Author's Note
This is just to serve asa short introduction to a few characters
The Rookie
Beretta was just parking her beater of a Crown Victoria and walked toward her precinct office building. it was a warm dat and and she was emailed orders to meet up with a police chief named Chief Shackles. The desk sergeant was a huge earth earth pony such as herself but maybe not the 'huge' part though. the pegasi and unicorns looked at her as if she was not meeded.
"I'm here to brief with Chief Shackles, where might i find him?"
"Well miss, as you are expected head to the conference room- number 1309 on the third floor." Beretta began her trek to the elevator and paused - she breathed slowly and thrm kept walking. She found the office and tapped on the door.
"Good morning Chief Shackles, I'm Beretta and i was told that you were going to brief me amd assign me to the officer I'm partnering with."
"Miss Beretta, you'll be working with Sergeant Spearhead this week and he'll show you how we run this precinct. Further more, your crusier number is Cruiser #0357, it's an old model Crown Victoria but she's a solid vehicle."
"Yes sir" was the short reply and after instructions on where to find her partner. Beretta found her target, Officer Drift at the cruiser sipping coffee and holding a second cup.
"You're my new partner? I was expecting a man to show up but you'll do little lass....fuck it, from what I've heard you were top of your class but yiur weak point was your planning your exit strategies."
"I forget to plan my retreat....however, i am trying to get better at that." Beretta began to climb into the passenger seat whem drift cleared his throat.
"You're driving kiddo, today we are assigned to visit a school and give a Q & A with local EMS." Officer Drift was of the pegasus species and he was tall and kinda good looking for one his age - Drift was in his forties and looked it but he was active and spry as someone in their twenties.
They arrived at the school and donned their body armor and grabbed the orange training guns for the kids to hold and get a feel for the real thing. Beretta had caught Drift looking her over a couople of times and had to confront him about it.
"You remind me of a prior partner about twenty-two years ago who died in the line of duty; he was married and was expecting a kid. Now Beretta what was your dad's name?"
"He was known to the department as 'Rogue One' because he liked to go rogue and jump the gun on ops, but his legal name was Remington."
"I knew him and his last words were to help take care of you and i have in small ways that you dont know about. Now i need to keep you alive."
The Q & A went smoothly and one dows suppise that there is one in every class that has to ask if you shot somebody and if there was a ton of blood. Beretta felt concerned when one kid asksd those questions and also asked if they had stopped any rapes that were in process.
"Officer Drift....I feel like that kid doesn't have any internet limits, he ran into me earlier in the hall and his sketch book fell open and he has drawn some risqué pictures."
"His mom tries her best while his dad is in prison for distribution of porn and some trafficking and prostitution dealings. Yes I know his situation and just about half the people in Las Pegasus and doy best to help them. By the way...we need tl finish your processing for the department records."
"Celestia Damn it! I tried to forget that." The pair laughed as Beretta started the cruiser and began to drive.
Author's Note
Graphic Details ahead!
Courtesy Check
"Dispatch to Cruiser 0-3-5-7 please respond to an 11 Papa on Willow and Ashe!"
"Cruiser 0357 10-51 (en route)"
"Drift this abandoned property i hope that the owner was just ill and we dont find a corpse." They arrived at the house and they walked up the shallow and creaky steps.
"This is Officer Drift and Officer Beretta responding to a courtesy check!" Beretta felt nauseated as the odor her nose just picked up reaked. They opendd the door which they realized that it was unlocked the house aas empty but they could smell an odor that smelled like something dead. grabbing his radio he requested for a warrant to turn the house upside down and do a full search. Beretta had to walk off and puke and by her right foot she found a bullet casing.
"Drift! Come here i found something!" Drift had sprinted and he saw the bullet casing.
"Fucking hell!" He hissed, "We may have a possible homicide" Drift had also noted that that where he stood that there were foot prints by his left foot. Beretta swore up a storm as she found herself staring toward an old shed and her gut told her what she was going to find in there.
"You thought about that possibe outcome too? The angle kf foul play?"
"Yes, the car was still here, door was ajar, signs of an interrupted meal....and that damned odor." Drift and Beretta called for back up and waited.
"Ya know Drift i went to the academy with a bat pony named Phoenix Fire, she was proficient in analyzing crime scenes....she works in Canterlot but she's also a marshall; I think she has clearance to go anywhere in Equestria."
"I have heard of her, charcoal gray with gradient mane of red and orange....resembling a fire?"
"That's her, how'd you meet her?"
"Well she's my adopted daughter...pride ofy life and she always wanted to be a cop." A second cruiser pulled up and out stepped a bat pony matching the description of Phoenix Fire.
"Hey dad! pity we couldn't catch up when its not a crime scene....potential crime scene." The trio walked around and Phoenix Fire looked around the areas as they walked and looked uneasy and nauseated. "Why did my special talent have to be finding dead bodies? I'm juat looking over the place to prolong opening that shed door. Fuck it! Let's get this over with."
They went to the dreaded tool shed and opened it up and there before them lay a corpse....butchered and the intrils strewn about the small space and maggots crawled every where. Phoenix Fire and Beretta quickly walked away to puke, Drift closed the shed door and called the coroner. This was supposed to be a simple courtesy call.
Looking over toward Beretta, the rookie looked traumatized and shaken. "That kid is gonna need a therapist for a while." Thought Officer Drift as he and the newly arriving Crime Scene Investigators asked around the people closest to the home all said that the owner hadn't been seen or heard from for about two weeks. Phoenix Fire also asked around and Beretta couldn't move as she stared at the ground and thought about what her innocent eyes just saw.
What she saw: The corpse laying against the back left corner and cut open obviously by the electric jigsaw and the had been cut asunder by the meat cleaver on the work bench. The limbs had been cut off by an ax....the fingers were torn off the hand amd to finish the grisly image was the head sitting in the vice sitting on the work bench cut open by a visible bone saw hanging on a peg.
Who the hell would do that to a fellow Equestrian? She hoped that this case wouldn't resurface, but the odds were decent since they lived and worked in Sin City of Equestria.
