Chapter 14, Page 20
[Encrypted NetMail – Dated 1 Month Ago]
To: VHardiman@PCPD.xop
From: AGripps@PCPD.xop
Subject: New Cruiser?
Chief Hardiman:
I’d like to put in a formal request for a new police cruiser. I’ve been using the same one for the last three years, and it’s in rough shape. There’s seven bullet holes in the passenger side door, two cracked windows (driver’s side front and rear), the back seats are ripped to pieces (a perp literally ate half of one seat), and the rear prisoner barrier has been coming apart for months.
Apart from that, my Interceptor is having extreme mechanical issues: cranking noise during ignition, brakes are spongy, grinding from driver’s side front wheel, the steering wheel “sticks” on right turns, the hood hatch is loose, left emergency light works intermittently (this has been looked at with no resolution), siren speakers are low (on the occasions when they function at all), and my A/C blows hot air (usually with a repugnant stench).
Arlew Gripps
Special Crimes Unit
Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Tanabata Usagi.
To: AGripps
Who’s your Precinct Captain? We need to know why you violated C-o-C policy. Why an Interceptor is assigned to street patrol instead of pursuit-only? And why your Division mechanics are being allowed to not perform proper vehicle maintenance?
VHardiman’s office
Very funny, although, you do know what a ‘Special Crimes Unit’ is, right?
Let’s see: Madison has been near an explosion, pulled through a wall, kicked in the body, thrown through a wall, and nearly had her back broken. Yakov has been kicked in the face, punched in the face, punched in the nuts, head Scissored into the floor with enough force to crack it, and thrown out a window by a woman who he has a good 150 to 200lbs of solid muscle and has at least a foot and a half of height on…. You just have to love Anime Physics!
no one of those is beyond believable though people are a lot more durable than most would believe at least when it comes to blunt trauma. If shrapnel doesnt get you being close to a grenade is certainly unpleaseant but certainly not fatal. If its just dry wall sheathing thats mpt a big deal. She was still wearing plates for the kick, and the squeeze is one of those things that if it doesn’t actully break ribs, tear something won’t matter (least not in the moment)
Yakov is just made of iron.
I am waiting for a NSW version of this fight, like how “Nightmare Island” became “Reena’s Nightmare.”