The Other Side

Dalnax: 2178

So there is about 160 years unaccounted for in New Orderian lore, so I will be making these long chapters showing individual incidents from a set year. I have one planned for 2197-98 as well, but I haven't planned out he second half of it yet. Fractured Dawn also got a chapter like this that was almost 3K words and that was fun to write, that chapter laid out the origin of the reality called Vertigo.

Location: Dalnax, 2178(No shit Sherlock)

Two police officers walked down the street talking when a man with a bit of blood on his hands ran over to them. He was terrified and started yelling about a dead person he found. The officers pulled their guns and followed him over. Lying in an alleyway was a mutilated corpse, it looked to be doused in a fuel and set on fire before being dumped. The burnt corpse leaned against a wall with a smile carved into it's face. The officers called it in and DPD homicide detectives were called in.

A dark blue sedan pulled up and two detectives got out, they walked towards the line of police tape and passed a DFD ambulance with medics cleaning their uniforms. Police officers were questioning people around the scene while others got camera records from nearby shops.

Detective: What number is this?

Detective 2: 5th victim, guy is a nutcase, one dead every three days. So examiner, what do we know.

Medical Examiner: One victim, dead for who knows how long, burned recently, and carved into. We found a wallet on the DB, we recovered some cash and cards.

Detective: It matches the MO of the other killings so we can chalk this up to a serial killer. I assume no prints or DNA recovered yet?

Medical Examiner: Correct, I doubt we will find anything either, the fire burned anything useful.

The body was loaded into a coroner van and taken to a hospital morgue. The detectives gathered whatever evidence they could and went on the hunt for their killer. Now how do they go about this? They roughed up some people in the area.

Detective: DPD! I'm coming in!

The detectives kicked in the door and they walked over to a man who fell onto the floor before quickly crawling for something under a dresser. The second detective ran over and kicked the man in the stomach causing him to roll over in pain. The first detective checked what the man was going for and found a revolver.

Detective: The fuck is this? We both know you are on parole, you are already going back for a while. If you cooperate we can get you a better deal.

Man: Whatever it is I don't know!

Detective 2: Forensics found PEC 12 at multiple homicides involving fire. You have been running an old school photography shop that is the only source in the city. Who the hell bought the chemicals?

Man: I don't know what you are talking about!

Detective: Well detective, it looks like he is reaching for his waist. I sure am fearful for my life.

The man was not reaching for his waist and he just looked up at the first detective who was pointing a gun at his head.

Detective 2: Oh it really looks like that. The only reasonable response would be to shoot him to save ourselves.

The second detective pulled out his gun and pointed it at the unarmed man who was terrified. Now is this police brutality? Yes. Does the Dalnax Police Department, or the New Orderian government as a whole care in the slightest? No. If these detectives shot him repeatedly they would probably be praised for their quick thinking. Now the entire nation has a problem with police brutality, even in 2199 New Orderia, in the 70s this problem was 50 times worse. And nowhere had it worse than Dalnax, the city has a massive crime problem, gangs, mobsters, arson, and the serial killer, the DPD decided that if they were going to fight dirty people they would need to be dirty fighters.