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The Guardsman: Science Fiction – Thriller – Mystery

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The Cliff Hanger Intro

Phyllip deliberately changed the subject, “You mentioned something about subordinate corporation ‘issues’, Thomys?”

Perking up at the reminder,

Thomys sat a hair straighter and offered, “Yes. This one is sort of odd.” Thomys dropped the stack of precious paperwork onto the floor as he leaned forward. It was something he only did when his mind was fully engaged in something that was bothering him. “The investigation at our Research and Development Division determined that it was ‘Pure-Human’ university groups just making trouble for our nanotech. The reports call it simple vandalism and such.” Thomys pressed his steepled fingers together in front of his mouth as he leaned forward in the chair, staring off at nothing, another bad sign. “You know that Research Corporation, and specifically ‘Design Division’ are my babies and I love them like any one of my little girls. I toured the facility before I let them clean up, and… it… well, it just felt ‘wrong’. Like I had seen something contradictory somewhere else from earlier.

“I authorized them to rebuild

the lab to inventory and we won’t miss production, which was at another site. The reports confirmed that nothing was missing per the equipment inventory. I could not get the nagging feeling that something was missing out of my head, so I spent about two days locked in my office and file room looking for a specific hardcopy report from that section.

finished this morning.

I had it printed for you about four months ago; we went over it quickly. You had wanted to know about the process between sections, and how the expensive components we were buying tied together and such. We spent some time actually doodling on that report, making our various connections.”

Phyllip’s eyes were narrowed

as he was suddenly very glad for the anti-bugging field he had activated. His gut was sinking, and he did not like where this was going. After the first portion of the prompting, he stated directly, “I remember it.”

Thomys absently nodded before continuing, without looking up. “The things we draw on I generally keep in a secure vault behind my office. I like to have them in case you ask to see them again.”

Phyllip nodded, recalling several times Thomys had done just that and produced, weeks later, things they reviewed when the following questions had arisen.

Thomys continued with icy seriousness

in his voice, “My copy of the investigation report appended the materials inventory to the report. Since no one bothers me in my office, I just locked the door and turned on my sound field before I came up. I had the digital inventory open on my terminal before I closed off the connection to the outside world and just laid the hard copy next to the investigation digital copy. I had on my monitor that said, everything was accounted for, which prompted the investigators to rule out theft, causing them to state only ‘vandalism’ on their report.

“Well, here’s the hook.

The lists are different. No purchases were authorized, and no equipment is to leave that facility without my express written approval for disposal or repair at a certified vendor. It is a top-secret secure research facility after all.

“That insult added to the injury of them penetrating our security for their little ‘prank’, really started me digging. The discrepancy list is short, and I won’t bore you with technical details, other than the two that are bothering me. First, the items missing from the list are small and portable. The components are untraceable in other words, once they are gone. If they find a half-decent tech and some simple off-the-shelf electronics, the missing components can be used to custom-make Nanotech.”

Phyllip didn’t like the sound of that

but was already guessing where the second issue was pointing.

Thomys continued, “Second, someone accessed our asset logs in a top-secret facility, deleted items, organized the theft, followed by the vandalism to cover the loss, and all while leaving no digital traces of their efforts. This resulted in the ‘official’ false results ruling out ‘theft’ as the motive.”

Phyllip sighed as he leaned back

in his chair. Suddenly he was very tired. “I hate technology.”

Grinding his teeth while restraining his anger, Thomys let out, “The only reason I caught it was because, by pure chance, I had that printout for you saved.” Thomys shook his head in frustration and restated, “The only thing that saved us from being completely unaware of the theft was that I had that hard copy that no one but us two knew about.” Thomys paused and stated the obvious, “Phyllip, someone has penetrated our security, at a level above our top-secret Research and Development Security levels.”

Phyllip shook his head,

restating his mantra, “You are only paranoid if they are not really after you. I guess I’m not paranoid because they really are after me.

“Keep this between us, Thomys. Do not tell the investigative services. They may be compromised. I do not know where they’re compromised, and I do not want to draw any attention to you personally.

I want you to quietly investigate

this on your own. I know it will be a long shot but maybe you can find something if the thieves think they are safe because nothing is coming out of our intelligence services about them. At this point, I do not think we can trust anyone.

“How in Hades’s vast domain did they penetrate our intelligence network?”

Restrained but ferocious

anger rippled through Thomys’ voice, “I do not know Phyllip. It pisses me off and scares me to death.”

Staring off into space, Phyllip absently agreed, “You and me both.” Phyllip looked at the very slight vibrations in the water, and relaxed some knowing his sound field was operating normally, then stood and walked over to the window. Without looking away from the stunning cityscape view, he ordered, “Send my attack dogs back in. I need to think this through.”

Thomys accepted the order, “Understood.” Thomys questioned again for the thousandth time, “Are you sure you need eight? You have a whole squad of Guardsmen. We must have better uses for at least some of them. Maybe we could extend the perimeter out a little farther?”

Phyllip reminded Thomys,

“They really are after me, my friend. I’m not even sure that eight Guardsmen will be enough when they come for me. We have an extensive perimeter. That many guards should keep the unit honest. A mastermind would need to buy eight Guardsmen outright to get close to me. Hopefully one of the eight will be loyal enough to let me know he was approached. It is also much harder to hit me with that many moving shields in an assassin’s line of sight. Send them in and deactivate the security fields.”

Phyllip heard the field pop out of existence

as usual when the outer door to his office opened for Thomys.

The sun was disappearing behind the approaching storm outside, high above the cloud-piercing mega structures. The massive tower tops, glittered in a thousand crystalline shades like miraculous gemstones piercing the clouds. The constant press of humidity from so much densely packed humanity kept the clouds in place as permanent fixtures, before natural weather patterns could sweep the microenvironment temporarily away and into the fields of crops outside the city limits.

The approaching storm

was much higher than the megacity’s microenvironment. With the setting sun angling down, shooting sunlight down the city’s vast aerial boulevards, they only turned the sky an angry red, orange, yellow, and purple mix as it backlit the flashing thunderheads and their natural fury.

His black and gold-clad Guardsmen assumed their typical positions. Two by the door and the rest spread a respectful distance around him, silently waiting.

The storm was approaching.

The Future YouTube Home:

The plan is to post these videos around different video sites so the maximum number of people can enjoy them.

It will take some time before the upload process kicks into gear because these videos take a tremendous amount of time.

YouTube is the second largest search engine behind only Google, so it will probably go there first as a matter of size.

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