Lisbon Hand

A Story by Abishai100

Amlan/Raki head to Portugal for soccer-gem tales and social-media 'chess' but may discover a time-way to modern Euro-hell.

A Lisbon diamond adventure, inspired by The Italian Job (Charlize Theron).

DISCLAIMER: This work of original fiction offers no ties to Portugal or any real-news story concerning blood-diamond examinations and is therefore only a 'personal' exercise in environmental hyperbole.

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AMLAN: This Lisbon Euro-examination will offer social-media chess-IQ for diamonds.

RAKI: Definitely, pal; we might catch some cool Portuguese-soccer anyways.

Amlan/Raki finished up their grad-studies (Dartmouth) and headed to Lisbon from JFK and decided to perform this special daring infiltration of a Portugal-bank holding blood-diamonds owned by the world-infamous Baron Goldfinger, attempting to swap the gems with glass toys after taking the teller hostage and using her as an accomplice. This would become a world 'James Bond' or Batman-Robin like mission of great infrastructure proportions in the 2023 summer on Earth.

AMLAN: Isn't JFK darling?

These two world-savvy individuals had become fast-friends and capitalism-race analysts on social-media and cyber-highways in the new millennium and shared their ideations of the chess-governance of treasure-securities with like-minded 'heroists' of the modern Earth. This Lisbon Euro-examination would prove to be something of a test for the two friends, as the lovely Portugal-bank teller, Esmerelda, would test their joint work with each other regarding social-media nets/associates.

AMLAN: We'll walk inside the bank with Esmerelda in mask//costume on police-day.

RAKI: So, we'll take our water-guns with acid from street-theater and cast Esmerelda as our media-event diplomat (hmm).

BANK MANAGER: We'd not anticipated anything 'magical' or unordinary on the day of this fantastic media heist (insurance) journal examination this summer, but perhaps (Interpol-relation) folk will restore all Lisbon-building operators (now).

ESMERELDA: I'd not expected anything unusual like this for a long time, since it's been 2 years since my devastating divorce, and I'm lonely, and I feel like I'm falling for Amlan; I'm wondering if I may share this 'thought' with my girlfriends on social-media for an examination of traffic-life hope (wow).

Amlan and Esmerelda and Raki entered the bank and Amlan used the ATM machine while Raki/Esmerelda were escorted to the vault for media-shots on Goldfinger's famous diamond-box, which Amlan then burned open with his acid-gun and made the glass-toys swap and left the note with the guardsman (before sneaking out the bank-restroom), "Goldfinger's rival for insurance journal report for this prepaid-media theater for Lisbon treasure-securities must draw a new Interpol-relation asset/storage/access history."

Why bother will all this blood-diamond/insurance storage-and-access game-mess in modern Euro-journal structure? Well, Amlan/Raki knew this 'Crusade' was gold-worthy and required motivations and momentum and journal-buzz, and their use of masquerade and Esmerelda's 'inside-man' aid(s) proved to create some pretty 'nifty' post-heist Portuguese social-media heat.

ESMERELDA: You men owe me a night-out after this harrowing blood-diamond adventure (no?).

AMLAN: You're not even one-iota false, my lovely lady; we're 'catching' Ronaldo (now).

RAKI: Excellence; Lisbon's highness.

AMLAN: I'm in-love with you, darling.

ESMERELDA: I know you're going to depart Lisbon, I know.

AMLAN: This is not just a 'prom' memory, Esmerelda; it'll be a Euro-highness.

ESMERELDA: Alright; I know you thought that one restaurant was perfect.

AMLAN: It was beautiful.

After Amlan/Raki departed Lisbon, the new blood-diamond 'legion' in the Euro-highway arrived ceremoniously and began to investigate matters concerning the 'threat' to corrupted baron-holdings for conflict-zone finances tied to profiteer-terrorists. This new legion was none-other than the Red Hand, marshaled by the evil 'queen' (Malory), but what would be the media 'legacy' of the careful/romantic work(s) of Amlan/Raki in this 'cartoon-tale' of 'high' proportion?