Chapter 12 - The Bank Job

Fido, Momma's Restaurant, Shirago, 2002

I was awoken from a deep slumber by someone shouting through in the restaurant. My ankle was still in pain from being shot the day before. I got up, put my black shirt and blue jeans and stumbled through to the restaurant. Al, Tony and Tommy were standing around.

"Look at this" Al shouted at me

He was holding a copy of 'The Shirago Tree'; front page news was a string of murders across the cities of Shirago, Darkel, Liberty, Vice, Los Santos and Carcer, the story beside the headline was news of the Capelli mansion being burnt down to the ground.

"This is your fault Fido" Al shouted angrily at me "because of you my mansion got burnt down"

"Yeah" Tony said "and also all of the murders in these six cities are associates of my father"

"We better do this bank job this morning and get out of Shirago by the afternoon" I said "Have we all got somewhere to go?"

"I have to stay in Shirago" Tony said "I don't want the Capelli's to fall"

"I don't know if that's such a good idea" I said

"I'll hide in this restaurant for a few days" Tony said

The conversation was suddenly interrupted when Toni and his mum came through the door; Toni was carrying a large briefcase. He opened the briefcase, inside was equipment for the job.

"What are you doing Toni?" his mum asked

"It's equipment" Toni replied

"Equipment for exactly what?" she asked

"Look, if you must know it's for a bank job" Toni said

"Do you want me to help you?" she said

"No, but I would like you to find something else interesting to do" Toni said

Toni's mum walked away. Toni took three chrome shotguns out of the case, four blue suits and four bandanas to put over our mouths.

"Now, you all know what we're going to do after the robbery" Toni said

"Yep" Tony said "after the job, we're all going to meet in the warehouse and then we'll split up"

"Correct" Toni said "so what are we all doing after the robbery?"

"I'm going to Caronto in Canada to wait for my friend 8-Ball" I said

"I'll come with you" Tommy said "I've got business in Caronto too"

"I'm retiring in Canada" Al said

"I have to go back to Liberty City" Toni said

"Good, are we ready to begin?" Toni said

"Ready as we'll ever be" Tommy said

Toni, Toni, Tommy and I began to get into the unlicensed black Sentinel. We said goodbye to Al and he wished us luck. I began driving quite fast. Within a few minutes we were near the bank, as we neared the bank we all put our bandanas on our faces and as we were directly outside it I rapidly slammed the brakes on. Toni, Tommy and Toni jumped out the car and ran into the bank. I could hear a shotgun going off and screams from the bank tellers. A few minutes later they ran back to the car. Toni was holding a briefcase, there were no alarms, no police to be chased by outside, none of them even had a scratch. All three of them jumped into the car. I pushed my foot down on the accelerator.

"I take it everything went according to plan" I said

"Yeah, but there was one thing," Tommy said "there was this one wiseguy bank teller who thought he knew the psychology of every bank robber and started talking to me like I was a fool, so guess what I did?"

"Did you cut off one of his fingers and tell him his pinkie was next?" I asked

"No, that's a good one though, I must remember that!" Tommy replied "I blew the guy to smithereens; I don't care if it's in cold blood, he thought he was some sort of wise guy"

I just laughed at this situation and continued concentrating on the road.

A few minutes later I was driving into the door of an old brown warehouse that had obviously been disused for years. As I drove in I saw Al Capelli sitting on an old rickety chair wearing a Capelli Mafia hat. We swiftly stepped out the car.

"Did you get the money then?" Al asked

"Yep" said Tony "and there wasn't one hiccup along the way"

"Good, I just want to get the money and then forget all about crime, I can't wait to go fishing in Canada, I'll be Joe Normal for the first time ever" Al said

"Which town are you going to in Canada?" Tony asked

"The first town that is at least near a lake and has a house I can buy" Al said

"Let's split the money" Toni said

Toni opened the case and split the money into five briefcases, 200 000 Dollars into each. He then handed one of the five briefcases to Al, Tony, Tommy and I. Al began towards the large door carrying his case.

"Is that you away then Dad?" Tony asked

"Yes, good luck with running the Capelli family Mafia son"

"Wait; do you want me to drive you?" Tony asked

"No I'll get a taxi" Al said

And with that Al walked out the door and within a few seconds he was out of sight. We all stood there in a comfortable silence.

"Are you coming back to the restaurant Tony" Toni said "I'll stay with you a few days until I go back to Liberty City"

"I'll drive you to the train station and get my Banshee back" I said "but after that you're on your own"

I jumped back in the unlicensed black Mafia Sentinel and pushed my foot down on the accelerator. As I was nearing the station Toni started looking oddly behind him.

"I don't mean to alarm you Fido" Toni said "but there's a blue Cheetah behind us with blacked out windows, it's been following us since we left the warehouse"

"We better try and lose them" I replied "it might be the SCPD"

I pressed down on the accelerator; the Cheetah began speeding up too. Then I turned the corner to the railway station but then turned into an alleyway and parked behind a skip. I stepped out the car slowly and looked past the blue skip, I saw the blue Cheetah go speeding past.

I opened the Sentinels door again and said "It's clear, I'll make sure the Cheetah's gone". I opened the window to let Toni know if I saw the Cheetah and Toni got into the driver's seat then Tommy walked out with his and my briefcase and gave me it. I walked slowly out of the alleyway and peaked around the corner. The Cheetah was parked a few feet away.

"GET GOING!" I shouted

Toni quickly gained some speed and drove away, but strangely the Cheetah didn't even move one centimetre. It couldn't have been the police; the police wouldn't have made their actions as well known as this and they would have followed Toni and Tony too, they wouldn't just stop as if waiting for me. Whoever was behind the wheel of this car had a personal grudge against me; I shuddered at the thought that this might be that Negro hitman who shot me in Liberty City; the bullet was still in my back where he had shot me.

"What should we do?" Tommy asked

"My Banshee is over the road there" I said "let's run for it; they don't seem to be trying to get us"

We began running to the Banshee, I jumped into the front seat and hotwired it quickly, the engine roared and I pushed my foot down as much as I could. The car began moving, and I was soon doing a fast speed, the Cheetah was still following us.

"Let's get out of this city" I said

"Where will we go?" Tommy asked

"We'll try and lose this car, if it's not gone by Darkel, we'll confront this maniac" I said

"Fido" Tommy said "do you think this is someone sent by Darkel"

"I dread to think" I said