I am what they call in the classified military projects division, Special Ops Liaison Officer or S.O.L.O. My job is to seek out assets that would give our military the advantage over the enemy, given that that potential threat is already faceless, territory-less, and unconventional as far as the army is concerned. Remember 9-11? So you see, national security can no longer be assured by the world’s leading military superpower, and neither could the others in this global village.
I have received the agency’s unwanted notice when I single-handedly busted a crime boss that’s a coddler of many foreign agents stealing industrial secrets from our country. He’s responsible for the deaths of surveillance teams, spy vets, and local sheriffs tailing those infiltrators whose corporations pay the boss bundles so much so his earnings from white slavery and cocaine have become small change.
If you haven’t noticed, nowadays, espionage and information theft are more financed and undertaken by multinats and conglomerates than by governments, although, they have their blessing. And, many a citizen has sold his own country to outsiders for a price. Thus, our monopoly on inventions is so far, short-lived.
This crime boss had kidnapped and raped a friend of mine on a whim. Confident of my connections, I sought him out. Thus far, I have a knack for meeting mediums, ESP’ers, and people who are not what they seem. With the help of a telepath, I was able to elude and knock out his security retinue and shoot the bastard in the head. I recall the look on his face when I went in his bedroom and pulled the trigger. I found it morbidly funny. Call it gallows humor.
The agency was baffled how I did it, and they haven’t put a finger on the guy, and now, he’s six feet below the ground. They contacted me. I thought they’d just guffaw their neckties off in that conference room with a fashionable one way mirror, when I told them how. They served me the best coffee and crispy chocolate crusted donuts with vanilla cream filling though. And they did not laugh. They put me on a salary, good enough to make me do my writing part-time, and with a sumptuous suite and car to boot. So far, I have to my credit a few botched high profile assassinations, serial killer liquidations, and the timely interception of a ship filled with plague virus canisters disguised as raspberry flavored body spray meant to take out the seacoast population of Australia. The occult leader who masterminded that confessed he was just trying to avert Judgment Day, predicted by his holy scriptures.
The agency tried to go to my contacts directly, but of course, they shunned them like the plague. They only dealt through me, having the natural bent and belief in the paranormal and the occult from my collection of novels of the same genre. Besides, they only lent help only when they want to, and the agency wanted to control them like guinea pigs. So they’re stuck with me, and I can’t help them on when they can win the lottery or meet their one true love, selfish stuff like that.
Now, the main threat to the world order is the doomsday planning of a few cells which are so undetectable and so unpredictable in their movements so that deep penetration is necessary. Cults and religious fanatics top the list of recreating the international scene in their own image and likeness, full beards and all. However mediums and seers can only get so far as detecting very destructive thoughts in the Mainland, and, as I suspect, these fiendish groups have diviners and psi-talents of their own, so, parapsychic incursion would be futile. Which gave me an idea, at the same time the army “borrowed” me from the agency, whose think tanks were strategizing on how to counter threat to world order, and to our export and movie market. Under the office of the General Bartlett, a Santa Claus looking old man with a sharp blue eyes and a bald pate, they gave me this assignment, and the assurance that I’d be richly rewarded for my service for the country, so I went about asking questions on how to have a “cloak of invisibility” and to truly slip in undetected into these neo-terror cells bent on plunging the free world into a new Dark Ages.
This time, my contacts laughed at me, saying, I read too much science fiction. I was about to report to the special ops commander that they terminate my S.O.L.O. contract when someone else found me: a vampire.
TO BE CONTINUED…
July 27, 2009 • 9:57 am 0
Traitor’s Death LAST PART
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One evening I was dragged from my home by the same marines I’ve met at the underground bunker and I was whisked to a location we reached on a helicopter. One bonked me on the head when I asked why the heck, the other rifle butted me on the stomach. I lost consciousness and came to at a large conference room and was thrown to the chair at the back. It seemed the Who’s Who of criminal and terrorist organizations were there, and they were bidding for the device, displayed within a glass case, and was well into the millions, with the General playing the auctioneer. He told the assembly I was the one who brought him the gadget, but I would soon be eliminated, to show that he meant business. A man stood up to plead for my life, saying I just might produce another one. He told them a series of tests were already made by the scientists and they could not determine the make, much less how to open it.
“You scheming old bastard, you’re selling our security to these assholes, are you out of your mind?” I shouted, despite being tied.
“I don’t give a shit!” he retorted, “I’m going to retire in some Pacific island in style while I watch my colleagues rack their brains on figuring out a way to counter this threat.”
At that very moment,. The lights went out. The capos called for their security guards, the marines that held me in place both fell and thudded on the floor. There was a furor as cell phones flashed, and most scrambled to the only door but it was locked. One by one, the men screamed as if something was killing them slowly until only the general shouting his terror was the only thing heard as he crawled under table.
The lights went back on.
All the men, the marines in and outside the building, the henchmen and thugs at the parking lot, were all dead. He helped me up, the vampire, who informed me, his human allies had neutralized the others. The bosses however, he dispatched himself. How, I can guess, judging from their pale faces. He commanded me to shoot the General, handing me a pistol. I did it, gladly.
He counted on this to happen he told me. He was trying to test whether this kind of invention would be compromised, and he was proven right in his suspicions. He hired a private army of mercenaries, and meant to take back the gadget at the slightest sign of its misuse. He finally ended with the conclusion that his greed for blood was only surpassed by the human’s greed for power and money. He drove me back to my suite. I said farewell.
I had finally resigned form both the military and agency, and funny, they readily accepted it, and gave me a heft lump sum. I do have to change my identity and move of the country for fear of reprisals or what not. I just want to be left in peace, even for a while. As for the invention, the vampire left to me as a souvenir. He said, one day, mankind might need it, and I was to be its guardian. Which maybe indefinitely, now that I have discovered, I have an abnormally long lifespan.
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