Free Planet Fever by Peter Stier Jr.

Art.”
    Art: “OK. To start things off, give us a brief overview of who you are—or were—and who or what you worked for.”
    Agent W: “Well, basically I was an agent employed in the Subliminal branch of the Thought Police, which is a special unit of the Really Big Brother Department, a subordinate component of the Mind Procedure and Technical Support Office, which is a branch of the Neuro Service Agency, that falls under the umbrella of the Psychological Reserve—which is (in itself) one small branch of a great, web-like tree of subliminal, neurological, biotechnical, mathematical, philosophical, economical, pseudo-spiritual, matter-of-factual, extra-dimensional, and historical entities and bureaucracies—all interlocking and tied together. Basically, they call themselves the New (and Improved) Interstellar Syndicate, also known as the N(aI)IS. The thing is so utterly multi-tiered, intricate and omnivalent that to see it as a whole—or to gestalt it—is beyond human comprehension.”
    The resemblance of Agent W’s voice with that of the movie-going trucker, Woods, from the diner was more than uncanny. But I dismissed it as a mere coincidence.
    The tape continued.
    Art: “In what way are they —this N(aI)IS pow-wow—beyond human comprehension?”
    Agent W: “Well, historically, this entity has always been around. It just happens to be so powerful and clever, humans cannot ‘connect the historical dots,’ so to speak. Here’s what is beyond human comprehension: they own most of history: past, present and future.”
    Art: “ Own most of history?! What exactly do you mean by that?”
    Agent W: “Well, you have to unlearn what you think history is—that is, as a series of random cause-and-effect driven events building up to present day. History is really a large, inter-dimensional map, or book of various maps. Like a ‘Thomas Guide’ road Atlas. Instead of mapping out streets in cities, freeways in states, and interstates in countries, the N(aI)IS map out history and focus on the movements and thoughts of each individual’s life, then it expands to families, tribes, cities, cultures, countries, civilizations, planetary systems, galaxies and universes. It’s nonlinear—‘time’ is the thread through which history is organized in three-dimensional space.”
    Art: “Well, that certainly is powerful. So you are saying they know the past, present and future of everything and everyone within the universe?”
    Agent W: “Universes; there exist more than one … but no, they do not. They have obtained most of the Milky Way’s, as well as a small section of the Andromeda Galaxy’s.”
    Art: “Astonishing. This entity has total awareness of every instance of my very own past, present and future?”
    Agent W: “You bet they do.”
    Art: “And Bruce the producer here?”
    Agent W: “Yup.”
    Art: “…and the entire human population here on Earth?”
    Agent W: “Pretty much.”
    Art: “Whew…. Wow…. So what are they trying to accomplish by harvesting this information?”
    Agent W: “Excellent question. They want to own each individual’s life ‘map,’ or ‘script.’ They do this by attempting to make revisions on certain parts of these maps or scripts—on all levels, if you will. For example, they will have to go through every individual’s ‘neural roads’ and DNA blueprints in order to revise their personal history. They have to do this meticulously for every individual’s existence throughout history.”
    Art: “Now, wouldn’t this alter history whole-heartily?”
    Agent W: “Astute observation. Obviously it could—and probably has already. But these maniacs—and they are maniacs—are so arrogant they think they are going to just revise memories and make subtle adjustments so they can control all of space and time, both of which are hot commodities. They are insane and meticulous … they have acquired (through a variety of dubious means) the best MTs—or ‘Mind Technicians’