Mazzoli Crime Family

A photo of all known Mazzoli Crime Family members

### Leader(s)

Mario Mazzoli (deceased)Prospero Mazzoli (incarcerated in the normal timeline, deceased in the alternate timeline)

Donatello Mazzoli (alive in the normal timeline; deceased in the alternate timeline)

### Engagements

Mazzoli's campaign

The **Mazzoli Crime Family** was a crime family based in Rockington, Illinois. They rose to fame during the Roaring Twenties, though they struggled to keep themselves afloat during the early years of the Great Depression. That changed when several members of the gang started making counterfeit money to get by, counterfeit money that was nearly impossible for authorities to detect.

In the normal timeline, the Mazzoli Crime Family rose to become one of the most notorious criminal gangs in human history, until 1951, when the mob boss died and the crime family was dissolved soon after.

However, in an alternate timeline, the organization was eventually destroyed thanks to a group of time traveling strangers from the year 2020, who created an alternate timeline thanks to a butterfly effect; the strangers temporarily joined the Crime Family after they offered to assist the strangers in their quest to return to their own time. Thanks to their knowledge of the future and their skills, the Mazzoli Crime Family became one of the most powerful syndicates by the year 1933. However, this came at a price; the strangers inadvertently created an alternate timeline by causing a war between the Mazzoli Crime Family and a rival family, during which the Mafia Don, Prospero Mazzoli, was assassinated despite the strangers from the future's attempts to protect him. Due to the unexpected turn of events, the Mazzoli Crime Family found itself leaderless and dissolved in the year 1939, a whole twenty one years earlier than the normal timeline.

## History

### Normal timeline

The family was formed by Mario Mazzoli and his son Prospero and was headquartered in Rockington, Illinois. However, Mario died six months after forming the crime family, leaving his son Prospero to run it in his place. According to the normal timeline, under the leadership of Prospero, the family grew exponentially.

In 1930, during the Great Depression, a rival crime family known as the Fasolo Crime Family tried to expand into the Mazzoli Crime Family's territory, sparking a war.  According to the normal timeline, Prospero and his mobsters were able to defeat the rival family following five years of bloody fighting. Without any rivals, Prospero's mob became the single biggest crime family in the city of Rockington. This peace would not last; in 1938, two soldiers of Mazzoli's crime family, Carlo Bagnoli and his partner Baldo robbed a bank and, later, went against Bagnoli's orders to kill an informant who was leaking information on the Mazzoli family's operations to the police. The betrayal enraged Bagnoli, who sent assassins to eliminate Carlo and Baldo. Though they succeeded in killing Baldo, Bagnoli failed to kill Carlo, who later decided to turn himself in to the authorities and ratted out Bagnoli and his entire crime mob, leading to Bagnoli being arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment while many of his fellow mobsters either got the electric chair or life imprisonment.

With Mario imprisoned, his brother Donatello succeeded him and reached out to another crime family for help in avenging Prospero by assassinating Carlo. In 1951, Mafia assassins Folco Amelio and Alvaro Fico located Carlo hiding out in New York City, and assassinated him in a drive-by shooting.

### Alternate timeline

The family's history is largely the same in the alternate timeline; the point of divergence begins with the arrival of the "strangers from the future"; two young men and two young women from the year 2020 accidentally transported themselves to the year 1932, during the heat of the Mazzoli Crime Family's campaign against the Fasolo Crime Family. Moments after arriving in 1932, the strangers-Mason Davidson, Ava Clancy, Clifton D. Bennett and Alana Powell-successfully rescued Anna Bagnoli from a gang of street punks. They were stunned to learn that Anna happened to be the wife of Carlo Bagnoli, a former taxi driver and one of Prospero Mazzoli's enforcers. Out of gratitude, Prospero Mazzoli offered all four of them a position in the crime family. The four accepted but only because they needed help recovering the time machine that brought them to 1932, which had been stolen by the Fasolo Crime Family mobsters.

Prospero was unaware of the strangers' true nature until later on in the war, when the Fasolo Crime Family sent assassins to kill Prospero while he was eating lunch at an Italian restaurant. At this point, Clifton, Mason, Ava and Alana revealed themselves to be from the future; Mason and Ava revealed themselves to be former soldiers and Alana revealed herself as a green belt in Krav Maga, a martial art that wouldn't be invented until years later. Puzzled and amazed at their skills, Prospero questioned where the strangers had learned such impressive skills. It was here that the four revealed themselves to be from the future, specifically 2020.

Initially skeptical, Prospero threatened to have them all locked up in a mental asylum, until the four showed them technology from the future that was completely foreign to anyone living in the 1930s. Prospero's enforcer Carlo saw potential in the four strangers and convinced Prospero to use their futuristic knowledge in the war against the Fasolos.

With the four strangers from the future on the Mazzoli's side, the crime family was devastating against the Masolos, accomplishing what would have taken Prospero years to accomplish (according to the normal timeline) within a week! Unfortunately, this came at a price; while Prospero and his men were able to launch a successful mission to recover the time machine stolen by the Masolos, Prospero himself was killed in an gunfight against the Masolos, alongside his brother Donatello.

Realizing that an alternate timeline had been made, the four strangers made plans to immediately return to their home time period before anyone else could happen that could permanently trap them in an altered 1930s. Carlo decided to become the successor to Prospero and Donatello while the four of them successfully returned to 2020. They managed to arrive in 2020 literally one day before Adolf Hitler started World War II by invading Poland. Unbeknownst to Ava, Mason, Clifton and Alana, their actions had unintentional, yet disastrous consequences on the Mazzoli Crime Family; Carlo was killed while seeing Mason, Clifton, Alana and Ava off, being gunned down moments after the four time travelers arrived back in 2020. His now-widow Anna was able to escape the carnage but died of a heart attack in the spring of 1939. As they had no children, there was nobody left to lead the Mazzoli Crime Family and therefore the entire crime family was dissolved towards the end of 1939

## Members

* Prospero Mazzoli (Don)
* Carlo Magnoli (Capo)
* **Ottaviano Alessandro**(consigliere)
* **Landolfo Lenci**(soldato/caporegime)
* **Bonaldo Vietri**(soldato)
* **Zeno Falasco**(soldato)