New Story for a Famous Title: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

A blind girl becomes the moral guide for a government killer

In this series, I create synopses for new stories based on the titles of famous novels.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Code-name "Slaughterhouse-Five," or S5, is a veteran assassin for an ultra-secret government department, called "the Department," whose existence is known only to the directors of the FBI, CIA, and NSA, and the Postmaster-General. The six "slaughterhouse" agents are amoral sociopaths who have no memory of before they were recruited.

S5 is sent to terminate a working-class, middle-aged man named Harvey Shaw because he saw something he shouldn't have and could compromise the Department's next big operation, in which S6 will pretend to be a domestic terrorist while conducting a mass killing at a high school basketball game and then blowing himself up.

But S5 meets Shaw's blind daughter, Rachel, a sweet and bright girl who is confined to a wheelchair. She awakens S5 to the possibility that what the Department does is not actually "beneficial" as its leaders (the chairmen) claim, and she also starts triggering faint memories of his past. While he still has no conscience or morality of his own, S5 trusts that the way Rachel sees things is "beneficial."

So, he sends the Shaws into hiding and fakes Harvey's death. Then he learns the details of what S6 is to do at the high school, and he goes there and prevents the slaughter, making S6 explode away from the people.

The chairmen of the Department hear what happened, and they assign S1-S4 to track down and terminate S5. He takes out his fellow killers one by one and then returns to HQ, where he commands the computer system to expose the Department to the American media. Many people call the revelations "fake news" while conspiracy theorists celebrate the confirmation of their suspicions, and some right-wingers are sure Hillary Clinton is behind it.

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