inFamous: Lost Child

[Nicky Comic Scene]

...and I woke up sometime later, feeling restrained. I could barely see, feeling very dazed from whatever that man did to me. Looking around, I noticed that I was brought into someone's house. Still dazed, I see Jacob with his hands suspended from the ceiling. He was being beaten by another man smaller in height, but built like a tank. I watched as this man grabbed a hold of Jacob,... and ripped flesh from his body. What kind of man would do such a disgusting thing?!

The young conduit had found herself in a small cabin, with her hands bound together behind her back. Seeing what had just happened to Jacob right in front of her, Nicky's eyes opened real wide, and she started to scream. The skin and flesh started tearing off from Jacob's very bones, and fused with the skin on the other man. There was no doubt that he was another conduit, a flesh eating conduit. After finishing off Jacob, the man appeared to have gotten stronger, muscles and veins tensing up all over. He wore nothing but khaki shorts, and a wife beater to show off his strength.

Nicky began to cry, being traumatized by this whole situation. The flesh eater heard her crying, and decided to walk up to Nicky, and try to talk with her. The young girl moved back a little from her spot in the cabin, so the "cannibal conduit" decided to stop a few feet from her and said, "You must be terrified after what you saw dere, ah kid?"

Nicky noticed a slight accent, but wasn't surprised by it noticing the man seemed to bear a likeness to those in documentaries on gangsters she had seen. She said to the man, "What did you have against him? Why did you leave only his skeleton?"

The man smiled before saying, "'Cause I was hungry, and that asshole owed me! He owed me shit like dat rock you two ate!" Nicky became very nervous after hearing about him seeing that. "Yeah, that's right. I saw you and the creepy puto by the Naches, and I saw what happened after you two ate it."

The female conduit was confused when he said 'after'. What did the flesh eater mean by that? "What do you m-mean?"

"About the rock? Or you talkin' about the aftermath?

"What happened after what me and... h-him consumed the blast core?"

"Wouldn't you like to know? Well I wanted to know a lot of shit from that bitch over there, but Green River killer", he yelled as he pointed towards Jacob, "over there didn't tell me shit!"

The yelling made Nicky cry even more. "What are you talking about?"

"You know what, I don't know why the hell I'm talking to a damn kid. You smart, I gotta say that. But you aren't ready for this world kid, seen too much. So I'll make this easy for you."

"Huh…?"

Before she could say anything else, the flesh eater ran towards her, and struck Nicky on the back of the neck. This would kill a human being, but that rule does not apply to a conduit. For most conduits, it would just merely knock them out due to their healing factor. Seeing her drop flat to the ground, the cannibal conduit walked away from Nicky, and punched the remains of Jacob, (which consisted of just bits of tendons keeping most of the skeleton together). He walked outside of the cabin to go and grab something, most likely a bag or blanket to hide Nicky somewhere.

"Don't give up, young conduit.", said a strange voice in Nicky's head. "Don't give up. You are strong, and will be able to overcome obstacles that stand in your way. Unleash your power, show your strength, not your weakness."

After taking a second to think to herself whether that voice was a delusion, Nicky opened her eyes. Energy inside of her body started to flow through her bloodstream. Her eyes began to glow a bright orange, like a pair of flashlights. She closed her eyes, and tried to focus on the area around her. Focusing hard enough, she emitted a small pulse around her that acted like a bat's echolocation. She could sense almost everything around her, like the electricity flowing through the equipment in the cabin, the remains of Jacob, and the conduit outside of the cabin. It was like Jacob described, being able to detect everything around you.

Nicky decided to draw her focus towards the remains of the fallen conduit, and tried to lift it. She struggled, and struggled to move the left over skeleton, but the resistance was too much. She felt drained, almost like a strong thirst. For some strange reason, she felt drawn to a heater nearby her. Almost involuntarily, she pushes herself towards the heater, and tries to put her back towards it so her hands could get close. "Why am I doing this?" she said to herself.

Her hands got close to the heating element, and she felt herself get electrocuted. It didn't feel painful though, but rather felt like a cool glass of water on a hot day. Nicky somehow was energized by the heater, and felt a whole lot stronger. "How did I do that? How am I not hurt?" After questioning the logic of her surviving enough electricity to make the heater cool down. Feeling up to the challenge, she closed her eyes, and focused on the skeleton. Nicky felt a weird sensation, almost like her body was just a shell, and she was leaving it. She then felt all the bones of the skeleton, from the distal phalanges of the toes, to the cranium. As Nicky got more in tune with the remains, she eventually got it to stand up. It was a standing skeleton, like in a horror film, looking like it was about to grab its next victim. She almost felt as if she was the skeleton for a second, before realizing that she needed to find a way to free her actual body. With barely any control of the skeleton, she made it walk towards her. Walking the skeleton felt like heavy weights on the legs, so it was difficult to move the skeleton too much. Eventually, she got it to come up to her, and try to rip apart the binds on her hands.

Before she could start, the cannibal conduit walked in through the door. He stopped in shock, noticing the remains of a man he just killed moving around. "What? No way in hell. No way in HELL you're doing that puto!" he said to the skeleton. Nicky made the skeleton turn around towards the flesh eater, to which he charged towards the skeleton. "I killed you, God forsaken bitch!" Yelling at the skeleton, he threw punches towards its ribcage and head. Nicky tried to have the skeleton fight back, but she couldn't fully control it, nor did she know how to fight. "I'm not letting you do something like that again!" the cannibal conduit yelled before grabbing a hold of the skeleton, and absorbing every last bit of flesh on him. The bones of the skeleton scattered around the floor as each tendon lost its grip.

After finishing off the skeleton, he looked at where the girl was, but saw nothing but the bindings he put on her. Anger started boiling inside him, before he turned around to see…"How the hell…?" The skeleton was standing again, this time with no meat on any of the bones, orange and bone colored dust surrounding it, and appearing to be a lot bigger. The skeleton grabbed the man who was mesmerized by his neck, and held him up.

Barely able to push out words, the cannibal conduit says, "So,... it was you… little girl…?"

Nicky had, in the heat of the moment, found another way to harness her powers. Now she was able to form into a big skeleton to defend herself. Now, she had control of the situation. The thought of killing him after consuming Jacob came to her mind, but did she really know Jacob. Nicky thought of just leaving now like she did before with Elizabeth, but this one might harm another too. She also noticed that the man had brought a blast core into the room, and thought, maybe she could try that same thing with the flesh conduit. She knew that the ability to absorb energy from the electric heater came from Jacob, what could she get if she shared it with this conduit. Though, she would likely be vulnerable if someone were to get a hold of her while sleeping off the effects of the blast core. What could she do?

Triangle: Toss Him

Leave the flesh eater to rot in pain.

Square: Rotten Core

Make the flesh eater share a Blast Core with you.

Circle: Avenge Jacob

Kill the flesh eater for what he did.

Hey everyone, sorry about the crappy timing on the update, lost my original file for this part 'cause of my tablet not saving correctly. I promised you all I would have a Karmic choice sooner or later, so here we are. Hopefully in the future I'll have better timing for updating this story, but in the mean time, please send in your thoughts on Nicky's next choice, (and be careful what you pick), and maybe submit a character. I'm willing to take in about any human and conduit ideas, and it doesn't matter whose side they're on. Also, look out later for entries including some of your favorite inFamous characters, like Cole MacGrath, Delsin Rowe, and Fetch. 'Til next time everybody, PEACE!