Conduits- Infamous: Second Son Fanfiction

Rivers Promise

I honestly thought I would never find myself in this situation. Running from the law because of something I am, and if I stop... well, that is a death sentience. Before you ask, no, this isn't a history story about race, or a girl running from the law because her skirt was too short or because she refuses to take off her pants. No, none of that. It is present day, heck, you would think everything is just normal about this day and myself. The thing is, I am a Conduit. If you have no idea who they are, well, they are people with powers. Lots of powers. They can control the elements, heck, even control electricity and other man-made substance. We Conduits have some power and sure, some of us use it for horrid things that you can imagine but that isn't all of us. That is far from all of us. Most of us just want to learn how to control our powers. I just wanted to learn to control my power... before anyone got hurt because of me.

Being a Conduit is hard. People don't understand what we are. They think we are all these monsters that just want blood so they lock us away in a place where we can't use our powers. Like that helps any. The minute they put Conduits on a bus, they escape with no knowledge of what power they have. That is how hell breaks loose. Conduits trying to control their powers is hard, even on them. Some of them got the chance to learn, but not all of them. The ones who escape and know how to use their powers use them for good, stopping drug dealers, freeing people who got jailed unfairly, protecting cities from any danger they can find. The government doesn't like that. They want everyone thinking that locking up Conduits is the best way to keep people safe. They don't know a  damn thing about us though. They don't know how we work. All they know is what the news is feeding them

The news is not our friend. You may have figured that out by now. The government wants this world to think that Conduits are nothing more than terrorist. They even call us Bio-terrorist. We are nothing like that. I am nothing like that. Most of us want to save people from any danger and a lot of us do, but the government wants to lock us away like none of that matters. I should be glad they haven't gotten to me yet.

Let me tell you more of my story. I am a Conduit and my power is water. I can control any type of water out there. It is easy for me. I can flood a desert with one water bottle. There is a lot of things I can do with water. It doesn't take much for me to use my power as well. As long as there is water around, I am all set to use my power. I've never been locked up in the place where most get locked up. My parents always protected me. Feels weird saying that, to be honest. They adopted me so in a way, they aren't really my parents. I've been adopted many times and got abandoned because of my power. Sometimes, I would loose control and hurt someone I really cared about. Other times, I ran off before they could figure it out. I tried running away from this family but they chased me and brought me back. They actually cared about me and wanted me to stay with them. I feared for them, though. If anything, I was a danger to them. I didn't know if I could keep my powers in long enough to keep them safe and that was very stressful to me. My father noticed. He wanted to know what was wrong and what was making me stressed. When ever he asked, I would lie and tell him it is just school.

I would relieve the stress of having very little control of my power by using little bursts of it in my room when I was alone. My dad walked in on me one day while I was using my powers. He was shocked and I was scared. The fear of being turned in paralyzed me. That is not what he did though. He did something I didn't expect. He helped me learn to control my power. He took me to a shooting range that his friend owned and helped me learn to control it. I remember what he told me when he first saw my powers.

"You're not one of those Bio-terrorist, River. You will learn to control this. I am not letting the government take away my daughter."

That is what he did. He helped me learn to control it, unlock its full power, and how to keep it in when I needed to. It was all so great. I finally didn't live in fear over loosing it and hurting someone. I finally felt safe enough to stay some where long enough to call it home. Too bad it only lasted for a few months.

There is an organization called the D.U.P that locks us up. They got destroyed years ago by a teen boy named Delsin Rowe but they got recreated for some reason. They started putting fear in many people when a huge group of Conduits decided to attack people and go through with crimes. They started terrorizing people for no reason, and they enjoyed every moment of it. I guess they are the only ones that even Conduits would call Bio-terrorist. They ruined the name Delsin made for us. God, I wonder where that kid is now. We could really use his help.

They came to my home once. They came to interrogate my family. Augustine was there. She was going to attack my little 5 year old brother to make my dad talk. It was horrible to think that he would have to take the fall on my behalf and I wasn't going to let her hurt him. I attacked her. I shot boiling water at her and her bodyguards or whoever they were and made them back off.

"You are not going to get away with hurting my little brother!" I remember yelling at her.

The only reason why she never caught me is because I can control water. I can transform into water, ice and steam. I was able to flow though the cracks of Augustine concrete when she tried to surround me in a cage of concrete. I was able to get away. I never knew what happened to my family though. That is something that I always wanted to know. What happened to them? When I went back home, the house was burned down, there was no sign of my family left. Everyone was gone. I looked at that house for what felt like hours. Pain shot through my body. Horrible, horrible pain. I can't describe the pain I felt that day. I just stood there and watch the stillness of the burned down house I once called home. I wanted to go back to the days with my dad and mom and my little brother and sisters. I had two little sisters and a little brother. I wanted to be with them again. Give them a hug and say sorry for the drama they got put through. Then a thought came to mind. What if Augustine was completely heartless. She was jailed for years after the D.U.P got broken up. The only reason she got released was so then she could use her powers to counter the true Bio-Terrorist.

One thing about the government letting Augustine go is that she agreed to only trap the Bio-terrorist, that is Conduits using their powers for evil. She finds way to trap more than just those few who are evil, she finds way to trap the good ones too. She frames Conduits for many crimes, so many that the government has made it law that all Conduits must be locked away. Once again, she found a way to jail us for no reason. This time, it isn't for protection, it is for revenge. Everyone knows that. She wants revenge for what Delsin did to her. She wants him to feel the trapped pain that she felt for ten years. Too bad Delsin disappeared not too long ago.

I turn away from the burned down house. I start walking to New York. Seattle wouldn't let the D.U.P set up their headquarters in their city again, so they set up in New York. I start heading there. Many thoughts went though my head. Thoughts of mournful pain and flaming anger. I felt a mixture of slow painful sorrow and adrenalin filled anger. I knew what I had to do. I had to free any family who lived with a Conduit. I was going to make sure no other family felt the pain I am feeling right now.

"I swear on this, mom and dad. I am going to make sure that Augustine doesn't put another family though this pain that I am feeling right now. I will make sure no other mother and father will feel the pain you felt when I was torn away from you. I swear on it. I swear it."