Watson and Ouro Case Files

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Official Report 1 On the Run

“You, my dear girl, can call me Watson! Armando Watson at your service. Heh.” With a wink and a smile, I seal the deal. Shortly thereafter...

Bonk

“AH…HEY! WHAT THE HECK?” I turn around and look at my boss, the “Perfect” Ministry member, an annoying try hard pretty boy, Ouro Krono.

“You’re not here to flirt dude. Interrogate her. Or I’ll do it and I’ll report your behavior to the department chair.” He walks back over to the crime scene, moving his briefcase flat on the ground and opening it up. Inside are some…crime…scene investigation…tools. They’re pretty cool, plus he has some gloves inside, I want some gloves! Right…uh let’s not get too side tracked.

“So Miss, can you describe to me the uh, thing that when on here? The uh, crime and the perpetrator. Anything you saw or heard would be very valuable to our investigation here.” I wiggle my moustache around, itches a bit but that’s ok. I wonder what the rest of the team is doing, I want to investigate too. Uh I mean…I am investigating, but I want to do the stuff Krono is doing. Sigh "And so I saw him rush out of the lobby doors." Well…whatever, we’ll get to do the cool stuff and catch the bad guy later so I’m not stressin’ too much. I pull my notepad from my jacket’s pocket and slide the pen out from the top of it. Investigation time!

“Then after she fell from the sky... that winged demon girl…whatever she was…went after this guy in a red jacket.” Did she say a lot or a little? I wasn’t listening…But if I ask her I’ll look dumb and that would make me look bad…Alright…let’s just nod our head and talk about whatever she said last.

“Red jacket huh? Like a bright red or a dark red?” I ask her, that was a pretty good question yeah!

“Hmm…I think it was…decently dark. At the very least it wasn’t bright, but it stands out. You’d notice it if you saw it.” She looks over at Krono, I look over too. He’s picking up shards of glass. That’s a lot of glass.

“Great. Thanks for that info. I’ll make sure we give this a thorough review when we get back to our headquarters.” I look back at her and she’s making an unsure face.

“Do you want to know about the assailant?” She keeps her odd gaze on me, did I mess up? I don’t think I did. I got all the questions down and Krono is investigating the scene.

“Assailant?” I hope the notepad back up and write it down. Asay..lant? Asalant? Uh…

“The person who attacked the guy in the red jacket? Do you want to know about them?”

“Oh yeah the bad guy! If you have any info on him that’d be great. Tell me all about them.” Nice. She has a lot of info, this’ll be good. Krono and I will catch em before the sun goes down!

“So like I said…some sort of demon looking thing…She had these kinda…round ears. Similar to the guy but she had evil in her eyes. She had this…red hair. Actually…looked kinda similar to the guy she was chasing after now that I think about it.” She finishes her sentence and I write the description down in the notepad.

“Hey, Watson. Come here and take a look at this with me.” Krono shouts over to me and yeah I want to see the actual scene.

“Thank you for the cooperation ma’am, we’ll catch this wierdo. You can count on it!” I wiggle my moustache at her and smile. Smooth man. Ladies love that one heh… Wandering over to Krono I look around the area and try to see if I can’t identify anything myself. Hmm…for the concrete to have an impact of this size…so the person that fell first must’ve been the guy. Or…maybe a bigger girl…Nothing wrong with that…Wait…do people even survive falls like this? What the hell?

“Ahem. Watson.” The voice calls to me, oh right… Krono.

“Hey…what’s the word? I am kinda ready to move on deeper into the investigation. What about you buddy?” I stare at him, perfect chin…eyes…mouth…everything. But he doesn’t have a cool moustache like me! How you gonna be an investigator and not have a cool moustache dude?

“So…I found this under some of the glass. Was hidden in between the cracks of the cement at that.” Krono lifts up some sort of ring looking thing. It’s black and shiny.

“Is that from the perp or the assailant?” I ask him. He laughs under his breath and puts it in a plastic bag for evidence.

“Hmph, I believe it’s from the victim. Were you not talking to the witness Watson?” He sighs and looks over at the girl, she smiles and waves at him. Waves at him? Dude you didn’t even do anything! Moved some glass around! Big deal!

“Well I mean…it matches up with the uh…consistency for sure.” Nailed it.

“Consistency…right. Well I’m gonna put this into the case and then we’ll head out in the direction that the two ran. They can’t run forever, one of them will eventually tire out and then you’ll go in and take care of it? Clear?” Kronii places the plastic bag into his briefcase, shuts it and locks it. He puts his arm around my shoulder and walks me to the car.

“You want to…shift and tell me what happened here Watson?” He whispers from behind into my ears. A little bit in my personal bubble dude, but I’ll let it slide.

“S-shift? Uh yeah man! I was wondering why you didn’t let me check out the scene!” I get excited and rush back over to the police tape. I pull my pocket watch out of my belt buckle and turn the dial back a few hours. Alright…things should be good to go…just gonna flip back to past me for a bit.

“Just be careful got it?” He shouts at me as I get into place. Don’t worry Krono, I got this dude. I press down on the bow of the pocket watch and launch back. My eyes open up to me staring at my ceiling back in my room. Shift successful! Alright let’s go find uh…those bad dudes and report it to Krono. Jumping out of bed I rush out of my room and my home to get to the plaza down by the Council office.

“Hey stupid! You wanna put on some pants before going out?” The voice shouts at me.

“Wha? Where are my pants dude!?” I stop before reaching the front door and look down.
“Oh man…that’s embarrassing! I gotta get pants on dude!”

“Yeah moron, you’re lucky I caught you before you went out like that again.”

“Cool…I guess. Thanks Gawr.”

“Whatever man. Enjoy your new job or whatever.” I run back up to my room and throw on the first pair of pants I can find. Ahhhh the ol’ torn up acid wash jeans, these babies will never go out of fashion. I run back to the from door.

“I’ll be back later dude don’t worry!”

“Who’s worried about you? Just go!” He yells out and heads into another room. Was he just waiting there the whole morning? Did that happen this morning? Been a long day…

I leave home and jog down to the Ministry headquarters. Man…this city is wild. Never imagined we’d end up in a place like this. Can’t believe that Krono even wanted us to join up with him. He’s a cool dude I guess…kinda weird but cool. I make my way down the long, silent morning streets and make my way eventually there. Wait a second…was it the Ministry offices? No it was…the other ones…down the road? The Council building right? Across the campus….Man…I’m lost

Maybe I should call Krono and ask. Wait…No he wouldn’t know yet cus it hasn’t happened yet. Alight Armando, you got this. Just go to the Council one. It was probably the Council one…I would’ve recognized the Ministry office at the scene so…yeah…that’s logical. Right on me! Council is just down the road here, so I’ll just hang outside of it till some suspicious dudes show up. I walk towards the Council office…actually…might as well get a little something for breakfast. I haven’t eaten so…yeah this is fine. I walk a little past the Council office to the convenience store.

You know…hot dogs aren’t really breakfast foods…but it’s lunch time where I’m from so this is ok! After grabbing a couple of hot dogs, a bottle of soda and some chips I sit at a counter by the door, it’s a good place to just watch. Uh not like weird watching, but for like, looking out at the world. Like that Starbucks sitting on Shibuya Square. I open up a couple of packets of mustard and empty them over the dogs. I get to chewing while picking up a magazine and being reading it. Hmm…interesting…Oh yeah…I can’t read Japanese. Well…the pictures don’t need reading! Every so often, I take a look over at the plaza area. It could happen at any time between now and uh…when I left…uh…man should’ve recorded the time first… Well I’ll go back when I hit the watch again so we’re good.

After my 5th or so hot dog, I take another seat after the little exchange with the cashier. Hope he doesn’t find this too weird. Guess I look like I just really like hot dogs. They are pretty great. Sitting back down I stare into the plaza again and I see some action start up. The Council building sits on the right-hand side of my view, it opens up to the plaza and the side walk and all that. Someone starts running out of the building. It’s…hmm they’ve got a red jacket on. That’s our victim! I scarf the rest of the final hotdog into my mouth and exit the store. The person in the red jacket stops and turns around in the plaza. Looks to be about the place where the broken glass and concrete was in the future. Alright try to stay auspicious, don’t change the nature of the scene, observe and record. The person in the jacket…looks male, short hair…big…ears? What the heck? On the top of his head is red hair and red ears. That’s odd. I think…I think he’s laughing. Can’t quite hear him but…

Then it happens, from above comes another creature. Hair just as red as the guy but no jacket on…Some sort of…shirt without a top? A crop top? I don’t know the exact name but it’s white…she has a necklace…a collar on? And they’re flying down at an incredible speed with their right fist pushed out and smashes it into the ground. Glass follows her decent down. Did she leap out of a window? I look up and see that a window on a higher floor is completely shattered. The guy barely avoids it. Rolled out of the way just in time. What’s going on here? Are they fighting? The guy picks himself up and starts booking it down the street. He’s going pretty fast! The other takes a moment. I can see them about as well as the guy. This is a woman. She’s pretty strong! She dusts her hands off and then starts taking off after him. Those two were pretty quick! How are we gonna catch them in the present?

I pick up the last receipt I got. 11:49 am. Alright a little reference time for Krono. Guess I can go back now. I reach for my watch but just in the nick of time, someone exits the Council building. It’d…probably be pretty helpful if I knew the people that actually worked in there. Oh well. Work for future me. It looks like…another girl? This…this one fits that description of the demon much better. Does she work for the council or something? Maybe requesting someone’s services? She pulls out her phone and calls someone, then runs back inside the building. Well…I don’t think I’d learn much more by hanging around any longer. Time to return. I hit my watch and begin the shift back. Oh. My trash…sorry store worker guy…you’ll have to recycle it for me!

I open my eyes and I’m returned to the crime scene, standing just above the shard of glass and shattered ground.

“Alright, start her up and we’ll be out of here in the moment. I just need to have a little word with our witness here for a sec.” He lets go of me and wanders off. I guess I didn’t return to the exact time but…close enough. Wait a word with the witness?

“Hey! Don’t trust me?” I shout to him

“Don’t worry, I trust your work. Just start the car up Watson.” Begrudgingly, I get in and start the car up.

Krono makes his way to the witness, she smiles at him, and he smiles in return.

“So…what did you think? Did he pass?” Krono asks.

“Hey seems a bit…off. Is that normal for him?” She gently answers, her soft voice escorted by the calm breeze.

“Yeah…he’s…unique. But he gets results. Plus he has pretty good control of time so…I figure getting him to use it more would only help him improve. He is a little…dated…in some of his stylistic choices…but I mean…that’s not really here nor there.”

“True. As long as he gets the job done right?”

“He hasn’t let me down so far Fauna. Well, until next time.”

“Yeah of course. Maybe we can stop by that little pastry shop down by the Ministry office after work…”

“Yeah! I’d be delighted to. Well then… Bye for now!” Krono leaves the woman will a bow and walks back over to the car.

“What’d you say to her Krono? Doubt the results?” I ask him, can’t believe he doesn’t trust me. After all we’ve been through!

“No, really it was nothing. Just checking up on her, making sure she’s all right. What are you worried or something man?” He looks back at the scene one last time, the police will take care of the it and go from there. We’ll continue the investigation on our end.

“Checking up? Did you know the witness or something man?” I reply with a little annoyance in my voice. C’mon Krono. Being left out is lame dude.

“Just drive in the direction the crime seems to have gone. Hopefully we’ll find the two before they can cause any more trouble. The quicker the better you hear? What time did it happen?” He shuts the passenger door and stares down at some files full of notes.

"Between 11:49am and 12:30pm. And you know, if you really wanted to do it quicker, just speed time up and we can go home!”

“Me speeding things up will teach you nothing Watson. If I had influenced things in the future, the past would’ve changed. It wouldn’t be the same past. The timeline would branch off and you’d be no closer to solving things. Get it? Now…please lets go.” His face stays buried in the notes. I know he’s right…but you don’t gotta treat me like I’m a kid or anything.

“Alright dude…fine.”

“Go straight down the road here, then a left at the light. From what I gather…and just know in general. One of them should definitely have gotten tired by this point. Assuming he’…they’d been running the whole time.” Krono…what was that slip up? You? Make a mistake? I never thought I’d see the day!

“Uh hey dude…did…you make that mistake on purpose or?”

“Of course it was on purpose Watson. You think I’d make a mistake like that? Not in your lifetime. Eyes on the road!” He looks up to scold me, then puts his head back in the notes. That was highly unusual of Krono. This dude is the perfect everything. No way does he do that. Maybe I just caught him off guard! Well…the chase continues!