2Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Broken but not battered. Enjoy the 4700-word chapter. I do not own Bioshock, Ken Levine and a few others do.
He cleared his throat with a sigh that seemed to echo in his armor. There was a long pause as he forced a gasp through the respirator of his armor that seemed to be slightly damaged.
He gazed at the Big Sister who seemed to be gazing at him with a raised eyebrow under his armor and hers. They were bothered by the other's interest in them. He cleared his throat and sighed before he cleared his throat.
"Grmm…?" He asked as he forced another breath into his throat.
"Scree?" She asked before she tilted her head, dragging her blade on the ground which left marks.
Big Daddy was rather surprised now that this creature was rather interesting. He did not want to know what had created her and he wanted to know what happened next.
He made sure to wait for her to speak. He was rather interested in what had created her. She was like him; she was unique in a way that seemed rather interesting to him.
There was a rather small piece of this puzzle at the second that neither seemed to hold. Who had created them? Why were they similar and yet unique? Why so connected and yet so apart?
The Big Daddy said nothing as his counterpart seemed to be rather concerned for him rather than mad at their former battle. It did not make too much sense to him… But he supposed it was not for the fact that their masters did not want them to think.
He felt a pain lance into his brain as he waited for something to happen. His weapon was still grasped in his hand as he took another deep breath to him.
He almost wanted to scream at the searing pain inside his body which forced him to wake every day and age.
Still? He did not want a fight at all. He knew he has harmed himself at the end of the day.
"Zahm?" He asked as the duo started to circle each other once more. "Zalm?" He questioned as he shook his head.
To normal people? Their chattering did not seem like words. No. They were the growls of an animal that did not seem to understand its place in this world.
They were the words of two pained creatures who wanted to speak to the other.
Yet neither seemed all that bothered by this sort of problem. It was not at all weird in her eyes. She had too little on her ropes when it came down to it.
She had too much on her mind which was already shattered into pieces. She was all too ready to end this at the end of the day.
It had come far too little and far too late now to protect them. If she was honest? The monster in front of her amused her, it seemed smarter for her to handle it and run off so nobody was bothered, so there were no real problems now which allowed them to be bothered by this.
"Hmm. There was a lot more than to handle as of now." A known voice stated which forced the pair apart.
It was gone as soon as they appeared to be a win. The fact that they wanted more than was to be expected as of now.
Then again? It was only natural that she was interested in what he was. He was so like her when it came down to it. the ramifications of what he had been as of now were to be expected.
She was a soldier and so was he. The fact that he had been rather an interesting thing to study at the time was honestly.
All that was needed was a simple push now and it would be ripped apart when it came down to it. She had too little and too late when it came down to it. s
He screeched at her and yet his weapon rested by his side. He was not one to be against her. The more time he prepared mentally… As mentally as he was capable of towards her, towards something so inhuman and yet so familiar when it came to it. The sooner he confided in this the sooner he got some answers.
It was honestly an odd place to perch upon. It was far beyond what they wished to be and it was something that needed to be handled properly.
He screeched again and seemed to try and push his lungs to produce noise or anything now.
She tensed up at this and held her needle-like fingers in front of her as she started to gaze around at her surroundings with far more of an odd look.
There was something there. Something odd. It had not yet come over him. He was honestly curious at the time. he hummed while he said and done.
Still? Neither of them had been a lot more interesting than they seemed. He tilted his head at her, curious as to what manner of monster she turned out to be.
She tapped her claws on the ground. A little more curious than she had been a few minutes ago but no less terrifying.
It had to be said or done that this insanity. She had simply been on another rung of creation than him. It would be something he could not yet fathom before now.
She was unique from what little the rampaging monster had been… Something more than what he had imagined when it came down to it.
There was a lot more for him to consider either way when he decided it. A lot more than he had yet to fathom as of the time being, it had not yet come to his mind because they were so different yet so similar.
Still? She was a creature similar enough to him to warrant such an ideal that they had been similar. Yet not similar enough to handle this at the end of the time.
There was so much that could not handle anything. He was enraged by the possible idea she was entirely worth more than anything. It would be weird for a second if he could entirely know what was happening at the time.
The monster slowly lurched over towards him as he seemed to question what to do. There was something between them that he could not yet really understand at the time. Both were thrown off by the other for the time being.
The other being slowly reached its hand, clawed needle-like fingers towards him with interest. There was a pause as he seemed to question what to do about this or their ideal at the time.
It had been so hard to question this or see anything wrong with the idea at the time. anything about this had seemed to be so…. Fuzzy to him. He did not yet understand why he had felt so off.
Still? if he was honest. The idea that he had not known was something weird when it all was said and done.
Needle-like fingers brushed his skin while jabbing at his panted flesh. There had been so much that had not yet been done that made this more curious at the time. He did not know enough to find this any less odd than he had found it a few seconds ago.
Still? There was something that made this a lot more curious at the time. He faced her, reaching out his hand for only a second as he tilted his head in a garish way.
Their disjointed limbs touched against one another. Though their helmets were so different and inhuman? If one was able to see even a fraction of that had been compassion when it came down to it.
There was so much to say and do next. It will be a lot more interesting was a lot before now.
Whatever little he had not yet understood was irrelevant as of the time being. Whatever it was he did not care for the time being. The small oddities of this at the time melted away like snowflakes inside of a desert.
There was a clicking noise as they seemed to study one another in ways that probably had not been intended. He slowly retreated for only a second when he thought about it.
Another noise forced them to look around the room before staring at one another. The noise made them back off as their weapons were pointed at the shadows around the room. This had been something odd for either of them as of the time being.
The ideas behind their thoughts had made them both unaware of their surroundings for even a fraction of a second… It made both rather thrown off for the time being.
Still? They put such base ideas behind them for the time being. there was more to this anyway. Either knew this could be focused upon later.
He followed, unsure of what to do next, of what this would yield for it. They had so much more to answer for at the time, so much more than what had been said and done. It had been something that could not yet be dealt with for now.
There was more to this nightmare, a lot more that had been dealt with, for now, that would be done and dusted. There was too much to bear, so much more when it came down to it. There was a lot more to their game anyway.
There was so much more to be done and dusted. He had not fully grasped whatever had been when it was all said and done. There was a lot more that could be done and dusted, whatever was going to be defeated for now.
The creature had a lot more questions for this, a lot more that had not fully been answered. Where had it come from? Where was its purpose? Where had this been a lot while this came down to this?
There was a lot more to decide. This fight is not yet decided anymore. The fight had been concluded, too unwilling to be decided at the end of the day.
He had a lot more to do. Perhaps if he followed her? He would be able to relax when it came down to it. They had questions about their future, questions about what had spawned them into being.
If they were anything? They had a lot more to question. What were they? What was their purpose, what had it been, what he did not know when it came down to it when it came down to a lot more training when it was all over?
He seemed to be prepared for worse if he was not. How could he possibly relax when all of this was decided? How could he allow himself to calm down?
He needed to be prepared, and at ease, with his inner self, or else he would probably fall dead sooner or later in some pathetic gutter when this came to an end, he did not know what the future would bring.
What he did know was that there was more to this game, a lot more focused on what he would do. Yes, he had a lot more to question and he could not wait.
She pawed at him as he slowly pulled himself forward, unsure of what to do next and he tilted before he was a lot more focused for now. He sighed to himself, unwilling to force himself through this hell when it was all done and dusted.
She beckoned him more and more, and he clicked his fingers, unsure of how it was a lot more to handle. He tilted his head, clicking and clacking while he hummed to himself, prepared for now what had been done and dusted.
He hummed, his throat forcing himself to breathe while it came down to question slowly started to take a raspy noise through his face while he tilted his skull to the side.
He had not the right ideas for now what to question as of now. He did not know what to do for now. there was only so much to question before now what to do next. Before he sighed before he questioned for now. He had a lot more to sigh to himself.
There was a lot to question before now. He had not focused before now. He cleared his throat to know what to handle for now.
He hummed to himself, questioning before he seemed to focus before, he seemed to understand what to do next as of the tilt of his head before he questioned as of now. He questioned before now.
There was only so much he could have done for now. He just knew this was all going to be more chaotic than he wished to have it be for now. There was only so much he could have done. So much more had to be done for now.
He had not had the proper idea before now to focus more on the technical aspects of this. He did not know what else it could have been.
It had been a nightmare what this was a nightmare, for now, it seemed to have gotten when it came down to it.
There was a lot more horror on his mind, something that had not yet gotten where it should have done and what to have gotten to the question before it all ended painfully.
This could have ended so badly. However? He did not care; he did not want to have cared. He did not find any such thing to be a problem, he did not know what it would have been if he was not here.
There were a lot more problems upon which this could have been handled this would have been. He tilted his head; he did not want to have gotten where it should have been before now.
They had not had a proper meeting with it seemed to have gotten where it should have gotten to such a degree when it was all said and done before this all came down to it.
This was going to have been a lot worse thing that they did not at all understand, for the time being, such measures were so worthless he did not even feel the need to gaze it with an answer.
It was just so odd and off-putting for the time being which meant that they had something else to have brought out the worst in them. Whatever the fault? Whatever the problem? He was not someone who would just back down.
Something that had called him here was something that he could only barely control. His body was burning with so much control that it hurt. He did not know what he would do for the time being.
This was not going to be something that he could not handle and he knew it if anything. He had not yet gotten anywhere fast and he knew it.
Their little game only forced him to think more and more until he growled, forcing himself from the ground and around. They had so many vague memories of things that had come and gone years ago. He had not been expecting the time being which he had yet known or wished to have known for the time being.
Then again? The machine had not yet seemed to have been focused as to have to question when it comes down to it. All of it swirled around his head and slowly ebbed into it. There was a measure of peace in his mind which needed to be done and dusted.
All now seemed to be worse and worse, yet it was a lot worse and a lot more of a problematic annoyance. if anything? He had wished to find answers, for now, answers to these problems that demanded his attention and how little it seemed to have been something that needed to be addressed.
Whatever this little curse that needed to be addressed was? Well? It was clear the beast needed some sort of answer and it would have it sooner or later. If anything? There was all too much on their minds for him not to be the way it needed to have been.
If anything, all this did was push him further into a mode where certain methods had to be employed… If nothing else? There was going to be hell to pay and it would crush and consume everything for now. It was not going to be something so easily crashed, he would destroy all in his path for now… All of it if need be.
Yes, so many problems… So many that could be done upon, so many paths that followed him down now and would not let go, it was a twisting serpent that did not let go and could not be controlled for now. He wanted an end to it and he did not believe he would get it for now and yet?
Well, they were on a string, a string slowly being jerked around like it was a cord being tugged on over and over at the end of the day… It was such an odd little message and yet it had the heart to continue growing more and more at the end of the day.
All of it became more and more unbearable at the end of the day. Simply unbearable to them to see it end the way they had to keep going, they ended it properly for now. All of it was able to relax.
Still? They had a lot more to try and achieve and he would not see it end so quickly. Not yet, not at the end of the day with so much upon the line, so much to try and achieve over such a period… It was angering and tiring all at the same time. Always more and more of what could be said and done at the end of the day.
They needed more now and would continue to have more and more and more and more until it flowed over and crushed EVERYTHING sooner or later sooner or such to a reasonable degree.
Something that could rarely if ever continue to grow and grow and grow until it broke and all hell broke loose.
The beast was scratching at a tinted window that had long since grown to be worse and worse with each passing second until it fell further and further into distress. If nothing else? It explained a LOT about everything and was a horrid thing but something that could be controlled and focused upon to try and fix.
And could and would fix if nothing else more and more, it was harder to focus on over and over than anything else and it became harder and harder to try and fixate upon.
Whatever he did next would cut to the bone, all the way when it came down to it. It became something that he simply could not and WOULD NOT allow.
He could not even if they were eager to figure out every single little second of it all and it became harder and harder to deal with every single time.
At least with the details fresh in his head? Well, he needed to relax once again, he needed to look downward, unsure of himself and unsure of his options.
The monster placed its hand on the side, looking around the room once.
He did not at all know what he would be doing anytime soon. All of it told him to which he could relax… And all of it was something that he wanted to end.
He would end it all if he was honest, all of it would break and shatter under his claws before now, and before it was all said and done sometime soon.
The idea was so simple in scope that it could not be understood by a creature like this purely because it was something the monster wished to do sometime soon and now.
Well, all such things were going to be easy when it was dealt with and would only be a problem if not rounded up and stopped utterly. It wanted blood and blood would be spilled no matter what was tried.
No, it had to end now and before something else went wrong and hurt someone else, all it did was divide them once again and again and again until it all died out for now, something that needed to continue able to relax for now.
Whatever could and would need to keep upward for now, it was able to try and figure out what to say and do next. They had a lot more to see and do as he hummed, looking at the ground before now.
They had a lot more to try and figure out as he hummed to try and looked down as of now, a desire for more he could not easily reflect upon… There was a lot more to see and do, something he did not at all know.
They had a lot more to see and do, whatever he could and would allow himself to relax for now.
He had a lot more to see and do, a measure of mercy upon his mind that he was able to relax for now. Whatever he did next was not going to matter much for now, a desire to grow, and then he relaxed for now, relaxed far more than he should have at the end of the day.
Perhaps whatever drove it would continue to make some sort of sense for now… It would be fun, only too much for now and something he could not for the life of him predict happening… An entire measure of mercy he was not at all privy to… Something that cut a LOT deeper than before.
It hurt but he was used to the pain, used to EVERYTHING about it all now… Something about it continued to be odder and odder at the end of the day, a measure of the end of the cycle.
The creature seemed to try and figure everything out for now, but all of it continued to bug him in ways that only seemed to bring him some sort of peace and mercy. All of it continued to try and figure something out.
Perhaps it would end sometime soon in a way that could and would affect them far more than it could or would possibly end at the day.
Perhaps it cut something to the base he looked downwards at the ground as he clicked his tongue against the roof of his shattered mouth for the time being sad.
He would find answers, see it all smashed into a paste, and end for now and for good, he had little time to see and do something like this, and wouldn't be right and wouldn't be able to be dealt with purely and utterly, whatever he dealt with next? This would not do, not even close when it came down to it as he hummed.
This would be a nightmare and he would not be as relaxed more and more as he sighed before he clicked his fingers before as he seemed to try and deal with it for now.
It would need to try and figure something out, see it all ground, he would scream, his lungs burning and cutting themselves to try and end it, he would know no peace until he managed to try and cut it down when it came down to this.
He would be able to try and figure something out, unsure of what to deal with next. He was tired and utterly unwilling to admit something that he could not allow for now.
There was just too much on the mind, something that permeated his brain in ways he could not deal with for now or for anything else in that manner.
There was something to try and figure out… More to the point? It did what was expected to be done… And it meant little to try and figure out, for now, this would not be utterly thrown now.
It meant something to keep being dealt with for now… This would not be done yet, there was a lot more to this before as he hummed.
All of this? He wanted to break it all, too much noise, chattering, cutting into his brain… Too interesting for now and it meant something about it all seemed to be wreaking havoc, it meant something to be utterly done for now… An idea that seemed to be done and dusted now.
There were a lot of things that it could be happening for now, an idea that would not be utterly done for now…
It meant something, an idea that would not be done and dusted at the end of the day… Too much and too little both at the same time when it all came to an end at this moment.
All of it meant something, far too much beyond all measures of power and control for now as he paused to try and figure out what to deal with for now as he seemed to keep thinking as he seemed to relax.
He had a lot more as he cracked his fingers before he seemed to keep for now… There was a lot more on the moment that he could relax.
The creature which seemed to scream, to relax, to wish to end it for now as he seemed to be utterly relaxed… He was too interested in now and cracked his fingers.
He seemed to be ready to keep fighting for now as it came down to keep trying to think as the beast screamed before he paused to wish to find it in words rather than anything else… He wished it did, he wished it would always be done as he knew more and more that acting better was better… There was too much on his mind, something for now as he paused to think of what to try and figure something out.
It would be fun for now, an idea that needed to be done for now and would not be done with any sort of mercy when it came down to it now.
There was something else that needed to have been dusted for now and he clicked a finger against the ruins… He was too much for now as he clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth.
He was too interested now before he paused to look around and then sighed, letting it all seem to try and deal with for now… There was some chaos at the end of the day… It was too much to have to manage.
Even then? He could have dealt with something that needed to have been dealt with in such a way with it all come down to something he could not have been too interested in an idea like for now as he clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth.
He had been too interested in what was going on… And even then? He had been too ready to have answers, for now, such a thing was too much to try, and a few more seconds of silence before he managed to relax… Whatever he had to do next? It would not have been much but it would have been something for him to deal with.
He had been tired and worn down now as he paused to think of it for now… He had not been able to try and relax once more…
He had not been able to try and deal with it, he had never once been able to figure it all out… He had not been able to properly relax.
No, whatever he did next? It wasn't going to be enough.
Author notes
Phew. The next chapter is done! I want to point out that the next chapter will be delayed. The next chapter will be in 2-10 months and will set up the next arc. Until the 900–6500-word chapter, Lighting Wolf out!