Songbird Bioshock Novels & Stories

The group made their way down to the ninth basement level, where the massive incubation chamber was located. This was Monty's research base. "Sovereign Snow, look." On one of the incubation beds, the giant egg was already two-thirds broken. The creature inside was almost fully visible. What in the world was that thing? Gideon and the others were stunned. They had expected some high-level beast, something like the Azure Skyroc they had seen on Mount Immortal. Instead, it was a small, pitch-black bird. Gideon took a close look and saw nothing remarkable about the black bird. He couldn't help but feel disappointed.

The sky above the Andes didn't just change color; it changed density. The "Mirror-Chrome" vessel of the Overseers hung over Sovereign City like a drop of liquid mercury, perfectly still and terrifyingly silent. As the ship descended, it emitted a Sub-Harmonic Hum—a sound that didn't enter through the ears, but through the DNA itself. It was the "Source Code" calling back the fragments of the Primal Strain. The Bio-Reclamation Field "They're siphoning us," Elara gasped, clutching the lab table as her veins began to glow with a sickly, fluorescent gold.

Both guards wore white HB-cloaks with an up-turned blue crescent edging the bottom just below the ‘MAir' emblem designating their authority. Heaving against the low atmospheric pressure, Bjorn followed his father through the hatches until he reached the deck and then walked portside to better view the docking. Twister and Stinger trail at a reasonable distance. The ship landed on a water body beneath a waterfall from a river-fed pond. Both the upper and the lower lakes were many times larger than any pool Bjorn had ever seen. Overhead, white birds with broad wings and long beaks lingered above the waterfall. And then, even as Bjorn watched, one of the birds pulled its wings close to its body

"I came because the Audit didn't just end in Aurelia. It’s ending everywhere. And the people who used to run the world are starting to realize that they don't know how to survive without it." As Beatrice spoke, a shadow passed over the plaza. We looked up. It wasn't a Zenith craft. It was a massive, white bird—a crane, its wingspan spanning thirty feet—circling the golden tree. But as it descended, I saw the glint of metal beneath its feathers. It wasn't a bird. It was a Bio-Drone, a living machine from a lab we had never found. The bird landed on the highest branch of the tree and opened its beak. It didn't chirp. It spoke in a voice that was eerily familiar—a voice that sounded like a reco

Tomorrow night, I would leave Sicelia. After finishing my last shift and collecting my pay, I walked out of the restaurant. A familiar black Lamborghini was parked at the entrance to the plaza. Before I could step closer, fireworks suddenly lit up the sky over downtown Palemore. Then, countless drones formed words in the night sky. [SALVATORE LOVES IRENE FOREVER!]

I looked up with the last of my strength and I saw three pigeons fall from the sky and hit the pavement with a sickening thud, and they weren't bleeding or injured but they were just dead before they even hit the ground. The air outside was starting to shimmer with a faint green tint that looked like a ghost in the moonlight and I knew that the birds were the first ones to drink from the fountains that had been poisoned by the Architects’ scouts. "The birds are dying and that means the concentration is rising in the open water, so we have to move the plan up or there won't be anyone left to save in the morning," Alessia said as she looked back at me and I saw a tear run down her cheek before

He had never seen a pangolin this loyal and righteous before. He thought it was more trustworthy than many humans. Sparks flew once again. Jodi stopped attacking the other birds and aimed her gun at the Monarch-rank mechanical bird. The Monarch-rank mechanical bird was releasing its skill, so it couldn't dodge and could only take the freezing shot. Jodi thought her freezing shot could at least cause the Monarch-rank mechanical bird some problems. Unfortunately, the combat power gap was too vast. When the freezing shot hit the Monarch-rank mechanical bird, it left no frost behind.

Onyx orbs surveyed the surface, swooping down to seize shards of flesh that floated there and soon turned to trace the scent of blood coming came from the shattered windows. The birds were hungry and not of the human world, living prey didn't have to be simply mice or rats and their proud beaks could tear easily through the tougher skin of humans and larger animals. Am Heh felt his heart fill with delight as the song of agony wailed once again. The glass exploded with the force of the feathered attackers flinging themselves against it, talons and claws targeting the soft eyes and bulging vein in the throat. The floors absorbed the crimson, dripping viscous droplets to the level below and acc

“Come now. We must find some food for you and then get to test your abilities. The pair spent the day together on what would almost be called a beach by human standards. The water resembled that of an ocean, wide and deep but it was not blue but a deep purple that it almost was tinted black. The sand under her feet was a deep blue that only when there was a break in the dark clouds from up above could she see it wasn’t again black. When he had said the entire plane had gone into hibernation, she had no idea what he meant. Little by little as the day went on and he tests her powers and made notes of this or that, she noticed that the colors would change. He seemed not to notice at all.

Thorne blinked, his tactical brain momentarily short-circuiting at the sight of the grey-and-purple bird blinking confusedly in the vampire’s pale hand. “Found it in the ventilation shafts on Sub-Level 4,” Virex said, his lips curling into a smirk. “I thought I might need a snack later, but the irony of this situation is far more nourishing.” “It has a heartbeat, does it not?” Virex continued, holding the bird up to the light of the Prism. “It has a nervous system. It has the ‘Neural Spark’ of a living creature. And quite frankly, its contribution to the global psyche might be an improvement over the current status quo.”