Epsilon worked carefully with the sonar collar before him. He aimed to improve, maybe even perfect the device. They might find it useful in the near future. He expected his people to be furious with him. Not only was the test a failure, they had also lost the controller to the Atmospheric Jelly-Fish. True to his assumption they were not happy, but a new plan had been formed. Epsilon had been chosen to lead the new mission and his son, Francis, was to come along.
Francis did not fail the last mission. No, it was the young Saturday's fault. They did not expect the boy to be clever enough to put the two in danger. Yet the boy had put the Jelly-Fish with the malfunctioning controller in the capsule and allowed the two to run off with an army of the beasts chasing after them. It was not Epsilon's or Francis's fault for the failure.
Francis walked in to the room holding a black metallic box. "They finished it," he held it out to his father. "Do you think this one will work?" Epsilon back away from the sonar collar and took the box. He opened it and handed it back to Francis. "Of course; we learned from our mistakes last time. It will not fail this time." Epsilon said rather calmly. Francis smirked; Zak would never see it coming.
Zak couldn't sleep. Even worse, he was bored. He had tried to wake Fiskerton, but the gorilla cat refused to get up. He laid on his bed and threw Komodo's red ball up in the air, catching it, and repeated. What to do, what to do. He growled and dropped the ball. "Time to raid the kitchen."
Zak didn't even try to be quiet. Even if he did wake up his parents, they yelling to get back to bed would prove to be some sort of entertainment. His parents didn't hear him.
The kitchen lights flickered on when Zak flipped the switch. He opened the pantry and grabbed the bag of chips. He turned of the TV and flipped through the channels. The one thing he hated about watching TV late at night was the most of the shows that were on were soap operas. About a love that could never be and it was boring. He did like late night movies though. The old black and white horror films came on at this time. Zak always found it funny that a lot of the beasts in the movies look similar to some cryptids he had seen. It probably wasn't a coincidence.
A couple of the movies were on right now.
Current Channel 'Creature from the black lagoon.'
Next Channel: Wolfman.
Next Channel: Nothing.
"What the?..." The screen was pitch black and the remote refused to work. Zak sighed and walked up the TV so he could changed it manually. That didn't work either. He was about to go back to bed when he saw something out the window. He would have never saw it if he didn't come of to the TV. It was an oddly shaped being moving drunkenly about the trees. Zak thought about waking up his parents… but he dismissed the thought. They would make him stay inside while they went out to deal with the creature. He had to get outside to see what it was.
