"A" Disclosure

In the year 2054, many federal agencies in North America released footage captured by Earthlings, showing aliens flying in their spaceships within the planet's atmosphere. These alien visitors conducted surveillance on various humanoid beings, observing how they survived under dire conditions and examining their daily lives, including their average lifespans.

For thousands of centuries, aliens have roamed the blue planet, which they refer to as such. However, when humanoids evolved and developed intelligence, they named the blue planet Earth, where they reside. A recent science graduate named Johnny has always been fascinated by the exploration of aliens who visited or walked on Earth in ancient times.

Johnny applied to the Investigation Department, a division that oversees all files related to aliens recorded throughout history. As an Agent Specialist, Johnny was assigned to a secret facility where the old records of alien encounters and unresolved incidents from ancient times were stored. His mission was to review these records for updates.

This Investigation Department operates under two high-ranking officials: a senator and a congressman, both of whom remain anonymous and are known only by secret codes to the personnel within the department. No one outside this division is aware of its existence. Johnny's agency, called the Federal Investigation Planet (FIP), often collaborates with the States and Local Investigation Departments. Occasionally, Johnny is assigned to work with an FIP agent to solve cases deemed too mysterious or technologically advanced for regular agents to handle.

On his first day of work, Johnny reported to his office, located in a remote area of Virginia. The security at the facility was state-of-the-art, and his office was situated underground. Upon his arrival, the female security guard at the front desk asked for his identification and assignment papers.

Johnny presented his paperwork, and the female security guard inquired, "So, is this your very first assignment here?"

"Yes," Johnny replied. "This is my first time. I just got hired, and today is my first day on assignment."

After reviewing his paperwork, the female security guard stamped it and returned it to him and said, "Everything seems to be in order. You need to take the elevator down to sub-level fifty-four. Someone will be there to greet you and guide you to your destination. Do you understand?"

Johnny nodded, took his paperwork, placed it in his bag, and asked, "Where is the elevator?"

The female security guard pointed to her right and explained, "Take a right from here, go down the hall, and at the end of the hall, you'll find the elevator on your left. Press the button for fifty-four, and it will take you down to that level. Any questions?"

Johnny shook his head, understanding the instructions clearly. Johnny looked at the female security guard and said, "No, I'm good for now. Thanks."

The female security guard responded quickly, "Oh, one more thing: next time, please don’t provide additional information that hasn’t been asked for. Got it?"

Johnny nodded in understanding and walked toward the elevator. As he entered the elevator and pressed the button for sub-level floor fifty-four, the voice of the elevator prompted, "Please identify yourself by first name only and specify which floor you are going to."

Johnny replied, "I'm Johnny, and I'm going to sub-level floor fifty-four."

As the elevator doors began to close, they fully shut, and the elevator descended rapidly but smoothly until it reached sub-level floor fifty-four. The elevator then slowed to a stop, and the doors opened slowly. The elevator voice announced, "It's your floor. Have a nice day."

Johnny stepped out and, as the doors began to close again, a female department service representative called out his name. He turned to her and said, "Yes, that's me."

The female department service representative approached Johnny and said, "I'm the caretaker for this floor. Your office is this way. Follow me, and I will brief you on everything you need to know and on the tasks to review today or by the end of your workday in the next eight hours. Feel free to ask any questions."

Johnny inquired about the working environment, and the representative informed him that all details would be covered in the briefing in his office. She then showed him to his office and left him to begin working and reviewing the orientation materials for the workplace facility. After Johnny settled in his private office, he turned on his office computer monitoring screen. The screen prompted him to enter his first name, and after he did, the computer monitoring screen asked him to choose a password only he knows for his account.

Johnny got his orientation review of his work responsibilities after he fully set up his password to his work computer account. Johnny sat in his office watching the orientation of his workplace for several hours, and at the end. Two voices were talking to him on his computer, identified as his two bosses. Three parties identified themselves with their secret passcode, and then Johnny started to review all the old, unknown files that had been lost or sealed due to the contents being related to any sign of the Aliens.

The two mysterious bosses of Johnny told him that whenever he needs their assistants to get out of any jams, don't hesitate to call them, and he will be taken very good care of when he is working out in the field. After working in his office for most of the day, Johnny is reviewing the record of the local village in Asia, where some tourists have recorded an Alien Spaceship hovering across the small, remote village out in the countryside, and a few of the local children have been missing and have not been found or recovered ever since.

Johnny is now touching his core nerves of his interest in Aliens encountered, abduction, or any contacts. He sat in his office reviewing many records that related to the Aliens, then, certainly, the female department service representative knocked on his office door and asked permission to come into his office. Johnny quickly got up, walked to the door, opened it, and asked, "Yes, I am here. What can I assist you with? Representative?"

The female department service representative of his floor, smiling, looked at him and said, "I have this urgent assignment that I must give to you. There is an air transportation waiting on the ground floor to take you to the airport. Everything is in this folder, and you must read it to understand your urgent assignment. Get your things, and come with me. I will escort you to your air transportation. Let's go, hurry..."

Johnny quickly went back into his office, got his things, and went with the female department service representative of his floor. While walking along with his female department service representative, he asked, "Where am I going? Why is it so urgent? I just got here."

The female department service representative smiled and said, "I know, your job is to do all the assigned assignments to you, and handle them on a priority basis. You are the only one here, and the assignment picked your name, and here you are. You got this, oh... When you come back, you just call in ahead; either me or someone in my team will come greet you and escort you into your office. I am assuming it is easier this way for the first few days at this facility, or you will get lost and not know where your office is. Right? Sound good?"

Johnny looked at the female department service representative, smiled, and said, "Well, that's fine with me. Thanks to you and your team."

Johnny and the female department service representative went up to the roof, and the helicopter was waiting for him. When Johnny walked up to the helicopter with the female department service representative, the person who walked out of the helicopter said to Johnny, "I see, you must be Johnny. Right?"

Johnny looked at the person from the helicopter and said, "Yes, I am Johnny. You needed me?"

The person from the helicopter smiled and said to the female department service representative, "Thank you, Representative, for escorting Johnny to us. I will take over from here. Thanks again!"

The female department service representative smiled, tapped on Johnny's shoulder a few times, and walked back to the elevator. The helicopter person took Johnny into the helicopter and flew off toward the airport. In the helicopter, Johnny asked, "What's going on? Why do you or your department request me?"

The person from the helicopter smiled and said to Johnny, "Review your assignment folder, and you will know. I will fill in the rest and answer your questions. First, you read your assignment. Yes? Hihi..."

A moment later, after Johnny read his assignment in his yellow folder, he turned to look at the helicopter pilot sitting across from him and asked, "I thought this matter wasn’t supposed to come up until later, and yet here we are. Are we going to Asia? Who are you?"

The pilot smiled at Johnny and replied, "I can’t tell you who I am, but I can tell you this: you will be traveling with a few members from NASA as part of a team. We will fly you to Asia in a military airplane. Your mission is outlined in your yellow folder, which you’ve already read. Do you understand your assignment?"

Johnny nodded and said, "Yes, I read about it during my orientation. I understand the task. Will I be seeing you often in the future, Mr. Question?"

The person from the helicopter burst out laughing upon hearing Johnny call him Mr. Question, and as they landed at the military airport, he escorted Johnny to the military airplane, a McDonnell Douglas YC-15, which was waiting for them.

Before returning to his helicopter, the person from the helicopter wished Johnny good luck. When Johnny boarded the YC-15, he met two NASA personnel who briefly updated him on what they knew at that moment. They indicated that he would receive more detailed information once they arrived in Asia.

As the airplane took off rapidly, Johnny felt a bit dizzy. A female NASA member named Mary offered him a pill to help with his motion sickness. Johnny smiled and thanked her. Afterward, both NASA members introduced themselves, and he did the same.

Tom, the male NASA member, handed Johnny a soda, which he gratefully accepted, as it helped alleviate his discomfort. Johnny smiled and said to Tom, "Thanks! Your soda really helps ease my discomfort. I don’t feel great being so high up."

Both NASA team members, Tom and Mary, smiled, and Tom asked, "So, Johnny, if you don’t mind me asking, why were you chosen for this assignment? Doesn’t your department have anyone else? I'm just curious, that’s all. Hihi..."

Johnny looked at Tom, grinning, and replied, "Not at all! I’m curious myself. I realized it might be that our department’s AI picked me for this task; that’s the best explanation I can come up with. Hihi..."

Mary interjected, "Come on, guys, who cares? Right now, we need to focus on what we’ll be dealing with when we arrive at the site and what protocols we need to enforce there in Asia."

Johnny appeared confused and asked Mary, "What do you mean by 'the downside'? Are we going to a crash site?"

Tom responded, "You know, the downside of the craft. We’re going to investigate the underbelly of the craft. Didn’t you read your assignment, Johnny?"

Glancing at both Mary and Tom, Johnny gently replied, "My assignment didn’t mention anything about the 'downside'; it only said I would get updates while en route. And here I am with you two; that’s all I know."

Mary looked at Johnny and said, "Wow! Your department really knows how to keep secrets. I get it now. Hihi..."

Just as Mary was about to brief Johnny on the full details of their assignment, Tom interrupted and took over the briefing. He provided Johnny with all the information about the alien crash site in Asia. A remote village in the region had witnessed an aircraft burning at night, landing by the mountain, and there was a body that resembled a humanoid but was unlike anything human. This body did not belong to any nation on Earth.

Johnny looked at Tom and asked, "So, you're telling me there was an alien spacecraft that crashed somewhere on the Asian continent, in a remote village? I guess someone discovered the crash site and found the alien's body, and now the local authorities are controlling the site and the body, right?"

Both Mary and Tom smiled at Johnny. Tom replied, "Yes, you're exactly correct. We're on our way to the local site to check for anything else that might still be there, like the alien spacecraft that could be camouflaged. You know, alien transportation? Right?"

Johnny glanced at Tom and Mary, and then Mary added, "Don't worry, we're bringing a full security team from our side, and the local authorities will assist us. You just need to handle your tasks—we'll take care of everything else, okay?"

Johnny looked at Mary and asked, "So, you and Tom are in charge of this mission, right? I just tag along, do what I need to do, and report back to my department. Is that correct?"

Johnny looked at both Tom and Mary. Tom gently said, "That sounds like a solid plan to me. You and I will just follow our team lead, Mary. She is in charge of the site we're heading to. All right, Johnny? Hihi..."

Johnny smiled and nodded. After refueling in mid-air, they arrived in Laos and took a helicopter directly to the remote village near the alien crash site. By the time they reached the village, it was dark, illuminated only by the full moon. Johnny stepped out of the helicopter feeling slightly queasy, and Tom offered him a soda to help settle his stomach before they began their work at the crash site.

The local authorities were waiting for Johnny and the NASA team when they arrived. The authorities quickly escorted them to the inner remote site, located near the mountain where the alien crash had occurred. They guided Johnny and the rest of the team to the location where the alien's body had been discovered. Mary and Tom immediately set up their equipment to scan the area for anything unusual.

As Johnny walked around the area where the alien body was found, he looked for any signs or indications of where the alien had emerged from and the direction it came from. While Tom and Mary worked with their instruments, Johnny used his flashlight to search the ground and around the area for anything they might have missed.

Johnny focused on the ground, hoping to track any alien footsteps that might indicate the alien's direction. He spotted a small white object partly covered by dry leaves; the light from his flashlight reflected off it. Curious, Johnny moved closer to investigate the white object on the ground.

Johnny walked slowly toward a shiny object on the ground. As he got closer, he began removing dry leaves and discovered a silver ring, half-sunk in the mud. The upper half of the ring gleamed brightly, reflecting light at him when he shone his flashlight on it.

Johnny picked up the silver ring. One half was covered in mud, while the other half shone brilliantly. Suddenly, he heard footsteps approaching. He continued to clear away the dry leaves on the ground. When the footsteps reached him, he turned and saw Tom standing nearby. Johnny smiled and said, "Yes, I found something! Come see what I uncovered."

Tom moved closer and sat next to Johnny, peering at the flashlight's beam illuminating the ground. He noticed tiny footprints in the soft, wet mud. Tom exclaimed, "Oh my... These are the tiny footprints of the alien we found, and they’re headed in that direction!"

Johnny, Tom, and Mary stood beside the alien footprints, studying them. Mary approached from behind and listened as Tom updated her about the alien footprints, indicating the direction from which they believed the alien had come.

Tom then asked, "So, Leader Mary, what’s our next move? Are we done here? If not, we should follow the direction the alien walked to see if their spacecraft is still nearby, right?"

Mary looked back at the local authority, then turned to Tom and Johnny, saying, "Before we proceed, what about the local authorities? If they join us and we discover an alien spacecraft, they will notify their higher command, and that could disturb the alien neighborhood. What do you think?"

Johnny and Tom exchanged glances. Tom replied, "I think we should just follow our leader. What do you say, Johnny?"

Johnny looked at both Tom and Mary before saying, "All right, let’s move forward. We’ll inform the local authorities of our plan. After all, if we find the alien spacecraft, they will need to know since it’s their homeland."

Tom and Mary nodded in agreement. Tom quickly returned and gathered a few local authorities to join them as they ventured further into the tall bushes near the mountain.

As they tracked the small footprints through the foliage, they came across a massive bush that had been flattened into the shape of a sphere.

Getting closer, they felt an invisible barrier resembling something compressing the bushes. As they traced the outline of the invisible object, it became evident that they were looking at a spherical spaceship.

Tom exclaimed, "I can’t believe it! This is some kind of invisible spacecraft that’s been here all along, completely concealed. This technology is astonishing!"

Inspired by the discovery, Johnny picked up some dirt and threw it at the invisible spacecraft. Tom followed suit, tossing dirt onto the area where the sphere was located. The dirt landed on the surface of the invisible craft, revealing its outline in the freshly disturbed soil. Immediately, Mary called in for emergency pickup, and in the next four hours. The secret military team with big helicopters is flying in toward Johnny, and others are stationed to pick up the alien spacecraft, then transported back into the States in Area-54.

The Area-54 secret team did it very fast, extracted the alien spacecraft, picked up the alien's body, and transferred it back to the secret base Area-54 in the States. When Johnny and two NASA team members, Tom and Mary, arrived at Area-54, they were denied access to enter the next level, high-security, and all three had turned around to fly back to their home base office.

Two secret private airplanes are taking the NASA team and separating Johnny from the FIP back to his home base office in Virginia. The three say goodbye and agree to check back someday in the future for the coffee drinks. When Johnny gets back to his office in Virginia, his Investigation Department leader, Tanya, greets him at the airport and takes him into the city for the debriefing at the undisclosed location.

After Johnny completed his debriefing meeting, his team Leader, Tanya, took him to have a late dinner in the city, and she booked him a night at a hotel in the city before he went back to his office the next day. At dinner that night, Team Leader Tanya had a very nice, long talk with Johnny about his role in the Investigation Department, and made sure he would get whatever he needed for his working tasks out in the field.

The two, Team Leader Tanya and Johnny, had a very long talk about their working protocol, and Leader Tanya was very strict about keeping the topic only protocol-related and never telling more or less about each other. Johnny sensed that the conversation between the two, Leader Tanya and him, only went to a certain point on a non-classified subject, and kept it brief at present.

After dinner, Leader Tanya dropped off Johnny at his hotel and instructed him on what to do next when he got back to his office the next day. Johnny went up to his hotel room, and when he walked into his room. There was a yellow envelope on the table with his name on it. Johnny approached the table, looking at the yellow envelope with his name on it, and slowly touching and examining it to make sure nothing was abnormal.

When Johnny finally opened the yellow envelope, inside there was a letter and a map showing a restaurant out in a small city about fifty miles away from the hotel, and it was a little detour from the hotel to his working office. In the letter, it said, "Come to the restaurant and have an early breakfast with me before you go to work. We have something in common that needs to be talked about, and I can provide you with insight into your work environment. Come early for breakfast, so you won't miss your working hours. I hope to see you soon."

That night in the hotel, Johnny's mind was all about the next morning's breakfast and when he finished taking his shower. He came out to his bedroom and remembered the silver ring he picked up from the area where the alien's body was found. He took out the silver ring, looked at it for a moment, did not see anything unusual, but the ring's style was a little curious to him, and when Johnny held the ring closer to his finger.

The silver ring's appearance slowly adjusted to match the shape of his finger, which made Johnny feel like his eyes were playing tricks on him about the silver ring's appearance changing sizes. Johnny, holding the silver ring, looked at it and took a deep breath, then said softly, "Oh... My eyes must be very tired of all this outfield work, the longest day in my life. My eyes are playing tricks on me, right? Aren't you? My eyes...? Hihi..."

Certainly, the silver shining bright made Johnny's eyes go blind for a few seconds, and when his eyes were back to normal. Johnny sees that the silver ring has some kind of rainbow-colored energy spinning around it. Johnny looks at the silver ring and says to himself softly, "All right, something is very strange about this ring. Are you trying to make me go cuckoo? Are you? Alien ring?"

While Johnny is looking at the silver ring with rainbow color spinning around it, he is slowly moving the silver ring toward his fingers, and the silver ring starts to change the sizes of the silver ring to fit the finger closest to the silver ring. After Johnny did a few examinations and tested the silver ring, it moved closer to his fingers. Johnny saw the silver ring actually changing the size of the ring to fit his closest finger.

Johnny finally decided to do the full test, and he was holding the silver ring in his right hand. He moved the silver ring closer to his left hand, middle finger, and the silver ring started to change in size to fit Johnny's middle finger of his left hand. Johnny looked at the silver ring and saw that it had completely changed in size to match exactly the middle finger of his left hand.

Johnny said to the silver ring, "All right, I saw what you can do with the sizes of my finger, and now let's see if your Alien ring is going to fit my middle finger on my left hand. All right, here for touchdown..."

Johnny slowly pushed the silver ring into his left hand's middle finger, and it fit perfectly. When the silver ring fit exactly on his middle finger of his left hand, Johnny immediately saw himself inside his private dimension space; he was standing in the middle of the galaxy by himself, and he saw many planets around him. The galaxy seemed small to him where he was standing; he was walking around looking at the planets and saying to himself, "Oh my, this is so amazing, like I am walking in a small galaxy fantasy world, the amusement park in Las Vegas. Hihi... Hahaha..."

After Johnny walked around the galaxy, checking all the planets, there was a small alien figure walking toward him. Johnny was standing, looking at the small alien figure walking toward him. When the small alien figure walked closer to him, looking at him, and said, "Hello, Ring's Master. I am here at your service if you have any questions or commands. Do please tell me, and I will make it happen or resolve it for you."

Johnny was standing still, looking at the small alien figure. He slowly approached the small alien figure, walking around looking at it, and standing in front, then said gently, "You are an alien; how are you here with me? Are you part of the ring that I just put on my finger? Right?"

The small alien figure looked at Johnny and said, "I am your ring's servant, and I am here to assist you with anything you need. You are the ring's master, and I am your servant. May I ask, did I communicate to you properly for you to understand? I have scanned your physical body and your entity, and this language is the most compatible for communicating with you. Please do tell me if you do not fully understand; then I will research more on your physical body's entity for more suitable communication. Yes?"

Johnny looks at the small alien figure, smiling, and says, "No, I am fine with having this understandable conversation with you. So, you tell me that you are thee... Servant of this ring on my finger, and you also said that I am your Master. This is new, so can you tell me who is your Master before me?"

The small alien figure looks at Johnny and says, "You are the first Master and the first owner."

Johnny looked at the small alien figure and asked, "So, do you have a name? A name you go by so I can call you or address you when I speak with you? I guess you already know my name, since you did probe my memory and my physical form. Am I right?"

The small alien figure looked at Johnny and said, "No, I don't have a name like you do, and this is how I appear to you. In another sense, I am just an entity of this ring to you, per your suitable understanding of this ring."

Johnny, smiling, walked up close to the small alien figure, and looking very closely at it, then said softly, "I see, so let me double-check on you. You are an Alien's entity in the ring, and not a lifeform. It's just an entity in the ring of an object, so therefore I translate your situation to my equal understanding is that you are thee... Right, you are the Alien Artificial Entity. Uhm...."

Johnny, looking very closely at the small alien figure for under a minute, then said, "All right, since you are looking like a little girl from outer space, and you are. Did you know that, and you are an exact match of what I understand is the Alien Artificial Entity, then I will call you AAE. All right then, let's settle this, and you are AAE. Hihi..."

After Johnny gets to know his silver ring entity, it's midnight already when he comes out from his ring's private dimension, and he is sitting on his bed still in his bathrobe. Then he said, "Oh... Boy.... I have been sitting here since I got out of taking a bath, and now it's midnight already? Really? Wow... I guess this type of conversation with my ring's AAE must have a schedule, then, or keep it short. Hihi..."

Johnny smiled and went to bed early in preparation for a breakfast meeting the next morning. He woke up early to check out of his hotel and then drove to the restaurant for his appointment. When he arrived at the restaurant in the small town, it was a little crowded. As he looked around, a waitress approached him.

"Is your name Johnny?" she asked.

"Yes, I am Johnny. How do you know my name?" he replied.

The waitress smiled and said, "Oh, someone from your party came earlier and reserved a table for you. Please follow me, and I'll show you to your table."

Johnny followed the waitress to his reserved spot. He sat down with his back to another table, where a man sat with his back to Johnny. The waitress asked Johnny what he wanted for breakfast, and he placed his order. Then he asked her, "Excuse me, Miss... I guess you didn’t recognize my friends who were here before me. Do you know how many of them there are, or whether they are young or old? Am I close with my descriptions?"

The waitress smiled and replied, "No, sir. I only accepted the reservation for one table, specifically for you. I'll be right back with your drinks, and your food will be out soon. Thank you."

As the waitress walked away, Johnny glanced around. Suddenly, a man's voice from the adjacent table, where he was sitting back-to-back, told him not to speak too loudly.

"Please don't make a scene," the man said. "We are being watched. Let's get straight to the point: you just returned from the alien crash in Asia. There's no need for you to confirm or deny it. Just enjoy your breakfast while you listen to me. I’ll give you a few minutes at the end for questions, so choose wisely."

Johnny smiled and replied, "All right, sounds good to me."

The waitress returned with a coffee and a glass of water, placing them on the table. She informed him that his breakfast would be ready shortly. Johnny nodded in acknowledgment, and the waitress smiled as she walked away to attend to other customers.

The man at the next table continued, "You’re doing well by listening and following directions. I assure you, I'm not here to harm you. I'm here because you've stumbled onto matters that are out of this world. You will encounter more people like me, but they will have different motives. Some may try to interfere with your work, and they will be watching your every move. They are invisible; you cannot see or hear them, but they are closely monitoring you.

So, go about your work and fulfill your duties, but be cautious. Double-check your actions before making any moves. That's all I wanted to tell you."

Johnny glanced at the silver ring on his left hand's middle finger just as the waitress arrived with his breakfast. She set the meal he had ordered on the table and asked him if he wanted anything else.

Johnny smiled at the waitress and replied softly, "Oh, no. I think I'm good for now. Thanks."

As he began to eat, a man at the adjacent table—his back turned to Johnny—started talking. He told Johnny about a secret group that worked with aliens and had been watching him since he returned from Asia to Area 54. This special group, he explained, was trying to silence anyone who thought of exposing the existence of aliens on Earth.

The man continued, sharing that there were other alien groups enforcing a protocol that prevented any entities outside of Earth from interfering with its inhabitants. Johnny listened intently while eating his breakfast.

Almost done with his meal, the man at the next table said, "All right, I can sense you're almost finished. Now it's your turn to ask me questions. You have three questions. Go ahead, fire away."

Surprised by the man's insight, Johnny smiled and asked, "All right, who are you? Really, who do you work for?"

The man smiled back and replied, "I work for a group of bosses who know your bosses very well. Let's put it that way, all right?"

Still eating his breakfast, Johnny said, "That’s interesting to know. Have you seen anything outside our planet, like aliens that weren't born here?"

The man started to chuckle, prompting Johnny's curiosity. He was struggling to contain his laughter. After a moment, the man said gently, "Oh, you have no idea... My answer to your question is all of the above. Hihi... Now, what’s your next and last question? Finish your breakfast."

Johnny looked down at his plate and noticed only a few bites left. He smiled and asked, "Very interesting... Um... What do you mean by 'all of the above'? What is 'all of the above'?"

The man next to him asked softly, "Is this your last question? Your third question?"

Johnny replied, "No, this is a follow-up to my second question: what do you mean by 'all of the above'?"

Everything fell quiet as Johnny finished the last piece of food on his plate. Suddenly, a loud crash came from the kitchen as plates dropped to the floor, causing everyone in the restaurant to turn and look toward the kitchen. After a moment, Johnny glanced back at the kitchen with the other customers, then looked at his now-empty plate. He realized that the man sitting next to him was unusually quiet.

When Johnny turned around to look at the man, he found that the man had vanished. All that remained on the table was a twenty-dollar bill, and the waitress approached to clean up. Johnny stood up, glanced around the restaurant and outside, but only saw new customers entering.

He turned to the waitress who was cleaning the table beside his and asked, "Excuse me, miss, did you see who was sitting at this table? Did he leave?"

The waitress smiled gently and replied, "Yes, he left money on the table and signaled for me to come clear it. He walked out the door as I started to clean. Is there something wrong, sir?"

Johnny looked out the window again, searching for the man but only noticing new patrons coming in. He then placed his forty dollars on the table and hurried outside to look for the man, despite having no clear idea of what he looked like. After standing outside in the busy surroundings with nothing out of the ordinary in sight, Johnny walked to his car and noticed a note on it. He climbed inside and opened the note.

It read: "We will meet again. I am still owed one last question. Take care and watch your back, my fellow."

Johnny studied the note one last time, then tucked it into his glove compartment before driving to work.

When he arrived at the office, he found a female department service representative waiting for him at the entrance alongside a security guard. A wave of anxiety washed over him as he recalled the peculiar breakfast he had that morning. When he approached her, the representative said, "Today, you and I are going to a special briefing, and this security guard will escort us to a level we normally don’t have access to. Let’s go; we should get there early."

The security guard led Johnny and the representative to a special elevator that took them to the underground levels, which were simply marked "Conference Floor."

Once the elevator reached the Conference Floor, the guard gestured, "This is your floor. When you're done, just press the button, and I’ll come to take you back to the ground floor. All right?"

Both Johnny and the female representative exited the elevator and were greeted by another woman who led them to a large conference room. Since they had arrived early, the representative suggested they grab some coffee.

After getting their drinks, they settled into some empty seats. Johnny took a few sips of his coffee, looked around, and asked the representative, "Why were we requested to be here? Is this meeting important for us?"

The representative smiled and responded, "I believe so; there must be some matters related to us, which is why we are here. Let's wait and see. Just relax and pay attention, okay?"

Johnny smiled back, sipping his coffee. Shortly after, the double doors on the right side of the room opened, and a large group of people entered, gathering around a huge round table in their assigned seats. Johnny listened in as they began discussing a recent sighting of a mysterious missing resident and strange crafts that had appeared in a lake, witnessed by several locals. The group at the table decided to send someone from the Investigation Department to look into the matter and report back in detail.

After the group convened at the conference table, they decided to send someone from the Investigation Department. They called on the female service representative from Johnny's team and instructed her to send a team member to investigate immediately. Johnny sat observing his female service representative as she responded to the group.

Once the group received confirmation from her, they quickly left the meeting room. Johnny remained at the table, holding his coffee cup, while the female service representative smiled at him and said, "All right, finish your coffee, and we'll head back to our office. You need to review your new task before heading out to the field again. You’re the lead on this investigation, and everything you need will be in your investigation brief. Yes?"

Johnny smiled, finished his coffee quickly, and followed his female service representative back to their office. Once they arrived, she instructed him to join her in the field mission office for a full debriefing before he began the investigation.

During the briefing, Johnny asked, "You’ve explained everything I need to do for the investigation and the targets involved, but you didn’t mention the destination of the lake. How will I know which lake I need to go to? If you don’t mind me asking, Representative?"

She looked at him, smiling gently, and replied, "Oh, right. That's a separate detail. You will receive your travel guide for the destination, which is the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. You’ll find out where it is when you open the yellow envelope, but please don’t open it until you’re ready to leave—it's a secret. You’ll also need to make your own reservations for any rest areas you plan to use. All expenses will be charged to your company credit card, and the office will take care of it. Any more questions?"

Johnny smiled back at her while gathering his documents for the task. He said, "Well, Representative, I guess I need to get going. I have to say, this job is keeping me really busy. Hihi..."

She reminded him to take care and be safe out in the field. Johnny smiled, collected all his belongings, and walked out of the briefing room to return to his office. After he gathered his things, he was heading to the elevator when the female service representative was waiting for him. She handed him an envelope and told him not to open it until he reached his destination. Inside the envelope, he found a note and a key. She instructed him to complete his report at the end of his investigation assignment.

Johnny smiled at his female department service representative when he walked to his car, still thinking about the envelope with the key and a note. He got in his car, shaking his head, and drove off. In the meantime, in the area around the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, there are some strange activities at night. When the locals go out, some described seeing strange blue light balls flying around the treetops very fast and slow, and the local news only mentions that the star lights and the moon lights are so beautiful that they make the locals see strange things.

When Johnny arrived at the area of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, he had dinner at the local restaurant and saw the local news talking briefly about the residents reporting the strange blue lights moving through the treetops. Johnny took notes, and the area where the residents reported seeing the blue lights was by the treetops. After Johnny finished his dinner, he checked into the hotel. Johnny took out his equipment and started driving around the area of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to look out for anything strange.

The first night, Johnny drove around the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, he did not see anything out of ordinary, but he saw few local have their activities around the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and the next day he visits the local authority to checking out the story about on the local news about the blue lights hovered or flew by the treetops nearby the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

The local authority told Johnny everything they had received from the residents, and one of the deputies told Johnny to go to the library to check the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore's history of news; he may get more old news about anything similar or strange things that happened near the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Johnny thanked the local authority and headed straight to the local library. When he went inside the local library, he checked the news regarding the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the past with the help of the librarian. He found a few very old news articles that the local paper reported something came out from the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the middle of the night or in the shining moonlight.

Johnny sat at the quiet corner table, reading the old news of anything related to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and he certainly heard the footsteps walking very gently and slowly toward his quiet corner table. Johnny smiled when the footsteps stopped nearby, and the shadow of a pretty figure showed in front of his view at his table.

Johnny saw the pretty figure on his table and smiled, then said softly, "I have this table first. If you want to sit here, then don't. My work here is not for the public to see, and that's why I picked this isolated table in the corner. Please understand, and I owe you one. Thanks."

The pretty nice figure shadow standing behind Johnny said to him, "I need your help regarding Area-54. Do I have your attention, and will you help me? I cannot take no for an answer, so what's going to happen? Mr. FIP."

Johnny was sitting very still, looking at his old library newspaper, slowly taking deep breaths, and said very softly, "Miss, my response to your questions is no, but I assume you won't take no, and you called me what I do not know. So, it's for our both shakes well, you just turn around, and walk away. I will forget what just happened here, all right? Deal?"

The pretty figure was slowly moving to Johnny's table, walking from behind him to the front, and sat down at his table right in front of him. Johnny's eyes were looking down at the old library newspaper, and he saw a beautiful, nice, dressed person sitting right in front of him.

Johnny smiled; his eyes were still focused on the old library newspaper, and he took a deep breath, then said gently, "If you go now, I will forget everything here, and if you are still here when I look up. You will be in very serious trouble. I hope you understand what I just said, and I give you fifteen seconds to make your decision starting right now."

After fifteen seconds, thirty seconds passed, and the nice dress figure was still sitting right in front of Johnny. Johnny smiled, shaking his head, and said, "You really asked for trouble, don't you?"

The pretty voice of a lady said, "I already gave you my questions with attached conditions. I hope you understand what I asked you. Mr. FIP."

Johnny smiled, slowly raising his head to look straight forward, and when Johnny's eyes slowly rose, he saw a very pretty lady in very nice clothing sitting right in front of him and looking at him eye to eye. Johnny was stunned to see a very beautiful lady in a very nice dress sitting right in front of him. Johnny's eyes were focused directly into the beautiful lady's eyes, and he did not say a word for the next over thirty seconds.

The beautiful lady looked at Johnny, smiling at him, looking into his eyes for a few seconds, and said softly, "Have you finished looking at me like your angel? Or do you need more time to look at me just like that?"

Johnny looked straight into the beautiful lady's eyes and said gently, "I don't know what you are talking about. I do know you are sitting at this table, and this table is reserved for me only, as I told you earlier. There are many other empty tables in this library, and I did ask you to leave this area very politely. Shall we keep everything easy and simple? Please? Pretty lady?"

The beautiful lady looked at Johnny with her cute smile and said very softly, "Yes, I heard you the first time, and yet. I am sitting here waiting for you to answer my questions earlier. I hope you give me your wise answer. I am waiting for your answer."

Johnny slowly used his hand to cover the local newspaper that he was looking at, and said to the beautiful lady, "I am so sorry, I forgot your question, and I don't want to know. Now, my one question to you is if you don't leave now. You will be in very big trouble, and I hope you answer your question wisely. Yes?"

The beautiful lady, looking at Johnny, smiling at him, said gently, "All right, I see. You did your counter-offer questions from mine, and now. Let's go straight to the point."

Johnny is sitting very still with his hands covering the local newspapers that he is reading on the table, his eyes are looking at the beautiful lady, and the beautiful lady's eyes are looking straight at Johnny, and she takes a few deep breaths. She said to Johnny in her slowly calm, very soft voice, "I need your help to find my father. He is a specialist in gravity, and he has been missing for the last two to three weeks. I know you work in the Federal Investigation Planet, am I right? Mr. FIP?"

Johnny looks at the beautiful lady in his stunning face; he takes a deep breath and says slowly in his calming soft voice, "I grant you that, for an advantage you knew me, but I don't know you. If your father has been missing for over two weeks, why don't you report to the authorities to do a manhunt for your father? The special scientist and your father's workplace should be on alert for your father's current situation as a missing person. Right?"

The beautiful lady smiles, looking at Johnny, and says gently, "My father did work in Area-54 regarding the alien technology of gravity. He is now missing, and don't you think that specialist of his is over a thousand percent related to his work related to gravity on alien technology? You tell me, and aren't you Mr. FIP?"

Johnny looks at the beautiful lady, and says, "Will you stop calling me Mr. FIP? Stop it... Don't call me that."

The beautiful lady looks at Johnny and smiles at him, then says softly, "All right, I won't call you that name again, but you must go with me to a restaurant and find something good to eat. I am hungry, and I need you. Well, shall we go? Will you go with me? Oh... What is your name? What should I call you if I don't call you the name I called you earlier? Uhm...?"

Johnny looks at the beautiful lady right in front of him, in the way she looks at him like an awesome young girl's eyes, a princess with her beautiful face, then Johnny said, "All right, I am hungry too, and I will go with you to have something to eat to fill our hungry stomachs. Before I tell you my name, I want to know your name first, so I can be sure who I am seeing and talking to. You do have some advantage over me."

The beautiful lady smiled, nodded her head, and said to Johnny, "All right, that’s fair enough. You can call me Serena. I am the daughter of a very special scientist who has worked in Area-54. You can look at my ID."

She took out her ID and showed it to Johnny. After carefully examining her ID, Johnny said, "All right, you have proved to me who you are with that name. Thank you, Serena. You can call me Johnny. Just Johnny—no more, no less. Right?"

Both Johnny and Serena looked at each other for over fifteen seconds, smiling face-to-face. Then Johnny told Serena he needed to return the local library newspaper to where it belonged, and they both left the library together. Once outside, Serena suggested that Johnny take her car, and she would drive him to a nearby restaurant for a good meal. Johnny agreed after looking at her for a few seconds.

After they both got into Serena’s car and drove to the restaurant, she started a conversation to get to know Johnny better. However, he kept the discussion limited to current topics and did not share any details regarding his concerns about Serena’s father's disappearance as a scientist.

When they arrived at the restaurant, the waiter escorted them to a table, and they both took a seat. The waiter handed them the menus and said he would return shortly to take their orders.

Johnny sat across from Serena, studying the menu. Serena smiled and asked, "Well, did you find anything good to eat on this menu?"

Johnny replied, "I’m still considering the items. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them."

Serena smiled again and said, "All right, I personally like the salad that comes with the main course. I’ll choose item thirteen from the left side of the menu; I think it’s a great choice, and it includes a salad, which I really like."

The waiter then approached and asked if they needed more time. Serena smiled and ordered first, to which the waiter replied, "Excellent choice."

After taking Serena's order, the waiter turned to Johnny and asked, "What about you, sir? Do you know what you want?"

Johnny glanced at the menu for a few seconds, looked up at Serena, and saw her smiling at him. He then turned back to the waiter and said, "I’ll have the same as the lady ordered, and could you also bring me an iced glass of water, please? Thank you."

The waiter smiled, took the menus, and said to Johnny, "Oh, that's an excellent choice, sir. Hihi..."

After the waiter walked away, Johnny smiled at Serena, who was also smiling back at him. They gazed at each other for a few moments while Johnny fiddled with his glass of water and soda. Then Serena said, "You know, if you don't mind me saying this, drinking a lot of sweet soda could cause health issues, and that’s what health magazines report based on their analyses, I think."

Johnny looked at Serena but didn’t respond. The waiter then brought out salads for both of them and placed them on the table. Serena looked at the waiter and requested more cheese on her salad, and he turned to ask Johnny. Johnny replied, "I’m good with cheese, no thanks. By the way, could you bring out more breadsticks for me? I love breadsticks, thanks!"

While the waiter went to get more breadsticks, Johnny noticed that Serena was eating her salad but seemed worried about something. After the waiter returned with the breadsticks, Johnny asked, "Would you like some more breadsticks?"

Serena smiled at the breadsticks and then at Johnny, gently replying, "No, I'm good with breadsticks. You go ahead; I’m fine for now. Hihi..."

Noticing the worry on Serena’s face, Johnny said, "If you’re worried about your father, just remember he’s an adult with plenty of experience in the world. I'm sure he’ll take extra precautions to avoid any unwanted troubles, if you know what I mean. Right?"

Serena smiled and responded, "How did you know I was worried? I guess you have a knack for being perceptive. Hihi... Yes, my face probably reveals what I'm feeling, doesn’t it, Mr. Johnny?"

At the hearing, "Mr. Johnny" picked up his glass of water to drink, but suddenly choked. Quickly, Serena handed him her napkin, and he raised his hand to use it to clean his mouth after choking.

Serena asked, "What happened? Did you drink too quickly?"

Johnny sat back, relaxed, and took a deep breath before softly saying, "Oh, it’s nothing... I just choked on the water. When you called me 'Mr. Johnny, for the first time, I wasn’t expecting it, and I choked. Just calling me 'Johnny' is perfect, alright?"

Serena smiled as the waiters brought out the main course. Once both Johnny and Serena had their meals, Johnny asked, "I’m going to do some research tonight on your father's whereabouts. Where will I see you tomorrow? Where are you staying in this area?"

While Johnny was sipping his glass of water, Serena replied, "Oh, don’t worry about that for tomorrow. I will pick you up in the lobby of your hotel; I’m staying at the same hotel as you. Hihi..."

Johnny took a big gulp of water, but this time he accidentally spat half of it back into his glass. Serena quickly handed him her napkin and asked for more napkins for him. Johnny used multiple napkins to cover the water he had just spat out and raised his hand to the adjacent table to apologize for the mishap.

The waiter rushed over with more napkins, and Johnny waved his hand to signal that he was alright. Serena realized why Johnny had choked on the water, and she couldn't help but smile, trying hard to suppress her laughter.

Finally gaining control, Johnny said to Serena, "If we’re done here, could you please take me back to pick up my car? Thanks."

Serena smiled and nodded. However, when she tried to pay the bill, Johnny quickly grabbed it and paid it in full with his cash. Afterward, Serena drove Johnny back to the local library to retrieve his car. Once they arrived, Serena smiled and said, "Alright, Johnny. I’ll take you back to the hotel. Hihi..."

Without hesitation, Serena sped out of the local library parking lot, leaving Johnny standing still, watching her drive away. He shook his head in disbelief, saying to himself, "I can't believe it—going out on an assignment, having a date with a pretty lady at the same time, and my first date is with a race car driver. Oh... What have I gotten myself into here in this city? Haha..."

Johnny got into his car, exited the library parking lot, and started driving down the street. He noticed a luxury car following him closely as he left the library. Suspicious, he decided to drive around the local streets for a while, treating it like a sightseeing tour. The luxury car continued to follow him at a distance.

After driving for about thirty minutes, Johnny noticed that the luxury car that had been following him was no longer behind him. Instead, a smaller car had taken its place and was now tailing him. Johnny shook his head and muttered to himself, "Oh well, this isn't good. I have a tailgating car, and is this related to my breakfast the other day? Uhm... things are getting very tense and interesting."

When Johnny arrived back at his hotel, he parked at the valet and stepped out, watching the car that had been following him drive past. The parking valet approached to take Johnny's car key, and Johnny asked, "Oh, excuse me. Did you see a pretty lady driving her car back here yet? She is my friend."

The parking valet smiled and replied, "Oh, that pretty lady? Yes, she already got back, and she's inside the hotel."

Johnny smiled, handed his car key to the valet, and walked into the hotel. Inside, he noticed a few couples sitting at the bar, drinking and watching him as he made his way toward the elevator. When he closed the elevator doors, he could see the couple still glancing at him from the bar.

Upon reaching his floor, Johnny walked to his room, scanning the area to make sure everything was clear. After entering his room and placing his belongings on the table, the phone rang. He glanced at the ringing phone and thought, "Oh, is this good or bad? No one knows I'm here except for work and that… girl. Uhm..."

The phone continued to ring, and Johnny slowly approached it. He picked up the receiver but remained silent, listening for about twenty seconds. Then, a woman's voice spoke, "Hello... I know you're there, and you just picked up the phone. Could you say something so I know you’re there?"

Johnny held the phone to his ear, shaking his head left and right for a few seconds. Then he started to laugh slowly, his voice gradually getting louder. After taking a few deep breaths, he replied in a low voice, "I’m tired. I’ll talk to you tomorrow and give you an update. Have a wonderful night and sleep well. Don’t let the bedbugs bite you. Hihi... Night... Night..."

To Be Continued………