Sammy woke up, it was 3 in the afternoon, and he’d just been nicely rested in his afternoon nap. He sat up in his bed, rubbed his face and stood up.

“Right, today is the day, let’s get started”

A few minutes later, after being showered and shaved, he was back in his room, suited up for another day in the world of organised crime. He put his gun in the holster, shrugged his shoulder, and walked downstairs, and outside onto the cold streets of Detroit.

Sammy looked down at his watch, 3:30 pm.

“I better get moving, this thing needs to happen”

He continued on his way, down to the Ambassador Bridge that had finished being constructed just a mere few years ago. When he arrived, he took a side path to go underneath the bridge, standing there, were 3 of his associates, waiting, ready for his arrival.

“Right guys, we have about an hour before the bank closes, so this thing needs to happen quickly, and swiftly. We have gone over the plan, and everybody understands what they are doing right?”

Sammy looked to each of his associates, who nodded. Sammy then nodded back.

“Ok, we’re all set, we all know what we are doing, are we all equipped? Guns, tools?”

Sammy looked at his associates again, 2 of them taking out guns, and the other taking out safecracking equipment.

“Right, that’s good. We are fully prepared and equipped for this, now remember, this job will pay off massively, so we have to do it properly, unless we are all going away for a very long time.”

Sammy took a deep breath, and gave the signal, to which his associates nodded and began to walk. Sammy walked behind them for a few minutes, before taking control and leading the pack. He walks them down to the local bank, and stands outside the doors. He presses his back up against the wall, before nodding to his associates to start the job.

“Lets go lads, this is it”

Sammy’s associates walk into the bank, and he hears the commotion beginning. He takes a deep breath.

“This really is it”

Sammy bursts into the bank.

“RIGHT, EVERYBODY STAY CALM AND THIS WILL GO DOWN WITHOUT ANYONE GETTING HURT”

Danny waits for Sammy's Signal. When the time is right removing a concealed shotgun from his coat aiming it at the nearest guard. Walking forward he reaches over removing the guards fire arm and placing it into his jacket keeping watch on all those around him.

"everything looks good here...I don't think any of them want to cause problems. We just want to make a withdrawal and that's it alright?..take it easy"

Danny looks over at Sammy, watching waiting to see what his comrade was going to do.

Sammy nods to Danny, and looks to his other two associates, one taking care of the hostages, and the other keeping the guards away from him. He walks to the clerks desk, and jumps over.

"Right, would you be so kind to point me in the direction of your vault?"

The bank clerk lifts an arm, shaking, pointing down a corridor

"Why thank you."

Sammy makes his way over to the vault, and gives it a quick scan.

"HEY! I need you now"

The associate knew this was his time, he took out the safe cracking equipment and made his way to Sammy.

"Hey Danny, take over from him will you? Watch the hostages?"

Danny nods stepping back to cover a larger area. Shotgun held firmly in his hand. Looking for any attempt to thwart this little robbery he keeps vigilant speaking calmly.

"Alright nobody wants to do anything stupid. your doing fine..and This will be over soon and you can go back to your lives. Alright..my friend here is going to go around and collect your wallets. So don't fucking talk. Just place the wallets in the bag ok?"

Danny watches as his Associate begins making his way through the gaggle of people collecting wallets.

Sammy stands over the safecracker as he gets to his business.

"That's good mate, give me a heads up as you get closer to cracking it"

Sammy walks slowly back down the corridor to where Danny is keeping the hostages quiet.

"Nice job mate. Nice job. Everybody else alright? Nobody trying anythi-"

One of the guards lunges for Sammy, getting him to the floor. Danny reacts by keeping the shotgun on the other guards.

"Bastard"

Sammy wrestles the guard off of him.

"Danny, pass me that pistol you took from the guard earlier"

Danny passes Sammy the pistol.

"Get on your knees bitch. I told you not to try anything, everything could've been fine. Now the police are gonna have to tell your family that you wont be coming home for dinner"

The guard kneels down in front of Sammy, beginning to sob. Sammy places the gun against the guards head, pulls the trigger, and watches as the guards eyes go blank.

"Now, that's what happens when people try to be heroes, anybody else wanna try anything? No, I didn't think so."

Sammy wipes his gun down from the spray of blood.

"Continue with the wallet collection"

TheBaron walks through the front door of the bank holding his tommy gun

Wow you guys are doing a bank job too? Dam what ever you guys have room for one more?

"You fucking hard the man move! Wallets in the fucking back..you old man wallet in the fucking bag I'm not going to ask again"

Danny's concentration fractured by a defiant "no" from a member of the crowd. Danny swallows the first bit of the flame that ignited inside of him. Walking over to the middle aged man he mutters

"I'm sorry didn't catch it? you say something"

Looking into the middle aged mans eyes..witnessing the most common of emotions fear. Danny smirks removing the wallet off the would be brave man and places it into the bag. The last wallet in place everything is set.

"All good here..will you tell that moron in the other room to hurry up?"

Sammy looks as TheBaron walks into the bank, holding a tommygun.

"Someone sort that guy out, he doesn't need to have a gun. Take his wallet too."

Sammy jumps over the clerk's desk again, and walks down to the safe

"How's it going?" Sammy says to the safecracker

"I'm almost there, almost. There!" Replies the safecracker

"Right, here are the bags, start getting the money into the bags, and if I see you pocket any, there will be trouble"

Sammy goes back to the main lobby, to see TheBaron kneeling down, handing over his wallet and putting his hands behind his head. Sammy then walks back to the safe, helping to load the bags.

"ATTENTION BANK ROBBERS. THIS IS THE POLICE, WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED, GIVE YOURSELVES UP AND NO ONE WILL BE HURT"

Sammy jumps up, nods to the safecracker to keep loading the bags, and walks back to the main lobby.

"Danny, you got them explosives I asked you to bring? Wire it to the hostages, the police are here and we have a situation."

Danny nods tossing his gun over to his Associate who firmly has TheBaron under his shoe. Dumping his bag watching the building blocks on plan B fall out. He looks up at Sammy who has the place covered. Assured things are fine he begins to wire the explosives to each hostage standing up with the detonator. 

"alright you each are wired into eachother..if one of you does anything Ill blow you to fuck. I don't want to have to be the bad guy but if your friend give me no choice Ill take it"

Walking back over taking his gun back from his associate, Danny looks at Sammy

"what now?"

Sammy look over into the vault

"Right, that all the money in bags now. Is there a back door to this place?"

The bank clerk points to another corridor, and nods

"Right, here's what is going to happen. We shall send the hostages out, in a line, very slowly, to the police. While they are distracted, we sneak out the back door and try to get back to the safehouse"

Sammy takes a deep breath

"Lets go"

"right..you will walk out of this bank in an orderly fashion. Your nightmare is almost over. Do what we say and you'll be fine I don't need to remind you of the consequences.

Danny nudges the first individual with his gun, having him open the door. Danny nudges him again watching as the hostages walk out of the bank single file. Looking at there faces watching the terror. He never wanted to do this to people but, when push comes to shove you shove with everything you got. As the last few people exit the building he meets his comrades at the back, taking his bag and putting it over his shoulder.

"That should tie those flatfoots up, Fuck its going to be a miracle as we make it out of this one."

As the door swings open Danny steps out. Feeling a great force hit his person h falls to the ground looking up..seeing the smoke arise from the recently fired gun. Feeling his body ache he follows it along looking at his shoulder.

Sammy smiles as Danny opens the door. When suddenly a cop has shot him. Sammy takes out his gun and unloads his mag into the copper

"Son of a bitch! Danny! You ok bud?"

Danny nods his head weakly.

"Right, you two, pick Danny up, we need to get out of here before the cops respoind to all the noise we just made. I'll take the bags and you grab Danny"

The associates pick Danny up, one on each side, as Sammy leads them away, and into a nearby parked car

"Quick, in here!"

Just as Danny and the other associates are in, Sammy climbs in, and notices the cops running towards him

"COME ON COME ON! WHY WILL YOU NOT START!"

The car engine revs.

"Yes, let's go"

Bullets are fired as Sammy as the guys drive away, only to notice two police cars hot on their tail.

"I'm fine, just a little shook up, Ill head over to the docs when we reach the safe house, for now we have to figure out a way to get these morons off our tail. A Molotov would come in handy right about now and we used all the explosives.."

Danny sits back removing his knife from his jacket he cuts a strip of the seat belt off tieing it tight around his shoulder.

"that should do for now, fuck they seem pissed.."

Danny rolls down the window and alternates with one of the Associates aiming at the tires with no luck. One car behind and one slowly gaining to the side.

"Sammy ram him!"

Sammy steers the car into the car to his right. Pulling out his pistol and shooting the driver, he watches as the car veers off and hits a tree.

"Right, that's one of the dealt with, now we just need to sort out this bitches behind us."

Sammy continues driving round, he knows he can't return to the safehouse as the cops will follow him

"We're gonna have to lose them or kill them. I suggest killing them, try shooting the tyres again guys"

Danny peers out of the window again aiming at a much larger target. A grin forming on his face as he pulls the trigger, one..two..three..four times watching the blood splatter on the window. A few short seconds later the car veers left hitting a milk truck head on. Danny slips back inside dropping his gun on the floor, raching into his pockt he lights a cigarette taking a deep drag.

"there..that's number two.."

Sammy looks into the back seat.

"Nice one Danny, that's the police off our back, now we just need to make it back to the safehou-"

"FUCK!"

Sammy sees a roadblock being set up just a few blocks ahead of him, considered where the safehouse is, he take a quick right turn, only to be confronted with another road block.

"Quickly Sammy, what are we going to do?" Sammy says to himself

He then notices the police have not covered the sidewalks.

"Hold on guys, it's gonna get bumpy!"

Sammy steers the car onto the sidewalk, and drives past the roadblock, hitting a policeman on the way through.

"Damn that was close, everybody still ok?"

Danny feels his heart race hi vision goes a little blurry for about half a second, watching his friend maneuver the car in slow motion. Feeling th foundation of the car shake he is brought back to reality with a swift jerk to the right. Danny looks back and raises a brow looking at Sammy after.

"Did you forget the first rule of driving always keep your hands on the road!"

Danny looks over at the two associates Paulie & Joey, both visibly shaken up he offers both a cigarette. After another drag of his Danny was calm again.

"You boys did alright..I mean ey your still alive. Sammy how far away is this place?"

Sammy turns to Danny

"My driving is perfect! Thank you very much"

He turns back to look at the road

"It's not very far away, just on the outskirts of Detroit"

After a few more minutes of driving, they pull into the street, at the bottom of the road, is the safehouse.

"There it is guys, nothing too fancy, don't want any unwanted attention. When we get inside, we'll divide the earnings out"

They pull up outside and get out of the car, Danny's arm still bleeding quite heavily, they take the bags inside.

"We'll get that arm of yours sorted out too Danny"

"Just leave my cut on the tables, ill collect it later. Paulie lets go, your taking me to that docs over on 5th. Its been a real slice Sammy, we should do this again sometime my friend.."

Danny laughs shaking the hands of Sammy, and his associate, laughing. Walking out of the building too the cars. Sitting in the back Danny smiles already plotting the next caper.

As Danny shakes his hand, Sammy says

"Yeah we should, it's be eventful, but just look at this that we made from it"

Sammy divides the cash up and goes upstairs

"Well, I need a rest now. Should start thinking about the next big job tomorrow."

Sammy lies down on his bed, instantly falling asleep.

END