Kuo's Entrance

It was late noon when she arrived, the whole city stopped in awe, someone jumping into the hell-hole that was the quarantined Empire City was quite a shock, especially for the man who had worked his ass off trying to get everything to get it back on track.

"Alright," Kuo sighed as she entered the city, "Let's find the 'Electric Man' of Empire City."

Cole's POV

*around the same time, Cole was patrolling, looking for any unfortunate souls who were still under Sasha's control, the Reapers, so far there was nothing.*

He received a call from his less then best friend.

"Anything?

"No, nothing yet, are you sure you heard the tip right?" Doubt flooded the sentence, Cole still wasn't sure if Zeke could be trusted.

"Man, I swear on my life I heard that there was a reaper courier going through there!" Feeling the sense of doubt over the phone, "I wouldn't lie to you…"

"Alright man, I'll look around a little, but…?"

The sound of someone coming put Cole in a state of warning, he hid behind a dumpster, to see a person in a red hoodie covered in tar run out, they search over the area, and hides the package once satisfied, they quickly leave the scene.

"Well, looks like the tip wasn't crap after all…" Cole quickly retrieves the package, it's a bomb, a tar bomb, obviously Sasha refuses to let her hold over the City die, even from the hole she is hiding out in, she'll keep trying to take the city, and Coles heart too.

He shivered at the thought.

"Anything good?" Asked the Zeke, desperate to know if he screwed himself any more.

"Just more tar," Disabling the bomb, "damn psycho's won't rest till the whole the city is drowning in it"

"Guess the… What the hell?" Cole could hear only muffled buzzing, he traced Zeke's cell and went to where he was, Archer Square.

When Cole reached the site, he saw a large group of people surrounding someone, begging the person to help them, but Cole couldn't see who this mysterious person was, until a gunshot dispersed the crowed.

Kuo's POV

The City had been cleaned up considerably from how John described it after the Blast, Kuo was able to get into the city without too much problem, but upon landing, she was swarmed by the people who had been in the area, begging her for food and clothing.

"Help us!" One cried,

"We're starving!" from another,

"We are all dying!" cried another in the mob of pity.

"I'm sorry, I need to find someone!" She tried pushing her way through the mob, but it was no use, she was trapped in a circle of sadness that she could do nothing about, she felt awful that she couldn't help those who were dying right in front of her, but she had to find Cole.

She had to get out of the circle.

She had no choice.

She reached for her gun and shot one shot into the air…

The crowed fled, memories of the death still fresh in their minds.

"I'm so sorry…"

That's when she saw him, the man she came to find, there stood Cole MacGrath.