1 THE DEVILS OF HEAVEN

THE SPARK

"We have to get out! we are going to be outnumbered soon!". "but sir, if we lose this checkpost we will lose every thing!" BOOM!! an explosion occured as the wall which was protecting those men from the heavy shelling outside broke wide open. men in grey war suits came inside and started shooting everyone mercilessly. "why!!... why are you doing this! Who are you!!" the dying officer said his final words. " Now.. i will be the rightful dictator of this land and slowly. my reign will spread throughout the world as i topple each and every nation one by one. There will be no one to tell me what i am worth and what not this time. ".....

Ch 1 : REBIRTH

The sky was clear. The winds were blowing nicely. The weather was pleasant. Everything was quite normal. No one can anticipate any kind of catastrophy or even think of it. I mean.. come on. this kind of weather and nice atmosphere realy makes all forget their fears. Just what we needed. I sat down on the seat of the cafè parlour and just like any other average guy, ordered a coffee. And waited, and waited. As i sat down i saw the big white building and there was written in broad letters "BANK". A grin came in my face. I got a message and i checked my phone. it showed a message from one of my guys named Ghost. It read "we are ready. get in position". I got up from the chair and started moving towards the bank. jst casually. I signalled a guy above a building by waving my hand discreetly, and then counted. Within moments a black coloured van charged at its full speed, only to crash very hard straight up jumping through the stairs and hitting the bank enttance door, shattering the pieces of the glass door along all the other stuff present on the gates. the guards were lucky to dodge the van in time. I slowly got hold of my pistol hoisted on my belt. hidden by my long coat. Within seconds people called the local police. Who came within a minute or two. I went close to the van amongst the crowd and opened the hatch. i saw two dead people in gas masks and fighting gear lying down lifelessly. Soon the police came along with some S.W.A.T. team and started investigating the scenario. I picked up my phone and called some one. And said "NOW!". suddenly the tires of the car burst out making a huge noise. Smell of burnt rubber spread everywhere along with some kind of gas. I quicky took out the gas mask i have been carrying with me and put it own and hid behind the smoke. Within that time many officers and civillians had gathered and were within the range of the smoke or gas i would say. The started dozing off one by one jst like a cockroach do after being hit by pest control spray. The two 'supposed to be dead' in the van sprung up and knocked out the remaining concious officers and civilians. Both came running at me as i came out of the hideout and said "Oh, so you're here! i tht u wud drink coffee all the time we take all the cash!" "couldn't miss the party, could I?" i shook hands with them and went inside the bank. Only to see all of the persons unconsciously laying on ghe ground. "woah, Ghost ur smoke did get them high real fast!" Ghost replied hurrying while taking out his bag and said "hurry up Knight, we dnt have much time. This gas is only effective for an hour n half or max to max two hours. Thats all we have.". We hurried towards the main vault and used our diamond cutter to cut open the lock door, and started stuffing all the gold we saw into our bags. mean while the other guy , Hunter , was giving us cover from behind. Suddenly my wireless earphone received a message which said " This is Eagle. Be ware, we have company, Two S.W.A.T. vehicles headed ur way. expected medium resistance" "roger that" i replied and let other know the message. "leave them to me." Hunter said and ran towards the window headed to the main roadway. we were nearly done when we heard gunfire. "speak of the devil!" Ghost said sarcastically. And within moments we took all of it and were about to run away. Ghost called through his headset and said "Eagle, report in. This is Ghost. Prepare get away". We quicky headed towards the backdoor which was mainly used by maintainance workers. We saw two S.W.A.T combatants sneak up on us from that same way. They fired and we being aware of them, quicky took cover, and aimed. And shot thier black hemlets red. we went through the hall way and entered the parking lot. Where we realised there were more of them. Nearly a dozen. They all started firing at us together. We were clearly outnumbered , but were not out if ideas. I spotted a forklift just besides which they use to pile up the gold. we kept the bags of gold there and Ghost climbed into the driver seat and i anyhow got up behin him. "Drive!" i shouted. He did as said, He put up the fork and the gold acted as a protection from those bullets, and we headed straight towards those police men and rammed thier human blockade. Meanwhile i unpinned a grenade and threw it behind. which blew all of them to pieces. "plenty of lead along gold huh!" Ghost said smiling. We took a turn and headed to where our broken van was, and saw that by that time 4 truck load of tactical police have reached. And Hunter already took down two dozens of men alone. "Tough guy" i said. as we drove besides him. "Didnt think you would survive alone. Sad thing we have to divide the money in four after all " i joked. " if you mock me one more time i ll make sure we divide that in three" he said laughing. we held those police men pretty nicely and shot down each of them like popping balloons in a carnival. Suddenly a monotonous and loud sound came. And Ghost moaned in disgust and said "Shit! I hate choppers!". "Hunter. Hunt that bird down! we ll cover you" "as u please brother!" he said and grabbed his sniper rifle and was about to shoot the pilot when suddenly an rocket hit the helicopter out of nowhere and annihilated it. "Don't make me wait Daam it!!" screamed Eagle. we slowly advanced forward. since the get away van was on the other side. Hunter could see Eagle sticking his upper portion of the body out of the window and a RPG in the hand. I realised more police forces have arrived. we needed a decoy. I signalled Hunter and Ghost to move forward and i ran towards a cosmetics store nearby with n empty bag. I got the attention of the police as i expected, and they quicky turned the fire on me. i dodged bullets and and kept my head down as well as popped some of those cops. But thet were too many!. I grabbed hold of some perfume bottles and threw them at the cops n when they were abt to hit the ground , fired at them. They exploded and many of those police men were caught in fire. Other officers stopped the firing on me and started putting off the fire upon thier fellow mates. That was my chance. I sprang out in action kicking out two of the cops out, breaking the glass showcase and killed the rest of them with their own automatic rifles. And headed out. My team was nowhere. And more police came and Fired at me. I took cover behind an destroyed police van and shot them. Killing them one by one. But that wasnt enough. I was going to run out of ammo within few minutes. Just when i thought of me spending the rest of my time spending in jail, suddenly n SUV came from nowhere and crushed all the cops beneath it and stood besides me. "you owe me 5 cents remeber? so cant let you die" Ghost said and pulled me up inside. We drove fast cutting through the sideways and nearly any opening we could find, When another goddamned helicopter started tailing us. "Leave this one to me" said Hunter, picking up his sniper rifle and aimed at the chopper from the window. That Helicopter was armed with heat seekeing missiles! As the helicopter loaded the missles and got ready to fire. The missles were petty much exposed. Hunter shot the missle directly twice and BOOM!! The helicopter exploded to bits by its own missle's explosion. "The bird has been hunted!" Hunter said and went back in. "Hell yeah!" i screamed in joy and we went nearly unnoticed, and headed back to our base. Our secret hideout was jst an underground base below the junkyard, yeah thats our 'official' work place. And no one could suspect us that way. we drove to our base and movedbin as those piles of junk slid open ans revealed a secret door after scanning us. We dumped the var into the crusher and then went inside. We moved down through the lift and i jst dreamt of the gold that we snatched while watching the white floor passing by as we moved down. We reached and i told Ghost whats the status over media. He went into his room fetched his laptop and started scribbling with the keyboard. Well, he being our technical guy , does that very well. "Not- even- a-scratch!" he said turning over the laptop screen towards me. I saw that neither those police hunting us, nor the government had any idea from where we hit and how we hit. They investigated that black van we crashed only to find out that it was jst an ice cream truck painted black. We laughed "Bunch of fools! hah!!" Hunter said polishing his barret sniper. "Still. That chopper nearly got our ass" I said. "Oh my cute little baby! are y scared? let me sing a lullaby come one baby! " Hunter mocked me and every thre of them started laughing. "Whatevr, jst get gold converted to green " i said and went to sleep. God that was a hell of a sleep. Before Sleeping as i got fresh, I looked at my wounds, Bullet marks on my left shoulder, knife stabbings on my lower abdomen, plenty of stiches all tge way from the collar bone to right chest. Just to remember what the world did to us 20 years back, and just to remember this world needs to pay back for what the do to the weak.

Ch 2 :- THE DARK SUNSHINE

"Bro just get your lazy ass up!. look what we did hahah!" Eagle shook me awake and i woke up only to see the big black bold news headlines on T.V. which said "SILVER CROSS HITS AGAIN. STASHING A COMPLETE 42 BILLION WORTH OF GOLD"

"well. atleast they counted that for us." i said scratching my head and yawning. "Lets have some coffee. Coz as i see Shadow. He might sleep his way to the cafè anyway " Ghost said while surfing through his phone. We went out and reached the cafè. And looking at the atmosphere and weather, it didn't seem like a bank was looted the day before. I mean. I wonder how everything becomes so silent, as uf nothing has even happned. I was brought back from my thoughts as the waiter said "sir, your coffee" "Oh i see..thanks a lot " I replied back. Suddenly Hunter grinned at me and said "Ooh , Shadow seems to be lost in someones thought...Is that the female cashier of the bank we looted yesterday? Oh i see shadow's in love! hah hah hah" he mocked me again and Ghost and Eagle both started poking me with thier elbow and chanted "OOOOOHH SHADOWS GNA BE A DAD SOON" "Go get a life man. I was just--- just looking outside.. . NOTHING ELSE!!". But as you know. They kept mocking me until we finished our coffee. But suddenly i Saw Hunter's face become serious and his etes showed extreme greed and wish to kill for money, as he looked into the T.V. hung on the ceiling.

"I dnt know wether shadows in love or not..But i am surely in love with this" Hunter got all of our attention towards the T.V. screen. It showed that a prince is visiting England to meet the Queen, from Saudi Arab. And probably will be dealing money for oil , i guess. "Are you seeing what i am seeing Shadow?" Ghost gave a smile at me n said, and i replied. "MONEY!".

The next moment i knew, we were sitting in a table preparing for the heist. which was not supposed to be an easy one. Because the National guard has been appointed the protection of that rich kid. And breaking in a ten storied building with bullet proof glass and radar system , surrounded with barricades and highly equipped troops n army, isn't something which is to be considered a child's play, And it has emergency lockdown systems installed in every floor. Ghost's intel never fail to amaze me and sometimes scare me as well. After seeing the amount of protection, we really needed an interior view of the whold building to get a proper idea of what were were into. They had network jammers so even if we break in we won't be having to contact to call for evac. "Ghost. I have a plan" i said after puttong my cigar down.

The very next day was the day when the prince was escorted to his ten storied 'castle of bulletproof glass'

we blended in amidst the crowd and then started finding any stragglers. Eagle and Ghost were in the base using one of the hacked sattelites for monitoring us, and keeping us aware of the snipers present all around the city block keeping n eye on the escorts and the billionaire. Suddenly we saw two of the guards who just took off a break and exchange duties, and went for the washroom. We slowly sneaked up on them and realised they haulted over some ice cream parlour. "Well..looks nice to see their brains aren't eaten out by the bureaucrats, and they still give priority to thier hunger rather than thier job, almost made me spare them. But you know , can't make the scene if u dont have the green! We reached the Washroom before them and saw no one was there. we quickly fixed a sleeping gas can pinned to the flush. Whenevr they come and pull the flash, bam! They are both sleeping beauties. the came in and we pretended to be the janitors, as wearing the junkyard uniform would surely make us look like one. The entered both the washrooms and guess what. They didnt even need a lullaby to sleep. We saw as the gas started flowing out of the gaps from beneatg the door. Me and hunter entered and then disguised as the guards and kept the bodies hidden as we dragged them out in black polythene bags and dumped them in the sewers. Thank god no one saw us. "Ughh! ugly smell of those cops. This one surely hasn't taken a bath for years!". Hunter complained as we joined the parading escorts n releived two other guards. After a while we entered the building. Man that was a hell of a place to live. I mean. Sudveillanve cameras everywhere. Not an inch where the control room has an eye. Laser detectors in the main vaults. "Hunter. investigate the main power supplies and i ll try to find any flaws in thier security system." he agreed and we separated. I headed to the main control room pretending to inspect all, n was aslo followed by 4 more guards. Blowing my cover will make me loose my life at this moment. " This is Brad over secure channel to Command. Team E 6 , Do a security checkup of the surveillance cameras. over " i heard as one of ours headsets rang out. Well it was us. We were told to check the cameras for any flaws well I guess he morning coffee really got me lucky. We reched the main control room on the 7 th floor. And the lift won't go up any further. I wondered why. Anyway we reached the control room and my bad. I realised even if whe shoot down the cameras they'll ring an alarm, and no way we can escape the cameras plus theres an armory where dozens of soldiers are always prepared for action. And that armory had some serious weapons. Including homing missiles. We all went back and then when everything was settled we got out as discreetly as we went in and i headed back to our base by stealing a random car parked nearby, but far enough not to be seen by anyone, and headed back to base.

We , four of us sat down around the table and started discussing about what we found out.

" What did u find Hunter" I asked. "Those assholes were pretty smart. They made some fake vaults whuch we saw , and they were not the real vaults, only kept for fooling robbers. I checked on the main supplies and found out that they keep pretty much of electricity and generators there. An explosion there can cause the whole goddamn building to fall down like a broken popsicle" Hunter said. "What about you shadow? You had any luck?" he asked. "Nope, Those security cameras have been triggeed with an alarm system. Any interference would cause the alarm to ring. But what i could estimate was the main vault is somewhere within the 7th to 10th floor. since there are no lifts on this portion. Hats where the actual invisble laser net is there. U step on one and the whole place gets locked down in no time. ". I ended. Ghost listened to all and mumbled "This is gonna be pretty hard. We need something big! To stash al the cash, blow up the building and get out of there in short time, because no matter how powerful we get we cant take on that amount of soldiers who are trained mercenaries. "Well. I think i have a plan...." i said "but. Its crazy enough to make us the richest, and dangerous enough to make us die in an bulletproof glass grave".

Ch3:- CASTLE OF GLASS

"Are You CRAZY! Do you want to kill us all? This is not an action shooter game dammit! This is for real" Hunter screamed at me. "I---- I--uhh--I mean who DOES THAT!" " Who does what?" Ghost asked. "Are you siding up with him! I mean. Did you even listen to his plan!. He plans to ram that building some where near 8th floor with a goddamn plane! And where are we gonna get a safety capsule! " he screamed like a maniac. "well bullets dnt work so. We could use something big.". i said casually, and didnt even bother ed about Hunter's screaming. "Well we would steal a safety capsule which is used ain racing cars and racing boats and then we steal some of the chained suits from the forest department which they use in case of bear attacks, we modify them to be somewhat bullet proof, which i think ghost and eagle can manage to do, and then one last step, steal a small plane from the airport and some parachutes, paint it black and fly at a low altitude and fix the radar jamming system we stole a year earlier from the nearby military base and then jst modify the engine to make a little noise or no noise at all and then we go! we hit the building!" i ended. "after that? a while armada of mercenaries will be on our tail. what about that huh smarty pants?" Hunter asked . "Well seeing the fire upstairs they'll hurry upstairs leaving behind less resistance below. Then any three of us will have an open window to enter that building and then fix some C4 explosives on the main generators. We ll be able to hold them off pretty much until we are done. Then we can simply cut of the elevator and let thise soldiers use the mantainance stairs and come mean while any before the cops come upstairs , The three of us below will flank the upcoming cops from behind and finish them off and when we all get upstairs we'll detonate the building and just before that we will hijack the billionares helicopter to flee , and even if we are shot down, grab the money and jump out and escape using the parachutes so it ll be all planned." I ended. And then suddenly Ghost spoke up "well, considering your observations your plan might work but---" all of a sudden Hunter interrupted "BUT.. MAYBE WE WILL ALL DIE!" and moved around frantically. "uggh, i was gna ask, who's gonna be in that plane?" he completed. "since i came up with the plan i ll be the one in the plane! cant risk any of you for my stupid plan, am i right Hunter?" I said with a smile. Hunter let a sigh. "you nevr fail to amaze me do you shadow? huh?". Good thing he agreed finally and then Eagle, who was sitting like a statue hearing us all spoke up "so, when do we start preparing?" , i replied lighting my cigar "NOW!". We split up our works. Ghost and Hunter decided to fetch the safety capsule and bear suit from a nearby racing arena and forest department respectively , mean while me and Eagle would go for the plane. Later on we will meet at a rendezvous point, that is an abandoned park deep in the woods named 'Rosewoods park' which was small enough to stay hidden and big enough for landing a plane. After we meet we'll wait few days monitoring the building while Ghost and Eagle make the required upgrades. And then we would hit the Jackpot.

Me and Eagle packed our bags and went for the airport. "Shadow are you sure you want to do this"

"yes. I am Damn sure". i said while we were in the taxi and headed towards the airport. We reached in a while, and got down. Paid the driver and headed inside. But we couldn't go in there just like that. We had to apply the same strategy we used for entering the 10 storied Building. We saw a janitors truck moving around and was just about to leave. We quicky moved towards it and all the people seemed busy so no one bothered about it much. We stopped the truck and i went to the front door and asked " hey hey! i left one of my tickets on the table and it must have been carried to here. may i check?". "Sure. but be careful" said the man. And as ge got down he didn't see Ghost hiding just besides him and Ghost hit em in the head with a wooden stick and knovked him out. we gave a sedative to him so he sleeps for his next four hours and then both dressed up as the janitor. "Eagle. You keep the van outside in case things dont go as planned. And prepare a nice evacuation. I ll be the one stealing the plane. Mean while you keep the guards busy and off my tail. And when u see the plane flying just get out of here and return to base. And we will meet as planned." i said. Eagle nodded his head and we slowly entered through the maintainence access. We were walking past a dark hallway keeping a low profile when suddenly we heard a noise. Someone was coming towards us. "Eagle. let me do the talking" i said. It was the senior janitor. "what are you two doing here?" he asked while being amazed. "Well, were just hired and some one called us in the bathroom. Saying someone has beem vomitting all the way from the bathroom to the waiting room" i said and anyhow bypassed the guard. "oooh, that was close " Eagle said. We walked past the corridors and finally got up at the fueling station. "Shadow, theres a back yard jest behind the airport. They keep the spare planes which are out of service or need to be upgraded. you can try that. There aint any guarfs as well. We have to just pass through this door and these pair of guards" he said. "Okay then, you talk shit with these guards and i ll make my way" i said. Eagle smiled. Amd suddenly started acting like as if he was in hangover. "Hi handsome, wanna share a bed with me babe?" he walked like a lunatic and collided with one of the guards "mister--- ugh.. hold yoursef!" the guard moaned and the other guard tried to pick Eagle up. I mean Eagle should seriously be nominated for an Oscar. "kiss me baby, kiss me where i want you to, this night is ours!" Eagle hugged one of the guards like an octopus and wouldn't let go. The other guard couldn't hold his laughter , neither could i, but i had ro get to work. Mean while the other guarf was busy tugging Eagle off the other guard and called medic for assistance. I slowly snuck up behind them and entered the path leading to backyard. after a minutes walk i reached there. And found just what i needed. An Old plane having a frong propellor just like those P51 mustang during worldwar II. I quicky got up thw plane breaking the lock, but unfortunately , two of the other janitors saw me. I broke the dash board and just like hijacking a car hay wired the cables and sparked the engine up. Those janitors came to stop me "Hey mister, you are not authorised to------" before he could end i shot him and his mate both in the head with my supressed pistol and started to move. More guards saw the deadbodies and started firing at the plane. Soon the whole place was going to be alerted. I aimed and shot other four guards down as the ran behind the running plane. But the goddamn plane wont pick up the pace. Soon police cars arrived behind and started firing, and announcing me to stop. I anyhow made it to the runway and the plane still hasnt got an inch in air. Gunshots kept coming from behind. I shot them as well but aiming at that speed wasnt really possible. I expected the alarm of the airport to ring but to my surprise. Nothing happned. Even the lights were out!. Well good for me. I raced the plane besides the police cars and then prayed that the plane would fly. "come on come on! " i screamed and pulled the throttle. The runway was about to end, when suddenly i just realised a rocket missed me by an inch. "Shit! what the----" i looked behind and saw one of the cops with an RPG. My heartbeat was getting faster every moment. Another Rocket! just missed me. And i gave my final push to bring that plane in air and hoped it wouldnt crash straight to the airport fence but i realised i was gonna crash, so i closed my eyes and waited. Waited for that explosion, for my life to end in a fiery grave. But to my surprise none of that happned, i missed the fence by an inch but the plane was in the air. I screamed in joy and started flying away. later on a message came on my wireless headset "did u like when the lights went off?" "Eagle? YOU did that!" i said in surprise. "hell yeah bro. see you are nothing without us haha he said. "Well i could have handled on my own but, it help was impressive" I said. "YOU nevr let go of your ego right. heh?" he said. "naah bro!! habituated" I said and flew away. As planned we three were supposed to meet on rosewood park. But since I was up high seeing them was nearly impossible. So i just hoped everything went right. So after a twenty minutes of flight i finally could see that patch in the middle of the deep forest. Where I was supposed to land. I slowly brought up the throttle and slowed down. used the flaps as air brakes and slowly landed. Within few minutes of circling around and making sure we weren't followed. I slowly went near ground, and as soon as I touched down the plane shook a bit. That park was not that of a plane ground so. I had to manage but anyhow i managed to bring down the plane in one piece. I aimed my pistol out and climbed down the plane. Suddenly three guys showed up and as expected they were here, by a large truck with a container parked besides them. "Thank god we moved aside. don't trust your flying " Ghost joked. "yea lucky you. You wait for the next time. Your empty head will be a perfect runway for my plane" I answered and we smiled and shook hands. "Here's our part of groceries" Hunter pointed at the truck and said. "You got em all?" I asked in surprise. They nodded thier head. "Just Hunter popped one of the workers. That's all." Ghost sarcastically said. "What? he was in my way? and where the hell would i bring my driving licence to show that guy? I had no options" Hunter explained himself. I let a sigh of relief that atleast upto now every thing went as planned. So Ghost took a closer look at the plane and looked at me as if i have eaten his favourite chocolate bar. "SERIOUSLY? you didn't find anything better than this?" he said. "YOU go fetch yourselves then" i said. He smirked and said "well. This will still do. just gota have few days work on this bird". So the container and truck Ghost brought basically had all the equipments he needed. And so we camped there and did what we were supposed to do. Ghost had an infinite stamina and worked day and night and we couldn't sleep for the sound of the metal scrapping, grinding and bending etc. We slept i rotations. And kept our guard up. For any tresspassers. I sat down on the green grass and just was watching those butterflies fly around so freely. I just felt that even after being so fragile. Those insects or creation of nature doesn't have any oppressors. Unlike us humans. So full of conspiracies , so full of greed, so busy, so concerned about money. And then , at night when we were all together sitting under a tree eating our dinner. Eagle's eyes suddenly sobbed. "just like old days isn't it? Remember when mother mary used to cook food for us during our summer picnics and we all used to eat" "Yea, just like old times. I still have the taste of her handmade cookies in my mouth. I miss her " Ghost said " we all do" i added. "Not a single day goes by i dnt remember what these people did to her. I ll avenge her at all costs. I ll take that thing from all people which make them mad and even decide to die. MONEY. and if the wanna die, they ll die" Hunter said crunching a piece of a twig. I smiled and then we all had our dinner . And slept under the beautiful night sky which looked like a black velvet cloth ornamented with diamonds and moon shined like a sapphire.

Within three to foud days we were nearly done and Ghost ended with the final hit of his hammer on the titatnium alloy wing of the plane. "here i present you, the angry granny!" Ghost said as he showed us the masterpiece turned out from a junk plane. It had that black glossy look with lubricated propellors for minimum sound and a upgraded engine of a V12 racecar along with a turbo charger. The dashboard was replaced with emergency eject mechanism and radar jamming systems. The propellor had an EMP warhead fixed on the nose which would activate on impact. The air flaps were smoothened and the texture of the plane turned more aero dynamic. One 40 cal. cannon in front just in case anyone gives us company. A safety capsule just behind cockpit strong enough to withstand a collapsing building. It was magnificent. "Wait, heres more!" he said and took us to the trailer. There were four suits kept colired matt black with metal black finished helmets. "These are inferno suits. Made up of strong fibre glass hull armor and suit made up of carbon fibre silk, titanium iron alloy made armor plating , light but strong. Hydraulic spring system in case you need to run a little bit faster than marathon runners and and jump a little bit higher than a kangaroo , inbuilt pistol carrier and rifle hoistler. Insulated cloth material for avoiding thermal vision, And most of all these bullet proof helmets and suits come with an infraray vision as well as night vision. So hows it!" Ghost asked crossing his arms. He looked like some wrangler student just answered a question in the board , "Magni-----" "--ficent!!" Hunter completed. "You ARE hell of a GENIUS GHOST!" Hunter said in excitement.

We decided not to waste a single moment. We wore those suits and ran a bit and exercised to get hold of the suits functioning. We ran like wind and jumped as if on a trampoline. The Hydraulics made carrying heavy guns easier for us, and the helmet did fit nicely. Those inderno suits were really standing up to thier names. So the grand night arrived. We waited, waited, it was 12: 45 am , two of us were just oiling up the propellor of the plane and ghost insttycting instructing me how to fly and the other features, When Eagle said, "guys, we can do it. And if we don't, it was an honour to be a part of this. All hail Silver Cross!!". "Don't act like churchill please, we need some optimism here!" Hunter said. "Nope, We need to get this DONE!" I said. Ghost kept a hand on my shoulders and said "Guys, its not how big the stick is , what matters is who's using it. So no matter even if i give you the world's best suit. Its upto us , our teamwork, our will to succeed so we'll do it at any cost!" "YEAAAHH" we all gave an high five. And i wore the suit, and gradually climbed up the plane. Ghost, Hunter and Eagle waved me. I wished them good luck and vise versa. They got into the truck and went away. I was supposed to take off within 5 minutes, when they signal me to. I looked at my watch and counted. Those 5 minutes were the silence before the storm. Those 5 minutes, I realised, how time works differently and how 5 minutes can pass within few seconds.

CH 4: RIGHT TURN'S LEFT

The sound of the engine of the plane filled my ears as i started the engine and gradually became silent. My friends were already on thier way. The plane moved and slowly took up speed. I encircled the whole field in order to pick up some speed and realised Ghost had done some pretty good work with suspension as well, since the jerking was way less than before. The tires spun faster, the plane picked up speed, just few moments for takeoff, few moments to commence what seemed impossible, few moments left to risk our lives over money. The plane lifted its nose, and followed by its body, in mere moments i was in air. The hatch was open, the cool breeze gave me a pretty good hairstyle, which would surely be wasted the moment i wear the helmet of our suit. I thought and laughed at myself and turmed the plane towards the building, gradually increasing the speed, and the more speed i acquired the more silent the planes engines became, advantage for me,

i looked below and just thought how clueless these people were, busy in thier own work, don't even realising the big crash going to happen within few minutes, didn't even realising one of the member or silver cross, which they fear to death, is just flying above them, so naive. Soon the building was visible to my eyes. There were no lights. exept on the helipad above and somewhere near the middle, near 6th od 7th floor and rest was dark. I wore my helmet , and increased the speed of the plane as much as i could, i closed the hatch of the plane for less drag, but could still feel the turbulence. Each and every passing second the plane was getting closer , closer, and closer, now the whole building was visible for me, Crystal clear, "Ghost, you guys better be ready, 20 seconds for impact!" i signalled them. "Yep we are. Let the bird hit the cage" they replied. I left the plane and fixed the handle in a stable position so the plane hits where it is supposed to, i quickly headed back behind the seat where the safety capsule was kept, and got inside then locked myself up. And waited. 10 seconds..5 seconds..3 seconds. suddenly the time felt slowing down, and i realised, and suddenly felt like something was going to happen which was not supposed to, as if my sixth sense worked, will it be my demise? well, i dont care!

within a second i felt the plane crash inside with a huge explosion and a massive jerk. I slammed head on the inner walls of the capsule i was in, thanks to the helmet my head was in working state, and the planes wings got torn apart like paper and the bulletproof glass shattered like a piece of china dish falling on the ground, the plane kept sliding , since it was really at a very high speed, and was dragged all the way deep inside the building smashing doors and walls everything on its way until that plane was nothing but a piece of shredded metal, and the capsule got tossed inside like a tennis ball and rolled. I felt like i was inside a barrel which was thrown from a cliff as i rolled with the capsule, and finally the capsule smashed a wall or two and the finally stopped. I kicked open the door and felt my head spinning, but soon caught myself up, and looked behind only to see a long gaping hole framed with shattered glass and debris, and of course the plane's remains. Their signal was jammed since the propellor of the plane was strong enough to withstand the impact and kept the signal jammer functioning within it so thier emergency lockdown mechanism wouldnt count. I quicky hurried down and put some C4 explosives on the lift, and then again hurried up and went straight towards the room where that rich kid lives. While i was climbing up the billionare by mistake ran into me, and as soon as he saw me tried to back off and headed back up. Too late. I shot one of his legs, and before he could use his phone, which surely had no network, i shot his hand along with the phone. "Please, Leave me, I beg you!!" he pleaded. "Wheres the vault? answer me in exchange of your life" He handed me a key card and gave me directions towards the vault. I picked that billionaire up and locked him inside that safety capsule i used to break in and locked it from outside.

Suddenly the whole place rang up with sirens, and sounds of helicopters nearing our location. Police force , S.W.A.T. teams, tacticals, and even army was deployed here, and special forces too! There were so many that even upto 8th floor i could hear the sirens. I hurried up towards the vault and opened the vault. Which looked like a blast door we see in science fiction movies. Well, atleast this time i could open the vault in a rather tidy way, which i am not used to so after bringing out the money i left a surprise for the cops when the find this vault within the rubble, surely this vault would even sustain an atomic bomb it seemed, so i kept few of my left over C4 bombs inside and plugged the trigger mechanism from inside so whoever opens the vault within 4 hours, well, they 'll be fried. Suddenly The helicopter showed up from the gaping hole which i made and announced me to surrender or they 'll kill me. I showed them a nice iron middle finger wearing the suit and then brought a barrage of shelling upon myself. Which i apparently had to dodge. Many foot soldiers were supposed to climb up by now. I wished my guys were okay, to be more specific, the amount of force we were facing, i would be just glad if they make upto here, ALIVE. Speak of the devil. The door was kicked open by those police and we had a serious fire fight. Having the cops within range of fire the chopper stopped firing, good for me. I started shooting at them and charged at them with a broken door as a shield, taking all the bullets and rammed them hard, but they were too strong, and were reinforcing themselves making human chains, few of the front line backed off and fell but the backline troops pushed me hard and tossed me back, I stood up again and shot at thier heads and killed them but they kept coming. They shot me and i tried to dodge as many bullets i could but few hit me, which was no big deal. Atleast i know the suit was reliable thanks to the cops. I used the smoke and dust caused by firing as cover and put them to permanent sleep by breaking thier necks. I did a wall run and kicked ine of them down and then grabbed his shotgun in one hand and my assault rifle in another hand and spread my arms in opposite directions making my body look like a "T" and shot from both sides so the recoil of both the guns balance themselves without throwing me down, and spun randomly and shot out those guards, one by one, sometimes two at a time, now there were only seven of them remaining out of fifty. Those deadbodies were making it hard to move both for me and them. we kept our fire on each other and started shooting, one bullet just brushed past my visor of helmet and i realised it was from the helicopter. It was to be taken care of first. I reloaded my gun while in cover and then sprang out and hit one of them with the back of my gun as he was trying to flank me, and used him as a human sheild and shot the pilot of the helicopter. The helicopter went down crashing, and breaking down while hitting the building. The whole building shook. I was getting out of ammo , so i thought of grabbing a gun from the dead cops. As i reached out my hands for them one of the cops held my arm and pulled me, slamming me against the wall and another dude held my other arm, and i was completely immobile. There was nothing i could do, Then two of them stood at front aiming at me ,both with shotguns and just before they fired i kicked one of those cop's knees who were holding me and brought his face before my body and just slid past pushing the other cop , and that cop's face burst like a watermelom being smashed by a baseball being hit with two 12 guage shotgun shell and then spun that other guard holding me and broke his arm and pierced his own pistol into his neck , my whole suit was soaked in blood, but suddenly i felt a sudden force push me from behind and i flew and slammed against a wall. Those two hit me , one missed but one got me at point blank. My armor was nearly shredded, and some of the fragments of the bullet pierced through the armor to my skin. I was bleeding. That just made me more angry. i grabbed both of them by ther guns and then hit them on the knees and they were on the verge of collapsing while i broke ine of them's neck and threw another off the building, but suddenly more helicopters came and started firing at me. Too bad due to the severe injury i could not dodge this time. The 50 cal. shells hit my chest armor and pierced all the way through my shoulders, and i got slammed back against the wall again and collapsed. Now both front and back of my armor was no longer intact. They were ripped apart. And i could barely move my shoulder. I got rid of the armor and anyhow crawled up to a cover. The bullets may not have hit me directly , but just entered the first layer of my skin, since nearly half of those bullets were inside me , and some had gone inside breaking my ribs but not further deep, but the impact surely broke more than one of my ribs. I used a scrap metal to take out the bullets which stuck like thorns. Pain shot up my whole body and i screamed in pain. I brought a sedative which works like a pain killer, for the billionaire so we could torture him and leave without him feeling any pain and die after we were done. I used half of that sedative on me, and waited. There were still four troops left, they were scared and didn't move thinking i wasn't dead and waited for back up. within few minutes my body got rid of enough pain for me to stand up but i knew i needed immidiete medical assistance in order to use the money i am stealing, i was loosing more blood every passing second. i got my gun and fired at those choppers. But could not aim since there were two of them and immense light was blinding me along with thier heavy barrages. I peeked and saw they were taking out rockets, no wall can sustain that , so i guessed that was my last day on earth, no way i could escape from the stiars as i head more troops hurrying up. Just when i was counting my last seconds, and the helicopter was about to shoot, and sound of rocket came "Swoooshh!!" and i realised i would be dead by any instant. But to my surprise those two helicopters crashed as if two flies hit with pest control spray. I looked behind and to my surprise saw Ghost and Hunter with two rocket launchers , and eagle with a shotgun and those four cops were dead meat. I walked out like an old man with no stick, and then said "what took you so long dammit" "woaah shadow? you nearly killed 50 of them and shot down a chopper? you really are tough! but dead without us!! heh!" Hunter said in us usual sarcastic voice and i led him to the money and they went ti the helipad. "more troops coming! hurry" Eagle said. "I habe a surprise for them!" i said and pressed the detonator and the whole lift exploded along with some floors with it. The building shook and trembled a bit. "The charges are ready at the basement?" i asked "yes" they said. Mean while when the lift blew off a whole piece of wall was torn apart along with it revealing a small mantainance bridge and someone was lying dead there, some one i felt like i knew, some one for which it was all about. While Others stacked up the gold , i kept staring at it. Suddenly my pain went away, and i had an urge to save that person, at cost, as if God has given me a second chance. And i only had one right turn left