The Love Paradox

        The year is 3000, and the earth has been all but destroyed by lust, greed and hate. How could things have gotten this bad? How could we get this dark and evil? Simple, we as a species have forgotten what love is and the importance it plays in our lives. My name is Fredric Oden Xeneth Xavier but most call me Foxx.I’m an Agent for the Paradox Evasion, Neutralization, or Investigation Services or P.E.N.I.S. for short.         At P.E.N.I.S. we are tasked with spotting potential Paradoxes and first investigating them, then creating a way to evade or neutralize them which really makes me wonder if someone just wanted our acronym to spell out the word p***s. Never mind that lets just get back to the story at hand.         My day starts just like any other one and that is I wake up in my small twenty square foot housing unit in complex 49735 of sector 26 in the United Empire of America. Now this isn’t just an alternate USA no this is what it became when love was lost. The empire is one of five and spans what used to be north & south americas. The other four empires are as follows; Kutana (former Asian, Japan & Australia), Afaria (former Affrica), Arcadia (former Russia), and Eur (former Europe).         Now back to my morning. You see the government dictates our rations so we get three meal packs a day and to be honest they taste nasty and aren’t very filling. So after a pathetic breakfast I fire up my computer and start scanning the recent events radar for any chances of a paradox. This was my job, and if I found anything I was to report it to my boss, Senator Jones. So that’s my boring life or it was until today for it would be today that I would find something that would lead to the best future I could ever ask for.         You see about lunch time as I was getting ready to sign off for my lunch when two words popped on my computer screen. Those words were none other then Love Paradox. This made me freeze as my hand rested on the computer mouse debating on clicking on it or not. You see I’m just supposed to report strange articles not read them. In fact reading anything not released by the empire’s board of knowledge is against the law and there is nothing showing any signs of who published the article.         Then with a sigh I closed my eyes and clicked on the link not half heartedly hoping it wouldn’t be traced or that it would be a link from the government. Yet when I opened my eyes I saw no author or organization logo. As for the article: The Love Paradox!         All through out our history we’ve seen and heard of all kind horror and pain, greed and hate. We’ve also heard of the little spark of light that the government doesn’t want us to know about. The hope of love and peace.         There is a theory that if some key events in our human history could be prevented then the world as we know it would be completely different and more peaceful.This theory is known as The Love Paradox. There is a small group of us wishing to risk our lives for this hope of peace, but we seek a willing agent to go back in time to try and alter the past.         If you’re reading this then there is a high chance that you’re the agent were looking for. Fear not only the firs agent that clicks on the link can read it after that the file is removed from the internet onto your personal device and will be forever erased the moment you close it out. All future communications will be done through a secure line fear not there is no trace of you even reading this and if this was ever reported by one of your fellow agents it would have been deleted immediately.         Thank you for your time and we look forward to speaking with you. For love and peace we are the phoenix fires and we seek to spark the fires of love to bring peace to all.         When I had finished reading the short article I wasn’t really sure what to think or if I should even say anything seeing as I could be imprisoned just for admitting I had read it. Not to mention part of me wondered what they had to offer and if it really could change things. Yet part of me knew there were agents who kept real close watch on the timelines for any possible paradox events.         Thus who ever these people were they would need more then a time machine and someone with the knowledge of the time stream. They would need someone who also could be willing to kill children or babies as well as kill off complete bloodlines. They would need an expert in ancestry.         Just then it clicked. I’m not just a p***s Agent but also a weaponologist and ancetryologist. Meaning I both know how to kill without leaving any trace but also how to kill only one person to prevent the births of all possible threats to the mission. Could these Pheonix Fires really trying to randomly select a agent or was I purposefully targeted, and what do they really know about me.          I guess the least I can do is continue to investigate and try to turn it over to my bosses and maybe just maybe I’d get a promotion of some kind. Then again maybe its just one huge joke or prank.