Written by : Plk458

There were four of us in the garage; Tod, Rico , the new guy and me, having only recently transferred to the local branch of Goldman Inc as well.

Tod was on the phone and pacing around erratically and yelling something incomprehensible every now and then. In the meantime the rest of us was waiting; Rico was smoking in the corner and I was checking my MP5 ,that I had bought earlier that day nervously, I don’t remember any more what the new guy was doing but I think he was called Thomas.

After what seemed like an eternity Tod hung up the phone and threw it into a corner of the garage.

Without saying a word he walked towards the new guy, who was standing close to the garage gate, pressed a 9 mm into his hand and pushed him outside, locking the grey gate behind him.

“Mosantos is coming for the deal.” He said whispering and screaming at the same time, as if it explained the situation.

I knew we had a disk with vital information, Rico was carrying it in a briefcase, maybe that’s what the deal was about.

“What about the new guy I asked?”

“If they shoot him we know it’s a setup.” Tod answered without hesitation.

While I was still thinking about how to respond to that engine noises came from outside, somebody, hopefully the people from Mosantos where here, directly outside the closed garage gate.

For a moment everything seemed fine, their car engines wound down and there was silence.

But suddenly gunfire erupted directly outside, instinctively I ducked behind a car and aimed my MP5 at the still closed gate.

The gunfire was fully automatic but I could hear some pistol shoots as well, after the initial shock had lifted we were uncertain what to do for a moment, while the gunfire keep going.

Then we could hear it; banging against the garage door and the new guy yelling;”Let me in!”

Gunfire still going in the background.

I stayed behind the car, but Rico started approaching the grey gate, when he almost had reached the controls Tod ran towards him and tackled him to the ground yelling;”Do not open that gate!”

The banging stopped soon after, but not the gunfire.

Only after what seemed like an eternity it died down and somebody else banged against the garage door.

A male voice yelled:”We’re from Mosantos we are here for the deal.”

After contemplating for a moment we decided to open the gate, I took cover behind a car in the Garage aiming my MP5 at the gate and Rico, carrying the briefcase, with Tod covering him with an AK-47 approached the gate and opened it.

As the Garage shutters lifted the revealed a scene of bloodshed, broken glass, 2 cars that had collided almost in front of the gate, bullet casing and the new guy, dead on the floor right in front of the gate and 3 people in grey suits, one of them carrying a briefcase.

They must have gotten into a firefight with another competitor. Instantly both sides raised their guns and aimed them at each other, waiting for the other side to make a move.

“Let’s do a clean deal!” Tod yelled maniacally as he stepped over the body of the new guy pointing his AK-47 at Monsanto’s Briefcase carrier.

Rico and his counterpart switched cases, opened them to make sure everything was there and then Tod and Rico slowly stepped backwards into the Garage never dropping their guard until the gate was closed again.





Later that day paperwork arrived that had gotten lost somewhere in the HR department until now, saying that the new guy had been fired yesterday over budget cuts.



Tod would later get a promotion for saving the company from having to pay a severance package.

Written by PLK