Twilight had been close by ready to go meet Sunset when she saw the scene unfold. Her eyes widened as she realized that Shimmer had been shot. Yelling back to her brother who was still parked, she raced over to Sunset who was holding Shimmer in her lap.

Shining blinked and reacted as he swung open the car door and raced over pushing his way through the gathering crowd. “Everyone back up! CPD!” He retrieved his badge from his pocket and flashed it around, causing tons of the group to step a foot or so backward.

Quickly he retrieved his phone from his pocket and dialed back to the station. “Hello, HQ? This is Shining badge number 88B44, I have a shooting on the left side of Park and Straightway, in front of the parking lot near the theater, victim has been shot multiple times, I need a team down here and…” his eyes looked up to a nearby building to see a figure in the window drop something and start running.

“I think I have a suspect for the shooter, I’m going in pursuit.” He hung up and placed a hand on Twilight’s shoulder. “I’ll be right back.”

Before she had a chance to respond, he bolted in the direction of the old abandoned building as fast as his legs would carry him. Running inside he looked up the stairwell to see if he could see them coming.

“Shit!” He growled as he realized they likely took the fire escape in the back as no one would be dumb enough to try and leave through the front entrance.

Racing back outside, he came to the back to see a young looking person in a hoodie with a facemask concealing most of their face jumping off the last set of stairs on the old rusty fire escape in the back. They looked at him for just a moment and paused.

Shining flashed his badge in their direction. “CPD! Freeze!”

Those words had the opposite effect as the person bolted in the opposite direction, Shining sighing and shook his head as he gave chase. They never wanted to go the easy way it seemed.

“Give yourself up!” He commanded loudly.

They didn’t answer but kept running, Shining tried to pick up the pace, but it was clear that whoever this person was they were in excellent shape, their speed was remarkable. While Shining himself was in great shape, it still proved a challenge to keep up with such an agile individual.

Turning he realized they had gone into a dead end alleyway. A smirk appeared on his face as he turned after then and looked around to find the mysterious figure. There was no one in the alleyway which confused him until he looked up to see them climbing the brick wall of the building. “What the hell…?” He tilted his head.

The grooves between those bricks couldn’t be more than an inch deep, but they were somehow able to keep a tight enough grip to scale it with ease. Shining looked around and saw a nearby drainpipe which he latched onto and began climbing up as quickly as he could, not nearly as fast as his suspect scaled the wall, but fast enough to get onto the rooftop to follow them.

After a few seconds of running on the rooftop, Shining managed to catch up to them and found himself gaining on them. “This’ll go a lot easier if you just go quietly!” He suggested.

At those words the figure reached into their front hoodie pocket and pulled out a pistol and shot in his direction, causing him to pause for a second and duck to avoid the shot. To his good fortune, they didn't hit anywhere near him, perhaps intentionally. With the gun still in hand, they continued to run.

“Alright… have it your way…” He grumbled.

He retrieved his own firearm from inside his jacket and aimed. “Stop or I’ll shoot!”

Naturally, they didn’t listen.

Shining let off three shots in their direction, all missing, but it did cause them to change direction and lead themselves to the edge of the roof.

Following behind them, Shining smirked as he knew he had them cornered. The only way to go was down, as the next building over was far too far to jump to, and being much taller they would need to scale the side of the building to be able to make any kind of escape.

He pulled out his gun and aimed only to be surprised by the fact that the person actually jumped across the gap and managed to grip the edge of the other building and began to climb. “No one told me I’d be chasing down Spiderman…” Shining commented.

Seeing another drainpipe he gripped it and slid down to ground level, already concocting a plan.

Racing to the entrance of the building that the hooded suspect was scaling he flashed his badge to the apartment owner at the front counter and began running up the stairs. If he was fast enough he could beat them to the top.

Stairway after stairway he worried that he wouldn’t make it in time or that his suspect would catch on to his plan too early.

Reaching the top floor, he kicked open the roof access with his weapon extended. There standing in front of the door was the hooded figure who stopped in their tracks and raised their hands.

“Where’d you learn those moves, huh? Who sent you?” Shining asked as he stepped forward.

The figure only stepped backward as Shining approached. “So, here’s what’s gonna happen. You and I are going to go downtown and you’re going to answer a few questions, how does that sound? I'll even give you a ride there...”

They only took another step back and said nothing.

“Pleading the fifth huh? That’s fine, even if you lawyer up we got you at the scene, and I’m sure we can trace that weapon back to you. You can either come clean and maybe have some leniency or fry, the choice is yours,” Shining threatened.

Continuing to back up, they stopped and looked behind them as they realized they were already at the edge and down was a good eighty feet or so.

“Looks like you’re out of places to go.” Shining smirked.

Turning their back to Shining they looked over the edge and then down to the ground.

“Hey, hold up…” Shining called to them.

Raising their hand in his direction, a middle finger stuck up and they took the leap, jumping off the edge of the building.

Shining raced to the edge and looked down, amazed as he saw them grab onto a nearby streetlight and then slide down it. A feat of agility that looked near impossible for the average person, but it was clear that this person wasn’t an average person.

Rain began to fall, causing Shining to curse himself for not bringing his winter jacket. The weather today had been too warm to snow, but to his surprise the rain came down in a downpour, serving as a brief distraction.

He looked back down to the figure running and aimed taking a shot of faith. To his surprise, he scored a hit as the figure stopped for a second and limped for a few steps, then continued to run. He had definitely hit them in the leg, but it would take far more clearly to stop them.

Within a few minutes, he managed to get all the way down to the bottom floor of the building and headed off in the direction of the suspect, hoping their injury would slow them down enough to where he could spot them.

He reached the shopping district and lowered his gun as he looked at the large crowd of people in umbrellas. Finding them in such a large crowd would be impossible. He sighed as he pulled his phone back out and spoke after dialing again. “Headquarters, this is Shining again… Badge 88B44, the suspect has escaped on foot, be advised they appear to be a young male in a grey hoodie and baggy blue jeans, they sustained a gunshot injury to their leg, be on the lookout.”

“Copy that, Shining. Get back to the station, the chief wants you to interrogate the witness.”

Shining nodded and sighed. “I’m on my way.”

He ended the call and stuffed the phone back in his pocket. “I just had this suit dry cleaned too…” He complained as he walked back through the pouring rain, trying to get to his car.

Shining clearly needs to work out some more.

Hey everyone! Yeah, I know intermissions are not that long, but this one was longer than last time and the next one is even longer than this. I released this early because the intermissions don't always have illustrations, so I figured to try an early morning release this time. Don't get used to it obviously, but consider it an early treat.

Begin forming theories now!