Chapter 21: The Arrest
Transients fire as they chase after Cole and Cassie and the two fired back at them, "God, they're persistent, aren't they?" Cassie question them and threw back a Hammer at them back at them and they flew backwards "And you're realizing this now?" he questions her, then threw a sticky bomb at them and they exploded. "I didn't know that were this persistent." she states and they climb up the side of the building and pulled themselves up onto the roof. "Then again, they are crazy insane." she states.
Cole chuckles and they both walk over then stop as Cole's phone started to ring and he answers it, "The remnants of the 43rd precinct have mounted an offensive against the Dust Men. My source says they're going to try and arrest Alden." Moya informs them. "Good, that psycho should be behind bars." Cole states and they stretch a little. "The battle has already started, so you better get moving. Your top priority is ensuring that Alden is captured. Once he's in custody, I'll send in an extraction team." Moya informs them and they started to move. Once they were back on the ground started to move, they stop and saw dead officer across the street. "This isn't good." Cassie mutters and kneels down and looks at him. "Cole." she states as he kneels down as well.
He places his hand on the officer's head as Cassie did the same and they threw their heads back.
~Flash~
The officer aims his gun at the grizzled man, Alden, "Alden! Don't move, you're under arrest." he tells him, but Alden showed no fear to him as he was perfectly calm.
Then raise his hand and a car floated into the air and Alden flung his hand and the car flew right at the officer, he screams as he raise his arms and blackness of death was his sight.
~End of Flash~
The two pulled their heads back down and stood up, then saw an echo of Alden limping away. "We got a beat on Alden. Heading after him." Cole informs the agent. "Don't let him escape, Cole. This could be our only shot." Moya tells him and the two ran after the echo. Through the alleys, but as they were back on the street they stop and saw a man hanging from a lamp post tied by his feet and people were gathered around him, "He stole my food! Kill him!" the man shouts.
The two exchange looks and looks back at the tied man, -We probably shouldn't get involved in this, Alden's still running around, and if he gets away, Moya's going to have our hides. I could zap that guy and cut him loose. Or maybe I could just walk away and leave him there to rot.- Cole rationality thinks to himself. But Cassie rose up her hand, fired at the rope, breaking the rope and the man drops onto the ground and frees himself. Cole looks at her, she looks back at him and shrugs a little. The two said nothing and they cross the street and walks to the park. But it was change, very different. "What the hell?" Cole mutters as they both look at the Dust Men trash HQ. "I've seen weird, but this takes the cake." Cassie mutters and they both walk through the front gate.
Then a rifle was fired and the bullet hits the ground next to Cassie's foot, the two look up and saw Dust Men riming their rifles at them and the two moved quickly, ran up the ramps and took cover behind the structure. Then they fired at the Dust Men and continued their way forward onto the path and it makes a left turn into Dust Men and they fired at them as the Dust Men fired back at them. Cassie send out a Hammer and made the two fly and Cole slams his fist into their faces knocks them out cold.
Then the make a left turn, jumps across the gap, ran along the path, then jumps up onto the pipe, climbs up. Then jumps on top and back down, running along that path as well and pulled themselves onto the turrets and disabled the turrets and jumps back down taking out the Dust Men. "Hey Moya, have you seen this place? The Warren was never much to begin with, but this use to be a park. Now it's a shanty town made out of junk. Can barley find my way through it." Cole inform Moya.
Cassie send out another Hammer and made the Dust Men fly forward and she nails them in the face. "Alden started collecting scrap metal, junk, anything else he could get his hands on the moment of the quarantine was put into place. Probably for use on the tower." Moya informs him. Cassie looks over at the tall tower in the distance and then ran back to Cole and hides next to him, "Why the hell is he building that thing?" he questions her. "No idea. As far as I can tell, there are no combustibles in it, so it's not explosive device. Maybe he's overcompensating for something." Moya answers him.
They then continued forward and fired at the Dust Men and knock them right off the roof and once they were cleared out the two jump down into the park, "Don't let him escape! He's trying to flank, suppressing fire!" an officer shouts out as he was in a helicopter, then the two followed Alden's echo along the path and stop as giant scrap golem stood up and a Transient conduit was inside the chest. "Oh… my… God…" Cassie mutters as they both were in awe, "You're seeing this too, right?" she asks him, "Uh-huh." he mutters as he nods his head. "Ok, I'm not going crazy then." she mutters, "Ignore that golem! Focus all your fire on Tate!" the officer shouts again and the golem raise it's arm at them, "Cover?" she asks.
He nods "Cover!" Cole calls out and the two split and hide behind pillars as the golem fired at Cole, Cassie leans out and fired Hammers at the creature, denting the armor a little, then it turns it's attention to her and walks over to her, she then ran out and hides behind the fountain.
Cole then pops out and fired at one of the arms, taking it right off. Then the golem went to it's knees and Cassie fires at the Dust Man inside as Cole fires at the next arm taking it right off. Then they both fires Hammers at it and the glowing dies and the golem fell to peaces, "Damn right." Cole mutters and the two walk over to each other and watch the helicopter fly over them. "Attention all units. Tate is in custody. En route to the Eagle Point Penitentiary." the officer states the chopper was gone. Cassie sighs and sat down. "Cops nap Alden, Moya. They're taking him to the pen." Cole informs the DARPA agent. "My extraction team is prepped and ready, but the military is dragging their feet with the clearance. Head for the prison and secure Alden until they get there. It won't be long before the Dust Men try and break him out." Moya informs then and Cassie cracks her knuckles. "That's not going to happen." she promises as electricity cracks over her hands.
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The two ran through alley and climb up a building as Dust Men had gathered below them. Cassie looks back down and threw a few Hammer at them, it explodes at contact and takes them all out at once. Cole exhales and they both pulled themselves on top of the building and then Cole's cell rings. Cassie walks over and Cole answers it. "The 14th precinct's getting hammered by the Dust Men. Get over there and help them out – if we loose that precinct, we're in a world of trouble." Warden Harms warns them and the two moved quickly.
Then saw a helicopter fly over them and they followed the officer when the were back on the street. "You take the riflemen, I got the RPGs." Cole orders her, "Right." she agrees and the two broke off and fired at the Riflemen, Cassie through out hammers at the Dust Men killing them all as Cole took out the two RPGs.
Then a Golem walk over and looks down at Cole and Cassie, "Shit!" Cassie worse and then fires at the arm, the golem went to fire at her, but Cole threw a few sticky bombs at it and gets it attention, but it arm was gone it exposes the transient inside, the two fired at the Dust Man and took out the other arm in the process, then Cole fired Hammers right out it, then the glowing dies out and collapse into scraps as the Dust Man laid on the ground, beaten.
Cassie pants as Cole jumps over to her and they both look at the station, seeing that it was… slightly damage. "That was pretty close. Thanks Cole, Cassie." Harms tells them and hung up.