Chapter 70: The Money Train Score
Chelsea finished the inspection of the Cargobob. She had to make sure that the modification held up. The Last thing she wanted was the line breaking and all their loot goes down the ravine. Geraldine inspects all the weaponry to make sure it all runs smoothly. Sunny debriefs the crew "Okay, so for those who've done high risk then you know the risk" she tells them "Sniper will do his job first. He'll take out the security on of the train before we board.
"Then the three of us with gunman number one will eliminate the rest of the security inside. The pilot will drop the cables and we'll attach the cables and then we'll dethatch the cars. Gunwoman in the Cargobob will cover us while in the air. Only one of us will stay behind while they set up the explosives to destroy the train. We'll pick them up as soon as the explosives start to go off".
All nod in agreement "Alright, everyone knows their assignments; take your positions" she ordered "Lock, load and do one last check before we depart". Everyone starts to check their to make sure it's all working alright. Sunny pulls Kimmy to the side "This is a first time doing a big a job as this, you up for it?" she asked "Fuck yeah I am" Kimmy smiles enthusiastically "You know when I was working with Kenny at that time, before he fucked you over, he paid shit" she sighed "Was he was that bad?" Sunny wondered "It felt like we were doing more dirt and he just sat by just to collect while we weren't getting anything from him".
"What happened to make you leave?" Sunny crossed her arms.
"Kenny sent us to collect from a guy who he trusted, the thing turned into a fucking ambush and shit got crazy. That guy and his friends try to do us in" Kimmy shook her head "Turns out that Kenny had set the thing up because he thought we were questioning his leadership. Little motherfucker with a tiny dick" Kimmy sneered "Fuck, even before I got back he was already back stabbing people" Sunny pats Kimmy on the shoulder "It got worse" Kimmy went into further detail. "The whole thing that happened got a couple of friends killed and my best friend Yuriko Iwamoto in jail because of Kenny's bullshit".
"Is that when Park found you?" Sunny wondered "Yeah, he offered me work and I think you know the work I'm talking about" she mentioned the type that Sunny herself had done while in the Midwest "I'm guessing you got a text from..." Sunny looked at Kimmy "Yeah, I got it and I'm with you all the way" Kimmy pledges her commitment to fight "I just want to get Kenny for what he did to Yuriko".
"I know it'll come; believe me" Sunny assured "Time to get ready" she tells her new compatriot "You know how to use the gun right?".
"Yeah your friend over there, taught me" Kimmy points to Chelsea "Alright, load the ammo in the gun and get ready to get paid". Kimmy gave a thumbs up and grabs her tactical vest.
"Alright! Let's do this!" Sunny grabbed her gear. She took her position in the passengers seat. She grabbed her phone and zipped to Pierce's number.
'Hey, it's me' she text
'What is it?' he text back.
'I need a favor from you after this is over, it's for a good cause =D'.
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Chelsea drove the van carrying them. She was dressed to rob and fight.
"You know this is like one of those movies where the gallant bunch go and fight some big battle before they get killed" she grimly summarizes "If that was that type of movie then shit they better have a good cast to star as us" Geraldine says she preps her rifle. "Be a tight movie, know what I'm sayin'" Mota says back "If you say so" Sunny said as she looked out the window.
"So what was the best job anyone of you ever did?" Chelsea wondered "I'll go first" she eagerly volunteers her story "I did a job breaking into a bunch of safety deposit boxes when I first got to Liberty City, cleared out over a couple million in money from a bunch of wankers who made a habit of ripping off the stock market" she bragged "Geraldine, tell us about something you took".
Geraldine thought of only one thing.
"There was this one time Reggie and I did a job for some guys who she knows" she recounts the incident "It was some package that turned into a fucking shootout along with some biker gang and some guys from South Africa or wherever the fuck it was" Geraldine recalled the whole clusterfuck of a job that Reggie dragged her into.
"Sunny it's your turn, tell us about the best job you ever did".
"I don't have one. Pass" she quickly passes her turn "Come on" Chelsea nudges her "I said pass" Sunny again skips her turn. Chelsea shook her head in disappointment.
"Alright, you expendable goon, what was best job ever?" Chelsea shoots her attention at Gus Mota "Alright, best job I ever was a few jobs back robbed a bank for a couple of mill, did it to take care of myself, know what I'm saying".
"Couple of mill?" Chelsea smiled in approval "Not bad". Her attention turn again to Sunny. "Come on Sunny" Chelsea prodded her "You don't have one job that was favorite?", Sunny just ignored the question but Chelsea persisted "Come on! I know you got a favorite job". With a sigh she finally relents. But figures to tell a half truth, as she knew what the real reasons on why that wasn't her favorite story and let alone she felt more guilt thinking about it. Especially on how she felt afterwards.
"About a couple years back or so I was ordered to recover fifty million dollars that someone attempted to take for themselves and I had to do certain things to get it back" Sunny hated thinking about it and how much it bothered her afterwards about what she did. It still replays in her head.
Sunny looked down at the body. To think that this snobbish worm attempted to still steal and make off with it. He wouldn't have gotten that far even if he had tried.
"So..." Candice shakingly looked at her "I-Is it over? Is he gone?".
"Yeah" Sunny answered as she checked his gun "Then, I guess we're free..." Candice breathed a sigh of relief "W-We got everything, god" she couldn't believe it. "We-We have to take the money. We got to leave this place" Candice wanted to desperately leave this snowed covered hell that was the Midwest.
"Sunshine for you and me" she started to smile "Yeah and that Caribbean place where you want to start that scuba diving shop you been dreaming about" Sunny mused "Yeah" Candice happily replied "Imagine it: breakfast on the beach, sailing, nice drinks and I can take you diving. You'll love it", Candice went to grab the bag of money. The next stop for her and Sunny would be the Caribbean. To a better life. And hopefully to a better future.
"There's just one more thing we need" Sunny gets up.
Bang!
A single bullet goes through Candice's heart. A look of shock, surprise, confusion and heartbreak are on her face.
Candice falls to the ground. She starts to gasp the last remnants of air. She didn't understand.
How? And overall in those last moments on this world; why?
Sunny came over to her. She kneeled down. Her own eyes full of heartbreak. Those last ten seconds are hard for her. She carefully caressed Candice's face, ever so lovingly. Candice with the last bit of strength strongly gripped Sunny's arm. Poor Candice couldn't believe it.
"I'm sorry..." Sunny sadly apologized "I-I really liked you" she tried her best to explain this type of stab "I really wanted to go diving with you...but-but-" Sunny started to choke on her words "I can't...because I have my own debt to pay back. And I don't want him going after the only family I have left...".
Candice's grip starts to loosen. Her hand falls. Her now dead eyes stared at Sunny. A small tear falls onto Candice's cheek. Sunny gives a final soft kiss on her forehead. She carefully places the Smith & Wesson Model 60 in her right hand.
Just two greedy individuals who ripped some folks off and killed each in order to claim their prize for themselves.
Sunny carefully closed Candice's eyes.
She walks out into the icy night outside. As she gets into her crap Emperor Sunny knew this didn't feel right. She's pulled the trigger plenty of times and did so every other deadly act before that.
Yet why did this one bother her so much?
"Hey" Chelsea snapped her out of her memory "You alright there? You spaced out there for a bit".
Sunny sighed quietly "Yeah; I'm fine. Let's just focus on this thing".
"So you going to tell us the rest of your story?" Chelsea asked "I got the money and returned it to that person; that's all you need to know" Sunny gave the subtle hint to drop this peculiar subject. Chelsea shook her head "Some story" she sarcastically remarked "Like I said let's just move on" Sunny said as she loaded a magazine into her rifle. "Alright approaching destination, radioing in team" Sunny goes to her radio "We're approaching; are you all ready?".
"Sim (Yes)" Bravo answered in Portuguese "I'll take that as a yes" Sunny says as she couldn't understand his language.
"Chopper team ready?".
"Roger" Taliana answered "You bet" Kimmy responded.
"Okay stop the van" Sunny ordered. Chelsea parked the van. Everyone got out, the train would be coming around ten minutes.
"Okay R, do your thing" Sunny radioed.
Bravo was laying in his spot. Covered in nothing but a brown camouflage ghillie suit. He readied the SR-25. He left the Brazilian army with the skills they taught him. They taught him well. Most people in his squad couldn't shoot a target the way he could. His instructors would be impressed that he's concealed well enough and about to take out targets from this distance. They would be more impressed if they saw that his targets are on a moving train. As they would say, now the real challenge is about to begin.
The guards all carried Carbines. It shouldn't be a problem.
First guard is down.
Second guard down.
Third guard down.
Fourth guard down.
Finally fifth guard goes down.
It's a good thing that they're on a train. All that noise from that train made a great silencer.
"Okay, guards have been eliminated. It's coming your way" he radios.
Sunny started to see the train approach "Alright this is it" she tell them "Get ready to board".
The four of them take their places. As the train goes through the tunnel Sunny takes the first leap. She lands safely. Geraldine, Chelsea and Mota follow suit hopping aboard. The four hop onto the platform below and enter the car. The guards on the inside are about to get a rude awakening.
"Hey! Who the fuck-?" a guard suddenly blurts out. Chelsea let out a burst of rifle fire. "We got intruders!" another guard radios "Shit, know they know we're here!" Geraldine turns the safety off her of AK "Alright, get ready to get paid" Sunny cocks her CAR-15. They heard footsteps and voices coming their way. "We got intruders! They're trying to take the metal!" a guard shouts.
They take cover behind crates. The bullets start flying as guards realize someone wants this metal. "Hey girl? How many guards they got in this thing?" Geraldine asked as she kills a guard "They only said a few!" Sunny shoots a guard through the head "Don't think it matters right now!" Chelsea shouts as she hops out of cover. They took down the remaining guards. They make way to the next section of the train with their loot. "Okay," Sunny motions Mota "do your thing". Mota popped a smoke grenade and tosses it into the car. They hear the guards.
"On three" Sunny orders as the four of them point their rifles at the smoke "One, two, three!". All four rifles shoot at once. Several thuds are heard. They carefully sprint through the smoke. The money, every stack of cash in caged carts. "Alright, we just have to take care of the conductor and we'll attach the cables and lift this thing into the air" Sunny says as she looked at Chelsea and Mota "C help help Mota secure the money and start strapping the other cars with explosives, then detach them. We'll blow the front car once we're in the air" Sunny said as she inserts a magazine "Got it" Chelsea understood "You got it" Mota says as he he pops a magazine into his rifle.
Sunny and Geraldine carefully come up towards the engineer's side.
They reach the engineer's door "On three" Sunny whispered, Geraldine nodded "One, two, three!" Sunny and Geraldine quickly point their rifles at the engineer "Don't even try anything motherfucker!" Geraldine shouts "Hands up!" Sunny shouts. The engineer didn't have much of a choice but to do as he was told to do. Geraldine quickly tied him up.
Chelsea finished setting up the explosives around the other cars. She quickly went to detach the cars. "Come on you!" Chelsea kicked the release as hard as she could until it finally budged. The cars were detached. As soon as they far enough away Chelsea pressed the detonation switch.
Booom! Booom!
Two loud explosions tear through the cars. Chelsea could see her Cargobob coming in.
"Train team we're coming in" Taliana radioed in "Alright time for all unwanted passengers to exit the train" Sunny opened the side door and tossed the engineer out. Chelsea came into the car "Is that everything?" she asked "Everything's set, chopper is about to come in. Time to dismount this thing" Sunny said as she turns to Chelsea "Just make sure that thing takes off, I got to set up the explosives" Chelsea grabbed the remaining explosives. As Sunny starts hitting the lever the Cargobob drops the cables. Geraldine goes up to make sure that the cables are attached and secured properly. The car is finally detached. "Hey!" Chelsea calls to Sunny "Don't forget about me!".
"Don't worry! Just make sure those things go off!" Sunny reminded her.
Geraldine hurried to secure the cables as fast as she could "Geraldine, how's it going?" Sunny radioed "Almost done" she huffed as she finished attaching the last cable "All right, all finished. I'm comin' down" .
As soon Geraldine got back down Sunny gave the word "Chopper team we're set! Take off!".
The Cargobob started to slowly lift the train off the rails. It took a moment or two for the train to finally lift off "Holy shit!" Geraldine exclaimed. The three of them hang on to whatever they can. Sunny got on her ear piece "Chelsea, we got the car up in the air; get ready to blow that thing!".
Chelsea set the last of the explosives "Alright, everything is set! Time to ditch this thing!"
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Chelsea accelerated the train's speed. Her heart beats wildly. She hasn't felt like this since her days in the army.
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"Chelsea hurry up!" Sunny shouts through the ear piece "Give me a second" she hums as she raced to the platform.
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Chelsea climbed to the top. The wind blew in her face.
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She looked up and saw the car hanging from the Cargobob. Sunny waved at her, she run towards her.
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Despite the rush of wind smacking her in the face Chelsea bolted.
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Chelsea ran towards the edge of the train.
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With all her energy Chelsea jumped. Sunny manages to catch by her hand. She quickly pulls her up.
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Boooooom!
Pieces of flaming metal fly as the car is engulfed in the explosion.
Boooom!
Another explosion derails it and it flies off the rails onto the rocks below. Chelsea breathed a sigh of relief "Holy fuck!" she laughed "You took your sweet time" Sunny lightly tapped her forehead "Sorry about that I was just reliving my army days, goddamn that was fun as fuck!" Chelsea laughed a bit more "Hey not to be a downer but we got a few helicopters coming behind us" Taliana radios "All right K, do your thing!" Sunny ordered.
Kimmy saw the five helicopters. She quickly loaded the .50 caliber rounds into the gun. She cocked the bolt. This would be the first time she got to fire this type of gun, hopefully it would be as exciting as those war movies that her cousins would fawn all over for the amount of gore that would be seen on the tv screen. If they could see her now they would be immensely jealous.
The .50 caliber lets loose. It sounded like a jackhammer. The rounds tore through the Buzzards. The casings fall and roll out, some of them smoking. Three buzzards go down. Just two more left. Kimmy took aim and fired. After some aiming she hits one and it crashes into the other. Both go down in a flaming wreak "Oh fuck yeah!" Kimmy cheered. She got to be a part of something cool, took home some serious cash and better yet she got to work with someone that she personally looked up too. For Kimmy it's a dream come true. "All right no other helicopters should be coming our way. We're in the clear" Taliana radios through.
"Holy fuck we did it!" Chelsea cheerfully boasted "Fuckin' right we did!" Geraldine high fives her. They both cheer as Sunny looked at the landscape below. Hopefully this is enough Pierce she thought.
It took a while to get to the rendezvous point but they make it. The Cargobob gently puts the train car onto the ground and detaches the cables. The four quickly exit the train car. Some people who work for Dominic quickly covers it. The Cargobob lands. Kimmy and Taliana exit. Kimmy having the biggest smile ever.
"Alright, everything is set" Dominic quickly tells them "Lay low and wait to get paid" he reminds them "That's it let's get out of here".
Before Sunny parted with Geraldine and Chelsea, Kimmy quickly runs up to her "Hey, it was nice working with you" she quickly complimented "You too" Sunny said back "Listen, there's going to be more jobs with us, we'll let you know".
"Sure, see you around" Kimmy waved her off.
'Hey, got that spare change for you' Sunny texts 'Okay, just let me everything when we corner Shafyee. Keep you informed'.
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"Hey you seen Sunny?" Chelsea asked as Geraldine was prepping her Five Alarm chili "She said was going to the edge of this place, she said she was going for a smoke" Geraldine says as she put the spices into the pot "Do you have to make this thing spicy?" Chelsea whined "I don't see why you can't make regular chili".
"Man stop bein' a little girl, you gotta have some spiciness in your life" Geraldine tells her off "Hey I like spicy just not to the point of it making me go the bathroom" Chelsea snarked back "Look it's going to take a while, go find Sunny so we can eat".
The purple sky was satisfying to look at. Sunny pulled the cigarillo out from the packet, the same one that she forced Chelsea to buy after that undercover job. She put it between her lips and lit it. The smell of vanilla outweighed the nicotine, Sunny wandered off to the edge of Stab City after coming back from the train job; she needed some alone time. It wasn't the job that was on her mind but it was that game that Chelsea played to pass the time.
"So what was the best job anyone of you ever did?"
Sunny shouldn't have even answered and ignored it. It was regrettable and let alone too painful to comprehend. The whole thing with Candice was a hard thing to do let alone it made her feel horrible. Sunny rested against a rusted lamp post as she smoked. She pulled out her phone. She scrolled through the pictures app.
It was a photo that she totally had forgotten she had saved. It was her and Candice enjoying cinnamon rolls together. Candice was her height of 5'6. Long dirty blonde hair. Blue eyes, And her bright smile. They never were intimate with each other but Candice did like Sunny more than a friend. Sunny knew it but even with the ruse she was playing she liked her back. Candice was like her during her time in the Midwest, bored and wanting to escape.
"You liked scuba diving so much..." Sunny remembered how much she wanted to start her own scuba diving shop. She wanted to leave the cold behind for the warmness of a Caribbean town. The both of them just blending in and being normal without the craziness of the criminal underworld and both of them never having to worry about anything afterwards. But after that night, after Sunny pulled the trigger it all went up like a puff of smoke.
If she was sitting in front of a therapist she would have given an honest truth about the whole thing and the truth was that Sunny was living in fantasy world. Even if she ran away with Candice there would have been a good chance Park would have killed not only both of them but Linda as well. The last thing she wanted was to put Candice or Linda in danger. She was put in an impossible situation and there really wasn't a way out. She blew smoke into the air.
Sunny looked at the photo. She wished things were different. She couldn't take it take back though.
"I'm sorry...Candice I really liked you..." her finger goes to the delete button, she hesitates "I really wanted to go diving with you...I wanted to be by your side...I'm sorry...I'm so sorry..." tears started to seep from her eyes before finally hitting delete. The picture is gone. Erased for good.
"Sunny?" Chelsea's voice startled her. Sunny quickly wiped her tears away "I've been looking everywhere for you, Geraldine is making that spicy chili that you like". Sunny turned around "Be right there". Chelsea notices that her eyes and puffy from crying "Have you been crying? 'Cause your eyes are red".
"No I got sand in my eyes" Sunny quickly denied as she put out her cigarillo and flicked it into a nearby bin "Really? Your eyes are red like you just-" Chelsea kept prodding "I said I'm fine" Sunny repeated herself "Okay-Okay I get it" Chelsea finally took the hint for once not to ask anymore about her emotions.
"Hey, here you are" one of Chelsea's neighbors who was a sculptor and welder handed Sunny a homemade metallic flower "Thanks, my girlfriend will love it" she praised "Hey I did a bunch of things for you last time, where's my gift?" Chelsea wondered "You said you would get me a new tv".
"I got you a tv" she reminded her neighbor "A flat screen, I needed a really old school tv like from the eighties" "Pfft, whatever" Chelsea blew her off.
As the sun finally goes down Sunny walked back Chelsea asked another question "Hey are you sure you're alright?".
"I'm fine okay?" Sunny reminded once again "Really I am"
"If you say so" Chelsea shakes her head "Does that chili have to be spicy? Couldn't we have regular chili?".
"It's not chili if it's not spicy" Sunny tells her "If my bathroom get's clogged I know it's that damn Five Alarm chili, you and spiciness".
"Well I am smoking hot" Sunny praised herself "Cheeky bitch" Chelsea laughed a bit "Fuck you" Sunny herself laughed.
Chapter 71 is coming soon. Rate and Review.