The Bank Robbers: Chicago*

A Story by Abishai100

A trio of real pirates part of a Windy City circus-company perform a Chicago bank-robbery in the name of good dimension.

A fun Chicago heist to sign off/retire with. Enjoy, and thanks for reading,

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Chicago is the home of the Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks. It's also the home of the Black-Hearts, a team of bank-robbers said to be descended from real-world ancient sea pirates. The Black-Hearts have called Chicago their home, despite the fact their bank robberies have been outside the state of Illinois. However, their last one's in the Windy City.

What's unknown is that the Black-Hearts pirates (bank-robbers) are part of a Chicago circus-company called Red Triangle. They're quite talented artists/acrobats in fact! The circus-company has made them legends, and no one knows this trio of super-thieves are planning this bank-robbery in the Windy City, since they've been busy with the Christmastime circus performance/events.

The leader of the Black-Hearts is Amlan Satan (code-name: Storm-Shadow) who's robbed baron blood-diamonds in New York.

SATAN: My girlfriend happens to be a Bulls cheerleader, but she only knows I'm a circus-artist!

The Black-Hearts pirates (bank-robbers!) get off the Chicago metro in circus-costumes and wielding toy water-guns filled with acid, and they proceed to head towards the Chicago Financial which they'll be robbing this cold but bright Christmas season.

AMLAN: This has to be perfect.

MARCUS: What else would it be?
RAKI: We look good!

The Black-Hearts walk into the bank in the Windy City and start dancing, grabbing the attention of the bank manager and guardsmen. The manager asks what their intentionality is here, and Amlan, the leader, explains they're sent by a Euro-circus company to deposit (fake!) diamonds in a new account safe-box in the Chicago bank.

AMLAN: We've brought some of our circus-performance prop water-guns today, good sir.

BANK MANAGER: I can see your circus team from Europe's rather devoted to outlandish disguise!

AMLAN: As you might've guessed, we're all about theater, good sir.

BANK MANAGER: Well, you guys can follow the escorting-guardsman to the safe-box area of the bank.

BANK MANAGER: Business that day in our fine Chicago bank was normal and nothing unexpected honestly.

BANK GUARDSMAN: Your water-guns from your circus-company in Europe are filled with acid?
AMLAN: Sorry, good dude; we really didn't want to shock the hell out of you, friend.

BANK GUARDSMAN: I suppose you want to burn holes in safe-boxes to take bearer-bonds/diamonds?

AMLAN: That's right!

BANK GUARDSMAN: What, you want me to to wave my hands in front of the security-camera to shield vision?

AMLAN: That's right!

BANK MANAGER: You're going to crawl out the bank bathroom window after this heist then?

AMLAN: That's right!

That's just what Satan and the Black-Hearts achieved that day in that fine Windy City bank, taking a total of about $20 million in bearer-bonds and diamonds easy to exchange in the Chicago underground for their private Swiss account. The bank vault proved to be unchallenging; what was challenging was to persuade that grumpy single guardsman inside the safe-box area of the vault-room of the Windy City bank that these bank-robbers were indeed...serious.