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Chapter Four
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Cat asked nervously as she, Andre, and Mick climbed into one of the modified SUVs, with twenty other Stonehearts climbing into nine others.
"Relax Little Red, everything'll be fine." Mick said calmly, starting the car and pulling out.
"But shouldn't we talk to Jade or Tori before we attack a weapon's convoy?" She asked. Mick and Andre had come up with a plan to force The Council to finally acknowledge them as a serious threat, but it required they get new weapons. Shotguns, pistols, and hunting rifles weren't going to cut it anymore. So Andre had gone to scout the roads leading to the Hoover Dam war zone and he'd found out that a weapon's convoy would be coming through full of new weapons and ammunition for the soldiers.
"Jade and Tori are too busy for us to worry them about it babe." Andre said "Besides, this'll be easy. The Rebels never attack this far south; they're too focused on the towns on the northern fringe and Las Vegas, so the drivers and their Enforcer guards won't expect an attack." In theory, the Las Vegas Protectorate ruled all of the former state of Nevada and the non-irradiated portions of California in practice though, the majority of the northern territory was under populated and the Rebels had more power there than the Council.
"Enough with the lovey dovey stuff." Mick said in mock severity. "Jeez, between you two and Jade and Tori, I feel like this is a romance movie, not a crime one."
"Hey, don't try to inflict your loneliness on us." Andre told him jokingly. "You might be fine with being an unloved old geezer, but the rest of us want some happiness in life." Mick rolled his eyes and flipped him off, then lit his cigar, rolling open the sunroof to let the smoke out.
One hour later
Mick positioned himself on a ridge overlooking the road, looking through the scope of his hunting rifle. "Here they come!" He said in warning.
"Is everything ready?" Andre asked the gang member next to him. The man nodded.
"All the spike strips are in place, and we've got men on both sides of the road. They'll never know what hit them." Andre nodded, and then looked at Cat, who was crouched behind a boulder with a shotgun, looking nervous.
"Hey, are you okay?" He asked her, putting a hand on her back and crouching down next to her in concern.
"I'm fine." Cat said, nodding. Andre gave her a skeptical look, and she kissed him on the cheek. "I'm fine, stop worrying." She told him, smiling. Andre raised an eyebrow, but decided to let it go and crouched down next to her. The first of the three semi-trucks that made up the convoy hit the spike strips and almost tore them off the road as it screeched to a stop. The second one did tear them off the road, and Mick was forced to shoot out the tires of the last one. The Enforcers climbed out of the trucks to examine the tires, and the gang opened fire, cutting them down. The gang members with hunting rifles opened fire soon after, picking off the survivors and the drivers.
"Alright guys, let's get a move on!" Andre yelled, standing up. "They were expected to arrive at the Hoover Dam in thirty minutes, so we've got about forty-five minutes before anyone comes looking for them." Cat ran over to the first of the semis and dropped her backpack to the ground. She reached into it and withdrew a stencil and roll of duct tape. She attached the stencil to the side of the truck, and then pulled out several cans of spray paint. Jade had been so annoyed at the Stoneheart name the press had given them that she'd designed a symbol of the gang to leave at crime scenes, just so that nobody else could come up with one. It was fairly elaborate, hence the stencil-a skull sitting on a patch of green grass, with a raven perched on the skull. Cat got to work painting it on each of the trucks, while the other gang members went to work cleaning out the trucks.
Mick opened up the third truck's trailer and climbed in. He walked over to one of the crates and opened it, then grinned. "Oh, that's nice." He said, removing a bazooka. "That's really nice."
One hour later
"You did what?" Jade yelled at Andre.
"We attacked a weapons convoy and stole everything they had." He told her. "We even brought some barrels along and stole their diesel fuel, just in case we ever get something that runs on diesel." Jade stared at him.
"And you didn't tell me about this plan because why?" Jade demanded.
"I figured that since this plan was so simple, and since you were so busy, that you didn't need to worry about it." Andre told her, shrugging.
"He has a point." Tori pointed out. Jade glared at her, but Mick walked into the room.
"Don't get mad at them." He said. "It's not like anybody got hurt. Besides, look what we found." He placed a bazooka on Jade's desk, grinning. Jade looked down at it, wide eyed. "They had twenty of these things, and close to a hundred missiles for them in total.
"Alright, I forgive you, but what are we going to do with them?" Jade asked, picking up the bazooka and hefting it.
"I don't have any plans for the bazookas right now, but I know what we can do with the rifles and the c4 they had." Mick said.
"Look, you want The Council to take us seriously as a threat, right?" Andre asked. Jade nodded, and he continued. "Well, let me put it this way-what's the biggest business in Las Vegas? What makes people the most money?"
"The casinos." Jade said with a grin, realizing where he was going with this.
"Exactly. So I say we take our new guns, and we go rob ourselves a casino."
"Do you have a particular casino in mind?" Jade asked curiously, setting down the bazooka.
"I say we take on the biggest one there is-The Oasis." Andre told her.
"Do you guys agree?" Jade asked. Mick and Tori both nodded.
"In for a penny, in for a pound." Mick said.
"Yeah, it makes sense." Tori told her. "If we want money and respect, it makes sense to go for the biggest in the bunch." Before Jade could voice her agreement, Hope knocked on the door.
"Hey boss, we've got a new recruit." She told Jade, sticking her head in the door. Jade frowned.
"Hope, you know I try and be personal with the gang, but we're getting a bit big for me to meet every new recruit." She told the other girl.
"I know, but, well, she found us for one thing." Hope told her. Jade raised an eyebrow. Up until now, Mick and Hope had held the distinction of being the only ones to find their base without help from a current gang member. "And she has medical training for another." Everyone's eyes widened at that. The gang didn't have a doctor. They hadn't needed one yet, but they all new that they'd need one once The Council started to see them as a serious threat.
"Alright then, show her in." Jade said. Hope nodded and opened the door all the way, leading the new girl in. Jade raised an eyebrow again, this time at the girl's appearance. She was wearing an orange jumpsuit, not unlike a prison suit, with the front unzipped to reveal a plain black t-shirt. And her hair had been cropped extremely short, to the point that it looked like a boy's. In fact, Mick and Andre both had longer hair then her. If Hope hadn't told Jade that she was a girl, Jade would have mistaken the newcomer for a very pretty looking boy. "What's your name?" Jade asked, leaning forward.
"Emily." The girl said shyly, looking down at the ground.
"And you have medical training?" Emily nodded.
"I'm trained as a war doctor." She told them. "I know how to take care of bullet wounds and the like, as well as everything else a regular doctor can do."
"How old are you?" Tori asked in surprise.
"Twenty." Emily told her.
"And you're already a doctor? Impressive." Andre said. Jade stood up and shook Emily's hand.
"Welcome to the Stonehearts Emily." She said. "Hope will help you with whatever you need to set up your doctor's office. Feel free to take your pick of any of the rooms here, or in another building if you want." Hope smiled and led Emily out of the room.
"She'll come in handy." Mick commented.
"I certainly hope so." Jade said. "Now then, let's get the others ready for this heist."
"Shouldn't we come up with a plan first?" Tori asked as Jade headed for the door.
"I already figured our plan out. We walk in, and we shoot everyone in between us and the money."
"But…" Tori started to protest.
"That'll be a lot faster." Mick said, nodding.
"And a lot more fun." Jade said, walking out of the room.
Twenty minutes later
Jade climbed out of the lead SUV, a sub machine gun in each hand. There were thirty Stonehearts with her, including all the officers except for Hope, who had stayed behind to help out Emily. The security guards saw the green cars, the green bandannas, and the guns, and frantically pulled out their pistols, only to be shot by the gang. "These things are awesome." Andre said with a grin, looking down at his machine gun in admiration. Jade grinned behind the bandanna and kicked open the front doors.
"You all know the drill!" She yelled, firing a quick burst into the air. "On the ground!" To her surprise, the security guards all pulled out their own pistols from within their suit jackets and opened fire. "This is new." Jade growled, throwing herself behind a marble column.
"The casinos hire military instructors to teach their guards." Tori told her, returning fire with her machine gun, cutting down two guards. "It's normally just in case the Rebels try and pull anything, but I imagine the owners got jumpy thanks to us."
"Well that's just great." Jade growled, stepping out from behind the pillar and opening up with both guns. "Anybody know how many of these idiots they've hired?" She called out.
"I used to work here." One of the gang members volunteered. "I'm pretty sure they've got fifty guards."
"So we're outnumbered." Tori said.
"We've got better guns and more practical experience though." Mick commented.
"Besides, they're all right here on the ground floor now." Andre told her, doing a quick head count of their enemies.
"All right, Tori, you take ten guys and go right. Andre, take ten more and go left. See if you two can flank them. Mick, take five and try and go with Tori, then see if you can get around them. If you can, head for the vault with your c4 and blow it open. The rest of you, stay here with me and help keep them occupied. They all nodded and got to work.
Ten minutes later
"How'd we do?" Jade asked Tori, filling up a duffel bag with cash.
"We've got two dead and six wounded." Tori told her.
"Not too bad." Jade said, sighing. "Where's Cat?"
"Tagging the vault door with the symbol you came up with. She really likes it apparently." Andre said, picking up a bag. "What should we do with the corpses?"
"We're taking them with us of course." Jade said, surprised. "Put them in the cars, we'll bury them in the cemetery grounds." New Washington had a large space cleared for a cemetery, complete with trees, flower gardens, and even a duck pond, but the riots had happened before anybody had been buried in it. Now it would serve as the cemetery for the Stonehearts.
Author's Notes
Jade has access to c4 and bazookas. I'm scared.
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