Two months after the police operation at the old port people in the Zone Three found themselves in a strange position. Definitely something was wrong with White Shadow because the vigilantly disappeared. The rumor came out that whoever it was he or she was dead after that terrible night at the port. Some people were sure that after White Shadow and Batman met each other they started to work together and White Shadow left the Zone. There was also a rumor that White Shadow was arrested and was held in custody. All those gossips came to the end when one night something terrible happened under the Northern Bridge on the far side of the Zone. That bridge was promised to a community way before the Zone existed and the work on it began even before Justice was born but it never finished, up until now that bridge stood unfinished half way to the river. It became a place for suicide and the living place for outcasts, sick and drug addicted mostly young people. A lot of families lost their kids to the bridge young souls left homes to never come back and die from overdose in one of the tents under the bridge. Police didn't have people and finances to fight that colony of mischiefs and drug addicts or they simply didn't care.
One evening a woman named Guadalupe was cooking in the kitchen. She and her husband had a small house in the Zone Three, they also had four kids but one of them the oldest Ricardo was lost to the bridge. He left home three years ago and parents never saw him after. Guadalupe cried her eyes off but one day stood up and decided to be strong for those family members who still were with her. Her husband worked night shifts at the chemical plant and Guadalupe was always waiting for him all night. She was very brave and very scared because her three children were asleep in their little beds and she tried to watch over them. The Zone was very quiet lately after that old port arrests but still Guadalupe was waiting for her husband and didn't close her eyes every night when he was on the shift. That one night she got children to sleep and went on the kitchen to finish cooking but suddenly somebody knocked on the front door. Guadalupe took her shotgun she wasn't scared of the gun but of the guest on the other side of the door she was. She walked to the door and listen somebody was crying but it didn't melt her hart.
Mom. Mom. It's me Ricardo. Mum, please, open the door. Please, mom! I'm scared.
Praise God it was Ricardo her oldest son! Alive! Guadalupe opened the door and a young boy crawled into the hall. He was all wet and shaking of fear and cold, he cried still and couldn't talk. When the man of the house came back from the night shift he found out all family was sitting around sleeping on the couch Ricardo. Guadalupe told him a story what their son told her when she managed to calm him down.
He was there under the bridge all these years. He almost forgot his name and family he was drinking and using drugs. Once or twice he went up and tried to jump into the water because he didn't see the purpose of living when his brain was clean after alcohol but he couldn't. Last night was one of those nights when he couldn't find money for drugs or even cheap bear so his vision was clear and he felt miserable. He went on the bridge and stood there looking into the dark waters. Then he saw something white with the corner of his eye and turned but it was darkness and then again from the other side but when he turned it was nothingness. Allover sudden he heard screams down under the bridge where the tents were. People were running around in panic screaming half of the tents was on fire he saw his friend felt on the ground burning and never stood up. Ricardo turned and wanted to run down but somebody knocked him down.
You stay here if you want to live. – said darkness to Ricardo.
Ricardo said he got so scared that craped his pants right there then the voice left. Tent city under the bridge was on fire. Ricardo got closer to the edge to see what was going on down and saw the White Shadow fighting some gang members. Ricardo up until now confused about what happened. All he remembered when he heard police sirens he took off from the bridge and walk all the way home. That morning he got fiver and hallucinations. His parents watched TV news sitting next to his bed.
The full picture was told on the news. There was a big gangs meeting under that bridge because they were afraid to meet anywhere else and decided that place was perfect. Even people who lived under the bridge didn't know about this meeting they were just doing whatever they usually did got drunk and high. But the meeting went wrong when one of the gang came on the meeting without goods they were supposed to bring and they had no idea where those goods went because the day before everything was in order. Gangs had an argument and started to shoot but quickly realized there was somebody else. The White Shadow was there and approximately seven gang members got killed by this vigilantly. The fight caused fire and it burned the whole tent city under the bridge a lot of homeless and innocent poor people died in that fire. When the police came on the scene all gang members who were alive were tightened together what was the sign of Batman. Police again made major arrests and fire crews put up the fire.
That day young Ricardo told his mother he would never leave their family home again. Guadalupe put a white ribbon on her door as a sign of support to the White Shadow. By the end of the week most all houses in the Zone Three put white ribbons on their doors.
