- “What do you want to discuss with me then?” Sam asked, even though he kind of knew what this was about.
- “Where to start?” Christina said quietly to herself, “OK, yesterday’s rioting…”
- “Yes.”
- “That is just the beginning. There will be more, much more.”
- “Oh I know.”
- “All because our president is giving false promises.” Vince added.
- “I agree with you there. Unfortunately he can’t fight the lying temptation. It’s a disease and it has befallen upon us. Most people are too weak to fight it.” Sam said.
- “So you managed to overcome it?” Christina asked.
- “Yes I have, more or less. I see you guys have as well.”
- “Yes, though Vince is not from around here, so he never had that disease.”
- “Interesting. So did you willingly come here, knowing the problem in these areas?” he asked Vince.
- “Not entirely. But I am willing to cure it, or whatever is the best word. I’m a scientist.”
- “Well I can only wish you good luck. I’m afraid there’s not much else I can do.”
- “Can’t you influence the president in any way?” Christina asked.
- “I don’t think so. He’s way too obstinate and thinks that he knows everything. I’m afraid the lies have changed all of us for the worse. He used to be a good person before.”
- “Well, we will be trying. But we wish in a meantime our leader – the president, could at least speak the truth.” Vince said.
- “I wish so too. I will try to do everything to the best of my ability. But I can’t leave you with any false promises.”
- “Sure, we understand.”
- “Thanks a lot for everything.” Christina thanked Sam Thompson.
Vince, Pete and Christina exited his office and began going back to the stairs, when that guard from before walked up to them angrily and said:
- “You said you’ll be here only for 5 seconds. So you lied to me?!”
- “No, this is not what you think…” Vince began justifying himself.
- “Guards! Grab them!” the guard shouted, and suddenly several guards came out of nowhere and ran towards the trio.
Pete suddenly punched the angry guard in the stomach and then kicked him in the face to cause him to pass out.
- “Come on guys, we must get out of here.” He shouted.
- “Pete, why?” Christina didn’t like his approach.
- “Not now.” Pete said and grabbed her so he could drag her out.
Three of them rushed down the stairs. A couple of the guards caught up with them and grabbed Christina into bearhug and headlock. Vince quickly laid a punch to each of their faces, causing them to release her.
They were running down the stairs so fast, that all of them almost tripped up at least once. Some of the guards though did trip up, causing the ones behind them to also fall down.
Lots of adrenaline was rushing through Vince’s body. He never had to run away from the guards of the White House. The idea that they could be arrested was truly scary.
They then reached the ground floor and ran in through the doors into the corridor leading out of the stairs area.
- “Come on!” Pete shouted, “before the guards on this floor get alerted.”
However they were too late, because the guards on this floor already have been alerted and were now coming in from the other end of the corridor.
- “Uh oh, we’re trapped.” Vince said.
- “No, over here.” Pete quickly said and burst in through one of the doors on the side.
Vince and Christina just followed where Pete was leading them. They ran into a computer room as it seemed and headed for another door in the room. A guard came out of there, but Pete quickly pounced on him and knocked him to the floor.
Through the door they entered some office room, and then exited through the next door into the main lobby.
- “Good job, Peter.” Vince congratulated him.
- “We’re not done yet.” Pete pointed forward, showing several guards running in from outside.
- “What now?” Christina asked.
- “The back door.” Pete said, and all three of them turned in the opposite direction of the front door and ran towards the backside of the building.
Only two guards were patrolling the back area, and one of them seemed to be sleeping on his post. Vince, Pete and Christina just ran past them both, into a small corridor with a door at the end.
- “Locked!” Vince said.
- “No worries. It’s just a basement door. They use it as fire exit, so no strong locks on here.” Pete reassured him and got his lockpick out.
He stuck the lockpick into the lock, twisted it a couple of times and unlocked it quickly. They then opened the door and ran in. The guards were close behind.
It seemed like a pretty nice area for a basement. There wasn’t much sign of dirt or dust around here. Not even a single rat. Three of them headed for the door at the end and opened it. There were three guards standing outside there, but those ones didn’t know anything, so when they saw the trio, they didn’t know they had to catch them.
- “All right fellas?” Vince said casually.
- “Yep.” One of the guards nodded.
The three of them then ran off where they wouldn’t be seen. When the remaining guards exited through the back door, they couldn’t see Vince, Pete or Christina, so one of those guards asked one of the ones who was outside:
- “Which way did they go?”
- “Over there.” The outside guard pointed in a completely opposite direction.
- “Come on.” the other guards then ran to where he pointed.
Once again, lying proved to be a liability for the guards when performing their job.
The trio managed to walk into the streets by now without the guards seeing them. They all were worried and nervous though.
- “Now we can’t be seen outside, because the guards will recognize us.” Christina said.
- “Pete, why such extreme measures?” Vince asked.
- “They weren’t gonna let us go. Trust me.” Pete said, “It was the best way.”
- “Well now we have to change our identities or something.” Vince suggested.
- “Good idea. Unfortunately we’ll have to resort to that.” Christina said.
- “And probably relocate somewhere else to live.” Vince added.
- “Woah, we can’t afford that though.” Christina disagreed.
- “I don’t know what else we could do.” Vince said.
- “Well maybe we can temporarily stay somewhere for now. I wonder where though.” Christina wondered.
- “Perhaps somewhere closer to the Redwell labs if we can. This way I’ll be able to visit it every day and work on the machine.” Vince suggested.
- “I like your idea.” Christina agreed.
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Sunday, 22 March 2009
Chapter 15 – Bypass
The White House was truly beautiful inside. How surprising that the lying hasn’t destroyed it yet just like some of those streets of the city.
- “Which way are we gonna be heading then?” Vince asked.
- “It’s always up.” Christina answered.
- “We’ll need to ask someone to help us find that Sam Thompson person.”
- “Will be hard to find the truthful guide though.”
- “Unfortunately yes.”
They proceeded towards the stairs. Those were at the end of a corridor, so three of them had to walk across the whole building pretty much, with guards looking at them in a menacing fashion.
- “I hate being in situations like these.” Christina admitted, “You know, hiding things from others.”
- “I understand. It’s not an easy feeling, but best thing to do is to think about your goal ahead. Concentrating on that causes you to become kind of numb to everything else.” Vince explained.
- “I guess that makes sense. I will try that. Thanks.”
- “You’ll get used to it soon enough.” Pete added, “Because I bet we’ll need to do more of that if we are to succeed.”
Christina knew that Vince and Pete were used to the situations like these already, but she wasn’t yet. She hated getting into trouble. It was really worrying her and giving her a stomach-ache.
They reached the staircase now. It proceeded all the way to every floor.
- “Right then. We need to look for him on every floor then or does any of you have a better idea?” Vince began.
- “We’ll probably need to take our chances with one of the guards and hope he speaks the truth.” Christina said.
- “Slim chance, but what the heck, let’s try.”
Three of them went up to the first floor and entered the hallway there. The first guard they saw, they approached and Vince spoke:
- “Could you tell us where Sam Thompson would be?”
- “That way.” The guard pointed back at the stairs where they came from.
- “Let’s try another one.” Vince said quietly to Christina and they moved away from the guard.
- “Shouldn’t they be like escorting us anyway?” Pete brought up.
- “Yeah, I am surprised they just let us walk around the White House like this.” Vince agreed.
They then approached another guard.
- “Excuse me, could you…” Vince began, but the guard was stuffing his face with food and not paying attention at all, so he stopped talking there.
- “Vince.” Christina suddenly called and ran up to something, “a map.”
- “Excellent. Let’s have a look at it.”
The map hung on the wall and featured every floor of the building. Vince was pretty good at reading maps, but this one was pretty complex still. They looked around the map of each floor there. It seemed that more important people seemed to be on higher floors.
- “His office should be there.” Christina pointed at the 4th floor.
- “Let’s give it a try then.” Pete agreed.
Three of them headed back for the stairs and climbed to the 4th floor. They then proceeded through a small corridor and entered the lobby there. One of the guards approached them:
- “Who are you? You shouldn’t be here.”
- “We know, we’ll be out in 5 seconds.” Vince told him.
- “OK.” The guard said and then left them.
They carried on forwards through the lobby until Christina said:
- “There he is.” And pointed at a rather small guy not too far away, talking to one of the guards.
- “This is our chance. Let’s go.” Vince told them.
- “What are we going to say?” Pete asked.
- “Don’t you worry about it. Let Chrissie and myself do the talking.”
They quickly walked up to him. He couldn’t help but notice them and so asked:
- “I am sorry, could I help you?”
- “Yes, we must have a word with you. It won’t take long.” Christina said.
- “All right. And who would you be?
- “I am Vince.”
- “And I am Christina. We live not far from here.”
- “My name is John.” Pete lied, which caused a slightly disapproving look from Vince and Christina for a second.
- “Follow me to my office then.” Sam said.
The guard followed but Sam gave him a sign, meaning everything is OK. His office was just around the corner. He opened the door and all of them entered.
- “Which way are we gonna be heading then?” Vince asked.
- “It’s always up.” Christina answered.
- “We’ll need to ask someone to help us find that Sam Thompson person.”
- “Will be hard to find the truthful guide though.”
- “Unfortunately yes.”
They proceeded towards the stairs. Those were at the end of a corridor, so three of them had to walk across the whole building pretty much, with guards looking at them in a menacing fashion.
- “I hate being in situations like these.” Christina admitted, “You know, hiding things from others.”
- “I understand. It’s not an easy feeling, but best thing to do is to think about your goal ahead. Concentrating on that causes you to become kind of numb to everything else.” Vince explained.
- “I guess that makes sense. I will try that. Thanks.”
- “You’ll get used to it soon enough.” Pete added, “Because I bet we’ll need to do more of that if we are to succeed.”
Christina knew that Vince and Pete were used to the situations like these already, but she wasn’t yet. She hated getting into trouble. It was really worrying her and giving her a stomach-ache.
They reached the staircase now. It proceeded all the way to every floor.
- “Right then. We need to look for him on every floor then or does any of you have a better idea?” Vince began.
- “We’ll probably need to take our chances with one of the guards and hope he speaks the truth.” Christina said.
- “Slim chance, but what the heck, let’s try.”
Three of them went up to the first floor and entered the hallway there. The first guard they saw, they approached and Vince spoke:
- “Could you tell us where Sam Thompson would be?”
- “That way.” The guard pointed back at the stairs where they came from.
- “Let’s try another one.” Vince said quietly to Christina and they moved away from the guard.
- “Shouldn’t they be like escorting us anyway?” Pete brought up.
- “Yeah, I am surprised they just let us walk around the White House like this.” Vince agreed.
They then approached another guard.
- “Excuse me, could you…” Vince began, but the guard was stuffing his face with food and not paying attention at all, so he stopped talking there.
- “Vince.” Christina suddenly called and ran up to something, “a map.”
- “Excellent. Let’s have a look at it.”
The map hung on the wall and featured every floor of the building. Vince was pretty good at reading maps, but this one was pretty complex still. They looked around the map of each floor there. It seemed that more important people seemed to be on higher floors.
- “His office should be there.” Christina pointed at the 4th floor.
- “Let’s give it a try then.” Pete agreed.
Three of them headed back for the stairs and climbed to the 4th floor. They then proceeded through a small corridor and entered the lobby there. One of the guards approached them:
- “Who are you? You shouldn’t be here.”
- “We know, we’ll be out in 5 seconds.” Vince told him.
- “OK.” The guard said and then left them.
They carried on forwards through the lobby until Christina said:
- “There he is.” And pointed at a rather small guy not too far away, talking to one of the guards.
- “This is our chance. Let’s go.” Vince told them.
- “What are we going to say?” Pete asked.
- “Don’t you worry about it. Let Chrissie and myself do the talking.”
They quickly walked up to him. He couldn’t help but notice them and so asked:
- “I am sorry, could I help you?”
- “Yes, we must have a word with you. It won’t take long.” Christina said.
- “All right. And who would you be?
- “I am Vince.”
- “And I am Christina. We live not far from here.”
- “My name is John.” Pete lied, which caused a slightly disapproving look from Vince and Christina for a second.
- “Follow me to my office then.” Sam said.
The guard followed but Sam gave him a sign, meaning everything is OK. His office was just around the corner. He opened the door and all of them entered.
Chapter 14 – It begins
The next morning Vince woke up early because he wanted to get started on building the machine, so he began going through Robert’s files. The files mostly consisted of various sketches of all the different parts of the machine. It was pretty complex, but nothing that Vince couldn’t understand.
He spent most of the morning reading them and getting his head round the unfamiliar parts. Christina and Pete already woke up when he was still going through that.
- “I’ve decided.” Christina said as she walked up to Vince.
- “Great. What will it be then?”
- “Let’s do this. Today.”
- “Oh yeah!” Vince was pleased and gave her a hug.
Three of them began preparing themselves to visit the White House sometime in mid afternoon. They needed to make sure that nothing goes wrong as this was a very delicate situation. They mustn’t take anything that can be used as a weapon, even though there might been a necessity for it should they run into trouble.
- “So we’re going to whizz in there, talk to the guy and get the hell out of there?” Pete asked.
- “Yes, speaking of whom, what’s his name, of the guy we’re looking for?” Vince asked Christina.
- “His name is Sam Thompson. It won’t be hard to find him.” She reassured them.
- “Good. How do you know it won’t be hard?” Vince asked.
- “Because he takes more control than the president does, so we’re bound to run into him quickly.”
- “Oh OK. Well if we’re ready, then let’s get going.”
All three of them breathed deeply and took off. It wasn’t a long walk to the White house as they already were more or less in the centre of the city. And yes, it was located here in LA, which to Vince was strange as it was different to what he used to know.
They arrived at the White House finally. It was way different to how it was in Vince’s universe. He didn’t let that occupy too much of his thinking time though, and the three of them proceeded to the entrance. The amount of guards there was enormous, even more than at the entrance of the police station.
- “Well, let’s just relax and go on. Use lying if we have to.” Vince warned his friends.
They went up firstly to the main gates. The 4 guards that stood there had a grim look on their face. One of them then said:
- “You three, what business do you have in here?”
- “We need to speak to Sam Thompson.” Christina said and then followed through with a lie, “He arranged to meet us.”
- “Oh. Go sign in over there then.” The guard pointed in a random direction, but Vince and the team knew that it had to be done at the doors.
Three of them went through the gates as guards opened those. They then headed for the main doors. One guard there was with a list.
- “Your name and purpose of visit.” The guard said sternly.
- “We…” Vince began, but the guard interrupted him:
- “Just write your name down here.”
- “Can we do that afterwards?” Vince asked.
- “Err, yes sure.” The guard fell for his lie.
- “So can we go in?”
- “Any time.”
The three of them went in then. It was as easy as pie as it seemed.
Another guard walked up to this one and asked:
- “What did they want?”
- “I don’t know, they said they brought some presents or something.” The first guard replied.
- “Do we get any?”
- “Probably yes.”
- “Ah, well hope we can get them later tonight. When does your shift end?” the second guard got interested.
- “Now actually.” First guard lied.
- “Oh OK, in that case I must take up your place.”
- “Yes you do.”
- “OK, well I’ve got to go to the toilet, so will be back in 5 minutes.”
The second guard then ran off. The first guard never realised he was fooled. Such is the tough life of the guards who lie to each other, and not just of the guards, but all the people.
He spent most of the morning reading them and getting his head round the unfamiliar parts. Christina and Pete already woke up when he was still going through that.
- “I’ve decided.” Christina said as she walked up to Vince.
- “Great. What will it be then?”
- “Let’s do this. Today.”
- “Oh yeah!” Vince was pleased and gave her a hug.
Three of them began preparing themselves to visit the White House sometime in mid afternoon. They needed to make sure that nothing goes wrong as this was a very delicate situation. They mustn’t take anything that can be used as a weapon, even though there might been a necessity for it should they run into trouble.
- “So we’re going to whizz in there, talk to the guy and get the hell out of there?” Pete asked.
- “Yes, speaking of whom, what’s his name, of the guy we’re looking for?” Vince asked Christina.
- “His name is Sam Thompson. It won’t be hard to find him.” She reassured them.
- “Good. How do you know it won’t be hard?” Vince asked.
- “Because he takes more control than the president does, so we’re bound to run into him quickly.”
- “Oh OK. Well if we’re ready, then let’s get going.”
All three of them breathed deeply and took off. It wasn’t a long walk to the White house as they already were more or less in the centre of the city. And yes, it was located here in LA, which to Vince was strange as it was different to what he used to know.
They arrived at the White House finally. It was way different to how it was in Vince’s universe. He didn’t let that occupy too much of his thinking time though, and the three of them proceeded to the entrance. The amount of guards there was enormous, even more than at the entrance of the police station.
- “Well, let’s just relax and go on. Use lying if we have to.” Vince warned his friends.
They went up firstly to the main gates. The 4 guards that stood there had a grim look on their face. One of them then said:
- “You three, what business do you have in here?”
- “We need to speak to Sam Thompson.” Christina said and then followed through with a lie, “He arranged to meet us.”
- “Oh. Go sign in over there then.” The guard pointed in a random direction, but Vince and the team knew that it had to be done at the doors.
Three of them went through the gates as guards opened those. They then headed for the main doors. One guard there was with a list.
- “Your name and purpose of visit.” The guard said sternly.
- “We…” Vince began, but the guard interrupted him:
- “Just write your name down here.”
- “Can we do that afterwards?” Vince asked.
- “Err, yes sure.” The guard fell for his lie.
- “So can we go in?”
- “Any time.”
The three of them went in then. It was as easy as pie as it seemed.
Another guard walked up to this one and asked:
- “What did they want?”
- “I don’t know, they said they brought some presents or something.” The first guard replied.
- “Do we get any?”
- “Probably yes.”
- “Ah, well hope we can get them later tonight. When does your shift end?” the second guard got interested.
- “Now actually.” First guard lied.
- “Oh OK, in that case I must take up your place.”
- “Yes you do.”
- “OK, well I’ve got to go to the toilet, so will be back in 5 minutes.”
The second guard then ran off. The first guard never realised he was fooled. Such is the tough life of the guards who lie to each other, and not just of the guards, but all the people.
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