Big Moves.

Chapter 5

Markus Bones walked in the dark night, and his figure was illuminated by the street lights. The young man was thinking about what he should do about the situation when he suddenly paused and asked, 'System, bring up the attribute panel.' 

Name: Markus Bones

Age: 20 

Rank: Patrol Officer

STR: 9

STA: 9

INT: 9

Skill: Crime Scene Analysis (Beginner)

 First-aid(Versed)

 Martial Arts (Versed)

Talent: Quick Reflex

Free Skill Points: 0

Free Attribute Points: 0

Markus felt assured looking at his stats, even if anything went wrong he would be able to handle it. He looked behind and found that Ayrton had driven the patrol car to the intersection, and parked it in a relatively dark place. 

Ten meters away from him, there were a few goons, Markus counted seven of them. As he approached all of them, they became alert and turned around to look at him with great vigilance. 

He was five meters away from the spot when one of the thugs dressed in a black shirt and jeans asked, "Yo, what do you want?" 

Markus quickly replied in a meek tone, "I came to ask if you can lend me a lighter?" 

His body shivered a bit, and he took out the cigarette box from his pocket. The thugs looked at each other and one of them said softly, "Don't jump, just give him a light and send him away." 

The man in the front nodded and took out a small lighter before he lit a flame. Markus took out a cigarette and placed it on his lips as he brought it closer to the light and inhaled gently. 

He let out a puff and his body appeared to have relaxed. He sighed as he said, "Brother, you are a lifesaver, and I have been looking for a smoke ever since I got on duty, and that was six hours ago. Angels walking among us. Thank you." 

A few thugs could not hold it in and chuckled, one of them asked, "Officer, are you sure you want to call us angels?" 

Markus shrugged casually and said, "Why not, bro? You guys ain't doing anything wrong here, right? To me you all look like a cool group." 

The people chuckled and one of them said, "You look pretty young, did you just join the force?" 

Markus chuckled and replied, "You sure can tell, yes, I joined yesterday."

Then he extended the cigarette box in his hands, and said, "You are seven people, I have eight cigarettes, how about this, we share one in the name of destiny that brings us together." 

Criminals were cunning but once they knew that the situation was in their favor, they were very confident in their abilities to handle one meek rookie. 

Markus passed them the cigarettes and they all took it, and began to smoke. The young cop asked one guy, "Whoa, brother, I could not tell in the dark, your muscles look fine. Do you lift regularly?" 

The man was wearing a tight shirt, with his biceps exposed and he did look buff. He nodded and said, "I go to the gym six times a week." 

He flexed his muscles and Markus sighed, "I envy you, I also want to go to gym but my superiors cannot help and bully the rookie." 

The guys chuckled and one of them asked, "Why join the force then?"

Markus smirked and replied, "It is easier to become a cop than to go out in the world with some other stream. Some people respect the uniform, and we get the girls too. Don't underestimate us brother. Last night I picked up a chick from that bar over there only but I wonder why it is closed today when I was told that Marlow's is never closed." 

One of the thugs took a deep puff before he said, "It is never closed, tonight is a special occasion." 

The thugs chuckled and Markus hummed before he extinguished the smoke and said, "Only a select few can go there and hold such a reception, I wonder if it is someone with a great bounty on himself."

The sudden change in conversation caught the thugs unguarded and one of them said, "Bounty? Pfft if someone went in there, they might hit the jackpot." 

Suddenly, the thug realized what he just said and decided to take it out on Markus, and yelled, "Fuck! Get lost!" 

Markus looked at the man and asked, "Did I do anything wrong?" 

The thug did not want to say anything else, and he pushed Markus lightly and the young man said, "Hey, I am warning you, don't push me." 

The thug did it again, he was triggered by Markus acting so brave when he was surrounded. Some of the thugs tried to stop him, but the man just reached behind him, and took out a gun. 

Everyone froze, and the man said, "I told you to get fucking lost from this place, but you insisted. You want to die young?" 

Markus did not move, it seemed as if he froze in fear. Ayrton was watching from the distance and he immediately said, "Weapons out, they have a gun aimed at Bones, Boss." 

Sherly on the other side of the call had reached Frank Masters office and they were both on call. Just when they wanted to say something Ayrton exclaimed, "Fuck, Markus took down the guy." 

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Markus ducked a bit before he dashed forward. He reached out with his left hand and raised the assailant's right arm, the gun holding arm straight up before he punched him directly in the gut, followed by a liver blow. The impact caused the thug to drop the weapon and fold over on the ground.

Then Markus looked at the others and said, "Your turn." 

He moved quickly holding a baton in his hand, it was as if he was wielding a sword and his attacks landed on the joints of the thugs. He was using the thugs as blockades so that the enemy could not get a clean view to shoot at him. In two minutes, he took down ten armed thugs, and then he turned towards the car to signal Ayrton to come over. 

Ayrton rushed over and they both used the handcuffs to contain the thugs and read them the rights while they were groaning. Markus even used shoe laces of the thugs to tie their thumbs behind the back in a super complicated knot. 

Sherly and a few more cars rushed over, and they loaded the thugs in, before Frank Master showed up, they had not used a single siren and just took the people in custody. Sherly assigned a few people, mainly older men to watch the thugs and locked them in the backs, before she turned to Markus and patted his shoulder with a smile. 

She said, "The rest will be dealt with by the Narcotics team, so we do not have to join in." 

Ayrton joked, "Send in this guy, I am sure he will take them down in a blink. When the bodycam footage comes out, do not feel shocked."

Markus smiled humbly and then watched the entire operation from the side. The Narcotics team was quick, they breached and began to arrest the bosses inside the Marlow's. The operation was quick and was successful as well. 

After the operation it was almost early morning when the team came back to the station and Markus without another second wasted got busy with the documentation. Not only himself but he even completed Ayrton's quota and gave statements and bodycam footage for investigation. 

After he came to his desk, the system notified, 'Ping: Arrests made 2/10' 

Markus understood that it wasn't the number of people he arrested, but the number of times he made an arrest, and he sighed, after all how many crimes can he encounter. He was just a patrol officer. However, he was still thankful that he did not have to solve cases to complete the promotion.