Dark Future Short Stories - Nineteen - Mobsters sudden appetite loss
Mobsters sudden appetite loss
Most criminal organisations made it past national rule and hooked up either on their ancient resistance roots protecting the poor or turned security force for the stronger than ever international corpo world providing the sexy bad boy image places and mercenaries for their from nations adopted way of securing contracts by fire power, fear, murder and theft.
Such as the different flavors of the Mob.
The Mob, as an organisational structural classification, was a form of a Mafia, but less based on tight family ties and instead based on usually historic connections such as being Irish, from a certain village or region some hundred years ago or deriving from a set of united gangs from a part of town voting their combining King among them.
They were quite powerful and got always mixed up with the Real Mafia, which was basically an ancient knight family still in negotitions with the local lord on taxes the militant way, and these Mobsters counter parts deriving from farmer revolts against drunk ass lords running a castle against the locals in the valleys close by some centuries ago in Europeans mid-ages, where on the other side of The Mob structures.
They did not change much and the real deal tended since the downfall to even more cut down on frenchaise real estate the petrol bomb way, if the managers wondered too loud on the cut they took from coffee to sandwiches to burgers to electronics for also others than just the staff in the area.
It droped or you drop, was not negotiatable.
The others where running mainly corpo restos with a unique individual and appropiatelly excuisite price tag, music venues and bars from sports to strip to hard core excess all over the world with the undecleared center of negotiations in Las Vegas, at leas for the US in which The Mob as a structure was most prominent world wide.
While South Las Vegas was still home to the low and minimum wage cleaning staff and all those that populated the back yard and side street business, usually unseen and unheard from the shiny corpo amusements, the suites with extraodinery services became even more profitable in a world that did only fuzzily remember national and state taxes or law enforcement and both lived most of the time in need of each other and rather quitely in parallel universes.
For one part a storm was approaching and the first wind was felt by rumors that made all and every mobster from LA to LV to NY order a spirit, double.
McKenny, Herman, Estiente sharing the remainings of the United States among them as the most powerful Mobstes that were known as private securtiy companies based on East, Central and West had a converance call as usal in their favorite restaurant, at a big VIP table, all their most important and most impressive entourage close, speaking with a hologram prjector the size of the chandalier on the table and made that mistake.
They usually presented their big King conversations to their closiest Lords and Warriors and made sure that at least their faces and body language was seen by the heard of corpo managers.
So, they all saw and quickly spread the news, that the big Kings dropped to blank white, sweating scared to death, shaking hands like something else unseen ever before in on that chair of the all confident super big players when the holo gram person showed a picture of a man dressed in a black military combat suite.
Quickly the word spread that The Europeans where up for blood, those known for not taking prisoners nore having any mercy in war and even so nobody new who the black combat suite belonged to, they all knew corpo world would have some funerals some time to come.
Business might struggle from brutal unseen violance TIE world wide.
