Officedrone
06-29-2013, 06:16 PM
First time I've shared any writing. Haven't done any for well over 10 years so I apologize for any grammatical errors or anything else. I've decided to try and write at least 30 minutes a day to try to get better and grow my "writing muscles". Without further ado...
The Guardians
John jerked awake and sat up abruptly in bed in sweat soaked sheets. "Honey, what are you doing?" Mira asked. "Nothing sweetheart. Just another dream. Go back to sleep". He abruptly hopped out of bed and went to the bathroom, turned on the cold water, scooping it up with his hands and washed his face. Staring at the mirror he couldn't help but think about it. For the past week this recurring dream kept occuring which he couldn't quite recall. All he knew was that there was an overwhelming feeling of dread and loss of control during the dream, perhaps better to be called a nightmare. He looked down to see the time on his watch and realized he was late for his shift. He quickly and as quietly as he could got dressed for the day in his black Guardian's uniform and slipped out the door trying not to wake his woman.
He got into his car. A company car. Military style humvee painted black with the Guardian logo on the door panel and pulled out of the garage into traffic. Still feeling foggy and out of it he was lost in his own thoughts as he drove the familiar path to the office. "John are you there?" The radio crackled. John keyed the microphone,
"I'm here, what's going on Dean?".
Dean replied
"Your late buddy! Everything is going to hell in a handbasket and the director is flipping out. His face is a color of purple I've never seen before, and he's on the warpath. Looking for you in fact. You better get your *** in here quick". It looks like some crazy **** is about to go down. You better come up with a damn good excuse for not being here already"
"Thanks for the heads-up. Maybe I should just turn around and head to hawaii for the week and leave all this **** behind. I'm getting tired of our dear leader and his hissy fits".
"John belive me I'm on your side. The boss can get a bit crazy. But believe me. This is a huge deal. In my 20 years with the Guardians I've never seen anythign like this before. I can't speak a word of it over this unsecured channel so you bette get here quick! I will tell you this is huge. This could impact the entire world. No scratch that. The entire federation. Not just this world."
"10-4. I'll be there in 10."
John hit the lights and siren on his car, made sure he had enough distance between the vehicles around on him on the road and pressed a small red button on the console of his vehicle. Almost immediate a high whining noise sounded. It was the afterburners kicking in. The humvee quickly shot up into the air still moving forward at about the speed of traffic. John increased thrust power and with a boom he was off faster than the speed of sound. Quickly leaving the state of California behind on his way to Rio Di Janeiro.
The humvee quickly made short work of the distance to work and he prepared for landing on the roof of the parking garage. As he landed a siren started going off followed by a recording. "Warning Condition 5. This is not a drill. Repeat Condition 5. This is not a drill. Full Evac in progress all non essential personel evac now.
John sighed to himself. While a rookie who was in the guardians might have been tense and excited. John only felt tired. Exasperated after doing this and being a part of the team for 10 years. "What kind of crap is in store today". He walkedup to the building door and swapped his badge. Held his face up to the retina scanner to be scanned. The speaker said "good morning name and id number please"
"John Dresden. ID #5311 Special Services"
"Access Granted. Please follow the lighted yellow path on the ground to conference room C209. They are waiting for you"
The doors slid open and John walked in 4 feet until he reached the next set of steel doors. Due to security policy the exterior doors must be closed and sealed before these would open. John tapped his feet impatiently as he waited. After a short 15 seconds which seemed more like 10 minutes to john the steel doors opened allowing him entrance into the largest most sophisticated operations center anyone had ever seen. 500 desks all manned and working focused on some crisis up on the screen. A visitor or new employee might have been overhwelmed seeing this. FOr john it was old hat. He didn't even think about how amazing the tech and how hard coordinating 500 people all charged with different tasks.
He followed the lights on the floor as quickly as he could to the conference room specified. As he walked in the door his boss. General McMunden looked up. "About damn time you got here Dreseden. But don't worry about it. It's not like we have an emeregency issue that could change life as we know it or anything" He sneered sarcastically. "Now take a ****ing seat and listen the **** up".
"As you all know the guardians are in place to deal with the things that go bump in the night. The Vampires, Were creatures, witches, bigfoot and any other damn thing that the gneral public doesn't believe. if they knew it would be general panic and pandemonium when people realize that humans aren't at the top of the food chain."
"Well I got news for you kiddies" We have something else to deal with right now that's even more pressing. Three days ago we lost contact with our colony on Uranus. Nothing to much to be worried about at the time. Could simply be a solar flare blocking communication. But now in the last 12 hours we have lost contact with our colonies on Venus, Mars and now the moon. In fact the moon appears now have a huge chunk missing. aout 30% of it. Our sensors indicate there is an unidentified thing moving our way now. We cant sense any kind of power emenating out of it but it appears agressive. we're here to try and figure out whats going on.
We've utilized all the official channels we have. John and Dean. I want you to liase with the supernaturals that you work as informants but hell if you have to try and get to the elder council. Maybe that have an idea of what this **** is. They have been around for centuries.
The government has rerouted satellites and deep space telescopes to see if we can get a better idea of what we're facing here. In addition to that as much of a piece of crap the other agencies are I'll be coordinating with the FBI, CIA and all the other Alphabet soup agencies using our traditional technology to try and wrap our head around whats happening.
Don't let us down fellas. This could mean life or death not just for our country but for the entire universe as we know it. Dismissed!
John and Dean looked at each other. John shrugged his shoulders and sighed."Lets get to it. Just another regular day in the Guardians. Aren't you glad you joined"?
The Guardians
John jerked awake and sat up abruptly in bed in sweat soaked sheets. "Honey, what are you doing?" Mira asked. "Nothing sweetheart. Just another dream. Go back to sleep". He abruptly hopped out of bed and went to the bathroom, turned on the cold water, scooping it up with his hands and washed his face. Staring at the mirror he couldn't help but think about it. For the past week this recurring dream kept occuring which he couldn't quite recall. All he knew was that there was an overwhelming feeling of dread and loss of control during the dream, perhaps better to be called a nightmare. He looked down to see the time on his watch and realized he was late for his shift. He quickly and as quietly as he could got dressed for the day in his black Guardian's uniform and slipped out the door trying not to wake his woman.
He got into his car. A company car. Military style humvee painted black with the Guardian logo on the door panel and pulled out of the garage into traffic. Still feeling foggy and out of it he was lost in his own thoughts as he drove the familiar path to the office. "John are you there?" The radio crackled. John keyed the microphone,
"I'm here, what's going on Dean?".
Dean replied
"Your late buddy! Everything is going to hell in a handbasket and the director is flipping out. His face is a color of purple I've never seen before, and he's on the warpath. Looking for you in fact. You better get your *** in here quick". It looks like some crazy **** is about to go down. You better come up with a damn good excuse for not being here already"
"Thanks for the heads-up. Maybe I should just turn around and head to hawaii for the week and leave all this **** behind. I'm getting tired of our dear leader and his hissy fits".
"John belive me I'm on your side. The boss can get a bit crazy. But believe me. This is a huge deal. In my 20 years with the Guardians I've never seen anythign like this before. I can't speak a word of it over this unsecured channel so you bette get here quick! I will tell you this is huge. This could impact the entire world. No scratch that. The entire federation. Not just this world."
"10-4. I'll be there in 10."
John hit the lights and siren on his car, made sure he had enough distance between the vehicles around on him on the road and pressed a small red button on the console of his vehicle. Almost immediate a high whining noise sounded. It was the afterburners kicking in. The humvee quickly shot up into the air still moving forward at about the speed of traffic. John increased thrust power and with a boom he was off faster than the speed of sound. Quickly leaving the state of California behind on his way to Rio Di Janeiro.
The humvee quickly made short work of the distance to work and he prepared for landing on the roof of the parking garage. As he landed a siren started going off followed by a recording. "Warning Condition 5. This is not a drill. Repeat Condition 5. This is not a drill. Full Evac in progress all non essential personel evac now.
John sighed to himself. While a rookie who was in the guardians might have been tense and excited. John only felt tired. Exasperated after doing this and being a part of the team for 10 years. "What kind of crap is in store today". He walkedup to the building door and swapped his badge. Held his face up to the retina scanner to be scanned. The speaker said "good morning name and id number please"
"John Dresden. ID #5311 Special Services"
"Access Granted. Please follow the lighted yellow path on the ground to conference room C209. They are waiting for you"
The doors slid open and John walked in 4 feet until he reached the next set of steel doors. Due to security policy the exterior doors must be closed and sealed before these would open. John tapped his feet impatiently as he waited. After a short 15 seconds which seemed more like 10 minutes to john the steel doors opened allowing him entrance into the largest most sophisticated operations center anyone had ever seen. 500 desks all manned and working focused on some crisis up on the screen. A visitor or new employee might have been overhwelmed seeing this. FOr john it was old hat. He didn't even think about how amazing the tech and how hard coordinating 500 people all charged with different tasks.
He followed the lights on the floor as quickly as he could to the conference room specified. As he walked in the door his boss. General McMunden looked up. "About damn time you got here Dreseden. But don't worry about it. It's not like we have an emeregency issue that could change life as we know it or anything" He sneered sarcastically. "Now take a ****ing seat and listen the **** up".
"As you all know the guardians are in place to deal with the things that go bump in the night. The Vampires, Were creatures, witches, bigfoot and any other damn thing that the gneral public doesn't believe. if they knew it would be general panic and pandemonium when people realize that humans aren't at the top of the food chain."
"Well I got news for you kiddies" We have something else to deal with right now that's even more pressing. Three days ago we lost contact with our colony on Uranus. Nothing to much to be worried about at the time. Could simply be a solar flare blocking communication. But now in the last 12 hours we have lost contact with our colonies on Venus, Mars and now the moon. In fact the moon appears now have a huge chunk missing. aout 30% of it. Our sensors indicate there is an unidentified thing moving our way now. We cant sense any kind of power emenating out of it but it appears agressive. we're here to try and figure out whats going on.
We've utilized all the official channels we have. John and Dean. I want you to liase with the supernaturals that you work as informants but hell if you have to try and get to the elder council. Maybe that have an idea of what this **** is. They have been around for centuries.
The government has rerouted satellites and deep space telescopes to see if we can get a better idea of what we're facing here. In addition to that as much of a piece of crap the other agencies are I'll be coordinating with the FBI, CIA and all the other Alphabet soup agencies using our traditional technology to try and wrap our head around whats happening.
Don't let us down fellas. This could mean life or death not just for our country but for the entire universe as we know it. Dismissed!
John and Dean looked at each other. John shrugged his shoulders and sighed."Lets get to it. Just another regular day in the Guardians. Aren't you glad you joined"?