Scoping The Joint
The Van hit over a dozen speed bumps on the way to the bank, or at least that's how Tori felt.
"So… Have you driven a lot of getaway cars?" Tori questioned nervously.
"Nope." Replied the stoic Lane.
That didn't make her feel the least bit better.
"But you have driven them before, right?"
"There's a first time for everything."
Oh god, this bastard has got to be fucking with me.
"You're... you're kidding, right?"
"It doesn't matter, whatever happens, happens." Trina groggily said, half asleep.
"Oh that's easy for you to say! You haven't been working all week and worrying all night about the plan! All you do is take and take and take while others do all the work! You lazy bitch! You can't even sell dope right, and you want to rob a bank? Well, here's some fucking news! People need to work in this world, they need practice and they need…
"Tori, she's asleep." Beck pointed out.
"Yeah, I noticed, when did she fall asleep?"
"A couple of seconds ago, but I thought it was a great speech."
"Hmph, you two really are siblings." Jade scoffed.
"Oh, lay off." Beck said.
Andre was exasperated by the petty argument going on even when the job was about to begin.
"Maybe you guys should check her weapons." Andre suggested.
"Nah. Not even Trina would be that lazy." Tori said.
Beck took Trina's Beretta 92FS out of her cheap holster and to no one's surprised found that it was empty.
"Son of a bitch." Tori threw her hands up in the air as mumbled in frustration.
"I'll fix it."
Beck took out the clip and began to load it.
"Can't be too careful."
Tori took out her Colt Detective Special and checked to see if it was fully loaded.
"Don't worry, you're careful enough." Beck reassured.
It was fully loaded, thank god.
She looked over to Andre, and saw that he was staring into the void with his hands tightly gripped his Renmington 887 Shotgun.
"Nervous about the job?" Tori asked, hoping to find someone who was also nervous.
"No. There's no way we can fail. Long as we do our jobs right." Andre said half confidently and half reassuringly.
He was dressed in a black suit and black tie, with black sunglasses covering his eyes, making him look like an emotionless consummate professional. The kind of professional hit man or heist member you saw in movies.
"I wonder how the rest of them are doing." Tori mused as she glanced out window, looking at the van travelling behind them.
"Wakey wakey, Synjin. It's time to go to work!" Cat playfully said in a sing-song voice as she shook Synjin's arm.
Synjin was asleep, almost comatose due to his high.
"I don't think he's waking up anytime soon." Robbie said.
"I hope he's got enough marbles rolling in his head to cut the right wire." Sikowitz said, worried about the competence of his employee.
"Hey Sikowitz, why'd you give such a big job like cutting the wires to a loser junkie like him?" Robbie Asked bluntly
"He's the only one who knows the pattern."
"You should have chosen a bank with a computerized security system, I could take it down in less than 2 minutes with a stroke of a key. You see, the system I use is a mixture of the classic Swedish numeric method with a little bit of my own magic…
"If I were a cop, I would've shot you by now." Sikowitz said, about to throw himself out of the van.
Robbie nodded and stayed silent while Cat frowned and returned to her seat. The van was incredibly spacious, there were bench like seats surrounding the interior like a rectangle. With lots of space in the middle, probably to put the loot in. The van in front of them was identical to it except that it was grey instead of black.
Robbie slowly sidled next to Cat, who noticed him at once, snapping her head in his direction with her bright eyes looking right up at him.
"Hi… uh… You… Excited about the job?" Robbie asked, attempting to start a conversation.
"Oh totally! You know I visited my uncle and uncle in Vermont once. And they told me that the weeds in their garden were dying."
Another awkward silence filled the van.
"And then what?"
"Oh no! That was it."
Puzzled, Robbie decided to say something.
"You know, my job only consists of me lifting my fingers."
Sikowitz rolled his eyes.
"But don't think that it isn't hard, computer hacking is one of the most complicated and difficult…
And he kept talking and Cat just kept smiling. Synjin started to open his eyes and saw that his two cohorts were not so subtle-ly flirting with each other again. Robbie had always been a cocky and smug little genius, but he always became an awkward nerd in the eyes of his red headed crush. Synjin wasn't half as strung out as he seemed. While he was indeed high on smack, he could see straight and think clearly. He decided to make it look like he was just sobering out.
"Mmmmfffffgrrrrrrmphhhhhh…" He grumbled as unintelligible words fell out of his mouth.
"Wake up, you dumb son of a bitch! We're 10 minutes away from the bank!" Sikowitz yelled, slightly cocking his head to the left.
"Mmmmmmffgrmmmphhhhhh I got it Sikowitmmmfgrphmyyhhhhh."
"Fuck me in the eye."
They finally reached their destination. They parked around the corner near the bank and they were all out of their vans except for Lane.
"Now, is everyone is good on the plan?"
They all nodded in unison.
"Now, mature as you may be. I want to reaffirm that this job is no laughing matter, if you guys fuck up, you will die."
Tori gulped in fear while Trina nonchalantly rolled her eyes.
"If the cops show, you run. Don't shoot, don't take hostages, just run your ass off. Understand?"
Everyone nodded in unison again.
"I'm sure the Vega cunts will be too busy shitting their pants and texting about the cops' arrival to run." Jade said as she smirked.
"Will you stop that?!" Tori snapped.
"Why, you gonna do something about it?"
"Oh, fuck you!" Tori yelled as she whipped out her Colt.
"Hey wait a minute… Beck began.
"Will you two please SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Cat screamed at the top of her lungs.
Everyone looked shocked at Cat just blowing up at them.
"This is the job of a lifetime and you pricks just keep finding new ways to fuck it all up!"
"Well, to be fair… Robbie started
"Quiet! Stop being so paranoid all the damn time! You're a good hacker and you'll do fine, so shut up and do your job!"
Trina rolled her eyes some more.
Tori holstered her Colt.
"And look alive, you sleepy bitch!" She yelled at Trina.
"Okayyyyyyy…." Sikowitz dragged out.
"Everyone get in the vans and get ready."
"You know, I don't trust Lane." Tori said.
"He says that he never drove a getaway car before and he's a money launderer! That doesn't make a lick of sense."
"Well, Sikowitz did assign a junkie to cut the security wire so he might not be as professional as he seems." Beck snarked.
Tori shrugged as she put on her bulletproof vest under her purple hoodie and watched her friends follow suit.
"In any case, if the cops come, Vega's the first one to go." Jade said while loading her Heckler And Koch USP.
"Not if I throw you to them first."
Andre shook his head.
"Ready?" Andre asked.
"Ready." They replied.
"Sikowitz is wrong, you know." Cat said as she stripped her shirt off, revealing a pink bra, barely containing the ample breasts inside.
"About what?" Robbie asked half-heartedly as he started to blush, his eyes and ears focused on her cleavage.
"The cops. When you see a cop, you don't run. It doesn't work, it never works. You shoot, you stab, you bite, you fight. Hey! That rhymes! You take a hostage. You do whatever it takes to get away from them. Cause the moment they slap the cuffs on you, you go away for life. One way or another." She continued, throwing her shirt back on after the bulletproof vest was on.
Robbie was surprised at her seriousness given the levity she had for the job up until that outburst in the street.
"Listen…" Cat began as she walked towards Robbie.
"I didn't mean to shout at you back there, kay? I just don't want you to worry so much about your job." She said with a sincere smile.
"Uh… No problem… I… Just wanted to make sure this went smoothly." He said with a stutter due to Cat rubbing her hand up and down his arm. She smiled again.
"How's this? After this is over, why don't we get some strawberry ice cream? I know this shop in Burbank, it's the best." She said.
"Sure! I'd love to!" He replied.
"Great… See you later!" She pecked him on the cheek and sprinted out the van.
The kiss lingered on his cheek, even if it was for a brief moment, it was one of the happiest moments of his life. Right next to when he lost his virginity to a cow.
"Bertha wasn't fat! She was big boned!"
Sureeeeeeeeee.
Synjin got off the van, struggling to maintain his balance. He opened the box and started working. It would be 10 seconds before the silent alarm goes off after the clerk pushes it. So he had to cut it off in 30, since it took Robbie 20 seconds to turn off the cameras. Question was, which one should he cut?
Robbie opened his laptop.
"Time to go to work."
Right before he got off the van, Andre turned to Lane.
"When the job's done I'll give the signal, and you pull over real quick, understand?"
"Course."
He joined the others outside. Tori was still shaking. Jade and Beck were focused and Cat looked like she was about to visit Disneyland. Where's Trina. He looked up and saw Trina wandering around in front of the bank, apparently looking at some shoes that caught her attention.
"Trina! Come over here!" Andre whispered loudly. Doesn't make sense, I know.
Trina shrugged and walked over to Andre's side.
"What?" She asked as if nothing was wrong.
"Get in position!"
She did.
Minutes that felt like lifetimes went by.
Sikowitz looked at his watch.
"Here We Go." Robbie said.
"Done?"
"Security's down."
"Three… Two.. One."
He gave the signal as the others stormed into the bank.
