(A/N) GOOD GOD! FINALLY! I finally finished this chapter. So sorry for the late update. I've been kind of sidetracked by all the things going on in my life. Sorry this chapter is so long, I actually had to cut it in half because of how long it was. But anyway, here's chapter six.

Chapter 6: No Turning Back

Today was the day.

Today, Tadashi and his friends were going to risk life and limb to rob a secure bank, steal thousands of dollars, and get away with without any suspicion from the SFPD.

But first Tadashi had to go see Hiro.

Tadashi hadn't visited his brother for a while, and now that he was about to take a risk that could put him in prison where he could never see Hiro again, he figured now was an appropriate time to see him.

It was about noon now. Tadashi had made sure that the doctors hadn't scheduled anything for Hiro so they would have some time to talk.

"You feelin' any better today?" Tadashi asked as he sat next to Hiro's bed in his hospital room.

"Well, i'm not feeling any worse." Hiro said quietly.

When Tadashi arrived at the hospital, the doctors had informed him that Hiro's heart had been failing the night before, like what had happened in there bedroom. They said that the meds were helping his heart, but that they would only help for so long before they needed to move on to the heart transplant. Tadashi knew that the doctors knew what they were doing, but there was one small part of him that wasn't so sure.

"Hey, this is all gonna be over soon. After the doctors are done with this, you won't have to worry about this ever again." Tadashi was trying his best to make Hiro more optimistic, but something seemed to be dragging him down today.

"Hey Tadashi, is there something wrong with Aunt Cass?" Hiro asked.

At this question, all thoughts vanished from Tadashi's mind, and the only thing he was focused on were Hiro's words. "Uh, what do you mean?"

"When she came to visit me the other day, she seemed really distracted. When I was talking to her, she's start staring off into space, and she'd wouldn't answer me until I said her name like four times."

Aunt Cass had been visiting Hiro on her own time, like when the café was closed, or during her break. Hiro might not have know what Aunt Cass was thinking about, but Tadashi did. She was worried about the bill.

It didn't seem like much. Just a piece of paper with some numbers on it. But those numbers held power, and that power was eating away at Aunt Cass. This didn't make Tadashi any less sure of what he was about to do.

"Well," Tadashi started, "it's just hard on Aunt Cass. You being here. She's just worried is all." Tadashi didn't want to tell Hiro about the cost of his surgery. It would make him feel guilty.

"The doctors here know what they're doing. There main focus seems to be me." Hiro said that last part rather smugly.

"Yeah, but Aunt Cass watches all those korean soap operas where people are always in the hospital. You know what I mean. She gets upset when one of her favorite characters dies. Imagine what it's like for her seeing you here." And imagine what it's like for me.

"Well, she's got nothin' to worry about."

"Never tell Aunt Cass she has nothing to worry about. Then she'll start thinking about all the things she has to worry about." Tadashi let out a chuckle. "Makes me a nervous wreck."

"More than me?" Hiro smiled.

"Never in a million years bonehead."

The two talked for a little bit longer before Tadashi looked at the clock on the wall and realized that it was time to leave, and possibly not come back. So Tadashi said goodbye to his brother, and walked to the parking lot to grab his moped.

He about to rob a bank.


"No, we're not using them," was the first thing Tadashi heard when he walked into the back room of Mr.S's warehouse. He identified it as Honey Lemon's voice.

"We're not using what?" he said as he walked into the room and shut the door behind him.

"The guns," Wasabi replied. "We're not using them. We don't even know how to use them."

"It's as simple as this," Mr.S said as he picked up a gun out of the crate. It looked to be an assault rifle. Where in the hell did he get a gun like that? "Step one: pick up the gun. Step to point said gun at what you want to shoot at. Step three: shoot." Tadashi really hoped that thing had the safety on, because it was pointed at him.

"Ooh," Fred said excitedly, "that could be a song. Step one, pick up the gun. Step two, point it at you. Step three-"

"Fred!" everyone yelled, even Mr.S. He really had been watching this team. At least enough to know what to do when Fred is getting off track.

"No," Gogo said. "We're not using them."

"Well then how are you supposed to hold back the police?" Mr.S said like a smart alec.

Both Honey Lemon and Gogo smiled. "We came up with something," Honey Lemon said proudly. Tadashi hadn't noticed it before, but there was a very large duffel bag sitting on the floor. Honey Lemon and Gogo both lifted it up onto the table with a large DUNG sounding as it was plopped down. What was inside of it?

Gogo answered Tadashi's question to himself when she zipped open the bag and pulled out a large black object. It looked like… a gun of some sort. It looked like a standard assault rifle, but there was a large circular hole in the side and the barrel was very large, about the size of the hole in the side.

"Whoa," Fred said gazing at the gun-like object. "What is that?"

"This," Gogo said as she set the object down on the table, is a chem-gun."

"A chem-gun?" Tadashi said, wondering if he had heard her right.

"It was Honey Lemon's idea. I just used the 3D printer at SFIT to make them."

"Well what do they do?" Mr.S said folding his arms. He didn't look to confident in Gogo and Honey Lemon's creation.

"Well," Honey Lemon lifted the gun off of the table, "I figured we didn't want to hurt anyone, but we still need to look intimidating. So, we made these-"

"But what do they do?"

Honey Lemon reached into the duffel bag, and pulled out a small pink orb. She jammed it into the hole in the gun and aimed at the wall.

Honey Lemon, what are you-" Tadashi was cut when Honey Lemon pulled the trigger, and a large pink substance shot out of their gun, and stuck to the wall.

Everyone was speechless… except of course for Fred.

"That was awesome!" He yelled as he ran over to the large pink splatter. It looked like that weird goo that comes in containers that kids play with. Then Fred pushed his hand into it. "Eew. This feels weird. This must be how Winnie the Pooh feels when he eats honey."

"Honey Lemon, what is this?" Tadashi asked as he inspected the pink substance. Fred was still playing with it.

"It's like I was saying," Honey Lemon said as she put the gun down. "We don't want to hurt anyone, so we're using chemicals."

"Yeah, the cops are gonna really back down for someone wielding a snot shooting gun," Mr.S said unimpressed.

"Well it's more than that actually." Honey Lemon pulled out five different colored balls. "The green ones is for metal embrittlement, for like shooting at guns and cop cars and stuff. The blue ones create a mist incase we need to hide. The red ones explode into a powder that stings your eyes-"

"I thought we weren't hurting anyone," Wasabi pointed out.

"Well… they'll live. Now, purple ones expand into giant bubbles."

"How is that gonna be useful?" Wasabi asked.

Honey Lemon shrugged her shoulders. "I made it by accident and I wanted to see what would happen if we used it."

"Honey Lemon I can guarantee you that there's not a single situation where that will be of any help."

"Eh, you never know."

"What about the pink one?" Tadashi asked, nodding to the mess on the wall.

"Oh, those stick and then harden. I thought it would be useful for immobilizing cops."

"Guys I think my hand's stuck," Fred said trying to pull his hand away from the pink chemical compound."

"Honey Lemon that's awesome," Tadashi said ignoring Fred.

"So then no guns?" Mr.S said. "You guys would rather use colorful chemistry than affective bullets?"

"Yeah, pretty much," Tadashi said as he was looking at Honey Lemon's gun.

"Seriously I can't feel my hand," Fred was still trying to free his hand. And he was still being ignored.

"You wanted Honey Lemon for her chemistry skills," Tadashi said. "I think it's time to put that to use with these."

Mr.S stared at the guns for a while. "You really think that these are gonna work?" he said with a serious face.

"If Honey Lemon thinks they'll work, then so do I."

Mr.S exhaled. "Well then, let's do this. But first we better get Fred unstuck."

After about ten minutes of scraping away at the hardened chemical with pieces of metal lying around the warehouse, Fred was free, and the team began suiting up. With the time it took to get just Fred's hand unstuck, Tadashi was even more confident in Honey Lemon's invention.

Mr.S had the outfits laid out in a box, nice and folded. The outfits all consisted of the same things. A white t-shirt covered by the jackets that the team had stolen from the Backstreet Kinjus. The jackets were leather, making Honey Lemon almost refuse to wear her's. They were all black with Red stripes here and there, and an emblem of a crown on both shoulder. Must've been the Backstreet Kinjus' symbol. The rest of the outfit comprised of regular blue jeans that were ripped, most likely to make the 'being a gang' ruse more believable, work boots, which Honey Lemon also hated wearing. They were also wearing belts that held Honey Lemon's chem-balls for ammo… and then there were the masks.

"Wait, shouldn't we hide our faces?" Tadashi asked.

Mr.S walked over to Tadashi and put an arm around him as he whispered in his ear. "Look, I put Fred in charge of masks, you know to give him something to do, so whatever it is he came up with, just accept it."

If Tadashi didn't know who Fred was, then he probably would have replied to that statement by saying 'what?'. But Tadashi did know Fred, so he knew how to respond to that question.

"Got it," he simply replied.

"Okay guys," Fred said as he unzipped the backpack he had with him, "are you ready to see my masterpieces?"

"As ready as I'll ever be," Gogo said like she wanted this to go faster.

Out from the bag, Fred pulled out five individual masks. They were all hockey masks, and were all painted very, very differently.

"This one's Wasabi's." Fred handed Wasabi a hockey mask that was painted a turquoise, with teal painted around the edges. A yellow line went over the eye holes.

"Uh, thanks Fred," Wasabi said like it was a question.

"This one's for Gogo." An all yellow mask except for the red line going straight down the middle, and the two red dots on the cheeks, making it look like a hockey playing Pikachu.

"Eh, i've seen worse," Gogo said as she was handed her mask.

"I made this one for Honey Lemon." Honey Lemons mask looked like it was originally painted pink, but then was immediately splattered with every bright color imaginable.

Honey Lemon gasped. "It's so pretty!"

"I didn't know which color you liked the best, so I just used all of them. And then this one's for Tadashi.

Tadashi was handed a mask that on the right side, was red with three purple dots dotted along the side. The left side of the mask the opposite of the right, so it was purple with three red dots arranged the same way as on the left.

"Why is one half different from the other?" Tadashi said as he inspected his mask.

"Symmetry," Fred simply answered with a smile. "I thought it would look nice."

"Well, it does." Tadashi didn't want to hurt Fred's feelings, but he actually really did like the mask.

Mr.S clapped his hands together. "Alright. We have the van, we have the masks, and we have the jackets, and we have the guns… chem-guns. Wasabi did you bring your plasma tech?"

"Uh, yeah," Wasabi said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small metallic object.

"That's it?" Mr.S said

"What do you mean?"

"You only made one…"

"Plasma knife," Wasabi said rather matter-of-factly. He clicked a small button on the side of the object, and a green light sprang from in. The light was about eight inches long, and Wasabi was waving it around like it was a lightsaber. "Pretty cool huh?"

"Well it would be better if you made more than one."

"Well i've only been working with larger models. Do you have any idea how long it took me to make a portable one?"

"Well can it get through the locks on the boxes fast enough for just one person to do it?"

To answer Mr.S's question, Wasabi walked over to the table in the center of the room, and stabbed his plasma blade through it. Without any resistance, the knife came out of the bottom of the table. Wasabi pulled the blade out, and turned it off.

"Well, that, uh, that definitely works," Mr.S said.

"Yes it does," Wasabi said smugly as he tucked the knife back into his pocket.

"Well then we're set. Let's roll."

"So you're coming with us?" Tadashi asked.

"What? Of course not."

"Well you set 'lets', so that would imply that you're coming with us."

"It's... just a saying. You ever watch Transformers as a kid?"

"They actually could roll."

"Okay, we're further off topic than we need to be. I won't be there, but before you go in, i'll be briefing you on what's gonna go down." Mr.S threw a small object, which Tadashi clumsily caught.

He opened his hands to find that the object was a phone, a flip phone. "What's this?" Tadashi asked confused.

"It's a dark phone," Mr.S replied. "We can talk and the police won't be able to find any trace of the call. I'll be using it to call you when you park across the street from the repository."

"So it's untraceable?" Tadashi asked, examining the phone.

"Exactly. It's not on any cell phone records, and they can't pick up a call through satellite."

"Oh. Cool."

"Damn right it's cool. Now get going. It's almost rush hour. The less traffic, the easier your escape will be."

Tadashi nodded and the team made their way out of the small room, and into the larger part of the ware house. There, the white van was sitting, waiting for Gogo to get her daredevil hands on it's steering wheel… this was gonna be a trainwreck.

Everyone loaded into the van, Gogo in the driver's seat, and everyone else in the back, equipped with Honey Lemon's chem guns. The backdoors were still open, because Mr.S wanted to talk to them before they left.

"Okay, so… you're going to rob the Silent Sparrow Repository. Now that may seem incredibly difficult, and it is. But, if you stick to the plan, have nothing go wrong, and get in and out of there quickly, then everything will go smoothly."

"And if things don't go smoothly?" Gogo asked from the front seat.

"Well, then you all go to prison for a very long time."

"What about you?" Fred asked.

"I trust you all enough to not have me pop up anywhere in the interrogation. And if it does, I know where all your families live." Mr.S let out a small chuckle. "I'm joking, but it's also very true. Now get outta here, you got a repository to rob." With that, Mr.S slammed the back doors shut and Gogo pulled out of the warehouse, and they were off to rob a bank.

"Tadashi," Wasabi said as Gogo drove out of the port. "We're actually doing this, aren't we?"

Tadashi let out a sigh. "Yeah. We're doing this."

"You realize there's a good chance we're not gonna make it outta this?"

"I do." It was all Tadashi had been thinking about. Being arrested, and for bank robbery no less. He wondered what would happen to his family if the cops caught him and his friends. He wondered what they would think. Mr.S had been watching them for months. Would he really try to hurt them if any of the team gave him up to the cops?

Nonetheless, they couldn't turn back now. They already almost died trying to get the jackets, and Tadashi wondered what Mr.S would do if they bailed. But the one thing that kept him going knowing how much this money would help his family, that he was going to do good with this money. Then there was that feeling. That feeling Tadashi got when he punched that gang member, and made his escape. It was the strangest feeling in the world, but it felt good. It felt better than Tadashi had ever felt. As they neared the bank, that feeling was rising up inside of him.

"Almost there," Gogo said as she turned a corner. Tadashi saw a sign that said Barlow Road. Just a few blocks away was the Silent Sparrow Repository, and in just a few minutes, they were going to rob it. That's when the dark phone began ringing.

Tadashi quickly pulled it out of his pocket, and answered it.

"Alright, the tracker in the phone says you're at the repository," Mr.S said through the phone.

"Uh, yeah. Why did you need to call me again?"

"To go over the plan again. Put me on speaker phone."

Tadashi did as he was instructed and put Mr.S on speaker phone.

"Okay everyone. Now the building isn't all that big, so there won't be many people in there. Honey Lemon and Fred will be controlling the hostages, while Tadashi and Wasabi will be going into the back and cutting through the locks on the security boxes." At that moment, something had occurred to Tadashi.

"Whose money is it?" he asked.

"What?"

"The money in the boxes. Who does it belong to?"

"Ah, I thought you might think that way, so I picked boxes with dirty money. It's mostly cash from insurance scams, and taxes that weren't needed. The scammers needed to hide it somewhere, so they chose a small, barely known repository where no one would find it, but i'm too smart for them."

"So we're stealing from thieves?" Tadashi asked. He didn't want to have to steal money that people had worked hard for. He was trying help his family, not ruin the lives of another.

"Yup. That money wasn't going anywhere useful, but you're using it to help your family, so in this case, no one innocent is going to be affected by this. Anyway, after you have the money, get the hell out of their, get in the van, and Gogo's gonna drive you outta there. Gogo, you'll lose the cops, and park under the highway that's twelve blocks away from the port. You blow up the van with the gasoline and matches that are in the van, but not before emptying the money from a duffel bag, to the five backpacks that are also on the van. Then you'll all get back here separately, and that's that."

"You make it sound like you've done this before," Gogo said.

"That's because I have done this before, and i've gotten away with it… a majority of the time. Anyway, let's get moving people." Mr.S hung up after that, leaving everybody to get ready for probably the stupidest thing they'll ever do in their lives.

"Okay guys, Honey Lemon said, "everyone know how to use their chem guns?"

"Don't you just load the chem-ball and shoot?" Wasabi asked looking at his chem-gun

"Well it's a bit more complex than that. There's two setting on the gun that can be changed with this switch on the side of the barrel." Honey Lemon switched said switch up on her gun. "When it's pointed up, it in grenade mode, where if you shoot the chem-ball, it won't do anything until it hits something. The other setting is… well I don't know what it's called, so we'll call it setting two. The chem-ball's ability will activate in the barrel of you need to shoot something up close."

"Wait, even the purple expanding one?" Tadashi asked.

"Uh yeah, don't put that one on setting two."

Wasabi, Tadashi, and Fred nodded.

"Fred what did I just say?" Honey Lemon asked Fred, feeling pretty sure he wasn't actually listening.

"You… the purple one… it has a second setting…" Fred was hopelessly trying to remember what she had said moments ago.

"Don't put the purple ball in the gun when the gun is on it's second setting," Honey Lemon answered for him.

"Right."

"Say what I just said."

"Don't shoot the purple chem-ball when the gun's on it's second setting," Fred said, actually listening that time.

"Good."

Gogo parked just across the street from the repository. Mr.S was right when he had said it was a small building. It looked about the size of a gas station convenience store. Tadashi could see right through the repository's glass door There was only one person behind a small oakwood desk giving service to only two people. Easy enough.

"Gogo, Tadashi said. "When we come running back in here, I need you to floor it."

"Can do," Gogo said as she slumped in her seat. She was probably disappointed that she didn't get to go into the bank with everyone else.

Tadashi reached into the duffel bag he had brought and pulled out a laptop. "Alright, Mr.S put a program on here that'll allow me to tap into the Silent Sparrow's security feed." The laptop screen showed four images, one of the outside of the repository, one of the front desk, one of the front of the vault, and one on the inside of the vault, where the boxes were stored.

"Now I gotta work my magic." Tadashi's fingers danced across the keyboard as he began to ensure that they wouldn't be seen robbing this bank. Tadashi had always been good with computers. He used them all the time for programming some of the AI's in his robots. But, he never used his skills like this. He was actually doing a great job.

"There," he said as he was finished manipulating the last of the video feeds. "Now the three camera's inside are playing on a loop, and I rewound the footage on the outside cameras so we wouldn't show up, and I paused it."

"Dude that's awesome!" Fred said as he gazed at the computer screen. "So no one can see us?"

"Well, not until we hit the boxes. We just don't want the cops to know we're here right away."

"What about that vault? I don't think my knife can get through that," Wasabi pointed out.

"Well, the lock on the vault door's electronic," Tadashi said rubbing his chin. "I think I can unlock it from here." Tadashi went back to work on the laptop. From Mr.S's program, he also had access the the electronic lock on the vault door, which he disabled.

"Well that's convenient," Honey Lemon said. "Why can't you just use that on the safety deposit boxes so we can get out of there quicker?"

"The locks on the boxes have to be opened manually."

"Or forcibly," Wasabi said and smiled as he pulled out his plasma knife.

"Right. Anyways," Tadashi got up from his seat in the back of his van and gripped the door handle, "you guys ready?" Tadashi was breathing heavily. He was nervous, which was probably the only natural response when robbing a bank. He could tell that his friends were breathing heavily as well, they were nervous too. Yet, here they were, still sticking by his side.

Everyone nodded in response to his question. Tadashi exhaled, and then opened the back doors of the van.

They all had their masks on top of their heads, but once they were out of the van, they pulled them over their faces, guns at the ready.

Here they were, actually robbing a bank. Twenty feet away from money that was vulnerable for the taking. Tadashi didn't feel right about this, but he didn't feel wrong either. No, it was something else tugging at him. That strange feeling.

The team walked across the street (insert badass action music and slow motion here), and they walked right up to the door, which Tadashi kicked open like a badass.

This is where it all started.

"Get down on the floor!"


(A/N) Sorry it had to end there. For once i'm not trying to be an asshole who leaves you with cliff hangers. This chapter turned out to be longer than I intended it to be, so I had to cut it there. Sorry for those of you who were led to believe this was the chapter with the actual robbery. Well, I should be getting back or my regular schedule of one post a week, so there's that. With that all said and done, That's DaydreamDepartment out of your hair! )