MsContent had handed SammyEric a note with express directions to pick up ALPO for a new job. She hoped the new guys can handle it, her two favorite things in the world needed special care.

Go to The Chocolate Menagerie in DT first. Via_Parile will have the package ready and waiting. It is very fragile, be careful or you will lose your clumsy hands! Second, stop at "Little Treasures" on Broadway. Go to the back door and ask for MsContent's egg. If they hesitate, let them know if I don't see my Faberge, they will see blood.  Do not crack any of my eggs, boys, or heads will roll!

Sammy honked the horn at the address given for ALPO. Soon out came someone who seemed about as nervous as Sammy. "I take it you know where we are going," Sammy asked the man. "Yeah, I been to Detroit once or twice before. I can get us there." The door closed and Sammy drove out of the driveway. "So, tell me about yourself." Sammy asked ALPO. "Not much to say man," was the reply. "Well, then I will tell you about me," Sammy said. "My name is SammyEric. I escaped my home in Arkansas, and beat a man in Kansas City. I arrived here and aligned myself with Jackie, Karmen, Blade, and MsContent. I helped Karmen rescue Jackie outta jail, and I also helped in some loan shark job yesterday. So I am still kinda green. But I think I am moving up. Hell, I got this car, and my first couple of hundred bucks, so I ain't doing too bad." 

     After several hours of driving, the two arrived in Detroit at the location that was given. "Uh, yeah, we're here for the eggs, and no questions asked. We got a long haul to get back home," Sammy said. The man at the backdoor of the building looked the two up and down. "Wow, not exactly what I was expecting to see for such an important pick-up. Let me tell ya kid, this ain't no shit. These eggs are like gold to MsContent. And you know how she loves her gold jewelry, same with these eggs. You clown around a break one of these, and she will remove your reason to be called a man, you hear my words sonny?" Sammy nodded. Sammy was afraid of the responsibility of the eggs, so he handed the package to ALPO. "You hold, I drive," Sammy told him. Before they could even get out of Detroit, the car started to sputter. "Oh, shit, what is going on?" Sammy yelled. "I don't know man, but we gotta get these eggs back," ALPO said. "Crap, I felt all my money Las Vegas, you got any?" Sammy asked him. "Nope, I spent all mine on the last time was gassed up before we got here," ALPO said. Sammy tried to think hard. "Ok, we gotta heist some gas and we gotta make a getaway." The two were able to push the car to a filling station. Sammy's head was covered in sweat. He also worried about the eggs melting, but they were still in good shape. "Ok, just follow my lead," Sammy said. The two walked into the gas station with the box of eggs. "Top of the day to you. May I interest you in some of Detroit's finest treats?" Sammy asked the clerk. "ALPO you hold these while I go fill up the tank, and then we will talk with this wonderful gentleman about his future purchase of these wonderful eggs, and I will pay him for the gas too. Everyone wins!" Sammy smoothly said. ALPO was on to Sammy, he knew what was about to happen. After a couple of minutes, ALPO heard Sammy return the gas nozzle to the meter. Then, Sammy fell to the ground coughing and hacking. "Oh GOD, I gotta go see what wrong with him, he has asthma!" ALPO told the clerk. "No problem, hurry, he sounds bad," the clerk said. ALPO ran out the door, with the eggs and set them in the seat of the car and rushed around to Sammy. Sammy was trying hard to keep coughing instead of laughing. "Are you ok man, are you ok," ALPO was asking, trying to keep up the act. "Ready to go?" Sammy whispered under his fake coughing. "NOW!" he whispered. The two men jumped in the car, fired up the engine and sped away.... they would soon be back as MsContent office. Sammy hoped the reward would be swell. 

Waking up Bladed felt a hot, burning pain in his chest and realized that there was a strange mark on his chest and also noted that he wasn't in his apartment but instead in a location that was unfamiliar to him..."Wha-huh the fu...I don't even...What the hell?" he said in his "What the Hell voice".

After dropping ALPO off at his place, and splitting the reward money from MsContent, SammyEric decided it was best to go back to the apartment and see if Bladedrevived had made it back yet. Sammy opened the door and was shocked to see the lights still off and nobody there. "This is really odd. I been gone for two days and still no-one here?" he thought. "This is getting beyond weird. I better call Karmen and Jackie and ask them what I should do. I really wanted to check out the HQ bed that was offered to me, but I would feel wrong leaving Blade's place with no-one to watch over it." Sammy started dialing numbers.

Hearing the phone ring brought light to Bladed's eyes and without hesitation he picked it up and heard Sammy in a worried tone ask if I was there I replied "Hey bud it's me, mind telling me what the hell is going on because last I remember I was being branded by...look bud I'll call you back I need to figure out where I am."

Sammy hung up the phone slowly. "I wonder the hell is really going on," he thought. But then his thoughts soon started playing the flashbacks of the things he has done in the past few days. Sammy had ran away from home, beaten a man in KC, arrived in LV, gotten aligned with@Karmen and Bladedrevived and Jackie and assisted in aiding Jackie back home as well as gotten into the booze business. Sammy had changed his looks and gotten a fake ID. He had helped negotiate with a bar owner who was late on paying a shark. Sammy had also helped MsContent with a jewelry heist and also went to Detroit to retrieve her special eggs while stealing the gas to get home. Sammy had also made a friend in ALPO. All of this was happening so fast, and Sammy knew that much more was to come. Sammy figured he needed to also be responsible for offering his help to HQ in anything they needed. Sammy got into the car and began to drive toward HQ, but really he just wanted to clear his mind from all he had already done in a few short days. 

Aislin sat on a near stoop smoking one of Cubans finest. She saw a lot of activities going on, not really knowing exactly what was going on -she just knew that there seemed to be a lot of it. That guy SammyEric sure was busy she thought, as she watched him leave for a time, then come back, and start all over again. What the hell was he doing? Ricky D sat on a stoop up from Aislin, and squinted, and with a curious look on his face said, "Hey Ais, what do you think that fellows over there doing? It seems a lot of activities are taking place." Aislin looked across the street as she took a hefty pull from her cigar -seeing the different people going to and fro, "Well Ricky D I honestly don't know, but whatever it is, there seems to be a lot of people taking part, lets just sit here, and see what happens next." Aislin reached in her back pocket, and offered Ricky D a cigar, "Ais, did you forget? I quit months ago." Rick D said, although the tightness of his lips as he tried to refrain from indulging was definitely noted, "Aww fuck man, I completely forgot, sorry." Aislin didn't know why anyone would ever give up Cuban cigars, fuck that -that was insane. She began to watch the happenings of SammyEric again wondering what was going to happen next. Things were definitely exciting.

Grinning and chuckling to herself, MsContent sat on her divan and held the golden, jewel encrusted egg up to the sunlight, admiring her new tchotchke. The joys of life: chocolate, cash, jewels, and beautiful trinkets. The glittering rubies were captivating, and a feeling of contentment filled her heart.

Until one of those rubies fell down onto her silk dressing gown. At first MsContent gasped, thinking her handling wasn't gentle enough, but then her trained eye notice a few more flaws in her precious egg. Gold flecks fell beside the gem, and her eyes clouded over with rage. 

"Son of a bitch!" She hurled the egg at the window, glass shattering down to the sidewalk below. Neighbors blocks away heard her screaming for blood, bones,  and assorted body parts.

Her fingers shook as she dialed the phone, words sharp as knives as she asked for SammyEric at HQ. Sammy's ears must have been bleeding, and every other crew member in the building had a panicked look in their eyes not even knowing the reason why. Sammy was lost in the foment of curses and screams, bu the last of her words echoed in his head quite clearly.

MAKE THIS RIGHT!

Looking around it seemed like a facility of some sort after noticing the sign that said Jackie's 24/7 Chop Shop realizing that Jackie was the last person he remembers seeing he picks up a loose pipe and called back Sammy from the number he found in the box "Sammy I'm in one of Jackie's metal shops and he branded me as his own, basically I'm his slave but I know a way outside there's a door near the main desk that leads out to the ally I'll see what street I'm at then I'll come back call you again to come pick me up!" I said as I hung up the phone and made my way outside and read the street sign that said N. hickory and E. 15th street.

Sammy patiently waited for MsContent to calm her yelling down. "Ma'am, that particular egg was not part of your original order anyway. We didn't wanna tell you but ALPO and I put a little money together and picked that one up here in LV before we came here to bring you all of your packages. I am terribly sorry it's not in great shape but we thought maybe you would enjoy it. I didn't realize how well trained your eyes are to find flaws in it."

Sammy picked up the phone again and listened closely to Bladedrevived to tell him the location to come to. "Ok, but listen, I am coming in a car you never seen before, just be watching. I been really busy the past few days man. " Blade wasn't interesting in listening to stories right now, so he interupted Sammy and gave the location to come pick him up. Sammy sped out of the driveway in his car and made a bee line for the location.

Stepping out into the ally Bladed found an unusual car that he did not recognise and knew that had to be Sammy and without thinking Bladed ran straight to the car and got inside and reunited with Sammy and said only one thing "Now...mind telling me how this happened" as he was showing Sammy the mark. 

Sammy was never really comfortable with watching his friend get cut up, but didn't say a word when it was happening, because he was kinda frozen in fear. But how could he explain that to his friend? "Well, I gotta be honest, I thought it was something that was already worked out between you and Jackie. I had no idea that it was unexpected on your part. Then we both came home for the end of the day. When I woke up you were already gone again. I did a job with MsC where we ruffed up a scum who was shorting our family, and then I went to Detroit to retrieve her special eggs. When I returned to your place, then I became very curious as to why you never made it back. So then I began making calls."

     They arrived at Bladedrevived place, and Sammy rushed over to Blade's side of the car and opened the door to help his friend. He prope an arm over his shoulder and helped Blade walk up to the door and up the stairs to his apartment. "Get some rest pal. Ya never know what tomorrow may bring us," Sammy told his friend. Sammy was upset to see his friend in such bad shape. On top of that, Sammy wanted to take the bed in HQ that was offered to him, but he didn't wanna leave Blade in such bad shape right now. He decided he would talk to Blade in the morning and whatever they decided would be ok. 

Inside Bladed finally laid down and relaxed which felt like the first time in a million years. "God first branded with a weird symbol on my chest then locked away in a warehouse and thank god that Sammy came when he did." he said with a tired voice "Back in bed away from the life of crime...I could get used to this."

Jackie was in a car, he saw a casino in Las Vegas that he didn't want there anymore. He hired a large crew to go in shoot up the place, he would deal with the casino owner. He was going to make sure that Las Vegas would remember the destruction of a rival casino.

The plan went out flawless, the crew he hired shot up the casino, shot the body guards of the place, and even people who were playing there. The place was a blood bath, he wrote the symbol of that he gave bladed on the walls with the blood of the dead victims. This way they would know who was in charge. He stole the money of the casino, and even killed his crew that shot up the place. He found the casino owner in the back of the casino and says, "Well hello there." Later in the night the owner was found dead on a cop car with a strange mark on his face.

Jackie had heard bladed was slacking in the department of criminality, and decided to pay Bladed a nice little visit. Jackie hired a guy to break down Bladed's door. Jackie walks in and looks around the place and says," You really need to pick up around the place, but I got a job for you little Bladed, since you work for me. I want you to lead a few of my men here and shoot up a nice little police station for me. How does that sound?" Before Bladed could answer, Jackie said, "Good you will do it, also make sure you leave some candy in the place, we don't want the place to look too depressing with all that blood do we?"

"Yo man what the fuck! Come on hell no I'm gonna call up Sammy to clear this shit up! You sir are indeed fucked you hear me!" I yelled at him to send the message that I was not going to be forced into another situation I did not want to be in but before I could say anything else he left. After I made sure he was gone I called up Sammy and told him what Jackie just did and then I asked him what I should do.

Sammy was currently cruising around town in his car, when he noticed ALPO was walking down the sidewalk. Sammy pulled over and said "hey man, what ya up to?" ALPO grinned and said "well, I was actually on my way to find you. Got a supplier that wants me to get some moonshine sold here in LV. The shipment is being delivered by railroad. It's coming in from somewhere out in California. My information tells me this is a private job, separate from our work here, are you interested?" Sammy thought for a second. Separate? Sammy did not want too eager to do work that was not related to HQ, but he figured that all mobsters must have other methods of income besides just crew work. "Ok, I'm in, what do we gotta do," he asked. "We gotta get the shipment as soon as it comes in with the train. The wooden boxes will have special markings on them, and they were slipped on there by the crew of the guy that's paying me. Then we gotta drive the boxes over to Summerlin and drop them off at our destination house." Sammy's curiosity perked up and he said "speaking of which, how much does this job pay?" ALPO grinned, "We get a cash payoff from the guy we are taking this stuff to, and we also get 3 bottles of moonshine apiece. That was the agreement I made with them." Sammy could deal with that, it sounded like a good deal. "Hop in buddy, let's go."

     The car whizzed into the railroad stop. "Ok, it should be marked with serial numbers in green markings." ALPO said. The two watched as workers started unloading the rail cars. "Hey, what the hell are these boxes back here in this back car?" one of the workers asked. "Those are ours," Sammy said as he walked toward the back car. "Yep, green numbers, looks like our stuff." The worker stepped in front of SammyEric and ALPO. "Whoa there, you ain't getting nothing off this train. This is all private shipments and we don't take kindly to you two even being here right now." ALPO grinned and said "is that a fact?" Sammy breathed in deep, knowing that this was fixing to escalate into something more than just picking up some boxes. "Listen pal, I got twenty bucks here with your name on it. How do you feel now about letting take these boxes?" The worker puffed up his chest, "I'm not interested my friend, move along." ALPO then pointed to the front of the train "Fire! Fire!" he yelled. The man took his eyes off of Sammy and looked at the front of the train. Sammy knew what ALPO was doing, and he decked the worker and knocked him down. ALPO jumped down and held the man down, covering his mouth so he could not scream for the other workers who were inside the warehouse by the tracks. Sammy quickly loaded the boxes of moonshine into his car and then came back to ALPO and the worker. "You tow are so dead," the worker said. "Ya know, I was gonna let you live pal, but I ain't no idiot, and you got a mouth on you. Hey ALPO, I think this guy needs to be put out of his misery, its freakin hot out here," he chuckled. ALPO and Sammy took the man to the bushes and performed the hit. They jumped back into the car and sped away, to take the moonshine to it's final destination in Summerlin. 

SammyEric listened as ALPO pointed out directions to the location in Summerlin. When they arrived at the address, a man came out and very quietly whispered, "ok boys, head around back and my cousin will meet ya and get ya outta here with your due." Sammy slowly drove the car around back. "Did you see that Sammy," ALPO asked. "That guy was packing, but he wasn't hiding it very well." Sammy and ALPO opened the trunk and the man and his cousin walked up. "Unload it boys and I will go inside and get your cash," the man said. Sammy and ALPO unloaded the boxes and held out their hands. The man came back with a stack of bills, and divided it out among them. "What about our bottles," ALPO asked. "Since when was that part of the deal," the man said as he took a step back. "Buddy, I didn't drive all the way out here to not get what I was promised. You got 6 full boxes of bottles. Give us our 3 bottles apiece or we can take them the hard way," Sammy said. The man nodded to his cousin and both of them pulled out small guns. Sammy smiled and said "ALPO, I kinda had a feeling my day was gonna go like this, how about you?" Sammy opened the car door and backed up against the car. Very discretely, Sammy was able to reach down by his seat and snag an automatic. "Ya see boys, when you underestimate me you usually end up worse than you started." POW! POW! POW! Sammy began firing away. ALPO pulled out his handgun and began firing also. After the guns stopped, Sammy looked at ALPO and said "I guess we gotta sell these booze ourself now, and of course we gotta help ourselves to the 3 we deserve." They both laughed and cracked open a box of the moonshine. They both took a swig off the bottle and thought about how they were going to sell the rest of the shine or what to do with the bodies of the men they had just taken out. 

"Pick up, pick up, pick up...shit probably not home." realizing that he was beyond screwed and he needed to either do the job or hunt down the man who hired him. This decision was difficult one at that having only shot his father's 22 he couldn't bring himself to shoot anyone but then again having escaped multiple asylums before so being "sane" wasn't a problem so what would he do? He pulled himself to attempt to injure Jackie. 

Grabbing a kitchen knife and an old trench coat he found Bladed began his hunt for Jackie. Bladed knew that he could kill Jackie but then someone would hunt him down on the other hand injuring Jackie would give the message of "don't screw with me" or something like that. Jackie could be literally anywhere by now which means Bladed had a long road ahead of himself.