A few more hours.... Cirid thought to himself, it was about 10 hours before the storm arrived, and he was sitting in the Camera Room 4C with three other security guards, Jordan, Derek, and Sheliah. They were all working the graveyard shift, which is surprisingly the hardest shift to do, as that's when thieves wanted to be most active, and when the fewest guards were around, but working in a place like Kaz Enterprises, even the smallest mistake will result in death, or as Mr.Kaz would like to call it, a 'Disappearance'. Yeah he's crafty like that. Anyways, Cirid and the others were enjoying a few beers and fooling around as usual...When all of a sudden the room glows red. Derek, a portly yet intelligent man, put on his glasses and stared at the cameras. "It seems like we have an intruder on the 87th floor, hallway 8, appearing to move toward one of the research rooms, room #8794. I'm going to bring the Security Automation System online to dispatch with the intruder...wait, what the hell?"
The intruder, who wore a baseball cap, a black trench-coat, and a mask looked at the camera, held up his phone, and pressed a button, the screen went black. In fact all of the cameras on that floor went black.
Derek jumped backwards in utter shock: "HACKER!" He yelled. Jordan smiled, and then cocked his pistol, and clutched Sheliah, who was his soon-to-be wife, and smirked, "Looks like we are doing this one manually, Derek, you stay here and try to fix the camera, Cirid, Sheliah babe, you're with me, lets go to that floor and deal with that bastard ourselves!" Cirid Shrugged,
now would be a good time to test his parkour skills in action he thought briefly,
but then again, that would attract attention, unneeded and unwanted attention. So he followed Jordan and Sheliah down three flights of stairs into the 87th floor, to hopefully find the hacker still there, explosions were heard, and we found out as we neared his location that they were the SAS units that were aimed at taking down the hacker, instead, they exploded, it was also later found out that there were security guards that already were on the case, their lifeless, shot-up bodies tell how that went. Cirid Gulped, Thoughts swimming all throughout his head,
How powerful is this guy? Does he have an army? is he part of the Revolution? Oh man I hope not! We neared the room where the Hacker was running for, room 8794, blood painted the floors there, and the noises of rummaging was heard.
He's still there! Cirid was actually relieved at the thought. He'd rather get shot by this guy than 'disappear' by Mr.Kaz, the man is sick already, better not get further into it. We entered the room slowly, Cirid lowered his tail and hid behind one of the toppled research tables: they have metal to survive acid, it most certainly will deflect bullets. He cocked his gun, and leaned and cornered the table ever so slightly at the grumpy man. He then paused. Had he noticed we entered the room? He turned around, and pulled out two full-auto pistols. He scanned around the room with cold, blue eyes. Then shots were fired.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
THUMP! A body had slumped to the floor, somebody had died.
But it was not himself! Oh the joy!
In the midst of that thought, he looked to his left, toward the door which they entered, He saw Jordan, leaned over a table, dead, and Sheliah, just seconds away from bawling for the loss of her love, sure he was ballsy and a bit egocentric, but an honest, intelligent man, there was no need to kill off such a person. The man walked slowly to confront her.
If there was a time to act NOW would be that time! Cirid jumps on top of a counter, than dashes at the burgular, who manages to fire a shot onto Cirid as he topples him and disarms him. He gives the man a pleading look out of fear, saying
don't do this, please! The man shifts his head to the right an throws Cirid off him, running out of the room, and grabbing a file of some sort off the ground, Cirid picks up his gun and chases after him, his left hand clutching to his side, where he had been shot. blood and dispatched fur dripping off of the wound. he follows him, shooting rounds and hoping to hit him, but as if he were the protagonist in some movie, they all miraculously miss the man. He keeps firing until he hears the familiar 'click click' of an empty gun, no more ammo, not even extra clips in his pockets.
It's all over, Cirid dropped the gun, and held up his hands, the left one bloody as hell, and crouched to the ground
"I surrender.". The man turned around at the edge of the building to confront him, then as if fortune smiled upon him, the man nodded, pulled out his gun, and pulled down his mask, it revealed a human male, probably in his late thirties, with a small scar on the right side of his face, and a small, scruffy beard, and all of it smiled at Cirid, he broke the window behind him, and fell off it. Cirid rushed to see what happened, but the hacker wasn't there, he was gone.
At that moment, he realized who that man, that thief was.
As protocol has concerned, well, the police were called in to see the massacre, Cirid managed to persuade them that he ran away with nothing, and that his team managed to scare him off, Which was good, because that meant no disappearing for today. That's always good, Cirid's day was cut short because of his wound. And he was rushed off to the hospital, "It was a miracle." they said, the bullet merely chipped the side of his fur, and it's more like a big cut than a bullet wound, and because of the high population here, they didn't let him stay long in that hospital, in fact, they bandaged him up, and took care of everything in just a mere 3 hours. Which left him to take care of some things at his house, he refreshed himself from the previous traumatizing events, frankly, it was a complete miracle he lived today, he could have died, like multiple times, mainly from Mr.Kaz, for not catching the dude, but profits must have been on his side today, and got him in a good mood. After a shower and a small nap to refresh himself, he sat down to watch some television to see amazing architecture, because he's weird like that. A this point, rain has fallen, but it wasn't bothering him that much, in fact, it was frankly a bit soothing. But then something hit him.
"DAH! I forgot to get those...things! At the store!" He rushed out of his apartment to the nearest store, his little act ALL OVER the news, Thankfully, the cameras were cut off and Sheliah was too traumatized to tell the news anything. And Cirid left the scene before people arrived, thank goodness for agility.
So the story that was left was basically some superhuman hacker-man broke into a high-level security building, killed seven guards (And wounded one), wrecked the electronics and left the place, supposedly stealing nothing. They think the man was there just to kill people. A serial killer or terrorist on the loose. Eventually he did his damage and left the place. And Police and Kaz Security are both looking in on the situation, to look for motive mainly.
Cirid honestly couldn't take anymore of that crap, he shut of the television, screaming in anger, and left the apartment, into the flooding streets from below, the rain seemed to soothe him just a bit, drowning out the drama of the city just a bit, but eventually it, like the city began to become a bother again, so he had to run, find a nice, dry place from the storm (plus, his coat wasn't the best in the world)...
So, he entered the store...
@Zackymas