The Legacy of Cole MacGrath

Chapter 25: Breaking into New Marais

On the dawn of the 5th day, I wake up.

I get dressed and I head outside.

I walk up next to Kuo.

“Hey, how’s the situation?”

“We’ll come up on the New Marais border in a few minutes. Get ready to breakthrough,”

“Alright,”

I head to the bow of the boat.

While I’m up there I think of Trish and the hospital citizens. They’re all gone.

I snap back to reality when Kuo starts to speak to me.

“You know, when you go to talk to Wolfe, everything is going to become completely…” 

She stops talking and turns to yell towards Zeke.

“Zeke! Cut the engine!”

I turn to Kuo.

“What’s up?”

She points ahead of us.

“Militia blockade. We get any closer, and their artillery will sink us,”

“I guess it’s time to introduce myself,”

I get ready to jump off the boat as Zeke runs up to me.

“Wait up, man! Here she is,”

Zeke presents me with the new weapon I’d asked him to make for me. It’s a long, metal baton with 2 prongs extending out.

I grab it.

“And you're sure it's ready?”

“Uh... I hope so. Give her a try!”

I channel my electricity through it and when I do, the prongs extend.

I chuckle a bit.

“Basically a shocking cattle prod,”

“That’s what I went for. You gotta make those ‘cattle’ move,”

Zeke continues.

“I call her the Amp. Better than ‘a cattle prod that shocks’,”

I strap the Amp to my sling bag.

“Good work, Zeke. This is gonna make a hell of an impression,”

“Thanks, brother. Go have some fun!” 

I hop off the boat and start to wade through the swamp.

I call Kuo on my phone.

“Hey, Kuo, does the NSA even know what you're up to with me?”

“I took a, let’s say ‘leave of absence’,”

“Why is that? I mean, you seem pretty by the book,"

“The NSA plans to deal with the Beast by deploying the military. Wolfe has a better plan: you. He invented Ray Sphere technology. You want enough power to defeat the Beast, he's your man,”

I reach a platform with two militia guards and a tv sat on a crate.

One of them looks up from the tv and get startled.

One of them yells.

“You shouldn't have come here, freak!”

I unsheathe my Amp and ready myself.

I say to myself.

“Time to put her to the test,”

As one charges at me, I strike him in the stomach and send him flying backwards. The other guard runs at me and I swing the Amp upward, flinging him into the water.