The End
Despite everything Helix did feed Aiden an actual plan, from beginning to end. He showed him a map, pointed out their route or how they'd get past security. There were points where they'd have to split up a little, one as the eyes and defense, the other as the tools to get in. The plan was pretty concrete, at least, for anyone unknowing.
The plan was destined to fail, that was where Helix lied to Aiden. He told him the solid angles and candy-coated the rest, lying his way through the points he knew would fall through. He never told him it would succeed, but he didn't tell him it couldn't possibly work either. How did he know it would fail? Cause he'd run the whole scenario 4 years prior and failed miserably. He was lucky to find a route out of there alive. Which he also showed Aiden should the plan fail. He emphasized the chances they had and that all that mattered was that they get out alive.
The important part in any of the elaborate picture that he painted for the older man was the way they got in initially. That would be the true beginning of the end. No matter how everything panned out he would see to it that both of them got out of there alive and Jethro would die at all costs.
It was a gamble. The biggest he'd ever taken. He could gamble all he wanted on his own life but this time... he was using someone else's as the stakes, someone worth more to him than the world. Aiden was his bargaining chip and his ticket to get close enough to Jethro. He knew what sort of danger he was putting the man into but he trusted that he could handle himself. He just had to hope all of this worked as well as he believed it would. It had to, for both of their sakes.
He went over the plan again in the morning with Aiden, despite having gotten very little sleep. Then, geared up, he and Aiden both left on his swoop to make their way to a blind spot. Here he left his swoop and they would travel on foot to the perimeter of Jethro's headquarters and make their way inside. Helix was the key to getting them in through the security doors, while Aiden stood guard. Helix used Aiden's military knowledge to let him secure each sector, room or hall, before Helix moved forward to bypass the next door.
Helix's heart was pounding fast by the time they got to the last one, the third and fourth door by the plan he fed Aiden. Just the same, he opened it, Aiden was to go in first, but Helix could open the next door across the way with the current security station, Aiden had to wait there to also go through that one. But the second door didn't open.
This room also wasn't lit very well, one lonely flood light on the north and south facing walls. Before Aiden could get too impatient and ask questions the door they came in, shut, locking him inside. It was uncertain if Helix made it in with him, but it wouldn't matter soon. From the shadows Aiden was struck from behind, knees kicked in so he'd fall to the floor and gun kicked from him so it skittered across the room.
His attacker soon stepped around the man to stand at his side. Helix stood over Aiden, breath a little heavy in his lungs from adrenalin. A single pair of hands applauded them from the dark. In a blink they were surrounded, guns pointed at them as Jethro stepped through the shadows, a shit-eating grin on his face.
"Well well, long time no see. And here I thought Helix would chicken out." He sneered. "Search them, take their weapons."
"I'm unarmed and I brought him, just like you said." Helix piped up, keeping his eyes moving around the line of men with weapons and staring Jethro down as he was frisked. He couldn't bear to look at Aiden right now.