The staging area for the convoy was bustling with activity. Harvey and Sal were some of the last of the cops to arrive on the scene, and based on the radio chatter they would be leaving the city soon. "Good." Sal muttered as they listened to the radio. "The sooner this is over, the better." Harvey couldn't help but agree with the woman's sentiments. Harvey quickly tapped his ear, signaling to Boom that they would be moving soon. Sal had been looking at Harvey the whole time, and yet was unaware that he had even moved. Super speed had it's uses. Eventually the prison vans started to move, and Harvey was able to pull up behind another squad car as they started to move out. The convoy would be making it's way towards Robert D. Sherman's Airport and dropping the metahumans off into STRIKE hands before heading for the bridge leading to Brooksdale. Once the metas were out of the police's hands, they would be in the all clear. The mob was unlikely to make a hit on the convoy once the metas were offloaded. With that in mind, Harvey felt his heart crawling up his throat the closer they got to the airport. The airport itself would be heavily guarded, with STRIKE having their own metahumans there alongside potential air support. So if they would attack, it would be any minute now. Radio chatter died down as the drive continued.
[color=f26522]"Hey, Harvey. I think I see something." [/color] Boom said through the communicator. It must be bad. Laura wasn't suppose to vocally contact her brother unless there was an emergency.
Curious, Thunderbolt tapped on his ear four times. He received his answer from the radio, however. "This is Escort-1 to Convoy, we have a problem. There's an obstruction in the road ahead." Harvey and Sal shared a worried look. That couldn't be good. "Looks like an overturned semi truck. What should we do?" The officer asked. "Hold your position." Captain Nehmann ordered. "We need to find another route." Captain Emile Hart seemed flustered by that answer. "Another route?" He raged. "We're sitting ducks! We should merge on to 83rd. It connects onto Timberwood Street a couple blocks from here, then we can take timber to 10th. We'll be back on track in-" Hart was interrupted by what sounded like an explosion. "Escort-12 is down! I repeat, escort-12 is down!" A panicked cop called over the radio as another explosion occurred. The screams of the dying officer echoed over the radio for a full thirty seconds as his squad car was engulfed in flames. "What the devil is going on back there?" Emile asked. "Escort-10, report!" Sal grabbed the radio as Harvey tried maneuvering the squad car out of the convoy to get out of the shooter's line of sight. "This is Escort-8, we're under attack! Some kinda bazooka!" Sal pulled her pistol, looking out the window in an effort to confirm the attacker's location. "Dismount and take cover! Escorts 6 through 10, converge on the final bus in the convoy! Locate the attacker and eliminate the threat!" Nehmann ordered. Harvey and Sal exited the car and moved behind it, pulling out their guns as they checked the rooftops and windows.
A blur of blue and black light raced up the side of the apartment building, heading towards the source of the attack. "Meta spotted!" Sal yelled into her personal radio. Boom reached the lip of the tenement, tackling a dark shape to the ground. "Friendly?" Emile inquired. "Shoot it!" Nehmann cried, and the police opened fire in the general direction. Boom disappeared after dropping off the unconscious thug at the feet of the police. Harvey couldn't help but smile as he watched his sister in action. "This is Transport-4! The prisoners are attempting to leave their seats. They're getting anxious in here!" Harvey and Sal both climbed back inside their squad car and tried to get back into position. "This is Transport-1! We have a major problem. The metas' power inhibitors have gone red! Code black! Code black!" Uh-oh. The metas power bands had been remotely deactivated. Those guys would be tearing through their guards in less than a minute. Thunderbolt held in his communication earpiece, signaling his sister that the metas were escaping. The flash of light appeared again, racing past Topp and Smith's car and towards the front of the convoy. "Meta's back!" One of the officer's reported. Another explosion went off. A massive, hulking man appeared out from the roof of the prison van holding the metas. He held another figure in his hand. "What the-" The brick chucked the person through the air. Harvey watched up horror as Boom slammed into the windshield of his squad car, cracking the glass.
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