Taylor had been just going through the motions the past couple of months. Work at the flower shop had been going well, he wasn't fired yet so that was a plus. After abit of an embarassing night at a bar that he would like to forget, he had keep his head down. The itch however to get out had been on the back of Taylors mind for a while now and this night seemed like a good enough time.
Halloween is such a great time of the year, no one thinks anythings strange about a grown man buying a hockey mask, yellow cleaning gloves, a bag with ghost saying Boooo, and small flash light in the middle of the night at wal mart. If anything my purchases at 1 am were more normal then most of the people in the one check out lane that night. Something about the 300 pound man in a moo buying a turkey, condoms, and yogurt sent a chill down my spine.
I headed to the 9th ward around two am with my bag of goodies swinging at my hip. I knew where I was going a pawn shop in a part of town that really wasn't great. Located between two vacant stores all the lights in the parking lot had either been burned out or shot out long ago. The store itself had thick metal bars on the windows and door out front, and a security gate pulled down and locked tight. I however had no desire to enter through the front door.
I had watched the place for about a week off and on and knew the owners schedule he opened at 9 am and headed home at 11 pm. The place was used pretty regularly by petty thefts, purse snachers, and drug feinds. So stealing from a fencer really didn't bring tears to my eyes. There was a back door to the place by the dumpster. The smell behind the store was urine and filth which made me gag the first time I had recon, so much cooler if you call it recon, the building. The door like the front is heavy and locked tight. The wall however is made of wood.
Taking a glance around and seeing no one Taylor slides the hockey mask over his face and pulls his hoodie up to cover his hair. With his left hand he makes OK sign and places his right onto the wall. Rust colored tenticles slowly spread into the wood and right away the color begins to change to a dead black rot color. I place some weight onto the wall with my right hand and within a few seconds my hand goes through the wall. With a bit of pushing and pulling i'm able to make a big enough hole for my body to slide into. As I stand up the cheap security system finally registers something on their motion detectors and a whoop whoop starts going off. I find the pad and placing my right hand on the consols it starts to melt and decay off the wall. I know my time has now started; the whoops have stopped and a min later the phone rings, I know it's the security company calling and with no answer a alert will go out.
First thing first I find the small tv hooked up to the dvr security camera in the store and in the back office, the device itself is locked away in a metal box. I grab the av cables from the back of the tv and follow it back to the rear of the box. The red mist follows along cables and I hold them till I see the metal box the dvr was sitting in start to turn rusty, good luck getting anything out of that.
The Safe is my first hit, I got lucky and it's a stand alone safe no build into the ground or walls. The doors of safes are thick and would take to long to get into but I've seen these safes before the sides however are much thinner. Opening a hole high up to avoid an accident of decaying money i'm able to slide my hand in and come out with bank deposit and a large bag with some weight to it. Doing some quick math in my head I beilve my time is running short and really everything on the store floor could be traceable in some way or the other not worth the risk at this time. I slip back out of my little hole in the wall and with my stored up juice from all the objects destroyed I take off at a olympian speed down the alley.
I've run this path a couple times so I know where I'm going. It isn't till i'm 5 blocks over that I remove the mask, gloves, and drop my hood. 3 more blocks Taylor runs till he stops at an old condemed apartment building. The bottom floor is used by homeless and vagrants and the stairs inside have collapsed but with my enhanced jumping with decay juice I can reach the fire escape and pull myself up and into the building by pulling partical board out enough so I can squeeze in. This run down wreck of a building has become my hidie/emergency hole. I walk down the hall till I come to 4th door. The door would not open by puting any normal force on it. I reach my right hand into a hole in the wall and find the bar that holds the door closed. After a second the bar breaks and I step in. I close the door and place the bar back where it needs to be with my left hand I hold the two pieces together. A soft silver light shines for a couple of seonds and when he lets go the bar is one solid piece again. Sitting down on a couch from the 70's and that looks way to nice and new for the run down enviroment I open my loot bag and smile. "Lets see what I got shall I."
