Accident Prone - Becoming Human

Taking Command

The entire city was suddenly on edge during the dark and rainy spring night. A massive resurgence in the spread of 'red ice' had claimed the lives on nine humans who had overdosed and left another eighteen humans hospitalized and fighting for their lives after a single day. Human weren't the only ones being affected by the return of the drug flooding the streets as many deviants who had attempted to renovate numerous abandoned buildings and convert them back into livable housing had been assaulted and left for dead by the gangs who wanted to use the territory to 'conduct business' and reclaim the same buildings as new drug dens.

Anxiously Connor danced his coin over his left knuckles as he spoke to a deviant victim who had been a witness and been admitted to an emergency care facility after being assaulted in the street. The victim had suffered a gunshot wound to his right shoulder and right bicep, and had been physically beaten with blunt instruments and bare fists leaving him with a partially dislocated jaw, damaged left optical unit and numerous internal abrasions to his biocomponents. It was fortunate that the deviant survived without suffering any permanent intracranial damage.

"I appreciate your cooperation in aiding the police with our investigation." Extending his hand right hand Connor interfaced with the witness and uploaded the parts of his memory that were crucial to solving the case into his own memorybank as evidence. The images were somewhat blurry but still managed to give enough details to be prove beneficial. "Do you know of any other potential witnesses who would be willing to step forward and help with the case?"

"I'm sorry, Lieutenant." The shaken witness, a 'JB-300', apologized sincerely as the attending technician entered the recovery room to check on his damaged eye. He subsequently broke the connection to Connor as he allowed his eye to be examined. "I don't know if anyone else saw what happened."

"Don't be sorry, you've been a tremendous help. Remain here until you've recovered fully and then go to either New Jericho Tower or to Skye Tower for temporary shelter until it's safe for you to return to your neighborhood."

"Of course. I will be sure to do so."

Leaving the facility with his new information regarding the witness statement Connor returned to the patrol car where Gavin was asleep in the passenger seat with his arms crossed over his chest and breathing softly while he dozed. Connor opened the driver's side door quietly and tried to shut it just as quietly as he sat down behind the steering wheel, but the sound of the door closing was still enough to jolt Gavin awake and sit upright in his seat quickly.

"I apologize, Gavin." Connor knew Gavin was exhausted from taking care of Aria as a first time father and needed to sleep. "I was trying to not disturb you."

"It's all right..." Rubbing his right hand over his tired face Gavin sighed and corrected his posture as Connor turned over the engine. "I shouldn't be sleeping on the job, anyway."

"You're exhausted. You need to rest."

"Yeah, well, tell that to the assholes flooding 'red ice' through the streets." Leaning forward a little Gavin reached for his lukewarm coffee sitting in the cup holder at his left side and blinked a few times to wake up further. "So, what did the witness have to say?"

"The witness's statement confirms the speculated location of the new drug ring." Pulling the car on to the street Connor made his way back to the precinct and biometrically scanned Gavin's elevated vital signs curiously. Everything in Gavin's current health pointed toward physical exhaustion. He wasn't in any immediate danger but he still needed to properly rest. "Through direct interfacing I was permitted access to the witnesses memory and I was able to isolate two faces of interest."

Gavin popped off the lid to his cup of coffee and smelled the bitter beverage inside warily. "Anyone we know?"

"Yes. The first is a known 'red ice' and illegal arms dealer who had eluded capture three years prior after a bust; Eddie Wesker. Wesker has an extensive record in both drug distribution and illegal distribution of arms, as well as assault, public menacing and seems to have a curious streak of luck with witnesses either developing amnesia or disappearing without any warning."