[ WP ] Humans have evolved to lay eggs instead of live birthing , and you have been tasked with protecting the largest incubation facility in the world from the heist of the century .

I nodded, signaling that I saw his gesture, as I crawled through the window. We were leaving the streetlights and the bitter wind, exchanging it for the metallic aroma of machinery and copper. My nostrils filled with the smell of spoons, but I reached into my pocket for the flashlight. 
 
 After several clicks and grunts, beams of light pierced the darkness. The window shut behind us, cutting off the chilling breeze, and I surveyed the hall. This was the left wing of the facility. 
 
 My light ran over the blinking bulbous eyes of a camera. Nothing would be registered; we had fourteen minutes before the loop would be caught. Fourteen minutes to steal the egg of the President. 
 
 “ Safeties off. ” Jake ’ s voice crackled in my ear. He was down the hall already, positioned by the steel door with a rifle across his front. Sylvia was bent down, pouring her fingers into a laptop. 
 
 The rest of us scrambled into place. We moved like shadows in a sea of night time. 
 
 “ On three. ” 
 
 My gun was in my hands; I held my breath, stroking the silencer with my finger. The door slid open in front of us slowly, like water sinking into the wall. I clenched my jaws, squinting into the room, ready to count the number of hostiles the nine of us would have to face. 
 
 Jake nodded, and we dove into the room, the door shutting behind us with a gasp. 
 
 “ Clear. ” It was empty of people, except for the eggs. Classified and stacked to incubate on a schedule predestined by the facility. 
 
 We split into three groups. Shelf after shelf with glass faces loomed and zoomed past as we ran up the stairs and headed for the back. There were three paths for us to take, and we had to make sure all possible routes were clear. I could picture us as dots running along the blue prints we ’ d chalked up; everything was going according to plan. 
 
 Up ahead I could see the soft red glow above an enormous steel circle that hung to the wall like a steering wheel. This was it; this was where the egg undoubtedly was. With this, we would hold the future of the country, the future of the world. 
 
 I slowed down, allowing my two team mates to step ahead. My gun swiveled in my hands, my finger pulling the trigger twice. Two bursts of light, and they sunk to the ground without a word or a scream. Six to go. 
 
 Sylvia, Jake, and one more whose name I didn ’ t know were already there as I slipped behind a shelf. Jake held the wheel with both hands, looking to Sylvia who held the laptop with one hand as she furiously typed with the other. The third man stood at guard, surveying the direction the other two teams should be coming from. 
 
 “ Report in. ” Jake ’ s voice crackled in my ear, tense and sharp. 
 
 Silence. I held my breath. 
 
 “ A. B. Report. ” Higher pitch. He took a deep shaky breath. I could see his shoulders moving from here. “ Report. ” 
 
 “ I ’ ve got it. ” Sylvia ’ s voice rang out with excitement, but the third man was already moving. I saw the flashes of his silenced gun, the whispered shots. 
 
 The wheel swung to the right; Jake and Sylvia fell to the ground. He pulled off his mask and nodded at me. “ All clear. ” 
 
 A second voice whispered in my ear. “ All clear here too. ” Every member of Jake ’ s heist was dead. 
 
 I flicked my radio on. “ We ’ ve got the egg in sight, Madam. ” 
 
 “ Good. ” 
 
 I moved into the room. The egg sat in a plush case that cost more than most of this facility. “ Egg secure. ” I slipped it into my bag. 
 
 “ Two minutes till take off. ” Her voice crackled in my ear. “ Witnesses? ” 
 
 “ All clear. ” 
 
 I stepped over Jake and Sylvia and their pool of blood. I nodded at the other two, and we headed back for the window, leaving behind the countless eggs of humankind and all of Jake ’ s promises of wealth and riches. His plan, although well thought out, was doomed for failure the moment Madam Pure set her sights on the golden egg. 
 
 We ’ d just hijacked the biggest heist of the century and now were going to be filthy fucking rich. 

