Resistance free – The temperance effect

Jeremy runs and he doesn’t look back. Another concussive boom echoes loudly behind him, as he runs. He tries to double down and run faster, but his legs are spent. He trips and goes down hard. The suitcase smacks the sidewalk, and splits open as he falls.

In 1973 a super experiment was conducted by a government. The government used a shadow organization. Plausible deniability was paramount. It usually is, when the stakes are high. In this case, the shadow organization was to be the fall guy, should anything go awry. It did. But not until years later.

Ten years later. A long time after the program was shuttered and closed. Therefore, no contingency plan was in place for what happened. In fact, what happened, shouldn’t have happened. It was a result of something unforeseen. Most every covert op bad idea was the same way. Shrouded in secrecy, and plausible deniability, the unforeseen is a given.

Resistance free – The temperance effect

With this in mind, all the pieces of the former op, were laying around, available for use. To anyone who knew their purpose, and knew where to look. Dr. Hinkleman is the CEO and one of the founders of The Pincert Corporation. He had also been in the covert op from many years ago.Therefore, he had been more than prepared, to pick up the pieces.

The Pincert Corporation was a labyrinth of special interest departments. Each of which branched into still more departments. If there is a method to the madness, it is not easily identified. Furthermore, much of what is reality now, could not have been all those years ago.

There just hadn’t been the technology to reverse engineer the advanced technology they had found. That is why they hadn’t seen this coming. Someone else had picked up the reins.

Jeremy smacks the concrete hard. The suitcase strikes the sidewalk and splits open. Scores of smart phones dump out of the old suitcase. Additionally, they are of every kind and model. Jeremy slides and rolls on the concrete. Oddly, the case stays attached to him.

Temperance effect

The air smells of sulfur and smoke and he can hear sirens in the distance already. He rolls over and sits up. The phones are all over the sidewalk. And he begins frantically scooping them back into the case. As he does they all begin activating. Indeed, not all at once either. But one at a time instead. Almost deliberately.

He watches with unease as one of the phones flashes a series of colors and then the pincer rises from the screen. Jeremy knows it’s too late and feels dread, nonetheless. The pincer races up his arm, and the lights go out.

Resistence free – The temperance effect