Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25924729-20151107020221/@comment-24617443-20151211163210

Akiba looked on as Vert performed his torture and it was as very effective method indeed. The man didn't even got to a few minutes before succumbing to the pain. A truly well done interrogation.

But was this right?

Akiba glanced at Douglas who was also keenly looking on. His left hand rubbing his chin while his right supported his left. He was quite focused in watching the torture.

"Men.", he spoke up, which the cops beside him heard and saluted as a response. "Watch carefully.", he said in a deep tone, as if ordering them to follow. Akiba glanced at the group of cops watching and all of them were either just as engaged as he and Douglas, or putting down notes and even getting a recording of the whole session.

For a normal person this kind of show isn't something they'll like to watch, if at all. But ever since that incident the VPD has been going through an internal reforming.

A week beforehand

"Men, today we have suffered quite greatly for this... incident.", the head of the VPD spoke out, making a pause in the middle to emphasize the event, as he stands on top of a podium. Behind him, a stage with the decorated pictures of fallen police officers lined up in a table.

"That day was a day not only to wake up the world, but us. Lately, our police force has started to degrade both in performance and reputation. Before, the people would look up to us first before the hunters but now its as if we're just there at the crime scene for decoration.", he said grimly. The expressions of the officers watching darken. It was true. They have become nothing noteworthy of their names.

"But now, our men lie in their coffins. Their lives taken away by the Dawn, and now as we give our last words and send them off, let us use this to fuel us to change."

The men then looked up as he said this. Their expressions now changing to that of hope.

"We cannot show ourselves anymore as just a police force anymore. Just because we are not all hunters and huntresses before doesn't mean we should let them handle everything. We are the VPD! We are in charge of handling the lives of hundreds, thousands of innocent civilians! If we are in need of change, it must be a great one! A reformation is at hand, my brothers, and that change must be immediate. If we cannot become prepared for another incident like that of the Dawn today, how so a year later? It is to be prepared and be ready for anything, any situation, at any time, no matter how grim or hopeless it seems, we must act to it! It is in our hands, the safety of the innocent, and if its through death, then so be it!"

Everyone cheered in unison as he finished these words, all rising up from their seats and raising their fists in the air. Behind the scenes, Douglas gave the head a thumbs up, to which he replies with a peace sign. Alongside him, a boy with a cast on his right arm. A scarf hanging loosely around his neck. "A change it is then.", Douglas muttered to himself.

Present

It has been very immediate of a change indeed. Before a normal officer would just act according to how he's supposed to do and not do anything else unless order to do otherwise. Now, you can see officers acting out small roles like searching for clues, looking for witnesses, inspecting confiscated equipment. Well... its pretty much the same, but more frequent and mostly everyone is doing around two jobs at the same time at least. And now, some cops are even starting to open up to more... grueling methods, analyzing and recording such techniques used by hunters and huntresses alike to be used in the future or aid in their work, like Vert's torture techniques. Right now, the right isn't always the best. It is this that has held them back before, but now their using a more militaristic view on things and it has been quite effective as well as consistent.

"Sir!", an officer shouted out to Douglas with a salute. He replies with his own before letting he man have his word. "We are led to believe that the van that the children were forced in are in the outskirts of town.", he stated firmly. Douglas was quite surprised and impressed and asked, "How did you get this information?"

"I had a group go out and roam about to find info and after hearing some testimonies from a few civilians, as well as hearing gunfire a few klicks out east.", he explained without a stuttered, and this garnered Douglas to firmly plant his hands onto his shoulders before proudly saying, "I can see a bright future for you, young one. I expect no less than a promotion for you."

"Its nothing sir, all for a friend.", hearing his words, Douglas mind clicked. "Ah, so that's why. Poor kid."

Yes, many of the officers have at least met everyone in the force, and because of that many of them are also friends with eachother. The kid must have lost a good friend in that incident, and is now making up for it. A good kid.

Douglas excused the man afterwards, who salutes before quickly leaving, before feeling hsi scroll vibrate. Taking it out slowly, he looks at the contact and smiled. A face of two girls wearing hoodies with their faces pressed onto eachother and smiles on both of their faces.

He answers the call and takes it to his ear. "You work quickly, as usual."

"Of course- we do.", one young girly voice started then finished to by a softer voice in the end. "We are from your team, after all!", then said the two in unison.

"Yeah I know. How's it?"

"We got into a fight unfortunately by some guy in a suit- but we knocked him out quickly before he could alarm his friends.", this time the soft voice started until the half-part which was finished by the more energetic one.

"Oi! Don't cause yourselves trouble. I heard there's a group roamin' around actin' like a some sort of vigilante group.", he cautioned them, which was immediately countered by, "But aren't we a vigilante group?"

He groaned upon realizing this, and simply didn't answer. He couldn't really beat that. That was when he heard a familiar tone of an motorcycle engine running.

Akiba decided to leave the group awhile ago, just after Vert finished his interrogation. It was then he heard the sounds of a familiar motorbike just coming in. Glancing to his side he sees a tall teen with a pompadour. He wore a black and gold jacket with golden braids hanging down the front connected onto the top buttons of the jacket over a red and pink striped sleeveless, turtleneck shirt and white, golden-accented vest with a dragon symbol in gold embedded on it. Held on tightly by a well-tied black belt is a black hakama and for footwear, simple white martial arts slippers.

"Oi, the hell's goin' on 'ere!?", exclaimed the man angrily as we waves a deceptively simple-looking metal bat towards a cop nearby. Akiba immediately began walking towards this man with the pompadour, his head facing straight at him while brandishing his own. The man in question then noticed Akiba's approach, and with a spit to the ground, crossed over the yellow line while ignoring the threats from the officer beside him.

The two then closed the distance between them till they were only inches away.

"The hell's goin' on here, eh Reddy? I was planning on giving my little sister some chocolates I bought in a newly opened sweets store nearby, but when I got 'ere I saw these bozos inspecting the the place like a bomb just erupted.", well he wasn't far off. There was an explosion just awhile ago.

The two looked on at eachother for a few more seconds before Douglas came in to intervene.

"Hey, cut it out you two! Especially you, Tendon!", he warned the pompadour-haired man.

"Yeah? Well, I want to know where the hell is Ebi!", then loudly questioned the delinquent with a ticked off look on his face.

"She's taken Tendon! And if you want to help-", just as Douglas answered, Tendon grabbed the senior detective by his collar with his free hand and pulled him in. This caused the officers around him to pull out their weapons and tasers, ready to shoot the man down. "DON'T FUCK WITH ME OLD MAN! WHERE DA' FUCK IS EBI!?"

"Men stand down!", ordered Douglas before returning to the now angry delinquent. "And you calm down! If you don't cooperate you'll only give those kidnappers more time to escape!", upon hearing this, Tendon let go of his grip while silently cursing himself.

"Kidnapping, huh? Whoever these fuckers are, 'imma beat them to submission for taking Ebi.", muttered the now cooled delinquent as he glances towards Akiba. The boy in question simply standing still, his hand still holding onto his weapon.

"We already have a good idea where these guys may be. Just get in that... bike of yours and come with us if you want.", Douglas said, pointing at Tendon's motorbike before leaving to get the other kids.

"Oi! The hell ya' mean by "bike", huh!?", the man angrily blurted out but his outrage went unnoticed by the senior detective.

Muttering about something about old men, he walks back to his motorbike, which he referred to as a "Chopper",  with his hands inside his pant's pockets. Akiba decided to follow Douglas but when he did he bumped into Holly.

"Oh there you are.", she explaimed which confuses the red-scarfed samurai. "I was planning on showing you something with the others... but even if they're not here, I bet you'll use it to get to them.", now this only added to Akiba's confusion. She gestures the boy to follow her to the orphanage's garage at the back of the orphanage.

Upon entering the garage his eyes were immediately taken in by a sleek, orange and red motorcycle which was oddly missing the left handle bar.

She took his weapon in one quick swipe and stepped towards the motorcycle. There, she then slides the weapon down into a hole on the left side before turning its handle down.

"There!", she exclaimed with a little jump before presenting the bike with her hands. It was try-hard but he got the point. Approaching the two-wheel vehicle, Holly handed him the keys, which he put inside the keyhole on the bike to activate it.

The sound of the engine roaring was something that felt oddly satisfying for the boy. It made sense now why Tendon loves hearing the sound of the engine.

"Oy Fox! Let's get a move on!", he heard Douglas call out to him and with that he pulls the handle back and takes off.

Douglas saw the motorcycle that was in the garage come out with Akiba seated on it, and he couldn't help but smile. "Alright you kids, lets go to this destination and get the children back!", he proclaimed at the top of his lungs before pushing his feet down on the pedal.

"So sis.", asked a short-statured, long-sleeved red-hooded girl to a similarly short-statured, long-sleeved blue-hooded girl. "Yes sis?"

"I think I see them.", she said, looking through her binoculars to see the group of kids along with a strange person facing towards them. "Is that person a Hound too?", she querried.

"Guess so.", she guessed before the two jumped off of their position, which was on a building's rooftop. They wall-jumped down before dashing through the city maze till they reached their location. The warehouse that the kids are in.

How they found it, and how they got in despite the tight lockdown of the area? Its because...

"Hello there, ma'am. We are traveling city folk- looking for some kids who got carried away by a van.", the two said, the energetic one starting before the softer one cut in and finished.

"You aren't planning on taking them too, right?", they said in unison, holding hands and leaning in with their faces close to eachother.