May 14, 7:45 A.M. Wright and Co. Law Offices
Phoenix and Maya watched over the fallen band member, observing what the other members were doing. Most of them were calling the police department to report the bombing. Others were sitting near the walls of the law office, waiting there for the ambulance to show up.
When the EMT's did appear, they immediately placed an oxygen mask over his face, propped him onto a stretcher, loaded him into the ambulance, and drove away, the lights of the ambulance on and the siren filling the air with the usual wailing tone. Phoenix scanned the crowd ahead of him, and found the slide of the man's trombone.
Upon picking it up, he looked inside of it, which was severely burned. He thought, "A bomb was placed inside the slide, which exploded, and blew hot escape gases out the open end. It was like a rocket. No wonder it ended up so far away from the scene! That's how he got those burns on his face!"
A few police officers and Detective Gumshoe soon appeared. Soon after arriving, Gumshoe closed off the area and began scouring for possible leads. Immediately, he sighted a pair of marching band shoes. They were somewhat disfigured.
Gumshoe thought, "The Mad Bomber may have gout. If untreated, it can cause toe disfigurement."
He looked in the shoes, and found a Glock pistol laying down inside, with a circuit board and lead wires running along the shoe. He snipped the wires and took out a screwdriver, and began disassembling the pistol piece by piece. He opened the plastic shell, and pulled the chamber out.
Inside was a small piece of a shiny metal, and a larger piece of the same metal was present in the end, and a spring mechanism was present behind the whole structure. The end of where a bullet would normally come out was blocked by a piece of rubber. A shriveled up note was inside.
He ran from the shoes and handed it to the policemen. They read it, and then handed it to Phoenix.
It read: THIS IS MY VERY FIRST NUCLEAR WEAPON. IT SEEMS THAT AMTRAK CAN NOT PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER AND TURN THEMSELVES IN, SO I HAVE INTENSIFIED MY ARSENAL. -F. P.
He gasped, "Nuclear bomb?! If that thing went off, I would have been vaporized! No wonder he planted it here! He was setting up a death trap! The trombone bomb was a diversion that was designed to get people in the area so that he could kill thousands!"
Detective Gumshoe said, "That shiny metal has to be uranium! But there is so little of it! The explosion would be as powerful as about 500 tons of TNT! But then again, there's two, so that means there would have been a 1 kiloton explosion. And then the radiation would have killed everyone."
Phoenix theorized, "This man is obviously deranged. He is now planting atomic bombs. Where does he get all of the explosive material? Furthermore, how did he get enough uranium to make an atomic bomb?! That obviously crosses Jean Armstrong off the list. But who could it be?"
Gumshoe placed both shoes into a radioactive waste container and said, "Ship this to the FBI for analysis. I'll contact the President's cabinet tonight and get a few agents down here to assist us in our investigation. The Mad Bomber is obviously a high level criminal."
Phoenix said, "Detective, I surely hope that this case ends soon, or Los Angeles could face total destruction at the bloody, grimy claws of the Mad Bomber."