text: [Themes: modern]
  
  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?
  
  > drive out of the city
  Well if this bomb is real, you should use some common sense and get as far away from it as possible! Not feeling even a drop of guilt, you decide to head to the highway straight away. It's not that far from your house; you should get there pretty soon.
  
  Who programmed these traffic lights? You somehow manage to get every single red light on your way to the highway. Every single one. Finally, you get on the highway and feel relieved to start driving away. You're also worried though; what if you don't make it out of the blast radius in time?
  
  Driving along, you get passed by a car going extremely fast, well over the speed limit. You recognize it as belonging to A18. No surprises there. There's going to be more and more cars on this road as people find out about the bomb, which makes you think you should just take the next exit. That way, you can drive as fast as you want without having to worry about other cars or getting pulled over for speeding. But you've never taken the next exit before in your life; you have no idea where it goes. It could go back towards the city centre, which is exactly what you don't want. In contrast, you've driven down the main highway several times; you know it takes you straight out of the blast radius. Maybe it would be the better option.
  
  > Main Highway
  You continue to drive down the highway, aiming to get out as fast as you can. That brings a thought to your mind. Should you really keep driving at the same speed as everyone else? If you go at maximum speed, you'll escape the blast radius faster, but you could also get caught and probably lose your license.
  
  > Speed Limit
  Not wanting to risk getting pulled over and losing your way of escape for good, you drive at the speed limit. It really annoys you doing so, as every part of your body is screaming "Go faster! I don't want to die!". You allow yourself to go a little bit over as no one will care about that. There is some good news though. As long as there's no traffic jams and the blast radius is actually 35 kilometres, you'll be able to make it out in time.
  
  You reach the city limits, but you're not in the clear yet. Passing you right now is another car belonging to an agent. You've been passed by a few of those. But no, you're not going to speed up. Imagine speeding up. Even when you're still within the blast radius of a bomb that could explode in minutes. You look back at a sign on the other side of the road that tells you how far you are from the city centre which all but confirms that.
  
  You keep looking at those signs, intended for cars going the other way. Those cars going the other way have no idea they're basically committing suicide. Right now, you're 20 miles from the city centre. That's 32 kilometres. It's 2:22. I'm going to make it, you tell yourself. I'm going to make it! The next sign says 23 miles and you feel extremely relieved. You're not feeling the same way for the millions of people that could be dying in minutes.
  
  Eventually, it reaches 2:31 and you can only hope for everyone in the city that the bomb isn't real. Not long left now. 3, 2, 1...
  
  > BOOM!
  A giant wall of debris is behind you. Well, everyone in the city is dead now. So much for that. You see the wall slowing down as it comes closer and closer to you. You're going to be okay. One window of your car breaks, but that's all the damage it does. You survived. Unfortunately you lost your house, family, and everyone in your city is dead.
  
  You don't know where to go now, so you just stop at the next town with the aim of reporting the bomb. But you can tell by the looks on everyone's faces that they all already know. You see A09 sitting down next to her car, crying, so you sit next to her. The two of you don't say a word to each other, yet still seem to have a conversation. If you did what A01 told you to do, could you have saved all those lives?
  
  Maybe.
  
  You got the meh ending.