Unwanted Acquaintance
The beginning of a Storm
Gensokyo, the world of fantasy.
A world hidden from the modern world for more than a century protected by the Hakurei Barrier.
A world where mystic beings and humans live in harmony…
The Hakurei Shrine stood over the edge of the barrier, keeping outsiders away. Because of the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, it remained there unharmed by any force. Usually the Hakurei Shrine Maiden would be on the Shrine to maintain said barrier, but tonight's different. Hakurei Reimu, the current shrine maiden was currently on Eientei solving an incident regarding a fallen meteor. While two beings that are not human were seated on the shrine's porch chatting.
"If you actually watch him, you'll see he has potential,"
"I don't know," the other one replied. "Are you sure he's actually competent?"
"Hey, have you seen when Marisa was a kid before Mima taught her? Now look at her now, she can probably beat you,"
"If I'm not serious or I'm planning to lose it doesn't count. Besides, this is an Outsider were talking about Yukari."
Floating on midair, with some sort of portal made by two ribbons, the top half of a blonde haired woman poked out. From inside the portals, eyes were blinking inside the dark gap. Yakumo Yukari, wearing her usual fancy clothing only leaned back on her gap smirking. "Yuuka, are you saying you're not as good as Mima when training 'kids' who aren't capable of using enough firepower?"
Her green-haired companion seated beside her raised a brow and sipped her tea. Kazami Yuuka was wearing her usual outfit, a red skirt and a red vest over a dress shirt. Below her feet, a variety of flowers were growing beneath the ground. She wouldn't usually be in the Hakurei Shrine and instead would be on the Sunflower Garden. But recently, Yuuka had been meeting with Yukari on the shrine a lot more than in the past.
"Doing that won't get me close to work with you like that," Yuka stated firmly. "I'm already doing that with Cirno anyway,"
"Ohh? I thought Letty was teaching her how to use a sword and not you?" Yukari leaned back on her gap and it floated away, evading a swing of Yuuka's parasol. "Compared to Cirno he can probably beat her if he and that nineball meet. Maybe the person I want Nitori to meet would also be able to beat her too,"
"Is there anyone else I could train aside from him then? I'm not very fond of outsiders,"
"Welll, there's that Dragonslayer kid of a guild and the speechless swordsman with an annoying fairy from another dimension. But I doubt you'd find them interesting enough. The one I'm talking about is what you'll like actually, and I already talked to someone manipulating him,"
"Manipulating him you say?"
"Yup. What do you know about time traveling Yuka?" Yukari lifted out two DVD cases out of her gap, looking at the cover of each. "Travelling from the future to the past and back to the future. Of course an outsider's car never really works like that,"
"I'm guessing this manipulator is a time traveller from the future that wanted to mess up the present and this person you want me to train is going to stop him,"
"Wrong answer. If this future person doesn't interfere, a harbringer of destruction will appear and kill everything in the Outside World," Yukari dropped her DVDs back to her gap.
"So this time traveller is trying to stop that thing by preparing the world… By training this human?"
"Exactly. And if we just leave it at that, the Outsiders would all die. Without the Outside World's populace, Gensokyo would fall apart because of the disbelief we need from them."
"And why don't you solve the problem?" questioned Yuuka. "With the flick of a hand you can make it so that this problem doesn't occur. Oh wait, I think I know. It's because you're too lazy to do it. Honestly with so much power in you and you're too lazy to even walk, whatever happened in your life?"
"Heeey, I'm giving you a chance of a lifetime here. If you don't do this you got nothing else to do. So if I do this, both of us loses. But if you do this, you'll find the cure for your boredom and I get to sleep this off,"
"So this is the only one you got?" inquired Yuuka as she stood up. "I guess I'll manage with him. As long as I can do whatever I want on where I go. And if I need to go back here, I can,"
"Alright! You've been to the Outside World. You can handle yourself out there. But be sure not to get the military's interest, and I might reward you~" With a snap of a finger, the dimensions pulled apart and revealed a gap in front of Yuuka. The gardener youkai stepped into the gap. "Try to make a title of yourself first. That'll get his attention."
Yuuka turned around at this and grinned devilishly, "Oh I believe you know how much I make of a first impression."
Cole MacGrath stared at Kessler's lifeless body, his blood still boiling. The scowl on his face was evident and his scars seem to glow. He couldn't expect what memory was given to him.
Kessler was actually him who travelled from the future. He couldn't accept it.
Initiating the Ray Sphere Explosion and getting Empire City quarantined. Taking the First Sons from Alden and making what Sasha what she is. Even going as far as to kill the woman he married on his timeline, Trish.
It was all for the sake of getting Cole prepared against The Beast.
The electricity inside him wants to get out. To get out and fry everything he sees. But he can't harm anything anymore. Cole jumped down from the crater's center and landed beside a cable. He kneeled down and pressed his hands on the disconnected wire, the red electricity on his body arcing. Close by, Zeke Dunbar, his former best friend only stood still, unsure of what to do. The conduit refused to even look at his friend.
"Cole…"
"Get the hell out of here Zeke," growled Cole. His anger with Zeke paled in comparison to Kessler's. He was still furious at his friend's betrayal. But he would've had a tougher time with Kessler if Zeke wasn't there. He hasn't forgiven him yet, and he won't forgive him for a long time. "Get out of here and don't find me. I still haven't forgiven you so just stay away,"
Zeke didn't reply. He just gave out a silent nod and turned around. He muttered the word 'brother' before walking away.
Cole listened as the sounds of footsteps gradually disappeared. To see if Zeke was gone, he let out a Radar Pulse receiving nothing in return. He let out a dry smile and closed his eyes. Black and red lightning coursed throughout his body and swirled around Cole's body.
He let loose all the lightning he had into the electric wire. Black and Red lightning coursed into the wire, illuminating the blast zone with red light. Electrical explosions occurred everywhere in the crater, appearing out of the ground with no pattern. Red and black lightning also struck from the sky, leaving behind scorch marks on the ground, further damaging the Ray Sphere's Blast Zone. None of the electricity reached Kessler's body. Amidst the deafening sound of the storm, Cole's scream echoed loud enough to be heard. It was the scream of despair and anger.
From the streets nearby, injured bystanders looked up at the storm occurring in the area, watching with looks of horror. They could guess who the cause of the strange phenomena was, and they knew better than to mess with him. Most of them all backed away and began moving away. Among the civilians that didn't move away was Zeke.
He only watched the thunderstorm not averting his gaze. Zeke held his trusted firearm tightly and sighed. "Even with Trish's death, you're still with the Dark Side. Brother… I hope you're okay."
Morning, Day 24
"That's right run away!"
"This place is ours cops!"
Three armored thugs shot their Assault rifles to the air, another one waving an RPG at their enemies. The surviving police officers hesitated before they ran away, each carrying an injured police man. The four police men couldn't really handle armored thugs who make use of Assault Rifles when they only have pistols to use. What bystander left near the streets that didn't leave during the gunfight only watched in fear as the Dust Men rejoiced over their victory.
The four didn't focus long on their victory and looked back to their captured Police Station. The civilians around ran away, now aware that the Dust Men had defeated the police. This prompted the Dust Men
To take pot shots at them. They each laughed with joy for each bystander that crumpled to the floor. Their dominance over the Warrens heightened ever since Cole MacGrath, the demon of Empire City moved into the Historic District. Their conduits were feared and their armor marks them as the more powerful gang of Empire City. And as such, no one can do anything once they begin terrorizing the streets. No one but the demon of Empire City.
But their shooting game ended abruptly when a voice spoke nearby.
"Huh, you're all bad at aiming aren't you?" The female voice made the Dust Men look around the streets. Their focus landed on an alleyway, where a woman was watching them. The most noticeable feature about her is her green hair and the way she was watching them calmly and twirling a parasol. One of the Dust Men took notice of her fancy looking clothing and informed them.
"Another richie playing hero," he chortled and raised his assault rifle. "She doesn't know where she's getting herself into."
"I bet she's another one from the mainland. How much can we get with her?"
"She doesn't look too bad," one of the Dust Men approached removing his gauntlets. "Let's play around with her first."
The woman only smiled and her eyes closed as the Dust Men stood in front of her. The thug in front of her hesitated as he felt something odd about the woman. He could feel something was wrong, and his allies noticed him stop. They raised their weapons just as Yuuka spoke.
"Gentleman, I haven't been here for long but if your definition of play is something akin to what happened awhile ago, fine then. I'll play along."
5 hours later
"What the hell happened here?" Zeke muttered as he stared at what's in front of him. A crowd of civilians were also around him, also focused on what they're seeing.
In the middle of the streets, a large oak tree had suddenly sprouted over the concrete with its roots deep underground. Although this event itself would be enough to warrant attention, what Zeke was looking at was the 'things' handing on the tree.
What seem to be vines wrapped around the tree, four dead bodies are hanging. The thorns on the vines were keeping the bodies in place and seemed to sway around without the wind. The bodies themselves are covered by dried blood with various flowers having grown out of their bodies. Wooden spears also riddled parts of their bodies, and Zeke started to think that the only reasons their bodies didn't fall apart was because of the vines binding them.
The bystanders around Zeke started to voice out their opinions while few left to vomit.
"How did this happen?"
"Disgusting. What the hell is this?"
"Unbelievable, is it a conduit?"
"What are those bodies?"
"No it's a conduit! She killed the Dust Men that was attacking the area here," Zeke turned to the speaker, his interest heightening. The speaker was a man with a droopy expression and a slouched body. Yet the man spoke loud and clear. "She killed them! She killed them so quickly!"
Zeke frowned at the speaker before looking back to the tree. He raised his cellphone and gave out a sigh as he began pressing buttons. The call he was making is not going to be a friendly one, but at least he could still help him.
"Zeke…" Cole's voice rang out from the other end.
"Cole I need to talk to you about something," Zeke replied before Cole can say more. "This is something you should be aware of."
Author: An idea I have regarding Yuuka choosing to help Cole develop his powers during the hiatus month between inFAMOUS 1 and 2. I might continue, but that's if I have some motivation to do so. I'll be using Evil Karma Cole. Of course this is good enough to be a oneshot on its own but I might work on something else after this.
Please review if you will and criticize any mistakes
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Author: Disclaimer - I do not own Touhou Project of inFAMOUS
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