You are sitting on a bench in the CIA archives, and the year is 2043. It’s dark in the archives, a bare lightbulb hangs from the ceiling illuminating very little space.
A file sticks out because it’s very old. It’s dated to 2019. You pick it up out of curiosity, and try to read it, but you strain your eyes in the dim light. The following file is off limits to anyone without triple A or higher security clearance.
Case File: #303
Subject: Pierre
Pierre’s house 8:39 a.m.“Bleep, bloop, bloop, bop”. “Oh hello, my name is Pierre, I’m playing video games in my room”. “Crash!” “Oh boy, I gotta get outta here”, he thought.
But before Pierre could run away a bunch of CIA agents showed up. “Looks like my parents got kidnapped. This is going to be a long day of hunting down some criminals”, thought Pierre. Pierre is a 13 year old intellectual who loves video games.
The CIA agents analyzed the scene of the kidnapping. After a very, very, very long fingerprint analysis it was finally time to go find the bad guys.
Pierre overheard a CIA agent say, “this is bad, really bad!”
“About as bad as the time that crocodile tried to eat your sister”, joked another agent.
Pierre hears western music in his head, it turns out it’s his friend across the street playing his electric guitar. And, it turned out that the bad guys were part of the crime organization known as Luminar who had reportedly caused several catastrophes in the past.
Later, that same day in Langley, Virginia.
“Dang it, our best agents got kidnapped,” said a commanding voice.
“Yeah, I know”, Pierre said with an attitude. Later when he found out that it was the director of the CIA he felt embarrassed.
Pierre told the director of the CIA that he could be useful for finding his parents because he had placed a GPS tracker on a Luminar agent during the kidnapping.
The director looked surprised and said,“show me!” Before this moment, the director thought that Pierre was a boring, not very bright kid with an attitude that had no value to the CIA.
So Pierre took his phone out of his pocket and showed it to the director, and the director jumped up like a jackrabbit in surprise. On the map there was a little red dot signifying the location of the Luminar agent. The red dot was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 5:46 a.m., the CIA agents were driving with Pierre in a car. Then at that very moment some shots rang out, and they were coming from the sidewalk.
Pierre screamed, “ahh! Get me outta here”, as he jumped out of the car. The CIA agents rolled down the windows and managed to subdue the Luminar agents who were on the sidewalk with tranquilizer darts before there were any casualties. Pierre got back into the car and he said, “phew, that was close, you agents did good work”.
It was 2:37 p.m. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Vroom”, Pierre and the CIA agents were speeding down a highway along the Skookle River when a gas tanker broadsided them and tried to run them off the road.
“We need air support!”, screamed a CIA agent into her phone. The voice on the other end calmly replied.
“We’ll get a helicopter to you as soon as possible”. Moments later, Pierre saw a helicopter arc over. The helicopter managed to pop one of the tanker’s tires and crash it. What they didn’t know is that the tanker was carrying nitroglycerin, and it blew up an overpass and plunged the car into the Skookle River. Pierre opened the car window and swam out, surfaced, took a deep breath and dived back down to rescue an agent. He took one of the CIA agents that was still trapped in the car by the collar and dragged her to the surface. The helicopter picked them up and took them to Langley where they got some rest and medical care.
Langley, Virginia 7:13 a.m. Pierre and two CIA agents had just entered the parking lot when the attack happened. Three Luminar agents with guns jumped out from behind some cars and started shooting at them.
Pierre screamed, “help!”
He jumped behind a car and curled up into a ball. The CIA agents called for support, and three agents came to the rescue. The agents ran up behind the Luminar agents and did a synchronized takedown and put them in handcuffs.
Then the CIA agents said, “we’re taking you to the CIA headquarters”
Then they took them to CIA headquarters and questioned them. They interrogated the Luminar agents and they said that the parents were being held on the roof of an apartment complex in Los Angeles, California.
Pierre wondered, “is this a trap?”
Los Angeles, California 4:54 A.M.
“Seriously, it’s four in the morning and we’re getting up,” said Pierre.
“Yeah”, said one of the other agents groggily.
“Uhg”, said Pierre then he got out of bed and got dressed. Five minutes later they were cruising down the road to an apartment complex. In the apartment complex they went to the roof. Pierre heard a helicopter “chop chop chop chop chop”. Then it started shooting, “bang bang bang”.
“Ahh help!!!” screamed Pierre.
Just then, a CIA agent pulled out a small cylinder shaped object, she started to slide smaller cylinders out of it, and that when Pierre realized it was a rocket launcher. “Fshow boom”, the helicopter’s tail exploded into a cloud of fire. Pierre saw a small cable shoot from one of the agents’ wrists and attach to the helicopter with a soft “clink”. Then she jumped onto the helicopter, grabbed the pilot and grappled back onto the roof.
Fifteen minutes later, the pilot said, “the hostages are being kept in a house in Miami,” in a small voice. Pierre’s eyes lit up and he finally knew where his parents were.
Miami, Florida 7:56 A.M.
“Clink”, the grapple hit the house.
Pierre opened the window and slid in. Right in front of him were his parents, as well as an armed guard. His face lit up when he saw his parents, then his face fell when he saw the armed guard. Then the armed guard’s head turned, saw him and started shooting.
Pierre jumped down and yelped, “ahh, not again!”
One of the CIA agents threw a smoke grenade into the room and the guard started coughing, then the CIA agent vaulted into the room, then he put the guard in handcuffs and freed the parents.
The parents looked overjoyed, they gave Pierre a hug and then slid down the grapple line to safety. One of the CIA agents said, “we just received confirmation that the enemies have the missile codes, but we have already deactivated them”. The mission was over and everybody was happy, especially Pierre’s mother who couldn’t contain her smile.
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In the archives, you wonder if there are any related files. Just then, you open a random file you found in the archives. Papers with Luminar scrawled all over them fall out, and you read on.
About the Author:
Reid McCullough grew up in San Francisco, California he likes video games and spies. He also wrote the book about rockets. He went to Live Oak school and likes math. He also enjoys reading. Another thing he enjoys is hiking.