Five Minutes to Late Chapter 2
Luke listened as Charlie explained his equation and what he had done once Megan had gotten him better data.
Everything sounded interesting in theory, but like always, neither David nor Colby were much interested in the math, they were more interested in the map of known hit locations, and the red dots representing the next possible robbery locations.
"I have assigned variables to each location, according to access, escape routes and so on, and I believe, in fact I am 96 percent sure that your robbers will hit the Pineview Recording Studio, and the adjacent Pineview Records building." Charlie said, pointing out the two dots which were in fairly close proximity to each other.
After hearing this, Don, Luke, David, Megan and Colby all rose as one and rushed to the bullpen exit. Don only slowed down to say, "Thanks, Charlie." Before he was gone, heading to his SUV.
The team took two black, tinted SUV's. David and Colby in one, and Don, Luke and Megan in the other.
Everyone was dressed in Kevlar and had pistols at the ready, or in Don's case, a semi-automatic.
Don keyed in his radio to address his team as they raced down the road, headed towards Pineview Records.
"Alright people, we go in fast, and we go in hard. These people are professionals and they will be expecting us, so don't hesitate to use deadly force if necessary. If they are not there when we arrive, we will take up a perimeter around the entrances to both buildings." He said.
"Roger that, Don." David said from his headset radio in the other SUV.
Seconds later Colby also reported that he had gotten the message.
From the corner of his eye, Don also saw Megan and Luke nodding their heads in agreement of Don's command.
As they pulled in to the parking lot, Don, Megan and Luke all jumped from the SUV with their weapons in their hands.
Staying low they went from hiding place to hiding place until they were right up along side the building.
"Luke, check it out." Don commanded as he held his semi-automatic at the ready.
Nodding his head, Luke peeked through the glass window and looked around, not seeing anyone on the first floor.
'Huh, that's weird. Usually record places like this are crawlin' with people.' Luke thought.
He was about to turn his head and report back to Don when he saw movement up on the second floor.
Sinking down low as fast as he could, Luke barely caught a glance of a masked man carrying a gun similar to Don's.
Risking another glance back, Luke saw another masked man join the first, but this masked man was clearing holding a semi-automatic, plus he had two pistols and two grenades clipped to his belt.
Luke turned back and glanced at Don as he whispered, "Both teams are here. Two men, one carrying a cult commando, the other carrying one semi-automatic, two pistols and two grenades. Second floor, jus' as you come in."
Nodding his head, Don chewed on his chewing gum for a grand total of four seconds as he thought about what to do.
"Alright, David, Colby. You go check out the recording studio. Luke, Megan, you're with me." Don said.
Everyone gave Don the ok as David and Colby ran towards the recording studio, and Luke, Don and Megan took up positions around the entrance.
Making sure her hand wasn't seen, Megan, placed a slender hand on the handle of the door as she looked at Don.
Don, however, waited until he got the "We're in position." From David.
"Alright. We go on 3. 3.2.1. execute, execute, execute!" Don said.
Megan then opened the door seconds before Don raced past her yelling, "FBI, FBI FBI! DROP YOUR WEAPON!"
Luke and Megan raced in behind Don and aimed their guns at the second floor where the masked men, clearly taken by surprise were wondering what to do.
Seeing movement out of the corner of his eye, Luke turned just in time to see a masked man come up from behind a desk and launch himself at Luke.
Luke whipped his gun around, but didn't have time to fire as the masked man slammed in to him, pushing him towards the ground.
Stumbling, Luke accidentally stumbled in to Don, who in response, fired his weapon.
After that, things seemed to happen in slow motion. Seconds after Don fired, Luke saw his boss stumble sideways, as if he had been shot, at the same time as he saw Megan fire her own weapon.
When a gloved hand closed itself around his pistol, and tried to jerk it away, drew Luke back to his own problem, Luke turned his head and saw just how close the masked man was to him.
"Get yer hands off my gun!" Luke commanded just before he squeezed the trigger.
The masked man's eyes widened as his grip on the weapon suddenly weakened to almost nothing. Before Luke knew it, all that was on top of him was a dead weight.
As everything seemed to quiet down, Luke became aware of two voices asking him if he was ok.
Immediately Luke sat up and pushed the dead body off of him before he glanced over at Megan and Don.
Don was holding his shoulder, right near the edge of the Kevlar, and Megan was kneeling right beside her boss, who was kneeling right beside Luke.
"Yeah, I'm alright." Luke said in response to their questions.
Quickly he rose up and glanced up at the second floor to see nothing there.
"Don't worry. We got em'." Don said as he reached over and picked up his semi-automatic before standing up, with Megan still beside him.
They were just about to move on when a door opened up down the hall.
Readying their weapons, Don, Luke and Megan took up defensive positions as a big, muscular masked man came down the hall, dragging someone with him.
His victim the masked man had in a headlock, not to mention he had placed a gun to that victim's head.
"If you do not let us go, I will kill this hostage," The masked man said, grabbing the victim's hair and raising his head up so Don, Luke and Megan could get a good look at him.
The moment Luke saw the face of the victim he nearly gasped. In any case, his eyes got as big as saucers as he looked at the face of his cousin.
Bo looked as frightened as anyone could be in that situation. He had tears streaming down his face, while his hands were clutching at the man's arm.
"That's not gonna happen." Don shot back to the masked man as he got a better aim with his weapon.
"Well then sonny boy here ain't gonna live to see another day!" The masked man replied icily as he squeezed Bo's neck, causing him to cry out in pain before he started coughing.
By this time Luke was shaking in anger at the treatment his cousin was receiving.
He wished that there was someway he could sneak over to his cousin, but if he left his position, Luke would be in the line of fire.
"Let the hostage go and then we can talk." Don said evenly, trying to coax the man in to a false sense of security.
He had tried this with many other bad guys and sometimes it worked, but there were times when it didn't work.
"Are you out'a your mind, copper? I ain't lettin' sonny boy go unless you promise that me an' my men can leave." The man replied.
'Oh you can leave alright. In a body bag!' Luke thought angrily.
More than anything he wanted to punch that guy's lights out, like he knew he could, but to do that Luke would have to get over to him, which he knew wasn't going to happen.
Tightening his grip on his pistol, Luke risked a glance over at Don, wondering what his boss was going to do.