"This is the reason we're here as a unit, gents," Erik began, "Bank robbers, armed and dangerous, have taken it upon themselves to try and pull a heist under our noses.

The alarm was never pulled, but gunshots were heard and passersby called the police; first responders from the streets were greeted with gunfire and have set up a perimeter around the bank, closing the entire block until the threat is neutralized."

The bank was active when the heisters entered, so there will be civilians taken hostage somewhere in there, how many is unknown. The building itself is old as well, and we can't find many blueprints of the place, but simply put, there's a lobby and a large vault, so at least a few of them will be in either of those rooms, there are also about four points of entry, the front's huge double doors, the rear employee door, the right side cargo gate, and a ladder leading to the skylights on the roof on the right side.

Other than that, clear out the criminals with extreme prejudice and make sure to prioritize civilian lives before anything else, now get in the vans and end the problem."

The platoon loads into the S.W.A.T. van and head out to the hot-zone, off of Davis, the Regal Investments Bank, a judicial place that was overdone to make it give off the vibe of British Royalty, now surrounded by a wall of blue. The van pulls up front on the Avenue and the squad piles onto the street and behind a wall of three police cruisers with officers behind them. The outside is clear of any threats and the building has many windows and skylights. The officers can hear distant but distinct yelling and screaming from deep inside the building.

Lieutenant Mason takes charge in positioning his men and preparing to breach a point of entry:

Before the Lieutenant finishes pondering her thoughts, a member of the criminal group appears from an upper floor window and fires several rounds at the police line, peppering the officers behind. A few rounds land by the S.W.A.T. team and manage to strike the Lieutenant in the back of her shoulder and her head.

Lt. Mason falls to the ground behind the cruiser and it can be seen that the first shell was not blocked by Kevlar and penetrated the shoulder, while the other had come at the luckiest angle, gliding off the top of her helmet and striking the pavement. However, the shells still shocked the Lieutenant and she now lied unconscious, bleeding onto the road. Sgt. Kimmins would have to recover and stabilize Lt. Mason before anything else happened.

Meanwhile, since Lt. Mason is unable to command the squad, the next highest ranking officer shall lead the operation. In this case, Sergeant Wayland Hayle will have to be the man for the job, while lugging around a sturdy yet enigmatically large block of metal, let us hope he is up to par.

Sargent Kirimin was still in the back of the van, checking his medical bags for the fourth time when the gunshots first ring out. The shaggy man peers out of the van, then leaps and rolls out of the back. He dashes over, ducking to keep the cruisers between himself and the firing line. Once at the Lieutenant's side, he can see that they are not in any danger here. Still, he grabs her feet and drags her along the ground to behind the van. Laying her out on the pavement, he opens the bag he had dragged with him, first administering some pain drugs before going for her armor and clothing, focusing on mainly cutting away her shoulder covering and removing her helmet. Gingerly as ever, of course, in case she had damage to her spine. Then he attempts to stop the bleeding from her shoulder, pressing several bandages to the wound after liberally applying disinfectant.

Hayle calmly brought his shield up when the criminal open fire from the window, the shells collided harmlessly with the shield until the nearby cops managed to supress the gunman. when he turned around and learned that Mason had been hit and he was now in charge he looked back at the bank, having seen that the medic was already seeing to Mason, and analyzed the situation. seeing as how the group of robbers had the front watched pretty heavily he looked to the sides of the bank. He pointed around the side of the building "Charles, Davidson, get around to the back entrance and stack up!" he stepped up just beside one of the squad cars and brought up his shield "Forrester, on me!"

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at the same time Spc. Marco had gotten out of the van and stopped briefly to take cover from the gunman's fire. He found a ladder up to a rooftop overlooking the front of the bank and set up, crouching down and setting his rifle's bipod on the edge. he pressed the button on his radio "This is Maritime, I'm in position"

Stepping out the van Davidson and Richardson at the same time took to moving quickly to the rear enterance. These two men have been freinds for the longest of times, Davidson grabbed his radio quickly however "Could I have Forrester with me please? It will make breaching quicker on my end. Im sure Richardson can help by stopping them getting around you sarge. Over" He looked up to see Richardson nod his head in agreement to his plan checking over his equipment.

The pointman winced as Mason went down and was about to open fire when the rest of the cops scared the criminal back into the building... well, damn. It seemed Hayle was in charge now, and it didn't take him long to start giving the orders out.

"Yes sir!" Forrester said, moving to take up his position close to Hayle, his pump-action shotgun ready in his hands. He was ready to go in at the first word from the superior officer, though he was curious about the plan he just wanted to get in and get the hostages out first and foremost. It was a shitty situation, but hey. Why else would they be here right?

"Sir?" He's question, glancing to Hayle in reaction to the question from Davidson. "What are your orders?"

"and you waited till you were at the back of the damn building to bring this up?" Hayle responded over the radio, he looked back at Forrester and considered Richardson's loadout, he did see a point to that "alright, Forrester get back there with Davidson, Charles get up here with me we're taking the front, make it quick before they catch onto us".

Richardson jogged back around to the front and got behind the sarge. Nodding at him, davidson got to the side of the door and waited for his point man.

The officer nodded to his captain and quickly broke off into a fast jog to go join Davidson at the side door. "Ready." He'd say simply, taking up his position near the door while waiting for the rest to signal it was time to start going in. Who knew, they might get lucky and take down a few guys without even needing to fire a shot if they did this right.

once everyone had gotten into position Hayle continued "a'right, me and charles are gonna go in the front. Davidson, wait a minute for us to get their attention and draw fire before you breach the door and get them from behind" he put his radio down and made a hand gesture forward "let's move Richardson" with that he started toward the front of the bank with his shield raised.

Richardson was right on his back, lined up the best as to avoid being hit. Theorticly, he was using the arge as a himan sheild, any rounds that came would not hit Richardson. He had his rifle up ready for any encounters. Davidson however was putting the C2 charges on the hinges while putting his finger to his mouth to shush the point man. "Quite. They dont know were here."@Zetsuko@kanoro

The point man grunted in response to the breacher's order to be quiet. "Whatever you say sir." He replied, giving his shotgun a pump so that it'd be ready to fire at moment that door blew open and they went in. Things were hot after all, and it was better to be safe then sorry. Especially after what happened to Mason.

As Hayle got up to the front entrance to the bank with Charles in tow he raised his sidearm in his other hand and pulled his shield aside long enough to kick the door, rushing through and raising his shield again he radioed quickly before to much shooting started "Davidson, breach now!!"

When Hayle and Charles entered the door, they entered a massive lobby with two sets of stairs on the far left and right along with one massive teller desk at the back and were greeted with a somewhat expected sight, two armed criminals in the middle of the room, pointing their pistols at a large huddle of hostages, probably 20 or so civilians. The criminals notice the door burst open and one runs into the teller desk room and the other immediately picks up a hostage and faces the front, using him as a shield, ready to embrace the oncoming forces.

"Stay the fuck back you assholes, I'm warning you all! I'll fucking blow this guy's head clean off!" he cried.

Meanwhile, at the rear entrance, the other half of the squadron would come to realize something as they entered, that the bank was much bigger than it looked on the outside, as on the other side of that door would be the managerial offices and cubicles, not the teller desks.

Wayland stepped in keeping his shield between him and the guy with the hostage, and keeping himself between that same guy and Charles "keep an eye on the guy behind the counter".

Meanwhile outside Marco was trying to line up on the guy with the hostage.

Davidson blew out the hinges and waited for his frejd to enter

Seeing the door was destroyed, the point man rushed into the room with his shotgun raised, glancing around for any threats as he got ready to take cover at the slightest sign of trouble. Assuming that no trouble happened, he'd signal for the breacher to follow before starting to make his way off towards the front of the bank to try and get them from behind, like he was ordered to.

Meanwhile, in the front of the bank, the terrorist holding the hostage was still ranting and shouting, but more importantly, two men came down from the left staircase with rifles and started yelling at Sgt. Hayle, though it didn't seem like they really knew what they wanted to say.

"Get the fuck out of here, you prick!" yelled one of the riflemen.

"Surrender you little shit!" yelled the other.

"Just stay the hell back, you hear!" yelled the one still holding a hostage at gunpoint.

In the back cubicle area, Ofcr. Forrester and Ofcr. Davidson make their way towards two doors on the far wall, presumably leading to the front lobby. Beyond that, to their right was a staircase heading down to the underground vault. As the two officers make their way across the office area, three criminals come running up the stairs, all without guns, carrying large sports bags probably full of loot from the vault. The two parties spot each other and two of the criminals duck into the maze of cubicles, while the other runs back downstairs.

Wayland moved to try and keep his shield between as many of the robbers and him as possible, Charles would have to deal with the rest. "shit" he murmured under his breath. where were Forrester and Davidson.

Marco kept his aim on the robber with the hostage and said over the radio to Wayland "just say the word"

"I got the one heading down, cover the door!" Forrester said aloud to the breacher, already starting to break into a sprint after the one that had started down stairs, firing his shotgun towards the man's legs should he get sight of him. He really didn't want to kill the guy if possible, but he needed to take him down as soon as possible... perhaps it wasn't the best plan, but the team was split up so it's not like he had anyone around to give him his orders.