The Diary of Agent Flopi, Book 1

Introduction by the Author:

In time there have come events where humanity must compromise. It must sacrifice some freedom for safety. But what happens if such a thing goes too far. This is a story about a man, or, boy, who wanted safety, but in turn destroyed the very safety and freedom he was trying to protect. This is the story of that man, a man who helped create a thing that today drives fear in so many. This is the start of a man who eventually became fearful of the very thing he created.....

The Diary of Agent Flopi:

Project @tom Bomb, the Testing, and the Battle on the Tower

An NSA Short Story Compiled by John Parsons

NSA year 84, March 3

I, Agent Flopi of the NSA Science Institute start this diary to chart the growth of my top-secret project.  The project code named @tom bomb.  I am a scientist who does what seems like a bad thing for good.  The people who I can trust run few for they don’t agree with my views.  It is all because of the darned communists and them starting this revolution, plus the rise of this thing called Gabing.  Gabing is an explosive and deadly force, and I need to counter it, so, I need something that even beats it in power.  A bomb that beats it at its own game.  I suspect I can make it so that all of NSA city collapses when a person sets it off in the middle of the city.  But this is strictly for emergencies, or if Gabe is to turn evil and abuse power.  For now, I must plan.

NSA year 84, March 10

I have asked a colleague named Samuel Hewitt to start research into Gabing for a shield against it.  How wrong he will be when I get this project finished.  The lab is in order and research has begun.  The first step has been taken, and the secret organization of smear has been formed, with a leader, which is me, and three members, me, myself, and I (me myself and I, nice joke right?  ...well, it could have been Larry, Curly, and Moe but people would not know that joke…would they?).

Here a smear blocks out two entries making them non-readable.

NSA year 84 April 25

After writing about these things, I think it good to include drawings and plans for the @tom bomb.  Now of course that seems very hazardous, but I am planning, if I am ever caught, I will burn this book with me.

Here a basic diagram of the @tom bomb, but a burn mark marks out about half of it.

NSA year 84 April 29

Samuel Hewitt has responded, FINALLY.  Work will go forward.

NSA year 85 May 1

Work continues, nothing new.

NSA year 85 May 4

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH US AND THIS PROJECT.  At least I have a holiday were wearing Mandalorian armor everywhere is not weird.  Might want to think about an upgrade to my armor.

NSA year 85 May 8  

Samuel almost caught me yesterday writing out designs, luckily, he did not take notice.  Work continues.

NSA year 85 May 9  

Samuel has sent me a report of what is going on, everything is planned out and a breakthrough happened.  We have found the formula for Gabing.  It evolves from a something called L.A.G. (or Liquid Alton Gunston).  This is a highly dangerous material and radioactive, the list of cautions goes on and on.  How Gabe gets L.A.G. I have no idea, must think about this.  

L.A.G. Diagram:  

NSA year 85 May 6

Samuel and the others still work har… next sentence is blurred out.  I hope that this experiment works.

NSA year 85 May 9  

New kid at the Institute.  Could be useful.

NSA year 85 May 10  

Talked to Cristy.  She thinks that NSA is in dark times.

NSA year 85 May 11  

Nothing to say.

NSA year 85 May 15  

Much has happened.  Sam almost caught me with the plans again.  L.A.G. is still being looked at.  I have been working with Cristy to make a timeline of what might happen in the future.  I found out the name of new guy, Micah Obermeyer.  He is in the robotics districts.  Might help.

NSA year 85 May 20  

Saw Micah at lunch.  Talked about Gabeing, seems smart.

NSA year 85 May 21  

Asked Sam if Micah could join the team.  Said he would think about it.

NSA year 85 May 25  

Micah is on the team.  Talked with Christy about Gabeing.  She agrees that Gabeing must be countered.

NSA year 85 May 26  

Sam told me that he has recruited Christy.  Might make a move on Micah or Christy.

NSA year 85 May 28  

Worked on armor today, tried out a new laser, failed.  I am finding that Christy agrees with me in almost any subject.  Ally?

NSA year 85 May 31  

Talked with Christy again.  She agrees that a weapon more powerful then Gabeing is a good idea, but she wants to have it under the Science Institute, not under one pers  

on. (side note….The Anti Communists won the war today…Long live a free NSA)

NSA year 85 June 1  

At lunch with Micah, I asked him if a bomb more then Gabeing would be good.  He agrees with me wholeheartedly and he agrees that if only a few people could even touch it NSA city would have peace.  If any of NSA city was left.  Tomorrow will tell Micah.

NSA year 85 June 3  

Was not able to yesterday, but now smear has three members (quite literally now).  Micah and Christy are both in.  Micah knows more because I trust him more, Christy however would never join if I said that I was the only one who could control this thing.

NSA year 85 June 4  

I should go more in depth about why Sam is to be left in the dark.  Samuel thinks that Gabeing is just a fad and will go away quickly.  But I have seen much, and from what I know Gabeing will not go away easily.  I have seen that the Noeth girls have also taken to it.  Sam is also a close friend of Gabe and has even used Gabeing himself.  I would think he would put Gabe before this project.  I will keep him in the dark, and he will stay there.  I hope I won’t have to capture him.

NSA year 85 June 7  

Some non-knowing scientist asked me at lunch why I wear full Mandalorian armor.  Showing off my flame thrower shut him up.  But I guess I should say why.  When I first came to NSA, I immediately joined the Science institute because of my love of knowledge and history.  But in such a place at NSA, I regularly encounter things that regular lab and haz-mat suits cannot deal with.  That is why I have my Armor.  It has many purposes, protection from radioactive elements, it enables me to go into non-oxygen areas, it allows me to deal with any experiments that come alive (which happens sometimes, like the toxic goo that Ronald made, took a whole year to clean up after that.  And then the Ai tech morph that started shooting everything), it helps me with some science tools I have plugged in, it shows my love for the Star Wars movies, and it makes me just look so dang cool.  Of course, recently I have been making more defense on the armor, not just tools that help with my work.  I have a feeling that I may need to fight to get this project through, and by Jove I’ll do it if I have to.  

A whole page is missing after this.

NSA year 85 June 30  

I am so tired of this.

NSA year 85 July 1  

This experiment slogs on……and on…. with no end in sight.

NSA year 85 July 3  

Uggghhhh.

NSA year 85 July 4  

Finally, something happens.  Sam got back to me, experiment 4 worked, as I said in entry June 15 “At least one experiment has to work for this to go forward” AND FINALLY ONE DID.  I need to work on patience.

NSA year 85 July 5  

The experiment has allowed us to finally get L.A.G. down to its basic building blocks.  L.A.G. appears normally in NSA, however no one really can get it down to its basic parts.  The Science Guild has found what makes it, but not how to make it itself.  However now Sam has found the way.  All the acronym’s meanings just mixed with some nice dense substance called P.I.N.G., and then you boil it all down just to the L.A.G. mix with no other stuff with it.  Glad to know that things are going well.

NSA year 85 July 6  

Sam found my Mandalorian blueprints.  He asked me why I needed an armor upgrade with all these new weapons.  Luckily, quick thinking, a clear voice, and my helmet, disguised that I was shaking in my boots.  Glad that Sam did not see the @tom bomb plans.  I should move them elsewhere.  

Diagram and three entries are blurred out.

NSA year 85 July 12  

Micah got back to me, Sam still does not know about the @tom bomb, I am at least glad I can keep tabs on him.  Christy has improved the designs; I will not list them here.  I wonder what will happen if I set this off in NSA city.

NSA year 85 July 15  

DARN YOU GABEEEE.  He just shot off a Gabeing assault against a person, apparently that attack was huge, and is the largest one to date, this dratted man is ruining NSA.  At least I can get data for after affects and such.

NSA year 85 July 20  

STUPID, STUPID, STUPIDDDD.  THE IDOTS THAT RUN THE SCIENCE INSTUTUE HAVE INVITED GABE GIVE A SPEECH ON GABEING.

NSA year 85 July 21  

I’m too angry to talk.

NSA year 85 July 22  

I am still too angry, angry pencil motions and drawings.

NSA year 85 July 24  

More angry scribbles

NSA year 85 July 25  

I may just quit my job.

NSA year 85 July 27  

So, the great Gabe gave his speech today.  He at least presented a good talk that I can use to my liking.  He has seemed to research his art quite a bit to, I am learning some from it.  He takes a tour of the Institute tomorrow.  Angry scribbles.

NSA year 85 July 28  

He took the tour.  And to make matters worse…. HE TALKED TO SAM.  Sam (what a traitor) told him about the stupid project.  AND NOW GABE WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT IT.  HE EVEN ASKED SAM IF HE COULD FILE HIM A REPORT WHEN THEIR DONE.  I feel like I should murder Sam.  But I won’t, I’ll just take the letter out of the letter box.

NSA year 85 July 29  

Received a call from that villain.  Took a lot of strength to not yell at him.  He said he admired my work and that he looked forward to my next discovery, he also commented that he liked my armor.  I won’t subside to his flattery.

NSA year 85 July 30  

Maybe I should murder Gabe instead of Sam.

NSA year 85 July 31  

Never mind, maybe I will kill both. (Sam told Gabe more about it) Angry scribbles.

NSA year 86 August 2  

So, I had an idea and talked to Micah about it. Sentence/s blurred out He said that he would work on that.  He said that the AI morph tech would be hard to work with.  Can’t wait to finish this @tom bomb project.

NSA year 86 August 7  

I can’t believe it; Sam got the project done ahead of schedule.  YIPPE…….  Man, I feel like a child saying that.  I’m sure that Mandalorian don’t say yippee when something goes right.

NSA year 86 August 15  

Well, returned to the old diary.  Got sidetracked on Blur, Micah works well on this project.  Sam regretfully let Micah go to work on this. (well, Micah only said that he had a different project to work on) Christy is running the demos now before we test in real life.  

Demo Diagram:

NSA year 86 August 18  

Soon will be the first real life test.  Tomorrow.  

As an interruption, we will give a firsthand account from Christy about the dropping of the first test bomb.  

Christy stood back watching the work go on.  Samuel had out done himself.  The orders were in place and the bomb had been built by a third party that Flopi knew (after this, we found out that it was built by Micah a gang of rouge scientists that Flopi didn’t even know about).  The project that should have taken a year went by in a matter of months.  She was pleased with herself.  Even though the destructive force of the bomb could level NSA city, she felt confident that it wouldn’t be mismanaged (or so she thought.)  Keenan would love to have one, and the cash she could offer would be huge, but only Christy and Flopi knew how to blow it up, or how to arm it.  Micah only knew how to build it; he didn’t know the science behind it.  Everything was in place.  

She saw Flopi out of the corner of her eye, striding forward in his suit of armor.  She noticed that it gleamed, He must have polished it for the occasion, thought Christy, well his good work and mine come together today to make something that will keep NSA safe.  

Flopi put a gloved hand on her shoulder (“I must find out his real name soon,” thought Christy).  “It’s beautiful Christy, thank you for helping me with this.”  

“You’re welcome, Mandalorian.” She responded with a tease.  

He laughed and then left to go to the viewing window.  

The bomb being dropped today was small, it could not do much harm.  It was about 1/10 of the minimum of the planned one.

Christy smiled to herself; she was glad that all things must come to a good end.

But unbeknownst to her, Flopi had other plans.

He had ordered a stage skipped, and not told Christy.  They were dropping a minimum @tom bomb.

Christy pressed her hands on the glass and heard the siren go off.  A door opened in the side and Micah stepped into the glassed viewing space for them.  He came over and leaned on the bar in front of them.  Flopi however stood with his head held high, with his hands behind his back.

He pressed the button.

It took five seconds to explode.

Christy stood back in shock as the mushroom cloud grew and the blast wave hit the viewing area.  The radius was way too big, she didn’t even have to run any tests.  She spun around and looked at Flopi, looking into the mask the Mandalorian helmet he wore which masked his face.

“That was bigger than thought!  What happened?”

He cleared his throat and spoke slowly and clearly, but not moving his head or body from where he stood. “Christy, we have skipped a stage.  The minimum @tom bomb has been tested and is worthy, no other testing is needed.”

“But Flopi!” she spluttered in protest, “That was even too big for a regular @tom bomb!”

“No further testing is required, take your samples and let us move.  The helicopters in the city could have seen the blast.”

He hurried from the room to do his tests, and Micah went back out the door he can in.

Christy stood in the room alone, betrayed, and heartbroken.

Continuation of Diary

NSA year 86 August 19  

I write this while taking my test in the viewing area.  Even a minimal bomb is enough.  A super bomb could probably destroy everything around NSA city in an estimated 200 miles.  Mind boggling.

NSA year 86 smear  

Christy isn’t talking to me; I should apologize for turning it up a stage.

NSA year 86 August 25  

I talked it over with Christy.  She forgave me but told me never to do such a thing again.  I won’t hopefully.

NSA year 86 August 27  

Micah makes progress on his project for me, while me and Christy work on more plans.  I need to find out what went wrong with the explosion, I was just as shocked as Christy at how big it was.

NSA year 86 August 30  

Took readings of the area where it went off.  My tests were accurate.  Something had been built into the @tom bomb that I didn’t know about, I suspect Micah.

NSA year 86 September 1  

I took a sample at the blast site.  My sensers detected a very high mineral content.  But we didn’t use Minerals in the @tom bomb….

NSA year 85 September 3  

So, I went to a Senior scientist to check this sample out.  He also got the same result.  He will keep the sample overnight.

NSA year 86 September 6  

Okay, I don’t know what happened.  Somehow Justin (that was the person I took that sample to) got back to me later than expected.  He says that he has seen only one thing that has this high power, but in a mineral form.  He says this is a substance like the fabled NSA diamonds.  I don’t really believe him.

NSA year 86 September 8  

Okay, I was wrong.  It isn’t just a substance like it.  IT IS PART OF THE NSA DIAMONDS.  How the hey did that happen.  Did I create something that could make the Diamonds again...? Or was a part of a Diamond hidden in the bomb when it went off?  I have many questions.

NSA year 86 smudged 11

I have a feeling burn mark for about three words But of course he could be with me.  I don’t know.

NSA burn mark 12

Talked with Mic...h to….y I still don’t know if it was him or not.  I know it wasn’t Christy.  Speaking of Christy, we are going on a date tonight.

NSA year 86 Sep smudge

So, the date went well.  Though it is weird when you have to wear a tie over armor.  I can’t part with the armor now.  I also had the feeling I was being watched on the way home.

NSA year 86 September 16  

Had that watching feeling during lunch again.  Talked with Sam and said that I don’t want to continue to the next stage.  He seemed cool about it… A bit too cool.

NSA year 86 September 17  

Burn markisty got back to me about the building.  She said it was fine, no hiccups and unwanted things.  Asked her out again as well.

NSA year 86 September 20  

Okay, some stuff has happened in the three days since I have last written.  So, I found out that something more than just the NSA diamonds happened.  First, I have uncovered that the L.A.G. mixture was tampered with.  The P.I.N.G. substance was mixed with dust from the NSA diamonds making what I will right now call I.M.P.O.R.T.A.N.T.  I.M.P.O.R.T.A.N.T. is even more explosive than P.I.N.G or L.A.G. alone and I think them both mixed together.  Second Micah has still been working on his private project for me (I have been giving him more supervision because of this NSA diamonds thing.  He has admitted nothing, of course I have said nothing as well.)  He has started the experiments starting with A to Z.  If one works then the other tests don’t need to happen.  I don’t know how he could get dust from the NSA diamonds.  I thought you couldn’t break them, and that they were hidden in space by Zer0.  I shouldn’t mention that name around here, many people still believe that he is out there.  Third, Christy and I had a great date.

NSA year 86 September 24  

I’m beginning like Christy.  Something must be wrong with me.

NSA year 86 September 25  

Looked more into I.M.P.O.R.T.A.N.T, it seems an interesting study for the future.  Told Christy about it.  She agrees with me.

NSA year 86 September 26  

Christy has started working on I.M.P.O.R.T.A.N.T.  Micah is working on experiment C now.

NSA year 86 September 28  

Micah has finished experiment D.  Christy once again wants to go on a date.

NSA year 86 September 29  

Pulled an all-nighter with Christy watching a radioactive experiment going on with I.M.P.O.R.T.A.N.T.  Sam asked me why I didn’t want to go forward with the shield.  I said I was too tired to talk, and I am.

NSA year 86 September 30  

Got in an argument with Sam.  Man, I’m tired.

NSA year 86 September 31  

Sam still wants to go forward with the experiment.  So, I did the only thing I could do, withhold the information and lab tests from him.  A bit dirty, but it gives me time to brush up the fine lines of the @tom bomb before Sam becomes suspicious or a senior scientist makes me hand them over.  Micah is finished with experiment G, once again a failure.

NSA year 87 October 2  

Micah works on, and so does Christy.  We found out that even if the NSA diamonds thing hadn’t happened, the bomb still would have been massive, even for a small bomb.  Production lines have started making another small @tom bomb, this one fully geared for being in a bomb arsenal.  Sam is growing distant.  I want to ask Christy out on a date again.  Maybe I need to take a nap.

NSA year 87 October 3  

Sam is grumpy now.  Micah works on experiment H.  Christy keeps running the sims.  And I am in an ugly mood.

NSA year 87 October 5  

Micah works on experiment I.  Christy and I went to a movie.

NSA year 87 October 6  

MICAH DID IT.  Experiment J worked like a charm….now commence Project J… words blurred out.  I will start working on the upgrades for the project as well.  I cannot believe that the Morph tech worked with a body, this is great news.  

End of Diary……  

But not the end of the story

NSA year 87  

October 9th  

9pm  

Flopi stepped out into the top floor of the Science Institute in NSA city.  He had come here instead of being at the regular campus.  He thought hard.  

All this time…..tonight the @tom bomb is finished and I control all NSA peace. An almost grim sneer creeped up on his lips behind the helmet that disguised his face.  

Behind him, softly, the door opened again.  A slim man stepped out into the room.  

A senser went off in the armor and Flopi raised his eyebrows.  He looked at a mirror that showed the room behind him.  Fortunately, the helmet did not show the emotion of shock that he got when he recognized the man before him.  

“Ahhh, Agent Flopi of the Science Guild, we meet again at last,” The man said slowly. “I think you have something I want.”  

Flopi spoke slow as well.  “And what is that.”  

The man had a smile playing on is lips, “You know Flopi…You know…”  

Flopi did something that looked like he stiffened.  

“Ah, you do know what I am talking about.  Don’t you…”  

Flopi glared and retorted, “What do you want Titus…”  

Yes, before Agent Flopi was Titus, Leader of the Communist Revolution.  Titus somehow knew about the bomb.  It was the perfect thing to help him lick his wounds from failing to conquer in the last war and destroy the Anti Communists or anyone else in his path.  And what Titus wanted, he took.  

Titus was now fully smiling, “Oh Flopi…..how naive of you.  You know perfectly well that I am talking about the great…..@tom bomb.  Your so called, ‘brainchild’.  Don’t lie to me,” Titus held his hand out, “I know you have it, and know everything about it.”  

Flopi spun around and yelled, “WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I’LL GIVE IT TO YOU!”  

Titus’s smile grew even more, “Flopi...I know more about the @tom bomb then you think.  All I need to know is the exploding code. Give it.  I know it’s in the armor, and that you only know it.  Besides, I know everything about the armor as well.”  

Flopi was shocked to the core, “How…How…..How do you know this,” Flopi got into a fighting stance.  

Titus smile turned to a sneer, “Oh I have my contacts…”  

The door opened behind Titus and out stepped two men with Ak-47s.  Flopi knew them as well.  One personally.  The two men were Micah Obermeyer and the other was Ethan Guynn.  

“Micah……how could you…..” Flopi seethed.  

“Sorry Flopi, but I was friends with Titus first.  But yes, I looked through the files of your armor, I could build another @tom bomb, I know almost everything Flopi, so just do as Titus asks,” Micah explained, “Besides, even before I came to work at the Science institute I was with Titus, I was a second in command, along with Ethan,” Micah motioned to Ethan, “I wouldn’t and couldn’t change.  Give. Him. The. Code,” Micah raised his gun.  

Flopi shook his head, “I won’t give in that easily, you would have to kill me first.”  

Ethan and Titus looked and smiled at each other.  Micah however remained stony faced.  

Titus motion and soon other soldiers filled the room.  The last two threw something on the floor.  

It wriggled and shouted, “YOU IDIOTS, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO ME HUH!”

It was Christy.

Flopi hardened his jaw and his fists, “Let her go Titus.  I’ll tell you.”

Christ looked up wide eyed.  She mouthed something to Joshua.  Don’t tell him. She said.

Flopi saw it and shook his head, “It’s in the...”

And then the mine that Christy laid went off.

The blast had knocked over three soldiers.  Soon Christy had sprinted over and hid behind a crate.  Communist soldiers scattered and opened fire on Flopi.

Flopi ducked behind a fallen table and shot off a five second flame blast.  He then reached into his boot and pulled out a small laser pistol.  After driving the communists from their hiding places, it was easier to pick them off.  But Flopi forgot that the room was fully metal.  The lasers bounced off metal.  Soon several lasers where in the air at the same time causing damage from just bouncing.

Titus had picked a good hiding spot and avoided the flame thrower.  He drew out a Luger pistol and started moving.

Flopi slowly moved his way to Christy and then ducked behind the same crate.  He then laser cut the chains and then quickly moved away.

While he was moving Titus shot at him.  To Titus dismay the bullets just sparked against the armor.  Flopi had somehow build his armor out of real beskar.

Flopi picked off the last Soldier, only Micah, Ethan, and Titus remained.  Slowly Flopi moved out into the open and asked, “Which one of you is man enough to come out in the open and fight here, no other help.”

Titus moved quickly.  In around three seconds and had sprung out of his hiding place and launched in a full out tackle.

They hit the ground rolling and trying to keep the other down.  Titus rolled on top and kicked off Flopi, landing on his feet.  Flopi also took this time to get up.  Titus then charged in with a switch bladed knife, his opponent stood still.  Soon the fist fight began.  Titus swung a left hook but was easily blocked and rebuffed.  Titus then threw a whirl kick and that got through, pushing Flopi back.  Flopi ran back in, ducked the knife, slid under Titus and caught is hand.  Titus threw a back elbow that caught the helmet causing both to wince.  Titus then spun around and started punch, along with a few knife cuts.  Flopi managed to block most but a few drew sparks from the armor, and one found a cloth patch in the arm.  Flopi disengaged holding his bleeding arm.  Titus also hadn’t gone untouched, his nose had quite a lot of blood around it, his elbow was throbbing, and an ear rang from a well-placed side kick.  Soon they were back at it.  Five minutes of straight fighting.  Then Flopi made a mistake.

He had left his chest open after a midair kick block, and Titus took that advantage.  He threw the knife at the chest plate.  Flopi didn’t see how this would help, so he didn’t do anything about it.  The knife broke on the plate and Flopi looked up.  That’s when his face connected with Titus kick fly in side kick.  Titus had thrown the knife as a distraction, launching up in a kick.  Flopi went head over heels and landed flat on the floor.

Titus then crouched on his chest and said, “Let’s see who Agent Flopi really is,” and pulled off Flopi’s helmet.

It revealed a bloody face.  And Titus instantly knew who it was, “Well, if it isn’t Joshua Edmiston.  I wondered who Flopi was, but I knew Flopi was someone hiding his name.”

Joshua snarled at him

Christy was shocked, Joshua had been a friend of hers for forever.

Titus stepped off with a smug smile and Joshua’s face with red with rage and blood.

Joshua managed to jump up, but Titus was waiting for him.

This kick connected with the chest.

Joshua was launched through the glass in the building.  Christy cried out in anguish, and Titus had fire in his eyes.  Down Joshua tumbled, down the 37 stories of the building.  As the ground rushed up to meet him, the wind died down and the world went black.

Christy ran over and looked out.  There was a crater where he had landed.  Christy was heartbroken and wept.  Titus then took her by the back collar and dragged her into the middle of the room.  He then knocked her out with the stock of the gun.  As Christy laid senseless on the floor Titus asked a question, “Micah, do you know where the information is.”

“Of course, Titus,” replied Micah, “Ethan, go down and search the armor there is a 75 percent chance that it’s there.  I will get something else that might help us later, then I’ll scan the computers.”  Micah ran off.

Micah leapt into the elevator and jabbed the basement button.  The experiment.  That would help.  It would not be the @tom bomb, but Project J would help with everything.  When he arrived in his basement lab, he was greeted by a long hall with 26 compartments, numbered A-Z over the glass.  Micha slowly walked down.  In every compartment, and weird being laid, some looked like cats, rats, dogs, frogs, cattle, even fish.  Others couldn’t even be described.  But each one had one thing about them, then all were mutated.  Legs grew out of heads, weird blobs like blisters, sometimes oozing goo came out as well.  A….B….C, Micah passed them, sometimes glancing at his work.  D….E…..Micah needed project J.  The count went on……F….G….H to I and then…….the compartment of J.  Yet nothing was there only bits of something, and lots of blood.  Micah started wide eyed.  Around the containment cell was glass, the window of the cell broken through.  It looked as if something exploded.  Micah stared at it, and then slammed his fist on the solid wall and yelled, “NOOOOO!!!!!  WHY, THE ONE EXPIRMENT THAT WORKED…ONLY FOR IT TO DIE!”

He looked around, with no tear in his eye however, he was thinking.  I won’t tell Titus anyway, he need not know, too bad that I can’t rerun the experiments.  Now to search for the code.

The three met at the bottom of the building, nothing had happened yet, but the search-copter could be here any minute.  Micah spoke first.

“Did you find the code Ethan?”

“No,” replied Ethan, “I tried everything.”

“I wasn’t able to find anything as well,” stated Micah, but then quickly put in before Titus could get mad, “but I know where they hold the bomb, should we bring Christy with us?”

“No,” was the blatant reply of Titus, “leave her, soon they will know we have it, and the destruction it can bring.”

They nodded to each other and split up.  Now only Micah was left.  He walked over to the crater, and looked in.  He saw the body, the blood, and the armor.  He whispered, “I was with Titus on the @tom bomb, I want it as well, but Project J Flopi…..its gone…dead….I’m sorry I wasn’t able to make it, but you know what happened….I betrayed Titus in the end…the Anti won with my help,”  He sighed and looked down, “I’ll keep Christy from freaking out.  She knows as well.”

He left.  Five minutes later a rescue crew, the search-copter, and an ambulance where at the scene.  Flopi was pronounced dead; the fall alone could have killed him.

For the intrigued reader

Notes from the Author

Hello dear reader, I am here to clear up several questions, and ask a few for you to mull over.  If you have anything to critique or ask send them to Gabe Nelson, he will forward them to me.

1. Joshua/Flopi died…..I thought that there was no death at NSA. (clarified in “The Communist Revolution”) [during this date The Communist Revolution has not been published]

A: No..but yes.   Flopi died.  Not Joshua.  Joshua was a person in NSA, and per NSA Flopi was a Personality of Joshua.  Joshua still lives in NSA of course, but he does not remember the things the Flopi did (or that he did as Flopi).  Yes, it is confusing, but it follows the NSA no death standpoint.

2. What in the world was Micah doing with Flopi in the expirments

A: I leave several clues to this in the diary and speech

3. Okay, then tell me what Project J is

A: Sorry…this will be cleared up in the next story…. but once again…I love leaving Sequel hints.

4. So Micah is a bad guy, right?

A: yes but no again.  Micah helped the Anti Communists win by spying, but it was not known till documents were later declassified.  But he does still tag along with Titus and Ethan right now.

5. You said Sequel, what will it be about

A: Where he goes…nobody knowwssss

Questions from the Author

Okay….. here are my questions to you

1. Did Flopi die?

2. What in the world is Project J?

3. Do you think Titus will use the @tom bomb?

4. What will happen to Christy?

5. Is Flopi right in his thinking about Gabe?

6. Will Titus, Ethan, and Micah stay together and not backstab each other?

7. Is Christy in Love with Joshua….?

8. Why does Flopi wear his armor?

9. Who are the Heroes, the Villains, and the unknown stand points?

10. Why in the world is the book missing some pieces?

See also

• Project @tom Bomb
• The Diary of Agent Flopi, Book 2
• Zer0
• Joshua Edminston
• Gabriel Nelson