A Twist of Fate

by ZachTheBrony

Prologue.

Zeke Dunbar, Cole MacGrath's best bud for life, stood beside the memorial to Cole in New Marais, the savior of the third rock from the sun that they lived on.

Mourning the memorial to his lifelong pal, he could only look briefly back upon the past few hours in which Cole was still living.

- - - - Nearly Two Days Ago...

Zeke could only hope that Cole had the RFI charged up fully, the RFI being a device that Dr. Wolfe said would use Cole's power to defeat The Beast and get rid of the Plague that the monster had brought about.

As Zeke paced about the rooftop of an apartment he was perched on anxiously, he could see the carnage that The Beast was causing far into the distance. "Damn... I sure hope Cole gets that RFI up 'n running." he thought aloud.

Kuo had taken off after Cole's decision to help humanity, and Zeke thought only one thing...

The bitch betrayed us. 'Least Cole whipped her ass.

Sitting back on the worn and beaten-up couch that was placed on the roof, Zeke waited almost impatiently for a response from Cole. "C'mon Cole, shouldn't take you this long, brother." he complained, taking a swig of his second-last beer. His prayers were answered, when Cole's voice came over the walkie.

"Zeke... It's fully charged." Cole's voice came over the walkie, with a tinge of relief, exhaustion and confidence in his tone.

'Thank God,' Zeke quickly thought, mentally relieved. He pressed the button that allowed him to speak, and said, "Go on man, push the button." he encouraged.

After a short pause, Cole's voice came over the walkie again, "No... no, not just yet." he said, before cutting short the conversation between them.

"Dammit," Zeke stood up in annoyance, seeing The Beast in the distance, he used the binoculars he had on him to scout out the situation. Cole was now assaulting The Beast mercilessly, hitting the behemoth with multiple blasts of electricity.

Not even a minute passed, before The Beast fell to its knees, nearly falling over completely as it used its massive hand to support itself, followed by the other after a silent pause, causing Zeke's anxiety to rise quickly as he seen only the back of the Beast.

Suddenly, a light-blue beam of energy flew into the air, going past the atmosphere of the planet, the bright light making Zeke shudder and look away, covering his eyesight. 'He sure as hell pushed 'er!' He thought, looking up to see a brilliant blue sphere of the same energy forming around the planet, only to be stopped by a monstrous explosion.

Zeke saw the monsters on the ground drop, one-by-one. 'Yeah, that RFI worked alright.' He thought with relief.

- - - - Around Two Days Afterwards...

Zeke now stood before the newly-placed memorial to Cole MacGrath, his best friend. Cole's iconic weapon- the Amp stood proudly out from the stone encasement it now laid in. They had the statue made the day after the RFI destroyed the Beast, but Zeke came to it the day after it was up.

People were looking with a sad smile upon the memorial.

But Zeke still had one last thing he needed to do.

- - - - Present Time...

Tears stung Zeke's eyes, as he muttered, "I'll miss 'ya, buddy." while looking up at the statue, memories of his and Cole's friendship skyrocketing through his mind. "Least 'ya didn't die in vain, Cole..." he slid his hand off of the statue, as ambulance sirens wailed, probably carrying the injured to the hospital in the distance.

Zeke coughed, before popping open his last beer as he walked from the curb. He looked back to the memorial.

Taking a good chunk of the liquid from the bottle, Zeke pulled it away from his mouth, and saluted the memorial with a cheers while walking,

"This one's for you, brother."

Author's Note:

Boom.

FOR THEY WHO ARE NEW TO READING/REVIEWING MY WORKS (or just want to read the new author's note):

A general rule that I have for suggestions is specificity, relativity, and blatancy. I don't appreciate it at all when people just come along and tell me what to do with my story, i.e hoping for the character to kill somebody in the near future. Yes, hoping isn't telling me what to do- but it's annoying when it's multiple people who 'hope'. See the reason below. So if you've a hope for something, hell, even a suggestion. Please back it up with facts and motives based around the story and/or character's past, along with situations that could've driven the character to do the thing you have in mind. My last 'author's notes' was a bit sketchy, but old. Came off as if I never wanted criticism. But no, I'm reformatting it. It's similar but it's not as idiotic.

"If you spot any grammatical problems, tell me. If you spot any punctuation problems, tell me. But what I can't tolerate is when people give a command, specifically and mostly for the character to kill, without reason. Especially when the situation does not even call for it and it wouldn't even make sense for the character to do so. It's because it doesn't contribute to anything, and quite frankly does nothing but piss me off. It happened with a couple of my other stories, which, people were practically saying 'make <character> kill someone already ffs'. Raining blood from the sky, etc. While it was entirely out of place for the character to do so due to a lack of proper motives. BUT. Given the certain circumstances it might be plausible to have a character kill someone. Only if the circumstances are right. But, if I say '<so and so> is too important to kill off because I have plans', then I hope you can understand.

"So please, if you are to say 'make <character> kill someone', for the love of God in the heavens above PLEASE provide a proper motive. That's all I ask. No I'm not asking you to write a book, hell, point form is fine as long as I can understand it. Feel free to criticize, it's not a problem with me as long as you don't come off as insulting. Hey, you don't like it? Fine, that's alright, I mean, to each their own. But come on... don't stoop to insulting. Not that I won't read it but it's just a hassle to push it aside. And, thank you to those who've been supportive- and to those who've picked out issues. You have my respect."

- ZTB.

P.S:

This'll only be posted in this chapter! HOORAY!!!

Comments

[Kablex]

Nice.

[Scarletmenace]

I am not shitting you when I say that I had the same exact idea for a fimfict

[Geekzilla]

Wait, its just an hour after Cole dies, and they already have a memorial?

[Kickback]

I ain't gonna lie, this brought back memories and I nearly cried a bit

[The Shade]

Don't force shit down your throat huh..?
Challange accepted
'Takes a huge dump and picks it up.'
'Suddenly changes into cough'
EAT THATSHIT!!!

[meh]

*reads chapter *well ok... interesting. *reads authors note* ... *reads authors note again* ....uuuuggghhhhh what brought this on... *and again* ...

listen i understand your point completely about the story being yours but at-least give us a chance to read before assaulting us with... what seems to be blatant paranoia

[ZachTheBrony]

3535083 It's being changed. The author's note was old, so, yeah. Went into a lot more detail as to the motives- felt that I kinda just left it sitting there. So, hope it explains more- it's different, though, and it'll only be posted in the prologue. Possibly the description but I haven't decided that yet.

3529004 ---^

[Songdrawn]

Man your starting of strong and great, I already deal emirsed in your story.