11 Chapter 11: Second Showdown
-Chapter Synopsis: The Professor remembers his brother's wife, and how she could betray them. Meanwhile, the new inspector puts Lucia and Joseph in trouble, and prepares the attack inside the bank. Is there a way to contain the police inside the bank, and that Lucia, Joseph and the rest of the team can win this second round?
Years before the robbery, I was sleeping, because last night I was studying every detail or variant of the robbery. But my younger brother came up to me and whispered in my ear:
-Brother, you have fallen asleep - he told me - I must introduce you to someone special
He called me little brother of affection. He was actually younger than me, but we got along really well when we were little.
I changed my clothes, went out to the central courtyard of the monastery and saw my brother, Diego and another girl.
- Hello, nice to meet you, I'm Joseph, Matias's older brother - I said
- Nice to meet you, I'm Diana - she told me
-Diana is a great woman, my brother -said Matias- she is very good at playing the piano
-And she is also a thief- added Diego - and very good
I was surprised to hear that:
- Forgiveness? You are a thief?
- Yes, I forgot to tell you that my 2 specialties are the piano and jewelry,- she said.
- And he loves the robbery of the country's central reserve bank - said my brother - and more than your robbery of the banknote house.
When I heard that, instead of being more surprised, I was quite concerned:
- Wait, did you tell her both plans? - I asked Matias worried
- Yes, obviously - my brother told me - there are no secrets between us
I was surprised, so I said to my brother:
- Excuse me, can we talk in private?
We went to the corridor of the monastery, and it was there that I said:
- Are you crazy?
He told me:
- Can be
- Matias, what will happen when they offer a reward of one, two, three million dollars for any information? Because in a robbery like that, that's going to happen.
-Don't go there - Matias told me
-Where? - I asked him
- You are insinuating that the woman of my life is going to betray me
- I'm not insinuating it, I'm taking it for granted - I said - but okay, let's do an act of faith in absolute love
- Let's make an act of faith in absolute love, you said, and I'll tell you "of course"
- Let's accept that Diana will not sell you for money. Listen to me well. She is a thief-I said -What will happen when they give her the choice between betraying you or going to prison?
- How easy it is to talk about love when you have never met it! - exclaimed my brother
- What do you mean never? I met Maria, Claudia, Javiera, and all of them end up breaking your heart into a thousand pieces - I told her - or they don't want to have a love relationship with you, or they cheat on you with another, or they only use you to be happy until they get to a better person!
- It's because you met the wrong people - said my brother - Look, I'm going to tell you something about Diana. I have toured Europe with her opening safes. You know the tension in a robbery. There are always frictions. For every failure you put all the blame on yourself. But she and I, nothing. Nothing. On a cloud. We have spent 14 hours in a basement to open a butron. And we made love like there was no tomorrow. People argue with their partner, when they go to Marbella on vacation, we rob the Credit Agricole and it was like being on a honeymoon. Why are you so ominous?
- How long have you known her? To Diana
- Does matters? Love is not timed! Love is lived
- You can't risk the whole plan for one woman. It is the first rule Matias: "The robbery can not be intoxicated by a romantic relationship. Never" It is not that difficult to understand.
Although, in part, my brother was absolutely right. Because when I met Lucia, I met true love. And I also did the same as my brother when I was with her. I told her the whole plan, because I knew that she would never betray us. Never.
Continuing with the robbery, I asked Diego how we were going with the gold smelter:
- Diego - I said - Situation?
-We finished the 10 tons of the 90-he told me-We have 80 left.
- And the defenses? - I asked for
- We continue welding, we have 3 at the moment
- Something new?
- Everything here in order. Over there?
- Without complications, I cut the call- I said
But just when I cut the call, through a microphone that a spy from our side had placed in the tent, I heard that Javiera was planning an attack inside the bank.
Yes, the new inspector was nobody else and nobody less than Javiera. The one that was once my best friend whom I had met online, she had become our biggest threat. I was shocked, although for some other reason Lucia was also surprised.
- Lucia, are you okay? - I asked to her
- Yes, only that, I know Javiera - she told me - she is someone who likes to play dirty. I was one of her friends at school. But in the end, she rejected us and ended up hanging out with other girls who were just as cruel as her.
- I understand, don't worry - I said - I'm going to prevent her from capturing us, or in the worst case, kill us. We must listen to her plan.
I turned up the volume in the police tent and listened carefully:
- We are going to fill the bank through the ventilation tubes with Halothane - said Javiera - highly narcotic. Suarez will lead and enter through the ventilation duct on the roof of the bank, along with his elite command.
- Good gentlemen - Colonel Tamayo said - we have the green light from the president. We are going to inject gas at an extraordinary pressure. In 30 minutes, they should all be unconscious, but be prepared for anything.
- Yes sir! - Shouted Suarez and his elite command
At that time I called Diego to warn him about this:
- Diego? - I told him
- Yes Professor, I'm here - he told me
- They're going in. I need you to get everyone together. I repeat, they are going to enter - I informed him
- When? What kind of attack? - Diego asked me
- They are going to leave you all unconscious, through halothane smoke - I said - listen, tell the others to form teams of 2 but you of 3, take a shield for each group, everyone can take weapons and oxygen tanks to breathe, and when they come in, surround them in the main.....ro...with...lasers....an....pum.....
- Professor? Professor do you hear me ?! - Diego asked
I could not answer because while driving on a highway, Javiera's move made us bewildered and veered off the main street, and we did not realize that a tree knocked down the antenna with which we could communicate with others, and to our bad luck, one of the wheels of the caravan got stuck inside a hole in a field.
Inside the bank, Diego gathered the others:
- Ladies and gentlemen, we lost communication with The Professor and Lucia - Diego said
- Do you have any idea what happened? asked Emily
- No, but he managed to inform me that the police are going to spread Halothane through all the vents in the bank. The truth is that I would like to have more information but unfortunately, we do not have it - said Diego
- What should we do? asked William
- We are going to divide into groups as he said - said Diego - Emily and Mike, you on the third floor, Alicia and William, first floor, Liz and Nick, you on the central side of the bank, and finally, Jhon and Janeth, you with me in the central part with the hostages. Each team takes a shield, each can take a weapon and an oxygen tank. In case the policemen stick together, we will surround them in one of the main rooms of the bank, with lasers and bombs. We are going to win this second match again.
It was 11 in the morning, when the bank began to fill with highly narcotic gas, which caused everyone who did not carry an oxygen tank on their back to be unconscious.
It was at that moment that Suarez and his elite command entered the bank through a roof vent. When they were inside, the first thing they did was go to the bathrooms, they found 2 people dressed in dalí in that place. One lying on the floor and the other lying on the wall. As they did not know if they were hostages or it was us, they had to remove the mask from both of them. Upon learning that they were hostages, one of them said:
- Hostage!
But his priority was not getting the hostages out of that place unscathed. His priority was to make a massacre with each one of us. His priority was to kill us unless we surrendered.
They kept looking for us, but when they reached the central part of the bank, near the stairs where they led almost all the hostages, a Dalí stood in front of him and with a large caliber weapon, began to shoot them:
- Take cover! - shouted Suarez
But it wasn't really a Dalí, because behind that Dalí there was a shield, and behind that shield was Diego. Surely you wonder how he shoots if he was behind a shield. Well, while we melted the shields, we left a small hole in the center, so that the front part of the weapon could fit and that in that way, they would not give us a single shot, and that only they would shoot a decoy.
- Hold on, hold on! - shouted Suarez - Let's go through that passage
The squad of policemen, they entered firing through a door to that corridor. It was a long corridor with several doors and an elevator, they were going to go slowly to the elevator, looking around, until they heard a: Ding, dong!
The policemen immediately turned around, and to his surprise they saw Jhon with his oxygen tank and with a machine gun inside the elevator, then Suarez shouted:
- Oh dammit! Take cover!
Jhon started shooting at them. Meanwhile, Diego entered through the same door through which the policemen previously entered and continued shooting at them.
- Let's go through that door, we cannot end them in this situation! - Suarez said
That door led to a large room with several exits or entrances. And when the police reached the center of the room, several lasers were turned on around them. This caused them not to have so much space to move, because seconds later, Diego appeared through the same door that the policemen entered and told them:
- If I were you, I would not go near those lasers, because they are connected to several automatic bombs, and if they touch only one, the whole room explodes.
In this way, the police reluctantly surrendered, and unbeknownst to me and Lucia, we had won the second showdown.
