Infamous Chronicles: The Prodigy
Chapter 2 Troubling News
6 years after Kuo found Benny, Cole had successful traveled world and awakened all of the Conduits he could find. His actions put the world into complete disarray, entire nations quickly fell to the new conduit super power, and the few nations that survived the onslaught became disorganized and fell to time new forms of government came into existence,such as the Apostate, and the UCR, as well as small tribes like the lost sons, highway men, Voodoo, and the family.
The UCR was founded by by Cole McGrath, Lucy Kuo, Luke Beckman, Stacy King, and Reginald James, and the system of government was based on democracy where people picked their officials. The Apostate was started by one man Greg Stockfield, he was passionate man,which is why had so many followers, his speeches gave the victims of Cole attacks hope and new found strength in themselves. Stockfield's hatred and obsession with Cole was more than apparent, he dedicated himself to finding a way to bring him down, He did so by extensive researching the events that happened in Empire City, it eventually led him an organization called 'the First Sons' and the research notes of Dr. Sebastian Wolfe regarding Ray fields and the conduit gene immediately had a plan of action and placed most of his funding into a research and development department to generate "conduit killing," weapons.
-several feet above New Empire City, Sovereign district-
After what happened in Wisconsin the group go back HQ to report to the higher ups "another mission well done guys?" a female pilot asked.
"more or less Helen." Ben signed "we got found out but we managed to snag something important nonetheless."
"Cool, we'll be landing at the Office of intelligence soon," Helen informed.
"good ol new empire," Gerald smiled looking out the window.
New Empire City was a grand city, it was the first providence built by conduits. Skyscrapers graced the sky, beauatiful parks, and building all round a good place to live if your a Conduit the people lived peacefully behind in a valley they had natural protection. The Reconnaissance landed on top a tall white office building in front of it read "UCR Military Office of Central intelligence," in big indigo letters. The proceeded to go inside the building from the roof and descended down an elevator and into a hallway with wood doors leading the walls were a plan beige colors , the floor had blue then proceeded through one of the wooden doors which led a blue room, in it was a oval translucent table surrounded with chairs. At the edge of the room a black man who looked to be in his mid thirties could be seen. He was bald and sported goatee, he wore a suit that could only be described as military uniform highly decorated in ribbons and metals. On his left a brown hair Caucasian who looked younger dressed in the same fashion.
" 125th Recon squadron reporting in Colonel Richards ," Ben saluted the older gentlemen with the others behind him standing perfectly straight.
"At ease, alright time for the briefing, Major Jacobs hit the lights, please. Richards gestured.
The light went off and the table projected and image the room became illuminated with a dim teal light. On the table words could been seen moving.
"To start off we analyzed the data you found, It turn our suspicions were it's some sort of anti-conduit weapon though this is the only knowledge we have on the matter," the Colonel tapped the file on the table to show its contents, the phrase ray sphere and ray fields came up frequently. "the technology relies the inhibition of ray field radiation, which apparently activates the conduit genes," the Major explained.
The last statement intrigued Benito " theoretically speaking, how would this affect conduit abilities," he interrupted.
"we don't exactly know but according to our scientists it would relatively have the same affect the kryptonite would have on super man."
"Yikes that's a scary analogy," Chase blurted out.
"we currently have a plan in action to-"
Suddenly the door quickly swung open revealing a panicked man in uniform breathing heavily.
"Sir! The Apostate has hack into our systems they seem to broadcasting something on every channel sir," the private yelled out.
The group inside room quickly rushed to the lobby of the building where the nearest TV was, there they arrived to a terrifying sight. Eight men dressed in the typical Apostate cameos holding m16s. The behind light revealed with some sort of weird gray spherical device with wires sticking out it, on a concrete wall. Four other men were seen wearing forest green digital cameos with a UCR patch on the left shoulder, their hands tied up and their heads bagged hiding the identities of the soldiers. Another man came into the picture he was an orange haired Caucasian looked to be in his 40s dressed in a black overcoat and gold shirt underneath and black slacks. His hazel stared at the screen as if displaying his hatred for the viewers.
"Stockfield," the colonel muttered.
"Listen up Mcgrath, and you abominations! The time has come for the world to be rid of your disgusting kind. We will purge you like virus that you are and there is nothing you can do to stop this." Stockfield gestured to the soldier.
"Chase can you track the transmission down," Mina asked panicked.
"all ready on it Mina," Chase had placed his hand on the TV, his eyes suddenly went white.
On the Television, Stockfield was standing next to the device, "Let this herald your end!" with that the machine dimly lit up, then the soldiers simultaneous started having violent convulsions until the bodies became lifeless and broadcast cut out. Everyone in the city looked terrified at this horrible weapon they had been confronted with.
"we have to stop them quickly," Mina stated still shocked by what she just saw.
"yeah luckily they still seem to be in the prototype phase so it shouldn't be to much of threat now unless its weaponized." Gerald stated
Chase eyes became normal and he inhaled deeply. "that wasn't a live broadcast, it was tape" he said.
His partners looked at him in disbelief, "it was a recording made 6 weeks ago."
"Why would they pick now to show us this?" Benny asked.
"To fool us, they probably weaponized the tech by now," Gerald theorized
"then we need to find them start finding any units we lost contact with in the three months. Chase could you tracked the region the broadcast was coming from?"
"that's the other thing it was broadcast from here, I already contacted the police they should be tracking them now," Chase explained.
"Once find who responsible for the broadcast we can put with a telepath in intelligence and extract information we need for a counter attack." the Major explained.
The police found the perp and used a telepath gather information from Apostate had weaponized the technology,and were planning an assault a UCR base with it.
-A few hours later, in the briefing room-
"Your next mission to defend UCR Regis base in Ohio," Richards ordered.
"whoa we're a recon team not an assault team," Chase quickly interrupted
"Recon team is about gain intelligence and now we need intel on the limits of their weapon, and its more clandestine way to inform the people on the base about said weapons. Today was a good example on how our security's can be breached." the Colonel commented back.
"Ugh back to back missions man this is gonna be exhausting." Gerald groaned.
With the RFI seemly back in commission, how will Benny and his partners fare against it?
A/n I think this chapters little shorter than what I usually write and not much action in this one , any way the next chapter well have tons more to epic gunfights, the RFI weapons, (hmm i might have to change the ratings depending on how much detail i go into it ) and some familar faces, Thanx for reading