Chapter Four

“Okay here’s the plan.” the agent named Johnson barked. There were four people including Steven in a white van a few blocks from the safehouse. The safehouse was in a quiet community.

“Obviously they will be monitoring the house, so we only have a few minutes before their camera sees us and we have to escape. Steven, where is the device located and how long will it take to download the data?”

Steven replied “Most likely up to 7 or 8 minutes.”

“Okay gentlemen, safety’s off. If possible, try to stall for time instead of having a shootout. Lets go.”

The driver made his way to the house. They all got out of the van and ran towards the house. Agent Johnson kicked in the door and checked the rooms. It was clear. Steven ran to his computer in his secret compartment and began downloading the data on to a new CD.

Johnson “How much longer?”

“About 5 minutes.”

Just then agent Kevin ran through the front door.

“We have a problem, the police scanner just reported us. Swat is going to be here any minute.”

With sweating hands, Steven replied, “Almost there.”

Suddenly, a loudspeaker sounded ” Come out with your hands up, you have 5 minutes.”

Steven said “Great, that should be more than enough.”

Johnson said “One of us should stay behind to provide as a distraction.”

“I will.” Agent Kevin volunteered. “It is an honor to die for the cause.”

Steven thought, “They really sound like terrorists.”

When he was finally done, he grabbed the CD and motioned for the agents to follow him into the basement.

“I always knew this would come in handy. This house belonged to my grandfather, this is a bomb shelter but it has a backdoor that leads to the sewer. From there we should be able to get to the van.”

As they got into the car they heard a huge explosion. Steven looked to see that a bomb had been detonated right on his house.