Its 3:00 A.M in the morning, Ragavan’s mobile sings. Having drunk fully the previous day night he is fast asleep not responding to his mobile phone’s crying. He is used to not responding calls late in the night. They must be his friends calling him for a drink for they are left with no company. They know only Ragavan is the guy who can provide them company for they think he is jobless and there is no need to wake up early in the morning as he spends most of the day playing cricket with his useless gang mates. Ragavan did attend these invites to bars but only later did he recognize that he was an object of entertainment. His friends who work in the corporates often get dejected with their work pressure and invite him for a drink. It gives them pleasure when they tease him and it would give them better feeling to see a loser and they are far much better. It happened once, a friend of him lost his highly paid job. Not being a moment of celebration he called Ragavan for a drink as he was totally down by that incident and didn’t have the face to meet his other corporate friends. They drunk the whole night discussing the mysteries of this world and at the last round his friend made a comment that Ragavan would never forget for his lifetime, ” I was to suicide when I lost my Job, but when I can see that you can still live without a job, I believe I can too.. Thank you!! You are my source of inspiration”. His friend left the bar with happiness but Ragavan had his heart down. From then on he decided not to provide company to any of his friends, he would rather drink alone in his workshop.
The alarm in his workshop shouts…. Ragavan wakes to surprise and for a moment he was not able to recognize where the noise came from for he had not heard that alarm for years. However his presence of mind sends him to the panel and he suppresses the alarm. From the dusty display panel of his workshop he reads “URGENT MESSAGE FROM HQ, Login Immediately”. Oops. He doesn’t remember neither his username nor password. It is not something that he uses daily like his favorite Genmail. He tries several times with his Genmail username and password until the system throws a message “One more wrong password the system would self destruct”. He goes to the fridge to pick a bottle of lime juice. His fridge is always packed with Lime juice for that is his only remedy for his frequent hangovers. Ragavan drinks it and gives himself to thought. A moment of deep thought he got his username and password , “Username: INDSP007 (India Support) and Password: 015 (It is a pretty old system and can accept even single character passwords. The 015 comes from his dream long back to get promoted to Secret Agent 015 something that never happened and he is hopeful of”
Ragavan could not believe his eyes. There in the system was an invitation from HQ to be the next Secret agent. He realized in a moment that all the secret agents have resigned and the HQ had no other choice but to give him an opportunity. The mission was to save the earth from getting struck by the deadly Meteor. Ragavan never thought of the possibilities of success, he accepted the offer for this opportunity in his life is the last to prove his worth to the world. He had to face further shocks, there was no support anywhere on earth and he had to do it all alone. Ragavan is one of the very few who knew how essential support group is for secret agents. He almost spent eight years doing that job.
The support group is the least known job on earth. They were not allowed to tell others about their job failing which they have to face a death penalty. Even Ragavan’s parents don’t know about his job. He would never allow anyone to his workshop. His parents were worried sometimes on how he earns money and if he is involved in any illegal activity. He mostly works only in the night. At day time he spends his time playing cricket with his gang mates and breaking Dr. Ram’s windows. Is it coincidence that the probability of breaking Dr. Ram’s window is more than anyone else. Ragavan hated Dr. Ram, more because his parents will always use him as a model reference to show that Ragavan is useless, Ragavan had his own dreams and he was angry why his society pushes him to follow some other’s path. He has is own destiny to follow but he was not that successful. The first time when Secret agent 008 was to visit India he spent almost a month to get the infrastructure ready. Nobody get this much amount of time, but too much of work to be done. Arrange the weapons, the transports, the communication etc… Ragavan liked his job for he is the Manager, he is the engineer and he is everything. The job is so challenging and had to be made so perfect that the arriving secret agent has everything set. But to his fate the first time the car’s tube got punctured during secret agent’s chasing the bad guys in the highway. Ragavan was charge sheeted and his dreams of becoming the next secret agent was remote. Ragavan did not lose hope, after two years when the next secret agents visit to India was messaged to him he did things with so much perfection. But his luck did not favor him as the secret agent moved via Pakistan. Ragavan was dejected, Secret agents visit India very infrequently and his chance to prove himself was remote. Ragavan became a frustrated man, his parents did not understand him, his girl friend broke with him because he was jobless and he felt the whole world against him.
Everytime when Dr. Ram walks across the road he would try to hit him with the ball if he is batting. It is because of people like Dr. Ram the whole world does not recognize anybody else he thought. Even when the world was announced to be destroyed he had no feelings. In fact he was dying daily when the world forgot to recognize him. On the day before the last day of Earth he was questioned by Dr. Ram face to face while he was playing cricket. All his gang mates were surprised as Dr. Ram never spoke to any of them all these years. He felt offended when Dr. Ram questioned them on why they were playing cricket when the world is going to end. ‘There are few more windows that are left for us to break’ – Ragavan replied him. Dr. Ram has no worries to die, Ragavan thought: for he has already proved his worth to this world and have received the prestigious medal, something that Ragavan can never think of. He drunk the whole day.
Ragavan was restless, for this final day of Earth he has something to accomplish. He was determined to be the next secret agent and he needed no support, for he can arrange everything for himself. The enemy is huge, its not just one psychic villain. He watches through the window for some good signs of Omen. There in the distance he could see a bright red rose in Dr. Ram’s Balcony, something he had never seen before. Dr.Ram’s house was considered haunted for the way he maintains it. Ragavan got the hope, that he would accomplish the task assigned to him.
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