Chapter 3
James was sitting on the rock hard seats of a south bound Bakerloo tube train, he had boarded with his friend Emily and had found seats in the very front carriage. Emily fancied Karl, but hadn't acted on it as she didn't think Karl would be interested. Karl had overheard her telling Casey about it, and acted dumb for a couple of weeks.
But one day Emily had come into his room, she had begun a speal of how she really like him, but Karl had interrupted her, and just said yes. They'd both decided not to say anything to anyone, it was always hot gossip when two people started going out.
Although nobody knowing had it's advantages, it stopped them from having time alone. So now just before the mission really kicked of was the perfect time for them to have a quick snog with nobody knowing about it.
They where finally interrupted by Karl's iPhone going off, he grabbed it out of his pocket and swiped his finger across the screen to unlock it, it was an email from Casey. The message read:
"Thought you two where up to something, did you forget I was getting on at the next station?"
There was a picture attached to it, it had been taken by Casey when the train stopped at Queen's park. Karl passed the phone over to Emily.
"Looks like the cats out of the bag."
"Oh well, it had to happen sooner or later."
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It was a few minutes later when the train pulled into Regent's park tube station, Karl was on edge, it was nearly time for the plan to go into action. The train doors hissed shut and the whine of the electric motors pierced the air. About two minutes later, the train came to a halt within the tunnel. Then darkness fell as the lights went out, it took a couple of seconds for the emergency lighting to kick in.
"This is your driver speaking, I'd like to apoliigize for the delay, it appears that the power has been switched off, I'll advice you when I have more information."
Now was the time. Karl and Emily both jumped up, and simultaneously pulled off there hoodies to reveal what looked like C4 explosive.
Screams ripped across the carriage.
"Everybody shut up, one more word and I blow this joint."
Emily started towards the door that lead to the drivers cab, she took a key from here pocket and turned the lock, she kicked the door open and burst inside. The driver a young female screamed, as Emily put a glock 16 pistol to here head.
"Right, you're going to do exactly as I say. Get on your radio call control and tell them I'm going to speak to them."
The driver was shacking at this point, and just about managed to nod her head.
The woman reached out her left hand and picked up a handset off the wall, she tapped a red button and put it to her ear.
"Control,, this is train 134. I have a situation here."
"Give me the phone" Emily pushed the gun harder to the woman's temple. The phone changed hands and Emily spoke.
"You will refer to me as Bateman, I have a gun to your drivers head and you will do exactly what I say. Should you fail to do so... I will detonate a series of explosives on this train, none will survive. Now you will have a car meet us at Oxford circus, it will take me and two hostages to the services on the M25. If not suffer the consequences. Also if you shut down any other underground service, I will set of the explosives. You have 30 minutes to give me a decision."