The Cross of Mithras Vol. 1: EOD Operation Welcome to Hell by Douglas Howell Page B

actions to stop those leaks, it caused too many people to jump ship on him, and then betray him. What ultimately brought him down was the murder of one reporter and a police detective. That movie reminded Vaistll of the first decade of when she arrived on the Earth, so very long ago.
      The only reason why she got the movie is because of the Republican President who put both her, and especially Project 21, through hell when she arrived on the Earth. Before September 11 of that year, President Langston was amazed that she existed and that she was in US custody. After that horrific day, and knowing that there is a chance that the Apollinarians are up to no good, he wanted to send her to a secret place where they could conduct experiments upon her. Anything that was done to her, as he reasoned, would not be considered a human rights violation since she was not a human being. When Project 21 found out what his attentions where, they decided to take matters into their own hands. They knew what the consequences where if anything happened to her.
      Project 21 decided to hide her in Seattle by putting her on welfare. They then got her on SSI disability since she has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. They then put her in low income housing. They helped her to, not only get her Green Card, but also to become an American citizen. They scan the data on her to a disc, then encrypted it, put it in a small fire proof safe and gave it to her. They then created “Safe Houses” for her. Those Safe Houses where created to give the impression that they were hiding her in one, when they knew that was not true. When President Langston found out that Project 21 was hiding her in a Safe House that is when all hell broke loose.
      When Langston found out what Project 21 did, he was furious. He threatened to have them convicted of treason. He threaten to have them sent away to be tortured to find out what they know of her. But the people who knew where she was, and the ones who knew her, would not cave in to his threats. He told them that he could easily find her by using the FBI, CIA and NSA. Project 21 reminded him that the EOD has already infiltrated those agencies. So the EOD might become the one who end up with her, if those agencies found her. Looking at the evidence that Project 21 showed him that confirmed that those agencies has been infiltrated; he ordered the Director of those agencies, and the Attorney General, to bring the EOD to justice. Unfortunately he underestimated the EOD, and a lot of good people got killed. After that he basically learned his lesson, but the damage to those agencies was too great to be easily repaired. Project 21 was powerless throughout that time period because they were too busy defending themselves. From 2001 to the mid-term of 2006 he would not change his mind. And so the EOD became stronger, while the US Government became weaker.
      Vaistll during that time period was getting use to her life upon the Earth. She didn’t have much where she lived at, but it was far more than what she had back on her planet. To her, she lived like a queen. To everybody else, she was living below the poverty level. She was quite happy with what little things that she did have. But it bothered her that she couldn’t keep any pets. She was the type of a person that needed something to love. She would have been quite happy if she had more company, but she hardly ever got any. There was nobody where she’d lived at, that she wanted to socialize with. Project 21 agents hardly came over to visit her because they didn’t want to take any chances by having their movement tracked. In her spare time she would go down to the library and read and/or surf the web. She didn’t make enough money to buy a car, so she had to ride the bus. Of course she had a love-hate relationship with the bus. She hated it because she felt that if she had a car, then she could get to where she is going much faster. The part that she loved about it