Chain 002: inFamous

Chain 002: inFamous
Location: Seattle, WA, 2014
Age: 19
Identity: Drifter
Drawbacks: [+600] Greenlit, Remnant
[Free] Conduit: Electrokinesis
[Free]  Strength
[100/1600]  Durability
[200/1600]  Stamina
[300/1600]  Regeneration
[450/1600]  Toggle
[750/1600]  Subdue
[1350/1600] Extra Power: Light Speed (Neon)
[1550/1600] Conductor Weapon: Collapsible Bat
[Free]      Safe House
[1600/1600] Rebreather

Now... this is something entirely different. This is a more normal place though, honestly, more similar to my own. Even if I had to leave my Pikachu behind, it seems my affinity with him lent itself toward having electrical abilities here. Which is interesting. Doubly so considering my background as a soldier in this setting, getting drummed out on disability due to Conduit powers manifesting.

Honestly, I missed out on basically all the plot and instead just worked odd jobs while doing grassroots politics, trying to make Conduits more accepted. It actually worked surprisingly well, at that. Obviously people who aren't paranoid idiots saw the utility in people with unusual abilities, and the 2016 election saw acceptance of Conduits over the hate and fear thereof. It doesn't hurt that a lot of people who were Conduits ended up looking for ways to use their powers constructively, which got them recruited into police departments. And from that point, the military started recruiting Conduits more directly.

Sure, there were probably more weird things like the DUP out there, but the military tended to take care of its own in this day and age. And when you get a large number of Conduits with grouped types of powers, it turns out you can actually standardize training fairly well. And when they leave the military they can put their powers to use in a civilian capacity, at least in theory. Results varied, but people being people, most of them didn't end up being criminals because that's not how people work. Thankfully.

Too bad about that whole war with Mexico a few years later, though. Wave of assassinations caused the government to implode, peacekeeping operations went sideways, some people tried to go full warlord, and in the end the US annexed it as a protectorate. It was still trying to sort things out by the time 2024 rolled around.

Oh, speaking of weird things out there, there was a gang of idiots in Seattle that was friendly with some remnants of the DUP that I ran across. And despite my best efforts, that was the first time I actually killed a human being. And second and third and twentieth. Kind of screwed up, I have to admit, but it forced me to be creative. For instance, if you want to power up as a Conduit in a hurry, jump start yourself with a car battery. Or carry some laptop batteries around, or something like that. Which was pretty funny - by the end of my time, that was actually being offered commercially for Conduits to buy, with appropriate warnings and licensure since they could be dangerous to the common person of course.

In any event: things that your idiot Conduit remnants and gang members tend to not expect includes body armor, surviving having shotgun blasts remove my kidneys and spine only to be fully recovered in minutes, being able to run at vastly accelerated speed unlike any other electric Conduits and also run upward at a ninety degree angle, and also lifting up the car they arrived in to use it as cover before I disappear through a portal and reappear through another behind them, swinging an electrified bat at them.

Pretty handy that it can collapse back into something the size of a can of spraypaint once the dust settles, too.