New Beginnings(Rwby Fanfiction)

Chapter 30: The Heist

The Next day
Niko's POV

Today was the day; the day that a group of robbers attempt to clean out the Vale Resurve vault. I admit that I was skeptical about our odds of success, but by no means was I doubting us.

That was until Roman decided to bring three "specialists" along with us; a driver, a technician, and a gunmen. I was going to start yelling at him for bringing some liabilities along with us, but decided to just let it play out. Roman and I walked into the warehouse and saw the rest of crew; the four members I didn't know, as well as Emerald and Mercury. I threw each of then a large manilla envelope that contained a simple black suit, white dress shirt, and a pair of black dress shoes. "Hello everyone, you know who I am and I'm glad to see that you all decided to show up. Now my partner here decided it would be best that we use aliases to prevent the cops from getting any useful information." Roman said. I passed each of them a different colored tie and explained the reason for it. "We will be using colors as our aliases so they are easy to remember and your tie color will determine your alias." I started by handing Roman a red tie, Mercury a sliver tie, and Emerald a green tie then handed the others a blue, black, and a pink tie. "Our aliases will be Red, Silver, Green, Blue, Black, and Pink." I explained. The guy guy now called Pink asked. "Why do I have to be Pink?" I sighed and Emerald answered for me. "Cause fuck you." Pink got up and shoved Emerald; Mercury and Black pulled the two away from each other before they started fighting. "Thats enough you two, we need to form trust. This isn't the way to form anything so cut this shit out." I shouted at both Emerald and Pink. I changed into my suit and put on a gray tie as well as a pair of thin leather gloves. "Remember that this robbery will make all of us very wealthy, but it also paints a huge target on your back." I warned. "If anyone tried to go public with any information they heard here, I will personally deal with them. Everyone got it?" Not a word was said in the contrary so we got into the two vans; I drove The first van while Black drive the other. Roman, Mercury, and Emerald was riding with me; "You think this is gonna work?" Mercury asked me. I wasn't sure what to say, but I wanted to be optimistic. "If everything goes according to plan; we have about a sixty percent chance of success, a twenty percent chance of incarceration, and twenty percent chance of death." Mercury punched me in the shoulder in a brotherly matter. As I drove, Roman started talking. "So since we are on our way to almost certain death, I feel like we should share a story about our first robbery. So who wants to go first?" No one said anything so Roman kept talking. "I guess I'll start then; my first robbery was back when I was about seventeen. I held up a liquor store for about a couple hundred lien. Things we're simpler back then." As if on cue, Mercury started his story. "My first robbery was a jewelry store smash and grab a few months ago; took about five thousand lien worth of jewelry." I was surprised by Mercury's take. "Nice take man, what was your cut?" I asked. Mercury didn't finish his story, so I assumed that something went wrong. "Come on Mercury you can tell us." I pressured him a little bit. "I can't remember my cut." The others looked at him with disapproval. "Come on, everyone remembers their first robbery. Hey Em, what was your first robbery?" She kept quiet for a minute, but eventually said. "Stole some watermelons with some kid when I was like eleven. The kid got caught by a cop and I had to save his ass." Roman and I laughed at Emerald's story. "Come on Mercury, share your story." Emerald said. "Yeah, can't be worse than Em's." I told him.

"Fine. My cut was going to be like fifteen hundred." Roman nodded with approval. "Fifteen hundred take home on your first gig. That's not bad man." I said to him. Mercury continued. "The thing is, it would have been that if the one selling the jewelery ended up selling it to an undercover cop and getting arrested." As soon as he said that, Emerald, Roman, and I burst out in laughter. "That fucking amature." Roman laughed. After our laughter died down, Roman realised that I hadn't shared. "What about you Pierce? What was your first robbery?" I thought back for a moment and then remembered something. "Stole about ten crates worth of guns from an Atlas military base." Roman was surprised when I said that. "How much was your cut?" Emerald asked. "Hundred fifty thousand." The others went quiet and I pulled up to the back of the bank. "You guys ready for this?" I asked. Mercury took a deep breath and opened the back doors of the van. The rest of us got out and walked over to the back of the van; I opened up a compartment in the floor and pulled out the guns I got from Greta. I handed Mercury the M1014, Emerald got the Galil, Roman got the M4, and I kept the FNFAL for myself, but made Roman carry it for now. The second van pulled up and the other three got out; Black was toting two duffel bags and threw one to me. All of us reached inside and pulled out a mask; a simple black knit balaklava. I tucked mine into my suit pocket and Roman handed me my pistol; a full auto Glock 18 with an extended magazine. I attached a suppressor that Greta gave me.