The Adventures Of Merboy

Chapter Eight: The Big Mistake

It's been a few days now, and Daniel still hasn't come up with a way to tell Max about the death of their mother. He had guilt on his mind, thinking that if he wasn’t there, she would have been okay. There was havoc in New York City. People were shouting, and the news was just going on and off about the chaos happening. The mayor of the town, with his podium out, announced that strange creatures had emerged from the ocean, looking for ways to cause trouble, as they say.

It was clear that the Mermaidians found out that Max and Daniel were impostors in the Mermaidian kingdom. Not only was the Mayor there, but also the King of the Mermaidian Kingdom. Max went outdoors to settle the chaos happening in the town. The Mayor spotted him but wasn’t expecting Max to head towards the Aquatic side. The king forbade him and threatened him, saying, “If he got closer, he would have no choice but to eliminate him.” Suddenly, an earthquake formed under the city, making everyone panic. The Mermaidians swam back to their territory, avoiding the situation happening in New York. This earthquake went on for a few hours, destroying buildings and houses. It seemed to have started from a particular spot in the middle of the city. Max and Daniel went to investigate the c***k; even the NYPD helped by clearing the area of civilians.

They weren’t equipped with the gadgets to investigate this issue. Luckily, a smart Italian scientist, Andrew Milson, provided them with a Ground Penetrating Radar, which would help in creating a clear image of what was causing the earthquake because the earthquake was clearly not a natural disaster. What they saw was unbelievable and weird at the same time. It seemed to be a huge egg wanting to c***k but couldn't due to the lack of space underground, thereby causing the earthquakes.

The egg doesn’t match any egg species in their lab database. It was as big as a baby whale, as shown by the gelatinous substance around the egg. Excavators came in and dug up the surroundings while Andrew went in and analyzed it with a taxonomy key. They found out that the egg was a crossbred species of a Lophius Piscatorius (Anglerfish) and a Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale). If the egg happened to hatch, it wouldn’t survive because it is not in the ocean. They couldn’t move the egg back to the ocean, but if they leave it there, it will die and ferment there in the city. Andrew had an idea. He had been working on a device that could shrink down molecules of a living thing through catabolism. He called the device the Molecule Breaker, and he explained the device through the Neutrino Dissimilation theory. It took him a week to set up the device, but by then the egg must have fully hatched. Andrew tested the device on a chicken, but it only worked for a few minutes. The chicken grew back to its normal state, but it was enough time to destroy the creature because once it had been shrunk, they could smash it to the ground.