Before the Storm — Naomi Kramer

Angie Chau is an agent of the Time Department. She returns from a seemingly routine assignment with her objective unobtained, and finds chaos ensuing. Someone is attempting to steal the time-travel technology, and they're willing to take out Angie along the way.

This is the first episode in the Yesterday's Cat serial. It is about 4000 words, or 16 (print) pages in length.