In Course of Power

**In Course of Power** is the eighth case of Criminal Case: Mystery in the Americas. It is the seventy-eight case overall. The third case in Central America. It is situated in Colón, Panama

* Previous Case: Blast of Past
* Next Case: Two Lives of Felony
* Partner: Amaya Fleckenburg

## Plot

In the city of Colón a festival dedicated to furries was being held and there was clash between Cobras Azuis and Los Perros. The festival still hadn’t started and there was fist fighting being held. Amaya says that her fist fighting lesson would come in handy and we go the festival which was ruined before it was started. We go there and see destruction everyone and there we see fist fighting and we manage to stop that, there was a body which we found there, and the body's face was covered with punches. We seal the area and ask Natalia if she recognised the woman, she says it was Marisol Distefano, one lf their members who shouldn’t be here, we interrogate Natalia what she meant by that, she tells us that Marisol was a mere cook for them, saying that her only job was to make them food, she however says that she had unexpected talent of manipulation and embezzlement. We continue with our investigation and we later find out that Elaine seemingly appeared here for no reason, and now Amaya was more suspicious of her now, we interrogate her she says she can’t take it anymore saying that the gang keep telling her to join them saying that her family for ages had been associated with them, we were know more suspicious that if she really was that and interested that how long they have been operating.

Back at the station, we find out that Mary Ann was off for the day because her ex-husband had filed lawsuit against her so Antonella is replacing her for the day, we had found some DNA on the victim's spatula and it belonged to someone named Guillermo Federico, we interrogate him, he tells us that recently Marisol had been quite suspicious saying that the food she makes is contaminated, saying that she also hasn’t been responding enough to them, saying she has something else to do. Amaya asks if it was something else, Manuel comes to us saying that he recently found out that Froy had been trying to break up with Elaine but she somehow manages to get back at him, Amaya says that Froy is such a simp saying that he couldn’t have enough of her, and Manuel agrees saying that he was dumb to possess feelings for him which he doesn’t anymore, and Amaya says she is proud of him saying that Froy should realise Elaine's reality and maybe that time he could realise, Braxton approaches us saying that he has found Rafael harassing a girl.

Mid investigation, Braxton tells he found Rafael harassing a girl saying that he tried to stop him but he kept doing it and he slapped him for good but he was still doing it, we interrogate Rafael and Amaya slaps him for that, he says that she will pay saying that his masters would take revenge, we know that he was just being used by them as a pawn and we should do something to help him out. Later we see Manuel and Froy in a heated argument, where Manuel says that he is just a big ass simp and Froy says that he is same but Manuel says "At least I was able to satisfy people, unlike you, who has such a small carrot", Froy then stops and goes off in anger and Manuel does the same and Floramaria says that we are not being able to hold on the feuds between members. This wasn’t enough after we had enough to deal with. Following that, we figure out that there was another Los Perros member possibly a furry named Ricardo Torres, who had been an enthusiast of furry art, or most likely explicit content, so we interrogate Ricardo about it who tells us that he doesn’t know what happened with Marisol, saying that she was Cobras Azuis not Los Perros, though he tells us that recently she has been keen to join them because their criteria is much more different than Cobras Azuis. This feud between the two had ruined enough lives of people, but we wanted to know what was the root of this, and for that we interrogate Natalia, who possibly knew about it, she says that Cobras Azuis had been operating in the shadows since 1673, and Los Perros was founded in 1921, and Cobras Azuis was independence movement from Portugal and Spain respectively.

After getting information from Natalia, we get a call from Mary Ann seeing that her ex husband is suing her saying that he deserved her assets, she says that she needs some assistance so we send Lovisa there. After that, Rafael comes to us, now he says that he wants to escape from this madness, but he is too afraid because Los Perros would murder him, Amaya says that they will save him, he tells us that he was forced against his will to harass girls saying that they started to treat him after Jaime's death, saying that he wants to find his real parents. Amaya sympathises with him. At the precinct, we were discussing details, suddenly group of furries attack the department.

Mid investigation, we find out that group of furries have attacked our department, Braxton goes out when group of teenage boys and girls attack him, attempting to grope him, but Braxton uses his invention and all of them fall away, Manuel asks if he was alright, he said he was, we later know Ricardo was the one behind it, we interrogate him, he tells us that he wanted to scare us away telling us that Marisol betrayed her own gang, joining their own gang for some other reasons, though we don’t know if he was saying the truth or not. After a few while, we further that Cobras Azuis was started by the native population and was assisted by the Warburton family from Scotland, meaning Elaine's family had been associated with them for a long time. Though at the same time, we receive a call from Lovisa, who tells us that the case between Mary Ann and her husband is cold, saying that her husband is forcing her to give half of her assets to him even though he has no right for it, she says that Mary Ann is sending her back as the case could get prolonged. Much later, Braxton says that his new invention would let him see the past or maybe even the future, Amaya debunks it saying it’s not true, but Braxton says he is, saying that he saw the Dissolution of Soviet Union and even 9/11, but Amaya it’s not possible. We proceed to find clues later on

In the end, we had enough evidence to incriminate Ricardo Torres for the murder. Upon admitting, Ricardo says that Marisol deserved to die saying that she had more sinister plans for destroying both Los Perros and Cobras Azuis, saying that she wanted to form her own third organisation, which had more sinister causes, he says that recently she had been feeding her own members contaminated food hoping they would so she could confiscate their wealth, and later also planned for Los Perros saying that she wanted to bomb the entire department of theirs, so she could also take their wealth and become rich from it, he says that she recently heard about the nuclear weapons they had been developing, saying that she wanted to use this to destroy the entire country because the root of all evil started here, saying she wanted to built her own organisation on the same land, Cobras Azuis didn’t know about this, saying the two already had enough feud that the third would be ruckus, though until this wasn’t enough to murder her, but recently she found out their biggest and darkest secret, and that secret was something they had murdered 500+ people for hiding, so he was assigned to kill her, when the two gangs would be engaged in fighting, he says that he lured her somewhere and begin to beat her as he had been professional, she tried to resist but he punched her on the face, her heart, which killed her saying that he was able to save his family from falling.

Judge Kingston sentenced him to life imprisonment. After the trial, Manuel tells us today is Braxton's birthday and we should definitely surprise him, Mary Ann returns to the department saying she has her last hearing today but the judge is in her favour. After a few while, Elaine comes to us saying that she wants to tell them that Natalia is actually betraying them saying that she gives of our information of ours moves to the dictator aka the leader. We talk to Natalia who tells us that she already left Los Perros saying that she had enough of this madness and she is now free and could lead a simple life, though we prepare for the birthday celebration of Braxton. We ask Floramaria if we could celebrate it somewhere in the restaurant, she says she already has planned her in her chalet in Panama, we were now more intrigued what exactly would be there, so we later get there and we see a grand party with all the theme of DC as Braxton liked it, while we were preparing for him to surprise him, he says he wanna show us something, about the Time Machine thing he made, we all gather in his lab, and he activates his Time Machine and the screen in his lab shows some events that happened in history, as one slide show the 1900s, where we could see people, though a shadow appears and the screen turns off. Amaya just says that he probably fooled us but Lovisa believes it.

Much later we take Braxton to the venue, and there it was all his liking, and we prank him buy turning the light off but we dumb fucks didn’t realise he had purple eyes lens which made him clearly in the dark, as we open the lights and wish him, he cuts the Batman themed cake, which was actually strawberry, his favourite. After we cut the cake, it was time for feast, when we go the room our soup left our body as the entire room was ruined and the food had disappeared without any trace, and there was blood everywhere, and some weird ass old writing which was incomprehensible, though there was a message written with blood "All my eyes are on you" and was signed by someone called "La Cegua", Floramaria says that we all should beware saying that La Cegua is a Nicaraguan mythical legend takes the form of a woman with backwards-facing feet. In all curiosity, we saw Elaine and Froylan again having their private time at the table, and Floramaria doesn’t say anything saying that she couldn’t so anything but just see. Back at the station, Braxton analyses the writing and says it was Runic language which translates to "Neither Los Perros nor Cobras Azuis, you have another rival to come through", this was alarming as with having an urban legend on our hands there was someone threatening us. We receive a call from Alejandra saying La Cegua's terror is rising in all of Nicaragua, and we head there.

## Suspects

Natalia Cabrera

Los Perros Member

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect uses sunscreen
* The Suspect knows lock picking

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect has black hair

Elaine Warburton

Suspicious Woman

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect eats tomato soup
* The Suspect uses sunscreen
* The Suspect knows lock picking

Guillermo Federico

Cobras Azuis Member

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect eats tomato soup
* The Suspect knows lock picking

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect has black hair

Rafael Delgado

Teenage Gang Member

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect eats tomato soup
* The Suspect uses sunscreen
* The Suspect knows lock picking

Ricardo Torres

Los Perros Member

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect eats tomato soup
* The Suspect uses sunscreen
* The Suspect knows lock picking

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect has black hair

## Killer's Profile

* The Killer eats tomato soup
* The Killer uses sunscreen
* The Killer knows lock picking
* The Killer has black hair
* The Killer has O+ blood type