Chapter one

Hello everyone and welcome to the first chapter of the redo of Powers of the world. Hopefully all of you will like it. Since I have been replaying the games, I have seen what I have messed up in. So hopefully this redo will be better than the old while adding my own flare to it. So that means I will not be totally going off the game and I will be putting my own points in time and different decisions on how this story is going to end. So let me know on what you guys think of a poll for you people on voting on what decisions are you guys want to go to. In the future I will make a second story with the different ending. Now enough of me yapping. Enjoy the chapter everyone.

Thousands of screams could be heard as buildings were being destroyed as a huge being that looked human was walking though the towns of New Marais causing damage to the city in its wake. Everyone was running away from a being that was terrorizing them all, carrying just the bare essentials anything of importance to them.

The being itself was just a mass of energy being contained inside a body. It looked like as though Gaia herself has risen from the earth itself to wreak vengeance on everyone. It was made of molten rocks and was also littered with glowing red cracks all over with its glowing red eyes that showed it had massive power just waiting to be unleashed. That didn't help with its image. This thing was called the Beast.

The beast let out a mighty roar as it formed a giant fire ball in its hand and threw it towards the city. The fire ball soared though the air as it littered with hundreds soaring towards the city, causing the air to change to a menacing red color. As the first fire ball hit the building, the rest soon followed causing explosions and wreckage to fly everywhere. Everyone took cover where they could, but a child was screaming and crying for their mother as he was stuck under some rubble. The boys' mother screaming for anyone to help her boy. She herself was being held back by some people for her safety. She saw that a fire ball was falling directly to her son, that sight alone renewed her struggle to get to her son with her screams echoing to in the area. The boy just cried loudly as the meteor closed in on him, his eyes closed as he waited for the approaching meteor to end him.

A few seconds pasted as the boy thought he died already and just didn't feel it. Instead he saw a man with what looked like a giant tuning fork strapped to his back. He had a shaved head and his face held the look of someone who has faced great and terrible things. The man was also wearing a white and Navy blue shirt. His face looked like as though he went through battles that no one else should ever go through. As the boy looked at the man more, he saw tattoos on his arms that had wings and stars on them. He wore dark blue track pants and shoes that are called tabi pacifically made for parkour. Though the most noticeable thing about the man was he was engulfed in electricity as he had his hands up making a shield blocking the boy as the fire ball crashed into the shield, but the shield held strong. The man moved the rubble off the boy to free him as quickly as he could, picked him up and ran toward the crying mother. When he reached her he gave the child to the crying mother who was holding the boy tightly with tears of joy falling down her face she looked at the man and recognized who had just saved her boy.

"Thank you for saving my boy Cole. Thank you so much." She said with relief as the boy was holding tightly onto to his mother.

"Yeah your welcome lady." He said hurriedly as he threw up a bigger shield to protect the group from another fireball. "Everyone hurry and get out of here! I'll keep the shield up to protect you guys till you are clear. GO!"

Everyone listened to him as they all ran as he kept the shield up and ran behind them somewhat to give the cover. When they all were clear, Cole jumped to the side to dodge another fireball. Cole growled and shook his head as he got up.

"Damn it John, this could have gone differently if you didn't let the power control you instead of you controlling the power." He thought to himself as he saw his all but blood brother Zeke.

Zeke wasn't what you called a fit man by a long shot, but he does have a lot of athletic ability. He was what you call a chubby man with a five a clock shadow on his face. He wore some black shades to cover his eyes. His hair was swept back though a small bang hanging loosely forward. He also had a scar on his left cheek. He was wearing a bowling shirt, a white shirt with flaming dices on it and a mesh shirt over it. In one hand he had his revolver out from the gun holster he had on. He was also wearing brown shorts that went past his knees a bit and a pair of sneakers. Cole also noticed that Zeke had more bandages than his usual fashion and saw some blood leaking through the bandages on the side of his stomach.

"Zeke bro you okay?" Cole asked as he hurriedly rubbed his hand together causing his hand to be engulfed in electricity and placed them on Zeke's shoulder, causing the electricity go through him and heal his more major wounds. Zeke gave a sigh of relief.

"Thanks bro. I was fighting the last of the idiotic militia that wouldn't help the rebellion try and stop the Beast from destroying their city. One of them nicked me in the side. But to more pressing matters, how are we going to stop it?" Zeke said to Cole as he pointed at the being of destruction in their town.

"I honestly have no idea, but the first thing I want to do is get all the civilians out."

"Way ahead of you, I have Nix and Kuo helping all the civilians in the different districts to the boats that the rebels set up to take them all out of the city."

"Good to hear man." Cole then clicks on his phone. "Nix, Kuo, when you guys finish helping the civilians meet up at the roof so we can make a game plan to end this madness." When he finished he heard a click on his phone from one of them after a few seconds.

"Will do Cole I have the Ville and Ascension district almost cleared out give me another 20 minutes. Whoa!" An explosion and somethings crashing was heard through the line

"Kuo? KUO!"

"Phew that was close I'm fine had to dodge some debris." She said.

"Alright Cole out." He said as he cut the connection to her. Though his phone didn't stay silent for long as the phone was ringing again. He answered.

"Cole, baby how's your end over there? I got flood town and the Gasworks just about cleared. Me and my babies got the civilians close to the boats. I should…hold on for just a second…" The women said as screams of pain and stuff getting stabbed. Cole just kind of leaned away from the phone like Zeke did.

"Oh baby that was good. As I was saying I'll meet you up on the roof with Ice bitch there in 20. Later baby." The phone clicked before Cole could say anything.

"Bro I have said this once and I'll say this a thousand times more, Nix may be a one fine piece of ass but she is crazy." Zeke said as him and Cole started to head to the roof and helping people to the boats.

"Yeah I know man….What you think of Kuo while we are on the topic of women?" Cole asked him.

"Kuo? Hmm I would say she is a looker as well but in my opinion she doesn't have that much curves on her you know what I mean?" Zeke said as he hoped over a bench and picked up a women and her child.

"Well I agree on that she doesn't have a lot of curves, but she does have that firm athletic body. Her abs are great and her ass a great plus too." Cole responded as he blasted some debris away from a door to get the people trapped in there out.

"Yeah but she doesn't have a lot working for her on top you know?"

"You're just saying that since Nix's and Kuo had an argument on what people would like better and had you as the tie-break since I wanted to stay out of it."

"Hey you weren't complaining when they had the underwear and bathing suit comparison." Zeke said chuckling to his best friend.

Cole smirked and chuckled with him as they continued to help more people to the boats.

Zeke's and Coles' rooftop

Cole and Zeke finally got to their roof top after the last civilian was on the boat. Zeke went straight to the couch and plopped down to take a seat. Usually they would be on high alert with all the fire balls but recently they stopped. Cole just looked up at the red sky just being at the ready. He noticed two stream of white and black were heading towards the roof and Cole just crossed his arms as he watched the streams get closer. Zeke quickly put away pictures of two women in swim suits in his pocket and made sure they weren't sticking out of his pockets as the two stream landed next to either side of Cole. The streams soon started to form human shape that looked like women though one looked shorter than the other.

The stream on his left was the first to finish forming. She was a slim and tall African woman that had a tone and well-kept body. Granted she was taller than Cole with her boots on. She had dread locks that just touched the top of her shoulder blades from the bun she had it in. In her hair she had some parts that were died blood red. Around her neck she was wearing some red rope jewelry with silver bands on it. Her arms were covered in various bands that she has picked up over the years and from her childhood that she kept. With one of her hands, she had metal fingers that made it looked like she had claws at the end of them. She was also wearing a black tank top with ripped off sleeves on and a v-cut so low that it basically showed her chest but covered her c-cup borderline d-cup breasts well enough that it covered her nipples but showed her side boob well enough for people to stare at them. Though she used that as a way to distract her male victims. She had on some black leather pants that clung to her body as though it was a second skin and her high black leather boots. This was Nix, the swamp witch of New Maris and partner of Cole and Kuo. Well when it didn't interfere her interests. She leaned up against Cole in a flirtatious manner and batted her eye lashes.

"Cole baby, did you miss me?" She asked him in a playful manner. Cole just rolled his eyes and gently got her to stand up properly and not up against him.

"Hello to you to Nix. Can we not have this right now we have more important things at the moment." He said to her which caused her to pout at him.

"He's right Nix, we got more important things at hand." Another woman said in more business-like manner.

The both of them turned to Cole's left side to the voice. Though Nix just had a scowl on her face.

The woman next to him was an Asian looking woman with skin white enough to be compared to snow. Her hair was a dark blue and has her bangs going from either side of her face that framed her face perfectly. She wore a black top that had mesh on the top so it just showed a little of her cleavage to her b borderline c-cup breasts. Her hands from the forearm down look like there were made of ice somewhat as it gave off a cold mist off them. She also wore black plants that also hugged her legs till then end were they opened up more and she had some black heals on though it didn't get her any taller from Cole. She was Lucy Kuo former, NSA agent turn conduit and partner in crime with Cole.

"Oh joy it's the ice bitch. Why don't you run along and hide while us real Hero's plan on stopping the beast?" Nix said to her with sarcasm heavy in her voice. Kuo's eyebrow twitched at the name but she kept her cool.

"…Any ways, what is your guyss plan on stopping him since I have been thinking on what John has said." She replied.

"What who is John?" Nix asked in confusion.

"Him." Cole said as he pointed at the Beast. "John white, a former ally of Me and Kuo when he was still human. He's the thing that's destroying the town."

"Can't you guys talk to him about stopping all this if he's a friend of yours?" Nix asked.

"He was a friend. Now he is doing all of this in what he thinks is the best solution on stopping the plague."

"Which is what exactly? Why is he eradicating everyone?" Kuo asked him since she didn't really know what John said to Cole a while back.

"Not everyone apparently, just humanity itself and letting what conduits that survive his so called 'cleansing' will be the ones to start a new world order." Cole responded as he turned and looked at the Beast with his hands on his hips.

"You know brother; you should be powerful enough to charge the RFI now so that we can use it to drain his powers." Zeke said as he took out a device that was glowing a light blue. "Here man. Charge that sucker up. Let us hope that Dr. Wolfe was right about it." Zeke said before he coughed some.

Cole nodded as he went to pick up the RFI. Nix and Kuo got close to him and Zeke as Cole looked at all of them for a second. Then with a deep breath his arms started to be engulfed in electricity and started powering up the RFI. Nothing happened at first before Kuo, Nix and Cole all started to scream in pain. Cole couldn't stop his powers as the RFI continued to absorb his powers. Cole could feel his power beginning to become more powerful but at the same time it felt as though his whole body was being ripped apart.

Then the pain stopped. Cole looked with blurry vision to see that Zeke knocked the RFI out of his hands with a swing from the Amp. Cole took deep breaths as he tried stand up. Zeke helped him up as Kuo and Nix just sat up.

"What the hell was that man!" Nix yelled at them.

"It seemed as though Dr. Wolfe never really finished it." Kuo started to say. "He must have known that it was never fully ready and knew that the conduit that was charging it, would have died in the end."

"Well that's just fan fucking tastic. What are we going to do now?" Nix questioned.

"Well maybe Johns way is the best after all." Kuo said quietly causing Cole to look at her in surprise.

"What?" He asked.

"Hear me out okay. Since I know none of us wants to die anytime soon. I say that we join him to save ourselves so that we can live."

"And what? Just leave the rest of the world to burn at his wake and letting the worst people or peoples with no idea on how to control their powers run the world?" Cole asked her in a hard but even tone.

"That has to be the most stupid idea I have ever heard from your mouth Ice bitch." Nix said.

"Excuse me?" Kuo asked her as her eyes narrowed.

"You heard me. You are stupid to think that that will work for everyone. You have to be stupid enough to think that."

"Oh and what is your brilliant idea Miss. Bomb whore? Hmm?"

"The plan is simple, we use the help of the rebels and the militia to divide the attention of the beast as the three of us go for a straight up attack against him." Nix said as pulled out a map from god knows were on her body and showed a map of the bay area with all the rebels and militia are waiting on the signal to attack.

"That is suicide. Don't you care for your own life?"

"What is one life to the billions we would be saving huh? We can't just think for ourselves here." Nix said with a hiss at her.

"That's rich coming from you. I say we join John now. I agree on what he believe as it will help us live for tomorrow."

"And what about the rest of the world? What about the other people that can't be conduits?" Nix said heatedly her anger raise from every word that Nix had said. Her powers starting to form around her hands.

"Let them die as the strongest shall survive all of this in the end."

Nix soon started to yell at Kuo with her powers active as Kuo started up her powers as well as she got ready to yell back and defend herself. Cole quickly got in between them before explosions started to happen.

"Enough both of you! Both of you cool off!" He yelled at them.

"NO! I will not wait here any longer as our time is about to run out with us staying here!" Kuo yelled. "What do you pick Cole?"

"Yeah Cole who do you side with?" Nix asked as well while she was still glaring at Kuo.

He looked at both of them for a bit before he took a few steps away and turned his back to them as he wanted to gather his thoughts on each of their plans. He sighs heavily as he was the one that always had to make the hardest decisions.

"On the one hand, with Johns proposal all three of us would live and with all the power I could take from him later No oen would be able to stop me. I could rule everyone. I would be unstoppable." One side of him thought which he called his dark half.

"On the other hand, With Nix's plan we would fall with the attack but the people would be save, the plague would be gone. Everyone would live except me and any other conduit that is nearby when I fire that blasted machine" His other side thought. That was his more heroic side of himself.

Cole held his head as he continued to tried to come to a conclusion. Both of his sides were conflicting each other. His vision started to go black and white as he turned back around to look at the both of them. But his eyes fell on Zeke. He could tell that Zeke wasn't looking great as he saw him cough up blood. Though Kuo and Nix didn't notice that. Hell the both of them thought he was dead weight most of the time. Not Cole though. Cole could never think of that after he remembered what he and Zeke went though. All the trials, all the horrors and the things they have seen. Zeke stood by him. So did Trish. Trish. Cole's heart suddenly felt heavy when he thought of her. That's when Cole remembered something that she said to him as she was slowly dying in his arms.

Flashback

Cole was crying as he was holding the woman he loved in his arms as the life in her was slowly leaving her. He had one hand holding her cheek as he was looking at her with tired eyes.

"Trish don't you dare leave me damn it! I can, I can heal you! Yeah I just need to heal you with my electric powers and you will be all better!" He said frantically as he tried to produce power that he didn't have in him anymore at the moment after fighting through Kessler's Army.

Trish gave a weak laugh at him. "I don't think you can save me this time Cole…"

"Don't you say that. Don't you dare say that."

"It's okay Cole. I'm not mad at you. I am actually proud of the man you became. All the good you have done." She said with a small weak smile. "You know I still loved you even after all that happened. I never really believed that you killed my sister. I just couldn't let go of my grief."

"It's ok I always knew. Look there some power just hold on." He said to her. He picked her body up slowly.

"No Cole I'm almost gone, just promise me something…." Her voice getting quiet

"NO! You are going to live you hear me!" He said with determination on saving her. She just closed her eyes as she spoke her last.

"Don't lose who you are. Always stay true to yourself. You have the gift to change the world. Just remember also that I …..love…you…."

"Trish? No no no noTrish come one wake up!" Cole said franticly as he put her down and absorbed the electricity what little it was and he tried to heal her with the electric heal pulse. "Don't do this to me Trish!"

Again and again he continued to try and heal her. His eyes streaming with tears as he continued to try though her body just stayed still. The color just slowly leaving her body. Finally, he stopped as he finally realized that it was too late. Coles body shook as he held her body close to him.

Flashback end

Cole gave out a shaky sigh as he remembered that. He still grieved. God did he grieved but he kept his promise to her. He did everything in her name all the decisions he made was for her. He looked up in the sky and saw a single ray of light breath through the red sky showing the nice blue sky that it was originally. He closed his eyes as he made his decision. He looked back at them as the color started to come back to the world and saw that Zeke was looking over the sparking RFI.

"Zeke you think you can get the RFI to work again?" He asked as he walked towards him.

"Hmm it's going to be tough but I think I can get it to work again." Zeke said as he started to get some tools.

"Nix, let the rebels and Militia know that we are going to attack soon."

Nix gave a wicked smile as she nodded and took off in her black stream. Kuo though looked shocked at the decision.

"Are you crazy? If we take John's side, we will live!"

"At the cost of millions, almost billions of life just for a few?" He asked back to her.

"YES! Don't you like living?" She asked franticly.

"I do, but these people deserve it more. Human and Conduits ALL deserve to live." He said as he saw Kuo stepping back slowly.

"You're crazy in believing in that. The strong will always be on top." She said

Cole saw Kuo then start charging at Zeke. Acting quickly, he tackled Kuo to the ground as Zeke quickly hopped up with the RFI in hand. Kuo struggled to get out of Coles grip as she fired up ice blasts towards Zeke hoping to freeze him. Good thing Zeke was good at dodging though he didn't notice that some parts on the table got frozen. Kuo kicked Cole off her and rolled off to the side and was crouching low as she looked at them. Cole was at the ready his hands charged up with magnum bolts. Kuo stared at them before escaping in her white stream. Cole lowered his hand and Zeke started to come out behind the couch form where he was hiding. Zeke then started back on his work on the RFI though he saw that some of the stuff needed to be unfrozen. He hoped it was not the important parts. Cole sat next to Zeke with his hands to his head.

"You think I made the right choice?"

"Brother after all the crap you put us through and all the things we went through you are asking me this now of all times. You know my answer. I'm with you in the end man." Cole just smiled at him. The both of them fist bumped.

"So how long till you can get up and running again?"

"Hmm hard to tell, it looks like most of it is still intact after I smacked the living hell out of it from your hand."

"Thank you by the way."

"Anytime give me about an hour I should be able to get it up and running."

Cole nodded as he saw that Nix was heading back to the roof.

"Cole the Rebels and Militia are ready to attack whenever you are. What happened here?" She asked as she saw stuff frozen everywhere.

"Kuo happened." He said with a grunt.

"Ice bitch left for the other team?"

"Yup" Zeke said as he concentrated on the RFI.

Nix nodded and took a seat on the floor leaning up against the couch.

"So now we wait for Mister chunky here to fix the RFI?"

"Woman, for the last time, I'm not chunky I'm big boned and yes I'm fixing it." Zeke said.

Nix Nodded then looked at Cole. "Want to make out?"

Cole just rolled his eyes and got himself a beer. It's a good thing the Beast disappeared for now knowing it needed to recharge for a bit before continue his campaign. Now he had to worry about not getting raped by the crazed woman next to him.

An hour later

"Okay guys I finished." Zeke called out to them.

"Finally." Nix said as she threw the cards behind her. Apparently Cole and Nix were playing a game of poker to pass the time.

"So what is the verdict?" Cole asked him.

"You want the good news or the bad news first?"

"Good news." Nix said.

"The RFI is working and should be able to drain the powers of the beast." Zeke said in confidence

"But…" Cole said knowing there's always something that could go wrong with them.

"Bad news is that the regulator is broken after I unfroze it. The cold snapped it in half"

"But isn't that a good thing?" Nix asked in confusion.

"No it's not. That helped make sure that RFI would not have overload itself with power. Without it, it will burn itself and be useless." Zeke replied in a solemn tone.

The group was quiet when Zeke said the last part. Cole was processing the information and Nix kept her face from showing what she was thinking. The three of them stood there as they looked at the RFI. Then Cole picked it up and just held it as he continued to look at it.

"Cole…" Nix started to say.

"Zeke even if I charge it would just burn itself wouldn't it?" Cole asked as he cut off Nix from saying anything.

"Unless you fire it off before it did why?"

"Yeah, I was thinking that we could get to the power station in each of the three main districts to charge it enough for me to give it one last boost of energy to have one blast before it overloaded itself."

Cole strapped his amp on his back and then put the RFI in his back pack. The two of the agreed on what Cole said. The ground shook violently and the three of them looked out into the distance to see that The beast was starting to reform.

"Well looks like that's the plan we have to go with let's move people!"

Nix Nodded and started heading towards the boat in her dark stream. Cole and Zeke just head down to the harbor to meet with them in their own way.

"Man I really wish I could fly. Would have made getting to places easier." Cole said as he jumped from the roof towards the ground.

"Brother at least you have powers man." Zeke said as he quickly climbed down to the ground. "Besides can't you fly?"

"No I float man not fly. My static thrusts just let me float and even then not very long."

"I still don't see how you are complaining?"

"You know what, the next time there is a ray sphere about to detonate, you can do it."

Zeke just fist pumped as Cole just rolled his eyes at him.

With the rebels

When the two of them made it to the harbor, they saw Nix talking to a man When they got there, they figured out it was Laroche.

"Hey Laroche I'm guess Nix gave you our game plan?"

"Yup, were going to give you cover fire as you get to the substation to power the Rfdohicky so that we can get rid of that son of a bitch." Laroche said.

"You know you don't have to do this man. You could leave to be with your niece."

"Me leave my men? What kind of man would I be if I left them at the most important battle of our lives? Besides Sara will understand if I don't make it back." Laroche said to Cole as he crossed his arms.

Cole just nodded as Laroche just head back towards his boat and motioned him and Nix to get on as well. Cole stopped as he got on the boat and turned to Zeke.

"Zeke head to the other substations and set up the rigs so we can start to charging more power for the RFI when Nix and I get there."

Zeke nodded and head towards the next substation. Nix gave him a look but didn't say anything to him.

Soon enough, all of the rebels started heading towards the first substation. Everyone was silent as thunderous booms could be heard as the water moved violently as each boom was made. Nobody said anything though as they all sailed faster to the substation. Nix was just looking out into sky as Cole was inside the boat standing next to Laroche.

"You know I never did say thank you for everything you have done for us and for this city." Laroche said randomly as he kept his eyes forward.

"Huh, oh yeah your welcome, but you didn't need to thank me. I did what any other person would do." Cole said to him causing Laroche to chuckle. "What's so funny?"

"Your buddy Zeke was right; you do downplay yourself a lot." Cole just chuckle like that.

"Yeah I bet he did."

"Anyways, I have a couple of my men at the station already making sure that if the beast got there already they can hold it off for you guys to charge it."

Cole nodded as he went outside to the deck of the boat to see that they were almost there. Then he heard Zeke call on his phone.

"Hey bother I got the second substation hooked up and ready for us. I'm heading towards the third one now."

"Good job Zeke. You know this plan sucks bro."

"Yeah I know. But it's the only one we got." Zeke said on the phone with a chuckle. "I'll call you when the third one is set up. Zeke out."

Cole nodded as he turned off his phone and heard Laroche yell that they were closing in on the substation when they could hear men screaming and shots being fired.

"Looks like we got here a little late. Open fire men. Get that son of a bitch away from the substation!" Laroche yelled at his men as all of them started firing their rockets at it.

"Nix! Get to the substation! Hurry!"

"I'm already on it." Nix yelled as she flew to the substation. when she got there she saw the beast charging up a giant fireball in its hands and Nix gasped before flying out of there just as the beast threw the fire ball at the substation.

Cole narrowed his eyes when he saw the substation explode. Cole started to charge up his powers when he saw Nix land next him.

"You okay Nix?"

"Yeah man, but that was close. LOOK OUT!" Nix yelled as she flew out again quickly.

Cole turned around to see a giant fireball coming straight at him. He threw up his shield as it about hit him. He skidded back from the force of the impact against his shield. The boat caught on fire and Cole got Laroche and his shipmate off that boat just as it was about to explode.

"Cole get out of here we will slow him down." Laroche said as he pushed Cole towards the next boat so he can escape. One of his men handed him a rocket launcher.

"I am not leaving you guys out here! Come on, we can still get out." Cole said as he took his hand out to Laroche.

"Cole come on man, the Beast is getting awfully close." Nix said over the phone in a panic as she was at shore.

"Go Cole! We will soften him up for you so it is easier to kick his ass!" Laroche yelled. He gave the signal as he and his men started firing at the beast.

Cole turned around but gave one last look at him before he used his alpha tether and quickly shot towards the closest boat and used an ice launch just as he landed to gain more air into his launch. He made a call to Zeke as he landed on a telephone wire and started riding on it at high speeds. He closed his eyes as he heard the explosion of boats all getting destroyed.

"Zeke we were too late to the first substation. Me and Nix are heading over to the second one now."

"Alright, Nix is here now and were hooking up the RFI as we speak. Though I don't understand how The Beast knew were we were going?"

"I don't know man but worry about the RFI right now I'll be there soon."

"See you soon."

Cole hung up as he jumped to the next wire and used his static thrusters to speed himself up even more.

The second substation

Cole hopped off wire as he saw the second substation under him. He landed on the roof and stumbled a little as his momentum form the hop pulled him forward.

"Zeke what's the status on the charge?" Cole asked.

"It is charging, but without the first substation we might not have enough power to fire it…"

Cole looked up at the sky as thunder booked in the air.

"I think I got an idea when we need the juice."

"What do you have…" Zeke started to say but he lost his train of thought as the beast just appeared in front of them.

"What the hell?!" Zeke said as he pulled out his revolver. "Cole, brother, you thing you're strong enough for this fight."

"Oh yeah and I'm gearing up for round two to start." Cole said through a growl as his arms charged up. "Nix keep charging the RFI, I got a score to settle here."

Cole jumped to another roof top and he started shooting off some alpha shots at its head at first to draw its attention to him. The beast growled in rage as it turned towards Cole.

"Come on ugly, Let's dance!" Cole said as he shot out.

The Beast just responded as it started throwing multiple fireballs at him. Cole responded at firing his megawatt hammers at them. Cole then switched to his precision shot quickly as the beast stumbled after a few of his megawatt hammer hit the Beasts face. Time seemed to slow to a crawl for Cole. His vision turning balk and white except for the beast glowed and menacing red. Cole fired multiple shots to the Beasts eyes hoping he could cause some kind of blindness, but he was knocked to the side before he could do that much damage. Cole shook his head and saw who shoved him to the side.

It was Zeke, but he was pointing at the ice gang that were about to sneak up behind him. Zeke was also firing his revolver at them to give Cole some cover. The ice gang were a group of mercenaries that got ice powers just like Kuo. All of them had a white mask covering their heads and had on white robes with light armor underneath it. Even though they were conduits, they still liked to used their guns.

Cole narrowed his eyes at them. "Zeke give me a few seconds I'm sending out an ionic storm to these fuckers."

"Make it quick!" Zeke responded as he fired off more rounds.

Cole brought his hands in front of him as he started charging up a massive amount of ionic power. He also started mixing his lighting and ice powers to it. The power in his hands started grow bigger and bigger as he tried to contain it.

"Zeke out of the way now!" Cole yelled to him. Zeke just did that as Cole spun his body once as he unleashed it.

A giant tornado of Lighting and ice was formed from Cole's hand and it started tearing up the ground and the buildings in its wake. It also started picking up the Ice gang members in its wake causing them to get sucked in and also die from it. Cole then turned back to the Beast knowing he got most of them out of the way. Though it didn't last long as the Beast slammed his massive hand against him causing the building to collapse under him. Zeke yelled Cole's name as he started running towards the collapsed building. Nix couldn't do much as she had to hold the RFI in place to charge properly and she was also constantly making a napalm sphere around her to make a somewhat protection barrier.

The Beast just turned around, ignoring Zeke completely as it thought Cole didn't survive that and started to gather power around its hands. Zeke for his part was quickly trying to dig Cole from under the ruble.

"Come on man. Don't you dare quit on me now. You have gotten out of worst places than this pile of crap." Zeke muttered to himself as he continued trying to move more ruble.

Zeke stopped as he saw the ruble started to shake violently. Zeke sighed in relief as he quickly backed up. The ruble exploded as Cole jumped up and landed on his feet taking deep a breath. Cole looked down at his right arm and saw that it was bent at a weird angle. Cole gritted his teeth as he used his left hand and with a sickening crack, he bent it back into place.

"Son of a bitch. Zeke head over to the last substation with Nix. I'm going to see if bringing down some lighting will do anything to slow him down." Cole stated as he wiped some blood off his mouth.

"You sure man? Maybe you need to get some electricity to heal up some." Zeke asked in concern.

"I'm sure bro. Tell Nix to be ready." Zeke nodded and started to get ready.

Cole grunted in pain as he started walking towards a building to climb. His whole body was aching. He felt as though some of his ribs were broken and his arm was feeling as though it was on fire. Cole continued to grunt as he started to pick up the pace. He knew if he failed now, then the world was doomed. He felt some power when he was slowly climbing up the side of the building. When he reached the top he absorbed the still working air conditioning unit of its power and he felt that his arm and some of his ribs were healed slight. It wasn't much but it would have to do for now. Cole closed his eyes as he started gathering power deep with in him. He felt the power gathering into the center of his body causing electricity to surround his whole body.

This power though was something that he hasn't used much since Empire City. The sky started to darken and loud thunderous booms started to rip the quiet air. The Beasts menacing red eyes narrowed and turned around to see Cole's on the roof top. Cole just closed his eyes as he continued gathering the power. Cole's eyes then snapped opened, his eyes full of electric power. The Beast roared as it started firing off fireballs at him. Cole quickly dodged them and leaped up into the air. With a loud yell. Cole brought his hands forward and down causing multiple lightning bolts to strike down upon The Beasts head. The Beast cried out in pain as the lightning bolts struck him. One last bolt hit him in the face with enough force for the left side of his face to break off some which showed the red glow and some what looked like magma in his body. The Beasts body slumped forward a little not moving at the moment.

Cole for his part fell down onto one knee. He could feel the strain on his body as it was completely empty of electricity. With just enough for him to be alive but not even enough for his alpha shots. He got up on shaky legs as he started walking towards the third substation. He saw Nix flying to the last one as well. Cole continued to walk towards the third substation. He absorbed the small amount of electricity from the cars giving him enough juice to start riding the power lines.

Third substation

Cole finally made it to the group. He saw Zeke looking around for the Beast with his magnum out. Nix was charging the RFI. Cole jogged up to them.

"I think I figured out on how The Beast keeps finding us." Cole said as he leaned against a column on his back.

"Oh and how is that?" Zeke asked as he continued to keep watch.

"The RFI. I bet my powers that he can somehow track the energy signature of it." He responded.

"Guys look!" Nix yelled as they saw the beast appeared in front of them.

"Son of a bitch." Cole said as he got up but held his side as it started throbbing again in pain.

Nix for her part saw this and made a quick decision. She looked at Zeke then at Cole. She gave them a small smile. "Looks like my part in this is just about done."

"Nix what are you saying?" Cole asked as he stumbled a bit as he tried to steady himself.

"What I'm saying Cole baby, I'm going to buy you some time to get that RFI charged up with your powers."

"Wait you are not thinking… "

"Goodbye Zeke, Cole. This has been a crazy ride we had…."

"Nix wait!" Cole and Zeke said together as they saw Nix's body fly up and towards the Beasts head.

The both of them watched as Nix's stream crashed into the side of the Beasts head. A giant black explosion formed when Nixes stream made contact.

"Nix can you hear me! Nix?" Cole asked in the phone hoping she survived.

Nothing came back through the phone and Cole just gripped his hands tightly. He felt his knuckles pop as he saw the smoke clear and saw there wasn't much damage done to him.

"That's it. This is where you fall you bastard!" Cole said in rage. He took the RFI and used all his power to pour into the machine. He even called upon lighting without realizing it to charge t faster. He felt the pain in his body increase a thousand fold as he continued power more energy. He held in his screams of agony as he poured more energy at a faster pace. The RFI soon started to glow a bright blue and it started making a high beeping noise as it reached it max charge. Cole then felt the pain instantly stop and his body started to feel the power flowing to his body and increase more and more. He felt his body heal itself completely. Cole smirked as he also felt his power reserves growing to unbelievable levels.

"Yeah alright. This is what I'm talking about now." Cole said as he took to the skies. With his static thrusters. "Hell yes! Finally, I can fly! Come on Johnny boy lets finish this."

The Beast raised it hands in front of him and it started a sucking vortex in one hand causing everything in its path. The other hand was firing off fireballs at Cole. Cole for his part just dodge the fireballs and keeping his distance at the other hand. He fired of massive rounds of his megawatt hammers and his frost rockets at rapid succession. While some of them were sucked right into the vortex causing no damage, the others rockets crashed straight into The Beasts body. The beast for his part didn't stumble at all from that attack. The beast continued firing at Cole. Though when Cole was dodging the fireballs he felt the violent pull of the vortex on him. He immediately started flying backwards trying to get out of the pull form the vortex that he was caught in. Cole put more power into his thrusters as he continued trying to escape. Then the vortex stopped as the Beasts body froze in place. Cole turned around as he got a few feet back. Not wanting to lose the opportunity, he stated throwing some shock grenades at him.

The shock grenades flew and were about to hit it when they were shot down by white bolts out of the air. Cole looked around for the source when he was shot in the leg which was encased in ice. He lost his balance and started falling rapidly to the ground. He was falling fast and he couldn't get himself to land on his feet and landed on his head causing. He groaned and held his head with one hand. He felt his blood on his hand when he felt something wet on his hand. He looked around his vision blurry trying to find the culprit. Though that didn't last long as he felt someone kick his chest and pushed him down with their foot as well. He growled in pain as he tried to get the foot off him.

"I told you Cole. You will regret this decision" the person heard and Cole just redoubled his effort on getting the foot off him.

"Kuo! You crazy bitch! Get off me!" Cole said. The anger was building in him as she put more force on his chest and held her hand towards his face with a shot ready to fire at him.

"Cole look around you. Humanity is done for from the plague. We have to save as many of our kind before it is too late."

"And let the rest of humanity fall? Not a chance now, get off me!" Cole said as he blasted her off him with an artillery bolt causing her to get shot back a few feet.

Cole got to his feet quickly as Kuo dusted off her shoulder. She looked back at the best as she had to just stall Cole long enough for the beast to reawaken. She knew her chances in actually beating Cole was next to zero. He had more experience in fighting than her. Doesn't mean that she won't give him an easy fight. She fired off her ice bolts at him at rapid succession. Cole threw up his ice shield to block the attack and also absorb the kinetic energy hitting it to keep his powers up. He rolled to the side as he didn't want to be holding the shield up. He fired off some alpha shots at her as she fired off her some more ice shots. As his shots got her in the chest, hers shots got his arms frozen. Kuo held her chest as her body twist from the massive amounts of electricity in her body. Cole just switched his body to his ice powers. He felt his body temperature drop to the point he should be dead yet he felt fine. He let out a breath and a small frost mist came out. He slammed his arms together hard making his ice covered arms break from the ice. He held is wrist as he moved it around to make sure that they still worked.

"Kuo we don't have to do this. Help me end this here and now." Cole asked her as he stared getting ready to fire a shot at her.

"No Cole this is the only way anybody lives through this." Kuo responded as she started firing off shots at him again.

Cole did the same matching every shot. The both of them started to walk forward as they continued firing off shots at each other. When they were closer each other, they stopped firing and starting fighting hand to hand. Well more like Cole was getting his ass handed to him since he really didn't know any fighting style besides just brawling. Unlike Kuo she was trained in fighting. Cole tried to keep his guard up as Kuo was sending out lots of combinations of punches and kicks as she easily slipped passed Coles guard. Cole grunted in pain as he started to feel the damage on his body pile up, feeling his bones break again in multiple places.

"Cole give up and let evolution take hold. The human race is over. It is the time for the conduits now." Kuo said as she gave a spin kick to his head.

Cole caught her leg before it reached his head, but he couldn't stop it fully and still got hit in the head. He tightens his hand around her leg as he fell from the kick and used the momentum on throwing her away from him. Cole got up and shook his head and cracked his neck. He pulled the amp off his back and switched back to his electric powers and charged the amp up seeing it glow with electric streams jumping back and forth from the nodes in between.

"Fine if you won't listen to reason. Maybe hitting you in the head a couple of times will help." Cole said as he charged forward.

Kuo rolled to the side to dodge the amp slamming into her. She started firing some ice grenades at him. Each grenade caused the ground to be covered in ice and spikes also shot up from them. Cole jumped and used his thrusters to push him forward as he got close and swung at Kuo's head. She leaned back to miss the swing aimed at her head, but she felt the shock of electricity enter her body. She screamed in pain as Cole had shot an alpha shot into her stomach as he used the amp as a distraction. He quickly swung the amp again and hit her in the ribs and heard a small cracking sound from it. He quickly threw a punch at her head with enough force that it caused her to hit head first into the ground. She groaned as she stayed on the ground. Cole gave a sigh when he heard a loud roar. He groaned as he turned to see that the beast was moving again. He put the amp back on to his back as he took the skies again. The beast roared as it started to swing its' hands around violently trying to hit Cole. Cole narrowly dodged the swings but he was starting to feel the power in him leave.

"Shit I'm running out and it looks like the RFI is about be useless the longer I keep it powered. I have to end this soon or we all lose." Cole thought as he was hit from the giant's hand and was slammed thorough a couple of walls of a building.

Cole moved some rubble of him as he walked back towards the beast.

"Cole, from my calculations you got about maybe 20 minutes the most before it burns out." Zeke said over the phone.

"Copy that Zeke. Get to a safe distance bro."

"I got you brother…You are coming back right?"

Cole chuckled sadly at the question. "Yeah I'll back bro. Though I don't think in one piece."

"…"

"Good bye Zeke. It was a hell of a ride. But I wouldn't have done it any differently."

"It was the best ride…..I'll…I'll see you soon bro….."

Cole shut his phone off as he squared his shoulders. "One last stand." He thought as he took the skies one last time. Cole flew till he was face to face the beast.

"Why do you keep fighting for them. They have scorned you. They took away everything from you. They owe you nothing. Why do you fight for them?" The beast finally said.

"Huh you talk now." Cole said mockingly.

"That is beside the point. Now tell me, why do you fight for them?"

"Well it really is simple." Cole started as he switched the flow of his static thrusters to his feet so he can use his use his hands better. He gripped his amps handle. "I fight for one reason only…"

"And that would be?"

"That is to kick your ass so everyone else lives to see tomorrow." Cole then flew straight for the Beasts head with his amped charged to the max.

The Beast roared as Cole charged at it. It started to spew a giant stream of fire from its mouth as Cole was closing in on him. Cole quickly swerved to the right to dodge the fire stream but he was met with a giant size fist to his body. Cole screamed in pain as the giant fist connected and caused his body to fly back from the hit. Cole stopped himself with the quick use of the static thrusters at his hands as well to stopping just before crashing into another building. He watched the amp fall towards the ground as he quickly turned around to face the beast. Cole started firing off shock grenades at the beast again. The beast covered his face with one of its hands as the grenades landed on its hand and exploded as it landed. The hand was engulfed in smoke as the beast growled in rage. When the smoke cleared the hand was started to fall apart some. The beast raised its other hand as it fired off some fireballs at Cole. Cole started flying up while dodging the fireballs. Soon Cole was above the clouds as he continued to dodge the oncoming fireballs. Higher and higher he climbed till the fireballs stopped and couldn't reach him anymore.

"I hope this works. I still need some power for later." Cole said to himself as he just shut off his thruster as he started dropping from the sky.

Cole straighten his body as he was falling to pick up speed. He activated his thrusters to give him even more speed as his body started to cover in electricity. As he continued to fall faster streaks of lightning was trailing behind him as more electricity was building around him. When he broke through the clouds, he saw the beast was looking up at him looking as though it was waiting. Cole raised his hands into the air behind him as he gave out a loud yell as he fell. The Beast yelled as well as it raised its hand again and started firing off fireballs. Cole leaned left and right not losing his speed as he drew closer to the beast. With one more yell he smashed right into the Beasts chest and caused a massive electrical explosion. The Beast roared in pain as its body was being covered in electricity and shocking him to his very core.

Soon the Beasts body started to lose its red glow as the electricity continue to cover its body. Its roar dying in its throat before no sound could be heard. It's body soon lost its red glow completely as its eyes turned black. It looked like as though it was hollow and looking into them was like looking into a black void. The electricity soon faded from its body as Cole dragged himself out of the hole he made on the Beasts body and fell to the ground. The Beasts body itself started to fall apart as more cracks started to form on its body and sections of itself started to fall.

Cole rolled out of the way and picked up his amp that he found under some rubble. He stood up weakly as the Beasts body completely collapsed on itself. What was left stood a black man that was wearing only a red trench coat and black pants and black shoes. He also had a massive red hole in the center of its body with spread spider cracks all over its chest and up to its face with some cracks leading towards his red eyes. Though the person wasn't looking great he looked like as though he also took the damage done to him in his giant form.

"So, it comes down to this huh John?" Cole said to him in shaky breaths his massive power boost quickly leaving him.

"So it would seem Cole. Though you have my respect. You always did do the right thing. Even after everything." John said in a week voice. John held one hand to his chest as he tried to keep his vision straight.

"Thanks…You know we both aren't getting out of this right?"

"I wouldn't have it any other way…."

They both stared at each other for a second before the both of them charged at each other. Johns hands were engulfed in fire as Cole had the amp behind him charged up. When they met in the middle they started throwing punches and kicks and their powers at each other. Massive shock waves were caused by their punches when they collide with each other. Cole and John were relentless as they continued to fight each other.

At first they were even with each other. Trading blow for blow. As they continued, each one was starting to slip past each other and caused more damage than the other. At first it was John when he twisted his body to the side to dodge the wild swing from Cole and landed a fire punch to the back of Coles head. Then John followed up with a knee to the face and then grabbed his face and swung Cole's body to the ground hard causing a small indent of his body. John took a few steps back as he took deep breaths. Cole got up on shaky legs and shook his head. John narrowed his eyes at that.

"Why won't you stay down you fucking bastard? Even conduits couldn't take this much of a beating." John said as he tried to raise his hands again.

"Because I can't afford to do that…" Cole said between ragged breaths.

John growled as he started running towards Cole. Cole stayed still. His body tense as he kept his eyes trained on John. John lit his arms on fire as he ran and reared his arms back as he got close. Cole waited till the last second before he fell on his back to dodge John's flaming hands and he swung the amp towards Johns. John couldn't turn his head in time as the amp connected to his chin. Johns head flew back causing him to stumble back. Cole flipped up and swung the amp again to his head again and head a sickening crack was heard as Johns head was whipped to the side. As John turned around and looked at Cole again, Cole slammed his fist against Johns face with a fist charged up with electricity. John fell to one knee as his face whipped to the side again.

"Just stay down John…..please…" Cole said as he also fell to one knee.

John spat some blood out of his mouth as he looked back at Cole.

"It's like you said…it ends when the both of us fall…" John said as he grunted in pain.

Cole laughed in pain as John did the same. Cole knew that it was supposed to end like that. It was the plan after all. Cole left his amp to the side of him, knowing he didn't have the strength anymore to lift it. They both stumbled as they got up and each held their sides. Cole spit the blood out of his mouth as John lit his free arm on fire. Cole lit his in electricity. They stared at each other for a bit just waiting for one of them the break.

Seconds ticked by and the sounds of fire and electricity filled the air as neither of them gave in. Till they both saw a leaf fall slowly to the ground. The both of them charged at each other as the leaf reached the ground. Theirs powers leaving a trail behind them. The both of them swung their hands at each other faces as they both got close. Cole felt his fist hit first before Johns and so he had a fraction of a second to turn his head slight to lower the damage done to him. Johns fist hit next as his faced was turned violently to the side as Cole's fist pressed on. Johns body flew to the side and skidded a few feet before his body stopped. John couldn't move his body anymore as he sustained too much damage. He closed his eyes as he continued to lay there in pain. He tried rolling over but his body wouldn't let him.

"Jesus Christ finally…." Cole panted out as he wobbled were he stood. "Now just one more thing to do…"

Cole took the RFI from his back and he held it in front of him. Its blue light lighting his face up. He looked at the sky one more time as he saw the clouds starting to part. He heard someone move to the side of him. He quickly turned even though his body was trying to refuse him. He saw Kuo stumbling towards him holding her side as she did.

"Kuo please…" Cole started.

"Cole…..I'm so sorry…..so sorry…." Kuo said as she fell towards Cole and he caught her. "I'm so sorry. I was afraid. I thought it was the right thing…."

"It's okay Kuo…."

"No it's not. I thought I was doing the right thing. Instead it was for my own selfish gain. Fuck even Nix did the right thing. God…"

"Kuo shh, it's almost over…" Cole said trying to comfort her.

"Do it Cole…..finish the job…."

Cole just nodded as he got ready to power up. He looked at the sky one more time as a ray of sun broke through the clouds and landed on him. He remembered back to how it first started. All the events that led up to here. The choices that he had to make. Then one image just stayed in his mind. It was the smiling faces of Trish and him together looking out on the sunset on top of the building. He smiled at that as he looked down at the RFI. He nodded and started pouring power into it as he flipped the switched on it to activate the blast. The glow on it started to grow brighter as he gave the RFI more power into it. He heard Kuo scream in pain and the same with John. He gritted his teach as he counted down in his head. His vision starting to fade.

"Three…two….one…." Coles vision soon went black.

Phew that a doozy for a first chapter. Now like I said this is the first redo of list of stories I'm going to do. Also I have adopted a story from author and so I'm going to post that in a week's time so look out for it next Saturday folks. I hope you all like it and leave a review on what you think of it. See you all in the next chapter. Also flamers are welcome as they also bring me motivation as strange as that is. So late everyone.