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My eyes flickered open and they meet the ceiling of my small bedroom, the glare of the bright LED lights hurt my eyes greatly. I had another rough sleep, all because of a local friend's party I went to. Me and my twin sister Berry happened to be invited, and we both got wasted as a result. She sleeps next to me peacefully, still reeking from the drugged reefberries we ate last night. Still feeling goofy from the reefberries, I sat up and looked around the tiny room.

It was a mess, like a bomb exploded or something. Pizza boxes, reefburger wrappings, and large empty bottles of moonshine littered the floor. I hadn't been cleaning my oxygen filled bunker lately, and I know Berry won't clean it either. The reason why I'm living in an oxygen-filled bunker of a home underneath the ocean is because of my electronic equipment, they don't like to get wet you see. The benefits of living in a 100% oxygen filled atmosphere is that I feel more alert and focused, the bad news is that my snork frame has trouble supporting my full weight, since water normally takes up most of the slack.

Speaking of weight, I think I had let myself go again. My waist seemed larger than I had remembered, or its because I am only wearing boxers. So I got out of bed and walked out of the bedroom and into the large octagonal-shaped room, AKA my lab. I approached my digital weight scale and stepped on its small platform and waited for a few seconds, last time it read 28 grams, now it read 37. I don't care about how much I weigh anymore, so I let seeing the results slip out of my mind.

When I stepped off the scale, I walked over to the mirror to see the damage I had done to myself from that party. My eyes seemed fine and my green skin hadn't changed, my body seemed fine but my home was a mess. Trash littered the floor and counter tops, I soon began to think I had the party here.

I snapped sense into myself, it had been this way for 8 months. 8 months since the last time I had made an invention, 8 months since I visited Snorkland. Ah Snorkland, just 40 kilometers to the North of my own region I call "The Outback." The sand here is an orange tan and the waters are green, unique in the oceans of Earth. Some say the landscape was formed by seismic activity, since there's a fault line going through part of the region. Others say that it was caused by human pollution, since radioactive waste barrels were dumped here and so, led to me being born. I personally believed its due to both theories, and I had them backed up quite well.

I'm a scientist, a well respected snork-human hybrid. My human and snork genes came from intelligent families, giving me a brain that makes me the smartest snork alive. I've been having problems lately, I hadn't had an adventure nor an invention in creation in almost a year. Being frustrated and non-talkative isn't normally for me, as I am usually a happy and silly snork. This is damaging my relationship to my sister, who is also having her own strain. All those parties, moonshine, drugged reefberries, and more partying cut us off from Snorkland.

AllStar Seaworthy is my father, how he came to be my parent is due to the human pollution somewhere near Snorkland. He tried to open up one of the barrels but cut his hand by accident, his blood mixed with the radioactive waste and bonded to female human DNA. Then I was formed out of the stuff, and so I was born alone. I don't know when Berry came to be, maybe she was born later or something. All I know is that she claimed she was born in the explosion, the blast knocked her into a corral reef and her skull split it in two. I personally believed it.

Ever since revealing me being his son, AllStar grew a bond to me. I neglected it though, but his end proves strong. I was naïve back then, it took me awhile to accept his family love. I managed to get along with my granduncles, or great uncles, Gallio and Strangesnork. I work with both of them in their experiments, since I even the scales quite well. Governor Wetworth however, I never got along with. Though his son Junior though, I become good friends with.

Thinking back of all the accomplishments I made, I realized how much of a sorry state I was in. I built the snork race's first nuclear reactors and built an industrial complex and rule a de facto economy in The Outback, I've mass-produce video games, HDTVs, and computers, I control one of the largest natural gas reserves in the area, and I rot in my home because I could not come up with something new. Its time to change, I know it.

"Are you staring at yourself in the mirror again brother?" I heard Berry's voice say.

I turned towards the door to my bedroom and saw Berry standing there in a silly smile, wearing only panties. "I was." I told her.

Rex, my green "neuroctopus," came crawling out of the bedroom, slithering through the trash on the floor. "What do you want to do today?" Berry asked.

"I want to go to Snorkland," I told her, "I wanna see AllStar and his friends."

"Its been awhile since we've last seen them," said Berry, "I miss him too, let's get ready."

"Okay," I said, "Lets get dress and head on out."

"Okay, Radio." said Berry.

We both went back to the bedroom and got dressed in our everyday clothes, I wear a white t-shirt with green sleeves and midnight green pants as Berry wore a midnight green t-shirt and same colored pants. With our clothes on, we head out the door as our pet synthetic octopus followed behind us. I opened the air to the airlock and pushed the bulkhead door open, we all stepped into the small room and sealed it up. Berry pressed a button and filled the room with clean sea water from the outside.

As I breathed in the ocean water, I feel my weight easing off my feet. My snork feet were killing me, due to how unique my foot was shaped. Me and Berry's feet looked like duck feet, just like normal snorks, but with 4 toes instead of three. We could spread them out 270 degrees, and use them as suction cups on walls. This stressed our feet more, but special shoes similar to the ones snorks wear helped us a lot.

I soon opened the bulkhead door to the outside and me, Berry, and Rex swam through a cave before swimming outside. The entrance to our secret bunker sealed itself up just after our exit, "Race you, sissy!" I called.

"Oh I'll win this time." said Berry.

Me and Berry made a mad dash towards Snorkland using our powerful snorks, able to propel us at a ridiculous speed. We jetted through corral reefs and ocean plant life, even passing our neighbors. The Feral Snorks living in The Outback are hostile to outsiders, but are friendly to us. During our race, my satellite phone rang and I answered it. "Hey Radio," said Billy Bob Wetworth, my best friend, "How's it going."

"Great Bill," I said.

"Have you come up with a new invention yet?" asked Billy Bob.

"You've been snorking me on for months Billy."

"I know but the workers here want to built something new, please get to it soon or there might be a strike."

"Billy, I'm going to see my father. I haven't seen him in a long time now and I wish you don't call me in the middle of it."

"Oh. Okay Radio, if you need anything, you know where to find me."

"The Seaworthy Nuclear Power Plant, I got it."

"Okay, bye."

"Bye Billy."

I hang up and pocketed the shellphone, "Was that Billy Bob?" asked Berry.

"Yeah," I replied, "He was asking me a few things, I told him I'll get on it soon."

"Okay."

The workers at the industrial complex like to build things, but must be constantly supplied with new schematics in order to keep the assembly lines going. I hadn't came up with one in months, its a surprise that they were still working the same thing over and over again.

Me, Berry, and Rex soon reached Snorkland in little more than half an hour, it hadn't changed since my visit. We swam past the traffic and went to all the usual areas where AllStar and the gang hangs out, they weren't there. So I checked over at his house, they weren't there. And I checked over at Dr. Gallio's place, he was there but not AllStar and his friends. We popped inside and saw Dr. Gallio working on a latest invention, some sort of large orange machine. The sight saddened me, since I hadn't came up with one since last December.

When Dr. Gallio looked up and saw us, he was surprised. "Radio? Berry?" he asked, "Its been a long time since I last see you."

"Hey Gallio," me and Berry said in unison, "Have you seen AllStar?"

"He's at a public gathering at the moment," said Dr. Gallio, "Governor Wellington is there speaking of an emergency."

"What happened?" I asked.

"Snorks are disappearing from left and right," said Dr. Gallio, "Vanishing without a trace. There weren't any Snork-Eater sightings and the usual villains weren't up to anything at the moment, its quite unusual. The Snork Patrol hadn't found a culprit yet, and Snork Police failed even to gather up suspects."

"I'll go check out the public gathering," I said, "I'm sure that the Governor won't mind my presence."

"He still doesn't like you too." warned Dr. Gallio.

"That makes things easier for me," I said, "I'll catch you later Gallio."

"I'll see you later then." said Dr. Gallio, "Say hi to AllStar for me."

"I will." I replied.

Me, Berry, and Rick left Gallio's lab in a heartbeat and head straight for Town Hall, "Well that was quick," said Berry, "What are you planning to do at the public gathering Radio?"

"I have a plan in store for the Governor," I answered, "Just sit tight and watch the show."

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