Detective Shawn Black | Enter Cornelius the Vampire
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| Public Vampire Attack Caught on Camera |
I thought I knew what a vampire was. We all did. When the stories came from a hundred sources, about a guy that went light speed and took out a guy, almost in the middle of the town square, with fires all around, the department couldn't deny, once and for all, that vampires exist.
When weird fed guys showed up, the captain, was on our tails to contain this, and be one step ahead of the feds, who never introduced themselves, nor even claimed to be over this. We were ignored completely.
The sarge, commanded everyone to divide up the witnesses and take all of their statements, no matter if it repeats. This was THE MOST IMPORTANT event in human history. It was confirmation that the supernatural actually existed.
Luckily, I had vacation in the middle of all of this. So, that Friday, I was gone, with the wife and the rascal.
When got back, a week and a half later, no interviews, no commotion, no chickens running around with their heads cut off. That night, I got home and told the old battle axe, and she said, immediately, they've been mind wiped.
But by whom?
I kept a whole movable file case, at home, filled with interviews, pictures, video footage or the incident. When i got to the office the next morning, I opened my desk and found nothing there, that wasn't there before the incident.
I went to the Sarge's office. "Is there anything special you want me to do today?" I said, leaning into his doorway.
He had a bland look on his face, "hold it while I pee? Is that special enough for you, cupcake? Get out of here." He was Black, so I imagined... well, let's not go there. He probably needs the assist. "I heard about you people," I said as I left. "YOU'RE GROSS, TINKERBELL," he yelled after me.
"You told him what?" my partner was laughing his head off. "Team lightskin having problems downstairs?" He continued.
"No, we're just not related to horses," I gave him a dirty look.
Not a single person in the department was doing anything about the vampire project.
"Meet me at lunch," the note said. I had no idea, who it was from.
It was the friggin computer guy, OF COURSE! He sat in an off site bunker like thing, and ran all of our computer stuff. So, whatever happened, he wasn't affected, like me. He noticed, I tried to login into the now deleted vampire project, operation vampire. Really imaginative. He said, no one came in and waived a magic wand, they just literally, one second, stopped the interviews and even the people, got up and walked out.
Or, at least he couldn't see ON CAMERA! He was on to something. Camera's rely on mirrors, vampires don't show up in mirrors, so vampire appear invisible on cameras. BUT digital doesn't do that. Also, in the presence of a vampire, you are made to see them as invisible too. So, we were going to "upgrade" the internal security system. If anyone got specific, we were increasing the aperture, to let in more light.
The next day, we were hard at work. A couple of the other cops made jokes about me being the janitor, but for the most part nothing. One cop, though, asked about 20 questions. I let the nerd handle him. He kept saying, we'll be able to read badge numbers and reports, right on the camera now, to see if something being investigated, triggers someone to come in shooting. He said, it helped cops in Seattle, get a suspect, who came in guns blasting, took them by surprise, and fled the scene. Afte ir they ran their high def footage back, boom, they figured out, it was the brother of someone in custody.
With the digital cameras up, we duplicated them, with regular cameras, that no one noticed. In the housing, the camera just panned left and right, but on his computer screen, he had 2 pictures. BOOM, someone was sitting at a desk, no one went near. It was like he had some barrier.
I went to the office, and attempted to absentmindedly sit on the desk. NO GO! Every time I thought about it, it left my mind and I'd end up doing something different.
The computer guy called me back to his installation. I had forgotten even what I was doing. He wrote everything down, I said came to mind, going towards the desk. Even looking at the regular camera, made us look away a little. So he wasn't invisible, he was having a mind control effect on us.
The computer guy ran the footage of the guy running across the square, which we couldn't see from the CCTV cameras, and then boom, there he was, plain as day.
I headed back to the office, to leave the computer guy with the new digital footage, while I was to simply do my job and ignore the person no one could see. It was easy to do, since they had some sort of brain washing thing up. Hopefully the computer guy could run some facial recognition, to figure out who it is.
It was almost quitting time, the next day, when the computer guy called. He sounded excited. First he had calculated that the vampire, in the footage, was running, just under the sound barrier. Had he gone just a little faster, He'd have knocked over everyone in the square, busted windows, and moved cars, out the way. He said, he thought the vampire had slowed himself down on purpose, because who knows what breaking the sound barrier does on the human body.
When I pointed out that this was a vampire body, and probably far tougher than regular humans, he said, "Oh yeah."
Then he turned to the figure inside the police department, no one could see. He's not a policeman, not fbi, not cia, not irs. In fact, he as fairly certain he wasn't american. He cleaned up the digital image, and I gasped. He looked like some ancient egyptian statue. He was black. His skin was some sort of porcelain or something.
The computer guy said, he would need better equipment, but he thought that his skin was causing light rays to bounce around him, to appear invisible, just by existing. But, also, he had some sort of mental power, on top of that, that caused people to ignore him.
The computer guy suggested, we hire some people and outfit them, with backpacks, with these dual cameras, regular and digital, and have them walk around the town square for a week, to see if we can pickup any more of these vampires.
He spent about a week, making machine learning, that could scan the footage at high speed, to compare who wasn't there in the regular camera footage, with who was there, in the digital camera footage.
The next month, we were done with our test, and didn't even tell our guinea pigs, what they had been doing. We just strapped backpacks on them, paid them for a week to walk around, and got the footage, plugged it into the computer and....
We weren't prepared for what we found. There was the vampire. But this time, he was invisible. Guess he learned a new trick.
But that wasn't the shocker. We saw another vampire, we assumed. And as the first vampire was running around, invisible, the second vampire, unbeknownst to the first, disappeared from view, and teleported, it seemed, right in front of the first, and stuck his hand in his chest, and the first on exploded. Clearly the second vampire was more powerful than the first.
It rocked our socks off. Where we thought we could take on the first vampire, with some tech gear, there was no way we could take on the second.
It was a major setback for us.
We then looked at the vampire sitting inside the police department, and compared him to the second one. The computer guy spent a day comparing the two vampires.
When he called me, two days later, I wasn't prepared for what he was about to say.
1. the one in the police department, was clearly more powerful than the second vampire, so that makes him, vampire 3.
2. because he observed his behavior for a whole month, and all he did was sit there, doing absolutely nothing, he was someone else's minion
3. which brings us to the conclusion that there's a 4th vampire, more powerful than him.
My head was spinning. We couldn't handle vampire 2, at all. Now there was a 4th vampire, running around here somewhere, that put 2 and 3 to shame?
Computer guy assumed that vampire 1 had broken some code, by revealing himself to everyone. Then, although he got more powerful, assuming he had eaten enough humans, it was too little too late. Vampire two had, probably mindwiped the entire population, and the police, and took him out.
Computer guy assumed vampire 3 was just observing the police, to monitor the population, since the police get the people that tell all the weird stories and sort of act as a central place where humans go to, in case something goes wrong. Not a bad strategy if you think about it.
Where do vampire comes from?
Computer guy, packaged everything up, made a nice report and shipped it off to the New York times, then the FBI, then the CIA. However, he left no contact information. And we maintained radio silence for the next 6 months.
That's about when the men in black showed up again.
I got a message from computer guy to come see him. When I arrived, I knew something as very wrong.
"They're all gone," he started. Then he swiveled around and showed dead screens covering the wall. These were the feeds to the police department where we had the regular cameras and digital cameras.
"They removed all the cameras, from the department. And, what's worse, is that no one saw them do it. I arrived here this morning to this. I checked this end for hours, thinking it had short circuited or something. But there's nothing. It makes no damn sense though. Every department has internal security cameras," he ws frazzled.
We got the FBI on the line and asked to speak to their version of agent Molder. After they laughed for about an hour, they finally put us in contact, with some guy, spookier than the men in black. He request to come over.
A couple of days later, this giant 6'5 guy comes through the door. He's in love with the computer guy, immediately. You can tell, because he almost smiled, or thought about it.
After about 2 hours of questioning us, he suggested, not only we put back up the cameras, but that the FBI do all the work, and make a feed come through here to a field office, in the nearest city.
When it was all said and done, we had super digital cameras, and amazing regular cameras too. Isn't it great, when you have an bottomless taxpayer budget? The computer guy was fit to be tied for weeks. I spent hours each day sitting with him, tripping balls over the feed.
As to the men in black, the FBI didn't know how to contact them, but since the cameras would have the FBI fingerprint all over them, he assumed they wouldn't mess with them, without a nasty internal federal agency squabble and they'd FINALLY have to reveal which agency they worked for. No one knew. Not the department of defence, nor homeland security.
The weird FBI agent, that scared regular humans said those guys gave him the creeps. Imagine that. He said, he thought, maybe, they weren't as human, as we thought they were.
Once the FBI cameras were up, we noticed they didn't come into the police department, but we knew they were still in town. The FBI agent recommended we do NOT try to contact them though. We were to treat them, as if they were all SCP specimens.
As to computer guy's theory that there's a hierarchy of vampires, the FBI agent was impressed with that. We hatched a plan to make this vampire inside the department move.
20 agents came into the little computer guy's office. 30 were on the ground, unbeknownst to the police department. The FBI who installed the cameras, had also installed something into the fire suppressant lines. Upon a remote, a gas flooded the entire building, and the police were told to evacuate.
The 30 agents on the ground got the police well away from the building quietly, informing them, it was an internal federal operation. After retreating a mile away, we all observed, at the remote computer base.
He didn't move.
