Heist: Freelancer

Chapter 6: Transport

Boom, bang, explosion noises were all that I remember (yo, Ethan here, and I don't think Jade told you guys this, but I was actually on that mission), and the cops were persistent. We delivered the final blow, and we finally escaped. Because we had so much CoolHol, we decided to sell it all to Mantis, Jade didn't tell me about him, until she did. He's some anti-social PSYCHO who REALLY loves alcohol, and alchemy. He once summoned a zombie that he killed right after, crazy right? So we got to this one place, where Jade's friend, Goose, told us he would take us to the docks (in his helicopter), where that guy would be.

"Well partners, we're here." Goose tells us before we jump down. While falling down, I notice reinforcements coming to the entrance, along with the guards sounding the alarm. We all pulled out guns, deployed and shot them all. Shade went to that place at the docks, and turned on the signals, so that guy could come and take the stuff. 3 minutes later and he finally comes! He goes by the name of Mantis, that same guys who's also friends with Jade. His boat could only hold 5 bags and we had 20 of them. So every five minutes (or less) he would come back and we put five bags. It took us 18 minutes to get all the bags to his place. After the mission was completed, he gave us a ride back to our base, since it was a warzone, and Goose would be compromised and shot down immediately. So we took a ride on his boat, but not expecting the combat sequence that would pursue. While on water, cops started appearing, on boats! So as the water patrol people. We kept firing bullets at them, the water splashing against us, waves pushing us in every direction. It was a bumpy trip, but we managed to get the cops off our tail, and get to shore.

"I know the cops, by now they would've blocked all central roads in the city," he warns, his voice colder than mint with ice water, "we need to take some sort of off-road path, or take the sewers to that Starbucks near the warehouse."

"Then we go with the off road way." I told him. Once we got to shore, we all got in his truck, and sped off to base. 5 minutes later, in the middle of nowhere, we noticed that something or someone was following us, guess who they were. Rival gangsters! They spotted us through the thick bushes and leafy trees, and tried to attack us. We were lucky that Mantis' truck was bulletproof, even the glass! Our rivals, the Stealthy Cyber-Violence, are extremely talented and aggressive gangsters that formed a gang together, with their leaders: Jonesy, The Agile, War Killer, The Brute, and Jackson, The Hacking Tech. These three have different segments of this army, the hackers, responsible for hacking, implanting spyware on other rivals, and cybersecurity/defense; the fighters, responsible for carrying out tasks such as robberies, raids, physical defense, and more violence-related things; and the agile, or their actual name, the runners are responsible for missions that require stealth, parkour (hence the name 'runners'), and scouting missions so that the fighters can proceed. They all work in unison, and if you provoke them further, they WILL come after you and/or your squad, if you have one. Back to the actual thing that's happening; they shot at us and yelled, may I say, very mean stuff. They chased us and hijacked our truck. It was Jackson talking. He told us that he would find our location, dox us online, tell the cops about our whereabouts and just how bad of people we are. That's when we found him hiding behind a tree. I shot him with my AK and gave him the premium trick-shot headshot! Now he can't do squat to us, but we still have a problem with the runners and the fighters. We saw some runners running to the other side, but they just stopped and looked at us. We ran them over and continued like it was nothing. Once we finally got back into the city, this time nothing to stop us, a rival blockade stopped us. There were people under hostage, held at gun point, meanwhile War and Jonesy look at us, menacingly.

"End of the road for you guys!" Jonesy yells, War continues the speech, "Do as we say, or they ALL DIE!" I got out of the car hands up in the air.

"Listen here man," I say, "killing them just because we opps doesn't do you good. There's cleaner costs y'know? The more civvies you kill, the more of a threat you are." War and Jonesy look at each other, then War pulls the trigger on one of the civilians' HEAD! "Whoops, my finger slipped!" War says, as if he made a mistake. I could imagine the devilish grin he's pulling behind the mask he was wearing. Tear filled my eyes, rage boiling in me. I look at the girl that he just killed. "YOU MADE A BIG MISTAKE; YOU MONSTER!!!" I yell at the top of my lungs before charging at him with a katana I had. It went right through him. He took off his mask, and told me something. "You might think that I'm a villain, but just know, I was that same guy who helped you with those crimes from the start." He tells me. I look at him and ask this question. "Do I look like I give two farts?" He looks at me, and I look at him. Jonesy looks at me, scared, from when I looked at her. She pleaded that we don't hurt her, but I told the rest of the team to secure the hostages and kill everyone there. We released the hostages and fled the scene, trying to get closer to base. We got there, with one problem. Mantis wanted to go on a massacre at the police station, but we disagreed. He gave us the $2,000,000 and we entered base.

"ETHAN!" I hear Jade yell before giving me the biggest hug I was ever given. I just reply with a simple 'hi', because I was zoned out, by a lot; I was also exhausted too, so I didn't have much emotion. After she pulled away, I went and plopped down on the couch. 3 hours go by, and I decide to look at any missions from clients we have. "Hello Notorious," I read from the computer, "I have a special request of you. I would like to ask if you could retrieve an artifact from the West Edmonton Mall." I call Jade over about this, and she starts smiling. Looks to her we're gonna have a field day.