Chapter 15: The Lombank Heist

Geraldine helped Sunny get into her janitorial jumpsuit. She looked a bit different today, her mood was a bit mixed of sorts. It was between depressed and sad. "Hey man, you alright?" Geraldine asked with concern "Yeah, why?" she looked at her apprentice "You look, I don't know, off? Like you had it rough or somethin' ?" she looks at her "I just had a...bad night, that's all; I'm fine, really. Thanks for the concern, we got a score to take, you ready?" her mood lightens up a bit "Yeah, I'm ready to take that money" Geraldine said with excitement "Let's get going".

They go to the crew waiting for the brief. Geraldine takes a seat next Klausner, while Eddie and Paige look on. "Okay everybody, listen up" Sunny quickly announced, every person turns their attention to her "Alright, we're going to go over the plan one last time before we start", Dominic looked at them; they're ready as ready can be. "The plan is simple: the hacker pulls a curtain over security and screws with the alarm. While the alarm and security is distracted me, the driver and the gunman will go in. The gunman's job is crowd control; I don't need to tell you that I don't want a bloodbath on my hands. If someone wants to play tough guy, smack him hard and send him to the ground. Everybody will get the message not to play hero, me and the driver will grab the manager and we'll make him open the vault; we'll secure the notes and should be out in three minutes tops". Dominic looked on as if hearing a character from a crime novel reciting their act of villainy "After we get the stuff I'll hand the bag to Geraldine; she, the driver and the gunman are on the getaway cycles. The route has been studied closely so just follow Eddie, me and Paige will be in the truck, we'll keep the police off you guys as best we can. Once we shake the police, we'll go to a safe spot; questions?" she asked, no one raised their hands.

Dominic comes over to Sunny "Remember everyone, we do this right and we'll be a million dollars richer. If one of you gets caught you're expected to keep your mouth shut and not say anything. You say anything and you'll face the consequences...got it?" he threatened, the crew members looked at him not saying a thing; they all knew the score and the rules, nothing new. "Alright, let's get to work; Paige will be in the truck with the bikes. Geraldine, Eddie and Victor are with me in the van. Let's get going!".

They walk down to the vehicles. Paige and her laptop goes into the truck and slowly drives off. Sunny and the rest go into the van. Everybody put on their hats and their bandannas around their necks, along with a pair aviator sunglasses. She starts the van and off they go.

As they're on the freeway, the uneasiness of what was going to happen made it difficult to think.

"So," Sunny finally says something to ease the tension "since we're all going to work together let's get to know too know each other", everybody looks at each other completely surprised "I'll start; I'm Sunny. I was involved in a gang when I was 8, I've done my fair share of things from stick ups to firebombings to bootlegging videos and stealing credit card numbers. I also did a bunch of other stuff that you don't need too know; I told my story, Geraldine you're next" she turned it over to her apprentices.

"Uh, right, my name's Geraldine; I used to be a bounty hunter. I was used to catchin' fools who failed to show up for court but I was involved in a bunch of other shit. I took and sold some things, mostly 'cause my girl Reggie dragged me into some crazy shit and it usually gets hairy because of her. I met this crazy ass bitch Sunny right here and she's startin' to show me some shit". It goes over to Klausner.

"Victor Klausner of South Africa. Seen my fair share of jail cells, done some things myself back in my younger days" he says as he looked towards the rear view mirror "One day somebody showed up from a security company, he offered me some training and then I took a job in the private sector. I guarded my fair share of pricks, you know the rich types and goddamn politicians. They were assholes, every one of them, but they paid well. I know my way around guns and people, I've done jobs in my native South Africa and other parts of Europe, last job was in Paris, after that I came here and just tried to relax but somebody gave me a call and said that they had some work for me and that's how I ended you lot". Last but not least.

"My names Eddie and I've been doing this for a long time, I managed to get through every job without losing a crew member. I originally was doing this so my kids could have money when they go to college and I told my wife on the last job that I took that I would leave the game" he said "What was the last job you took?" Geraldine asked "The Union Depository" he smiled, Geraldine stood there amazed, Sunny heard about that job; a crew causing a distraction on top, while a crew used a giant drill to steal over four tons of bullion. Using a helicopter to carry the gold, while dodging armed mercenaries, dropping the gold onto a train and getting away with it. Quite a feat. "Damn man! You pulled that off? Fuck me, that shit was tight! What the hell you still doin' jobs?" Geraldine curiously asked "Guess I just miss the rush, dodging the cops and getting away in style" he says with a smirk. To have one of the people who helped pull off one of the biggest heist in history made Sunny think that this guy was worth his salt.

They close on their destination "Alright we're almost there; bandannas, glasses and hats on" Sunny orders. They see that the truck with Paige and the bikes has arrived next to them and continues to drive ahead of them. "Initials from now on. G, meet with the hacker and wait til we get out of the bank; got it?" "Yeah, I got it".

They park across the bank. The four exit the van and quickly walk across the street. The three who are about to enter pull out the CAR rifles, they lock and load. Sunny puts the ear piece in her ear "This is Paige, I just managed to pull the curtain; good to go" Paige says over the piece. The three go to the door with rifles in hand.

Lombank 12:58 p.m.

Customers go on about their business. A clerk opens an account for a new customer who just got his first paycheck, a sixty year old lady is about to cash her social security check in, some guy just made some pretty crappy coffee and a pissed off house wife is about to drain her cheating husbands account after finding out that he's been cheating on her with his secretary and possibly their next door neighbor. Life is usually boring but not today, not what's in store for them.

Three masked and armed individuals storm in. The security guard has a rifle butt striking him in the face "Oh my god!" one woman screamed. "Get down! Get Down!" Klausner shouts as Toh zip ties the guard. Sunny got up on the counter "Listen up! We're only here for the bank's money, not your's! You're cash is insured by the federal government! If you feel sick, light headed, the urge to throw up or weak hearted then lean against the wall. Think of your families and don't try to be a hero!" she shouts out. She goes over to the manager "You!" she called out as she jumps down "Come with us!" Sunny grabs the manager "V, keep an eye on them" she ordered; Klausner points his rifle at them in a menacing way. They know not to try anything.

Sunny and Toh walk with the manager in tow "I manage to get you guys a three minute window" Paige said over the ear piece "Three minutes? Good job! Whatever we're paying you it's worth it!" Sunny praised. They arrive at the vault "Keys now!" she suddenly orders "Uh-Uh-!" the meek manager stutters, Sunny strikes him in the face. He goes down, Sunny goes through his pockets. She has the two keys along with the that opens the boxes, Toh quickly ties his hands. They insert the keys through the holes "On three" Sunny says as she begins the countdown "1...2...3!" they turn the keys simultaneously. The vault opens. Sunny hands Toh the key, she stations herself the entrance way, making sure no one tries to come through. Toh goes to work as he quickly opens the boxes. He pulls out stacks of bonds and puts them in gym bags, he keeps doing this until the bags are full. "One minute and thirty seconds" Paige announced over the ear piece "E, you ready?" Sunny asked "Yeah! Packages are all secured!" he announces as Toh walks out with three large gym bags. Sunny grabs one bag "Alright! We got them! How many minutes?" "Sixty seconds" the hacker says "Let's go".

The two walk out. Toh hands Klausner a bag. They walk calmly walk out of the bank.

Sunny see's a parking enforcement officer talking to Geraldine.

"I need these bikes out of the way Miss!" he demanded "Get the fuck out of my face motherfucker!" she hissed. A fist cold cocks the officers and he goes down. Sunny hands Geraldine the bag "Stay close to the others. We'll be on the road, stay safe" "Gotcha". They bikes and the loot take, Sunny runs and gets into the truck. She hopes they can make it out in one piece.

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The Batis speed through traffic. The three were ducking and dodging cars that were on the way out. "Turn left here!" Toh ordered.

The sound of sirens start to come their way. Bullets start to whiz past them, they even managed to hit the back of Geraldine's bike.

"Shit man! Here they come!" Geraldine says over the ear piece.

"Hang on! We're going to try too lose them!" he says over the piece "Take a right through the alley!" he suddenly ordered as the three go into the alley, the cops follow them. "There's a narrow squeeze up ahead! It's going to be tight!" he announced. They managed just to squeeze in, the squad car tries to squeeze in but it crashes; two others try the same but they crash into the squad car. The three managed to make it out of that trap but their's still a long way too go. "Take another left here!". As soon they take that left a few more squad cars spot them and start to chase them. "Keep going straight!".

"We're almost to the freeway!" Toh quickly notes "Good call on these bikes!" Geraldine complimented "Yeah, it's a good call on these bike!" Klausner quickly compliments "These are the best bikes for this type of environment; their perfect for this type of thing!". Toh see's a way out "Take a right here! We're going to lose them on the freeway!" he ordered. Several more cars are now behind them. "Bike team, this is Paige. We see some cars on your tail, get ready, we're going to push them off of you" she says over the piece.

Sunny pushes the gas and shifts gears. "Hey man, try to take these fuckin' cops off of us!" Geraldine shouted over the piece "Hang on! It's going to get bumpy right now!" Sunny announced with a gleeful smile. The truck speeds up. Sunny shifts gear one more time. The truck accelerates and rams a squad out the way. She swerves into another, which goes into another squad car and they collide into a mini van. Sunny drives towards the next set of cops. She rams one into a set of water containers. She swerves to the right and knocks another it into a truck of manure; that's going to stink for a while. Two more squad cars left. Sunny shifts a couple more gears, she speeds up. She knocks one into a divider, it's nearly split in two. She hit the other and manages to push it over the side and into the other side of the freeway. "Alright, we're nearing the tunnel! Get ready!" Sunny say over the piece. They all enter the tunnel. As soon as they're far enough Sunny takes a left. They enter a shortcut. They all keep going until they hit the river. Sunny stops the truck and lowers the ramp "Alright, everyone get in!" she ordered, the three rode their bikes into the truck. She closes the ramp and drives off.

Sunny drives towards an exit "Everyone here? Good".

Everyone was breathing heavy; they just pulled off a heist. The adrenaline was still rushing through their veins. "Man! I didn't think we would make it out of there!" Geraldine managed to breath again "I didn't think we would get away!" "Yeah, I thought you guys would get crushed by those trucks on the freeway!" Sunny remarked "I can not believe we just got away with that!" Geraldine says with excitement "Well guess what? We just got away it!" Sunny says with excitment coursing through her body. "Yeah!" Geraldine cheered "Job well done mates!" Klausner complimented "Woo! I'm probably going to send my kids to college early!" Toh says as he banged against the wall of the truck in celebration "Can't say we did it but we did it! Nice job boss!" Paige praised. They arrive at an abandoned garage "Hey Dominic! Call your guy cause we just our money's worth of paper!" Sunny says with excitement.

Dominic smiles as he waves them in.

They all get out, the excitement never left their faces. "Alright, everyone split up. Wait til we get everything sorted and we'll get our money" Sunny ordered, the crew members go their way "Hey girl, catch you around; let me know when that money come in" Geraldine smiled. "Don't worry, you'll get your money. See you around" she said as Geraldine went her way. "I can't believe it...we actually did it" Sunny remarked with a huge smile was on her face "Yeah...we did it, I'm back in action" Dominic himself says with a small laugh. They walk together, unable to stop smiling.

A week later

Sunny and Geraldine wait as Dominic comes in with a few gym bags. He unzipped them and there lay millions of dollars. Sunny starts to laugh like a mad man. Geraldine cheers in excitement, she jumps into Sunny's arms and laughs. "Woo ho!" Geraldine cheered, Sunny almost falls but manages to cheer herself. "Oh my god!" Sunny exclaimed in sheer happiness "Two bags each for the both of you, one bag for me and the other bag for that French guy" Dominic says as he splits the bags among them "You know what? Let's work again..." Dominic suddenly said, Sunny and Geraldine looked at each other and then back at him "Are you serious?" Geraldine asked "Yeah, their's a lot of money in this type of work! We'd be loaded with lots of cash, what do you say?" he asked with a smile. Both women looked at each other. Sunny just gave quick but big smile, they turn to Dominic "Alright, we're in...partner" Sunny announced with her smile.

"Okay, let's split, get that money to that French guy ASAP" he ordered, they go off.

As they walk to their cars Geraldine couldn't stop smiling; her smile was really wanted explode. "Sunny, girl, I can't believe we got this much money! Man!" she squealed like a child who received the best Christmas gift in the world. "It's ours! God, I thought I would never see this type of money!" the excitement never left her voice "Yeah, man it feels good. Listen I got to make the payment off, you go and celebrate; you've earned it!" she smiles back "Catch you later girl!" Geraldine cheerfully said as she gotten into her SUV. Sunny got into her Tailgater and took off to the Frenchman who was waiting for his payment. Sunny's phone starts to ring, Roberta's name on the screen. She pushes the speaker app "Hello?" "Sunny? Are you okay? Are you feeling better?" her love asked "Yeah...I feel better. Thanks for staying with me" Sunny thanked "Listen, I gonna be a bit busy all of next week but it's for a good reason" she explained "Really? What's the reason?" Roberta playfully wondered "It's...a surprise! That's all you need to know right now!" Sunny chuckles a bit "Okay, I get it; listen I can ask you something?".

"What is it?" Sunny asked as she took a left at the intersection "You know how I'm running the Last Ride now right? Well, how would you like to help me run the place as the co-owner?" Roberta asked. Sunny thought really hard about it Being the co owner of a strip club? Hmm...? after thinking she gave an answer "Yeah, I'll do it...boss" she playfully chuckled "Okay, you don't have to come in right away Ms. co-owner, do your thing next week; love you, bye" Roberta giggled as she hangs up. An odd thing to for her to be the co owner of a strip club; well odd for some people but not for her.

What Sunny has planned for next week is something that she can finally do with Roberta, now that she has all this cash in her hands. Her future is about to get brighter.

The Lyon's Den winery & restaurant, East Vinewood

Wine taste good when its opened. The taste is quite fresh when the cork is popped from the bottle. Some people don't the taste of a good pino.

Dericourt sits at his table, a waiter brings him a bowl of Tourin. The soup smelled of sauteed with garlic and onions, a stock of chicken and some egg whites. Delicious. The food reminded being back in France, how missed that place. Being in America was good for business but how he longed to go back to France. He opened his winery the minute he got here. People all over Los Santos flooded the place, mostly those who could afford it. Dericourt disliked some of them mostly because of their attitude. They were always snobbish about everything 'What's pino? Does that mean we have to eat snails? Do you serve French fries?', they were really irritating. The one thing about them though, they were really degenerates. They bet and gamble money away. Hypocrites.

They were degenerates because they no had no honor. They gamble their lives away and made excuses not to pay him back. Dericourt would of course make examples out of them. Be it from warnings (which they never took seriously), breaking a finger or toe, breaking a bone, threatening to put them in the oven to watch them melt and on some occasions he would personally do the deed and put then out of their pathetic misery. When you gamble you have to pay a price. Some never learn and always paid with their lives. Typical arrogance.

One of his men comes up to him and whispers into his ear "Vraiment...? (Really...?)" he sounded surprised "Ou est-elle? (Where is she?)" he asked "Cuisine (Kitchen)". He slowly gets up and head to the back of his kitchen. Apparently a certain someone has a package waiting for him to open it up.

The kitchen smells of garlic, onions and marinated meat. The language is mixed from French, English and some Spanish. The sous chef orders someone to bring him some olive oil and some basil. Like all kitchens it's rush hour. To the end was the young woman who killed a piece of scum who not owed money to him but ducking him for years; on the table was a large gym sized bag. "Madame, how are you doing?" he politely asked "Good" Sunny simply replied "One of my men said that you had something for me?" "Open the bag and you'll see what it is...". Dericourt studied her, she didn't seem to be planning anything malicious. He simply goes to the bag and carefully opens it. To both his and his men's amazement, there was the $1.2 million in the bag; all accounted for all. They all look at each other in surprise. "Remarquable (Remarkable)" one of the men simply puts.

Dericourt looks back at Sunny, astonished that she got all the money. "Are we even?" she asked, Dericourt gives a quick chuckle and smile "Yes, we're even; I was surprised that you managed to get the money. I thought you would run away to avoid me" he quips "I paid off one previous debt, when someone says to pay something off, I always do it" she frowned. Dericourt simply nods in agreement "I never liked Tully. He was never honest, always made excuses, he was a dirty bottom feeder. Do you want to know something?" he suddenly asked "Some of the money that he paid off came from that club he owned, he not only stole only from the workers but also from the co-owner". When he said that, Sunny clenches her teeth really hard. That piece of garbage was stealing from Roberta That fucking asshole! she cursed in her mind. "Well, he's gone and he's not coming back, so good riddance" she unapologetically said "Agreed".

"Listen, monsieur Park has said that you're good at completing tasks, would you be interested in working with me?" he politely asked. A few weeks back this very same man punched her in the stomach, threatened both her and Geraldine with imminent death if they didn't pay him back. At first her answer would be no but thinking about it Sunny realized if she and Geraldine were going to make something out of themselves, they were going to do more than just heists with Dominic, they had the ability to work with someone who is big a player as Park is. "Okay, I'm gamed" she answered "Wonderful, I'll let you know when I got some work for you" he says with some joy. His men escort her out, working with this young lady will fun.

The one thing Dericourt knew the way Park talked about her that she a strong sense of honor. A soldier who knew how things worked and who got things done very effectively. She's perfect.

Geraldine's house

The Cavalcade pulls up into the driveway. Geraldine gets out and quickly goes to the back; she looks around first making sure that no one is looking in her direction. First to the left then to the right. No one, perfect. She had her Beretta tucked in behind her back just in case someone tried something with her. Geraldine quickly grabbed the bags with her prize money. She enters her and quickly says hi to Tiger. He simply sleeps on the couch, obviously too lazy to greet her. She goes to the shed, removes the same blocks from before, grabs the same shovel and digs in the same spot. After dig the very same hole and removing the very same dirt and taking out the very same bags from before, Geraldine makes the hole a lot more bigger. After shoveling more dirt out Geraldine grabs the new bags and drops them into the new bigger hole that she just dug. As fast as possible the former bounty hunter refills the hole and places the tiles back in place.

Geraldine quickly goes back into her house and grabs her calculator. She adds both bags of of $5 million each plus the $750 thousand; add this and that together. Added it in total it came down to $10,075,000. Geraldine cheered a lot louder now. She's never had this much money in her life, even bounty hunting don't give her this much money.

She sat down next to Tiger. He simply huddles next to her, purring at her leg.

Geraldine scratches his ear and he purrs a lot more. She smiles, her face literally starts to hurt from all that smiling. She wonders what she should do with that all money? There's a peculiar house in Rockford Hills that she's had her eye on. It's big with five rooms, she is just one person and honestly, why would a single person want a house with four rooms? She starts to think about it...

One room for her and Tiger. One room for Reggie. The other three rooms, let's see. The third will probably have a stripper pole for...playful reasons. The fourth room will be their private area to relax, their version of a man cave. The fifth and final room will be an ordinary guestroom, not like they will have any guests. Geraldine is so excited she can't stop think about the endless possibilities. Their is just so many.

"Hey boy," she cooed to the cat "guess you and me will be able to find a better place to live. We're gonna be out of here...somewhere for the three of us". Tiger simply purrs and sleeps next to his master.

Soon Geraldine, Reggie and Tiger will be able to get out of the hood. Leave and never come back. Geraldine wonders if she can finally start her private investigation and security firm; with that money she is so close. That dream is right there, she just needs to take it. Now she closes her eyes and rest her head, everything that she dreamed of is slowly starting to come true. Just a bit more.

Linda's apartment

Her head and throat still ache, Linda is still depressed over her spat with Sunny. One week until she returns to work but even now she still can't get over her depression.

"What promise? What did she mean?" Linda kept asking what her mother meant by that. She kept asking herself over and over again, she tried to remember and still nothing. She would sit in the dark and try her best to remember but she wouldn't get anything but more headaches. Linda never felt so empty in her life; she mistreated her sister and now Sunny will probably never speak to her again. She truly does hate herself. Maybe rousting a bunch of punks will make her feel better? All she wants to do is go back to work and do her job. Maybe by then she'll remember.

She turns on her flat screen t.v., hopefully their's something good to watch.

The news appears on the screen. It reads Lombank robbery. What the hell? When did happen? she wondered. She turns the volume up.

I'm Jane Goodman, the Lombank was robbed last by three armed individuals. The three stole an estimated $15 million worth in bearer bonds! The three then made a brazen and daring escape on the freeway. Numerous officers pursed them but the three managed to give law enforcement the slip with several officers being injured while pursing the three. Police say that at least two of the people involved were females.

Here's cellphone footage of one of the robbers.

Linda got a good look at the robber. She paused the screen and studied the physique of the robber. The robber was slender, almost around her height but held herself in a way that most people would respect. Her physique was strangely familiar. Then it finally hit her.

She pushes the play button to finish the rest of the footage. The sound in her head is muted, the footage mentally slows down. A big smile forms on her face all of a sudden.

The suspects are considered armed and extremely dangerous. If you see these individuals contact the Los Santos Police Department.

Reporting from Lombank, I'm Jane Goodman.

Slowly, Linda starts to laugh. She laughs and laughs and laughs. She laughs to the point of going insane. Linda gives a loud and insane laugh. Her neighbors are probably asking why is she laughing? She's laughing because she knows who it is. Is she going to say anything? Probably not. Who's going to believe her? Cop arrests thug sister responsible for heist. That is quite the story for the headlines. Linda eventually stops laughing but the smile is still on her face. "Oh my god...!" she insanely muttered "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god...".

She knows the truth. She's known it all along. Oh the irony...

If their mother saw this, she'd probably probably laugh too. Not as crazy as she did but still.

Life is really full of surprises.

It's only a matter if she goes to Sunny and confronts her about it. But then again, they are sisters. She'll probably deny it and then possibly file a complaint against her. Linda slumps against the sofa. She begins to laugh again and then starts to cry. She's crying not because shes sad but because she has the information and doesn't know what to do with it. Should she arrest her? Or should she let her go? Pretend that she doesn't have a sister and that Sunny is just some girl who just has the same last name as her, just to avoid ending her own career. Right now she doesn't have that answer. She likely won't have it for a long time.

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