once again, Old Cop in a new world

Old Cop in a new world
A FanFiction By Johnny boy.
Part 1: That was then…

Summer of 2008, June 15.
Officer Jeff Davis was board with his life. He longed for adventure and excitement, which is the main reason he joined the police force in the first place. But now he was stuck in this small town where the most exciting thing was arresting drunk drivers.

It was a slow day. Jeff had been had his curser parked at the speed trap on the main intersection in the small town of Perth, Ontario, the sun was bright that day so he was wearing the police issued aviators, he was 29 and about 5.9” tall, with medium length hair.
Jeff had been thinking about what to get for dinner when the dispatchers voice came over the radio
“unit 16 what is your status?”
“5 by 5.” Jeff said in to the mike, “clam and quiet as can be.”
“Supervisor requests that bring in a Dr. Stienberg for questioning in relation to the recant disappearances.”
“where is his 6?” Jeff asked
“he is at the force-tech labs about 15 minutes south of town.”
“Copy, over and out”
Jeff hung up the mike and started the engine of his 2000 Chevy Tahoe police curser and pulled out in to main traffic.

Meanwhile, over at Force-Tech, Dr. Stienberg was arguing with his partner, Dr. Cowie.
“I still say that we need to do at least one more test!” Stienberg yelled.
“No!” Cowie shouted back. “we all ready have three test subjects, and the police are starting to get suspicious about the disappearances, they’ve already linked them to one another!”
“you are just being paranoid!”
“you are being reckless”
“the police will never figure it out!”
“I have more to lose here!” Dr. Cowie said “I have sunk 6 million of my own dollars in to this project, I don’t want to go to Jail for it!”
“And you wont!” said Dr. Stienberg, “The police will never figure it out.”
Just then the phone rang. Dr. Stienberg picked it up.
“what?! Oh no...

Jeff pulled in to the parking lot of Force-tech and parked the and parked near the door. He placed his police issued Stetson hat on his head and got out of his truck. He headed in to the lab and felt a refreshing blast of cool air as he stepped in to the building. He looked around the lobby and saw a secretary sitting behind a large oak counter with the words ‘Force-Tec, building the tools for the tools of the future.’ Burned in to it. Jeff approached the counter.
“Excuse me, miss?” He said “Where would I find Dr. Stienberg?”
“He’s busy.” She responded and then looked at her nails and started to file them with her emery board.
“It’s police business”
The secretary sighed and pointed to a hall way to the left of them
“third door on the left.”
“thank you miss.” Jeff said and started walking down the hall.
As soon as Jeff was down to hall the secretary picked up the phone and pushed #3.
“What?!” Dr. Stienberg said angrily.
“the police are here”
“Oh no....” Stienberg said and slammed down the phone.

Jeff entered the lab room and saw Dr. Stienberg standing next to a counter reading a chart.
Jeff cleared his voice, “Dr. Stienberg?” he said.
Dr. Stienberg looked up, “what can I do for you officer?”
“you are wanted for questioning in relation to the disappearance of Keith Ca....”
Jeff was cut off when Dr. Cowie jumped out from behind the door and stuck a needle full of tranquilizer in his neck rendering him in a semi-conscious state. His body fell to the ground with a loud thud.

“He will do.” Dr. Stienberg said soon after they closed the door and sat Jeff up in a chair.
“What?” Cowie asked.
“I said, He will do. Put him in the chamber.”
“Whuuu?” Jeff moaned.
“But Dr. Stienberg, he’s a cop!” Dr. Cowie said, shocked.
“Yes. And you just assaulted him, and if he goes back to his little station and reports it, this whole operation will be for nothing! Put him in the chamber!”
Dr. Cowie sighed, “very well.”
And so they did.
When they were done with that they had his cruiser towed to the storage locked where they had put the other “testers” vehicles and personal possessions.

And 51 years passed...
In those 51 years a lot happened,
Two days after Jeff was frozen, both Dr. Stienberg and Dr. Cowie were arrested for numerous crimes, the biggest of those being, kidnapping, reckless endangerment of human life, and assaulting a officer of the law, they were both sentenced to life in prison

Summer of 2059, June 20
When Jeff awoke, he was laying on a bed in a small room with white walls and was wearing nothing but a hospital gown.
“Oh god where am I?” He said as he started to feel panicked. His mind was racing try to figure out what had happened that had landed him in the hospital. “was I shot? Hit by a car? Beaten?” he said to nobody in particular.
“Frozen.”
Startled, Jeff quickly sat up in his bed and saw a man of about 56 years old in a white lab coat sitting in a chair next to the head of his bed.
“And you need not worry so much, you are in perfect health.” The man said in a thick German accent.
“what do you mean ‘frozen’? and who are you? And where the hell am I?” Jeff asked not fully reassured by the mans words.
“my name is Dr. Alex Stienberg, the year is 2059 you are at the force-tech labs in Mega Frankfurt, Germany. I am sorry to tell you that you were cryogenically frozen by my father.”
“what?” Jeff almost chuckled as he asked.
“you were frozen and now you are in the future.”
There was silence for a few seconds
The Jeff looked up and said, “oh, I get it,”
“pardon me?” Alex said.
“a-ha” Jeff laughed. “ok, very funny.”
“I don’t think that you understand your current situation, Mr. Davis”
“of course I do, I under stand it completely,” Jeff said. “this that new show where they take normal people and put them in stressful scenarios to see what they will do.” Jeff laughed “you almost had me there”
Alex sighed , got up and walked over to a window with the shades drawn.
“come here” he said.
Still giggling to himself, Jeff got up and walked over to the window.
“Brace your self” Alex said and pulled the cord on the blinds.
The blinds opened and revelled a scene of tall buildings with cars flying all around them.
Alex opened the window. Jeff stepped forward .”
“hey, that a pretty good video” Jeff said, “let me guess, you used Photoshop video editor and then put on a TV a few inches back to make it look real... so what is that? A HD plasma TV scree.......”
Jeff trailed off as a bug flew in the window and landed on Jeff’s hand.
“……..uh…….w- …I……er…..bug.” Jeff stammered
A small twitch developed in Jeff’s left eye.
“Do you wish to sit down, Mr. Davis?”
Jeff just stood there. For a few moments staring at the bug.
Jeff started to panic. At first he tried to get out the window, but then he thought better of it. Not knowing what to d he turned to Alex.
“WHERE AM I?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!?!” Jeff yelled.
“Jeff I know this must be hard, but please, try to remain ca...” Alex started to say but Jeff grabbed his arm and twisted his arm and forced it behind his back, trapping him in a very painful pressure point.
“AAAHHHHHHGGGG!” Alex cried out, both in shock and pain.
“WHERE AM I?!?”
“PLEASE! LET ME GO!”
“WHERE THE FUCK AM I!?!” Jeff yelled.
Alex realized that Jeff would not let go, so he lifted his foot and slammed it down on Jeff’s bare foot. Jeff immediately released him and yelled out in pain.
Alex ran to the door and pulled it open and tried to get out, but Jeff started to cling to his arm and try to pull him back in. Alex stuck his head out the door and yelled “Nurse! Get a anaesthesiologist in here now!”
He was then pulled back in by Jeff and begun to try to get control over him.
About thirty seconds later, a man wearing scrubs bust in to the room and stuck a needle in to Jeff’s neck.
“ a crap,” Jeff said and then passed out….

Stay tuned for chapter two, where most will be explained and the saga will continue! Coming soon(ish).

This post has been edited by johnny boy on Dec 1 2008, 03:29 PM

This looks much better than the first version.
Still the question remains what those experiments where for and how they managed it to hide them after Jeffs diasappearing, I´m sure you´ll give us an answer to that in the second chapter. Something I wondered in the first version allready, hwat happend to the other persons they had frozen? Did they die in cryostasis? Or have they too been reanimated yet?

Thanks. The reason he was only just unfrozen will be explained in the next chapter, but he was not hidden that whole time, I can you that now. As for the matter of the other “testers”, I was thinking of incorporating one or two of them as minor characters, but unfortunately one of them will die.
B.T.W. I was wondering, how do you see Jeff? How would you draw him?

How I would draw him?
Dunno I have a strange mixture of Fry from Futurama and Marshall Jack Carter from EUReKA in my head...

This is much better than the last version, I like it and the reaction is a bit more realistic. Hehehe can't wait for the next chapter of the story.

thanks, now that I am working on the new and improved story, I am a littel emmbarised by the last one...

Chapter 2..........all....most......there.....

Take yer time mate.

CHAPTER 2….this is now.

Jeff was dazed. The full effect of the sedative had worn off but he was still a little fuzzy when he woke up.
“uhhg, I just had the weirdest dream, I dreamt that I was in the future…” Jeff opened his eyes and saw Alex standing over him.
“Aw, fuck all, it wasn’t a dream.”
“How are you feeling, Mr. Davis?” Alex asked.
“Call me Jeff please, I have a head ach, and am a little dizzy.”
“That’s normal,”
“Why aren’t I freaking out?”
“Most likely it is the lingering effects of the tranquilizer, you should get your rest, and in the next few days, we will start a few tests.”
“I thought you said I was in perfect health”
“Well….you were unconscious when did those tests, so they aren’t 100% reliable”
“I’ve got some questions I want answered.”
“All in good time, Jeff, try to get some sleep.” Alex said and left the room.
Jeff sighed and within the next ten minutes was fast asleep.

Jeff awoke around midnight. He was troubled, who wouldn’t be? Jeff got up and walked over to the window and opened the blinds. It was dark, so he couldn’t see anybody on the street. He wanted to gaze up at the stars to help ease him, but rather than the stars, he was meet with a almost equally interesting sight, hundreds of head lights zooming around tall skyscrapers in almost perfect unison. It was beautiful in a strange way. Jeff gasped at the sight but almost instantly felt a bolt of sadness run through his hart.
He walked over to his bed put his head in his hands and cried. He thought about all that he was suddenly thrown in to against his will, he was in a strange country, his friends and family were probably all dead, and 51 year had slipped right out from under his nose. Jeff hadn’t cried since his partner was shot in ’07.
Jeff found it odd how that particular memory kept coming back so vividly;
It was hot that day, and dispatch had asked them to respond to a domestic disturbance just out of town, in the greater Lanark area. He was OPP, so he was given more than just the town to petrol. Once they pulled up they could see that there was a problem. A man of about 36 was holding his wife at gunpoint. Once he saw them, he rapped his arm around her throat and put his gun to her head.
“You just mind yer own business pigs.” The man shouted
“DROP YOUR WEAPON!” Tim (that was his name,) shouted.
The man was obviously on drugs.
“FUCK YOU COP!” The man yelled. And pointed his gun at Tim, pulled the trigger three times. Tim dropped his gun and fell to the ground
“TIM!” Jeff yelled and ran over to him. The man fled the scene.
Tim had a bullet wound to the chest, there was a lot blood and Tim was losing consciousness. Jeff thought the bullet had winged his hart. Jeff pushed the talk button on his radio and yelled,
“This is unit sixteen, officer down! Officer down, Get EMS here now!”
“Unit sixteen, are you at the domestic disturbance?”
“Yes!”
“The closest EMS is fifteen minutes away.”
“He won’t make it that long!” Jeff yelled.
“There’s nothing closer.” Dispatch said.
“SHIT!” Jeff yelled and folded up his handkerchief took off his belt and used them to try and stop the bleeding.
Jeff picked up Tim and put him in the front seat of his curser and then got in on the other side. He flipped on the over head lights and siren and jammed on the gas. On the way in to town he picked up the mike and said,
“Dispatch, this is unit sixteen, inform Perth general hospital that I am bringing in an officer in need of immediate medical attention!”
Jeff drove as fast as he could, but Tim died two blocks from the hospital. The man who shot him was never found.
Jeff laid down in his bed and tried to fall asleep, and within five minutes, he was successful.

The next morning, Jeff was awakened by the beeping of a electric clock on the wall. He looked up and saw that it 9:30.
“Uhhg.” Jeff said and put his face in his pillow.
Jeff heard the door open.
“Still in bed are we?” Jeff heard Alex say.
Jeff grunted.
“get up, I have brought you some breakfast.”
Jeff realized that he hadn’t eaten in 51 years, he found this strangely funny. He sat up in his bed.
“Thanks” he said. Alex handed him a plate of eggs and bacon. It was obviously freeze dried bacon and powdered eggs, but Jeff wasn’t complaining. Alex sat down in the chair next to the bed.
“I am sure that there are a few questions that you wish to be answered.”
“Hell ya!” Jeff said between mouthfuls. “Why was I frozen, why wasn’t I unfrozen sooner and why the hell am I in Germany!?”
Alex sighed.
“I suppose I should start from the beginning. You must understand, I was only four when all this started, so some of the details may be a bit fuzzy. I am afraid that your being here is the result of you being in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you had not gone in to the labs on that day, you would still be just another cop in 2008. My father was arrested soon after you were frozen, the labs were raided by the police three days after you failed to return to the precinct…”
“But why wasn’t I thawed once the labs were raided?” Jeff interrupted.
“the freezing and preservation agents used in the freezing process has a shelf life of 51 years, these chemicals attach themselves living brain and body tissue so that there is no way any part of your body will wake up while you were in the cryo chamber, but there is a negative effect to them, the body registers them as viruses, so if the person is awake and active, that persons white blood cells would begin to attack the rest of the body killing off most of the persons cells, but once the chemical expires, it dies of, therefore it is no longer a threat, so the person can be unfrozen.”
“ok… but why am I in Germany?” Jeff asked.
“well, Force-tech is no longer privately owned, they were taken over by Prometheus, in 2040, five years after the U.S. fell, the CEO thou…”
“Wait a sec.” Jeff interrupted. “The United states of America fell?!”
“Yes, in 2035” Alex said. “Anyway, the CEO of Prometheus was very paranoid and was worried that the trend would spread to Canada, so he…”
“Did it?” Jeff interrupted again.
“It became a federal republic. As I was saying, the CEO thought it would be safe to relocate all property and experiments to Germany, where the main head quarters are located.”
“Hmmm…… any thing else I should know?” Jeff asked.
“uhh……well this next one may come as a bit of a shocker.” Alex replied.
“And all this wasn’t?” Jeff said
“Okay.” Alex said. “In 2036 the European army begun to experiment with genetics. And they seceded; the result was the perfect solder, part man, part cat, stronger, faster, and over all better. They were created to be used as a weapon in case we fell in to war, but the war never came, and the info slipped that they were created and then the were released in to society, and live among us to this day.”
There was a short silence, and then;
“Bullshit.” Jeff said.
“excuse me?”
“I said that is all bullshit. It’s not nice to try to trick somebody who’s been through such a traumatic experience.”
“Now, why do you think that that I made it up?” Alex asked.
“Because it has been tried before.”
Alex raised his eyebrow.
“In ’02 the u.s. government tried something like what you described and it was found that human and animal DNA just aren’t compatible.”
Alex sighed. “If that is what you wish to believe.” He stood up. “You will be in for quite a shock”
“Whatever.” Jeff said. “Where are you going?”
“I am going to get my tools to start your testing. I will be back in three minutes”
“ ‘kay” Jeff said and laid down.
Twenty minutes later Alex had tested Jeff’s pulse, brain activity, blood pressure, reflexes and all that jazz. It turned out that Jeff was in fact in perfect health. Alex packed up his ‘health kit’ and stood up and said;
“For the next week we will be teaching you the fundamentals to re insert yourself in to society.”
“I’ll be going back to Canada, Right?” Jeff asked.
“I am afraid not.” Alex responded.
“Why the hell not?”
Alex explained why he couldn’t go back to Canada with extreme detail. When he finished, Jeff said;
“Huh, that makes perfect sense.”
“I thought so.” Alex replied.
“So….how are we going to go about putting me back in to society? I don’t even speak German.”
“We will teach you the basics and the give you a translator. But the first thing we must do is introduce you to the Sphinx’s.”
“What’s?”
“The Sphinx’s, those genetic experiments I told you about.”
“Oh, not that shit again.” Jeff said.
“I suggest you brace your self.” Alex said and got up and stuck his head out the door and beckoned to somebody near the door;
“Schwester, würden sie bitte kurz herkommen?”
The words ‘brace yourself’ had planted some worry in Jeff mind, since the last time they were used he, found out he was in the future, But Jeff still held the belief that no large cat person would walk through the door, until……
“HOLY SHIT!!!”
……a large cat person walked through the door. It was a large orange and black stripped female tiger sphinx wearing a nurse’s uniform.
“WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!?!” Jeff yelled as his hart raced and he backed himself up against a wall.
“It’s a sphinx.” Alex said
“KEEP IT AWAY FROM ME!!” Jeff yelled breathing hard.
The sphinx pushed the air in front of her and said in a thick German accent “please, try to stay calm.”
“DEAR GOD, IT CAN TALK!” Jeff yelled and felt his left arm go numb, and then sharp pains shoot through his hart.
“GAH!” he yelled “my hart!”
“Herr Doktor, er hat einen Herzinfarkt!” the sphinx said to Alex.
"Ja” Alex said and pulled a syringe out of his pocket and took off the cap. He ran up to Jeff and stuck it in his neck.
Almost immediately, Jeff felt the thoughts in his mind go fuzzy.
“Ya know,” he said trying to keep his balance. “I’m gettin real tired of this shit.”
At this point Jeff passed out……

This post has been edited by johnny boy on Oct 25 2008, 09:08 PM

All right, this is getting really, really good, now!
You really put some effort in this, I really like that. You also catched the shock of the hero about his situation really good. He is still in the shock and denial phase yet, and but he is slowly sliding into the anger, fear and despair phase, the acceptance phase will follow.
Now for the criticism: First of all, check for typos, there are quite a few, nothing terrible but a reader will notice it.
I like the flashback, its important to learn more about the character, but it makes you wonder if this will be of importance later in the story.
Force-tech couldn´t be taken over by Prometheus in 2035 since the company was formed in 2040. Sorry, I should have told you that earlyer, so I guess thats my fault.
Why can´t he go back to Canada? You should explain that not only to the hero but also to the reader. I don´t really see why he shouldn´t be able to return sooner or alter since Canada is a safe, prospering country. You really should clear that up.
I think its a good idea that they will try to help him to adapt to the time, maybe they could do that in some kind of "group therapy" with the other victims, if they are still alive.
I really like that you tried german, even thou it is totally wrong in a charming way. The first one should be "Schwester, würden sie bitte kurz herkommen?", the second one made me laugh actually because you wrote "Doctor, he has a stag (in the meaning of male deer) attack!" I guess you meant here "Herr Doktor, er hat einen Herzinfarkt!" the answer should be "Ja."
I liked this chapter very much, and I´m courious what will happen next. I´m also curious if you will introduce the other three victims.

Thanks,
Why cant he go back to Canada? I have actually been trying to figure that out for myself for some time now, I was toying with the idea of the Canadian government declaring them legally dead, but I don’t think that would work out to well….I sort of meant that whole only Jeff hears why as a joke, but it was mostly me trying to get around something. I was kind of hoping that somebody on this forum could help me out with that, because other than the death idea, I am fresh out of ideas. Anybody?
I DO intend to include the other ‘victims.’ They will become a semi-important part of the story, with a few parts on thing that happens to them in this new world, but the story will stay mainly focused around Jeff.

As for the language barriers, I know my German sucks, mainly because I don’t speak it or even know any body who dose. I was wondering if there are any good translators that you could recommend, because I have to use Babel fish, and as you can see, it’s not that great.

The only logical reason why he can´t return is that the doc wants to keep him close for longtime observation, just to see what the long time effects of the cryotasis are, lets say after a half year or so. But thats a bit shakey since for a checkup every few month he could fly over. Hmmm, I don´t know. There is in fact no really logical reason why he can´t return home.
I´m really curious what you plan for the other victims. I wish for Jeff that there is a nice girl amog them, someone he can relate to in this new world.
Here is a quite good translator:
http://www.online-translator.com/
Its not perfect, but by far better than crappy bablefish.

Anything new on the story?

I am sorry to say that there has not been as much work on the story as I would have liked, school has started to take up most of my life, (science is a Bitch!) Don’t worry though, I have not forgotten about it, I will update as soon as I can

Thats okay. Take your time. I was just wondering.