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Dirty cops.You know what I like about dirty cops? No one misses them. The good cops don’t miss them, the crooks they bring in when they’re pretending not to be dirty don’t miss them. The crooks they deal with don’t miss them because guess what? We take them out too.
Oh, don’t mistake us for good Samaritans, this is not a cleaning house job or anything like that. In fact, under even slightly different circumstances, we might have even had folks like these on our payroll. But, as it happens, this is how the dice fell.
And here we are.
I have had this fighting ring on my radar for some time. This wasn’t some selfless crusade for good—oh no, nothing so grand. This was business, the fact that we were rescuing innocent animals from a life of torture and servitude to evil masters is completely irrelevant… whatever you heard, I’m not that soft.
No, we are posturing. The cops can’t touch this ring, they’re too good. Everything is just legal, or cleaned up before evidence can be collected. The authorities are frustrated, angry, at the end of their rope… and suggestible.
So that’s where we come in. The Family, a few willing and able folk who happen to be in the area, knowledgeable of the crime, and poised to act. Maybe this will be our only interaction here… maybe the cops will owe us a favour in the future. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
I stood outside the building with the Family members I’d gathered. Hale had collected a few men of his own to cover as many of the other exits as he could, but we knew if it came to that, we’d have lost. Around us, steam coiled up from the grates, the durasteel jungle extending forever in every direction. It was dark, not raining currently but the air was damp. Dark clouds overhead hid the darkened sky, the only lights coming from the fluorescent neon signs in the distance. A few pieces of scrap and garbage that hadn’t collected in the gutters blew across the glistening rain-covered streets, kicked around by the chilling wind.
THE INFILTRATORS
Stood to my left. Ironic, perhaps, that they stood on that side, although none but myself would know why. They were the shadows of this operation; the deceivers, the keys to get us through. All those who had a penchant for subtlety, who wore the shadows like a cloak and whose tongues dripped with delicious lies stood in this group in the rain. It was their job to get us through, to deliver the swift and violent hand of the Family upon this vile den.
THE EXECUTIONERS
Stood to my right. The infiltrators were to get us inside, but once there, it was the executioners’ job to take over. Everyone who wielded weapons as an extension of themselves, those whose hearts were black with murder, or who had tasted violence and become addicted, stood in this group. Once we were in, they were there to deliver as violent a message as they possibly could; there is one group here, that group is The Family. All others shall be squashed and forgotten.
I turned to face both groups, shrouded as ever by the black hat atop my head. Now or never.
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