Chapter 2: The Hunt
Fionna and Marshall Lee had driven all the way to Hell's Kitchen to get to the tenements there. Their investigation of the kidnappings had led them here, where the suspect, Lois Sharon Parker or 'L.S.P' was living at. According to the information they were able to get through the investigation, LSP used to be a 'queen-bee' at her high school until a break up with her boyfriend drove her mad. She ran away from home and was reported missing by her parents for a few years, until now when the kidnapping started to happen. It was through Fionna's ingenuity and perseverance that the detectives were able to find evidence that was enough to relate LSP to where the kidnapped victims were last seen. They stopped the car in front of the tenement building and made their way in. They could not wait for back-up and simply stormed the building with their combined efforts to locate and rescue the victims. As they reached the second floor of the building, they were shocked to see all the victims tied up on separate beds wearing only their boxers. "Whoa!" Fionna said as she looked away from the disgusting scene. Marshall Lee went to all the victims and checked for their vitals, sighing in relief when he realized that they were all still alive. "So I WAS right... She WAS collecting these guys to make them her boyfriend. All because she was mad from one break-up..." Fionna said as she noted that there were the names 'BRAD 1', 'BRAD 2' and so on written on the straps that were used to tie up the victims. According to some of LSP's high school companions that they questioned, Brad was the name of LSP's boyfriend. "But where the hell is she?" Marshall asked as he released the last victim. "Hey, wait... There were 6 kidnapped males, right?" Fionna asked, getting his attention. He observed and counted the victims, but found that there were only 5 of them instead of 6. "Where's the sixth victim?" he asked, before a loud yell was heard upstairs. The two partners wasted no time and pulled out their guns as they headed upstairs until they reached the roof. They were greeted by a shocking scene of LSP holding a bloody knife and carving something on the body of the sixth victim, who had his mouth gagged with a cloth.
"NYPD! Drop the knife! Now!" Marshall yelled, getting LSP's attention. The mad woman immediately held the knife at the victim's throat while threatening, "NO! Back off! Leave Brad and I alone! We're lumpin' happy together! Why can't anyone see that?!". "LSP, that is not Brad..." Fionna spoke. "NO! You're lying! This IS my Brad!" LSP yelled back as she held the victim closer to her. "It took me some time, but I finally found my Brad... And no one's taking him away from me again!" she continued, her knife so close to the victim's throat. Fionna gripped her gun tighter as she said, "I understand what happened to you was terrible... Trust me, I know what it felt like being left by the person you love...". Marshall Lee flinched when he heard that, but regained his composure when he noticed Fionna slowly stepping forward. "But you need to realize that you're just replacing the REAL Brad with some stranger that you think might look like him!" the female detective continued. "NO! I... Brad's... I..." the mad woman tried to argue, but Fionna could see that she was conflicted. "This guy can't possibly be Brad. LSP, he barely has a clue as to who you are..." she continued. LSP suddenly shook her head and replied, "NO! NO! NO! NO! Enough! You're trying to make us break up again, aren't you?! You're just like everyone else who wants to take Brad away from me! Well, if I can't have Brad...". "NO ONE CAN!" the mad woman frantically yelled as she stepped back, dragging the poor victim closer to the edge of the roof with her. Realizing that he was going to be thrown off the building by her psycho captor, the victim struggled to escape LSP's grasps. LSP was close to the edge when this happened, so she was distracted as she tried to maintain her hold on the victim. The victim was finally able to escape her grasp, at least for a moment until LSP grabbed him again by the collar she got him to wear. However, Detective Fionna had fired her gun and the bullet struck her hand, causing her to release the victim. As she howled in pain, she accidentally stepped backwards and slipped off the edge of the roof. The last thing Fionna was able to witness from the roof was LSP's dead body, sprawled on the ground after the nasty fall before the police backup arrived.
A few minutes later...
"What exactly happened here?!" Police Commissioner Gumball asked to the two detectives whom he had left in charge of this case. "I'm really sorry, Commissioner... I wasn't able to bring her in alive..." Fionna apologized, feeling so ashamed that the first case she was supposed to handle as a detective of the Manhattan Police HQ went awry. "There was nothing else you could've done. In fact, you did the right thing. It was the psycho or the victim, and you made a choice that any other sane person would've made!" Marshall spoke, defending her actions. The Commissioner rubbed the bridge of his nose as he sighed and started thinking about what happened. Afterwards, he called for Marshall Lee so they could talk in private. This left Fionna to rethink her actions. Fionna was never one to regret pulling the trigger on a criminal or a psycho, but she would never purposely do so to kill. It was her code. She thought that this unfortunate twist of events definitely gave the wrong first impression to the Commissioner about her abilities as a detective.
"Tell me everything, Marshall..." Gumball said to Detective Marshall Lee. "She was good. Really good... She was able to see things in ways I hardly even considered! That's how we found the suspect and the required evidence. And she's got skills with her gun too..." the questioned detective replied. The Commissioner looked at Fionna, then back at Marshall before asking, "How much skill are you implying here?". "More than enough I'd say. She shot the suspect's hand, barely hitting the hostage. I mean seriously, a hand ain't easy to shoot so accurately when it's reaching for a hostage..." Marshall explained. Gumball nodded and said, "I guess her records are right about her weapon-handling...". They were both silent for a while as they looked at the female detective, before Commissioner Gumball said, "Alright, then. She's in the Hunt...".
Later, at midnight...
"No, please... I'll give you anything you want! Anything I have that you want, just take it! Just please don't hurt me!" the leader of the Bath Boy Gang begged as he was cornered by the intruders at his penthouse. They had broken into his penthouse in the Upper East Side early that morning without being detected and had killed almost everyone in their way. There was only seven of them, but they were capable of dealing so much damage. "You truly are a greedy little bastard... You thought you're the greatest gangster in New York or something?!" one of them, who was wearing a peculiar bear hat, said to him before his head was grabbed by another one of the assailants, who was noticeably older than than others. It was during that moment that a sudden spike of cold surged through his head, coming from the assailant's hands. The leader of the Bath Boy Gang screamed in pain but the scream was slowly silenced as his head slowly froze in ice. "Now it's time for your fall..." a raven-haired female among the assailants spoke before delivering a strong kick that sent him through the glass window he was backed up against. Given that his penthouse was on the top floor of a skyscraper, it was a long fall for the leader of the Bath Boy Gang.
