Night Shift

Volume 2, Episode 3

Thursday, November 11th, 1999.  Detective Segama tests the burnt-out warehouse for accelerant, coming up negative, and examines the damaged weapons (promptly dubbed "The Scepter of Goboom" and "The Wand of Mighty Coolness.") 

Meanwhile, Sgt. Fischer checks on the two perps at Blake Hospital (Dwayne Shavins, a burly cracker and Kra-Z Klix, a clicker), who are in pretty bad shape (yes, being in conflagration is damaging to Ferro-Americans.)  They blame everything on the third perp, Duke Smarta Pants ("He bad, man!")  They are all Fabulous Fivers.

Johnny Mortis checks with his contacts, trying to track down Duke Smarta Pants.  He finds Archie Nemesis, one of his reliable informers, in the middle or setting up a streetfight between the champion of the moment – a four-armed bearded terror in a loincloth calling himself The Sinister Swami – and a new contender, The Slicer – an impassible, unspectacular little man.  While the contender skillfully filleted the favourite, Mortis managed to get Archie to give him the location of a known hideout of Duke Smarta Pants.  Mortis and Sgt. Fisher capture the perp.

At the precinct house, Lt. Therius carefully briefed Detective Parker on his planned timetable for the upcoming transfer of The Kelvinator.  Parker then left for Nova Roma to scout out the route the transfer would have to go through, make contact with the local authorities (Centurion Nicolaius Furius), and select a few emergency safehouses.  One of these included a storeroom at the temple of Selene – right across from the temple of Juno.  When Parker later tried to show Therius the photos he had taken, he discovered that his camera had malfunctioned.

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