Three months from the last attempt for our first scam, which had to be aborted because fruity went out of control and destroyed the plan down on a high note. Now it was a new city and a new plan.
Chammoo was too scared and paranoid about adopting the old plan for this attempt. So it did take, like before, a month of meticulous planning and gave my memories another chance to haunt me. All I wished was for Chammoo’s perpetual diarrhea to one day make him expel all his organs.
The plan was simple yet very hard for Mystic and Fruity to follow and this only put me through more vain of coming up with one in the first place. Yes I am cranky, try staying awake while others slept for a month and then see all your hard work go to waste, anyway we were to infiltrate a bank, work there for around 3 months and find out valuable information.
We were after the big deal, the military was testing new weaponry in the vicinity and thats all we knew. These tests were kept top secret and to get our hands on the weapons, we needed every bit of information we could get. The bank came in handy for providing information on the military personnels involved in these tests.
Cinq (“five” in French) out the six top level military personnels kept their most active accounts in this bank. Not many people realize but a simple bank statement can tell a lot about a person. Even the little ATM receipt you get at every cash withdrawal.
Phase one of the plan had be executed, all four of us, Mystic, Fruity, Chammoo and I had secured jobs in the different departments of the bank. We spoke very little amongst each other as planned actually only Chammoo and I followed this part whereas Fruity and Mystic had become best friends at office. They went to lunch together and when ever you would look around you would see them gossiping near the water cooler. A week later I joined them too.
We derailed of the plan even further, we forgot the purpose and started pulling pranks on the only serious member amongst us. We would leave anonymous letters telling him that our cover was broken and that the person who knew wanted half of whatever we were after. Chammoo worried at this condition came to us and we agreed to pay this certain person half our salaries, by the end of the month Fruity, Mystic and I had half of Chammoo’s salary at our disposal.
This wasn’t the only thing we did. We also left pins on Chammoo’s chair, pigeons in his drawers and oh my favorite, we even kept a broken windshield, side mirrors and lights on his table with a letter claiming they belonged to his car and we were sorry for the damage. Chammoo’s face was to be seen, it was the moment when you wished you had a camera. He ran out to his car, only to find that we were pulling his leg.
Slowly we all sobered out and things for me became grieve. I started hating work. Every day I would walk into office counting down the days to the end of our three months in this bank. Thankfully Chammoo had, unlike the rest of us three, stuck to our motives and gathered information on the military personnels. We were half way done and now we were about to enter phase two of our plan.
I sat at my table starring at the pile of work I had left and then looked around to see the other three engraved in their work, I peered into Mystic’s screen and saw him harvesting crops on Farmville. I then just starred at the ceiling and began to ponder off in my imagination. I walked on the same old yellow brick road that I often did, I was on the path to visit the wizard.
As I walked, all I wished for was that Axel Rose was not the wizard. I do believe he was getting tired of being the wizard because for the past three times I had been imagining him in a polka dotted fork. I had questions swarm around my head like bees around a hive. As I got towards the end I saw the lonely leafless tree and the skies change its color from sharp plastic blue to a dark satin red.
I got closer and saw the wizard looking at the oblivion that lay ahead. The wizard told me he awaited me and turned around. It was Ronnie James Dio and I thanked God. Dio looking at the questions told me to close my eyes and bring forward my hand.
I felt one of the question land on my palm and him picking it up. With a short laugh as if he was expecting this question he replied “Ride the tiger, You can see his stripes but you know he’s clean, Oh don’t you see what I mean”
Not understanding the context I inquired about the question and he replied saying it was a secret. So now I had an answer of an unknown question. I closed my eyes and waited for another question to land. The reply to this question was simple and short “I told you it was a secret.” At least now I knew what the second question was. I was about to close my eyes for the third when he interrupted and told me he was tired, he gave me a message and told me I would know when to use it, when the time was right. Dio was great help.
I woke up from the dream to see Fruity’s mouse fly across the room, hit the wall and shatter. Apparently it wasn’t out of rage but simple usage. This made five abused mice and his boss wasn’t too happy. The boss rose from his seat and started screaming, I blocked out all sounds and watched all what happened next as if it was a silent film.
Two knives flew out of nowhere and got lodged in Fruiy’s boss’s neck. Fruity had become better at his skills and so made the whole knife throwing unnoticeable. Mystic had a subtly manacle smile as this whole endeavor was very endearing to him. The smile however was broken when the flabbergasted guards ran towards the boss with the fresh new orifices and bumped into Mystic breaking his train of thought and the guards stopped in their steps, their eyes screaming of confusion, shot themselves and others. Chammoo was standing in front of the photocopier and followed the movement of the lamp in the photocopier by taking small steps to either side. In a matter of minutes, Mystic and Fruity got in to the vaults and emptied them. I sat and watched.
When they all got done, I ,infuriated by the fact that another of my plan went haywire and that my hard work went to waste, jumped on to the table and pointing at other three members spoke Dio’s message.
“Do your demons – do they ever let you go, When you’ve tried – do they hide -deep inside, Is it someone that you know, You’re just a picture – your an image caught in time, We’re a lie – you and I, We’re words without a rhyme”


