CHAPTER 14

DUNGEON

Andy slept with her head facing the wall and her back to the cage entrance, hovering over Jody to protect and comfort her, Jody had been crying for a while but had now managed to stop. The large metallic door slid open and footsteps could be heard getting closer and closer. Andy opened her eyes and turned to look as she heard the footsteps stop at the cage door.

"Hey." Zack smiled sorrowfully as he crouched down to them, Andy looked away from him. "I brought you something." Zack dug into his pocket pulling out bread, rice crispy treats and two juice boxes. "Come on, I know you're hungry." Andy looked back at him then at what he had in his hands. Andy let go of Jody and walked towards Zack, not knowing what to think of him, she hesitantly reached out to take the food. "I won't bite." Zack encouraged. Andy quickly grabbed the contents and ran away, Zack couldn't help but smile at this. "There you go, give me the wrappers when you're done." Zack instructed as Andy gave half the food to Jody. "Nikki is going to get your parents; they're coming to save you." Zack told them.

They both drank their juice quickly. "When will Mama and Mommy be here?" A fearful Jody asked.

"I don't know, but very soon." Zack nodded. Static was heard from Zack's wrist, he lifted up the sleeve to his trench coat revealing a Rolex wristwatch.

"Zack." Nikki's voice was heard coming from the watch.

"I'm here Nikki, I'm putting you on screen." Zack stated as he pressed a few buttons. The watch opened and a small pen-like light appeared. There was a green light that blinked on and off and then a full screen was projected onto the wall, which showed a full view of Nikki. "What's wrong?" Zack asked frowning.

"I can't do this!" Nikki said in a panicked voice. Andy and Jody watched with interest.

"Yes, you can Nikki." Zack encouraged.

"I'm a block down from her house they have a DEB car out front, three of them I think." Nikki panted.

"Nikki, you can do this. I'll be watching you, I'll even have bugs planted around the house and inside if it helps." Zack offered.

Nikki exhaled. "Ok, I'll do it, I'll get the bugs there first." Nikki agreed.

"Alright, keep it up Nikki, you're doing fine. I'll keep an eye on the girls but please hurry." Zack finished and the pen light went back inside. "Everything will be ok." Zack smiled at the twins and then he took the garbage and the left over food. Andy and Jody smiled back at him as he got up and left. .

COMPUTER ROOM

"These walls are thick, no guns can pierce them." Scud explained sitting in front of the computer screen. Amy, Max, Janet, and Dominique were behind him.

"Can we use explosives?" Amy suggested.

"We can try, but it's like opening a safe. A LARGE safe, we'll need a hell of a lot of explosives." Scud sighed. "Inside, setup on each wall there is a guard, and they all are heavily armed."

"We'll just need more and stronger explosives." Max waved off.

"Ze men, we can us de explosives as a diz'tracion." Dominique suggested.

"Right, we could use the explosives to lure them away." Amy agreed.

"You're forgetting about the cameras and who will keep the men busy when they go to check out the noise." Scud reminded.

"That's were you come in honey." Janet piped in. "you're going to shut the cameras off."

Scud nodded. "We'll need more DEBS to keep them busy." Scud said while he hit a few buttons on the computer.

"We're going to go in at night, so we'll need night vision goggles to see." Amy added in. Scud switched the screen to the large safe inside, there were two of them. "How many men you think we'll need?" Scud asked looking inside the safe from all angles.

"I'll take care of that." Max responded.

"We should work underground, use the sewer system to get to it. We'll need about I think 30 crates to carry the money." Amy stated while looking at the screen.

"Sounds good, now we need to explain the plan to everyone." Max confirmed.

"I'll make the call." Amy volunteered walking out of the room.

"This is going to be a lot of work." Scud said to Janet as he sighed and then leaned back to stretch.

"You'll do fine honey." Janet smiled putting her hands on his shoulder. He looked up to her smiling; she bent down giving him a kiss.

"Listen after this," Scud said becoming serious "we need to talk." Janet got worried hearing his tone, but dared not show it.

"Ok sure." She smiled a little. "I'm going to get a drink." Scud brought up the sewage blue prints and carefully looked them over.

"Oh can you get me some coffee please? I'm feeling a little tired." Scud asked still looking to his work.

"Sure." Janet nodded nervously as she walked out.

"Janet what's wrong?" Max asked seeing the odd look on her face

"Nothing." She quickly said as she went into the kitchen.

"You think diz will work?" Dominique looked to Max.

Max took a seat and let out a long deep sigh. "It has to Dom."