Certain law Enforcement Division: Tank Judgment
How do you enforce the law when the criminals have esper powers? Newport's tank police department 3rd division has an answer, it involves tanks and shooting things, well it solves most problems. Dominion tank/index crossover, such misfortune!
Chapter one: what have you got yourself in for?
Aleister Crowley for once was speechless, sure the so called darkside of Academy city could be seen as a criminal threat but they were useful for experiments and some were actively working for him. He was also sure that they were not such a threat to the outside world that tactical nuclear devices were appropriate, what was this a war on crime? and what was even more worrying was that this was being played out at the UN an organization who had came down heavily on countries who had tried to produce their own nuclear devices. as the UN took its sweet time about doing anything on its own this meant someone was strong arming them from behind the seams. The UK was the most likely suspect with the Church of England pushing them from behind the scenes in an attempt to get index back, after all she just wandered into the city.
The man from the United Nations continued, "Despite our 'experts' opinion the UN is not prepared to authorize the use of nuclear devices, instead they have decided that a peace keeping force should be sent to help improve security within the region as a way of releasing tensions between two recognized and permanent members of the United Nations."
That last sentence was too polite and formal to be anything other than an attempt to appease a party, and it was not Academy city. It had probably been aimed at another influential member of the UN that had attempted to block any resolution against Academy city, it pay to have investors in Academy city from ruling political parties in almost every major nation on earth.
The man dressed in a police uniform stood up on the screen next to the UN representative. "Japan's government wishes to help bring a quick and satisfactory end to the situation and has there for ruled out the use of the JSDF, instead we will dispatch a team from Newport city's elite police Department. this team will aid in building the law enforcement branches within the city and aiding in boarder security."
That was not as bad as it could be, if it had been the JSDF then it was an obvious move to take over the city but if it was just some police then he could let them help old ladies across the road until they were happy and went home. Newport city was also the criminal hotspot of Japan and was getting worse daily despite the police using tanks so there effectiveness in dealing with the problem would be negligible and he could get on with his work. hold on tanks they were going to send in tanks to clean up Academy city? This could be interesting and a worthwhile experiment to see how powerful espers were against the outside world.
This last thought was the reason he consented to the UN's demand, he could of refused and nothing would have happened, Academy city was to important for them to do anything, even a strongly worded letter would split the UN in his favor.
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Newport city was used to the site of a tank chasing another vehicle down the highway, so no one even turned their head when a motorcyclist sped past them followed by a tank. If one had never seen this tank before they would describe it as something a kid would draw. People's opinions changed after they saw this toy tank unleashed an 120mm high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) round at the motorcyclist who had ran a red light.
This could have resulted in injury for bystanders but this was such a normal occurrence that citizens of Newport city had already left the street as soon as they heard the sound of tank treads.
"Your under arrest for breaking traffic laws, resisting arrest and for defacing a police vehicle," yelled an outrage woman who was standing in the tanks cupola holding an SMG
"Defacing a police vehicle, huh?" asked a male voice skeptically.
"He got dirt on MY BONAPARTE!" Cried the woman as she unloaded her SMG's magazine at the criminal scum.
Believe it or not today was a slow day in crime fighting with a crime being committed only every 50 seconds. this statistical anomaly had nothing to do with the police effectiveness more over it was just a slow day in the same way it was a slow day for the fire department. the two of coarse were completely unrelated and so was the fact that fire had increased throughout the city as a certain law enforcement division was given tanks to do their job.
"Sir if it was about that prisoner he did confess to six accounts of murder four accounts of bank robbery, 2 grand theft auto and account of running a red light before the grenade went off," said Brenten.
"IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT!" shouted the Chief. Grenades were not a valid method of interrogation and the criminal scum would have comfiest to more if he had been interrogated by something that did not have a 3 second fuse.
With a visible effort the chief gained control of his anger, "Tokyo police department have requested backup in training a new tank force"
Brenten laughed, "what those poufs' over in Tokyo finally realized that we are at the best tank police in the force? About dam time, if you ask me, sir."
"you are to train Academy Cities ANTI-SKILL to use tanks, apparently Tokyo has been having problems with espers using their powers outside of the cities walls and have traced them back to underground criminal elements within the city," Briefed the Chief.
"Academy City? Never heard of it before, sounds to me like a bunch of kindergarten kids, waste of our time if you ask me," complained Brenten.
"Not really Sir" explained 4-eyes as Brenten missed the point again. "you see sir the espers of academy city can preformed feats that even our most advanced technology can barely keep up with. For example there's this girl in middle school there who can fire a railgun," said 4-eyes almost drooling at the mouth at the prospect of going to Academy city.
"What some little girl can fire a railgun? those things have so much recoil that we can't mount them on our tanks," yelled Brenten causing his cigarette to fall out of his mouth
"Sorry sir what I meant to say is that she is a railgun and is known to fire coins over mach 3 for fun, rumor has it that NASA want to hire her as a replacement for the shuttle craft if they could get her out of the city," Clarified 4-eyes.
"What?" Was the general consensus from all tank police officers within earshot.
"Oh yes sir and she is only ranked number three out of the top espers in the city, the number one can manipulate vectors," continued 4-eyes, now in his element.
"Manipulate what's?"
"Vectors, something with a magnitude and direction like force," explained 4-eyes forgetting that he was the only one to have taken physics at high school. Almost everyone in the tank police had taken chemistry in a hope they would see something explode and Brenten had even taken biology in a hope it would help him kill things better.
"Try that again in English," suggested Brenten
"Well sir if we were to fire a kinetic penetrator round at him he would reverse its direction and send it right back at us, " 4-eyes tried again in a way he hoped his fellow tank police officers would understand.
"Sir this is no job for the tank police, not with all that anti-tank in the hands of children, we need tactical nukes and rods from god to show those criminal scum who's boss," Brenten demanded
"Denied," the chief said harshly, that had been his recommendation to the UN but they had rebuffed it violently even if it had been a useful card to use as a threat to get an outside police force to enter the city. That disturbed the chief even if he didn't want to omit it, what political game were the government playing at? Also why had the leader of Academy city allowed in outside observers, the city was considered independent from Japans rule and his file had shown that he never did something without a reason.
"Your being deployed to train the new Academy city tank ANTI-SKILL, not fight crime" ordered the chief. An order that no one around him seamed to hear as they were picking specks brains over the top ranked espers, tactics and ammo load outs they would need to kill each one. The chief accepted that they would get very little training done, good thing some of the support staff was going as well, they would do their job.
A/N
When reading index fan fiction I thought hay Academy city needs a better police force the city has far too big a criminal underground but who could fight espers? Judge dread? Hot fuzz? Police academy? That's when it hit me like a depleted uranium shell, New dominion tank police, they would destroy half of academy city be unpopular as all hell and bread light into a very dark underground, by shooting holes in it until the light shines through. Also it balances out very nicely as academy city has the competence and the super powers and the tank police have the tanks and the hot blood, so this can only end badly which is a win in my books.
Chapter's will be shorter than in my other fic as this is a side project to test out a new speech to text program I'm using called Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 to see if that helps in getting my workout faster. I am also running this without a alpha or beta reader to see how I get on.