The Groove
Saturday January 18th, 2025 with Elorious Cain
EMILY BRISK 13 - "The Raid"

It is five in the morning on a cold Tuesday and F.B.I. Special Agent Orin Bishop, F.B.I. Special Agent Mark Richardson, John Polk from Homeland Security, more than a dozen heavily armed Homeland Security agents, the F.B.I. S.W.A.T. team and bomb squad all silently arrive around the corner from an old warehouse near Long Island City. There was an unusual apprehension among the agents because agents from the Organized Crime division had warned them the day before that this particular gang based inside that warehouse building was considered to be just as dangerous and violent as either the Hells Angels or the Russian Mob. This was the headquarters of the gang which had orchestrated the blackout at, and attacked Lennox Hill Hospital. F.B.I. agents had interrogated those members of this gang they had captured there. Those agents had, with the help of questions provided by 'the specialist' Cindi Gander, tangibly established a direct connection between this gang and those "other world travellers" whom had attempted to kill Emily Brisk again. Now Homeland Security and the F.B.I. were enacting orders together that can came directly from the State Department. They were to completely close down the whole criminal organization, arresting "as enemies of state" any member of the group who doesn't resist with deadly violence. John Polke was there to oversee the operation. Also the previously mentioned F.B.I, agents wore live cameras directly linked to heads at the F.B.I. headquarters on Manhattan. As the Bomb Squad and S.W.A.T. team extremely slowly approached the warehouse, all of the agents thought it to very odd that absolutely nobody was guarding the building, In fact the front door was sitting open. Such a strange development was dominating the continuous telephone conversation between John Polke and Roland John in Manhattan. There was a shared apprehension that maybe this wasn't the right place after all. An agent from the Organized Crime division confirmed that they have been watching the building for months, right up to last night. The decision to continue was unanimous. John was fighting a head cold. He kept hearing distant church bells ringing. It didn't make any sense to him in the darkness of the early morning in an industrial park. Looking for explosives and traps, agents very slowly and systematically breached entrances. The armed force started advancing in with fingers on their triggers. As they all entered and cleared the building it became very painfully obvious that every last member of this heavily armed gang inside had been already brutally murdered. It was almost as if they had been exterminated. There was blood absolutely everywhere! The warehouse building was filled with 67 corpses. Agents even found somebody on a toilet; shot between the eyes, in the middle of his business. The whole scene stunk of blood. It was gruesome. Everybody from Homeland Security and the F.B.I. was left stunned and sickened by the carnage. Nobody had to fire a gun at all. Some agents needed to rush out of the building to vomit. After a difficult call with the State Department, John Polke enacted a set of official plans which were formally accepted by the F.B.I. heads on Manhattan. He called Dona Smith in Boston and gave her an update. She was extremely interested in the specific time the actual massacre occurred. He passed his phone to his assistant Dan Whallis so that Dan could go around giving Dona and her crew a glimpse of the scene. John Polke made it clear to everybody there that all involved F.B.I. and Homeland Security agents there were formally ordered to never share with anybody else what they saw in this warehouse. It was coming from the State Department in all seriousness and severity. "This massacre never happened." There was that extremely strong official push to continue keeping all of this "other America" business completely secret. Most of the agents had encountered such a level of secrecy often. This particular situation was just so extremely difficult. John Polke stood in one of the blood soaked offices a rhetorically asked one of his assistants there out loud, "What the hell happened here?!" Four hours later an army of F.B.I. forensic investigators and coroners had invaded the building. That old warehouse was now a heavily guarded location, off limits to the public and the press. Local traffic had been barred from the street. Everybody going in or out of the building was wearing hazmat outfits. Homeland Security had brought three large nondescript refrigerated trucks that were parked at the old loading docks. From a distance it looked like an urgent operation to remove toxic materials or something, Some of the local businesses who couldn't open nearby yet were told that explosives had to be carefully removed from the abandoned warehouse. Both the F.B.I. and Homeland Security seemed to have had successfully macerated was really one of the worst massacres in the modern history of The mainland United States. Polke and his assistants were aggressively rifling through mountains of paper looking for clues. They had found an internal surveillance system. One of the agents was busting holes in walls trying to locate computers. Suddenly that agent called John Polke out to come and enter a previously hidden room. The morning sunlight was now poring into that room revealing hastefully tacked up topographical maps covering most of the walls. Dan Whallis turned to Polke and asked, "Why the hell did this gang have topographical maps?" As they stood surveying the maps, Dona called John back from Boston and asked him about the timing of the attack. John told her that the coroners were not certain yet. Dona asked John to use his phone to help her look at the maps. Suddenly she noticed an 'X' in black magic marker on one of the maps. Eventually three 'x's were found on all of the maps. Minutes later Dona said that she had been sharing the images with Ajinder Gill who had found the locations of the three "x"s. One was at "Mary's Lunch Bar" - the code name for a secret Homeland Security compound in Connecticut, The second 'x" was at "Harry's Cottage" the code name for a secret Homeland Security compound in south eastern Vermont. The last "x" was at "The Bear Lodge" which was the code name for the Homeland Security compound in the mountains of New Hampshire; where Dona and the rest of the specialists had taken Emily Brisk for safekeeping. John Polke loudly yelled out, "Bloody Hell!!" A minute or so after John's outburst one of the F.B.I. coroners came by to update him. They believe that most of the gang was killed around 4;00 am. Still on the phone, Dona had to sit down. With her phone on speaker for the benefit of everybody in her crew, she had to verbally situate it all, "John, If I am to understand the situation, somebody murdered the whole dangerous gang an hour before you all arrived!" John quietly said that her assessment was probably accurate as she continued, "You were all likely being watched John! Whoever wiped out those criminals probably also murdered Catriolana here in Boston. It is beginning to look like a clean up operation." It was agreed that Emily Brisk would have to be moved again, as quickly as possible.