me to justice, and once he won he would focus on really nothing but that, although in the guise of this he would also most likely bring in Hauser troops calling them some kind of Ghost task force, he would also most likely raise taxes and relocate other funds into this so called taskforce so that he would be able to break the city’s economy, as well as give the Hauser force a very good foot hold for their invasion into this country.” Rebecca let all this information sink in and started to look at the pictures that she had already started to hang on the walls of Baloo, Kit, and Molly her family, the very people she would give anything for and feared the worst if the Hauser military was able to do just as Shade had described.

“We could try to.”

“As I have mentioned they have forces everywhere, political, military, industrial, I saw each of the members of the syndicate and know where their roles lay, and even if I went in and busted the syndicate right now, even if I gave solid proof of their plans these people are so well noticed and respected that they would be able to turn it against me, and claim their group was brought together to save this city and protect this country, there is only a small group of people I can honestly say I trust in this city Ma-am, but not one of them are a soldier, at least not for a war like this. I’m sorry to say this, but I’m not finished, at least not until this threat, this threat to the city, and it’s people, is taken down once and for all.” Rebecca looked at Shade, and though it went against everything in her mind, as she looked at the child that stood before her. In her heart and her gut she knew that he could do this, she knew that if anyone in this city that could stand up against this group of people it would be him, thought her mind screamed no don’t let him go, her heart said that she had to let him go, and her gut told her that he would be O.K.

Shade could see it in her eyes, and he smiled slightly, something about what he saw reinforced his will, it gave him hope to keep going and told him that he could do this, and he would not fail to protect this city, even in it’s darkest hour. “Don’t think you’re off the hook young man.” Rebecca warned as she forced a smile past all her fears for Shade. “When this is all over.”

“I’ll get to turn into a real boy.” Shade finished hopping to get a more natural smile from Rebecca.

“That’s right, and if you try and say just one more case I’ll give you a hard one.” Rebecca teased as she walked up and hugged Shade. “Just know that you’ll always have a place here.” It was early the next morning when Rebecca was at higher for hire that she heard the news from the radio.

“Well ladies and gentile-men it’s half past the hour and time for the morning news, and boy was a news day it’s going to be. He’s back people, back in the news and back on the street. For the past few weeks I’ve had the sad task of reporting on the Ghost being responsible for countless crimes across the city, each day reporting on a growing tally of thefts across this great city.” there was a moment of silence as it seemed the radio had got dead getting a slightly puzzled look on Rebecca’s face wondering if maybe the broadcast had been cut off. “But not today, oh it brings me great joy to read you this report that we got in from are field team this morning, not only did we find out that all these crimes had been committed by a group trying to destroy what was left of the Ghost image since his alleged murder of the drug lord Kage, and yes people I’m saying alleged since in this great country of are you are innocent until proven guilty, and even with the chief of police swearing he saw the Ghost shoot the drug lord that really doesn’t prove anything since this case could clear his name, a lot of people had been posing as the Ghost and trying to destroy the city’s faith in him, but it seems the one true Ghost came back last night and struck back with a vengeance, not only did he take down this crime ring in one single night, gathering up over 150 criminals and getting them to run to their nearest police station to confess their crimes, but he also captured the ring leader of the group, a dirty crooked officer of are own police, and a person that has been in the news for a while running along side are mayoral candidate Archimedes Volentes, when we tried to get a reaction from Mr. Volentes he had nothing to say, so since he doesn’t want to answer are question in person why not answer the people’s question Mr. Volentes, since you’ve mostly ran to clean up this city of crime, and the threat of the Ghost, as you put it. How do you intend to do that if you didn’t even know that the person you promised to put as the chief of police was actually the ring leader of these recent crimes?” While this question was being asked of Archimedes, back at the police station another question was just about to come up. Detective Thursday came storming into Chief Baldwin’s office and slammed the door behind him.

“WHO THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?”

“Detective Thursday, head of Usland special intelegance.”

“Never heard of you.”

“And you never will, but I’ve heard of you, and I’ve also heard of the Ghost. So has many of my superiors, and they like him, seems he’s been putting the hurt on was we believe to be a spy ring in this city.”

“A Spy ring? Are you kidding me? He’s been fighting criminals.”

“Ah that’s what they want you to think, but we’ve been keeping close tabs on everything, the drug ring, your crooked cops, and this recent crime wave, they’ve all been connected to one or more people that we suspect to be apart of this syndicate that has been trying to infiltrate Usland territory.” Baldwin looked at Thursday for several minutes, and shook his head.

“Is this some kind of sick joke? Did some one put you up to this?”

“This is no joke I assure you, we’ve already crippled one syndicate trying to get a foot hold in this country, in New Cork City, and we lost men, a lot of good men, taking that syndicate down.”

“But aren’t you supposed to be some kind of high government crime team.”

“We are, but nothing prepared us for what these people are capable of, as I said men lost their lives fighting the syndicate in New Cork, but here, this Ghost this one person has not only been able to take down two of their attempts on this city, and this recent crime ring set up to discrdebt him, he’s still alive to tell the tale.”

“Yeah and we can do the same thing, my men are willing to uphold the law and bring this group to justice.” with those words Detective Thursday stood up straight and folded his arms.

“You mean like officer Slade, or how about those cops that he took down when he first let his presence known.”

“We’re dealing with that as we speak.” with that Baldwin glared at Detective Thursday, he didn’t like this rabbit one bit.

“Very well, but let this sink in for a minute, we’ve been looking into Kage’s murder. By your own eye witness statement you swear that Kage was shot by the Ghost, and also that the Ghost is a few feet shorter then Kage correct?”

“Yeah so what?”

“Well upon reading the medical report the bullets that hit Kage hit him dead on, straight.”

“I know what dead on means.”

“If as you said the Ghost was shorter then Kage by a few feet, would it not come to reason that the bullets that hit Kage in the chest have entered at an angle, not straight, or are you going to tell me the Ghost raised his hand up and fired the gun so that the bullets would hit Kage dead on?” with this new bit of information Baldwin looked at Thursday slightly shocked. “In other words Chief right now I want you to know that I’m keeping an eye on you, seeing that it was your eye witness report that has put the ghost on your most wanted list, and this recent crime ring was being ran under your nose by one of your own.”

“Are you saying that I’m a suspect?”

“You heard me.” with that Detective Thursday walked out of the office leaving Baldwin shocked as he shook his head several times. Outside Thursday got into a car and looked at a fellow officer. “Now we wait.”

“Do you really think it was a good idea to tell him so much?”

“Get criminal scared enough he’ll run for protection, if we’re able to follow Baldwin to where this syndicate ring is, we’ll be able to put an end to their invasion plans.”

“Alright boss.”

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I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated but I’ve been spending a lot of time working out these entire story arc coming up, I really hope you like it.

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