Series Title: Police Life Episode Title: Trial by Blood

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Series Title: Police Life

Episode Title: Trial by Blood

Episode 2: Trial by Blood

Zayn Carter stood with blood on his boots and fire in his eyes. He had survived Black Hollow, the trial that took 9 of his fellow recruits. But survival wasn't glory — it was only a beginning.

Chief DeVille walked past the three survivors — Zayn, Ivan Drax, and Stitch Kimani — nodding slowly as he handed out official Police Force ID cards and unit assignments.

Unit Assignments Based on Performance

Ivan Drax → Assigned to Alpha Flame Unit – the most elite, direct-action unit for special ops.

Stitch Kimani → Assigned to Echo Tech Recon – responsible for infiltration, surveillance, and sabotage.

Zayn Carter → Assigned to Delta Vulture Unit – a low-level response team known as “the clean-up crew.”

Whispers filled the hall. Some recruits who didn't make it through training but worked in lower ranks now mocked.

“Delta Vultures? That’s trash duty.”

“He survived the trial just to clean up bodies.”

Zayn clenched his fists. But he remembered something his father always told him:

“A lion doesn’t roar until it’s time to hunt.”

Meeting His Parents

Before joining his unit, Zayn was allowed to visit home briefly. His parents, Marcus and Amina Carter, waited outside the police compound.

His father hugged him firmly:

“You did it, son. No matter what team they put you in, just rise from there.”

His mother touched his cheek, noticing the bruise that hadn’t healed.

“Don’t become what the world fears, Zayn. Be what the world needs.”

With those words burning in his soul, Zayn returned to Delta Vulture Unit HQ — a dim, underfunded, forgotten branch of the force... but that was about to change.

Emergency Call: Hostage Nightmare

Barely 24 hours into the unit, an emergency alert blared.

Location: Central North Tower, Vacation City

Situation: Live-streamed hostage execution

Perpetrators:

Milo "Madblood" Krane – ex-special forces, mental instability, explosives expert

Tommy “TV” Gage – sadistic hacker and livestream operator

Hostages: 7 civilians, bound and locked inside a high-rise control room

Threat: Hostages being executed live every 15 minutes — the killers are playing a death game on camera.

Mission Briefing: “Cut the Broadcast”

Objective: Infiltrate the tower, neutralize both suspects, and save remaining hostages.

Deadline: 45 minutes — 3 hostages already killed.

Challenge:

Tower is rigged with motion-detect trip mines

Cameras everywhere (Tommy’s watching)

Madblood has C4 strapped to 2 hostages

Killers threaten to blow up the whole tower if police storm in.

Chief DeVille assigns the mission to Delta Vulture Unit as a punishment test.

“Let’s see if the vultures can eat something fresh for once.”

Team Loadout

Zayn Carter:

Custom Glock 19 (silencer equipped)

Combat blade

EMP pulse grenade

Headset with infrared lens

Officer Nina Ross (Sniper):

Tactical sniper rifle

Motion tracker

Rooftop position

Officer Deke “Bulldog” Grant (Heavy):

Riot shotgun

Breach hammer

Body armor

Officer Malik (Tech/Recon):

Jammer pack

Hacking tool

Smoke drone

The Mission: Operation: Broadcast Breaker

Step 1 – Entry

Zayn and Bulldog enter from the ground floor, silently disabling two patrolling droids.

Malik sneaks into the control grid on Floor 3 to disable Tommy’s surveillance.

Nina takes rooftop position, scoping through the glass to locate hostages.

Step 2 – Chaos

Tommy notices feed interruption. He screams through speakers:

“Oh! Police rats crawling in! Time to kill another! Let’s see who bleeds next!”

They see him raise a gun on a woman. Zayn whispers, “NOW.”

Nina fires. Headshot. Tommy’s brains splatter on the livestream — cameras cut.

Step 3 – Madblood’s Wrath

Milo Madblood, now unhinged, screams. He pulls a detonator — Zayn sees the blink on two hostages’ chests.

Zayn radios:

“Bulldog, breach. I’ll take the shot.”

Bulldog explodes the door. Zayn lunges in — two shots to Madblood’s chest.

The man stumbles but presses the button — nothing happens.

Malik’s last-second hack disabled the detonation signal.

Zayn grabs the hostages, unties them as Madblood dies whispering:

“You’re not a vulture... you’re a beast...”

Mission Outcome

4 hostages saved

2 bombs recovered

Both suspects neutralized

Operation success

Chief DeVille watches the body cam footage.

“Zayn Carter... maybe Delta Vultures just became a threat.”

End of Episode 2.

Next Episode? Want to explore how Zayn’s unit starts gaining respect and how rival units begin to see him as a rising leader? Or want a deeper dive into a new terrorist threat or an ambush mission?

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