Night Shift

Volume 1, Episode 6

Monday, November 1, 1999.  After a surprisingly quiet Hallowe'en weekend, the Kelvinator asks to speak to Lt. Therius without his lawyer present.  He announces that he has more to give, but wants to change lawyers and a guarantee of protection from those who will not want him to testify.  He is convinced that Metavac, Fischman & Goebbels are working for the Operation, not for him (and he's probably right.)

Lt. Therius makes the arrangements with attorney Hugh Louis Dewey, of Dewey, Cheetham and Howe, and the Kelvinator reveals a bit more about the Old Nazi connection: a shadowy group he has only vaguely heard of, Die Eisen Adler, is controlling much of Neopolis's underworld.  Until his death three years ago, Dr. Axis was the group's face, and after that it was Professor Gromolko.  Rumours are that someone else has stepped in, someone he refers to as "Shadowmaster."  Behind it all, the same rumours whisper that the "Brain Beast of Berlin" was, and still is, the criminal mastermind.  Concerned that someone will get to the Big K, Lt. Therius makes arrangements to have him transferred to Precinct 11.

Shirley Feldstein and her sister Betty visit the precinct to look at mug shots.  Shirley is nervous; she looks for Detective-Sergeant Fisher.  Fisher has her look at the pictures, and Shirley eventually IDs "King Galactic" and a couple more guys as her assailants.  Sgt. Fisher makes arrangements to have the suspects brought in for a line-up.

Tuesday, November 2nd, 1999 – All Souls' Day.  The SOB team has the night off, and it's Angelina Knight's 250th unbirthday party.  She has booked a club, The Netherworld, and there are perhaps 150 guests, divided about equally between the living and the undead.  Among the latter are Angelina's escort, Philippe, and her Sire, Count Pietro Dakoulas, as well as her rival Vyolet Duske.  Angelina introduces Lt. Therius to a fetching young lady centaur who turns out to really be a metamorph, Leandra "The Mirror" Strauss.  Leandra works at TransWorld station and Lt. Therius eventually learns from her that an APB has been put out for The Caligulator at all TransWorld stations.

Meanwhile, Skip Sparkypants, dressed up as G.I. Joe (including the plastic boots), "makes friends" with some of the pixies who have been hired as entertainers for the evening, while Count Pietro starts hitting on Maxwell Fisher's girlfriend, Joan Moriguchi.  Angelina stops a fight from breaking between Maxwell and Pietro, but Maxwell antagonizes his girlfriend and she walks out.  The downstairs neighbours come in and complain about the noise: The Netherworld is situated upstairs from Godz, where such celebrities as Anubis, Baba-Yaga, Kali, and Mictlantecuhtli are having a Dia de los Muertos party.  Angelina invites them to combine parties, and the guests start really milling about.  A lot of complete strangers start appearing, including a drove of hyperdrene mites mixing it in with the pixies.  All right under the watchful gaze of IAD's Det.-Sgt Agrippa, himself a guest.

The party reaches a peak of disorder when a group of vampire hunters crash in and start trying to exterminate undead.  Maxwell Fisher takes this opportunity to relieve some of his frustration by pummeling vampire hunters; Count Pietro takes the opportunity relieve his thirst.  A big free-for-all fight puts the would-be vampire hunters down and in custody, except the couple that have been drained dry.  Count Pietro is thrown in the locker for disobeying an officer, resisting arrest, and manslaughter.  The departing guests congratulate Angelina for throwing the most memorable party of the decade.

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