Super Science

Ch 15: Protection

"Thank you for seeing me despite your busy schedule, Professor Egon.", Professor Cephalopod thanked his employer as he sat at a seat across from his desk, accompanying him was Doctor Orpington.

Sitting at his desk, Egon waved him off and graciously told him, "Of course Professor Cephalopod. Now what was it you wanted to show me?"

Accompanying him was Izuku, who was asked by the octopus to join in the reveal, and Peet who was eating out of a food bowl by the edge of his office desk.

Otto stood in his seat and started to explain, "As I'm sure you're very aware, the one thing this facility lacks is Security. Now don't get me wrong, cameras, locks, silent alarms, and bulletproof glass are all well and good. But with what we're doing, we need to be creative on how to hide and protect our assets. Catch them with their pants down, if you get my meaning.", he told him while pacing back and forth while talking like a drill sergeant.

Getting tired of the theatrics already, Egon sighs and prompts him firmly, "Yes yes, just tell me what you've made."

The professor hops off his seat and skittles over to an object covered in a sheet that he had brought in. Grabbing it he announces while ripping it away, "Presenting, the Mimicutie!"

Sitting there was an ordinary lockbox made of standard-grade metal. The sight of this did not impress either Egon or Izuku, who looked more disappointed and exasperated.

"A metal lock box?", Egon observed while shifting his glasses down to glance at the professor.

"It's much more than that. Go ahead, put something in it.", Otto offered.

Izuku and Egon looked at one another, shrugged and Izuku picked up the empty food bowl from Peet. Bringing the bowl over as the dodo honked in disapproval, the box suddenly sprang open with a mass of teeth and a long tongue snagging it up and swallowing it whole! After licking its lid it burped.

"Woah!", cried Izuku as he whipped his hand away.

Egon sprang from his seat and scooped up Izuku, pulling him out of the perceived danger while Peet honked in fear and ran under Egon's desk! "It's alive!", he yelled before making a realization and asking Otto in a small voice, "It's….alive?", to which he nodded.

"How did you make this?", Izuku asks as he hides in the living box from behind Egon.

"I mutated a Caulerpa Taxifolia with human flesh alongside several different Quirk Splinters that have been made recently by yours truly.", he explained with his ego showing.

"What a blowhard.", Doctor Orpington commented with an eye roll.

"Upon which a large flesh-like mass with teeth and eyes where they shouldn't be was born with a subconscious similar to that of a cat. I placed it in that lock box as a means of temporary holding, but it seems to have bonded and made the box a part of its body. After a few more tests and experiments, the Mimicutie was born!", he explained further in excitement and self-pride.

Egon looks between the octopus, the box, and back to the octopus as he asks, "Okay, but how are we to use this…thing?"

Professor Cephalopod smiled with his eyes and told him, "I'm glad you asked. So long as the Mimicutie has a record of your scent it will be completely docile. Anyone else will be ripped to shreds! It's the perfect tool to keep things that we don't have the best confidence in keeping protected employing modern security science."

"How much can it hold?", Izuku inquired.

"As much as the box it inhabits.", the Professor answered.

"Can it change boxes?" asked Egon.

"I'm not sure about that. The object it inhabits becomes no different than the shell of a turtle.", answered the professor.

"How can we get things out of it and won't it just eat anything that is given?", Izuku inquired again.

The professor then tells him, "So long as it isn't organic, the Mimicutie can't digest it. Which makes it a great organic waste disposal! It can even safely dispose of radiation. As for how to get things out of it, I implanted it with a form of suggestive telepathy. So long as you think of the item in question, it will give it to you. So long as you know it's there.", he then walked up to the Mimicutie and said, "Observe."

Professor Cephalopod then holds out one of his tentacles and the Mimicutie opens up while using its tongue to place a bag of fresh shrimp, tightly sealed up, into said tentacle. To prove his point further, the professor then opens the new bag and begins to eat one shrimp after the other. Much to the mixed amazement and disgust of all parties present.

"How do we care for it?", Egon wonders aloud.

"It only needs a cup of water every month, a consistent temperature, and something that's considered sunlight. Apart from that, they could go years without a meal. But it does eat meat primarily.", Professor Cephalopod explains.

Egon sits back at his desk, takes off his glasses, and rubs his eyes before breathing heavily. He sits there thinking for a while before placing his glasses back on, lacing his finger, and tells the octopus, "Okay Professor. Stop whatever you're doing and mass produce these things in different sizes."

As he nods, a thought crosses his mind and just before the meeting ends he says, "Ah yes, there is one more thing.", grabbing the man's attention he tells him, "If attempting to maul their enemies to bits doesn't work, they have another defense mechanism."

Egon raises an eyebrow then thinks aloud, "From what you've told me, I can only guess that the Mimi in Mimicutie is for its connection to the Mimic in DnD. But what about the cutie part? That must be its other defense mechanism!"

Professor Cephalopod nods and waves for him to follow while taking the Mimicutie away in a trolley. Izuku and Egon look at one another, shrug, and follow the invertebrate out. After following they were taken to a testing chamber where the Mimicutie was placed at the center and all the doctors and professors were safely standing behind the protective observation room. Professor Cephalopod brought out a shabby-looking robot and after getting inside the observation room with them he used a remote controller to make the robot walk over to the Mimicutie.

To which he looked at his coworkers and said with a pompous tone, "Observe."

The robot then began to beat on top of the container and the Mimicutie began to rustle and hiss. When it didn't stop, the Mimicutie jumped back and produced a set of long human legs wearing a set of kitten-heel boots and fishnet stockings.

Professor Cephalopod smiles with his eyes and asks, "Impressive, no?"

Egon and Izuku just stood there with their mouths open in shock! While Doctor Orpington just glared at her companion with narrowed eyes.

After the initial shock washed over, Egon proclaimed, "Impressive!? That's two major awards in a box! How in the world is that supposed to be a defense mechanism?"

"Just watch.", Otto assured him.

Just then the Mimicutie ran up to the robot like a drunk person and turned to its side. From there it brought up its leg and began to produce a flurry of rapid kicks so fast that its legs couldn't be seen and the robot didn't get blasted away during the entire exchange until the last one was he flew to the other end of the testing room. The Mimicutie then got into a low stance and began to spin like a top, closing the distance and catching the robot in a whirlwind of legs! And finally, the Mimicutie jumped into the air and came down feet first, puncturing a huge hole clean through the robot's metal body with both heels!

"Holy-.", Egon was about to yell a curse word until Izuku cut him off, saying, "Wow."

"What do you think?", Professor Cephalopod self-assuredly asked in his work.

Egon had to take a few minutes to process what he saw, taking off his glasses and rubbing his eyes, and after that, he said to the octopus, "I think it's crazy and just what we need. Like I said before you have my permission. Just make sure they don't eat anyone by accident."

Professor Cephalopod nods with an eye smile and goes to retrieve his creation. Leaving a flabbergasted Izuku and Egon, with an exasperated Doctor Cluck with them.


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