The end of the battle was over with a single shot and a following salvo.
Looming over Katya and Flannery the grotesquely mutated man was coiling like a swing, corded muscles for arms raised for a strike that may or may not have connected on the stunned pair before a single
crack broke above the rest of the gunfire. The results of which weren't seen until the mans next step paused and he coughed up an unhealthy amount of blood and the resulting intake of air was more of a
wheeze than as actual breath.
His next step however failed as legs buckling the monster fell to his knees and clasped at a spot of red fur that seems to be slowly growing on his side, his head sagging ever so slow as growls and barks accompanied blood by the cup full as something vital was pierced by the fragmentation of Takeshis' bullet.
The look of slowly fading consciousness fading from his eyes was undescernable to the two officers as a final wheeze finished the deflation of his lungs and sagged off to onto his side limp and unresponsive, a long dog-like tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth.
Haiselys' encounter ended much louder and less fruitful as her penetration of the girl's hand sent her reeling off in pain giving the techie a brief reprieve kick the girl back and draw their sidearm. The girl, however, was nowhere to be found at the end of the salvo and showed no signs of further ambush. But not before Haisely was spooked by a strong pair of arms lifting her up from behind.
"Fighting ghosts while everyone fights the monsters, yes?" Andrej joked before carefully pushing the sidearm to face towards the ground and gave the girl a thumbs up and a click of his tounge before beckoning her over to the regrouping two DTR teams while the surviving officers collected the wounded for first responders and restored order to what was left of the crowd that had not fled or been attacked.
"Shits fucked, Andrej." The leader of the second team spat on the nearby corpse of one of the crab-men, foam still bubbling from the creature's mouth despite its lifeless state. "Four up including me, Karakuri, Katya and
Arteaga. You?"
The Kuz took stock of his own team of remarkably unharmed members and stiffened briskly. A loud series of barks however caught the Lieutenants attention as slowly trodding though the disheveled officers the massive Lor was casually carrying
Lily with one massive clawed hand gently carrying the gunhund with little discomfort as the puppet excitedly barked and wagged its tail while swinging her legs in imitation of swimming while she couldn't find the ground but was none the less content in her current situation of being kept above the lingering remaining hairs and spores of the arachne woman.
"Everyone is being fine from us." The grin under his mask was practically audible as he gave Flannery and Katya both hard pats on the back despite one of them not belonging to his team.
As if materializing after all the madness had finally ending however, everyone's favorite asshole detective shoved his way between Haisley and Takeshi into the meeting and spat a single word between clenched teeth.
"Mutants."
Already present from the death of the first officer the morgue and forensics team that was unharmed had already sampled the corpses of the monsters and found many traces of many active mutations that were inert in most nepleslians DNA cocktail. Such wild mutations however where rare and random and even rare to see a single mutant go feral let alone several at once.
To top it all off the next piece of the puzzle left more questions than answers as many of the biological samples had hit triggered information in the system towards missing person reports.
The very same missing persons the team had raided the church about in the first place.
"Big guy over there." The detective pointed towards the largest of the crabs with some sobriety in his tone before continuing
"Names Mathias Clockwell. Age fourteen." His answer was followed by each individual corpse.
The smaller crab was his younger brother of eleven,
Jonah.
The Hyena man was a seventeen-year-old named
Gerd who had been one of the first missing persons cases.
The spider-woman was a fifteen-year-old student named
Ann-Marie who disappeared on her way from schooling not a block from her own house.
"All minors, All showing advanced growth through hormone therapy and medically triggered mutations the techs say." He left the last statement hand before looking at the two DTR lieutenants as recognition triggered almost simultaneously in most of the team at once but was localized first by the second team leader.
"Someones nabbing kids and turning them into mutants..."
A tense silence rang before the orders where decided.
The second team, Almost combat ineffective would combine with the first under the Kuz lieutenant and move from the direction the mutants had come.
"Haisley get your things we will be of needings you." The kuz commented off-hand while the team checked their gear and prepared to depart.
Three Blocks West
The streets were rather bare after such a cascade of gunfire and offered the DTR teams little resistance but still kept them at a steady pace as gunshots further down had slowed them time and time again and no doubt more mutants were fighting armed civilians in the direction they faced.
The first sign of anything different came in the mostly abandoned warehouse district as more than a few mutant corpses lined the streets with signs of immense trauma or gunshot wounds leaving them dead on the streetside as someone had more luck against the overly mutated and almost certainly young mutants had fought than the long and drawn out fight from the police. The culprits were close at hand and quick to appear as two groups of four men each exited from different alleyways on either side of the street and each dragging large hulking mutants with some effort threw them onto a growing pile of corpses.
As if noticing the large group of cops they spread out across the street in a lazy line but none the less showed situational awareness and were ready for a fight. Most of them wore non-descript black clothing and bandanas and various headwear but each had on tactical webbing and gear to the likes of harnesses and grenade rigs, pistol holsters and ear bud radios. With each slinging a custom ZARCNAM assault rifle on a sling and at the ready to be brought up.
When they refused to make way however the second team leader took a single step forward and raised his hand in polite greeting towards what was no doubt one of the warehouses private security teams there to protect valuable property and after one of them stepped forward to speak the two men n began quietly conversing and gesturing about.
"They aren't wanting us to proceed" the lieutenant commented casually to the team and nodded towards a nearby warehouse with a garage door that was more than simply bored off its hinges and the nearby pile of mutant corpses.
"Flannery, Takesi, Katya, David, Victor. take the side alleyways around the backs, yes? Haisley to be going with them too. Karakuri will stay with Lily, The detective and lieutenant Guerea and the strong-me to keep these men here. Be of getting in that warehouse, ye?"
