When we met on the bridge out of town, we immediately saw riot cops in front of a crowd of people.

"Wow, how are we going to get past them" I said.

"I'm thinking about attacking from within the crowd," Cole replied , his image had changed, his face was paler and little veins started popping up.

"Well you're the boss" I said

So we walked into the crowd, gave each other a nod, and launched some lightning. The electricity had changed, now it was bright orange, mine was the same. The riot cops attacked the crowd instead of us. Soon after, the last riot cop was knocked out and a few civilians were still there. We opened the gate and rushed in. Everything was fine until we ran into the first sentry gun. The sentry gun was a shielded mg-30, which meant we had to get behind it.

"I'll climb up the crate and flank the from the air" I said "and then I'll grab the gun a so they can't use it." And so I did, and we used the same tactic on the others. We opened the last gate to a wall of bullets. Cole ran, Zeke bust through the gate. And me, I went on instinct, I turned around and flicked my wrist to the top of the gate and… A tether of electricity appeared and zipped me up. My powers were more advanced than Cole's, but my body wasn't ready for this move, when I jumped I felt drained. I refueled and ran back to the rooftop.

When Cole returned he told us about Moya, some FBI chick who lost contact with her "husband" John White. She needed Cole's help, and he needed mine.

By this time Zeke was freaking out

"I knew it! Government goons in cahoots with secret organizations, Hah," Zeke said

"Hey, bouked, you wanna come along?" Cole asked.

"Sure" I replied.

"Alright, Moya said she was getting interference from a nearby rooftop and she wants us to investigate." Cole explained

"Okay, lead the way." I said

So we followed the interference and found a satellite dish emitting strange garbled noises, it was a dead drop Cole went up to it and pulled out an SD card, which was strange because it would have fried immediately unless it had a power regulator. He put it in his radio and… the radio emitted that same noise, the dead drop was encrypted

"Let me try to decrypt it." Moya said

"I'm going to need more samples. Moya then said

There were only two more in the area, one of which was guarded by some reapers. After we dealt with them, we took the dead drop and out came a voice.

The voice talked about the explosion and how the Ray Sphere takes the neuroelectric energy from a group of people, but I knew it couldn't be that simple, otherwise everyone left in the city would be a conduit. My guess is that you have to be born with a gene. But something told me that guess is more than a guess.

Moya needed our help in a nearby alley, something about a electrician contact who didn't check in the night before. When we got there all we found was a dead woman. When cole put his hand to her head, he froze, his eyes glazed over, then he jumped back

"Whoa" he said.

"What" I asked.

"I think I saw her memories" Cole replied, "I can see where he went" he said.

"Then lead the way" I said.

We followed the "echo" until we came across a reaper dressed in white. He was powerful, we almost didn't defeat him, but when I got launched into the air by a move that makes electric explosions, I thought of something.

"What if I punched the ground next to him" I thought

So I positioned myself in what I can only describe as a "Superman" pose and…

My hand hit the head and lightning came from the sky and coursed through my hand. His head exploded, blood everywhere, his eyeballs went flying. It was as awesome as it was gross. Cole had the face of "HOLY SHIT!"

I did feel drained, but not as much. It was very strange because, for a second there I blacked out. I felt something, I don't know, tingle, in the back of my head.

Afterwards we ran into an ambush, reapers were all over us, but I had a plan, an awful, horrible, yet awesome in every way plan.

"Cole, lead them near the gas station then get the hell out of there and watch the fireworks," I said.

Cole had a wicked smile on his face, he managed to lead them to the gas station, he ran, I took aim, got ready, and fired.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM. The overpriced gas ignited. It killed every reaper there. IT. WAS. GLORIOUS. We then continued to follow the echo.

We came to a place I like to call "the outlet," it was the power station for the neon. And when we beat all the reapers, we followed the echo to a reaper with a grenade in his hand, without a pin

"Cole, get down." I yelled.

And boom went the dynamite. The entire neon district went dark. I felt thirsty. Very thirsty.

We followed the echo to the sewers, and Moya said we had to restore a circuit.

"That means one of us has to be a 'conduit'... okay I'm sorry."

When he fixed the transformer we found someone who was injured, he said he would let us in if we helped him. So, we help him up, his friend opened the gate, and then we kicked the shit out of them. Cole could now take neuroelectric energy from people. As we continued we found the Trish packed her stuff and left thinking Cole killed her sister. We continued until we reached a gate and there was the electrician.

"Open the door" Cole said.

"No, I won't open the door until my lynei is safe." The electrician said

Lynei must have been his wife, his dead wife. So I shocked him and opened the door.

"I don't think we would have gone in if we told him the truth anyway" Cole reacted.

We then came across the substation. It was dead

"We're gonna have to shock it back online." I said

And so we did and I felt better already. We climbed out of the sewers and Moya told us she will find the other substations and to head to the roof of a nearby building, she said an EMT who ran a nearby clinic was attacked by reapers who over ran the place. When we found the EMT he explained the situation, then we heard shots, loud shots.

We found the source, a reaper with a shotgun, I managed to dodge every bullet so far, but I wasn't gonna dodge these ones so we went, and I was immediately shot. It was painful, but not as much as I thought it would be. Maybe it was conduit healing, i don't know. Now we had a place to go if we were injured. Moya also needed us to reboot a nearby cell tower.

"Afraid we're gonna bail on you?" Cole asked

"Hey wait, isn't that tower outside the powered zone?" I asked

"Yes." Moya replied.

"Hmm, wait." I said

I proceeded to zap a tower on our roof and it fell, but not all the way and it extended.

"Hah, instant pathway" I said

"Nice" Cole said

We crossed it and Cole wasn't looking good, I myself was feeling a little drained but not as much as last time. It seems my powers are expanding extremely fast. Cole charged the cell tower but he looked like he was gonna pass out. And Moya needed us to go to the sewers to restart the rest of the neon, the same sewers that were guarded by an army of reapers

"Cole, I have an idea. But you might want to stand back." I said

I jumped down, faced the army of reapers, put my hands in front of my waist and focused. A small weak ball of red electricity formed between them, but I knew I couldn't work with this so I focused harder and, in the distance I heard a strange choir. It sounded beyond familiar. That small ball of energy had expanded, it filled the space between my hands, it was ready. I knew how I felt here was a sign that I'm ready for this. I turned my waist to my right and everything else followed, I suddenly twisted to the left and let go. A giant red tornado of pure electricity appeared and killed every reaper. I heard Cole yell "damn!"

"Cole, what just happened?" Moya asked with a worried voice

"Don't know" Cole replied "but it was awesome"

"Alright, I think that will do, come on we have a job to do."

This sewer was similar to the last one, but I wasn't focused on the mission. That choir had two strong, strange effects on me. For one the music made me feel hopeful, extremely happy in fact. And second, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that there was a voice. I couldn't understand what it was saying, but it sounded familiar.

Cole could now throw balls of electricity that were more dense and exploded on impact. We found more of those suicide bombers, they were a major pain in the ass, they kept doing tricks to dodge our lightning. But they were no match for us.

When we got out of the sewers we found out that the reapers were starting to pump a plague into the water, when we found one of these places there was a lot of people sick, and the water was black, Trish was already there, and she was pissed to see Cole there.

"You know what, if you want to help, turn that valve, it's what's pumping that tar into the fountain." Trish told Cole.

Cole turned the valve and the tar splashed all over his face.

"Cole, that got all over your eyes, follow me, I have a solvent in my car." Trish said

Cole kind of stumbled after her, talking to himself, whatever that stuff was it was linking Cole to someone else, and that's when I heard it, the voice of some chick talking to Cole, saying something about taking him from Trish. So when he cleaned his face I asked him

"Cole, did you hear a voice in your head trying to split you and Trish up?"

"Yes, actually, how did you know?"

"I think I can read your mind."

"Okay that is pretty cool."

There were only two valves left, and Trish wasn't gonna help us again.

"Okay, I'm going to the closest one." I said

When I got there I was scared about what would happen. So I manned up turned the valve, and got sprayed in the face. I saw giant reapers, and that same chick started talking

"Such misplaced memories, I may be able to help. Come to me so I can hel-"

"Get, out, of, my, head!" I shouted.

The voice was gone, the giant reapers were gone, and I felt safe in my own mind again. I saw Cole force someone else to turn the valve, smart.

Now we had to find where the reapers were pumping that stuff at so we can stop them, we went into the tunnel, Cole was freaking out, he probably saw those giant reapers. At the end of the tunnel was a oil tanker with a tube going straight into the pipe. So me and Cole shocked it until it exploded. We went back to zeke's. the next morning I when I woke up I decided to go to a quiet roof and meditate while Cole went to restore power to another section of the city. I crossed my legs, closed my eyes, and cleared my mind. There was a flash.

Author's notes: please write in the comments you're theory's about the mysterious blackouts