The Fate of Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite)

Chapter 14: Among the Chaos

The first platform is now safe, but its door leading to the inside of the Zeppelin has been locked from the inside. Mathias tries to pull several times in the lock, but it has been reinforced, impossible to open and the steel of this door is too solid even against submachine guns.

(Mathias): "Shit! What are we doing now?"

(Elizabeth): "Look ...."

She points her finger in the direction of an overhead rail running along the zeppelin side, and sliding towards the top. The rest of the group guesses what Elizabeth has in mind. A very risky and perilous plan, but they have nothing better to propose.

(Cornelius): "Equip your Skyhooks. We'll do some aerial racing."

The soldiers obey and equip each their grapple firmly to their wrist. Mathias proposes to pass first, in the case where. Elizabeth agrees, but want to stay behind, to keep an eye on him. The rebel group does not oppose it. Mathias equips his grapple, and approaches the edge of the platform. Do not look down, especially do not look down, he repeats himself in his head, heart beating. And in a momentum, he jumped with all his strength above the void, under the eyes of Elizabeth, very worried, but who is reassured by seeing the young man clinging to the rail with his grapple, and begins to slip to the top . Elizabeth does not hesitate, jumps in turn and begins to follow him by sliding on the track, followed by Cornelius and his men, in single file.

The icy wind at full speed whips their faces as they slide at full speed on a single iron rail, hung with one hand, suspended above the infinite emptiness drowned by the sea of fierce black clouds. Mathias often looks over his shoulder to see if Elizabeth and the others are still there. Around them, the aerial battle between the forces of the Prophet Comstock and the Vox Populi continues to intensify in the violence, to such an extent that it is almost impossible to distinguish between missile explosions and Lightning. Mathias watches a flaming and smoking wreck of a shuttle Vox Populi falling from the sky, passing just beside the zeppelin. The group could almost feel the heat of the flames.

Shoots are blowing in their direction. A shuttle of comstock has just targeted them and follows them, the soldiers on the deck of the flying craft, shooting with their weapons to try to kill the group in flight. One of the last rebels in the line is hit on the suspended arm, causing him to let go and fall screaming in the void. The group knows that it can not stop and continues. Mathias and Cornelius are the first to retaliate, weapon in one hand and the other holding the hook. The gusts rain en masse. Mathias shoots one of the assailants in the head, and sees him falling overboard. The balls miss them less and less. Elizabeth has the idea to concentrate her energy, reaches her hand to the sky, above the shuttle, to try to open a dimensional door. The landscape rips in two, magically dropping an enormous rock, which crashes violently on the shuttle, crushing the cockpit and driving the craft in its fall. Before falling, one of the soldiers of Comstock tries a last shot, misses Mathias of very little, but the bullet comes to destroy the grapnel of Elizabeth, which begins to fall in the void. Mathias immediately reacts and drops his submachine gun in the void to grab Elizabeth by the hand and prevent her from falling. Elizabeth finds herself suspended in the air, held by a hand, and gasped as she looks down, seeing the endless void and the raging battle of shuttles.

(Mathias): "Don't look down!"

(Elizabeth): "Aaaaaaaah! I try!"

The rail finally brings them to the next platform, larger than the first, and almost resembling docks as in a port, but for shuttles. But on their arrival on the floor of the platform, the group sees that the fighting preceded them. Two Vox Populi shuttles landed, and their crew, armed and equipped, dumped on the platform, confronting the present forces of the prophet, in a murderous and noisy shooting. Elizabeth is no longer armed, Cornelius decides to give her his Skyhook so that she can defend herself in melee. Without losing a moment, the small group begins to run towards the barricades of fortune to take shelter. Mathias and Elizabeth remain together, almost holding by the hands, crouching behind a table of iron overturned. Cornelius went to see one of his men, wounded, and made sure that he still breathed, while ordering the others to fire without stopping.