Night Shift

Volume 3, Episode 1

Wednesday, November 17th, 1999.  The SOB team assembles and Lt. Therius reluctantly agrees to bring a young intern fresh in from Police Academy, Ruby Blouse.  He also sends Parker to request the Obsidian Sorcerer's assistance in order to exorcise whatever has taken over Johnny Mortis' body.  Segama is stillout at a conference, so Therius, Fisher, Landsen, and a disembodied Mortis heads out to the abandoned school yard where Archie Nemesis organizes fights.

Parker teleports directly into the Obsidian Sorcerer's home, activiating Nestorius Jones' magical security protecting his sanctum.  Fortunately for Parker, Jones is still up and reacts quickly.  He makes a show of being asked, but is secretly (or not so secretly) delighted to get some active duty, and agrees to help.  Parker teleports them both back to meet with the team.

Meachwhile, at the scene, the team discovers that tonight's main advertised event is a match between The Slicer and... Johnny Mortis!  In the mean time, less important amateur fights are being staged.  The team decides that the best place to intercept the wandering body will be in the makeshift break room right before the fight.  The real and incorporeal Mortis makes his way into the derelict former school to locate the break room.  Instead, he finds a different dead body in a long-disused wing — the naked body of a young woman that has been cut multiple times.

He reports back and the team scrambles; Therius calls in Commander Bailey and his SWAT team to put a lock of the place and its hundred or so potential suspects.  Ruby Blouse excitedly volunteers to infiltrate, using her nanite form; Therius agrees but gives her strict instructions to stay out of danger.  NeoPD has an exciting time rounding up the crowd and arresting the legion of super-suspects.  Johnny Mortis has to fight for possession of his body, and ultimately manages to take over; a strange sort of gray ectoplasm is ejected, and Rudy fashions and ad hoc container for it.  The Obsidian Sorcerer is tasked with examining and identifying it.

Segama, arriving late, takes over the forensic examination of the body and the room ir was found in.  Therius rounds up his team, but displeased with Parker's teleportation into a private home without a warrant (when he fetched Nestorius Jones) assigns him an essay on proper procedure and asks intern Ruby Blouse to assist, for extra credit at the Academy, in making sure Parker is thorough.

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