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10-01-08, 11:52 AM
THE MASTER PLAN
There was no doubt about it that terrible things would soon be happening. Soon winter came bringing with it lots and lots of white, sparkly snow. The Smyth’s had never seen snow and didn’t expect it in Paris, France. Mr. Smyth’s new job at Dell Computers Inc. had been a heck of a lot of trouble for him. He hadn’t anticipated being a Sales Associate when he had applied for a Sales Manager. The other downside was that he couldn’t speak French.
Helen, Mr. Smyth’s daughter, was doing very poorly at her school failing her Math and Science class. She was good in Language Arts, just as everyone else and was now used to speaking French. Her gymnastics class was the best since she rocked the house with an A+. According to her she was doing well for her month here. She had made two friends, Adil and Jack.
Mrs. Smyth got a job in a very famous bank called the Bank of France. Her particular project was to create a security system where no one has to monitor the cameras; instead the cameras are motion detectors. If they suspected any movement the entrances to the special area would not open therefore not giving that person access to the place.
The Smyth’s lived in a fancy apartment complete with room service and laundry service. For Helen it was heaven, and she couldn’t wait until her friends came over for her birthday party in one week.
The week passed quickly bringing December and Helen’s birthday, but the most unexpected thing had happened! She had just got a call from the police who had told her that her father fractured his spine in a car accident. The shock was so unexpected that Helen and her mother collapsed at the spot; luckily Adil and Jack were there and soon got them recovered.
That night was the most stressful night of her life. Helen and her mother waited by the warm, brick fireplace in the waiting room of the Hospital de France. Her father had been taken there after his accident and was still there. After a dreadful two hour wait the doctor finally came out of the room only to tell the even more shocking news. “Mr. Smyth has damaged his spine and he’s paralyzed. The only way he’ll be able to walk is if he gets surgery for his back in Monte Carlo for $100, 000.” After hearing this Helen began to cry and so did Mrs. Smyth. They went home sadly and thinking of what to do. “$100, 000,” was the only thing Helen repeated to herself on the way home.
The next day at school Helen told her friends that she was having a sleepover and that they were invited. She invited Adil and Jack because they were the only ones who could give her psychological support. That night Helen got an idea that she told her mother about. She told her mother to go to her boss, Mr. Bigcheese and ask for some money. Her mother took the idea into consideration so the next day that’s what she did.
The reply she got was more terrible then Mr. Bigcheese himself. He swore horribly and told her to either do her job or to get lost. This response really got on Mrs. Smyth’s nerves, she shouted and stomped her way to her department and started working.
When she left for home she called Helen and told her about what had happened. When Helen heard the news she turned to plan B. The only plan that would work. She called up Adil and Jack and told them to meet at Adil’s house. Once there, Helen told them about her super secret plan, it was a good plan but it would take a lot of effort. The plan was to go to the Bank of France at the opening party when her mother's security system would be ready and the bank would be declared the safest bank in France. They would have to go and rob the money to show that the Bank of France isn’t that safe and so they could show that Mr. Bigcheese wasn’t that big.
They would have to get floor plans, equipment, and transportation. Luckily the transportation and floor plans could be taken care of by Adil and Jack. Adil has three go-karts so that was prepared and Jack was a computer genius who could hack through anything.
January came with the New-Years holiday by its side. Helen told Adil and Jack that during the holiday she would go to work with her mother and take pictures of anything interesting she sees in the bank. That day Helen took a mini digital camera with her and was prepared to do anything. She found out some news that astonished her. She found out that the security vault in which the money was stored was suspended 200 feet in the air. Now that wouldn’t be hard since Helen was an excellent gymnast. All she needed was some climbing equipment and some confidence.
The only thing that would stop her would be that she didn’t have any climbing apparatus. She would either have to purchase some or acquire some from her gymnastics class. She decided to obtain the climbing equipment from her gymnastics class since nobody ever utilizes it.
But she would have to wait for one whole, long week before her next class. However the party in the bank would be in two days, so she would have to go to the gymnasium the same day and some how get the climbing gear.
She told Adil to cover for her while she went to get the gear. Her mother would be coming home any minute so she took the fastest bus to the gymnasium. Once there she found the climbing gear but realized that it was old and might break any minute so she had to go and borrow it from a sports shop.
As Helen took the bus home she noticed that her mother’s car was right beside the bus. Helen quickly ducked and stayed like that until the bus came to a stop.
When the bus did come to a full stop she took a short cut home and reached her residence before her mom. She started to look in the Yellow Pages for sport shops and found one as soon as her mom came through the front door.
Helen told her mom that she had to go somewhere with Adil and Jack so she would be home in one hour. She called Jack and told him to meet at the Sports shop. In ten minutes they were all there and found the right stuff.
When they were home they started to make plans and to share ideas of what to do. Helen told Adil and Jack that when she went to the bank with her mom she found out that all the cameras could be controlled from Mr. Bigcheese’s office. She also found out that there was one code that could open up all the doors in the bank. The code was called “Mouse.” Adil remembered something that they had almost forgotten; they had to dress fancy since they were going to a big party.
That night was busy, busy, busy! Helen was trying to get used to her equipment, Jack was trying to get the floor plans for the bank, and Adil was showing them how to control the go-karts.
By the morning Jack had the floor plans and lots of valuable information. He had found out that Mr. Bigcheese’s office was located on the fifth floor, the vault on the twelfth floor, and that the security booth was on the fourth floor. Adil, Helen and Jack were already to use the go-karts and Helen was all ready to climb to the vault. The only problem was how were they going to go the bank with Helen’s mom in the house?
Surprisingly the telephone rung and was answered by Mrs. Smyth. After about a half hour talk Mrs. Smyth came off the phone and told Helen and her friends the bad news. Mrs. Smyth had to go to the bank for the party and make some last-minute touches so she would be back by the end of the party.
Now that was relief for Helen, Adil and Jack, they could now concentrate on the plan more than anything. They were all set except for the bad weather; they had never realized that their go-karts couldn’t drive on snow. So Adil had to somehow get winter tires in one hour.
He had to go to the dump and hope that there are twelve go-kart winter tires there. But how, he couldn’t just go to the dump and take tires; he had to have some permission. Then suddenly, out of nowhere an idea popped into his head. Adil remembered that his brother had taken a job at the dump. He called his brother and told him that he needed twelve go-kart winter tires.
His brother called back in ten minutes and told Adil that he was on his way with the tires. In twenty minutes the tires were attached and ready to rumble. They left Helens house with speed and determination. Each of them got on a go-kart with full gas and a turbo button on it.
They had crossed two red lights and had been honked at ten times but had still not been seen by the police. After a hectic twenty-minute drive they finally reached the Bank of France. They parked their go-karts in a shed that was near the bank and got ready to look like they were actually in a party.
They went into the bank and suddenly saw a gigantic, marble icing cake in front of them. Adil and Jack’s mouths started to water but Helen pulled them aside with her purse that was actually filled with her climbing gear.
She found a staircase and led them up stairs but out of nowhere Jack told them to stop because that staircase only led to the offices and it wouldn’t lead them to the forth floor where the security booth was. So the best thing to do would be to find an elevator, but there would be cameras in there. So the only thing they could do would be to get the security officers out of the booth for a little while.
Adil informed them that if they somehow triggered an alarm in another area they could get in the elevator without being noticed. Jack advised them that there are two officers in the booth because of the shadows and most likely one of them would stay and watch the cameras.
So they had to get both of them out of the booth to get into the elevator. Helen just walked up to the booth and knocked at the door. A rough voice followed by a big man answered the door. Helen got scared but regained her strength and said to the security man that there was a problem downstairs in the party and that they would need two security guards to enforce it.
Indeed when they went downstairs there were two people having a fight, Adil and Jack. But it wasn’t a real fight; it was all a setup so Helen could get into the elevator and to the fifth floor. Once there, Helen went into Mr. Bigcheese’s office using the “Mouse” code and controlled the cameras from there so that the cameras were all facing the walls.
After a fifteen-minute lecture from the guards Adil and Jack were out of the booth and laughing all the way. They found the nearest elevator and took it to the twelfth floor. Helen was right outside the elevator door waiting for them.
They told her what had happened and reenacted the expressions of the guards. They found the doorway to where all the security vaults were and used the “Mouse” code to get inside.
As they came inside Helen started to look for a crack wide enough for her climbing gear to fit in. She found one and then took out her gear and got ready for her climb. She climbed and climbed and climbed until she was tired so she just hung there until her legs gained energy again.
Once again she climbed and climbed and climbed until she was right beside the vault. The only problem was that the vault was five feet away from her reach. She noticed that there were bars on top of her that kind of looked like monkey bars.
She swung herself to the vault but she set off a timer. She had two minutes to crack the code or else! She tried “Mouse” but it didn’t work. Jack told her that since her mom designed it maybe she chose the code. So Helen tried Elizabeth (Mrs. Smyth) and Daniel (Mr. Smyth). But they didn’t work. She had thirty seconds left and finally remembered her own name but it didn’t work either. The only thing she could rely on were her friends, then it came to her, “friendship” was always her mother’s motto. Helen tried it and it worked!
She got in and took $100,000 and tossed it down to Jack and Adil. After that she closed the vault and repelled down to the floor. They gave each other a high five and then headed towards the exit. They went through the garbage shoot so they wouldn’t be seen and landed right outside the shed where their go-karts were parked.
They got on and secured the money and headed off. Out of nowhere sirens came and they realized that this was going to be a police chase. They knew that now was the right time to use turbo. They zoomed away and were going so fast that they couldn’t count how many red lights they had passed.
When the turbo ran out they had lost the police and headed towards the Hospital de France. They went straight to Mr. Smyth’s room and told the doctor that they had the money. Abruptly a large hand grasped Helen’s shoulder and she knew that it was too late; the police had seen them and caught them.
After that the most surprising thing had happened, Mrs. Smyth was right outside the hospital. Mrs. Smyth exclaimed, “There was a camera in the vault that wasn’t hooked up to the rest of the cameras and that the guards had seen you and recognized you. The guards called the police and they called me.”
Helen began crying and told her that she did it all just to save Mr. Smyth. Mrs. Smyth understood but there would be a big consequence. The following week, Helen, Jack, and Adil were grounded from their parents and the police. But then one day the most unexpected thing had happed. A few neighborhood kids came and gave them some money to help out Mr. Smyth and because of their bravery and determination. The following month was the same and soon enough they had $100,000. Mrs. Smyth drove to the hospital and told the doctor the good news and gave the money.
After two months Mr. Smyth came home standing and upright. He thanked Helen and her friends for their willpower and convinced the police to let the kids off the hook. The police did and for the rest of their lives they remembered “The Master Plan.”
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:)!!Hope you like my Story!!:)
There was no doubt about it that terrible things would soon be happening. Soon winter came bringing with it lots and lots of white, sparkly snow. The Smyth’s had never seen snow and didn’t expect it in Paris, France. Mr. Smyth’s new job at Dell Computers Inc. had been a heck of a lot of trouble for him. He hadn’t anticipated being a Sales Associate when he had applied for a Sales Manager. The other downside was that he couldn’t speak French.
Helen, Mr. Smyth’s daughter, was doing very poorly at her school failing her Math and Science class. She was good in Language Arts, just as everyone else and was now used to speaking French. Her gymnastics class was the best since she rocked the house with an A+. According to her she was doing well for her month here. She had made two friends, Adil and Jack.
Mrs. Smyth got a job in a very famous bank called the Bank of France. Her particular project was to create a security system where no one has to monitor the cameras; instead the cameras are motion detectors. If they suspected any movement the entrances to the special area would not open therefore not giving that person access to the place.
The Smyth’s lived in a fancy apartment complete with room service and laundry service. For Helen it was heaven, and she couldn’t wait until her friends came over for her birthday party in one week.
The week passed quickly bringing December and Helen’s birthday, but the most unexpected thing had happened! She had just got a call from the police who had told her that her father fractured his spine in a car accident. The shock was so unexpected that Helen and her mother collapsed at the spot; luckily Adil and Jack were there and soon got them recovered.
That night was the most stressful night of her life. Helen and her mother waited by the warm, brick fireplace in the waiting room of the Hospital de France. Her father had been taken there after his accident and was still there. After a dreadful two hour wait the doctor finally came out of the room only to tell the even more shocking news. “Mr. Smyth has damaged his spine and he’s paralyzed. The only way he’ll be able to walk is if he gets surgery for his back in Monte Carlo for $100, 000.” After hearing this Helen began to cry and so did Mrs. Smyth. They went home sadly and thinking of what to do. “$100, 000,” was the only thing Helen repeated to herself on the way home.
The next day at school Helen told her friends that she was having a sleepover and that they were invited. She invited Adil and Jack because they were the only ones who could give her psychological support. That night Helen got an idea that she told her mother about. She told her mother to go to her boss, Mr. Bigcheese and ask for some money. Her mother took the idea into consideration so the next day that’s what she did.
The reply she got was more terrible then Mr. Bigcheese himself. He swore horribly and told her to either do her job or to get lost. This response really got on Mrs. Smyth’s nerves, she shouted and stomped her way to her department and started working.
When she left for home she called Helen and told her about what had happened. When Helen heard the news she turned to plan B. The only plan that would work. She called up Adil and Jack and told them to meet at Adil’s house. Once there, Helen told them about her super secret plan, it was a good plan but it would take a lot of effort. The plan was to go to the Bank of France at the opening party when her mother's security system would be ready and the bank would be declared the safest bank in France. They would have to go and rob the money to show that the Bank of France isn’t that safe and so they could show that Mr. Bigcheese wasn’t that big.
They would have to get floor plans, equipment, and transportation. Luckily the transportation and floor plans could be taken care of by Adil and Jack. Adil has three go-karts so that was prepared and Jack was a computer genius who could hack through anything.
January came with the New-Years holiday by its side. Helen told Adil and Jack that during the holiday she would go to work with her mother and take pictures of anything interesting she sees in the bank. That day Helen took a mini digital camera with her and was prepared to do anything. She found out some news that astonished her. She found out that the security vault in which the money was stored was suspended 200 feet in the air. Now that wouldn’t be hard since Helen was an excellent gymnast. All she needed was some climbing equipment and some confidence.
The only thing that would stop her would be that she didn’t have any climbing apparatus. She would either have to purchase some or acquire some from her gymnastics class. She decided to obtain the climbing equipment from her gymnastics class since nobody ever utilizes it.
But she would have to wait for one whole, long week before her next class. However the party in the bank would be in two days, so she would have to go to the gymnasium the same day and some how get the climbing gear.
She told Adil to cover for her while she went to get the gear. Her mother would be coming home any minute so she took the fastest bus to the gymnasium. Once there she found the climbing gear but realized that it was old and might break any minute so she had to go and borrow it from a sports shop.
As Helen took the bus home she noticed that her mother’s car was right beside the bus. Helen quickly ducked and stayed like that until the bus came to a stop.
When the bus did come to a full stop she took a short cut home and reached her residence before her mom. She started to look in the Yellow Pages for sport shops and found one as soon as her mom came through the front door.
Helen told her mom that she had to go somewhere with Adil and Jack so she would be home in one hour. She called Jack and told him to meet at the Sports shop. In ten minutes they were all there and found the right stuff.
When they were home they started to make plans and to share ideas of what to do. Helen told Adil and Jack that when she went to the bank with her mom she found out that all the cameras could be controlled from Mr. Bigcheese’s office. She also found out that there was one code that could open up all the doors in the bank. The code was called “Mouse.” Adil remembered something that they had almost forgotten; they had to dress fancy since they were going to a big party.
That night was busy, busy, busy! Helen was trying to get used to her equipment, Jack was trying to get the floor plans for the bank, and Adil was showing them how to control the go-karts.
By the morning Jack had the floor plans and lots of valuable information. He had found out that Mr. Bigcheese’s office was located on the fifth floor, the vault on the twelfth floor, and that the security booth was on the fourth floor. Adil, Helen and Jack were already to use the go-karts and Helen was all ready to climb to the vault. The only problem was how were they going to go the bank with Helen’s mom in the house?
Surprisingly the telephone rung and was answered by Mrs. Smyth. After about a half hour talk Mrs. Smyth came off the phone and told Helen and her friends the bad news. Mrs. Smyth had to go to the bank for the party and make some last-minute touches so she would be back by the end of the party.
Now that was relief for Helen, Adil and Jack, they could now concentrate on the plan more than anything. They were all set except for the bad weather; they had never realized that their go-karts couldn’t drive on snow. So Adil had to somehow get winter tires in one hour.
He had to go to the dump and hope that there are twelve go-kart winter tires there. But how, he couldn’t just go to the dump and take tires; he had to have some permission. Then suddenly, out of nowhere an idea popped into his head. Adil remembered that his brother had taken a job at the dump. He called his brother and told him that he needed twelve go-kart winter tires.
His brother called back in ten minutes and told Adil that he was on his way with the tires. In twenty minutes the tires were attached and ready to rumble. They left Helens house with speed and determination. Each of them got on a go-kart with full gas and a turbo button on it.
They had crossed two red lights and had been honked at ten times but had still not been seen by the police. After a hectic twenty-minute drive they finally reached the Bank of France. They parked their go-karts in a shed that was near the bank and got ready to look like they were actually in a party.
They went into the bank and suddenly saw a gigantic, marble icing cake in front of them. Adil and Jack’s mouths started to water but Helen pulled them aside with her purse that was actually filled with her climbing gear.
She found a staircase and led them up stairs but out of nowhere Jack told them to stop because that staircase only led to the offices and it wouldn’t lead them to the forth floor where the security booth was. So the best thing to do would be to find an elevator, but there would be cameras in there. So the only thing they could do would be to get the security officers out of the booth for a little while.
Adil informed them that if they somehow triggered an alarm in another area they could get in the elevator without being noticed. Jack advised them that there are two officers in the booth because of the shadows and most likely one of them would stay and watch the cameras.
So they had to get both of them out of the booth to get into the elevator. Helen just walked up to the booth and knocked at the door. A rough voice followed by a big man answered the door. Helen got scared but regained her strength and said to the security man that there was a problem downstairs in the party and that they would need two security guards to enforce it.
Indeed when they went downstairs there were two people having a fight, Adil and Jack. But it wasn’t a real fight; it was all a setup so Helen could get into the elevator and to the fifth floor. Once there, Helen went into Mr. Bigcheese’s office using the “Mouse” code and controlled the cameras from there so that the cameras were all facing the walls.
After a fifteen-minute lecture from the guards Adil and Jack were out of the booth and laughing all the way. They found the nearest elevator and took it to the twelfth floor. Helen was right outside the elevator door waiting for them.
They told her what had happened and reenacted the expressions of the guards. They found the doorway to where all the security vaults were and used the “Mouse” code to get inside.
As they came inside Helen started to look for a crack wide enough for her climbing gear to fit in. She found one and then took out her gear and got ready for her climb. She climbed and climbed and climbed until she was tired so she just hung there until her legs gained energy again.
Once again she climbed and climbed and climbed until she was right beside the vault. The only problem was that the vault was five feet away from her reach. She noticed that there were bars on top of her that kind of looked like monkey bars.
She swung herself to the vault but she set off a timer. She had two minutes to crack the code or else! She tried “Mouse” but it didn’t work. Jack told her that since her mom designed it maybe she chose the code. So Helen tried Elizabeth (Mrs. Smyth) and Daniel (Mr. Smyth). But they didn’t work. She had thirty seconds left and finally remembered her own name but it didn’t work either. The only thing she could rely on were her friends, then it came to her, “friendship” was always her mother’s motto. Helen tried it and it worked!
She got in and took $100,000 and tossed it down to Jack and Adil. After that she closed the vault and repelled down to the floor. They gave each other a high five and then headed towards the exit. They went through the garbage shoot so they wouldn’t be seen and landed right outside the shed where their go-karts were parked.
They got on and secured the money and headed off. Out of nowhere sirens came and they realized that this was going to be a police chase. They knew that now was the right time to use turbo. They zoomed away and were going so fast that they couldn’t count how many red lights they had passed.
When the turbo ran out they had lost the police and headed towards the Hospital de France. They went straight to Mr. Smyth’s room and told the doctor that they had the money. Abruptly a large hand grasped Helen’s shoulder and she knew that it was too late; the police had seen them and caught them.
After that the most surprising thing had happened, Mrs. Smyth was right outside the hospital. Mrs. Smyth exclaimed, “There was a camera in the vault that wasn’t hooked up to the rest of the cameras and that the guards had seen you and recognized you. The guards called the police and they called me.”
Helen began crying and told her that she did it all just to save Mr. Smyth. Mrs. Smyth understood but there would be a big consequence. The following week, Helen, Jack, and Adil were grounded from their parents and the police. But then one day the most unexpected thing had happed. A few neighborhood kids came and gave them some money to help out Mr. Smyth and because of their bravery and determination. The following month was the same and soon enough they had $100,000. Mrs. Smyth drove to the hospital and told the doctor the good news and gave the money.
After two months Mr. Smyth came home standing and upright. He thanked Helen and her friends for their willpower and convinced the police to let the kids off the hook. The police did and for the rest of their lives they remembered “The Master Plan.”
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:)!!Hope you like my Story!!:)