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The Heist
HyperTech Building, Wellington Road, Sunset.
The HyperTech building stood tall in downtown London. It was a tall, shining, spectacle. Its black windows shined proudly in the setting sun. Down below, across the street, sat a large repair service van.
Inside the front seats, sat two men. They were staring at the building as if waiting for something. In the back, it was full of high tech computers, radios, and maps, all around the inside. Many tech personal, sat at the computers waiting. Also in the van was a group of dangerous looking men, all wearing repairmen's clothing. They were loading Uzis and pistols, and placing them under their jackets. One of the men held two suitcases in each hand. In front of the men stood the tall Russian, Andrei.
In front of him stood the small, feeble fellow. He was briefing him on the situation.
"Once you get inside the test chamber, place this into the main computer." He said. He held out a small card in front of Andrei.
"It will override the system." He said. Andrei took the card, and placed it into his pocket.
"I will let you know when I'm inside." He said coldly. The feeble fellow nodded. Andrei placed his mammoth hand on the fellow's shoulder.
"Farewell, Alex." He said. Alex nervously nodded his head.
"Good luck, Andrei." He said. Then he stepped aside for the big Russian to pass. Andrei walked passed him and opened the van door. Alex sat down at a computer, and put on a headset. As Andrei and his men exited the van, the drivers put their fingers to their earpieces.
"Operation Fetch is a go." The earpieces said. The drivers started the car. When the last man jumped out from the back of the van, the doors imminently closed, and the car speeded away. The group of men was lead by Andrei across the street. Their faces were emotionless.
When they went inside the building, they unloaded their things onto a trey and walked through a metal detector.
Inside the van, speeding across London, Alex sat on a computer. He was watching the events from security cameras inside the building. He saw the men go through the metal detector.
"No guns for you." he said, as he typed in a couple of keys. The metal detectors did not go off. Alex smiled.
The men regained their things and carried on. They walked into the building and turned right. They walked down long hallway passing by scientists and businessmen. Andrei's eyes wandered around the room until he saw a door, it had a password pad near the door handle. Above it a sign read,
Technical Engineering
Andrei looked around until he saw a janitor sweeping the floor. He was wearing a cap, and was keeping his head low. The janitor made eye contact with Andrei. Andrei nodded slowly, the janitor nodded back, and pulled out a wet mop from his bucket nearby. He swept the floor hastily and made it wet as possible. He then put his mop back into the bucket and waited.
A tall businessman, carrying two cups of coffee, and a briefcase was hastily walking down the hallway, a perfect target. The man walked by the janitor, who faintly smiled as he did. The man let out a quick cry before losing his balance. He landed on the flow with a hard smack, coffee spilled all over him. The people nearby gasped and walked over to help him.
Andrei and his men quickly advanced toward the door. Alex typed in a couple of keys on his computer. The door suddenly opened with an airlock tight click. The men quickly entered, and sealed the door behind them. The men descended down a flight of stairs. Andrei pulled an earpiece from his collar, and put it into his right ear.
Alex was looking at a technical readout of the building. It showed a bunch of red dots descending down the stairs.
"Take a right at the bottom." He said.
Andrei and his man snapped to the right when they reached the stairs, they opened the door in front of them.
They entered a large, clean, white hallway. Men in lab coats were walking down the hallway. They noticed Andrei's men immediately. The grey coats of the men contrasted the entire corridor. The men did not even look to the side, they continued, emotionless, straight toward the door in front of them.
A security guard noticed them, walked up to Andrei, and raised his hand.
"Hey you can't go in here-" he started. Andrei grabbed the guards arm, and made a swift jab to his elbow, breaking it. The guard couldn't even cry in pain, before Andrei flung him over his shoulder, and slammed him into the ground. The guard fell unconscious. The scientists noticed this and gasped. The men pulled out their guns and began to fire at the scientists. All the other security guards were shredded by the bullets.
The sound of the gunshots was heard upstairs; people stopped in their tracks and listened. It took them a while before one realized what was going on, and started screaming. The whole crowd changed into a frenzy to get out the door.
"Kill a couple sheep and you scare the herd." Alex chuckled. A beeping red dot popped up on the computer, Alex noticed this and began typing.
"There's the silent alarm." He said. After seconds of typing, the beeping stopped. Alex smiled.
"And there it goes." He said proudly.
"That should stall the cops." He said. Downstairs, Andrei grabbed the security card on the guard, and swiped it on the door. A beep went of and the door opened. Andrei and his men rushed in.
Inside, men sitting at desks were already jumping under them in fear. The men quickly entered a computer room, nearby. There was a portly scientist sitting at the computer, when the men entered, he raised his hands up in the air.
"Please don't hurt me." he begged. Andrei pushed him aside, while some men secured the scientist. Andrei took the card out of his pocket, and slid it into a card port connected to the computer. An alarm blared, and all the doors in the area opened.
"And were in." Alex said, he began typing. A bright yellow line pointed from Andrei's location to a new area inside the building.
"Head for the particle lab." Alex said. Andrei gestured his men to follow him. Through the building they went. The further the got along the more metal and mechanical the hallways became. Then they entered a large open testing chamber, it was a huge round dome extending about 30 feet high. The men looked around and noticed a small office, built into the wall, about 15 feet away. They rushed along the wall, and went inside. A woman was standing in the center of the room, she raised her hands. Andrei pulled out a pistol and pointed it at her. The female scientist yelped.
"Please don't-"
"Where are the containers?" Andrei interrupted.
"W-what?" the female scientist said.
"The Jericho containers, where are they!" Andrei shouted.
The female slowly looked toward a large metal fridge to the right of her.
"Open it." Andrei said, he flicked his gun to the fridge. The female scientist walked over to the fridge and typed in a password on the pad next to it. The fridge opened and frost seeped out of it. Andrei pushed the female scientist aside and fully opened the fridge. Inside were four metal spheres, no bigger than soccer balls, with many ports sticking out, and a large data pad on the front of it.
Andrei snapped his fingers. The man with two suitcases brought them over and set them on the ground. The man opened the suitcases to reveal two circular outlines inside each case. Andrei loaded the spheres into the case. The female scientist looked on with frightened wonder of the process. After loading in the spheres, the men closed the cases. They run back into the lab and out to the hallway, leaving the scientists stunned.
Alex reads the map and follows the red dots. When they reach a certain point, Alex speaks up.
"Stop." He said. Andrei halted the group and stood still.
"The wall on your left." Alex said. Andrei looked to the wall to his left. He looked back at the men and nodded. The men imminently ran up to the wall and pulled plastic explosives out of their coats. They attached the explosives to the wall in a hexagon shape, and plugged in wires to each of them. They backed up and pushed the trigger.
The wall exploded, and the entire hallway shook. The men lowered their heads to protect their eyesight. When the smoke cleared, a giant hole gave way to a large tunnel.
"The police are almost there, get a move on." Alex said. The men rushed into the hole and pulled out flashlights. Inside was a dry and musty tunnel, worn train tracks etched along the floor.
"Keep heading right, there isn't a train coming your way." Alex continued. The men sprinted down the tunnel, putting great distance between them and the hole.
Outside, police cars pull up to the building. Dozens of police rushed out of the cars and into the building. A cop ran up to a scientist waiting at the door.
"What's going on here?" he said.
"We heard gunshots being fired below the building ten minuets ago." The scientist nervously said.
"Alright stay calm, now, where were the shots fired?"
"They were below the second hallway… that's in Technical Engineering!"
"Alright we're going to head down there." The officer turned around and signaled the police to follow him.
"I can open the door to the place for you guys, if you want." The scientist offered.
"That would be very helpful, just remember, at the first sign of trouble, run away, got it? The cop said.
"Yeah." The scientist said
"Alright then, lead on." The cop said. The scientist nodded and led the police inside.
Meanwhile, in the tunnel. The men came up to a light at the end of the tunnel. They put away their guns and slowed down their walking. The light became the sight of the subway. The men got to the subway and leaped up of the tracks and into the subway; just as a train pulled in from the opposite side.
"Keep going until you reach the surface." Alex ordered. The men walked up the stairs and started towards the metal detectors.
"Simple hack." Alex said, as he punched in some keys.
The men went through the gates undetected. They continued onwards until they reached outside. Andrei stopped and looked around. Alex's voice spoke through the earpiece.
"Standby." He said.
Suddenly the van pulled up in front of the men. They advanced as the back doors opened. They handed the cases to men reaching out. The cases were brought in, and the men entered the vehicle. Alex turned around and smiled as they entered.
"Another successful mission gentlemen." He proudly stated with opened arms. Andrei grunted in response. The doors closed, and the van speeded away.
The police entered the hallway to find dead bodies of guards and scientists.
"Oh no." a sergeant said. The police began to check the bodies, when an officer spoke up.
"Uh guys? You might want to see this." He said. The police turned around to see the officer standing in front of the hole. The sergeant walked up to the hole and examined the tunnel.
"Damn." He said. He turned around and called the radio.
"The perpetrators have escaped into the tube, we need a search party immediately, and some body bags." He called. A police officer rubbed his forehead in sadness. Then the sound of an oncoming train rang throughout the tunnel. The room began to shake.
"Can someone bring me a bloody map!" the sergeant yelled. The train roared past the hole, it added insult to this mess, and when it left, the only thing that remained was the officers' shame.
Nicaragua, Night.
Within the Ombra compound, sat the man in the shadows. He was at the desk, the chat room was opened, and Alex's face was on the computer screen.
"We have successfully retrieved the Jericho prototypes." Alex said, confidently. The shadowed man leaned back into his chair, he crossed his hands together.
"Keep them safe, I'll be arriving shortly." He said in his deep voice. Alex's face switched, from proud to stunned. It takes him a moment to recover. He swallows fearfully and regains is composure.
"Y-you're coming to London?" he asked. The shadowed man said nothing. Alex continued
"But why now? I mean we don't have the element that you want-"
"The rest of the plan must be overseen by me personally. It is of the utmost importance that I lead the operation myself." The shadowed man said, raising his voice, a strong hint of proper English came from his tone. Alex composed himself to calm, and nodded.
"Yes… of course. By your will… great leader." He said. The chat room closed. The shadowed man lowered his computer screen and leaned back. Then a door opened at the end of the room, light seeped into the chamber. It stopped just at the shadowed man's feet. A skinny Nicaraguan man stood at the front of the door.
"What?" the shadowed man said, annoyance came from his tone of voice. The Nicaraguan swallowed in fear and spoke up.
"The-the men senior Rykar, the men found something you might want to see." The shadowed man paused for a moment, as if pondering whether or not if he should kill the Nicaraguan. After a moment, the shadowed man rose out of his chair. He towered over the Latin American, even from a distance. The Nicaraguan nodded quickly and gestured up the stairs for the man to follow.
Upstairs the Ombra members were still hard at work, with the computers and maps. When a sudden thumping caused them to stop in their tracks. It was a constant pounding of foot against wood. It sounded as if a heavy thunder was ascending from the bottom of the mansion. The great footsteps made the men tremble with each step, and it was getting closer, and closer; and louder, and louder. Each step felt like an earthquake within the men's hearts.
The skinny Nicaraguan ran up the steps, stood by the door, and saluted. His scampering couldn't even block out the great strides of their leader. Out from beneath the mansion. Like a great demon, rising out of hell, stood the leader of Ombra, the man his followers addressed him as Rykar.
He was a great mountain of a man, easily towering over everyone in the room. His shoulders were broad, and his muscles were well defined, even under his shirt. His long, powerful arms, stretched almost all the way down to his knees. On the end of each arm, was a bear-like hand. Huge enough to cover an entire face. They were wrapped up into fists, which made them like cannon balls.
He had a long, striking face. It was very handsome, but an inner darkness could be seen through it. He had a beard of ten days, covering his strapping jaw. His hair was brown, and slicked back to just above his neck. He held a strong commanding, brutish presence in front of his men. But within his steel blue eyes, one could see the acute intelligence, and charisma, of a sociopath. They scanned the room, eyeing each and every one of his followers, like a shark, studying its prey.
He was wearing a silk collared shirt, wrapped tightly around his large muscles. Black suit pants covered his tree-like legs, all the way down to some big dress shoes. He tilted his head toward the Nicaraguan, without looking at him.
"Where." He said in his deep English voice. The Nicaraguan stopped saluting, nodded nervously, and walked over to a computer.
"Here senior, here." He said. The big man slowly walked over to the computer, keeping his eyes on the room. Not looking away until he stood near the computer, and leaned next over the Nicaraguan, who was sitting in a chair.
"What is it?" Rykar asked. The Nicaraguan calmed himself and began to speak.
"Well senior, you told us to search the British databases for the location of the woman-"
"And." Rykar interrupted, in an emotionless tone. The Nicaraguan continued.
"Well… we found her senior." The Nicaraguan stated. He typed in some keys, and an image of a giant mansion in London appeared. Rykar narrowed his shark eyes and stared at the image.
In one window at the very top of the mansion, behind the curtain, stood a faint silhouette of, what appeared to be, and old woman. A menacing smile spread across Rykar's cold lips. A sadistic tone of voice echoed from within his words.
"Hello Wendy."
Things are starting to heat up now huh? Just you wait its going to get better. Cause once we start getting into the meat of the story, this sh%t takes off!