As the masked figure thought he was all clear, he slowly got up from his post and crept around to see where Beck went. Matching his footsteps, all that was heard was one set of stomps. In an instant, Beck jumped on the suspect and wrestled him to the ground. The guy managed to catch Beck off guard and this time pinning Beck to the floor. In the midst of this chaos, Andre was able to catch up to the guys and assist his friend.
"Hey punk, get off of my friend!" Andre screeched before grabbing the guy and letting Beck wiggle free.
Andre did a number on the guy, beating him until his knuckles were red. He even used the butt of his guns to damage his nose. But the guy didn't give up so easily. He used all his might to push Andre off of him, sending Andre to land on his back, his gun flying from his hands. The guy struggled to get up, but he dealt with the pain. He found Andre's gun and was reaching towards it.
"Freeze!" Beck yelled. During their brawl, Beck gathered enough strength of his own to ignore the pain from his fall and got up. He grabbed one of Andre's guns that dropped and pointed it at the victim.
The guy knew he was caught. He held his hands up and faced his consequences.
Andre grabbed his gun on the floor to make sure the guy wouldn't get to it. Beck went over to the guy and handcuffed him.
"Nice work, dude," Beck commended Andre.
"Nah man that was all you," Andre commented back.
"Alright, call chief. We've got one guy, who knows if they got the other two," Beck said.
"Shades to base. We've got a suspect in custody. Send some guys to the south end of the building. Beau and I are going to find the others.
After about a minute, Officer Vega and another officer were on the scene.
"Nice work, boys. Where's the others?"
"Don't know, we're going to find them," Beck said.
Somewhere from a distance, Beck and Andre indistinctly heard a sound.
"Heeeeeelp," someone was faintly yelling.
"Did you hear that, bro?" Beck asked Andre.
"Yeah, I think it's coming from over there," Andre pointed to the direction of the hallways.
"Chief –"
"Got it. Go find out what that is and where everyone else is," Officer Vega ordered.
"Yes sir. Come on," Andre and Beck ran down the corridors.
"Evan."
"Cat, it's not what you think…"
"Oh really? That my boyfriend lied to me and told me he was on a 'guys' weekend? Or that my boyfriend is a criminal?"
"Cat, I didn't know you did field work. You lied to me too."
"Are you seriously trying to put some blame on me for this? This is my job, Evan. Not a fun little hobby."
"Well this is my job too, babe."
"Don't call me babe."
"Why? Is Robbie more important to you again?" he grew angry.
"This isn't about Robbie," she spat.
"Of course it's not. It's about you and me. So stop letting him interfere in our lives together."
"The only thing interfering in our lives right now is that you are a criminal and I don't see any life together for us," she began to shed some tears.
"Cat, you know how jobs are. I need this money. Please," he begged.
"This is my job too, Evan. I can't let you leave," she stood her ground.
"I have to go," he mumbled before turning around. He took one step forward and she pulled her trigger.
"Hey, there's the guys! Babe!" Jade yelled from the end of the hallway.
"Oh thank God we found you two," Beck said. "What happened?"
"This idiot jerkface-"
"The same one that broke her scissors," Tori added.
"Locked us in," Jade finished.
Andre noticed Tori's busted leg.
"Baby, are you ok?"
"Now's not the time to be lovey-dovey, Andre. Can you guys help us get out?" Tori begged.
Beck took one look at the convoluted lock. "Mm... Nope. This looks like a job for Andre," Beck pulled him to the gate.
"Good thing Robbie taught me how to disarm this stuff." Andre pulled off his watch, set it on top of the lock, and worked his magic. In a matter of fifteen seconds, the lock unlatched.
"Haha, yeah!" Andre high-fived Beck.
"Nice work, 'Dre," Jade high fived him as well.
Andre dove down to aide his girlfriend.
"What happened exactly?" he asked.
"Jerkface was stealing money," Jade began.
"We managed to keep him from doing so," Tori added.
"But he pushed Tori and I in here and locked us in and escaped. She hit her leg on the bar."
"Ouch," Beck said. "Can you still walk?"
"Yeah I can, but not run. I think it's more of my shins and ankle that hurt."
Just then, a gunshot was heard throughout the building.
"Aw chizz. Who got shot this time?" Andre whined.
"I sure hope Robbie didn't do anything stupid again," Jade said.
"Well, there's only one way to find out. I think the shot came from the north side," Beck claimed.
Tori tried getting up, but still struggled to move any faster than a regular stroll.
"Come on, Tor. You can do it," Andre encouraged.
"Can you go any faster?" Jade held on to her other side to get her moving.
"I'm trying Jade, but it hurts real bad," Tori hid her pain.
The four stopped to examine her leg.
"Maybe you sprained it or something," Beck figured.
"Maybe," Tori agreed.
"Beck, you go on ahead. Jade and I will help Tori out and catch up to you."
"Alright. You guys cool?"
"Yeah, there's two more people out there. If that gunshot's with Cat or Robbie, there's still one guy elsewhere. Find him and take him down, babe."
He nodded, got up and ran off.
"Alright, how about we just lift Tori up and you carry her or something," Jade suggested.
"Sure, but let's wrap her foot or something. It looks like it's throbbing," Andre said.
"Give me your jacket."
Andre took off his jacket and Jade used her pair of back-up scissors to cut up a few pieces to wrap around Tori's leg.
"My jacket!" Andre whined.
"Hey, don't you want your girlfriend's leg to be ok?" Jade glared.
"Yeah… But you couldn't have just taken a sleeve?"
Andre held up the remains of the article. It was cut up to barely a rag.
"Sorry, babe. I'll get you a new one," Tori comforted him.
"Really? We're going to worry about gifts at a time like this?" Jade sarcastically remarked.
"Ok, ok. Get up. Let's go find Beck and the others."
Andre lifted Tori up and piggy backed her. The three of them continued their journey to find their friends and the last of the two suspects.
"What the hell?!"
Cat shot fire, but not at Evan. She hit the wall to the side of him to startle him.
"Evan, please don't make this as hard as it already is," she told him.
"Would you really shoot at your own boyfriend like that?!" he yelled in anger.
"As of right now, I don't have a boyfriend. I don't date criminals," she told him.
"Cat, I need this. You know I don't have anything or anyone else."
"Evan, you had me."
"Did I really?"
"What are you talking about?"
"It doesn't matter, Cat. Just let it go," Evan told her.
"No. I won't."
"Then you leave me with no choice," he said. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a gun of his own. He pointed it at her.
"Evan, put the gun down," Robbie managed to say while he lay restless on the ground.
"Robbie, just stop. You're helpless as it is already," Evan told him.
"No," he coughed. "I need to protect her from you."
"Right, like it worked the first time," Evan replied.
"W-what?" Cat was appalled.
"You left me with no choice," he told her.
"Freeze!" Beck came from nowhere, gun in the air. "Evan?"
"Hey Beck," Evan greeted non-chalantly.
"What's going on?" Beck was confused.
"Evan was the one who shot Robbie," Cat realized.
"He what?!" Beck was taken aback.
"He's part of the heist," Robbie managed to say.
"Ok, this is just too twisted," Beck said.
"Beck, put your gun down or I'll shoot them both," Evan said. "I mean it."
"I can't do that, man," Beck stood his ground.
"Don't test me," Even looked at Beck dead in the eyes. He pulled his trigger and shot fire. But it hit the wall beside Cat, just like she did to him moments before.
"Okay, okay! I'm putting it down," Beck said slowly stepping forward and placing his gun down. He proceeded to step back a good distance with both his hands up. "Just don't hurt them."
"Evan, why are you doing this?" Cat began to cry.
"I have to. I can't go to jail," he pleaded.
"Did I not matter one bit to you?" Cat asked.
Just then, the third and final guy who was still on the loose made it to the scene.
"Hey man, where's your mask?" the guy said.
"It doesn't matter any more, Tony."
"Aye, why don't you shoot them already so we can go?"
"Not now, cuz."
"Didn't Evan tell you his girlfriend was a police officer?" Beck informed the guy.
"That's Cat?!" The guy guessed.
"Yeah, and your asses are under arrest," Beck said.
"Shut up pretty boy or I'll kick you're ass."
"Not if I kick yours first," Beck shot back.
The two were bickering and Evan was not thrilled.
"You guys, shut the hell up or I'll shoot!" he yelled at the two.
"What are you waiting for man? Shoot them so we can leave before their team shows up."
"Evan, if you run, I'm going to follow."
"Cat, if you follow, I'm going to shoot you," Evan pleaded.
"Oh for God's sake, shoot her and let's go!" Tony yelled.
"Shut up, Tony!"
"No you shut up! My dad expects us to finish this alive so you better get your priorities straight before I clean up your mess."
Evan was pressured to shoot Cat and leave or run with his cousin and defend himself by shooting anyone who followed.
Either way, he'd hurt Cat.
"Dammit," Tony cursed before lunging forward.
Beck lunged forward too, they were aiming for his gun on the floor.
Evan turned and dropped his point from Cat, paying attention to Beck and Tony.
Tony managed to grab the gun before Beck, elbowing his stomach, Beck rolling over in pain.
"Tony, no. Let me handle it!" Evan told him.
"No, dude. You're going to wig out and I'm going to have to save us. They took Miles and I'm sure they caught Eli. We need to finish these people and just forget the money and leave."
Tony pointed his gun at Cat.
"No! Tony! Wait!"
A shot rolled out.
Someone fell over.
Blood started trickling to the ground.
"Dammit, Tony!" Evan cried.
"Who the hell shot me?!" Tony cried.
Above them, on the second story ledge, Jade stood proudly with an ankle pistol in one hand.
"That's for calling me weak. And for breaking my scissors… sweetheart," Jade smirked.
The guy buried his head in shame and collapsed on the floor in pain.
Tori smiled and high fived her partner. Jade finally got her vengeance from the Jerkface.
Beck got up from the ground and grabbed Tony. She had shot his right arm so he wouldn't shoot.
"That'll teach you to mess with my girl," Beck told the guy as he handcuffed him. "And her scissors."
From a distance, sirens were flaring, Officer Vega's crew were on the scene in a matter of seconds. Andre, Jade and Tori met them floor level as well.
The entire time, Evan and Cat stood there, staring at one another. Even when officer Vega came to take Evan in custody, his eyes never left hers. Even when her eyes were becoming puffy, she never once blinked. Not until officer Vega pulled him away and into a squad car did Cat snap back into reality. Evan was in on the heist. He was a felon after all.
"I can't believe we did it. We caught them. We caught the guys," Tori was amazed.
"Finally. Two damn months on this case, and we did it," Jade nodded in agreement.
"It's cliche but... mission accomplished, guys," Beck chuckled.
"Hey, Robbie, thanks for coming right on time again," Andre chuckled.
Cat, who was still shocked, was able to notice that Robbie was having difficulty getting up off the floor.
"Rob, you ok man?" Andre asked.
Andre and Cat knelt down to help him sit up.
"Robbie, can you hear me?" Cat softly spoke.
It wasn't until Andre noticed he was grabbing on to his rib cage that blood was dripping from his shirt.
"He's not wearing a vest. And he got shot. Beck!" Andre yelled for him to come over. Beck was the master of gun wounds.
"What's going on?" Beck saw the wound on Robbie's chest. "Damn, they barely got him. Quick, Andre call Trina. Tell her to send an ambulance." Then he turned back to Robbie. "Rob, buddy stay with us, man. Come on. Stay awake." He started slapping his cheeks.
"Robbie, please, stay with me," Cat pleaded.
Thos were the last words he heard.
She was the last face he saw before everything went black.
