Hey, just a heads up this is a Logan centric chapter. He'll be the secondary protagonist and a few times through his point of view will help us know what our main villains are up too, Enjoy.

Chapter 4

Logan did everything he could to remain calm. As he walked off the transport helicopter, briefcase in hand and steadily walked. Things were going perfectly, nobody could see through him right? He stepped in line with the other business owners Snyder invited. Once it was his turn he showed his ID and gave up his briefcase for inspection. They had him walk through a metal detector-

WAIT! Quinn's pen gun in his shirt pocket, what if it sets off the alarm. He'll be dead, Eric and Brooke will be fatherless, Snyder will take the company from Quinn, they'll probably just toss his body in the ocean somewhere and-

"Clear" the clerk said, gesturing for him to move on. Logan nodded, he never had a single doubt.

Logan grabbed his briefcase and made his way into Snyder's purge shelter. Which he couldn't deny, looked amazing. He clearly spared no expense making this place look great, there were like fifteen couches, a huge dive bar in the corner, a flat screen playing the movie 300, and live music featuring Jason Derulo, Drake, Taylor Swift, and some other one named Tori Vega.

But he couldn't forget that all this stuff was just to hide what this really was, a prison. Once those doors were locked he was trapped in here with Snyder, Snyder's friends, and Snyder's faceless goons. No ten foot radius chocolate fountain would change that.

An earthshaking siren blasted across the country, informing everybody of what was about to happen. "Alright close it up" an authority demanding voice shook the room. Large metal sheets were closed over the windows as emergency lights lit up the room, the purge officially started.

His eyes caught the man of the house David Snyder. He was an older gentleman in an Xscrawny dark green stroller suit, he had one of those beards that was bushy but you could still see his face underneath, and jet black hair that pointed up which kinda made him look like an Anime Villain.

Logan knew he would stand out if he didn't greet the host like everyone else. He approached him in the middle of what looked like a deal being made. Some guy signed a contract but didn't look too enthusiastic, the five armed guards standing over him didn't seem to help. "You're doing the right thing by selling to me Tyler. But I've got some bad news, your business has been very slow lately so I'm gonna shut down your company until it picks up again"

Tyler angrily threw him the the contract and walked away and Snyder turned to look at Logan "Logan Reese, pleasure to have you"

"Ugh…The pleasures all mine David" Logan said as his hand was being crushed in half by a handshake "this is a nice place you got here"

"Yeah I know, have you considered my very generous offer" he said with one of those terrifying politician smiles that only a PR team would find endearing

Logan had to be smart, too agreeable and he might accidentally sell his company, too tenacious and he might get shot. "Well I'm not too easy to to convince, but this is a pretty suave place maybe you'll get it out of me yet" OH SHIT THAT MAY HAVE BEEN TOO AGREEABLE

"Well I'm sure you'll be smart about it kid" he threatened with a smile "remember I know where your family lives… HAHAHA I kid I kid" he said with a laugh

"Mr. Snyder, what do you want us to do with this?" two guards carrying a literal dead body asked

"Oh just toss on the street, the accountants will clean that up later" he said horrifyingly unfazed. You wonder how many innocent people got killed and they just tossed them off the side of the building.

Logan managed to walk away without vomiting or making a scene. So much for being in prison, he was straight up trapped in hell. When he got himself together he kept his eyes on the two guards disposing of the dead body. They took it over to a garbage chute that apparently led out the side of the skyscraper.

"Hey everybody, I hope your having an awesome Purge" a voice yelled across the room that Logan was sadly familiar with "welcome to my annual FMV ('Funniest Murder Videos') competition where you send in the coolest crime videos you can find and I broadcast them right here" Snyder's nineteen year old daughter Serenity (seriously how much do you need to hate your kid to name her that) walked by surrounded by four guards while adding something to her Tik Tok account, filming herself with a drone in the air. Brooke followed her online for some reason, she was sadly really popular with youth. "You sir" she said shoving her phone in Logan's face "what is the most epic thing you've committed on the Purge"

Logan started to sweat, he needed to say something that wouldn't incriminate himself "oh well I don't have a history with the Purge, in fact I've spoken out against it many times during the 2020 inaugural-"

"Uhhh I'm getting a brain tumor just listening to you" she cut him off and moved on to another guest. Likewise kid, Likewise.

Logan took a deep breath and sat down on the couch, all he needed to do was find the explosives and then wait until the others got to the safe. Then commence his… really insane escape plan. All he had to do was do nothing and not attract attention to himself.

"Logan Reese" an unfamiliar woman said as she walked up to him

"Ugh yeah I'm Logan Reese, do I know you" he awkwardly said

"Stacy Dillsen, we went to PCA together" she said. Logan did finally recognize her, she was in a really well kept Pan suit with curled hair, and her voice sounded perfectly normal.

"Oh I'm really sorry I didn't recognize you, the voice" he said

"Oh yeah, I actually got hit by a car and it fixed my speech impediment" she said confusing Logan "Yeah I don't know how that works either" she said chuckling "so what business are you in"

"Oh I'm in the video game industry" Logan explained "what about you?"

"Snyder invited me about maybe turning my cotton swab business into a subsidiary" she explained "it's a huge honor he was a huge inspiration for me to go into business"

Logan was caught in a weird place, does he tell Stacy the truth and crush her spirit or does he let her be and avoid the risk of being caught. He wasn't stupid, he knew that subsidiary really meant he just wanted her out of the way. "Ugh Stacy…" he started "you…. Should take a look at the Asian culture buffet, that's where all the great transactions take place" he said disappointed in himself for going with the latter.

"Ok I will thanks for the tip, I'll talk to you later" she said walking away

Snyder walked up onto a stage and started making his hopefully grand speech "Hello everyone, Welcome to the safest place in the U.S. for the next twelve hours. I'd like to thank everyone who came here to talk business and who trusted me with their own and families safety. I assure you this building is the most secure structure created in recent memory, no one has ever successfully broken in". 'Not yet Snyder, not yet' Logan thought arrogantly. "And we have not only me to thank believe it or not, but my best men are flying outside as we speak, I think we can spare 3% credit or is that too much" he said as the entire audience fake laughed. What was he talking about flying above us? "Mr. Ruben open the blinds and show them how seriously I'm taking this"

The metal sheets turned so the windows were seen through again and there were attack helicopters positioned all around the building, blasting missiles at purgers on the ground. Logan immediately texted Nicole to make sure they made it in ok, she responded and said they did just barely. So much for waiting, he had to find a way to ground those helicopters or they'd get shot out of the sky during the escape. He got up from his seat and started investigating.

While everyone was focused on Snyder's speech, a mysterious shadowy figure observed the building from a neighboring tower. An owl mask prevented any expression from breaching into the outside world. No sound broke his focus as he prepared his grappling hook and shot it at the twelfth floor creating a tripwire right to the building. He walked toward the building with the grace of a crane, he easily cut through the metal wall with his synthetic claws on his gauntlet and pushed it inside. Another successful breakin. But that was only the beginning, he had five thieves to kill.

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