"You know that once Reggie sees this you're dead, right Delsin?" asked a green haired man wearing a green checkered flannel, tan khakis, and a pair of boots.

"Oh please, Reg'll never find us out. We finish this up, get to that party at the longhouse, establish an alibi. We're a couple of goddamn criminal masterminds Izuku." Delsin Rowe chuckled. Delsin was wearing a denim vest over a black hoodie, which he also wore over a checkered flannel, a pair of blue jeans, and a red beanie.

"Come on dude, this has your handy work written all over it." Izuku Rowe joked at his brother's expense.

"And that break-in at the Maheswaran's shop has yours. Now give me a boost so I can finish the last little bit of his eyebrows." Delsin commanded.

Izuku sighed and lifted his brother up on his shoulders so he could finish his graffiti.

Delsin gave a whistle of approval before both he and his green haired brother were scared into hiding by a police siren.

"Shit!" Delsin cursed under his breath as a familiar truck pulled in front of the fish cannery.

"Well, looks like the fun police are here." Izuku said as he also recognized Reggie's truck.

"Calm down, as I said, let's get to the longhouse and act like we were there the entire time." Delsin reassured his brother, he then pulled open a skylight and hopped inside, Izuku followed close behind him.

Both of the brothers landed inside the cannery with a soft thud. They then began to move swiftly towards the back exit to escape Reggie, when Delsin accidentally kicked a can that had been laying on the ground.

"Who's there?" An elderly voice asked from behind a set of green double doors.

The doors swung open to reveal a small native woman with dark gray hair tied up in a bun, she wielded a stapler in her right hand.

"It's just us Betty." Delsin sighed.

"Betty, can you put the stapler down?" Izuku asked exasperatedly.

"What are you two doing here? Why aren't you at that big to-do at the longhouse?" Betty asked back as she lowered the stapler.

"We just weren't feeling very Akomish tonight." Delsin cooly answered.

"Were you two up to mischief again?" Betty asked in a rhetorical tone.

A pounding on the large doors of the fish cannery brought their attention off of their conversation "I know you're in there, so e on out now, or I'll call Betty and she'll be here in five minutes with the keys!" Reggie's muffled voice called through the doors.

The old Akomish woman turned back to the two brothers with a smirk "As I thought, mischief. Now, I have to get back to my office, I suspect I'm going to get a phone call soon. Take the back exit. And this is the-"

"Last time." Izuku and Delsin finished her sentence in unison.

Izuku and his brother rushed towards and out the door, into the bright afternoon sun.

"Race you there?" Delsin asked.

"You're on!" Izuku exclaimed, accepting his brother's challenge. Both contestants took off, jumping, climbing, and running down the sandy coast.

Izuku and Delsin were very similar: they were both athletic, had a knack for delinquency, could throw a mean right hook, and above all: were kind-hearted. Sure, you had to dig through a few layers of aloofness, and in Delsin's case, dumb one-liners, but the trait was there.

The reason that they were so similar was because after their parents died, and Reggie had gone out to try and provide for them, the two of them were forced to spend a lot of time together. So when Delsin wanted to get into parkour and freerunning, Izuku had no choice but to join him, and when Izuku wanted to try out boxing, Delsin had to do the same.

They weren't the same however, where Delsin was confident and sauve, Izuku was shy and quiet.

Both of them reached the longhouse at the same time, Delsin practically jumped over all of the steps and Izuku hauled himself over the railing.

They were both panting heavily, and rested themselves against the walls of the Akomish gathering place "Call it a draw?" Izuku asked.

"Sure, but I'm still gonna tell people I got here a millisecond before you." Delsin agreed as he opened the door, before he ran straight into a very angry looking man.

The man had short black hair, he was wearing a tan police jacket, as well as a flannel underneath, a light blue dress shirt below that, a pair of blue jeans, and he had a small pistol holstered on his hip. This man was Reggie Rowe, the eldest of the Rowe brothers, and the sheriff of Salmon Bay.

"Hey man, we've been looking forever for you. We should probably just get inside." Delsin tried to say but he was grabbed by Reggie.

"Do you have any idea how embarrassing it is for me to keep arresting my own brothers, over and over and over again?" He ranted as he grabbed Izuku as well.

"Maybe you should stop arresting us then." Delsin said, clearly miffed that he was being dragged off again.

"Do you think this is some kind of joke?! Misdemeanor vandalism. When are you gonna grow up?" He asked, Delsin simply rolled his eyes.

Reggie then turned his attention to Izuku "And you, theft, as well as breaking and entering. When are you gonna learn that just because we aren't as well off as everybody else, doesn't mean you can go around making life hell for everybody else? Is this how either of you want to leave your mark on this world? Do you think this would make our parents proud?" He yelled.

"Listen man there's a lot of scary shit out there, and while I'm out here trying to actually assert my talent, and cause-"

"'You're trying to assert your talent'," he quoted, "I mean what the hell are you even talking about?! No, explain it to me; what big bad scary shit are you gonna save us from?"

"If you would listen to me I would explain it!"

"Really? Because I don't seem to get it!"

"Guys?" Izuku asked.

"What!?" Both of them yelled in unison.

"Truck" Izuku pointed at an armoured van that was swerving out of control. The truck crashed into a small red car, flipped on its side and caught aflame, as well as alighting some of the grass around it. The three brothers watched as five people in orange jumpsuits crawled out of the back of the van and began to run in the opposite direction that the truck had been heading.

"You two stay back, that thing's gonna blow. I'm going after them." Reggie called back to them as he ran off to chase the five escapees.

"Yeah, stay away from the potentially explosive vehicle." Delsin snarked as he ran towards the truck.

"Dude? Where are you going, Reggie told us to stay here." Izuku called out to him.

"There might be someone trapped in there, now come and help me!" Delsin explained, Izuku sighed and ran after him.

"Can anybody hear me?! I need some help over here." A southern voice called out from behind the van.

Delsin and Izuku rushed to find the source of the plea was a man trapped under two metal doors, smoke wafting off of his body. The man was almost bald, with only a little bit of a stubble on the top of his head, he had tattoos spanning up both of his forearms, and he was wearing an orange jumpsuit.

"Holy shit dude." Delsin said as he and Izuku lifted the doors off of the man.

"Oh, thanks boys, I thought I was gonna die there for a second." The southern man asked while Delsin pulled him to his feet.

"Delsin, are you alright over there?" Reggie called out as he returned.

"Aw cop." The unknown man punched Delsin across the face and put him into a chokehold.

Reggie's gun was immediately in his hands and aimed at the man "Hey, let him go! Let him go and keep your hands where I can see them!"

"I don't wanna hurt nobody man, I just wanna get gone before she gets here." The man pleaded.

"I SAID LET HIM GO, OR I WILL SHOOT YOU!" Izuku had never heard Reggie sound so desperate in his life.

The man held out his free hand towards the truck and the smoke billowing out of it began to get sucked into his arm "I said I don't wanna hurt nobody!" He exclaimed as he shot a blast of ash and cinders at Reggie and Izuku.

While the man was distracted, Delsin latched onto his hand, and almost immediately, the two were blasted apart.

Delsin hit the pavement and was clearly knocked unconscious while the bald man only stumbled back slightly, before his body turned into nothing but smoke and he somehow reappeared a good few meters away from them.

Both Reggie and Izuku rushed to their brothers' side, checking him over for any major injuries.

"Reggie, I'll stay here, you go after that asshole." Izuku commanded his brother, Reggie nodded and ran after the conduit.

As Izuku tried to wake Delsin, he noticed that smoke had begun to waft off him as well. Delsin groaned as he rolled off of his back and picked himself up from the road.

"Thank God you're not dead. Now come on, we gotta find Reggie." Izuku told Delsin as he ran after the oldest of the Rowe family.

Izuku had no idea what happened, one second Delsin was behind him, and then the next he was turning into smoke and teleporting all over the place.

"Stop it, stop it, stop it!" Delsin cried out as he unwillingly dashed onto a cliff ledge.

It all happened so fast, he was almost at his brother when Delsin slipped and began to plummet off of the cliff towards the rocks below. Delsin was millimeters away from certain doom, when a loud blast of sound threw him back up to the solid ground.

Delsin landed on his feet to find that his brother was on the floor staring in shock at his own hands; they were surrounded by vibrations that were emanating a soft buzz.

"Delsin? I think I'm one of them." Izuku whispered.

"I know, I think I am too. But right now we need to focus on getting to Reg, after that we'll deal with whatever's happened to us." Delsin whispered back.

The path to Reggie had been blocked by several fallen trees, each one with no visible way around them. Delsin took a deep breath before his body was replaced by smoke and he reappeared on the other side.

"Woah, how did you do that?" Izuku asked.

"I don't know. I just thought about getting to the other side and it just sorta...happened." Delsin answered.

"Well now, how am I supposed to get over it?" Izuku asked again.

"Here, maybe if we both lift it you can try to slip underneath." Delsin said as he placed both of his hands on the underside of the tree and Izuku did the same. The two of them grunted with effort trying to lift the fallen log, when a loud screech blasted out from Izuku's palms and shattered the tree into nothing but tiny wood chips.

Delsin shielded his eyes and shouted in surprise. "What the hell was that man?!" He asked.

"I don't know but we can't dwell on it, we have to keep moving" Izuku told him

The two ran forward, doing the same to the next two trees as they had done to the first, eventually coming across Reggie trying to get the smoke conduit to surrender.

"THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING, SURRENDER NO-" Reggie was cut off when the man's hands began to become surrounded in vortexes of smoke, the smoke disbursed into an explosive and blasted a car onto the sheriff's leg, the man then proceeded to run away.

Delsin smoke dashed towards his older brother and attempted to pull him out from under the car.

"Delsin? How the hell did you do that?" Reggie asked.

"We gotta get that thing off of you." Delsin said desperately.

"But-"

"I HAVE TO GET YOU OUT!" Delsin cried out.

"Alright, Delsin you pull me out while Izuku lifts the car off of me." Reggie told the two of them.

Delsin took Reggie's hands in his own while Izuku put his hands under the toppled car. Izuku's palms once again began to be surrounded by vibrations and a deep pulse of sound sent the car up and back, above the three Rowe brothers.

"Reggie, I'm one of them man, we both are!" Delsin yelled out in distress.

"No, you're my brother, both of you. We're gonna fix this, I need you two. The tribe needs you two," Reggie countered, and stuck out his arm to pull Delsin to his feet.

"Alright, alright." Delsin took his brother's hand and was brought upright.

"I don't want either of you to use those…powers. I don't want either of you to think this is a good thing." Reggie told them as they jogged over to the fish cannery.

"Neither of us would've even been able to get to you if we hadn't-" Delsin tried to argue, before he was cut off by the eldest Rowe.

"Look, just… promise me you won't use them?" Reggie asked.

"Yeah, promise." Delsin and Izuku said in unison.

"Sheriff, we can't get inside, the machines busted" a local Akomish man called out as the three of them reached the cannery.

"I think Betty is still inside." Another Akomish woman commented.

"The lock is melted" Delsin noticed.

"Then how did that Bio-terrorist get through?" Reggie asked.

"I think he ran through." Delsin answered.

"You can do that?" Reggie question.

"Only one way to find out." Delsin then proceeded to smoke dash through the gate.

"Delsin is a Bio-terrorist!" The crowd screamed as they ran away from the cannery.

"No, he's not a- ugh. Delsin, be careful in there we have no idea what those freaks are capable of!" Reggie yelled out in warning, and ran off to go control the panicking tribe.

"Right, 'freaks'." Delsin scowled. He dashed into a vent and was thrown into the air on the other side.

"Delsin, wait up!" Izuku called out, he took a few paces back from the cannery, before he ran forward and was tossed a floor above Delsin by a loud sonic boom that came from the bottom of his feet.

Delsin smoke dashed into the same vent, but this time, instead of being sucked in, he was shot into the air and fell through a broken skylight into the cannery, Izuku dropped down next to him moments later.

"I'm tryin' to help you, lady!"

"Stay away from me!"

The unknown man and Betty's voices respectively rang out from behind a hallway that had been blocked off by flaming timbers.

"We're comin' Betty." Delsin yelled as he attempted to smoke dash through the timbers, only to be forced back.

"I think we're gonna need to break that thing apart," Izuku told his conduit brother.

"But I only know how to do the whole dash thing. How am I supposed to break through those things?" Delsin asked.

"Find something to break it with," Izuku answered.

Delsin paused in thought and began to look around the room that they were currently trapped in before his eyes landed on a long black chain laying idly on a table. Delsin smirked as he grabbed the chain and slashed at the timbers with it, breaking them apart.

"Oh yeah, this'll work just fine," Delsin smirked.

Izuku stepped up to the next blockade, his hand began to vibrate and he punched the timbers down with a blast of noise. The two of them nodded to each other before they broke down the final barrier together, bursting into the room where Betty and the enemy conduit were.

"I'm tryin' to get you out of here!" The man tried to reason with the elderly Akomish woman before he noticed that Delsin and Izuku had now appeared in the room "I-I didn't know anybody was in here man, I was just tryin' to create a diversion."

"YOU DID THIS TO ME!" Delsin yelled as he held up a smoking fist, shocking both Betty and the man.

"You're a conduit?" The southern man's voice was confused.

"Delsin? Izuku?" Betty questioned as she noticed Izuku's still vibrating hand.

"Betty we'll explain everything later but right now you need to leave us to deal with this guy." Izuku commanded.

"I'm gon' then." The southern man shouted as he dashed off.

"No, not until you fix this!" Delsin shouted. Izuku made a throwing motion and a strong pulse of sound tripped the man and he got tackled by Delsin smoke dashing into him.

Delsin pinned him and both of their faces went blank for a few seconds before Delsin fell off of the man and groaned.

"I saw you….pokin' around inside my head." The man said.

"That was me? I thought that was you." Delsin whispered.

"You saw it right? You saw Curden Cay, if she catches you that's where you're going." The man warned before he disappeared through a door.

"What happened?" Izuku asked as he picked up his brother.

"I think I went through his memories or something." The sound conduit replied.

"Did you learn anything about him?" The sound manipulator asked.

"His name is Hank Daughtry, and he's not leaving this factory without fixing me." Delsin seethed.

"Chase him out front, I'll cut him off." Izuku said, Delsin nodded and ran through the door that Hank had escaped through.

Izuku moved swiftly back to the room that the two brothers had entered in and used a shockwave to shoot himself back of the broken window and began to stealthy walk across the roof to the front entrance of the cannery.

He was about to drop down to the ground when he noticed a big armoured van parked in front of the cannery with the words; D.U.P. painted in white on the side. As well as a couple of men in yellow and black armoured uniforms with the same words printed on the back, all of them were armed. These men were also blocking Betty from the cannery Betty while she shouted protests.

"Who are you people!?" She yelled at the armed agents.

"We, madam, are the Department of Unified Protection. We specialize in tracking and locking up Bio-terrorists, six of which happened to crash here." A female voice spoke.

A red-headed woman stepped out from the back of the truck, her face was old and wrinkled, she wore a blue waistcoat under a black leather trench coat, blue leggings, black leather boots, and a hearing aid in each of her ears, she also had a silver necklace around her neck.

There were noises that came from inside the cannery and Hank smoke dashed outside, he was on his knees as soon he saw the red-headed woman.

Delsin stepped out of the cannery and Hank's legs began to get sealed in concrete that appeared from thin air. "Listen just let me go, just let me walk away, ain't nobody gotta know about this." The concrete kept spreading "WAIT A MINUTE, JUST STOP, LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS!" His pleas were silenced as he became completely encapsulated in concrete.

"Oh Henry… I am so very disappointed in you," the woman condescendingly told the mass of concrete.

Delsin stared in shock before he clapped his hands and tried to defuse the tense situation "Well we got 'em, right. I, uh, flushed that mean old conduit for you. Great job everybody, especially you guys."

"Bio-terrorist," The woman's correction made Delsin and Izuku cringe from their spots "Henry Daughtry was a Bio-terrorist, conduit is a word used by traitors who sympathize with their cause, you're not a traitor…are you?"

"I, uh, try not to be." Delsin lamely said as he crossed his arms and smirked.

Izuku resisted the urge to face-palm and silently prayed from his rooftop hiding place 'Come on little brother, turn this around.'

"You seem nervous." The woman commented.

"What? No, I'm not nervous." Delsin's confidence was poorly constructed and wavering.

She scoffed and spoke again "It's been my experience that there are only two reasons for people to be nervous; either they're cowards, or they have something to hide."

"Well you know I also get nervous around pretty girls." Delsin sarcastically said.

"You were in there with that Bio-terrorist for some time, did he share anything with you?" The red-head asked.

"Um, share?" Delsin asked back innocently.

"Did he say anything to you? Share any of his ramblings about conspiracies?" The female conduit clarified.

Oh, um, no he didn't…. He didn't share anything." Delsin answered.

The woman gave an unsettling smile before she spoke again "Good, that's good to hear. You see we are in a life and death war with these Bio-terrorists and it is my job to ensure that we win that war."

"Well that's funny because, aren't you a Bio-terrorist too?" Delsin asked.

All was silent before concrete spikes began to shoot out from the ground, forcing Delsin to take a few steps back "Okay, okay, okay." He yielded.

"Yes, I am, and it is clear to me now that you are not a coward, which means there's something you're not telling me." She snapped her fingers and the armoured goons stepped forward.

"Woah what are you...what are you doing? Hey you can't do this, are you crazy, I've got rights!" Delsin yelled out.

"And I have the legal authority to suspend those rights whenever I feel necessary. Like now for instance. Now I will ask you again, what happened in there?" She asked once again.

"And I will tell you again, noth- ARGH!" Delsin let out a cry of pain as a shard of concrete jutted out from his left leg and he was sent kneeling to the ground.

"DELSIN!" Izuku could no longer hold in his anger, as soon as the red-headed bitch stabbed his brother he saw red.

Izuku jumped off of the roof with a burning rage in his eyes. He had planned to hit the ground in front of the woman and hit her with a base boosted haymaker, but instead his arm was used as a pin cushion as thousands of tiny concrete shards imbedded into his arm and he hit the ground like a brick.

"Now where have you been hiding? Maybe you know what happened in there," she asked, as more pieces of concrete burrowed into his legs.

"Maybe I know what happened!" Betty screamed as she rushed past the D.U.P. thugs.

"No, Betty don't! GAH!" Delsin cried out again as more spikes shot out from his legs.

The woman chuckled as she stared at the two young men writhing in pain "I'm told that hurts."

Izuku bit back a scream and stared at the woman who had threatened his family with hate and fury "Even if anything did happen, I wouldn't tell an totalitarian BITCH like you about it! Akomish. Take care. Of their own." Izuku seethed out the Akomish motto to the concrete conduit.

The woman gave an unimpressed laugh "Really? Still nothing? Well since neither of you will talk I guess I'll just go have a chat with that nice old lady over there. But I should warn you, concrete is especially hard on brittle bones, and if she doesn't talk, I'll just move on to the next one, and the next, until I find someone who does. So do you two have something you want to tell me, or do you prefer that I move onto your friends here?" She rambler, looking expectantly at the two brothers.

Delsin sat still, taking in deep, shaky breaths before he whispered: "I'm a conduit."

"What?" The woman asked.

"I said, I'm a conduit alright? I caught it a second ago from that guy." Delsin explained while pointing at Hank's concrete tomb.

"Oh you caught it, very funny." The anger in the woman's voice was clear and Delsin once again screamed as he was pierced with more concrete.

Izuku reached out towards the woman's boot, mustering all of his strength to prepare to yank her foot out from under her, but two large concrete spikes shot out at his shoulder blades and pinned him to the floor.

The last thing both boys saw and heard before blacking out was Betty having a concrete spike shoot out from her frail legs, and her cries as she fell to the floor.

However, both boys had a vision in their sleep. For Izuku; it was of two symmetrical boxers standing back to back, one was light blue in color and the other a deep red, in a flash the blue boxer grew slightly taller. For Delsin; it was that of a two headed bird, the heads were facing apart from each other, one side was light blue and the other was deep red, the bird then became the smallest bit tilted with the blue side being on top now. A single word echoed through both of their heads: 'Protector'.

Hey everybody, you're least favorite lifeless shell of a husk here bringing you a brand new story. Now obviously some of the dialogue has been tweaked mainly due to my not remember certain parts of the game all that well and I do apologise for that but I have Small Brain Syndrome. Another thing I'm going to be doing is that, instead of having Delsin's Karma symbol on the back of his vest, I'm just gonna leave it off because that's gonna be a bitch to explain. Buckle up folks because we're currently at over 4k words and I think that we're only 25 minutes into the game. That's it for now, Peace.