donderdag 10 september 2015

Mistery

The two men were sitting in the car, watching the building. “Are you sure they will come?”, the passenger asked the driver. The driver placed a cigarette in his mouth and inhaled. "If the intel is correct, we will finally be able to role up the entire cartel”, he answered after he’d exhaled the smoke.
Suddenly the radio came to life. “Hawkeye one. All clear. Post two. All clear. Post three. All clear.” The passenger took the mic of the radio. “Post four. All  clear.” He placed the mic back. Before either man could say anything, the radio came alive again. “Attention all posts. A vehicle is entering the area.”
The two men straightened up a bit and stared intently into the darkness of the street. Shortly after they had heard the call over the radio, they saw the car in question coming towards them at high speed. A door in the building they were watching came alive and slowly rolled upwards. “Heads up. This is it. Post four here. The door to the loading dock just opened up”, the driver said over the radio as he and his passenger focused on the door across from them. The car reached the door and as it made a sharp turn towards the door the tires protested with a shriek.
Even before the car was completely in the loading dock, the door started closing again. The driver placed the mic back and opened his door. “Let’s go. If we can slip under the door we can take them down”, he said. The passeger also got out of the car, but was doubtful. “Let’s wait for backup. Something isn’t right.”
The driver gave him a look. “Do you want to move up in the world or not? You want that promotion, right?”, he asked.
The passenger sighed as he closed the door. “Of course I do, but I’m telling you, something isn’t right.” As if to lend power to the passenger’s words, a bright blue flash and a sharp, loud bang came from the loading dock, followed by more flashes and bangs. Under a deep rumble from within, the building started to collapse from the middle. The two men took cover behind their car as they looked at the collapsing building. While the dust cloud expanded, bigger by the second, the blue light and sirens of the police cars rushing in were barely visible.
The two men stayed behind their car until the dust had completely settled and another policeman walked up to them. “Johnson, Jones, what the hell happened?”, the policeman asked as the two men got up and dusted themselves off.
We don’t really know, captain. The car entered at high speed and when the door was almost closed all hell broke loose”, the passenger said.  People from the neighbourhood were coming out of their homes to see what had happened despite the late hour. The captain took a quick look around the street then looked at the two men in front of him. “I want the two of you back at the station”, he said, before barking some orders at a couple of policemen – who were looking a little lost – that they should close down all streets around the building. Johnson and Jones were about to protest when the captain stuck up his index finger. “You two go back. That’s an order.”
The captain didn’t wait for a reply, but walked away to coordinate the emergency services that now arrived at the collapsed building. The two men looked at each other. “What do you think that blue flash was?”, the passenger asked his partner, looking at the rubble that had been a building only an hour before. The driver pulled up his shoulders before getting back into the car again. “I have no idea, but I guess we can find out once we are back at the station”, he said while the passenger got back into the car as well. The driver started the car and drove off.
The passenger looked back one more time. “Do you know what this reminds me of? The strange reports that have been coming in lately. You know, the ones that mention blue light before something happens.” The driver pulled up his shoulders again. “If so, then this was no ordinary bust”, he replied. Unnoticed by the two men driving back to their station, a faint blue light was following them.
After another ten minutes, the two men arrived at the station and went inside. The faint blue light flew over the building as they walked in. Once above, it gave a strong pulse of bright blue light that shot through the roof of the building.
The light filled every floor; it went through until it reached the ground. Inside, people stopped moving as if frozen in time, execpt for the two men who had just entered. They stopped in thier tracks when they saw their colleagues freeze up into statues.

This way, gentlemen”, a female voice said to their right. A beautiful woman with the most intense blue eyes the two men had ever seen came around the corner and walked up to them through the entrance hall of the station. Normally, the men would have drawn their guns and asked her who she was and how she’d frozen their colleagues, but this was not a normal situation. They gave the statues around them another look, before deciding to follow the woman as she walked straight to the interrogation rooms. When they arrived at the rooms, she opened one of the doors and let them enter. Once they were all in, she closed the door behind them.

Only now did the men seem to regain their normal selves. “What the hell is going on here?”, the driver, who was the elder of the two men, asked as soon as the door was closed. The woman gave them an intense, serious look.

Let me be blunt, gentlemen. You saw something you weren't suppose to see.” She gestured to them to sit down. “So we have two options now.” She paused for a moment, waiting for the men to take a seat. “Either we make you forget what you saw. Or we let you join us”, she continued once they had. The older man was already getting up again and wanted to protest, but before he had the first word out of his mouth the woman held up her hand and stared into his eyes. Until he sat back down.

Before you start protesting, this offer isn’t one we make every day." She sat down as well, across from the two men.
Now, lady, listen  to us-”, the younger man began, but again the woman interrupted. “The captain told us you two were very good detectives, and we can use good detectives, however you’re mistaken to think that you have any other choice than the two I just gave you.” Her voice was suddenly harsh and cold at that last sentence. The younger man looked at the older man, and then back at the woman. “Okay, I'm in.”

The older man rubbed both hands over his face, as if to wash it with invisible water, while sighing deeply. "I wish I could forget what I’ve seen, but I know I won’t be able to. So I guess I'm in, too", he said to the satsifaction of the woman.

Good choice, gentlemen. Welcome to the bust squad. Your training will start now.” She pulled out a small device and tapped on it. Another pulse of blue light shot trough the building and people began to move again. At the same time, the interrogation room was left empty, without any trace of the people that had been inside.