Super Science

Ch 18: Dragon

Egon looked over a large sheet of schematics on his much cleaner desk. It was a map of the whole facility with a detailed outline of all security measures on the premises. Hidden turrets, traps, sensors, Tesla gates, and much more were outlined in the promise of max security. After looking it over for quite a while he fixed his glasses to look up at the happily excited smiling face of Doctor Cho.

He cleared his throat and told her in a nervous tone, "While I do like the schematics you have for an in-facility security system, Doctor Cho. I'm just a bit worried about how, um, how should I say this? Extreme and fatal it is. Don't you think it's a bit much?"

Cho raised an eyebrow as she leaned in and shot back, "With what we got and are doing here, I'd say it's almost too little. This is honestly the water-down version of what I originally thought up."

"Holy christ!", Egon exclaimed as he thought about the ramifications, watching as Cho said back to glance at him with a smug look. Seeing her point he told her with a sigh, "Well, I can't argue with that. I'll allow it and if need be we'll add more later on. But add some non-lethal defenses as well. Can't be all gun-hoe for every situation. You may commence construction on it.", Doctor Cho nods and rolls up the diagrams before leaving the new automatic sliding doors made by Professor Hatsume.

Once she left the doors stayed open as someone else barged in. Egon noticed this, looked up from his desk, and saw Izuku. He was red in the face, shaking like a leaf, and two seconds from crying.

Egon sighed lightly to himself and said, "Oh boy. Yes, Izuku? What have you done this time?"

"I had an accident.", He finally admitted through a shaky breath.

"I thought you were housebroken.", Egon replied with a raised eyebrow.

"Professor!", He shouted back in a mix of panic and anger.

Egon placed up his hands and in a calm tone told him, "I'm just teasing. What's bugging you so badly?"

Izuku sniffs back his emotions and steadies his voice as he answers, "I was dabbling around with the Evolution and Quirk Splinters and I made something I had no intention of making."

Egon waits for the rest but when it doesn't come, he prompts him firmly, "Well don't leave me in suspense. Tell me what it is."

Izuku walked up to his desk on shaky legs, his emotions just moments from spilling over as fear gripped his heart at how his boss would react to his newest blunder. And so he reached into his coat and brought out a small creature cupped in his hands, showing it to the man reluctantly.

"Here.", he said with a quiver.

Egon looked down at the little creature, adjusting his glasses, seeming to be nothing but an oddly colored lizard. He chuckled at what Izuku was so scared about showing him and proclaimed, "Is that it? This teeny tiny little lizard is all that you made? I was expecting something far more….", He trailed off as the small lizard took a mammalian gate, sprouted a set of small wings, and breathed out a puff of smoky fire. "Dangerous?", He said in confusion. He looked at the boy who was begging to shake and cry while asking him calmly, "Izuku…did you make a-."

The boy broke down into tears, hunching over, and covering his face as he wailed, "I didn't mean to. I didn't realize it would happen!"

Egon was shocked by his reaction to him and almost froze up. But luckily he kept himself together and placed the baby dragon on his desk while he tended to the terrified crying boy.

Holding his shoulders and petting his head he told him, "Okay Okay, let's calm down for a moment. I'm not mad, just surprised. It's not like you tried to hide this from me until it got out of hand or did it behind my back and you have told me that it was a complete accident. Just give me the rundown of what happened."

"Y-You're not mad?", Izuku looked up with red eyes and a runny nose.

"Just surprised, that's all.", Egon assures him.

Izuku sniffles and gets help cleaning up his face from Egon as he explains, "Well after testing and gaining the results of the Quirk and Evolution Splinters, I thought about what would happen if both were used on the same creature. No plant I used would work so I used an animal instead. And to minimize any damage I used a small creature that was a baby."

He let Izuku breathe and collect himself a bit before he continued, but after five minutes he gently prompted him, "Go on."

"So I used the fertilized egg case of a gecko. And when it hatched, this came out. And I came to you as soon as I did.", He finally finished off.

Egon sat back on his butt on the floor and breathed a sigh of relief. Which was close enough for the baby dragon to climb onto his head, down his face, over his body, and across his lap before climbing into Izuku. The little lizard crawled up to his neck and cuddled into it. Observing the animal, Egon noticed how different it was from most reptiles at a second glance. Apart from the wings and mammalian gate, it had distinct claws on all four of its limbs, a head it held upright, two stubs of horns, eyes large enough to be seen from both the side and front, colored a blood orange to red, and its skin was like a mix of scales and regular skin. Still, it was the normal size for a newly hatched gecko.

After he breathed out any stress he told Izuku in a calm tone, "Okay good. I know the details, we can work on finding out more pressing things about this new species. Like how big it will grow, what it will eat, what temperament it will have, and so forth. After that, we will decide on whether to keep or kill it while it's still young and manageable."

"No need for that, I have just the solution.", a voice called from the still-open doorway.

Both men looked over and together they said aloud, "Professor Cephalopod?"

"What do you mean by that?", Izuku asks him.

"Me and Professor Genus were collaborating.", He stared off.

"That's not good.", Egon muttered under his breath.

"And made this.", He finishes while placing a strange Splinter at their feet that seemed to change the brightness of itself while changing to many psychedelic colors.

Egon held up the strange pulsating Splinter and asked, "And this is?"

"This Splinter does in days, what thousands of years of selective breeding does.", The professor explained vaguely.

"Huh?", Both said at once.

The professor rolls his eyes and explains further, "Keep it near any wild thing and it will become as domestic as a dog in just a few days."

"Well, at least this solves that specific dilemma of this thing turning on us and into a meal.", Izuku stated while admitting the Splinter's strange colors.

As the two men were looking at the psychedelic splinter, Otto tried to make his escape, only for Egon to catch wind of something and shout, "Hold it right there, calamari boy!", Before he could scramble, Egon grabbed the Octopus under his eyes and brought him face to face where he stated, "What else?"

"What do you mean?", Otto asked back innocently.

Egon squeezed him tighter and exclaimed, "Don't 'what do I mean' me! My IQ may not be half as high as yours, but I wasn't born yesterday! What else did you and Professor Genus make while collaborating?"

Giving a nervous laugh and rubbing the back of his head he admitted, "Ah, yes, about that. I was going to come to you about something else."

"What!?", Egon growled while squeezing him again.

After a moment of contemplation, Cephalopod tells him, "You're gonna have to change Gammoths feeding regimen."

"Why? To what?", Izuku was the one to inquire, being the main caretaker.

"An adult amount.", Cephalopod tells him while trying to look away and sweating.

Izuku looks at him weirdly and Egon adjusts his grip so the two could speak face to face as Izuku asks further, "She's a baby. She won't be an adult for another decade or so."

"About that.", Cephalopod laughs nervously.

Egon squeezed him again and snarled, "About what?!"

After tapping his tentacles he tried to say, "Well…"

Before he could answer fully, a loud sound, like a trumped being amplified through a jet engine, sounded through the now-closed door. Both men looked at one another when the sound stopped and ran out the automatic door, Cephalopod still in Egon's hand. As they ran, the loud sound rang out once more and they were able to follow it right to the front entry foyer where they saw something that made their jaws drop!

Standing in front of them and eating the decorative plants, while Doctor Genus tried to get a hold of it, was a fully grown wooly mammoth. Meanwhile, Megan, who was manning the desk, looked unfazed at the enormous prehistoric creature eating everything around her.

After letting the shock and the amazement pass them, Egon asked rhetorically, "Professor Cephalopod. Why is our baby mammoth calf now a full-grown adult mammoth cow?"

"Me and Professor Genus have made several different Splinters for population surging. One of which causes any organism to rapidly develop.", The professor admitted.

Only to be squeezed again as he asked in a repressed angry tone, "And you tried to hide this from me, why!"

"We needed to run more tests.", Otto explained while sweating before he tried to save himself by offering, "On the plus side, we made sure to spay her before doing so."

Egon gave him a half-lidded look as Izuku informed him, "You know that only works on boys, right?", Making the professor turn pale.

Egon looked ready to burst a gasket and even the now fully grown Gammoth could sense it and started to walk away. Izuku stepped back with the baby dragon hiding in his hair, and Genus started to hide behind the desk as Megan tried to make herself look busy.

But no furry came and he calmed himself down with an irritated sigh as he stated calmly, "Izuku, you are no longer solely responsible for the care of Gammoth. From now on Professor's Cephalopod and Genus will help as well. Understood?"

"Y-Yes sir.", The octopus and man replied quickly in unison.

After placing the octopus on the ground and fixing his hair and glasses, he turned back to the facility and said, "Come along Izuku. Let's run some tests and diagnostics on a new fire-breathing friend."

With that Izuku filled after him to a testing chamber to run tests on the new animal. Leaving Cephalopod and Genus to try and round up Gammoth back into her enclosure. Truly the first of many strange days to come.


He so this maybe the last chapter I do for a bit till my vacation is over or until I figure out how to do it from my phone. Sorry. Also, chapter 21 maybe the last till I can make more. So don't be surprised if the updates stop all of a sudden. Work picke dback up so im buy once again. Please Review and have a Plus Ultra day.