text: [Themes: modern, action]
  
  It's Wednesday, your only day off work all week, so you're currently sitting in front of the TV and chilling out. It's 2:00 when your phone buzzes. Picking it up, you immediately recognize the alert based on its red background and special font. This is a mission alert.
  
  You work as what can best be described as a secret agent for a special group of 23 people like you in your city. Each one of you has a code name consisting of the letter "A" then a number from 01 to 23 based on when you joined; your code name is A14. Usually your job isn't that exciting, just reviewing previous missions, but you always have to be prepared for a new mission. And that just happened to come now, when you're supposed to be relaxing. Sighing, you read the alert.
  
  Calling All Agents!
  
  One of us has informed me of a bomb placed in the park in the middle of the city, scheduled to blow up at 2:32pm today. The bomb is an extremely powerful one, not like any we have ever seen. If it explodes, the blast is expected to severely affect the city. It has been estimated that any human within 35 kilometres doesn't stand a chance of survival, although that is a rough number.
  
  We all need to get to the site of this potential threat immediately.
  
  Signed, A01.
  
  A01, being the starting member, is naturally the boss of all 23 of you. And you're expected to all get to the site of this bomb. It seems like a suicide mission. It also seems very suspicious. Who would casually put such a powerful weapon in the middle of the city?
  
  Anyway, if A01 is telling the truth, you could only have 32 minutes of your life left if you don't get out of the city. You know that some of the other agents are probably driving out of the city right now. So, what do you do?
  
  [Author's Note: You work as a secret agent in a large city home to millions of people. On a normal Wednesday afternoon, which is normally your day off, you receive a mission alert saying that a bomb is set to blow up in 32 minutes, destroying the whole city. Do you try to deactivate it, like you've been told to do? Or do you drive straight out of the city? The choice is yours.]
  
  > go to the site of the bomb
  Even though it would be safer to get as far away from the bomb as possible, you decide to do what you have been told to do, and drive straight into the middle of the city. The park doesn't have a name, but everyone refers to it as "the park in the middle of the city". Which makes sense, since it's a park, and it's in the middle of the city.
  
  When you arrive, only A05 is there. No one else out of 21 agents has shown up yet. Not even A01; the boss didn't even follow his own instructions.
  
  "Thank God you're here, A14," A05 says, "I thought I was going to be the only one here!"
  
  "What have you found so far, A05?" you ask, leaving the issue of the 19 missing agents aside.
  
  "I found the bomb," she says, "or at least I think I have. This can't be anything else, right?"
  
  "No," you say, looking at the object she is pointing at, "you wouldn't think so." You're immediately scared now that you know the bomb is real, but you keep your cool and start to investigate it. You don't touch it though; that might blow it up. All you can see on the outside of it is a keypad with a screen above it saying "Enter Code Here".
  
  "Yeah, I don't know what that means either. Maybe it's in case they want to blow it up early? Or, y'know, it could stop it from blowing up altogether?" A05 says when she sees you looking at the keypad with interest.
  
  You have so many questions, but you can tell that A05 won't have the answers. And why would she. Still, you ask one of the questions that is bugging you the most.
  
  "Who is they, though?" you ask. "Who put this here? And why are they waiting until 2:32? Is it for a reason?"
  
  You realize that you have actually asked four questions. Surprisingly, A05 gives you a useful answer.
  
  "Oh, I think they're in that building over there," she says, pointing to one of the many tall skyscrapers along the side of the road. "I saw some men in blue uniforms coming out of there talking in code words. Or, at least I think it was code words. It didn't make any sense whatsoever. Also, they definitely weren't from the company that I know works in that building."
  
  "Wow," is all you can say. "Just wow." You're still trying to fit together the pieces of this weird puzzle, but you know that time is ticking. But does time really matter? Is there really a chance that you can stop this obviously carefully placed bomb from destroying the entire city? Before you know it, A05 is talking again.
  
  "I don't know. Should we go in there, or should we wait to see if any other agents arrive first? I doubt they will, to be honest. But we can see," she says. How are her words so calm and thought out? It has to be an act, surely. She can't actually be that calm in this situation.
  
  > go Inside
  Feeling scared but curious, you lead A05 into the building that she suspects is where the bombers are. Inside, it is definitely not what you expected. The ground floor houses several of the men in blue uniforms just standing there and talking. Some of them aren't even talking; just standing there and occasionally glancing at their watch.
  
  "They definitely don't work here," A05 whispers to you, "they must have somehow got rid of everyone that usually does. No clue how. Should we go up?"
  
  So far, you haven't been noticed, but you haven't found anything helpful yet, either. Are you brave enough to go up?
  
  > go Up
  "Let's go up," you whisper. "There's nothing here, and we haven't got much time."
  
  The two of you tiptoe up the stairs as fast as you can, not wanting to be heard. On the next level up, you see a very crowded group of normal-looking men in an office, being closely watched by some of the blue guys. You assume that they're all the people that normally work here, all stuffed into this one floor of the building. Shaking your head, you continue up the stairs. You're lucky that you weren't noticed. Level 2 is a completely empty office, except for a couple of blue guys on guard.
  
  "The blue guys are here, too!" you quickly whisper back to A05, getting out of their field of vision. "I'll give the signal, then we'll have to run straight past this level, okay?"
  
  A05 nods. It's a nervous wait as you wait for the men to turn around, as they're currently looking right at where you're going to walk. Finally, an alert appears on one of the computer screens and you give the signal to A05 that it's time. The two of you run to the stairs to Level 3 as fast as you can, not even knowing if the "guards" on Level 2 heard you or not.
  
  "Let's hope they don't have guards on every level," you whisper once you're safely out of sight. Indeed they don't, as Level 3 is a completely empty office, with all of the computers displaying the alert you saw on Level 2. It's written in very small writing; you would have to walk up to one to find out what it says.
  
  "An empty floor," A05 whispers to you. "Should we look around to see if we can find anything here, or keep going up?"
  
  > look Around
  "Let's just see if we can find anything here, since there isn't anyone here," you whisper. You keep whispering, just in case you're being heard. But there could be a security camera watching you anyway, which means its pointless to try and hide.
  
  "Good idea, A14," A05 whispers back. If she's going to keep whispering, you are too. "Let's split up to save time. I'll read this alert message, and you can look around the rest of the level."
  
  You nod, and start to walk around the empty office. It feels weird, since at this time there should be people sitting at all of these empty desks. Except today there isn't. You haven't found anything interesting when, suddenly, a group of blue guys appears at the stairs, blocking your way out. You're trapped here. You were right about the security camera.
  
  The blue guys say nothing, but A05 shows her first signs of panic. Quickly, she tells you that the alert was about how the two of you had been seen entering the building, and a reminder that the code to cancel the bomb is... she doesn't get to finish, as one of the men in blue puts a hand over her mouth. You pull A05, who is struggling to free herself, out of the man's hands. You don't want to lose your companion.
  
  Suddenly, you see an opening in the group of men. It would be risky to try and get out that way, but it seems to be your only option besides jumping out the window.
  
  > go Through the Opening
  "Let's go!" you yell, grabbing A05's hand and sprinting through the gap in between the blue guys. At first they must be shocked, as they don't start following you straight away. But you know they're going to. Letting go of A05's hand, you sprint down the three sets of stairs to the ground floor like your life depends on it. Which it does.
  
  A05 is a faster runner than you, so she reaches the bomb first. She starts to enter the code. She's three digits into it when the men in blue reach her and start carrying her away.
  
  "3, 2, 9!" she yells back at you as she is carried across the park. It must be the last three digits of the code. Some of the blue guys look around at where her voice is aimed to see you, standing in place like a target. They start running towards you...
  
  > enter the Three Digits
  Hurriedly, you enter the last three digits into the keypad as the blue guys are getting closer and closer to you. 3, 2, what was the last one again? Oh yes, 9. You've done it!
  
  You know you've deactivated the bomb as that is currently what the screen above the keypad is telling you. Unfortunately, you're now being dragged across the park just like A05. You see her a fair way ahead of you and she mouths "Did you do it?". You mouth back "yes", and she gives you a thumbs up. You don't dare to communicate with each other until you reach your destination.
  
  Your destination turns out to be a yellow car. You are placed in the back seat next to A05, handcuffed, and the car starts to move. Feeling completely powerless as you are driven around the city, you try to make yourself feel better by reminding yourself that if it wasn't for you, there could not even be a city.
  
  The drive doesn't last that long; it's only about two minutes before the car stops outside a grand, old-looking building that you've never been inside. The blue guys get out of the car, open your door, take off your handcuffs and move around to A05's side of the car.
  
  You gasp as you look outside. You're free. You could just run away from here, right now, without following these men who have just made a huge mistake.
  
  > run Away
  Now is your only chance. If you want to stay alive, you should make a run for it. So that's exactly what you do. You sprint as fast as you can through the city streets. The blue guys spot you and start running towards you, so A05 starts to run away too (in the opposite direction, of course). Not knowing what to do, the blue guys stop running for a while to talk to each other before deciding to split up. Good. That gave you a good lead.
  
  You turn left, then left again, trying to get into A05's street if that's possible. You cross the city streets directly in front of cars several times to try to get the men to wait. They do wait, but they continue to chase you. You've been doing a lot of running in the last few minutes, so you're getting really, really tired. The blue guys, in contrast, aren't even breaking a sweat. You really need to find a place to hide.
  
  Eventually you find a hiding spot behind a bin. You make sure the blue guys can't see you, then get into the hiding spot. You hold your breath as the men run straight past the bin that you are sitting behind. Phew! Peeking outside your hiding spot, you spot A05 running down the street in the opposite direction that you were. You manage a quick wave to get her to hide with you. Collectively, the two of you hold your breath as a second group of men runs past your hiding spot.
  
  After waiting in silence for a few minutes, A05 stands up. "So, A14. We did it," she says. "We deactivated the bomb. Hooray." You're both scared and tired, so you can't fully appreciate the millions of lives you have just saved.
  
  "What should we do?" A05 starts up again after a while. "Should we tell the police about this? Or should we keep it secret like we're supposed to? Not like any other agents did anything to help."
  
  > tell the Police
  You decide to call the police and tell them about your recent mission. You describe everything that happened in great detail, with the aim of getting the men in blue uniforms into trouble with the law. Starting with you receiving the mission alert, you describe all the events that happened up until now. You do refrain from giving the police much information about your agent group, as you're hoping to keep your promise if that's still possible.
  
  It isn't possible though, because as expected, the police ask you about the source of this "mission alert" and "woman you work with". Sighing, you tell them all about your secret job.
  
  The phone call ends after a while. A05 looks at you and says, "we're going to get into trouble for telling." But then she laughs and adds, "those men are going to get into even more trouble for trying to bomb the city."
  
  "We're definitely going to lose our jobs," you say. "But we're going to be regarded as heroes that saved the city and win squillions of dollars, so we won't even need to find a new job."
  
  A05 laughs. "Yeah, probably. Let's get up." So the two of you get out of your hiding place behind the bin and start to walk back to your cars that got you here in the first place. What a day!
  
  You got the good ending.