As they reached the fourth floor and quietly shut the door behind them, Jon held up his hand to silence the other two behind him, not that they weren't already silent. He heard someone whispering just around the turn in the hallway. Quietly he crept to the corner and peered around it. Standing a few feet away from him was a man holding a gun, though no one else was around so he was sure the sounds weren't coming from him.
As if to confirm that, he banged the butt of the gun against the door behind him and said "Quiet in there, or else I will make you quiet, permanently." While the man was distracted, Jon used that moment to disarm and knock him out. After putting some handcuffs on him and gag in his mouth, he motioned for Roy and Jim to join him.
The whispering behind the door had stopped as soon as the guard had ordered silence so Jon wasn't sure how many people were all in there, but he was pretty sure they were all friendlies. Passing the unconscious guard to Jim, Jon slowly opened the door, peering inside as much as he could. There were windows so he could tell it was an outside room and that at least a few hours had passed since they arrived here. Now he was really worried about why there was no backup.
Not being able to see much more of the room, he opened the door the rest of the way… and just missed getting beamed by a vase! Turning in the direction it had come, he saw five people, three females and two males huddling together. Roy, who entered the room right behind Jon saw a sixth man that they were all gathered around who was unconscious and immediately headed towards them.
One of the men stood up and blocked him, putting his fists up to show he was ready to take Roy on. "Hey, it's alright I'm a fireman, as well as a paramedic. Let me through to take care of him." Roy said to him while putting one of his hands up to show the patch on his shirt. "What about those guys." The man said without lowering his defenses. "One of them is with the LAPD and the other is with the CHP, we got a call about their being multiple wounded here as well as a riot going on." Roy said in a calm voice.
"If only that was all it was." The man said, lowering his fists, "If this is a riot it's not like one I have ever seen. They shot the mayor, we have been keeping pressure on the wound to stop the bleeding, but I don't think he is going to make it." "Okay let me see him." Roy said before splitting his attention between the mayor and the officers with him, "Jon, I need you to get the biophone, the black med case, the defib, and some oxygen, and maybe a blanket. If you need any help get Jim or one of the men here to help you with it."
Before Roy had even bent over to check the mayor Jon and Jim were out the door, taking their prisoner with them. They had decided to put him the storage room they had found, the one with the working lights, for now. As soon as they had dropped him off the grabbed the gear Roy had requested, a little concerned that the note he had written was still there, and headed back up to the fourth floor.
The first thing Roy took was the biophone, quickly assembling it. "Here's hoping that whatever is blocking the cellphones isn't blocking this." He said before speaking in it, "Rampart this is Squad 51." A tense second later, a familiar female voice came on the line, "Squad 51 this is Rampart." "Dixie, what the heck is going on out there, why is there no back up?"
"Oh Roy, all over the city massive groups defined as rioters have popped up, though since they all happened at once I don't think that is what they really are. All communications are out, but its good to see that the biophone is working, we haven't heard any other calls." Jim and Jon, who had been leaning in close closed their eyes as the full weight of the situation was realized. "I take it then ambulances are not out?"
"All were sent out, but none have come back and no word has been heard from them, I take it your in need of one?" "The mayor's been shot, here's a list of his vitals." As Roy continued to talk to Dixie, Jon and Jim went to another corner of the room to hold a meeting. "So we were right to be worried about no other responding officers. The question is how do we evacuate these people and where do we take them if we do?" asked Jon. "Not to mention how will we transport any who are wounded. I don't think the mayor will be stable enough to be hiked out of here and that's not going to happen anyways with those guys outside." Jim replied.
Roy soon joined them and said "The mayor is stable, but he has lost a lot of blood, I don't know how long he can last in this situation." "Jon and I were talking and we were thinking, if there is a way onto the roof, maybe we can evacuate everyone that way. Obviously if the rioters here the helicopter coming they are going to be right there too, but if we can get everyone on the roof first and barricade the door from the top, we could get everyone out of here in just a few trips." Jim said.
"It's a great idea, but we couldn't do it if we don't find the others first. No way would Pete, Ponch and Johnny be safe if we did that without finding them." Roy said. "I'm really beginning to worry about them." Jon said, "If we don't find them by the time we finish searching these two floors, we need to go looking for them."