A/N : Hello, this is a crossover story and I hope you all like if if you're reading it. These characters are from the game inFamous Second Son and it's one of my favorite games and I figured why not try to make a story a mix of these two things. Similar to how I did Avatar and Marvel. Anyways, again hope you like a consider following or adding to your favorites.
Delsin Rowe, 14, starting his freshman year of High School in Seattle, Washington at a school meant for the quirkless as they were the majority people in America. Japan was known for having large amounts of conduits, or people with quirks. Conduit is a coined derogatory term for people with quirks in the United States since they were a minority.
Delsin was a young Native American wearing a red beanie, jean vest, grey hoodie, red flannel, and denim jeans with comfy running shoes. He was currently dropping a black backpack of paint cans and notebooks, piles of cardboard stencils he leaned against a red brick wall, taking out his phone and earphones placed on his head over his beanie, scrolling to start his early morning playing Someday by The Strokes.
He zipped open his bag, grabbing tape and a stencil taping it to the wall, and then putting the tape on the next cardboard piece and taking a black paint can. Shaking, poppin off the cap, and spraying paint out of his aerosol can and making quick work of his little art project at school for everyone to see. His music put him into a trance ad Vampire Weekend and Arctic Monkeys filled his ears as he thought back into his life.
He lived with his older brother, Reggie, who was a cop. Reggie always hated when Delsin would vandalize property with his stencil and spray painting method seeing as how Reggie would always arrest his brother only to release him back at the Akomish community center where he would be watched over by their old caretaker, Betty.
After Reggie and Delsin's parents died in a car crash, Betty took care of the two boys until Reggie was able to provide for himself so that the two boys wouldn't go into the foster care system.
Betty is like a mother to them, but acted more like a friend with Delsin, allowing him to do murals Reggie liked. The only reason why Reggie didn't like Delsin's stencil and spray method was that he always used it on public and private property that people would always wash off because people didn't consent to it.
Delsin stopped thinking about his brother and how he'd be arrested by him on the first day to try and make himself cool, but then thought about himself, and his quirk.
Before his parents died his parents told him about his social standing and what he could do when he was 6.
His father started with, "Delsin, you're already a man, and I should tell you something."
"What is it dad?" young Delsin replied.
"You know how your mother and I aren't conduits?"
"Yeah, Reggie isn't either." Delsin pointed out.
"Right, well, you know what a conduit is right?"
"Yeah, they're people like All Might, they have powers or are mascots and people."
"Yeah, exactly, well. We got some news from the doctor."
"What's the news? Is it bad?"
"No it's not bad Delsin, we just found out you have what's called a quirk. You're a conduit." His mother finished the news.
"Wait, how?"
"Well, the doctor said it's rare, but you've developed a quirk, and emitter quirk so your body won't change, you'll look normal." his mother replied adding in some information.
"So I won't look like a bird or dog or frog?"
"No, you'll look like you, like Delsin." His father replied running his fingers through Delsin's black hair.
"Even if you did, we're Akomish, we protect our own." His father added, relating back to their Native American culture.
"Well, what can my quirk do?"
"It's called Power Absorption, through hand-to-hand contact you're able to copy and keep a quirk, but the quirk would need to be an emitter quirk. The doctor gave us some gloves for you to wear in case you meet someone who has an emitter quirk. It could easily be said that you don't have a quirk until you touch the hand of someone who has an emitter quirk." His mother replied taking out some gloves. "There weren't much since we live on a reservation. I'm sorry if they're not a color you would've wanted." There were different pairs, one purple, another red, and one more blue.
"If you want we can try to get some art supplies to put a design if you'd like." His father replied.
"I'd like that." Delsin replied holding the gloves that were far too large for his hands with tears in his eyes at his parents.
"Why are you crying?" His father asked.
"I don't want to be conduit!" Delsin cries out holding onto his dad.
"I'm sorry Dell, I know you see the things about other conduits, but maybe you'll be somewhat of a new All Might if you want to become a hero, emitters are always handy, and unlike others you kind of have the choice to be a conduit. If you don't want a quirk, then wear the gloves. Your mom and I will go get some art supplies, Reggie is gonna be here to take care of you."
"B-but you guys just got here." Delsin replied while still holding the gloves.
"We won't be long, you can rent a movie on the tv if you'd like, Reggie knows so he should be fine with whatever you play. Do you want me to call Betty to come over?"
"Betty, the lady who's at the Longhouse all the time and the warehouse?" Delsin asks putting on the blue gloves
"Yeah, that's her, do you want me to call her over?" his dad asked getting on a winter coat and hat.
"Y-yeah, it would be nice."
"Great, I'll ask your mom to call her while we go to the store. We won't be long." Delsin's dad walks over to the front door. "I love you Delsin, it doesn't matter that you have a quirk and are a conduit. You're my son, and I'll always love you, and I'm proud of you." Delsin's father went through the door.
Delsin stops thinking about that night and focuses back on the stencil and spray graffiti he's doing on the school's sign with their mascot on it. A bulldog.
"Well, what was once a bulldog, is now a bulldog smoking some weed. Heh, nice." Delsin says as he takes off his gloves. "No one's around so I can finally let my hands breathe."
Delsin moves his hands around to speed up the sweat on his hands to evaporate and dry.
"Oh Reg, I hope you get here soon and not some schmuck."
"HEY!" shouts a voice
Delsin whips his head around to see where the voice came from, once looking down at the ground, he sees a woman with colored hair and a punk looking outfit.
"Dammit, it's a pro hero…" Delsin says under his breath. He'd already received many scoldings from pros in the past for his graffitti. "Hello ma'am, what brings you to this school very early in the morning? Got a speech for the freshman?"
"No, I'm here about you, I was running through the city on patrol, I notice you're made a mess of the school's logo. Why don't you come down, I'll hold your hand down to the station."
"Oh great," Delsin mumbled, "Can we talk first though?"
"Sure, we've both got time." the pro replied, "What do you want to talk about?"
"What's your pro name?"
"Fetch."
"Fetch? Geez, do you have a dog related quirk?"
"Yeah it's Fetch, my brother gave me that nickname. And I don't have a dog quirk, I don't really like dogs, I'm more of a cat person."
"Alright Fetch, what's your quirk?"
"It's called Neon. I can shoot light from my hands and I can run really fast with my quirk. What's yours?" Fetch asks as she sees Delsin shaking his hands and grabbing his gloves.
"Oh ah, me? I don't have a quirk, this is a school for the quirkless, us normal people." Delsin replies as he puts on his left glove.
Fetch runs up the building like The Flash and appears in front of Delsin who has yet to put on his right glove and doesn't bother to try and put it on, Neon sounds like an awesome quirk to have.
"'Normal' people?" Fetch asks. "Last I check people with emitter quirks are more normal than those with mutant quirks." She looks down at his left hand covered in a blue glove with black fingertips probably to use touch-screen devices holding another blue glove glove with the same black tips. "What's with the gloves?" She asks
"Oh, they're nothing, I just wear them cause ya know, germs and stuff. Are you still going to grab me by the hand and take me to the station? I still have school." Delsin asks as his watch beeps at 8 AM as people begin to walk towards the school.
"You're right, we can talk on the way to the station, after you shake my hand." Fetch reaches out her right hand. "I'm right handed and I guess you are as well."
"Yeah we can shake hands." Delsin begins to feel his body getting hotter as he becomes more nervous. 'Holy shit, I've never done this, I'm practically quirkless. I can choose to stay this way or touch her hand and get her quirk, it sounds badass. Fuck it. Reggie will have to deal with it. First Akomish to be a conduit. Damn, sounds pretty weird. Fuck, I have no idea what'll happen if we do tough hands. Fuck it, what's the worst that could happen? Kicked out of school, disowned by tribe, girlfriend breaks up with me. I shouldn't do this, what if I blow up. My mind is racing right now.'
"Wow you're really slow. I'll just take your hand man." Fetch leans over and grabs Delsin's hand.
"Wait what?" Delsin asks as he feels her hand tough his. 'What? I thought something was supposed to happen?'
"What?" Fetch looks confused as she looks at their hands seeing that it's glowing. "What's going on? AARGHH!" Fetch yells out as a purple and blue light shine.
"What the hell?! AARGH!" Delsin yells out.
The light from their hands explodes pushing Delsin and Fetch way from each other, with Fetch still on the school but Delsin being blown off and hitting the ground with wispy trails of blue light in the air from when he fell.
Crowds of people coming to school on their first day see the tan skinned young man on the ground with smoke and fizzles of blue neon light coming from his right hand and a smoking left hand.
"Errgh, man, what the hell happened?" Delsin slowly sits up on his arms and look to the roof and sees Fetch get up and uses her quirk to get close to him by running down the school and getting in Delsin's face.
"You're lucky people with quirks heal faster, and now I see you have one as well. So what is it? Explosion? Self-Implosion? Something to do with hand contact? You're under arrest for misdemeanor vandalism, destruction of proper-"
*bwoop*
"This is Seattle PD, disperse immediately, if there are any pros around, please apprehend the suspect." A police truck drives in front of the school with the vocals coming from one Reggie Rowe police officer. Reggie drives to see Delsin with a smoking left hand, glowing right hand, and a pro who was reading out his crimes.
"Hey Reg, can you tell the 'hero' to quit assaulting me? This could be hero-brutality if I press charges."
"Delsin, shut it. Fetch, what happened here?" Reggie asks helping her up and Delsin.
"I was on patrol when I see this kid graffiting up the school logo, we chatted, and shook hands and then boom, we explode, he's got a glowing hand now and I think he just copied my quirk. Normal copying quirks only take about 5 minutes to go away but he should be able to know how my quirk works with the small time he's had it for." Fetch then asks. "Is he your brother? You guys kinda look alike."
"Yes he's my brother, but this won't go away because of his quirk. Your quirk, he copied it, but it's also his now." Reggie replies getting Delsin in the back of his pick up.
"Delsin? Reggie, what happened why's there a pro here?" a teen girl with black hair and almond shaped eyes asks.
"Oh Colleen, well, your boyfriend, also my brother decided to vandalize your new school for the quirkless and then created a small explosion because of his quirk." Reggie replied getting Delsin in the car.
"No, Colleen, I was just trying to look cool for the first day! I didn't, hey watch the hat Reg, I didn't mean for the explosion and I'm not a conduit!" Delsin cries out.
"Listen, uhh, Colleen the police said to disperse so go with some of the other students while the pro and police handle this." Fetch said.
*pew pew pew* (lazer sounds)
"Delsin goddamn it! Control your quirk! This wouldn't have happened if you had your gloves on like you were supposed to!" Reggie yelled out with Colleen in the vicinity as the boys drove away to the Akomish Community Center.
"Oh please, I can get the hang of this. This isn't my first rodeo Reg!" Delsin yells out.
"It is your 'first rodeo' since this if the first time you absorbed a quirk! Now you can't go to that school anymore. You know what happens to people who 'develop a quirk randomly' here, they get taken away. I just hope nothing bad happens like the military shows up at Salmon Bay."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, look Reg, I'll be fine being here. As long as none of my other crimes get shown up I'll be-"
"What Delsin, fine?! You won't be fine because of your crimes. If you didn't vandalize anything, break anything, and all the other things you've done, then maybe that would be a chance, but there's not. You've gotten yourself in a lot of trouble and you're going to have to move away if you want to be able to have some semblance of a peaceful life! Plus you did blow up next to a school meant for us normal people. I'm going to ask my friend Toshinori to see if he can help out, he said he's going to be teaching at a school in a year."
"Where's it going to be? Montana? Canada? Utah? Alaska?" Delsin asks
"No, it's in Japan. Toshinori is Japanese, he's an old friend of mine who's a pro hero over there. In fact he's the number one hero over there."
"So you're gonna put me on a plane to Japan? Just great, what is it? A regular school? You know I won't fit in cause almost everyone there is a conduit."
"No, you'll fit in BECAUSE you're a conduit, you won't fit in because you're a foreigner, an American, hell, a Native American. It'll be fine. We can probably find someone with an emitter quirk that deals with fast learning or language."
"But what about Colleen?" Delsin asks
"Well, what about her? You're going to just have to leave her Dell. You know how her and her family are, they don't like pros, they don't like conduits, they don't like quirks, plus her parents don't like Mexicans or black people. It was honestly bound to end Dell." Reggie points out the flaws he sees in her family.
"Yeah but she-"
"Dell, I get it, you like her. But this was bound to happen. You know it. Someday you were going to absorb a quirk, just so happens it's Fetch, who hangs out at the station a lot. You're probably lucky to have absorbed a cool quirk like that instead of something weird like shooting goop out of your hands."
"Yeah I guess you're right. She was telling me she can run super fast and can shoot light out of her hands."
"It'll be great for you to be out there, get to meet some new people and experience a culture shock. I'm gonna call my friend once we're at the Longhouse alright Dell?"
"Alright, but can you play some music?"
"Yeah, connect your Bluetooth."
"Cool." Delsin digs into his pocket to feel his phone, the screen has cracked but he doesn't tell Reggie because it's the fourth time he's cracked his phone.
After this quick morning, Delsin Rowe is a now conduit, partly blew up a school, is a minority in the US, but will be part of the majority in Japan. He's going to lose his girlfriend and leave his tribe to go to Japan to a new school thanks to Reggie's contact Toshinori.
A/N : Hello, I hope you liked this story, I've got a couple more chapters ready and more in the works, I will be pursuing this so please leave reviews and I'll respond to them in the next chapter. You can review saying if you liked it, if it's flaming hot garbage, suggestions, etc. I appreciate you reading this and I hope you have a good day! :)