The Fleeca Job

Episode 1: Nothin' but Ashes

Adam Stevens inhaled the last bit of smoke he could from the now shriveled up cigarette bud, dropping it to the ground shortly after. He turned his head to the man he hired to complete this job with, a man he only knew as "K".

K was punching the air with his fists, occasionally transitioning to kicks. Adam continued to stare at him. "What the hell are you doing?" K stopped, looking to Adam. "What's it look like I'm doin'? I'm preparing."
"If you weren't prepared until now you were never prepared to begin with." Adam scoffed.

Before K could reply a car creeped up in front of them, it was their target, the armored car. Crouching behind the nearby bushes gave them a good look at the target, as well as those owning it; about 15 or 16 men were surrounding the vehicle.

Adam pulled out his silenced pistol .50, checking its mag in the process. "You prepared now?" K pulled out his combat pistol. "Hell yeah man! Im gonna let loose on those mother fuckers!" Adam motioned him to be quiet. "Shut up. We do this smart and we do this right. The odds are stacked against us in every way possible; this isn't like what the movies taught you, this is real life. Now let's go."

K nodded; the two began to make their way to the parking garage where the target was located. They halted as Adam spotted 3 men not too far up from them. "What the hell are we gonna do man!? We shoot em and every mother fucker here is gonna know we're here."
K said frantically. Adam pondered for a second, searching his environment, he noticed a soda can in the back of K's pocket. "Hand me that can."

K looked at him confusingly. "Huh?" "The can in your back pocket. Give it to me" Adam repeated. K slowly took the can out of his pocket and handed it to Adam. Looking at the men and down at the can, Adam threw it to the ground, resulting in it creating a minor explosion of soda.

The men looked at the busted up can leaking soda, both curiously and confusingly; as the men walked past Adam and K to reach the can, Adam pulled out his pistol, shooting all 3 men in the head, killing them instantly. No one heard the sound of them hitting the ground.

K looked at the men in shock. "Jesus Christ man!" Adam holstered his pistol. "Alright, lets keep going." K looked at their lifeless bodies before Adam began to move on. Running up the nearby stairs, they reached the rooftop of the garage. Adam peeked out of a pillar, the target was visible and only about 12 men were around the car now.

The men were spread out quite well, 5 slightly up from Adam and K surrounded a random vehicle, 3 surrounded another random vehicle to the left of them and the remaining 4 were surrounding the target vehicle. As they scouted out the situation, Adam unzipped his jacket, taking out 2 sticky bombs he had stashed away.

He turned to K, giving one to the man. "Alright here's the plan. You're gonna sneak around to the 3 men on our left, place that sticky bomb under the nearest car you can get yourself under while remaining out of sight, I'll do the same to the men on our right. Once we get that done we make our way up to the 4 surrounding the target, after reaching this point I will detonate the sticky bombs, killing the 8 men, with the shock of seeing this occur we blindside the 4 remnants. You got all that?"

K looked at the sticky bomb in his hand and back at Adam. "Yeah man, lets get these mother fuckers!" Adam nodded at him as they split up. Crawling on the ground, Adam positioned himself under a car relatively close to the 5 men. Placing the sticky bomb, he could see K directly across from him doing the same. K did a thumbs up motion to him, resulting in them both continuing upwards.

After a good amount of crawling they both reached a perfect position to set off the bombs. Doing one final scan of the area, Adam detonated the bombs; flames filled the air, K's ears were ringing, the 4 men looked in shock before dropping down to cover. As they kneeled behind a vehicle, Adam stood up and killed 3 out of the 4 men, with K killing the last man.

As the dust settled K screamed "YEAH MOTHER FUCKE-" it was at this moment a bullet flew into K's skull, Adam immediately dropped to cover. "Goddamn it." Looking under the car he took shelter behind, someone was visibly running towards the target car; Standing up he aimed directly at the man. "Stop right there." The man stopped, turning to face Adam, his gun still in hand; He was wearing a black and white baseball cap, combined with a skull pattern mask and sunglasses.

The man pointed his gun at Adam, it was now a proper standoff. They stared each other down for what felt like hours, until Adam removed his aim from the man onto the now approaching law, the man did the same. Holstering his pistol once more, Adam picked up an assault rifle from the ground, looking towards the man. "Get comfortable, we're probably gonna be here a while."

As the law came in on them they held their ground, the man killed 3 of the police officers rushing towards them, Adam shot the drivers in two separate police cars, resulting in them spinning outwards off the roof. The wave of police seemed to halt, and in that moment the man ran to the armored car and drove away with it. Around this time Adam threw down the assault rifle and ran to a random car, using it for his getaway.

Fleeing the area, he later pulled off at an alleyway, taking his black mask off. "Son of a bitch." He said to himself. His mind wandered, until he saw the lights of a car in front of him blink. A man ran to the car, Adam recognized it: it was the same man who stole the armored car. As the man drove away Adam got a clean look at his license plate: it read "3R1D3R". He jotted down the number on a newspaper. With that Adam pulled out of the alley and made his way home.