The sleek black jumpjet flew silently through the air approaching Bolgothan air space. Becky turned on the auto pilot and stood to address her team. "Alright Bolgotha has a no fly zone so we won't be able to make a landing, so this is going to be a HALO jump; everyone know their role once we're on the ground?" She asked pointing to Victoria and Tiny. "Yeah," Victoria answered. "Tiny and I will combine our mind control and broadcast it over the grounds putting all the guards in a trance."
"Good." Becky said pointing over to Tobey and Ms. Question. Tobey looked up from the knife he was playing with to see everyone looking at him. "Oh, right." He sat up to speak. "Question and I will raid the catacombs to find the captain." Becky crossed her arms and focused her attention on Tobey. If he could see her face he would be able to see the look she had on it. "You sure you can handle that?" She had learned her lesson a long time ago about trusting him; knowing the slimy little snake he would probably run off and leave them to die.
Tobey looked over his glasses at her, staring into the eyes on her mask. "Of course or did you forget the part where I lose my jaw if I try to take off." He proclaimed putting his attention back on the knife in his hands. " And what will you be doing?" Ms. Question asked. "I'll be sabotaging any and everything that might cause problems for our escape; like the surveillance system to make sure we don't end up on Bolgothas funniest home videos." An alert went off and the inside of the jet was bathed in a red light. "Alright everyone time to jump."
Becky made her way to the back of the jet and waited for the bomb bay doors to open. Everyone else pulled on their parachutes and the doors opened. Becky grabbed a duffle bag and made the jump into the cool night air. The rest of the team followed behind her. Becky let herself free fall until her masks read out told her she was falling too fast; she ignored it until it told her she was too close to the ground. She swooped back up into the air and lowered herself to the ground for a graceful touch down.
She scanned the surrounding area for any threats before her team touched down. They were in the middle of a thick forest a few miles away from the target. The rest of the team touched down around her and quickly took off their chutes, packing them away. Becky unzipped the duffle bag and produced Victoria's recorder. "Best you and Big will take point," She tossed the recorder to Victoria. "we can't move till we get your signal." Victoria and Tiny took off towards their target.
Becky reached back in her grab bag and pulled an SIG MCX. "File said this is your usual weapon." She stated handing it to Tobey. He looked the weapon over, "Ah, my old SIG, I still remember modifying it." He held it up testing the sights and smiling. "I feel like I'm whole again." He opened up his long navy blue jacket and attached its strap to his shoulder holster.
"Those empty holsters aren't going to scare anyone." She stated handing over two 9mms. "Now you two get a move on." She said handing Ms. Question her cane. "Best should be in place and I want you ready to strike." Victoria and Tiny silently crept up to a guard station leading up to the palace.
Tiny pressed himself up against the small booth and nodded at Victoria. She took a rock and tossed it drawing the guards attention. When he got up to look for the sound Tiny knocked on the side of the booth causing him to turn his back. When he did Victoria grabbed him from behind and snapped his neck.
"Alright Tiny work your magic." She said moving out of his way allowing him to sit down and pull apart the radio in the station. "Will that small radio be strong enough for the broadcast?" Victoria asked, she honestly didn't know much about these kinds of things. Her parents made her recorder and she had taken it apart so many times she could fix it if it broke but that was about it.
"As long as it can reverse broadcast it doesn't matter." He replied playing with the wiring getting a spark and smiling as he put the radio back together. "Ready?" He asked with his hand on the switch. "Yeah, let's go." She licked her lips and held the recorder up to her mouth. Tiny flicked the switch and began to sing with Victoria playing along.
Toby used his glasses to zoom in and saw every guard on the grounds standing in a daze, eyes green and staring off into space. "We should really thank Howe for these special ear plugs." He remarked. "Let's get going, I don't want Sentry to break my legs." Ms. Question said standing up.
"You know Question, I get the feeling that I know Sentry from somewhere." Toby stated as they stalked out of the brush they were hiding in. "Worry about it when we're out of mortal danger." She said as they walked in between the frozen soldiers, knowing that at any moment the broadcast might stop and that would be it for them. Bolgothan soldiers were some of the meanest in the world and half of them where somehow enhanced, a lot of beta and Charlie level super humans.
They also had to be careful not to bump any of them; mind control is very fickle, you never know what might break the hold. The two managed to make it through the grounds and into the palace. The scene inside was the same as outside, every would be defender completely inactive. "If only every heist was this easy." Question remarked as they made their way over to a painting that hid the entrance to the catacombs.
Once they moved the painting Toby made quick work of hacking the high-tech lock and they descended down the steps into the catacombs. Back at the station Tiny and Victoria finally received the word from Toby that they were in and to stop their broadcast. They had to act fast and take cover before the Guards snapped out of there trance.
Now it was time for Becky to do her job, moving in the pitch black night as all the guards collectively shook their heads not able to account for the last hour or so. Still a little dazed none of them noticed Becky moving behind a row of tanks. As they decided to just continue their patrol Becky began tearing up the treads on the tanks.
Down in the catacombs Question and Toby carefully moved down the long bone lined hallways. They hugged closely to the wall, Toby's implants scanned ahead of him reading few if any life signs. "According to the layouts we'll be coming to a corridor that'll main line us straight to the prison wing."
His scanner went crazy showing that someone was about to round the corner. Toby drew his SIG from under his coat and his implant told him every possible out come of the impending encounter. His best bet was to shoot for the neck, severing his brain stem before he could raise his weapon.
The guard casually came round the corner smoking a cigarette and came face to face with Toby and his SIG. He opened his mouth and dropped his smoke as a single silenced shot came from the rifle and ripped through his neck. He had just wrapped his hand around his side arm when he hit the ground in a pool of his own blood. Toby picked up the still burning cigarette and took a puff from it. "Huh, what do ya know, he smokes reds."
Up top Becky had found Victoria and Tiny and had them with her as they made their way to a building that led to the super computer that controlled every piece of tech in the crimson court. "Big you're the only other person besides Toby who can hack this, think you got it in you?" "Yeah , of course." He replied pulling apart the lock to get at the wiring. Becky looked over to notice Victoria staring at her.
"What's the problem Best?" Victoria cocked her head to one side and replied, "Nothing it's just, you called Macalister Toby, you don't call the rest of us by our first names." She crossed her arms and shot her a suspicious look. "It implies familiarity, a certain kind of familiarity." Becky was about to put this whole thing to rest when she heard foot steps.
"Big we gotta take cover." Becky whispered. 'Who goes there?' They heard the guard say in his native language as a flash light shinned in their direction. The three had hid but Tiny didn't have time to fix the lock he had ripped open.
The soldier picked up his radio, 'Staff sergeant come in, we've got a problem over at the restricted area.' He walked over to the lock and was about to round the corner and find the three but before he could Victoria tripped him; in an instant she was on top of him. She covered his mouth an twisted his neck.
Over his radio the staff sergeant was calling him and asking what was going on. Victoria picked up the radio and imitated his voice and answered in Bolgothan. She waited for a moment then the sergeant answered back and Victoria began to sweat. "We gotta move now." She said panicked, dragging his body over to the side of the building and propping him up as if he was still alive.
"Best what happened?" Becky demanded to know what was happening. "Wagner Von Bram is here on the grounds; he heard what this guy said over the radio and is coming to check it out himself." Becky could feel her heart drop; Wagner is an alpha level superhuman, one of the hand full like Becky herself, and he was on his way.
"Get to the LZ now, we'll hide in the brush till Toby and Question are done." Speaking of which those two had just arrived at the prison wing. There wasn't to much resistance, probably didn't think anyone would make it this far.
"Ms. Question if you would." Toby said moving out of the way letting Question step into view of the guards. "What, who are you?" One of them said in bad English. "I don't know, who are you , why do you speak English, what are you doing down here?" She asked confusing the guards leaving them slack jawed staring off into space.
"How's that?" She asked Toby. "Won't work with these ear plugs in." He replied pushing further into the prison. Toby's scanner went off again reading an enhanced human coming his way. Toby picked a course of action from the list of possible moves.
He pressed himself and Question against the wall. When he saw his target come into view he jumped up and threw a smashing round house kick to his face. The guard staggered and regained his footing rubbing his chin. "What, you should be out of it." A surprised Toby remarked. The man spit and took up a stance, "I'm the head of security for the court and you're not allowed to kick me."
Up top Becky and company had almost made it from the grounds when finally they were spotted by a guard tower. Shots rang out whizzing pass their ears but what made them stop in their tracks was being trapped in a ring of fire.
Becky turned to see a black haired man in blue and purple armor descend from the sky. "Wagner Von Brum." The three let out at the same time. "Sentry, Sentry come in." Becky heard Question over her ear piece. "Sentry the shit is hitting the fan down here." Becky calmly reached up and pressed her ear piece without taking her eyes off Wagner. "Yeah I hear you and shits hitting it up here too.
