Heist

Jenny started running towards the edge of the balcony, screaming at Brad's limp body, "BRAD! BRAD! BRAD! NO!!!" Jenny screamed incoherent words as Imam signaled two guards to restrain her.

"Calm down, Jenny what's wrong?" Imam asked very innocently, as he did not know that her crewmate was lying limp on the ground below. Although he wasn't completely oblivious to the fact that the limp gladiator man was a 'Teran'.

He asked "Do you know that Terran, the one on the ground?" Jenny didn't reply.

Imam barely managed to keep himself calm, while Jenny still didn't pay attention to anything coming out of Imam's mouth.

John was still in shock but he knew he only had so long to gain information, "WESLEY!? ARE YOU OKAY WHAT HAPPENED!?" John's words were also muffled by the sounds of the crowd, and by the fact that they were higher up, further from the main fighting ring.

John kept shouting, trying to reach Wesley with his words and his whole soul. Jenny still kept struggling, but John did not get restrained, as he was in shock and wasn't even processing any grief, let alone screaming.

John turned to Imam, who was clearly puzzled, "What happens to these -uhh- gladiators, I mean where do they go after the fights?!"

Imam looked even more puzzled, "Well, they normally go to cells down there." Imam pointed, "Why do you care? Also, what's wrong with Jenny, I haven't seen her like this before… Is she okay?"

John didn't know how Imam could be so oblivious as to ask "Is she okay?" but he tried to quickly move away from the subject, "Just send her to her room or something she'll be fine." By the time John realized how big of a mistake this was she had already been taken out the door.

Around five minutes later Imam asked, "So what was that all about, John?"

John not wanting to give any information, started to simply say, "I don't know-"

But he was cut off by Imam, "Ooo, I can't wait for the next fight. It's Malik Aljahim, The destroyer!" Imam grinned, ear to ear.

It was a bloody and gruesome fight, and it was completely one-sided.

The man-creature held a sword so big, so thick, and so coarse you might just call it a slab of iron. The guts of the creature's opponents were splattered all over the creature's blade and it's own body.

John gagged in his mouth and thought to himself, "Maybe it's better Jenny didn't see this." He looked over at Imam, "You're enjoying watching this?"

Imam's face brightened up to a level of creepy John had never imagined. "YES! Wasn't Malik amazing!?" John feigned a smile barely able to still keep in the food from earlier.

John eventually was taken back to his room after collectively watching a few fights with Imam and around 300 other 'people'. John wasn't paying much attention to anything going on, and he had already partially blocked out of his memory, or at least tried not to remember, that Brad was the dead man on the ground.

"What was Wesley doing there anyways…" That was the last thing John thought before he was awoken by the realization that somebody was sobbing in the room next to him. "Snap out of it John!" John silently yelled to himself.

He knocked on the side of the wall several times and finally, Jenny's distraught voice responded, "Hello? Wh- Who's there?"

John's face changed to one of joy. "Jenny! Is that you? Put your ear to the wall." John began to whisper so that no one else could hear them.

"Do you think you can- " John's voice said,

"Yeah- Okay…" Jenny replied.

"I'll do the distraction, remember you can't get caught, Jenny." They needed information, and there was only one way to get it. They would have to steal it.

John began drawing a diagram of all the paths he knew of and coming up with several ideas to pass on to Jenny in the morning, they would swap information and execute the plan the day after tomorrow.

Both did the same thing, just as they had planned. John had a detailed map with more specifications but Jenny had been in different areas that might prove helpful.

John and Jenny woke up around the same time, 10-ish minutes before the guards would come to get them, "I'm going to make another copy of the map I made Jenny, you should do the same so that we can both have one."

The guards came knocking on the doors, much more politely than yesterday John thought. "Get up, get up, Imam wants to dine with you again." John and Jenny swapped papers as soon as they both were out of their rooms.

John was focused on the plan but he suddenly had another idea, he wrote on the paper, "Let's try to find Wesley too okay?" Jenny read the paper quickly and nodded with sparkles of tears filling her eyes. Tomorrow it would be time to execute the plan.

They swapped papers and got on with their day. They walked with the guards towards wherever Imam was taking them to eat today. It was seafood again... John gagged.

Nothing eventful happened that day.

[Tomorrow]

John and Jenny were woken up the same as they regularly are, knocking on the door and told to wake up several time. "Okay, okay... I'm getting up guard. Just give me 5 minutes."

John and Jenny whispered through the wall. "Ok, let's go over the plan one more time..." They made a few modifications to the plan and soon it would be time to execute the plan.

The map had a detailed layout of all of the paths they had been on and where any doors or entryways were thought to be, they would have to either be extremely fast or do something drastic to find any information. The second option was not one they had wanted to do. But it would be a lot easier in the first half of the plan.

They had made it to a long corridor, right past the colosseum, with no other guards or people around. John looked at Jenny and she nodded, it was time.

"Hey, guard, if you are gonna get that thing Imam mentioned isn't it this room?" John pointed to a door with a tag entitled "Majal Alghurfat 205" John purposefully stumbled over his words "The uh- uh- yeah the card? It should be in here"

John and Jenny were very lucky as the guard's eyes widened knowing that he was not paying much attention yesterday. The guard took his hand off of his weapon to open the door. "What- there's a 'card' in here…. Oh yeah, I didn't forget let me grab it real quick."

[In 'Majal Alghurfat 205']

"I hope this works." John grabbed a random item from a table and smashed it against the guard's head knocking him out. All the whilst Jenny was running through all of the surrounding rooms looking for any information that she could hide and take back to their rooms.

John covered his head with an alien type of hoodie and ran over to the Colosseum, searching for Wesley, but he was running out of time to search, it had already been five minutes.

He started running back. On his way running back he overheard a conversation about someone "Having a lot of potentials" and being a "Big money maker". John simply kept running.

"YES!" Jenny exclaimed quite loudly, at least in her mind she did. She found a map paired with a legend detailing every part of the ship, this was almost the best she could ask for.

John arrived shortly after, "Good job Jenny… I wasn't able to find him."

Jenny frowned, she can't decide whether she hates Wesley ,yet… "Ok now, how do we take care of this guy." Jenny asked worrily.

Jenny finally gave a more in depth look to the map. "Uhh... John, we can't read this... What are we going to do?"

John replied, "It's time for drastic measures."

John pulled out a knife that he had confiscated from the guard.