The story of Payday

Chapter 17: New friends

After the LA job, the crew felt like they were on top of the world but this feeling would be lost when Murkywater decided to go on the offensive. It seemed like a pretty normal day for the gang. The crew was at the safehouse listening to Bain talk about a potential new job when all of a sudden Bain cut out. Bain started getting mountains of alerts on his computer. Every one of them was a warning that Crime.Net was being hacked. He frantically tried to block out the hacker but for some reason, he couldn't. Suddenly a man with a South African accent took over the comms.

"Ah yes hello there my friends. How are you doing? My name is Vernon Locke. I'm a Sr. technology officer at Murkywater. You've heard of us yes? I'd hope so after the amount you've robbed us. Anyway, I'm sure you are shitting yourselves right now so I'm going to let you calm down while I have a word with your boss" The man explained in a cheery voice.

The crew all looked at each other in horror while Bain was still frantically trying to block the attack.

"Ah hello Bain," The man said.

"Hello Vernon," Bain said trying to act calm.

"Oh please call Locke," Locke said.

"Ok, Locke would you like an apology?" Bain asked.

"Oh, Christ no. I was tasked by my bosses to hack into Crime.Net and destroy it but I have a proposition for you" Locke explained.

"And what would that be? Because hate to break it to you but your stuff is already gone"

"Quite simple actually. I want to work together. Think about it. You've already been able to clean us out multiple times so think about the damage you could do with an inside man especially one as high ranking as me" Locke explained.

"How do I know this isn't a trick?" Bain asked.

"Well you don't but to be fair now that I've hacked in here I know where your safehouse is so I would have sent a hit squad there by now"

"Ok fine. Let's hear this job"

An hour went by as the gang felt like they were going to be sick until Bain came back on the intercom.

"Hey gang"

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?!" Hoxton yelled.

"He was telling the truth. He's a high-ranking officer in Murkywater that was tasked with taking out Crime.Net. However, we got lucky I mean very lucky. Locke turns out to be corrupt so he wants to actually work with us as an inside man. I'll contact you again when we have a job planned" Bain explained.

The crew waited nervously for about a week until Bain called them back to the safe house for the next job. When he came over the intercom he was sounding a lot more confident than last time.

"Alright, crew here we go. I'll let Locke here explain the job to you," He said.

"Ah yes hello, again friends. So I have a big treat for you today. Ever heard of Black Ridge? No? I assumed not. It's like the Area 51 of Murkywater. It's where we keep all of our goodies soon to be your goodies. I'll explain more when you get there, friends" Locke said.

"Well, who is going?"

"Wick, Wolf, Chains, and Dallas. Also, this isn't the only job we'll be doing for Locke, and for the second one, we're going to need someone athletic" Bain told them.

"Bitch do you know how hard it is to run in this heavy ass armor?" Chains replied.

"Obviously you all are fit. You kinda have to be in our line of work but we need someone over the top for what we're planning but now that's not the point. Let's get moving"