The Fall of the Danni Empire
Chapter Four
Niko and Luis sat in the Buzzard helicopter, nervously gripping their rifles and sub machine guns. Danni Hill, the woman who ordered them to do a job for her, was sitting in the co-pilot seat next to an elderly man who was flying the helicopter over Star Junction. The bright lights from the night time skyline shone into their eyes, causing then to cringe and look away.
"Why couldn't we do this in the day?" Luis yelled at Danni, who was just staring down at the ground.
"Because in the day, there are at least 200 more people in the building." She replied, raising her voice slightly in annoyance. The elderly man whispered something into her ear and Danni stood up.
"Right, you have 40 minutes to kill Barry. If you fail to meet me at the roof by that time, I will leave without you and you will have to find your own way out of that death trap." Niko gulped and stared down to the building. He had never sky dived before, but the brief lessons Danni gave him should be enough to get him to the roof without killing himself.
Luis and Niko stood out of their seats and prepared to jump.
"For god sake, I don't have all night." Danni said before planting the heel of her shoe in Luis' ass, sending him falling off the helicopter. Niko turned around to face Danni, who was preparing to kick Niko out as well. To save himself the pain, he leapt out of the helicopter. He was falling rapidly, the roof began to creep closer.
"Oi! Niko!" Luis yelled, who had already pulled his parachute and was gliding at a steady pase. "You might want to pull the cord now." Niko took the suggestion and pulled the cord and slowly, they both landed on the roof of Barry's buliding.
"It's been a while since I've killed a man." Niko told Luis. Luis nodded at him and loaded his golden SMG. They broke down the door and headed inside.
"According to Danni, one of us should take the stairs and the other should head for the security room." Niko whispered to him as they crept down the stairs.
"Thats stupid. We only have 40 minutes. I say we blast out way in there and finish it all in about 10." Luis replied already heading for a guard, who was facing out the window. Niko had no choice but to go with Luis' plan. Luis snuck up behind the guard and pistol whipped him in the back, causing him to fall forward and smash through the window.
Once they heard the sound of the man hitting the pavement below and the screech of an elderly woman, another guard came around from the corner. Niko reacted quickly and shot him in the shoulder, than he ran over and used him as a shield to pre pell himself forward to hard cover. Luis was impressed, shooting the guard in the head on the way, he also got behind hard cover. The guards continued to shoot rapidly at them, while Luis and Niko fired single shots, directed at their heads.
Down they went, one by one. Once there was no guards remaining, a more glandular guard came in and dropped his pistol as soon as he saw Niko and Luis point their high powered weapons at him.
"Come on, we're using you to get to Barry." Luis said, pointing his gun to his head. The guard agreed and took them to the security room. There were screens everywhere showing different parts of the building, but they both focused on the room where Barry was talking to a bunch of businessmen.
"How do we get to that room?" Niko asked the guard.
"Uh... Y... You take the next stairwell down and its to your right." he replied, stuttering in fear. Luis and Niko decided to spare someone's life today, so they left the room and headed for Barry's office. Once they had left, the guard pushed a button which glowed red and a loud mechanical noise came from the roof, but Luis and Niko didn't seem to notice.
They reached the door to the office, it was slightly opened and gave a view into the room. The first thing they saw was Barry notice them peaking in through the door. He began to run away, but Luis was too fast, he shot Barry, causing the window behind him to shatter and him fall out, plummeting to his even more painful death. Niko checked his watch. It had been 35 minutes since they landed, Danni will be on the roof soon.
They bolted to the roof, pushing through the dead bodies and shattered glass to reach the roof. They reached the roof, but Danni was not waiting for them. Luis then received a call on his mobile.
"Hey Luis, good job. Unfortunately, a guard activated the missile protection system, so I can't land and pick you up." Luis was shocked at this information.
"Then how will we get out of here?" he yelled at her. Soon after he said that, she hung up and two parachutes fell from the helicopter high over the building and landed close to Niko and Luis.
Then, two guards bursted out of the door and took aim at them. They quickly scooped up their parachutes, avoiding the gunfire, they put on their parachutes and leapt off the building into the darkness of Liberty City's skyline.