The ultimate heist: a short story that you will never forget.

The ultimate heist

If karma was a witch, then revenge was the executioner, and it was my turn. I woke up not knowing were I was. The last thing I remember is that I was doing one of my normal assaults on one of my neighbour's house. You should have seen his face! It was amazing! But when I turn around, everything is black from that moment.

When i tried to stand up I saw that I was tied to a chair, so i start to move my head to search for something sharp enough to cut the ropes, and i saw nine people there also tied up, all men some of them younger, tougher but all confused. The room was dark like if we were in a garage. There was a big metal door that probably was the only way outside that i could see fornow. Also there were different tools probably for torture or just for repairing a car. Once a big man came into the room one of the captives said, "What are we doing here? I need answers. I have a kid with an aspirator and I have to pay the light to keep him alive."

That was dumbest excuse I have ever heard, but the big man thought about it. We remain in silence for a few seconds until the big man replied, "Well, if you need to go that much to your house, I will set you free." He untied him, opened a door, and the guy start running at the moment he saw the light. But as he passes through the door, someone grabs him from behind and cuts his throat. The body just fell to floor making a big noise.

The other captives were really scared. What would that man do to achieve his goals? He said, "So who else wants to go?" then he laughed. In that moment I noticed that this was serious. "So start introducing yourself or you will end up like the other guy," he said. There was James a hacker he was short skinny and that type of person that is really nervous, Michael a pickpocket he was the quiet one he never speak, Robert a scammer this guy had a face of a smart guy he was probably the smartest of everyone inside the room, Travis a common thief this was really tall like a tower was kind of a big man in size he was probably going to be a problem, and the others were too afraid to say what they might think. I introduced myself. "I am Henry--a bank robber." I am 5.6 feet tall and I'm a normal you will never think that i could be a bank robber. We were all from 26-35 years old.

After some of us introduced ourselves, he start talking. He said that we can call him the Ace, and he also said that he had some revenge from one of his old friends that also was in his bank robbing gang. He explained that the guy took off without him half the heist and the Ace was the only one caught. He has been in jail the last 25 years, and know that the guy who left him behind has created his own bank called One Duty Bank, Inc. He wants to kill him and steal all the money of the bank.

"So for now on, I want every single one of you to help me to make my plan--my dream--come true." When he finished speaking, he turned on a light that could let us see his face. It was white like the snow. His head was bald with no sign of hair. He also had a beard that was gray like the fur of an old grizzly bear. Finally he had a big scar that went from his cheek to his forehead passing over his eye. He was probably blind on that eye on the right side of his face.

"The plan is kind of simple, guys. If you cooperate, I will treat you like sons, and even might give you 5% of the total money that we get from the heist. Or if you don't cooperate, you might appear drowned in a lake or hanged from a pole like the other guy will appear." He said this all look like he was playing a child game and that we were only his toys, and in any moment he could just get rid of us.

I didn't realize how he found us and brought us here. "One question, Ace. So are we gonna work together, or each one of us is gonna do only one thing and we will be free?" James said nervously. Maybe because he was just a hacker he wasn't used to being in contact with other people.

"You all are going to work and investigate separately, but when the time of the heist gets here-- that will be in 5 days on Wednesday-- you are gonna enter the bank, steal the money, and bring me the guy that I need to talk with. If not, I will find you and I will have more than one person to have revenge on instead of just the CEO of the bank," Ace said with such calmness in his voice that this looked like it was his routine everyday.

"But for now just sleep and try not to escape," he said. Two guards came out of the door and untied us. "I trust you," Ace said and closed the door, leaving all of the other eight and me on the room where it all started.

"How can we trust him? Did you see what he did to the other guy!?" Noah scream. He was a thief when he was younger. No one paid attention to what he said. They'll just went to sleep in one of the corners and stayed there for the whole night.

In the morning everyone was ready to do their work, but first the A (an easier way to say the Ace) entered the room and gave us some instructions. "So today is the first day you are gonna be useful. Just remember: if any of you get arrested, I'm not gonna rescue you." With those last words, everyone separated to start preparing their part of the plan. James the hacker was to hack the bank system, Travis was supposed to go and break in one of the worker's houses to get his clothes to dress like normal workers, and I had to make the big plan and ask for everything that we might need. For example if we needed a drill for the vault where the money would be, and probably gloves so we won't be recognized by our fingerprints.

The days passed really fast, so when we got to the big day, some of us weren't ready. By this day three other people were arrested, so there were only six of us left-- Noah, James, Travis, Marlon (a bankrobber just like me), Michael (also a housebreaker), and me. All of us were scared of having the same fate as the other four. One of the things that James noticed is that in the vault was 100 million dollars just sitting there waiting till someone would go and steal it.

So the plan was made, but one thing we didn't expect was that the vault was underground--exactly 30 feet underground. The problem is that there was that the only way in was by using an elevator, but it won't work because it will need the retinal scan of the owner of the bank. Soo we will have to rapel to get down. The biggest problem is that if we fall from that high we will instantly die. It was risky, but we didn't have any other choice. We heard the door open and a voice behind us say, "Well let's get this job finish, and you will all get your freedom that you deserve!" the Ace said.

All of us went into a big, white van. We were already dressed as employees and we had a bag with the drill, gloves, masks, and a silenced pistol for if things get serious. We enter the bank and no one thought that we were about to steal all the money of the bank and escape.

So we went into the back part of the bank where the elevator was located. We entered the door and a guard tackled Noah, but quickly Travis put his arm around his neck and knocked him out. Leaving the body there, I didn't even look, so I don't know if he killed him. We get to the elevator and broke the bottom of it and started rappelling down, but there was one problem-- the drill start leaking. The fuel of the drill was acid and will burn the skin. The little drops of acid fell into Michael's face almost killing him instantly. But that wasn't all. More drops touched the Marlon's rope and that made Marlon literally free fall to his death. We got to the vault, but I continued questioning why the drill was leaking.

It was an expensive drill, so I thought maybe it was sabotaged, but who will try to betray the whole group? It probably was James because he didn't see when the other two died. He also hasn't talked to anyone since that night in the garage. We start opening the vault when, from out of nowhere, the elevator started falling, crushing Travis's body into the floor. We barely avoided getting hit by the elevator. We opened the vault and put some of the money in the bags that we had left. We start going up with at least 50 million dollars in gold and in cash. When we got to the top, my theory become true that James was the one who betrayed us. He killed Noah and shot me in my chest with the silenced pistol. As he escaped he said, "Good luck, loser!" When he was passing the door, some guards shot him with no mercy I was army crawling along the floor, but when I saw outside i saw The Ace. He planned all of this. I just showed my head. He looked. He was dragging a body, probably one of the gang. He stopped, stared at me, laughed maniacally, then he shott me. That was the end of it. The last thing I saw was him and another guy laughing at my body while my life was going out of it. Then everything just went black.

I felt pain in every single part of my body. "Is this how death feels?" I opened my eyes and saw that I was dumped on a normal street of the city that we made the heist. He hadn't kill me;he probably missed. The bullet didn't hit me in the head. I tried to stand, but I couldn't. Does anyone know if I was alive? In that case I will get the revenge on the Ace.