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?
  
  > ignore the message completely
  Meh, that message was a load of crap and you're prepared to just ignore it completely. There is no bomb, there is no mission; it was probably just sent to get you to go to work. Which you aren't going to do. So you just sit in front of the television for another 13 minutes until a breaking news update interrupts the show.
  
  "We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news," the news reader says, the fear in his voice evident. "One of our viewers has informed us 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- oh wait, it says don't read that bit. Anyway, just letting you know that you could be about to die, I suppose then, I don't know... bye."
  
  Well that's a reason to be scared. Maybe you should have trusted your mission alert. Or, one of the agents that received it contacted the TV channel, which is more than likely since the news reader's speech was almost identical to the mission alert. But maybe...
  
  > 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.
  
  Meh, that message was a load of crap and you're prepared to just ignore it completely. There is no bomb, there is no mission; it was probably just sent to get you to go to work. Which you aren't going to do. So you just sit in front of the television for another 13 minutes until a breaking news update interrupts the show.
  
  "We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news," the news reader says, the fear in his voice evident. "One of our viewers has informed us 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- oh wait, it says don't read that bit. Anyway, just letting you know that you could be about to die, I suppose then, I don't know... bye."
  
  Well that's a reason to be scared. Maybe you should have trusted your mission alert. Or, one of the agents that received it contacted the TV channel, which is more than likely since the news reader's speech was almost identical to the mission alert. But maybe...
  
  > 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.
  
  Meh, that message was a load of crap and you're prepared to just ignore it completely. There is no bomb, there is no mission; it was probably just sent to get you to go to work. Which you aren't going to do. So you just sit in front of the television for another 13 minutes until a breaking news update interrupts the show.
  
  "We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news," the news reader says, the fear in his voice evident. "One of our viewers has informed us 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- oh wait, it says don't read that bit. Anyway, just letting you know that you could be about to die, I suppose then, I don't know... bye."
  
  Well that's a reason to be scared. Maybe you should have trusted your mission alert. Or, one of the agents that received it contacted the TV channel, which is more than likely since the news reader's speech was almost identical to the mission alert. But maybe...
  
  > continue to watch TV
  Not worrying about your potential death, you continue to watch TV, as you were actually quite enjoying the show. Time passes by at a fast rate, and before you know it, it's 2:31.
  
  30 seconds left now... let's see if A01 was being serious about the bomb. You doubt it, and prepare to watch the time click over to 2:32 and laugh. Only a few seconds to go. 3, 2, 1...
  
  (You died.)