Ohyaho everyone! CJzilla here, hammering out her next addition to the "Secret Saturdays" archive! The idea and basic plot is taken from "The Invisible Monster" episode of Hanna-Barbera's own Jonny Quest. It's kinda my fan-letter to Mr. Jay Stephens for creating something modeled after those awesome 1960s action cartoons, that I myself love so much. Enjoy.
Synopsis: An accident in the Anaractic laboratory of Secret Scientist Dr. Miranda Grey creates a destructive creature made of pure energy. An SOS is sent to the Saturdays' base, urgently pleading for immediate help. Upon arriving in Antarctica, the Saturdays find more then they thought they would, including the power of the accidental monstrous creation, that it feeds on energy and it lives only to feed, devouring all forms of energy... even the energy inside a human body. They are even more surprised to find that Dr. Grey never sent the SOS; it was her fifteen-year-old adoptive daughter that no one knew existed. How will the Saturdays fight something made of pure energy without getting consumed? And what other secrets is Dr. Grey hiding?
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The Invisible Monster
Chapter 1
An Experiment Gone Wrong
Antarctica. The Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. 5.4 million square miles of the coldest, windiest, driest mass of land in the entire world and as of any public records, housed no permanent human residents. Apart from the seasonal researchers, biologists and the odd extreme tourist, usually sticking to the relatively temperate climates of the coast, Antarctica lay aloof and barren. But, if one was to travel further inland, past the popular shorelines, multi-cultural research stations and even past the penguins, they would find a base hidden within the frozen landscape.
This was the base of a Dr. Miranda Grey, physics and particle acceleration expert. Also known as a Secret Scientist.
Standing above the permanently frozen wasteland, the secret base was supported by "legs" secured deep into the icepack below. Unwelcoming nighttime Antarctic winds blew a nippy -40 degrees while the insides of this base were a comfortable seventy three degrees. Inside and through the sterile yet highly advanced hallways, a monstrous and eerie humming resonated. The walls and floors pulsed with the droning of big machines handling enormous amounts of power. Heavy lead doors and thick plates over the windows prevented any straying radioactivity or "occupational hazards" from breeching the outside. In a sealed room, at the far end of the base, Dr. Miranda Grey was working late performing her physics and particle experiments.
The stony red-headed doctor may look as if she should be elsewhere, possibly back in civilization giving lectures on physics to over-worked college students, but as a Secret Scientist Dr. Grey could dabble in things that a college campus couldn't offer. Things that would further mankind advancement and fix dilemmas constantly plaguing the world. Dr. Grey's current project: experimenting with molecular energy and harnessing it.
Dr. Grey stood at one of her huge super-computer monitors studying the results of her latest experiment. The products of her experiments proved frustrating; all leading to sudden dead ends. The red-headed physics expert growled, resting her hands on the console under the huge monitor.
"I don't understand it. I'm SO close!" Dr. Grey then ran her hand through her hair, messing her bangs and scratching her scalp under her thick bun. "I cannot find the leaky sequence of particles that cancels a successful outcome!"
The woman then heard metallic footfalls behind her. A tall robotic mass of Dr. Grey's own technology stood behind his creator. "Deadbolt", Miranda's robotic lab partner studied her calculations, the experiments' results and her frustration.
"You say a sequence of faulty particles, Lady?" Deadbolt beeped in his usual respectful tone. "I am not sure that is what you should be searching for since your calculations of particle integers are innately correct. Have you reevaluated your power units-?"
Dr. Grey gasped.
"Power units! Deadbolt! You're a genius!" The woman cheered before running to another monitor and pressing a few buttons. Deadbolt stiffly walked after his creator.
"As you have created me, Lady." The robot chirped, walking to the scientist's side. Dr. Grey scoffed at her robot's formalities, continuing to flick toggles.
"Yes, but you alerted me to an obvious fault in my experiment: more energy." Suddenly the machine the Secret Scientist was standing before roared to life. Dr. Grey picked up a pair of protective goggles. "Even in the smallest particle, there is an enormous amount of energy. I must break that wall of power down to make energy into mass. A jolt of super-power should shock my particles and cause a reaction."
"Reaction, Lady? Of what kind?" Deadbolt asked. To his surprise, Miranda Grey shrugged.
"That's why it's called an experiment. I have no idea what will happen when I supercharge engineered, altered particles of my own making." The red head's plump lips curled into a smile. By that time the machine was roaring to life.
Dr. Grey slapped her goggles over her charming eyes before setting a finger on a blue button. When pressed, two huge energy ray devices came out of the ceiling. With a flick of a switch, an experimental electrode eased out of an opening in the floor. The energy rays focused on the electrode and hummed with sustained power.
"I must try again." The physics expert stated, her eyes shining. Flipping two more switches, she gulped. "I'm so close to success, it MUST work!"
Then Dr. Grey's eyes fixed on two large toggles. Taking in a breath and blowing it out slowly, the woman put her hand on the first of the two toggles.
"Next… to…" She swallowed; a lump of nervousness nearly pinching shut her throat. "… to increase my power units. More on A Force."
She eased the first toggle forward and the energy rays crackled with the surge of power.
"And more on B Force." Dr. Grey grabbed the last toggle and pushed it forward. Unimaginable power flowed through the energy rays and into the electrode.
The room began to glow with an aggressive light as the electrode began to vibrate. Then a strobe-light effect shot through the area as the electrode turned from red to blue to yellow to orange. Dr. Grey's breath left her as her experiment began to create a new form of energy.
"Molecular energy has formed… It has body!" The woman leaned on her console, eager to see the full force of her achievement. "And it CAN be harnessed!"
Suddenly the power-buildup was too strong. The monitors and consoles in the room began malfunctioning. Sparks from disintegrating wires flew out of the machines.
"Power levels too high!" Dr. Grey yelled out as the energy controlling console began to short-circuit. "Initiating emergency shut down!"
Her hand was nearly on the big red button when the overloaded electrode collapsed and suddenly blew. An explosion of pure energy decimated the laboratory, peeling back the lead insulation like the metal was banana peels. Aggressive bolts of electricity shot high into the sky, spider-webbing over the night before attacking the base itself. In an instant, all main power was instantly shut off. The secret base was suddenly as dark as the Antarctic night around it.
Dr. Grey's eyes snapped open. She saw the glow of the red emergency lights and felt the bitter wind from the outside Antarctic blow up her pants and flood through her grey jumpsuit. NO! The cushioning lead barrier between the experiments and the sensitive Antarctic environment had been destroyed! The woman smelt the smoke of burning wires, electronics and robotics. Dr. Grey struggled to move and found her body caked in debris. Getting to her knees, her head struck something. Looking up, she was shocked to see that there was a huge structural support above her; nearly flattening her as the explosion decimated her laboratory.
Dr. Grey's jumpsuit was in ribbons and her skin was badly burned. Pushing passed the debris blocking her path the stinging wind-whipped snow lost its touch when a terrible sound filled her ears. Looking up, through the blackness of the night and white-out cased by the wind she saw… something. The outline of some huge mass about fifteen feet high and ten feet across could be seen in the sheets of wind-blown snow! But the size of the thing did not frighten her; it was the realization that her experiment gave mass to pure energy. And it was now loose!
As the snow hit it, it immediately melted, sending wave after wave of sparks off of the mass. Dr. Grey scrambled to get to the door and into the rest of her base when she saw Deadbolt sparking under a pile of crumbled building.
"Deadbolt!" The scientist called out, rushing to her robotic assistant. Tossing chunks of rubble from her robot, Dr. Grey saw that his artificial intelligence was still functioning.
"L-L-Lady. P-p-p-power r-r-readings ar-r-re off th-th-the charts. Y-you m-m-must get t-to s-safet-t-ty." Deadbolt garbled and sparked before his fractured robotic eyes came to the mass of living energy behind her, now approaching. "B-b-behind y-you!"
The woman craned her head around and saw the wave of sparks from the energy being advancing on her. Dr. Grey gasped and rushed to her feet. The woman heard the mass of energy hit Deadbolt. With an aggressive electronic hiss, all of the robot's energy was depleted and it fell lifeless. That amplified the fear factor all ready coursing through her body.
Dr. Grey could now see the crushed doorway to the rest of her base. Clamoring over the mounds of unstable debris, with a freak energy experiment on her tail, the female scientist was having difficulty getting away. Suddenly a chunk of flaming roof fell from above. Dr. Grey had no time to dodge it and the hunk of flaming debris fell on her. Immediately she heard a sickening crack from her shoulder as the hot mass of roof pinned her to the ground. The pain never registered, since all she could think about was getting away from her experiment.
The hissing of moisture on energy was now sounding in her ears. Looking upwards, the physics scientist saw the invisible energy monster nearly on her.
Dr. Grey suddenly looked to the doorway. The woman saw her fifteen-year-old daughter cradling her pet cat standing at the wrecked entrance, mouth open and horror on her young face. Before Miranda could call to her, she felt her energy getting sucked out of her by the energy monster.
Dr. Miranda Grey could not warn her daughter as her world went black.
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