Ronin of Brussels {Endymion}

A shop of wandering 'Ronin' assemble in Brussels for a gem-piracy 'linked' art-heist involving a 'stranger' man (Amlan Satan) who would go by a Martian-alias ('Endymion')!

A cool fanfiction of the excellent modern-noir film Ronin (Robert De Niro) for Veteran's Day. Thanks so much for reading (and Happy Veteran's Day!), 

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"I've assembled you all here to Brussels (Belgium) for a special job to swap an emerald-painting linked to a blood-diamond baron with Amsterdam's jewelry corruptions, and you're all here now as my special secret Ronin (mercenaries), alright?"

These fantastic 'Ronin' were a unit of 3 wandering mercenaries from around Earth including members of the rogue/ex-IRA and two from Chechnya, and they'd be required to make this 'art-heist' with gem-piracy finance(s)-links in Europe and required an extra-credit intelligence or 'chess' of the market-underground in Brussels.

KARA: We've not much information, and our 3rd 'party' member (Amlan Satan) doesn't seem the social-media type, eh?

AMLAN SATAN: I'll get the stolen Saab and return it in time for some insider-work to seem like some 'loan' for a test-drive, ok?

JAMES: This guy 'Amlan Satan' really does seem like a Martian to me, carrying a magnet-pocket chess-set with him (stranger).

JAMES: I'll have a toy water-rifle set fitted with glass tube(s) with acid inside for the burning of the box with the painting.

The Ronin swapped the Emerald (artwork) and successfully showcased themselves as a theater-team with toys for an in-house watercolor exercise while Amlan Satan performed the glass-box burn and swap and then claimed the burn-marks (when the guardsman inquired of the burn-mark following the 'private' exhibit-room painting-exercise time afforded to the Ronin) were part of the show. James used the acid to make burn-marks on the security-camera as a 'mystery' accident even after the Ronin had inserted a fake video-recording of the trio making the watercolor exercise inside the private exhibit-room during the solitary allowance for the theater-team inside the Brussels museum to give them enough time to make off with the folded painting and hop onto a passenger bus where they'd meet up with a photo-team to complete the theater-team illusion for Euro-social media (wow).

JAMES: I got that 'funny' chess feeling you'd been plotting to be part of this 'brand' of intelligence exercise all along, Satan.

AMLAN: Yeah...I sometimes wonder if I'm a Martian born onto the Earth by my 'ancestors' to serve as a Ronin, ha.

JAMES: You're a fan of art?
AMLAN: Oh, I'll be making watercolor replicas of the Emerald for my new Amsterdam grant.

"Even a paranoid can have enemies" (Henry Kissinger).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)