Bioshock - First Encounters
Author's Note: Hi again everybody, here begins chapter 2 of my series where more of the creatures of Bioshock are explained, and a few plot twists show up. Also I'm still new to writing stories here at So Furry, so any comments, ideas, and constructive criticism are welcome. I also hope that I didn't rush this one as badly as I did the other one. Any tips on avoiding that are extremely appreciated.
PS: Okay... typing this long after having originally typed this story and series. I originally started off with this just to see if writing a story was any fun. It was. However I really hadn't put much thought into this series, and because of that it suffered greatly. Pacing, plot development, character development, and relationships were all... well crap. This series has a TON of flaws.
However, I am continuing it eventually as I had a lot of fun writing this, but I won't be treating it as a serious work, just as a series to experiment, and see what kind of whacked up craziness I can come up with.
If you want to read something that I AM taking seriously, and am putting effort into pacing, plot development, etc. then check out my other series, Chronicles of an End. I think I did a fairly good job on it so far, but holy hell does it need a new title...
Well thats enough rambling, on with the story!
Bioshock and its characters, locations, and scenario belong to the Microsoft, Irrational Games, and 2K corporations.
Enjoy =) CHAPTER 2
For those of you who have never seen a Big Daddy, imagine an old diver's suit, with the thick padding and the steel helmet, with the glass holes in the helmet and everything. They also usually have a small backpack for carrying things. Then make it about seven feet tall, with the body size of a pro wrestler. Now its eyes glow based on the creatures emotions at the time. When its eyes were yellow, that meant it was merely curious or suspicious of the area and the people in it. Green meant that it sensed things were safe and there was nothing there to harm it or its little sister. Finally Red is kind of self explanatory as when its eyes are red it's usually trying to rip you to shreds. Instead of having a right arm, they have a very large drill, perfectly capable of sawing through titanium. From what I could tell their thought capacity was narrowed down to three areas, protecting the little sisters, protecting the city of Rapture, and obeying commands from whoever is in charge of the city. Marli and I slowly stood up, gathered our clothing and weapons and began to back away slowly. Alex had his M4 trained on the Big Daddy as it walked across the path, but had the sense not to shoot, as that would anger it and sentence Alex to a very quick, but painful drill related death.
"Jeremy, Marli you two get out of here and find a place to get your clothes back on. I'll watch this guy and make sure he doesn't attack us. Now move!" Alex orders.
"What about you? You'll probably get killed!" I frantically whisper back
"No I won't. Its eyes are yellow so it doesn't mean to harm us yet, and besides you two aren't much use to me naked with no weapons! So GET MOVING!" Alex growls back angrily. I wasn't so sure but Marli gives me a tug on my arm, and that got me moving. I had to protect Marli too, and this Big Daddy might not be the only thing in the gardens. So we slowly back away at first (Big Daddies don't like sudden moves) and once we're a good thirty feet away we turn and run. Alex watches us leave, and once we're out of sight he shoulders his rifle and walks right up to the Big Daddy. When the Big Daddy sees him its eyes turn green and it makes a metallic groan that could be interpreted as and exclamation of happiness.
"Hey big guy, how you doing? Listen I need you to deliver a message to my assistant, can you do that?" Alex tells the Big Daddy as he hands it a note.
Meanwhile Marli and I were in a small clearing getting dressed when she says, "Well that was an interesting end to our little bit of "fun"."
"Yea seriously," I reply in a nervous voice "I never expected to be interrupted by my friend and a friggen Big Daddy. And speaking of our bit of "fun" I think I might need a shower since I probably smell like sex." As I say this I shoot Marli a mischievous grin and she blushes.
"Yea me too, now hurry up, we need to get back to Alex!"
Less than a minute later we were sprinting down the garden path to where Alex was waiting. "Where's the Big Daddy?" I ask out of breath, running with an assault rifle, a pistol, and ammo was not as easy as you'd think.
"Gone," Alex replies in a relieved voice, "it just turned and ran off for some reason.
"Ok then, where should we head next?" I ask as I have a very bad thought, which we probably should've given some consideration before we charged down into the city. "Oh shit I just had a bad thought. Have either of you thought of how we're supposed to destroy this place? I mean Rapture is huge and we don't have any explosives!" The second I say this Marli looks at the ground, hopelessness leaping into her blue eyes and her ears flatten on her head.
"FUCK! Why didn't we think of that?!?" Alex shouts.
I fall back onto a nearby bench and begin to feel hopelessness overwhelm me and I felt more stupid then I had ever felt in my life. Here we were on a mission to destroy an underwater city that was positively massive, with no idea how to get it done! Alex starts pacing in circles his ears flat on his head when Marli steps in and says something that probably stopped us from completely panicking. "Well, wouldn't a city this big need a pretty big power source, like a reactor or something?" Alex's ears perk up and his tail begins to wag as he hears this.
"Your right! If we could find that and rig it to explode, or at least shut it down... Marli you're a genius!" I say in delight and start to smile showing my large draconic teeth. "The metro map will probably show us where it is! Come on!" Alex says then runs off toward the entrance of the gardens and the sub metro with Marli and I close behind. We burst through the doors and skid to a stop in front of the City map and comb it for any sign of the city's power source. I spot it first.
"There it is! Ryan Industries Nuclear reactor. It looks like we'll have to go to the Olympus Heights residential section and through a basement tunnel that leads to the middle of the circle of buildings that make up the city. Okay lets head back to the hotel room, grab our extra stuff and ge-" As I was talking I'd moved into the submarine without noticing and what I saw was not good. The control console had been completely ripped to shreds, by what looked like fangs, claws, and bullets. "Oh you've gotta be kidding me!" I yell exasperated and similar phrases leave Marli's mouth as she see's the damage. Alex was strangely quiet. I turn to look at him and see a despairing expression that didn't extend to his eye. An eye that looked almost happy...
"Well shit. Looks like we're walking. Jeremy, did you happen to see which way leads to Olympus Heights from here?" Marli says in annoyance. I shook my head and head back to the map. I saw that we'd have to fight our way through a few sections of Rapture before we got to our destination.
"Ok, according to the map we're going to have to head through the Arcadia Gardens, the Medical Pavilion, and the Hephaestus control center. Huh, you'd think a reactor would be in the control center." I tell my friends. We had a lot of hostile ground to cover. On that happy note we went back to the hotel and gathered up our belongings in Alex's duffel bag and begin to trek across the gardens. Arcadia had lost its wonder for me once the Big Daddy had shown up so I was on high alert, eyes searching for movement, ears listening for out of place sounds, and my reptilian tongue tasting the air with for any potential threats.
After about a half mile we see a coffee shop on in front of us. We walk up to the doors and slowly open them scanning the room for potential threats when Alex suddenly says, "Oh crap I left my med-kit back at the hotel, you two stay here and scout the area. I'll be back." "Hey wait a minute!" I try to tell Alex, but he was already gone. Splitting up did not fit my definition of good ideas. The Coffee shop looked like your average Starbucks, with a lot of small tables, a long counter for ordering cappuccinos and things like that, with lots of coffee makers behind it.
"Jeremy, take a look at this!" I hear Marli call to me after a few minutes of looking around. I walk over to her and find her holding a rectangular glass bottle filled with a blue liquid sporting a round cap labeled "Electro Bolt."
"Holy crap! Is that what I think it is?!" I ask Marli in awe.
"Yea it's a plasmid." She says as she shows me the disclaimer label on the back of it. It stated: WARNING: Over use of plasmids may result in insanity, death, or disfigurement of body parts. I was amazed she'd found one just lying around, these things were valuable. A plasmid literally re-wrote your DNA giving you genetic enhancements which ranged from just physical boosts like enhanced strength and agility, to powers like summoning fire with a snap of your finger's or blasts of electricity from your palm. Without thinking I take the plasmid, pop off the cap to reveal to the syringe and inject it into my left arm.
The second I did my vision was tinged red and I felt pain, more pain than I had ever felt before spread from my arm to my head, to my wings, and to the rest of my body. I begin to scream in agony. The pain was mind numbing, it felt like someone was stabbing rusty needles into every cell in my body. I collapse onto the ground causing the bottle to shatter, and Marli immediately hovers over me and starts rambling in worry and confusion, but I was too far gone from the pain to tell what she was saying.
Just when I was sure the pain was going to kill me, it stopped abruptly and I felt Marli holding onto me in concern. "Are you okay?" She asks in an intensely worried and caring voice.
"Ugh, yea I'm okay." I gasp and she hugs me fiercely and I hug her back feeling my love for her and seeing the love for me in her eyes and her thankfulness that I was okay. After a few minutes of holding each other affectionately we stand up and Alex marches in through the door out of breath.
"What happened? I heard screaming!" he asks us a worried expression on his face. While Marli filled him in on what happened I examine my left hand. It had electric blue lines hovering and swirling just on top of my scales, which was a little hard to see since I am a blue dragon. I knew the plasmid had worked just from looking at my arm, but I wanted to test it. Before I could though Alex rounds on me and yells "ARE YOU INSANE! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT PLAMID COULD HAVE DONE TO YOU!?!? YOU"RE LUCKY YOU"RE STILL A DRAGON AND NOT SOME PILE OF OOZE ON THE GROUND!" "HEY! We need to use any resources we can find to get to the reactor alive! And that's what I'm doing, using resources!" I reply angrily. "Besides, now I can do this!"
Somehow I knew exactly how to work the new plasmid, as if it had programmed an instruction manual into my brain. I concentrate and thrust out my hand. A bolt of pure blue electricity blasts out of my palm and hits a table reducing it to rubble.
Marli and Alex jump back with alarmed looks on their faces which quick turn into grins. "Okay that is really cool!" Marli exclaims, envy in her voice
Our smiles fade as we hear noises that didn't belong in a garden coffee shop, screams, gunfire, and explosions. It looked like we were going to get our first glimpse of Splicers.
"Marli, lock all the doors and close all the windows," Alex orders, "Jeremy, help me barricade the door so they can't break it down!" Marli and I rush to do our jobs knowing we only had seconds before trouble arrived. Just as the last window was closed and Alex and I had coffee tables barricading the doors we see fifteen human looking beings charging down the garden path. They looked perfectly normal, except for their eyes which were multicolored, eyes that had insanity and bloodlust written all over them. Splicers had started out as just regular people, but over use of plasmids had driven them insane. They seemed to be fighting amongst themselves, bullets flying between them, fire and ice appearing at the snap of fingers. Some of them just disappeared in a puff of red smoke, only to reappear seconds later behind another Splicer and slice them to pieces with knives. Alex motions for us to get down and take cover beneath the windows.
It sounded like the Splicers were going to run right past the coffee shop, but then I felt a tingling in my nose. "Oh shit not now!" I thought. I tried to stop the sneeze, clapping my hands over my muzzle, but to no avail.
"ACHOOO!" I sneeze loudly. Alex and Marli look at me in horror and then out the windows for the shooting had stopped. I poke my head up to see one of the Splicers yell something to the others and they all charge towards the coffee shop.
"DUCK!" I yell as the Splicers open fire, shattering the windows. Bullets whiz over my head like maddened hornets embedding themselves in the back wall. And speaking of maddened hornets one of the Splicers waves his scabbed, insect sting ridden arm and a swarm of hornets came flying towards the store. The asshole had an insect swarm plasmid. Marli and I scream in terror (Yea I have like bee-phobia or something like that) while Alex pulls out his shotgun and blasts the swarm a few times effectively destroying it. The Splicers were twenty feet away when we jumped up and open fire with our M4's. I don't know about Marli but I was a terrible shot, until I remembered to aim down the sight. Even then my bullets missed more often than not.
Alex puts down six Splicers before he has to duck to reload, Marli three, and me a whopping two. By this time the remaining four Splicers were at the store and trying to climb in through the windows, not caring for the shards of glass cutting into them. Alex hits one of them with his shotgun, and takes aim at a second when his target disappears in a puff of red smoke. Barely a second later it reappears behind his back and I promptly hit it with a bolt of electricity from my palm effectively stunning him giving Alex time to turn around and shoot him in the head. By this point the remaining Splicers had entered the shop. Then I feel something small and hard hit me in the back of the head causing me to pass out. Marli takes down one of the last two Splicers with her M9 but was too slow to stop the last one from shooting me in the head.
"NO!" She screams as I fall to the ground. Pure rage filling her up, she runs to the Splicer, rips his pistol out of his hands and empties the clip into his head, before he had time to take a breath. She then broke down crying. "I finally find a man I love and who loves me back now he's dead." She whimpers. Meanwhile Alex goes to examine my body and is surprised at what he finds. There's no bullet wound in my head, only a large black bruise. In utter disbelief he takes a listen to my heart which was still beating strongly.
"Marli, he's not dead!" Alex tells her in disbelief. "What do you mean?" Marli asks tears glistening on her face, "He was shot in the head, HOW DO YOU SURVIVE THAT?!?
"Just look at him! There's no bullet wound and he's breathing!" Alex tells her impatiently. Marli walks over to me and takes a look at my head. When she sees that Alex is telling the truth she stops crying and a smile brightens her face.
A few hours later I regain consciousness, and feel a throbbing pain in the back of my head. "Oh god what happened?" I ask as I sit up only to have Marli tackle me in a fierce hug, and give me a few quick kisses.
"Oh THANK GOD your okay!" She says in a relieved voice, "I thought you were dead, and I don't know what I would've done if you died! Oh I love you so much!"
"Okay Marli get off of him, I need to check to see if he has a concussion" Alex tells her. Reluctantly she gets up while Alex opens his med kit and pulls out a small flashlight to check my eyes with. I wince as he shines the light into my eyes to check for dilation.
"Man I don't get this, you should at least have some head trauma after that but you don't seem to have a concussion."
"That's good, but what the hell happened anyway?" I ask as I stand up
"Well you got shot in the head." So THAT'S what's causing this headache. "Now would you please tell us, HOW YOUR STILL ALIVE?" "Well dragons have scales which are nearly as hard as diamonds, and can stop blades and small caliber bullets." My friends look at me in astonishment. "What? I thought that was common knowledge." "Well it wasn't, now let's get moving before more Splicers show up." Marli says.
After about a half hour of walking I noticed that I no longer heard Alex's footsteps. I look behind me and sure enough he's gone.
"Hey Marli, where's Alex?"
"Isn't he right behi- Oh god dammit." She says as she looks behind us, and sees that Alex is indeed gone. We begin calling his name and heading back down the path. A few minutes later we hear gunshots in the distance. Worry claws at my stomach until for a few minutes until I see Alex running towards us. "Where were you? We were worried sick!" Marli says.
"A friggen teleporting Splicer appeared behind me, grabbed me, and before I could do anything he teleported me away." He tells us out of breath. I catch my breath as well, but not from what he told us. Walking slowly toward us was a Big Daddy its eyes turning from green to yellow as it saw us. Alex sees the expression on my face and turns around. Being amped up on adrenaline made him lose his common sense and he opened fire, causing the Big Daddy's eyes to turn red. It gave a groan of rage and charged us.
"SPLIT UP" I yell as I spread my wings and take to the air, firing bolts of electricity from my palm in an attempt to stun the metal giant running towards us. The first couple of bolts miss, but the third one hits him right on top of the head stunning him, giving time Alex to run to the left and Marli to the right firing their weapons as the ran. Once the stunning effects of the electricity wore off the Big Daddy charged straight at Marli, swinging its now spinning drill as it does. Marli dives to the side as the Big Daddy smashes his drill into the ground where she'd been moments before, leaving a gaping hole in the ground. I fire four more bolts of electricity from my palm. Two hit and Alex marches up to the big daddy and empties the entire magazine from his shotgun into its back. Once the stunning effects of my electricity wore off the Big Daddy spun around and slashed and Alex with its drill. Alex ducks at the last moment to avoid being gored and runs back to put some distance between him and the metal monster. I open fire with my M4 peppering the Big Daddy's head and it stumbles as dents appear in its helmet. Marli using the confusion to her advantage managed to sneak up behind it and fire into the spot where Alex had hit it with his shotgun. The weakened metal gave way and her bullets must've hit something vital because the Big Daddy's eyes went dark and it fell to the ground.
Once I was on the ground again we crept up the body slowly and hear a small creak as the Big Daddy's backpack contraption opened revealing twenty dollars and a glass bottle, which I knew was another plasmid. Instead of blue liquid this one was full of a red-orange colored liquid. A gleam in her eyes Marli picks up the plasmid and pops off the cap. When she's about to inject it into her arm a look of uncertainty appears on her face.
"Uh, Jeremy? Do you want this one?" She asks.
"No way! Going through one dose of that stuff is enough for me. Besides you killed the Big Daddy so you've earned it. And I don't want to end up like the Splicers so I'm good with one plamid." I reply.
"Okay, is it worth the pain though?"
"I'd say so, you get some cool powers and from what I remember the pain only lasted about a minute, if that."
She doesn't look convinced, but she injects herself anyway. The instant all of the liquid is in her bloodstream she gives a gasp of pain and passes out. I rush over to her in concern thinking "Oh god please don't let her be dead! Please!" A few agonizing minutes later she wakes up with a confused look on her face. I help Marli up after giving her a quick hug and ask her if she was alright.
"I'm fine, that just really hurt." She tells us. Marli then takes a look at her left arm as do Alex and I. The fur on her forearm had a scorched appearance all the way up to her wrist and down to her elbow. Red flames were dancing on her palm and between her fingers. She motions for us to stand back and she snaps her fingers. I hear a roar and jump back as flames appear a few feet in front of where I was standing, and they quickly dissipate as they have nothing to burn. Then a look of concentration appears on her face and her arm turns back to normal.
"Okay how did you do that? Can you still work the plasmid?" I ask frantically. If we got out of this I didn't want my hand glowing all the time.
"Yea I can still use it." She says as she gives her hand a wave and her arm regains the burned appearance. "You just have to concentrate on your hand returning to normal and it seems to deactivate the plasmid which you can reactivate whenever just by thinking about it." I gave this a try and felt a slight tingling in my left hand which had resumed its normal appearance. Astonished I concentrate on my hand shooting lightning which causes my hand to tingle again. When I look at it my hand had regained the electric blue swirls.
"Okay, enough experimenting you two, we need to get moving." Alex tells us.
A few doors and turns later (this place had its own market center) we find our selves at the exit of the Arcadia Gardens. We open the metal door and find ourselves in a steel lined glass tunnel that extended for about two hundred feet before it forked. A sign tells us that the second pathway leads to another hotel and we all agree to crash there for the night.
So we walk down the tunnel and into the hotels lobby, which is completely devoid of life as we expected. There was a check-in desk directly in front of us with a room on the left with chairs and tables for reading or just relaxing, and a room on the right with three computers in it. "I wonder how much internet costs at the bottom of the sea." I think as Marli hops behind the check-in desk and finds the key for room 101.
We walk down the hallway and find room 101 which Marli opens with her new key. This room was different from the last as the roof was made completely out of steel lined glass giving a fantastic view of the ocean, and the floor was hardwood instead of carpet. Also there was only one bed this time.
"You two can have this room," Alex tells us grinning, "I'll go grab the key for the room across the hall." Knowing what he was grinning about Marli and I blush as he walks away chuckling. "Well I'm going to take a shower" I tell Marli.
Twenty minutes of showering later I was still in the glass shower, and this was a really big shower, thinking about the day when I hear the door open and Marli walks in. The glass has steamed up so she couldn't see my nakedness.
"Are you okay Jeremy? You've been in here a long time." She asks speaking a little louder than normal so I could hear her over the shower.
"Oh yea, I'm fine just a stressful day." I reply in complete honesty.
"Oh, I think I have the cure for your stressful day." She says in a sexy voice as I smell something in the air besides body wash. She strips out of her clothes and joins me in the shower saying "A horny girlfriend." She then kneels down and starts stroking my cock with one hand and fondling my balls with the other. I gasp in pleasure as I grow hard on her face and she takes the tip of my cock into her mouth, stroking the rest of it with her hand. She then began to suck my cock and bob slowly up and down my shaft. She took the tip, then one inch, two inches, and three inches of my cock into her mouth murring as she tasted each drop of pre-cum falling off of my penis and into her mouth. After a few more bobs she was able to take all twelve inches of my thick dragon cock into her muzzle, sucking and licking it the entire time. I was amazed she could take my entire cock into her throat but the thought disappeared as she began to bob even faster on my cock
I place my hands on her head as I moan in pleasure pushing her down on my cock faster. Soon she was bobbing so fast I was amazed she could even breathe, and soon felt my orgasm approach.
"Marli I'm gonna cum soon!" I gasp to her, the pleasure of her hot mouth on my cock making it hard to speak. She then bobs even faster, as the pleasure builds and builds, then finally my cock begins to spasm causing spurt after spurt of hot sticky cum to fly into her throat. Marli managed to swallow every drop of cum I gave her in the whole minute I was cumming. Once I came down from the high of my orgasm I whisper in Marli's ear, "Thanks, now let me return the favor." I stand Marli up and she leans over on the wall, her tail up and her pussy waiting for my cock. I grab her hips with my scaled hands and hilt into her on the first thrust. (One thing I loved about being a dragon was that I recovered from orgasms in about five seconds when I'm horny enough.) We both give moans of pleasure at this and I begin to pump in and out of her slowly. Her hips began bucking back to meet mine with each thrust, increasing the pleasure we both gained. I began to quicken the speed of my thrusts, my balls slapping against her ass each time I pushed into her. Our moaning increased with the speed of my thrusts until I was pumping in and out of her as fast as I could. Marli was practically screaming in ecstasy as I fucked her hard. After what seemed like hours my I began to feel my orgasm approaching, and I felt her pussy tightening around my cock A few thrusts later she moans her loudest moan yet and bucks underneath me, her pussy milking my cock for its seed, which it gladly gave her, in spurt after spurt of white stickiness. But I wasn't finished yet, I began to thrust into her again surprising her for a moment before she began to moan. I was thrusting as fast as I can into her when I began to feel fatigue in my muscles. Reluctantly I pull out of her and lay on my back, the shower water hitting my stomach. Marli saw this and sat down on my cock, her pussy swallowing it whole as she began to ride me. I reach up and begin fondling her beautiful tits as she rode my cock, adding to her moans of pleasure. With each bounce I was getting closer to my second orgasm and I felt Marli's pussy tightening as well. Marli came first her pussy spasming around my cock as she moaned, and as her orgasm ended she pulled herself off of my cock. I was confused until I saw and felt her press her breasts around my cock. She began to rub her tits along my shaft and bounce up and down causing me to moan in pleasure.
"Mmm, your cock feels so good on my tits!" Marli tells me her sexy voice. "Come on baby, cover me in dragon cum!" She begins to bounce her tits up and down on my cock even faster, when I suddenly lose control. I launch myself at Marli, pinning her on her back, and placing my cock between her legs and begin fucking her as hard as I could. She shrieks in surprise and then begins to moan screaming "OH GOD. YES! CUM IN ME! FILL ME UP!" I was able to last much longer than usual for some reason as I brought Marli close to her next orgasm and to mine as well. Gasping and groaning in pleasure I thrust into her as fast as I can when she gives a loud moan and her pussy begins to milk my cock for its sticky cum. I loved the feeling of her cunt throbbing around my cock, begging for its seed as I thrust into her. I lift her up and place her legs around my waist as I thrust into her standing up when I finally reach my orgasm which was positively massive. My cock begins to spasm shooting spurt after spurt after spurt of sticky dragon cum into her pussy. I stumble from the intensity of my orgasm as I try not to fall over.
After a long minute I stop cumming, Marli's pussy overflowing with my seed, and say, "I love you so much!"
"I love you too my big strong dragon!" she replies, love in her voice.
While this was happening Alex was in the Medical Pavilion followed closely by six Big Daddies. He ordered each Big Daddy into a hiding spot near the entrance and grinned to himself. The trap was set and soon he would have two new soldiers for his army. TO BE CONTINUED