The Crime and The Janitor:
Part 1
A loud monstrous roar echoes through the quiet city night. It shatters all windows within a one-hundred-foot radius and wakes the nearby sleeping populace. One girl in particular jumped out of her bed and ran to see what had happened to her window. That’s when a loud explosion rocked the city and sent the girl flying across her room. A secondary explosion goes off and the building starts shaking.
The girl screams,
“Are we having an earthquake?!”
A third explosion goes off and a louder shriek erupts.
“Rooooar!”
The sounds of metal beams creaking echo throughout the city before it comes to a complete stop. A plume of smoke fills the entire area. For a brief moment, everything is silent. Then the sirens of multiple police cars erupt as they race to the scene. A helicopter races overhead and lights up the entire area. A tall man about 6’3'' calmly walks away from the area. The girl from earlier crawls to her window and looks outside. She sees him walking at a slow pace through the smoke. As the police cars drive past him, their lights show the lower portion of his face. She sees a large grin on his face.
“Wh-what...? The hell...?”
She whispers to herself.
“Who is that?”
She asks out loud. Immediately the figure takes a sharp turn into an alleyway and disappears. She looks towards the construction site and sees the police closing the area off. She reaches for her phone and takes a photo.
Elaine is a 5 '9'' fair skinned woman with an hourglass shape, short red hair, golden eyes, and a tribal tattoo. She wears a white sleeveless shirt, Khaki joggers, a white hoodie tied around her waist, white converse shoes and a long strap leather cross purse around her chest.
As she walks down a college hall with her friends. She begins to put on her Headphones and starts watching the latest news video on her phone.
The man on the screen is Nicky Brenner, a short 5’4” man who usually reports the news. He grabs a stack of papers and begins talking.
“Reports say no one was injured in last night's explosion and the authorities are urging the population to remain calm and that the police department is taking care of the matter. The official theory is that a substance called trinitrotoluene, also known as TNT, was left unattended and a gust of wind blew over a small bag causing a chain reaction explosion with the rest of the substance. But many in the area do not believe this version of events. Now onto Leonard Jackson.”
The news moves to Leonard Jackson, a 6’0” black man wearing a black suit and standing in the area near the explosion.
“Thank you, Nicky. As we all know, in these past months we have had a large number of murders, with an official number of 100 dead and the number potentially rising every day with the murderer on the loose. Now with this explosion that allegedly had bodies at the site, everyone's suspicions are raised. Here’s what some of the witnesses have to say about last night's explosion and more.”
The screen then shows a 5’8” white male with a beard, wearing a red hat. He stares at the screen with one eye open and says,
“That wasn’t no explosive. That was an Alien! I saw it with my own eyes.”
He points with one finger at his open eye,
“It was a black shadowy figure, almost looked like a...”
The screen cuts to the next civilian, a 5'9'' overweight white male with an oversized white shirt and green shorts. He says,
“Man, I don’t know what that was, but it was not some kind of explosive. Unless they made something that sounds like Godzilla because that was wild.”
The screen then shows a 5’3” white male wearing khakis and a red flannel. He yells,
“It was the rapture, and I was left with all you goddamned sinners! How could Jesus leave me behind to suffer for all of eternity!!! God damn you all to hell.”
The screen then shows Leonard,
“Well, you heard it here first, by all accounts it must have been some kind of extraterrestrial dinosaur causing this disturbance. Now back to you Nicky.”
The screen then shows Nicky,
“Thank you, Leonard. Those were some of the witnesses who were in the nearby area. Now let's take a look at what the police department had to say in their speech this morning.”
The screen then shows the police chief, a 5’8” white male in his mid 50’s, wearing a black professional suit. He is standing behind a podium and says,
“We, the non-realis police department, have this under control. We understand the concern with the increase of murders in the past few months, but this event has nothing to do with the murders. The murders have been due to the increase in crime from the growing population. The police department will increase the number of active officers to combat-”
A man bursts into the room through the door on the right of the room. He starts walking towards the police chief while yelling,
“My son was murdered yesterday! And you shit stain police have done nothing to bring my son justice!
The police chief looks at his officers,
“Someone please take him out of here.”
Five police officers immediately stopped him from moving any closer. The man keeps trying to push past them.
“No! Get off of me! I will not allow this to stand!”
Before the man was out of the room, he uttered one last sentence.
The one who did this was a Demon and he is here to kill us all and when he comes for you rotten pieces of shit, I hope he takes your souls to Hell!”
The man is dropped to the floor by the police and is arrested. They pick him up and drag him out of the room.
The Chief shakes and lowers his head with a sigh he then raises it and begins to speak again.
“Everyone I chief becket of the non-realis police assure you that there are no monsters or devils or boogeymen in our city, just some sick individuals out there who will be stopped and put to justice.
Now for everyone's safety we strongly suggest that everyone stay in groups, do not go out at midnight unless needed, and if you have any piece of information that will be useful to the investigation of these killings, please contact the police department immediately. That is all for now, thank you.”
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The screen shows Nicky again.
“There you have it folks.
Serial killers, Random Explosions, Mutilated corpses,
Demons, and Godzilla?
What is going on in our city? Are we really safe? Is the government hiding things from us? Is the second coming of Godzilla just beyond the horizon?
These are the questions that everyone wants answers to
and to that I say stay tuned into channel 20 news for the days to come until we can find out more
This has been Nicky Brenner on the channel 20 news.
Bringing you the best news since 2001, signing out.”
The broadcast cuts out and her screen goes black. She keeps staring at her screen as she begins talking to herself.
“Fake news as always. There's no way that was just a TNT explosion, there's a god damn giant crater.
It looked more like a fucking missile was launched.
What's the government hiding is the real fucking question.”
One of Elaine’s friends waves a hand in front of her face.
She signals that she wants to talk.
Elaine asks,
“Rose?”
Rose is a Five-foot seven pinkish skin tone woman with a large bosom, orange hair and brown eyes. She wears a necklace with a rose on it, a pink off shoulder blouse, white pants, pink loafers, and a white purse with a pink rose design on it.
Rose gets closer to Elaine and gives Elaine a concerned look.
“I was trying to ask you something and you weren't answering. What's got you so Mesmerized?”
Rose looks down at Elaine's phone and sees a headline of last night's incident.
“Oh, that explosion last night. Good thing our campus is far away from where it happened.”
Rose smiles at Elaine.
The other girls overheard them talking and decided to join in.
Lexi says,
“I have a friend close to the site and she says she got woken up by the explosion. She was scared and thought there was an earthquake.”
Jessica says,
“Scary.”
Lexi responds,
“Yeah, scary.”
Elaine speaks up,
“I'm more concerned about what's going on with these killings.”
Rose speaks up,
“Oh yeah, corpse man is still out there.”
Elaine stops in her tracks,
“Is that the name they gave them? That's so
cheesy.”
Rose laughs,
“No, I just made it up.”
Elaine raises her sharp eyebrow.
“Wow, you couldn't think of a name better than that?”
Rose lifts her hands up in the air,
“Hey, it's hard naming a guy who doesn't kill the same way every time!
One day it's a head missing, the next the whole body is missing with only a head left or just the heart being left.
I just feel bad for the police detectives having to see that every day, and the families must be devastated.”
Elaine lifts both her eyebrows
“You feel bad for the cops”?
“Well, you shouldn't, Rose.
I know their shady asses are doing something evil.”
Rose laughs,
“Elaine, why do you always think a big conspiracy is going on?”
“I don't think, I know. There's been Fifty killings rose, fifty! and that's only the confirmed ones allegedly there are a hundred killings in total.”
“Alright a hundred murders are worrisome I'll tell you that, I'm really glad the killers haven't come to this part of town yet but besides that elaine you do go to the extreme like how you say our government is planning to wipe half of us out for population control.”
“Rose three hundred killings with no action from the government besides police “cosplaying as sherlock Holmes is not natural, and hey, at least I'm not as bad as
these lunatics on TV Telling everyone monsters exist and they’re the ones doing the killings.”
“So, what you’re basically saying is that.
you’re a conspiracy theorist like the guys on the news.”
“It's not a conspiracy if it's the truth.
Also, I wouldn't call those idiots conspiracy theorists.
They're just stupid.
Believing monsters are out to get us, what lunatics they are.”
Takes one to know one.
Elaine scoffs and rose laughs.
So anyways,
anything you wanna talk about elaine?”
“Umm, no.”
“Are you sure? Like how pineapple doesn't mix with pizza, how cereal should go before the milk and not the other way around ooh or how about when you stood up the mixer party, I invited you to last Saturday.”
Elaine looks down, shaking her head.
“Oh no here we go.”
“Here we go indeed, i couldn't believe you did that, it was a big event.”
You know I don't like big social gatherings like that rose.
It was only going to be ten people including you.
Uhhh still a no
And it was going to be a special moment, I had got you a potential boyfriend.
Elaine's eyes go wide, and she begins laughing in disbelief.
Ohhh no, no way I'm glad I didn't go now.
Oh, come on elaine.
Oh, give it a rest rose, I'm not getting a boyfriend.
Elaine, come on you got to were not kids anymore we got to go out there and experience all that life has to offer.
Rose starts emoting human emotions.
The happiness, the sadness, the joy and laughter
The pain and horror, The sensual romance, and
Rose stares dreamily into the air hugging herself.
The sweet sweet embrace of love.
Rose stops and looks at elaine.
How are you going to experience the love if you don't have a boyfriend, you have to get one elaine?
“And that's where you're wrong. I don't need a boyfriend to feel the sweet, sweet embrace of love or any of those other things.
I'm fine, ecstatic actually all by myself.
Elaine starts walking ahead of the group while looking back at Rose,
“Just me, myself, and-”
Elaine bumps into a tall man wearing a dark blue jumpsuit and falls down.
“My oh my, I'm sorry. It seems I wasn't watching where I was going."
here let me offer you a hand.”