Suddenly I See, This is what I wanna be

A Letter Sent to the U.S.E. Government, Washington DC. Headquarters of World Affairs

To Whom It May Concern: 

RE: Op. 

Aug. 19th, 2702

It’s been around for quite some time, but you wouldn’t know about it. It’s everywhere…but nobody really wants to know about it here. Well, all the UFO enthusiasts know about it, but they don’t have the slightest clue what it’s all about. We let them make up things about it because they take attention away from us.

People used to call us the ‘Men in Black’ on earth. There was even a movie made about it. But to be politically correct, the formal title is ‘Person in Black’. Somebody made a big fuss about that a while ago. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to spot us, even if you think you’re a know-it-all. We hardly wear black anymore. Our uniform is casual, because we’ve learned that standing out doesn’t mean blending in. Our entire goal-besides saving the universe from imploding and keeping the peace-is to blend in and make sure everything seems AOK at all times. Sorry, but even if you wanted to help, you wouldn’t be of help to us.

You’re not universally trained to know any better yet.

Unfortunately, under a code set a few decades back by the F.G.A-Federation of Galactic Affairs, thank you very much-it was affirmed that we have to include at least four representatives per foreign race. That meant that we had to include Earth finally.

We’re not too fond of you humans. You don’t believe a word we say, yet if you do, then you’re obviously insane. You’re one of those alien enthusiasts that we try to stay away from.

We’ve only actually had 12 representatives from Earth since that code was enforced. The first set of four acted like they were on this show they called Star Trek at all times. They said it had been popular a few centuries back on earth.

They retired keeping your planet nice and safe. Not that they had to actually do anything…Jeez, all they had to do was snoop around in their Quarter and get into other human’s business. The next set basically did the same, only they were a bit more focused on their tasks. They retired having worked 50 years with us under their belts

The next set…well, that’s the one we’re having trouble with. Two of them were sniffing around in the ruins of Arabia one day about a month back. They had been given the mission to uncover some documents the Ancient Dutch-just an update; since global tilt had taken its first effects, the Dutch Quarter of Ancient Europe had been swallowed up by the dessert. The Middle East pretty much took over after that. But well, that was at least 1300 years ago when global warming and global tilt were both in full swing-had left behind when they had been ransacked by the Turkish militia. Well, it so happens the Dutch weren’t as ‘civilized’ as we all thought. Oh no, they had bombs and traps placed everywhere in their ruins.

We now understand this is probably why the Turks left most of the Dutch ruins alone. Anyway, the two representatives we had faced an untimely death. Really, it was a shame because if they had continued to work for us for just a few more years, they would have been given a company pen for their 5th anniversary. Those things are nice!

What a shame though…they had only been 25 or so when they had been blown to pieces 500 feet underneath the earth’s surface. Thankfully, they had taken their oath when they had started. The oath states that under no circumstances will you be known to anyone but the F.G.A. This includes family, friends and others until your retire. Of course, there have been some exceptions. If you have a pet you would just claw out our eyes to make us let you have it with you for the rest of your years working with us, then you may certainly bring it along. It depends though. If it’s a cat, no way, Jose’. Cats are their own race! They have a planet! Of course, these cats are far more advanced than the ones on Earth, but the one time we did allow a cat, they got pretty offended.

You’re lucky we managed to send the cat back, or else Earth would have been under attack by a bunch of hairball-chucking felines.

But since we have lost 2 of the necessary four representatives from Earth, it seems like it has been taken into my duty to recruit 2 more. We will need one male and one female. I will need them by Earth Date: September Sixth, Two Thousand Seven Hundred oh Two. We do not bother you unless it is a dire circumstance, as one has come up in this Corridor of the Solar Calendar.

In Regards,

Commander ‘lililillli’ Rick Stein

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The United States of the Earth had had letters like this before. A millennium ago, many letters like this had been forwarded to them. That was before they had discovered the quality of joining forces with every other nation to make a larger, more superior nation than anything they had ever known. In theory, it was a great idea because wasn’t combined power so nobody could fight against each other a kind of peace?

Well, they still fought, but this time it was like half the world bombarding a tiny part of a continent or whatever.

The government had placed these letters from the F.G.A. in a specific vault. This vault contained at least seventy thousand letters from all over the world, including the ones before the Great Revolution and after. The earliest dated back to July, 1947 with something about the F.G.A apologizing about something called the Roswell Incident. Well, the actual date had been burned after a fire in the 1970’s due to something called Watergate, but thanks to Carbon Dating, the government had been able to figure out almost the exact date.

They read this letter with the same concern as the last one they had received the week before, requesting the same thing-no concerns. To them, they knew that the F.G.A existed, but they did not want to associate themselves with UFO’s. Yes, even the government gets scared of being judged.

They sent this letter to the vault built exactly for F.G.A matters-the F.G.A had threatened to off the entire human race if they didn’t at least build a vault way back in 1947-and thought nothing of it after that. They had handled things like this before, they thought. These letters would eventually go away.

Or so they thought. That letter had been received August 19th in a manila envelope with a wax stamp in replace of the regular old tack thing. The stamp was always the dead giveaway that the letter wasn’t from around.

Next thing they knew, another letter came on Thursday, August the 25th. It said the same thing, but this time it was put more bluntly, with only the slightest hint of force. This letter too was put in the vault. Another letter came on Wednesday, the 31st. It was more forceful and oriented towards what would happen if the U.S.E did not send 2 more representatives into the F.G.A’s headquarters immediately. It was along the lines of everything on earth being annihilated.

The U.S.E took note of this letter quite seriously. But still they did nothing about it. You see, they would have loved to send some people out to the F.G.A but the problem was, they had never done it before. They had always believed that the F.G.A would take care of such things.

As unfortunate as it was, the U.S.E had still not made any Astrological Flights since 2154. Their last flight had ended catastrophically, wiping out an entire hybrid island in the Atlantic. Fortunately, the island had been uninhabited with anything at the moment. They hadn’t tried anything after that. As yes, airplanes could now go up to higher altitudes to get to a destination faster, but they forbid themselves to try another human trip up into space.

So as you can see, the U.S.E could not possibly send anything into space, much less anything human. Quite frankly, they were worried now. The Prime Minister and the Director of Human Affairs called a meeting to discuss this letter.

They came up with the solution to just pick two random people up off the street, but after they had them, what would happen then? Would the F.G.A beam them up or something? They had no clue what would happen, because they didn’t even know how to contact the F.G.A. These letters were just mailed anonymously to U.S.E. intelligence all over the world and then forwarded to the vault.

Well, at least they would have two people-a man and a woman-by September Sixth. They traveled to New York City to seize these people. They had been chosen by their records. Their records were only slightly blemished; not bad enough to go to jail, but not good enough to land themselves a high position in the government any time soon.

One worked for the NYPD as an undercover agent. The U.S.E thought they would be good because they could sneak around. They had played Mr. And Mrs. Smith quite a bit in their days. However, they were only 23. The U.S.E. figured this was around the age the F.G.A wanted.

The other one was an intelligence officer coming from the South of the Polar Ice Cap. They were only in New York on the fateful day they were kidnapped by the U.S.E. because they had been at an intelligence meeting. They were pretty ticked off that they were suddenly seized in their nice hotel room for apparently no reason.

Both were just taken from their beds in the middle of the night. They were shaken awake, given 5 minutes to pack, no questions asked. There also happened to be a lot of guns in the process.

This is their story.