Queen Zaria Trilogy

by Danny Dunn

  “Janice, the video setup that was in the bag, is that turned off?

  Janice, “OMG, it’s on.”

  David “Janice, Are you in your room?”

  Janice “Yes”

  David, “are your curtains drawn?”

  Janice, “No.”

  David, “get down now and crawl to your window and pull them shut while lying down.”

  Janice crawls to the window and reaches up and pulls them shut. She has David on the speakerphone.

  David “Now crawl to the light switch and turn off the lights. Alby and some others are coming to you. I will message you when they are there, do not open the door until I say to. Is there a connecting door to the next room?”

  David “Do you have a gun?”

  Janice, “yes.”

  David, “keep it with you.”

  David “from the side, make sure the connecting door is locked. Don’t let the other side see your feet. “

  Janice crawls past the connecting door as far away from the door as possible and slowly raises up high enough to touch the doorknob and whispers to David it is locked.

  David tells Janice to position herself next to the bed with your gun aimed at the connecting door. If someone kicks it open, start shooting.

  Adam tells David, “someone from Washington checked into the connecting room about an hour ago.

  David messages, “take me off the speakerphone.” Someone is in the next room and checked in an hour ago. Wait for Alby.

  The door bursts open, and someone opens fire into the darkroom. Janice is sitting down by the bed and unloads her gun on the shooter. The shooter falls to the floor and is dead. Alby arrives at the door, and they kick in the door. They grab Janice and clear the room next door. Alby pulls the mask off the shooter, and it is one of the two she met in the bar.

  Alby reports to David that one of the snipers is dead. Which means the other one is on Tom.

  David tells Joe that one of the two is dead, and the other one is probably waiting for Tom to show his face. Expect machine gun fire to fill the room, get him out of there now. Joe and 4 others hustle Tom out of the darkened room. And into a room on the other side of the hotel facing the other way. The curtains are shut, and the lights are off.

  From another room in the hotel, one of the team sees the shooter in the building across the street. The newbie counts the floors and counts the windows across and reports where the shooter is and sends a pic with him circled. The FBI rushes into the hotel, and they rush up to the 20th floor. They send two agents up the stairs in case he tries to escape. They close off both ends of the hallway and hold their position.

  After a few minutes, the FBI uses his partner's phone to message him. “We are made, get out.”

  1 minute later, the door opens, and the shooter heads for the elevators. The FBI surprise him from behind and yell FBI Put your hands up. He spins around and fires, and they gun him down.

  Pong and Zaria arrive in California and is a few minutes away from the Hotel. Pong is very upset, and she and Zaria come up with a plan. Zaria suggests they tell everything now and expose the jokers. Pong agrees, and they head to the press conference site. Tom tells the detail to drive him there. David is against it and tells Tom there is no way to know that we got all of them. Tom says he understands and feels he should be there.

  Tom, along with Joe and 10 others, arrive at the same time as Pong and Zaria. Pong hugs Tom and makes sure he is ok. She looks at him and tells him he can change his mind. Pong says she had no idea it would be this bad. Tom says he is not quitting, and if anything, he is more driven to make this happen. Boy, are these guys good at what they do.

  Pong says, “yes, they are.”

  Tom says, but I do think I want the 100,000 per day hazard pay. He laughs.

  Tom asks to be told all we know. Pong hands Tom a notebook with all the details. Tom is a bit frazzled but says ok. He stands up and walks up to the podium.

  I was met today at 4:30 PM by two groups chanting in front of the hotel. One group was there to welcoming and rooting for me. The other group, well, not so much. They are were chanting death to the aliens, calling me the antichrist, and so on. Members of my team identified several of the individuals on the not so much side as being associated with a group that calls themselves the American Alliance network. AAN is a CPAC group that funds pro-republican activities and, now, apparently other activities as well.

  Our team ran checks on the 8 individuals they recognized and found that they were being paid by the AAN to disrupt my campaign. Also, we noticed that the reporter who asked me if Pong and her family were out to take over the world was also there and was taking videos of the disruptors, What we found was that the reporter in question is not really a reporter at all but another hired hand to disrupt my campaign.

  When we discovered this, we decided to send a couple of our people to a bar where they were congregating. They offered one of our people a job of going to my room to have sex with me while she videotaped it, they agreed, on tape mind you, to pay her $50,000 upfront and $25,000 after if they were happy with her work. Our team member came back with the cash. While they were in the bar, we had team members in the bar taking pictures of the man she met with as well as of the man who brought in the $50,000 in the black leather bag you see in the video. After running checks on these two gentlemen, we became very alarmed when we saw that both men were ex-special ops and were both snipers in the military. When we ran the plates on the car they were driving, we found that was also rented out to AAN on a credit card.

  We immediately contacted the FBI, who ran the serial numbers of the cash and found that the money came from the wife of Senator Habs, the top Republican candidate running for the Presidency and that the two men also were employed by AAN. One man had given his number to our agent, and we tracked his cell number. It appeared they were going to the airport; the cell phone was anyway. Our team anticipated that could be a rouse and so they continued to assume the two were still in the area.

  Our team spotted one of the two men in a room at the next hotel and was set up with his sniper rifle waiting for me. The FBI sent a team there and apprehended that suspect. Our team knew that we still had one sniper on the loose, and they secured myself and the agent who pretended to be willing to entrap me and take compromising videos to stop me from running. Our team member was in her room when we discovered that the other sniper had checked into the room next to her. She alertly closed her curtains and turned the lights off and waited for her other team members to arrive. Before they arrive, the 2nd AAN employee busted open the connecting door and opened fire. Our agent was kneeled down in the dark, waiting for him to bust in, and she fired 9 shots into the would-be assassin.

  When I decided to announce my candidacy, I expected things to be rough, but ladies and gentlemen, really?

  I have a comfortable life; I have plenty of money. The fact is that I have lots of reasons to just step aside. But if I quit, who am I, and what did I stand for.

  I am not quitting, you cannot frame me, threaten me, or chase me away. I am going to see this through to the end, whatever that may be. I am Tom Wilson by god, and I am still running for the Presidency of the United States of America.

  End Chapter 41

  Chapter 42 – They Just Can’t Help Themselves

  Tim has a staff of 6 assistants comprised of 3 women and 3 Zaria-bots. All are buried, preparing orders, and taking calls. The countries are falling like dominos. Purchasing Zari bots has become a necessity for countries to stay up to speed with their competitors. Tim has received government orders from the US, China, the UK, Russia, and India. Their year to date sales for their third year is going to top $2.5 trillion, and they still have not gone public.

  Pong’s new design is rock solid, and the defects are under .001%. The annual licensing fees are now at $280 billion per year and climbing. The company has only 100 employees and has 3,000 bots running purchasing, production, shipping, and tech support. As each country runs its
own numbers, they each find that buying bots saves them substantial money and is free after the 3rd year. And, the MTBF is now at 150,000 hours or 17 years, so buying them is a no brainer.

  The school has become a model school. Their test results are in the top 3 in the country, even though they put little emphasis on testing. Their curriculum is tough, but the teachers take a very different approach to teaching and put a lot more emphasis on experience than lecturing. They go on very regular field trips, and the kids love it. Educators from around the world take tours of the school regularly.

  Karen has added teaching IT to her job, and they use the company’s IT department, running a substantial intern program.

  Pong purchased a 10,000-acre ranch just down the road just for a new High School and a university which she has names Zari-Tech. Their focus is on Astrophysics, AI, Computer Science, and green energy research.

  Tom’s campaign has picked up a great deal of steam. As it turned out, the AAN incident really helped his campaign. The public did not like the republicans pulling their usual shenanigans, and Tom picked up voters from both parties who have had enough and see Tom and his platform as a way to get their country back.

  The Senator resigned and is facing charges for conspiracy to assassinate a Presidential Candidate. The two assassins rolled on him to reduce their sentences.

  Zaria 2 is building her island, Zaria 3 is digging wells, and Zaria 4 is helping Zaria 2. Zaria is running Tom’s campaign, and Pong is on her compound, running one happy camper. Pong visits every department every day. The transport system is complete, as is the Cavity. Inside the Cavity, there is a large mall, lots of entertainment, including live music, movies, rock climbing walls, restaurants, and shops. Pong has made the cavity open to everyone in the compound, but the security is very tight.

  Pong brings in above-average musicians to play in an amphitheater she designed inside the one end of the cavity that has fantastic one-of-a-kind acoustics where bands love to play and often record their work there for their albums. The cavity can house about 200,000 in emergencies, but for the most part, it is just for entertainment. She is leaving species saving for Zaria 2.

  The Zaria’s are all in one place only 3 or 4 times per year, but they have a great time while they are together, and they all talk almost every day. They also message each other when they see something in the news about one of the others.

  The election is 1 year away, and debates will be starting in just 6 months. Tom is the first non-Democrat/Republican candidate to be the front runner one year before the elections. Tom has a 15-point lead over the next two candidates from each of the other two parties.

  The two parties are extremely worried. Tom has only spent $100 million so far, which is the lowest of the 3 campaigns, which are both pulling out all the stops. For both parties, it is clear that if Tom wins and his platform is made into law, both parties are in big trouble. Senators and Congressmen are drafting off of Tom’s platform but not really committing to it in full. Tom and Zaria see what they are doing, which diminishes Tom’s platform. And recently, many of the current presidential candidates are announcing they will consider a similar type of plan if elected. Tom and Zaria see what they are doing and come up with a strategy for stopping the current politicians from stealing and diluting his platform.

  Tom comes up with a brutal commercial that goes after every candidate's record that is mimicking Tom’s platform. They pick apart the exact wording of the platform and of the candidate’s wording regarding how they are phrasing their vague and loophole probed promises. Most of them are leaving out everything having to do with voting.

  Zaria makes a chart that groups the platform components into categories so that it is clear to see what the candidates are omitting in their version. Then Zaria puts checks in boxes the candidate is including and then a red checkmark for the ones they are leaving out. Tom’s name is the only one with all the boxes checked in black.

  Zaria then focuses on their wording. To appease the other politicians and to make their claims as hollow as possible, the candidates running for office use phrases like, when I am elected, in the future, will work on; will incorporate. But none of them are really committing to anything now.

  Tom finishes his ads with, this is my platform, and if anything, I may add some more and will stand behind every line and will never back off any one of them. Anyone wishing to run with me, please contact us. We are looking for good honest people and not necessarily politicians.

  Tom starts with that ad as a summary ad, and they make more ads that are line-specific

  Notice that not one of the candidates is even hinting they will propose line 1, which increases Senator congressman annual salaries from $174,000 per year to $2,000,000 per year. That is a 574% pay increase. Why would they not want this? Sound crazy?

  Here is why, to receive that, they need to give up contributions, CPACs, and insider trading. Yes, Congressman and Senators can legally invest in companies that benefit from bills they vote on. Let's look at some of those transactions.

  Tom puts up a huge list of transactions and by name and then results by the percentage of return. The numbers are staggering, and so are the profits. This is why they raise billions to win elections. Now let’s look at their net worth before and after they go into the office. The numbers are embarrassing for the senators and congressmen. Tom’s memory of this stuff is amazing. Soon he has the major transactions and total increases of net-worth while in office memorized.

  He has several current politicians from both houses and both parties wanting to join him. Tom and Zaria a very slow and deliberate about who they take in and reject most for one thing or another. Tom also has several very respected business and social leaders wanting to join in his quest, and he takes on several of those. Tom and Zaria also use their numbers and seek out candidates to unseat obvious problems.

  Anyone they believe will be a good fit is asked to take a polygraph as the final step in their interview process. The final candidates are handed a list of the questions, and if they pass, they are accepted.

  Zaria puts 10 bots on gathering data on all of the current politicians. They end up with a final report that is staggering in terms of what bills they passed cost the American taxpayers. It is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Then there is the list of incredible amounts of money made by the politicians and even more by their wives, family, and friends. Zaria has lists of quid pro quo where one senator or congressman votes something a buddy likes, and then soon after they pass the buddy’s bill, the buddy votes for the other in return. Then there is an amazing list of “rider” bills, which are bills that are snuck inside the mother bill.

  Zaria develops a website that is not public yet. She has the bots organize when they find and put it up on the site. For every single piece of data, there is backup and a link to where the reader can click on to see where it came from. In most cases, it comes from government websites. The amount of data is scary, and it makes Tom upset every time he reads more of it. Tom tells Zaria that everyone knows the politicians are screwing the American public, but I am positive that no one has any idea it is as severe as it really is.

  Zaria tells Tom that she is going to support him in real-time during your debates. We are going to post your statement and all the backup with links to the statement on the website so that by the time you finish the claim, it will be posted onto the front page of the site.

  Zaria tells Tom that they are going to discount your statements claiming they are not true. And that usually works for them because tracking it after the fact is kind of pointless, so what you claimed falls through the cracks. She tells him that if he can’t remember something to just tell the audience, they can just google it or do a search inside the site. After just a few of those, they won’t dare try to lie and bluff their way out of it. They will have to own what you say and defend it, which puts them in the position of having to own and defend a bad and often compromising and embarrassing decision.

  Tom no
w has 75 senatorial and congressional candidates in states across the country who are very intelligent, very respected in his New American Party, and they are all either holding their own or have a nice lead in their races. Zaria and her Pongettes have caused 45 of the incumbent candidates to drop out due to information regarding profiting from very dubious deals they did while in office.

  The Democrats and Republican candidates go through their nominee processes, and in the end, it is the incumbent Republican vs. the Democratic nominee. They try more wrangling to have Tom excluded, but they again lose. Polling says that 92% of the voters want Tom included in the debates. The country likes Tom’s platform and how he handles himself and wants to see how he does against live opponents.

  David has his team sweep every room they stay in before Tom and his team enter. They are looking for explosives, listening devices. Sniper angles from other buildings up to a mile away. They always rent out the whole floor of the hotel and rent the rooms above and below the room where Tom is staying. David requires that a key be required to enter their floor, and David puts guards at the elevator and emergency staircase doors. They bring in their own food and drinks.

  After the AAN attempt, David now has 30 of his team on Tom’s team, and David has another 20 bots working 24/7 back at the PongPound.

  There are three debates set between the three candidates. Tom opponents are pushing hard to limit interaction as much as they can, and Tom is pushing for more a freestyle approach.

  Four days before the first debate, David has his team secure the hotel, which is down the street from the university where the debate is being held. Tom’s team is there surveying and securing the hotel, the route from the hotel to the auditorium where the debate is being held, and the auditorium itself.

  While sweeping the room for bugs, Linda picks up a laser dot on the window, but it quickly went away. David has instructed his people to not react to anything they find but to continue their sweep and report it when they have completed the sweep. After they finish their sweep, Linda messages David reporting that she saw a laser-like dot on the window and that it disappeared as soon as she saw it. She tells David that it was hard not to react to it because it looks like a laser scope dot, and then she laughs.