When Kain realized that they were only waiting for him in truth than he sighed and shook his head.
"Damn, not again, sorry about that, let's go, I'm starting to wonder if this building will ever end."

After walking through one more large room Kain's question was answered as they walked into a much larger courtyard, the group could smell the fresh difference in the air and breathed in deep,, their advance however was halted by a simple metal gate, simple but locked from the other side, Elizabeth slipped through easily but Amy told her to wait as she displayed her own acrobatic skills and got over the gate, the men were too broad however to slip through, they considered trying to get over it but Elizabeth startled them when she reached out and pulled the air apart, revealing a large piece of construction machinery.

"Is that-?"
"It's a tear, something from another world, I can bring things through remember?" interrupted Elizabeth, Booker however saw the freight hook and reached for his sky hook, both the men used their tools to get over and across the gate safely but the recent activity on the tear Elizabeth opened or perhaps the amount of exposure they had suffered so far to this strange ability revealed rippled in the air to them, she told them they were tears and explained the only other two tears that were nearby, one on the ground was a turret with cover, one further up was freight hooks attached to the buildings in the distance, the pair first decided to get off of their current freight hook and land next to the others.

All chaos broke lose after they landed, soldiers rushed into the courtyard and attacked them relentlessly, good men and women but when Elizabeth opened up the tear on the ground, they started dying off rather quickly.

As the last man fell Slate started to speak to them again but this time they all simply ignored him and headed into another building, Kain was on the verge of cursing already when they were forced to fight some kind of a walking machine firing upon them with what would appear to be a predecessor to the chain gun.

When Kain saw the 'tin man' drop its weapon after being destroyed he picked it up.
"hmm, seems simple enough, let's go, cause some, havoc."

The way Kain was slowing down as he spoke had the others concerned until they also saw what appeared to be footsteps, they followed them but saw that there was no Shock Jockey left, Slate must have had all that was left, they needed to find slate and they needed to take it from him, one way or another.

On their way back Kain and Amy saw the arcing electricity and stopped them all, Slate must have been behind them and set a trap with Shock Jockey, one they got around with no trouble.

"Must have just been to show us he was here." Said Elizabeth.
"fool, if he was in rapture, he would have been torn apart, oh well, you win some you lose some, right Amy?"
The woman said nothing in reply to Kain but when they got outside they heard a whine, two large objects were in the air.

"What is that?"
"Comstock's ships, he must be coming for Slate." Replied Booker as he answered Elizabeth's question.

Slate started to shout out against Comstock and throwing around what seemed to be shards of some kind, when they hit the walls or ground electricity started to arc around wildly between the spots.

Nothing was going to talk Slate out of his madness, the man was too far gone, they all agreed that there was only one way left, the needed to end Slate's misery, but that also meant, taking on all the soldiers that still remained loyal to the man, so many deaths that were going to weigh heavily on their conscience.

The battle carried on for a while, one, two, three groups attacked them all, the last even had 'Tin Men' in it, but in the end they were granted the last chance, Slate himself welcomed them to fight him personally.
"Booker, I have got something in store for Slate, just give me a few moments and keep him Busy, Elizabeth, you might want to go hide for now, Amy give her some protection"

Booker agreed with whatever plan the pair were brewing and charged up a flight of stairs, grabbing Comstock's attention rather easily and drawing him away while Amy and Elizabeth headed in an opposite direction leaving Kain alone to 'prepare' for whatever he was going to do.

"Alright you bastard, you throw away the lives of your men so easily, let's give you, a real Rapture's death."
Something deep inside Kain was coming out, he could feel it, the change was to follow quickly.

"SLATE! "

DeWitt was pinned behind a wall as he and his rival fired on each other, neither of them could go anywhere but Booker's ammunition ran out and his own source of salts were too far away to reach.

"This is what it has come down to Booker, accept it, one of us is going to die a soldiers death."
"It doesn't have to end this way Slate, I don't want to kill you." Replied DeWitt but Slate only laughed at him.

"Come now DeWitt, we both know what needs to be done, whether you want to or not."

Booker didn't know what to do, he was in one of the worst situations he had ever been but he saw some kind of a shadow move past him at an alarming rate, mere seconds passed before gut wrenching cries of agony filled the air.

The man didn't know what to do, he stayed where he was until he heard Kain's voice call him, from Slate's position, still unsure about what happened Booker gripped the trusty skyhook he had, if something was going to happen than at least he could try to defend himself.

When Booker reached Kain he saw Slate on the ground, against a wall, his body was bloodied and torn but still he was alive.

"So, this is what you call, a soldier's death?" asked Slate, Kain kneeled down and grabbed the man's chin, Kain's own hands were bloody.
"No, this is a rapture death, YOU sent those men to their deaths this day, Die in a geyser of your own blood fool."

Slate tried laughing but coughed up blood instead, he spurted out three lowly words before pointing to a bag in the distance.
"You, earned, it."

Booker looked inside and took only bottle of shock jockey inside, they chose not to drink it there, they would first get the girls but as they walked back to find them Kain snapped his finger, a flame erupted to life on it and he burned Slate's body.

"Better not for anyone to find him, he may not have died like a soldier but he deserved a burial like a king."
Booker said nothing, their focus instead was on finding the others.