His suit is taggered. Bullet holes and tears but finely pressed and clean. Still recognizable as a cop's beat uniform. He unsnaps his gun holster clip. No one uses the old guns anymore. Electronic laser weapons are the fad in the end times. I got a Desert Eagle .45 that has something these fancy tech-lovers don't. Two point three seconds...
You see, it takes a Lectro two point three seconds to charge-up and that happens to be more time than it takes a 'cowboy-movie-loving' quick draw to end you...
"Hi boys! You've got a Buzz here I see? Well...time to move along and let me buy the next round 'eh?" -I say
"Look, there's a drink shack right about a block up from here. Let me get you." -said with a wink
The three look rough as they all do out here in the runs. That's the wasteland roadways in the inner cities. Least that's what they are known as these days. If you're guessing the futures part of that wasteland you got it right. The last war was the Great War. The one that ended all government. Now we have two realities; the corporations large enough to maintain some order and the publicly disordered nightmare.
You'd a thought systemic breakdown would have released the minds of the many from their company masters but it was quite the opposite. Those left and afraid flocked to join the barons making them even more powerful. I work for one of these new titans; Altria Group.
The three look at each other with queer smirks and grins as if their figurin' on what move to make or perhaps figured it already? The middle one draws his Lectro-gun...bad idea.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Three down. I walk over them to make sure,
BOOM!
...one last slug in the ringleader's face clears this route. These ******* have been hitting our trucks for weeks from this alleyway. My shots draw out more vermin...Chicago is a mecha for filth. Our heavy operators in the dozer-rigs clear the blockages but it's up to me to stop the vagabonds and hijackers. Only losers don't have a job.
"Well boys you had the chance to take this one to the bar and drink it off...instead you got a buzz still ringing in your ears!" -I tell their dead bodies while reloading my clips
That 'buzz' would be me, Buzziah. I'm The last cop in Chicago. Maybe the last one in America, who knows?
BOOM!
BOOM!
Down go two more ****...I hate sneakies. I lean down to make sure my body cam gets a shot of their faces. I get paid by the ****. My bosses at the cigarette company still want to see their faces for some reason. I never ask, I don't care, I'm just a camel cop...
"Sounds like a ***** joke..." -I say out loud
I know it's confusing. Reynold's used to make camel cigarettes. I'll light one up while my brain explains it for you. When it appeared that the U.S. government had lost control...the major multinational players took action on their own. Some of them, like my employer, they literally killed their competition. Thirteen years later they're the only game in town for smokes, jobs, housing, protection and food...and I am the only cop left. I stop a ****** running by,
"Hey you stop!" -I tell him
He freezes and stares at me shaking. I'm a bit of a celebrity in downtown.
"Do you like the uniform or what?" -I ask him
"Uh-uh-uh man, man just let me go I ain't after your loads?"
I chuckle deeply inside. It is a ***** joke after all.
BOOM!
I turn on my Beats-Sat uplink...
"All clear on routes a-go, all routes a-go..."
Switch the channel to the network Apple link...******* rap. I love it. I catch a tune on the heavy guitar riff and backbeat intro...
<Double forty-fives, double forty-fives>
<YO> -chorus
<Jumped out the War like G I JOE!>
<Landed gig/wid Nort Gruman.>
<Patrollin' my beat as-a-GUN MAN>
<Double forty-fives, double forty-fives>
<BLOW> -gunshot sounds
This feels so right. I hop on my motorcycle and tear-off.
Time for my buzz...
I am the Lord's Strength.
Buzziah Willis...remember it.
I run the streets of downtown Chicago.
I am the law here.
"Wanna smoke?" He says to the air.
The Last Cop short story intro. Buzziah Willis.
