The End Of The Substantial World - Chapter 17: The First Target Structure

It was late at night, as usual, I did my hygeine, took a shower, and all that. Then, went out with my love and our cult to do something fun. Tonight, though, we had something major planned for a place in the next county. Since we had a long journey ahead of us all, we just had to get some supplies and food for the trip, and maybe some attire. Only one place could have all these items in stock - the mall, in fact, a big one.1

One of the cult members, disguised as a doctor, had stolen a vat of sleeping gas from a hospital. We planned to use it to gas the security guards on patrol at night at the mall, of course, they would be okay, they would just fall asleep. Like I said, I had no intention to murder, for if I did, that would be another useful person gone and I would feel bad for some reason. Anyways, it was shut tight to make sure none of it gets out and causes drowsiness. Also, my love had bought for all of us, with that drug money we stole, a bunch of vans for us all of us to use for transportation. Of course, not all of us could be at the mall or arrive at the same time, or people could get suspicious. So, I divided the cult up into teams. They would keep watch for any intruders, basically securing the perimeter for us to go do our thing.2

Finally, we had arrived at the mall, with the sleeping gas container ready. The other teams patroled the outskirts of the county, keeping me informed of what was going on. It was just me, my love and about two vans of members. We had parked far away from the mall to, again, avoid suspicion. Also, I had bought with me, the devil mask, devil hands, and cloak I had found at party city, in hopes that I would find something to complete the disguise. One of the members bought a radio to make this mall raid a bit more fun and not too serious, Jack Nicholson-in-Batman style.3

I, then, gave orders.4

"Alright, guys, listen up. Now, you boys go look for the mall A/C unit and when you find it, you will take the container of sleeping gas, and you hook it up to the A/C system, keep me informed of your progress. The rest of you, follow me and my girl, we're going to pick the lock on the front door."5

"Yes, sir." the other team responded.6

"Alright, let's move!" I shouted, and then we moved into position.7

We ahd already gotten to the me and my team, waiting for the other team to deploy the sleeping gas into the mall. We hid behind the walls to keep out of the security guards' flashlights' direction of lumination. The other team had climbed up the ladder to look for the unit on the roof, which it was. It took some time, but they were able to hook up the container to the system8

"Sir, we have the container hooked up."9

"Excellent, now deploy the sleeping gas."10

"Right away, sir. You heard him, boys, let's wish sweet dreams to these guards."11

After about 5 minutes, the gas had taken its toll on the patrol inside. They were feeling so tired, eyes so heavy, stumbing around like drunks that had too much to drink. Finally, they could not take it no more, fallen down on their knees they had, then at last falling asleep and falling to the ground. They were in deep, deep sleep, sleeping like little babies.12

I, then, informed team 2, "Alright, we have sweet dreams to the children, boys. Call a bunch of the other teams over here, we're gonna need plenty of rooms to get what we want out of the mall. I'll starting picking the lock to gain access and when everyone gets here, we're gonna have us some fun."13

"Yes, sir", the team 2 member said.14

"Alright, I need 4 teams over here at the mall, ASAP, let's move it." Four agreed, and they were on their way over here. By the time they had gotten here, I was still having trouble picking the lock open, until I was able to. Finally, we had access to all the things we could want.15

Before we entered the mall, I had ordered a few members to capture the guards, so that they could be used for new cult members. Also, another team had to deactivate the surveillance cameras and steal the tapes. The rest of us would take anythign we wanted, as would the people I ordered to do what I needed them to. Next, I made like Jack Nicholson and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, let's broaden our minds. Tommy." Tommy, then, turned on the boom box he had with him, and played "Partyman".16

Once the song started, we begun waltzing through the mall in fun, dance-around fashion. Everyone else went through the mall, raiding it of everything they wanted, whilst I and my girl went into a clothing/attire store that was of our fashion to see if we could find something to complete our outfits. Tommy followed with the radio still playing "Partyman". I searched for a good pair of pants or jeans and some combat boots that would go well with the cloak. Everything was in black, had a creepy look to it all, had chains and freaky images. I chose plenty of pairs of those black pants with the chains, for they were perfect. Below the jeans, there were shoes, many of which were boots, all in black. I took 4 pairs of them, my girl put the rest in a bag.17

After having found everything needed to go with the costume, I got into it. It was like become a whole nother person as I slowly put on the mask and the fake hands. The dark clothing had shrouded my identity in mystery, completely. I felt both bad and good.18

I said to my love, "You know how they say, 'Mother Nature, meet the Grim Reaper'?"19

"Yeah, honey, what about it?" she asked.20

I slowly turned towards her and said, "Well, World, meet......the Red Devil." Yes, that was the name for my adopted alternate persona, it's not much, but it's something, at least. It was a persona that I would assume as the leader of my cult when I'm in action and a persona that another member would assume in certain situations. It was perfect, I had created the perfect real-life supervillain and what gave me a good advantage was that there was no superhero in real life, hahaha.21

As for my love, she had found herself a black coat and some black clothing, but that still wasn't enough to complete her persona, so she headed on over to a beauty store, and found herself a black wig. We both have quite a thing for wearing black, besides, it provides good camouflage at night. Of course, the look still wasn't totally complete, she still needed the make-up to be painted on her face, but she needed a professional make-up artist to paint it on for her. Nevertheless, though her look was still incomplete by a face of make-up, she adopted the alternate persona known as "The Dark Angel".22

I said to her, "Wow, nice going, my love, you look very ravishing."23

"As do you, my Red Devil", she said. We kissed.24

Meanwhile, the other troops were raiding the place of whatever they wanted for the trip. Some of the places were worthless, that my troops trashed them just for fun. The girls raided the perfume and beauty stores, but most of what they found was worthless for them. The guys raided the sporting goods and places like that, taking anything else that could be used for transportation. Everyone raided every other store - movies, video games, food, music, etc.25

The two security guards had risen up already from their knock-out. They didn't remember anything about who they were, just nothing, total memory loss. The few troops, however, were able to give them and alternate personality, turn them over to our side. That was 4 more members of our cult for me and my love.26

And then, the other few had gotten rid of all evidence recorded by the surveillance cameras.27

My troops, then, showed me what they had wanted.28

"Sir, sure is a lot of stuff", a troop said, "what will we do with it all?"29

"Hmmmm...I think I saw an eighteen-wheeler out back. We'll use it to move all the stuff. Go and check for any lo-jack-related devices on the truck and you guys load everything into the truck."30

"Yes, sir. By the way what is that you are dressed in?"31

"It is my disguise I made up, you may call me the Red Devil and her, the Dark Angel. Now, get moving." I commanded and they went ahead and started moving the stuff out.32

When they got to the truck, the first bunch of troops checked carefully for a lo-jack system. There was one present, hidden very well, where it was almost totally invisible to the naked eye. They took careful precaution in getting it out, hoping to not set off any alarm. As soon as it was out, the troops destroyed it. Next, the second half broke the lock to the back of the truck. Slowly and carefully, they loaded everything into the truck.33

It was just about time we got on out of there. By raid's end, the mall was a huge mess. Shattered glass and trashed up stores have domianted the place highly. It would be funny to see everyone mad and how much they have to clean up, but we wouldn't be sticking around to see that in person.34

We decided to finally call it a night for us all, we had everything we need for the trip to salvation ahead. Still, there was one catch, I couldn't just leave, people would start to wonder where I am. I had to do something else other than just vanish. Then, it hit me, the most brilliant plan to ever vanish away.35

"Alright, boys, listen up. Now, before we leave on our journey to freedom, you will need to do something." I said.36

"Yes, sir?" a troop asked.37

"Listen, I will be laying low for a while. You all will go the next night and find the police station. Your mission is to create a diversion for them to deal with. Make a 911 call about a serious emergency that requires every officer to leave the place. Then, you will infiltrate the premises and you will confiscate all of their automatic and semi-automatic weaponry. These will be very useful to us for any destruction that is needed to be caused. Do not stick around there, as soon as all of the weapons are out, leave immediately. Leave the cops be when they come back, there are to be no casualties, do I make myself clear?"38

They all shouted, "Yes, sir!"39

"Good. Now, the next thing, the next day in which I'm working at my place of employment, you all will rush into the place and you are to hold it up. Take a few goods or some cash if you want to, but here's the key thing you are to do - you are to kidnap me, one of you will hold me at gunpoint to make it look like you will shoot if anyone comes near you. This is a way to keep people thinking that I'm not the leader of this cult, that the leader has kidnapped me. The world will know the truth at the end."40

"Yes, sir!" they shouted again. And then, we all went home, went our seperate ways until the end of the week...