CHAPTER FOUR - Out of the prom/What did this?

Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean

A lot of people in the military didn't want to do this, they really didn't. After hearing the US nuclear submarine went offline without a trace, no one wanted to go to the ocean again, fearing that those people in the submarine are possibly dead.

But eventually a couple people who had balls of steel decided to go at the last known location of the US nuclear submarine in the Atlantic Ocean on a Littoral Combat Ship to try find out what happened. If they could find anything.

The drive across the ocean was really tense. They were all looking around the ocean to see if anything that looked like a threat was out there. They didn't feel safe fearing that whatever hit the nuclear submarine may come towards them. The people that were in control of the weapons had the ships weapons ready to go and fire just in case if anything were to attack them.

After a couple hours of moving across the ocean, they finally arrived at the location. They looked around and saw nothing of course. No one expected to find anything since it was underwater and its most likely the nuclear submarine got destroyed by whatever hit it.

"See anything guys?" The Captain asked everyone.

The sailors looked around, trying to find something.

"Negative, no sign of the submarine." A sailor told the Captain.

Still they decided to check within a 100 miles radius of the area if they could find anything. If a piece of the nuclear submarine or the entire submarine itself (which they thought was highly unlikely)

They did search within a 100 miles radius for another couple hours, searching every part of the ocean closely seeing if they could find anything, a piece, a person who may have somehow lived, another ship who have seen what happened (which was highly unlikely), or at least a clue of what happened.

But there wasn't a single clue in sight. Nothing. Just pure ocean as far as the eye can see.

"Anything guys?" The Captain told everyone.

'Nothing Captain unfortunately." A sailor told him.

The Captain rubbed his face with his hands in frustration.

"Are you sure we are may not be wasting our time? We have been searching for hours but we haven't found anything." A sailor told him.

But then, the Captain spotted something in the distance.

"Guys, I see something." The Captain told everyone.

This immediately caught the attention of everyone on the ship and everybody saw what the Captain was seeing. There was something in distance. Something big. But it wasn't moving. More like it was just floating in the middle of the ocean.

They decided to head over to it, which was like two miles from them, thinking they may finally find an answer of the missing nuclear submarine, to all of this.

When they arrived to the location of what they saw, what they saw shocked them to the core. This definitely wasn't the nuclear submarine that went missing yesterday. The size alone explained it all. Instead this was one of the missing ships that they have been trying to look for yesterday that disappeared without a trace.

It was the cruise ship. The cruise ship that was all burned up now due to the dark color it had.

The Captain picked up his radio.

"Guys….. I think we have found one of the missing ships from yesterday." The Captain said back through the radio to the Military base they came from.

They slowly started driving around the cruise ship, trying to see if there were any survivors onboard. All the while they were gasping a lot as they were looking around the destroyed ship. It was a total mess. Every window on the ship was shattered, the floors have crumbed on each other, the waterslide was still hanging on, and the captain room on this ship was all but destroyed. They saw it was torn to two pieces as well seeing it may have exploded somehow.

They so far haven't found any survivors on the cruise ship. They still kept looking around, but something told them all they may be all dead and no one survived.

They were now sure that this wasn't the Chinese or the Russians who did this since they definitely can't cut a cruise ship into two since a cruise ship is so big, Like really big. None of their ships, missiles, or torpedo would be able to do that. Heavy damage? Yes. But cutting a 1,000 feet long cruise ship? No, definitely not. Could this have been aliens? Something tells them even aliens wouldn't be able to slice a huge cruise ship in half.

There were so many other theories they all had about what could have caused this but none of them made sense. It couldn't have been a terrorist attack from terrorist organization, or the weather, or a virus outbreak, or sharks, or any marine animal they know of. No matter how hard they tried to find out what could have attacked those people they couldn't think of an answer.

Whatever that attacked these people on this cruise ship was something they have not discovered yet and was really dangerous and so powerful and really big. And thats what scared them. They had no idea who or what it was.

While the Captain was looking at the destroyed cruise ship he said "What did this?"

Back at Ewen High School

After what happened in gym class at the sports fields today, Miss Desjardin asked Principal Morton to call Chris Hargensen's father. Miss Desjardin then explained to Principal Morton what happened at the sports fields. From the punishment she gave to the Ultras, to Chris not wanting to do the runs, to Chris using profanity against her.

Hearing this, Principal Morton immediately called Chris's father to settle this situation. He did not tolerate this type of behavior in this school, especially if its profanity being used against a teacher. That crosses the line.

They waited for some minutes before Chris's father arrived to the school, with a frustrated face. Miss Desjardin and Principal Morton could tell Chris's father was in the middle of doing something important before they called him.

Then the Principal called Chris to come on down while Miss Desjardin and Chris's father waited for her.

Now Miss Desjardin, Principal Morton, Chris Hargensen, and her father John Hargensen were sitting down in the principal's office. To him this isn't the first time something like this happened. He was used to it.

"This gym teacher was running Christine into the ground and used profanity. I believe the term "shitty" was used." John Hargensen said.

Miss Desjardin turned to look at Chris in disbelief.

"She can't do that, it's abuse of power." John Hargensen said to the principal.

"You're right daddy. That's what she said. Shitty, she's really abusive." Chris lied.

Miss Desjardin just kept staring at Chris with a blank face. She could not believe Chris is trying to change the story so she can get herself out of this situation and try to say Miss Desjardin was the one who used profanity against Chris so she could get in trouble and get fired.

Miss Desjardin really had to fight the urge to slap this girl in the face.

"Ms. Desjardin was reprimanded for what happened in class today. But you know we've had a lot of problems with your daughter in the past." Principal Morton explained remembering all of the times he has suspended Christine Hargensen.

Chris stares at the principal also remembering the times she would get in trouble. Like that time when she put a firework in a girls shoe and it exploded damaging her leg severely.

"And now, with what she did to her classmate, Carrie White. I mean the girl was having her…" Principal Morton trailed, not wanting to say the word as he didn't feel comfortable.

Miss Desjardin stares at the principal trail off at that sentence and wanted to say it when she sees he's not comfortable saying the word but kept quiet due to the situation right now.

"What your daughter and her posse…" Principal Morton tried to say but was cut off by John Hargensen.

"I'm not gonna sit her and listen to half-truths. I know my daughter, she said she didn't do it." John Hargensen said.

Miss Desjardin put her hands on her hips in frustration, seeing that both her and the principal were losing in this situation.

"I want her prom privileges restored." John Hargensen said.

Chris starts to slightly smile seeing they were winning in this situation.

"You can't prove she did anything can you?" John Hargensen said.

'Like always.' Chris Hargensen thought in her mind.

Until…..

"Well I believe that there is a video of the incident…" Miss Desjardin decided to step in.

John Hargensen and the Principal looked at her while Chris didn't move.

Chris suddenly felt nervous, remembering that she still has the video on her phone.

"And I think your daughter is the one who took it." Miss Desjardin said.

Chris began to breath a little heavy.

"I think a video like that would probably be pretty damning to anyone in it and to the person who made it. Don't you Mr. Hargensen?" Miss Desjardin said.

Chris looked down at her fingers.

"I mean I don't know, I'm just a gym teacher. But it seems like a video like that would probably affect college admissions, possibly a lawsuit, tons of bad publicity. I wonder what The Today Show would do with a video like that." Miss Desjardin finished speaking feeling victories after what she just said.

Chris felt her heart pounding really fast as she realizes she doesn't have a way out of this. She still has the video on her phone and can't delete it right now since they will immediately its true. She couldn't believe she was so stupid enough to keep the video on her phone. She had a whole night to do it yet, she didn't.

"I think we should just look at her phone and if it's not there, I owe you a huge apology and she should be allowed to go to prom." Miss Desjardin said. Though she just realized Chris may have deleted the video on her phone already.

"Chris." John Hargensen said looking at her daughter.

Miss Desjardin suddenly felt like slapping her forehead with her hand.

Though she didn't expect to hear this.

Principal Morton extended his hand towards Chris so he can take the phone.

"Chris?" John Hargensen said again.

Chris let out a short nervous laugh.

"Daddy, I'm not gonna give them my phone. I have personal things on here." Chris said trying to sound normal and reason a way out of this.

Miss Desjardin felt super relief seeing Chris refusing to give her phone meant she still had the video.

"Isn't it an invasion of privacy or something?" Chris said.

John Hargensen huffed in frustration seeing this. He had a really busy work schedule today and didn't want to waste time so he can get back to work.

"Chrissie, if you want to go to prom just give them the damn phone and we can be done with this. I gotta get back to work." John Hargensen said.

Chris looked at her dad in this disbelief, seeing he has sided with the teacher and principal and is truly alone in this situation with officially no way out.

"Dad." Chris tried to explain.

Now really frustrated, he snapped at Chris.

"God damn it, just give them your phone, Chris." John Hargensen said to her daughter a little louder this time.

Finally aspecting defeat, Chris said "No." She grabbed her bag and walked out of the principal's office while looking like she wanted to cry.

Chris finally realized she was officially out of prom.

In the gym

In the gymnasium, there were many students working and decorating the place to prepare for the upcoming prom which was only three days away. Some students were putting the lights, some of them were making star papers, some of them were painting. It was full of joy and happiness as people were decorating and laughing with each other as they were excited to also go to the prom. One of those students working was Freddy Holt.

Some of the Ultras were also presented in the room which were Sue Snell, Tina Blake, Heather Shyers, Nicki, and Lizzy. They were talking about what has happen today, or more specifically what has been happening for them this week. They talked about the shower incident that happened which now the Ultras didn't find funny anymore (though secretly Tina still did), the rough punishment they got from Miss Desjardin because of it, Chris refusing to do the runs, Miss Desjardin saying Chris is out of the prom, they don't know if thats true yet, and all of her friends refusing to join because they didn't want to be kicked out of prom. Who knows if Chris hates them now. To say the least, this week so far for the Ultras has been a shitty one.

Ever since the punishment, they all started having second thoughts on what they did to Carrie White, most of them realizing it was wrong, really wrong. The poor girl didn't know what her period was. They could have explained it to her but instead only made things worse by laughing at her, by following Chris.

Some of them were thinking about apologizing to Carrie for what they did to her. That it was wrong what they did and wished Carrie would forgive them. But the thing is will she? It's been years of them bullying her without stopping. They were sure Carrie hated them with all her strength.

They weren't sure about this.

Eventually Heather said something that caught the attention of the Ultras.

"Hey did you girls hear about the ships and submarine that went missing yesterday?" Heather Shyers asked.

They looked at her for a moment when she asked that question before Sue replied "Yea I heard about it."

"I heard about it too." Nicki said.

"Yea when we were watching the news yesterday." Lizzy said.

"I was honestly shocked when they said the three ships and the nuclear submarine just disappeared and the US has no idea how it happened." Sue said.

"How did they just disappeared without a trace though?" Tina asked knowing about it and was really confused how that was possible.

Sue thought for a moment, trying to find an answer but nothing came out, "I don't know. I honestly am really curious myself on what happened to them."

"How though? It was right out in the open. There's no way no one at least could have seen what happened to them from a distance." Nicki said.

"Well looks like nobody did because no one has come forward if they saw something." Heather Shyers said.

But Heather Shyers then thought of something.

"Or maybe they did but the government hasn't shown it to the public." Heather Shyers said thinking the government may know something.

"What did you girls think it could have been then?" Lizzy asked.

All the members of the Ultras thought for a moment. Thinking what could have caused the three ships and the US nuclear submarine to disappear.

"At first I thought it could have been some other country responsible but I don't think it was since the US government should have notice or seen their presence in the Atlantic Ocean. But it seems they didn't see anything. So that theory is shot down." Heather Shyers said.

"I thought it may have been some terrorist organization but none of them even have advanced weaponry like a real modern army. That theory definitely isn't true." Tina said.

"I thought it could have been aliens, but one we don't even know if there IS alien life out there in the universe and two something tells me that even aliens wouldn't be able to make three ships and a nuclear submarine disappear on the same day without a trace. We would have notice them. So it can't be them." Lizzy said.

They were all silent for a moment.

"What if it was an unknown creature?" Sue said.

The Ultras turned to Sue and thought about that theory.

"I mean think about it, it kind of makes sense since humanity has only discovered five percent of the worlds ocean while 95 percent of it still hasn't been meaning we don't know what could be out there in that huge amount of unknown territory." Sue explained to the rest of the Ultras.

When the Ultras heard what Sue said they realized it did make sense as it's true that 95% of the worlds ocean hasn't been discovered and Sue may be on to something. It could be possible that in that 95% there could be species that were thought to be extinct for millions of years to still be alive or there could be species that haven't been discovered yet or don't know that exist.

"So what unknown animal could have done this then?" Heather Shyers asked.

"Maybe a dinosaur?" Nicki said.

"Hmmmmmmm….. The closest dinosaur thats the size of those ships is the mosasaurs. It may be possible a mosasaurs was responsible for the cargo ship and fishing vessel and the nuclear submarine, but I don't think it could have sunk a cruise ship. The thing is a mosasaurs is 50 feet long while the cruise ship was 1,000 feet long. The mosasaurs next to the cruise ship makes him look like an ant. It would do little to no damage to it no matter how many times the mosasaurs hits it. So in other words, it can't be a mosasaurs." Lizzy told her twin while catching her breath after speaking too much.

"Okay okay. I guess you do have a point." Nicki told her twin.

"Maybe it could have been a….. what was that big shark call again? The meg….. The megal….. The Megalodon yes thats the name." Tina said.

"Hmmmmm….. maybe it could be." Lizzy said.

Lizzy then thought of something else when Tina said it may have been a giant shark.

"It may have been a giant octopus." Lizzy said.

"Uhhhhhhhh….. I don't know about that one but octopuses are from the ocean so maybe." Heather Shyers said.

Heather Shyers turned to Sue.

"What about you Sue? What's your prediction?" Heather Shyers asked Sue.

Sue thought for a moment, trying to think of any animal that was thought to be extinct to be big enough and strong enough to make these three ships and the submarine disappear. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't think of any animal she knows of.

"I honestly don't know. I can't think of any animal that may be big and strong enough to make those ships and submarine disappear. For some reason I have a feeling that whatever we are dealing with, it may be unlike anything we have seen before. Something that may be worse than the strongest dinosaurs or strongest fishes that we know of." Sue predicted.

The Ultras felt chills down their spines hearing Sue's prediction. Some part of them told them that Sue's prediction may be true and that there may be something out there they have never seen before. Although they wished that Sue's prediction was false.

However before they can make more predictions about what happened in the Atlantic Ocean, they heard a bag fall down to the floor with a hard thud.

They looked at the direction of the sound and saw Christine Hargensen. With an upset and slightly sad face.

The atmosphere around the Ultras immediately changed from peaceful to tense in seconds as they knew an angry Chris always meant bad things.

"So, I'm officially out of the prom." Chris said.

The faces of the Ultras changed as well. Their suspicious on Chris being out of the prom being true. Heather Shyers and one of the twins turn their heads away, the other twin looked at Chris with a blank expression on her face, Tina looked upset Chris was out of the prom, and Sue just tried to focus back on prom decorating.

"I bet that cocksucker Morton loses his job though." Chris said.

The Ultras listened to what Chris was saying, none of them knowing what to say to her.

"My dad is suing him." Chris claimed falsely, clearly losing her mind now.

Chris looked at Sue and walked up to her.

"Jesus Sue why didn't you stand up for me? We could have had them by the balls." Chris said in a disappointed voice.

Sue finally looked at Chris.

"We deserved it." Sue said which Chris felt a little taken aback.

"For what we did to Carrie White, I thought I deserved it." Sue said.

Chris looked like she was about to punch something or someone.

"Desjardin was right. We did a shitty thing for no reason." Sue said.

"Bullshit!" Chris said loudly causing some people that were working behind her to turn around.

"That Carrie goes around saying that everyone but her and her mother are going to hell and you stuck up for her?" Chris said to Sue in disbelief, seeing her best friend choose Carrie.

Sue walked down the steps towards Chris.

"Come on!" Chris told her best friend.

"You can be such a pig sometimes, Chris." Sue said.

Sue came close to Chris's face.

"What did Carrie White ever do to you?" Sue asked Chris in a slightly louder voice.

"She's been begging for it since the sixth grade Sue." Chris said while holding her hands.

"Gotta go." Sue told Chris making Chris let go of her as Sue begins to walk away.

No longer feeling to act nice, Chris remembered something and turned to Sue.

"Hey I seem to remember you were in there throwing shit with the rest of us." Chris said.

Sue picked up her bag and started to walk away.

"What was it that she was calling her? Freak?" Chris said while looking at the rest of the Ultras.

Upon hearing that, Sue stopped walking and turned around to Chris.

"I stopped." Sue told her.

Chris turned to look at Sue.

"Oh you stopped." Chris said.

"Yeah." Sue said to Chris trying to sound confident though she was feeling a bit nervous.

"Why did you keep running? Hmmm?" Chris asked Sue.

Sue tried to walk away again, but Chris was walking towards her and grabbed Sue's arm tightly.

"Why did you keep running Sue?" Chris said louder.

"Stop it Chris!" Sue said pulling her arm away from Chris.

"You kept running Sue, little Suze, because you've been dreaming about senior year and the perfect boyfriend and the perfect prom your whole goddamn life." Chris told Sue in a crazy voice.

Sue stared at Chris in shock. Chris has never spoken to Sue like this before.

"You already booked the hotel. Already practiced the sounds you're gonna make when you and Tommy make love." Chris told Sue while giggling at her evilly.

Sue was disgusted and horrified by the way Chris was speaking to her. Chris has never acted this cruel to her before. Chris spoke like if she was talking to Carrie White. It was almost like if Sue was speaking to an entirely different person.

"Thats why you had this bullshit change of heart." Chris told to Sue.

Sue just remained silent.

"You don't give a shit about Carrie White. And everybody knows it…" Chris said to Sue.

Not wanting to hear Chris anymore, Sue walked pass Chris and headed for the exit doors of the gym.

"Okay, I'll see you around Sue." Chris told Sue as she left the gym.

At Carrie's house

A couple hours later

Carrie was on her bed reading a book about telekinesis. She has been reading about telekinesis throughout the entire day whenever she had the chance (though maybe not at lunch since the bullies kept knocking her books off the table) and so far as learned a lot. She brought the books she borrowed from the library and took them home so she can keep learning more. Keeping her word on what she said early in the day, she began to practice her powers.

Carrie closed the book she was reading. Turning slightly to her left, Carrie looked at the book across from her on her nightstand. She concentrated hard on it using her mind. The book started to lift itself and float in the air.

While Carrie was looking at the book across from her she uses one of her hands to make all of the books on her bed float and move in the air. She looked at all of the books floating in front of her as she started to smile.

Then one of the books fell to the ground as the lights started to flicker.

Margaret who was downstairs washing the dishes heard the loud noise and noticed the lights flickering as she looked up.

"Carrie?" Margaret said.

Carrie using both of her hands started to make her whole bed levitate while at the same time the books were still floating in the air. She started gasping, seeing that she was starting to get how to use this ability much faster than she thought.

Downstairs, hearing her daughter not answer her, Margaret grabbed a knife and started to make her way to Carrie's bedroom as she started to think a lot of crazy religious thoughts.

When she got to Carrie's bedroom, Margaret tried to open the door but it was locked.

"Carrie?" Margaret said.

Hearing her mother call her name and trying to open the door, Carrie felt scared as she immediately stopped levitated her bed and the books.

Margaret opened the door and looked inside and saw…..

Carrie sleeping on the bed…

Margaret was a little confused. She could have swore she heard something strange coming from her daughters room.

Margaret places the knife on Carrie's nightstand and walks over to Carrie and strokes her hair. She begins to put a blanket over Carrie.

"I'm not gonna let anyone hurt you little girl. You're safe here with me." Margaret said to Carrie.

Though Margaret doesn't know Carrie is hearing her the whole time and recognized what she put on the nightstand. Carrie couldn't believe her own mother may have tried to kill her.

Wanting to scare her mother a little, Carrie used her telekinesis on the knife and made it fall from the nightstand on the ground.

Margaret turned around hearing that and saw the knife had somehow fallen to the floor.

A small smile began to form on Carrie's face. Maybe for the first time ever, things were gonna change for the better. At last.

Then suddenly a small flash happened, like if Carrie's life flashed before her eyes. When the small flash stopped she saw the giant unknown creature walking in Chamberlain Maine while everything was on fire. Then another small flash happened and she was back in her bedroom.

Carrie eyes widen and she slightly gasped, not wanting to breath loudly so her mother wouldn't know she was awake.

Throughout the day, there would be a few times were Carrie would have small flashes like if her life flashed before her eyes and see the unknown creature walking across Chamberlain Maine while it was on fire. It would only be for a brief moment before another small flash happened and she was back where she was.

Carrie didn't know what these small flashes meant or why she was getting them. But something was telling her that these flashes were somehow connected to the dream she had two nights ago as she saw the same unknown creature from the dream.

Carrie has a feeling these flashes she was having were trying to tell her something, but she did not understand what exactly. She started to feel worried about the safety of the town and started to believe there was a high chance something dangerous was on the horizon.

It may be possible the fate and future of this town depends on her and was in her hands now, and it scared Carrie.

Carrie really hopes the dream she had was not real and was just all in her head, but she started to think that maybe this unknown creature, or a creature similar to it….. does exist, and may be somewhere out there. How would three ships and a submarine disappear without a trace? But maybe it could have been some other unknown giant creature that sunk them, like a giant octopus or a giant shark. Though the unknown creature she has been seeing can walk on land.

Carrie didn't know what to believe and felt like her mind was gonna explode because of too much confusion and craziness. The worst part is she can't tell anyone because no one would believe her and she would definitely sound a crazy, insane, psycho person.

She was truly on this on her own and she didn't know what to do.

'What should I do?' Carrie thought.

More people are starting to find out about the news of what happened. Even the Ultras have found out what happened in the Atlantic Ocean and they are somewhat terrified about it. Does Chris know? You'll see soon…..

And it seems Carrie's mental health is starting to be affected by this since she would see the creature a few times. But it may get far worse…..

Hope you all had an amazing Christmas. I wish you all a Happy New Year. Here we come 2024!

Next chapter, Godzilla will return in action!