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

damage you cause to the EOD. What the Volunteer Room is; you just volunteer for whatever Dr. Frankenstein is working upon in his laboratory. Why do ask?’ From her reaction that is when he realized that he made a mistake in telling her. He also could tell that it was over somebody, and she was blaming him for what the EOD did to that someone. He then asked her, ‘Who was it?’ but she didn’t say. He knew that she was hiding something and she wouldn’t mention what it was. Being a good officer, Ramirez told both Vaistll and Taylor what happen. When they finally got the truth out of her, Vaistll had her thrown in the brig for losing the file, and for lying to her and to Taylor.
      Sanchez always held a grudge against former EOD agents. It just goes to show how much she hated the EOD for what they did to her. To her it really didn’t matter what a former EOD agent did, or didn’t do. She did not trust any of them. Does she want revenge? In truth, see don’t even know, she just want to find her husband. Just to know what happen to him is all she cares about. What Ramirez said about the Volunteer Room haunts her. If he is still alive, then in what state is he in? Just what did they do to him? Can it be undone? She hated what Ramirez told her. She hated hearing him say that her husband is “better off dead.” It tore her up inside not knowing what they did to him. Fearing what type of a monster they turned him into, his pain, his suffering, his loneliness. But in her own pain she neglects her own children who are not old enough to be in high school. In her own pain she makes it difficult to work with former EOD agents. If she was in command, she probably would get Task Force ZH-3C killed off. May what any god Task Force ZH-3C believes in, have mercy on their souls if that becomes the case. May God have mercy...
     
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      It was 05:50 hours in the morning and Ramirez just woke up. It did dawn on him that he would be the first person to ever hear about Vaistll’s life back on her home world. Thinking about what he would hear got him to think about the history of the EOD. He didn’t want to think about his life with the EOD; too many bad deeds and too many bad memories. So the way that he figured it that it was the same way with her, bad memories and bad deeds. But he also knew that the only way he could heal from that life, is to take the first step: to tell someone. He knew her well enough to know that with her, that was probably the only reason why she wanted to tell him. But with Ramirez, he never wanted to tell Vaistll about what he did. He just wanted to tell the woman that he loved.
      Ramirez went to the bathroom to get ready for the day. He hated looking at himself in the mirror; it reminded him of what he did while he was in the EOD Special Forces. He hated what he did, and he hated what he became. He is a good man that feels ugly inside for the evil that he did. Trap in a world of hell, an inescapable nightmare, where being good is a form of damnation. Cursed to walk in a world where evil is all around, and feeling powerless to stop it.
      After he finished brushing his teeth, he step into the shower and started to think about the past. He started to think about everything that he was taught while he was growing up in the EOD. He started to think about what Project 21 had collected about the EOD history. He thought about the information that he had access to when he was in the EOD Special Forces. It was information that he wanted to collect so he could use it one day against them. He started to think about a history that very few people knew about. He started to think about how the EOD became so strong, so very long ago.
      It all started in southern California, way back in the mid-part of the 1980’s. A 6’2” tall white male founded what he called, “the Era of Darkness.” He called it that because as he puts it, ‘We are living in some era of darkness. A return to a dark age in our