Enemies Domestic

[sharkboy]

Michael waiting outside Fort Bush for quite some time, spots an LPI ship entering the area and requesting a dock onto the station.

Huh, well seems like that would be it, time to begin.

He waits for the Officer to dock first before requesting to dock himself. He radio's to the team.

Team, i need you to lock down all trade lanes leading to Fort Bush on the opposite end. We're not risking a potential suspect escaping.

Upon docking with the station he spots the officer leaving the hangar bays. Michael quickly dismounts himself from his ship and proceeds to stalk the man. After a few minutes of following him, they approach a Sunbucks shop which the suspect is thought to have loved the donuts being sold there. While the Officer went into the shop, Michael waited in the area for the man to finish his purchase. The Officer then walks out with stacks upon stacks of donuts, too many for a normal man. Michael has already confirmed that he is the mole. He radios once again to his team.

All agents, proceed to lock all trade lanes on the other side of Fort Bush. We got our guy and hes about to leave the station. Suspects in a 'Liberator' Liberty Light Fighter.

Clueless that Michael was following the man, he entered the hangar back to his ships again to store the huge amount of snacks he had. After he was done with his cargo hold, he then heads back into the ship and begins talking a screen. Guessing he could have been sending a transmission, Michael then slowly sneaks back into his ship and prepares to disembark from the station himself. As soon as the man left the station, the agent followed behind and carefully watched his next actions.

Shortly after the LPI ship begins to dock with the Manhattan trade lane, Michael follows and goes into the trade lane while contacting the team he has on Manhattan.

Ground team, suspect has been found and is probably going to meet someone on Manhattan. Wait for me before attempting to detain him, we need to find out who hes dealing with. All other units converge onto West Point and Fort Bush for now.

As they Michael reaches the Planets orbit, the communications channel started flooding with conversations by many other pilots from both Civilians and Navy personnel. He also spots the Battleship Akhetaten parked right next to Planet Manhattan, it was a rare sight to see the orbit so full of activity. The suspect initiated docking with the Manhattan ring and Michael immediately informs the ground team of it.

All units be on alert, suspect has docked with Manhattan and is confirmed meeting someone there. Ground team be prepared to spot his ship and follow him wherever he goes, the rest of you lock down lanes coming into Manhattan.

He goes ahead and dock with the Planet as well.

After sitting his ship in a hangar, he meets with one of the ground team members and is led to the location of the suspect's ship. Arriving at the hangar, Michael meets up with the other 4 officers and watches the suspect from afar.

So update me, What have you gathered so far?

After he landed, we made sure there was no one else around the area before following him here to this hangar. He m---

The Officer is interrupted by another team member.

Sir! He seems to be on the move, I suggest we start moving as well to not lose sight of him.

Cutting the talk short, they began to follow him into a creepy looking warehouse and silently navigating through the scattered shipments obstructing the pathway. They then hear a group of men talking and reach an area where they can identify the mysterious voices. Peering around the shelves of containers, Michael spots the suspect Officer having a friendly chat with another guy and surrounded by a group of henchmen. As the suspect Officer grabs a box capable of containing probable classified information to pass on, the guy he was talking to spots Michael and points towards him while saying something. The henchmen pulls out their holstered weapons, starting to take aim at Michael's direction.

mother******, we've been spotted, everyone return fire, do not shoot the unarmed guy or the suspect officer. Take out those armed and detain the rest, leave the officer to me.

The echoing sounds of guns firing begin to fill the warehouse and Michael chases the suspect Officer back to the hangar where the ship is parked. The suspect manages to get into his ship and takes off into the orbit while Michael barely manages to catch up. Although the suspect got into space, Michael trailed behind and demanded him to cut his engines.

Officer Fred, you are under arrest, i demand you cut your engines and prepare to be taken in. Else if you would like the harder way by forcing your escape pod into space?

The suspect begins to yell into local comms as to hopefully get the nearby vessels to stop the agent. Although questioned by the 46th and 5th vessels as to what he was doing to an LPI Officer, he wanted to make sure he could not run away in the midst of chaos.

You leave me no choice then, Opening fire.

The agents ship begins to line up with the suspects direction. Within seconds, bright rays of red and blue began to hit the suspect, dealing extensive damage to the ship and eventually causing him to be forced into an escape pod from his ship's automatic systems. With the suspect's ship blown up and escape pod in Michael's cargo hold, all the agent could say to the watching vessels was that he was on a classified operation. He sets course away from the commotion and sends a transmission.

*Ahem* Told you i would update you and boy do i have good news, now here's the thing. I just made plenty of noise outside of Planet Manhattan and i got this donut guy in the back of my cargo hold all sealed up in his escape pod. My team has 'Shark' guy detained on Manhattan as well, i'm sure they can interrogate him there. Unless you want to see him personally as well, but where do you want this stinkin sunbucks officer to be brought to?

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Courtesy of Wasser