Chapter 134: Investigation discoveries

“You think he is telling the truth?” asked Arron as he looked at the buildings that were speeding by them as they drove to their new destination. “Hard to tell since he won’t tell us the whole story. Even with the details he gave us there is enough to find their stronghold and see what they are up to,” said …

Chapter 133: Asking for trouble

“Breaking news! One of our reporters was killed while interviewing an important subject! This is only one of the latest deaths in a string of many as the gang wars in the area have flared up between the small and medium gangs. The special M1 officers are dragging their feet as usual,” said a sanctimonious Fela as Arron watched the …

Chapter 132: Growing the [Righteous Front]

Bang! A bullet pierced the head of a skinny old man who was scowling at the intruders who had entered his small gang’s hangout. “You killed our boss!” shouted a low-level grunt.  Several shouts of, “Yah, why’d you do that!” came from the other grunts. “Either you join us or you can join your boss,” said Cowhard. He had chosen …

Chapter 131: Breaking the Logjam

Sector 1 waste management building, Miso family territory. “Things are getting really bad out there,” said a young lanky teen as he smoked an illegal cigarette that was laced with stims. It was not illegal because of the stims, but the tobacco it used was real and had been smuggled into the city from an outside source.  The young teen …

Chapter 130: Time for Edjamacation

Arron walked off the packed mag-lev onto the equally cramped and dirty Sector 11 platform. Since it was the weekend the platform was teaming with tens of thousands of citizens trying to use their rare free days to travel.  Many of them would only be traveling to different parts of sector 11 while only a few would be able to …

Chapter 129: Four vs one

“Since there have been many openings for command positions and looking over your recent activities that have all been completed ‘successfully’… I along with Mother and Father have picked you as a possible candidate to fill in for those spots when needed in the future. That is if you accept this offer,” said Chief Chesty who was sitting behind his …

Chapter 128: You did not see what you saw

In the week after the old man’s death, Arron and Kix along with the entire M1 force, were now even more busy than during the last rage week holiday. A massive number of calls were sent out detailing violent battles flaring up all over the first level. Without the steady hand of the old man to lead the Ryu family …

Chapter 127: Clearing up loose ends

Nearly a half hour after the transfer of the old man to the police, Arron was still rounding up the targets on the list that had been given to him. He had managed to stumble upon the hidey-hole of the last man on the list and started to drag him towards the APC that was now crammed full of everyone …

Chapter 126: We Will Not Cower 

“Captain, do you want us to stay where we are or is there someplace more secure we can wait?” asked Arron. He and the others at the checkpoint waited for over a minute but heard nothing but static over the comm link. “Captain! Are you there?’” asked Ward using his Exoskeleton’s more powerful comms to try to reach Captain Pointer …

 Chapter 125: Highway Chase

“That’s right. This has to be the biggest and most successful raid on the Underground factions since the founding of the Mega-city Neo-Tokeyo,” said Kommy. As their armored vehicle shot down the main streets and headed to their destination to try and intercept the target, Arron and the others watched the news to see how well the other raids were …