Alright everyone, chapter 20 is up and ready for reading everyone. And guess what? IT'S SUMMER EVERYBODY! That means I'll be able to post faster than normal, if time permits. However I'll be heading to a college orientation soon, so chapters might come to a halt if I don't post the ending chapter before hand. Oh yeah, I'm typing up the final battle as we speak.
"Luna" Normal speaking
POV changes or yelling
Used for quotes
Thoughts
Secondary thought speaker (Sasha or any other telepath)
**Luna's narration**
Chapter 20: Hunt for the Ray Sphere.
All four of us stand on the roof of the Ashford building as we wait for John to arrive. The sound of helicopter blades fills the air as a police chopper flies up to the building, a ladder on the copilot's side.
"Hey, get on!" John cries out to us. All of us jump on and Morgan gets into the helicopter's co-pilot seat.
"Threw a generator in back of the chopper - should keep that platform charged up," John says to us from the speakers underneath.
"Quite the setup you got going here," Cole comments as we feel the electricity flowing through our bodies.
"Kessler's positioned a mobile-jammer on each island, and the damn things are cloaked. They mask the frequency emitted by the Ray Sphere, which is why no one can find it. The dishes along the bottom of the platform are set to find the jammers. As I find each one, I'll feed you its location - then you can go down and destroy it."
"Alright, a game of hide and seek and destroy. Sounds wonderful," I say with sarcasm in the last word. "If only it were as easy as the game."
"Listen to me you three; don't get off the platform unless I tell you to. We need to time this right," John says with his serious tone. "If something goes wrong, if we make even a single mistake, Kessler will move the jammers and we're back to square one."
"Understood." "Roger Dodger."
"As I scan for each jammer, we'll have to be pretty close to the ground, so be sure to watch our backs. Once I get a lock on its location, we'll be able to speed up."
"Don't worry. We'll take care of anyone that crosses our path," Cole says. "Nothing's going to get past us." We start out in the Historic District and fly around, searching for the jamming devices. As we fly around one building, some of the First Son's open fire at us with RPG's. I duck as one goes past my head and send my own rocket back at him, blowing him off the roof. Lightning flashes in the air as we return fire and our own aim is noticeably better than theirs.
"Clear to go John," I report. The helicopter continues onward, picking up speed more and climbing a little higher into the sky.
"You probably don't know this, but I was chasing you Cole, the day of the blast," John admits after a few minutes. "Tried to stop you from opening the package. If I'd been a minute faster, we wouldn't even be here."
"So what happened?" he asks.
"Lost me when you ran a red light." We can all hear a little humor in his voice, as if he would like to laugh about it. "Pretty amazing, isn't it? One red light and look what happens."
"Yeah, a bomb goes off, we get powers and the government may as well lock us up with the lions," Cole replies. More RPG's are fired at us, and yet again we block the explosives or duck as they fly past the chopper before returning the fire. Soon we find the first jammers location and John 'parks' at one rooftop.
"Let's get this done," McGrath says, electricity crackling in his hands. Silver and I nod, drawing our swords and lighting them up with electricity as well. All three of us move, crossing a building via the wires. Cole takes out two of them with his sniper shot and our blades cut a strange robot thing in half. As we land on the roof, little rock things are suddenly tossed up to us.
"Grenade!" I cry out, kicking at one near my foot and hopping away from the cluster. The other two move back as they blow up, sending shrapnel everywhere. Gunfire sounds out from the First Sons as they open fire on us.
"Fire at will!" One cries out, shooting what looks like an AK-47, firing a few bullets at us. I put up a shield, sucking the lead into the blackness as it flies. Cole appears beside me and tosses two grenades into the alleyway and backyard of the apartment cluster. The troops down there scramble for a second before the shock grenades blow them into the air. Silver leaps down and blasts a fireball at one with a minigun, the heat melting the weapon as it fires back.
"I think I found it!" I shout out as I sense the cloaking device of the jammer. A lightning storm takes care of the jammer as I focus the green-blue electricity on that single point. It doesn't feel that hard actually, as if the dish is acting like a lightning rod. Regardless of hows or whys, the jammer is destroyed and we all work to get back to the helicopter.
"So what's your plan for getting out of the city?" John asks us as we fly across the water, heading to the next district.
"Hell if I know," Cole replies while I add in my answer with, "I'll make it up as I go."
"Well you'd all better come up with something. If you think they're going to let someone as powerful as you three just run around free, you'd better think again," White replies.
"We appreciate the concern, but we aren't really worried about it," Silver says as she looks around for any Dust Men members.
"You should be worried. Very worried. You think they're not going to try and re-create the Ray Sphere?" John asks. "I gave them copies of every single schematic I could get my hands on, all the notes I nabbed from the shredders. But even if that fails they still have you three. Their own personal WMDs. My guess is that they'll capture you and lock you up, only letting you out when they need somebody wiped off the map."
Cole shrugs. "Well at least we're good for something."
The fly to the next jammer is more action-packed than the Historic District; more Dust Men firing rocket launchers at us but with the same accuracy as the First Sons. And the funny thing is, despite all they try to do to stop us; they're just an annoyance.
"Alright, found the next jammer. Head down there and destroy it," John orders us as he hovers next to another building. Finding the jammer is as easy as finding an neon light in the dark (using our psychic electricity spider-senses), but getting to it seems to be a little problematic.
"LOOK OUT!" I cry out as two golem's fire away bolts and nuts and trash at us like machine guns. I duck down as Silver and Cole use their polarity walls to absorb the impact, nuts and bolts clinking down on the roof. I call upon a lightning storm in order to take one of them out, not wanting to waste any time in destroying the next jammer. The faster we can get this done, the sooner we can go after the Ray Sphere. Junk crabs spawn from the conduits there, creating a miniature army of trash only to be destroyed with a single shockwave burst. As rockets fly around the battle field, Cole seems to spot the next cloaked jammer because the lightning man uses his thunder storm power on the device. With the jammer destroyed, the three of us climb our way back up to the energy-giving pad on the helicopter.
"Is it done?" John asks as we board the platform; either a reflexive question or to make sure we did the job. I believe it's the first reason.
"Yeah, it's fried," Cole replies as he gets into stance, all of us ready for the Neon district and the Reapers.
"Cole, c'mon man. I know you're there. Please pick up," Zeke calls us again as we cross the water. "Laura, Selvena, I know you two are there as well. Someone please answer me."
"Listen, I got nothing to say to you Zeke. And neither do the girls. As far as we're concerned, you killed Trish. You're just as guilty as Kessler or Selene or Caia," Cole growls into the phone, clutching it so hard I thought it might break. "If you hadn't taken off with them, she'd still be alive, and we'd be out of this god damn city."
"What do you want me to say?" Zeke asks. "That I'm sorry?"
"I don't want you to say anything. I want you to disappear. Because if I find you, things are going to get ugly." Cole snaps the phone shut, his tone saying that he will carry out the threat without hesitation. The third jammer is guarded by a bunch of Reapers armed with AK-47s and a few white Reaper Conduits. They think they can stop us with that, but in the end they get their red and white butts kicked without any of us breaking a sweat.
"Alright John, the last one is destroyed," we report as the final jammer gets used as a lightning rod.
"I need to get some things ready before we go after the Ray Sphere, so try to get some sleep," he says, dropping Morgan off on a roof before he flies off. "When we make our move, Kessler and his girls are going to hit us with everything they've got."
"Don't you worry," Cole says with promise in his voice. "We'll be ready."
"Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted."
— Franz Kafka
Alright now for the traditional Re-reviews:
General Herbison: I hope they'll manage to defeat Kessler, I'm just as much on edge as you are. And I'm the writer for crying out loud.
Manakete King: Well an OMAKE is something that some authors do to either explain something that goes on in the story, yet it's too small to put in the actual story, or it removes the focus from the main plot of the story. And yes it will give you an idea of what it would be like if they were evil.
Godofmadness43: Very, very true. But that's next chapter. So you'll have to wait MWAHAHAHAHA *evil laugh* Alright, alright, put away the RFI, I'll make sure to post the chapter next week (which could be tomorrow or monday or tuesday)
Ancient Liddel: It explains what happens between InFamous 1 & 2, what happens to Moya, Sasha, and I want them as well, but I'm too busy to buy them. And my local comic store isn't going to have them. (But I haven't really checked)
So that's a wrap everyone. Again, review this story because then I know people are reading it. And if I know people are reading it, then I'll post my chapters faster. Currently I have 'End of the Road' already typed up and ready for reading. And like I said before, I'm typing up the final battle between Cole and Kessler.
