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YFWE-Die hard is widely considered to be one of the defining action movies of American Cinema. It was released in 1988 it has spawned 2 sequels (Die harder (1990) and die hard: With a Vengeance (1995)) The original die hard was about a N.Y cop named John Mclean (Bruce Willis) who goes to visit his wife over in L.A for Christmas. She works in a building called the Nakatomi building. The Nakatomi Christmas party means that everyone is on the thirtieth floor. When John is in his wife's office, terrorists led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) strike taking the party hostage, but John manages to avoid capture but his wife is captured. What happens next is a game of cat and mouse as the terrorists try to find John. But what nobody knows is that these guys are not really terrorists, they have a much more sinister plan for everybody (Youll have to see it). Die Hard 2 was Okay, a bunch of terrorists take over control of an airport (That John Mclean is waiting for his wife). They threaten to make the planes circle the airport until they run out of fuel. Mcleans wife is on one of those planes, so action must be taken. The third one is as good as the first. John is a boozer on suspension in N.Y. When a man it seems wants to play a game with him. Under supervision of police he and Samuel L Jackson's character (I can't remember the name) must go around the streets of Manhattan solving riddles or a bomb will blow. What they don't realise is that this terrorist has links to one of Johns previous missions, and it is not just about revenge. So those are a brief rundown of the three diehards. Great action. But it doesn't matter if you haven't seen it for this, I wont really make many connections.

Chapter 5-Taking charge

Wilhelm looked about the nicely decorated floor. They were on the observation deck on the top floor of the Kepler building. He looked out over the vast area of New York, 'So many people come to live together in a city' he thought to himself. 'If I had a Nuclear weapon, I could wipe out a number equal to the population of Greece in one go.'

His plan had been executed perfectly. There was a corporate meeting in the building. All the big names from some of America's, Britain's and Australia's world markets were there. This meant that security was high but that didn't matter. Apart from the meeting which was being held on the 50th floor of the building it was void of all other life (Or he thought it was).

There were 17 terrorists in total including the fifteen from the bank job and the two chopper pilots. Carrying out the plan was simple, the removalist van with 13 of the terrorists drove down to the first level car park. There was very little security on the first few floors. They parked outside the entrance to the building. Once they did this, the two men in black suits exited from the front of the truck. They used the buzzer at the door which also had a speaker. This called the guard at the reception desk in the foyer. "Hello, Welcome to the Kepler building please state your name and business." A well built terrorist with short brown hair and a bushy moustache decided to do the talking. It appeared that he had the best American accent. "Hello my name is William Parkinson and we are here to deliver the fine champagne that was ordered." There was a long silence. Finally the guard unlocked the door using a special switch underneath the foyer reception desk. "You may come in Mr Parkinson." The voice from the speaker continued. There was a loud click indicating that the door had been unlocked. William walked through the door into a large hallway and the terrorist that was with him followed. At the end of this hallway there was the foyer. It was a large room with Roman style columns. In the middle of it there was a small reception desk. It looked too small for the room. When the guard saw the two men he walked out from behind the desk. William walked up to him and shook his hands. "Where do you want me to put the supplies?" He asked just as the other terrorist pulled out a syringe with white liquid and stabbed the guard in the arm. "Hey what the?" Yelled the guard as the white liquid was injected into his system. He slowly stopped struggling and William dragged his unconscious body behind the desk. He then picked up a two way full duplex radio and reported "Ok the coast is clear."

From the back of the removalist van, 11 terrorists stepped out. They were carrying full backpacks and a large assortment of weapons. Shotguns, rifles everything. All eleven terrorists walked into the reception room. Access to the main computer was just behind the desk. William accessed the computer using the guards hand print for identification. He locked the place down. While he did this another terrorist by the name of Simon pressed the up button on the number 5 elevator. That would be the only accessible elevator after they locked the others down. William then radioed Wilhelm on the roof stating that they were finished on the bottom floor and were about to get up onto the fiftieth floor.

When the elevator came down, only five terrorists got on it. They handed their backpacks to the six who remained. Wilhelm on the top floor radioed the order "Start wiring the building."

Immediately the terrorists started to pull C4 and some blueprints of the building. They had spent hours mathematically calculating where to place the explosives so that they would inflict maximum damage to the building. They had marked the spots on the blue prints. They started laying the C4 on the bottom floor. Wilhelm was doing the same to the top floor.

The five terrorists led by the other guy in the black suit headed straight up th the fiftieth floor. They knew there would be a lot of security on this floor. They also knew that the security would not be ready for them. The leader looked around the elevator. Everyone seemed nervous, but they also had this excited gleam in their eye. They were ready for action. When they reached the 49th floor, the leader pulled out a small silver ball shaped thing. He seemed to press and hold a button on the side. The elevator hit the fiftieth floor and jerked to a halt. The assault would begin as soon as the elevator doors opened.

They seemed to take forever to open. The very second they started the leader threw the little ball shaped object into the room. Cover he yelled in a Spanish accent. At that point all the terrorists closed their eyes and covered their ears. The guards barely had time to react to these men who had just shown up with guns. A blinding flash filled the room, blinding every guard who had their eyes open, and then the room was filled with a piercing screech. All the guards were shell shocked. That's just what the terrorists wanted. They had to act fast if they didn't want to kill anybody.

Immediately the terrorists charged into the room, rifle butting their nearest guard. They then continued to the next guard. All the guards were too busy covering up their ears and eyes to notice anything. Within a minute all the guards lay unconscious. The man with the Spanish accent then radioed through "Area neutralised Casualty count zero." "I hear you, proceed" William replied in his German accent. "I will be waiting for you on the observation deck."

"Cecil" Called the Spanish man

"Yes?" Replied a man with a heavy upper class English accent

"You go and get the prisoners. I will hold the fire stairs and keep contact with Wilhelm and William.

Cecil lead the group down to the corporate committee room. It was encased in soundproof walls and down the other end of the floor so no one had heard a thing. The windows were covered obviously they were using a projector. The four crept up outside the red door. Cecil tried the handle. It was locked. "Ok, we have to do this the hard way I see." He pulled out a silenced pistol from his pocket and fired three bullets into the lock. There was no doubt that they heard something on the inside. Cecil could opened the door, it was opened by a man inside the room.

"What the?" asked the man in an American accent. Cecil shoulder barged the man back into the room. Immediately he walked into the room and the rest followed. The terrorist at the back flipped the light switch. A light which semi blinded all the businessmen in the room lit it up. While they were shielding their eyes Cecil replaced his pistol and raised a Aug rifle in the air. The rest followed him. They started firing wildly in the air.

The atmosphere of the room changed from a dull quiet one to a scene of chaos and panic. A business man cowered in the corner saying "God no, Oh God no." Some just stared in disbelief. Cecil then went to the desk in the middle of the room and upturned it. "Alright all of you follow me he yelled." He then left the room. Most of the businessmen regained their composure fairly quickly and followed the Cecil. One of the female secretaries started to try and calm the man in the corner but was violently pulled away by a Buff terrorist. The man was then flung onto the upside down table and a pistol was pressed to his neck. At this point he started screaming "No, God no please no." The terrorist then growled "Well shut up and I will consider it." At that point he was roughly pulled up by the shoulder and pushed towards the door. The buff terrorist was the last to leave.

Peter Bollows had had a bad day. Earlier, in Sydney, Australia he slept in late so he missed his plane to New York. The taxi then dropped him off at the wrong terminal. He had to run nearly the entire distance to the correct terminal with his heavy briefcase. He had a first class ticket. On his make up flight the plane had a leaky fuel tank so 2 hours into the flight it returned to Sydney airport. The only other flight that could get him to New York in time, only had economy class tickets available. He had to make that flight. When he arrived in New York he learned that that Qantas had lost his important brief case. A fight broke out in the exit area delaying his exit from JFK airport. While he was staring at the fight wishing it would hurry up someone picked his wallet. After finally making it to the meeting, hours late he was an angry man.

Now as he was being led down the hallway at gunpoint just ten minutes after he arrived, he snapped. They were being led towards the fire stairs. He spotted a vase on a table. As he passed the table he picked up the vase. Immediately he turned around and cracked it on the head of the nearest terrorist. The terrorist stumbled back, covered his head and screamed out in pain. Just as he did this two other businessmen wrestled out of the hold of their respective terrorists and offered resistance.

These actions made the injured terrorist panic. He started to fire rapidly. The two who put up resistance stopped. Cecil stepped in and grabbed the gun. "Pull yourself together." He yelled. He then noticed that one of the hostages was on the ground. It was Peter, his shirt was bloodied. Cecil felt for a pulse but didn't find one. "Edouardo, we have a problem." He yelled to the Spanish terrorist. "You damn idiot" Edouardo yelled at the terrorist had gone berserk "Do you not know, we are not supposed to kill anyone?" The terrorist cried "Im sorry, Im sorry." Just lead them up to the desk. Leave this one here. Ill inform Wilhelm."

Wilhelm didn't take to the news very happily. But upon seeing the hostages arrive up to the top floor, his spirits were lifted. The observation deck, just like the rest of the building was empty. Wilhelm then radioed the party laying the explosives. "What floor are you on." He asked. "We are now on the thirtieth floor." "Good. We are now prepared to call the police.

Now Wilhelm stood at the top, the event had lasted about an hour. There were 24 Hostages in total including 14 Businessmen and 10 others. Despite the time past and the polices questions he still didn't give his demands. "Will you tell us what you request Mr Wilhelm?" asked the negotiator. "I do not request anything. I demand them, and I will give my demands when I feel the time is right." "When do you feel the time is right?" "Oh in about Half an hour" he chuckled to himself while still on the radio.

Down at the station, Lao Shi and Jake needed to become dragon. Suddenly a man fell down the stairs of the station. Jake and his grandfather decided to take up on that opportunity and transformed and flew down the subway tunnel. "We should be approaching the subways tangent to the Kepler building now Jake. Take this." Lao handed Jake a stone. "Yo, G what's this for?"

"Blow fire on it, and it should create an explosion big enough to blast through the side of the tunnel into the basement building. Lao suddenly stopped. "Gramps, what's the hold up?" He asked. "Look Jake, do you not see."

"No I don't replied Jake."

"We are here already but look. There is already a hole in the tunnel leading to the building. Someone has blown their way through already."

Well another chapter is up. R&R