Mark Russle got home and, just like every day he plonked his bag on the floor and just enjoyed a few seconds of relaxation after his work and before other work, today it was shaping up to be an evening on excel.
"Hi dad!" Maddison yelled from the kitchen, "how was work!"
"There was some file that appeared on my computer about some plan to save the planet and I had to present it and now the tech guys are worried that we've been hacked ."
"So what did they think of the moth... balls that were...
"Moth balls?.. Wait a second," Mark said, pausing," it was YOU! You put that file on my laptop! You broke into my laptop and thought your conspiracy board was better than the world's best experts in the field."
"AND WHAT HAVE YOUR EXPERTS DONE SO FAR!" Maddie sprung back ,"gathered more pointless data and twiddle their thumbs! If they were doing theirJOB, I wouldn't have to try and kickstart your entire governmental sector."
Mark took a deep breath and glared at his daughter.
"I don't want you meddling in stuff that's out of your depth ever again."
"Well last time i meddled with things i saved the world!" Maddison yelled at her father who was walking out the room to reset his security and file a security breach. "Are we all just going to forget that huh? are you just going to disregard the fact that we would be nothing but scorched memories if i didn't meddle with things!"
Mark just kept walking.
The Next day Mark trudged back into the monarch office after he had been interrogated for the past hour about the security breach. They were done for now but there would be more later.
This, of course, was an impeccable start to the day and the fact that he had to be issued a new laptop was just the creme de la creme of it all. As he grumpily stared at the loading screen, Ilene Chen walked up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Oh, hi Ilene," he said tiredly, turning around, "you need something?"
"Yess actually," she answered ,"I was wondering if you found where that Mothra file thing came from?"
"Oh, don't worry about it, it was just maddie thinking she's omniscient," he replied "she put it on there hoping that i'd see it and present it and then use it to solve everything."
"You don't agree with it?" Ilene asked, with a smidgen of indignance.
"I just don't know," he admitted ,"Mothra was incinerated to ash before virtually any studies could be performed. We don't know her anatomy, we know very little about her behaviour. A few months ago someone pointed out that we weren't even sure of her leg count so we had to send some interns to scrub through some footage and confirm she had six. They're just scared, like me , that something will go horribly wrong."
"But..." she stopped herself before she started arguing back and forth again, she didn't have the time,"Nevermind, thanks for the insight."
The scientist walked away from Mark who was still too tired and done to wonder what she was up to. Ilene walked up to the desk and handed in an early leave notice, deciphering ancient idioms could wait.
She walked out the revolving door, hopped into her car and activated the GPS. she typed in Mark's Postcode and set off. Determined to get the Mothra plan in action.
