Act VIII: PAYDAY 2: Walmart Heist

"To do this research I'll need a laptop!" Luka claimed. "It's not like my Nokia 3310 can browse the internet!"

The witches sighed.

"What do you want us to do, then?" Bayonetta asked.

"Well, I've seen a Walmart nearby. The first one in Japan, actually. They are having an opening sale so the laptop ain't even gonna be that expensive."

"Why don't you go out any buy it, then?" Jeanne wondered.

"Ehhm, I lost my wallet yesterday in the forest. It got eaten by a wolf."

"LOL." Both witches laughed at the same time.

Meanwhile, the Walmart was about to get robbed by a gang of psycho clowns with medieval crossbows and swords.

"Okay, gang. We're in the middle of the town. Try to do this stealthy!" Bain announced. "This is the first Walmart to open in Japan so they're having a big party. They are giving out ten million dollars worth of stuff in a lottery tommorow so if you're successful to open the vault we'll score ourselves quite a lot of cash."

The PAYDAY gang entered the shop in casing mode.

"We've a camera here!" Chains whispered.

"Guard! Stay quiet!" Sydney spotted a guard.

"We should disable the cameras first, then head for the alarm!" Jacket said and started to mask up. He got into the security office, killed the guard and answered the pager.

"Okay, now find the manager with the keycard!" Bain said over radio.

Suddenly, a BMW crashed through the entrance, alarming everyone in the whole shop.

"What the fuck?!" Jacket was pissed off about the fact the gang messed everything up again.

The rest of the gang started to mask up.

"What's the meaning of this!? We're trying to do this stealthy." Clover screamed at the witches.

Jeanne started firing the All 4 One guns at the PAYDAY gang.

"Shit! I need a medic bag!" Chains screamed as he got downed.

"Cereza, deal with the civvies!" Jeanne shouted.

Bayonetta rushed to the intercom and screamed. "Everybody get down! This is a fucking robbery! Don't you dare move or I'll send your asses to Inferno and trust me, you don't wanna go there! Oh, and tell the manager to get over here!" She was intimidating as hell and everybody got down.

Jeanne got the PAYDAY gang to answer the pagers and then used her hair to tie them down along with all the civilians.

The manager rushed to Bayonetta.

"Get the fuck down!" The witch screamed.

She tied the manager and took the keycard.

"Damn, we should ask Bain to recruit these witches. They are professionals!" Sydney screamed in excitement, even though the whole gang was held hostage.

Bayonetta disarmed the alarm.

"Cheshire, get our of the car! What laptop did you want?"

Luka got out of the car and started looking through the different models that were offered. He ended up taking a laptop with an i7-7700k CPU, dual GTX 1080 GPU's, 32 GB of DDR4 RAM and a 4k IPS display.

"Holy shit, this thing costs more than our car." Bayonetta noted.

They got back into the BMW and succesfully escaped.

"Holy shit! What was that?" The whole PAYDAY crew said in one voice. They were scared to oblivion.

"I'm looking into it right now. Should take around five minutes. Continue the heist!" Bain announced.

"How? We're all tied down!" Clover said.

"Ah, fuck. Okay, I'll get the driver to arrive there and untie you." Bain forgot to disable the radio, so the crew heard was was going on backstage. "Hey, Twitch, get over there! What do you mean you can't!? The van isn't starting? Damn it! Ehm, the driver is arriving ASAP, ETA about 2 hours.*

"FUUUCK!" The whole gang screamed at the same time.

Luka was sitting at home with Bayonetta, while Jeanne went out to destroy all the safety rails once again. Luka was browsing the internet, doing his research. He was quite successful, he found out everything about Shingo and his secret weapon, the Big Rigs CD. He even played the game on his new gaming laptop and became a winner.

"Hey, Bayonetta. This truck can pass through solid objects and go infinitely fast, but only when going backwards! It also has a ram installed, so Shingo may hit your car multiple times."

"Shit, we won't be able to Witch Drive if he drains our magic by ramming us! We will need a lot of lollipops!"

"That's not everything! I also believe the truck's opponents cannot move at all when the CD is inserted. You know, the game actually makes sense once you know what it's about. You may need to use magic of some kind to move."

"Damn it."

They sat in silence for about ten minutes, then Luka started speaking again. "You know, I'm quite experienced with my hook. I'll get into the truck and get the CD out during the race."

"Are you sure you'll be able to?"

"I am 100% sure, Bayonetta."

The witches spent the several next days driving around the town, opening chests to fill the car with purple lollipops.