[ WP ] Mankind has succesfully deleted every trace of the year 2016 . You , a historian in the year 2416 begin to wonder why there are no records of the year 2016 ever happening . When you begin to investigate , what you uncover , sends chills down your spine .

I knew something was wrong the moment everyone around me started to get up all at once. Finally, after a meager two years chase, I was cornered in Istanbul of all places. To be honest, I was surprised that I lasted that long with the organization on my tail. 
 
 `` Agent W, do n't make a scene, get up quietly.'' 
 
 I recognized him instantly. I had never seen him but I was intimately familiar with his modus operandi. Surrounding the target in a public place while making sure that nothing seemed out of the ordinary. That was Agent 9, the most brilliant agent of the organization. 
 
 I had gotten the call when I was nineteen. I was the youngest professor to hold tenure in world's topmost university. My achievement in the field of history was perhaps only rivaled by my extraordinary talent at making bad life choices. That was why I had accepted the invitation without much thinking on my part. 
 
 In my defense, the offer was irresistible. Travelling places? Getting to know new cultures and history while being paid for it? Count me in. 
 
 Things were smooth at first. The organization provided everything that it had promised. I got to travel to Greece, India, and other exotic places while learning their culture and history. I was having the greatest time of my life. Unfortunately, that did n't last very long. Things began going downhill when I was called in to provide insight into a local Ecuador tribe. I did my best, of course. Never in my wildest dream I could have imagined that merely a week afterward, a civil war would break out in the country. Started by that very tribe! 
 
 I did n't know what the organization had done or how it had done it but I was certain that the information I had been used in ways that I could not have fathomed. I was alarmed! I sat down to check every consult I had given to the organization and a horrible realization dawned on me. The organization was using those consults for a single purpose: to start wars. 
 
 `` Hands behind your back Agent W, do n't do anything that you will regret.'' 
 
 Agent 9 whispered. This did n't seem right, why was he whispering? Granted this was another country but Agent 9 had never been so... hesitant. 
 
 `` Where are the documents that you stole?'' 
 
 He asked. 
 
 `` I destroyed them,'' I answered nonchalantly. 
 
 Agent 9 paused for a while, 
 
 `` Eidetic memory, yes, you would n't need to keep those documents after you've read them. Let me rephrase my question Agent W, where do you keep your research?'' 
 
 I tapped my head twice, `` In here.'' 
 
 I felt something on my back. It was a pistol. Being someone of intellectual background, I was n't really equipped to handle that kind of threat. 
 
 `` Do n't play with me Agent W, give me your research or I will shoot you right here right now.'' 
 
 `` Agent 9, you do n't understand, the things that are in the document. The lost year... the world needs to know that. People need to know that!'' 
 
 I protested. When I had decided to run away from the organization ( because you could n't quit ), I had decided to take those documents on a whim, not expecting that it would contain information about 2016. 
 
 2016, the lost year as it was called. No one knew what happened in that year. We had records of 2015: war brewing in Middle-East, high tension between India and Pakistan, increased Russian activities and so on. But in 2017, everything stopped. The era of peace began with every country coming together to form a new republic. How did it happen? Why did it happen? No one knew. It had baffled historians like me and was something of an open question with many many speculations, ranging from dubious American involvement to Extraterrestrial threats. 
 
 Back in my college days, me and my much older friends used to laugh at those speculations by coming up with creative mental disorders a person might have been suffering from at the time to come up with such ridiculous theories. But after I had read the contents of those documents, ET did n't sound far-fetched. Regardless, the world needed to know their history. No way in hell was I going to give up without a fight. 
 
 `` I agree.'' 
 
 `` No, you do n't understand! The things that I've uncover- huh, what did you say?'' 
 
 `` Agent W, I said that I agree. The world deserves to know about the lost year. Sorry for the gun, I had to make sure.'' 
 
 `` Make sure of what?'' 
 
 `` Listen to me Agent W, after I've finished explaining, you are going to elbow me in the stomach. You will then turn around and try to snatch my gun. The gun will go off - do n't worry, it will be an air shot. You are to escape in the ensuing mayhem. There is a vehicle waiting for you at the Bakra Bazar which will take you to the airstrip. Go to China. I am told that you have friends there. Go and stay there, I will contact you soon.'' 
 
 I was stunned. Wtf was going on? Agent 9 was helping me escape? Why? Was he rebelling against the organization? 
 
 `` Listen to me, W, listen to me! Something big hinges on your discovery. Make sure you understand that alright? Now, on the count of three... one, two..''
