“Wow..” Elio says to himself in front of the mirror “How did they manage to fit it perfectly on me?” He asks himself. It’s already 4.30 in the afternoon, 30 minutes before that woman comes to get him. Who is her name again..? Just realize that from the very first beginning all of them, including his interviewer, none of Elio knows their name. On the other hand, they never called Elio by his name which is totally weird.. Elio looks around him, scanning his whole room since he probably doesn’t check it completely. For almost 20 minutes, he hears the knocking sound from his front door. So far he doesn’t find any suspicious things and he tries to put aside his thoughts then proceeds to open the door. When he opens the door, just like he thought, the woman that led him here before is there. “Good afternoon. Please follow me to our meeting this afternoon.” The woman says without looking at Elio and just slowly walks back to where she just came from. Because of how quick the woman moves, Elio quickly closes the door behind him then tries to catch up with her. She leads Elio to get inside the elevator and this is probably Elio’s chance to ask about her name, at least he knows about that. “Umm.. sorry.. Miss..?” Elio tries to call her and thankfully she responds by turning her head towards him. “Actually, I want to ask, what is your name?” Elio says nervously. No response from her but she turns her head away from him, back to the elevator’s navigation. Screwed up.. Elio says and wants to facepalm himself. The sound of the elevator arriving on the floor where they need to go finally comes up. “Know your manner before asking someone else's name.” The woman finally speaks up when the elevator’s door opens and quickly gets out of it. That leaves Elio speechless and only looks at her as the time she left. Comes back to reality, he notices that he needs to get out from the lift before the door closes. Now he just realized again that he forgot to look at which floor he is right now, especially where the woman brought him. He looks around him once again, trying to look for any sign of what floor he is right now but unfortunately he doesn’t find any clue or sign of it. With that, the only choice he has right now is to find and follow the woman. Thankfully, the woman still walks slowly while checking on something on her tab. After Elio finally successfully catches up with the woman, he just about to ask her once again. This time he wants to introduce himself first then asks the woman’s name. “Sorr-” Just when Elio wants to ask her something, he gets cut off from her and suddenly turns her head towards him. “We are here.” She says and opens the door for them, that makes Elio roll his eyes because he just lost another chance of it. Getting inside the room, there are already 8 other people in there. None of them stays together, some of them sit and just lean at the wall spreadly. “Gather up everyone!” The woman shouts which makes all of them move to get closer and make U in front of us. “Thank you for coming. I’m your leader, just call me Onyx.” She introduces herself to all of us. Right after she said her name, Elio turns his head and looks at her confusedly. “Not suitable for a woman though.” One of the men says and then smirks at her. Isn’t Onyx supposed to be his group name or something? He asks himself about it without knowing that Onyx already takes two steps away from him. Her gestures show that she’s going to introduce him. “This is our hacker, just call him Chalcedony or anything you guys are comfortable with. I don’t care.” She introduces Elio’s name which he doesn’t get any idea how he got such a nickname. That makes Elio look at her even more confusedly but then he thinks again, her name is as weird as him. Onyx takes out a small projector inside her bag and connects it with her tab. Not long after that, the lights in this room become darker and the lighting from the project starts to be visible. The first picture shows a small to medium size of bank and based on it looks like it seems like only cash in there. Just from that picture, everyone in the room, except Elio, starts cheering and claps their hands in excitement. On the other hand, Onyx is glaring at everyone there because of the noise they made. The cheering lasts for a minute and finally everyone stays quiet since they also notice how deadly Onyx’s glare is. “Done?” She says codly which makes some of them nod their head and the others just stay quiet. “Good. This is our first target as we are going to work together.” Onyx says and pushes the button for the next slide. Next one shows what is inside the building, only the basics which shows the rooms and the entire building. Everyone tries to examine it towards the photo that showed up in front of them, including Elio. Even though Elio has so many thoughts running inside his head and mixed feelings about the things that happened, he tries to not look suspicious. At this moment, there is no way to go back and decline the very first beginning offer. He knows it, he totally knows where it will go yet he doesn’t know how to escape this since it’s also his first time doing something like this. The only thing he knows to do right now is following the flow even though his heart is racing so fast in this situation. Also in this moment, he finally realizes that this room is not someone like him, someone who just wants to work in an office, just living as normal workers. This room is filled in by criminals that probably everyone in here has their own skills and potential of stealing or doing criminal things which Elio never did before. It’s true that Elio is such a hard drinker, always getting drunk and roaming around blindly in the middle of night, but still, Elio never did anything criminal or even steal anything. He never even dares to get into a fight because he always has his own way to get away from there. Is Elio a coward? Nope, he would argue and persist with everyone if he thinks that he is right. But getting into a fight? That’s not how he settle it since Elio always thought that is something stupid and tiresome to solve problems. In this work, it is a must to fight someone, right? Obviously because this is criminal work, there is no way that he won’t get into a fight. While Onyx explains the house’s interior, she notices that Elio is deep in his thoughts. With that, she suddenly stops explaining and looks at Elio annoyedly. “Having nice daydreaming there?” She calls Elio out sarcastically and annoyedly again while glaring at him. At first, Elio doesn’t notice it until all eyes are on him which only makes him thrilled based on his thoughts as well. “Cih, stop wasting our time, nerd.” one of them says and gets closer to Elio to push him harshly. Another one of them puts his one arm around Elio’s neck and strangles him lightly which makes the others laugh at him. “Having fun with your wet dream, huh?” The one who strangled Elio says Even though he just strangles Elio lightly, it looks like Elio is struggling to take off his hand on him. “Is it your girlfriend? Or..” he looks at Onyx “Our sexy leader?” he says teasingly which only makes the other men laugh even harder. On the other hand, Elio is still trying to take his hand off but it’s too strong for him that he finally needs to tap on his arm quickly. “Enough!” Onyx shouts which makes all the attention turn to her. “Get lost if you guys just keep interrupting our today’s plan.” she threatens them. “Woohh.. So scary..” says the man mockingly. With that, the man loosens the strength on his arm and pushes Elio away from him as makes the others laugh lightly at Elio. Onyx just let out a loud sigh and pinch the bridge of her nose before continuing the meeting. The next photo shows more detail of the bank, especially where all of the money safes, and what type of security it has. In this photo, Onyx explains to us where the team route to get inside and outside of it step-by-step but the others seem like not paying that much attention to her. “It’s just a small bank, there is no need for us to have such a thing like this.” Suddenly one of the men cuts her off when she’s still explaining the plan to all of us. “Even though it’s just a small bank, you want to just get inside with empty heads?” Onyx replies frustratedly and rolls her eyes which only makes that guy get angry at her. “Are you underestimating me?! I can even rob that alone!” He says while taking two steps forward to Onyx. “Really? If you say so then, you can go there alone. The others will come with me with another target.” She replies calmly and puts her right hand in her pocket, giving him an arrogant gesture as she slightly tilts her head. The response from Onyx leaves everyone in this room silent and that man before looks like he takes aback from it. After a few seconds pass, the man takes a few more steps toward Onyx as he is only two steps away from her then grabs her blazer’s collar. “Listen here, woman. Your role as a leader won’t control me easily.” He says intimidatingly towards her like he’s trying to threaten her. “Sure, it won’t.” Suddenly Onyx moves to take off his hand then pinned him down on the floor. That makes the others look at them with wide eyes because the man's size is like three times bigger than her. “Last warning. Get your ass out if you keep interrupting this meeting.” She threatens him with her deadly glares. Meanwhile the other man that mocked Elio smirks and gets closer to Elio so he can whisper into his ear. “You can be so damn lucky, nerd.” He mocks Elio once again and only receives another glare from Onyx. “I can hear that. You want some too?” She says while standing up from the floor and brushing her front blazer. “No, ma’am.” He responds immediately and winks at her. All of the things that he does only makes Onyx look at him disgustedly and roll her eyes frustratedly. “Let’s continue then. Ackpal, Pearl, Spinel, Tourmaline, need to be ready in these spots.” Onyx says while pointing out their spot from the screen with a pen lesser on her hand. The four of them focus on where their spot is. “Obsidian and Schorl need to stand by in here where if something not right or suspicious happens, you two can give emergency backup quickly.” Onyx continues. Same response with the other four before. “Tahitian and Chalcedony will stay inside the van since all of the control will be there for you.” Onyx says while pointing at Elio and two of them nod in agreement. “Lastly, Blizzard and I will observe everything from inside. Both of us can be bait for the guards as well. Got it everyone?” Onyx is finally done with her plan explanation. Everyone in the room responds with only a nod of agreement. “Alright then, dismissed. See you guys tomorrow morning at nine.” Onyx says and quickly leaves the room not even looking back at her members. With that, everyone also starts to follow her to leave the room and actually all of the Onyx’s members are living on the same floor with Elio. All of them just get into their own room without talking with each other and that same goes to Elio. When Elio arrives at his house, he gets a mailed box just right behind his door. He takes it and quickly ripes the box open. Inside the box, he finds a book of codes that he never had or seen before. Elio opens the book and surprisingly he finds the codes that he solved back on his interview which means this is a book to break a security or something similar with that. Seems like someone sent this to him because he or she probably knows that Elio doesn’t have any experience of these things and the intelligence that Elio has. There are two options that come out of his mind of who sent this mailed box to him, it’s either Onyx or those people who interviewed him because they are the only people who are in that room. Also this person knew that Elio will have his first job of robbery tomorrow. Without hesitation, Elio quickly takes off his suit and turns on his computer to study this new book. **Tomorrow Morning** “Get ready now. Our time will come quickly.” She says and opens the preparation room for us to get inside. “Why did we do it last night?” Schorl whispers to beside him but that still can be heard by Onyx. “If you do it in a day, it would be less suspicious and security, silly.” Onyx replies annoyedly while getting ready as well. On their way to the van, the same men keep on teasing Elio. He puts his arm circling Elio’s head and strengthens it lightly so Elio can’t let it go easily. “How lucky you are to be a hacker in this team, huh? You will get so much money yet you still stay in the safe place.” Spinel says. He's the one who is going to get inside the bank and grab all of the money. “Isn’t that great tho?” Ackpal suddenly speaks up from behind them. “If he is in our spot, we probably can’t get all of the money, right?” He says sarcastically which makes the others laugh at them. Honestly Elio almost had enough with them but he also knows that the best option for him right now is to stay silent and won’t fight with them. Because all of them must be fighting physically which Elio won’t have a chance to win against. On the other hand, Elio also feels relieved that he doesn’t need to get close or inside the bank. From what Ackpal said to him, it’s not totally wrong since he probably doesn’t have as much experience as the others, experience of robbing something. With that, Elio just tries to calm himself down and focuses on the mission since he also knows that if he acts suspicious the others will notice it and probably he won't survive the first day. All of them are already in the van which means they are ready to go for today’s work. Onyx and Tahitian are on the front seats and the others at the back beside the controlling place for Elio. A few minutes pass by and Tahitian parks their van not too near or too far from the bank. “We are here. Blizzard and I will get in from the front door and observe them. You four and three of you can get into the position too as Tahitian drops you all off at the nearest spot.” Onyx explains once again before she gets off from the van with Blizzard. “Have a lovely date, you two.” Spinel says mockingly which makes the others laugh at them again. Only Blizzard who reacts to Spinel jokes with showing his middle finger at him. With that, Tahitian starts to drive the others to their spots and parks the van at the place that Onyx already planned before until the only one left in the van is us. “Everyone can hear me?” Suddenly Onyx speaks up through the earphone that everyone already got before getting into the van. “Loud and clear, ma lady.” Spinel replies with his teasing voice as usual. From that, everyone starts to talk at the same time except Elio and Obsidian. The two of them always stay quiet and not let their guard down from the beginning. “Alright everyone stay focused.” Onyx replies codly. “Ackpal, Pearl, Spinel, Tourmaline already in their positions?” she asks while looking around inside the front side of the bank. “Right on the spot.” Pearl replies and chuckles while preparing his stuff. “Almost there, my love.” Spinel replies, not missing any moment to tease everyone in this team. “We are there.” The two others reply at the same time. “Good. How about you, Obsidian? Schorl?” Onyx asks the emergency team. “All good.” Both of them reply while also looking around the bank. “Fantastic. We can start in two minutes then. Four of you don’t forget about the guards routine that I showed you yesterday.” Onyx remains them. “Anything for you.” Once again Spinel replies mockingly. Because of that, the others start losing control and start talking at the same time again. “Can you guys shut up?!” Suddenly Obsidian speaks up, this is the first time everyone hears he’s speaking. With that sudden action from him makes the others be quiet just in a second. “Chalcedony will turn off their security in less than one minute so stop talking and focus on your work.” He says with an angry voice. “Chill dude~ It’s not like you’re the one who is working hard later.” Ackpal replies teasing Obsidian one last time. Just about 10 seconds before Elio turns off the security, he turns on his microphone then speaks up. “The security will be off in five.. Four.. three.. Two.. one..” Elio announces and right after he says one, all of the security inside the bank is turned off. “Here we go!” Spinel shouts in excitement at the microphone before getting inside the safe room which disrupts the other three. Onyx and Blizzard who are inside the bank at the front side know the situation inside. Just about two minutes pass by, one of the guards notices it and quickly turns on the alarm which makes everyone in the bank panic as well. “Be ready. They notice it already.” Onyx reports to the team. “Blizzard, you know what to do.” Onyx says to Blizzard who is next to her and he responds with a nod. The two of them try to draw another attention in the crowd to make the situation in the bank become more uncontrollable. On Elio's side, the IT security from the bank side wants to take control back but Elio already learned and read all the things that might happen for today. Thankfully, he got the correct one and that makes it hard for them to get it back. “Hands on the air!” Suddenly everyone hears from the earphone. That threat makes everyone stop what they are doing right now in a second. Suddenly two guards show up right in front of the group who are in the safe room. Which makes all of the team members shocked because that is impossible for the two of them in there, especially when Elio is already locked in the room. Did they get inside from where the four members got in? Or there is an emergency way where Onyx missed to announce or get before?
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