It's hard to believe it's been 3 weeks ever since the incident at Scoggins involving that lunacy ray, ever since I sent it to the bottom of the ocean, I felt as if the people were free from control of whatever was manipulating them all, and just whatever happened to all those missing people I never managed to find?
If what I said about the astronauts in the forest murdering people was true, maybe that's what happened to them, but it's at this moment that I would soon be back on the job, and my new case would be like no other.
Anyway, I guess I forgot to do this, but allow me to introduce myself, I'm Nelson Tethers: the head of the FBI's Puzzle Research Department, and so far, the only member of it too.
I haven't been on a case in quite some time, but once, a few months ago, I was called over to the quaint little, creepily puzzle enjoying town of Scoggins, Minnesota to solve a mystery behind an accident that occurred at the local eraser factory, where an explosion occurred, and the foreman, Issac Davner, never came out, and, well, I DID get to Davner, only for a bunch of gnomes, the Hidden People, to abduct him.
Though the factory was back up and running, Davner was still missing, and I couldn't throw it off my shoulders, so I spent some "vacation time" going back over there to investigate his disappearance, and I DID find him, along with a big lunacy ray that needed to be destroyed, as it disturbed the Hidden People, so, with a little help from a certain someone said to be a myth, I sank the ray to the bottom of Lake Svenz.
It's been a few weeks ever since the case ended, and honestly, being on those cases has really made me want in on something new for a while, but I had a feeling it would be a while before I had a new case, so things went, until one day, I got a new case, which would be one of the weirdest FBI cases of all time.
It all started one day when I was in my office, working on a recent issue of Puzzle Sensei that was recently published, and while the puzzles were hard, I had plenty of gum with me, so I was able to concentrate.
While I was working on that, I wound up getting a call from my boss, who needed me on the roof at 5:00 pm, sharp, so I waited for that time to come, and made my way to the roof, making it there at the appointed time, and the boss, Director Jennings, was waiting for me.
"Thanks for meeting me here Tethers," Jennings greeted.
"No problem, sir," I said back, "So what exactly did you need me here for?"
"Well, last week, the inter dimensional division found a host of other universes in the world," Jennings began, "As it turns out, the cases that need to be solved in those worlds can only be taken by other divisions in the FBI, and last night, they found a case that looks perfect for you to solve,"
"Really?" I asked, "I have a new case in another world?"
"We don't really know the properties of this dimension, but we DID get a clear enough description of the problem at hand to know who to send in," Jennings replied, "Are you willing to take the case?"
"Yes sir," I said, interested in finally getting a new case for once.
"Okay, now take this," Jennings said as he handed me a futuristic looking watch, "This will be your entry into the dimension your case lies in, but for some reason, we haven't worked out a way to use the watch to return you back here alone, you'll have to find a way back out from there once you solve the case, good luck Tethers,"
With that, Jennings left the roof, leaving me alone up there, and honestly, I was kinda freaked out about how I needed to find a way out of the dimension through that world, but I was happy enough to have a case that I was willing to take that chance, so I went back to my office, put a couple of sticks of gum in my pockets, and fired up the watch.
The watch glowed a bright white colour, which enveloped me as the watch whirred louder, and eventually, it let off a bright sine of light, that warped me right out of the office, but the noise and light startled me so much that I passed out.
I didn't know what I would find once I woke up, but when I did, it would be the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me, and the case that I would soon be working on would be one I would never forget.