Kim Possible and Street Hawk: Ranger's Eyes p 4

Disclaimer: I do not own Kim Possible, Street Hawk or Walker, Texas Ranger. Wish I did though.

Investigation and Searching

Meanwhile, back in the Courthouse, War Bird is with her teammates inside a conference room with Walker, Trivette, Gage and Sydney. "Okay, let's start this investigation."

"I'm glad to see you're enthusiastic, War Bird. However, what you're about to see will not be pretty. All the victims died in various ways. Slowly and painfully. If any of you feel squeamish, just say the word and briefing will halt." Seeing them nod in agreement, Walker then says, "All right. Here's what we got to date."

Gage hands each of them a folder, saying, "The files you're about to see contain five victims each. No need to compare as they are all the same. Those were last week's victims. For the month so far, we've had fifteen murders. The past month had thirty. The most recent are the lightest we could find, so hurling should be avoidable."

Upon seeing the pictures of the victims, the team is quick to correct Gage mentally. In a united voice, they say, "This is so sick and wrong!" Sand Hawk taps her helmet's side, activating the com unit to Sky Base.

"Smarty, I want you to dig up all you can on murderer profiles. Search criteria is sadistic, psychotic and able to keep their lunch down."

"I'm not even going to ask, but here goes."

On Sky Base, Wade walks over to the computer banks and begins working. "Okay. Are we talking serial killer level or just plain psycho?"

"Better make it both. If you find any, just show us the profile with the holo-projector."

"You got it, Sand." Within seconds, he gets his answer. "I found one profile. An ex-mob hit man. Brutal and efficient. Ugh, this is gorchy."

"How gorchy?"

"Wrong-sick gorchy. He's got three hundred confirmed deaths. Half of them are children."

"Any survivors of attempts by him? If they could identify him, that'd help us."

"Negative. No survivors. Holy..."

"Smarty?" Street Hawk's concern is evident in his voice as he goes on. "Smarty, what's going on?"

"There was a survivor of an attempt. Only it was a near thing. A young boy was run over. The target spotted the killer, realized what he was there for and split."

"WHAT?" War Bird is now incredulous as she says, "Repeat your last please. I could have sworn you said there was a survivor."

"That I did. I don't know how, but he had survived only by weird and bad luck. Weird for him, bad for the boy. The thing was deemed a hit-and-run murder and charges were filed. But, they were filed against the boy's friends, who were then placed in Juvenile Hall."

Ninja's voice comes through calmly as he asks, "What's the psycho's name and where do we find the sadistic son of a bitch?"

"His name is Tom Foster. Even more interesting is of all the people he had killed, no one else had ever survived. As for finding where he is, I have no address. But, I can tell you this much. He's a master of torture. He's especially fond of skinning people alive."

"Okay. Hurl factor is so approaching critical." Sand Hawk is sounding slightly nauseated as she asks, "Are you sure that there was only one survivor?"

"Pretty much. Sorry."

"Don't worry about the apology, Smarty. But, I can't say I blame her. Even more, that guy looks familiar to me for some reason."

"How so, War?"

"I don't really know, Ninja. But he does. Smarty, any chance you can search for bizarre homicides this guy pulled when I was in my old hometown?"

"Roger that, War Bird. I'll get started on sat-tracking and searching on my end while you guys start an eyeball search."

"Roger that, Smarty. You heard him, guys. We've got a psycho to find."

"Keep in touch, Street Hawk. Smarty out."

Back in the Courthouse, Street Hawk nods and says, "Right back at ya, buddy." Turning to the others, he says, "Okay. Here's the game plan. War Bird, you take the sky towards Waco."

"Got it." War Bird exits at that, only to be surprised when Sydney starts out with her. "What's going on, Ranger Cooke?"

"I think it'll be a good idea if you have another set of eyes out there. Come on, Gage."

"You got it, Short Stuff."

As the group heads out, Street Hawk shakes his head and goes on. "Sand Hawk, you and I will head toward Ft Worth. Hard, you take Houston. Ninja, stay close to the Courthouse and protect anyone coming out of the building as best as you can. This building is ripe with potential targets. Ranger Walker, any chance you can get DPS units in the other directions to keep an eye out for people that could match the description of this Foster character?"

"You got it, Street Hawk. Your planning is pretty good. But, if they're to encounter the killer at the same time, it might not end well."

"I know. It's a chance I don't want to take, but we'll have to take it and hope they come out of it unscathed."

"Yeah. You've got a good point there. Trivette, let's go."

"Right with you, Walker." Once they get out to Walker's Ram, Trivette gets on the radio. "Attention all DPS units, this is Ranger Trivette. Be on the lookout for a 187 suspect. Picture will be on your consoles."

Once the Dispatcher had repeated the information, Walker starts the engine and gets the pickup underway. Right behind them, War Bird powers up it's turbine engines and takes off toward Waco. In the back, Gage is looking at the monitor for the camera for the left side of the helo while Sydney's watching the monitor on the right. In the pilot's seat, War Bird can't help but notice the furtive glances being exchanged back and forth between the two Rangers.

'These two would make an interesting couple.'

Meanwhile, Street and Sand Hawk mount up and head for their destination, hoping to find the killer. Hard Hawk heads out as well while Ninja mounts his motor and starts prowling the block around the Courthouse.

Back in Sky Base, Wade searches the files that War Bird had specified. When he comes across what he's looking for, he nods and opens the file. When he sees who the picture is of, he spits out his soda onto the floor and gasps. The picture is of the near-miss target in the file, only it's shown on the headlines. Along with another picture of a young boy that had a friend mentioned in the same article.

"Oh snap."