Chicago DreamWar: Asterisk

An adventure-fable set in Chicago (United States) involving diamonds and aliens and a 'cool' vigilante named Flash-Satan.

An adventure fable inspired by the comics-adapted film Flash Gordon. Enjoy, 

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The Windy-City is where the amazing Flash-Satan ('FS') works as part-time detective, part-time vigilante (masked/anonymous). His chief is concerned about the new blood-diamonds shipment coming in from Sierra Leone to be 'fished' and moved by the dangerous crime-gang known as Black Hand.

FLASH-SATAN: The real 'trick' is to infiltrate the street-trust with concocted gears/costumes to 'appear' as a friend of intrigue.

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond corruption threatens the world-gem exchange(s) today and makes terrorism woe!

The Black Hang gang was at the pier to move the African gem shipment under veil of darkness, but Flash-Satan showed up claiming he was a 'djinn' hired by the diamond-baron Goldfinger (Holland) and inoculated the guardsman and swapped the $20M diamonds with fakes in his shoes and delivered the report for the Sun to re-present as a night-pier raiding disclosure.

POLICE-CHIEF: This was just awesome, Flash-Satan, and we 'doubt' there'll be more diamonds-aura with crime-gang IQ fixed.

Satan's gal Tandy happens to be a writer/photographer for the Sun and found his 'stunt' declaration to her rather dangerous and frightening, and she'd prefer a 'calm' Facebook comment, but he'll need her extra-credit help very soon as this tale takes a nasty turn towards the extra-terrestrial dominion.

ALIEN: We arrive on Earth through the Stargate portal and expect to nest invisibly in Chicago and create a diamond-net rule.

The general of the Alien invaders is Endymion who masks himself though now disguised-transformed as a humanoid 'prince' moving into a luxury-Chicago apartment. Endymion had posted photos of himself in his mask for Facebook-IQ, claiming he'd never be challenged by any chess-player on Earth (ever).

His mistress-siren of Hell, also an alien of course, is Esmerelda, who's got a thing for dashing young 'James Bond' types who might make-the-grade in chessplay against her demonic beau Endymion. Esmerelda had 'enhanced' Endymion's chess-dare with alluring 'witchcraft' photos of herself with captions like, "The city needs a 'cool' chess-match or stalemate opp with Endymion to help all get over the 'darkness' of blood-diamond oriented traffic-crimes."

FLASH-SATAN: Me thinks this Endymion/Esmerelda 'duet' is somehow extra-human/evil; I'll mingle and enter their night-room.

ENDYMION: You brought your own 'demo' hand-laser gun into my apartment...to showcase to Esmerelda (perhaps)?

FLASH-SATAN: I've chatted with Esmerelda on Facebook and agreed to a chess-stalemate dare with you...and I like her!

ENDYMION: No one likes Esmerelda; but your 'daring' intrigues me, and James Bond tales have an Earth-luster, no?

ENDYMION: Damn; you drew a stalemate-condition with your swift rook-bishop double-line to counter my queen-knight IQ!
FLASH-SATAN: Perhaps I might 'deliver' a bouquet of red-roses (for V-Day) for Esmerelda...I've my own girlfriend, you know?

ENDYMION: You're as diplomatic as you're clever, Flash-Satan, but your micro-stalemate triumph has required reciprocal IQ.

FLASH-SATAN: You could 'retreat' to Switzerland with Esmerelda and permit my continued vigilante-mission in Chicago alone!
ENDYMION: Cool negotiating, Flash-Satan; perhaps this diplomacy-acumen warrants reciprocity-detection (aha!).

With Flash-Satan back in the arms of his beloved Tandy in the Windy-City and Endymion/Esmerelda self-exiled to Switzerland as 'private' investors in the legal diamond-exchange(s), there's hope for humanity using 'cool' chess-IQ to avert stranger dangers that draw out the imagery of flames-of-distance.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)