It was a warm morning in Los Angeles when the night before Diablos had left a note on the desk of his great friend to meet him on Santa Monica Pier. The wind was blowing and the sun was blazing high over the sea. Diablos just had a simple Shirt and some pants on so he didn't sweat to much in the heat. He looked around and noticed a busy road with traffic waving up and down it. Diablos smiled and walked down the pier. Once he reached the bottom he rested his arms on the edge of the pier and looked around. The view was beautiful. Diablos looked at his watch and sigh..

"He should of been here 10 minutes ago".

Diablos looks behind him and there was no sight of his friend. He started to think what would happen if his friend didn't turn up. Nothing would happen as it was just a job that Diablos had been planning for months and had everything set up. Yet it could be executed any time he wished. However today was an important day for it due to there being other things going on there.

25 Minutes had passed and there was still no sign of Diablos' friend. He looked around for him but there was no sight. Maybe he didn't get his message as his friend was a busy man always on the move. Either way Diablos started to get impatient and he decided to take a stroll over to the snack stand

"Hey there could I get a Vanilla Ice Cream please?"

Diablos said to the clerk inside the stand. The clerk nodded and turned around and grabbed a cone and used the ice cream dispenser and poured some ice cream onto the cone. He then handed it over to Diablos. Here you are sir. Diablos handed him the money for the ice cream and then turned around and walked back to the edge of the pier.

Diablos continued leaning on the edge of the pier and eating his ice cream. 45 minutes had passed and there was no sign of his friend at all. At this time Diablos had turned around to see if he was coming but nothing. He turned his back towards the front of the pier and let out a long-drawn sigh. Perhaps his friend never got the message and Diablos would have to put this job on hold for another day....

Odin fidgets the note in his pocket that had been left for him by Diablos. He knows he is ridiculously late, and knows also that Diablos will never forgive him should he not arrive. The bus is taking damn near forever, and Odin silently hopes that Diablos hasn't given up on him yet.

Finally, after what seems like ages, the bus pulls to a stop a couple of blocks from the Santa Monica Pier. Odin dashes off the bus and takes off down the street at a full run. Glancing at his watch, he notes that he is now a full 45 minutes late. He groans and puts more effort into his run. As he approaches the pier, he finally catches site of his friend.

I am... so sorry... I'm late. Stupid bus, I swear...

Diablos smiles.

It's all good. Was worried you hadn't gotten my note.

No, just got a little caught up, that's all. Let's take a walk and discuss our business, shall we?

They walk out further onto the pier, out where people were not likely to overhear their conversation.

So, explain this plan to me.

We're going to the MGM Grand, you know, the hotel and casino near here? There's a TON of money in that vault of theirs. We're going to take some of it... well, as much as we can carry at any rate. I'm going to have a private jet waiting just down the road at the airport to take us back to my place. Sound alright to you?

Odin ponders this a moment. It seems to all be in place, except for one thing...

How are we getting to the airport once we've got the cash?

Oh yeah, I'm going to have a cab waiting, thanks for reminding me; I've got to call him about that. Anyway, sound good other than that?

Yeah. Sounds brilliant.

Odin shakes Diablos' hand, smiling slightly. They're both excited, not caring that they could get caught, or killed, not caring about any of that. They are about to be billionaires.

Come on, I have a cab waiting to take us to the airport. It's time to get this party started said Diablos.

They walk back down the pier, where a cab is waiting for them, just as Diablos promised. Diablos tells the driver to get a move on it, and they are off to the airport, their plan so far falling perfectly into place.

As they are both in the back of the Cab Diablos pulls out his gun and checks it over. He looks on eitherside of it and even takes it apart in front of Odin and puts it back together again. "Got to make sure nothing can go wrong gun wise".

Odin smiles at Diablos and pulls out his gun.. there is a spot of rust on the handle where he had left it in the rain to long. Perhaps from a nights drinking or something. Diablos looks over at Odin's gun..

"You trust that?" Odin nods and smiles This gun has gotten me through thick and thin so.. I damn right trust it. Diablos smiles and continues to mess with his gun.

"Any ways.. once we get to the airport we will take my private jet to Detroit". Diablos looks at the Cab driver who is listening on their conversation. As for what we do in Detroit I shall discuss that when there isn't another pair of nosey ears listening in. The cab drive acknowledges that Diablos is onto him and he concentrates straight back on the road and getting these two men to the airport.

"Driver, anychance you can step on it a little. I want to get there before Christmas you know!"

The cab driver looks in his review mirror and sees Diablos getting a little angry at him. The drive decides to put his foot down more on the pedal and increases his speed some more to get there faster

"Thank you. Now Odin my good friend, How have you been? We haven't spoken in a few weeks".

Kip wa waking along the street deep in thought. He needed to cross the street to shop at a new designer outlet that had just opened.

 He stepped on to the road and almost gets taken out by a cab going like crazy. Kip was about to give the driver a piece of his mind that would only be seen in the drivers rear view mirror, but would have made Kip feel better.

As he was about to start his onslauhgt, he could have sworn he had seen Diablos in the cab with someone ele. "Wow wonder where he is off to in such a hurry" he said to himself and thought better than to cause a scene now knowing who one of the passengers were.

He went bck to being focused on shopping, but there was aniggling thought.... Who was the other guy.....

Odin eyes the driver, wary that he is listening to their every word.

"Been working, you know? Economy's tough right now, but I definitely manage to get by."

"How much you making a week?"

"Depends. About $500 or so."

Odin smiles at Diablos and holds up a finger; one zero to the end; $5000 a week. Or more. He pulls out his gun as well and nods.

"How is the kid?"

"Fantastic. He's never been better, does everything he's supposed to right on schedule. You know, now that I think about it though, there's something that's come up lately..."

Diablos raises an eyebrow. "What is that, I'm afraid to know?"

Odin just smiles. "Picked up a chick at a club the other night." This is all he says, but it's enough. "Don't worry though... I'm taking care of that."

"That's good to know. We wouldn't want someone interfering with your work or anything like that."

They pull up to the airport dropoff and the driver turns to face them. "$60."

Odin rolls his eyes. The cab fares are ridiculous around here, and although he would be making that money back, plus thousands more, it still irked him to have to pay this. He handed over the money, though without tip, and went to step out of the car. He couldn't help but notice the look of disgust on the driver's face when he realized he wasn't getting extra today.

"So Diablos, let's get to it, shall we?"

Diablos nods and looks at the driver who is giving Odin dirty eyes

"What do you think we are?! We aren't made of money you know. Now get outta here before I use this gun before I even want to!"

The cab drivers eyes open as wide as they can in shock and he quickly puts his foot down and drives away. Diablos looked at Odin and then his watch. He noticed that they were obviously late due to Odin but that wasn't to matter there was no time schedule for this operation. One of many in which Diablos was hoping Odin would join him on. Diablos nods and smiles at Odin and they both slowly walk towards Diablos private Jet. The pilot was stood at the entrance to the jet and he smiled.

Hey this ride will cost you both Ten-Million each! The pilot said in his Spanish accent. At that time Odin quickly turned to Diablos in shock What the?! Diablos laughs and walks closer towards the pilot and grabs him by the head and rubs his hair

"Shut up Vic you idiot. Your jokes are as bad as my moms cooking!" Victor laughed and shrugged off his slight abuse. Odin looked confused and walked onto the jet not saying a word. Inside the jet Diablos was sat down and Odin took a seat across from him

"Odin, don't worry about Victor. He's a joker, he's my personal pilot. Gets me from A to Z faster then a monkey can scratch his own nuts. His jokes are bad but thats why I hired him. Got to have someone with a sense of humour huh?"

Odin smiled and nodded his head. Then Victor pulled the door of the jet shut and he locked it from the inside. He then turns around and looks suspiously at Odin D, we aren't going to have a mess on here are we? Odin shocked once again looks at Diablos who smiles back "Naa not today Victor. Odin has been my friend since we were in this life. He's the closest guy to a brother I have. Just like you Vic. Now.. get us to Detroit we have a Vault to rob".

Victor smiles and turns around. He walks towards his cockpit and enters it. Before he sits down he pokes his head out of the door for one second and looks at Diablos.

D, You couldn't steal me a sexy woman could you? I mean your good at Kidnapping so.. If your robbing a Vault maybe steal me a woman at the same time? Victor laughs and quickly goes back into his Cockpit and starts up the jet. Diablos laughs and looks at Odin

"What a joker huh? Full of jokes and stupid comments that one. But I tell you now he is as loyal as monkey is to his banana's. You can tell him anything and he won't blab a word. As for his woman.. I have the perfect idea what to bring him back. Diablos smiles Any ways what were going to do is were going to chill out in Detroit for a day or two. Were going to book rooms at the MGM Grand so we can get a feel of the place and know our perfect layout. Then on the night of day three Victor will be waiting at the south wall with a van waiting for us to blow open the wall so he can back it up and we can load the money".

Odin looks at Diablos and smiles but then puts on a serious face How are we supposed to blow open a wall with my dynamite? Diablos laughs and leans over the back of his chair and pulls out a box. He opens the lid and it contains some dynamite

"You think I'd come unprepared? Hell no. Now.. It sounds simple and obviously there are going to be alarms. I know you are good at cutting and sneaking around so.. I was wondering you got an idea of what you could do?"

"Well before i can actually plan anything, i'm gonna need to take a good look around inside. I'm gonna have to try and find the control system inside the building for all the alarms. But assuming i can find that then the alarms will be no problem" said Odin as he fastened his seatbelt waiting for Vic to get the jet in the air.

"He does know what he's doing doesn't he? We've here 15 minutes and we haven't moved an inch" Odin joked. "Yeah this guys a pro, we'll be off soon."

Finally the jet's engines started and the plane began moving down the runway and eventually took the skies. Odin looked up at Diablos who was sat with his hands fixed onto the armrests of the seat and looking as nervous as hell. "I never understood why you got a private jet when you hate flying." "Well it's the only decent way of travelling in this life, every other way takes ages and as you know, i'm an impatient guy" Diablos replied as he sat there looking as though he had just saw a ghost.

"True i spose, anyway, how long until we get there? 2 hours right?" "Yeah 2 hours" said Diablos. "Well in that case i'm gonna take a snooze, didn't get much sleep last night, was with that chick from the club." "Well aren't you the lucky one" Diablos said sarcastically as Odin put his head back in his seat as shut his eyes.

After about an hour and half Odin woke up and looked across the table to where Diablos was supposed to be sitting. "D? Where you got to?" Odin shouted as he looked around the jet. "I'm in here, won't be a sec" was the reply he got coming from where the toilet was. "Ahh nerves ended up getting the better of you i see" "Fuck you!" said Diablos as Odin sat in his seat laughing to himself. After hearing the toilet flush, Diablos came back out and sat back in his seat looking a lot better and refreshed.

"Might wanna strap yourselves in chaps, we're beggining our decent now" Vic shouted from the cockpit. "Quicker than we expected, nice work Vic. So what we doing when we land?" "We'll find a place to stay, and then spend some time in the casino so we can get used to the place and so you can try and fine the control system to the alarms" Diablos said as he smiled.

After around another 10 minutes, the jet finally touched down in Detroit. Odin and Diablos were now one step closer from becoming rich for life...

As the Jet touched down Diablos finally rested his arms down after gripping the arm rests like he had never gripped anything before

"God I hate flying I really do".

Vic then slowly pulled the jet to a stop once it had stopped he came out of his cockpit and smiled at Odin and Diablos. Odin got up out of his seat and headed towards the door. Vic opened it up and Odin stepped out into the fresh air. Diablos quickly hurried off the jet and into the air where he could finally breath.

"Ahhh that's better. Feel much much better now. Right Odin we need to go and book ourselves a room in the MGM Grand. At least we can have a feel for the place then".

Diablos turns his attention to Vic

"Vic anychance you could get us a ride out of here and to the Hotel?" Sure thing Big D. Let me just pack his baby up.

Vic turns the Jet engines on and slowly moves the Jet into the hanger he had bought a while ago. Then he turned off the engines and stepped out of the Jet. He then walked to the back of the Hanger where he started up his car and drove over to Diablos and Odin. He winded down the window.

"Jump in then guys.. Lets get you pair to your hotel".

Diablos and Odin get into the back of the car and Vic drives out of the airport and starts heading towards their destination.

"So.. Odin. If you want once we check in and set our stuff up in our room it will be dark so I will go pop down to the casino for a few hours and You can go hunt around for what you need. Sound good?"

"Yeah sounds fine to me, I have a pretty good idea of where it'll be so i'll give it a check. I might need you to cause a distraction though, nothing to big, don't wanna cause a stir a few days before the operation, think you can handle that?" "Yeah you leave that to me" Diablos said as he started to think of ways he could cause a distraction that would actually work.

As Vic pulled up outside the hotel, Odin and Diablos began smartening themselves up in the back of the car. Last thing they wanted was raised eyebrows as soon as they checked in by looking like a pair of scruffs. After tying their ties, and slipping their jackets on the pair stepped out of the car. Diablos leant in the front passenger window and handed Vic a few hundred bucks. "Look after yourself buddy, i'll call you if i need you." "Thanks" Vic said as he nodded before pulling off and driving down the street.

Odin and Diablos walked through the front doors and into the reception. "How may we help you Sir?" said the fine looking lady behind the desk. "Well..." "Odin!" Diablos snapped. "Let's just get checked in ay?" Odin rolled his eyes. "Fine" he said as he sighed. "Can we check into a twin room please?" Odin said charmingly. "Certainly, i'll just need you both to fill in these cards so we can get your details" the lady replied as she gave both Odin and Diablos a pen each. Once they had filled their details in the lady behind the desk handed Odin the key to their room. "Room 24-A, floor.3" "Thank you very much" said Diablos as they both made their way over the other side of the reception and took the elevator to floor 3.

After a minute or two, the elevator reached floor 3 and both Odin and Diablos stepped out and made their way to their room. When they got inside Odin headed straight over to the private mini bar and poured himself a small scotch. "Want one?" he asked Diablos. "Nah thanks, i just wanna put my luggage in my room and then head downstairs". "Aye good idea" Odin said as he drank his scotch and then went and put his case in his room. "Right then, lets go take a look around."

Diablos placed his luggage down on his bed and walked towards the door of the twin room. He looked over at Odin who was just approaching the door also.

"Right.. we will both go down to the casino. I'm sure I saw the maintenance room down there guarded by a few guards so.. what i'll do to distract them if I will pretend to get my tie stuck in the slot machines which is in front of. I'll start banging on the machine and that. Hopefully that will draw them away long enough for you to slip inside and check it out".

Diablos paused for a second as Odin looked interested in hearing on how he was going to get back out

"Getting out? Well I'll leave that to you I haven't an idea. Let me know if it involves me and I'll do what I gotta do".

At that point Odin nodded to Diablos in agreement with what he said and they both headed out of the room and towards the elevator. There were guards all around the casino and it was locked up a lot more tighter then Diablos had imagined it to be. However he was confident that he and Odin could pull this off. They both waited for the elevator and as it came they entered it. It was empty and Diablos pushed the button for the ground floor.

"Odin, this place is locked up real good so we gotta be pro's at this. We will strike in two days from now. Tomorrow will be our plan day and the day after well that's when we become billionaires mate. I will phone Vic up tomorrow and let him know when to have the van ready and that. And tomorrow I will have him bring my bag with all the stuff for our job in".

Odin looked a Diablos

Be pro's at this? I've infiltrated a federal building on my own to shut down the road networks for a job before and It had more guards then this. This is baby guard talk if you ask me.

Diablos looked at Odin and sighed

"Ok Mr Smarty-pants. Just because you go around busting into buildings like some stealthy cat that don't mean I am one too! Just be careful. Don't be getting to complacent now yeah? Don't want to be taking your body back to SpaceMountain".

Odin smiles and sniggered at Diablos as much to say.. 'yeah yeah I can do this job on my own'. At that point the elevator stopped on the ground floor and Odin and Diablos stepped out of the elevator and they headed over towards the casino area of the building...