Agent Drake handed Stellan and Me a packet. It contained something I never thought I’d see in person: new photographs og The Barnacle Darling, the research vessel my grandfather and his scientists were on when they vanished in Sandal Atoll. More importantly, the debris and wreckage were covered in two very rare species of fungi.
The first was Samboforma deusglomerforum, a small yellow/brown budding mushroom that looks like a sponge. When tested on lab rats, they began remembering more and more complex mazes, but soon they went blind, and were fully consumed by the fungus. However, the days before their demise they gained amazing abilities, like stretching and compressing their bodies into unique forms. Another notable side effect was the noises and behaviour of the rats in the final stage of their mutation prior to death. They began wheezing and making what could only be described as a “nasally laugh”. The students and researchers all joked that we’d have to work out the issues before they’d be able to use it, because it was far too annoying.
The second fungus was called Seniorem prophetispinus, and, technically, it is a species of starfish that evolved to behave more and more like a parasite, we believe Seniorem prophetispinus to be the oldest living relative of what we know as starfish. When rats were subjected to Seniorem prophetispinus, they grew 300% in both overall size and muscle density. They turned a sickly pink and became violent. They quickly broke out of their cages and attacked SAM-BO personnel. The rats exoskeleton also changed their biology to match that of the mother, or the fungal starfish itself. The terrifying crossbreed between rat and starfish.
We agreed to go see and aid in the research of SAM-BO, and got their and the university’s approval to bring a group of 23 students and colleagues to the atoll to aid SAM-BO, which, umbeknownst to me, my grandfather actually helped found.
Agent Drake is an FBBI agent assigned to our research through SAM-BO. The Federal Bureau of Bloomian Investigation is an offshoot of the FBI that separated in the 1970s and was founded to investigate Cryptozoological Archaeology. Any time a coverup happens whether it be extraterrestrial, bigfoot, etc. My student Chad thinks they may have Illuminati connections, but Chad also thought the world was flat so…
Agent Drake kept attempting to flirt with not only me, but all of the female students, and it obviously wasn’t Stellan’s favorite thing to happen during the trip. He got defensive and told the female students he was trouble. The tension between Agent Drake and Stellan was palpable. It wasn’t long after we got to the islands that we felt we were being watched.
I never thought I’d be so thankful to be stranded underwater. But. Like Grandpa Mohesh says… “Sometimes you gotta dive deeper.”
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