inFAMOUS 3: Equestria

Cole set off an electrical pulse, and for once, he got a ping. He set off in the direction of the ping, and he soon arrived at the train tracks. He set off another ping, and got an extremely quiet response from the west. Cole hopped on the live tracks, and set off towards whatever the next city south of Ponyville was, electrically grinding his way there, recharging his Cores along the way.

***Time Passes***

Cole arrived in Appleloosa after an hour’s ride on the rails. He looked around, comparing what he saw to what he had heard of it from other Ponyvillians. He saw the town was aglow with power.

“How the hell…?”

He saw black panels on every rooftop.

“Solar power. These ponies are smarter than I thought.”

He looked towards the center of town, and saw the generator just sitting there, unguarded

“There you are….”

He walked towards the generator, on guard, ready and expecting an ambush. When he got to the generator, he looked around furtively, looking for any signs of Terra activity. He was about to set his hand on the generator to fire off a Tesla Missile to recharge the generator in Ponyville when he was knocked on top of the generator by a powerful blow to the back, one that would have killed a normal human or pony.

He spun around, and fired off a Bolt at the nearest Terra, sending it flying, and the rest converged on him at once, all piling on top of him to pummel him into the ground. Cole curled up defensively, then, after a moment, he called on his Ionic Powers, sacrificing one of his three Ion Charges to call down an Ion Storm, which fries everything on top of him, and around him, electrocuting every single pony in a ten foot radius. Once the twitching stops, he blasted them off of him with a pair of Shockwaves, and he stepped out of the miniature crater created by the blast. He stood up, and felt a rock hit him in the side.

He whirled to face that direction, and saw a pony duck under cover just in time to avoid getting fried. He sighs, and then lobs an Electrocution Grenade over the barricade, and the pony behind it jittered as the electricity discharged from the Grenade skittered through him, stunning him, immobilizing him, and it stopped just a split second before the Grenade exploded, and the pony is sent skyward, only to come crashing down a few seconds later.

“There. I think that does it.”

Cole sets his hand on the generator, charged up, and then turns to face Ponyville, keeping his hand on the generator, and he fired off a Tesla Missile towards Ponyville, using the electrified railroad tracks to keep it going. It fried a few errant Aeros and a Terra or two on the way, but it was almost knocked out of the sky when it gets hit by a bolt of magic. It flew towards the source, and fried the Maegi that fired it, before careening around, and slamming into the generator, its nearly-full electric charge just barely sparking the generator back to life. It would need to be fully recharged before it will function.

Cole gave the Appleloosa generator a final overcharge, and it let it loose into the town’s power grid, reviving it.

‘TERRA’-TORY TAKEN

Cole set off on the rails once more, heading east, back to Ponyville. After an hour of relatively eventless (read: frying only a few Aeros) travel on the tracks, he hopped off at the Ponyville Station, and looked around. Seeing no enemies, he made for the generator.

He got there, and activates the charging sequence, barely able to dodge two bolts of magic that were shot his way, and he ducked to dodge them. They hit the generator, and actually charged it a bit more. He fired off a pair of Pincer Bolts at them, and they each fall to the ground, twitching. Then there was an all-out barrage of magical blasts directed at him, from almost every direction. He dodged some, blasted others to negate them, and let some hit the generator, charging it further. Then he unleashed an Ionic Vortex at the bulk of the ponies, frying the others with various Bolt shots. After what felt like an hour of magic and electric bolts flying everywhere, the shooting died down as the Maegi dropped like flies.

There were still several left that hadn’t been fried, and they continued firing away at Cole, using a flicker-fire technique, dropping their shields just long enough to launch a bolt at Cole, and then putting it back up immediately after. Cole chucked a Sticky Grenade at one shield, but to no avail as it just slid right off.

“Last tactic.”

He fired off a Redirect Rocket, let it soar over them, and then he shot a shield with a Magnum Bolt. The pony behind it laughed, thinking Cole had gone dumb for a moment, even though the shield was very obvious. The laughter was cut short as the Rocket re-oriented, and slammed home, blowing the Maegi into pieces…literally. The other shields dropped, and they each unleashed a full-power beam of magic at Cole, trying to overwhelm him, but he just used the Arc Lightning to counter them, barely managing to do so, but doing so nonetheless.

Once they ran out, he used the Bolt Stream, firing off blasts of energy like bullets from a Gatling gun, and it completely annihilated what was left of the Maegi resistance, or so he thought.

Several Terras, out of their territory, came charging at him, having been following him from Appleloosa, but the generator hits full charge, and lets off a pulse of energy, sending them flying into, and sometimes through, various walls. The power slowly came back on in Ponyville. The ponies that weren’t in the gangs, or dead, began to come out of their hiding places, all of them cheering for Cole, hailing him as the Guardian of Ponyville. He felt something building in him, and then he began to glow blue, his karmic ranking shifting into the first full level of Good Karma, the rank of Guardian. He felt his powers increase, and new powers open up to him. He smiled to himself, and was actually happy to have helped these ponies. He walked over to the library, and rapped on the door in a specific pattern, one that he knew the dragon inside would recognize as Cole’s own pattern.

Spike looked out the window, double checking to make sure it was who he thought it was, but then he nearly fell backwards out of shock, seeing the power back on.

“How…how is that even possible?”

He opened the door, carefully taking down the barricades he had put over it to keep the gangs from breaking in, and then he let Cole inside.

“Cole! How’d you get the power back on?! I thought you’d tried everything you could!”

“Well, everything in this town. I just went down to Appleloosa--”

“YOU WENT TO APPLELOOSA?!?! That place is overrun with Terras!”

“Well, not much anymore. I took care of them.”

“And their leader?”

“They have a leader?”

“Duh! Of course they do! Every gang has a leader. The Maegi, the Aeros, and the Terras. They all do!”

“Hmm…well, never saw the leader, but I’ll take care of him later.”

“Her. The leader’s an Earth Pony mare.”

“Great…another woman in charge of a gang. Like the Reapers and Sasha…”

He sighed to himself.

Spike would have asked, but he decided he did not even want to know.

“Oh! Cole! I have a gift for you!”

“A gift? Why?”

“Well, you did save Ponyville after all.”

“I guess I did.”

“Wait here!”

Cole did as he was told, and then Spike walked off, moving his head side to side, looking for something. He found it a moment later.

“There you are!”

Cole looked up, and saw Spike walking back with a book. He hands it to Cole, smiling.

“Here, take it. It’s a book covering electrokinesis, and has a few techniques you might not have already.”

“How did you get this?”

“Oh, Twi got it from Princess Luna a while back, and she sent it to me to keep here.”

“Ah…Well, it’s not as quick as a Blast Core, but it’ll do.”

“A what?”

“A Blast Core. It’s a chunk of metal. It glows purple, sparks, and holds enormous power.”

“What do you do with them?”

“I absorb their energy. Usually, it gives me a new power.”

“Hmm….”

Spike walked away again, heading into the back room of the library, then down into the basement, and from there down further into a room that held a large vault, a huge metal door locked shut, keeping intruders out. Spike breathed fire into a specific set of holes, and ran a single claw along a series of line segments. Everywhere his claw touched glowed a dim green, and when he was done, he had drawn a six-pointed star.

The entire door began to glow the same dim green, and then swung open, perfectly balanced. Spike walked in, and grabbed the medium-sized glass container, which was the only item inside. Spike walked out of the vault, closing it behind him, and then he made his way back upstairs, then to where Cole was.

“You mean something like this?”

Cole looked up, and then looked at the container in Spike’s claws. Contained therein was an actual Blast Core.

“Where did you get that?”

“Oh, it crashed into the library a long time ago. Twilight kept it here for as long as I can remember.”

Ray Sphere must have done more than just explode and give me powers… it seems like it affected things here too. I wonder how many other towns here have Blast Cores…

Cole took the container, cracked it open, and pulled out the Blast Core.

“Spike…don’t let the ponies kill each other, and don’t let them kill me.”

“Got it.”

Cole took a few steps back, and then he activated the Core. He grunted with effort as he absorbed the raw power contained inside of the chunk of glowing metal. He sparked and crackled as the power skittered across his frame, and dived into him, unlocking a new power.

The electricity stopped all at once, and Cole collapsed onto the floor.