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- From: giovanne@ccrs.emr.ca (Angel Truite-Putain)
- Subject: Bikersluts, Chapter 3
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.063608.7407@emr1.emr.ca>
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- Organization: Ugly Twisted Nastiness
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:36:08 GMT
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- Barfing Sheets Of Flame
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- The sporadic <brup...brup> sounds might have made less of an
- impression were it not for the noise of shattering glass and
- ricocheting bullets. Luc Vesper cursed the idiocy of the police
- administration as he loaded another clip into the modified Imgram
- and squinted through the haze of falling plaster for a target. The
- Imgrams were notoriously inaccurate in standard issue, and their
- accuracy dropped abysmally with the addition of the silencers which
- had been added. Some idiot had insisted on making the silencers
- standard issue using the logic that too much noisy gunfire was
- likely to disturb whole neighbourhoods. "Whole neighbourhoods!"
- cursed Vesper, "this whole fucking neighbourhood could suffer a
- direct nuclear strike and it wouldn't cause a moment's concern to
- the human scum who poured heroin into their veins.
-
- <brup...brup> Vesper released a few bursts at the dark hallway more
- in frustration than in hopes of hitting a target. "Maudit
- arseholes!" Vesper shouted as a spray of buckshot ripped over his
- head and tore a hole in the wall. This was another drug bust which
- had gone wrong. Every drug bust seemed to go wrong these days. In
- four days... no, make that five since the current nightmare had
- already crossed midnight's threshold... in five days he'd been in
- seven different gun battles. "And they call this a fucking
- civilized country?" shouted Vesper whose only response was another
- round of buckshot which raked the doorframe to his left.
-
- His partner, the one who should have been backing him up was
- nowhere to be seen... probably pissing his pants or puking his guts
- out in some alley where he had run to avoid the conflict. In the
- preceding seven weeks Vesper had lost three partners. For all he
- knew his current partner might be lying somewhere within the
- building with his skull opened and brains splattered across a wall
- from a close encounter with a shotgun. <brup brup> Vesper released
- another burst and rolled quickly to his right. He gambled and kept
- his head up to watch the responding shotgun blast. There was
- something almost elegant in the sheet of red flame which barfed
- from his opponent's gun. The buckshot whined as it bounced from the
- overturned steel desk which had been his former refuge.
-
- He squeezed and held the trigger as his Imgram cut a wildly dancing
- pattern of bullets at the origin of the shotgun blast which was
- still ghosting in his retinae. A horrific scream emerged from his
- target. Vesper fired another burst and was pleased to hear the
- drumming of the target's boots as he spasmodically reacted to
- another hit.
-
- From the murky distance of the street Vesper heard the squealing
- arrival of a backup unit... the unit that had been called nearly an
- hour ago. "Merde, more assholes who'd just as likely shoot me as
- the bad guys." Vesper laughed as he remembered another fucking
- brilliant regulation... the one that said that undercover officers
- should don fluorescent orange vests with "Police" spelled out in
- bold letters in the event of an "officer needs assistance call".
- Right, he could just imagine the skin searches and other probes
- which his targets had conducted looking for a wire. He shook his
- head sadly, remembering the second last gun battle. The only ones
- wearing fucking fluorescent vests when the shit hit the fan were
- the bad guys. Half of Vesper's squad was iced by the backup unit
- before things could get sorted out.
-
- "Homicide... I've got to get into Homicide," decided Vesper. At
- least in homicide the bad guys didn't kill people as an
- parenthetical sideline of doing business the way the druggies did.
- He winced as an embedded piece of shrapnel from an earlier wound
- dug into his thigh. "Yeah, Homicide's the ticket for sure. I'm too
- old for this cowboy shit."
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