Payday
by Sir Stinkalot

CHAPTER 1

In a small town on the coast of Southern California in an old worn down warehouse on the harbor, three men plan a heist. They planned to rob a bank for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they had to execute the plan perfectly or face failure. However to them failure was not an option.

"Either way I don't see it working out for us." Bishop said to break the silence, "Both plans seem to have a massive problem with them." "Then why don't you come up with a better plan then Bishop?" Knight said as he sat across from him eating his lunch. "Well I would, if I didn't think hitting this bank would be a bad idea. I just don't understand why King wants to hit this bank so much!" "Well I trust that King knows what he is doing, " Knight said putting down his sandwich "I have known him for a lot longer than you have. I trust him with with my life, he wouldn't throw us into the fire unless he knew we weren't going to get burned." Bishop laughed at him, "Maybe old age is finally getting to the man."

"I am not even fifty yet..." King said leaning against the frame of the door. "And Knight is right, I wouldn't risk your guys life unless I knew the odds were in our favor." King started making his way to the table with the blueprints from the bank. "So don't worry I have everything planned out." "Well I still like to worry." Bishop replied "It is just who I am, I like to be cautious about everything. Especially when it feels like all of the options won't work out for us."

King rolled out the blueprints for the bank and placed them down on the table for the crew. "Okay since we can't agree on which option is the best I will go over them one more time." "Before we start," Bishop interrupted "I think both plans are terrible." Knight gives a quick smack to the back of the head of Bishop. "Shut up, the boss is talking." "Thank you Knight, as I was saying, we have two options on how we plan to rob this place blind. Option One: We go in at night, and we drill through the safe. Option Two: We go in during the day, and rob them while they are open. It will be faster than the first option but we have to deal with the people in the bank." "Like I said both plans are terrible. We would need a powerful drill to break through the vault, which might I add would take hours and be extremely loud. Then for the second option, we would have to keep hostages and of course that would cause even more problems for us than needed."

King, with all of the possible options and outcomes racing through his mind, paced back and forth through the room thinking. Suddenly, he stops walking and turns to his crew, "I have to make a call, I think I know someone who will helps us with our job." King turns and leaves the room with his phone in hand dialing the number of a friend. Bishop turns to Knight and asks, "Who is he calling?" Knight shrugs, "I don't know man, King knows a lot of people who have different talents. Maybe he is calling for just another pair of hands to help or hopefully for a hacker who complains less." Bishop's face turned a little red, "I am the best hacker around and I know King wouldn't replace me just because you think I 'complain' too much." Knight shakes his head as he chuckles to himself. "Listen kid, I was just messing with you. You don't have to try and act tough around me."

"I can't leave for two minutes without you guys arguing can I?" King said as he walked back into the room. "I have decided on what we are going to do. We are going to go to the bank during the day and robbing them blind." Bishop quickly jumped out of his seat. "You can't be for real? During the day? How are we going to take care of all of the people in the bank?" "Calm down and sit down Bishop. I heard your complaints and you are right, dealing with the hostages was going to be a problem. But don't you worry your pretty little head about it, I got someone who will take care of them for us. She will be with us in a little bit." "Who did you call in King?" Knight asked, "You said 'she' and I don't know any girls you have worked with before." "I haven't worked with her before, but I have a friend who knows a guy, who knows another guy, who knows her. So we are just going to sit and wait for her to show up, so we can go over the plan together. Okay?" Bishop and Knight agreed to King's idea.

After a hour passed, the three men could hear a car pull up outside. Knight looked out the window to see a black woman step out of the vehicle and heading towards the warehouse. "I think she is here, she is a black chick right?" "Correct, that is the girl I we are looking for." King said as he started making his way over to the door and unlocking it for her. As King opened the door they could see what is new girl looked liked. The young girl stood there in black high heels, a red skirt, and a white shirt with a small jacket on. She smiled showing off her bright white teeth, which to the sides of her mouth were dimples. She had long dark curly hair that went to her shoulders. "Hello!" She said with a high pitch voice, "Are you King? My friend told me you had a job for me?" King nodded, "Yes I am King and I am so glad you could make it in such short notice. Just take a seat over by those two. And the big guy over there is Knight and the nerdy one is Bishop."

"Okay, nice to meet you guys!" She says as she walks over to the table. As she walked Bishop noticed something about the woman. He had embarrassing notice her massive behind, and he couldn't help but stare at it. He snapped back to reality as Knight nudged him. "What you never seen a woman before B?" "Of course I have, just you know... She has a massive ass." Knight almost instantly covered his mouth to stop from laughing. "Well, I bet you are a hit with the ladies if that is the first thing you notice." Bishop turned his head away as his face started to turn bright red once again. As the new girl and King sit down around the table with the plans, the girl cleared her throat and started to speak. "Well since I know your guy's names I might as well tell you mine I'm... " King put his hand on her shoulder and said, "I know you are new to this but we don't use our real names. We use code names, and I have already picked one out for you." The girl's face lights up, "I get a code name! Sweet! What is it?" "I thought Queen would be a good code name."

Queen grew a massive smile, "Queen? I think that is a fitting name, I do love to be treated like royalty." She said giggling. "Okay that is good to hear." King said picking up the plans. "Okay, now let us get down to business. Everyone has a part in this, first Bishop we need you to hack the cameras so no one will have video of us." "I already hacked into their systems while we were waiting for Queen. It feels like people aren't even trying to hide their secrets for people like me nowadays." Bishop replied with pride. "Okay then once Bishop has the cameras disabled, Queen is going in to cause a little distraction to take care of the people in the bank. And after she is done with the people, Knight, Bishop, and I will come in and grab the money, bonds, and whatever they have hidden away in there."

"Wait a minute," Knight said leaning in "what is Queen going to do?" Both King and Queen started to laugh, "You didn't tell them?" She said a little confused "Well if I did they wouldn't believe me and wouldn't do the heist. But I think it is best to just wait and see." Knight crossed his arms and sighed, "Well I usually don't like not knowing everything about the plan... but I trust you King. And I am sure Bishop does as well?" Everyone turned to Bishop waiting for his agreement. "Sure... I guess." He said with a obvious lack of confidence. "Then it is settled, we go in during the day and rob them blind." King checked his watch, "And would you look at that it is not even noon yet. You guys ready to do this in a few hours?" Everyone nodded in agreement. "Good then I will gather the supplies and we will be ready to do this."

After a while everyone got into the van, King driving, Knight in the passenger seat, and Queen and Bishop in the back. After making sure every last piece of equipment was in the van, they headed off to the bank. After a short drive, King looked back at Bishop "You ready B? We are almost at the bank, you should turn off the cameras now." "Already on it." Bishop said typing away ion his laptop. "And.... Done! The cameras are not recording anymore and we can watch and listen to everything that happens in that bank." Knight reached over for a fist bump, "Good job man!" King then parked the car a block away from the bank. "Okay Queen now it is up to you."

With a massive smile Queen jumps out of the back of the van and starts making her way to the bank. As the men watched her walk away, King turned to Bishop. "B, open the box I have back there and grab the masks." Bishop turns to see the box and proceeds to open it. To his surprise the masks weren't simple masks, they were gas masks. "Here you go guys," He says as he hands them out. "Why do we need gas masks? Won't simple black masks just work as fine?" King turned to Bishop "Trust me... We are going to need them. Is Queen in the building yet?" Bishop looks back at his laptop to check the cameras. "Yeah she is in, she just went in the front door." Bishop put his headphones on to hear what is going on. He watches Queen walk into line and wait. Bishop was wondering what she had in mind. After a few moments Bishop started to hear something.

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"What the..." Bishop said as he tried to figure out what the sound is. "Something wrong Bishop?" Knight said as he heard the confused hacker. "I think something is wrong with my headset. I am hearing this long high pitch hissing noise." He put his headphones back on to see if it was still going.

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Bishop could still hear it, but soon his attention was drawn to something else. The people standing behind Queen started to cough. Then after a few seconds they collapsed onto the floor. Then more people around the bank started to cough and collapse. Everyone in the bank except for Queen was on the ground out cold.

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The hissing sound stopped, and Queen turned to a camera and waved, "It is all clear you guys!" Bishop with a confused look on his face turned to Knight and King. "Umm... she is done doing whatever she was doing. And she said it is clear." King started the van up again and parked it in front of the bank. "Okay boys, put your masks on and head in." King said putting his gas mask on. The group jumped out of the van with their masks and gloves on. Queen opened the door for them, "Okay I don't know how long the people will be out for." She said as the men entered the building.

As they entered the building, a massive wall of heat came towards them. "What the hell!" Knight said "It feels like 100 degrees in here!" Queen giggled "Sorry, I wasn't expecting it to be this hot. But hey went a girl has to fart she has to fart." "Wait a minute." Bishop said stopping in his tracks. "That was a fart? That hissing noise I was hearing, that came from you?" "Yeah!" Queen said proud "That is why King hired me, to knock out these people with my gas." "Now is not the time to talk people." King said as he went into the open vault. "Queen keep an eye out for any more people coming into the bank. Knight! Bishop! Start grabbing as much as you can." The three men went into the vault and started grabbing all of the valuables into their bags. After a while King said, "Okay I think we are good let us go!" King and Knight started heading back to the van. "Right behind you guys!" Bishop said as he was finishing up. He started to make his way out of the vault when he heard a familiar sound.

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"Excuse me you guys. I couldn't hold it in any more." Queen said waving her hand around her backside. Then all of a sudden Bishop's gas mask started to fog up. "Shit! I can't see anything. My mask is all fogged up." Bishop panicked and took his mask off. The rotten smell entered his nose instantly. "Oh... Shit...." He said as he felt light headed. He quickly put his mask back on. "Queen... I need... help..." He said leaning against a wall. Queen turned to him, "Something wrong? Guys I think Bishop is not feeling so well." Knight came running back grabbing Bishop. "Queen carry his bag I can carry him." After handing the bag to Queen they rushed out of the bank with a barely awake Bishop and hopped back into the van. "What happened to Bishop?" King asked as they drove away. "I... took my mask off..." Bishop said as tired to stay awake. Queen laughed "Didn't King tell you not to take your mask off? No worries, you just wake up in a little bit. Night Bishop." She said in a playful tone. Bishop then saw the world around him grow dark and he then passed out in the back of the van.

CHAPTER 2

Bishop opened his eyes to see the ceiling of the escape van, he could tell by the light coming into the van that he was out for a few hours. After picking himself up and dusting himself off he opens the back doors of the van to leave. The first thing he sees as he opens the door is King, his arms crossed and tapping his foot. "What part of 'Don't take your masks off' did you not understand?" King said blocking Bishop from walking past him. "Look," Bishop said trying to get around King "I am not feeling so good. I am not in the mood to be lectured. Do you have any aspirin around here do you?" King grabs him by the collar of his shirt, "You didn't answer my question. Why did you take your mask off?" Bishop sighed "I panicked, I couldn't see the mask was fogging up. I wasn't expecting it, I didn't do it to annoy you."

King lets go of Bishop and starts to walk away, "For someone who is a genius you love doing stupid things." Bishop gives a sarcastic laugh in return "Yeah, sure. But seriously, do you have any aspirin or something?" King points down the hall, "I am sure there is some in the kitchen or bathroom. Bishop stumbles towards the kitchen still light headed from the gas he breathed in. He still wasn't even fully sure what happened back at the bank. All he remembers before passing out is a long hissing noise, extreme heat, and a horrible smell. And it all came from Queen, he never knew someone could be capable of doing something like that. All she did was fart, and from the look on her face she did it with ease as well.

As he opened the door to the kitchen he sees Queen and Knight talking around the table. "Ah! Did you enjoy your little nap?" Knight said turning his head to him. "Yeah, I am fine. Hey do you know where..." Bishop stops talking as he sees out of the corner of his eye Queen moving quickly towards him. She wraps her arms around him and squeezes, "Sorry Bishop." Queen says with a smile "I didn't mean to knock you out. I just wasn't expecting you to take off of your mask in the bank. Why did you take it off anyway?" Bishop breaks free of her hug and sits down at the table. "I didn't mean to take it off, I panicked because I couldn't see anything. So I took my mask off to see. In hindsight, not the best idea." Queen giggles a little while Knight simply rolls his eyes.

Knight gets up from his chair and starts heading out the room. "I need to go help King with something to do with the loot we got today. I will see you guys later." Knight stops quickly and turns around. "Also, I know I don't need to tell Bishop this, but Queen you need to lay low for a few days. All of us do, just hang around the house or here. Just don't do anything that would be attention to you or us okay?" Queen nods, "Of course! You don't have to worry about me." Knight then turns back and leaves the room.

A brief moment of silence is shared before Bishop and Queen before Bishop asks the question that he was dying to know. "So... Queen... Your farts...." He felt extremely awkward asking her about her farts as he would be asking anyone about their farts. However this was a different occasion. "What about them?" Queen replied, "What about them? You can't be serious?" Bishop said confused "Don't act like it isn't weird, I am asking what happened back at the bank and how did you knock me and all of those people out?" Queen shrugged, "I farted, what else more do you want me to say?" Bishop rolled his eyes annoyed at Queen's answer, "Okay look, I have smelled some awful things in my life. Like dirty socks, backed up toilets, landfills, etc. But I have never once in my life smelled anything worse than the your fart. What did you eat?"

Queen played with her hair for a moment, "Well..." she said trying to remember "I had waffles and cereal for breakfast and a tuna fish sandwich for lunch. I think that was it." Bishop rubbed his head "So you are telling me that waffles and tuna gave you that gas?" Queen laughed "Oh of course not! I have that type of gas all of the time." "What do you mean all the time?" Bishop said raising a eyebrow. "Well ever since I can remember, I have had really bad gas. Like ever since I was a kid you know?" Bishop leans back in his chair "Why are you saying it like it isn't strange? You knock people out by farting near them! You can't just act all natural about it."

"Well it is natural, well natural for me that is." Queen said with a smile "I have knocked people out my whole life with my gas. I mean I try my best not to do it, but you know I can't hold it in forever. The gas has to come out sooner or later. I only gas people on purpose a handful of times. Like today is the first time I have gassed people on purpose in a couple years. Not going to lie, it was a funny sight to see all of those people just drop to the ground as fast as they did. And King said he wanted someone with my talents, sure he wasn't expecting me to control the crowd by farting. However I got the job done and it was fun as well."

Bishop sat there in awe, she was talking proudly about her farts. "So..." Bishop said trying to find the right words "You said you try to hold in your farts? Is that what makes them so bad?" "No not at all." Queen said smiling "All of my farts are about as strong as the one in the bank. Here let me prove it to you!" She said as she leaned to one side. "Whoa!" Bishop said scared and with his hands out "You don't need to prove anything to me I trust you." Queen sat back down, "Oh okay I don't mind showing off if that is what you think." "No no. It is fine, really." Bishop felt like he dodged a bullet. He still had some many questions he wanted to ask her.

His head started to pound again. "Just a second Queen." He said getting back up "I need something for my head." After searching through all of the cabinets, most of which are empty, he found the aspirin. "Finally." He says under his breath as he opens the bottle and swallows a few of them down. "You feeling okay?" Queen said looking at him. "Yeah, it is just I am still feeling the effects of your gas you know?" She laughs a little, "Yeah you are not the first one to complain about it." Bishop could of guessed that. "However most of the people I hang out with get used to the smell after a while. I mean most of my friends and family don't even pass out from the smell nowadays. They still complain about the smell, which I can't really do much about it anyway."

Suddenly Bishop feels a vibration on the side of his leg, he pulls out his phone to see he received a call from King. He answers with a curious, "Hello? What are you calling for?" "Listen B." King said quietly "We are a couple blocks away from the warehouse and there are cops patrolling around here. I don't think it would be smart for Knight and me to return to the warehouse. Also I think it is best that you and Queen spend the night there as well. Don't want anyone finding out our hideout now do we?" Bishop sighed, "Yeah, okay. I will tell Queen." Bishop hung up and looked to Queen who was wondering what King told him. "Okay looks like we have to stay here for the night. King told me the police are looking around here, hopefully not for us but who knows really." Queen has a disappointing look on her face from the news. "Really? But I am getting a little tired and I want to sleep in my own bed."

Bishop gets up from his seat, "Don't worry, we have a few good beds around here that I am sure you would like enough. Come on let me show you." Bishop said leaving the kitchen with Queen following from behind. "We have rooms here that are mostly empty, but you could use one to sleep in." "Do you have a room for yourself?" Queen asks following him. "Yeah I got my own room, I spend most of my time here anyway. I spent looking up places of interest and other things on my setup. Okay here we are." He says stopping in front of an old beat up couch. "Here?" Queen said looking at the couch. "You can't be serious, this looks like where a homeless person would sleep. Where are you sleeping?" "I will be sleeping in my bed in my room." Bishop said as he started walking to his room.

Bishop opens the door to his room which contained the stereotype things a hacker in his 20's would have. A desk with a three screen PC setup with state of the art specs on it, posters of video games and other such things, a big flat screen TV with various consoles and gizmos attached to it, and a big massive bed in the corner. "See this is where..." Bishop stops mid sentence as Queen walks pasts him and jumps on his bed. "Ah!" she says as she spreads out on the bed. "Okay B, this will do so much better looking and feeling than that old ratty couch." Bishop quickly walks up to the bed and looks down at Queen who seems to be enjoying his bed. "Look, I know you are tired but this my bed. I can get some blankets and some pillows for you on the couch if you would like."

Queen looks up to him and gives him a quick, "Nah." Bishop rolled his eyes, "Really?" "Yeah." She playful replied back. "Your bed is so comfortable than even mine at home. I think I will sleep here for the night." She said grabbing some of the pillows on the bed and snuggling up against them. "Okay Queen, no one sleeps in my bed but me so..."

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Bishop stops in his tracks as he hears a familial sound, "Really?" He said annoyed "Did you really have to do it in my bed?" Queen can only reply with a giggle as she is covering her face. Suddenly the horrible smell reaches his nose. It smells of burning garbage and sewage, he covers his nose and mouth but the smell is too strong. He starts to cough from the smell. "Sorry Bishop," Queen said as she stopped laughing "I really like your bed and I am just so tired after today. You know how it is." Bishop fell to his knees trying to stay conscious after breathing in her fart. However he knew he wasn't going to last much longer. "And besides," Queen said looking down at him. "If I am going to be called Queen I might as well be treated as one too!" She started laughing again.

Bishop rolled his watery eyes, "You're not as funny as you think..." He says with a weak laugh as he finally falls to the ground. Bishop lays on his back as he slowly feels the world around he darken. He finally passes out once again to the sound of Queen laughing and a familial hissing noise.

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