Chapter VI: Into The Chaos
December 3rd, 2018
Day 4, Status: Outbreak
Infected: 1,294
Death Toll: 643
6:40PM
Jump City Streets
As the Titans were wandering around the ruined, snow-covered streets of Jump City in their hazmat suits, Lau radioed them. "Ok, Titans, this area you're in has rioters around every corner. They may be unarmored, but you can expect them to be armed, each with at least any sort of gun on them, wether it be a handgun or an assault rifle. They're not to be taken lightly." "Not to worry, commander Lau, we'll subdue them with everything we got!" Robin said into his communicator. "Simply subduing them is not enough to stop them for good." Lau spoke. "My mentor may be a great fistfighter, but he won't allow himself to take another person's life, even if he or she is a criminal." Robin replied to Lau. Lau then spoke into her radio. She is sitting in the base of operations main floor. "If I recall correctly, your mentor is the one and only Batman." "If he hears word that I'm dealing with a deadly virus here with a team of highly trained agents, he might feel happy inside his student is taking action to a serious crisis." Said Robin. "That, or he might tag along in worry that his student might catch The virus the people he is supposed to protect is catching." Said Lau. "Might be nostalgic, but I doubt it, because he's a bit busy protecting Gotham City from—" "The Joker? Bane? Killer Croc? I know of those people." Lau interupted Robin. "The only person you have to worry about is Amherst... if we can catch him." "You got it. Robin out." Robin put his communicator unto his utility belt.
"So, where should we look for supplies and helpful people for the base first?" Beast Boy asked, wondering where would be a good place to look. "Anywhere is fine, just watch out for rioters. I heard one had a sawed-off shotgun and blew a policeman's head to pieces with it in one shot." Raven cautioned the others. "That subway over there looks like a good place to look." Starfire pointed to an out-of-service subway. "Hang on, everyone." Cyborg threw a high tech sonar device into the subway. "That will give us the locations of any threats within a three-mile radius in there." "Good call, Cyborg!" Beast Boy complimented his half robot BFF. "Hang on, Beast Boy. Any far from the sonar and you'll need to turn into a bloodhound or anything that can sniff out potential threats or even supplies or help." Robin suggested his idea to Beast Boy as the Titans descended into the abandoned tunnel in search for what they need for their operations.
When they reached the bottom of the stairs, Cyborg noticed some red blips on his arm. "Hold on, everyone, I think we got rioters here." Robin activated the heat vision on his hazmat visor. He noticed some heat signatures in the direction Cyborg was pointing. "Good call, Cyborg." Robin said in a quiet tone to avoid alerting the rioters. The Titans took cover to avoid getting spotted. They can hear what the rioters are saying.
"Task Force motherfuckers won't give us a break." One of the rioters said. "Fucking hell... here's to hoping no more will find us all the way down here." Said the other. "You should have seen the look on this one's face when we pulled that shotgun on him before we blew his face off with it, though. It was amusing to see." "We can still see the look on him, even without his face." "Holy fuck, it's creepy but still funny at the same time." Both rioters laughed. "Come on, We gotta keep looking, we're gonna need those supplies more than those Task Force motherfuckers or those five-o fucks." "Right then, back to it." It was then the other noticed Starfire's head, but it looked like a silhouette to him. Starfire quickly ducked, hoping the rioter didn't notice her. "Hey, man, do you get the feeling someone is watching you?" There is a brief silence. "You mean the security cameras?" "Nah, like here in person, over there." One of the rioters pointed to Starfire's direction. "Nah, it might be a Wild Dog or something." "No, man, it looked like a human head." "Only one way to find out." The other rioter began to shout in the Titans' direction. "Okay, if there are any assholes over that way, come out now and you'll make this easier on yourself." The Titans stood still, quiet as mice. After a few moments, the rioter turned to his comrade. "See, man? Nothing. Might have been a dog." "Come on, I swore I saw a person. I'll check that way, you look for supplies." Alright, but I'm telling you, there's no one that way." One of the rioters resumed searching for supplies while the other approached where the Titans are. "Uh oh, I think he got us." Starfire spoke quietly. "Don't worry, Star, we'll get the jump on him. Just wait for my signal, everyone." Robin spoke in the same quiet tone as Starfire. His subordinates nodded in agreement. "Come on, asshole, give yourself up, I know you're there somewhere." The rioter kept walking towards the Titans, when he was close enough, Robin signalled his teat to strike. "Titans, go!" The Titans quickly jumped the rioter and knocked him out. The other rioter heard the commotion and immediately stopped what he was doing. "What the fuck was that all about?" He then turned around and saw the Titans standing in front of him with his pal out cold. "Oh, fuck, the Teen Titans." He pointed his handgun at Robin, only to be hit with one of his smoke bombs. "Shit, I can't see!" Robin drew his trademark staff and with one good bonk to the head, he knocked the rioter out cold.
"You could have just cooperated, you know, and I could have let you go unharmed, but you had to point your gun at us." Robin said as he tied up the rioters before any of them could wake up. "At least we got the supplies they looted." Starfire said. "Yeah, Star, I really hate to see them In the wrong hands." Beast Boy Said. "And we just found more where he was looking. Booyah!" Cyborg cheered. Raven took a look at the supplies. "Looks too heavy for any of us to carry. Good thing we have those beacons that commander Lau gave us to Mark any heavy supplies for pick up for the mayor's Task Force. They can bring it to the base of operations." She then placed one of the beacons to the heavy supplies. It contains electrical parts and weapons the Division and the Task Force can use.
Just then, Cyborg noticed a few more red dots on his arm, and they are approaching the center. "Looks like we attracted some company. Ready for some smack down, everyone?" "Huh, more rioters. Guess those ones we dealt with aren't alone." Said Raven. Once the group of rioters arrived, one of them started to speak. "Find the motherfuckers who are causing a commotion over here!" The other started to speak. "I think those hazmat guys might be the ones!" Another noticed two of their own tied up. "Oh, shit, they got Alex!" The last one said something. "We're gonna waste you!" Starfire stepped up to the group of rioters. "I got this." Starfire blasted green energy at three of the rioters, knocking the all out. The last rioter standing started to freak out. "What the fuck are you, lady?!?" Starfire answered the rioter. "See for yourself." Starfire short a small beam of energy from her eyes at the rioter, rendering him unconscious as well.
"Nice work, Star!" Robin was amazed how easily Starfire handled the rioters. Just then, Lau came on the communicators. "Titans, I just received a beacon signal coming from a subway 30 clicks from my position. I take it that's a large load of supplies?" "Yes, it is. It contains a load of electrical parts and weaponry you guys could use!" Robin briefed Lau on the contents of the crate. "Excellent. I'll send some Division agents to pick it all up immediately. For now, you should head to base for a rest. It's about to get late. When it gets dark, it gets very cold because it's the beginning of winter, and nights tends to get very cold in winter. We'll even make you guys some hot cocoa if you want." Robin and his subordinates responded to Lau's kind gesture. "Hot cocoa on a cold winter night does feel nice. We'll be right over, ASAP."
Day 4, Status: Outbreak
Infected: 1,635
Death Toll: 865
9:00PM
Lau and the Titans are sipping on some hot cocoa while Lau explained how the Titans' findings improved their base of operations. "The supplies you found are a big help. Because of them, we were able to build expansions for the medical floor and the security floor." She directed the Titans towards a room full of people infected with the flu/Smallpox virus. Dr. Kandel expained to them what is going on. "With the quarantine area, we can finally isolate the sick from the healthy, keeping the virus from spreading in this building. I can also collect antibody samples from them to create vaccines for the healthy and those not yet infected. This will save many lives." Dr. Kandel then turned everyone's attention to a decontamination unit. "This will clean up anything in Jump City that is contaminated with the virus. You can find most contaminated supplies in the Dark Zone... if you can handle the mass contamination, the most leather Predators and likely any agents that go rogue."
At the Security floor, Chief Johnson reported in. "Good job finding those weapons at the subway, Titans! We were only able to add one thing to this floor, but the end result will be worth it." He then directed everyone to a meeting room. "This is a Bonafide situation room, where we discuss current situation and the best way to resolve them. You'll see Division agents, Task Force members and my occasional men here discussing said situations."
"Rest up, Titans. You got more work ahead of you tomorrow." Lau notified the Titans. "I'll see you in the morning. Dismissed." With that, the Titans flew to their tower to call it a day.
Infected: 2,074
Death Toll: 1,008
10:00PM
A man is sitting on the roof of a science lab is looking over the city. He sees rioters attacking cops on sight. He thinks to himself. What I didn't count on is the Division being activated once again. And to top that, they have real life superheroes on their side. It's not as unusal as the help they got during the New York Crisis of 2016. Just then, someone else entered the rooftop. "Sir, we should get out of here while it's late at night." The man got up and approached him. "I'm on my way." They both left for the door which led to a helipad with a helicopter on it. They both got into the helicopter and it flew off into the distance.