LP:EQO Songbird Scroll

 Song Scroll dove towards the forest, and Blue Yonder followed. They flew just barely above the tops of the trees, avoiding the occasional branch.

"Seek!" Blue Yonder yelled, and rose violently up into the white puffy clouds. It was one of the last glorious warm days of Harvest Fall.

She flew in the clouds, trying to hide from Song Scroll while still heading towards Canterlot. Poking her head out from the bottom of the cloud, she saw Song Scroll approaching, and then they crashed, tumbling through the damp cloud.

She recovered, descending to watch as a hill slowly rose up out of the forest until it ended at a mighty cliff face. 

"Speed," Song Scroll shouted back at her and they were racing again.

They descended closer to the ground as they approached Canterlot and then landed and approached the shopping district on foot.

"There's a couple of stores that sell music players. Maybe we should look at the Electronics hobby shops too if you want to modify something to make your karaoke."

"You seem pretty excited," she commented.

"I kinda became the default electronics girl in town because the studio needed so much stuff. And we watch movies at my shop too, so I had to do more electronics stuff to support that. I don't mind but it's not my favorite. Having someone else who enjoys this stuff, that's cool."

"Hobby electronics was kinda behind the times in the before. Only a true wizard would chose that kind of thing. Everything was already ready made, but here, I mean I guess karaoke could just be a start."

At the music electronics store, Song Scroll showed her the square discs songs could be stored on. Song Scroll put 6 to 8 songs on her discs, but it depended on how long the songs were.

"I might need your help recording some songs -- songs that don't exist here. I want to make Hobby bluffs versions of them of course," she said, amused.

"That's my kind of jam!" Song Scroll shouted. 

The musician was more excited after that, coming up with thoughts about translating songs and helping with building Yonder's first equipment setup.

♫Talking about my Ho-b-by-thon♫

"Not quite right, but close," Song Scroll said. "Let me try another one."

"This one's my favorite," Scroll replied.

♫I said, "Yep, what a concept, I could use a little fuel myself
And we could all use a little change"♫

"Yeah All-Star is pretty cool, there's a few of the verses I haven't sang yet that need changing, but mostly it just fits."

I took a simple cheat tablet from the Device store, and then added peripherals to feed the audio from the tablet to the new speakers that I'd bought. But the main thing I needed to make it all work, was software. I also wanted to do some kind of cool lighting that would flash and change with the song, plus it gave me more excuses to learn electronics hobby stuff. I had to have the books I would need sent by mail, because we already had to much to carry back.

All in all, I had to take out a 2000 bit loan, which had me all nervous, because I knew what loans did to people in the before. and I didn't want too much pressure, even though I was excited now.

Song Scroll talked me down. 

"Remember this part of All Star?"

I had been singing new parts of the song as we waited for the Pony express, and Song Scroll sang her favorite.

So, what's wrong with taking the backstreets?
You'll never know if you don't go (go!)
You'll never shine if you don't glow

"Who do I talk to if I can't make a payment, and what's the interest rate?" I asked. Honestly Song Scroll probably didn't know but she could put me in the right direction.

"Celestia runs all the loans, so she'll keep in touch with you about your progress. But if it doesn't work, you just return the items you purchased, what's left of them at least. There's no payments until you're ready to pay off the whole loan. I paid off mine last year, and it was 15000 bits," Scroll said.

The Pony express was a quiet train, I was able to store my new purchases in an unused train car, and they were off.

"I think All Star is the first song I want to record, Ponies are going to love this! You'll never shine if you don't glow, that's like the Pony anthem right there! Thanks Blue!"

"No problem Scroll. Let's see what I can figure out. Maybe in 3 weeks I'll have a really clunky goofy setup, but we can try it. If you see Joy or White Rose before me, bring up the idea of having a testing night."

* * 

"Hey Mayor!" Song Scroll said as she entered his office, practicing hopping and gliding every other step. She finished the apple fritter and wiped her mouth.

"Hey, you're pretty happy. What's up?"

"I've got some new songs I want to record. I'm really excited about one of them, but I want to give a writing credit to Blue Yonder on them. Can you do that Copyright magic again. Once I'm done in the studio."

"Sure thing Scroll. So our newcomer's got more of an artistic bent than I thought."

"You'll see. Just wait."

* *

Joy Thespian tended to be louder than most ponies, but every thespian knew that when the play started, it was time to be silent. She ran the recording equipment in silence, watching Songbird Scroll sing the new Hobby Bluffs smash hit.

She liked to help scroll wherever she could. She added in the piano accompaniment, while Scroll wrote the vocal part and the drums.

They didn't have any live piano or drums, it was all electronically created by the software Scroll had purchased and tweaked.

Mixing songs was a new skill for her, and she and Scroll would probably go back and forth on how to do it.

It was like Christmas in Spooky Fall. She never would have guessed Blue Yonder would have joined their little performance night or become good friends with Scroll so quickly. She obviously had her own specialty, they all did, but still enjoyed helping out and getting excited about the same stuff she and Songbird Scroll got excited about. 

"How was that take?" Scroll asked.

"I like it. I liked all of them," Joy said. "I think that would is one of the best. Do you want to have Blue perform the song too and compare your performances?"

"I'll see if Blue's done with her work today."

Blue Yonder had rented a shop on 2nd street, just a block away from the studio.

Scroll took off her headphones and stepped away from the recording area. "I'll send her a Pear text."

Pear Computers were used all over the place in Equestria, although some people liked the Robo-social brand.

** 

Silver Metal was a young stallion with skills in metallurgy and welding.

He watched me like a hawk as I carefully welded the two circuit boards together. I wouldn't be doing any heavy duty welding, just light electronics stuff, so I didn't need some of the more advanced training, but I now had my goggles and lab coat just to keep me safe. 

I had to go back and get a full audio-production set of a equipment. I don't think Scroll realized I needed to take in the singer's audio input and then process it together with the non-vocal tracks of the song, that was in addition to getting the lyrics so I could display them on the tablet.

There would be a lot of settings to adjust in the audio in part of the device. This would not be a portable karaoke device, not for now. It would be something I could carry with a hand cart.

When I got done welding the extra logic board to the primary board, I put away my goggles and looked over to my Pear pad. There was a flashing message alert.

Something from Songbird Scroll.

I turned back to Silver Metal. He hadn't got his cutiemark yet, but he was sure to get it soon, I thought.

"How did I do?"

"Great job Blue, I'll come back tomorrow and you can practice a bit more."

Although the Karaoke machine was my major project and would keep me busy for a while, I decided to make my shop broader than that. I would get bored of just doing music all the time. 

I spent all morning studying my Audio Production and Signals Processing textbooks, and yesterday I spent a few hours reading some more Fundaments of E&M: Equestrian edition.

Some of physics was a bit different here, but a lot of the high level stuff was the same, the building blocks Celestia used were different. There was no quantum mechanics here, the high level reality of E&M was recreated through a different mechanism. I guess that would be in the later textbooks.

It was already 1 o'clock and I hadn't even had breakfast other than a quick bagel. There was so much to do and learn, and I really wanted to get a prototype of the Karaoke machine done, but I still wanted the backing tracks together with voice, so that meant more difficulty for my first project.

I decided to go meet Scroll and Joy at Scroll's studio and record a version of All Star. Might as well take a break anyway.

My head was still so full of project details that I forgot where I was going for a while and I had to turn around when I almost went back to the apartments on accident.

And then I bumped into Saber Artist.

* *

What the heck had happened to Blue Yonder, in the past few days. He had seen Songbird Scroll and some of the other ponies get obsessed with a new project, but Blue took it to a new level. 

She was still thinking about the project and not where she was walking he guessed. 

She was carrying two textbooks and didn't even really realize it, when they crashed. Blue had veered off, not realizing she passed Scroll's studio, and then wham, we crashed.

"Oh, high Saber. Uh, I've been really busy and my brain is just still moving even when I step out of the office. I have dreams at night where I think I've left a programmable board in a half-configured state, like I forgot to set half of the pins. Then I wake up and realize I'm having vivid dreams about my work again."

"You don't have to get everything done by some deadline, Blue. This is the time of year to slow down, take a deep breath. We've got some funny stuff planned for Halloween, don't stress."

"Well, I was going to record a song. Scroll's already done her version but she wanted to hear mine to compare. I don't know if she wants anyone else to hear it yet, but I can see."

"Let me ask Songbird Scroll, if she doesn't mind sure."

After Songbird Scroll said it was OK, Saber followed Blue Yonder inside. He hadn't seen Scroll's studio since it was being built. There were some locals that tried to steal Scroll's supplies.

Not the townspeople, but some pesky raccoons. Scroll had done a lot of upgrades.

Blue nervously talked to Joy and Scroll for a few minutes and then went into the recording booth.

Working nights did have it's privileges, as when the three mares wanted to go out for drinks to relax and try again tomorrow, he could come along. Of course, Hopricot was practically the place to be for the musically inclined. They had just opened when he followed Yonder, Scroll and Joy inside.

"I just took the words to the song, Blue gave them to me, I should have had her give me the notes too, the eighth notes and all that threw it off. That's OK though, I thought the song couldn't get any better. It's even catchier now."

Joy responded, "The way we say things is always key. Can't wait till we can all try it with karaoke."

"I'm so excited to make that happen, but I'm taking a break from the project this afternoon. I got a little overboard between reading my textbooks and working through lunch with Silver Metal."

LP:EQO Settling In

 I woke up Wednesday morning, soaring out of my balcony, headed down to the post office.

When I read the note that came with my giraffe fruit tree clipping I was a bit disappointed.

It was too late in the season. I needed to keep the sapling in a pot in my apartment until spring. I guess that wasn’t too bad.

I carefully brought the pot in and put it by the window to get some sun. I gave it a bit of water before going out for some flying practice. I wish I could meet those three funny fillies and go silly flying again. 

Whatever I’ll be silly by myself.

I approached my farm site by a silly indirect path flying looping paths climbing up to the highest white clouds and diving into the small Hobby lake before shivering and drying off as I spiraled and shimmies to the site.

Today I just took a stick, marking out some idea of how I wanted to organize my farm. I didn’t want to grow just one thing, I wanted to collect several oddball things to grow.

With only one giraffe sapling to start it would take a long time to get many of those trees growing around here. Giraffe fruit would stay a rare delicacy for now.

I marked off other orchard areas and veggie and fruit area for bushy fruits and veggies. Potatoes too, I blocked off a section just for that. I blocked off some other sections.  

I knew the dirt markings would be worn out over winter so I sketched the best representation I could have the lines I had made.

I would have Mr. Slumber come and cut down some of the trees that were in the way.

***

Just a Peach’s farm was beautiful. All the fruit had already been picked but I fly a couple laps around the orchard admiring the view,

I had never tried peach juice before coming to Hobby Bluffs but it was mixed with a bit of apple juice to give it a tart contrast. It was Very tasty.

I wanted to join up with the gardening, but Saber Artist and Cheery Tinsel convinced me to play capture the flag. Sodaglug made all the soft drinks in town out of his shop, and he was running the game.

This was one of my favorite games as a kid and even without being able to fly I did really well scoring 3 captures and rescuing our flag once.

We had dinner in Mrs. Peaches house. It was a nice place and the food was lovely too.

My before bed routine was to go out for a refreshing flight before bed, then brush my teeth, get into comfy clothes and get under the blankets and doze off.

Just one thing, I now had a silly habit of chatting with Saber in bed.

My tablet was old but easy to use in bed. And he had a lot of long boring hours at the police station.

Saber Artist: I gotta run, there’s some wild animals getting too close to town.

I should have fallen asleep, but I stayed up wait,

Saber Artist: back. Don’t know if you’re still awake.

Blue Yonder: I’m up, I’ll sleep in a bit kinda can’t wait till next spring to start my farm for real. What does everyone do all winter to keep busy?

Saber Artist: The mud winter season is the worst but before that the winter solstice is a big fun time to relax, bake and cook up awesome meals.

It’s nice to have some time of the year where you can wear the sweater auntie got you and stay inside with hot cocoa.

You should see the drinks people make up too.

Blue Yonder: fresh snow is nice too. The clear crisp air of a cold morning. I guess I don’t have to spend three months in classes without seeing anyone. 

Before, we always had a great solstice, but after that my family left and it was lonely. I had a student last year who I chatted with a bit. He was into games too. 

There was a game in the before where you could design your own village or town. Or maybe build a great big castle or pyramid. Most people used it to fight monsters , but i liked to build.

We talked about that game and some others. Otherwise I didn’t see anyone for 3-4 months except my coworkers, and students. 

I used to be excited about my thesis, but it was all about revising it so the boring parts.

Saber Artist: sounds awful, but I still say I want to be a student. You should teach a class.

Anyway, I miss my parents and shield bay sometimes but I love this little town. We’ve got to plan next month’s hobbythons. Any ideas?”

Blue Yonder: it’s not main activity worthy but I think I’ve modified a game from before that would be fun. It’s a game but also you have to play a character as part of the game. It’s also kinda a mystery game.

There’s villagers, some of them can do something special at night to investigate. And then there’s one or two clowns that want to pull a prank on the town.

The clowns try to pretend they are a villager, and make people think someone else is a clown. And you take a card that determines clown or villager. 

I want to be clown first, but I’m not going to tell anyone else. Then I can demonstrate how a good clown should be sneaky. It takes like 5 minutes per game so we could play a lot and laugh in between.

In the version before, we got so loud and carried away, but the clowns were werewolves. I don’t want to scare anyone with werewolves.

Oh I’m excited for thespian club on Mondays. I met Joy on Monday, and Song Scroll was there: we had a lot of fun.

 

Saber Artist: you should have dinner with me and auntie next week. 

Blue Yonder: sounds good.

*

The next week excitement was really building for the End of Summer festival.

Song Scroll and I helped fly up to the top of flag poles and put banners up on Monday.

 Pops Corn needed some help getting ready at his cornfields. They were pretty huge.

“Leave the ones the birds are picking over they can have em. I’ve gotta get the butter from Mrs. Moomoo. The corn butter station is key!”

Butterscotch showed up after a couple of hours. I had gathered up a row and a half of corn.

“Hey have you seen corn candy before? I’ve got some recipes. Or Caramel corn. That’s more Mrs. Corn’s thing though. But it’s so good.”

Pops showed back up after they were halfway done with the field. Both of them were exhausted but they kept cracking jokes to each other.

“I only asked for one row. This here Pops can do the rest. I’ll bring some over to you Butterscotch. And Blue Yonder, you just holler this spring and we’ll come help you get set up.”

Butterscotch agreed to go to Hopricot with me and then Saber Artist showed up so we had a nice group for the performing night.

“You know what Mr. apricot needs?” I said after a few drinks. 

Song Scroll clicked her glass, “what’s that?”

“A karaoke machine!”

“Hmm. What is that?”

Saber Artist asked, “is this one of those things?”

“It’s a machine and you can pick from a ton of songs and I will put the words up on the screen so you can sing. And it includes the music, everything except the singing part so you can sing along.

It’s so much fun, do a duet or just challenge friends to do sillier songs.

Oh, or Rock Band. Is there anyone in town who sells electronics?”

“No one makes that stuff in town, most people just go to Canterlot, there’s the big stores there.”

“I need to save up some bits,” I grinned. Ideas a plenty.

“Maybe you’ll end up being a townie instead of a farmer.”

“After I claimed that field and everything?”

“Honey?” Song Scroll said. “I tried everything before I opened my music studio. I was going to be a farmer, a shopkeeper. Maybe a brewer. A toy maker. I went on a phase where I wanted to be like Butterscotch. It’s ok to spend some time figured out whatever it is that’s you.

You can still help people out and try other things, it’s good to the community to bring your own thing in.”

“I want to go patrolling with Saber artist again.”

Saber was singing, Shield City Guards, we make it right. All the cadets say hi! All the cadets say go… stop.

“Totally get it. This karaoke thing? Look into that.”

“Oh and I forgot, I didn’t show you the Pegasus challenge! Tomorrow!”

***

I walked down Main Street with Saber Artist. The small shops continued for a couple of blocks.

"I'm going to try both. I'm not going to let go of the farming idea, but Song Scroll has really encouraged me to try to explore and find my thing," I said.

"You can have more than one. Sherriff, fencing aficionado. Did you know, when I was a kid I wanted to be a mail pony?"

Writing Prompt of the Day: 8/19/2025

Prompt: [WP] You're the lawyer for a new supervillain facing a laundry list of charges. After reviewing the footage and other evidence, you're pretty sure you've got a strong case that they were acting in self-defense.

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Brainstorming

It would be funny if the supervillain really is a bad guy, but because of the circumstance, he has a legitimate case that it's self-defense.

If law enforcement are trying to arrest him, then it's not self-defense, so vigilantes would be suggestive. Maybe a heavily armed militia or something like that, which would force the villain to respond forcefully to save his life and therefore cause a lot of damage that leads to many charges against him.

Who is our lawyer character, what is he like. Do supervillains have established law firms, or they just use any firm that will work with them? Is our supervillain wealthy as a result of his activities, or more of an angry but lower SES figure?

How did the supervillain gain powers. Was it like Worm, where there is some horrible event in his backstory that caused him to gain powers. Was it technological (did he develop a supervillain suit or meha or something?)

Writing

"1 count of Supervillainy, 1 count of terrorist acts, 1 count of 1st degree murder, 2 counts of 2nd degree murder, 22 counts of assault and battery, 1 count of arson and 1 count of felony criminal mischief."

If anyone still used the fax, it was the prosecutor's office, Lewis decided. Reading the counts for the firm's new client was sobering. 

The street fight in Lewiston had been national news for days. The political valences kept the story afloat. Republicans sympathized with the local milita group and despised the supervillain. Democrats despised the militia members. No one was on Minion Summoner's side, except now he was legally required to be.

The odd thing was, their client was a rather new supervillain, and he wasn't being charged for the prior bank robbery the week before. Lewis suspected there wasn't a lot of evidence in that case. The running battle that started in the post office was on security cameras and cell phones and every form of recording device known to man.

What was released to the public was only a segment of the combined footage available. Lewis went back to his desk, reviewing the notes he had already taken.

Minion Summoner was not known to be living in the area. By the Superhumans Act of 2029, all Superhumans are allowed to use an alias, which can only be changed by application to the Superhumans Bureau. They are not required to provide their real name, except in rare cases. 

So there's no guarantee that Minion Summoner wasn't from around the area, but there was no match with recent school or DMV records. He had started abbreviating the client's alias to MS just for his own sanity.

Lewiston city police had called in County and State troopers, and it was state authorities that compiled the consolidated footage of the violence. 

Lewis rewinded the footage to the start. Lisa had already joked that he must be from Lewiston. He grew up an hour west, but he was familiar with the downtown area (as much as a small rural town could be said to have a downtown).

It was fortunate for MS that he was in costume when picking up mail from his post office box. On the other hand, his mere presence in costume could be read as a threatening act. There was case law that should establish that the mere presence of a constumed superhuman cannot be considered assault and does not justify a terroristic act charge by itself.

Anyway, playing the footage, he watched as a local civillian came out of the main office and into the area with the mailboxes. After glancing at MS, the local ran out the door into the street.

MS carried one letter towards the door, throwing a pile of junk mail into the garbage bin.

The feed switched to outside. James Donaghy, the local which had ran outside, was a member of the Northmen Militia Network. He was outside yelling. 

Lewis kept the feed on mute because it was full of profanity.

Pausing the video, Lewis reviewed what was already known. Donaghy had been planning to meet with two other miltia members at the nearby diner for breakfast. It was saturday morning.

Lewis followed the war in Ukraine, learning the phrase Open Source Intelligence or OSINT. There was an analogy in law enforcement. Social media posts were compiled about the situation, and so he knew that Donaghy had yelled to the boys in the dinner, asking them to come "take down" Minion Summoner. His words were obsenity-laden, so Lewis didn't linger on them.

He unpaused the feed. It wasn't just his two friends responding, but a half dozen more locals as well. Many of them were already pulling out concealed weapons but others were running to their vehicles off-screen to get other weapons.

The camera providing this part of the footage seemed to be across the street from the post office, and there's a clear shot of MS exiting. 

Lewis reviewed the transcript of the events in question, as he played the feed on mute. Donaghy first threatens MS and demands he get on the ground, and then adds slurs against multiple minorities (despite MS's ethnicity being unknown).

MS doesn't respond. The transcripts mention it takes roughly 30 seconds for MS to summon his minions, with more time required for the later ones.

Toby Heisner, the first of Donaghy's militia buddies, arrives with his AR-15 and points it at MS.

There's a standoff for a few moments longer, Donaghy turns to walk back towards the diner.

MS's first summon appears in front of MS. In various discussions online he's found the first summon is often called Street Thug or Private. Most people think MS has some way to empower or increase his summons' abilities as well.

The situation seems to be de-escalating, when suddenly Heisner shoots the Private. The legal status of attacking Superhuman summons is extremely fuzzy, so that will be something Lewis needs to research.

Private seems stunned for a moment, meanwhile MS pulls his iconic shotgun out of hammerspace. 

This is when the situation becomes extremely chaotic.

MS fired bean bag rounds at Heisner. Donaghy and multiple other individuals fire on MS and Private. Private begins to return fire.

MS and Private withdraw into the post office.

A patron in the post office tries to tackle MS, and Private defends MS, subduing the inside attacker.

One of MS's super-powers is to instantly change between different shotgun rounds. He changes to slugshot to defend the entry door of the post office. 

He's also focusing on summoning Sergeant, his second summons. Private secures the rest of the post office.

Militia members and other combatants try to rush the post office, but there's a jam up as the post office door is heavy and the way in is narrow. MS takes down those entering, but stays inside.

Sergeant arrives. He is a skilled soldier that also can organize and lead the other summons. The militia can't get into the post office and MS either can't or doesn't want to go out yet.

The transcripts mentions Lewiston police requesting backup from county. According to the transcript, police didn't charge into the situation, instead trying to establish a wide cordon.

The camera switches to outside the post office where medical is being forced to stay back. Civillians are trying to carrying the wounded to the ambulances. There's not an effective police cordon yet as a car full of militia members enters the block.

The militia tries to setup 'tactical', which is two guys with sniper rifles and a third with a full-auto rifle. It's clear that these guys have never been trained in real small unit tactics.

MS, Private, Sergeant and Specialist break out into the street. Specialist has a variety of tech equipment and a small drone. The camera feed goes white as Specialist's drone drops a flashbang. MS's team moves as an organized unit, moving down the street.

Donaghy responds first, yelling at the snipers to fire. He and Heisner pursue, shooting at MS. Sergeant fires back. Heisner is hit. 

Donaghy finds cover and MS continues to retreat. That's when Tough Justice crashed into MS. MS's fourth summon PsyOps arrived, and Specialist fired a flash bang in Tough Justice's face. It was enough for MS to slip behind the protection of Sergeant and Private.

MS drops his shotgun, taking a knife from his pocket. When prepared, he is actually able to resist blows from Tough Justice, and with the help of his crew, fight back.

Emboldened by Tough Justice's arrival, Donaghy reforms the locals and tries to help the superhero.

PsyOps seems almost like a supervillain herself. Possessing a fear aura (Lewis never would have imagined saying those words before), she terrifies the locals into stepping back, and Tough Justice is stunned long enough to take multiple shots from MS's summons. He goes down.

MS's team drops out of camera range shortly after, as they slip away. 

The feed switches to Donaghy, whose arranged something more like a posse than a police response. 

The transcript mentions that police forces on the local, county and state level were ordered to stand down until superhuman help could arrive. Unforunately, Lewiston is hours away from the nearest Superhuman Bureau office.

After Tough Justice is knocked out, there won't be a superhuman response for three more hours.

When self-defense becomes large scale like this, it becomes very fuzzy and tenous as a case. But it does seem like MS was acting in self-defense. The situation never was lead or organized by the police, so the State can't argue it was resisting arrest. They will argue that Donaghy and the others were themselves acting in self-defense, but they acted first.

Lewis thought there was a chance for not guilty because of self-defense. But he wanted to review the remaining footage.

The feed skips the next three hours, in which the police finally gain control of the scene around the post office, and Donaghy and the 'posse' leave. News helicopters arrive later, and with that the next footage.

Helicopter footage shows a group of armed men in faux body armor firing full auto weapons at a small house on the other side of the street.

The next camera is from a police dash cam as police apprehend Donaghy and the others for attacking the home they mistakenly thought was MS's.

The rest of the feed is sporadic. MS seemed to be camping out west of town. Multiple cases of individuals attacking MS and reciprocations by MS. Eventually MS keeps his summons active at all hours.

 It's still unclear if he lived out there permantly, or had a house in town that he didn't want to show his face at. 

The final documentation with Minion Summoner is the paperwork when he turned himself in at the Lansing Superhero Bureau offices.

At the very least, there's a good change of getting a Not Guilty on most of these charges. There's no evidence at all for first degree murder. That one can get thrown out immediately. 

After all the shooting back and forth, two people died, both from close range shotgun fire at the post office, when the ambulances weren't allowed to come close.

There are legal issues at stake that were completely new to him, and they would need to hire another paralegal or two for this case, but Lewis thought they could win.