Prologue

A hulking beast in a diving suit stomped through the metropolis of Rapture. The streets were empty, and had been for some time now over the past few days as people got Plasmid-induced schizophrenia, or craziness. The beast, however, didn't care, and didn't know. All he cared about was finding his beloved daughter. Without her, he was what? Nothing.

A delightful humming came from round the corner, and the beat picked up its pace. Kneeling on the floor over a corpse was his daughter, gathering ADAM from the corpse. She looked up when she heard his footsteps, and ran towards him, wrapping her arms around him.

"Daddy! I missed you." she laughed.

The beast groaned in response, and his daughter looked at him with a frown.

"I was getting ADAM daddy, I was getting it for you." she said.

Again the beast groaned.

"Daddy, I know it's dangerous, but you'll save me if someone gets me, won't you?" she asked, tilting her head slightly.

The beast nodded as it groaned again, and his daughter smiled, going back to extracting ADAM from the corpse. He stepped forward and stared at his reflection in the glass. He had no face, had never known what it was like to have a face. His diving suit was quite bulky, and the few people he had encountered had called him a 'Bouncer'. He placed a gloved hand on the glass, still staring at his reflection when he heard a tug on his arm.

He turned to look down at his daughter, and she offered him the needle, which he took, and injected himself with it. The ADAM coursed through his body and he collapsed to his knees as it swirled through him. This had been the first time he'd ever done this, and hell did it hurt. But the look of happiness on his daughter's face at him accepting the ADAM quenched the pain. He stood up as she took hold of his hand, and directed him to a machine. He read the words on it. "Gatherer's Garden".

He placed his hand in the hand slot in the machine, and a menu popped up. It listed several Plasmids, and he stared at them, the words meaningless. He felt a weight on his arm as his daughter jumped up and sat on his arm.

"Oooh, pick that one daddy." she said, pointing at one of them.

Incinerate. Sounded good. He groaned at his daughter, who leapt off his arm as he chose Incinerate. A needle entered the slot in his gloved hand, and injected the Plasmid into his system. It let go of his hand as he felt dizzy. He stumbled once or twice, before regaining his composure. He stared at the hand that now buzzed with flames. It felt as if it was on fire, but it didn't hurt. His daughter smiled at him, and began sniffing the air, before running off.

He turned round and groaned at her, running, as fast as he could, which wasn't that fast, after her. She rounded the corner and disappeared into another room, and once he got to the room he found several doors and no sign of his daughter. He groaned, calling out for her, but received no answer. Suddenly, she screamed, and he charged faster than ever, faster than he could normally run, through the door to his right. He arrived in a room where his daughter was backing away from three men. They wore masks, and were laughing to themselves.

"We got ourselves some ADAM." the tallest man laughed, who wore a smart suit.

The beast charged into the midst of them, knocking them to the floor.

"What the fuck is that?" one of them shouted as the beast rammed its drill through his chest, and whirred it round as he ripped to shreds.

Bullets bounced off of the Bouncer's armour, and it turned to face the one shooting it, who began stepping backwards as it walked towards him. Suddenly, the Bouncer shot forward, and lifted the man up with his drill in his chest. He whirred the drill, and blood splattered everywhere, before discarding the dead man onto the ground. The Bouncer looked round for the third one, and felt something slam into the back of his head. He turned round to see the final man holding an object without using his hands and shot it at the Bouncer.

The Bouncer smashed the object out of its way, and charged towards the man as he changed his Plasmid. The man shot a blast of ice towards the Bouncer, who groaned in anger at the feeble attempt of an attack, and fired his own Plasmid in retaliation. The flames of the Bouncer melted the ice of the man as the Bouncer shoulder barged the man, flinging him through the air. The drill whirred as the Bouncer slammed the drill into the skull of the man, disintegrating the skull. His daughter was knelt on the floor crying as the Bouncer walked towards her.

He placed a hand on her shoulder, and she stopped crying, looking up to see him stood over her.

"Daddy!" She shouted happily, embracing him.

He groaned once more, and his daughter huffed, folding her arms. He groaned again, and sadness filled her face.

"I'm sorry daddy… I wanted the ADAM. I should of waited for you." she apologised, and proceeded to gather ADAM from the four corpses in the room.

One day later…

December 27th 1958

Where the hell had his daughter gone? He had told her time and again to not go off on her own looking for ADAM, especially after the incident yesterday. But no, off she goes, gallivanting through the unsafe streets of Rapture, looking for ADAM. He heard a scream, and glanced at the wall to his left. His daughter was behind that wall. He smashed through the wall, and came into a big room where five men were stood near the stairs, his daughter held firmly by the middle man.

The Bouncer took a step forward.

"Ah ah ah. Wouldn't do that if I were you." the man laughed, pointing at loads of traps set up to block his path to his daughter.

He roared and charged forward, the traps bouncing off his armour, not even denting them.

"Shit, you said they would stop him!" a man shouted as a drill skewered through his chest.

The men began running.

"Help me daddy!" his daughter screamed, struggling to get free of the man's hold.

The Bouncer roared and slammed into the man holding his daughter, taking the man to the ground. His daughter was stood crying now, as he slammed the drill repeatedly through the skull of the man who had carried his daughter. Something slammed into his back, and he began feeling dizzy, and felt an out of body experience, as if he were no longer in control of himself.

"Fontaine was right, this Plasmid helps a lot against Big Daddies." a man laughed as he took a step forward. "Kneel."

The Bouncer struggled to fight back as he knelt on the floor in front of the man.

"Take off your helmet." the man commanded.

The Bouncer lifted his hands, and detached his helmet, placing it on the floor, and looked at the man for his next command. Inside the Bouncer was screaming, wanting control back. His daughter was crying, staring at him.

"No.. daddy… No!" she cried.

The man walked towards the Bouncer, and stood right in front of him, holding something in his hand. He shoved it into the neck of the Bouncer, and extracted the ADAM of the Bouncer. He began to feel dizzy, and when the last drop of ADAM was extracted from his body, he collapsed to the floor not moving. He was beginning to die.

"No!" his daughter screamed, running towards her fallen dad.

"Fontaine will enjoy this." the man laughed, picking up the girl.