III - Reunions
After a much needed sleep, we gathered up at an abandoned building that overlooked Rio, with a really good view, about our plan, and in particular, the team we're assembling.
"Alright, let's run through the bases real quick. Who do we got?" Brian asked as we got to the railing.
"First we're gonna need a chameleon. Someone who can blend in anywhere." Dom first said. There's only one guy I know who fits that description. Han. He always looked so normal that I'd assume he was a regular guy.
"What else?" Mia asked.
"A fast talker. Someone who can bullshit their way out of anything." Dom said.
"I got that." Brian instantly said. Okay, got that down already. It'll be curious to see who we'll get with this one.
"This guy will have plenty of surveillance. So we'll need someone who is good with circuits and electronics." I brought up.
"And with those circuits, Reyes is going to have walls. We're going to need guys to punch through those walls." Dom replied. Leo and Santos, no else I can think of.
"What else?"
"Utilities and weapons. Someone who ain't afraid to throw down. Someone to back up every position." Dom said. I grinned because I already got that down with my girl.
"Already got that. Anything else?" I asked.
"Most importantly, we're gonna need three precision drivers. Guys that don't crack under pressure. Guys that never lose."
Me and Brian looked at each other and grinned.
"You know we got that." We told him.
After that, everyone got their contacts and called them in while me and Dom found the perfect place to be our base of operations. It was this huge abandoned warehouse on the edge of the city. No one would hear us and it's big enough to do what we'd want and need.
After a couple of days, the team we recruited came to Rio and we told them where to meet.
We walked our way to the warehouse and I was just giddy to meet up with Gisele again because it was a while since we last met.
As we approached the warehouse, we heard some chatting and then we entered and there was our whole crew. I instantly spotted Gisele as she's by her motorcycle, standing next to Han, who is of course munching on potato chips. Then I spotted Leo and Santos chatting with the guys that Brian brought in.
"I see you all met." Dom made our presence known and they all looked at us. I grinned like a schoolboy upon seeing Gisele's face who smiled back at me.
"You know when you called me to Rio I assumed it would be more exciting than this." She said sarcastically. We chuckled and hugged tightly and then kissed, which was something I missed too damn much.
"Nice to see you again." I greeted lovingly.
"You too." She said with equal amounts of love. Then we parted and I hugged Han, glad to see he's doing good.
"Good to see you, mate." I told him.
"Good to see you, too." He chuckled.
"Yo, check this out." Brian said to me and Dom, diverting our attention to his friends.
"This is Tej. Best circuit man on the East Coast." He introduced us to the one in the blue shirt. We shook hands with him.
"And this is my boy, Roman Pierce. We go way back, I met this guy in juvie. I pulled that job with him in Miami." Brian introduced us to the other who wore a black leather jacket. I remember hearing him say something about that.
"We've heard about you." Dom told him. Roman nodded.
"Nice digs." Han joked about our establishment.
"Yeah, well, the Ritz was sold out." Dom stated.
"So what's this all about, Dom?" Han then asked. We didn't exactly tell them any details about the job.
"Yeah, man, why did you drag us halfway around the world?" Tej added.
"We have a job. One that will have a huge reward." I told them all and that alone got their attention.
We then led them all to a table where we have some stuff to help us with the job.
"Alright, so our target's name is Hernan Reyes. And he runs the drug scene down here. He's never been busted because he doesn't leave a paper trail." Brian started off as we gathered around with Gisele standing by my side.
"No paper trail means no banks. And no banks means cash houses." Gisele pointed out. I grabbed the map and folded it out to show where these cash houses are.
"Exactly. Ten of them. Scattered throughout the whole city." I said, gesturing to all the spots. Dom walked in.
"And we're going to hit them all." He told everyone. They seemed a bit on edge about the idea and were a bit nervous.
"All of them?" Tej asked, thinking he didn't hear right.
"All of them." Dom repeated.
"That sounds crazy. You bring us to a whole other country so we can rob the dude who runs it?" Roman questioned. He seemed to be a bit of a pussy cat.
"I thought this was business. Sounds personal to me. Is that what this is? I got love for y'all, but personal ain't good business. I can't do this, homie." Roman complained and whined and walked away. I looked at Dom, Mia and Brian then back at Roman.
"Oh, so you're gonna walk out on $100 million just like that?" I asked him, and that made him stop and everyone's eyes widened at the amount of money.
"You say what?" Roman asked.
"Hundred- See, sometimes I be over thinking, man, and, uh, and I know we just met, but you just, kind of, got to-" He was stuttering about the money.
"That's right, $100 million, and everything we take, we split even." Dom went into detail about the reward. And since there's 10 of us, it would be equally split.
"That's $10 million apiece. I am down." Tej pointed out.
"I'm in." Santos said.
"Ten million. Sounds like a whole vaginal activity to me." Roman said in awe at the idea of having that much money. I snorted at that.
"You can't pull off 10 heists on the same mark. You just can't." Gisele noticed.
"Yeah, as soon as we hit the first one, they're gonna do everything they can to protect the rest." Han reasoned to Dom, but we already knew this, as it's all part of the plan.
"Exactly." He agreed with a grin on his face.
On the following day, us guys decided to go and strike against one of the cash houses with guns, ski masks and dressed in black. We watched as a delivery man knocked on the door and when the door was opened, we charged in with the guns and saw women clad in revealing clothing handling money and Dom knocked a guard out while we swept through and handled the other guards. I saw one that was about to shoot Han but I swung my revolver into his throat, making him gasp for air and I knocked him down.
After we handled the guards, we cuffed them and gathered the women up as well and then grabbed all the money and placed them into a pile.
"That's all." I told Dom as me and Brian just finished grabbing it all.
"You a dead man. You're all dead men! You don't have a place to hide." One of these men stated to Dom and we decided to show our faces to him.
"Who's hiding?" Dom asked him.
"Are you crazy? Are you crazy? Do you know whose house this is? Whose money are you stealing?" The man asked as though we were stupid. Dom grabbed some fuel and dumped it all over the money. Then I grabbed the lighter and ignited it.
"We ain't stealing it." Dom corrected and then he nodded at me, and so I threw the lighter at the money and it became a bonfire pretty much.
"You tell your boss exactly who did this. Tell him there's more coming." Dom threatened him and we walked out after declaring war.
