Chapter 13 – Flashbacks to a Job

Bank of Shirago, Shirago, 2002

It was a quiet day for the bank; they had only received a hand full of customers the entire day. But the banks safe had the entire weeks profit; it was going to be picked up by a security firm in a few hours. All the employees of the bank hated this day, since it was a vulnerable day for robberies. And sure enough today was a day that some robbers had picked to rob the place.

Three men with blue suits and wearing bandanas around their mouths suddenly burst in the door with double shotguns.

"Everybody get down on the ground and shut up!" one of the men said

All of the bank tellers and customers suddenly lay down on the ground; one of the pudgy robbers ran up the stairs.

"Right, in case you're dumb enough not to notice, this is a robbery" the man who seemed to be leading the robbery said

"Nooo" a voice said sarcastically

"Who the fk was that?" the man asked

"Me" the voice said

"Who's me?" the man asked again

"I'm one of the bank tellers" the voice said

A young man with brown hair and wearing thick rimmed black glasses was where the voice came from.

"And I think you are the scum of the earth"

"What the fk did you just call me" the robber asked

"Scum of the earth, I know what people like you are like, if I met you in the street you would be nice to meet, but as soon as you get into a bank and wanna rob you're cocky, you think you know everything" the man said

The robber suddenly faced the chrome double-barrelled shotgun and pulled the trigger. The man's head was blown off, everybody in the bank screamed.

"Look where that attitude got you punk" the robber said as if nothing had happened

"Now let me tell you something people, I have faced more than you ever have in you're whole life, I don't really care what you think, so if anyone wishes to tell me their opinion, you may, but I can't promise I won't take it badly, so you might be lying in blood like this fker, is that understood"

The whole room went quiet for a minute until the man who had cracked the safe holding the large briefcase obviously full of money came running down the stairs.

"C'mon guys lets g…" he stopped mid-sentence seeing the blood spattered corpse "What the fk is happening here, who did this?"

"Don't look at me" the other man said "it was Tommy"

"Nice one" Tommy said "now the whole god damn bank knows my name"

"Tommy, I'll never forgive you for this, this wasn't meant to be a violent job" the man with the case said

"Well the man insulted me, not just me, all of us, he called us scum man" the man named Tommy said

The man with the case looked like he was going to argue back but then stopped and said "Let's get out of here before the cops come".

And with that they were out of door, the bank were left with a blood-stained carpet and One Million Dollars down.

"I think I know who that was" one of the customers said to the bank manager clearing it up later

"Who?" the manager asked

"Tommy Vercetti, I could recognise that voice anywhere" the customer said "will you phone the police

"No, I'll inform someone higher than police" the manager said

"Who is that?" the customer asked

"The underground leader of Darkel" the manager said

Darkel, Warner high-rise, Warner, Darkel, 2002

The phone suddenly began ringing as Darkel was sitting on his grubby damaged brown sofa. Outside Emaru's house was now in ashes after being extinguished by the Darkel Fire Department. Darkel suddenly picked up the phone.

"Hello" Darkel said

"Hello, the bank manager of Shirago Bank, Tommy Vercetti robbed our bank today" the person on the other side of the line said

"Your joking, Tommy Vercetti is in Shirago?" Darkel exclaimed in surprise

"Yes" the bank manager said

"Thanks for letting me know" Darkel said before hanging up the phone

"You know what?" Darkel said to one of his goons

"What?"

"Tommy Vercetti is in Shirago, I think he is working with the Capelli's and that man who burned down Emaru's house is also working with him" Darkel said

"You could be correct"

"I've got a call to make"

Darkel pushed the numbers into the phone and the phone began ringing.

"Who is this?" the voice on the other line said

"It's Darkel" Darkel said

"Can you call me back; I'm kinda busy; I'm following that person you said was in Shirago, Fido"

"Keep on following him, don't lose track of him" Darkel said before clunking the receiver down.