindy still held some form of clarity and remembered her real father even after becoming a Little Sister. She was close to the Big Sister who took her and was able to convince her to leave clues to Mr. Meltzer on where to find her. After following the clues that were given to him, he made his way to Rapture to find his daughter. He succeeded but my mother captured him. She then gave him the choice to either be executed or be reunited with his daughter as a Big Daddy. You can obviously tell what was his choice."

"Did your father…" Miss Martian wanted to ask if Delta killed the man but she was too afraid to finish her question.

"No, I didn't. I was rather preoccupied by other more important matters such as dealing with Alexander and I'm glad that I didn't kill the man though after learning this from Eleanor," Delta answered the Martian.

Everyone released the breath they didn't realize that they were holding. It was good to know that the man who sacrificed his own humanity just to be with his beloved daughter wasn't sent to an abrupt end mere moments after a bittersweet reunion with her. it really helps a person sleep at night, knowing that there's still some good in the world even at the bottom of the ocean.

"Anyway, I then traveled to the lab where Gil was through the guidance of the audio logs. He also left a message to whoever found him…to kill him in an act of mercy. As I wondered why, I soon found out the answer for myself."

A giant tank could be seen in the lab. The answer on why it was there came quickly when a heavily mutated serpent-like being slither its way to the front of the glass and where everyone could get a clear view of the occupant.

"I present to you, 'Alex the Great'. It's a nickname that he took to calling himself after he lost his mind."

"He went through the same experiments as Eleanor, right?" Superboy asked Delta as he couldn't tear his eyes from what was left of the man.

"Yes."

"Then this could've happened to her too when they were done?" His question was more like a statement.

"It was possible that it wouldn't happen to her…but it was also possible that it would."

At that moment, you couldn't tell whose anger was greater, the Kryptonian or the Alpha Big Daddy.

"Sofia Lamb left him to rot in his pitiful state. Killing him will be an act of euthanasia but what happened to him wasn't any different than my fate as a Protector. He had his humanity stripped from him and none even shred of the former man that he was left. How was that unlike me who had been heavily spliced until I became a cell of the man that I used to be. I made my choice and left him be for I have already retrieved what I needed anyway."

"Before I could finally reunite with Eleanor, Sofia Lamb had locked herself in with her in the quarantine chamber. She then summoned two Big Sisters in a last-ditch effort to kill me. With the Vita-chambers reviving me, that was a near impossible feat so I defeated the two. But she still she had one last trick up her sleeve to put a stop to me."

Delta stood in front of the quarantine chamber where a slumbering Eleanor laid in a bed with Sofia Lamb sitting on a chair beside her. Two ungodly screeches that the Team recognized as the same screech that Siren could do echoed across the room and sent chills up everyone's spines. Two Big Sisters then suddenly lunged at the Alpha Big Daddy and the audience witnessed one of the fiercest battles that they have ever seen with both sides never backing down. The first Big Daddy was the one who was victorious in the desperate life and death struggle. As he made his way to open up the doors of the quarantine chambers, the bespectacled woman grabbed the pillow below her sleeping daughter and began to smother her with it.

"Eleanor!" Superboy, Miss Martian, and Artemis screamed at the sight of their friend being choked by her own mother. As they ran to stop the woman, the world around them and Siren disappeared, signifying the end of the memory.

"Relax, guys. Remember that we just saw Siren earlier and this is the past so she's in no danger of dying," Robin tried to comfort the three.

"But why did her mom tried to kill her if she was so important to her plan?" the Martian wondered.

"It was because of the special pair-bond that we had. If I become separated from Eleanor for too long, my heart will cease to work. So when Eleanor's heart stops long enough, my body will shut down and I will lapse into a coma. I am incapable of surviving without her but she can function just fine without me."

The area around them began to form again, signifying the start of a new memory. They saw Subject Delta strapped to a table with reinforced steel restraining his hands and feet while a hulking Splicer that matched his size stood guard over him.

"Whoa, check out big and ugly here." Kid Flash pointed a thumb at the Brute Splicer that was guarding the detained metal golem.

A Little Sister then climbed out of the vent behind Delta. She approached him and injected him with some sort of concoction. Without warning, the world around them was altered.

All of the of the nightmarish features of the ruined city disappeared became a beautiful place of grandeur. A less bulky man in an expensive tuxedo replaced the Brute Splicer with an animal mask covering his face. The bloodstains on the floors and walls vanished and their place where rose petals coating the shining surfaces.

"Oookay, what just happened?" the speedster asked, a bit confused from the sudden change to the scenery.

"I told you that I have the ability to take control of a Little Sister's body, remember?" Siren appeared again from behind them.

"Yeah, you di-whaa?" KF turned to look at the Alpha Big Sister, as did the rest of them. His response was cut short when he saw her or to be more specific, her new change in appearance.

Like the Splicer, an extravagant gown that was befitting of royalty replaced her trench coat with white sleeves, jeans, boots, scarf, hood, and gloves. A bright blue butterfly mask covered the upper half of her face and she wore a golden tiara on her head.

"What?" She tilted her head to the left in confusion.

"What's with the sudden change in clothes?" Artemis asked the British girl.

"What you're currently seeing is what a Little Sister was programmed to see to make their jobs seem far less gruesome than in reality. The abrupt variation of our surroundings and my apparel are all a part of the mental conditioning," she explained.

"So why are we seeing the world through a Little Sister's eyes?" Aqualad asked.

"Like I mentioned earlier, I can take control over a Little Sister's body. I synthesized a Plasmid to give others the same ability, which you just saw what happened with my father."

"The whole experience, for lack of better terms, was…weird." Delta spoke up.

"As a Little Sister, I was able to safely move around to shut of the locking systems. I then began to gather pieces for a Big Sister suit to give to Eleanor. When I delivered the completed suit to her, she cured the Little Sister that I was controlling to return my mind to my body. I reawakened to a proper family reunion."

The scenery reverted back to its original look and they were greeted with the sight of Eleanor in an incomplete Big Sister suit, which didn't have the cage-like basket, slamming the giant Splicer into a wall with her telekinesis. Before the Splicer could recover, she grabbed the Brute by the throat and effortlessly flipped him over her shoulders to smack his body on the ground. Without missing a beat, she stabbed her needle from below his jaw where it reached the brain, ending the poor mutant's life.

"Why did she need your help again?" Artemis stared at the memory of the Rapturian easily dispatching a Brute Splicer that even Subject Delta had some difficulty to defeat.

"That's simple. It was because of…why did you need my help again?" Delta asked his daughter as the memory progressed to Eleanor singlehandedly wiping out a large group of Splicers with some Big Daddies in it by bouncing off the walls repeatedly while she sent a combination of melee, fire, and telekinesis against her numerous foes. Her own Big Daddy was merely providing support to her in the sidelines.

"My mother kept me prisoner for years. She obviously thought of a way to contain me. I would have escaped on my own otherwise," Siren explained to them.

"Oh, okay." The Team and Delta said in unison.

"Now that we were together again, we no longer have any reason to stay in Rapture so we headed to where Sinclair's escape pod was. Unfortunately, Lamb had it locked down. The only way to access it was to get the key from Sinclair, who Lamb had captured and turned into a Big Daddy. His mind and voice was still intact but he had no control over his body so he was forced to attack us."

"By his request, we killed him."

Delta was down on one knee as he laid a hand on the porthole of the recently made Big Daddy like one does when closing the eyes of the deceased. The past-Siren stood beside him. Both of their heads were bowed in mourning.

"Sofia Lamb still refused to give up and flooded the boat's ballast, making it unable to disengage."

"But I came up with a plan to use the energy of both myself and the captive Little Sisters in the therapy wards to boil the ballast water away. My father cleared the nursery areas of Splicers so that I can gather the children."

Next, Father had to fight off one last wave of Splicers and Big Daddies while the Little Sisters and I boil off the ballast water. Then he must flood the docking control room, by blasting out two thick glass pipes, to equalize the pressure between the dock and the ocean. Finally, we flee to board the rising escape vessel, but my mother had another trick hidden from under her sleeves."

Both father and daughter in armor ran into a hallway that was piled high with explosive charges. Eleanor attempted to grab her father's hand to try to teleport them to safety, but he roughly pushed her away from him, silently telling her to leave without him. She narrowly avoided the force of the explosion by teleporting herself up to the escape pod. Delta however was blasted upwards to the pod by the blast. The Alpha Big Daddy grabbed the rail of the vessel as it passed and he clung onto the vessel with herculean effort in spite of the many injuries that he had sustained and would have killed any normal human being instantly.

"I did the calculations over and over again in my head. If I attempted to teleport the both of us, Father's mass would have disrupted the intended destination and we wouldn't be able to avoid the explosion. He freely chose to be left behind so that I may escape. But the Little Sisters and I weren't the only ones in the escape pod."

The escape pod was completely filled with water and Sofia Lamb desperately tried to swim to the last pockets of air. Eleanor, who was undeterred by the water because of her suit, swam up to her mother and handed her a small air tank to breathe from, allowing her to live. She then saw Delta crawl his way to the reinforced glass and placed his hand on it. The Alpha Big Sister swam to the glass and placed her own hand over the same place where her father's hand was. The thick layer of Plexiglas separated the contact of their hands.

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Mount Justice

"The rest, you already know," Siren said to them as the memory sequence ended.

"Um, I actually don't know the rest since I'm new and all," Artemis pointed out.

The Rapturian sighed, not really in the mood to show them anymore of her memories.

"Few days later, the escape pod was discovered by Black Manta and his men. I nearly killed the man when the Team arrived to stop me. We fought for a while until we learned that it was just a big misunderstanding in both our parts. After clearing that out, they brought me to the Justice League to inform them of Rapture and then they offered me a place in the Team. And finally, here we are now."

"Is that a sandwich?" the speedster noticed the ham and cheese sandwich that Siren was currently holding in her hands.

"I got hungry while Father was showing you his memories so I made myself a small snack before supper," she said before she took a bite out of the sandwich.

"How many did you eat?" Superboy asked her, recalling the time when they discovered that she had an even bigger appetite than Kid Flash because of her superhuman metabolism. Boy, were they surprised.

"With this, it makes thirteen," she nonchalantly replied as she took another bite, "I wonder what's for supper?"

"Siren-" Batman began to say but said girl raised a hand to interrupt him.

"I already know what you're about to ask me," she said to him as her expression changed to one of all business, "My answer is yes. I will guide the Justice League around Rapture."

AN:

For the part where they see the world through the eyes of a Little Sister, I added the part where Siren was dressed up to look like a princess. It didn't really happen in the game so this is simply my take on how the Little Sisters see Eleanor since they saw the Big Daddies as knights.

I got the idea of Siren having an enormous appetite from another fellow fanfic writer, A Mountain Sage. I asked for his permission and he gave it to me.

P.S.

Read his story, "The Titan of Rapture". it's a pretty good read.