Ace's POV:

Sudden change in temperature makes me shiver even though the lobby of the hotel is warm.

Mason moves forward to the reception to check us in while I check out the surrounding.

Huge chandelier is what catches my attention first. It hangs down from the ceiling and covers two floors. In the second floor you could see wondering eyes of the tourist as they look at everything from the higher floor.

Purple colored carpet and silver accessories all around the lobby reminds you once again that, you are in for an expensive stay. Light sounds of piano keys, smell of cigar, formal dresses of both workers and guests adds into the class of this place.

I put my bag down and start to go further in. Lights only get brighter as you move forward. In the corner I saw the black piano and the young performer. 

The group of people who were positioned in the seats in both sides of piano started to applaud as the last note echoed through the room.

In the other side there are huge shelves in both sides. One is filled with books while other consist of various bottles of alcohol.

I felt small ping of sadness when I remembered that I needed to stay sober for the length of our stay here. God damn me for not being able to contain myself when I am drunk.

Lobby is bigger than our house and I start thinking about the size of the rooms. Exactly what we would need if we are being attacked. 

Jason jumps up on me from behind and I stumble forward. I am ready to curse him out when I see him smiling weirdly towards me. I scrunch my eyebrows and Jason nods towards the toilets. "Let's get refreshed now, shall we?" I didn't look like I had a choice other than following him.

After getting to the toilet and checking all of the stalls Jason locks the door. "The guy just arrived he is checking in right next to Mason. I tried to mess their system to make the wait for checking in longer than usual, so both us and The Guy go to our rooms together. It would be great opportunity to start small talk with him."

While Jason explains I lean on to the closed door and nod and try to come up with the second part of the plan.  When I just wanted to open my mouth and say my ideas Jason shushes me.

"Also, try to keep your face away from cameras. Just now you were gazing straight towards the camera angle. We don't want anyone to know we are here, remember?" Jason scolds me like a child I am.

I nod and sigh. "Sorry just the time difference, and jet lag is catching on to me." I say and Jason pats my back with understanding. Both he and Mason slept on the plane while I couldn't even blink normally.

After getting freshened up, we make our way outside. I take a look towards the reception and see Mason standing next to tall person with an expensive looking suit. He only had one big luggage. Nothing more, nothing less.

It is weird to think that this business-man-type boy is trafficking with the latest technology of black market. And what's weirder is that he prefers to be called The Guy.  If you want to choose a villain name at least choose cool one.

But our mission here isn't learning about his weird name. It is about killing that name. More importantly killing that name without harming our own names.

The Guy is going to sell his latest product tomorrow night, in this hotel. It is a virus or a protection, I am not good with their names. It is supposed to hide you from everyone in the internet even the dark web and stuff like that. You could make a transaction worth of millions but when people try to trace it, it would appear to be dead end. Totally safe for everyone who wants to do anything,

That weapon has the possibility of destroying everyone around the world so we plan to take the only copy of it, download it to ourselves and then destroy it. Sounds pretty right and fair to me.

We will have to deal with stopping the buyer, and then getting the guy out of the public eye and ending it right then and there.

"Let's go boys, we are done here."  Mason calls to us and me and Jason get up and walk towards the elevator. The Guy walks right behind us, we exchange looks and keep walking calmly towards elevator.

The thing here is, we don't know how smart nor how experienced this guy is on gang stuff. Most likely he knows the basics, which includes top rated gang in the England- Us. So we can't risk letting him to know too much about us for the case if he gets away.

All four of us get into the elevator, good thing is The Guy is going to the same floor as we- 27. "Oh, look how funny we are floor roomies." Jason starts conversation with a bad joke I role my eyes. "Noah, I beg you, please stop with your dad jokes. You will be able to bore your kid with it in few months anyway."

Naturally I use fake name and fake facts about him. But right kind of fake- most people are interested in young fathers because they think that it is stupid to have a child this young.

"Oh, no keep the jokes up, I love them. I think dad jokes are underappreciated. You need to be skilled to made that kind of stuff up." Our prey speaks. His voice is much more childish, and doesn't suit his looks of big business man.

"No don't encourage him, his ego grows and it can be fatal for all of us." Mason chimed in. "At least have mercy in future child." He also added. The Guy turned towards Jason with and interested look.

"Going to be dad huh? I am not trying to be rude, but aren't you young, I mean are you ready to take this task of raising a child?" He asks.

Bingo.

Jason shrugged. "Dunno, it had kind of happened and I thought why delay stuff. I will learn in the process, right?" The Guy nodded. "Oh, I am Jonah, by the way." He said.

"I am Noah, this is Jamie and Arnold." That fucker chose the name that I hate most. What the fuck is Arnold??? We all smile towards 'Jonah' which I really doubt that his real name.

Like on que elevator finally arrives and we make our way outside. "So, my room is in the opposite direction, I guess I'll see you around boys." Jonah shakes hands with us, his handshake is abnormally firm. He might be hard to take out.

We make our way towards our room and wait until we have closed and locked the door to start talking about him. "He seems like a nice guy. To nice to sell black market stuff for living." Mason said and Jason nodded agreeing with him.

I just shrugged and sighed. "I don't know, he could be faking it for all we know." I warned them and opened my suitcase. Under few shirts and socks I had put few small knives, my favorite gun and few smaller weapons. "Did you put the don't disturb sign out?" I asked Jason.

He scratched his neck then looked at me weirdly. "Man, what's that piece of paper going to do to protect our stuff?"

I chuckled. "This is the most powerful sign in the hotel. If we put it at least cleaning people won't have any reason to go through our stuff."  added while Jason put it out.

"So, I think best action plan is to go and enjoy hotel for now, then learn in which number stays our guy, and try to get in while he is not in the room and wait for him there. '' Mason says while he hangs his stuff and goes to take look at bathroom.

"We shouldn't look like our real selves. Think of this as extra protection measure." Jason adds and jumps on the bed.

"Man, this place is really cool. They give free massage therapies and stuff. Mason comes back to the main room with a brochure in his hands, I chuckle and take it from him to look for myself.

Just then Jason's phone rings and he answers and comes closer to us. "Hey losers." I hear Max's voice from the other side. From Jason showing middle finger to the screen I understood that it was a video call.

Jason sat between me and Mason and now we could see others. Blair and Chance were going through papers while Max was just shaking camera like a crazy person.

They stayed in New York to keep working on reappearance of Rose. Chance wants to make a big deal out of it. As she puts it: "I don't come back from dead every day, so let me make a big deal out of it."  So Blair and Max are there to keep things under control.

"How's it going with the 'headline killer plan'?" I ask them about it. I wonder what Chance is going to put out. She nods and then turns towards the camera. "Hopefully it should be up tomorrow morning."

"So, already done with it? How will you display it?" Jason chimes in with wonder. "Blair managed to get the Times Square billboards working schedule and tomorrow they are adding some new movie trailer there. Instead of Children's movie trailer they will get me!" Chance said excitedly.

We all chuckled and Max turned camera to himself. "What about you guys? Have you already found him? Did you settle?"

Mason nodded. "Yep, just had a fun chat with him."

"And we hope to continue that chat latter in the evening in his room, with him chained somewhere."  I add with a grin.