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"So, it all started in the Spring of 2010, when I wasn't leader and the old crew was still alive. We were planning on a mission to take out a gang's profits in a town we lived near. The gang was a fierce competitor to us then, so our old leader Matilda planned several ops to take them out before they could any get worse and cause us more problems.
April 4th, 2010. Infinite's POV
We were all called to the planning area for another mission against our competition. We had already destabilized them earlier, but from what I've heard from the others we were taking out a few of their big local money-makers.
I watched as our leader, Matilda, a strong willed woman who had taken up the challenge of leading us, pull out a map and spread it on the table.
"Is everyone here?" She asked, checking to see if we all showed up. I looked around and saw all of us here before focusing my attention on the map.
"Yes, everyone's here." I heard Klondyke, our second in command confirm.
"Perfect." She gave us one more look. "Some of you may have already known that I plan on taking out the Diez here in Carewell since they've moved into the area despite our efforts. We are going to show them that they made a mistake, and we'll be taking the town back. The plan is to take out their money-making businesses so they'll lose profits from this area. They have a betting shop in town here, a small casino joint here and a vehicle mod shopover here." She pointed the locations on the map. "That's right, we're hitting three in one day. It should scare them away from here." She explained to us. I felt a hand grab my shoulder, I looked back to see Leo, my best friend there.
"Pretty exciting, huh?" He asked.
"I have no problem defunding them at the same time kicking their asses." I whispered back, but Matilda caught on to my comment about defunding them.
"Ah, that reminds me. They'll have safes in all three businesses, we can take their profits for ourselves. Thank you, Infinite." She flashed me a smile.
"What about our escape plan?" I heard Forgen, our hacker ask.
"Hold your horses, we haven't gotten that far yet." Our leader stated. "Anyway, the mod and gamble shops are their most profitable businesses, so I'll have teams of three hitting those, and that will also serve as a distraction. Infinite and I will be attacking the betting shop." She explained. It wasn't often I got to work directly alongside our leader.
"The two attack teams will get out through escape plans we've listed on maps that'll be handed to said teams. Raze and I will be in the air monitoring from above." Our second in command explained.
"Where will we get out?" I asked.
"You'll go though Region Hill, just a little outside of town and do a loop around to lose any pursuers." He told me. I nodded in acknowledgment. I watched Klondyke hand out the special maps to six other members, including Leo.
"Anyway, everyone ready?" We all shouted and raised our weapons in the air in acknowledgment.
"Showtime." Leo said to me. I gave him a wave as he grabbed a duffel bag and walked away to the outside of the building while looking at his map with the others. I decided to approach Matilda since she was my teammate in this mission.
"Are we really just running in there?" I asked.
"The other two teams will. Once the distraction is complete we can sneak in the betting shop and take their profits. We shouldn't have any problems if we're lucky." She explained to me.
"Alright, cool." I acknowledged.
"You know where Region Hill is, correct?" Matilda asked suddenly. I nodded.
"Yeah, it's at the far north of town. Walk though a bit of bush and you're there." I said, knowing that off the top of my mind.
"See, you're not as dumb as Klon says you are. I'm sorry he's not the nicest person, but you're not the only one." She consoled me, bringing up my most disliked member of the squad.
"Thanks." I replied, looking down. "Not even my scar?" I asked, rubbing my hand along the large scar I had above my eye.
"I've told you this many times, you goof. Nobody's perfect, and that was your first mission when you got that, when you were less-skilled than you are now. You should honour that scar if anything." Matilda told me once again, staring into my eyes. "Please, don't let the past get to you. It's best you move on forward than constantly grieving about a past event."
She stroked the side of my face. "I'll keep that mind, Matilda."
"Good, now let's head out." We walked outside of the building. I looked around and saw the others just beginning to leave the camp with their swords and daggers. I watched as they jumped impressively away and towards the local town we happened to be near.
As I walked outside, I looked towards the large opening of the camp where Raze's helicopter was parked. He was trying to fix something with the engine on the heli, which bothered me a bit since he was our Get-out-of-jail-free card since he and Klon would be observing the situation from above but knowing his brilliance with aircraft mechanics, he'd get it fixed in no time.
We continued walking in no big rush, since we'd be the last to go in. "May as well relax for a few minutes, let them stir up some trouble first." I heard Matilda read my mind.
I scratched my arm in boredom and began to lean against a wall and waited for the time to go by. I noticed my leader eyeing our pilot, and without saying a word to me she went over to Raze and began asking him about the problems. While she did, I got curious to where Klon had went. He was no where to be seen.
My curiosity got the better of me, and I began looking around the camp for him. I eventually went inside his own cabin to find him. I saw nothing on the first floor of the small cabin, but I heard his voice from upstairs. Carefully, I went up the stairs, but immediately froze at what was saying.
"Don't worry, the chopper's sabotaged. Hopefully those two will be gone by tonight." I heard him say to someone. "The meeting? What time, location and date?" I listened intently, not believing what I was hearing. "Don't worry about it, that'll be taken care of. Anyway, I'll get on the line later. I have business to take care of."
I quickly hopped off the steps and out the door. I caught up to Matilda and wanted to tell her everything I heard, but I know she wouldn't listen. I've had complaints about Klondyke's suspicious behaviour and callers in the past many times, but now nobody listens.
I couldn't help but think that this simple mission could go horribly. After all, he had mentioned something about sabotaging a helicopter, and two people dying. It was obvious that he was referring to me and my leader.
"Well, get it figured out, quick, Raze." I heard Matilda tell the pilot. She looked over to me and threw me a duffel bag.
"Apparently the chopper is having sudden problems, so we'll be doing this without eyes and we'll need to get out ourselves most likely. Not too big of an issue. We can all handle ourselves."
"Right, should we head out now?" I asked, the phonecall still fresh in my mind. I looked behind me and saw Klondyke coming out of his cabin, he was unaware of what I did thankfully and walked towards us.
"May as well. I'm sure the boys are probably already starting trouble." She replied.
"Wait!" I heard our second in command call, stopping Matilda. She turned around. "Is there anything that needs to be done while I'm waiting for him to fix up already?" He asked, pointing at Raze.
"No, you can wait here." She told him. I could not look him in the eye. "Anyway, let's go, Infinite." I watched her jump off and out of the camp. I was quick to do the same, eager to get away from Klondyke and whatever sick plan he had in mind.
I decided to take that off my mind for now, and focus on moving forward. It was hard to maneuver out of camp since we're surrounded by thick woods and brush, so I like to run across the branches of the trees to make my journey quick. My leader did the same.
After a few short minutes, the trees began to clear and we found ourselves in Carewell. We both stopped and heard the fighting and violence that was already occurring.
"Looks like they're already attacking. Let's get to business while they're distracted." I nodded and we made our way to the street. We made our way left to where the betting shop was located, but quickly hid when we saw red cars belonging to the gang we were attacking drive down the street towards the other businesses.
Once the coast was clear, we went up to the rooftops and ran across them to the shop. I surveyed the area.
"Everything's going according to plan so far. Most have left to back up their buddies." Matilda said. We both jumped down and went through the front door drawing our weapons. There was no one inside, but I didn't let my guard down.
I made my way to the back room, with my dear leader covering from behind. I opened the door slowly, but I was caught by surprise from a squirrel that was waiting for us. He punched me in the face and came at me with a knife, but I stopped the blade from coming closer and head butted them. While they were stunned, I slashed them with my sharpened nails and for a final blow, I sliced them with my sword, killing them.
"See, you can handle yourself even without my help." Matilda commented.
"Thanks. Let's get cracking this safe open." We approached the small safe and I tried to crack the code with my previous knowledge, but my accomplice stopped me and cut the safe open with her special sword.
"A lot easier than trying a few hours to open it, wouldn't you agree?" I nodded, looking up at her.
"I guess. It's kind of hard to tell which safes are cheap and others that are expensive nowadays." I said, putting money into the duffel bag. We stayed silent as I finished putting money in the bag, but I was surprised when I saw a gold ring through the last few stacks of money. "We hit the jackpot."
"Definitely, now hurry! We've got company coming." I heard her say over the distant sounds of sirens.
"The police are here already?" I asked, finishing putting everything in the duffel bag and zipped it up. We made a quick exit out of the building and we headed down the street, but that's when the authorities began arriving. "That's not a normal response time, especially here."
We both made a mad dash to Region Hill through the streets, with police cars behind us, and to our surprise they did no hesitate to immediately shoot at us. I heard the bullets whizz by us as we dodged them midair.
We had nearly made it out of town, the woods towards the hill just behind the backyard of the house in front of us. We were nearly done, and then it happened;
I heard a gunshot and a yell of pain from my leader. I froze, and saw her on the ground, clutching her leg. I looked towards the cop that had shot her, and with an act of vengeance, I air dashed to the cop and took them out with my blade. I then helped Matilda up.
"You okay?" I asked
"It's a flesh wound... just get us out of here." She said softly. I put my arm around her shoulder and we made our way though the woods, but we were still being chased. Shots would ring out near us frequently, and I was afraid I'd be shot too.
I stopped to catch my breath, but I made a mistake when more shots were fired, and hit a tree next to us. The tree collapsed down onto my leader, who let out a cry of pain. I tried to lift the huge tree off her, but to no avail.
"Infinite!" She called, looking at me. "Just go, run. Don't worry about me."
"No, you're my leader! I can't leave you behind." I responded.
"It's better me than you. Please, just go." She begged me, looking at me with those eyes. I wanted to resist that order, but I had no choice. I simply nodded and ran.
Later
I made it to camp, subtle tears going down my face. I had lost my leader, and had no idea if she was alive or dead.
"Infinite!" I heard a few voices call. I looked up and saw Leo there.
"Where's Matilda?" He asked.
"She's gone..."
"What did you say?" I heard Klon's voice ask. I looked over to him.
"She's either dead or arrested!" I cried out.
"And you let her get killed!?" He asked, throwing someone out of his way.
"I didn't have much of a choice, she wanted me to run." I exclaimed, but that angered him and he grabbed me by the throat.
"As a matter of fact, you did have a choice. You decided your life was more important than our leader's." He snarled, staring me down.
"She... wanted me... to leave..." I choked, but he threw me down. I got up and backed away. "She got shot and a tree collapsed on her. She begged me to leave her behind. I don't even know if she's alive or not."
"Your lies disgust me." He commented, but that infuriated me.
"So do yours, you bastard! She's dead because of you!" I snarled back, and lunged to attack but two of the others held me back. "I heard that phonecall! You sabotaged the chopper and called the cops!" I accused. Klondyke scoffed.
"Keep making assumptions, kid. Anyway, I want to find out what really happened. I want some of you on that immediately." He commanded, and they scattered. The beefy jackal looked at me. "As for you... we'll talk later about this. I hope you're telling the truth."
And there's your very overdue chapter. Hope you all enjoyed.