Super Science

Ch 94: A Day at the Park Part 2

"So? What's the synopsis? We've been waiting here for hours. We kinda want to get back to our vacation.", Egon impatiently gripped as he and Izuku stood behind a glass viewing room where they saw several park scientists work tirelessly examining the corpse of the Quetzalcoatlus.

One of the lead scientists, a woman covered in surgery attire, came from behind the examination room with a clipboard in hand and apologetically told them, "Sorry about the wait sir, but we needed to cross all our tees and dot our eyes so to speak. But we've managed to figure out everything from the Quetzalcoatlus remains.", the two men leaned toward the woman as she read off her board, "Its chip was removed, thus the reason for it not dropping like the others, and it was injected with some strange serum that caused it to go into a berserker-like rage, thus why it took so much damage until it was killed and why it was so aggressive."

"Hold on, the chip was removed? Why!?", Izuku exclaimed.

Reading off her clipboard she informs him, "Quetzalcoatlus number 23 had gone under treatment for a small wing injury a week ago. But we found out that an unscheduled surgery had taken place in secret. In which the chip was removed."

"Under whose order!?", Izuku demanded, feeling extremely angry at this sneaky oversight.

But Egon stopped the woman before she could continue as he said, "Hold on, before we divulge into that, what was the animal injected with?"

Looking over her notes again, she answered with an unsure answer, "We're not entirely sure of this, but the traces we were able to extract from its blood were similar to the drug Trigger."

"Trigger? But that's impossible. Trigger only reacts to Quirks and all the animals here are quirkless.", Izuku told her, looking more confused than anything else.

"Well, we found out it has been heavily modified into a sort of berserker serum. In addition, there were signs of tampering with the Aviary, leading to the animals' mass escape.", she explained further, allowing realization to dawn on the boy's face.

"So someone removed the chip, allowing it to move outside of the parameters, injected it with a serum that made it go crazy, and finally unlocked the aviary to allow its escape.", Egon summarized.

"We believe it to be some sort of eco-terrorism.", the woman scientist offered.

Egon shook his head and hand, dismissing the theory, and saying, "No no no, that can't be. We have this place under wraps tighter than Fort Knox. This was an inside job. And one used as a distraction. But for what?"

Suddenly a security guard ran up to them in a breathless flurry and quickly told them, "Sirs. We may have found out the reason for this crisis."


Both men were then brought into a new room where someone had been restrained in a high-tech metal chair in the darkness. When the light came on, both scientists were surprised to see a familiar young Chinese man sitting there with a displaced scowl on his face.

"Doctor Wu?", they both exclaimed in shock.

Izuku shook his head trying not to believe this and argued, "No no, it couldn't be. He was recommended by Doctor Hammond. Why would he do this? It makes no sense."

"I think this is the reason.", a security guard offered a wall setting a small object on a table nearby.

"A can of shaving cream?", the two men observed aloud.

Egon then picked up the item and shook it near his ear where he observed, "Sounds half empty, but it feels full."

"It has a false bottom.", one of the guards explained.

Upon unscrewing the bottom it popped open to reveal a small carousel-like holder where small objects sat inside of them. This is where the two men came to the same conclusion and exclaimed, "Embryos!?"

Another guard then placed down a hard drive and taking it into his hand, Izuku plugged it into a nearby computer to see its contents. Only to be shocked as he saw severe terabytes of secret data copied into it.

"And research data!", Izuku exclaimed before slowly turning his head to the restrained man as he asked, "It…it was you. Wasn't it?", only for Wu to not respond and narrow his eyes while looking away. A solid enough response for Izuku as he half shouted in a hurt tone, "But why!? You were made the head researcher with full access to everything and the ability to do just about anything here. You had sufficient funds and good pay with benefits. You had it all! Why would you throw it all away?"

Wu still said nothing as Izuku started to tear up, so Egin took the reigns grabbed Wu up by his collar, and growled, "Listen here Wu, you nearly caused a potentially dangerous and catastrophic event. So you better give me a reason why I shouldn't throw you into the Mosasaur lagoon."

"Fine fine, I'll talk, I'll talk.", Wu finally coincided. After being let go the man explained, "The Americans contacted me several weeks ago, telling me they wanted the process of creating dinosaurs. At first, I refused but then they offered me what they were willing to pay, and it was more money than I'd seen in my whole life! So much so that I could start my very own research facility right from the get-go! So I agreed to their terms and sought to obtain materials and research in secret. At first, I secretly sent small bits of information to them, but after a bit, I decided to go all in to try to sell off as much as possible in one go. So I concocted this whole plan, and I nearly got away with it too!"

Still looking hurt by his betrayal Izuku promoted, "But why would you do this? You were one of Thomas's brightest students. He had nothing but good things to say about you. I gave you so much control because I thought you could be trusted. So why?"

"Why? Why!? You know exactly why!", Wu yelled at the boy, causing him to back away. "Because of you and this damned park, I went from an inspiring paleontologist to a glorified zookeeper! You ruined the paleontology community forever with your revived dinosaurs! There's no reason for us to speculate and study when we can just bring one back from the dead and see what it looked like and how it acted! There was nothing left! You took it all away from us!", he ranted as Izuku looked both confused and shameful. "Don't you see what your advancement is gonna do? You're gonna put so many people out of work! I heard about your cure-all. Do you know how many doctors and nurses will lose their hard-earned jobs thanks to you!?", Wu finished his rant as he breathed heavily.

Izuku looked more ashamed now from his words. They were true but Izuku had planned for this inevitability in advance, but now he was starting to second guess himself from how Wu took all of this to heart. But Egon had a different expression on his face, one that was as unreadable as he walked over to the now tense man as he released the restraints.

As Wi stood up confused by the jester, Egon rested a hand on his shoulder while telling him, "Wu, I'm sorry that you feel this way.", he then tightened his grip and followed up in a threatening tone, "However, I'm not apologizing for this."

With one swift ave quick motion, Egon smacked Wu hard across the face, causing him to stumble back as Egon yelled, "That was for lying to us!", another smack across the opposite cheek and yelled, "That was for selling our secrets!", another smack across the first one and yelled, "That was for betraying Hammond!", another smack and yelled, "That was for putting others in danger!", another hard smack, causing the man's fair skin to turn bright red as he yelled, "That was for ruining our vacation!"

Just as Wu was becoming woozy from the multiple hits across his face, Egon grabbed his collar and held him up while tightening his fist and growling, "And this is for putting my family in harm's way!"

Then without a second thought, Egon shocks the man so hard in the face that not only does he fly back but also falls unconscious!

Breathing hard after knocking out the man, Egin looked back to see the stunned silent faces of his employees as he yelled, "Well? What are you all waiting for!? A miracle? Get going! Hand this trash over to the police, track down where our research went, and get the American government on the phone! I've got fish to deep fry!", with that the people began to scatter like huge as Egon stomped off to give a government a piece of his mind.


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