Suddenly I found myself riding a bike next to Cole McGrath. I knew what was coming next, and it was gonna hurt like hell.
Out of nowhere a blinding blue flash erupted from my left, it happened, the Ray Sphere had gone off. When I awoke, I was in a crater about 5-6 blocks wide in the middle of a city. A helicopter was flying overhead telling us to move. To get to the bridge. There was only one path, through the nearby parking garage and Cole was already heading there. When I finally caught up to him, *zap* he was hit by a beam of electricity. "Damn, Cole, you okay." "Yeah, I'm fine, but that should have killed me." The building started to come down on top of us. "We gotta move" I said. I managed to limp ahead when the same happened to me. "Whoa!" I shouted, but instead of feeling pain I felt, full, like when you chug a quart of water. "Are you okay?" He said. "Yeah I'm fine." We were both conduits and I knew we could do some damage.
As we started to cross the bridge, I could feel my energy surging, lightning rained from the sky, it was time to really haul ass. There were explosions going off all around from when the lightning hit cars. When we reached the end of the bridge I could feel the energy leave me. Cole dropped first, and Zeke came running, I started to stagger before falling to my knees. But in that moment I remembered something, someone important came to mind but it wasn't of infamous. This memory seemed to be blocked from me intentionally. All I could see was a blue blot. All I could feel was my face hit the ground.
I woke up to the inside of a hospital. My bed was next to Cole's. Trish was taking care of Cole while Zeke sat in the corner reading a magazine. No one knew I was awake yet, and I was weak. "Trish." I called. "Bouked, your awake. How do you feel?" "Weak" I replied. I slowly moved my hand towards the heart monitor and then, that same beam of electricity arched from the machine. I felt more alert. Trish screamed, Zeke shouted a hearty "whoa". I knew I had to focus to stem the flow, and the electricity stopped and I knew if I Focused, I could control my powers. That's when Cole woke up and did practically the same thing. Trish told us that we had been out for 8 days, the city was locked down in quarantine, no one in or out. Other conduits started popping up and I knew there was gonna be a war.
During the time of a week me and Cole gained more and more control and power. On the 15th day we powered up the t.v. soon after, a C-130 flew low overhead. On the t.v. a guy known as the t.v. Jacker showed up. He said something about a…. "Food drop!" I said "yes!" Zeke shouted it was time to go.
"I'm taking the express elevator."
"Good idea Cole, I don't want to walk more than I need to." So we jumped off the roof of the building.
"I will never walk down the stairs again." I said.
"Amen to that," Cole replied.
"Yeah, *huff* running down all those stairs, whew, that sucks donkey balls. Hey, *huff* I traded someone my homemade batteries for a new six-shooter. He left it in a parking lot nearby," said Zeke.
"You mean the same batteries that explode when you use them?" Cole asked.
"The guy who traded me doesn't know that," responded Zeke.
So we headed for the parking lot.
"Aww, he told me he left it under a car, but I thought there was only going to be one," said Zeke.
"I'll handle this." Cole said. Cole then unleashed a wave of electricity, which flipped one of the cars. But it was the wrong one. Cole was looking drained.
"You okay brother?" Asked Zeke.
"Yeah, but I'm not feeling very good."
"You must need to charge up after using up some juice." I said. " Here let me try. You go charge up." I then moved to the side of the cars. I focused and made a pushing motion and the cars went flying.
"Ah, there you are." Zeke said. "Now *click* let's go." When we made it to the square we were shocked to find the food stuck on the massive statue.
"Cole, only me and you can survive that drop and I don't feel like climbing, so go get um." He managed to get the food down, but then THEY came. The reapers, a faction of conduits that have one of the most bad-ass tags I've ever seen, well being from Maui anyway, they began their assault. Me and Cole wiped them out. However people started swarming the crates.
"Cole what are you gonna do? Cause I'm so hungry I could eat a horse, or a Big Mac."
"I'm going to attack the crowd, said Cole"
"Alright then let's do this." I knew it was wrong but I knew what I signed up for.
After that the t.v. jacker appeared on one of the big t.v. screens and called us terrorists, and to be honest, we kind of were. We attacked people who were worse off then us out of greed, and I know I'm not blameless.
After that we decided to leave town.
