Chương 66: Creature
Sean 12 years old now was on a boat with two people who served his father in the army. Frank Castle and Billy Russo both working along side him for a project the government just approved of. Believing that Sharks might be the cure for Cancer they sent Sean and his team down in the Caribbean. (I tried to look up where this took place but couldn't find it)
"Hey guys! How they doing?" Sean called out from below before heading up. Billy looked at the monitor seeing their locations and status. (Same Billy from the Netflix series The Punisher)
"Looks like they're doing just fine. Staying in their own areas." Billy said before an alert came up. "Wait a minute. Looks like number four is having a problem." Billy said making Sean sigh.
"I think I see why." Frank said pointing out to a fishing boat. "That must be Ben Mediera. Heard he's supposed to be a real hardass." Frank said.
"We'll find out." Sean said driving the boat towards them.
The Great white down below was caught on a hook from the fishermen.
"HAHAHA! This is going to be the trophy of the year!" One of the fishermen said before Sean's boat parked beside them.
"Back away Kruger!" Ben yelled. He never liked this kid since he came to the islands. Always getting in the way of profit for him.
"What do you idiots think you're doing?" Sean asked.
"It's called fishing. Learn it up dumbass." Ben said.
"Well, Your antagonizing a pregnant female shark. We tagged that shark weeks ago. You keep this up and you'll not only kill her but the young inside her." Sean said making the man who caught her look concerned.
"Pregnant?" The Man asked.
"Yeah. Is this your idea of sport?" Sean asked not amused.
"Kruger! Fuck off!" Ben yelled. "Go find another shark! This one is mine!" Ben yelled.
"Not anymore." Sean said getting his gear on.
"Kid...Don't!" Frank yelled before Sean dived in to free the shark.
"Son of a bitch!" Ben said getting a weapon out to throw at him but Frank and Billy aimed their weapons at him.
"Put it down asshole." Frank saiid making him growl before the line was cut off making Ben yell in annoyance.
"You tell that kid the next time I see him I'll kill him you understand me! I'll kill him!" Ben yelled before Billy held up a tape recorder.
"I'm sure the chief will want to hear that when we get back." Billy said making Frank chuckle before Sean came up.
"Next time you try interfering with government work we'll have you sent to prison dumb fuck." Sean said making him yell in annoyance before driving off. "You guys should have seen her. She was beautiful." Sean said making them chuckle before pulling him up.
"You are insane you know that?" Billy said making Sean smirk.
"Runs in the family. What time is it?" Sean asked making Frank look up at the sun.
"Almost nine by now. The plane should be landing by now." Frank said.
"Goddamnit! One of us needs a watch." Sean said making them laugh.
In the distance a local fisherman named Adam Puckett was driving his boat around with a large hook dragging around the ocean floor was looking for treasure. As he was doing this though his hook caught on something that spun his boat around.
"WHOA!" Adam yelled as his boat came to a stop before he went to the hook and started pulling it up. Once it came all the way up though all that was seen was a large empty cage.
"The hell?" Adam said confused before getting a better look inside seeing what looked scales and shells all over the place.
Unknown to him though was that something had indeed been inside the cage for 25 years and now was finally free again.
Meanwhile
Sean, Frank and Billy walked to the airfield before seeing his father and brother, his dad's team and Gail and Regina.
"Hey guys." Sean said walking up to them.
"There you are. What took you so long?" Tom asked his son.
"Local Fisherman named Ben Mediera gave us some trouble trying to kill one of the sharks." Sean said.
"I assume you boys took care of it?" Lane said.
"Gave him a warning. Next time he interferes with Government work he'll spend the rest of his life in prison." Billy said making him chuckle.
"A little to soft if you ask me." Lane said.
"Oh relax." Sean said before they headed into town to the docks.
"Nice place." Regina said admiring the ocean.
"Yeah it is pretty cool." Sean said before a police car parked next to them. "Hmm?" Sean said as the Chief got out. "Hey Chief." Sean said making him chuckle.
"Sean. What have I told you about calling me that?" The Chief said. "Just call me by my name." The Chief said.
"Sorry Gibson. Whats up?" Sean asked.
"I need you to come with me. Ben Mediera was killed by a shark." Gibson said.
"Wait what?" Sean said.
"Come with me and I'll show you." Gibson said.
Soon they arrived at a different part of the docks and found the body.
"I'm no expert on sharks like you but I can see this was caused by a shark. Bobby said he saw the whole thing. By the Great white he tried to kill." Gibson said.
"No...This wasn't caused by a Great white. Theres to much of him left. Great whites tend to leave less of the body around " Sean said as he and the Island's doctor looked at the remains.
"To much? He looks like hamburger meat." Gibson said.
"Maybe. But still these wounds aren't close enough to that of a great white. Matter of fact I've never seen a shark victim with these kind of wounds." Sean said.
"You believe it was something else?" Gibson asked.
"Hmm. I'll get back to you on that. Try to keep people out of the water for a while." Sean said before he left to go back to the group.
Later
David had decided to stay and explore the island while the others went to the island known as Shark Tooth island.
"Hell of a place to work." Lane said as they docked at the port before he spotted some weird looking Totems. "The hell are those things." Lane said.
"Totems. Word is this entire island is cursed." Sean said as they went inside the facility.
"I was wondering when you would all show up." Talbot said above them.
"Chief had me look at the body of Ben Mediera. Thought he was attacked by a shark but the wounds don't match any known species." Sean said.
The others were setting up the power lines the replace the old ones due to no one using this place for 25 years.
While they were doing this Regina was up at Sean's work place seeing various photos and articles of Sharks. Her eyes then landed on a photo album before she opened it and smiled seeing various photos of him and his friends both in school and the military before her eyes landed on something she wasn't expecting. A woman who looked incredible sick holding an infant.
"Anna." Talbot said as he approached her. "Her name is Anna. She was the Godmother of Tom kids along with Sam and Ross's daughters." Talbot said.
"What happened?" Regina asked.
"I think you can guess. Died of Cancer three days after he was born. He didn't even know about her till a few months ago. Thats why he's doing all this. To prevent the same thing from happening to anyone else." Talbot said before Sean answered his phone and frowned.
"Uh guys. Theres been another attack." Sean said.
Soon they reached the island again to get David who was with Gibson's daughter Elizabeth.
"The hell happened this time?" Sean asked Gibson who sighed.
"Local kids were jumping off the edge into the water like they usually do. Then when your Brother and another boy jumped down the later was attacked and killed by the same Shark as before. Only this time your brother got a good look at it. Never seen an animal like this before." Gibson said.
"What did it look like?" Lane asked David.
"It looked like a Shark except at the same time it didn't. The body wasn't smooth like all sharks its skin was all bumpy." David said.
"Sharks don't have bumpy skin." Sean said.
"The doctor pulled this out of the boy when he was examining the body." Gibson said and Sean took it and looked at it.
"It has the characteristics of a Great white. But something feels off. We'll search the waters and look for this thing." Sean said as he and the others left.
"Hey Kruger! I hear it was your shark that did this even had the damned thing Tagged." Puckett said trying to turn everyone against him but was failing since Sean had done a lot of good things for the people of this island in the last 3 months.
"Go bother someone who has time for your useless bullshit." Sean said getting a few laughs from the locals making Puckett frown.
Soon the group was heading back to Shark Tooth island.
Down below Sean was examining the Tooth before Gail walked in.
"Who was that jackass anyway?" Gail asked.
"Adam Puckett. Local fisherman who loves attention and money. Little bastard always has had it out for me since I arrived. Once I started gaining everyones approval here he became increasingly annoyed." Sean said before looking closely at the tooth and widened his eyes. "What the." Sean said before getting it under a microscope.
"What is it?" Gail asked.
"This tooth has roots in it. Great Whites don't have roots." Sean said before handing it to him.
"Do any?" Gail asked.
"No. Mammals do which is exactly what they are but the tooth itself is defiantly that of a great white." Sean said before the monitor showed the pregnant Great white in a green color.
"Thats the Great White you tagged right?" Gail asked.
"One of them." Sean said before something else appeared in red. "What the hell?" Sean said before it started to approach the Great white and when it did the Vitals started to act up before flatlining making them both rush up.
"The hell happened to the Great white?" Billy asked before Sean stopped the boat.
"Something attacked her." Sean said before it started to near them. Sean turned on the cameras below before getting a better look at it.
"What the hell is that?" Billy asked before they saw what looked like arms attacking the cameras.
"Now what?" Frank asked as they listened for anything unusual before a loud screeching sound was heard and an inhuman hand smacked on the ship before Sean took a Machete and cut off a finger making it roar in pain before swimming away.
"What in the world?" Sean asked before grabbing the finger showing it was a claw.
"Ever seen anything like that?" Gail asked.
"No." Sean said.
Next morning
Puckett apparently had caught the carcass of the Great white last night and held it above the docks claiming he killed the beast that killed two people.
"Cut the bullcrap! All you did was find the dead body." Sean said. No one believes a word Puckett said to begin with since they knew what kind of man he was.
"Whats the matter Kruger you just jealous I killed your little pet?" Puckett said mockingly before Sean punched him in the face busting his nose.
"Piss off." Sean said.
"Enough." Gibson said approaching them. "Sean. I know you won't like what I'm about to say. But to prove to everyone your shark did not kill anyone we have to cut her open." Gibson said.
"No. I'm not going to just let you mutilate my trophy." Puckett said.
"It's already mutilated by whatever really did this. Now back up." Gibson said handing Sean a cutting knife making him sigh.
"I swear I'm going to kill whatever really did this." Sean said before cutting the shark open before her guts spilled out and her unborn young along with a few digested fish but no actual bodies.
"This proves the Shark did not do this." Gibson said making the locals groan seeing there was something still out there. "Now. Puckett you'll be the one cleaning this up." Gibson said making him growl in annoyance.
Sean was looking over the claw from last night before his eyes landed on a man known as Werewolf a local who had some rather insane traits before he noticed he was looking at the claw in fear.
"You know what this is?" Sean asked before he just up and ran away in fear making Sean suspicious.
Later Sean and his group were at a bar going over everything they knew.
"This has something to do with the people who ran the island 25 years ago. But everything is redacted." Sean said looking at the files that were sent.
"For you it is. You need high level clearance in order to access those files." Talbot said.
"Is there any information we can get?" Sean asked.
"I made a call to the navy a few minutes ago they said they'd call back." Talbot said before the bar owner told them the navy called back.
"Finally." Sean said heading to the phone. "Hello?" Sean said.
"Sean Ashburn Kruger?" A man said on the other end of the phone.
"Yes." Sean said.
"This is Admiral Richland. You called about Sharks Tooth island?" Richland asked.
"Yes. Look there is something very strange going on down here lately. Theres been a few attacks that look like Shark Attacks but they're not." Sean said.
"Strange how exactly?" Richland asked.
"Truthfully I have no idea how to explain it. The only thing I can say is whatever is doing this attacked my boat last night and did not have the full appearance of a shark. It looked...Almost human." Sean said making him frown on the other end.
"Is there anything else you know?" Richland asked.
"Only small pieces of evidence that I have. A Shark tooth with Roots and a claw I managed to get when I chopped it off." Sean said.
"Listen to me very closely. Do not tell anyone you don't trust with this information and keep it to yourself for a while. I'll head down to the island and tell you everything I know face to face." Richland said before hanging up.
"Hmm." Sean said before putting the phone away.
"Well?" Talbot asked.
"Admiral Richland said he'd be coming down to tell us everything." Sean said.
"Admiral Richland?" Ross asked.
"Yeah. Does that name mean something to you?" Sean asked.
"We knew a Lieutenant Richland back then when your grandfather was alive. He was one of his best men." Shepherd said.
"Dad?" Sean asked.
"I never really knew him all that well. But his reputation states he'll do anything to get the job done." Tom said.
"If he's coming down here it means he knows more about this than anyone." Lane said.
"I'm not so sure about that." Sean said looking out the window seeing Werewolf outside with a fearful look before running away.
"What him? He's a nut." Lane said.
"I don't think so. Theres something off about him." Sean said.
Later
During the night the group headed back to the island before Sean and David heard an air horn.
"The hell?" David said as they both went to the edge of the pier and found Werewolf in a boat using the air horn underwater.
"HEY! What the fuck are you doing!" Sean yelled before he jumped in. "Damnit!" Sean yelled before diving in.
"Damnit boy!" Tom yelled before Sean started to swim to werewolf and pulled him back to the docks.
"The hell we're you trying to do! Calling it or warning it?" Gail asked before they pulled him up and went inside.
Once they were inside Werewolf immidielty rushed to a hatch and tried to open it.
"Damnit man." David said about to pull him back.
"Wait a second." Sean said before getting a metal pipe and opened the hatch.
"Ugh." Regina said in disgust as an awful smell came out of the hatch.
Sean deciding to go down found Quints old Riffle before he and Gail went down.
"Boys I'm not so sure about this." Tom said.
"We're already down here anyway." Gail said.
"Hmm." Sean said flicking a light switch on and a large tunnel of lights appeared.
"Wonder where this goes?" Gail said.
"Only one way to find out." Sean said as they went deeper into the tunnel before they found passageways submerged in water up to the legs.
"Think something collapsed down here?" Gail asked.
"No, thats not it." Sean said as they ventured in deeper and found a secret lab. "The hell?" Sean asked seeing specimens in jars along with torn notes and equipment in the room.
"Never seen equipment like this." Gail said.
"It's old. 25 years old to be exact." Sean said before picking up a journal full of written notes about the Creature. "Property of Doctor Ernest Bishop." Sean said reading the front page. "So this is the guy who made this thing. But why?" Sean asked before he noticed Gail was gone. "Gail?" Sean said.
"Over here." Gail said from the next room which Sean went to before falling down into the water due to there being a drop off step.
"A little warning next time." Sean said.
"Sorry. Look at all this stuff." Gail said showing various objects before they heard some noise. "Whats that?" Gail asked.
"The generator to the facility. We must be right under it." Sean said before he got a better look at this stuff. "Hey wait a minute. Most of this stuff is Puckett's. What the hell is it..." Sean tried to say before his eyes widened and the creature came out of the water and tried to slash them. "SHIT!" Sean yelled and his yell echoed.
"BOYS!" Tom yelled before getting a shot gun and rushed down there.
"Tom wait a minute!" Lane yelled before he reached the bottom.
Sean and Gail quickly rushed out of the submerged part of the tunnel before the creature got out of the water.
"Holy shit!" Sean said before they looked at the creature before they saw it was dying. "It's to week outside the water." Sean said before it started to groan as its body started to adapt and grew longer arms and legs and lungs. "Or not! Move!" Sean yelled as they rushed back to the stairs.
"Boys! Whats going on?" Tom asked.
"Never mind that now!" Sean yelled as they rushed back up to the top with the creature on their tail before they reached the top and sealed the hatch.
"Holy crap." Gail said.
"What happened?" Lane asked.
"The dame thing is actually evolving." Sean said before Werewolf started mumbling.
"It was never meant to do that." Werewolf mumbled.
Next morning
The group headed back to the other island to get away from the creature for the night.
"I don't understand. No animal evolves that fast." Sean said.
"Well, it's been in a cage for 25 years." Regina said handing him some photos of Puckett with a large cage. "Apparently Puckett found this the day we came to the island." Regina said.
"Fucking figures." Sean said rubbing his temples.
"Wait. If it's been in the ocean all this time...Then who put it there?" Lane asked before Sean looked at the beach seeing Werewolf doing god knows what.
"I have a pretty good idea." Sean said.
Soon they headed back to Sharks tooth island and found a chopper outside.
"That must be Richland." Talbot said as they went inside and found a small group of soldiers.
"General Kruger." Richland said appearing from around a corner. "Nice to see you again after 20 years." Richland said.
"Ah now I remember you at my father's funeral." Tom said remembering him again from that day.
"Sean Ashburn Kruger." Richland said making Sean step forward. "Come with me I'll tell you everything you need to know." Richland said leading him away.
"I'm going to assume this was one of my grandfather's secret projects." Sean said as they sat down in his lab.
"Mostly. Your familiar with genetically built Hybrids right?" Richland asked.
"Course. Combining the DNA of two different species into one new creation which started out from plants." Sean said.
"Exactly. Your grandfather hired a scientist who knew this field more than anyone in our time for a top secret project. After our loss in Nam he was determined not to let the country lose another war." Richland said.
"So he hired a man named Ernest Bishop right?" Sean asked making him raise an eyebrow.
"How'd you know that?" Bishop asked before Sean opened a drawer and pulled out his journal.
"I found this last night when we found out that hatch over there." Sean said pointing to the hatch. "Led to his secret lab. Lots of creep stuff down there." Sean said making him nod.
"How did you find out about that?" Richland asked.
"Him." Sean said pointing to Werewolf who was looking at them the whole time from a distance.
"Peniston" Richland said.
"Is that his name? Who is he?" Sean asked.
"Bishop's assistant. Lost a few good friends during Nam. So he was hired to help." Richland said.
"So what was going on down here?" Sean asked.
"Bishop had created and modified genetic Hybrids made of both Great White Sharks and Dolphins. He actually did it. Then your grandfather got a call about needing extra funding. This of course made him suspicious so we both came down from DC to find out what was going on. Saw the Hybrids...But then we saw something else that was not sanctioned by your grandfather." Richland said.
"You're talking about the creature." Sean said.
"Yes. It somehow got out of its cage and killed all the Hybrids along with three people including Bishop. Ironic that he was killed by his own creation. Damn thing went out to sea or at lest it tried to but got caught in a cage which Peniston took out into the ocean before dropping it. The General and I cleaned up their mess and never saw it again assuming it was dead since no reports of anything about it came up for 25 years." Richland said.
"Till now. A local fisherman named Adam Puckett found the damn cage and opened it by accident. What I want to know is why this thing has a human like appearance." Sean said making him sigh.
"We believe this thing is part Human as well." Richland said.
"If its part human...Then who's blood is running through it?" Sean asked making him look at Peniston.
"I think you already know the answer to that." Richland said.
Soon Sean and Gail led the soldiers down to the lair.
"I'm surprised you and my father never found this back then." Tom said to Richland.
"We never thought there was anything unusual about that hatch so we left it." Richland said.
"I think theres underwater passageways down here which lets it come and go whenever it wants." Sean said on the comms.
"Roger that. I'll scan the island so we can get a better read out on it." Richland said.
"God that smell." Gail said as they entered the last place they saw it.
"Instal some cameras on the walls so we can find it if it comes back." Sean said getting the soldiers to do just that.
"Anything else down there?" Richland asked.
"I think I saw some personal notes in his lab. They might still be useful and salvageable. Better to not let work like that be wasted if it can benefit the country and the world." Sean said.
"Understood. Find anything valuable and bring it back topside. I want that lab burned down." Richland said.
"Right. Gail lets move." Sean said as they went to the lab.
Later
"Unbelievable." Sean said going over every note Bishop had about genetics even cancer.
"Find what your lookin for?" Richland asked sitting down next to him.
"I wish Bishop was alive so I could punch him in the face. He had the answer to cure Cancer all this time and did nothing. This could have saved my Godmother Anna 12 years ago." Sean said rubbing his temples.
"Well, Now you can use it better than he did." Richland said before one of the soldiers came to him.
"The thing isn't there." The soldier said making him sigh in annoyance.
"Where the hell is it?" Richland asked.
"Well...I got one possible idea. The marshes. Police Chief Gibson knows where it is. Might as well go now." Sean said before they left.
Later
"This thing thats been attacking the people. What is it?" Gibson asked as Sean with Quints Riffle out walked into the marshes.
"Uh...Thats rather difficult to explain but it's something a mad scientist made for some reason." Sean said as they came to crosswalk to get past the marshes.
However suddenly the head of Adam Puckett came out of the water along with the sign of a downed ship by Sharks Tooth island.
"Puckett." Sean said before grabbing the sign.
"Whats that?" Richland asked.
"Belongs to a downed ship by the island. If I had to guess I'd say theres more passage ways that lead to every part of the islands." Sean said before he noticed the soldiers were missing. "Wait...Where are the soldiers?" Sean asked before the Creature came out and tries to slash Richland had Sean not shot it in the shoulder making it roar in pain before going back under.
"It took them out without even making a sound." Richland said in shock since that took extreme amounts of stealth training to pull that off.
"This thing is learning. Adapting to the world." Sean said. "We need to get out of here." Sean said as they rushed out of the marshland.
Gibson stayed behind to warn the people while Sean and Richland went back to Sharks tooth island.
"Hmm." Sean said looking over the notes Bishop left behind before his eyes widened.
"Oh god." Sean said.
"What is it?" Richland asked.
"I kept wondering why Bishop made all these notes about the creatures reproductive system. Now I think I know why. He knew my grandfather wouldn't keep funding him for more Hybrids so he implanted the ability into the creature to breed even with another Common Great White shark. This is more than just a Hybrid. This is an entirely new species. All it needs to do is Breed just once." Sean said making him frown.
"We gotta kill this thing now." Richland said.
"We tried it your way didn't work. Now we do this my way." Sean said.
"Any ideas?" Richland asked.
"Yeah. First we need to find it and lure it into the facility. I have a pressure Chamber we can use to blow it up." Sean said.
"Are you sure that will even work?" Richland asked.
"Why do you think they call it explosive decompression?" Sean asked as they neared the island and found Regina talking to Peniston or rather yelling at him.
"Why didn't you kill back then? Why?" Regina asked making him sob.
"My blood." Peniston said sobbing. "Its part of me." Peniston said.
"Regina." Sean said getting her attention. "Enough. He has a connection to the creature. Thats why he didn't kill it." Sean said. "But never mind that now. I have a plan to kill it." Sean said.
"Oh yeah? How?" Gail asked.
Later
Richland was piloting a small underwater drone under the caves of the island.
"There has to be a dozen tunnels that lead all over the island." Richland said before he heard some kind of noise.
"Whats that?" Ross asked.
"Thats the generator. It powers the whole place." Talbot said.
"It can't be. Those caves don't go that far." Richland said.
"The dame thing is already there. It found another way in." Talbot said before reaching for the Radio to warn the others.
Billy and Frank were above the hatch before the Radio went off but it came all static.
"Damnit." Sean said before the proximity alarm went off.
"It's already here." Gail said before Frank and Billy opened the hatch.
"Come on lets go." Billy said as he, Frank and Sean went down to find and kill this thing.
"We need to lure it into the Pressure Chamber. We don't know if bullets will actually kill it." Sean said.
"Didn't you wound the thing with an old riffle?" Frank asked.
"Yeah in the shoulder. But this thing adapts for everything. But it can't adapt to its body exploding from decompression." Sean said.
"We'll see what happens when we find it." Billy said.
Meanwhile the others rushed into the facility to warn them.
"Where are the others?" Tom asked.
"They went down to kill this thing." Regina said making him growl before heading down the hatch.
Billy and Frank went into the lab first before Sean did as well.
"Man. Bishop really didn't hold back when he made this thing." Sean said before it appeared out of the water and slashed Frank in the shoulder making him groan in pain before Sean grabbed a jar and smashed it on its head making it roar.
"GO NOW!" Sean yelled as he and Billy dragged Frank out of the lab.
"There you are!" Tom said rushing to them.
"We need to lure this thing topside." Sean said before it came into the halls and Sean shot it in the shoulder making it roar in pain. "GO NOW!" Sean yelled as he kept firing at the thing before he ran out of ammo. "FUCK!" Sean yelled as he and his father rushed to the ladder with the creature on their tail. "Don't shut it." Sean said as Lane was about to do that.
"What!" Lane yelled.
"Just don't!" Sean said as the creature started to come out of the hatch.
"Jesus Christ." Lane said in shock seeing the thing up close.
Peniston however grabbed something around his neck reveling it to be a high frequency device before activating it making the creature roar.
"This way." Peniston said making Sean go to him as both went into the chamber.
"This better work." Sean said as the creature soon followed them in.
"Go." Peniston said to Sean.
"Peniston." Sean said trying to get him out.
"Go...At least he won't die alone." Peniston said making him sigh before rushing out and shut the door before Peniston screamed as the creature killed him.
"Fuck." Sean said before turning the chamber on. Soon enough there was high levels of pressure on and the Creature was trying to break out. "Sorry Peniston." Sean said before breaking the glass open and the creature began to expand greatly before it exploded.
"Sean!" Regina yelled as she and Gail rushed to him.
"I'm alright. It's done." Sean said looking at the remains inside.
"Finally." Richland said in relief.
"Lets get the hell out of here." Sean said.
Present day.
"Damn." Turok said in disbelief. "Normal really did go out the window during World war 2." Turok said making Richland chuckle.
"Oh you have no idea." Richland said.
"So I assume you'll be helping us out now." Sean said.
"Yes. You need all the help you can get at this point." Richland said making Sean nod.
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