September 10th,1995

Darick Ryan left the hospital where he feels fine so he went to the ninth precinct.

***

At the Ninth Precinct. Darick was chewed out by the captain for getting his father killed even though Darick didn't know it was going to happen. But the Organized Crime Unit Captain she offered Darick a position in her unit where he'll be wearing street clothes not a uniform.

The OCU captain told Darick that crime is on the rise in the city with Homicide being 12% now is 67%, Arson went u from 33% to 69%, Rape went up from 15% to 88%, Assault and ADW went up from 34% to 74%, Burglary went up from 45% to 96% and Robbery went up from 40% to 97%.

"Let me guess. You want to figure out how and why they're up?" asked Darick

OCU Captain replied, "Yup. But where do you want to start at? There's the Jackal gang, Viper gang, Boomer gang, & Sudden Kill Overtime gang. Where you're going to start at?"

Darick replied, "The Jackal Gang. They been terrorizing my neighborhood and the Westside far too long now,"

***

An hour later.

Darick went to go and join the Jackal's game but he had to get canonized which was tough not adding one of them tried to stab Darick with a butterfly knife. But he was given five hundred dollars.

Darick went and bought a 9mm pistol (Hi-Power) for $122 and a box of ammo for %5.

While Darick was at the gang hideout Darick noticed a lot of melee, bladed, blunted, automatic, pump-action, and semi-automatic weapons. Not adding they have military caliber ammunition such as 5.56x45mm and 7.62x51mm rounds.

Darick was then called by one of the Lieutenants and they took a ride to a fueling station in a open-top convertible but he had three other gang members as well. The Lieutenant wanted to take a small warehouse in the Factory District and the small warehouse is owned by the Greasers gang and it's where they modify there hotrods with superchargers. Not adding where they sell drugs to factory workers to increase production while they work in hazards that don't fall within OWSHW or the Office of Worker Safety and Health Workset.

Darick was able to sneak off and enter a phone booth where he called the police and reported a 417M and a 418M where a 417M means Multiple People with guns and 418M means Multiple shots fired and Darick told them that he's undercover.

The Empire Police quickly surrounded the area but the Greasers fortified themselves inside of their small warehouse so the responding officers got their LRFGL or Light Rapid Fire Grenade Launcher a twelve-round grenade launcher and fired tear gas into the warehouse driving them out.

To make sure Darick didn't look like he's an rat in the gang they arrested him as well but at the Ninth Precinct away from the gang members that are arrested he was free but he didn't know how tight stainless steel and carbon steel handcuffs can be.

***

Back at the gang hideout.

The leader asked Darick where the other members are at on the raid of the warehouse for illegal car modifications and drug running but Darick lied and said it was a police sting where the moment the shots started the police swarmed the area.

The gang leader bought it too and walked off and Darick walked around for a bit until he found something disturbing. That was their planning a terror on the city on the 17th of September.

The terror they're planning involves car bombings, IEDs, vehicle ramming, spree shootings, & mass shootings. Not adding the map of the city is fully detailed too that they're going to hit the subway stations, the Elevated platforms in Eastside and Westside, The mall in the city, the churches, and hospitals in the city. Just to cause civil disorder.

Darick also saw enough ammo and guns to supply three infantry companies and in the Little Bird Armed Forces there are one hundred and twenty soldiers in a company so they have three hundred and sixty weapons and about thirty thousand rounds of ammo too.

Darick then went to go clear his head but he decided to end his undercover mission early.and he went into a payphone.

"Captain," said Darick over the phone, "Got a huge event going to go down on the Seventeenth of this month! How quickly can you get a lot of patrol officers, and several S.W.A.E.S.U. Over here?"

Captain Esposito responded, "Yeah right. It's something your imagine and I'm not going to waste taxpayer's money on a pipe dream,"

"Hey jackass!" said Darick, "When September the 17th comes around and it does happen guess what! I'm going to go to the papers, the radio, the news, and any type of media and say that the Empire Police Dept was given warning of a future attack on the city but they turned a blind eye where thousands got killed!"

Captain Esposito just hung up on him but Darick hung the phone up and called Captain Esposito a jackass again.

Darick knows that the police have the firepower due to the rank and file patrol officer their service firearm is either a 9x19mm, .45ACP, .40 S&W, 10mm Auto, .357 Magnum, .41 Magnum, .41 Special, &.44 Magnum.

Not adding all the male cops besides Darick and some of the female cops are trained with bigger weapons due to their military service and they can use X16s (M16A1), Semiautomat Service Garand (M14 Battle Rifle), Automatic Service Garand (M14A1/M14E2 rifles), Assault Carbines (Model 733's), Marksman Carbines (Model 933's)/w railed foregrip, and low-powered ACOG-scope, Garand (an M1 Garand with 16 rounds over eight), R91's (early G3 with a wooden handguard and buttstock), Baker 311 Police (M1897 Riot gun), Baker 312 Police (M1912 Riot gun), Baker 350 (M500), Baker 320 (Steven 520), Baker 360 (Stevens 620), Baker 05' (A-5), R700's, M66's (M40's), and CT759mm/ Counter-Terrorist, 1975 9mm (MP5A3) just to name a few. But he is trained to use shotguns.

***

Later that day well in the evening.

"Did the police get out father's killer or killers yet?" asked Sonata

Darick replied, "Sorry Sonata. They may have arrested a few members of the Jackals gang. But they're all demanding to see a lawyer. But we've stopped giving criminals lawyers after the '84 riot. But they're all back at square one. But I'm going to make sure they go to prison for a very long time, not go pass go and collect two hundred dollars and make sure they don't see the son for a very long time,"

Darick went back to eating his well-done T-bone steak dinner, their mother eating a medium-well sirloin steak, and Sonata ate her six-piece chicken tenders with crispy fries. .

After that Darick paid for the bill and left a tip even though his mother wanted to due to she's an orchestra member. But they went back to the apartment but it wasn't long until something bad happened.

***

Back at the apartment. It wasn't long until their mother had a medical emergency so Darick called 798 (their version of 911/112/000/106) and the police dispatcher transferred him over to the fire department dispatcher and Darick told the dispatcher that his mother is having a hard time breathing and needs help.

The dispatcher dispatched Engine Company 47 and a BLS Ambulance to the address where on Little Bird all firefighters and police officers are CFRs or Certified First Responders.

It wasn't long until there was a knock on the apartment door where it was the firemen of Engine Company 47 and they came in and took over where they had to transport Darick and Sonata's mother on their open cap 1967 fire engine to the hospital due to the ambulance was delayed.

They didn't know that their mother suffers from Cardiac Arrhythmia, Pneumothorax, Pneumonia, Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and has schizoaffective/ w bipolar. The doctors did their best but she didn't make it and the two were upset.

Sonata she's in the eleventh grade and she's sixteen but she was taken away by CPS and put in a foster home that same night. But they were able to say a teary goodbye. Due to they don't have a family that's why Sonata was taken away because their uncles either died in the Vietnam war, the Gulf war or on active duty as policemen but not all of them were married and some of their aunts either died or don't want anything to do with them.

Darick worked hard but he got his first paycheck which was $119 and he was able to get a cheap apartment for $100 and he got a folding army cot from an military surplus store for $5. But he didn't have a lot to furnish it all with. But the old landlord, due to knowing his father paid rent on time nad helped him tar the roof he helped Darick to move stuff out of his parents apartment into his and getting it somewhat furnished.

Darick was licky that his parent's landlord has a 1967 Hornet Pickup truck (1967 Ford Pickup fifth generation) and helped him move into his new apartment it was a little bit homey but it was missing a fridge so Darick had to eat out.

After his first night in the apartment Darick remembered back from September 11th, 1988 to October 26th, 1990 when Lieutenant Mayor who replaced the Mayor after a "Golf trip"and the Lieutenant Mayor's first acting order was to abolish the Empire Police Department and Island Patrol as payback for killing his father in the early 1970's.

What happened was that the Lieutenant Mayor's father had an M60 and was going to shoot up a restaurant full of patrons but the police ordered him to drop his guns but he fired at the police and the police fired back and the Lieutenant Mayor's father injured several bystanders including a newborn baby and a toddler.

But in 1988 Darick and Linda were walking to their after school actigtives which Darick it was shop class and Linda it was soccer. But the city was placed under Martial Law by Bill Waterson and not to long after that soldiers from the 21st Airborne Division and Marines from the Third Marine DIvision occupied the city.

They just saw a lot of GAL/General Army Light 353 (GMC CCKW), GAL 535 (2-1/2 ton), M62's (M113's), M62 AIAV/Armored Infantry Assault Vehicle, M62 AMAV/ Armored Marine Assault Vehicle (M113 ACAV), Walter Jeep Mk 1 (Willys MB), Walter Jeep Mk 2 (Willys M38), Walkter Jeep Mk 3 (M151 M.U.T.T.), M9 Light Tanks (M41 Walkter Bulldog), M1947 MBT (M46 Patton), M1948 (M47 Patton), M1950 MBT (M48 Patton), M61 MBT (M60 Patton), M1 MBT, and M1A1 MBT's.

But the soldiers and Marines were armed with Semiautomat Service Garands, Automatic Serivce Garands, X16'sm 7.62mm GPMG (M60), M375 Squad Automatic Weapons, Baker 311 Military (M1897 Trench Gun), Baker 312 Military (M1912 Trench Gun), Baker 350, '05 Semi-Auto shotgun (A-5 shotgun), Trench 1937A1 (M1/M1A1 Thompson), Mk40 Commando Tactical rifle/SMG, MP50/Machine Pistol 1950 (improved MP40), CT759mm, Automatic Rifle 1963's, Mil&Pol SPCS/ Military and Police Special Purpose Combat Shotgun (SPAS-12), Phoenix Pistol (M1911A1), Phoenix Commando (Colt Defender), Phoenix Elite (Colt Commander), 9mm Pistol (Hi-Power), .357 Magnum Mk 1 (S&W M27), .44 Magnum (S&W M29), .357 Commando (S&W M19), and .357 Magnum Mk 2 (Colt Python).

But Darick remembers seeing in the back of military trucks that soldiers even brought Anti-Tank launchers. But what was terrifying enough that was the soldiers and marines didn't arrest criminals they had live ammo and if any serious crime took place they would've killed the criminals and a box of ammo is $2.50. But there were some innocent casualties as a squad of battle hardened marines who fought in the Vietnam war saw a light reflecting off a window blind so the marine squad didn't hesitate to fire their weapons including a .50 Cal Heavy Machine Gun not knowing they killed a seven-year-old but they thought it was a sniper.

Darick didn't even know how his father kept the bills paid, kept them fed, and even took them out to dinner or the movies or to a drive-in theater not adding giving them their allowance but they just thought he had an job or side job earning money.