A/N: Hey guys! As a really quick note, I'm going to be changing the name of this story! Don't want to get you all freaked out! By the way, I'm sorry if some of the magic tricks you might have read in other fan fictions. I don't copy anyone but I'm not the best with figuring out magic trick ideas. I just use tricks that come into my head.
1 year later…
"You ready?" Jack asked me as I was slipping my feet into my boots with my arm on his shoulder. Tonight was our biggest show ever. We had a special trick up our sleeves.
"As I'll ever be." I replied. He smiled at me as I took my arm off his shoulder. He placed a fedora on top of my head and went to his place. I checked myself once again in the full-length mirror.
I was in a pair of black skinnies, a white tub-top with a long zipper at the back, a short black blazer and my knee-high black leather boots. I convinced Merritt to let me borrow one of his fedoras since I left mine in the hotel room. I let out a deep breath and got into my position.
I heard the announcer start off by introducing us one by one.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome, the Five Horsemen!" He finished. I followed Henley out onto the stage. All I heard were people screaming. Tonight's stage was a circle shape that was placed in the middle of the MGM Grand. The middle was raised a little bit higher off of the ground than the piece that rimmed the inner circle was.
Danny went up to the raised stage as Merritt, Jack, Henley and I walked around it. "Thank you!" Merritt called out as the introductions finished.
"Tonight we would like to try something that well, will, set us a bit apart." He continued. "For our final trick," Henley called out.
"We're gonna do something never before seen on a Las Vegas stage." I said finishing for Henley.
"Or any stage for that matter," Jack corrected me.
"Ladies and Gentlemen," Danny began. "We are going to rob a bank." The crowd went ecstatic.
"That's a lot of excitement for a crime." I noted to the crowd.
"I'm excited, what about you people?" Henley yelled out after my note.
"Okay, Okay!" Danny said making an attempt to calm the audience down. "Now, please, please, settle down."
"Now who here has a bank they would like us to rob?" Danny asked. The crowd had quieted down, but they started jumping up and down waving their hands in the air.
"That's a lot of people with a vendetta." He said causing me to let out a small chuckle. "So we'll choose one at random." Merritt, Jack and I grabbed the nearby bowls containing Ping-Pong balls. Henley went to go stand with Danny on the stage. "My associates will make sure it's random." Danny told the crowd.
"Associates my ass." I yelled back out to him earning a laugh from everyone. Danny just rolled his eyes and continued with the show.
"In Jack's bowl are the Ping-Pong balls with the section numbers. Jack could you throw me a Ping-Pong ball?" He told us. Jack took the ball that the audience member chose and tossed it to Danny. "Thank you." He said as he caught the ball.
"Okay, we are looking at section B." He called. Cheers rose up from a section in the auditorium.
"Okay, it's gonna be one of you guys." Henley told them.
"Merritt, can you give me a row number?" Danny told Merritt. Merritt tossed him a ball and he let Henley catch this one.
"Thanks Merritt, we're looking at row number 5." Henley called out. This time, only the people in row 5 cheered.
"And Rainbow, can you toss me a random seat number?" Danny called out to me. I took the ball from a man that picked it and threw it at Danny as hard as I could.
"Don't call me that!" I yelled as I threw it. Danny easily caught it as the audience laughed.
"Okay Rainbow." He responded to me making me grimace. "Lucky number 13." He called out.
"B-5-13, where are you?" Henley asked. A man closer to the lower section of section B stood up.
"There you are." Danny said as the man stood up. "Hi! Could you just confirm to me that this is in fact your seat?" He asked. Danny gestured to the 3 balls in his hand. The man turned around and turned back to us nodding.
"Yes." He responded in a French accent.
"Okay, wonderful." Danny replied then threw the 3 balls off of the stage. "Now, could you please tell us your name and the name of your bank?" Danny asked.
"Well, my name is Etienne Forcier and my bank; it's the Credit Republican de Paris." He answered.
"French, okay. We were hoping for something a little more local, a kind of mom-and-pop credit union with no security. But that's fine, a promise is a promise." Danny replied earning a laugh from the crowd.
As Etienne came up to the stage, Merritt, Jack and I all went up to the raised platform of the stage.
"And while he does that, there is someone here tonight, without whom we would just be five magicians working the circuit, trying to get… Well, actually trying to get here." I told the crowd as I went to the middle.
"You probably know this man, if not from one of the many companies he has put his name on." Jack finished for me.
"He's our friend, he's our benefactor; Mr. Arthur Tressler!" Danny continued. "Please, stand up Art, please stand up."
"The only man here with the Queens cell phone number." Merritt put in as Arthur stood up out in the crowd.
Danny and Henley continued our little "thank-you" to Arthur as Jack, Merritt and I went over to see Etienne as he finally arrived at the stage. I saw Merritt hit Etienne in the stomach and whisper something in his ear as he bent down.
"And, of course, once again, the Cardinal of Clairvoyance, Merritt McKinney!" Danny said waving a hand to him.
"Etienne what Jack is bringing to the stage now, is what we in the magic world call a teleportation helmet." Merritt told him as Jack came out and walked in a circle to showcase the object to the crowd. "You will need to wear this, as it will allow you to literally fold through time to your bank in the 8th?" Merritt asked. Etienne lightly shook his head.
"9th arrondissement." The French man smiled.
"Now, once you are there, we will be able to speak to you through this helmet." Merritt told him. Jack began putting the silver helmet onto the man's head.
"Oh, my god, that's beautiful. It had the added attraction of being very stylish; it's about time that the French start learning from America on that subject." Merritt added as a little joke.
"But," Danny said walking up to the stage pulling out a deck of cards from his pocket. "Before you go, pick a card, any card." He joked, pulling the deck away a bit. "No, that's an old American joke. You can pick that one."
Etienne picked a card and Danny fanned the cards back together.
"Show it to your friends in section B, but not to us." Danny said as we all turned around.
"Okay great, now if you could just sign your name there." I said to him handing him a permanent marker.
"In English if possible." Danny joked again.
"Danny's jokes are just getting stupid." Jack whispered in my ear. I held back my laughter but a smile crept onto my face.
"Danny himself is getting pretty stupid." I whispered back to him. He smiled at me.
I saw Henley raise an eyebrow at me. I just smiled at her trying not to be suspicious. She just brushed it off and continued with the show.
"And now for one tiny detail." She said pulling a black scarf from her shirt pocket. She threw it into the middle and the scarf started moving in swirls and around the center of the stage. It twirled around one more time before revealing a contraption. The audience clapped.
"Now," Merritt began. "Etienne, let's step into this cockamamie contraption, and I'll step off it." He said leading Etienne onto it and then he stepped off it.
Jack moved from my side and went to the middle with Danny and pulled a screen down enclosing Etienne in it.
"It's 11:50 p.m. here in Vegas. That's 8:50 a.m. in Paris. Your bank opens in less than 10 minutes." Merritt told everyone. We all backed up a little as Henley grabbed the controls for the teleporter.
"One," Merritt began the countdown. "Two…"
"Three." Henley said pushing the button. The machine let out a bright light and the top and bottom slammed together in the middle.
The audience including the 5 of us all gasped.
"What the hell?" Merritt breathed out.
"That wasn't supposed to happen like that, was it?" I asked them. We all looked around on stage for Etienne.
"I liked that little French guy, where'd her go?" Merritt asked.
The large screens set up hanging around the auditorium began to clear up and show Etienne's face.
"Wait, there he is." Danny pointed at the screen. The audience began cheering. "No, no, no, no." Danny began trying to quiet down the crowd. "This is Daniel Atlas, can you hear me?" Danny asked waiting for a reply.
"Yes." Etienne's voice came through the camera attached to the helmet.
"Perfect, what do you see?" Danny asked him.
"Money." Etienne said reaching out to touch the bills. "Is this real?"
"Yes, looks like three million or so Euros' worth." Danny told him.
"Okay, now, here's what we're gonna need you to do," Danny began. "I want you to take that card that you signed out of your pocket and the ticket stub from tonight's show and put it right there in the middle of the money." Danny ordered. Etienne took the card and the ticket stub from this show and hovered his hand over the middle of the money pile.
"Now, drop it." Danny finished. Etienne dropped them in the middle of the money pile. "Now, on the side of your helmet you should feel a button, don't press it just yet." Etienne moved his hand on the side of the helmet and found the button.
"That button activates an air duct that connects Paris to Las Vegas. Okay good, you can press it now." Danny finished. Etienne pushed the button and waited for something to happen.
"All right, now, Etienne," Jack began smiling. "Hold on tight, you might feel a bit of a vacuum." I laughed and went to stand beside him.
Everyone awed at the screen as the money started swirling around and getting sucked into the ceiling. Etienne began laughing at the sight. Money was mow everywhere and getting sucked up into the large circular vent on the ceiling.
"Wait a second." Danny told the crowd. Bills began to streaming into the large auditorium. The audience jumped up trying to grab as much money as they could as the 5 of us on stage began laughing.
"Thank you Etienne! Thank you everyone!" Danny yelled as the rest of us began cheering.
"We are the Five Horsemen!" We all called out over the cheers and excitement of the crowd.
"And Good Night!"
A/N: Wow, did not expect this chapter to be this long. Like I said before, I'm going to be changing the title for this story because I thought of a better one. Reviews are much appreciated but please now flames! Hope you all enjoyed this long chapter and so sorry for such a long delay. I actually didn't write this all in one session, so I had to squeeze time out of my days to continue writing. Sorry if the wasn't much Jack and Gwen stuff, but I hoped you liked the little bits and pieces!