10-60 ‼️ at a certain neighbor's address that the judge knows very well ;)))
❝ Urgent 10-60 at Rowdy Yates Block. Responders needed. Suspects in connection with the slaying of four judges have attempted B&E, aggravated assault, and assault with a deadly weapon. ❞ His radio crackled to life, hissing and spitting the tinny voiceover.
Head tilting, he brought the gauntlet close. Short, sharp, but collected. ❝ Dredd to Control. Responding to 10-60. ❞
Shit. Shit. Shit. That was an all-too-familiar address.
Above his wrist blossomed a map of the city. A pinch made it shrink, a flick; expand. Scannable with his visor, red tracking dots blinked erratically. Pinging. Three of them in the same section as his place, too.
Per his calculations, he could be there in fifteen. He wasn't that far off. His former assignment, armed robbery, had put him about a block and a half away.
As both hands closed around the Lawmaster's handlebars, he couldn't help feeling the hairs on the back of his neck rise. Cold dripped down his spine, eyes fixated on the bright digital clock. Traffic was no issue. Mega-highways were no issue.
The throttle roared, and he was off in a cloud of dust and drifting paper.
Blurs of color and noise whipping past his helmet. Riding easy between the gaps of moto-vans and branded vehicles. A dance he knew. And handled exceedingly.
The megablock - a brutal concrete monolith - juts out like a towering statue in reddish pollution haze. It came closer, and closer. South gate entrance appearing as a mouth full of blunted teeth. Windows reflected sunlight. People went in, and out, like clockwork.
Pedestrians backtracked, tripping over themselves as he glided into the curb. Swinging a leg around, he rose with his Lawgiver in hand. Safety off.
No one dared get in his way.
Striding into the open atrium, he quickly located the elevator and punched in the floor number. The mechanism groaned and whirred, clanking as cables tightened. Ascension.
❝ Dredd to Control. Have paramedics on standby at my GPS. Going in. ❞