Disclaimer!
Alrighty then just so you know I do not own the inFamous series, plot, and characters. Only the plot and OCs in this story is mine.
Power. When power is given to a man, that man can achieve great things. Although great isn't the same thing good. But...
That happened seven years when a man saved New Marais and ultimately the entire world. He didn't have political or financial power. This guy had actual powers like something straight out of a comic book. No one believed it. And more people, labeled Bioterrorists, started appearing out of nowhere. Most just try to take over. The government even tried to throw a blanket over the whole thing. But when some sort of monster tried to wipe out the city it was too much.
In the end, that man, a Bioterrorist, saved us all with the cost of his life. He had taken down the 'bad' Bioterrorists and given the rest of humanity a chance to live normal lives. The result of that fight had killed 85% of the other Bioterrorists. But recently they've been making an appearance again. Such as one in Seattle who made quite a disturbance. A really big one.
With everything a Bioterrorist does wrong makes it worst for the rest of us.
"Us? I guess you're just grouping yourself with them now."
I look from the paper that I'm writing and scoff at my friend, AJ. Standing over my shoulder he then snatches my notebook.
"Well, technically I am one of them," I say to him.
"Whatever," he says dismissively. "Well, I guess I can't copy your essay. You know Mr. Salbrum doesn't like anything relating to a Bioterrorist." A student from one our classes looks our way at that word.
"Yeah, I know that. I was just writing kinda as a vent." I say then shrug.
AJ hands my notebook back and points at me. "Dude you need a-"
"Yeah, yeah. I know."
"Well, what are you doing out here?" He looks at his phone for a second. "Normally you're gone by now."
"I'm waiting on someone at the moment so if you're gonna stay please don't say anything stupid," AJ asks who am I meeting. "Just a friend." I stand up and dust my clothes off nervously, "Here she comes now."
"S-she?" AJ sits up and looks ahead for this person.
A hand touches his shoulder making him turn back. A light-skinned black girl is beaming at me from behind AJ.
"Hey Kalvin!" she waves then walks around AJ.
"How's it going, Cora? You ready for this?" We approach each other.
Cora smirks, "You already know. I've been waiting all day."
"Uhh, what are you talking about? Ready for what?" AJ looks at the both of us with a confused expression. I ignore him. When Cora and I are in front of each other I put my hands on both sides of her head. Taking a deep breath, I tilt my head down and concentrate.
We stay that way for about 2 minutes before I release her. Cora steps back.
She combs a finger through her hair, "So?"
I wipe a few beads of sweat off of my brow. "Well first off, your grandma is OK." Cora's eyes light up and she lets out a relieved sigh. "But you might wanna keep 'that' nurse away from her. Umm, don't take the normal way home. The local news team will have an entire street closed off for a story."
I shoulder my computer bag. "Oh yeah, and you passed that English exam. Ya got a B+."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you..." she goes on saying that for a total of seven more 'Thank yous' while she bubbles with happiness.
"Oh my god you're awesome! You're so in on Friday night!" Cora basically strangles me for about 3 seconds. "Same time tomorrow?" she says as she lets go.
I try to catch my breath whether or not the cause of my breath loss is from the strangle or chest suffocation. "O-ok! Yeah, sure thing."
"Cool! Later!" She walks off towards the exit of the school grounds.
AJ stands beside me and we both watch Cora walk up to her ride home. "My little psychic caterpillar is blossoming into a social psychic butterfly!" he pats my shoulder.
"She just needed a little insight and I want to get into a couple of parties before we graduate."
"That's cool and all but you're playing a dangerous game bro. I mean look." AJ points to the driver of the car. As Cora opens the passenger door and sits down. She takes a moment to close it giving me enough time to make eye contact with her boyfriend. He sees me too and brings his thumb across his throat then mouths: "You're dead." The boyfriend proceeds to drive off. Always such a predictable, stereotypical boyfriend.
"He was watching the two of you the entire time. His eyes were practically in his hands!"
"Meh, whatever. Let's blow this candlestick." I shrug and walk off.
AJ follows behind me and asks questions about Cora and my 'meetups'.
When that first Bioterrorist saved the planet he had killed all Bioterrorists in the process. Or least they thought he did. Long story short: Some (a lot actually) of the Bioterrorists and people whose powers haven't developed survived the killing blast. I was part of the latter.
My whole life up until a couple of months ago I never knew about my abilities. Although events throughout my life kinda hinted at that. Like the time when I was 7 and I fell off a jungle gym without a scratch or when I dropped a stove on my foot. Both times I was perfectly fine, but two things like that aren't enough to convince someone that you have supernatural powers.
No.
"Dude will you pay attention? We're here already." AJ smacks the back of my head bringing me back to reality. I look down the stairs to the Wish Metro. "What the hell are you doing? Monologuing?"
I rub the back of my mini 'fro, "No. No one does that." I walk down the steps before he has time for a comeback. We both purchase tickets for the metro back to the Emerald District which is where we live. We push through the crowd and almost make it to our train. A chill runs down my spine and my sight around the corners of my eyes dims. All of the sounds around me are muffled almost like a blanket is over my head.
A couple of feet away a woman shrieks. To my left the crowd clears out, revealing a man with a red and white ski mask holding a gun to the head of a little kid.
I blink and the vision is gone. Someone's shaking me violently and it's mildly annoying.
"Dude! Are you hav-"
"Get behind me right now!" I say, cutting him off. AJ knows better not to ask questions and stands behind me to my right. A woman shrieks a couple of feet away. To my left, the crowd spreads out and show the same man holding the kid at gunpoint.
People are yelling angrily at him. A guy who looks like he never leaves the gym tries to approach the ski mask guy. Mr. Ski jabs the little boy with the pistol.
"You stay the hell back!" The buff guy hesitates and steps away. "Anyone who calls the police will have more holes than cheese!" He nudges the boy to move, "Let's go, Travis. I have to get you away from that woman." The kid looks scared and uncomfortable as one would be in this situation.
"Sal!" A woman right in front of me calls out to the ski man. "Sal, what are you doing!? How did you leave the ward in Seattle?"
Sal gestures with the gun as he speaks, "It doesn't matter because I just came for my son. Now back up bitch! You're not going take my boy and tell him lies about me!" Sal's eyes seem to be bloodshot under that mask.
"That dude has mental issues if he thinks saving his son means to hold a gun to the kid's head," AJ says from behind me.
"Yeah, no shit."
The woman is crying and going back and forth with Ski Sal. "Please, we can talk about this. We can talk to the therapist again!"
"And be in the same spot?! Confused, angry, and without my child! Yeah right!" Sal starts to move back slowly to make a getaway.
AJ punches my shoulder. "Go stop him, dude!"
"And get shot? No thanks." I say. "This is a problem for the police."
AJ gestures around us, "And where are they at, huh? By the time they get here he'll probably be past the Crystal District." He points to Sal. "Come on man, look at the kid. What if that was-"
"Okay! I hate it when you say that because you know I'm gonna do it now." I say through gritted teeth. I take my hat from my bag, put it on then pull my hoodie hood over my head. Hopefully, my face is covered enough so that no one can recognize me.
I push past the kid's mom and walk into the clearing with Sal. "You better get back in there or you'll taste lead." He aims shakily at me.
"I'm gonna ask you once to just let your son go to his mother. I really don't want things to get out of hand any more than it already has." I raise my hand and point at him. Sal immediately shoots me in the chest. The force throws me back into the crowd. I see AJ above me yelling something but I can't comprehend it. I close my eyes.
"Kalvin. Kalvin! Kalvin!" I suck a breath quickly and my eyes snap open. I'm still in the subway lying on the floor. I sit up and my chest burns like hell. I feel over my body and I'm not too surprised that I don't find a hole or any blood.
"Kalvin! You're alright?" AJ has his hand on my back. I ignore him and look around. The crowd is turning into an angry mob. Probably because I got shot. I look into the clearing and Sal is barely keeping the people at bay. He aims the pistol at the boy to scare them back.
A thought comes to me. "Ugh, I'm so stupid," I say under my breath. I aim my hand at Sal's gun and concentrate. I feel my power build up in my chest and take control of it. With my Telekinesis, I grab the pistol and yank it hard enough to rip it from Sal's grip. The pistol flies somewhere far into the crowd gasps, stunned at the pistol being taken away before the kid's mother runs up and grabs him.
The boy starts to cry and the crowd rushes Sal and are probably beating him down.
"AJ, help me up." He takes my hand and pulls me to my feet. Agony meets me as I'm now on my feet. "Let's go before they wonder about the flying gun and the guy who got shot."
AJ helps me hobbles to the train home and we take a seat. I look out one more time at the commotion with Sal before the doors close. I can't see him. The sub begins to move and I turn around.
"Dude, are you actually okay? You just got shot! I'm no doctor but you should be dead." he states.
"But I'm not. I knew my body was resilient but this is a whole other level." AJ gives me an evil grin and opens his mouth to speak. I cut him off, "There's no way in hell that I'm gonna let you test how strong my body is!"
20 minutes later the sub stops at the Emerald District station and we get off. When we're out of the subway AJ we fist bump before going our separate ways.
"Later ya black Superman. You take bullets like a champ." he laughs. Always gotta make a joke before he leaves.
"You're not funny. You better shut your mouth before I throw you to the next block." I try to be serious but I laugh too.
I walk down my street after we say our farewells. The sun is starting to set and I start to walk faster. The Emerald District is lively and pretty welcoming during the day, but a night the gangs and druggies come out to play. Long story short you don't wanna be outside when the sun goes down.I don't realize it but I'm running at a breakneck pace by the time I reach my apartment building.
I run through the open door and up the stairs to the right door. Before I even take out my key the door opens. In the doorway, my mother stands there frowning at first then smiles when she sees me. She has a jacket on and her purse and keys in her hand.
"Hey, ma. Um, where are you going it's almost dark?" I say while slightly block the way out.
"One of the guys at Cliff's job rear-ended his truck." she frowns as if thinking of it annoys the hell out of her. "So now I have to pick him and take him to that bum mechanic." I sigh in relief that she'll be with Cliff and not all alone. "I need to head out right now before the bum gets drunk for the night."
"Well Okay, as long as Cliff is with you'll be safe," I conclude as I walk mom to her car. She slips in and I close the door behind her.
Mom nods. "Your brother and sisters have already eaten dinner so if they say that they haven't eaten don't give them anything. If Cliff and I don't get home by ten send Quincey and Reese to bed, but June can stay up another hour."
"Alright." I'm not really paying attention since she's saying the same thing she always says when I'm left in charge. I'm more concerned about the two creeps standing at the corner. "OK, just call me when you're almost here so I can meet you outside."
Mom gives me a reassuring smile when she sees my worry. "There's nothing to worry about unless you make something to. Now I'll see you later boo." She does that kissy thing manages to embarrass me even when no one is around. I groan though I'm smiling a little.
"Later ma." She pulls out of her parking space and zooms off. Normally I watch her drive all of the way down the street, but I don't. I'm watching the creeps still hanging on the corner.
Most of the time they stay in the alleys trying to stay unseen even when waiting for runs. One of the creeps who's a short white guy nudges the other one, who I'm guessing is either black or Mexican and points at me. The other guy is now looking my way. They huddle together and discuss who knows what, point at each of the buildings on my side of the street, and then walk into the alley behind them.
I stand there for a couple seconds more then walk into the apartment. I open the door and I hear Quincey and Reese cheer from the living room. I take off my hoodie, kick off my shoes and sit down on the sofa in between my two half-siblings. Quincey and Reese are watching some show that all the 5th and 4th graders in their school probably watches.
"Hey Kalvin!" they both greet me without turning away from the TV. Quincey pulls away from his show and scans the house.
"Hey, wheres mom?" he asks me.
"She had to leave and do something right quick so I'm in charge now." Quincey's face lights up at this. Reese slowly turns her head with a big goofy grin on her face as well.
"Can you do it, Kalvin?" Reese asks with over exaggerated cute blinking. The two have completely forgotten the television and are pulling on both of my arms.
"I don't know. I'm kinda tired and I haven't eaten anything all day." I say with a fake yawn. This actually is true and my chest still feels bruised. Saying this causes them to whine and beg more.
They ask me repeatedly to do the thing. I pretend to barely give in to their demands. "Fine, but only for a couple of minutes." Before Quincey and Reese can even cheer at their victory I lift them up into the air with my powers. I smile as they shriek in joy. I fly Reese upside down in a circle while I make Quincey perform loop de loops. They freaking love it. I'm gonna be here for awhile.
It takes about a half hour before I'm completely drained of whatever fuels my abilities and I plop Quincey and Reese on the couch. I lay on the floor then clutch my chest. Quincey runs to the back room as Reese kneels beside me.
"You OK Kalvin?" she looks worried.
I suck in some air slowly and groan a little. I lift my head to look at her, "Yeah, you know, the usual." I lay back again. Quincey comes back with the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in his hand. A chocolate candy bar. Quincey doesn't even say anything and hands it to me. I rip the wrapper with my teeth and inhale the bar. Immediately I feel much better and the two of them help me up.
That candy was a little pick me up, but I need a full meal. I tell them to prepare for bed and I go look for tonight's dinner. On the stove is a pot of some vegetable soup. It's my least favorite, but I dish some out and decide to eat in my room. As I walk down the small hallway I notice that June's room door is slightly open. Seeing as this morning she rushed out of the apartment like it was on fire, I open the door slowly and peek inside.
"Knock knock, I'm knocking." June is just sitting on her bed. She looks up from her phone then looks back down at it. Well, she didn't tell me to get lost so I take as an invitation and sit on the bed as well. "You better not be sending some scandalous mess little girl. Don't wanna give the boys a seizure from the hideousness."
She kicks my side with the force of a running hamster. "Oh no, mortal injury!" I joke. June continues to pretty much ignore me. I take a sip of the soup and shudder before trying again. "AJ said you were looking pretty cute during lunch."
She practically drops her phone to make sure she heard me right. "Really?" Her face lights up brighter than her room's yellow wallpaper.
"Nah! I'm just kidding."
"You little-," she slaps me with a flip-flop. The easiest way to get my sis to respond is to mention AJ. "What do you even want?" she pouts a bit.
"I just wanna know how you've been doing. I mean you rushed off this morning and today at school you ignored me more than usual." I explain.
"Are you being serious right now?" she looks at me skeptically.
"Yeah, I'm a little curious that's all," I say. June stares at me hard then just goes right into explaining. At first, I'm listening intently to June as she recounts her day, but something is distracting me. Not like anything physically drawing my attention, more distracting on a subconscious level. Whatever is causing this the source is nearby. In this room. Right in front of me.
"Hey, June,"
"What?" she says probably a little annoyed that I interrupted her.
"Um, is there something in your little purse? Getting pretty weird vibes from it."
June shrugs and pulls up a black purse. When she snaps it open her face is enveloped in in a purplish-blue glow. "Other than money and my personal things the only this thing." June shows me a thin, jagged piece metal slightly longer than my hand. It's producing an aura that's making my entire body tremble.
I shake my head try and compose myself. "Where did you get that... thing?"
She rolls her eyes as she speaks, "Some weirdo in band practice has some kind of thing for me so he gave it to me." she taps the strange thing with her nail.
"How or where could you get something like that?"
"I don't know I think he said that it was on his roof. He literally gave me roof junk." Well, that piece of junk is really bugging me for some reason.
"Lemme see that for a moment." For some reason, I really wanna touch that metal. I hold my hand and is about to place it there before I hear glass crashing.
"Oops!" I hear Quincey say. He sounds like he's in the kitchen. "Uh, Kalvin!" I pull away from the vibes of the metal and stand up. June rolls her eyes at the usual shenanigans of our half-siblings.
"Let me go deal with them. Be sure to have lights out by 11:00. Oh yeah and nice roof jewelry." I tease at the end. She groans as I close the door behind me.
I hear something else crashes to the floor in the kitchen. What the hell are they doing? I walk down the hall and into the kitchen.
Another vision?
I can hear muffled cheering all around me and blinding bright lights shine down on me. I must be in a stadium or arena of some sort since there are ropes making a perimeter and surrounding me. I can't make out any details of if I'm in a building or not because it's too damn blurry.
"Hey, Kalvin!" someone in front of me shouts my name. The person is some skinny guy with an emo looking haircut. He seems to be holding a rod. He has a smirk on his face that I really don't like.
His eyes glow and his hands spark with orange electricity. "You're totally not gonna get to this next round!"
"What?"
Before I say something else the psycho emo charges at me. My feet are planted into the ground making unable to dodge. Just he reaches swinging distance the guy fades into a smoky mist.
The usual limbo smoke billows until another vision show up. It's of June holding that strange metal alloy.
I still can't really get over those weird vibes that thing was giving me.
Briiiing!
I crack open my eyes. I'm lying on the couch in the living room. Must have fallen asleep after cleaning that mess Quincey made. The light from my phone grabs my attention. I open it up and there's a text from mom saying that she and Cliff will be home soon. Good, it's almost midnight and I don't want her out there this late.
After stretching I get up to go wait in my room. As I'm walking back down the hall I see that June's light is still on. She knows mom is strict about curfew and I'm not gonna let up just because she's not here.
I knock on the door lightly, "June lights out right now." I don't get an answer so I tap a little harder in case she fell asleep. "Umm June, curfew was 40 minutes ago. Lights out like right now!"
From inside I hear something scrape across the floor. "O-ok!" For some reason, she whispers. Funny how she's not yelling "In a minute!" right now. June almost always challenge me when it comes to her curfew. I hear her mumble first then the sound of the window sliding.
"June! What are you doing in there?" No answer. "June!?"
"There's nothing wrong!" June says quickly with a weird tone. Did she just whine?
"I'm coming in!" I instantly decide. When I twist the door handle it's locked. "Open the door, please!"
"No way!" she responds.
"Are you undressed?" I ask.
"N-no."
My patience has run out. "Then I'm coming in." With my hand on the knob, I try a little trick I picked up. With telekinesis, I feel the mechanisms inside the knob and move them to unlock the door. The door flies open since I was leaning on it.
The sight before me stuns me. Two punks are in June's room and they're holding her by the arms between them. My eyes quickly switch to the gun in one thug's hand, June terrified face and the strange glowing metal in the other thug's hand. It takes me half a second to realize that the two punks are the exact same punks who were on the corner. They must have been surveying this street for that metal.
We all stare at each other. June looks completely terrified right now. I must get her away from those two now.
My telekinesis isn't too good in terms of power, but maybe if I push hard enough I can throw the thugs out the window and pull June back in. Although their grip on her might be tight enough to drag her with them. It's kinda risky. Or I just yank June towards me and tell her to run, but then that guy will start shooting at me.
The thug with the metal moves his foot just an inch and that's enough to make me act. I can't risk June so I use telekinesis to pull her away from the thugs. They're stunned and by the time they react June is already behind me. The punk quickly opens fire.
"Go go go!" I tell her. She screams and runs down the when the gun is fired again. The bullet hits my chest. Surprising I barely stumble and even feel the bullet. The two punks look like they don't know what to do. The punk shoots again with the same results. Alright then.
"H-he's one of those freaks! They're invincible!" the short one says.
The taller guy turns around. "Like hell he is! Keep shooting him!" he commands while trying to climb out the window. He's not going anywhere. And since those bullets didn't hurt which means...
I run towards them and through the bullets. I pull the tall punk back inside the and hold him in the air. The short punk now tries to bail out the window, but when he stands in front of it I throw the other one with all of the force I can muster. The two punks crash into each other and fly through the window. They take some of the walls with them too.
"No waaaait!" they both scream on the way down to the first floor. Exhaustion hits me like a sack of batteries. I slowly walk over the now gaping, human-sized hole in June's room. I peer outside and wince.
"What did I just do?" They were low-life thugs but I just killed them. Then again they invaded my home. I was only acting in self-defense. So I'm in the right? Right? Something in the corner of my eye pulls me from my thoughts. Embedded in the fire escape is the glowing metal.
Without a second thought, my hands close around it. The aura surrounding the alloy pulses and swirls around my arms and into my chest. My arms glow and my body goes cold as if I bathed in ice. It feels amazing! Just as quickly as it happens the feeling goes away and I remember what I've done.
I hear a window break downstairs. I push my thoughts aside and race downstairs. As I enter the living room I barely duck gunfire aimed at my head. They fire the corner I'm hiding behind. Since the kitchen is right next to the hall can see June ducking behind a counter. Every shot that is fired she flinches. I can see the house phone in her hands. I'm just hoping that she called the police already.
"Hey!" the thug yells then stops firing. "I just lost the Blast Shard's signal." I hear static from a handheld radio. There's a pause then he speaks again, "Just wipe out the building?" No way. I grab a glass from the counter and launch in at the thug. "Ack!"
I come from around the corner and start to throw everything I'm able to lift. Fruit. The small coffee table. He dodges the table but when he tries to return fire, the fruit throws off his aim. I strip him of his rifle and pin him to the wall. Even as he floats in air helplessly I pelt him with any object my telekinesis touches.
Then I pick up a knife. The thug tenses up.
"So," I make the blade circle his face. "What are you and your gang doing here? I'm only gonna ask once." I bluff. Geez keeping this bum airborne and waving this knife around is exhausting after throwing half of the apartment at him.
The thug obviously likes breathing so he says, "I don't know man! I was just recruited today! W-we're looking for these things called Blast Shards."
"Blast Shards?"
"In the bag, you'll see." he points while still struggling. Before I even look June brings me the bag.
"June are you OK?" The look on her face is unreadable. All of this isn't something she should be seeing.
"Whatever. Just look inside." She gives me her "Dumb Brother" look. Since I'm concentrating on my telekinesis she opens the bag. Inside are a bunch of those glowing metal things.
"Those are what you're talking about?"
"Yeah! We caught a signal from here and came to get it," he says.
"Why do you need these things? What are you planning?"
He's struggling much harder now and my telekinetic grip is loosening. Quickly, I reach my hand to the bag of Blast Shards and absorb their power. The Blast Shard energy flows through my body. I can feel it fueling my powers. I drag him higher up the wall scaring the shit out of him.
"I don't know! I don't know! I told you already that I was just recruited today! I don't know anything! Just please let me go! I won't tell them where you live. I'll quit them! I ain't really like this! Man, I'll go back to my old job at the GameSpot! I just don't want to die!" the thug literally cries. His nose and eyes are running like no tomorrow.
Hmm. I could let this guy go, I mean he doesn't seem to be a guy to live a life of crime. Pretty sure hardened criminals don't bawl their eyes out. It wouldn't be the end of the world, would it? But what about if he's faking and it's all a facade? By this time tomorrow, every Sting gang member in the District will be here. My whole family will be on the 11 o'clock news.
Damn, what should I do with him?
A. Let the thug go.
B. Make the thug disappear.
And So It Begins *** Karmic Level: Neutral
Stunts:
Prediction x1 - N
Riot x1 - E
Human Shield x1 - G
High Fall x1 - N
Kalvin's actions did not affect his Karma.
A/N: I'm finally done with this first chapter. If you're wondering about the two choices I left here, I want any major Karmic decisions to left to the readers. The choice you make will change Kalvin's way of thinking, the way people treat him, characters that I bring in as well as their Karma and the many ways this story can go. These choices can open opportunities or close them just as quick. What might be a good decision now could change things for the worse later, and vice-versa.
So yeah give me feedback on the story and make a choice. See ya next chapter.