Battle of Pike

The Battle of Pike, sometimes also called the Red Day of Pike, was an armed confrontation between one heavily armed Abnormal, several local Abnormal vigilantes, members of the Sol Braun Police Department (SBPD) and members of the Ellatora State Military Reserve throughout the city of Sol Braun from March 4 to March 6, 1997. The perpetrator was captured after he killed the vigilantes who confronted him, killed 275 others and wounded 934 more

BACKGROUND
One month before the incident, Malyko took notice of the news reports on the Sol Braun abnormal vigilante Faceless, whose true identity was latter revealed to be that of ? Kudrow.

Malyko concluded from the video footage and available pictures of Faceless that the masked vigilante was likely a man he had met previously in 1993, during the Battle of Brooli in Valsan. Kudrow was responsible for the deaths of Malyko's fellow soldiers, both abnormal s themselves.

PREPARATION
Dalkro traveled to Newland to exact his revenge, renting a mansion in the city of Sol Braun. It was here that he organised his firearms, ammunition and equipment for the confrontation. His plan was simple: to attract Faceless to him by causing havoc. He believed Faceless would appear before him when it became apparent that he (Malyko) was an abnormal and as such the weapons of the police would be insufficient. He decided to target the Western State Bank in Pike, the neighborhood where Faceless had recently been seen.

MARCH 4
Dalkro left his rented house and drove to the Western State Bank in Pike. At 9:05 a.m. he parked in the front parking area of the bank.

As Dalkro approached the building, officers James Willock & Michael Pascal noticed the man as they drove past. Willock issued the call on the radio of a possible armed robbery.

At 9:30 a.m., Malyko Dalkro entered the bank and fired several shots into the ceiling. He instructed everyone inside to remain calm, quiet and to gather behind the bank's counters. According to the bank staff and customers, Dalkro spoke and acted calmly and even offered them the option to sit or stand if they chose. He even approached one of the customers, a ten year old with his mother, and apologized for scarring him with the earlier gunshots. After everyone followed his orders, Dalkro proceeded to put on a tactical vest and produced from one of his bags an SIG SG 550 assault rifle with an attached grenade launcher and a belt of nail bombs.

Outside, the first-responding officers heard gunfire from the bank and made another radio call for additional units before taking cover behind their patrol car, weapons trained on the bank doors. While Dalkro was still inside, more patrol and detective units arrived and took strategic positions at all four corners of the bank, effectively surrounding it.

At 9:45 minutes Malyko exited the bank and almost immediately began firing, all with the gun, launcher and the bombs. The police fired back. It was during this time that suspicions of Dalkro being an Abnormal were suggested, as multiple bullets struck him but failed to puncture the skin and produce blood. Dalkro fired bullets and grenades for five minutes both at a distance and at close range, before returning inside the bank at 9:50 a.m. 4 people were now dead and 12 were injured.

At 10:03 a.m. Dalkro once again exited the building. This time however he emerged on the roof of the building, brandishing his rifle. From his elevated position, Dalkro unleashed bullets from each corner and along all walls. It was here that his status as an Abnormal was confirmed as he utilized inhuman speed and leaping to quickly move from one point on the roof to another. After 8 minutes of shooting, Dalkro returned to within the building.

At 10:20 a.m. Faceless/Kudrow arrived on the scene, brandishing a car door which he threw through the front glass doors. Dalkro emerged less than two minutes later, now brandishing not only his assault rifle but also two Beretta handguns, a knife, a large cleaver-like sword and a belt of nail bombs. The two stood motionless for over a minute before Dalkro opened fire. Kudrow evaded the bullets and moved from location repeatedly. The officers and detectives continued firing at Dalkro, though he remained focused solely on Kudrow. Kudrow tookcover behind a car as Dalkro exhausted his rifle ammunition.