The Payne Archives #2: Plan B

“What is it Marty? I’m kind of in a tough situation to talk right now.” I was once again protecting the streets of New York by stopping crime. “Shut up kids! I’m on the phone!” Yeah… I had been assigned to stop a group of kids from vandalising a corner store. Recently there hadn’t been any COOL jobs and I was getting bored.

“Alice, report to base ASAP. There’s a new mission I think you’d like to try it?” Then he started to giggle a little. “It might be a little better than what you’re doing now.”

FINALLY. “I’ll do anything!” I stuck my tongue out at the kids and took my mustang (ye bish) to HQ.

I used my card and got in to find Colin, Reeve and Marty sitting having drinks and talking. “Enough with the chit-chatting and tell me what the mission is.”

Marty put down his glass and took out his iPad. “You’ve been assigned a mission to bring down one of the biggest drug lords downtown by the name of Frank Montana. You’ll be going undercover as representatives of ‘Feel Good Inc.’, a drug dealing business. You’ll set up a meeting with the Montana representatives and take them down. Question them until they give you the coordinates of Frank Montana and the other drug dealers. Then you take them to the police.”

Reeve was nodding his head and Colin was scribbling down notes. “Got it?” I noted the instructions into my phone. “Yep, just send me the addresses.” Marty emailed me the details and we all went home to pack our things (we were moving into a hotel to be closer to the DDs).

I packed my stuff and said my goodbyes to Liam who had been watching re-runs of SNL. I drove to the hotel and met the guys in the lobby. We were handed SEPARATE keys. My room was on the fourth floor.

I went in and found all the equipment I would need. I unpacked my things and put on my disguise. I looked really ‘businessy’. I packed my suitcase and left the room. I met up with Reeve and Colin in the lobby.

Reeve was fiddling with his spy glasses (I had a pair too). Colin was staring at me for some odd reason with a gaping mouth. I rolled my eyes. “Are you two ladies ready? We have to be there in an hour.” Reeve put on the glasses and Colin blinked back to life. “What? Oh right. I’m ready.”

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We took the company car (which in this case was a black Porsche *whistle sound*, my favourite sort of car) to a towering building in central downtown. We looked around and were escorted by some well-dressed gentlemen to the thirteenth floor.

I wasn’t surprised when there was a finger scanner at the first door. The guards let us pass through and we entered a large room with one huge window looking out down unto the whole of downtown.

We sat down at a large table with several empty seats. We turned on our listening devices and made sure Marty was listening. I activated my hidden camera in my glasses and turned to the high chair right beside the window.

A man walked in carrying a briefcase. “Good morning. What a lovely day isn’t it?” He sat down at the high chair.

“I don’t believe we’ve been formally introduced. I’m Frank Montana and I’m the guy who runs this place.” He put down his briefcase and faced us.

“I understand you’re the representatives of Feel Good Inc?” We nodded. “Well then let’s get straight to business.”

We exchanged some documents and I made sure Marty got a good look. “So Mr Montana, I understand you’ve been running this business for quite some time? How exactly have you made it this far without being caught?”