(9 am, Tuesday - 3hrs to ship's arrival)
Everyone was nervous and excited to face the big mission ahead of them today. There were still 3 hours before 12 o'clock but Heidi's work already began when Shane called her. She had to immediately call Praya after that to inform her about the situation.
"Praya! You remember that morse code message?"
"Yes"
"It said something about 10 men right, P'Shane called me to tell that VJ suddenly appointed 10 members for 'extra security'. They will be undercover until the whole cargo is transported... I think this will be a big hindrance. What to do now?"
"Even if they will be undercover, they will be people of the gang which we will be able to identify but we absolutely can't kill them. We would just need to distract them..."
"We need to do something more fail-proof Praya... Ok let's do this, the unit which will be undercover from our side can take those people out, by that I mean they can make them unconscious or something? "
"Fine, let's discuss this with everyone else once we gather at the port ok?"
"OK"
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(11 am - 1 hr before ship's arrival)
Ice hacked the cctv camera's again to have the display on their monitors too and checked all the equipment one last time. He help setup everybody's ear pieces and had already checked Shane's spy cam and his ear piece. Everyone except Shane was gathered for briefing as he would be coming with VJ. All of them agreed to Heidi's previously stated plan and then got to their positions.
Sun spotted VJ's car and informed everybody. Shane parked the black Subaru far from the port but that place was the best to see everything that would happen.
Tina and Kiet helped to spot the undercover gang members who were with VJ. Maria approaches one of them to make them unconscious.
"Maria not right now! P'VJ will see everything and get suspicious" Praifah is able to see her through the cctv camera and orders her to stop.
"Suspicious my foot! Why can't we just kill HIM and stop all this already!" Maria was frustrated with all this planning and plotting.
"Maria" Praya says in a soft voice that shocks her as she has never heard Praya talk like that "Killing him won't stop the immoral acts happening around us. We need to remove the roots not just cut out some branches. This is just the first step in that direction.... are you still willing to help us?"
"Yes... I'm sorry for the burst out" Not only Maria but everyone got a surge of motivation to accomplish this.
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"Guys it's finally 12 o'clock, the ship will arrive at any moment" Shane says.
"There is still no cargo ship in my sight" Tina is continuously looking from her long range scopes.
Shane looks at VJ who plans to sit inside the car, and calls him for knowing what's the next step. VJ remains quiet for sometime. There comes a loud honk from a cruise ship and then he says "That's our cargo"
Shane is stunned by the fact that the weapons and children are smuggled not through a freighter but a cruise ship.
"Haha! P'Shane you seem shocked. This was our dealer's idea after the previous mishap, isn't he a smart ass man? Now you need to take the 'LUGGAGE' out. Go go!" VJ laughs but Shane is disgusted by that. He cuts the call and proceeds to walk towards the ship.
"Guys... this cruise ship is the one...I didn't expect VJ to be this twisted argh!" Shane informs everyone.
"It's ok P'Shane. Go inside it and show us what's it like from in there just like our original plan" Heidi tells him
Two men walk out of the ship and shake hands with him. He smiles and receives them warmly.
"We are really happy to increase our business with you" One of them says.
"We too sirs but... where is the cargo? How will we unload and load it on our trucks?"
"Ohho~! Don't worry about that! We will take the cargo out, you just arrange one of those machines to load it on your trucks."
"That's great! But I am here to help you... I have already appointed someone for this loading task, so can I... if you give your permission... Can I see your ship from inside?" Shane asks very politely and they allow him just because he is a trustworthy man of VJ.
As he steps inside he is able to see shipping containers in many rows and columns. The ship looks like a cruise ship from the exterior only, inside it is modified to give a big storage space. The men show him the whole area. They also told him what was inside each and every container. There were only 10 containers with weapons inside. Five of them had gold bars stacked on one another and some even had expensive cars and bikes. All of the stuff was stolen from countries like SEA, Australia, Japan and India. At the very end of that area were two secluded containers, there were some people guarding it. Shane was told that these were the containers where kidnapped kids were kept for the slave market.
Shane was overwhelmed by the stuff of all kinds. Later they took him near a ladder which he climbed up and came outside on the deck.
"Isn't this deck just like a cruise ship? Nobody even thinks that there is just stolen stuff inside" Shane's guide started laughing.
"Yeah..." Shane looked around the deck, there were outdoor pool, hot tubs, restaurants, bars, and other leisure facilities. The exterior was definitely giving cruise vibes. "We should get to work now or VJ will start fussing. He has short temper" Shane smiled.
"First send all the weaponry and gold containers. Even though we arranged transport but the amount is still so much. You will have to wait but don't worry I will take permission for keeping this ship here" He said as he was getting off the ship.
"Ahh I understand, we can stay but you still need to hurry. We are scheduled to leave maximum by 2 AM so atleast unload everything by then"
"We'll try our best" He walked away to inform all this first to VJ and then came back at the port to oversee everything.
Back in the control van, they saw the interior of the ship and successfully located the container with children. They also heard Shane's conversation with the crewmen. After all the containers with weapons and gold were unloaded and loaded on the trucks and got ready to hit the road Shane went to VJ to convince him to leave the port. He had already planned something yesterday with the help of Kittisak.
"Hey VJ the most important cargo is ready for going into our warehouse"
"Cool"
"But there is a problem... Not here but at the office"
"Huh?"
"Boss wants you to attend a seminar. Many businessmen are coming there and he wants to show who the REAL OWNER of Jones businesses is. The respect of the company is at stake VJ "
"ARGHHH! Ok fine! Tell these 10 rats to overlook everything and by the time we return all of the cargo should be at the warehouse"
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"P'VJ is gone. Now Maria and team, take all of them out" Praifah , who headed this mission, was very seriously doing her job. "Kiet and Tina, on my signal shoot the people on the deck"
Sun had arranged sleep inducing chemicals which they used to make those undercover gangsters unconscious. They were very easily able to make them sleep because Shane had chose the gang members with least talent and vigour.
After that Praifah instructed the snipers to shoot. One by one, every person on the deck was shot dead and anybody who was coming there afterwards was also shot immediately. Tina took the most impossible shots. Kiet thought that there was nobody better than him in the gang but Tina broke his arrogance.
"P'Prai you can send Praya and Celine inside now, we have taken care of stuff here" Tina said.
"Sure" Praifah took a deep breath and turned to look at Praya. Even though she was aware of Praya's abilities, this was the first time they were working on such a dangerous mission together. She hugged her little sister and said "Be safe nong*"
(*Nong - Younger sibling/ friend Phi - Older sibling/ friend)
"I will bring back the kids safely that's for sure" Praya said firmly. The three ladies who were going inside were ready. They wore bullet proof jackets, kept pistols, torches, knives and took extra ammunitions with them. Song even kept some first aid with her.
It was finally time to start the most important and dangerous phase of the mission.