T H I R D

7 am, the time reads. As early as 7 am, the sound of gunshots were heard already. The prodigy's daughter starts the day with a target to shoot.

"I need to get more better at this." The certain sentence runs over again and again inside her mind. If she doesn't wanna fail, she has to straighten her aim and make her old man proud.

Too fixated on her target, she didn't notice Rade to come in their residence. Bullets after bullets were fired, numerous bullet casings were scattered all over the floor as well.

"Skipped school huh?" The sound of Rade's voice made her take off the ear muffs she's wearing.

"Had to. It's been a while since I last held a gun at mission. I don't wanna fail," Putting down the gun, reloading it in the process.

"You won't. You have the best crew," Rade gives a warm smile of assurance.

In return, Vaughn smiles as well. "I do have the best crew,"

Their crew is made up of seven people. Each with different kinds of abilities and skills they specialize in. The mastermind, which Luvox plays the role, is the one who plans the whole thing from when to get there, when to attack, and when to retreat. He's the mind that controls the plan.

The Hacker, specializes in breaching all things that deals with technology. Hacking the system, Coding locked doors, Rade can figure out a way to lead the heist to a success by just watching from a surveillance camera.

The talker, is the one to know all informations about their target without being recognized as one of the burglars. Mico, a 19 year old blue-eyed boy that talks his way out with the target, is in-charge on that position.

The big man, Covu is known to be the wild barbarian of the group. Bombarding to the crime scene with two Uzi guns in hand, wiping out the enemies. Luvox found Covu in an underground battle arena one time, in the act of accompanying one of his business partners.

The skilled twins are in-charge of the getaway vehicle. Lila and Sage has two separate vehicles for the crew when things get out of hand. The two of them are former Drag racers, winning illegal races and winning bets.

Completing the crew, is last but not least Vaughn, the so called "Marksman". The one who kills at a long distance range. She usually hides in a place where no one can catch a glimpse of her, only she has the sight at the whole place. With aim as sharp as a tack, she can shoot enemies without a miss.

"Which reminds me," Her best friend's voice echoed in her head. "I brought breakfast with me, come on" Rade tugs on his best friend's hand, leading her into their dining room.

"You didn't have to," vaughn speaks as Rade pulls out the breakfast he made for the both of them.

"Oh I have to. We can't have you all starving in the middle your assassination, and did you know that an empty stomach can result to a miss in aiming," As if lecturing a student, Rade even held his pointer finger up while stating the sarcastic fact.

"Ha ha very funny, nerd" both ending up in a laughing fit between the both of them.

Is Vaughn really prepared for this? With her skills, what could possibly go wrong, right?

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Arriving in an armored vehicle to their destination, the group of seven sits uneasy inside their approaching vehicle. No one knows if the whole assassination will be a success or not. Every heist they do is always a do or die situation. If they succeed then good for them, but if they don't and get caught, a morbid jail cell is waiting for them.

"What are we all fidgeting about? It's not like this is our first break-in," Rade looks up from his phone to look at his fidgeting, uneasy crew.

"Easy for you to say," Lila speaks from beside a concentrating Vaughn.

"You're one to talk, You're not even going in the scene. Only Vaughn, Mico and Covu will go out there," Rade pushes his glasses up with a bored expression.

"I'm nervous for Vaughn here," Lila fiddles with her hands as she argues her point.

"Look at her. She got this, trust me" Rade looks at his best friend. "Right?"

Vaughn shakes her head, "I think I'm gonna be sick," She covers he mouth in attempt to gag.

"Dude, are you for real? And here I am thinking you got this," Rade squints his eyes at her best friend.

A deep sigh was heard from the passenger seat at the front, "Alright, get yourself together Vaughn Adalane Xanthos," A blank expression with a stern voice was heard from Luvox.

"Y-yes, boss" She speaks, The sickness feeling came down from her throat.

"Get ready, We're her now. Crew get ready," Luvox speaks again. "Gonzalvo, keep an eye on them from your cameras,"

Vaughn, Mico and Covu went out from the armored Vehicle. Mico, holding a suitcase with matching coat and tie went on separate ways with Vaughn and Covu.

"Only the company's maintenance has access to the building's roof, so it's safe we wear these worker jumpsuits," Covu hands a maintenance jumpsuit to Vaughn to be able to blend in with others.

Meanwhile, Mico makes his way to Mr. San Diego's office. Since it's a big company, they don't keep track of which is which and who is who that works at the company.

Still carrying the suitcase he asks for Mr. San Diego. A woman behind the reception table gives him a welcoming smile. Mico Immediately clears his throat, "An appointment to Mr. San Diego please," In an act of professionalism, He straightens his coat and tie.

"He's up in his office right now, he just finished his meeting," The woman smiles. "The elevator to your right, sir. 15th floor," The woman points the direction.

Thanking the woman before he walks away. Putting a finger on his earpiece to inform Vaughn and the others. "I'm making my way up stairs. Are you in position?" Mico asks through his earpiece.

"We're in position. Is the line clear, boss?" Covu asks this time.

"We can hear you. Vaughn I need you to wait until Mico get the fake business partnership. Wait for Mico to get out of the room before shooting," Luvox orders.

"Copy that," Vaughn positions in place.

"There won't be any bodyguards inside his office, cause when I made the appointment I mentioned a trusted company. So basically, they trust you on this fake business partnership," Luvox laughs a bit, realizing how fooled they can be.

Mico knocks at Mr. San Diego's office. A voice signaled him to come in. "Good Morning, Mr. San Diego," Mico greets.

"Ah. And you must be?" With a furrowed expression, despite offering his hands for a formal handshake.

"Think of a Name. You talked to him on the phone yesterday afternoon,"

"Ryan, sir. Ryan Dayholt. The one you talked with on the phone Yesterday afternoon," Mico gives a pleased smile.

"Ah, right. You never mentioned your name yesterday so I got confused. Have a seat," Mr. San Diego offers a seat adjacent to his.

"Another funny thing, Is your company reception always like that?" Mico points at the door, taking the topic elsewhere.

"Why? What's wrong with the reception?" Mr. San Diego's brows meet.

"When I asked for the appointment earlier, they didn't ask for my name. What if someone fakes an appointment and made it's way directly to you. Things like that are dangerous, sir." Mico pretends to shake his head in disbelief. Taking off his glasses, pretending to wipe it. "Anyway, Let's start the negotiation?"

Mr. San Diego seems to be buying it, as he let's Mico to continue with the fake business partnership.

Meanwhile in the vehicle, as if watching an international football game, everyone is gathered in front of Rade's monitor.

"Have you taken out the cameras, Gonzalvo?" Luvox asks in a reassuring tone.

"Yes, boss. We are currently seeing what is actually happening, while the Company's camera display is only a dummy recording from the other day," Rade states.

"Good work on that," Luvox low-key praises.

"Damn, I wish I had that brain. I'll surely put it to good use," Sage speaks from the driver's seat.

"They're done talking, that's the signal!" Rade says.

Vaughn and Covu on the other hands is busy spying from the sniper's scope to see what was happening from the other building.

"Any sign of bodyguards from there, Covu?" Vaughn asks Covu whos' currently spying from the scope at the other end of the railings. "Covu?" Vaughn hears no response.

Looking behind him to see Covu getting choked with his gun by a man in a black bonnet and black suit. "Covu!" Vaughn yells.

"Shit!" Luvox yells from the earpiece. "Covu, get up Damn it!" Luvox runs his fingers through his hair.

Vaughn is struggling to fight back with her gun kicked to the side. "Damn It!" Vaughn yells, Kicking the man in the abdominal part. When the man's down, She grabs his hair only to give him elbow jabs. "Covu!" Vaughn yells when he saw the big man on his feet again.

Covu tackles the hooded man to the ground, buying Vaughn some time to aim and fire on their target. Immediately positions her sniper as she looks into the scope for the target.

"I got eyes on the target. Permission to open fire, sir" Vaughn speaks through her earpiece.

"Steady. And...Fire!"

The bullet from the sniper rifle Vaughn was holding, pierced through the glass window and into Mr. San Diego's head.

"Get it Mico! Follow the plan as is and meet us at the parking lot," The intense boss speaks.

"Copy that," Mico's voice echoes through their earpiece. Making his way back to the office. Opening te secret stash room, grabbing the brown box, putting it inside his suitcase as he exits from the vents of the company. Leading out the vent of the restroom.

Coming out of the restroom cubicle as if nothing happened, Mico carries his way out to meet the crew.

"Hurry and get in!" Lila opens the vehicle door for the three of them to enter.

Did they happen to do it as a success? Did they leave any trace behind? What will happen to Mr. San Diego's body? By getting their hands on the Gem, what will happen next to Luvox and his crew?