Page 10 of Zane

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My booming deliveryof "BAH HUMBUG, MOTHERFUCKER" has the exact effect I intended. It causes the gunman to jump, startled, and start a flinching spin in my direction. I pull the trigger of my gun and his arm drops just before his gun fires, discharges a bullet harmlessly into the floor. A growing wet stain on his pants leg tells me I hit my mark. He crumbles to the ground as Batmanarrives.

Batman immediately bites the robber's forearm, making him drop the weapon and scream a blood-curdling cry, which only makes Batman shakes his arm back andforth.

I arrive next and kick the weapon out of reach. Take the robber the rest of the way down, command Batman to release him, kneel on his neck to keep him disabled, pat him down quickly, snatch my belt from my pants because I don’t have my handcuffs and my belt is the best thing I have right now to restrict his movements, tell Laura, "Call 911 and tell them Sergeant Scrooge is on an active crime scene, a robbery, shots were fired, send a bus, and he and batman are in pursuit of two assailants who have fled onfoot."

While this is happening, Blake picks up the robbers pistol, removes the bullets, throws them into the kitchen, lays the empty gun on the counter, then points his shotgun at the robber when I stand to release him, and tells him to lay face first down on top of his friend, the crybaby, and not move a muscle or he will blow their motherfucking assesaway.

I tell Batman as I hook his leash back on his collar, pursue, and we rush the door. I snatch it open and his nose hits the concrete to track the two that escaped. As we race across the parking lot in hot pursuit and I yell out into the night, "SHOW YOURSELVES OR THE DOG WILL BITE." Guessing that they only ran as far as they could hide while they waited for their leader to kill the dog, I scan the area looking for other gang members who were stationed as lookouts. There is truth that there is safety in numbers, but tonight we are fortunate. Tonight, the only dudes who are outside are the original two who fled. When Batman starts to bark, they jump and fleeagain.

I yell again, but this time I tell them. "STOP OR I WILL RELEASE THE DOG AND THE DOG WILLBITE."

Neither shows signs of stopping so I disconnect Batman’s leash and give him the command to take them down. "GET THEMAGGOT."

This information makes them chance a glance behind to see how far away Batman is and when they see him stretched out and gaining on them faster than they can run away. They panic again. One robber trips on his own feet and takes a nasty tumble, rolling up before rolling over several times. The other one sprints away with his head back and face to the sky, pumping his arms for all he is worth. He looks like his ass it trying to out run his body and if this wasn’t so serious it would becomical.

Batman never slows down and runs right over the clumsy one as he continues chasing the last onedown.

I yell at the runaway as I arrive to apprehend the dude on the ground, "STOP OR THE DOG WILL ATTACK!" I kneel on his neck while I quickly pat him down and tie him up with Batman’s leash. As I stand, I inform him. "If you flee again, I promise you, you’ll be Christmas dinner for thedog."

He starts to make excuses for why he did what he did, blaming everyoneelse.

"Save it, Shithead," I tell him as I turnaway.

The last robber is scaling a 10-foot chain linked fence and barely misses getting his ass bit by a jumping Batman. He rolls over the top and lands on his feet. Then confident he has eluded the dog, takes off at a slowerpace.

Batman runs back and forth at the bottom barking and raising hell until the dude starts to run, then he looks for a way through the fence. He spots it takesoff.

I call again to the man when Batman is on the inside. "STOP NOW OR THE DOG WILLATTACK!"

He looks back at me and sees Batman stretched out and gaining onhim.

He takes off again and runs out of thelight.

I scale the fence and follow Batman’s barking. When I arrive, I find my partner straddling the robber, fangs bared, with a leg arm in his mouth, growling, daring the dude to fleeagain.

But the dude has pissed himself and is crying like ababy.

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