I'm Noah Sinfero

The cash had been put on a large trolley with a transparent sheet on top.

"This is a 100,000,000 release a 100 hostages." A policeman said through the microphone.

...

Inside the mall seeing the cash prepared, the man next to Kira looked at her, "Go get it."

Kira walked out of the mall. The outside world felt foreign as the sun shone brightly, with bustling sounds of cars and people. A large amount people stared at her. Far away civilians and family members of the people inside watched her, while the police observed her from much closer.

The police had snipers and guns all pointed in her direction. She walked unintimated and reached the trolly. She grabbed on and walked back, pulling it up the slope leading into the mall.

Back through the glass doors into the shadowy mall. When she was far enough in a man came to inspect the money and took it from her. The man who gave her the jacket made her stand with him.

"Well done, you get to live another 30 minutes. I hope you won't go back on your word later." The man said smiling.

"I won't, as long as you keep yours."

The cash had been checked, as the leader took the mic, "A 100 people's sins have been purified by the help of others they leave."

"No one speaks! We will choose who leaves." A man in the front shouted.

A 100 people were chosen from the front. Vince was one of the people leaving, seeing him being carried out she felt relieved. The injury was bad but with medical treatment, he would be able to recover.

The man stood beside her, "He left, now when I have to switch you coming with me."

"Okay," Kira responded without looking.

...

Time passed another hundred million had been delivered and another hundred people were released. After a while when the third time round of money was about to be prepared.

Noah turned to Alice, He gave her a kiss on her hand, "Stay safe."

She nodded as she felt the adrenaline rush, this was the first she would be doing something so risky. She then slowly stood up with her hands raised.

"You! Sit down!"

"I need to go to the bathroom."

"Sit down!"

"Please! I can't hold it in any longer. Please take me." Alice said dramatically, acting her best. It was easy to take these men in with a honey trap. This was all part of the plan.

The man looked at her with a lecherous gaze hearing Alice, "Fine, come with me."

Noah felt his blood boil, but he kept it in and looked towards Kira. Alice could deal with that man herself. He needed to move on with the plan.

...

Kira at the front saw Alice stand and be taken away. Not knowing what happened she looked for Noah to see him looking at her.

She saw him show his phone and flick it to the side as if he was throwing it secretly. He then hid it again.

Normally, she might not have understood what he was saying but at the moment she felt she could easily comprehend what it was. He told her to go outside and flick her phone to the side towards the police. She still had her phone in her pocket on silent.

It seemed like Noah and Alice had come up with a plan. She looked away acting as if nothing had happened. The man beside her had been looking away and hadn't noticed anything.

...

Alice followed behind the man to the restroom.

"Go in. I'll wait here." The man said.

Alice nodded naively and walked in. She pulled a stall door close then moved to stand next to the door of the girls restroom.

The man on the outside and laughed as he walked in, he saw the closed stall door. Alice on the side jumped pushing down his gun and disarmed him. She then got her arms around his neck as she choked.

The man fell and felt his throat be crushed. He held on to Alice's arms trying to break the old but she was too strong. His face turned red to blue as he passed out.

Alice got off, she wasn't at Noah or Kira's level but dealing with someone like this scumbag was a piece of cake. She pulled him up and started stripping him of his clothes. She took off everything of value, gagged and tied him up in a bathroom stall with some rope. Locking the door with a broom from the outside.

In the mirror, she dressed herself to like exactly like them. She pushed in her hair and hid it. The man was only a bit taller than her so it would be hard for people to notice. She then walked out and locked the door with keys she found inside.

The clothes she took off in hand, she then dropped them at the side along the way to the centre. She would have to come back for them later.

...

Noah checked the time, 'Alice should be done changing and Kira's leaving as well. It's time.'

Noah took off his hat and mask. The people next to him widened in eyes and people gasped.

"Quiet!" One of the men shouted.

Noah raised his hands standing up, "I'm Noah Sinfero, I'll pay rest of the 10 billion. Let everyone here go."

...

Kira could hear the gasps behind her as she walked out of the glass door. She understood Noah was distracting everyone for her. Already done it twice she walked to the money in the centre of the barricade and as she held on to the trolley she made eye contact with a police officer, showing her phone to him.

The police officer didn't understand, she then flicked it out of her hand. With such a slight movement that barely anyone inside the mall could notice. She then pulled the trolley walking back in.

The police officer caught the phone. He saw that it had multiple messages on it. It had already been unlocked so he read the messages.

"This is Noah Sinfero, there are 4 snipers on the first floor and 34 men around on the bottom. Other than the leader it is likely that the second to last man on the right side of the screen also has a detonator."

"The last man on the left side has been taken and out and replaced with a friend. I'll keep everyone's attention for ten minutes please use that time to break in."

The messages went on as he explained in more detail. The chief officer looked at the messages and decided to take the risk. "Let's move we have ten minutes."

...

The crowd stopped and stared, they didn't think a big celebrity was so close to them.

Online media exploded as news of Noah started to resurface after months of silence. Everyone was aghast on seeing Noah inside. Fans went wild as they spammed the government and police, setting up fundraisers to pay for him to get out.

...

A man sitting in his office watched the news and sighed, "What has this boy gotten into now?" He speed dialled, then spoke, "Send whoever you need to send, do whatever you need to do. Make sure he isn't hurt, I'll make sure to return the favour." The person on the phone happily agreed and the call ended.

Noah's father touched the wrinkle on his forehead seeing his wife call. He then got up and picked up his coat as he took the lift to the top floor.

A helicopter was prepared, he answered as he got on, "Don't worry, I'm going."

...

The leader at the front thought he could use the situation. He told one of the men, "Go bring him."

This man didn't wear a ski mask and had a dragon tattoo from the shaved left side of his head going to his mouth. He walked behind Noah, "Move."

Noah walked forward with the gun pointed at him from behind. He stopped in front of the leader.

"Check him."

A guy came and patted Noah down taking everything out from his phone, wallet, keys. He had already given everything valuable to Alice. Other than the locket under his clothes he always wore he had nothing of value. He had even wiped all data from his phone before coming here, to hide the messages he had sent.

"I didn't think we would have someone of your calibre here, so hotshot, do you think we give a shit who you are?" The man pointed his gun putting it under his chin. "Fucking pretty boy, I wanna wipe that smug smile off your face." He then moved the gun to the side and shot.

Hearing the sound of the bullet everyone held their breath imagining the worst.

Noah had already activated Cold Mind, the bullet was too close and would hurt him so he lightly moved and had it pass through his hair, lightly scratching his skin. The move was unnoticeable so the man thought his aim was perfect.

The man laughed, "Scared bitch? I should just kill you for the hell of it. Won't my name go down in history or something?" This time the man got ready to shoot for real.

...

Far away Alice had returned and merged in with the men standing around. Everyone was distracted by Noah that no one had noticed the 'man' that had returned had purple eyes now. She watched the scene and got ready to throw the smoke grenades the man had on them.

She was suppose to throw them at Noah's signal but the situation was to risky. As she was about to move, the leader spoke.

"Enough. We do not sacrifice our donators." The large man said. "You are a donator, yes?"

"I wish to support your cause and 'donate' the rest of the ten billion," Noah answered in their language.

"Very well, we will greatly appreciate it." The leader nodded.

"I'll have the money here in an hour so there is no reason for holding other people here, let them all go," Noah said sternly.

"I see, but it will be against my principles. Everything is done by exchange, only when I receive can I give." The man answered, acting philosophical.

"Please give me my phone, I'll call the bank and have them deliver it."

The leader nodded, signalling to give Noah his phone.

...

In a bank, a woman sat next to a telephone watching Noah as he got on his own phone from a screen. Noah dialed and brought to his ear, the bank phone next to her rang.

Two police officers had arrived earlier and prepared her for the situation. She took a deep breath and picked it up.

Noah put the phone on loudspeaker hearing the answer. He then held it infront of himself for all to hear.

"Hello, this is Neo Ocean bank, how may I help you?"

"Hi, this is Noah Sinfero, I want to withdraw money. I don't know if you can see this but I'm kind of in a situation where I need cash, can you deliver it here at S National Mall?"

"Yes we know of your current situation and will help you, however we still need to follow protocol to access your account. Please type in your hundred digit code."

Noah then started typing. His fingers moving carefully. Taking his time.

The audience watched as Noah did this. They hadn't heard of such a security measure but they didn't question it.

The lady on the other side of the phone calmed down, she could hear herself speaking on the screen put up in the bank. She then waited for Noah to finish. She had to help him delay the process as much as possible.

...

While the chief officer outside saw that everything was going to plan, they would be able to delay the process as much as they could now. Noah had kept to his word and was keeping the attention of everyone.

Now it was his side that had to make keep their part of the plan. The special forces had already been deployed. They didn't leave a moment to spare.

Finding a spot they broke in and moved quickly. They all had a real-time virtual thermal visual of the entire mall that was taken from the outside. Knowing where each person was located, they went about swiftly taking out the criminals.

Doing everything silently they reached the centre on the first floor. Getting a visual of the snipers they all took out thin guns and shot. With impeccable aim all the darts they shot hit knocking the snipers out. They moved in and had someone already dressed similarly to replace the snipers.

While this group dealt with them another made their way on the ground floor. They all hid as they surrounded the centre.

The chief officer heard from his communicator, "We're in position."

"Wait for the signal." He said looking at the large screen. Noah was still on his phone.