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Officer Mandel breathed a sigh of relief as the ambulances pulled up. He looked down at the bleeding girl cradled in her arms. Her breathing was labored and raspy. He was seriously concerned about the amount of blood she had lost. Captain Smith will be lucky if he keeps his badge after this.

Officer Mandel relinquished his hold on Libby as two men dressed in white rolled a stretcher up to him. Mandel turned around and rubbed his temple. "What the Hell is going on?" he whispered to himself. In all of his fifteen years on the force, he had never seen a fellow cop shoot a preteen.

He opened his eyes and walked to the edge of the hill, for the first time remembering the rest of his squad. His eyes nearly popped out of his sockets due to the shock of what he saw below him. His three fellow officers and Captain Smith were on the ground. They were laying in puddles of blood. All were unconscious except Captain Smith, who was beginning to come to.

"Over here!" he shouted back to the paramedics while waving them over. They looked down in horror, but quickly sprung into action. They went first to the cop that Jimmy had taken care of. Mandel saw them request fellow ambulances into their radios.

Mandel ran down the hill to his captain, who was applying pressure to his bleeding and broken nose. As soon as he approached his captain, the injured man grabbed his collar and pulled him down to his face.

"Find that little bitch," he whispered.

"What happened?" Mandel questioned.

Captain Smith took a look around and noticed that his fellow officers were also hurt. A flicker of sorrow crossed his face, but rage soon replaced it. "Now do you see why I shot that little piece of shit?"

Officer Mandel glanced back to the ambulance that held Libby. He quickly refocused hit attention back to his captain. "Those kids did this?"

"Find them," Smith repeated. He then passed out again.

Mandel surveyed the scene another time before stroking his goatee. What to do, what to do. He still couldn't believe that four kids had been able to take down four trained cops, one of them a captain.

Mandel noticed something as he looked at Smith again. He didn't just have a broken nose, he had been shot. Luckily, his bulletproof vest had protected him. But that meant the kids were armed.

"Officer!" one of the paramedics shouted. Mandel ran over to the two men. "Look at the mens' belts." Mandel looked at the three men on stretchers. "Their holsters are empty."

Officer Mandel turned around and began pacing. What does this mean? Four kids with at least three guns? Alright, think. What do I do? Almost immediately, Mandel realized that he had never called for backup. He whipped out his radio and notified the station about what had happened.

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Officer Mandel was surrounded by two captains and five cops. They had just arrived at the scene. He finished filling them in on the situation. "So to sum it up, they're four kids with at least three guns. And they nearly killed four cops."

"These are the kids we've been looking for for a week?" a female officer asked.

"Yeah. Guess we kind of underestimated them," Mandel sadly said.

"Well, which way did they go?" another police man asked.

"They must have gone into the woods," Mandel told them.

"Well let's go get them then!"

Mandel shook his head. "These are no ordinary kids. One of them is legally a genius. They're not above shooting cops. And the last time we followed them in the woods, they got away by building a bomb. They built a bomb. That tells us they're good. We need to go back to the station and regroup. Get a plan. They've already got a huge head start in the woods. We're not going to get them in there. It's too easy to hide. They're probably going to emerge back in the city they left from. We'll set up officers there and all around the wood's edge."

One of the captains present nodded his head. "He's right. We're treating these guys as dangerous adults from now on. Get back to the base and figure out a plan. If we surround the border of the woods, there's no way they can escape. If we go into the woods, we'll just lose more men."

The group of police officers agreed with their superior. Mandel watched as the ambulance that held Captain Smith speeded away. Don't worry, sir. We'll get them.