The Cross of Mithras Vol. 1: EOD Operation Welcome to Hell (10 page)

  Did the Founder of the EOD do that out of compassion? Sadly no. The way in which the Founder treated those two detectives proves how little compassion he had. At one point the Founder shot one of them in the face, then in the right knee causing him to fall down. His partner than ran up to help him, firing at the Founder who was walking around a corner, but the detective missed him. When he got to his partner, the Founder suddenly appeared from around the corner and stood there. The detective started to yell at him to get down on the ground, but the Founder wouldn’t. Instead the Founder said, ‘Click,’ and then he started to walk around the corner again. The detective then pulled the trigger and nothing happened. As he started to reload his gun, the Founder appeared from around the corner again, and this time he shot the detective right above one of his knees.

  Their first confrontation with the Founder should have told them that it would have been in their best interest to call for backup. They decided to split up and search for the Founder, not knowing if he was armed or not, but thinking that they could handle him either way. One of them went down a darken hallway, confident that he will captured the asshole who killed the woman that he knew for so long. As he walked by one of the darken spots in the hallway, the Founder hit him in the back of the head with a lead pipe - but not enough to knock him out. The Founder then hit him in the back of the left knee, and before he dropped to his knees, the Founder than hit him in the chest causing the detective to fall backwards. The Founder than used the lead pipe to knock the gun out of the detective right hand. The detective cried out in pain, luckily for him his hand wasn’t broken. When his partner got to him he told him which way the Founder went. He then ran into the darken area where the Founder went. Although the area was not that brightly lit, he ran in there anyway without a flashlight. He then heard the most fearful sound in that room, the sound that said; somebody is ready to shoot him with a shotgun. The detective turned in the direction of the sound, only to feel the impact of the shotgun blast. Still standing after being shot, he heard the Founder come up to him, and with the butt of the shotgun, hit him in the face knocking him out cold. The Founder then left the area and went over to the other police detective who was crawling over to his gun. When the Founder got to him, he shot him in the back with the shotgun. Luckily for both of them, they where wearing their body armor. And so it went for both of them throughout the night, being terrorized by the Founder of the EOD.

  When it was all over, the two detectives awoke in their car. They found that their feet was tied together, and their hands where bound behind their back, and a gag was in their mouth. Their car was on top of a steep hill with a block under the driver’s side front wheel. The Founder of the EOD was standing on the driver’s side of the car holding (in his left hand) a rope to the block. He was standing there moving his right arm and head in such a way that it suggested that he was listening to music that only he could hear. He then said, ‘Life… Terror… Action,’ and then he pulled the rope. The car started to slowly roll downhill. As the car past, the Founder said, ‘Goodbye... have fun.’ The detective in the driver’s side learns to his horror that there was a block under the brake pedal that he couldn’t remove. Both of them were in the car trying to free themselves as the car was slowly picking up speed. As they approach the intersection, they heard a sound that chilled them to the bone. It was a sound that caused their eyes to widen with fear and terror. They screamed in horror at the sound, and struggled to free themselves far more strongly than before. It was the sound of a semi-trailer bearing down upon them, and the sound of the driver slamming on his brakes hard. The detectives felt the impact of the big rig as it hit their rear bumper causing their car to veer to the left. The car then hit a parked car, straightens out, and slowly came to a stop in a school’s playground.

  After both of the detectives freed themselves, they got out of the car and looked back up the hill. They could see the Founder of the EOD still standing on top of the hill, after a brief moment, he left. It was as if he knew all of that was going to happen. Both of the detectives turned to look at each other, and they saw that there was a book taped to the hood of their car. The detective on the driver side took the book off of the car and noticed that it is the Bible. The Bible had a bookmark in it to which the detective opens it up to the Book of Revelation. On the page where the bookmark was (a page was missing), written in their blood, were the words, ‘It’s all a myth…’ Later while they were lying in their hospital bed, somebody sent them some flowers with a note. When they opened the card, there was a page torn from the Bible from the Book of Revelation, once again written in their blood was the words, ‘…because I’m not in it.’

  Ramirez just got out of the shower; he dried himself off and went into the bedroom, still thinking about that incident with those two police detectives. He thought about how both of those two police detectives always said that, ‘He (the Founder) had the uncanny knack of being in the shadows. We never got a good look at him.’ But what got Ramirez the most about that incident is what one of those two detectives said about the Founder, he said that, ‘At one point it look as if his (the Founder) eyes was glowing. They were glowing like something you would see in a vampire movie. It really freaked me out when I saw that. I thought that he might have supernatural powers, or something.’ Ramirez didn’t know what to make of both of those comments, other than that it sounded like something out of a horror movie. Vaistll, when she heard about that incident, said that it reminded her of that song, “Suite Sister Mary” by Queensryche. It was that comment about the glowing eyes that Ramirez wished that he could confirm.  Did it really happen? Did that detective imagined it? Was he lying? It did made the Founder seemed like he have supernatural powers. Project 21 learned something about the Founder that they never shared with either one of those two detectives. The Founder was wounded at some point, and one of the detectives wiped up the Founder’s blood off the floor. When the night was over, he kept the rag with the Founder’s blood on it, and later gave it to Project 21 when they were doing an investigation into the incident. And what did Project 21 learned about that blood? Nothing special, it was just regular type O human blood.

  Ramirez thought to himself that it was no wonder that nobody could catch the Founder of the EOD. What’s more, that incident shows what happen when the authorities get too close to him. Is he the anti-Christ like some Christians think? No he is not. The anti-Christ wants to be a world leader of a world government, and then at the height of his power he wants to destroy the State of Israel. The Founder of the EOD wants to be the puppet master over all governments, not to destroy any one of them, not even Israel. But still, that incident would tend to convince people that he is the anti-Christ; after all, he does make it way too easy to believe it. It’s no wonder that people like Ramirez, who knows all that they know about the Founder, is not a Christian.

  Sometimes Ramirez, Vaistll, Project 21, and other people who know about the Founder, wished that they could get ALL of the psychological reports on him, instead of the few that they have. Ramirez always likens it to doing a psychological report on a ghost - easier said than done. At that thought, Ramirez had to force himself to stop thinking about the psychological reports on the Founder. He wanted to stop thinking about it, not because of the way that he was raised, but rather it is because it started to remind him of the psychological prison that is the EOD. From the beginning of its creation, the EOD had a thing for psychiatrists and people like them. People who know how other people think. It was the first Council of the Elders who where experts at knowing how to psychoanalyze people. They were psychiatrists. The Founder knew how valuable people like them where.

  It is not known who came up with it, but one of those people (probably the Founder) who could psychoanalyze people, came up with the idea of calling some people, “benders.” A bender is a person who bends the rules for whatever reason they desire. On the surface, however, there doesn’t appear to be anything sinister about it, that is until a person takes into account who is creating those rules. The EOD used the idea of benders to get people used to certain rules, which the EOD is planning to change sometime later. But they don’t tell the people that. And when are they planning to change those rules? The EOD community, like any other community, has children, and those children will grow up getting used to those rules, creating in effect, a culture of sorts. Once those children grow up, then and only then, will those rules change. What it does is to help to maintain, and sustain, a cultural form of psychological control over people. No wonder Ramirez always said, ‘If you never were apart of the EOD community, than you will never understand why it is impossible to leave it. A person has to go through mental hell if they wish to leave it.’

  So the EOD bends the rules that it told the people not to bend. They gave their reason for bending those rules, which the people did not object to because it didn’t seem like it was a major problem. Each time the EOD bend its own rules, it did so in such a way as to exercise more control over the people, at the same time not trying to make it seem like that is what they are doing. One such control mechanism was the EOD credit. A person who works for the EOD gets credit (not money) for the work that they did. The worker gets different types of credit, food credit (the poor calls it food stamps), rent credit (for those who lives in an apartment), basic necessities credit, grooming credit, and so on. The amount of credit that a worker earns depends upon different factors, type of job, how hard they work, quality of work, and if they completed the job. Because the EOD gives credit to workers who complete the job, not for time spent on the job, it does make them very hard workers. Nobody works harder than an EOD worker. No credit for a lazy worker. Punishment means less credit. If the job is considered to be too important, and the worker does has to be punished after repeatedly being warned, then they will be sent off to the Conditioning Room, or worse, sent off to the Volunteer Room. The only rights that an EOD worker has is, the right to change their job, but only if they have enough credits. Some of them do, most of them don’t.

  Both the EOD credit, and the EOD so call utopian society, is what Ramirez and the other members of Task Force ZH-3C (who once were apart of the EOD) had to grow up in. Ramirez is correct in calling the EOD a psychological prison. All of his life he wanted to escape that prison and be free of it once and for all. Ramirez started to feel that way when he was a pre-teen. He kept his feelings to himself, fearing what might happen if he told anyone. He didn’t trust anybody, not even his own family. As early as a pre-teen, Ramirez knew that all that the EOD stood for was wrong, even if his community, his friends, and even his own family thought otherwise. So he always plan how he might leave some day, to escape that terrible prison of the mind that is the EOD When he was sixteen years old he finally had the idea that if he joined the EOD military, then some opportunity might present itself. After he did joined he decided that a better chance would present itself if he joined the EOD Special Force. Ramirez always thought that on the day that he got the chance to betray the EOD, all he has to do is to go up to some Project 21 agent and say something like, ‘Would you like to know what the EOD is doing? Well let me tell you.’ Then he mentions it and then say something like, ‘So if they are doing that... can you blame me for wanting to betray them?’ But Ramirez would later learn that things don’t always turn out exactly as you plan it.

  For Ramirez, the day that he waited for, for so long, came upon the planet Nilosyrtis Prime, named for the region on Mars where the colonists came from. Nilosyrtis Prime is close to the moon Vegas, but in a different star system. If it wasn’t for Nilosyrtis Prime, the moon Vegas probably never would have been terraformed and colonized, and therefore there wouldn’t have been the city of Roscadia. The colonists at Nilosyrtis Prime stayed neutral in the fight between Project 21 and the EOD. Both Project 21 and the EOD respected that neutrality and never did anything to undermine it. (Ramirez always enjoyed going there.) Nilosyrtis Prime is a quiet place with few cities that are not too close together. Being on Nilosyrtis Prime is like being on a planet with only one season: spring. The communities that are there, is like a small town with neighbors who are miles apart, instead of a few feet apart. It was like paradise, with one small problem: humans where not the first intelligent species to go there. That distinction went to the Lyumarians (Lou-mare-ians).

  The Lyumarians are a race of people who have been space traveling since the 13
th
century. When the human race encountered them, they discovered a civilization that is in a Static state of existence. So what does that mean, for a civilization to be in a “Static state of existence?” Somebody once said that all civilizations go through certain stages, which are: Birth - this is where the civilization struggle to survive, it is the make, or break part. It also is the part that will define its future, the way in which the civilization develops, the way in which it view the world, the way it views itself, etc.; Growth - this is the part where the civilization has the desire to expand its influence. But there are no guarantee of success, there are too many factors that dictate the success or failure at this stage; Zenith - there are three different types of civilizations at this stage which are; strong, moderate and weak. For the strong civilization (but not the other two) it is considered to be at the height of its Power of Influence. Power of Influence means how much influence a nation has (over other nations) in the following areas: political, military, science, culture and economics; In short, whether or not, it is an Empire. Transition - this is where the nation may still be at the height of its Power of Influence, but its social problems are starting to come to the surface. Those problems have a negative impact upon its Power of Influence. This stage can also be deceptive because on the one hand it appears like it is still in its Zenith stage, but on the other hand it appears like it is in the next stage, which is; Static - this is the stage in which the social problems are not solved. Instead they are slowly getting worse or ignored. Because of this the public is turning inward, placing something about themselves above the social good of the nation. It is also a stage in which the Power of Influence is slowly declining; Declining - this is the stage where the civilization is unable, or unwilling, to solve its problems. Since the people are turning inward more deeply than before, they are becoming too selfish, thinking more about themselves than they do of others. Because the problems are not solved and are worse than at any time before, and because too many people are becoming selfish, some groups of people would turn to religion for stability, and therefore, this becomes the stage where new religions are created, and/or, some religions would see a revival. And the Power of Influence starts to wane causing some nations to challenge it; Collapsing - this stage is where the civilization might turn to tyranny. This is also where the loyalties of the people are no longer with the civilization. It is a time where the social problems of the nation have turned too many of its people against it. It is a stage that the nation will endure any of the following: civil wars, a coup, insurrection, and the like. Its no longer a question of, but a question of when will the nation fall; And the final stage, Death - this is the stage in which the civilization is so far gone that it is beyond hope of ever saving. It is the stage that comes before any Dark Age if any. After the civilization is gone new nations will rise out of it and the whole process repeats itself. And therefore civilization is like a super-organism, going through each stages of life itself. The person, who came up with those eight stages of civilization, the term of Power of Influence, and calling a civilization a super-organism, was Vaistll herself. She came up with all of that sometime before the year 2010. As she puts it, ‘America was at its Zenith in the 1950s. It was at its Transitional stage in the ‘60s. At the Static stage in the ‘70s thru ‘80s, maybe as late as the ‘90s. And when I arrived, America was in its Declining stage. There were just too many things going on, on the social level, which proved it.’