inFamous Fanfic

Force of Nature

Chapter 1: Jump Start

Day 35

"We should begin now."

The city has basically begun to stabilize; repair itself. Little by little, order is returning. The First Sons have left town, lacking a leader, they had no place here. The Dust Men have all but disbanded, for all the same reasons. The Reapers, however, have been able to take control, lacking the opposition. They keep popping up from time to time, but it's nothing I can't handle.

"Hey Cole, whatcha doin' staring into nothingness like that all the time?" Zeke asked, opening one of his few remaining beers.

"Thinking." I said coldly, jumping from the top of the stairwell opening.

"You gotta relax, man. You're gonna stress yourself out like that." Zeke said, sipping his beer.

"I'm fine. Worry about yourself." I said remembering the stress he himself caused me.

As I said that, screams broke out in the street. I looked over the edge of the building top to see people running in the streets. I looked to see what they were running from to see red-cloaked figures rushing down the street, brandishing guns and firing in random directions. Three of them broke out into a sprint, rushing towards our building.

"Crap! They're attacking the building!" I said.

"What? The Reapers?" Zeke asked, standing up from his couch.

"Yeah, stay here. I'll handle it." I ordered, jumping from the rooftop.

"Ok, then." Zeke said, sipping his beer again.

The air rushed past my face as plummeted through the air. I felt the electricity surge through my body, pooling in my hands as I prepared for impact. The moment I touched the ground, I let the electricity loose, feeling it slither from my grasp and out through my fingers. A blast resulted, knocking the hooded figures to the ground as the electricity jumped up their bodies. I dove off to the side, taking cover behind a nearby car. I peered over the hood, my arm raised. The moment I glimpsed red, I let bolts of electricity loose. The figures dropped like flies. When all of them stopped moving, I went over to inspect for survivors. Out of the twelve that attacked, eight of them were still breathing. I let static electricity drop onto them, restraining them on the ground.

"Hey, Harms, you there?" I called the police through my phone.

"Yeah, what is it, Cole?" the officer asked.

"I got trash pick-up for ya."

"Alright, I'll get some men over there right now. What's your position?"

"Outside my house."

"They attacked you at your house!?"

"Yeah, now just get them out of my sight." I commanded, hanging up.

I ran to the building wall, leaping from windowsill to windowsill. In moments, I was back on the rooftop.

"How'd it go?" Zeke asked.

"About as well as it usually does."

"Meh, want a beer?"

"Not now."

Day 36

I woke up in the usual spot, on Zeke's couch. Zeke was sleeping in the back, on next to his batteries. I woke him up.

"Hey Cole, what's going on? We under attack again?" Zeke asked, disoriented.

"No, I'm waking you up to tell you I'm going to Trish's grave." I said, holding back the pains.

"Alright man, call if you need something." Zeke said, turning back to go to sleep.

I jumped from the rooftop again, catching electric fields between my arms, coasting to the nearby rooftop. I jumped from rooftop to rooftop, making my way towards the historic district.

I know I shouldn't be mad at Zeke anymore. He made a mistake, we all do. I learned that the hard way. Trish wouldn't want me to be angry anymore, she would tell me to forgive Zeke. I think I will, he's one of the only friends I got.

These thoughts passed through my head as I reached the bridge from Neon District to Historic District. I caught a powerline and slid to the other side. I caught another rooftop afterwards, making my way towards the park. I finally got there, Trish's grave sitting there, her picture depicting her face. As I was nearing her grave, I noticed another figure standing among the other graves. He was kneeling down in front of one of them. He was dressed in red, so I assumed he was a Reaper. I was preparing to blast the hell out of him, but as I neared his position, I noticed he was convulsing, as though he was crying. I lowered my arm, walking over to him.

"Hey, you ok?" I asked, feeling sympathetic for him, probably weeping over someone close to him as well. I reached down to touch his shoulder, and he jumped away from my touch. I only watched as he glanced at me from beneath his hood. "You ok?" I asked again.

"Yeah, I'm fine." he said with a surprising steadiness. "What's it to you?"

"Hey I'm just here for my own reasons." I said, backing off.

"Yeah? Well keep it that way. I don't need any sympathy from a murderer." the figure said.

The words stung, but I didn't know why. I looked down for a split second, glancing at Trish's grave, seeing her face on the picture. I turned to snipe back at him, except he was gone.

"I'm going crazy from the guilt." I told myself. "I don't have anyone else like you to talk to." I said, looking at the grave.

I sat down next to the grave.

"I really wish you were here, babe."

I sighed, laying down on my back. I was only able to lay there for a moment before I heard more gunshots ringing out from the streets.

"Crap." I moaned, leaping back into action.

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Author's Notes: Hey look, an inFamous fanfic! I borrowed this game from a friend (as well as his PS3 :D ) and really enjoyed it, so much so that I decided to write this fanfic. To my fans that have been reading Paths of Contempt in the StarFox stories, I apologize for not updating and writing this instead. But, I was so inspired with this whole storyline that I came up with that I just had to write this fic. If any of you that read Paths of Contempt are reading this, I'll let you know that I updated with another chapter that no one commented on. I did relatively close to the other update, so I don't think anybody realized that. It was like, a day immediately after. So read that and comment. In the meantime, I'll be writing this. For those of you reading this that have no idea what this game is, I suggest going to YouTube (if it's actually working that is, it doesn't seem to be working for me right now) and typing in "inFamous playthrough pt 1". You should get a list of results. I suggest watching the videos by darksydephil. He swears a lot, and talks a lot through his videos, but his commentary is funny and the videos are actually pretty good quality and he plays through the whole game, including all side missions, like I did. And he doesn't actually talk through the important parts, so don't complain. So yeah, if you do know what I'm talking about, this is obviously after the events of the game. I'll be adding a lot of my own stuff, including new powers and characters, so be ready for that. This fanfic will be done in the first-person narrative, like in the game. Anything that will be the comic-book cutscenes will have a ** before and after it. Hope you enjoy. Here's to another story.

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