InFAMOUS: Prologue

Normal life in Empire city ended, not with a whimper, but with a bang. A big bang of static blue that began in Historical Street. A shockwave passed through the city at night, sentencing the lights of every building to be killed almost instantly.

It all happened too fast:

Panicked screams could be heard from the sudden blackout. Then came the loud boom which emitted a white glow upon the city. What followed after, were large chunks of debris that fell from the sky, creating more explosions than a Michael Bay film. People were running away from the source: A blue electric force field that was growing very quickly in size upon every second that passed. Eventually, it enveloped the city whole.

Watching this from afar was a police helicopter in the distance. The policeman within, one of the many whom had no idea what would happen on this fateful night, stared in horror at what unfurled before his very eyes. The last thing he ever saw, at the moment of his death, was a large red bus flying towards the helicopter from the force of the explosion...