Jack and Jill went up the hill, and only Jack came back down.

[ctu_savior]

WHO: Jack Bauer and OPEN
WHERE: The skies above the City.
WHEN: The following takes place between 11AM and 12PM, on Friday. Events occur in real time.
WARNINGS: Possible violence, if someone gives Jack an excuse to use those guns.
SUMMARY: The Bauercopter is complete and Jack takes it for a spin.
FORMAT: Paragraph/quick.

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[ctu_savior]

They were down on the street below, four young men in t-shirts and wifebeaters kicking and beating a fifth on the sidewalk, right there in broad daylight. There was no one else on the street; any bystanders had fled for fear of being the next target, along with whoever had called it in.

The thugs looked up as the sound of the Bauercopter's rotors filled the air. It was looming above them, and Bauer's voice boomed from its loudspeakers. "THIS IS THE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. YOU ARE UNDER ARREST. STEP AWAY FROM THE MAN, GET DOWN ON THE GROUND, AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD. DO IT NOW, OR WE WILL OPEN FIRE." Jack's hands worked at the control panel, powering up the helicopter's guns to their 'heavy stun' setting.

Below, the goons yelled obscenities at the helicopter, showed the middle finger, and then took off running, splitting in two directions. "Damn it," Jack grumbled as he increased altitude and activated the chopper's targeting scanners, telling them to aim the guns for center-of-mass while his finger tensed on the trigger on the helicopter's control stick. There was a series of whirrs and clicks, and then a beeping noise telling him he had a lock. He squeezed the trigger.

It lasted less than two seconds. There was a zap-zap-zap-zap, two brilliant blue bolts shooting with lightning speed from each gun as the turrets independently tracked their targets, and then all four perpetrators were lying motionless on the ground. Jack gave a little smile of satisfaction.

"Yusuke, I gotta go down there and make sure the victim's okay," he said as he turned on the autopilot and got out of his seat. "I need you to keep the helicopter hovering over this point and to call the paramedics, and a couple squad cars for backup to take these guys in. Can you do that?"

[spiritgun_punk]

Clearly Jack and his helicopter had this situation under control. Yusuke wasn't really used to combat type situations where he could kick back and enjoy the show, but apparently this was the moment. He settled for sticking his whole upper body out the window and yelling obscenities right back down at the targets. Hey, Yusuke spoke their language, even if he'd been raised in Japan. Punks were punks.

The gun was impressive. "That was...quicker than I thought." Yusuke sounded something between impressed and put out. The whole chase thing had been exciting. Crap. Hopefully there would be someone defacing property around the corner or something. He wedged himself back into the helicopter, then made to clamber over into the driver's seat. Fuck yes, a turn to drive it. "Are you going to do that rope-fast thing?"

[ctu_savior]

Jack's answer was to open the helicopter's side door and drop a length of rope to the street below. "Consider this a demonstration!" He yelled over the thunder of the Bauercopter's rotors. "If anything goes wrong, comm me!" He pointed to the communicator at his waist, then pulled on a pair of gloves, attached a clip between his belt and the rope, took hold of the rope with his hands and feet, and dropped from the helicopter.

Jack hit the ground moving, landing in a crouch as he unclipped himself from the rope and drew his sidearm. He swept the street as he crossed to the victim and knelt by him.

A moment later he was yelling into his communicator. "Yusuke, he's hurt bad. Tell the paramedics to hurry!"

[spiritgun_punk]

The manuever with the rope was going right onto Yusuke's list of things to learn to do. Jack made it look easy, and Yusuke might as well add jumping out of helicopters to the list of dangerous things he liked to do. It didn't look all that hard. Maybe he could practice with Puu.

Yusuke was literally touching every button within arm's reach. Turns out there was actually a pretty decent radio in here. With a CD player. Puu's hovering alongside the copter at this point, so Yusuke was shouting out a narration as to what this crap was and how fucking cool it was that he was flying a helicopter when Jack's voice came crackling over the comm.

"I'm on it." He picked up his own communicator and pressed a few buttons, and then harassed the emergency operator for a few minutes until he heard sirens, and the ambulance had come to a stop on the street below.

[ctu_savior]

Once the victim and the perpetrators had been loaded onto their respective vehicles, Jack was left with the little detail of getting back into his helicopter. He clipped himself back onto the rope and comm'd Yusuke. "There should be a button on the right for retracting the rope, hit it and it should pull me up!"

[ooc: I found the Bauercopter's theme song.]

[spiritgun_punk]

"Uh...okay." Yusuke looked around. He'd just punched every button, where the hell...and so commenced a ten minute search for the button that had apparently been conveniently located on his armrest. Sneaky damn helicopters. "You stop laughing." He told Puu, before pushing the button and watching as the rope reeled Jack in.

[ooc: Haha those lyrics are glorious. So fitting, I don't even.]