Fighting the original:
Good Jacob:
Finding another train Jacob sat down as it took them to Hephaestus. Sparrow was offline on his lap. Although the soft beeping coming from the little bot sounded suspiciously like snoring...
Smirking he tapped on the lens of the drone, startling it rather comically, it beeped angrily at him Jacob laugh and said "Sorry...couldn't resist." It gave a long hiss before staying quiet. He smiled and patted the drone. Looking out the door window made Jacob realize one thing. The longer he has stayed in Rapture the more he wanted to stay. It was like the whole place had turned from what Jacob saw only in his worst nightmares to a place that with a lot of work could actually be called home.
He wondered if Andrew Ryan, or maybe even Grandma Sophia, saw the city like he did? The train halted, leaving him in a surprisingly dry place. How could it be possible? Didn't uncle Jack flood the place?
The doors of the train opened up to one of the many rooms. Hephaestus, Jack had told Jacob about it.
He said Hephaestus is the main power production facility for Rapture and was located at the base of the city. Designed by Andrew Ryan, it harnesses the heat from geothermic vents on the ocean floor. Simply put, without Hephaestus, Rapture could not have been built.
Getting off the train Jacob was disgusted at what he saw, he was in Andrew's trophy room apparently. There were a lot of corpses that were butchered and staked to the pillars, as part of Ryan's morbid display.
Jacob wanted to faint at the sight, thank goodness he didn't, because poor sparrow did.
His lens turned to a sickly green before he went offline while he was about five feet from the ground. Jacob immediately grabbed Sparrow before he hit the ground, holding his drone friend in his hands Jacob asked "Sparrow you okay?" It gave him two slow beeps.
Chuckling nervously Jacob said trying to coaxed the poor drone "Its fine, we don't have to worry about anything...this...this is all in the past. Nothing here to harm us." Jacob wondered how much of what he said was true.
The drone was shaking a lot...Jacob doubted the poor drone would be able to fly like that so he placed him on his shoulder, holding onto it's new perch Sparrow kept shaking.
Taking a deep calming breath that was only partially successful Jacob took out his katana and made his way through the trophy room.
"Your finally here, that's great kid. Now we can finally meet face to face." Red said through the radio.
"Really? Your here?" Jacob asked.
"Of course... now, you need to activate the Harmonic Core number 3, the power house of Rapture and we'll be in business, at the same time you will be able to save your dear daddy from the clutches of the evil original Big Brother." Red explained.
"That's good to know." Jacob said. He didn't know if he should be glad or not.
"Once this is all over I'll have to give you a reward for all your hard work."
"No thanks. I got plenty of plasmids and weapons. I have enough." Jacob admitted.
"Aw come on. I insist." Red insisted.
"Alright." Jacob settled. Whatever it takes to keep Red from teasing him and stuff.
Sparrow hissed at Red. Jacob couldn't care about red now though, his father. Finally, he was going to see him again after what seemed like forever. Temporarily forgetting about his fears Jacob walked at a pace that may as well have been running, looking for the core. Passing through what looked like shops he finally found a huge door.
It was made out of iron, but for some reason it had bows tied to it, candles surrounding it and had drawings on it. Taking a deep breath Jacob opened the door to find a large room. It was quiet, but something was telling him that it wasn't as empty as it seemed.
Carefully he entered the dark room, light was scarce but his eyes quickly adjusted.
As soon as he took two steps inside the doors closed behind him. The little light provided by the outside was cut off and the room was swallowed in darkness.
Finding his voice Jacob shouted, "SHOW YOURSELF!" He apparently said the magic words as the emergency lights came on and something landed on top of him.
Looking up he found himself staring at a red light. A Big Brother. He managed to take Jacob's sword and throw it across the room. Using incinerate Jacob managed to take the Big brother off of him with a burst of fire.
The Big brother jumped away and began concentrating. As he did the whole room began to shake. Debris came up and began to throw itself at Jacob.
The Big brother even managed to raise himself with it. The fear only lasted a few seconds when Jacob realized he was only doing it to intimidate him.
Sprinting in the direction his sword landed he managed to find and grab the discarded katana before he ran over to fight the Big Brother head on.
Unfortunately his attempts to injure his target were no use. The Big Brother used his own hands and arms to dodge the attack, the katana had little to no effect on him. In a final attempt hazy air started forming around the Brother's hands and he caught the sword between his hands. The air grew mre hazy before the sword itself shattered into dozens of pieced.
Jacob was upset but there was no time for that, dropping the now useless handle he started throwing he bombs. Before they could even reach the Brother though they stopped and exploded against a solid wall of hazy air.
Mind going a mile a minute Jacob though he was done for. Suddenly he noticed the gears. They were still ...
readying his crossbow he teleported behind the brother and shot it into his leg, he screamed in pain as it hit and stuck into his calf.
Ripping the device off of his arm he shoved it into the gear assembly and watched as it started reeling the Brother in. the gear must have hit the red button on the crossbow because the near invisible wire suddenly jerked and the Brother was stuck in the gears a second later.
Looking down Jacob saw a rectangle plastic card on the ground. It looked similar to the chip Gear gave him for the train ride here. "Good job Jacob. Take the chip and insert it into the machine then we'll be able to save your dad and get the hell out of here." Red said happily.
Taking the chip Jacob began to walk towards the machine- "PLEASE, HELP!" He heard a voice scream, it sounded like his dad! Looking back he saw it was coming from the struggling Big brother. The gear was starting to move, which would crush him like an armored grape.
"HELP!" He shouted again in panic.
With no hesitation Jacob ran over to the Brother, grabbed his arms, and began to pull. It took a lot of effort but he managed to free the Brother from the gear. The bolt in the brothers leg was still there. The bit of wire dangling from it suggested the line could take the tension and snapped. Laying him on the ground Jacob immediately went to business, with the chip he placed it onti the machine and suddenly everything began to work and all the lights turned on.
Jacob had a feeling that Rapture was probably shinning brighter than it had in years. "Red, I turned on the power. What do I do next?" Jacob asked.
Static was his only answer.
"Red? You there?" Jacob asked, this time he answered however "So... you did it." Red said slowly before he began to laugh. His laughter made chills run up and down Jacob's spine.
"Well my boy. Don't just stand there. Hows about you teleport here and we get acquainted?" Red suggested.
Jacob hesitated at the idea, looking at the Brother he decided to take him along just in case.
Grabbing the Brother Jacob threw his arm over his own shoulders so he could stand.
"Sparrow, hold onto my shoulder. Don't want you getting left behind do we?"
Sparrow beeped once before landing on his shoulder.
"Okay Red. Tell me where you are."
Red paused for a few seconds before he started explaining."Okay, Image a place. It's on what used to be the darkest room of Rapture. There is no light, nothing but darkness."
Closing his eyes Jacob imagined such a place and let the teleportation plasmid fill the rest of the gaps. Which were a lot, Jacob noted. Red needs to work on explaining his surrounding a bit better...
A small ripping sound and a burst of red ash and he was gone.
Rapture, unknown:
Opening his eyes, Jacob did a quick head count. The brother was still standing next to him and Sparrow was perched on his shoulder. 'Three for three, awesome.' He gave himself a pat on the back. He had been worried since nobody had teleported with passengers, as far as he knew anyway. Placing the Brother down Jacob looked around, he saw nothing.
"Red?" Jacob called.
"Yes, i'm here." He heard. His voice sounded weird, Jacob noticed. Ignoring that thought he walked forward. "Come closer. So I can see you." Red said.
This was getting extremely creepy... He took three steps forward and stopped.
"Ahhhhh much better. Your a good looking little boy ya know?" Red complimented.
Gulping, Jacob said the only thing that came to mind, "I think? I'm not really sure."
"Let us meet." Red said simply.
Suddenly the lights turned on. Jacob was face to face with something inside of a cylinder shaped glass tube.
Whatever was inside it was definitely not human. It may have been at some point, but it wasn't anymore. The body was too heavily mutated to be human...
Jacob was feeling several things at once. Shock, disgust, confusion, and a very, very faint feeling of recognition. His mind was going a mile a minute trying to process what he was seeing, Red… smiled? and said "Kid...you have gained my respect and trust. Now let us call ourselves by our true names. Hello Jacob Andrew, my name is Gilbert Alexander, but please, call me Gil."
"Gil?" Jacob managed to say, the feeling of recognition growing.
"Yes, I'm so terribly sorry for this whole mess. But I do believe you wanted your father back right?" Gil said.
Jacob nodded. His shock was lessening, but words were still beyond him for the most part.
A monitor beside the tube turned on. An image appeared, it was his father.
"I have to heavily sedated him while I extracted what I needed to create the Big Brothers. He was a terribly hard nut to crack" Gil mused aloud before shaking his... head before continuing. "Oh don't look at me like that. This state which I'm in now won't last. I will be getting a new body. But of course, I need your father for that, and the Big brothers."
Gulping again he tried to sound intimidating. "I'm taking my father home...now!" His voice cracked when he yelled the last word. Coming out as more of a yelp then a demand.
Gil stared at him for several long seconds and laughed. "Oh, I almost forgot, your reward. The man whom you saved just now is your uncle. At least now you won't be so lonely." The last sentence was more of a mocking drawl than a sentence.
Jacob didn't know what to say or do. Everything that happened in the last few minutes was too much. His mind began to waver, the world around him began to spin around before everything started going dark.
He was barely conscious when he heard somebody shout and then felt a pull as somebody grabbed him. He was being dragged when everything went completely dark and his world was engulfed in silence.
Evil Jacob:
Finding another train Jacob sat down as it took them to Hephaestus. Sparrow was offline on his lap. Although the soft beeping coming from the little bot sounded suspiciously like snoring...
Smirking he tapped on the lens of the drone, startling it rather comically, it beeped angrily at him Jacob laugh and said "Sorry...couldn't resist." It gave a long hiss before staying quiet. He smiled and patted the drone. Looking out the door window made Jacob realize one thing. The longer he has stayed in Rapture the more he wanted to stay. It was like the whole place had turned from what Jacob saw only in his worst nightmares to a place that with a lot of work could actually be called home... for a short time at least. Before hr would set his sights on the world. Maybe he'd get a map of the world and tape it to the wall before blindly throwing a dart at it to decide which continent he would take over first...
here's to hoping he won't hit Antarctica... that'd be the worst place imaginable to have a headquarters.
He wondered if Andrew Ryan, or maybe even Grandma Sophia, saw the city like he did? The train halted, leaving him in a surprisingly dry place. How could it be possible? Didn't uncle Jack flood the place?
The doors of the train opened up to one of the many rooms. Hephaestus, Jack had told Jacob about it.
He said Hephaestus is the main power production facility for Rapture and was located at the base of the city. Designed by Andrew Ryan, it harnesses the heat from geothermic vents on the ocean floor. Simply put, without Hephaestus, Rapture could not have been built.
Getting off the train Jacob was disgusted at what he saw, he was in Andrew's trophy room apparently. There were a lot of corpses that were butchered and staked to the pillars, as part of Ryan's morbid display.
Sparrow's lens turned to a sickly green before he went offline while he was about five feet from the ground. Jacob immediately grabbed Sparrow before he hit the ground, holding his drone friend in his hands Jacob asked "Hey, you still er, alive?" It gave him two slow beeps.
Chuckling at the drones nervousness Jacob tried to coax the poor drone. "Its fine, we don't have to worry about anything. This childishly barbaric show of power is in the past, nothing to hurt us is left."
The drone was shaking a lot...Jacob doubted the poor drone would be able to fly like that so he placed him on his shoulder, holding onto it's new perch Sparrow kept shaking.
Jacob took out his katana and made his way through the trophy room.
"Your finally here, that's great kid. Now we can finally meet face to face." Red said through the radio.
"Awesome" Jacob said.
"Indeed. Now, you need to activate the Harmonic Core number 3, the power house of Rapture and we'll be in business, at the same time you will be able to save your dear daddy from the clutches of the evil original Big Brother." Red explained.
"That's good to know." Jacob said.
"Once this is all over I'll have to give you a reward for all your hard work."
"lookin' forward to it."
Sparrow hissed at Red. Jacob couldn't care about red now though, his father. Finally, he was going to see him again after what seemed like forever. Jacob spent a few minutes running around before he passed through what looked like shops before he finally found a huge door.
It was made out of iron, but for some reason it had bows tied to it, candles surrounding it and had drawings on it. Taking a deep breath Jacob opened the door to find a large room. It was quiet, but something was telling him that it wasn't as empty as it seemed.
Carefully he entered the dark room, light was scarce but his eyes quickly adjusted.
As soon as he took two steps inside the doors closed behind him. The little light provided by the outside was cut off and the room was swallowed in darkness.
Hello? If anyone's in here they can come out now... otherwise i'm gonna have to find you the... well it won't be hard, so lets call it the fun way!" He apparently said the magic words as the emergency lights came on and something landed on top of him.
Looking up he found himself staring at a red light. A Big Brother. He managed to take Jacob's sword and throw it across the room. Using incinerate Jacob managed to throw the Big Brother off of him with a burst of fire.
The Big brother jumped away and began concentrating. As he did the whole room began to shake. Debris came up and began to throw itself at Jacob.
The Big brother even managed to raise himself with it. Jacob made a mental note to remember to learn that trick for the future. It was delightfully intimidating.
Sprinting in the direction his sword landed he managed to find and grab the discarded katana before he ran over to fight the Big Brother head on.
Unfortunately his attempts to injure his target were no use. The Big Brother used his own hands and arms to dodge the attack, the katana had little to no effect on him. During his final attempt hazy air started forming around the Brother's hands and he caught the sword between his hands. The air grew mre hazy before the sword itself shattered into dozens of pieced.
Jacob was pissed... he liked that sword. Feeling theatrical he pulled the harpoon gun off his back and swung it around."Say hello to my little friend!" He yelled before taking aim and shooting as fast as he could against the Brother. The harpoons slowed down in midair before completely stopping right in front of the Big Brother
Mind going a mile a minute Jacob though he was done for. Suddenly he noticed the gears. They were still ...
Readying his crossbow he teleported, narrowly dodging the harpoons being hurled back at him, behind the brother and shot it into his leg, he screamed in pain as it hit and stuck into his calf.
Ripping the device off of his arm he shoved it into the gear assembly and watched as it started reeling the Brother in. the gear must have hit the red button on the crossbow because the near invisible wire suddenly jerked and the Brother was stuck in the gears a second later.
Looking down Jacob saw a rectangle plastic card on the ground. It looked similar to the chip Gear gave him for the train ride here. "Good job Jacob. Take the chip and insert it into the machine then we'll be able to save your dad and get the hell out of here." Red said happily.
Taking the chip Jacob began to walk towards the machine- "PLEASE, HELP!" He heard a voice scream, it sounded like his dad! Looking back he saw it was coming from the struggling Big brother. The gear was starting to move, which would crush him like an armored grape.
"HELP!" He shouted again in panic.
Jacob wasn't sure if it was the fact that the Big Brother's voice sounded exactly like his Dad's or for some other reason but with no hesitation he ran over to the Brother, grabbed his arms, and began to pull. It took a lot of effort but he managed to free the Brother from the gear. The bolt in the brothers leg was still there. The bit of wire dangling from it suggested the line could take the tension and snapped. Laying him on the ground Jacob immediately went to business, with the chip he placed it onti the machine and suddenly everything began to work and all the lights turned on.
Jacob had a feeling that Rapture was probably shinning brighter than it had in years. Not exactly what he was going for, but being able to see farther than five feet in front of himself was going to be nice. "Red, I turned on the power. What do I do next?" Jacob asked.
Static was his only answer.
"Red? You there?" Jacob asked, this time he answered however "So... you did it." Red said slowly before he began to laugh.
"Well my boy. Don't just stand there. Hows about you teleport here and we get acquainted?" Red suggested.
Jacob thought for only a second or two and decided 'what the hell' and decided to take the Big Brother he was fighting/saving a second ago along just in case.
Grabbing the Brother Jacob threw his arm over his own shoulders so he could stand.
"Sparrow, hold onto my shoulder. Don't want you getting left behind do we?"
Sparrow beeped once before landing on his shoulder.
"Okay Red. Tell me where you are."
Red paused for a few seconds before he started explaining."Okay, Image a place. It's on what used to be the darkest room of Rapture. There is no light, nothing but darkness."
Closing his eyes Jacob imagined such a place and let the teleportation plasmid fill the rest of the gaps. Which were a lot, Jacob noted. Red needs to work on explaining his surrounding a bit better...
A small ripping sound and a burst of red ash and he was gone.
Rapture, unknown:
Opening his eyes, Jacob did a quick head count. The brother was still standing next to him and Sparrow was perched on his shoulder. 'Three for three, awesome.' He gave himself a pat on the back. He had been worried since nobody had teleported with passengers, as far as he knew anyway. Placing the Brother down Jacob looked around, he saw nothing.
"Red?" Jacob called.
"Yes, i'm here." He heard. His voice sounded weird, Jacob noticed. Ignoring that thought he walked forward. "Come closer. So I can see you." Red said.
He took three more steps forward and stopped.
"Ahhhhh much better. Your a good looking little boy ya know?" Red complimented.
Feeling just a tad disturbed Jacob replied, "I think? I'm not really sure."
"Let us meet." Red said simply.
Suddenly the lights turned on. Jacob was face to face with something inside of a cylinder shaped glass tube.
Whatever was inside it was definitely not human. It may have been at some point, but it wasn't anymore. The body was too heavily mutated to be human...
Red… smiled? and said "Kid...you have gained my respect and trust. Now let us call ourselves by our true names. Hello Jacob Andrew, my name is Gilbert Alexander, but please, call me Gil."
"Gil?" Jacob said, a feeling of recognition growing in the back of his mind.
"Yes, I'm so terribly sorry for this whole mess. But I do believe you wanted your father back right?" Gil said.
Jacob nodded.
A monitor beside the tube turned on. An image appeared, it was his father.
"I have to heavily sedated him while I extracted what I needed to create the Big Brothers. He was a terribly hard nut to crack" Gil mused aloud before shaking his... head before continuing. "Oh don't look at me like that. This state which I'm in now won't last. I will be getting a new body. But of course, I need your father for that, and the Big brothers."
"Right, i'll be taking my Dad to the surface. Or at least sending him there, I kinda like it here." Jacob stated.
Gil stared at him for several long seconds and laughed. "Oh, I almost forgot, your reward. The man whom you saved just now is your uncle. At least now you won't be so lonely." The last sentence was more of a mocking drawl than a sentence.
"Before I leave, I have some questions I'de like answered." Jacob said, sitting cross legged in front of Gil's tank.
"Uhh, sure kid. Shoot, I guess." Gil mumbled, when was he gonna get to the part where the kid Passed out because of the shock of the situation finally setting in?
"What are your long term goals. Are you going to try and better the world? Or try and take it over?"
"I... don't know?" Gil was starting to think Jacob's... quirks were starting to come out again.
"Well we can't have that, I need a villain!"
"But... your not a hero. You killed a nine year old girl and you're deceiving the rest into liking you so you can kill them when they're asleep so the others don't notice and still trust you.
"... a minor technicality I assure you." Jacob rolled his wrist, dismissing the claim as if it were an annoying fly. "Plus, is there anything is Rapture that qualifies as a hero? At worst i'm the lesser of the known evils, sorta, at best i'm the new Andrew Ryan. Which is why I've been trying to find a villain that enjoys villainy and evilness simply because it's fun. As long as I keep that one truly evil person alive I can still be 'The Good Guy', so I can get away with all sorts of things, like killing children for my own benefit and borderline torturing my enemies because they're 'evil'."
"I... what... huh... my brain hurts..." Gil actually felt a small part of his brain die at the sheer... something of what Jacob was saying. 'Screw it.' he thought as he hit a button with his... foot.
Jacob was hit by a rather large lightning bolt in the chest that was launched from somewhere in the darkness. He didn't equip the Electro-bolt plasmid fast enough and ended up getting forced backwards, rolling ass over teakettle, coming to a stop right next to the now healed Big Brother he brought with him.
As his vision started to go dark he heard something far away shouting before he was grabbed and dragged somewhere. Embracing sweet darkness Jacob could only hope the sucker punch from Gil meant he was evil and didn't have a sob story behind it. If Jacob could have clapped and hopped up and down he would have. That meant his search was over! Goody! ... Now he had to kill him. While the laws of villainy demanded he actually have a villain he was also kinda pissed at getting hit with a bolt of lightning in the middle of what he thought was a very civil conversation.
Honestly, hurling lightning at people is very rude, not gentlemanly at all.
To be continued...
BETA'd by: Slicerness