Suyin blinks her eyes a few times as she wakes up.
And she soon saw her father as Zhang was relieved of her alive.
And then Suyin slowly sat up.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Heller gently said. "Take it easy. You were dead a minute ago."
Also in the room was Jonas and Aviva who had her left sleeve pulled up and with a bandage over the slash she got from the tooth. And is also stitched up.
"Doctor." Suyin said regaining her senses a little.
She then turns to Jonas, and he smiled.
"You got me out." Suyin said.
"It was closer than I would've liked." Jonas said.
"Can I have a minute with Jonas?" Suyin asked.
Heller removes a blood pressure strap from her right arm.
"Sure." Zhang answered.
And then Zhang, Heller and Aviva left the room as Jonas approached and sat next to her.
"You saved me." Suyin said. "Again."
"I prefer you alive." Jonas said.
Suyin remained silent.
"There's something you might wanna see." Jonas said.
A moment later, Jonas and Suyin headed out to the deck.
"Wow." Suyin gasped. "Wow."
While Suyin was out, they managed to haul up Sharkzilla's body up on the boat as the tail was hanging up. And a cable section holding it at the mouth as well. And the body had some blood covering it.
And the Wild Kratts gotten some DNA samples like a blood sample collected. And they even got a tooth of their own.
And then Wall who was taking some selfies with the Megalodon noticed them.
"Hey!" Wall smiled and greeted. "Look who's up."
"Hey." Suyin greeted.
"How are ya?" Wall asked.
"I'm better." Suyin said putting on a jacket. "Thank you."
"Jonas, get a picture of me with this big smelly beast." Wall tossed Jonas his phone.
"Okay. Wait." Wall positions himself and leans on an elbow on the jaw. "Here."
"Hey, you want a proper picture, get your head inside." Jonas said.
Wall moves a little closer.
"Closer." Jonas said.
"Closer?" Wall questioned.
"Come on. Get in."
"Okay."
Wall begins to moves closer to the shark's mouth, and pretended to gag. And then moves closer to the mouth and perch his lips as if he was kissing it.
Then the corpse suddenly jerked down and Wall screamed as he backed away as if it was coming at him. And Walls fell into the water.
And the Wild Kratts laughed from that and Wall rose up to the surface.
"Nice one." Jaxx said.
The culprit was actually DJ and Jimmy who were on the other side of the corpse as DJ had the control of the crane.
"Yo, Jonas, please tell me you got that." DJ said.
"I got that, DJ!" Jonas called.
Jaxx laughed and DJ clapped as Wall floated in the water.
"That's not funny, man!" Wall glared at him.
"No, seriously, it's funny." DJ proclaimed. "Look. Watch this." And then he laughed.
And soon, Wall couldn't help but laugh a little.
"We got The Wall in the water." DJ rapped. "We got The Wall in the water."
Wall joins in as well and whooped.
"We got The Wall in the water." DJ continued as Jaxx shook her head and shrugged. "We got The Wall into the water."
"We got The Wall in the water, and it just won't brake." Jimmy finished.
Meanwhile, Jonas looks at the photo and strangely noticed something.
"Hey, Suyin." Jonas said and she turns to him. "Look at him next to the Meg." Jonas zooms in the photo toward's the Megalodon's jaws. "Look, remember the bite marks on the O-Level?"
"Say, didn't Sharkzilla had a scar on the right side of her gills?" Chris asked noticing something was off.
"Well, how do you like that?" Morris approached Zhang looking upset. "That was a serious man vs. nature moment. I'm just glad things went our way."
"It didn't go our way." Zhang said with sympathy of the shark. "Not for Toshi. And not for science. We did what people always do. Discover... and then destroy."
Morris however groaned and moved away.
"Hey, I will end you." Wall said.
"At least you can this as your dating app pic." DJ advised.
"Give you a little leg, you know." Wall said.
"Yeah!" DJ Said.
"Whoo-hoo!"
And Wall floated on his back with his leg out.
"Oh, yeah!" DJ smiled. "Jellyfish!"
Then suddenly erupting from the depths like a great sea monster in a horror film, and swallowing Wall whole. Came a 2nd much larger Megalodon with open jaws, and reveals to be the real Sharkzilla.
And she nears the smaller Megalodon with open jaws.
"Holy, shark!" Aviva exclaimed.
And then the enormous jaws of the Megalodon clamp down around the smaller shark's tail. And then everyone got out of the way as Sharkzilla lands on the deck and shook the boat as Jaxx fell into the water and Sharkzilla clamps a firm grip on the body as the boat started to tilt sideways from her mass as everyone held on and DJ held on to the crane.
The boat started tilting as Sharkzilla then slips off and her massive swung at the crane as DJ fell into the water. And the boat continues to tilt to it's side as some objects started falling as everyone held on. Zhang soon lost balance, and flips over the railing and falls into the water, and then the 2 smaller boats on the upper deck begin to slip off. And one hits the water as Zhang was struck in the chest by the propeller blade.
Everyone held on as the boat was on it's side, and soon they started falling into the water as Suyin lost her grip and fell in the water. And Jonas lets go and dives in the water.
He soon rose to the surface, and turns as the boat then flips over and upside down.
And they begin to climb up to the part of the boat that's sticking out from the water.
"2! THERE'S 2?!" DJ exclaimed. "Nobody said there were 2! How are there 2?!"
Morris and Suyin soon climb into the boat.
"Help! Get me out of this water!" DJ yelled as he splashed his arms in the water. "Help! Somebody help, please! Help!"
Morris looked at him weirdly. "What is wrong with you?"
"I can't-I can't swim!" DJ exclaimed trying to stay afloat.
Morris looked dumbfounded. "No! Get outta here!" He said skeptically. "Really?"
"Don't pull that racist stuff on me!" DJ moves closer to the boat.
"Oh, come on, man." Morris reached out and grabs his hand. "Give me a break. I'm not being racist. You work, literally, in the middle of the ocean!"
DJ turns to him. "This wasn't part of the job description. None of this was part of the job description!" Morris helps him out of the water. "THEY LEFT THAT PART OUT!" And DJ lays on his back.
"Dad!" Suyin called to her father in Chinese. "DAD! DAD!"
In the water, Jonas swims toward's Zhang's still body.
"It's time to get some real help." Morris reached into his pocket.
"Yeah. Go get some help." DJ said.
Suyin continues calling out to her father.
"I'm quitting." DJ said.
"Martin, you actually saw that right?" Chris asked of Sharkzilla jumping out of the water.
"Uh-huh." Martin said.
"Guess the theory of Megalodon being cannibalistic is true." Chris said.
Then Jonas approached pulling Zhang to the boat.
"Mac!" Jonas yelled. "Give me a hand."
Suyin turns and saw Mac helping Jonas to the boat with her father. And she rushed to them as Chris, Martin and Aviva helped as well.
And Morris got to the end of the boat and brought his phone to his ear.
"Hey, I need you to find my location." Morris called. "Track my sat phone. There's a second shark. Yes, 2. How the hell should I know? Just hurry up and get us some help."
Jonas, Suyin and Mac quickly helped Zhang onto the boat.
"Thank you, Jonas." Zhang said gratefully. "Thank you." He groans in pain.
"Just relax. Relax." Jonas said and turns to Suyin. "It's not good. He needs a hospital fast. Let's get the doctor. Where's Dr. Heller?"
Some distance away, Heller and Jaxx were further away from the boat.
"Jaxx?" Heller called and soon saw her. "Jaxx, you okay?"
"Yeah!" Jaxx replied. "Kind of."
And then Sharkzilla's dorsal fin was seen just a few hundred feet away.
"Jaxx... we can do this." Heller said. "Swim gently back to the boat. Nice and easy."
They slowly begin to carefully swim back to the boat.
Morris glanced to his right, and then noticed the shark. And it then turns towards the 2.
"Here it comes!" Morris yelled.
The Megalodon seems to be heading towards Jaxx.
"Heller!" Jaxx said. "We're not gonna make it."
Heller looked uneasy as the shark nears them.
"Jaxx. You're gonna make it." Heller said. "You're a good person, Jaxx."
"Wait, what?" Jaxx blinked.
"Don't look back." Heller said. And then he started thrashing and hitting the water. "Hey!"
"No!" Jaxx yelled.
In the water, Sharkzilla turn towards Heller.
On the boat, they all turned to Heller as he continues yelling and thrashing as the Megalodon draws closer. And then Sharkzilla turns to her side, and opens her jaws. And then Heller disappeared under the water.
"HELLER!" Jaxx screamed.
Suyin yelps with her hands over her mouth. And everyone was in great horror, and Suyin fearfully watched as Sharkzilla swims off as blood was in the water. And soon she disappears under the surface.
And Jaxx swims as she nears the boat.
And soon, Jonas and Morris helped and pull her out of the water and Jaxx holds on near the propeller. And she cries from Heller's sacrifice.
"It's okay, Jaxx." Jonas said gently. "You're gonna be okay."
"Thank you, Heller, thank you." Jaxx cried.
"What was that?" DJ said skeptically. "What the hell was that?"
"Okay, come on, DJ." Morris said.
"No! No!" DJ snapped. "This is why we don't leave the station, okay? That's why you don't do that! And you went down there and you pissed it off now it's gonna come back and kill every one of us! Now what are we supposed to do?! I shouldn't even be out here in the first place. Swimming in this ocean. That one ate the other one. Is another gonna eat this one? Man, it's... It just killed Heller. It killed The Wall. It killed Toshi. These are my friends, man."
Everyone remained uneasily silent and DJ turns away.
And then a eerie sound was heard from the boat starting to sink.
"Okay, can I just point out that this thing is sinking?" Morris said. "What are we gonna do now?"
And then Jonas noticed someone missing. "Where's Mac?"
Some distance away, Mac was in the water swimming. And they turned as he nears one of the 2 boats. And they watched as he climbs onto the boat, and turns to the group and gave a thumbs up.
"Yes!" Morris cheered.
After gathering some things, they begin to make the long trip back to Mana One.
The leading boat had Jonas, Suyin, Zhang, Chris and Aviva. While everyone else was in the boat behind them.
In the other boat, DJ saw some of Jaxx's hair out of place.
"What happened to your hair?" DJ asked.
Jaxx turned to him. "What happened to your hair?"
"Touche." DJ muttered.
Mac looks back and saw something emerging from the water behind them.
"Guys!" Mac yelled.
They turned and saw Sharkzilla swimming after them.
"That thing is the devil!" DJ said.
Jonas noticed Sharkzilla trailing behind them as well.
"10 miles, it's still with us." Jonas said.
In the other boat, Morris was on his phone. "You got us? The ocean. The middle of a freaking ocean!"
"Do you think it'd slow down the shark if we threw him over?" Jaxx turned to DJ.
DJ couldn't help but laugh.
"You gotta work on yourself." DJ said.
"Okay. Good news, guys." Morris announced. "It's payback time."
And then, a helicopter appeared in view and coming towards them.
"Oh, yeah!" Morris cheered.
The helicopter soon flies over and pass them. And then loops back around, and towards the side of the Megalodon.
A member in the chopper readies a rifle with a tracking dark and turns the device on.
He then hands to another member, and he aims towards the shark. And then fires and the dart hits the dorsal fin which Sharkzilla didn't take any notice. And then the member readies a rifle, and then starts shooting at the shark's back.
And it was enough for Sharkzilla to turn and dives underwater.
"Yes! Get some!" DJ yelled.
"You seriously think that a rifle is gonna hurt that thing?" Jaxx turned to Morris.
"That gun probably didn't even scratch it." Martin said.
"I didn't have much notice, okay?" Morris said. "I just wanted to get it off our back."
"Fair enough." Koki said.
In the other boat, Jonas saw that as well.
"Well done, Morris." Jonas said.
"Whoo!" Morris cheered.
Jonas gave a thumbs up.
Meanwhile, Suyin was tending her father as best she could.
"I owe you an apology." Zhang said in Chinese and reached towards her face.
"What are you talking about?" Suyin asked in Chinese.
"When you were a little girl... I was so tough on you... but I knew you were so special."
"I just wanted to be like you, Dad. But I... still haven't live up to it."
Zhang reaches his hand out, and brushes his daughter's face. "You have, my brave girl." Zhang's face started growing pale. "You already are better than I am. My dream... is that Meiying... will grow up to be just like you."
"It's okay, Dad... Save your breath."
Suyin turns away get something, but when she looks back. Zhang's eyes were closed and she soon realized he was dead. Suyin cries and holds her father's body close as Jonas, Chris and Aviva remained sadly silent.
And soon, they were approaching Mana One as it came into view.
Jona's boat soon pulls up to the pier, and Suyin removes her jacket and covers Zhang's body. And Jonas holds her comfortingly.
"Mummy!" Meiying called. "Mummy!"
They and saw Meiying walking to them.
"Welcome back, Mummy." Meiying smiled unaware of what happened.
Suyin was helped out of the boat and approaches her daughter. And starts leading her away from the boat. And Meiying confusingly glanced back at the boat, and Suyin brought her up to the top of the walkway and kneels down to her.
And Jonas looks as soon Meiying glanced over to them. And everyone else remained sadly quiet. And Meiying hugs her mother.
Later that evening, Suyin was in the gathering room, and looking at some photo frames of her and Zhang together.
And Suyin sniffs as she looks at a photo of her father.
And then there was a knock, and Suyin turns and saw Jonas.
"Come in." Suyin said.
Jonas approached her as Suyin sets the frame back on the shelf.
"How's Meiying?" Jonas asked.
"She's sad." Suyin answered. "And confused."
"How are you?" Jonas asked.
"I really don't want to accept it." Suyin sobbed.
"Somethings things happen that change your life forever. Meanwhile, the world just keeps going. You think maybe it would stop... just for a second... But it doesn't."
"How do you live with it?" Suyin asked.
"I don't." Jonas answered. "I left my 2 best friends to die. I think about it all the time. Every day I replay it. Could have done more?"
"It's not just about the ones you lose." Suyin said. "It's also about the ones you save."
Jonas remained silent.
"I'm glad you're here." Suyin said.
Shortly later, everyone was gathered in the control room.
And soon, Jonas and Suyin came in.
And Morris held up a hand as everyone went silent and turn to him.
"I've informed the Chinese government about the Meg." Morris said. "As well as the authorities in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Australia. The Chinese are sending 2 destroyers to take it out. So, this is now officially and thankfully out of our hands. I'm closing Mana One... until the Meg is killed and an evacuation ship... is coming here tomorrow morning."
"You damn right." DJ said.
"And finally, I just want to say... I'm sorry... for your losses." Morris sadly said. "Your friends. I cam here to celebrate with you... and now I'm mourning with you."
Later, Morris heads out to a helicopter ready to take off as Jonas was behind him.
Morris approaches the helicopter and tossed his bag in. And climbs inside and turns to Jonas as the helicopter lifts off.
"Thanks for saving our asses!" Morris called out.
Jonas gave a gesture and nodded.
And Morris closes the side door, and heads off.
Inside the helicopter, Morris placed a headset on.
"What do you got for me?" Morris asked.
An African American man reaches a bag. "These are Semtex high velocity demolition charges." And he brought out a depth charge bomb. "I had the men rig delay fuses to give them time to sink. Essentially, they're depth charges."
Morris looks it at. "That's right."
"I'm not sure this is a advisable course of action." Said a man in a suit looking nervous.
"Every person that gets maimed or killed by that thing is a potential lawsuit." Morris turns to him. "A potential casualty. Relax, bro. It's gonna be fun."
He then tossed the bomb to him.
Back in Mana One, in the medic room.
Jonas enters Lori's room and saw her, Aviva, and Meiying playing a card game.
"I can see your cards." Lori said.
"Well, look at your 2 crooks." Jonas said.
"Hey." Lori said.
"How are you feeling?" Jonas asked.
"Like I got off easy compared to the rest of you guys." Lori said.
Meiying then secretly raised her cards up showing Jonas.
"Hmm." Jonas looks at them.
"Oh, boy." Aviva said.
"What do you got up there?" Lori asked.
Meiying then brought her cards down. "3 kings."
"What? Come on!" Lori complained. "Every time."
"No fair." Aviva complained teasingly.
Meiying laughed a little.
"You own me a soda for that one." Lori said.
"Same here." Aviva said.
"Fine." Meiying complained and got up.
"We'll square up when you get back, okay?" Lori said.
"Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine..." Meiying teasingly complain and leaves the room.
"That's it!" Aviva got up and chase after her. "Come here!"
Meiying ran as Aviva playfully chased her.
"Just trying to take her mind off things, you know." Lori said.
"She's tougher than me, that's for sure." Jonas commented.
"I'm sorry I didn't believe you." Lori apologized.
"Well, you didn't call me crazy." Jonas remarked.
"Yeah, but I didn't call you sane." Lori added.
"Yeah, well, "sane" wasn't a word I heard very often." Jonas said and sat on the bed.
"So, what now?" Lori asked.
"I don't know." Jonas said unsure. "Go back to Thailand, I guess."
"Mac told me about you and Suyin." Lori said.
Jonas scoffed. "Nothing to tell."
"Well, maybe there could be."
"You and Mac are unbelievable."
"How about you just try something new?" Lori suggested. "So the rest of your life isn't a vast wasteland of misery and solitude."
"I think that's a good idea." Meiying said walking in the room with 2 Cokes, and a juice box.
Aviva came in with a Coke as well.
"You do, huh?" Lori grabs a can.
"8 year olds hear everything." Jonas remarked.
Lori laughed a bit.
"Jonas..." Meiying made a gesture with her finger.
Jonas leans a little closer to her.
"... my mom likes you, too." Meiying said in his ear.
Jonas smiled, and Meiying raised her brows in a teasing way.
And Lori and Aviva couldn't help from laughing a bit.
"This is possibly the worst moment of my life." Jonas said.
Many miles away, in the open sea.
Morris was with a team of 3 on a boat and a helicopter flew by them as they were hunting down Sharkzilla and closing in on her location.
"Approaching target area. I'll confirm visual."
As the helicopter scouts away, Morris looks at a tablet screen and shows as they got closer to Sharkzilla.
"Let me make myself absolutely clear." Morris said to the men. "We are not getting within a mile of that monster, until the helicopter kills it."
Over with the helicopter, the searchlight shines on the water and shows a large silhouette shadow underneath.
"We have a visual on the target."
"Stop the boat." Morris said. "Stop the boat."
And the boats slows down to a stop.
And they watch the helicopter from a distance.
"Deploying depth charges."
Morris brought out a viewing scope, and watches as the first depth charge is dropped. And hits the water as the 2nd is dropped.
At the helicopter, a large water explosion occurs from the first bomb.
Through his viewing scope, the 2nd bomb went off causing a water explosion.
And Morris chuckled.
The helicopter shines the light over the body as it floated on the surface.
"We got him." Said the pilot.
But Morris didn't looked convinced.
"Hit it again." Morris said not taking any chances.
"Sir, there's no way poss-"
"Hit it again." Morris repeated.
A member tossed down 1 more bomb, and it soon hits the water by the carcass.
And then a large water explosion erupts towards the helicopter.
Morris looks through his scope.
"Target is dead. Repeat, target is dead."
Are you absolutely sure?" Morris asked. "Because I'm not getting eaten by some goddamn prehistoric fish."
"Affirmative, sir. There's uh..."
"...well, there's pieces of it all over the place." Said pilot completely covered in pieces of flesh.
"Shark chucks?"
"That's a good sign." Morris said convinced. "All right. Take us in."
The boat's engine starts.
The boat approaches the corpse, but for a strange reason. It's intestines didn't look like that of a shark's which is more a spiral valve design.
And there were some barnacles on it, something that sharks don't normally have. And seems to be in a different shade of gray.
Soon, the boat pulls next to the the carcass.
"Jump down there, get me a couple of teeth." Morris said. "Big ones for my desk."
"All right." A member stood on the boat side.
"Keep one for yourself." Morris said.
He jumps off the boat, and onto the carcass.
"Nice." Morris said.
And he begins to move down towards the head.
And then, another member noticed something.
"Oh, you seeing this?" He asked.
Morris looks down, and watches as several sharks were in a feeding frenzy on the body.
"Crazy." Morris said.
The body hasn't been dead for 10 minutes, and there's already scavengers at the carcass. Sharks are opportunistic hunters like all predators, and scavenging is one reason why there the Earth's ultimate survivors.
And among them, Razor-Mouth was also feeding off the body. The chance of an easy meal was too much for her to ignore.
"That's sick." Morris watching them feed.
The shark frenzy continues for a moment, but then strangely the sharks suddenly fled.
And Morris confusedly turns to the member.
"That's weird." He said.
Morris leans down closer to the water, but there was no sign of the sharks. It was almost like they were spooked by something.
Then suddenly the member jumps back on the boat causing them to jump.
"Oh, man!" Morris turns to him. "Don't do that to me."
"That thing doesn't have any teeth." The member said with an uneasy look.
"What?" Morris blinked.
"I think we killed a whale." The member said.
The carcass appears to be that of a Fin Whale.
And then, a beeping sound was heard as it grows.
"It's right below us." Morris said.
The sad mistaken misfortune death of the Fin Whale is cause when Sharkzilla was probably a couple hundred feet under the whale. And was getting ready to launch an ambush on the whale, and attack it by the tail or flippers. That why, the whale is totally immobilized and the shark would wait for the whale to die of blood loss and shock.
It's the same method that Great Whites use when hunting Sea Lions.
Morris looks at the tablet. "Get us out of here!"
The member quickly turned and pulls the throttle to full. But the sudden start cause Morris to lose balance and fall back. And fell into the water.
And the 3 members were unaware of that.
"Wait! Wait, you idiots! Wait!" Morris called out to them. "I'm over here! Wait!"
And then Morris turns to his left, and saw the Megalodon raising from the depths. And coming towards him.
"Oh, no!" Morris exclaimed.
And then Morris turns and swims towards the whale carcass. And he soon holds on the body as the shark closes in, and Morris looked back and then screamed as the Megalodon's enormous jaws clamp down on the body as Morris disappeared.
And then after taking a huge bite, Sharkzilla disappears under and reveals that Morris was missed by a few inches. And leaves behind a massive chuck of flesh on the body.
Morris coughs as he was covered in blood and laughs in relief. And then he starts climbing up the body. And then he soon rests on the carcass.
And everything was calm for a few moments.
Then suddenly Sharkzilla erupts from the water and then clamps her jaws down and over Morris. And bites down as his right hand was left sticking out.
Author's Note:
Stay tuned for the final chapter.
Because it's definitely going to be a true underwater battle.