Midnight Massacres

Chapter Five

Fred, Peter, Abi, Izzy, Tim, and Steven lay behind a hill adjacent to the east London government headquarters. Abi was to head in through the windows at the front of the building, take out all the guards and unlock the front door for everyone else to enter. The group had been waiting behind the hill for Abi to mentally prepare herself for the action. She wanted to 'make a good first impression to Fred', which he thought was unnecessary as he already very much liked her.

It was a night with clear skies, yet no visible stars. They were surrounded by trees and a green hill on which they were lying. The building facing them had grey walls with windows circling the perimeter of the building. The buildings only had eight stories yet there was also a basement, in which they would be infiltrating.

Abi was ready. She stood up, straightened her black and pink shirt and headed down the hill in an incredibly stealthy way. Fred watched her as she crouched under the window facing him. Izzy had shot all the security cameras that would be able to watch Abi's movements. Any moment now the guards would come rushing out to see what the disturbance was. Fred turned his head to watch the others. They looked calm, relaxed, determined. Opposite to what Fred was feeling. He was about to infiltrate one of the most heavily guarded buildings in London and Abi was about to take out the guards. He really shouldn't be worrying. Izzy was able to flawlessly take out the security cameras and Abi was going to take out a dozen fully trained guards, who had now noticed her, they pulled out their guns.

It all happened in a blur. The guards shouted for backup as Abi dodged the bullets and took out the closest guard with one clean kick to the head. She ran swiftly along dodging the bullets and strikes from the guards, eventually running up the wall, backflipping off, kicking a guard in the head and wrapping her arms around another. She swung the guard in her arms around, hitting the remaining ones around her, before throwing him into a wall. Finally, the guards were down, either dead or unconscious, leaving a small time slot for the others to venture into the building. 

The other guards did not know that they had come in yet as the security cameras had been broken and Abi was able to kill them before they were able to call for back up.

Steven stood up first when he got the 'all clear' sign from Abi, shortly followed by Tim, who was the only one in the group that now looked genuinely scared, then Peter who helped Fred up behind him and finally Izzy, who was keeping an eye out behind them. 

The entrance hall was majestic and royal. The marble walls shone with the grand crystal chandelier hanging from the wooden ceiling. They were surrounded by chests of drawers made of fine wood and silver. Portraits of past kings and queens stood tall along the walls, looking onto the entrance hall. Directly in front of the group, stood an elevator. A pretty standard, easy to elevator. The only set back was that you needed a certain card to activate it. Now, this didn't prove to be a problem as there was bound to be at least one card among the pile of guards in front of the main door.

They all squashed into the elevator. Putting Tim and Izzy at the front to take care of any guards looking to use the elevator in the basement.

Tim started to sing his favorite song from his favorite Boy Band immediately when they got in the elevator, shortly followed by horrendous beat-boxing as the song fell into a major drum solo. The elevator was incredibly cramped, though did this stop Tim from dancing? No, it didn't. It started with the tapping of the feet to bobbing of the head and then to rather funny arm movements. Soon, Tim had gone full 'karaoke'.

Suddenly, the elevator doors swung open, revealing two guards waiting by the door. They all left it to Tim to take care of them. This proved to be a bad move.

"STAND DOWN!!!" The left guard screamed while pulling out his gun.

"If you let us pass," said Tim, "We will not hurt you." The guards did not move a muscle, they waited for the rebels to stand down and surrender. "Awwww please, I don't want to hurt you guys. I'm sure you're genuinely nice people. Ow. Izzy, I've told you that kicking me is not okay!"