Breakthroughs Under Your Feet: White Slavery And Mad Dog 20/20
As it turns out, Martin Kane had been fueling twenty-plus years of his rock n’ roll lifestyle by skimming off of the Camp Hero budget. It should have been made apparent to the authorities when Kane tried to pay for a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 with a gold bar emblazoned with a swastika. Between Kane’s skimming, the unchecked budgets, and out-of-control spending, the Nazi gold cache was depleted. In February 1980, Martin Kane bleached his hair, bought a plane ticket for Venezuela, and was never heard from again.
The remaining funding from the government was a pittance compared to the seemingly unlimited budget Camp Hero had operated with for the first twenty years of its existence. Congress had changed significantly over the years. Sympathy, understanding, and negotiation ruled the day. Nanotechnology that could eat a human being from the inside out and reduce them to a pile of sausage casings was no longer desired, although the testing had been extremely successful. It was a new era of “mean people suck,” and the research team at Camp Hero was full of, inarguably, mean people.
The robotics lab and the Time Travel Department had especially bitchin’ parties before closing and tossed most of their equipment and classified documents into the…
