Davidson University
Ten Months Earlier
February 3rd 2007 3:22 pm
I never quite figured out how I did it but I managed to pass my advanced biology midterm. Since studying and sleep had disappeared from my priority list quite awhile ago. I was in a pretty good mood that day and was planning to take Karen out to celebrate. Of course the second I felt good, bad luck had to come from somewhere. Danny stopped me on my way back to my dorm.
"Erik," He said, squinting at the sun through his "Goth" makeup. "we need to have a talk." We walked to a more secluded corner of the courtyard I had been walking through. Anytime Danny approached me on campus I knew there was a big mission coming up. Although I was in charge of actually implementing missions Danny was my informant.
"What's up?"
"The Yerks are taking up a new hotel, upper east side very high quality, charge you bout 50 bucks for mints, damn socialists…"
"Umm, Danny, the Yerks." If you didn't keep Danny on the subject he'd go off on a tangent, he had a great future in talk radio.
"Yeah, well, the way it looks now they're sneaking into the rooms while the guest are in a champagne induced sleep and infest them."
"That's pretty brave isn't it I mean what if someone wakes up?"
"They lace the champagne with depressants and narcotics, you'd have better luck trying to stay awake through professor Erwin's basic physics course."
"Okay, so when is it scheduled to open?"
"Tomorrow so you need to take care of things tonight."
"Tonight?! Dammit Danny couldn't you have told me that sooner?"
"I wanted to but it's getting harder to dig this stuff up. Yerks are starting to clamp down on this info. Trust me you want to nip this in the bud. It could make a lot of new controllers." I sighed heavily.
"Fine I'll get the guys together, what do you think will be able to shut this place down."
"A few well placed health violations since the inspector comes tomorrow."
"We'll take care of it." I got up to walk away.
"Don't kill anyone, you guys don't need to risk it, there may be security cameras."
"Okay we'll only carry tranquilizer darts."
"Tell me must every mission you guys carry out involve guns."
"Yeah since I want to leave each mission alive."