My first assignment with the IREA. They send me to fill in with part of team five. This is really scary. I look around the best I can. No reason not too? Someone called Frankenstein tells me to get going. Damn! Do these people not understand I'm from the Cascades? Don't do bossy. Can't afford to make mistakes. Mistakes cost time and money. To many and folks go hungry during the Winter. Or worse get hurt and can't work during the summer! I do declare that I do not like bunkers frank-N-stein. I do like like bunkers at night. I do not like bunkers in broad daylight. I do not like bunkers in 2022. I do not like bunkers on youtube. Now inside. Like a concrete hall in the school. Except here I can get hurt? Move down the stairs I motion back. Move forward some more and everything goes quiet. Oh boy. Not good. I can't see beyond a few feet either. Backing out I report. No choice but to go in again. I'm told this is the Irea. This is the job. "Understood." This time I grab a big pipe on the wall and use it to guide me through the sensory dampening field to the other side. Where hearing the Irea agents are more than happy to use a drum of hazardous class flammable liquid to detonate the energy field.
The Agents are really helpful. They decide we should use some leftover flammable drums to ignite the corridor to shut down the energy fields. I go back to report to Frank N. Stein and boom!! Such a great bunch of guys these Irea boys are. Reminds me of that Johnson boy who made the pipe bomb last year and lit it tossed it into the creek. Wow. Nothing like exploding flammable solvents to solve a nasty energy field in 2072? Everyone is happy. The bunker is clear my ears hurt really badly. I can tell that my sensitive hyperactive hearing will have a downside. Loud noises close by!
Irea recalls us back to HQ. I'm told they are happy with me. They will sponsor some training for me. Prepare me for the world of 2072. No further field work right away. They tell me I will be working with another super called Axiom. Who can burrow into the ground. He will be my direct supervisor on my operations. My training begins. When Irea is satisfied with my progress I get to meet Axiom. He is bossy. We get right to work. Onto a aircraft heading out to Denver. Where there have been some high energy spikes coming from a high rise tower. Along the way I am equipped with a energy sensor and a new com earpeice. Some other gear goes into my Pikachu backpack. Feeling very much like part of a team. But this baby bird needs to get out of the nest and fly on her own too.