First off, happy Thanksgiving everyone. Second, Oh my God I'm Three months late. I am so sorry. a lot of stuff has been going on with me, plus between writing this, working and going to school, its been hard to get behind the computer. But the reason i was 3 months was because i got slammed hard with writers block, i had an outline of this chapter in my head before i even post last chapter. but for the love of God i couldn't type a single line. And the reason I've been radio silent was because i REFUSE AND I MEAN REFUSE to post a chapter saying UPDATE THIS ISN'T A CHAPTER. Anyway we'll talk about this chapter at the end so for now enjoy.
Atlanta Georgia-1 month after RFI detonation
As the sun was setting a figure wearing a black hoodie with a blue hockey jersey and dark green cargo pants and combat boots was walking down the street. He kept his head down and his hood over his head so you couldn't see his face. The figure was none other than the demon himself or more accurately the demon's son, Jacob Macgrath.
I grabbed my stomach when it let out a loud growl. "should just sleep, not getting dinner tonight." I thought as I past a bakery, smelling the fresh Bread
After a few more minutes of walking I noticed a small crowd of people staring at a TV behind a window.
The TV was showing a picture woman with red hair dressed in a military uniform.
BREAKING NEWS: Director Brooke Augustine of the Department of Unified Protection declares war against the "Bio-Terrorist menace."
"What?!" I thought as my eyes we glued to the screen.
"Now we bring you a PSA from Brooke Augustine herself.
"Bioterrorists, what do you think when you hear that word? Cole Magrath? The Beast? Fear? Oppression? I'm here to tell you Cole and all the other bioterrorists were once ordinary people just like you. They didn't know that lurking within them was a sickness. A gene that would transform them into something violent and terrible. A gene that could be inside you. Bioterrorism can be stopped but it has to start with you. Do your part for a brighter, safer world." Brooke Augustine said.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. 'there going to hunt down conduits?!'
I would have thought about it more but I saw a shady looking man near a alley waiting for a teenage couple that walking down the sidewalk towards him. Right as the couple was about to pass an alley the boy was hit on the side of the head and the girl was pulled into the alley. The boy quickly recovered and tried to stop his attackers but was to meet with a pistol aimed at his forehead point blank.
I quickly got up and let out a quiet sigh as I ran towards the alley. "assholes, couldn't they have waited to do something stupid in the morning when I'm not tired."
Once getting to the alley Jacob saw that there were four thugs, one holding the girl who was crying, another pointing a gun at her head, another pointing a gun at the guy who was desperately trying to find a way out of their situation and the last one who looked like their leader shouting demands.
"Give us all your money or the bitch gets popped." The leader shouted in the boy's face.
"I don't know boss, I think this one can give us more than just money." The thug holding the girl said.
Upon hearing this the girl screamed and tried to break the thugs grip.
"Don't fucking touch her!" the boy shout in rage.
"Shut the hell up your in no position to tell us what to do, now if you want to go home tonight your gonna let whatever happens, happen got it." the leader said point his gun at the boy's head.
"Leave them alone!" I said in a commanding tone as I got up from my hiding spot.
"Who the fuck are you!" one of the thugs said pointing a gun at me.
"Get lost before you become a part of this kid." Another said.
"Leave them be or you're going to regret it." I ordered, gritting my teeth.
The thugs just laughed at my orders, "I'll make you regret this brat." One thug said walking up to me with brass knuckles. The second he swung at me I slid out of the way and grabbed him by the head and shoved him down, electrocuting him in the process.
"Oh shit." The leader said scared as he grabbed the terrified boy as a human shield "your one of those freaks."
"I'm a conduit." I said insulted as I raised my arm as electricity started to flow down my arm.
"you take another step forward and I'll put a bullet in this bitch's skull." The thug holding the girl said.
"if you do that then what will protect you from me?" I asked
Before they could answer I fired a precision bolt at their heads forcing them to release the couple. Not finished I charged the leader and punched him three times with my electrified fists, knocking him out. Another thug tried to punch me but I ducked grabbed his arm and threw him over my shoulder. Before he hit the ground, I send him a shockwave which suspended him in the air while I shot bolts of lightning at him.
I turned around to face the last thug who started to back away in fear. He pulled out his gun and fired four times, two shots missed and the hit me make me take a step back before continuing my advance.
The thug then threw his gun on the ground and got on his knees and started begging. "please don't kill me have mercy."
"mercy? What mercy were you planning to give these two? Who are you to beg when you had the full intention of raping that girl possibly killing these two."
"I know and I'm sorry please." The thug begged again
"Pathetic." I mumbled before electrocuting him, knocking him out.
I turned around and walked towards the teenage couple to see if they were alright.
"Hey, are you two OK?" I asked
"Get away from us you freak!" the girl shouted.
The boy then grabbed a gun off the ground and pointed it at me. "Back up, back the hell up."
"dude I just saved your life!" I said shocked at this cruel treatment.
The boy fired the gun but completely missed. "I get back up!" his hands were trembling.
Off in the distance sirens could be heard and we all turned our heads in that direction. With the distraction I made a beeline for the nearby ladder and climbed the side of the building as fast as I could.
After some running I sat down and tried to go back to sleep
"sometimes I wonder why I help people at all, sometimes they deserve what's coming to them." I thought before remembering why my mother Trish always wanting to help those who needed help.
A tear rolled down my face as I thought of my parents and how I was robbed of them.
Present day
"So, let me get this straight." Uncle Zeke said leaning forward in his chair.
"Ok." I replied while I was lying on the couch playing on my phone.
"you're on a covert team of superheroes."
"I am" I said curtly.
"And you're the sidekick to THE Wonder Woman?" he asked
"Don't call me a sidekick!" I said glaring at Zeke
"Whatever." Uncle Zeke waved off. "I heard you got a new superhero name. What's the matter? Didn't like your old one?"
"Oh God please don't remind me of that shitty name. I go by Volt now get used to it." I groaned
"You really should go back to your old one the Electric Boy had such a good ring to it." Uncle Zeke teased.
"STOP!" I said annoyed.
"Relax Jacob, I'm only playing with you." Zeke said.
"yeah well I don't appreciate it. But on a more serious note we have a problem." I said.
"What is it?" Uncle Zeke said getting serious.
"Last month, the team and I took on an android called Amazo, it was created by an inventor who goes back the name Professor Ivo. The Android was powered by a blast core."
"Shit!" Zeke cursed. "I thought we were done with all that."
"Zeke were never gonna be done with it. I mean I'm living proof that Conduits survived the RFI, and if I did other did too. And speaking of the RFI, when I first met Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad we got captured by Cadmus and that used some chemical gas to prevent me from using my powers. It felt exactly like the RFI when dad first tried to activate it. And another time I took on an assassin from the league of shadows, she used a smoke pellet and again felt just like the RFI." I explained
"Damn Jacob, thus is bad, really bad. If someone is making weapons to combat Conduits then that means someone found Wolfe's notes." Zeke said
"Oh Fuck!" I shouted as a realization dawned on me.
"What, what is it!" Zeke said surprised by my outburst.
"At Cadmus, when I was getting hit with the Inhibitor gas the doctor said, "Dr. Wolfes research was very specific." When he said that I was already high on the gas, I was too tired to even think about it." I said getting worried.
Uncle Zeke put his hands on my shoulder "Ok Jacob there isn't anything we can really do about this right now, I'll do some research on this but for now head back to the cave."
I let out a sigh. "alright, it was good to see you again Uncle Zeke, l need to visit more often."
"yeah you do, I'll see you later.
Mount Justice-hours later
Wally POV
"recognized kid flash b-03" the computer announced.
"The Wal-man is here!" I shouted enthusiastically.
Silence.
"Hello? Anyone home? M'gann?"
In the rec room I could hear the TV playing so I sprinted to the kitchen and crabbed some snacks from my stash. Looking in the den I saw Jacob laying on the couch channel surfing. Before he could react, I ran up and stole the remote out of his hand and started looking for something to watch.
"seriously?" Jacob said annoyed but made no attempt to get up and take the remote.
"How's it going buddy?" I asked with a fistful of chips in my mouth.
"Dude, for the love of the gods, swallow" he said disgusted.
I swallowed with a loud gulp. "gods?" I questioned.
Realizing what he said. "oh shit, did I say gods? Dang I've been around wonder woman to long.
"Whatever. So, anything good on?" I asked as he flipped through more channels.
"Nothing, I've spend the past ten minutes trying to find something. I was about to suit up and beat up some bad guys." Jacob said while staring at the lightning running in-between his fingers.
Suddenly I had an idea. "I Know! Let's go to central city! I can show you around, something is always happening there."
"Hell yeah, something to do." Jacob said jumping off the couch and jogging to his room.
Central city- afternoon
I called it, something always goes down in central city. We've been here for 30 minutes and we have already stopped multiple robberies. Speaking of which…
"So, let me get this straight." Volt said as he dove out of the way of one of captain boomerang's boomerang.
"Yes." I answered as I ran away from a tracking boomerang. We had managed to corner him in an abandoned alley but he was still proving difficult to take down.
"This guy, dressed like THAT" volt gestured to boomerangs costume. "Goes by the name, Captain Boomerang."
Before I could answer Volts casual insults Cpt. Boomerangs throws a boomerang which nails volt in the face putting a slash mark on his hockey mask.
"just who the BOODLY HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, LIGHTBULB!" Cpt. Boomerang shouted."
Volt crawled behind a dumpster and looked at me and judging from the look in his eyes he was pissed.
"Hey, are you OK man?" I asked concerned.
Volt didn't answer but instead stood up and got out of cover, his arms covered in electricity. The captain threw two more boomerangs, intending to slice Jacobs head off. Before they could Volt pushed his arm forward sending out a pulse making the boomerangs stop in their tracks.
Everything got quiet. Boomerang was too shocked to move as I was and volt just stood there examining the Boomerangs that were suspended in the air by his new power. Volt then dropped the spinning knifes with a loud clang and sent out another pulse towards the dumpster he was hiding behind. The dumpster then floated over his head connected by his lightning.
"Who are you?" Boomerang asked again this time fearfully.
"YOUR DEMISE!" Volt said dramatically before thrusting his arms forward sending the dumpster hurtling forward.
Boomerang ran as fast as he could and luckily managed to dive out of the way but he dove head first in two police officers who had handcuffs ready.
"Aww shit." Was all he could say about the situations.
I walked up to Volt and I could practically see the grin on his face behind his mask.
"What's the matter with you?! You could have killed him!" I shouted angerly.
"So? Why does it matter?" he questioned.
"We don't kill people even criminals." I said.
"First off, I didn't kill him and before you say I could have, I knew what I was doing. That wasn't the first time I've used kinetic pulse. Second off sometimes you have to kill people especially criminals or else people die.
Before I could think over any counter-argument. A police officer ran up to can put his hands on our shoulders.
"Good job boys, we've been tracking that nut-job for weeks." The Officer said thankfully
"no problem sir just doing our job." I said.
"Ha, just doing our job, it's always could to have you here Kid Flash." He said smiling before looking at Jacob. "Although I've never seen you before son. What do you call yourself?"
"Volt, they call me Volt sir. And I'm just visiting KF and Flash have this city covered." He said.
"Flashes or not it's always good to have another superhero. Especially after this new Bio-terrorist menace.
Even behind his mask it was easy to see Jacobs expression change from appreciation to anger.
In the distance we heard sirens and I took that as our cue to leave, I grabbed Jacobs shoulders pulling him back. "It was good talking with you Officer, but we should keep up our patrol."
Jacob POV
After putting up with that cop I was hopping from one power line to another until we finally got to the source of the sirens, while Kid Flash was standing there with his arms crossed and tapping his foot impatiently. The 'place' was an apartment building with military truck covering all sides. There were what looked to be national guardsmen pointing weapons at the building. while the police head a perimeter keeping people from getting close.
"What's going on? And why is the Military here?" I questioned.
"No idea, there not standard military there not letting anyone through, not even us or the police." Kid Flash answered.
"wait that's not the national Guard, Look!" I said pointing at a Humvee. On the side it showed a bird and under it, it said 'Department of Unified Protection.'
"No, No, no, no." I whispered fearfully. I turned to KF. "WE HAVE TO GET IN THERE!" I all but shouted.
"what-why, Volt what's going on it looks like there taking care of it." Kid Flash said.
I grabbed him by his shoulders. "THAT'S THE PROBLEM! Ki-Wally I need you to help me please! I need you to get me in there as fast as possible."
"Ok, Ok. I'll race you in there." Kid Flash said.
"Thank You." I sighed in relief. After we get in there try to figure out what exactly is happening, I have my suspicions but if there is any more you can Find out that would be great."
"Alright, I'll take care of it." kid flash said.
The next two seconds was a complete blur. I was standing on the street now I'm inside the apartment at the front door. Up the stairs I could hear someone screaming in fear and shouting 'MOMMY' or 'GET AWAY FROM ME.'
After slowly walking up the stair I noticed a squad of the DUP soldiers dressed in military uniforms all on the ground knocked out. Once passing them I noticed the source of the screaming was coming from an apartment room that had the door wide open.
"honey please you need to calm down, it's going to be ok." I heard a female voice say reassuringly but also terrified.
"ITS NOT OK, I WANT THIS TO GO AWAY!" a little girl screamed.
When I walked through door I saw a woman and a man and a 12-year-old boy standing next to another door like they were taking cover. The Door itself was wide open and had burnt damage on it.
"What's going on, are you all ok?" I asked
"Please you have to help us! Our daughter caught that conduit disease thing. She went crazy and started attacking us!" the man said scared.
'conduit-disease… oh my fucking god!' I thought annoyed and thankful they couldn't see my deadpanned expression through my mask. I let out a small sigh. "Ok, I'll take care of her. Don't worry."
"We tried to tell everything is going to be fine and that the DUP will take care of everything, but she still won't calm down."
'No wonder she's panicking. I would too if I was her.' I thought.
As soon I walked into the apartment, I heard a little girl cry out. "GET AWAY FROM ME!" All of a sudden, I felt a great force hit me on the head knocking me to the ground. then I felt a burning sensation on my mask. Pulling it off, I saw it was disintegrating in my hands with some kind of green energy.
"Well Ok. It's not like I really liked mask or anything." I mumbled sarcastically. I dropped the mask on the ground and it completely disintegrated.
I looked at the source of the shot and saw a little girl about 9 years old staring at me in complete fear. The most noticeable thing I saw was that her arms mainly around her hands emitted a green hue.
"I'm SO sorry" the girl cried. "I didn't mean to hurt you I can't control it. you have to get away from me. I want this to stop. I don't want to hurt anyone anymore.
"Hey, hey, hey. It's going to be ok." I said in a reassuring voice. "Don't be afraid. I want to help you."
"What if I hurt you again?" The girl asked trying to calm down.
"Do you want to hurt me?" I asked calmly as I slowly walked towards her.
"No, that was awful I never want to hurt anyone ever again." She said while looking at her hands.
"Then you won't." she looked up at me. "Your powers do NOT control you. Their an extension of yourself. The reason you can't control them is because they are newly born. You don't know what triggers your powers, but you will."
"How can be so sure?" she asked me.
"Because I went through the same thing you are going through now. Just take a deep breath and slow down. You won't be able to do anything if you can't even think."
She took a deep breath and wiped the tears out of her eyes, while I kneeled down in front of her.
"what's your name?" I asked.
"Katie, what's yours." She asked.
"My name is a secret, but you can call me Volt. I'm a superhero." I smiled.
"Are you really?!" Katie asked excited having completely forgot her situation.
"I am." I produced some lightning to show her."
"THAT'S SO COOL!" she jumped happily before staring at me. "Wait is that why you're not afraid of my powers? Because you're a superhero."
"I'm not afraid because I have nothing to fear." I turned around and saw the family and even kid flash as he walked in all staring at us. I turned back and look at Katie and leaned forward so only she could hear me. "you and I have something in common." I whispered.
"What?" she whispered.
I produced more electricity on my hand. "We're Conduits. It what people call us if you have powers. Katie, I want you to remember something. Can you do that."
"Yes, I can."
"Right now, times are hard for people like us, for conduits. People are afraid, and they might do things to you and call you names like bio-terrorist, but that's wrong. You're a conduit and don't forget that. Another thing, Powers don't kill people, it's the person behind the power that kills people. If you truly do not want to ever hurt a living soul in the world, you won't and don't let anyone make you ever." I said.
She nodded her head in understanding. Before anything else could be said between us. The doors busted open and DUP troops rushed in, they push me to the floor before I could even react and put some kind of blocky handcuff on Katie and carried her as a she screamed bloody murder.
'Jesus there really fast.' I thought as Kid Flash was pulling me up.
"What the hell happened I told you to keep them busy!" I yelled at Wally as I opened the window and was about to climb out.
"Hey, I tried but before I could stop them they aimed their guns at me." Kid Flash defended.
That surprised me, the government considers Superheroes as allies, they wouldn't attack us unless we broke the law. I looked around and saw I bandana lying on the ground. picking it up and covering my mouth to use as a temporary mask. I then ran back to the window and jumped out. Thanks to the conduit gene a fall from high building is not I problem.
I ran up back to where all the cops were, and I saw Kid Flash run out of the building. I then saw Katie being loaded into an armored truck and her parents trying to calm her down.
"Let go of her." I tried to push the soldier off Katie, but the soldier just pushed me aside with a surprising amount of force.
"you have no right do this let her go." I demanded.
"Sir, we are well within authority to apprehend this Bio-terrorist." The soldier said respectfully.
"You can't do this she's just a little girl." Kid Flash said standing by my side.
You need to stand down or you will be considered a threat." The Soldier said getting irritated.
"Try me!" I threatened producing lightning around my whole body.
"last chance STAND DOWN!" the Soldier and 2 more producing Concrete around their arms.
'wait their conduits?!' I thought shocked. using radar pulse, I confirmed my fears. All three soldiers had a yellow strain in their chest showing the conduit gene. Looking around and using the pulse again I could sense that every DUP soldier had the Conduit gene. But upon closer inspection the gene seems somehow weaker. 'maybe they're not a prime conduit like me.'
"POWER DOWN NOW OR I WILL PUT YOU DOWN!" The soldier shouted at me, bringing me back to the situation at hand.
Enough was enough I was tired of these racists and the newly discovered Hypocrites. I charged at the Soldiers and they formed a concrete shield to repel my attack.
"VOLT, STAND DOWN, NOW!" a voice commanded, causing me to stop my attack before any lightning could hit my target, looking up I saw Wonder Woman floating down towards me. Upon touching the ground, she said "Volt, we will discuss your actions later but for now be quiet."
"But-" I started but was cut off
"Stop Talking." She commanded in a tone that honestly scared the hell out of me.
She then turned to soldier and glared at him causing him to dissipate the concrete around him. "I apologize for my protégées actions, maybe if you didn't cause such a scene, the would have gone much smoother and this young girl would have come willingly.
In all honesty this was just embarrassing Wonder Woman was scolding both of us like we were toddlers. Looking around I notice Flash was giving Kid Flash a lecture. 'probably gonna get the same treatment or worse considering I was seriously about to beat the hell out of that man'
"I'm sorry Wonder Woman but it is as I told Volt, we have order to take this bio-terrorist, so she doesn't harm anyone else. If you want to file a complaint the Justice league can take to congress if not, then keep you sidekick out of our way.
'screw the ass kicking, killing sounds much more appealing' I thought was crackling down my arms. Wonder Woman sent another death glare at me, but I wasn't having it. 'these assholes break into a little girl's house, puts her in handcuffs and then throws her in the back of a truck to bring her God knows where and Diana thinks I'm just going to be cool with this.'
"Volt go back to the cave, we will talk about this later." Wonder woman ordered.
"NO, I will not let this go!" I shouted as thunder clapped in the sky scaring the civilians watching.
"Volt Stop!" a voice shouted. looking at the source I saw it was Katie shouting at me.
Confused I shouted, "There trying to take you away against you own free will."
"It's OK! Just stop. Your scaring me!" she said.
That really threw off, I balled up all my anger. Scaring Katie scared me even more. 'she's… afraid of me?'
"Alright fine… I-I guess I'll just… go." I said unsure."
Walking away kid Flash followed me.
"Hey man, are you OK? I know that must have been tough." He asked concerned.
"no… I'm not OK. I-I'm afraid." i said.
A few hours later
It's been hours since I got back to the cave. Once I walked through the Zeta-tube I made a beeline straight to my room, completely ignored M'ganns greetings and when she offered dinner. I was beyond furious with what had transpired. On how the government sanctioned soldiers to hunt down people with special ability's and sent them away. I mean yeah, the rise of conduits is definitely concerning but to just lock away anyone with a power or the potential to have a power. It's just outrageous, we're not aliens from outer space here to conquer the earth, we're citizens, we have rights.
The knocking outside my do pulled me from my thoughts. Walking up and opening the door I saw Wonder Woman standing there with a concerned look.
"May I come in?" she asked politely. I just gave her a deadpanned look as I stepped aside.
"Jacob, I wanted to talk about what hap-"
"How's Katie?" I cut her off.
"She's fine. She was taken to a DUP facility where she can learn to control her powers." Wonder Woman explained.
"I could I taught her how to control her powers!" I snapped.
"how? Wonder Woman asked. "You can't train every conduit there is, on how to control their powers."
"So, what? We just let the government kidnap them and send them off! That's alternative? For them to get their Rights stripped away and life in prison."
"Jacob be calm and sit down." Diana said.
I let out a loud sigh and then I sat down on my bed and Wonder Woman said next to me."
"Jacob, listen to me. I know your mad and you have the right to be. But Jacob, people are scared no terrified that there are superhumans out there and the number is increasingly rising. I'm not saying what they're doing is right, but the government thinks what they're doing is just."
I ran my fingers through my hair as I looked at the floor. "It's not fair. It's just not fair." I mumbled. "I mean yeah there's probable some asshole out there who is going to try and use their powers against other people for selfish reason, but you can't just lock up an entire race based off what might do."
I felt Wonder Woman rubbing my back as I sat there but then she stops. "Jacob put these thoughts in the back of your mind, there is nothing you can do about it right now."
"I can't just forget about it." I argued.
"you can if your too busy thinking about something else." She countered.
"like what?" I asked.
Wonder Woman then pulls out a sword behind her back and holds it out for me to take.
"Learning how to fight. Like a warrior!" she said.
Holy shit I did it. I added the DUP. Like i said when i first started this fanfic i am following both timelines of the show and game because they actually fit pretty nicely. But the DUP has always been around and i didn't want them to appear out of nowhere later in the story. Right now the DUP will kinda take a backseat in this story for now, but in the late future they will play a massive roll in this story. Other things to take note, yeah i made a big deal out of Jacobs mask but the problem with it is i cant show him expressing emotion because no can see it. but don't worry i came up with something really cool for him. Another thing, the ending where Wonder Woman give Jacob a sword, i think Volt needs a proper melee weapon besides the gigawatt blades(they are cool though) so jacob will have a sword and shield like Wonder woman but it will be different then hers. Anyway i hope everyone will have a great Thanksgiving and if you have any questions or ideas (I would really appreciate some ideas i need all the help i can get.) just sent me a review or PM. Thanks