Authors note: - This is a follow on to the previous episode of Becca XXX. Spring Tide. Please read it before reading this or you will not understand the plot or characters
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Becca XXX. Spring Tide. Ch 08.
The planning stage of any assignment was always as important as the actual mission itself. I was taught to remember the seven P's during my training and I'd never forgotten them. Proper Planning and Preparation, Prevents Piss Poor Performance was echoing around my head as we sat in the bar with The Crow and her side kick - Nicole.
After The Crow's weird and wonderful ritual to initiate us into her Sisterhood, we had all showered to wash away the blood and sex juices from our skin and hair, before returning to the throne area to plan the night's operation. Her attitude towards us didn't appear to have changed, but she was very difficult to read at the best of times so there was no way of knowing what was going on in her head. Her facial expression was still emotionless as we all sat on the sofas upstairs from the bar.
Mave had even cooked us some food and supplied us with drinks as we told The Crow and Nicole everything we knew about the Russians. We informed them as to why it was so important that we got the information off the laptop which was locked in Valentin's safe, and what we knew so far about the terror plot.
"So, you can see why it's important that we get into the safe without anyone realising," I explained. "We don't want to tip off Valentin or Victor that we are onto them until we know what they're up to and how imminent their attack is."
"Yes, I understand," said The Crow. "But the Russian plot doesn't interest me. I'm more excited about bringing these rapists to a fiery end and freeing the girls who are held captive by his sick regime."
"I understand that, but the mission comes first. These fuckers will get what's coming to them, but not until we know the repercussions of killing Valentin and anyone who's protecting him. This isn't Bronzefield and, once we get on target, you need to do exactly as I tell you. There's more at stake here than a group of perverted sexual abusers. Do you understand?"
"I guess so," she frowned. "What's your plan?"
"We'll travel back to Penzance in separate vehicles," I began to explain. "You'll need a vehicle to get back here because I'm not driving all the way back after we've completed the mission."
"That won't be a problem," she replied.
"It'll be dark by the time we get there which will help us to remain unseen," I continued. "Natalie, pull up the satellite imagery."
Nat placed her iPad on the table so we could all see what Google maps was showing us. She zoomed in to show the target building in the centre of the screen and we all leaned in for a closer look.
"We can park the vehicles here," Nat said, pointing at a small gateway on the country road which led to Valentin's farm track. "From there, we can walk across the fields and approach the building from the west, using the trees as cover. That way they won't see or hear us approaching in a vehicle. We know that he has sentries posted around the grounds of the house so we'll have to stay quiet."
"I don't think that will be a problem for Nicole," I joked.
She gave me a forced sarcastic smile and then held her right hand under her chin and brought it sharply forwards towards me. As it stopped a few inches from her chin, she used her other hand to point at me with venom.
"She says 'fuck you," The Crow translated.
"Yeah, I think I got that," I giggled.
"The safe is located in the main living room at the back of the building, here," Natalie continued, ignoring my joke. "Hopefully, everyone will be asleep except for the guards so we can sneak in through the bi-fold doors undetected."
"What about alarms or cameras?" said The Crow.
"We didn't see any cameras and I doubt it will be alarmed. There's no point if you've got sentries keeping watch."
"And what about getting through the door?"
"I can pick the lock," said Natalie. "Unless Nicole wants to do the honours."
Pretty Eyes shrugged to say she didn't mind either way.
"Ok then," Natalie continued. "Once we're inside, Nicole will break into the safe while the rest of us keep watch."
Nicole started a series of rapid hand movements, touching parts of her body and making different shapes with both hands as she asked some questions which The Crow translated.
"Can you describe the safe to her? She needs to know as much information as possible so she can do a little research before we get there."
"It was built into a wall and was dark grey with a combination lock," I said.
Nicole signed some more and The Crow spoke for her.
"Electronic or mechanical?"
"A clicky dial like you see in the films," I said. "It wasn't electronic. Valentin spun it left and right and then pulled a lever to open it."
"Mechanical then. What shape was the handle?" she added as Nicole signed another question.
"I think it looked a bit like the top of an old tap," said Nat. "It had three prongs sticking out."
Nicole moved forward and took hold of the iPad, asking for permission to use it by gesturing and widening her eyes.
"Sure," said Natalie, handing it to her. "Help yourself."
Pretty Eyes opened a new search tab on Safari and typed in some key words. She then switched to Google images and started to scroll down, looking at both of us to see if we could identify what we saw. There were many different images of safes in all shapes and sizes as she scrolled through.
"Stop," cried Natalie excitably. "Go back up, I think that was it."
Nicole navigated back up two images and opened the link to a large dark-grey safe with a tri-top handle. She tapped the screen and signed something to ask us to confirm it was the right make and model.
"I think so," said Nat, looking at me for my opinion.
"We only got a glimpse, but I'm pretty sure that's it," I agreed.
"The Chubb DuoGuard Grade one," The Crow read out what was on the screen. "She's cracked them before... many times."
"You can do it?" I asked Nicole.
She nodded.
"How long will it take?"
She held up both hands with all her fingers and thumbs extended and shrugged making an unsure face.
"Ten minutes?"
She nodded while holding her hand out and wiggling it from side to side. It was the universal sign for approximately.
"So, we'll be exposed for about ten minutes while she cracks the safe," Natalie continued with her overview. "Once she's in, we need to hack the laptop which will take another couple of minutes depending on its level of security."
"Hack it how? Why not just steal it?" asked The Crow.
"We can't steal it. If they know it's missing, they'll know someone's been in there," I said. "Besides, we don't need to steal it. We have a special hard-drive that literally sucks all the data out of the laptop and clones it without it even being switched on. It's a self powered hacking device."
"Becca's right. We'll clone the laptop's hard drive and recreate it onto a blank platform. From there we can view the video and anything else he's got on there," said Natalie. "We'll get the data and then put everything back how we found it and get back to the vehicles."
"You make it sound simple," said The Crow. "What if something goes wrong? What if we get caught? What if this Valentin asshole is still awake in the living room wanking off or throwing one of his rape parties? What if they start shooting at us?"
"I like the way you're thinking," I smiled. "That's actually the next stage of the planning and we call it just that - the 'what if's'."
"Are we going to be armed?" she added.
"Me and Natalie will be armed with sub-machine guns as a precautionary measure. We'll only draw down if we're fired upon."
"Don't we get one of those?" she asked.
"Unfortunately not. You're classed as civilians, but don't worry, we'll protect you if it goes to shit," said Natalie.