Chapter 5: The Break-in
Note: Here's an extra-long chapter for Open Your Heart, full of action and romance. Bon Appetite!
(10:32 A.M. Station Square Park)
Tails and Cream sat on the bench in Station Square Park. Hey both looked around and checked if anyone was looking. No one was. After all, it was still morning. No one was there. Tails reached behind his back and pulled out a large white paper that looked like a blueprint of some sort.
"This is the map of Station Square Bank." Tails explained. "The most secured bank in the world." Cream gulped. He pointed to a large rectangle in the center of the map. "Here's the cash vault. It obviously contains the money we're looking for. Getting in will be the hard part, getting out will be easier."
Cream interrupted. "Why? I mean, wouldn't it be as hard getting in as it would be getting out?" Tails shook his head. "Actually, no, because we have this." He pulled out the round, silver device given to them from chaos. "We'll hide in the cash vault until it becomes exactly nine. Then we'll teleport out of the bank, money and all." Cream nodded. "I still feel bad about doing this..." Tails nodded. "Me too, but it has to be done." Cream tried to hold back tears. "Okay. But how will we get in?" Tails smiled.
"I got a plan..."
(12: 47 P.M. Station Square Bank)
Cream and Tails walked up to the side of Station Square Bank. Tails looked at the entrance to make sure no one was looking. No one was there. Tails gave Cream a thumbs-up sign. She nodded and flew up to the center of the pulled out a small drilling device. She could remember the instructions clearly in her mind. Fly to the center of the east wall, and drill through it. It should be the only place where the sensors don't touch. It should be marked. Cream looked around her and found a small red dot. She placed the drilling device on the dot and pressed a button. The drill was very quiet, but went slow. Her large ears, which enabled her to fly, were getting tired. She pressed the button again to stop drilling, and then landed on the ground. After taking a break, she'd repeat the process again.
Meanwhile, Tails got out a high-tech laptop and turned it on. He walked inconspicuously to the wall on the opposing side of the wall Cream was by. He pulled out a wire which was attached to the computer controlled it with his laptop. The wire moved in mid-air and toward the wall. Tails found a small hole and fit the wire into it. After that, he turned on the camera which was attached to the end of the wire. He looked at all the other, colored wires and shuffled the wire through them all. Finally, a small green wire caught his attention. The wire made its way toward the wire and wrapped itself around it. On Tails' screen, he got an image of the money vault's security camera. He froze the image and saved it to the wire. He then moved it to a red wire, which was the wire that brought the security camera's picture to the security guards. Tails' wire wrapped around that one and saved the frozen image over the video, making it look like nothing was happening. Now Cram could get into the vault without the notice of the security guards.
Cream was on the other side of the wall. "Almost there, just one more drill." She thought. She flew up one last time and started drilling as fast as she could. Finally, the hole was finally through the wall. The hole was about the size of her head, though. Cheese, her pet chao, came out from behind her. A chao is a small, bluish creature with a yellow dot above its head. Cheese was the name of Cream's chao. "Cheese, get inside the hole and make it wider." she told her chao, quietly. "Chao, chao!" Cheese replied, quietly. Cheese jumped into the hole, as Cream slowly floated to the ground to rest. Cheese kicked and punched the sides of the hole until it was about twice its original size. Cheese flew down to Cream and landed on her head. "Chao cha-o!" he said, happily. Cream patted his head. "Good job!" she whispered. Cream flew up to the hole and squeezed through.
She tried to remember what the next step was. The hole should take you to the second floor. There are two guards in this room, so try to take them out. Cream sighed. "Why..." She slid across the wall of an empty room. She wondered where the two guards were. Right after thinking that, a guard came into the room and turned the direction away from Cream. Cream took Cheese out and threw him at the guard. Her throw isn't that strong, but after having experience with her robot friend, Emerl, she and her chao have mastered the throw. After being thrown by Cream, Cheese gained velocity until it was nothing more than a blue blur. Cheese stroke the guard with such force, the guard fell to the ground, paralyzed. Cheese quietly ran back to Cream. The other guard, also not noticing Cream, ran to the guard. He quickly took out a walkie-talkie. Cream quickly threw Cheese again at the other guard. The guard fell to the ground and dropped the walkie-talkie. Cream retrieved Cheese again.
Meanwhile, in the security room of the bank, the guards disabled the wire that Tails had laid on the security cameras and saw what Tails and Cream were doing. Two guards that were monitoring the security cameras were in the dim, monitor-filled room along with the owner of the bank, watching the rabbit in the dress beat up the guards. One of the guards turned to the owner. "Should we wend more guards?" the guard asked. "We have a lot of them." The other guard added. The owner simply shook his head. "No, let's not put any more lives at stake." he said. "Instead..." he paused. He turned to one of the guards. "Fredrick?" The guard saluted. "Sir?" "Go get Guard robot number 8." The soldier saluted. "Yes sir." The guard got up and started for the door. "Oh, and one more thing," the boss added. The guard stopped and turned. "They're just kids. Go easy on them at first. Besides, we've got plenty of robots." The guard nodded. "Will do, sir." He turned back to the door and left the room.
Tails made his way to the other side of the wall, and spinning his tails like a helicopter, flew up into the hole Cream had made. Cream turned around and saw Tails again. "Now what do we do?" She asked him. "Now we get into the center of the room and drill downward." He brought another drill like Cream's. They both drilled into the floor of the second floor and the ceiling of the first floor. Finally, the hole was big enough for both Cream and Tails to fit through.
(7:00 P.M. Money vault – 2 hours until departure)
Cream and Tails both squeezed through the hole and into the vault. They both looked around. The room was very large – about the size of an apartment complex. Moneybags, gold bars, and coins filled the shelves and walls of the vault. Tails got out a large vacuum-like machine and turned it on. It worked like the drill. I was very quiet, but it didn't go very fast, and you press a button to turn it on and off. Cream pulled one out as well, and started sucking the money into the machine. Tails did the same. It took a while, but they managed to get the entire vault cleared of money.
(8:54 P.M. Money vault (center) – 6 minutes until departure)
After collecting all the money, the two kids both met in the center of the vault and rested. Tails put his cash-sucking machine behind his back. "That took forever," he sighed. "Do you think they didn't notice?" Cream just looked down in silence. Tails walked to her. "Cream? You okay?" Cream dropped her sucking machine on the ground. "I... I stole..." she said. "I'm... a criminal..." She broke out into tears. Tails patted her shoulder. "It's okay, Cream." he said. Cream shook her head. "No it isn't!" she yelled. "I've never stolen anything in my life! Not a single thing! How am I supposed to take robbing a bank?" Tails sighed. "I feel sorry about it, too, Cream. This isn't easy. Please, don't cry." Cream sniffed and wiped away her tears. "I'll try."
After a few seconds, Cream had stopped crying. "Okay," she said. "I'm done." Tails smiled. "Good. Now just take a deep breath and forget about everything that just happened." Cream inhaled deeply, and then breathed out. "Thank you, Tails. I feel much better, now." Cheese smiled, too. "Chao!" Cream giggled. "He says thank you." Tails smiled and pat Cheese on the head. "You know, I couldn't have pulled this off without you two." Cream smiled back. "And this means that the blue meanie won't be mad at us!" Tails looked at Cream. "I guess there were some good things about this after all." Cream looked back at Tails, dead silent. Cheese then had an idea. He flew up behind Cream's head and pushed her head slowly into Tails. Finally, the chao steeped back and looked at the two.
Tails and Cream were both kissing, with their eyes wide open, surprised.
They both pulled away from each other in embarrassment. Cheese was smiling. "Chao ch-ao!" he said. Cream glared at Cheese. "Why did you do that, Cheese?" she asked. He flew up next to Cream and whispered in her ear. 'What? No!" she said. "Of course I don't!" Cheese nodded. "Well, think what you want, but you're wrong." Cream said, blushing. "What is it?" asked Tails, listening to the conversation. "Nothing!" Cream said, blushing nervously. "Nothing at all!"
Tails looked at his watch. "It's a minute till nine. We should take out that transporter." He reached behind him, but couldn't find it. "Umm, Cream?" he asked, nervously. "Do you have the transporter?" Cream was confused. "No, I thought you had it!" Tails looked around him. "Where is it?" Cream gasped. What if it's...?"
(9:00 P.M. Station Square Park)
A young boy was playing in a small sandbox in the park, digging up as much as he could. While he was digging, he dug up a round, silver object with a red, glowing button in the sand. "What is this?" he asked. Suddenly, an older woman came by. "Danny, it's getting close to bedtime!" she said. "Let's go!" The boy sadly threw the device into the sandbox. After a blinding flash, all the sand in the sandbox was gone.
Will out two heroes ever make it out? Why did Cheese make the two kiss? And shouldn't the world's most secure bank in the world have better security? Find out in the final chapter for part 2! Thanks for reading! Oh, one last thing...
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