Post by MikDaTv on Nov 30, 2013 12:32:41 GMT -5
The announcement came over the banks PA system. "Attention customers, the bank will be closing in 15 minutes."
A man in line for one of the bank tellers looked up at the closest speaker and then down to the people next to him in line. He nodded his head and the others nodded theirs in return. The man stepped out of line and reached down to unbutton his long brown duster. It came open easily and exposed what he was wearing underneath. He was strapped to the brim with weapons.
"Lady's and gentlemen may i have your attention! My name is McCloud!" he shouted. At the same time he drew one of the blasters from a thigh holster and raised it up above his head and fired once. "This is a robbery! We'll be stealing everything from the tellers and nothing from you personally. All i need you to do is stay quiet and keep out of the way and you will lose absolutely nothing."
The people in line with him also stepped out of line and opened their coats to reveal weapons. They fanned out and one went to each teller. McCloud began herding the customers against the far wall. "The bank is insured for just this sort of thing people and i apologize for any inconvenience."
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The announcement came over the banks PA system. "Attention customers, the bank will be closing in 15 minutes."
"Great" John said to Genie. "This was only supposed to take 10 minutes and we've been here for half an hour." John and Genie were sitting at one of the bank managers desks waiting for a transaction to go through.
Genie shrugged her shoulders. "Banks suck like that." she answered. "Why don't we do this over the holonet? nobody goes to banks anymore."
"hard credit chips have to get distributed somehow. banks are the best way. Online banking might be best for numbers and accounts but in the end, if you need cash you need to get it from a bank." John answered.
There was a commotion behind them and a sudden announcement from a strange man in a dark brown duster. "Lady's and gentlemen may i have your attention! My name is McCloud!"
John and Genie looked at one another then back over their shoulders at what was going on. "You have got to be kidding me." John said.
"Seriously?" Genie said exasperated. "Now?"
John's hand went down to the belt of his Jedi robe and grabbed his lightsaber. Genie noticed the movement and did the same. "What are we doing?"
"Not sure yet. Observe and standby." John replied. "Chances are this goes down fast and painless. we can track him after he leaves."
Genie nodded and brought a hand into her robe to rest on the hilt of her lightsaber. John tapped his fingers on his staff and waited.
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"Gentlemen, if you would please relieve the tellers of their on hand cash." McCloud said to his accomplices.
They moved with urgency in their steps to the front of the line where the droid tellers stared at them from behind the blaster proof transparasteel. each of them pulled out a roll of tape like material and began taping out nice meet squares on the transparasteel.
McCloud meanwhile was busy herding the bank customers into one corner of the bank. "Now, my friends, please stay calm. there's going to be a flash, it's nothing to worry about, its just the thermite tape to melt through that transparasteel. as long as you don't look directly at it there won't be any harm done."
the accomplices stood back and triggered the activators on the thermite tape and averted their gaze away. There was a brief flash and a sizzle sound as the tape vaporized instantly along with all the transparasteel it was directly taped too. Square sections of the teller windows fell away, smashing the droids that stood behind them.
The first two accomplices vaulted the teller desk to the inside of the banking area and began busting into the credit chit dispenser with the but of their rifles. the third one made it up on top of the desk but was suddenly vaulted backwards when a blaster bolt struck him in the chest.
A security droid came out from one of the back rooms firing. The low powered rifle it had wouldn't do a lot in a military setting but it worked just find in a civilian one. the third accomplice fell down dead and the other two brought their rifles up and started shooting.
McCloud heard the first blaster shot and turned to watch events unfold. "Aww crap."
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"Aww Crap." John said. "Damn security droid doesn't know any better."
"now what are we doing?" Genie asked, gripping her lightsaber tighter tighter.
John thought for a moment and then stood up. "This." he said before turning out of the cubicle and facing off against McCloud.
"Fus!" he shouted, pointing his staff at the leader of the bank robbery.
a ball of concentrated kinetic energy, formed and accelerated with the force burst out from the end of his staff and slammed into McCloud, launching him across the bank. "Stay down!" John yelled. "We're Jedi."
Genie's lightsaber thrummed to life behind him, it's yellow blade extending with the characteristic 'snap hiss.'
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McCloud hit the teller counter and rebounded off with a thud. His body sprawled out on the floor. Blaster fire rang out as his henchmen returned fire on the security droid. McCloud didn't care about any of that. His perfect heist was already ruined. Even if they got more money then they estimated nothing would change the fact that the robbery went hinky on his watch.
"Damnit." He grunted out as his pushed himself up. "Copper, Brass, take that thing out!" he yelled to his henchmen and stood up. "I'll deal with the Jedi."
McCloud drew his second pistol and went blasters akimbo firing right and left over and over at John and Genie.
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John dove to the side as blaster bolts started streaking towards him. He slid along the tile floor under a desk which he flipped over for cover.
Genie meanwhile deflected all the bolts headed her way with her lightsaber. She wasn't good enough to deflect them back but she was good enough to deflect them up and away from any innocent hostages. "He didn't stay down!" She yelled to John.
"I know!" John yelled back. he closed his eyes, gathered his focus and pointed his staff and McCloud again. "FUS!" He shouted again, sending another blast of telekinetic power at the bank robber.
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McCloud was ready for it this time. He shuffled to his left with a quick skip, barely pausing his fire but he shifted fire from Genie to John. the desk the Jedi was behind was temporary cover at best. it wouldn't hold up under continuous fire.
Once john ducked his head back behind his makeshift cover McCloud shifted fire back to Genie. He stayed on the move, edging towards them but not in a straight line, keeping the pressure on with constant blaster fire.
He didn't have to fight them toe to toe, he just had to keep them back on their heels long enough for his henchmen to finish the security droid and join the game and tip the odds.
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"this isn't getting us anywhere." Genie said.
John slid a little bit lower onto the floor as the blaster bolts started to whittle away his cover. "Tell me about it. Can you give him a push? Something to buy me some breathing space?"
Genie deflected two more bolts up towards the ceiling. "Sure if he'd stop shooting for a second."
John shook his head and let his staff fall to the ground. He flipped over onto his belly and placed both hands against the desk and dug in with his toes. With the proper leverage, he began to push the desk towards McCloud, picking up speed as his momentum increased.
the desk made a horrible noise as it slid across the tile floor but John kept it up charging McCloud in an effort to get close.
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"No one is paying me to kill you Jedi. Just let us go with our money and no one will get hurt." McCloud said.
As if in response, the male Jedi's makeshift cover started sliding towards him. McCloud rolled his eyes and began back peddling. He fired his blasters at the sliding desk but realized he couldn't do enough damage before it got too close to him so he holstered and ran.
The henchmen who were left, codenamed Copper and Brass, had put the last few blaster bolts into the friendly security droid and were busy emptying the teller machines of their credit chits. "Nice of you guys to help me out. McCloud said as he ran past them. "Back entrance, back entrance, back entrance!" he yelled.
Copper and Brass finished loading up their duffles and slid over the counter to run after McCloud. to slow the Jedi down, McCloud stopped at the rear entrance to the bank and withdrew from his coat a grenade. He stopped just long enough to hurl the grenade at the group of hostages before turning around again and running through the door.
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As McCloud ceased fire and turned to run John leaped out from behind his cover and activated his lightsaber. the blue blade sprang to life and John ran only a few steps in pursuit. He would have chased McCloud down but Jor had always warned him about backing a criminal into a corner. They had won, the criminals were in retreat and one of them was dead.
McCloud and his men bolted through the back entrance but not before tossing a present. John recognized it immediately as a grenade and it was headed straight for the hostages. McCloud was going to slow them down by threatening the innocent. John felt a rage build up inside him but he pushed it aside and turned to Genie.
"Grab it!" he yelled to her.
His apprentice reached out with her hand and by extension, the Force and plucked the grenade out of the air. She stopped it cold and then with a powerful push she threw it to one far, deserted corner of the bank.
"everyone down!" John yelled and leaped across the room to put himself between the grenade and the hostages.
seconds passed but there was no explosion. John opened his eyes after having realized that he'd shut them tight. Genie glanced over to him and shrugged. John took a few tentative steps towards the corner where the grenade had been thrown.
More seconds passed with no explosion. John, a little more confident, made several long strides towards the corner and looked down at the grenade.
"Is it a dud?" Genie asked.
John picked it up and tossed it too her. "He never pulled the pin."
"Son of a bitch." Genie said, catching the grenade. "He was just slowing us down."
A man in line for one of the bank tellers looked up at the closest speaker and then down to the people next to him in line. He nodded his head and the others nodded theirs in return. The man stepped out of line and reached down to unbutton his long brown duster. It came open easily and exposed what he was wearing underneath. He was strapped to the brim with weapons.
"Lady's and gentlemen may i have your attention! My name is McCloud!" he shouted. At the same time he drew one of the blasters from a thigh holster and raised it up above his head and fired once. "This is a robbery! We'll be stealing everything from the tellers and nothing from you personally. All i need you to do is stay quiet and keep out of the way and you will lose absolutely nothing."
The people in line with him also stepped out of line and opened their coats to reveal weapons. They fanned out and one went to each teller. McCloud began herding the customers against the far wall. "The bank is insured for just this sort of thing people and i apologize for any inconvenience."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The announcement came over the banks PA system. "Attention customers, the bank will be closing in 15 minutes."
"Great" John said to Genie. "This was only supposed to take 10 minutes and we've been here for half an hour." John and Genie were sitting at one of the bank managers desks waiting for a transaction to go through.
Genie shrugged her shoulders. "Banks suck like that." she answered. "Why don't we do this over the holonet? nobody goes to banks anymore."
"hard credit chips have to get distributed somehow. banks are the best way. Online banking might be best for numbers and accounts but in the end, if you need cash you need to get it from a bank." John answered.
There was a commotion behind them and a sudden announcement from a strange man in a dark brown duster. "Lady's and gentlemen may i have your attention! My name is McCloud!"
John and Genie looked at one another then back over their shoulders at what was going on. "You have got to be kidding me." John said.
"Seriously?" Genie said exasperated. "Now?"
John's hand went down to the belt of his Jedi robe and grabbed his lightsaber. Genie noticed the movement and did the same. "What are we doing?"
"Not sure yet. Observe and standby." John replied. "Chances are this goes down fast and painless. we can track him after he leaves."
Genie nodded and brought a hand into her robe to rest on the hilt of her lightsaber. John tapped his fingers on his staff and waited.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"Gentlemen, if you would please relieve the tellers of their on hand cash." McCloud said to his accomplices.
They moved with urgency in their steps to the front of the line where the droid tellers stared at them from behind the blaster proof transparasteel. each of them pulled out a roll of tape like material and began taping out nice meet squares on the transparasteel.
McCloud meanwhile was busy herding the bank customers into one corner of the bank. "Now, my friends, please stay calm. there's going to be a flash, it's nothing to worry about, its just the thermite tape to melt through that transparasteel. as long as you don't look directly at it there won't be any harm done."
the accomplices stood back and triggered the activators on the thermite tape and averted their gaze away. There was a brief flash and a sizzle sound as the tape vaporized instantly along with all the transparasteel it was directly taped too. Square sections of the teller windows fell away, smashing the droids that stood behind them.
The first two accomplices vaulted the teller desk to the inside of the banking area and began busting into the credit chit dispenser with the but of their rifles. the third one made it up on top of the desk but was suddenly vaulted backwards when a blaster bolt struck him in the chest.
A security droid came out from one of the back rooms firing. The low powered rifle it had wouldn't do a lot in a military setting but it worked just find in a civilian one. the third accomplice fell down dead and the other two brought their rifles up and started shooting.
McCloud heard the first blaster shot and turned to watch events unfold. "Aww crap."
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"Aww Crap." John said. "Damn security droid doesn't know any better."
"now what are we doing?" Genie asked, gripping her lightsaber tighter tighter.
John thought for a moment and then stood up. "This." he said before turning out of the cubicle and facing off against McCloud.
"Fus!" he shouted, pointing his staff at the leader of the bank robbery.
a ball of concentrated kinetic energy, formed and accelerated with the force burst out from the end of his staff and slammed into McCloud, launching him across the bank. "Stay down!" John yelled. "We're Jedi."
Genie's lightsaber thrummed to life behind him, it's yellow blade extending with the characteristic 'snap hiss.'
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
McCloud hit the teller counter and rebounded off with a thud. His body sprawled out on the floor. Blaster fire rang out as his henchmen returned fire on the security droid. McCloud didn't care about any of that. His perfect heist was already ruined. Even if they got more money then they estimated nothing would change the fact that the robbery went hinky on his watch.
"Damnit." He grunted out as his pushed himself up. "Copper, Brass, take that thing out!" he yelled to his henchmen and stood up. "I'll deal with the Jedi."
McCloud drew his second pistol and went blasters akimbo firing right and left over and over at John and Genie.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
John dove to the side as blaster bolts started streaking towards him. He slid along the tile floor under a desk which he flipped over for cover.
Genie meanwhile deflected all the bolts headed her way with her lightsaber. She wasn't good enough to deflect them back but she was good enough to deflect them up and away from any innocent hostages. "He didn't stay down!" She yelled to John.
"I know!" John yelled back. he closed his eyes, gathered his focus and pointed his staff and McCloud again. "FUS!" He shouted again, sending another blast of telekinetic power at the bank robber.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
McCloud was ready for it this time. He shuffled to his left with a quick skip, barely pausing his fire but he shifted fire from Genie to John. the desk the Jedi was behind was temporary cover at best. it wouldn't hold up under continuous fire.
Once john ducked his head back behind his makeshift cover McCloud shifted fire back to Genie. He stayed on the move, edging towards them but not in a straight line, keeping the pressure on with constant blaster fire.
He didn't have to fight them toe to toe, he just had to keep them back on their heels long enough for his henchmen to finish the security droid and join the game and tip the odds.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"this isn't getting us anywhere." Genie said.
John slid a little bit lower onto the floor as the blaster bolts started to whittle away his cover. "Tell me about it. Can you give him a push? Something to buy me some breathing space?"
Genie deflected two more bolts up towards the ceiling. "Sure if he'd stop shooting for a second."
John shook his head and let his staff fall to the ground. He flipped over onto his belly and placed both hands against the desk and dug in with his toes. With the proper leverage, he began to push the desk towards McCloud, picking up speed as his momentum increased.
the desk made a horrible noise as it slid across the tile floor but John kept it up charging McCloud in an effort to get close.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"No one is paying me to kill you Jedi. Just let us go with our money and no one will get hurt." McCloud said.
As if in response, the male Jedi's makeshift cover started sliding towards him. McCloud rolled his eyes and began back peddling. He fired his blasters at the sliding desk but realized he couldn't do enough damage before it got too close to him so he holstered and ran.
The henchmen who were left, codenamed Copper and Brass, had put the last few blaster bolts into the friendly security droid and were busy emptying the teller machines of their credit chits. "Nice of you guys to help me out. McCloud said as he ran past them. "Back entrance, back entrance, back entrance!" he yelled.
Copper and Brass finished loading up their duffles and slid over the counter to run after McCloud. to slow the Jedi down, McCloud stopped at the rear entrance to the bank and withdrew from his coat a grenade. He stopped just long enough to hurl the grenade at the group of hostages before turning around again and running through the door.
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As McCloud ceased fire and turned to run John leaped out from behind his cover and activated his lightsaber. the blue blade sprang to life and John ran only a few steps in pursuit. He would have chased McCloud down but Jor had always warned him about backing a criminal into a corner. They had won, the criminals were in retreat and one of them was dead.
McCloud and his men bolted through the back entrance but not before tossing a present. John recognized it immediately as a grenade and it was headed straight for the hostages. McCloud was going to slow them down by threatening the innocent. John felt a rage build up inside him but he pushed it aside and turned to Genie.
"Grab it!" he yelled to her.
His apprentice reached out with her hand and by extension, the Force and plucked the grenade out of the air. She stopped it cold and then with a powerful push she threw it to one far, deserted corner of the bank.
"everyone down!" John yelled and leaped across the room to put himself between the grenade and the hostages.
seconds passed but there was no explosion. John opened his eyes after having realized that he'd shut them tight. Genie glanced over to him and shrugged. John took a few tentative steps towards the corner where the grenade had been thrown.
More seconds passed with no explosion. John, a little more confident, made several long strides towards the corner and looked down at the grenade.
"Is it a dud?" Genie asked.
John picked it up and tossed it too her. "He never pulled the pin."
"Son of a bitch." Genie said, catching the grenade. "He was just slowing us down."