“ ...And then he ‘politely’ asked me to be sniper bait out here with you guys. Seriously, what an asshole.”

David turned side to side, slightly scanning the roads to the sides before settling on looking at the line of people being checked while they came in. Men, women, children, criminals, priests, or whatever. It did not matter as long as they did not have serious drugs on them. Even those with weapons were let in but set up in an area where a bunch of people had weapons like the original inhabitants of the convention.

“ No shit. My station on 39th was lucky last night. Both city hall and the courthouse were hit hard last night. Lost a lot of friends in the fighting, lost a lot of the politicians taking shelter at those places too. That is when it went dark. By midnight gang bangers have overrun half the city. We only got out because we got a couple of dozers to make a path. The only reason why that Captain York is with us is that he was in lockup drunk. Wasn't the first time either”

As soon as the police officer on his left finished, the one on his right laughed.

“ Pompous ass called his brother, a General at the airforce base. Those other officers were not happy that their boss called off their leave again because someone got drunk.”

David sighed loud enough to be heard by the two.

“ Well, looks like he knows what he is doing at least. I can’t wait till this whole mess is cleaned up. I made this suit for 'private space marine might get some action. Not to get him cooked in it.”

That got the two laughing even harder. David raised his hand and the two cops stopped laughing and became alert.

“ Black guy in the trench coat. In this heat, he is hiding something. I’d pick the woman in front and the three behind for special inspection.”

David then turned his focus back on the road.

“ This is lookout six. I need five people inspected in line. Between the red sedan and the cruiser missing a mirror.”

This had not been the first time David had singled out a few suspicious people, and the cops had been doing it all morning. They were quite surprised when he showed up to act as support. The previous two people he picked, were an old woman who looked like she needed more pills than a pharmacy to live and a young boy covered in blood. And his guesses were right both times. They were not level one. Meaning they both had to have killed something or someone. The old woman killed her cats when the system made them go berserk and the boy killed his abusive father.

“ What a shitty day.” said the one on his right. “ I was hoping the gang bangers would just settle on robbing banks and businesses and leave the rest of us alone. Especially after they hit the wealthy. ”

The one on David’s left sighs.

“ Four years on the force and I can tell you that those bangers will just try to take more even though...”

The three of them turn as a scream was heard from the special inspection area and the two cops drew their sidearms. It was not long till several gunshots rang from the secured area.

“ Fucking amateur hour. Now every banger will know we are onto them if we single out a group. If we target them or not.”

David scans the crowd again and notices five faces who were not looking on in fear some way or another.

“ I see at least five possibilities. They did not hit the deck as fast as everyone else and seemed not too surprised by the fighting.”

“ Fuck me, and I can spot at least two of them myself. No way their two groups are working together. One from one side killed the other's boss brother last month in a shooting. So either they are working separately from each other, or some third group absorbed the other two. And if they know we are onto them...”

David looked down the road and saw several vehicles just pulled onto it from behind several buildings. He counted at least ten.

“ John, I hope you are paying attention. I need you to relay the five people I tagged to the snipers. Officers, I will draw their fire.”

David then generated an {Ammo Pouch} and threw it to the officer on his left.

“ There should be about ten clips of 9mm in that.”

With that done David moved around the cement barricade the three were behind and stood in front of it, before moving to the concrete wall so it could catch the bullets that missed him instead of anyone in the open behind him. He had already restored his secondary fire to full power and had the nato rounds loaded into the M-134.

Aiming about halfway between them, David started spinning the barrels before making a slow swipe from one side of the road to the other. As he did a high pitch squeal from his minigun occurred. He could tell something was very wrong with the few seconds he pulled the trigger and unleashed dozens of rounds that left a clean line of potholes in the road.

At this point the people in line dove for cover behind parked cars. The gangbangers in line were caught unaware in shock of the firepower as they were caught mid-draw of their concealed weapons. Not only the five David spotted, but two others were sticking out like that and they were quickly taken down by the snipers before they could regain their wits about them.

As for those in the vehicles, they kept speeding toward them till the first hit the impromptu speed bump. Where it lost control when it busted a tire at high speed and swerved right into a pickup truck full of gangsters on the back, performing a perfect pit maneuver. Those on the truck went flying into the road as the next vehicle, a box van hit the bump going as close to top speed as it probably could and nose planted before flipping over, flying over leading two vehicles, and landing on the just landed bangers before they were even aware what was going on.

Suffice to say, it was like a trainwreck and David could only watch as more and more vehicles hit the newly formed pileup. He quickly became aware those further back were surviving but figured the SWAT teams in the nearby buildings watching the street were going to have a fun time getting revenge for the night before.

It took till the last car had come to a stop before he noticed people trying to get ahold of him over the radio.

“ What the hell did you do?”

David could only look on at the carnage that he started in disbelief.

“ I gave a warning shot.”