Dangerous DNA

Chapter Two

About an hour later, Ellie was sitting at the back of a police car listening to what her co-workers were saying. Even though she was still a bit tired, she was delighted it was her third stake-out. She had been called in early because there had been a huge gang fight between two notorious gangs, and shops had been broken into and civilians attacked. They were following a group from one of the gangs, and told her that by no reason whatsoever was she to leave the car, and to stay there to call for extra backup just in case. She looked out the window as the car sped through one of the most dangerous streets around Harbor's Lane. Alarms were going off around her and she noticed a shopping mall had been broken
into. Police were filing into the building carefully, with guns pointed.

The car sped down a lane-way left of the shopping centre, and she heard her co-worker Tom say to her other co-worker Rick.
“Okay, stop here!”
Rick pulled the break then stopped the engine, and the two of them unstrapped their seatbelts. Rick turned around to Ellie in the back seat and said quickly,
“Okay, Tom and I are going to follow the guys up ahead of us. If we get into any trouble, like serious trouble, call for backup immediately. We should be okay though. It looks like there's
only four of them up ahead.”
How can you be sure? she wondered, but nodded quickly.

As they exited the car, she watched them duck down with their pistols, and creep along quickly towards some of the gang in the distance. She couldn't help her fast heart beat as she grabbed the binoculars on the seat next to her and looked through them. Zooming in on the troublemakers ahead of them, she could definitely confirm four of them. She knew that Rick and Tom were very experienced and well able to handle these guys, but she still had a very bad feeling. These two gangs she had researched, were extremely dangerous and this situation was a big one for her. It was at times like this, that the reality of working as a law enforcer was definitely not to be
taken lightly.

Ellie had been briefed thoroughly on the situation when she arrived into work, and she knew what she had to do, and she was going to do it well. Doing it with a cool head would be hard though, because she had to admit, she was feeling pretty uneasy now. Rick had reassured her though, that no matter what happens, to keep calm, and all she had to do was get backup, and more than likely it wouldn't even come to that. He seemed pretty confident so that did help her some bit, and the two of them were tough.

Through the binoculars, Tom and Rick were pointing their guns at the four men and walking slowly towards them, shouting to them to put their hands up. The four men quickly put their hands up and were shouting something back to them, though Ellie couldn't make out what they were
saying. Tom went over to cuff one of the men while Rick kept his gun pointing towards them. She noticed Tom grab the man's hands and cuff them, pushing him up against the wall. He went towards the other one to cuff him, and Ellie sighed in relief.

So far so good.

Suddenly her eyes shot wide open as the scene drastically changed in front of her. Three other men dropped from the small roof above Rick and Tom, dropping down on top of Rick. Ellie
gasped as Tom quickly turned around, and the guys who had their hands up facing the wall, dropped their hands and grabbed Tom. A few shots fired, and Ellie noticed two of the thugs fall to the ground yelling in pain. One of his friends went to grab something from his pocket, but Tom was
on top of him grappling him to the ground, and went to point his gun at him. The gun however flipped out of his hand, as one of the thugs quickly kicked Tom hard into his shoulder, then others started kicking him in his sides.

Ellie's heart started beating faster.
She quickly called for back up, trying to remain as calm but as firm as possible. Looking back towards the scene, Rick threw someone off him and made his way towards Tom, but someone hit Rick across his back with an iron bar. She gasped as Rick fell to the ground.