Chapter 4- The plan
Both Jake long and Lao Shi knew that time was against them. The terrorists could either blow up the building any time, or Special Forces could storm the building which would also be bad. It was also hard to figure out a major objective whether it be to ensure the orb does not fall into the wrong hands or if the time arises the orb may have to be sacrificed in order to allow the magical creatures within the basement of the building to escape unnoticed. There was also the problem of entering the building without being noticed because the media would all be focused around the building and there would be a firm perimeter around the building covered by the police and special forces. There had to be a way in without being noticed.
Neither Jake nor Lao could work out how to get into the building. They had no plans of the building and they had to work with what little knowledge they already had of the building. They decided that the best way to form a plan would be to get to the site first.
Both Jake and Lao Shi Dragoned Up and flew the most of the way to the Kepler building. They had to fly as fast as they could in order to save time. Lao knew which one the Kepler building was. It was recently constructed in Downtown Manhattan it was eighty five stories high and rivalled the height of the empire state building. It had a flat roof and most of its outer walls seemed to be glass. It was owned by the billionaire Richard Kepler who was a multi billion dollar owner of Kepler Corp, an Australian company.
When they came close to the Kepler Building, Lao Shi ordered Jake to stop. He knew they could not get any closer without being spotted, as there were several news Helicopters flying around the place. They landed on an empty street. It was still too far to run, so they hurriedly walked to the main road and hailed a cab.
The cab driver was a black afro-American with dark sunglasses. "Yo where to pops?" he asked when Lao Shi opened the door. Lao Shi gave him a street name that would take them close enough to the building but not too close to arouse suspicion. Jake got in the back after Lao shi got in the front.
"So what's happenin today?" asked the cab driver after accelerating to the speed limit.
"Ah, nothing much, just on a business trip." Replied Lao Shi
"Ya heard what happened at the Kepler building?"
"Yes terrible shame isn't it that we live in a world full. Of people who would do things like this."
The cab driver turned to Jake. "Hey man, my name is Argyle."
"Um Hi" replied Jake
"You know That I was once in a building that was taken over by terrorists?"
"Err No"
"Yes, I was like driving this New York cop around in Los Angeles, I was a limo driver then. Anyway he had to stop off and see his wife. I decided to wait in the car parking lot. They took control of the building and locked the parking lot down. I heard the damn New York cop single-handedly took down all the terrorists. Crazy son of a bitch. That was both my scariest night and best night ever. Heck I managed to lend a han…" At that point he almost collided with a truck coming from on a side street.
"Please pay attention" Commented Lao. "I need to be alive to perform business"
"Yes sorry about that" Argyle replied and kept his eyes on the road. They continued a couple of blocks before he started again. He just couldn't seem to keep his mouth shut. "Man that guy was something. Can you believe that a couple of years later he single-handedly defeated terrorists at an airport?" Lao Shi seemed little interested and seemed to get a little annoyed at the continuous talking of the driver but Argyle still continued. "Then some terrorists blew up a station here in New York so they could get access to the basement of some gold storage place which was right next door. Man they tricked the cops but.." Argyle was interrupted by Lao Shi. "Let us off here, I uh have to do something." "Okay dude, that's $13.50" Lao paid Argyle and both he and Jake got out of the cab.
"Yo gramps, why did we get off here?" asked Jake after the taxi sped away.
"Look Jake, 4th Street station. This line happens to go directly past the basement of the Kepler building. Thanks to that over talkative taxi driver, I have an idea." They walked down into the station. They had to catch a train to 8th street. The station would not let passengers on the train, because of its proximity to the recent attack, but people were allowed to get off the train there. Then they exited on to the station. "If we can create a distraction we can turn dragon and fly about 300 feet down the tunnel. We should be right next to the Kepler building basement.". "We only need a distraction now."
Note: Argyle was the limo driver in the first die hard. He was the one of the most helpful people because he actually knocked out a terrorist in the first one. I always thought he should have been in at least one of the others, but he wasn't so ive included him in this one.