By: Punisher

Mulder quickly scrambled into the dimly lit room. The light from the hallway cast dim shadows which retreated from his flashlight like half-seen nightmares fleeing from a waking dreamer.

He was close. He could taste it. The Lone Gunmen had hooked him up with some damn good Intel this time. Rumors abounded but to most rumors there was a kernel of truth…and it was that truth that had brought Mulder to a remote Arizona location.

The Arizona complex had not been easy to get into. Lots of fences, some guard dogs, but no human guards. Mulder found that odd and was certain he had set off some kind of remote monitoring alarm and the facilities guards would be on him in no time. From what he knew of what went on in this complex his FBI badge wouldn’t buy him much leeway. Still, he pressed on.

Through his investigations he discovered that after the raid on Devil’s Reef at Innsmouth in the late 1920’s, the government, namely through the Office of Naval Intelligence, started a group to investigate and deal with paranormal activity. In much the same way as the FBI had the X-files, the ONI had the Division for the Investigation of Parapsychology and the Paranormal—nicknamed P Division.

Mulder had done more checking and through The Lone Gunmen discovered that within P Division was another extreme paramilitary operation code-named Delta Green. What they did, where they did it, and to whom…were the questions that had dragged Mulder to Arizona alone. He wished that Scully were here to watch his back but deep down he knew she would’ve never gone along with this anyway.

He moved further into the room and reached one of the file cabinets. It had a large combination lock on it. Mulder sighed. He didn’t have time to mess with the combo. He rationalized his decision. Chances were somebody knew he was here already anyway. He pulled out his pistol and smashed the butt repeatedly on the lock until it gave. Mulder winced. That had made way too much noise.

He knew his time was limited so he grabbed the first file and gave it a cursory glance.

Financial records!

Now Mulder was pissed. He was gonna get pinched for boosting financial records.

He opened another drawer. Opened a folder and saw the words at the top…."DELTA GREEN – EYES ONLY"

"Jackpot!"

Then Mulder did something that would change his life forever….for the worse. He read the file.

He read about the Ponape scriptures, and the Pnakotic Manuscripts…..he read about the Jones transcription of the R’lyeh text. He read about Mother Hydra and Father Dagon. He read about the Doom that came to Sarnath, Bokrug. Then he read about the Deep Ones and of Antarctica and the hidden city there…where even now the natives and the shoggoths shrieked their maddening cries of "Teke'lili Teke'lili" at the aurora….

He was still reading when the MIBs found him. And as they dragged him away…Mulder prayed that he only had Greys to worry about.