Diego woke with a start. What in the world was that dream? Something about being naked on stage or something? How horrible. Thank goodness that's over. But as he looked around, he noticed that he wasn't in his room.
He appeared to be a security office of some sort, with a massive wall of CCTV monitors in front of him, each one displaying a view of several museum exhibits. He looked down at himself and was wearing a security uniform. Before he could ask himself how he could've even gotten here an alarm started to blare!
He looked at the monitors to see what was happening and a few thieves were attempting a brazen robbery of a statue. He started running into the museum to try and stop them. Despite not knowing the layout of the museum, he found them with ease.
It's not exactly hard to hear a helicopter lowering a cargo hook into a museum through a broken glass ceiling to take an entire statue with it. It had a net at the bottom to lift the statue right up in its grasp. He got there just as they were about to hoist it up, but thinking quickly, he ran up and threw himself right onto the statue.
Having now added extra weight to said statue he realized, that he didn't weigh enough to actually make a difference in the raising of the cargo hook. He was being taken too! Thinking even quicker than before he actually started to unhook the ropes attached to the net. After a bit of work he did it, he unhooked the hook as the helicopter took off!
Unfortunately, he thought a bit too quickly there as if he took just a bit longer with said thinking, he'd have realized two things. One: He and the statue were about 20 feet in the air and Two: with nothing holding them up, there was only one way down.
As they both fell through the broken ceiling, they crashed onto the floor. Diego was holding onto the statue's leg for dear life. Amazingly, he was unharmed. Dazed, but unharmed. But he did it, he saved the statue.....'s leg.
He was holding on to its leg as the rest of the statue had shattered into many pieces.
"Well, at least some of it is safe." he said to himself, just before the leg he was holding crumbled to dust as well. Nothing remained of the statue except a fine marble powder.
"Maybe they won't notice...?"
"DIIIIIIEEEGOOOOOOO!"
Looking around the room for the source of that scream, he realized that it was his walkie-talkie. He answered it. "Uh....hello?"
"Report to my office, NOW!" said a very angry female voice on the other end.
He walked into the office of the museum's owner. She was a woman with a rather somewhat dark complexion who was wearing a business causal outfit with white leggings. Her black hair was done up in a wavy ponytail and her eyes were done up with bright blue eyeliner.
She looked almost like she could be a super model. He could've sworn he's seen her before, but couldn't quite place her. His thoughts were interrupted with the ice cold stare she was giving him at the moment.
"Do you know why you're here?" she asked him.
"Uh....to guard things?" he said, genuinely unsure why he was a security guard at a museum that he was pretty sure the wasn't even in his town.
"I meant, in my office right now, smart-ass."
"Uh....cause I did my best to save that statue and you want to promote me?" Her brow furrowed as her icy cold stare turned into what appeared to be white hot rage.
"It was worth a shot.", he thought to himself as he braced for the worst.
"The reason you're here is because your incompetence has cost us millions in damages! I reviewed the security tapes. That whole hook thing they did took HOURS to set up. It wasn't until I got the alert that I realized something was wrong. WHERE WERE YOU!?"
He stammered trying to find an answer that wasn't him apparently being asleep the whole time.
"You were ASLEEP ON THE JOB AGAIN, WEREN'T YOU!?"
"N-no, I was....guarding....the paintings in the west wing of the museum?" He sheepishly smiled, hoping she bought that.
With the most unamused expression on her face she turned her computer monitor towards Diego to reveal that there was a hidden camera in his security booth and sure enough, he was fast asleep on duty from the point they started their heist preparations, to just before the alarm went off.
He audibly gulped at this new piece of information. Then took off his hat and badge and placed them on the table.
"Heh....I'll see myself out now."
"Not so fast, Diego. That's not your entire uniform."
"Right, I'll just head back to my locker and-"
"NOW. DIEGO."
"....right here?"
"Yes, Diego." But just as he started to unbutton his uniform, her phone rang.
"La Succube museum, Administrator Demona speaking.....really? Hmm, now that's an idea. As it so happens, I have the perfect candidate for such an art piece. Come in as soon as you're ready, he'll be waiting."
She hang up and turned her attention to Diego, who was waiting, hoping that the call she just had would save him from stripping in front of her. It would turn out that it did, but not in the way he'd want.
"Change of plans, Diego. You get to keep your job!"
"Really?"
"Yes, but I'm going to need your help with something. Just follow me."
Without another word, she lead him to another room. It was filled with paint supplies, large canvases, half finished statues and other art pieces.
In the room was a large marble pedestal and a short girl with a beret and glasses. She must be the artist he heard about. "Oh, is this our model for the new statue?", she said as they both walked in.
"Yup, he's our newest art piece in your series. He fit the description for the model you needed, perfectly."
Diego then asked, "What exactly am I modeling for?"
"Why, a replacement for the statue you so carelessly destroyed."
"Would you rather that I'd let it go?"
"
I'D RATHER YOU HAVE DONE YOUR JOB!
", screamed the administrator as Diego backed away from her.
He backed into an unfinished sculpture almost toppling that one to the floor but just before it hit the ground the artist caught it before it hit the ground and pushed it back upright.
"You see? He's a menace to the artwork! I should just strip him of his badge right now."
"NO! I NEED THIS JOB! I HAVE A WIFE AND KIDS, PLEASE. THEY'LL STARVE IF I CAN'T PROVIDE FOR THEM!"