Plotbunnies, Pastebin, and Wishlist Thread #2

[robkelk]

Something that we've been kicking around for a while, but this is the first actual scene any of us have written for it. If only Mulder and Scully knew enough to ask the Jack of Kinrowan about these nine riders...

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Fox picked up the latest police report and read a paragraph from it. "'Dashboard camera footage shows that the victims' car was run off the road by two Ford F-150 pickup trucks. The drivers of the trucks then got out of their vehicles and shot both victims, claiming that this was the treatment that they thought a mixed-race couple deserved. The shooters then returned to their vehicles and left the scene of the crime. Three minutes after that, a group of nine motorcyclists dressed in black and riding black Harley-Davidson Softail motorcycles stopped at the scene, without dismounting from their motorcycles. The female victim asked for their help, succumbing to her wounds while doing so. One of the riders looked at the dashboard camera for exactly a half minute, withdrew what appeared to be a hunting horn from his pocket, and sounded a single note on the horn. All nine of the riders then drove off in the same direction as the shooters. The bodies of the shooters were discovered in the burnt-out shells of their trucks the following morning.'"

"What makes this an X-File, Mulder?"

"Isn't it obvious, Scully? The riders knew who to go after without having seen the dashcam footage. How could they do that without paranormal powers of some sort?"

Dana frowned. "If you're right, then there's a group of metahuman vigilantes out there."