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She watched the scene on her monitor
with great interest, it showed a man as he walked down a city sidewalk. Another
monitor on her desk displayed construction workers on a high rise building as
they worked to move a large pane of glass. Her eyes constantly switched between
both monitors as she silently counted to herself. Finally, a scene unfolded on
the second monitor. The construction workers fumbled with the glass pane and it
fell from the building. Her eyes immediately snapped to the first monitor as
her hands moved to a keyboard on her desk. With a single press of a key, a coin
materialized on the street the monitored man walked upon. After another
keystroke, the coin glinted in the sunlight and caught the man's attention.
"Oh, it's my lucky day,"
he said as he bent over to pick up the coin. As he stopped to admire his find a
large pane of glass crashed only a few feet in front of him. The man stood
paralyzed in shock at the scene before him. Had he not taken a moment to pick
up the coin he would have been crushed to death. He thanked his lucky stars
that he was spared such a fate.
"Your welcome," the woman
chuckled to herself as she filled in some paperwork on her desk. "Subject
#105,257,189,460, intervention successful. Moving onto the next one," the
woman announced as her large pair of wings flapped joyfully.
"Alright," a man with
similar wings at the other end of the room nodded, "Oh yeah, the four guys
upstairs sent down a memo." He pulled out a piece of paper, "Subject
#106,485,569,293 is supposed to make the winning shot of a basketball game in about
5 minutes. Classic underdog story, you got it?"
"Understood, thanks," the
woman acknowledged as the man left the room. She fiddled with her keyboard
until the countless monitors in front of her lit up with the image of a college
basketball game. One of the monitors in front of her displayed the aforementioned
subject. The second monitor displayed the basketball hoop. The third monitor to
her side displayed a comprehensive set of information about the situation.
"Oh wow it is an underdog story," the woman noted, "rookie team
vs former champs...trying to impress his distant father...the other team is
lead by an egotistical jock..."
As the woman looked over the
information the game continued before her. The former champs dominated it for
the most part, while the rookies struggled to keep up. The woman realized this
and went to work, after a few taps of her keyboard the tides began to turn. The
champs started to make stupid mistakes, mostly flashy moves that ended in
failure. At the same time, the rookie team started to perform better, mostly from
a few "lucky" shots, until it all came down to the end.
The score was tied with less than a
minute on the clock, the champs had the ball and were ready to make their final
pass. "I don't think so," the woman chuckled as she pressed a button
on her keyboard. Right on cue the ball, which was being passed to the champ's
team captain, flew right into Subject #106,485,569,293's hands. "And for
the finale," the woman clicked one final key. Suddenly, the subject was
filled with adrenaline and courage. He took a risky shot and scored the winning
point for his team as the clock hit zero. The crowd burst into a cheer for the
rookie team.
"Easy as can be," the
winged woman congratulated herself. "Subject #106,485,569,293,
intervention successful. Moving onto the next one. Now, where was I?" The
woman poured through her own files until she found where she had stopped previously.
"Here we are, Subject #105,722,871,004 needs to find a cure for a rare
disease by accident. This one might take a bit of thought." She pondered
the difficulty of the scenario as she switched over her monitors to a science
lab. It may be a trickier situation than the last two, but she knew she had the
power to solve it. Just another day at the Department of Divine Intervention.
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I came up with this one a while back when I was thinking about stories that turned heaven (and similar realms) into a bureaucracy, or at least an office space. I don't know why but the idea of turning something as grand and indescribable as heaven and turning it into an average office space just tickles me. Thus came the idea of the Department of Divine Intervention. Have you ever narrowly avoided death because you took a step to the left without thinking about it? Well it's because of them. I think this could be a full, elaborate novel length story on its own, but for now I'll leave it at this.
Until next time, Read, Comment and Enjoy
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