Karachi, Pakistan

National Museum of Pakistan

Twelve Hours Later

Cassie got on a plane, was provided food, clothes, water, and even medicine by Overlord. The Pakistan native soldier's name was Tirdad and he was leading the mission with the badass Overlord woman named Lachina. Plus Cassie and all the Overlord soldiers sent on the missions, there was a total of eleven of them. Derek, Omaria, and Niko were all back in Afghanistan, being held hostage by Zaman.

Night time in Pakistan was actually beautiful. She was dressed in all black and standing on a rooftop adjunct to the museum. The Overlord soldiers behind her gazing at the view with her. She snapped herself out of it and told herself that she was here because she had a mission. She had to steal those coins from the storage locker or else Zaman will start chopping up Derek's toes and fingers and feed them to fish. Not fishes, just piranhas.

Lachina walked up to Cassie and put her hand on Cassie's back. "You do realize that your time is limited? You have to find that storage locker and steal those coins." She offered a sigh of relief. "You are in luck because we are not going to let you scatter all over this place without a map. This here is the path you are going to take." She pulls out a map and presents it to Cassie. "Storage unit is just in room A15 in the museum. We have the schedules of the security guards mapped out, so you should be good to go."

"Did you mom not love you enough?" Cassie snickered before taking the map for herself. Tirdad walked up to Cassie and pushed her hard in the back. She fell over the ledge, but grabbed hold of a handhold and dangled from one hand. With one hand, she folded the map up and put it in her pocket.

She grabbed onto another handhold and started climbing across the building's wall the Drake way. She used numerous objects like pipes, bricks, and holes in the wall as handholds. Once she reached the edge of the building, she looked back, extending her hand out as far as possible and jumped for the rope leading from her building to the rooftop of the museum. Cassie did not look down, but she could tell she was high up...and she could tell that the Overlord audience watching her though she was a monkey. She moves across the rope until she was on the wall of the museum. She climbed more handholds, stopping only when there was a handhold that was out of reach. She held her hand up and jumped up there to grab the handhold with both hands. Nevertheless, she reached the roof and climbed onto it.

"Nice one, Cassie, ten points for you," she praised herself. "Now, onto important matters: the coins." She moves across the rooftop, remembering where to go in her head. Room A15, just look for room A15 and that should be it.

She ran to the edge of the roof and jumped over. She gripped a handhold and started climbing down. Ten more feet and she will be at the bottom. She was about to jump down until she took note on how the door below her opened and a single guard came out and locked the door from the outside. Placing the keys in his pocket, he walks away.

Damn it, got to get those keys. Sorry man, but I have to save Derek, Niko, and Omaria.

She leaps out, suppressing a yelp as she lands feet-first on the guard's back before he could get out of range. The guard made no noise as he slammed head-first into the ground, unconscious. Cassie landed on her side and quickly grabbed the keys from the knocked out guard. "Sorry man," she apologized. "But if you were in my shoes, then you would understand. Just dream of ponies and knights saving the sleeping princess."

With the keys in her possession, she unlocks the door and quietly creeps through. All the lights in the museum were off, even the lights inside the display case. The dark clothes she wore helped conceal her appearance from the black lighting. She was practically invisible.

Flashlight beams danced around her. She crouched down and hid behind a large display case as footsteps neared her. She slowly moves her head to the side so she could get a good view of what was going on, her natural night vision turning on.

Let's see. She did the observation. I got two guards, both with a single Beretta 92FS, flashlight in hands, and I have total darkness to help me out.

Cassie somersaults towards another display case and hides behind that one. The guards were on high alert because they saw a shadow move in the distance before they could even get a clear view. One of the guards walked up to the display that Cassie was hiding behind. Cassie backed away and slid underneath a table. Once on the other side, she crept up on the guard from behind and knocked him out with a single elbow to the back of his forehead. The second guard's back was turned when this happened. Cassie crept up on him and 'knocked his lights out'.

"Sleep tight," she comments sardonically. The young woman moved around the other displays, taking notes on the camera that were recording, but wasn't pointing in her direction. Okay, just get to the storage room, collect the coins, return them to Lachina, and everything should be alright from there.

She silently ran down a hall with a number of sarcophaguses and pressed her back to a wooden door. She looked at the label on the door and it read A8. She groans in frustration that she almost stomped on the tile below her. She stopped herself and looked around her. There was another path that this hallway leads to, so door A15 should be somewhere down there.

She kept her back pressed against the wall as she moved along the hallway. "How long does it take to find a room labeled A15?" she quietly asked herself. "If my time is limited in Afghanistan, then my time is limited here because I knocked out three guards who will sound the alarm once they wake up. Crap."

She heard Lachina calling on her earpiece. She answered by putting a finger to her earpiece and replied. "What the hell is it?"

"We hacked into the camera system, so you should be able to walk without pressing your back to a wall." Lachina was chuckling on her end for some reason. "You look stupid crawling against the wall."

Cassie replied, "What, no woman with a chest like mine's should be able to move? " She laughed at her own joke. "You wish you had a chest like mine."

Cassie removed her back from the wall and walked towards the door at the opposite end of her. It was labeled A15 in the center in gold. "Okay, Lachina, I found the door. Thing is, there is an electronic lock on it, any idea on how to open it if I can't pick it?"

"I think one of the guards you knocked out had an electronic keycard on them because one of them just came out that room." Lachina was mumbling until she spoke clear again. "Yeah, the second guard placed the keycard to the room in his back left pocket. Don't get any ideas."

Cassie crept back into the display that she came through first. She crawled to the guard she knocked out second and carefully rolled him onto his stomach because he initially fell on his back. Cassie took no pleasure in reaching down the guard's pocket to grab the keycard. A silver keycard in the palm of her hands prompted Cassie to jog back towards the door in the most silent way possible.

She swiped the key card across the black square underneath the knob and a soft beep and tiny green light went off in the black square. The door clicks unlocked and Cassie walks through. "I'm in, I repeat, I'm in."

Normally, she wouldn't have said anything, but these Overlord soldiers had hacked into the security system and are now watching her every move. Lachina's phone that was used to call Cassie was also equipped with a lie detector. If she uses more voice when she talks like most people use when they lie, then the detector will go off and expose her. She could not take any risks. They already warned that Omaria would be chopped up.

Cassie closed the door behind her. She took out her flashlight and turned it on. The room lit up with a single yellow beam. Cassie gave her eyes a moment to adjust before she aims the flashlight at a number of display cases. "So, this is a storage locker or something? Wow." She took a step forward but froze dead in her tracks when she realized that there were at least nine display cases in the storage room alone. All of them had some kind of ancient weapon inside with ancient currency. "What the hell, nine display cases? Are you serious?" She called Lachina to tell her about the nine display cases.

Tirdad was on. "Drake, listen, those display cases, they are fitted with an alarm if they aren't opened with a key. If one is opened, then closed and another is opened within five minutes, then the alarm will go off. Basically, if you open the wrong display case, you'll have to wait five minutes and thirty seconds to open the next one without sounding the alarm. We don't have time to wait 2970 seconds so you better make the first one count."

"That's forty-nine minutes and thirty seconds, almost an hour. What display case am I supposed to start with?"

"I haven't been there in a while, but what I do now is that A15 is a storage room for artifacts from Pakistan that have been deemed to mysterious or precious to be put on display. What I do know is that each display case has artifacts from at least one of the nine historical eras of South Asian history."

Cassie's eyes brightened with a wide smile across her face. "Thanks for the hint you terrorist, but shut up." She removed the earpiece to give her some actual time to think. "Okay girl. Think. The nine eras of South Asian history. From chronological order, there's Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Ag- the Indus Valley Civilization took place in the Bronze Age. If these display cases have artifacts from those time periods, then it would be placed in the fourth display case if they went in chronological order."

The display cases were indeed in chronological order. She shines her light into the fourth display case. Three dozen coins at least being laid in front of a spear cut in half to fit in the display case. "This is it." She removed her piton from her trousers and used it as a lockpick. Remembering what Tirdad said about the five-minute alarm, she was confident that this was the proper display case. It took her less than seventeen seconds to open the display case. She puts her flashlight in her belt loop and reaches inside to grab several coins. She examined each of them carefully, making sure that this is what she came for. More ancient writing that she couldn't read was right there on the coins. Each coin had the same thing written on them so it was unnecessary to take a dozen, just one. "As soon as I am done, I'm going to return these coins back to these display cases."

Cassie remembers as a little girl, instead of going to the park to play, she would go to archaeology museums and learn about history. Years later, she now has to steal from a museum. It pained her that she had to steal from a museum. I guess it runs in the family.

Slowly and very carefully, she puts the rest of the coins back in the display case. She jumped in surprise when the alarm in the display case went off, half deafening her ear. "What the hell?!"

This chapter is dedicated to Stan Lee (December 28, 1922-November 12, 2018), the legendary creator of Marvel Comics. To all you Marvel fans out there and as a huge Marvel fan myself, I can tell that he will be missed a lot. Thank you, Stan Lee, for giving us such amazing and unforgettable characters. We will never forget you.