WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from inFAMOUS: Second Son (Good Ending). You have been warned so don’t start complaining please.
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When the dust finally settled, all you could see of Augustine were her eyes peering out of that concrete shell. But the rage that had filled them moments earlier was now replaced… by fear. We’d dismantled the fortress she had built… the army she had raised… the future she had planned. And the entire world was about to know that she had failed. Taken down by a gamer, a junkie, and a small town delinquent. The crowds cheered as Augustine was hauled away… Before all of this, no one would have imagined that humans and conduits could co-exist, and now I was the guy kicking off the second age. Oh and those conduits who’d spent years locked inside the walls of Curdun Cay? They were soon to be free once again. To live their own lives, to choose their own futures. As for me… I got what I came for. And now… Now I had a promise to keep.
Delsin Rowe was sitting near the memorial he had made for his brother, Reggie. Who died trying to protect Delsin. Killed by the ruthless Brooke Augustine. But now, she wasn’t a problem anymore. Delsin had beaten her with her own concrete ability and exposed her to all of Seattle, for who she really was. Delsin now had four powers: Smoke, Neon, Video, and Concrete. All of which were very helpful to him when fighting against the D.U.P. Of course Delsin wouldn’t have gotten his powers if it weren’t for three escaped conduits. The First person, Henry "Hank" Daughtry. Where he got smoke from. He now lives away from the D.U.P. with his daughter. The second, Abigail "Fetch" Walker, an ex-junkie who uses her Neon powers to dismantle the illegal drug trade in Seattle. The third, Eugene Sims, a reclusive video gamer who uses his video powers to save suspected Conduits from the D.U.P. But the concrete power… came from Brooke Augustine, the director of the D.U.P. Thanks to these three friends, the people of Seattle finally started putting their faith in Conduits. But their story does not simply end with the D.U.P...
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“Ladies and gentlemen of Seattle. We come to you live bringing you an emergency news report.” The television announced. “There have been local sightings of new a bio-terrorist last night that was not recognized from the ones that were locked away behind the walls of Curdun Cay. As to whether or not this bio terrorist is a threat, we are uncertain. We will come back to you with more news regarding this new bio terrorist as soon as we can.”
“Sheesh, after all I did for the city and they still call us ‘Bio terrorists’.” Delsin sighed getting up from the couch. “I mean come on.”
“Delsin, people may be safe around you, but other conduits are a different story.” Betty said walking up to him. “They can get easily scared of something they don’t know or don’t understand.”
“Honestly, the only one they should’ve been afraid of was Augustine…”
“Well why don’t you go investigate then?” Betty said. “If you find out who these conduits are and see that they are harmless, then you can tell that to the people.”
“Right… I’ll do just that.” Delsin said agreeing with Betty, heading for the door. “I’ll see you later Betty!” he said using his smoke power to head to the city.
“Be careful!”
“I know!” Delsin responded continuing on his way to the city. “Now I just need to find out who this conduit is and… hopefully he or she comes in peace… maybe even get a new power along the way.”
After about a half hour, Delsin arrived at the space needle and started looking around. "Alright, first things first. Gotta find some evidence." He said to himself taking his phone out setting it to the camera function. However, upon searching, he couldn't find anything that was unusual. "Oookay...? This is where the conduit was spotted, isn't it? I don't see anything... 'Conduit' like." Suddenly his phone started to ring. "Yeah?" Delsin answered.
"Hey D, did you see the report about some new conduit?" A female voice said.
"Fetch! Yeah, actually I'm looking around the space needle right now but... Search is pretty disappointing right now."
"What does that mean?"
"It means I can't find any hint that there was a conduit around here."
"Maybe it's a conduit with wind power or something."
"That actually sounds pretty cool but... No, things would've been blown away if it was...... What the hell...?"
"What? You find something?"
"Well... Not something but... A girl is here..." Delsin looks around. "Did she freaking teleport? Where did she come from?" He hung up the phone, putting it in his pocket. "Uh, hey" the girl turned to face Delsin, revealing that she was extremely pale but had very colorful hair. Just act cool, Delsin...
"Yes?" The white girl said with a regal sounding voice.
"Yeah... I don't think I've seen you around here before..."
"Oh, well... I'm just visiting for a short time. You see I sent my student here for research... She did come back, however it's come to my knowledge that she got into a bit of trouble before leaving."
"Was it last night that she came perhaps?" Delsin asked.
"Yes... Wait, how did you know?"
"Well, she was on this news this morning. People are calling her a bio terrorist."
"That word again..." She sighed. "She did mention people here calling her that..."
"Yeah... Even though that's not the right word for it."
"What is the right word then?"
Delsin stopped and looked at the tall white girl for a moment. "You know... Someone who has powers- you've never heard the word bio terrorist before?"
"Not once until Twilight mentioned it."
Twilight...? Jeez, guess there's a first for everything. "Oh that reminds me, I never got your name. I'm Delsin, Delsin Rowe."
"Celestia..." She paused. "You seem to know a lot about bio terrorists..."
"Well uh... I am one actually." Delsin said shooting fire from his hand. "See?... Oh and please use the word, conduit instead."
"My goodness... I've never seen a human being with this sort of ability..." Celestia said in awe.
"What about... Twilight? People were calling her a bio... Conduit."
"Well, she isn't human... She's a pony... An alicorn to be exact."
...and I'm talking to a psycho... "Right... You must be a pony too right...?"
"Yes I am, and I do not like the sarcasm in your tone." Celestia said starting to look angry.
"Sorry, I'll just let you get back to imagination land while I go back to the real world..." Delsin slowly turns and walks away. Wow, now I really have seen it all in this city. He thought to himself. But without warning, he was lifted up in the air from his feel by a glowing yellow aura. "What the hell!?"
"I really do not like your attitude Delsin Rowe..." She levitated Delsin closer to her. "Apologize now."
"Hey! Let me go lady!" Delsin exclaimed grabbing hold of her hand....!!!
It isn't easy being a princess of over millions of ponies... Thousands of years ruling at that. You see many things that are troublesome... Do things that you feel you may regret... And at the same time, being watched and judged by everyone. Judging you on your appearance, just waiting for you to make a mistake. Honestly, the only major mistake I always thought about... Was banishing my own sister for 1,000 years. During that time, it was never the same for me... But... After the thousand year banishment, there was a ray of hope... The six elements of harmony, and it's bearers...
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Both Celestia and Delsin groaned as they were both on the ground. "What... what in the world did you do?..." She groaned trying to get up.
"I think... I just got your power... Ugh... This is seriously getting old..." He groaned getting to his feet.
"What do you mean you got my power...?" She asked getting to her feet as well.
"Hold that thought, you're telling me that your over a THOUSAND years old?!"
"It WAS you in my mind!" She exclaimed in shock.
"Yeah, that's part of my... Main power, I basically see into a persons past when I get their power." He sighed. "And what that power is, I'm not exactly--" he got cut off when he teleported a few feet, when he tried walking. "Whoa!... Okay that's really new..." He teleported multiple times around Celestia. "This... Is... Awesome!" He exclaimed. "Teleportation... Between that and invisibility... Man why couldn't I have all this in high school??" He looks up at the space needle. "Alright, now to put this power to the test..." He quickly disappeared from Celestia and reappeared at the top of the space needle. "AWESOME!" He exclaimed loud enough for everyone around to hear. He then teleported back to Celestia.
"Incredible... A man who can absorb another person's power..." Celestia said in awe.
"Yeah... Now I wonder what else I can do..." Delsin said with a grin on his face.
"Let's find out." Celestia said placing her hand on Delsin.
"Wait, what?" Delsin said right before getting teleported.
After just a few seconds, the two reappeared in a large room. Delsin then stepped back in retaliation and looked around at his surroundings. "Ok, what the hell! Where are... We?" He stopped to see that he wasn't talking to a human being anymore... But a tall white Alicorn. "Okay so you're not crazy..."
Celestia rolled her eyes but smiled. "Now, why don't we see what you can do, hm?"
"Right, let's see..." He said holding up his hand trying to fire something... Nothing happened. "Not off to a good start..." He kept at it for about 10 minutes, but it seemed like the only power he had was the ability to teleport. "Oh this is bad..." He started to panic a bit. "There wouldn't happen to be any core relays..."
"Uh... Excuse me?"
"Shit..."
"Pardon me but... What is a core relay?"
"Well, usually after I get a new power, core relay is what helps me... You know, show me how a power works."
"Hmm... Perhaps I could try something..." Celestia said as she placed the tip of her horn on Delsin's head.
"Wait, what are you--" before Delsin could continue speaking, he began to surge, pushing Celestia back. "Whoa!... Did that actually work??" He looked around at the nearest objects and began levitating them. "Yup! Definitely worked." He threw the objects at the other end of the room, Celestia placing her hoof on her face. "Whoops... My bad." He turned back to Celestia. “Alright let’s see…” he then focused on that levitation on his feet, and levitated himself in the air. “Alright, flying, check.” he got back down on the ground. He then held his hand out, releasing a magical looking beam, except he wasn't running out of energy. “This is new…” he said stopping. “Usually with a power, I have to find a place to recharge but… this seems endless.”
“Well, it isn’t necessarily a power… it’s magic.”
“...Magic… You’re telling me that this is magic?” he said teleporting and flying.
“In Equestria, yes that is magic.”
“Epic.”
Twilight Sparkle walked out of a portal near the space needle, while the portal disappeared without a trace. "Alright... Time to do some research..." She stopped and looked at her own body. She sighed, "I still don't like this body... But I guess I can deal with it now that my magic actually works." She levitated her quill and scroll, taking notes of her surroundings. "This place is filthy..." She cringed walking on the sidewalk. "A lot of interesting paintings on the walls though..." Suddenly without noticing, she bumped into a female civilian.
"Watch where you're going!" The woman exclaimed and paused, obviously shocked to see a girl with purple skin.
"It was an accident, I was just taking notes."
"Why don't you take notes with a smart phone like everyone else??"
"Uh... Smart phone?" Twilight asked. "I've heard of phones, but a smart phone?"
"You're kidding right?" She asked taking her smart phone out of her pocket. "You seriously don't know what this is?"
"That's a phone?? It looks like a brick! Where are the buttons?"
The woman just stared at Twilight with disbelief. "It's a touch screen phone..." She said activating the phone, showing twilight the dial pad. "All you have to do is tap the number. Or better yet, add the number into your phone so you don't have to remember it."
"Fascinating... We don't have these types of phones where I come from." Twilight said in awe.
"And uh... Where exactly are you from? The 80's?" She asked sarcastically. "Almost the whole world uses smart phones."
"Well uh... I'm part of the world who doesn't have it." Twilight smiled sheepishly.
"Oookay then." The woman just walked away mumbling to herself. "Weirdo..."
"Smart phones... Another one to tell Celestia about." She said writing the note down. She then noticed a very big armored vehicle with 'D.U.P.' On it. "Whoa... I've never seen a car like that the last time I was here." She said writing more on the scroll. Just as she was, she then heard a loud siren coming from the mobile D.U.P. Vehicle. "What the...?" She said rolling up her notes.
"Bio-terrorist, stand down!" One of the D.U.P.'s said looking directly at Twilight, pointing a gun at her.
"Bio... What??"
"I said stand down!"
"Wait wait! I don't even know what your talking about!" She stood back a bit. "I'm not a terrorist!"
"Don't even try to fool us, we saw you using your power with that pen of yours."
"Pen?" She asked taking out her quill. "You mean this?"
"Yes, now come with us right now!"
"So I used my magic! Big deal! Why is that bad??"
"It's unnatural and you must be contained!" The D.U.P. said shooting near Twilight.
"Ah!" She exclaimed falling to the ground, staring back at the D.U.P. "Help!!" She closed her eyes expecting to be taken away. However, she had a sudden cool feeling along with a slight breeze. She opened her eyes slowly to see what was happening. She then noticed she was about 200 ft in the air, being carried by what seemed to be an angel. "You're... Not gonna hurt me are you?" The angelic being didn't answer. It was just carrying Twilight to god knows where. Eventually, the angel just let her go on top of a roof top. "Ugh... Where am I...?" Twilight said getting on her feet.
"Hey, you alright...?" A boy asked coming out of hiding.
"Uh... Yeah I'm okay... Wait! Was that angel you??"
"Well, not me directly, but it was one of my angels that I created." The boy said. "I'm Eugene by the way. Eugene Sims." He said shaking her hand.
"It's nice to meet you Eugene, I'm Twilight Sparkle." She greeted him nicely. "Uh, question. How did you know where I was and why did you help me?"
"Well for how I knew where you were, my angels help me with that." He said with a slight grin. "And as for why, well... You're a conduit trying to avoid the D.U.P. Like every other conduit... Including myself."
"By any chance, is conduit another word for bio-terrorist?"
"Yeah... But it really is conduit. Bio-terrorist is just a word that the D.U.P. uses to get people to be afraid of us." Twilight paused and quickly took down some more notes in her scroll. "So... I guess your power is levitation?"
"Well, technically it's magic... Levitation is just a small part of what I can do."
"Magic? I don't think I've seen a conduit with that power." Eugine admitted. "Where are you from?"
"Uhhh... Look, can you keep a secret?" Twilight asked.
"Well, I guess... I don't exactly talk to many people. What is it?"
"I'm not exactly from this world. I'm from a world know as Equestria. A place inhabited by many different types of ponies, myself included."
"Okay... A lot to take in..." Eugene said a little shocked. "You're saying that you're really a pony?"
"Yes, and a princess as well..."
"Oh man, I can only imagine how Delsin would react to this."
"Delsin? Who's that?"
"He's one of my friends."
"What's his power?"
"Well... I guess it's the ability to absorb other conduit's powers. That's actually how we met in person."
"Well, thank you for helping me get out of that little situation..."
"Hey, it's no problem. What are you going to do now?"
"Well, I think I've done enough research in this world... I guess I should be heading back."
"Alright, I'll see you-..." Eugene paused looking at the figure behind Twilight. "No... That's not possible."
"Huh? What's wrong?"
"Get out of here! Run!" Eugene exclaimed jumping off the building letting one of his angels catch him. Another angel was about to grab Twilight as well, but was quickly blasted away by a concrete shot.
"Huh!?" Twilight got a look at the figure behind her. "W-who are you?"
"I could ask you the same thing young lady. It's not everyday you see a human being with purple skin." The figure answered. "Where was that boy headed?"
"Eugene...? Why does that matter?"
"It matters, that's all you need to know."
Twilight felt something strange around her feet. "What the...?" She said looking down only to discover that her feet and lower legs were being covered by concrete. "What!? Wait, stop!"
"I know you're a bio terrorist as well, Twilight. I heard it all." The figure stated bluntly. "I can let you go... Let you leave town. But only if you tell me where Eugene Sims is headed."
"Who... Just who are you!?"
"Brooke Augustine... Head of the D.U.P." She stated. "So what will it be Twilight?"
H-head!? Great, what am I going to do!? I have to get back to Equestria! But I can't just give Eugene after saving me! What am I going to do!?
Refuse to give Eugene away. Give up Eugene
Risk your return to Equestria, andGetting back to Equestria is more
your friends. important than anything else.
Your first step in becoming a hero. Your first step in becoming inFAMOUS.
(Coming Soon) (Coming Soon)
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"So, where is Twilight right now?" Delsin asked still practicing with his new found powers.
"She should be back in Ponyville... Although she seemed a bit nervous when she returned." Celestia answered.
"Well, she was being called a bio-terrorist. That's reason enough to be nervous." He stared. "Can't possibly be Augustine. I exposed her for who she really was and got her locked away."
"I'm not sure... I have a feeling that it's something else... Something much more serious."
"How can you tell?"
"I'm not exactly sure... But perhaps we should meet up with her."
"Sure, I'd love to meet the new bio-terrorist of Seatle." Celestia shot a glare of disapproval at him. "Kidding! Jeez, can't you take a joke?"
Author's Note
I know this is kind of short but I've been really busy lately.... Anyway! Yes, this story will have you choose between good and bad for Twilight. I know what you're thinking: "why would Twilight go bad?" Well, why would DELSIN go bad? Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. You'll find out more on how Augustine got out in the next chapter: Good or Bad. Either will explain it.
