Note to the reader: YAY I got the second chapter up. Anyway I hope you guys are enjoying this as much as I am. This chapter was for me the hardest cause i had to figure out how I was going to make them talk on the COM so I just put it in italic it. Got some of the ideas from the comic, which I wished I never finished last night. I like to think that my story goes along with the movie characters, and I'm sorry for if my stories sounds a little lame. but trust me it sounded and looked better in my head XD. anyway I hop you guy like it.
- Midnight Rakuen
~On the Job Training~
"Cougar do you have the building in you sights?" Clays voiced crackled through the COMM. "How is the security?"
Cougar was lying on his stomach with his sniper riffle in front of him. Looking through the cross hairs he calmed his racing heart, focusing only on his breaths. His scope darted from each security guard to the next.
"Easy." Cougar simply replied black. His scope darted over to the several mounted cameras, taking them out one by one. He couldn't help but feel like he was being watched.
Cougar felt something. It was movement but not the movement of the world around him. The night was still and the only noise was the sound of his breath. It was something else. When he felt it was too late. He heard the cocking of the gun as it was being placed by his head followed by a snicker.
"This is why I could never stand being a sniper." A voice said to him from behind. "People could just sneak up behind you to easily and bam… no more snipping."
"So you're that kinda girl who's into kinky gun play." Jensen smiled as he watched Wolf sneak up behind Cougar.
Wolf pushed the sniper's hat forward, obscuring his view. Cougar's brows knitted together in frustration as he let out a slight growl, but it was quickly subdue by Jensen's comment.
"Would you like to find out?" Wolf uncocked her gun, stepping up to the blond man that now had her full attention. She let out a wicked smile; looking him up and down.
Jensen could feel his face turning red, as he opened his mouth; trying to figure what to say back but nothing came to him.
"Wow," Pooch was laughing over the COMM. Everybody was listening on the conversation. "We finally found someone who could shut him up." He said jokingly with a chuckle.
"Hello," Aisha voiced sounded irritated. "Can we get back to the mission now?"
It's has been three days since Raven met the Losers. Jensen managed to find another one of Max's hard drives. It was being held in a secure government building and within hours the team was headed that way. They found a cheep place to stay on the out skirt of the town. A simple three bedroom apartment; that was better than most of the hellholes they stayed in. Clay, Aisha and Pooch got the room with the two beds. Other others got the one bedroom with the one bed.
The night before they went over the plan for the last time; Wolf and Jensen were going to be sent in to "obtain" the information on the hard drive. Cougar was going to be set up at point B a couple of rooftops away from the targeted building. Aisha and Clay were set up at point A on the northwest side of the building. Pooch was sent to get a getaway vehicle.
Wolf stood there in between Cougar and Jensen. The night air whipped through her body making her shiver. Jensen garbed his laptop along with some of his of gear.
"Pooch," Clay grumbled through the COMM. "You got the get away vehicle yet?"
"Yes Sir," Pooch voice cracked a little, then he started chucking. "You guys are goin' to love this one."
They could almost picture Clay rubbing his eyes; as he let out a wearisome sigh. Wolf arched her eyebrow as her eyes darted over to Jensen and Cougar who were both holding back a smile. Jensen could see that she was confused.
"Pooch away finds these weird getaway cars." Jensen informed her. "We don't know where he finds them but man, they are hilarious an ambulance, a school buss. On time he got a bright red fire truck. Man Roque was so pissed." He shook his head turning to the sniper. "Yah remember that Coug."
"Si," The Sniper nodded his head.
"Alright is everyone ready?" Clay asked. Not waiting for a reply he continued. "Okay, Jensen said that the hard dive is located on the northwest side on the building; on the 13th floor. Cougar cover them until they are no longer in your sights. Jensen, Wolf I'll give you 20 mins to get in an out."
"Yes Sir." Everyone said in harmony.
"Have fun." Cougar tipped his hat, giving them a savage little grin before he watched them make there away down to street level.
Cougar returned to his sniper rifle and watched Jensen and Wolf dart down the streets from his scope. They stayed in the shadow; ducking in and out of what little cover they had.
xXxXx
The guards just changed their shifts. With the economy being down lately the Goliath company had to make some budget cuts and that meant more security guards were laid off; as for the losers it meant that fewer people guarding the doors. One guard was standing at the main entrance, twirling his nightstick. When he looked up he noticed a blonde man with a goatee coming towards him. Considering it was in the middle of the night and the blonde was wearing a bright yellow shirt; the guard arched his eyebrow suspiciously.
"Hey, you don't happen to have the time d-do you?" Jensen asked as he got closer to he guard. "I'm just wondering what the time was and I-I don't really have a watch."
The guard looked down at his watch. "It's a quarter past-" He was about to finish his sentence but was cut off by someone came out from the shadows, jumping on him. His cries were soon muffled by a rag which covered his mouth and noise.
"Does this rag smell like Chloroform to you?" Wolf asked, hissing into the guards ears as she held on tight.
The guard twisted this way and that; trying to shake the attacker. He pulled at her hands trying to break free but it was hopeless. The guard slowed down as his eyelids begin to get heavy. He staggered a bit before hitting his knees. Wolf let go as Jensen and her watched the man fall flat on his face.
"Not bad." Jensen said with a smile.
"Really?" Wolf began to search the guard's body.
"I think I over did it a little with the chloroform." She handed Jensen the keycard to get into the building.
"Naw," Jensen shook his head as they headed to the building. He swiped the card and open the door; holding it for her. "Ladies first."
Wolf roller her eyes, walking through doorway. They could hear Pooch laughing over the COMM as Jensen and Wolf headed to the elevator. Wolf glanced over at Jensen who caught her eyes, blushing. Wolf giggled as they both entered the elevator.
xXxXx
Clay and Aisha were in set up on a roof top next to the Goliath building. Aisha sighed as she pulled out the knife for the fourth time as she started cleaning and trimming her nails.
"Would you stop messing with your nails?" Clay mumbled at Aisha looking through his night vision binoculars. He didn't take his eyes of the Goliath building. "Or is something else bothering?"
Aisha replied his question with another question. "Is this bothering you?" She already knew the answer to her question. Aisha waited for a reply from Clay but he said nothing. "I like to keep 'em clean and sharp."
Silence fell between them. Clay could hear someone shifting loudly through the COMM like something was bothering them and then there was a slight chuckle. Clay smiled because he knew who was laughing.
"You have a dirty mind, Cougar." He replied before laugh quietly to himself.
The chuckling continued, as others joined in. Clay sighed to himself, smiling.
"Cut it out. You guys are being immature." He tried to sound a little more serious.
Aisha sighed as she pulled out her COMM placing it on the ledge. Then she continued to cleaning and trimming her nails. Clay shifted a coupled of times, after a few seconds he slammed his hands down onto the ledge, turning to her.
"That's annoying me!" Clay yanked his COMM out of his ear, smashing it down on the ledge next to hers.
The COMM squealed almost like it was in pain. They could hear the other's voices whinnying and complaining about the sudden racket. "What your problem with her?" Clay now had his full attention on Aisha who was obviously pouting.
"All of it," Aisha waved her arms in the air. "I mean if she 'was' working with Max what makes you think that she isn't some spy for him now?" She gazed at the scruffy man next to her. "All of this shit isn't adding up."
Clay rubbed his weary eyes before he said anything. "Ever had your gut telling you that you were doing the right thing?" His eyes searched hers. "Well that's what my gut is telling me now."
They gazed at each other for a moment before Aisha turned away in a huff. Clay buried his face in his hand, rubbing his eyes. He was going to need a nice long drink before the night was over.
xXxXx
Wolf and Jensen were standing in the elevator watching the numbers slowly going up. Jensen shifted nervous back and forth, as if he was going over something in his head as he blue eyes gazed over lost in his own thoughts.
"Y-you know some buildings in Japan don't have a 13th floor." Jensen turned to her. He took a deep breath before continuing. "I-it's because of its association with bad luck; just like Friday the thirteenth aka Black Friday when a group of Knights Templars were executed on that day, but weather good luck or bad luck is real, I don't know." He paused, waiting for her to tell him to shut up like everyone else does.
"That's strange." Wolf replied with a smile. "I always thought the number 13 gave me good luck."
Jensen felt a little better inside; normally people would just tell him to shut up or just ignore his rants. There were only a few people who could put with his nonstop shattering beside Cougar and his sister.
"Many people have good luck charms; it's a common fact…" There was more confidence in Jensen's voice this time. "Like Pooch for instance, he as this bobble head dog and he takes it with him, putting it on the dashboard of every vehicle he as ever drove and Cougar well, he has a silver skull ring." He smiled at the fact that he knew his teammates so well.
"Das not a good luck charm, man." Pooch spoke up, weather he was speaking up for Cougar as well, only he knew.
"Then what would you call it?" Jensen asked in a way that a little sibling would be pestering an older sibling.
"Okay ladies, sorry to break up the tea party and all..." Clay voice interrupted them. "But you don't mind we got a mission to carry out."
The elevator door opened, as Jensen and Wolf ran down the hallway. The server room was at the end of the hallway. Wolf's flashlight flooded into the room, checking for people as Jensen slowly open the door. When it was all clear Jensen set up his laptop next to one of the servers. "C'mon baby sing for daddy." Within a couple of minutes Jensen's fingers were flying across the keyboard. The computer beeped a couple of times.
"C'mon work with me." He sounded a little more frustrated.
"Boss!" Cougar's voice broke the silence. He had spotted a couple of cop cars parking outside the building.
"Yeah, I see 'em. Pooch come around and pick us up." Clay sounded pissed off more than usual. "Jensen, Wolf you only have 5 mins to get your asses out of there. The heat is coming your way. You guys must have triggered a silent alarm."
Wolf rushed to the door, watching the elevator. She turned back to Jensen who was still typing away at his laptop.
"It shouldn't be this hard to break..." He muttered, his fingers flying across the keyboard as he tried formula after formula to break into the server. "These guys aren't exactly geniuses. Their system is pretty impressive, but it's nothing that twelve of minutes of hacking couldn't get through. You know, they only had a couple firewalls and codes set up around their-"
"Twelve minutes!" Wolf's voice sounded urgent. "Fuck it, that's enough of this mission impossible shit." She walked over and stabbed her knife into the server that Jensen was working on. "Hack this!"
Jensen recoiled a bit as the machine sparked. Wolf tore into the machine like it was paper; throwing bits of the machine this way and that. She reached in, gently ripping out the hard drive.
"Well that's one way of gettin' in." Jensen watched in complete shock as she handed him the hard drive.
"Come one." Wolf grabbed Jensen by the arm, dragging him out of the room.
They both raced down the hallway and headed towards the elevators. Wolf opened the doors and pressed all the buttons of every floor. Then they headed to the stairway, taking several steps at a time. They were breathing heavily when the reached the third floor.
"We are out front!" Clay voiced barked over the COMM. "Where the hell are you guys at!"
xXxXx
The other where waiting, in an ice cream truck outside, burning their tires. Pooch, Clay and Aisha were sitting in the front and Cougar was sitting it the back with the doors wide open waiting for the others. Jensen and Wolf came bursting through the entrance, as Cougar waved them over. Jensen threw his stuff into the back of the tuck, turning back to Wolf who was attaching something to the cop cars.
"GET DE FUCK IN DE CAR!" Pooch yelled with his head sticking out of the window.
The cops burst out of the building as Wolf just got done with the last car. They started firing as she ran to the tuck. They pulled away with their tires screeching as Wolf hit the tuck bed. Cougar and Jensen grab her by the shoulders, pulling her in all the way before a rain of bullets hit her.
"ARE YOU TRYING GET US FUCKEN KILLED!" Aisha yelled. She was hanging halfway out of the front window shooting at the cops as they gave chase.
They group speeded down the street, with the cops hot on there trail. The back door was open as Cougar and Jensen fired at the police cars. The truck bounced hard as it took the small hill like ramps. Wolf grabbed Cougar and Jensen and pulled them away for the door. They looked at her confused but then realized what she was doing when she pulled out a small devise.
Aisha looked into the back of the tuck when she saw Jensen began to crowd around the fount seat. "Pooch I think you might wanna step on it." She said as she noticed that Wolf had a remote trigger.
"Okay Pooch doesn't need someone to tell 'em how to dive." He angrily snapped back.
"Whose cop cars have bombs strap to them!" Aisha barked back
"HEY HAVE WHAT!" Pooch sounded shocked but he slammed down hard on the gas petal.
The truck speed up it almost seemed to be flying across the blacktop. Wolf leaned out of the back of the tuck, and pressed the trigger when the cop cars were far enough back. The cops tried exploded into a fire ball as the car noise caved; forcing the cars to swerve into each other. The cops crawled of out of the flaming vehicles. Then the second explosion went off as soon as the cops were far way from their cars. The explosion sent the truck speeding forward, as Wolf fell back into Cougar and Jensen. The ice cream truck raced down another street leaving the wreck cars far behind them.
Pooch pulled into a parking lot were he had stashed the Hummer, and everyone loaded up into it. Pooch threw on the radio and started humming along with the song; everyone was silent even Jensen, which was out of then normal even for him. He looked like he was lost in his own thoughts.
Pooch watched Jensen from the rearview mirror. "Okay, what's up with you Jensen?" The hacker looked up confused. "I mean normally you're talkin' a hundred miles per hour. What's the deal?" Pooch eyes darted back to the road. The hacker realized what he was talking about.
"Oh that?" He paused before letting out a smile. "I just never thought…"
"Never thought what?" Pooch leaned on him more.
Everyone had there attentions on the hacker who was acting more odd than normal. Jensen just had a big smile on his face, he started giggling. "I was thinkin' about the conversation we had on the COMM." He shot a look over at Cougar. "I never thought that Cougar liked to be scratched." Jensen said jokingly.
Remembering back to the conversation everyone erupted into laughter. Cougar just pulled his hat down in front of his face, hiding the tears from him laughing so hard. Wolf hi-fived Jensen, and nudged Cougar playfully. Aisha just rolled her eyes in disgust.
xXxXx
"Okay so what are we looking at?" Clay asked the hack who was sitting at the laptop. Everyone was gathered around the small table, all except Cougar and Wolf who were sitting on the couch. Jensen had the hard drive attached to his laptop; he started to screw with it.
"Well it our basic 15 terabyte hard drive… It will pretty much hold 'bout anything." Jensen began to explain, he was in full tech mode. "It most likely holds Max personal information like payment records, names of the men involved, locations where it being shipped, everything."
"Can you get me that info?" Clay asked as he took a drink of his beer.
"Yeah, I most likely can." Jensen nodded his head. "But it might take a couple of days."
"Alright then," Clay walked off heading to his room. "Everyone get the next few days off." He said as he close door behind him.
Everyone headed there separated ways. Pooch went to call his wife from the phone that Jensen made him while Aisha started to clean her gun as her nightly routine. Jensen set his laptop up in the bedroom that they were staying in, and Cougar was lying down on the bed resting, with his hat pulled down in front of his face. After a couple of hours Aisha and Pooch headed to bed. Jensen was playing a video game on his laptop and was talking to Cougar, who just laid there listening. Then there was a sudden knock on the door. They both looked up as Wolf came in holding three beers; they both looked confused to why she had brought them drinks.
"What is this for?" Jensen asked as she handed him his drink.
Cougar sat up straitening his hat, as Wolf handed his drink to him. He twisted off the cap and took a couple of big gulps. Then he smiled at Wolf nodding his head. Wolf crawled onto the bed, as she sat against the head board, next to Cougar.
"It's for pulling me into the truck before I got shot." Wolf replied as she took a sip. "I figured I own you guys a cold one." She smiled.
"It's no problem." Jensen slurped his drink loudly. "I'm sure you would have done the same thing for us. That's one of the benefits of bein' on a team; you always have someone watchin' your back, makin' sure you're not goin' to get killed." He pushed his glasses back up on his noise.
"Well I just wanted to say thanks." Wolf pushed her hair behind her ears. "It's nice to know that I have at least you guys watching over me."
"No problem." Jensen tapped his glass against hers.
"De nada (You're welcome)." Cougar just tilted his hat and took another sip.
"So whatcha playing?" Wolf asked as she leaned back relaxing more.
Jensen took a moment gathering his thoughts. The sniper just shook his head smiling. Jensen began explaining the game. Wolf just sat there, listening and asking questions, which he answered in detail. Cougar just listened, staring out the window. Jensen talked about the history of the game and about the Company that made it, way until past midnight. He stopped talking when he noticed that Wolf had passed out, sleeping on Cougar's shoulder.
Cougar stiffened up his shoulders, he wasn't use to having someone this close to him. He kept on glancing down at her hopping that she would wake up; but after a while he figured that she was out for the rest of the night. Cougar relaxed a little and sighed before throwing a cover over her. Then he tilted his hat over his face relaxing. Jensen couldn't but help but chuckle to himself as he started playing his game again.
