A Sample of Stories About the Cell Block Tango

"A Sample of Stories About the Cell Block Tango" is a chapter in *With Pearl and Ruby Glowing: Part 3*.

## Plot

Shortly after the police corruption made the news, several people explain to the Palace their experiences with the corrupt cops or discuss how their rapists were hurt by them.

### Another Story about “Snowflake” and “Raven”

Kitty and Jim weren't hurt by the cops, but it looked like they planned to, and they also thought that Jim was the one to rape Kitty. If Mickey hadn't come to the station to get them out, then the cops probably would have been able to hurt them

### Another Story about “Gandhi”

Bagheera apologizes for not saying anything the first time and explains that he tried to ask for protective custody, only for the cops to rape him due to what he was being accused of. He didn't say anything about it because he didn't want anymore trouble with them.

### Another Story about “Cottontail”

Before Bugs' incident with Cecil, he and Daffy were held contempt of court and imprisoned. He allowed the cops to take him so Daffy wouldn't get hurt, and also witnessed them assault others when he later had to be questioned for something else. Bugs didn't say anything because he thought people wouldn't believe him, but people found out anyway.

### Another Story about "Duckling"

Daffy's amnesia meant that he couldn't remember all the assaults the cops did to him. On the day Huan's happened, he was assaulted again and an officer, Jia Biao, took him to the hospital so he could get a forensic exam, but he still didn't remember even though he was bleeding. When Bugs got a call from the police station, Daffy tried to deny it, but Bugs yelled at him and he realized what happened.

### A Story about “Doll"

Lola Coelho was taken in on her 21st birthday because she got in an accident and they thought she was drunk. She didn't see anything wrong with what they did to her because they were cops. When Bugs told Lola what the cops did to him, she admitted the same thing happened to her, but Bugs pointed out that they tricked her and it was illegal for them to do that.

### A Story about “Sweetie” and “Faust”

Typhon Corantin had tried to help Salem blow up the bridge years ago and took a plea deal, which caused Salem to hate him. Typhon was assaulted more often by the cops because he's not white, and after his release, Laquetta Cefiro helped him with grocery shopping while he was under house arrest. Salem ended up assaulted by the cops when he was sent back to prison for helping Sabrina, and after the corruption came out, he apologized to Typhon for being mad at him.

### Another Story about “Firecracker”, “Lucky”, and “Delinquent”

Yang, Miles, and Duncan's families had been friends with some of those officers. Yang and Miles feel betrayed, but Duncan doesn't because he knew that something was fishy with the police department

### A Story about “Xiao Riben” and “Token”

Mayu and Masaru's father, before he was killed by other prisoners, was assaulted by the cops and one of them, Tomor Vachir, hated him because of tensions between the Japanese and Chinese. One of their foster mothers, Jenny Seto, had suspicions about the cops being physically abusive, not knowing that it was worse than that, and confronted Vachir, who told her that Lin Beifong wouldn't believe her because Lin is Chinese, so she said nothing until Huan's assault happened. As it turns out, Lin harbors no hatred of the Japanese and actually had a Japanese father.

### A Story about “Metalhead”

Robbie Valentino vandalized a water tower and the cops assaulted him in lockup. He became depressed afterwards, and after the cops were exposed, Wendy told him about the Palace.

### More Stories about “Twig”, “Chubby”, “Gingersnap”, “Strawberry”, “Junkie”, and “Space Cadet”

Timon, Pumbaa, Todd, Vixey, and Julien were taken in while drunk, so they don't remember clearly what the cops did to them. One time, Julien was with Diane Pie and Tahno Varrick, but afterwards Diane found semen in her underwear, so she and Julien thought Tahno did it. The forensic kit was tampered with and they thought Tahno's father had something to do with it. Julien found out it was the corrupt cops when they were caught, but Diane went missing beforehand and doesn't know the truth.

### Another Story about “Burnout”

Monty relapsed and did cocaine, but someone reported him and the cops assaulted him in jail. He tried to crash his car to kill himself, but he survived and the corruption issue came out while he was in the hospital.

### A Story about “Princess”

Flynn Rider is trans and grew up in Leonard McLeish's children's home. He wasn't adopted, so he started shoplifting. The cops threatened to tell people in prison about Flynn being trans, so he let them have their way. One time, he snuck into Rapunzel's yard after robbing a jewelry store with the Sanditon brothers and he and Rapunzel started dating. Gothel ended up arrested for stealing things and is not Rapunzel's real mother, so Rapunzel went to stay with Wilhelmina Tweedy. Flynn got a call from Lin about the cops and he isn't sure if he wants to testify,

### A Story about “Sugar”

When Rex Candy was arrested for tax fraud, the cops initially didn't want anything to do with him, but once the videos of him abusing his kids were found, they started assaulting him. His heart gave out from old age and the cops cleaned him up so the coroner didn't think anything of it. Penelope heard what happened from her siblings, who overheard Calhoun mentioning it to Felix. Cicero's father found out from the news and told him, thinking that he would be happy, but he isn't because he feels that raping criminals isn't justice.

### More of the Story about “Darlin’”

Marian's statement about William Grey had been tampered with and there was no evidence, so she couldn't get the marriage annulled. Her fiancé Robin Hood left to get something for her, but said he found someone else never came back, which made her suspicious. Marian got a call about the cops and was just disappointed since she still doesn't know what happened to Robin.

### Another Story about “Sherlock”

Basil apologizes for not noticing anything wrong before. When the corruption was revealed, Ratigan claimed to Lin that he had no idea and said that Basil might have known something. Lin got mad at Basil for not noticing, but he felt she had a point. He thinks that Dawson hates him for it, and also hates himself.