R2 Rebecca's Thoughts of Carnage Selected

Karma Rank Changed to: Brat

Achievement: "What man needs!"

[Nicky Comic Scene]

Michael seemed like such a nice guy, but if there's anything I've learned from the world, being nice only gets you so far. This group also seemed a little more fun too, even with their deadly nature. Maybe, just maybe though… this is exactly what the world could use.

"Michael, back off." Nicky told Michael.

Mike looked straight at her with a confused look before saying, "I'm sorry, I don't know if I heard that right. It almost sounded like you wanted to side with a murderer.".

"If that's what you want to call it, yes."

Alvin had a very concerned expression on his face, as he looked at Nicky. He asked her, "Why? Why Nicky? She was killing people for…"

"Oh, shut up you wuss." said the brute. "It's funny, I misjudged the kid. But she seems to be the only one of you who knows what needs to get done in this town."

Michael looked at Nicky in disapproval as he said, "I guess I misjudged her too. She's very intellectual, but not very smart. Young girl still has a lot to learn."

Rebecca walked up to him, and rubbed his chest, saying, "Well of course there's a lot for her to learn. She is only a child after all. Having you with us could help her understand this world better. You're not one to abandon a child, are you?"

"I'm not one to corrupt a child like you!"

Rebecca backed up a few steps, replying with, "Corrupt her? Have you seen this world? All of the good people have been killed off or imprisoned, and you want to talk about...?"

"How you want to convince Nicky to kill off everyone based on a trait that they were born with! Based on what they are and not who they are!"

"Quite a mindset you have there. You almost act as if she's convinced me to kill. I don't hope to any time soon, but the only way we can be safe is take charge." Nicky told Michael.

Mike looked at her with a concerned look and said, "Nicky, control is only…"

"An illusion? Yes, of course it is. People cannot control something that is not part of their body, but we can show we're strong. This is the only way we can bring change."

Michael changed his expression, looking very stern. He told Nicky, "I see. Now you've adopted that mindset. Well, this is goodbye then kid. Don't expect kindness from me next time we meet.", right before he turned around and said, "Alvin, Craig, let's go.".

"Hold on one sec'." Craig said before he walked up to Sebastian to ask, "How the hell do you know my name, ese? You didn't answer me.".

"I can't believe that you don't remember, or that you got away from those Dup bags." Sebastian responded.

"Huh?"

"You and I were friends, man. We hung out in LA together. You and I both got powers, and you helped me escape."

"It would seem that even you have a reason to stick with us." Nicky told Craig.

"I don't know. How the hell I know you won't back stab me?" Craig asked.

"Craig, no. What about what I told you?" Alvin said to Craig.

"Would you shut up! I'm trying to hear what they say!" Craig shouted at Alvin.

"You know what Craig?" Mike said as he looked towards Craig. "Fine then! After all I put up with from you, after what Alvin did for you, and you choose to treat us this way still. Since you're so curious about what they got in store for you, why don't you go and join 'em?!" After saying that, both Mike and Alvin jumped off the building and ran off.

"You sure pissed off that pale guy there." Sebastian said with a little laughter in his voice.

"Good riddance to thems'. They just some stupid whities. No offense to any of you guys." Craig said to everyone on the roof.

Rebecca said, "None taken."

"That's not very nice, Craig." Nicky told him.

"Fuck you." The big conduit responded to Craig's words.

"Hey, woah. Hold on a second,... You're white, Nicky?" Craig asked the little skeleton.

"How about enough with the racism, and let's get to business, alright?" Nicky told Craig.

Rebecca looked towards her while saying, "She's right. We have a lot of work to be done, and little time to do so. We are going to be taking this city for ourselves. But before we can even get started, I have to see the full potential all of you have.".

"That wouldn't happen to include me, would it?" Felix said, just now getting up and into the conversation.

"About time you got involved in the talking. Yes, it would happen to include you. You're going to have to pull your weight around here. From now on, I ain't nobody's momma." Rebecca told him.

"I hope this doesn't take too damn long." The brute said.

"Don't worry Rich." Rebecca said. "We'll get your brother back if you don't act like a bitch." Rebecca then backed up to make sure everyone heard her. "So then, why don't we get started. FELIX!"

"What?" Felix asked in a nervous tone.

"You first."

"Oh, ok."

Felix walked towards Rebecca, leaving only ten feet of space between them. Everyone else moved to the sides of the building to make room.

"Now,… show me that you're not just a coward. Show something good with your powers." Rebecca told Felix.

Hearing that, Felix concentrated on his left hand. He appeared to be gathering some material from the air around him. After a few seconds of collecting, he formed a white sphere in the palm of his hand, about the size of a basketball.

"Hey bro, careful not to get too excited and get it in her hair." Sebastian said before laughing.

Craig joined in on the laughing, telling Sebastian, "I was thinking the exact same shit."

"You two are… just disgusting." Nicky said to the two teenagers.

"Oh quiet your ass." Craig told her.

"I'm not the one who likes to talk out of their ass, Craig." Nicky replied.

As they kept arguing, Felix aimed his sphere towards Rebecca, and fired a cloud of mist towards her . She allowed herself to be engulfed by the cloud, but after a few seconds, used her own powers to create a powerful burst of air. Strong enough to blow away all of the fog from around her.

"I guess not bad, but you have to come up with something a little more on the offensive." Rebecca said.

Felix replied with, "I'll try to." before walking off to the side.

"You can never do anything that's remotely helpful to anyone. I feel like we should've kicked you out a while ago." the large conduit told Felix.

"Alright, now for you Nichole."

"Huh...oh, ok." Nicky responded with a little confusion.

She walked to the spot around where Felix stood. Nicky felt a little nervous as she had little experience of actual fighting. Her last two opponents were much weaker than her.

"Here we go. Try to do something to from over there." Rebecca told Nicky.

"What?" Nicky asked her.

"I want to see if you can throw something at me. Something like mist, rocks, or even lazers."

"Well…" Nicky said as she tried to think about something she could do without direct contact.

"Do you not have anything? You just a pile of bones or something?"

And that's when it hit Nicky. She let out some kind of wave that allowed her to sense certain material, specifically the bones in everyone around her.

"Well? I don't have all day to stand around." Rebecca told Nicky.

Nicky looked into the skeleton that kept Rebecca standing straight up. It felt like the time she dealt with Elizabeth, and it reminded her of that day. Nicky then went berserk, and screamed, "STAY AWAY FROM ME!".

Rebecca was confused by this, and asked, "What the matter with you?"

Before anyone else could make a comment, Nicky focused heavily on Rebecca's legs. Not paying attention to what she was doing, Nicky heard a huge crunch noise.

"AHHHHHHHHH… AWWWWWWWWWW! DAMN IT!" Rebecca shouted.

Both of Rebecca's legs were broken, and she had fallen onto her rear end. That's when Nicky came to realization of what she had done.

She muttered, "What? Oh,... I'm sorry… I…"

Before another word could come out of Nicky's mouth, Rebecca gathered something in her hand, and pushed Nicky onto her rear end. Rebecca started to heal quickly, fixing her legs. Then she got back up, and walked over to Nicky to tell her, "Don't be sorry over injuring me. Be sorry that you didn't attack me afterwards.".

Nicky then got back up, and walked towards the wall to sit against it. With her off to the side, Rebecca had Craig come up to show off his capabilities. Feeling very fearful after seeing that same image of Elizabeth again, the young girl pulled her knees to her chest with her arms wrapped around her legs. She was not feeling well.

"Alright. Time to show what a real conduit can do." Craig told Rebecca.

"Bring it on kid, I wanna do more than just a warm up for myself." Rebecca said to Craig.

"Hm, 'kay."

Craig put on a smirk as he threw a few wires toward the edge of the building. He pulled hard on them to launch himself at Rebecca. As he got close, she simply ran towards him and kicked his head to the side.

With those two having a longer fight, and both Sebastian and the brute cheering them on, Felix was the only one to notice Nicky's state. Her skull was now face down on her knee caps. He decided to walk over and sit near her. "How are you holding up, there?" he asked.

Nicky lifted her head an inch or two, and turned it slightly towards his direction. She responded to Felix with, "I… don't feel good.".

Even without a face to show emotion, it was obvious how the young girl was feeling. Felix asked, "Not a fun start to being a conduit for you either, huh? Well, I guess no one ever has one these days.".

"Why do you let him treat you like that?"

Felix put on a confused face, muttering, "Huh?".

"Sebastian always treats you like you're weak."

"Oh, yeah. Well… people are just kinda dicks sometimes. You know."

"I guess I do. Kind of."

"You talk a little strange. How old are you?"

"Isn't that a rude question to ask a girl?"

Felix had a look of embarrassment on his face, feeling that he already went too far in trying to make conversation. "Uh, sorry."

Nicky lifted her head further to look directly at Felix. She told him, "It's ok. I'm just playing with you. I'm ten years old."

"I'm fiftee… Wait. You're only ten years old?! And you already have powers?!" Felix said with a shocked expression.

"I think that's what I said." she said very sarcastically.

"No way. How is that possible? I didn't get mine until I hit puberty."

"That's something that everyone wants to hear."

"Sorry, I… I'm not good with people sometimes."

"Well, enough of how anti-social you are. It's time to get some damn food in here." Sebastian said, walking up to the two.

Felix got up and asked, "What? Is there not enough Chinese food?", with sarcasm in his voice.

Sebastian shoved Felix back against the wall, making Nicky stand up to back away a couple of steps. The rope conduit then said, "Our rations have been low, foo. So don't question me about what needs to get done. Along with that, I already told you that puto is also un culo gordo.".

Nicky laughed a little bit, making Sebastian look at her as she said, "You have kind words no matter what language you speak.".

"You understand those words?" Sebastian asked the kid?"

"Only 'culo gordo'."

"Wow, kid. You know way too much about random stuff. Starting to think that you hangin' around us was destiny. You like thirteen, fifteen, or something?"

"She's ten." Felix blurted out.

"I asked the young chica. Not your dumbass."

"He's right. I am ten years old." Nicky told Sebastian.

"Really? Well, it must have been fun for you kid. Especially being one of the suburban kids."

"What?"

"Never mind, kid. Let's get going, mist boy."

"What?" Felix asked.

"Vamos. Move your stupid ass!"

The two conduits then went off to get some food and supplies, jumping off the side of the building and running as fast as they could. Nicky moved over towards Rebecca, who looked a bit down as she sat on a chair. She grabbed a glass soda bottle next to the chair, popped the lid open to have a sip, and just laid back on the chair. Rebecca noticed Nicky coming her way, and looked straight at her. They talked for some time about their current situation, and ended up discussing a plan that Rebecca had put together over her time in the city. She wanted to go into the sewers to travel undetected through Olympia. She wouldn't tell Nicky why, just that it would decide the fate of the city.

Two days had now passed since Nicky abandoned Mike and Alvin, the group of devious conduits were headed into the sewer with Rick leading the way. No one enjoyed the smell of course, with Felix, Craig and Sebastian all feeling a slight case of nausea. Nicky however, couldn't smell anything, then Rebecca and Rick had already grown used to the fragrance.

"How far do we have to travel through this?" Craig asked with irritation in his voice.

"Some distance. Now shut up, and quit complaining before I make you bathe in the sewage." Rick told Craig.

"I'd say that I miss my nose, but I'm really glad I don't have to smell this." Nicky randomly put out there.

"Good for you, lil' Miss Undead. Good for you." Sebastian told Nicky.

They traveled down the sewage tunnel for about half an hour before they hit their first stop. Rick lifted a manhole open, and got up out of the sewer to check the area. He looked down at everyone to tell them the situation.

"There's a few D.U.P. around. Maybe three or four." Rick whispered to the group.

"Good. Everyone get ready. We're going in and out as fast as possible. We need to destroy this place, that way the D.U.P. won't have a chance against us."

Everyone started climbing up the ladder, to get up top. Nicky looked at the place that Rebecca was talking about. As it turned out, it was the city's substation just across the street from them. It was surrounded by trees, fog, and was guarded by four D.U.P. soldiers. Rebecca started running towards the substation, with everyone else sneaking up to the area. Craig and Sebastian took to the left, while Rick, being followed by Nicky and Felix stayed to the right. As Rebecca ran she somehow just disappeared from view. Her footsteps could still be heard though.

"What just happened?" Nicky whispered.

"Shush kid. She turned herself invisible." Rick whispered back to her. "When you have a lot of time to yourself, you can learn a whole lot more about what you can do."

"Huh. I was always told that too much time to myself would make me go insane."

"Well… they're not wrong. Don't tell Rebecca I said that."

Rebecca became visible again right behind a D.U.P. soldier. She grabbed him quickly by the top of his head and bottom of his jaw before a strong burst of air forced his head to move. Snapping his neck in the process, Rebecca quickly started to run from her position as the other soldiers spotted her.

"It's her! Everyone spread out and take her down!" A female soldier said.

The two other soldiers started firing their assault rifles as the rest of the gang came charging in. One soldier shot a cluster of concrete at Craig, while Sebastian ran around and threw rope towards that same soldier. Craig dodged the rocks as Sebastian got a grip on the soldier and threw him towards the ground. When that soldier landed on the ground, Rick ran by him and kicked him in the face. Another soldier threw a huge cluster of concrete shards at Rick, tossing him back into the street.

"Ah, crap." Rick said in a pained voice as he tried to get back up.

Nicky ran behind one of the transformers to hide. She tried to get into position to see if she could get a shot at one of the soldiers. Unfortunately, one of the two soldiers left jumped behind Nicky.

"Stand down, bio-terrorist!" the soldier yelled at her.

Nicky tried to run away, but the D.U.P. soldier tossed a small cluster of concrete shards at the young conduit. The impact pushed her right into a step-down transformer, causing her to get stuck and create a disruption in the flow of electricity. Megawatts started flowing through her, with Nicky shaking uncontrollably. Then electric equipment all over the city lost power or popped from too much power. The small conduit increased in size as she struggled to get out. In the process, a wire got caught onto her spine, causing serious pain.

"OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHD!" she screamed.

In that same moment, both of the remaining soldiers started groaning in pain. They fell to the ground, shouting out random slurs as some strange steam and smoke started coming from their bodies. The rest of the gang just watched as both the only resistance in the area died in front of them, and the city's power went out.

"My god. They're… they're…" Felix muttered with a bit of shock in his voice.

"Oh, you know they dead." Craig blurted out.

"They're dead, yes. But I want to know who, or what did this." Rebecca said as walked over to tap one of the soldier's bodies with her foot. "How did this happen?"

Nicky just somehow busted out of the metal holding her to the transformer, and got onto her feet. She walked back over to the group of conduits, feeling a bit stronger, and taller.

"What happened?" Nicky asked everyone as she walked towards them.

"Woah, shoot." Craig said with a look of surprise.

"Damn. I knew there was something l liked about this one." Sebastian said to the others with a big smile.

"Well if I knew she could that, this plan would have gone by differently." Rebecca told the group as she walked towards Nicky. "So, why have you been holding out on us?"

Nicky looked at Rebecca, trying to make a confused look on an expressionless face. "What do you mean 'holding out'?", Nicky asked.

"I mean your powers. What are you, five years old?"

"She actually ten." Felix whispered in her ear.

"Well that's… Wait. Really?" Rebecca said.

"What? Is she a powerful conduit? Is she with the police?" Craig asked.

"What kind of questions are you asking? Are you retarded or something?" Rick asked Craig with sarcasm in his voice.

"Hey, don't dis' on retarded people. But anyway, what's up with her?" Sebastian said.

"She's… quite a good conduit. I just wanna see how good." Rebecca told everyone.

She walked up to Nicky, and grabbed a hold of her right arm tight. "Ow. Why are you doing that?" Nicky asked.

"I want to know what you can do. I wanna see… the hell?" Rebecca said as she became a slight bit shocked.

Looking into Nicky's eye sockets, she noticed a gray light come from them. Everyone looked at Nicky as her eyes glowed with strange, gray energy. The energy traveled from head, down through her arm. With Rebecca holding that arm, the energy was absorbed by her. She felt stronger in that instance.

"What are you hiding?" Rebecca asked Nicky.

Feeling a little nervous, Nicky just said, "I'm not hiding…", right before Rebecca tested her powers.

Rebecca tried to shoot out a small burst of air out of her other hand. Instead of a breeze coming out, she blasted air out so hard that it caused a sonic impact on some of the once intact substation equipment. The blast from her hand also threw Rebecca back, leaving Nicky standing on her own.

"Holy mother of… God, that was nice." Rick said to Rebecca as he walked over to help her back up.

"I knew this little undead gangsta had some potential." Sebastian said, pointing at Nicky.

Craig went ahead and walked right up to Nicky, saying, "Well then, if you got powers like 'dat, I wanna taste of it too.".

"Dear god, you have no idea how creepy that sounds." Felix told Craig.

"Would you shut up? I swear, now I know why Sebastian said ya's a little bitch.", Craig said before he grabbed a hold of Nicky's hand. "Now gimme some.".

"What?" Nicky asked Craig.

"Don't screw with me, girl. I want some of that power you gave her."

Rebecca walked over to Craig, and grabbed his other arm. She twisted it, and forced his other hand to let go of Nicky.

When Rebecca got Craig onto his knees, she said to him, "No respect for women? Or do you just have no self respect? Either way, I'm not letting this go by so easy.".

Rebecca then kicked the teenager, knocking him face first into the ground. After doing so, the group heard noises. The sounds of random twigs breaking, along with slight breezes. All of them got ready to fight, fearing the worst was about to happen for what they did. When the noises stopped for just a moment, a random man shot from out of the trees, landing right in front the group. A tall young man with pale skin, wearing a black hoodie, camo jeans, and combat boots. He stood up, took his hood off, and started walking towards Rebecca. The man stopped about seven feet from Rebecca, and gave her a smirk.

"So are you the top freak here?" He asked in a slight Afrikaans accent.

"Who's the one asking?" Rebecca responded with.

"Just another man on the run from the police. Well, it's pretty obvious that you're head of the honcho here. I hope you're one of the nice kind of freaks."

"Why are you calling us freaks?"

"You're not one of us? People who have the power to cause random chaos?"

"Yes, we're all conduits here."

"Good, because I wanted to talk business with more fellow freaks. By the way, I prefer the word freak because it sounds like we're much different from the other asshole in the world."

"Prefer to be called a freak?" Sebastian added in.

"Keep quiet." Rebecca told Sebastian.

"I prefer freak because I'd rather be compared to a circus performer than a water funnel. But anyway, I wanted to meet you all. Maybe convert you to a better cause." the man said.

"What are you? Are you a preacher of a new found religion?"

"I've lost faith in any god long before I knew I had the gift. I have a different idea in mind. Simply bring together everyone, and build something."

"Wait. What did you mean when you said 'us'?" Nicky asked.

"What was that?" The man asked back.

"Do you have a group nearby or something?"

"Hmm? Oh yes, I do have a small group at the moment. Two of them are supposed to…"

"We got here as fast as we could." A familiar face said.

Craig looked at the three conduits, and got right back up. He already felt like a fight was about to happen.

"It's the stylish hobo, again " Nicky said.

"Is that what you like to call him? Cute name, but I doubt your friend is back for having tea with us." Rebecca said to Nicky.

"I didn't think we were going to cross paths again for a while, kid. Sure as hell didn't expect you to help them destroy power to a whole town full of innocent people." Michael told Nicky.

"Oh, not just only did she help. She destroyed the power and killed two D.U.P. troops in one go. Nicky has potential. Potential you couldn't understand.

" Rebecca said to Michael.

"Potential for what? To be a killer like you?" Alvin asked Rebecca.

"Would you shut up already?!" Craig shouted at Alvin.

Craig then ran straight at Alvin, getting ready to strike him with wires. As he got close, Alvin got ready to fight him. But then the tall man in a hoodie came in, and just knocked him out. When he slammed his fist into Craig's face though, it sounded like metal hitting bones. Nicky noticed this, and let out a sensing pulse. She noticed the familiar glow of conduits. Yellow nervous systems, but Michael, Alvin and this new man had an orange aura around them. Along with that, the nervous system in the new man did not connect to the arm that hit Craig. The arm appeared to be non-existent.

"Now, if we can get beyond these squabblings, I hope that we can calm things." the man said.

"I don't know about that." Rebecca told him.

"I don't think we can do anything to convince. They're too far gone at this point." Michael told the man.

"We're wasting time here! Why don't you take what you're selling to another vendor, because we're not interested." Rick blurted out.

"You didn't hear all I have to offer, but if you insist…"

Before anyone else thought of their actions, Rick ran straight into the man. Rick picked him up, and forced him against a tree. Alvin was about to run and help, but then Sebastian threw out a rope that grabbed him by the ankle, tripping him. Michael had had his eyes fixed on Rebecca, who ran towards him. Nicky and Felix just watched as chaos ensued.

"Maybe we should try and avoid this." Felix suggested to Nicky.

Nicky thought a little bit about that decision, right before reminding herself of what she had been through in the past week. She looked at Felix and told him, "No, we shouldn't.".

"Why not? Does this stuff not scare you?"

"It does scare me. I've never been in a fight like this. But abandoning people is not something I like doing."

"This conflict is too much for us to get involved in. Plus, my powers wouldn't do much in this situation."

"You know what? You need to quiet."

As Nicky told Felix to keep to himself, a grayish aura started to form around her. Felix started getting fearful of it, but Nicky did not notice what was happening to her. Her skin was returning, her hair got back into place, and for the first time Felix could look into her eyes. A grey dress formed on her, going down over her knees. Though her human form returned, she did not appear to be the same child that was taken into the woods. Because of her powers, Nicky appeared to have aged.

"Nicky, you're…" Felix barely said.

"You need to quit being so scared. Be brave."

Nicky then ran into the fight, getting ready to attack. As she looked at everyone though, she started to have second thoughts on her choice to join Rebecca.

[Nicky's thoughts]

Wait a second, I'm about get into my first real fight! Thinking about what Felix told me, maybe I could run out of this. I never asked to be part of this conflict, I wanted to live with father. But if I stay, who would I fight for? What would I fight for? My freedom… or my power?

Square: Try nothing

Run away with Felix, and avoid the conduit conflict.

Triangle: Try to be Good

Rejoin Mike, and help him defeat Rebecca.

Circle: Try to be Bad

Keep alongside Rebecca, and kick Mike's ass.

[Authors Notes]

Hey everyone, long time no post. Over a year later, and I'm almost done with [Part 1] of "InFamous Lost Child". Sorry again for the long wait, never have the time to focus on my stuff nowadays. The choice I put in for this chapter was mainly because of how close the last choices votes were. That, and the fact that most of the choices up until now were good, so even that shocked me. If anything, it makes for a good confirmation that you all are good with Nicky going down this path. Either way, review this chapter, and "make your choice". PEACE!