OC Information:

Name: Jack August Macbeth

Age: 24

Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

Alias(s): J, the New Savior of New Marai, the New Electric Man.

Height: 6'2

Powers:

Electrokinesis: Lightning Bolt, Overload Burst, Psychic Vision, Precision, Electric Drain, and Tesla Missile.

Electromagnetism: Car Jump, Bio-Leech, Pulse Heal, Arc Restraint, Electromagnetic Shockwave, Shock Grenade, Polarity Wall, Gigawatt Blades, Megawatt Hammer, Kinetic Pulse, Radar Pulse, Thunder Drop, Electric Drain, Precision, Induction Grind, Induction Launch, Lightning Tether, Lightning Storm, Ionic Vortex, and Static Thrusters.

Pyrokinesis (Discovered Later On): Firebird Strike, Ionic Drain, Nightmare Blast, Napalm Grenade, Hellfire Rockets, and Spikers.

Cryokinesis (Discovered Later On): Ice Launch, Ionic Freeze, Shatter Blast, Frost Shield, Ice Grenade, and Freeze Rocket.

The name's Jack Macbeth, my friends just call me J for short. I grew up in a small neighborhood nearby Chicago; I was one of those kids you'd never notice, walking the streets not making eye contact and living off the streets. I went around town as a Graffiti/Mural artist, going around spraying the sides of multiple buildings explaining how the FBI/CIA are lying to their own people, explaining the Empire Quarantine, how a wall of cops were waiting at the end of the bridges, once people were trying to escape their own personal hell, they'd shoot them all down before they even see the exit…After hearing something like that, things begin to make more sense.

I had friends, some were jackasses some weren't, one of them, Jeremiah Jackal or JJ as I called him. During the summer, I learned he was a conduit who survived the RFI. When I asked what his powers were, he took me to a nearby graveyard, took me to a grave of someone neither of us knew, buried in the 1890s, he dug his hand into the ground and somehow pulled up the body. It was alive, almost as if it was never buried. After that, JJ had to move, he didn't tell me a reason…but I had a good guess.

When I heard about Cole MacGrath, I remembered the reports from Empire; people with strange powers, people getting killed at a bridge, people dressed like trash, and a plague that left hundreds, thousands maybe even millions dead. Then, it was: peace is being restored to Empire City; the police forces in the three districts of Empire have been restored. Then: the unknown terrorist that's destroyed Empire City is moving along the coast, heading to New Marai…Cole MacGrath, is he the suspected terrorist…and finally, Cole MacGrath; the so called 'Demon of Empire City' is now the 'Patron Saint of New Marai', giving his life to stop the beast; the true cause of the Empire Event.

One day, while I was writing one side of a building, a black car going way too fast crashed up into my side of the building, I move out of the way but later go out to see if anyone is ok, while I'm there, I notice a duffel-bag with a slight glow from inside…I open it and notice it's the size of a basketball. It soon hits me…A Ray-Sphere. Last I heard, the only known ones were destroyed, so why is there one now, NSA, CIA FBI, I don't know. I hold it in my hand, and notice that it feels like there's something alive in it, as I try to spot it…I activate it.

…11:34 P.M…

I had this vision after the blast, I couldn't see anything, and everything was just…darkness. Suddenly, a woman, African-American by the looks, walks out of the shadows and begins to laugh at me, then she says: "You're in for one hell of a ride man, we gonna have some fun", she kept laughing, and walked back into the shadows. Then, I wake up, I don't move but I started to hear: "Come in chopper 1-5(Static) do you (Static) over? I re (Static) peat, do you read (Static) Over."

I soon get up and look at the remains of what was Chicago. "Oh god." I say as I notice a helicopter circling around a downed one about. I try to approach it, but it explodes before I get there. I stumble around and everything I get close to explodes before I can touch it. I keep stumbling and failed to notice an electric box outside of a building. I get close and suddenly, my body begins to react to it by absorbing its electricity. I felt better…barely…and continue to stumble across the road trying to reach the edge of town. But soon, the fatigue gets to me and I fall to the ground.

After a few moments, I feel two people trying to wake me up. I open my eyes and see two people, identical by the looks. The first had a White-Gray shirt on, track pants with a Union-Jack logo on the right leg, tattoos, and a barely noticeable scar on the right side of his face. The second had a Red-Black shirt with holes all over, pants with several rips and a blood red Union-Jack logo on the right side, pale skin with the veins very noticeable, and a pretty bad scar on the right side of his face.

"Come on…get up." The first said.

"GET UP!" The second said impatiently.

I shot up and the two people back away. And start to head out away from town, I follow and I notice who they both are…Cole MacGrath. But why are there two of them?

After a few blocks I notice we reach the edge of the blast, there are a few people lying down on the ground, some dead, some critically injured, the two Cole's split off. One Cole goes towards the injured, while the other goes forward a certain length.

"You need to help these people Jack; you'll be a hero to them." One Cole said.

"Fuck those people; they should've watched their own asses, let's just get out of here." The other Cole said.

I tried to figure out what to do, but soon I choose to go towards the injured, Cole just gave me a smirk.

"You did the right thing man."

"Thanks. What do I do from here?" I asked.

"Put some light electricity on your hands and zap that one guy in the center."

I begin to charge my hands, I begin to notice what Cole meant, it was like that shock therapy you get at a hospital, I walk up to the guy, he sees my hands and tries to leave, but the pain is too much, "Easy…I gotcha'" I say as I gently gave the guy a quick zap, but I also notice that a ring went around me when I did that. All of a sudden, everyone was zapped with healing energy, they begin to get up, I think they're going to run in fear. But instead, I hear clapping, whistling, and chants like 'Electric Man' or 'The New MacGrath'. I let out a smile and begin to run further south until the chants die out, then…I just walk.

…5:00 P.M. 2 Days later…

I begin to reach the southern border of Illinois, in the days that passed only the good Cole walked with me, saying that since I chose to help those people, I'm his guy…As we walked the temperature kept dropping, ever since the Beast showed up, the Northern hemisphere experienced a colder climate than usual. As I walked on the snow, I felt tiny trickles of electricity run through my feet and into the snow. I kept talking to Cole about what he did with these powers, all he said was 'It ranged'. Cole and I pass by a small group of kids having a snowball fight, I stop and watch the kids playing, then a kid gets a funny idea and throws a snowball at me, it hit me square in the face. It felt like a bomb blew up in front of me, I drop back clutching my face. Some kids run, but two, a boy and a girl, 9 by the looks of the age, come up to check on me, they see little volts of electricity, but what got to me is that they wouldn't…Shut…Up about it, then, the girl spoke up first.

"O-o-oh gosh, Mikey, we hit the electric man! We're gonna get in so much trouble!"

I groan a bit as I get back up. "H-how do you know me?"

The children are intimidated, but quickly respond. "We watched the news, reports of 'The Savior of New Marai' is on it every day."

"Heh…nice…its cool kids, get back home, your parents are probably worried."

"Kay." They respond and head back.

...12:37 A.M…

Cole and I are sitting by the fire I sparked up with some random firewood and electricity.

"So…what now," I began. "Where do we go from here?"

Cole sat there, thinking for a moment, "…New Marai. There, you can get something that helps balance out your powers; it called the AMP, my friend Zeke made it for me after the destruction of Empire."

"…AMP…nice sound to it…So, what happens when I get there and I get the AMP, who do I go to…anyone that you know in particular?"

"I know a couple people: Zeke Jedediah Dunbar and Lucy Kuo, but I suggest you keep your distance from them…for now."

"Okay…got it. But…why?"

"Think about what you're doing…You're a guy who has the same powers as their best friend when I died, once they know you're there, they'll try to see if you are well…me, they find out it's a…no offense…fake…They'll be pretty pissed."

"Ah, but what if one of them follows me?"

"The only one I'd worry about is Kuo, one for her power; she is a conduit who controls ice and she can transport faster than even I can grind power cables, so if she finds out you may need to caution her emotions next, I never got to see for sure, but I'm sure she liked me more than a professional way."

"…Understood…then what?

"With Zeke, he's a true team player, he made the AMP, and he put that as my gravestone. He'll be pissed that you took it, but if you explain it he MIGHT understand."

"And if he doesn't?"

Cole gave me an obvious look. "…He'll shoot you…'til you drop dead…but he'll come around."

"That's it?"

"That's it."

"Got it, I'm gonna rest up." I finish before passing out.

First chapter done…Please Read and review and send any constructive criticism on any parts you think could be better and where you think the story should go.