Narrator Point of View
Agent Draeger began to explain to Daniel, "Ancestor, you have arrived nine hundred years into the future near the last city you were last seen before you went missing. You returned to have a family and after your children were old enough to pass on the family last name. During your time back home, you educated your offspring of many things, thereby inheriting your will. Secrets and mission. The day came when you said you needed to continue your mission and left instructions. You left behind a message that has been passed on for generations. The message was, "let my future lineage know that there will be a time in the future that I will arrive. I will not know anything regarding their time. Therefore I will need their assistance. I cannot reveal when, but I will appear lost and out of place. Their mission is to relay this message to me and say, you returned and did not disappoint mother. But before you can return you need to meet with General Sylvie and accept the watch."
Daniel's face was blank, he fixed his glasses to get a better look at Special Agent Draeger. He was serious. Then he looked around the room and noticed Special Agent Burke was not moving. She was still as if she was one of those wax models. He looked at Special Agent Draeger's hand and saw a silver and gold watch with the lion head logo that had a crown over it. Daniel asked, "is that the watch?" Special Agent Draeger looked at his watch and smiled, then he said, "No, this one is mine. I will take you to meet General Sylvie once I get the charges off you. You need to take control over the situation and ask Agent Burke what you are charged with. Then ask her for the proof that you are the right person. If there is no evidence against you provided, then you are free to walk. I will have to suggest we still give you a chip, but don't worry, it will be dud. It won't track your movements, it will actually track a cat instead."
Then Agent Draeger got out of his chair and placed it back in its place. He stepped back and stood against the wall again. Then he taped his watch and time began to continue going. Agent Burke then resumed as if nothing had happened. She continued to say, "can you tell me something more plausible to your predicament?" Then Daniel asked, "what are my charges? And do you have evidence that I did it?" Agent Burke scowled and said, "Destruction of government property and we do have evidence that it was destroyed." Daniel responded, "but do you have evidence that it was me?" Agent Burke replied, "you were found at the scene of the crime." Daniel paused to think and then said, "If that was the only device that was destroyed, then it would make sense, but I'm assuming that it wasn't and I happened to be at the right place at the wrong time. I saw a fast shadow figure traveling which sliced it in two. Did you find any weapons on me that could have caused that? Also, what are those pods made of that were destroyed so easily by that thing?" Agent Burke remained silent for a moment and then said, "can you prove that you were somewhere else prior?" Daniel was thinking, then he said with red cheeks, "I came across a couple at a camp and overheard the man telling his partner he had purchased the package to keep them safe. I didn't want to alarm them and scare them, so I hid behind a tree and left as soon as they engaged in other activities." Agent Burke stared at him for a few more seconds and then she took out a pen. She pulled the cap off and it began to project a screen. She used the back of the pen as a mouse to click on the screen. First she clicked on accounts and sales. Then she clicked on sales for packages, then she saw a list of cameras. She selected a map to show only the cameras on that list. Afterwards she entered the coordinates of the camera that was destroyed where Daniel was found. Then she clicked on the nearest camera to it and changed the time to when the destroyed camera happened. She heard lewd noises and understood the activities Daniel was referring to as her cheeks turned red. Then she turned off the volume. She straightened her posture and clicked on playback. The camera was playing and she saw a figure behind a tree on the far end peaking out and hiding again. She slowed down the video and played it again. When she zoomed in, she saw something that resembled the silhouette to what Daniel was wearing. She removed the filter of cameras and clicked on another pod from a different direction where she can see the back of Daniel more clearly. She checked the time and then she highlighted the path of the destroyed devices which were in the opposite direction. Agent Burke let out a breath of air and looked up at Daniel to say, 'Since there's no evidence linking you to the crime, then you are free to go." Then as in on queue, Donald said, "we still find it odd that you are chipless and there is no background history on you. We need you to submit to our rules." Agent Burke nodded in agreement and offered to take him to the chipping clinic, but Donald insisted he can do it while she completes her report. She smiled and allowed it to happen.
As she saw them leave the interrogation room, she returned to her screen and selected the artificial intelligence function and typed, "pull up all footage on highlighted individual". She selected Daniel and all the cameras popped where he was recorded. Then she selected the on the drop down option to organize by time and date. The footage only showed him approximately five minutes before he was recorded by the campsite. Then Lana clicked on the very first footage where he suddenly appears falling from three feet in the air. She slowed it down and she saw how his body suddenly emerged from somewhere invisible. She moved the pen between her fingers back and forth as she tapped her feet. Then she began to write her report on the table without paper. Her writing would appear on the screen as typed. She wrote that the man that was found on the crime scene was not the suspect as there was existing evidence he was a few minutes in the opposite direction of the path that the real perpetrator was being tracked from. She left out how he didn't have a chip and left it black for now. She messaged Donald that she needed the barcode number to submit into her report before she sent it. Donald then sent her the file from the clinic that showed what barcode was assigned to him. She smiled and filled out the information and sent her report.
Burke was about to put away her devices when she looked at the chair next to her. It was placed back, but it was at a slight angle. She wondered if she bumped it unknowingly or if her memory wasn't working. Then she remembered she can review footage to satisfy her curiosity. She replayed the footage to the interrogation and zoomed in to the chair. It seemed fine, but for a second it shifted slightly. Then she zoomed out and noticed that Donald was checking his watch when it happened, however he didn't move or shift. The only one in that room whose face expression changed and body language was Daniel. She paused to think. Then she took another pen that projected as a regular laptop. She wrote down her notes of the changes. She then pinned the video clip and saved it on a file. She had a feeling Daniel was something else.