5 Prep Day

3 days later, Frances finally gets a text from Florida A.I.U to come over to make a plan. She put on a suit and tie and drove over to the building.

Once Frances gets to the office, Mike tells her to follow him into a meeting room with a bunch of other staff, including Maxy.

Frances takes a seat and the plan is about to be organized.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen," Mike said. "Now that we have Frances with us we can finally start planning out things."

Mike takes out a drawing board and starts to sketch out instructions. His hands were moving as fast as he was talking. He sounded like he really knew what he was talking about. Frances has to make sure he heard every word he said, especially since most of the instructions were for her.

The plan was pretty straight forward. Frances and other secret agents would go undercover and pretend that they would be attending the party like the other guests. Then, they will try to find James while he is alone and force him and the company he works for into deleting the files with the personal data.

At the end of discussing everything, Mike looked up and said;

"Okay, so obviously this plan is going to take a lot of time and skill. So, in order to prep all of you, we will assign you all practices to attend to every day." Mike said. "If we mess up even once, the whole mission is ruined," Mike added, looking at Frances.

"Any questions?" Mike added again.

Someone raised their hand.

"What is the prep for? We are literally just shoving a gun in his face." He said.

"The possibilities are endless." Mike replied. "Anymore questions?"

The room was silent.

"Good," Mike breathed. "All of you start Monday morning at 12 PM. I don't want to see any of you late or absent. You are all free to leave now."

Everyone in the room got up and gathered their things. Frances was nervous about the whole mission but she was also determined and confident. She left the room and Maxy followed behind her.

"Hey, you nervous?" Maxy taunted.

"Nah, I ain't nervous." Frances snapped back. "What the hell I got to be nervous about?"

"I don't know," Maxy added. "Maybe all of the gunfighting and the recklessness..."

"That don't scare me." Frances huffed.

"Okay, we'll see you at prep." Maxy grinned as she walked past Frances.

Frances stopped for a second, then kept walking.

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On Monday, it was finally the day for prep. There was no dress code so Frances wore her usual suit and tie. She also brought a gun, just in case.

Once Frances got there, she had to rush to the elevator and went to the lowest floor. On that floor, the entire team was standing in the room, putting on something.

"Frances!" Yelled Mike. "You made it."

"Yeah, what's going on?" Frances asked.

"We are doing a mini-preparation," Mike answered. "You will put an earpiece that has a mini walkie talkie inside. Your assistant, Maxy, will give you directions on where to go to get to the other side of the obstacle to get a stack of $500. She will also to you where to look out because there are going to be others protecting the money. So they will "shoot" at you" Mike instructed.

"So my goal is to listen to her and get the money without getting shot?" Frances asked.

"Yep," Mike answered. "And you're up first."

"Alright." Frances breathed.

Frances put on the earpiece and grabbed a fake gun, even though she had a real one in her suit, and a fake bomb, which was actually a smoke bomb. Maxy started to test if it worked.

"Testing, testing, 1 2 3," Maxy said.

"I hear you." Frances said.

Frances took a look at the whole obstacle and it looked almost chaotic. There was no way the actual mission was going to actually look like this.

Mike gave a signal for everyone to start. Frances dashed through the opening and it was time to start.

"Make a left, then make the next right." Maxy directed. Frances followed as she was the one who was going to get her out of the mess.

Frances ran through the pathways, looking to see if anyone was there.

"Watch out, someone spotted you." Maxy exclaimed.

All of a sudden after she said that, fake bullets started flying at Frances. She quickly took cover on a wall nearby. Frances shot back at the "protectors" and got one person out, but there were still plenty left.

"Okay, now, go straight ahead and make a right." Maxy directed again.

It didn't take long before Frances figures out how was going to do it. She figured she had to take out three more enemies before she could make a move.

Frances swiftly peeked from her shot three bullets, only hitting two the enemies. The other one relocated, so he wasn't a threat at the moment.

Frances quickly moved the directions she was told, took cover, then waited for new ones.

"Okay now, go right then straight ahead then there's the money." Maxy said.

There were two more enemies left in the area and they were firing bullets left and right. She knew she couldn't move without getting shot. Then she remembered the smoke bomb.

Frances grabbed the smoke bomb from her pocket and threw it at them, hitting both of them before they could get out of the way. They both were now out.

There were still bullets flying at Frances, but she saw the last man pretty quickly. She easily shot the man and he was out. She continued the obstacle and grabbed the money, make her the winner.

Everyone in the room clapped for her.

"Congratulations, Frances!" Mike cheered. "You made it to stage 2."

"There's more stages?" Frances sighed.

"Yep, this is a really big deal. Please have a seat over there." Mike answered.

Frances headed towards the bench and the next set of people were going up next.

Maxy came over to the bench with Frances and sat next to her, patting her back.

"We did it, aren't you happy?" She said.

"I don't even know how I feel right now." Frances breathed.

"I'm pretty sure stage 2 is a little better." Maxy grinned.

"I don't give a fuck about a damn stage 2." Frances muttered.