Log:A Hot Lead

2020/01/07 Night Marshal Grimm 1

After having gotten patched up at the hospital, Grimm walks away with some pills for the pain. She checks her phone to see if there's any news on the heist Night Marshal stopped. She sends a message to him to ask to meet up, letting him choose the time and place.

Night Marshal picks a location in an alley in The Towers district, for a change of pace, a couple of streets over from where the fracas was earlier today.

Grimm teleports nearby and walks the rest of the way, cloaking herself from people's minds so they don't see her turn towards the alley. She decloaks before making a turn to the final alley.

Night Marshal is in the alley already by the time Grimm arrives. He has a coffee cup with him, which he likely has been drinking from, but his mask is currently in place.

Grimm doesn't have her jacket on, and her bicep is bandaged up over the light stitches. "Hey," she greets him when she doesn't have to shout. "Thanks for the assist earlier."

Night Marshal waves and tips his hat. "Happy to help. Glad it worked out." He smiles, but it's barely visible under the mask.

Grimm smiles, not realizing he's smiling back. "I was hoping you had some luck contacting Zero."

Night Marshal shakes his head, "I'm afraid not. I'm sorry."

Grimm sighs at the news. "Damn. Do you have any other possible leads to track her down? We got an eye witness that's finally confirmed she's willingly involved."

Night Marshal nods slowly. "I might. I've been playing mostly 'hands off' since I figured I'd let Mechanica deal with it. But I have a lead or two I can try." He knows Zero's secret ID from pretty early on. He hasn't let on to her that he knows, either....and she doesn't know his.

Grimm nods slowly as she listens. "It'd be a big help if you or this Mechanica can do anything." In fact, Mechanica has updated Night Marshal that she hasn't been able to find Zero, either, which has Mechanica's paranoia going through the roof. "We already had problems with the witness protecting Zero because of their...relationship. We lost days trying to track her down and stop this, or find out who's behind all this."

Night Marshal nods. "I'll give it a try." He rubs his chin, "I can't promise anything. But...if she's gone rogue, I'll be fishing for clues to her whereabouts. She won't be at her home."

"I wouldn't be surprised if she's covered her tracks, but I appreciate you trying," Grimm smiles in appreciation. Then she looks more serious and concerned. "Just be careful and watch your back. She has a possible accomplice that went with her to the victim's apartment. She's used sweet talking and seduction to turn one target into a giant bug. She'll possibly use charm to get you to lower your defenses and repeat what she did before."

Night Marshal nods slowly. "My gun is non-lethal. I reckon I can lead with that."

Grimm smirks a bit. "Hah. I like you," she replies. "I would've originally suggested a light hand with her, but after the victim confirmed Zero wasn't a victim, I'd say your plan is a good idea."

Night Marshal nods again, "I can apologize after the fact. If she's gone rogue like that, she needs to be stopped. I'll be honest. I'll try talking first. But I'll be careful."

Grimm nods and waves her hand off to her side. The air ripples and forms into the form of a young woman who looks like Bree. "This is the woman who was accompanying her. I got the image out of the victim's memories after she volunteered them to me. I don't have an ID on her at the moment, so we don't know if she's a normal or a meta. The memories I read indicated she was willingly with Zero."

Night Marshal furrows his brow, "I've seen her around. Former Spitfire gang member." And she avoids Carpenter like the plague.

Grimm raises a brow. "Wow, even weirder twist. Did you know of a connection between her and Zero prior?"

Night Marshal shakes his head slowly. "Not that I know of. She was protecting Zero?"

"A fight didn't happen, but she verbally supported what she had done," Grimm answers. "They may potentially have a romantic relationship. Bree had said how both she and Zero 'loved' the victim to defend what happened."

Night Marshal's eyes narrow. "I guess that's another potential lead, then. Not sure if I can find her, but I suspect my connection at the PD might be able to."

"Oh? Anyone I'd know?" Grimm then looks slightly concerned. "Detective Carpenter referred me to you. He's great at his job, but he's still a normal, and..."

And Grimm doesn't want to risk him turning into a bug and vanishing in the earth like so many others. But she knows he's seen some crazy shick in his job.

She sighs and changes her worried tone. "And he knows his stuff. Just make sure to warn him about the dangers so he can be prepared?"

Night Marshal nods. "He's the one I was thinking of, yeah. I reckon I'll warn him about the dangers involved."

Grimm nods. "I'm sure he can handle himself as long as he isn't going blind," she tries to cover up her concern, not knowing she's talking to Carpenter right now. "If anyone on the force can get a lead out of this, it's him."