We walk all the way around the house to be next to the giant garden and find a possible entry to the basement. We followed Alice's GPS directions on our phones.
"There are guards guarding the door.." Chris says as we halt our walking, turn around and pretend to be interesting looking at the flowers in the garden. This is not no little, space, garden, this is like a mini park with tall trees, shrubs and many other plants. There is a fountain in the middle as well. We are walking on the paved trail way that leads right to that basement door ..
"Say you need to use the bathroom." Rob suggests.
"Oh right, like we haven't been living here for the past weeks and we don't know where the other bathrooms are.." I say with sarcasm. Chris lets out a small grin. "We can just say we wanted to grab a film file to play it in the movie, but Ralph told us it was down here.."
"I like that. I like that very much." Alice agrees. I wasn't done though, I was going to say that to keep the conversation going with the guards while I set up my taser gun. We walk towards the three guards and I tell them just what I said a few seconds ago. They are all carrying sub machine guns on their sides and they have anti-bullet vests.
"Sorry Miss Shaw. We have strict orders of letting no one down here...Only on a order from Mister Shaw would we let you in, however we never received no information or order of that sort today." A tall, black security guard says putting a hand on his submachine.
"If that's the case." I take out my phone and tap on Ralph's number, then I give it to the guard. "Go ahead, speak with him yourself.."
"Obviously I'm cutting the connections...That phone is going to be ringing for a while." Alice says and I smirk a bit. While the guard turns his head to be facing the highly secured door, a part of my plan escapes right by my hand. Rob and Chris each take out a gun and shoot at the three guards in the head, instantly. Nothing is heard since their guns has silencers. Blood splatters everywhere though and my stomach tightens. They have no time to react, not even the guy on the phone.
They fall down right before my eyes, and I instantly kneel down next to the guard that had my phone and I pick it from the ground.
"You killed them you idiots. I never-" I start to say but Chris cuts me off. I hate this part, the killing part. They had families, waiting for them somewhere on this planet, and we just ripped their lives away. We are acting like the Shaws right now, I don't know if I can handle killing people..I am a punk when it comes to this...This is not racing. You beat someone when racing, it's okay, they have a chance to race you again. It's fair. But when you kill someone, that's it, that person will never be heard from again and the can't fight back.
"We are running against time here Rosie...We had to do it." Chris says. I wish I was as comfortable killing people like him.
Robert takes guns, submachines, ID's and bullets away from the guards. Chris and I do the same. I am just doing this because it is a mission. In Military Academy they force you to learn that when someone tells you to do something, you have to do it and you have to forget about consequences.
"I will freeze their cameras on your mark while you make you way inside the basement...this will only be temporary guys, so hurry." Alice says as I wrap the submachine around me that I took from the dead guard who is bleeding to death right now. I stand up and wow, Its really heavy, and carrying it with these heels on, makes it even worse. I also take a handgun from the dead guard and make sure its loaded. Alice continues to talk. "Once they see those cameras shut down, its war time... I've also fucked with the security system, so grab one of the fingers from the guards and scan on the door and punch the code 890."
"She's a genius, she changed the code.." Robert says picking up a guard's finger and scanning it on a metal screen thing on the door. Then Chris punches the code.
"That's my baby." Chris says proudly. Alice giggles.
"Okay Alice, freeze the cameras. How much time do we have?" I say leabing out of opening the door until she speaks.
"Literally 5 minutes. Then you will have to make your way upstairs, and we all need to make our way out of here." Alice says. "Melvin and Maggie are now in Ralph's office, they are scanning and playing around with the networks so that I have no way of being discovered. Oka guys, Like I said, 5 minutes."
"Five minutes?" Chris asks in shock. "We don't have enough time.."
"There is always time." Alice says and I take out my phone before opening the door. I have to act quick.
"I will take east of the basement. Robert take west. Chris go in for the devils mouth, the highest secured place in the house. The room that has his money and files... After, we do what we have to do, we will meet in the basement library which leads to Ralph's office.." I say showing them a 3D map of the entire basement on my phone. Chris and Rob nod.
"Okay. Alice...cameras off in 3...." Robert starts to say. I load the handgun, and secure the submachine. I hate to do this with a passion. I will treat this as a race....I don't like losing races. I will have my taser gun in handy though, which will leave them paralyzed for about 30 minutes.. I don't know which one I'll use, bullets or electricity, but I sure do know which one I want to use.
"2..." Robert continues and Chris opens the door slightly. I look at them as I nod. Here we go. ".....1!" It's like a race, once that gun goes off you speed your ass off. That's exactly what we did. We just started running and hiding, and shooting non-stop at the guards inside, once they were down, more started to appear from east and west wings. The enemy tries to switch lanes, but staying on yours is your way of perseverance and determination...I wanted to take out the taser gun, but when a guard is ready to kill you, you have to try and do the same back. I shot them all like it was no problem. I ran and shot, ran and shot.
Coming in from the outside, I ran to the east side of the basement and did what I had to do. 100 miles per hour is the speed. I can't feel my heart as I hold on tight to my wheel.
Two Minutes Later
"Hanging in there?" Robert screams from the other side of the basement.I tell him I'm okay as I push in my ear device a bit more and I sit in back of wall. I think about what just happened. This is only the start of the race. I stand up quickly and I run to Robert on the other side of the basement, bumping into all the bodies we just shot down. ..."I did this." I think to myself. But I have no time to think, I had to do it. As I run, I suddenly slide across the floor, shooting, with both hands on the submachine, before fully reaching Rob's location. I feel the bruises on my feet...These heels ain't no joke.
"Keep running...All these guards are trying to open the doors to the basement. I locked them temporarily though but once you get into the devil's mouth with Chris, lock it up! Do you hear me? Lock it up!" Alice screams in through the ear-piece. She had been saying things during the two minute action, but with all the bullet's going off I could not hear her.
"Chris is this way." Rob says holding my hand as we run north of the basement. The fact that he is holding my hand disturbs me, but I can barely run with this pain on my feet. Sometimes when racing, not all the engines work. Some cars have more than one engine, that is what makes them exceed these incredible speeds. But not all the engines are guaranteed to work, and that is when problems arise and you lose. But I will not lose.
We do as told as we run inside the devil's mouth where Chris is. Robert and I close the big, 10 feet, steel door. It takes a lot of effort but we do it. Since Alice changed the code, they will not be coming in here, for now. It's that part of the race when you know you are ahead of the opponent and you feel a bit of relief.
The devil's mouth is painted in white. Like all white. It has three, big-screen computers in front of a glass chamber which contains all the gold and money. There is not a lot money down here, probably a couple hundred thousands, but we are taking whatever we find.
"Well that ...was ..fast.." Chris says, catching his breath. "Okay 3 more minutes. Rosie put all money in the bag." He gives me a big tube shape bag he finds. "Robert send all the data from these computers to Melvin and Alice. I will take all these portfolios and binders in this backpack." He says opening the book bag and starting to work. We do as told, quickly. I run inside the glass chamber and throw all the money in the tube bag. After I'm done putting all the money inside a bag, a huge bag now , I find the secret door that leads to the library. It's not even door, is like a small passage-way on the side of the glass chamber.
"Okay, carefully but fast." Chris says as we all walk inside the glass chamber. I drag the bag with all effort in the world. Robert offers help, but just because I am girl doesn't mean I can't drag a 50 and plus pound bag, carry a 20 pound machine gun, and run on 6 in heels.
We observe the small passage-way. We notice we can only get through if we crawl, so we do. I crawl in first, dragging the tube bag with me. Then Rob, helping me push the bag and then Chris with his big behind backpack. We crawl for some seconds before reaching the library. There are no guards inside the basement, yet, hence Alice has kept everything locked for the last minutes. The race is reaching its climax, but doesn't mean we can't still lose. We run out the small passage-way, and then run up towards some stairs that lead to Ralph's office.
"Fuckkk." I say as I climb and run the steep steps. Robert takes over with the tube bag as we climb.
"Almost there."Chris says and I like the motivation. We finally get to the top and find a huge wall. No doors, no nothing.
"Open the fucking door Melvin or Maggie..one of y'all." Robert says anxiously. We are all nervous, we have like under a minute.
"Uhh how? There is no door that leads to the basement here." Melvin says confused. The time, we are running out of it. It's like the gas is running out from the engine and everything will explode. I hear some tumbling of walls down in the basement.
"They are on your ass." Alice says desperately.
"Shit!" Chris says kicking the wall.
"Check the book case. Touch statues or books. " Robert says. Some seconds later I sense that the guards are through the passageway.
"I'm touching. There are no statues? Maggie check underneath the desk." Melvin says just as desperate as us. "There are no books eith-..oh wait.." I let out a release of anxiety as the door opens. "Got it!" The wall starts to open from right to left right before our eyes. When it fully opens, we step inside, and then the wall closes. The bookcase turns and we run inside the office. There is still some gas left.
"Time runs out in 30 seconds. " Alice says. "I already have packed everything..Be ready to shoot and run."
I quickly load the submachine along with the Chris and Robert.
"Where ya'll found these bad boys?" Melvin says admiring the submachines.
"Long story." Chris says smirking as he reloads. I don't want to think about how we got them. I grab two small clock guns that Melvin hands me, and I secure them around my thighs with a leather lace thing. I put the taser in the leather thing as well. I swing the submachine around my body and Maggie hands me the holy grail.
"Here." Maggie says giving me some flat shoes. "We all need em." She says and I step out of these bad boys and put the flat shoes on. The amount of relief I felt is uncomparable. I think driving with heels is way easier...
"Alright. 10 seconds." Alice says through the ear device. We hide the important items underneath Ralph's table. Melvin says he sent a copy of the files Robert sent him from downstairs to the FBI/CIA, so at least that is safe and sound. I'm nervous to come out this office door, I can die instantly...my people can die instantly. But like a race, sometimes you just don't know what is after the hill, that is why you need to hold the breaks and glide on the curve. Take control of the wheel, it's your wheel. Alice gives us the signal and we open the door. My heart accelerated.
I have my two clock guns loaded and ready to shoot, so do the others. Outside the door, in the hallway, there is a group of guards facing the other direction. An alarm goes off, the one that indicates that intruders are in the house...Weird that the intruders have been living here all along.