Zette's Storybook

From: Alan Orion, Head of FUTURE

December 31, 1995

Report # 92222

Message Begins:



I knew something had gone wrong. I knew it the moment I couldn't find the Sangre sisters.

It hadn't been a good assignment -- that little bit of theatrics that drew so much attention that CNN even mentioned us. My superiors were not pleased with the reports of knife fights, arrests, TV coverage and bombings. It did no good to tell them that the Vananadanians had caused the entire problem by trying to grab the briefcase. The Van weren't even supposed to be on Earth at all, and it was my job to keep them out.

I had not told the Council that my two top agents had disappeared. No, no, no. They knew enough about the Sangres that such news could have caused panic through a half dozen worlds. I wondered where the hell Morning Star and Morning Glory were. I didn't like to think what they were planning.

Someone in the organization had turned on them, and nearly got the two killed -- someone high in the organization. I knew I wasn't the one, but that left a lot of open ground between the Sangres and me. There were, as far as I could tell, about seven hundred FUTURE employees, both in the field and The Office, who'd had a chance to set the two up. I suspect that I'll find our traitor somewhere in the higher one hundred of those. I'm just trying to figure out if I want to find him before the Sangres do.

I do know I don't want to get in the way.