Challenge #04741-L357: Precise Targetting

They are hunting their target on this stinking backwater of a rock, one whose actions caused many deaths on a world the CRC is only now able to start rehabilitating. A being that was heavily drugged by their target attacks Jay but, instead of killing them, Jay shows compassion for one who's yet another victim of the target, and only knocks them out so medics can help them recover. -- Anon Guest

It's the best thing to learn in Pax Humanis. If you want to be let out more often to hunt, you only got the bad guy. It was rare that the CRC decided that an installation was beyond hope of redemption, and set the indiscriminate murderers loose on a place.

Jay knew the look of an addict well. He'd gained familiarity with the look of the target's addicted victims over the time Jay had been hunting. He clocked it in a cold second.

Training took over Jay's muscles and movement. Avoid the weapon, use the attacker's imbalance against them. Disarm. Apply stun disk. Manipulate into recovery pose. Tag for the cleanup team to bag, rehabilitate, and release later on. Continue on tracking the target. He was getting closer. The target's victims were showing less debilitation under the effects of the drug suite. Which meant less time taking it.

Jay raced onwards, following all the traces his sensors and senses could provide. Soon, the victims would be too new to follow the target's directions. Soon, the target would be shit out of luck.

That was when Jay would strike. Not killing him, but certainly taking his time in making the target wish he was dead. Authorities would find a very messy crime scene, no hint of a body, and no hint of a perpetrator either. The authorities here were on the lackluster side. Bullies in uniform with no better training than generously peppering a crime in progress with bullets and then sentencing everyone who couldn't testify.

Things like forensics and evidence just confused them.

Jay found them in their lair. Brewing up more of their toxic, mind-melting junk. And testing the results on themself, the fool.

Catching up with them had been the hard part. Capturing them was ludicrously easy. The next most difficult thing was making sure the chemical rig wasn't going to explode when the local authorities turned up.

Maybe some minor burns. Those goons deserved a lesson in action and consequence.

[Photo by Michael Glazier on Unsplash]

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