Sunbucks Cafe

[Garrett Jax]

I stumbled through the doors of Sunbucks Cafe, highly inebbrieated from a bottle of rye whiskey dangling in my hand. I must have looked a mess from the stares I received from my fellow officers. I gave myself a once over. Let's see...shirt untucked, tie missing, face unshaven, bad breath, puke stains on my pants from said whiskey, hair flying every which way, shoes untied (at least the one I had on.) Yep, I definitely qualified as a mess.

In the one hand, I held the bottle, but in the other, a signed letter of resignation from the LPI. I staggered from one table to the next trying to find an empty table to polish off my drink. I accidentally sat on a recruit's lap. "Hey", I yelled! "You're not getting no lap dance from me." I felt bile rising up from my stomach, but I quickly swallowed it back down. "At least not till I see some credits." Somehow, I managed to get up and make my way over to an unoccupied chair. I think a couple officers may have helped me.

I slammed the bottle down on the table and yelled to no one in particular, "I'm quitting this outfit. Yes I am. And there's nothing you guys can do about it." Someone put their hand on my shoulder. Quick as a snake, I had my tazer out and attached to the man's throat. "Don't touch me, you crooked cop." The officer lay on the ground wracked in convulsions holding his throat where the tazer bit him.

Immediately, several uniforms converged on me, armed with tazers. I grabbed the tazer from the fallen officer, and with both hands equally armed, I took on the mob. I felt a sharp jolt in my leg and immediately upchucked everything I had onto the offending officer. He fell back, yelling in horror, screaming at the disgust all over him. Another jolt of pain was felt along my arm. God, those tazers hurt like mothers. I reached down to pick up a chair and throw it, when electric current ran down my other arm, and again my leg. I dropped the chair. Another tazer on my chest. I gasped. Down I went, sprawled out on the floor with several of 'Liberty's Finest' each taking their turn at me. I had never been in so much pain. Consciousness was quickly abandoning me. Shouts of rage from my former LPI brothers filled my ears. I must have really pissed them off. I felt myself being picked up and dragged to the doors of Sunbucks Cafe. My back received a sharp kick and I heard someone yell at me to never come back. The doors slammed shut behind me. Well, I thought, that could've gone better.

I spent the next few seconds gasping for breath, trying to stay on top of the pain. From behind the store, a man approached, his face hidden from me by shadows. He picked me up and dusted me off. It was Aiden Maggard. In a quiet voice he said, "Well Seymore, welcome to the Xenos."

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