This Probably Won't End Well (InFAMOUS / Goddess of Victory NIKKE)

[Stimpak Medic]

Prologue: Who I Am

My name is Cole MacGrath. I Dropped out of college and got a job as bike courier. Mostly just to piss off my parents. I was someone you'd never notice. Just a guy delivering packages to folks you'd never know. Until one day, a package found me.

Thousands died, five square blocks smashed into rubble. And in the center, was me, alive but changed. But no one could've seen what was coming. Back then, Empire City was in quarantine. It had gone to hell. Other people with powers started showing up. And it was my job to sort through it all. Find out who had given me that package, and why.

Hell even my best friend turned his back on me to try and get powers of his own. But in the end I found the man responsible. Kessler, he had explained everything through a vision of the future.

A beast was coming, a monster only I could defeat. Provided that I was strong and ready to face him.

A month later, I met Lucy Kuo. She somehow knew about the Beast. In fact, she'd come to help me prepare. Claimed a friend, Dr. Wolfe worked on the Ray Sphere prototype. And that he could amplify my powers. All I had to do was go with her down to New Marias.

So we went down there, and I wrecked house there. Put down a militia full of crazy Hick folks worked up into a frenzy under the powers and manipulation of their leader Joseph Bertrand III. He had them all riled up and under his control. He had set himself up all nice as a king of his own little kingdom. What he didn't account for was me.

You see, what I didn't tell you earlier was that Empire City wasn't only destroyed by other people. I was one of it's main causes. Conduits like Me, we are the evolution of humanity. We've become better, stronger, smarter, and we're much harder to kill.

When the Beast destroyed the moon in Kessler's future. He saw it as the brazen mindless destruction that he should have stopped. Me, I see it as power that can be harnessed for the future. Our future.

Humanity is outdated, and Conduits are the future. I would have seen the future of Earth without the plague. Without humanity. However, whatever the Beast did, whatever John did had sent me somewhere else. Somewhere far away. Testament to the strange nature of Conduit powers.

These Conduit powers allow us to transcend our humanity. To become more than just human.

I was given the chance to destroy the Ray Sphere back then. How stupid an idea. Instead, I used it. Activating it and gaining immense power.

John White, a government agent who had worked with me in the past that was there with me had tried to stop me, grabbing the sphere from my hands, only to be reduced to subatomic particles moments later as it overloaded.

Little did I know, he would be the key to what I am now. Who I am now.

Fast-forward a bit, and John is back. This time, he is the Beast Kessler warned me about. The man who would destroy the world. However, Kessler was wrong. I was wrong. John wasn't going to destroy the world. He was going to destroy humanity, paving the way for Conduits like us to rebuild the future of Earth. A future where we expand beyond the stars.

I decided the best solution wasn't to kill John, but to join him. He truly believed in the future of Conduits. A future without the plague. And I don't disagree. Sadly, some of my friends did.

It hurt me deeply to put Zeke down, and I did it as fast and as painless as possible. Best to finish things now, rather than doom Zeke to the slow death he would likely face at the hands of other less sympathetic Conduits, or the Plague. I did what must be done. It hurt putting him down, more than I'd like to admit, but the future comes before my friends.

The path was paved in stone and blood, and there was no going back now.

However, John wasn't made for this. He faltered right at the finish line.

Apparently, all the killing he had done had caught up with him. John was a pacifist at heart, he was soft. He didn't like killing and ending life. He had told me how he had dealt with it. He just pretended every human he met was already dead, like an animated corpse. I don't blame him for it. He did the best he could within his limits that he acknowledged. He just wanted it to be over, he wanted to die. And he chose me as his future. He chose me to lead the Conduits into the future. He believed in me. He believed that I could do what he could not.

John transferred all of his his powers into me, and then he just let go. The blast was devastating, but worth it. New Conduits had been activated all over the planet, all of them healed from the plague, but I wasn't there to see it happen. Instead, I woke up in this ass-backwards world full of machines. I've been wandering the surface for a while now, and I haven't met a single human or Conduit.

Instead, I've found nothing but death and destruction.

Had the plague killed everything here? Did I go to some strange future? Did I do this? Is this the future Kessler...no I came from?

I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm going to find whoever did this to my planet and kill them. Slowly and painfully until they turn it all back, and if they can't...Well I'll just have to rebuild the world over their corpses as a testament that I was here and that they no longer owned the world.

There is one thing I know for sure.

To whoever it is that did this to Earth. This probably won't end well.

For you.