Windy-City Predator (Alien)

A Windy-City dark tale of diamonds and barons and eventually an invader-Martian requiring 'antiheroics' dial-up(s).

A fun Chicago-set 'misadventure' inspired by the awesome Predator (comics) series. Hope you like, 

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It was a rainy season in fabled but challenged Chicago, the fabled Windy-City of the Bulls-Bears market, which is not just sport but also dollar! Well, the old historic photos of this great city remind us of the colors of warriors and the heroics of cops and the timeless lore of speakeasies and restaurants. It's also where a modern-day (21st Century) diamond-thief unit called Red-Mask plots a blood-diamond swap of a ruthless baron's bank safe-box. However, that's not actually the full scope of this dark faerie-tale set in the Windy-City. Follow along!

It is the historic Federal Reserve Bank of the Windy-City of Chicago (United States, Earth) where this fable is set in the first-portion of this story. You see, Red-Mask are antiheroes, masked bandits/rascals whose foil to foil the blood-diamond baron Goldfinger involves a funny swap with toy/glass gems/beads. It's a historic bank, which is why Goldfinger inserted his 'insured' gems there. Who doesn't love historic photos of such a building on Earth?

CHICAGO POLICE: We've employed the very-best of the unit/force to track the Red-Mask bandits before they hit Goldfinger!

Meanwhile, a major motion-picture maker had concocted a special magic-potion to cast an adventure-tale in Chicago involving a fair-damsel and a terrific police team monitoring a ruthless underground blood-diamond net, which had prompted cyber-fanzine writers to create a special view on the 'quality' of the Windy-City.

RED-MASK: This won't be a 'simple' task, as our critics have painted but rather a 'James Bond' heroism; we'll be on Facebook!

CHICAGO POST: We 'think' this unit of bandits who've successfully swapped Goldfinger-gems with toys hails the Untouchables.

The Red-Mask walked into the Federal Reserve Bank (Chicago) during a special 'evening-party' involving many a fat-cat investor and claimed they'd been sent by Goldfinger himself for a 'theater-stunt' involving acid and media-photos of the bank safe-box and were escorted to the vault by the armed guardsman (Leo) who'd been soon disarmed by the revelation their toy water-guns really were acid-guns, which they then used to burn holes, perform the toy-swap (stunt!), and left the note, "Goldfinger funded this 'insurance-exercise' for the simple Windy-City disclosure of bank-security d (ha)!"

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond corruption today threatens the world-gem exchanges and makes terrorism woe!

MAYOR: Do not fear, for this media theater will be 'enhanced' by the diligence of media-celebrated police-force for insurance.

The girlfriend of one of these Windy-City policemen assigned the odious task of tracking the Red-Mask merry-men, Esmerelda, believed this entire saga is really about the darkness of diamonds and not the elegy of Chicago's night-crime(s) and posted on Facebook, "Who cares about fashion-models anymore, right?"

So folks, that's not the subject of this Chicago tale --- blood-diamonds. No, it's about an alien invader, a Martian called Predator who landed his invisibility-cloaked spaceship right outside the challenged Windy-City and began his schemed Phase-1 of the Invasion-Earth agenda involving decapitation and terror, roaming to prowl Chicago as the worst 'super' villain. Only Red-Mask 'antiheroes' might deal with such a darkness, worthy of comic books or sci-fi horror for youngsters.

PREDATOR: I'm gonna kill every cop in this horrid Earth-city, and I 'doubt' any foolish puny human will match this acid-hell.

ESQUIRE: How'd you cage and down this alien-invader, bandits-turned-heroes?
RED-MASK: We spotted the 'creature-being' in the alley and used Molotov-cocktails, 'spiced' with 'hot' acid.

ESQUIRE: You're getting a full-pardon for the disclosure of Goldfinger's ties to blood-diamonds and this Predator thing now.

RED-MASK: Yeah...we're also doing a city-wide school-ed campaign involving the lesson(s) learned about anti-devils!

MAYOR: The casualties of this seemingly endless bottomless-pit opened by the Predator alien-invader offers us mourning-IQ.

Well, Amlan Satan, leader of the Red-Mask 'antiheroes' in challenged/fabled Chicago (Windy-City) ended up marrying that movie-production starlet/damsel (Sheila) and went on to write a book called Diamonds for Earthlings, which won him the Pulitzer. Everyone would ask, "Is the Windy-City a 'setting' for 'human' distance(s)?"

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)