Chapter 4 – Gone

The elevator was moving down smoothly and not too fast. I was looking for a lid that will be on elevator’s roof that will allow me to enter it. Time was running out. I found it successfully. It was jammed a bit as it was not used before. I quickly scraped the rust off with my gun and attempted to open the lid again. It opened. I jumped inside and pointed my gun at a thief. He was wearing a mask on his face so I couldn’t tell what he looked like.
- “Don’t move or I’ll shoot!” I warned him.
He listened to my command.
- “Now turn around and get down on your knees.” I continued.
He did that too and then said:
- “You’re making a big mistake.”
- “Why is that?” I asked.
At this moment the elevator stopped sharply as it reached the bottom floor. That got my attention. The robber seemed to know all the combat strategies, because as soon as that happened he got up instantaneously and pounced on me. I shot from my weapon, but he managed to knock it to the side in time.
The elevator door opened here. The robber punched me in the face and then ran out of the elevator door. I followed him out and then aimed my shotgun at him. I shot, but he managed to run past a turn in the corridor, so I missed.
- “This is not happening!” I got frustrated.
I then ran after him as fast as I could. The corridor had many turns in it and therefore it was difficult to see the thief, but I knew for sure that he was directly in front of me somewhere.
We finally ran out into a lobby on the ground floor. I saw Jack and Rick coming out of one of other corridors. They opened fire on the robber, but he was too slick and was taking cover in time.
A couple of staff members saw the chase and decided to help us. Both of them took tazers out and ran towards the robber. The robber aimed his V pistol at them and shot both of them down with a single shot each.
I was getting angrier and angrier. I got my V pistol out and began shooting in robber’s direction crazily and managed to get him in left shoulder. That didn’t stop him though. I needed to reload here and so did Jack and Rick. The robber then decompressed his crufacle and ran out of the front entrance.
Me and my two team-mates decompressed ours as well and followed the robber out. It was too late by that stage. He got into a Crawler-9, a type of underground digging vehicles and disappeared underground. These digging vehicles were very rare and usually cost a lot. Crawler-9 was the latest model and therefore was much more efficient than the other 8. I was surprised that an ordinary robber owned a vehicle like that. This made me think that someone more high-up was behind all this.
- “Alan, we’re coming back.” I said via the radio.
- “Sure, I’m already waiting for ya.” Alan’s voice came from the radio.
Me and two of my team-mates went back to the Spiflyer and flew back to our base.
David told three of us off. He was saying:
- “So you’re saying that three of you professionals could not capture one robber?!”
- “He was too slick.” Jack said.
- “And he was also good at combat.” I added.
- “I don’t want to hear excuses.” David said, “You failed your mission and that’s it.”
- “We’ll get him next time.” I said.
- “What makes you think that there will be a next time?” David asked.
- “Sir, he owned a Crawler-9 vehicle. I doubt that it was a single robbery. I think that he works for someone high-up.” I explained.
- “Stop telling fairy tales.” David said.
- “Sir, this is true. I don’t think that a single robber would have enough money to buy one of those.” Jack backed me up.
- “All right. I don’t want any more excuses. Call it a day for now and tomorrow we will try to find out what was he after.” David said.
I was severely tired that day. I went back to my home dome to my beloved girlfriend Chloe.