The Adventures Of Merboy

Chapter Seven: What Brought It Up?

Their mom was in a terrible condition due to the attacks brought upon her by the mutant creatures. Max, on the other hand, was in bigger trouble. He would soon run out of oxygen with the creature still active. They had no means of transportation back, and Daniel was not aware of the situation. He was still in the hospital waiting for a callback from the doctors. They took her to an operating room because the situation she was in was beyond medicine. The doctor came out with a disappointed expression on his face, not knowing how to tell Max the bad news.

Daniel, with a worried look on his face, already knew that things weren’t going to be good. The doctor told him that his mother didn’t have it. The infection from the creatures was too great for her immune system. However, his father had to be admitted to the hospital because the infection got to him too, and he would take some time to recover. Daniel just froze in place, realizing that the incident was his fault because the only reason the creatures descended upon his parents’ home was his presence. He asked for the hospital bill and paid it immediately. His dad will have to stay in the hospital for a few days, but he stayed calm and collected about the death of his wife. Daniel didn’t realize that Max had been gone for a long time and that he hadn’t alarmed him about the mutant Tardigrade.

It’s been a day now, and Max was still stuck on the moon, barely running out of oxygen. Daniel couldn’t wait around for his brother, but he could not afford a space shuttle to go into space, so he had a plan.

Max and Daniel could only teleport a short distance at a time, but he realized that if he could teleport a hundred kilometers per minute, making it six thousand kilometers per hour, he could get to the moon by chance. He got his hands on some oxygen tanks and a space suit since that is what he could afford. He didn’t just get oxygen tanks for himself but also for his brother. Daniel was close to the mesosphere, but it wasn’t enough to boost him up to space. It took him a while, but with a little effort, he crossed Earth’s atmosphere and made it to space. Teleporting took a lot of his energy, knowing that he was going to need power to fight for whatever is waiting for him on the moon. The journey took roughly two days, but he was approaching the moon’s orbit, so he spawned his animals, merged them together, and got into battle. To his surprise, his animals spawned even with the lack of oxygen, and even better, the mutant creature was dormant, trying to rehydrate itself, so the coast was clear. Daniel brought out the extra oxygen tank and gave it to Max. He was weak but was okay. Before they left, Daniel didn’t forget to blast the creature to death, but with his mind full, he didn’t think about informing Max about their mother’s death.