Post by cobalt on Mar 1, 2015 19:09:13 GMT -6
Chapter One
“HANDS UP.”
The mutters and quiet conversation quickly turned to nervous whispers and whimpering as two young men, armored in military grade pulled guns from their holsters, their faces masked by helmets. One, a taller man, pointed his weapon at the attendant, the other, a shorter man, jumping over the counter, pressing it to her chin.
“Listen, honey, I’m sorry you had to come in today, and that this is you. But so help me, if you press that silent alarm? The bullet that’ll go through your skull will be…less than silent.” he smiled sadistically. “Hey, girls, she’s all yours.” He called, causing two women to enter, both of them outfitted with motorcycle helmets, one significantly younger, to approach her and press guns to her back.
“Move.” The older growled, causing her to whimper and rush back to the vault. The two men on the outside turned to the bank’s attendants and looked them over. “Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. If you could do your best to keep silent, that’d be much advised.” the shorter chuckled.
“We really do not want to kill anyone today, but if you think someone’s coming out without a bullet in them, you’ve got the wrong idea. We’re going to shoot one of you, just a matter of where.” The taller said.
Meanwhile the two women who had threatened the woman stood by, taking aim at her head as she opened the vault. “H, get in there.” The older woman said, still holding a gun to the woman. “I’ll make sure she doesn’t make any moves.”
The younger girl, dubbed H, rushed in, pulling two sacks out of her bag, and began to fill the bags with cash. On the outside, the older woman held the gun to the attendant, who was seemingly unshaken. In fact, she hadn’t even flinched when the first gun was pulled.
It made the woman suspicious.
The bank clerk suddenly jumped up, making a kick at the woman’s head, which she easily ducked. The thief ducked and made a kick to the girl’s leg, breaking her knee and causing her to fall to the floor. The older woman held nothing back and pulled the trigger, causing the people in the main room to erupt in screams and cries.
“SHUT THEM UP!” She yelled. Another gunshot rang out, quieting the crowd. A thump was heard, someone falling to the floor, presumably. There were groans and grunts of pain, but everyone else seemed rather quiet.
The girl known as H emerged, her bags full. “Let’s move.” She nodded, and the two sprinted down the halls to the main entrance.
“You two, flank left and right. She and I will shoot straight, L will meet us on 5th.” The older woman ordered before bursting out the door, followed by her younger accomplice.
“Shall we?” The shorter man asked, walking out the door and going left. As the taller left, he gave a salute to the crowd. “Sorry to bother you all.”
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Felix sprinted down the street, pushing citizens out of the way as he heard the police sirens ring in the distance. This wasn’t their best work. Kuro would yell at them for it later, too. It was merely a practice robbery, as they’d moved to a new city after their last string of heists had almost had them found out, and they needed a feel for the city.
The feel? It was much harder to pull off a heist.
Leonard wasn’t able to hack into the silent alarm and disable it, Fiona was 23 seconds off her transport routes, Hazel’s bags were obviously light, and even Kuro seemed like she was a bit stressed. Jade, Jade adjusts easily. But everyone else, was off.
Including him. For example, he spoke too much. Wasted too much time. They could’ve been out of there 2 minutes earlier and escaped the cops with ease. But it appeared the odds weren’t in their favor.
He ran into a few officers. They had their guns leveled. Felix sighed, shaking his head. “Listen, officers. I broke the law. I understand that. But we can make this easy, or hard.” Felix shrugged.
“Disarm yourself and turn yourself in.” One of the officers, a brown-haired, stocky man called.
Felix sighed, and turned to a blur. Within seconds, the officers surrounding this man were down on the ground, groaning in pain and unable to get up. The lone officer jumped back, his gun pointed at Felix. In response, Felix rushed up and kicked the gun out of his hand, and grabbed him by the shirt.
“Listen, Officer…Drusidi?” Felix looked, examining his nametag. “I’m sorry I had to do this to your buddies, but I think it’s best if you just go home to whoever’s waiting for you, and leave this behind you. You got someone?”
“U-uh, yes. My husband, Kraven.” The officer said, clearly nervous.
“Good. Go home early. Say hi to Kraven for me.” Felix nodded, and let go of his shirt. “Sorry to scare you.” he nodded, sounding genuinely apologetic, and he was, and once again sped away.
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Felix, Kuro and Hazel pushed through their obstacles to get what they wanted. Jade had his own approach to escape his pursuers.
That involved getting on much higher ground.
He climbed the fire escape of what looked like an office building, managing to avoid the hail of bullets that came at him as he got to the roof and pulled his own pistol, attempting to scare off his pursuers below.
As he looked around and saw his surroundings, he managed to find a path that intersected with his route with Fiona, but required some more jumping.
Oh, well, a challenge was always nice.
He sprinted across the roof and hurled himself across the tops, rolling on the other side after falling for a good eight feet. Groaning as he got up, and making sure there were no officers around, he sprinted to the next roof, grabbing at the ladder of another fire escape and climbing atop the roof.
“Hey, Jade, bud. Gotta get to Fiona, and now.” A voice came on, over his earpiece.
“Got it, Leonard. Should be getting there now.” he nodded, hearing someone climb. As a hand grabbed at the rooftop, Jade shot at their hand and let them fall, their screams not affecting him as he managed to hurl himself down the fire escape ladders to meet Fiona’s transport.
“Get in!” she yelled, the door opening automatically, revealing Kuro and Hazel already inside as he jumped inside. “Cops are better in this city, I swear. Faster, too.” Jade sighed, as they left to get after Felix.
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Felix managed to make it to their checkpoint just as Fiona began to drive, Jade throwing the door open as they drove, with Fiona refusing to stop.
“Jump in!” He yelled, with Felix speeding up once again, to barrel into the car and into Jade. Kuro pulled the door shut, and threw her helmet off her head.
“Helmets off.” Kuro ordered, Hazel taking hers off and letting her brown pixie cut fall loose, Felix removing his own and shaking out his relaxed brown curls, and Jade removing his and fixing his messy red hair, his different-colored eyes flickering with enthusiasm.
“Look. This is a new city, this is a new bank, we didn’t plan as much as we needed, sure. But either way, that was still fucking sloppy. Hazel, I know for a fact those bags are at least $400 light, Jade, you were 47 seconds late for pickup, and Felix, you wasted time taunting that officer.”
“Granted, K, you fucked up by shooting the clerk. Never, ever shoot the clerk.” Fiona smiled, still driving.
“You were 23 seconds late. 25 and we would’ve been fucked. And Leonard?”
“Yeah?” A digital hologram asked, appearing on the center console.
“You didn’t silence the silent alarm or jam the cop’s radio signals. Goddamn amateurs.” Kuro muttered.
“We didn’t do too bad, got within our target range, it’s fine. Just calm down. You guys didn’t do too shitty for a new fucking city. See you back at the apartment.” Leonard nodded, and vanished.
“Could’ve been better if Felix didn’t stop to feel that guy up.” Jade smirked, slipping the last of his armor off and stripping his body suit to reveal an outfit of a flannel and simple black jeans.
“I was taunting, different story.” Felix retorted, also revealing normal clothes underneath his body suit.
“Hey, listen, Felix. It’s fine. I never said our relationship wasn’t open.” Jade taunted.
“See, now you’re taunting me. This is what I was doing to him.” Felix sighed.
“Whatever you say.” Jade smiled, winking.
“And Jade, next time? Put a contact in one of those eyes. I don’t care if you’re wearing a helmet, heterochromia is a dead giveaway and will probably get you, and all of us, caught.” Kuro snapped.
“But it just doesn’t look good. Hazel-brown doesn’t describe my vibrance, and blue doesn’t give away my fiery personality.” Jade snarked back.
“Can you just say brown? I feel like you’re talking to me and it’s annoying.” Hazel sighed.
“Everyone. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.” Kuro growled.
“We’re home!” Fiona announced. Kuro immediately jumped out of the car, followed by Felix, Hazel and Jade.”Hide the car.” Kuro muttered, with Fiona giving her a salute.
The four of them entered their apartment building and rode up to their apartment and home base, and stepped in, making sure the doorman or any other residents didn’t give them any strange looks. They even talked about the robbery, calling it a ‘tragedy’ and ‘a terrible thing’. Not that Hazel or Felix were that great of actors.
Once they got inside, Leonard spun in his chair and leaned back, sighing. “And our heroes return from their extremely pathetic mission. Welcome home, assholes.” Leonard grinned.
“Fucking shut it.” Kuro snapped, storming into her room and slamming the door.
After a moment of silence, Jade sat onto the couch and smiled. “She’s really happy with how the heist turned out.”
“We got about $10,000, I don’t know why she’s upset.” Hazel sighed, taking the sacks back out of her bag and tossing them on the ground.
“Because in the west, we got at least $15-20,000 each heist. She’s used to California.” Leonard reasoned, before turning back to his monitors.
“Well, let’s be honest. Everyone in California was high. It was easy to pickpocket and rob them. I mean, honestly, it was too easy.” Jade smiled.
“….You lived in California, Jade. I met you in California. We literally had our first date on a beach, in California.” Felix stared, with confusion.
“Yeah, but I was there on business.” Jade retorted.
“Business as in…killing people?” Felix retorted.
“Of course.” Jade shrugged.
Kuro’s door opened again, wheeling out a whiteboard with a map of the city pinned onto it, pushpins marking locations of all the banks in the expansive city.
“Listen up.” Kuro said, everyone turning their attention to her, as Fiona walked in, taking a seat in an extra computer chair next to Leonard’s.
“This city has a lot of banks. 14, to be exact. We’re going to pull heists on at least half of them before vacating. Citizens of this place will be scared to leave their homes, we’ll make them scared to go to the ATM. This city will be under our control.” Kuro said, her voice angry but hopeful at the same time.
“California was easy, this is more of a challenge. Despite all of your shitty performances today, you guys are the most skilled people in the business. Felix, you could be in and out of a bank in two minutes if we needed you to be. Hazel, you could make $250,000 look like $25. Jade, if 20 officers came after you, they’d all be down within a minute. Fiona, you could drive us through hell and come back without a scratch. And Leonard? You could take out this city’s power with the flick of your wrist.” Kuro went on.
“We’ll get more equipment, we’ll sharpen our skills. We’re going to suck this city dry. Is that clear?”
The group responded with cheers and whoops, smiles and laughs. Kuro cracked a smile too, but returned to her stone cold demeanor quickly.
“Now shut the fuck up, and get back to work.” Kuro barked, and went back into her room.
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Chapter Two
“HANDS UP.”
The mutters and quiet conversation quickly turned to nervous whispers and whimpering as two young men, armored in military grade pulled guns from their holsters, their faces masked by helmets. One, a taller man, pointed his weapon at the attendant, the other, a shorter man, jumping over the counter, pressing it to her chin.
“Listen, honey, I’m sorry you had to come in today, and that this is you. But so help me, if you press that silent alarm? The bullet that’ll go through your skull will be…less than silent.” he smiled sadistically. “Hey, girls, she’s all yours.” He called, causing two women to enter, both of them outfitted with motorcycle helmets, one significantly younger, to approach her and press guns to her back.
“Move.” The older growled, causing her to whimper and rush back to the vault. The two men on the outside turned to the bank’s attendants and looked them over. “Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. If you could do your best to keep silent, that’d be much advised.” the shorter chuckled.
“We really do not want to kill anyone today, but if you think someone’s coming out without a bullet in them, you’ve got the wrong idea. We’re going to shoot one of you, just a matter of where.” The taller said.
Meanwhile the two women who had threatened the woman stood by, taking aim at her head as she opened the vault. “H, get in there.” The older woman said, still holding a gun to the woman. “I’ll make sure she doesn’t make any moves.”
The younger girl, dubbed H, rushed in, pulling two sacks out of her bag, and began to fill the bags with cash. On the outside, the older woman held the gun to the attendant, who was seemingly unshaken. In fact, she hadn’t even flinched when the first gun was pulled.
It made the woman suspicious.
The bank clerk suddenly jumped up, making a kick at the woman’s head, which she easily ducked. The thief ducked and made a kick to the girl’s leg, breaking her knee and causing her to fall to the floor. The older woman held nothing back and pulled the trigger, causing the people in the main room to erupt in screams and cries.
“SHUT THEM UP!” She yelled. Another gunshot rang out, quieting the crowd. A thump was heard, someone falling to the floor, presumably. There were groans and grunts of pain, but everyone else seemed rather quiet.
The girl known as H emerged, her bags full. “Let’s move.” She nodded, and the two sprinted down the halls to the main entrance.
“You two, flank left and right. She and I will shoot straight, L will meet us on 5th.” The older woman ordered before bursting out the door, followed by her younger accomplice.
“Shall we?” The shorter man asked, walking out the door and going left. As the taller left, he gave a salute to the crowd. “Sorry to bother you all.”
——————————
Felix sprinted down the street, pushing citizens out of the way as he heard the police sirens ring in the distance. This wasn’t their best work. Kuro would yell at them for it later, too. It was merely a practice robbery, as they’d moved to a new city after their last string of heists had almost had them found out, and they needed a feel for the city.
The feel? It was much harder to pull off a heist.
Leonard wasn’t able to hack into the silent alarm and disable it, Fiona was 23 seconds off her transport routes, Hazel’s bags were obviously light, and even Kuro seemed like she was a bit stressed. Jade, Jade adjusts easily. But everyone else, was off.
Including him. For example, he spoke too much. Wasted too much time. They could’ve been out of there 2 minutes earlier and escaped the cops with ease. But it appeared the odds weren’t in their favor.
He ran into a few officers. They had their guns leveled. Felix sighed, shaking his head. “Listen, officers. I broke the law. I understand that. But we can make this easy, or hard.” Felix shrugged.
“Disarm yourself and turn yourself in.” One of the officers, a brown-haired, stocky man called.
Felix sighed, and turned to a blur. Within seconds, the officers surrounding this man were down on the ground, groaning in pain and unable to get up. The lone officer jumped back, his gun pointed at Felix. In response, Felix rushed up and kicked the gun out of his hand, and grabbed him by the shirt.
“Listen, Officer…Drusidi?” Felix looked, examining his nametag. “I’m sorry I had to do this to your buddies, but I think it’s best if you just go home to whoever’s waiting for you, and leave this behind you. You got someone?”
“U-uh, yes. My husband, Kraven.” The officer said, clearly nervous.
“Good. Go home early. Say hi to Kraven for me.” Felix nodded, and let go of his shirt. “Sorry to scare you.” he nodded, sounding genuinely apologetic, and he was, and once again sped away.
——————————
Felix, Kuro and Hazel pushed through their obstacles to get what they wanted. Jade had his own approach to escape his pursuers.
That involved getting on much higher ground.
He climbed the fire escape of what looked like an office building, managing to avoid the hail of bullets that came at him as he got to the roof and pulled his own pistol, attempting to scare off his pursuers below.
As he looked around and saw his surroundings, he managed to find a path that intersected with his route with Fiona, but required some more jumping.
Oh, well, a challenge was always nice.
He sprinted across the roof and hurled himself across the tops, rolling on the other side after falling for a good eight feet. Groaning as he got up, and making sure there were no officers around, he sprinted to the next roof, grabbing at the ladder of another fire escape and climbing atop the roof.
“Hey, Jade, bud. Gotta get to Fiona, and now.” A voice came on, over his earpiece.
“Got it, Leonard. Should be getting there now.” he nodded, hearing someone climb. As a hand grabbed at the rooftop, Jade shot at their hand and let them fall, their screams not affecting him as he managed to hurl himself down the fire escape ladders to meet Fiona’s transport.
“Get in!” she yelled, the door opening automatically, revealing Kuro and Hazel already inside as he jumped inside. “Cops are better in this city, I swear. Faster, too.” Jade sighed, as they left to get after Felix.
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Felix managed to make it to their checkpoint just as Fiona began to drive, Jade throwing the door open as they drove, with Fiona refusing to stop.
“Jump in!” He yelled, with Felix speeding up once again, to barrel into the car and into Jade. Kuro pulled the door shut, and threw her helmet off her head.
“Helmets off.” Kuro ordered, Hazel taking hers off and letting her brown pixie cut fall loose, Felix removing his own and shaking out his relaxed brown curls, and Jade removing his and fixing his messy red hair, his different-colored eyes flickering with enthusiasm.
“Look. This is a new city, this is a new bank, we didn’t plan as much as we needed, sure. But either way, that was still fucking sloppy. Hazel, I know for a fact those bags are at least $400 light, Jade, you were 47 seconds late for pickup, and Felix, you wasted time taunting that officer.”
“Granted, K, you fucked up by shooting the clerk. Never, ever shoot the clerk.” Fiona smiled, still driving.
“You were 23 seconds late. 25 and we would’ve been fucked. And Leonard?”
“Yeah?” A digital hologram asked, appearing on the center console.
“You didn’t silence the silent alarm or jam the cop’s radio signals. Goddamn amateurs.” Kuro muttered.
“We didn’t do too bad, got within our target range, it’s fine. Just calm down. You guys didn’t do too shitty for a new fucking city. See you back at the apartment.” Leonard nodded, and vanished.
“Could’ve been better if Felix didn’t stop to feel that guy up.” Jade smirked, slipping the last of his armor off and stripping his body suit to reveal an outfit of a flannel and simple black jeans.
“I was taunting, different story.” Felix retorted, also revealing normal clothes underneath his body suit.
“Hey, listen, Felix. It’s fine. I never said our relationship wasn’t open.” Jade taunted.
“See, now you’re taunting me. This is what I was doing to him.” Felix sighed.
“Whatever you say.” Jade smiled, winking.
“And Jade, next time? Put a contact in one of those eyes. I don’t care if you’re wearing a helmet, heterochromia is a dead giveaway and will probably get you, and all of us, caught.” Kuro snapped.
“But it just doesn’t look good. Hazel-brown doesn’t describe my vibrance, and blue doesn’t give away my fiery personality.” Jade snarked back.
“Can you just say brown? I feel like you’re talking to me and it’s annoying.” Hazel sighed.
“Everyone. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.” Kuro growled.
“We’re home!” Fiona announced. Kuro immediately jumped out of the car, followed by Felix, Hazel and Jade.”Hide the car.” Kuro muttered, with Fiona giving her a salute.
The four of them entered their apartment building and rode up to their apartment and home base, and stepped in, making sure the doorman or any other residents didn’t give them any strange looks. They even talked about the robbery, calling it a ‘tragedy’ and ‘a terrible thing’. Not that Hazel or Felix were that great of actors.
Once they got inside, Leonard spun in his chair and leaned back, sighing. “And our heroes return from their extremely pathetic mission. Welcome home, assholes.” Leonard grinned.
“Fucking shut it.” Kuro snapped, storming into her room and slamming the door.
After a moment of silence, Jade sat onto the couch and smiled. “She’s really happy with how the heist turned out.”
“We got about $10,000, I don’t know why she’s upset.” Hazel sighed, taking the sacks back out of her bag and tossing them on the ground.
“Because in the west, we got at least $15-20,000 each heist. She’s used to California.” Leonard reasoned, before turning back to his monitors.
“Well, let’s be honest. Everyone in California was high. It was easy to pickpocket and rob them. I mean, honestly, it was too easy.” Jade smiled.
“….You lived in California, Jade. I met you in California. We literally had our first date on a beach, in California.” Felix stared, with confusion.
“Yeah, but I was there on business.” Jade retorted.
“Business as in…killing people?” Felix retorted.
“Of course.” Jade shrugged.
Kuro’s door opened again, wheeling out a whiteboard with a map of the city pinned onto it, pushpins marking locations of all the banks in the expansive city.
“Listen up.” Kuro said, everyone turning their attention to her, as Fiona walked in, taking a seat in an extra computer chair next to Leonard’s.
“This city has a lot of banks. 14, to be exact. We’re going to pull heists on at least half of them before vacating. Citizens of this place will be scared to leave their homes, we’ll make them scared to go to the ATM. This city will be under our control.” Kuro said, her voice angry but hopeful at the same time.
“California was easy, this is more of a challenge. Despite all of your shitty performances today, you guys are the most skilled people in the business. Felix, you could be in and out of a bank in two minutes if we needed you to be. Hazel, you could make $250,000 look like $25. Jade, if 20 officers came after you, they’d all be down within a minute. Fiona, you could drive us through hell and come back without a scratch. And Leonard? You could take out this city’s power with the flick of your wrist.” Kuro went on.
“We’ll get more equipment, we’ll sharpen our skills. We’re going to suck this city dry. Is that clear?”
The group responded with cheers and whoops, smiles and laughs. Kuro cracked a smile too, but returned to her stone cold demeanor quickly.
“Now shut the fuck up, and get back to work.” Kuro barked, and went back into her room.
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Chapter Two