Chapter Two - Preplaning For Hoxton
Hoxton didn't like the looks of this new driver. He was pretty sure he'd annihilate whatever car they took to the breakout. And besides, this guy was a contractor, he could betray them at any given moment. Nevertheless, he had to let this guy do his job. He entered the basement safehouse and went to the desk set up near the shooting range. Dallas, Wolf, Chains the new guy, Driver, and Jacket were waiting at the desk.
"Alright, let's get started." Dallas opened. "We'll be hitting the DC area courthouse. Hoxton is going to be there for a retrial. There's too much evidence stacked against him for him to walk, but he's someplace with less security than a prison, and that's what matters."
"The problem is, security out front will be tight." Chains explained. "So, we'll be going through the back door and accessing maintenance tunnels while the guards use underground passages to get Hoxton to the courtroom."
"We'll be drilling the wall to slide a dollar bill through the wall to let Hoxton know we're here so he'll stop the guards." Dallas explained. "Then, we blow the walls and take out the guards." Jacket pressed a button on his tape recorder.
"Dad and will be waiting to pick you up." the recorder bleated out.
"That's right, Jacket and I will be just outside the building in an armored pickup truck." Driver began. "I'll be waiting in the driver's seat and Jacket will be waiting in the passenger seat to clear out the guards in the front. Not sure how he'll do it on his own."
"He has ways, he took down a mafia in Miami single handedly." Dallas explained. "I trust him."
"What about police response time?" Hoxton asked. "They'd definitely have guys waiting to respond to an attack, it's Hox's retrial, a former Payday member."
"I can shake them." Driver answered with a cocky grin. "I know what I'm doing."
Dallas was practicing at the range when Driver approached him. He was holding a Glock 17 handgun and seemed worried.
"Dallas, boss?" Driver asked. "You mind if I have this for personal protection?"
"No problem, can you shoot it?" Dallas asked.
"Uh, I'm not sure." Drive responded.
"Alright, show me how you hold it." Dallas ordered. Driver had his body facing the targets and held the gun low with one hand. He shot at the targets and missed most of the seventeen shots he had.
"I did terribly…" Driver muttered.
"No one does great on their first try, let me show you how to hold it." Dallas responded to this. He gripped the handgun with two hands. Resting the top of his right hand just under the slide. He extended his arms out and leaned forward as he fired at the targets. All of the shots met their target.
"How'd you do that?" Driver asked in awe.
"Easy, avoid trying to stop the recoil, hold it tight, squeeze the trigger instead of jerking it, lean into it, and focus on the front sight. Let the front sight sit in between the rear sights and have the top line up with the top of the other sights." Dallas explained. Driver held the gun with both hands and did as Dallas told him to. He kept firing at the targets until he ran out of ammo. They hit, granted they had three inch groupings, but they hit.
"How'd I do?" Driver asked. Dallas chuckled.
"You're doing better, keep going at it until your groupings are as tight as possible. Dallas left the range with the melodic sound of gunfire following him.
Bain was on call with The Dentist. He had issues trusting this guy, he seemed like he was working for his own goals and would kill the crew to meet them. But he had no choice, he knew things that the crew needed to know and he was willing to help them get Hoxton back.
"James Hoxworth's trial is on May thirtieth. This will give your crew time to prepare." The Dentist explained in his unsettling voice.
"Until then, we need money to pay for the favors we'd need for this." Bain muttered. "And I know just the thing."
"Please, do tell." The Dentist said dryly.
"There's a GenSec convoy that'll be going through downtown." Bain started. "They'll be taking a pallet of cash to one of their secure facilities. We'll blow up a section of the road to stop the convoy and then the boys will move in to open the one with the cash and secure it."
"I assume you will have Dallas and Wolf in this one?" The Dentist asked.
"Of course. Wolf knows his way around drills and saws, and Dallas is the Pit Boss." Bain explained. "I'll have Chains and Jacket go along for it too, they'll need the muscle."
"And the driver?" The Dentist questioned.
"He'll prove his worth there."
Takumi was honestly surprised he had a second job with Payday. A bit of excitement before the real job in just one week and some extra cash. He plugged in his headphones and turned his iPod on as the crew got out of the van shortly after a booming explosion. He sat tapping the steering wheel to the beat of Life Will Change by Shoji Meguro and sung by Lyn Inaizumi. The rock beat encouraged him to slightly dance as he waited for the crew to return. He had no idea how the crew did heists in their suits. He was just sitting in the car waiting for them to return and he was overheating. He turned the AC on full blast, letting the cool air overcome him. He snapped into focus as the song changed to Deja Vu by Tsuko G, as the crew rushed to van. They rushed over in their body armor and suits, carrying duffle bags stuffed with hundred dollar bills that they tossed in the back. Dallas slammed the door shut as he sat next to Takumi.
"Let's go!" Dallas shouted. Takumi slammed on the gas and the van shot off. He was clear for a block or two, before he was confronted by three police cruisers tailing him.
"Tell the guys in the back not to shoot." Takumi ordered.
"Why would you want them not to shoot?" Dallas demanded.
"To avoid attracting more attention." Takumi answered. Dallas sighed.
"Don't shoot guys." Dallas said into what Takumi assumed was a radio built into his mask. Takumi hit the clutch and moved it into a faster gear and drove forward, straight towards a brick wall. He thinned his eyes as he suddenly dropped to third gear, and drifted into a right turn. Two of the cruisers crashed into fire hydrants and the wall. The third car was still on him and he needed to lose it before returning to the safehouse. He drifted into a left turn and hyper focused as he performed his risky maneuver. He set the van into the lowest gear possible while forcing it to turn in one place. When the van was turned to go back where it had come from, he shoved it into the third gear and sped past a cruiser containing a pair of astounded cops. He lost them as he drifted into an alley to finish off the escape.
A/N: And there we go, chapter two done. The crew will be rescuing the real Hoxton in the next chapter, where I'm going to start deviating from what we know is the cannon and start with my headcannon. As for the van, I always had this idea that the crew had focused on reliability over price or style so I thought it would make sense that the van would be a manual. I want to start doing somehting now, I'm going to include chapter questions in some chapters. I'll ask a question and I'll respond to whatever answers I think would work best and might even implement it in the story. So with that out of the way, first chapter question ever!
CQ: Takumi will eventually start to arm himself a bit better and get more involved in heists. So I'd like to ask, what weapons that aren't already in the game would you like to see Takumi use and think would make sense for him? (Note: He's only a beginer shooter so nothing complicated like G11's, MK23 SOCOM's or naything made by HK or FN Herstal for that matter.)