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Chapter 12:

Hell's Angels

As Lassiter came in the next day to work, he was surprisingly in a better mood. Mia's only been with him a couple of days and he was actually enjoying coming home to someone. She still hasn't spoken but he could tell she was opening up to him.

But his day took a surprising turn when McNab approached his desk. The lumbering soft hearted officer said, "Boss, we found Mia's stepfather Luke Harrison."
"What?! Where is he?"

"He's been here boss. He was arrested for a DUI."

"And why in the hell have we not known this?"

"With everything going on sir it probably just slipped through the cracks."

Not happy with this but he let it go and asked, "Set him up in an interrogation room. O'Hara and I will be there in a second." McNab nodded and left to retrieve Harrison.

"O'Hara, did you hear that?" "Yep, let's get him."

Once the two detectives entered the interrogation room, they saw a well-dressed albino man sitting behind the table. Strategically set up, Juliet sat at the other side of the table and Lassiter started to pace behind the man. As a heavy silence filled the room, Luke started to feel uneasy. The silence finally got to him as he broke the silence saying, "Why am I here? I know my rights. I don't need to be interrogated for a DUI."

Juliet looked up from his file with a scary and mildly unfriendly smile saying, "Mr. Harrison we'd like to know why you didn't pick up your daughter three and a half weeks ago."

"First of all, she's my step-daughter. Second of all, her mother and I are divorced. So why should I care."

"But you have shared custody. So you should care."

"That bitch took everything that I cared about in the divorce. So I thought I'd hit her where it hurts: her brat. That's the only reason I petitioned and got the motion for shared custody. But now that the tramp is dead, I don't have any reason to continue to waste my time on the little…"

Luke's rant was cut off by Lassiter reaching around him and slamming his fist into the steel table with such force that table had a significant dent in it.

"She's a child! One that needed you, no matter what you thought of her mother. But because of your negligence, I'm going to see to it personally that your ass is goes to jail. And everything that you own gets audited. I hope you enjoy the IRS up your ass." Lassiter said with pure unadulterated hatred. After that Lassiter and Juliet made their way out of the interrogation room, leaving Luke holding his head in his hands and started to regret his life's choices.

Lassiter wasn't at his desk for ten minutes before his desk phone rang. "Detective Lassiter."

"Hello? Um my name is Doris Skirth," the voice said with obvious nervousness.

"Ma'am are you okay?"

"Look…detective I need your help. I'm an employee with Life Foundation."

Lassiter snapped his fingers to get Juliet's attention and as she came over he wrote down who was on the line and wanted his partner to get a trace on the line. As Juliet raced off, Lassiter kept Doris on the line. "Doris why are you calling me? What can I help you with?"

"Detective, I can't tell you over the phone but I do want to meet. Do you have anything to write with?"

"Uh…yes go ahead." Lassiter nodded as the nervous woman rattled off her location and the time she wanted to meet. "Alright Doris. We'll be there. But is there any reason you can't tell me what's wrong over the phone?" However, Doris hung up and left Lassiter quite frustrated.

Juliet came back to him saying, "We didn't get it." "Crap," Lassiter growled. "What did she say?" "Not much but she did tell me she wants to meet us and gave me a location." "Ok. When?" "At 3pm. So in about forty minutes." "Well let's get going," Shawn said appearing out of nowhere. "Dude, how did you hear that? You were just singing Take On Me."

"We got an employee from Life Foundation wanting to me us," Juliet answered.

"What about little Mia?"

"I've got an officer bringing her in and she'll be with Henry until I come back."

"So about this employee…can we come?"

Not having the time to argue with the two men, Lassiter said already on the move, "If you're coming then hurry up."

Within minutes, everyone was in their respective cars and pulling out of the SBPD parking lot.

Across town…

The navy blue crown vick pulled up next to Gus' light blue echo in front of an empty bar. The group entered the dim bar and after their eyes adjusted to the low lighting they noticed the sole woman in the bar. She was a small fair skinned woman, with black hair pulled into a messy ponytail, and with big glasses.

"Doris Skirth?" Lassiter asked as they approached.

The woman nodded and then asked, "Detective Lassiter?"

"Yes. This is my partner Detective O'Hara."

"And who are…"

"Let me introduce myself. I am the head psychic of the SBPD Shawn Spencer and this is my partner Methuselah Honeysuckle." To which Gus said, "Hellooo."

Juliet, Shawn and Gus sat down while Lassiter kept standing. The head detective had a gut feeling that something was wrong.

"Doris. Why did you call us? asked Juliet.

"Detective O'Hara, I work for Life Foundation as scientist. We're working on something called Project Abyss. It's basically about making an amorphous biosuit that will encase and augment the wearer's body." At this, Lassiter's got eyes got really big. A motion that didn't get past Shawn but again he filed away for later.

"Wait, like a super suit?!" Gus asked.

"Sort of yeah. But the thing is my boss has a lab of homeless people and they've all signed wavers that they don't even begin to understand. And now they're basically guinea pigs. They're tortured and some of them are dying."

"You've seen this?" asked Lassiter.

"Yes."

"Why have you just decided to call us?"

"Because I thought at first…that it was worth it. You know we'd possibly sell it to soldiers and make their lives better. But this is different."

"Why are you so scared, Doris?"

"Because my boss is very dangerous…and his boss is even more dangerous."

"And why should we believe you?"

"Because I have evidence with me."

Before anything else could be done or said, seven people all wearing black came in and started to surround them.

"Dr. Skirth, we want the property you stole back."

"Roland…I didn't steal anything."

"Regardless, you need to come with us."

Placing his hands on his hips as he parted his jacket to reveal his jacket and badge, Lassiter said, "She doesn't want to go with you. So the lady isn't going anywhere. You have no authority here. And if you try to take her, we'll arrest you for attempted kidnapping."

Already seeing the situation starting to escalate, Juliet had already hit the 'emergency' button on her radio which it was placed on her hip. No sooner than she did that, Roland said, "Well in that case… let's take them down."

Then all hell literally broke loose. Because the two detectives had to protect their three civilians while being greatly outnumbered by a group that had no bones about fighting cops.

At first Lassiter and Juliet started back to back with their batons out and kept the aggressors at bay. Then as the fight progressed, Shawn and Gus started to move Doris into a semi-safe location of the bar because they couldn't get through the actual fight to get to the door. Shawn glanced over his shoulder at some point and saw a darkening expression grow over Lassiter's face. And realized that Lassiter never look more furious and quite frankly the head detective looked a little feral. The thought was broken as a vase was thrown over Shawn's head against the wall and they continued to find a safe place in the bar.

Soon, Lassiter and Roland were fighting against each other but it didn't last long because with a resounding CRUNCH, Lassiter delivered a vicious quick punch to Roland's face and it momentarily knocked him out.

"Who are these guys?" Gus asked Doris as they finally found a hiding spot behind the bar. "Well the bald guy is Roland. The big guy is Jeff. The angry chick is Heather. The Asian guy is Nima. The black guy is Cole. The Brit with the badly dyed blond hair is Billy. And the other slightly buff guy is Scott. They're the security team for Life Foundation." The conversation was cut short when Heather came around the bar to them. Thankfully, Juliet pulled on the woman's long hair towards her. This ticked off the already irate woman even more. And as they fought it was apparent that Juliet was holding her own extremely well. Her kickboxing classes were paying off as she delivered a vicious round house kick to the other blonde's head. The detective's leg bounced off the woman's thick skull with a sickening CRACK!

However without a moment's notice, Billy rushed Juliet from behind and started punching her. Then suddenly, he was pulled off of her by Shawn. Then Billy gave a swift punch into Shawn's stomach but as Shawn doubled over Juliet forcibly turned Billy around and delivered a swift kick to his groin. With that particular kick, Billy's face drained of all color as his body went completely stiff and he went down fast. As Juliet jumped back into a fight, now against Nima, she yelled, "Gus get Shawn back over there." To which, Gus followed the instructions and dragged Shawn back to the relative safety.

Across from them, Lassiter was fighting the giant wall of muscle that was Jeff. Soon into the fight though, Lassiter delivered a flurry of shots to Jeff's abdomen. The speed and ferocity of the jabs left Jeff unconscious on the ground.

But the fight wasn't over, as Lassiter then turn and dodged a punch just in time delivered by Roland who just woke up again. Weaving to the side, Lassiter delivered an uppercut to Roland's solar plexus. To which Roland made a grunt of pain as he doubled over. While he was bent over, Lassiter drove his foot into Roland's chest sending the man crashing into the floor. Then Lassiter delivered a quick rabbit punch across Roland's face. Again, sending Roland into the land of unconsciousness.

Then suddenly, Lassiter found himself in a difficult situation with both Cole and Scott ready to fight him. Before they came at each other though, Cole said politely, "Well Detective Lassiter. We're going to be the ones to dismantle you today." "You wish, Tito." From behind the bar's counter Gus said, "Did he just diss Tito Jackson?" Before anyone could say anything everyone started fighting again. Scoot fought in a MMA style while Cole fought in a flamboyant martial arts style, to which Gus exclaimed "Shawn! The brotha's a Gentleman Ninja!" At some point in the fight, Lassiter changed his own style from his police academy training to his Army Ranger training. This caused the Head Detective's fighting to become more vicious. And while it wasn't graceful the fight was quite impressive. From behind the bar, the three watched a disheveled Lassiter in admiration and awe as the Irishman dodged punches left and right from both assailants while also weaving through extravagant kicks. And as Lassiter fought, everyone noticed the Head Detective had power in his punches and his movements were meticulously calculated. At some, Lassiter moved faster than they knew him capable of and grabbed Scott by the shirt then he slammed the man into the opposite wall with such force it left a huge dent within it. Scott laid on the floor unconscious as Lassiter fought Cole, which ended anticlimactically when backup finally arrived and cuffed Cole.

As Cole was leaving in cuffs, he looked at Lassiter and said, "It was a pleasure to fight someone of your caliber Detective Lassiter." Lassiter simply looked at the man as if he'd grown three heads and rolled his eyes.

As everyone was being accounted for, Lassiter noticed Roland was missing. With his heightened sense of smell, Lassiter found that the bald man had knocked out the lone officer, who parked far behind the complex, and was about to steal the squad car. "Freeze!" Lassiter barked but the man surprised him by punching him in the face with a green gooey arm. Against his will, Lassiter's writhed in excitement then responded by sprouting a black tendril from his chest and punched Roland away from the car.

Landing on the ground with a sick thud, Roland looked back at an equally wide eyed Lassiter. Just as Roland was about to retaliate, both men heard some other officers coming and as Lassiter looked away for just a second Roland escaped.

Which left a stupefied Lassiter standing there saying out loud, "What just happened?"

TBC

A/N: Yayy! Thank you kind Guest reviewer. I'm soo happy you're enjoying this story. It's pretty fun to write. Well here's to more chapters! *raises glass*

Here's the cast for this chapter: Luke Harrison played by Sir Maejor, Roland Treece played by Scott Haze, Nima Kahn played by Woon Young Park, Scott Wright played by Cole Hausen, Cole "Gentleman Ninja" Bowman played by Nathan Mitchell, Heather Rockrear played by Charlotte Flair, Jeff Nash played by Scott Steiner, and William "The Thin White Duke" McGoldrick played by Zachary Levi.