From start to finish, it didn't even last three minutes.
To be precise, not even a single minute.
At the designated positions, the two assault teams used the bank's structural diagram pulled from HQ, compared it with the robbers' locations on the surveillance feed, and immediately followed the original plan, launching a forced breakthrough from both sides.
Only, for some reason, once they squeezed through a blown-open doorway, all signals vanished without a trace.
"Team One, report status, repeat, report status!"
"What about Team Two? Team Two, speak!!!"
No one responded.
The comms channel fell utterly silent, completely cut off.
Out on the plaza, you could vaguely hear gunshots from inside and the roars carried out, shrill screams.
"Ambush! It's an ambush… no, no, that's wrong…"
That sharp voice cut off abruptly, no longer clear.
