Trade: Satoshi's Prehistoric Plunge

Summary: Sibling stretchy superheroes investigate the appearance of an ancient sea monster along the coastline; it's gone and gotten the beach closed, and that cannot stand! My have of a trade with Animewaveneo.

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Patricia was not a fan of the beach closing on account of something as stupid as "sea monster attacks", so when the signs got put up barring entry to the shoreline, she had taken it upon herself to get to the bottom of this. She couldn't leave her younger brother Satoshi at home alone, however (Mom put her in charge of babysitting), and the kid brother was certainly interested in seeing a real, live sea monster. With an agreement to never tell Mom about the adventure they're about to embark on, without permission, the two determine to get to the bottom of this mystery.

The weather was gorgeous; garbed in their form-fitting supersuits, Patricia and Satoshi soared through the skies, towards the beach; each of them had flattened their limbs out into more aerodynamic, curved shapes, resembling soaring hang-gliders. Satoshi stretched his neck forward, looking with awe as the urban city below gave way to a sandy shoreline, and then the clear blue waters below.

"What sort of sea monster d'ya think it's gonna be?" Satoshi wondered aloud.

"Probably just some tacky submarine a bunch of pirates are using to scare locals." Patricia scoffed. "Gnarly waves though, wow..."

"No one's surfing though..." Satoshi murmured.

"Beach's closed, dummy." Patricia smirked. "It's not that windy to be making waves like these though..."

"Might be something big? Like a plesiosaur? A liopleurodon?? Ooooooooh what if it's a megalodon???" Satoshi's eyes lit up with excitement.

"Ugh... getting you that book on dinosaurs for your birthday was a massive mistake..." Patricia groaned; she was no good at paleontology to recognize any of those; maybe one of those was in a monster movie or something. "If we follow the waves long enough, maybe we'll stumble upon-"

"Sis, look! O-oop-" Satoshi tried to gesture forward, but his aerodynamic form wavered slightly, so he took a moment to catch his balance. He waved enthusiastically instead. "It's a perucetus!!"

"A peruwhatsit?" Patricia looked forward. Cresting the waves was an enormous creature, colossal even. The biggest thing Patricia had ever seen. It was grey and smooth, resembling a whale. But it must've spanned over fifty feet long, judging from their vantage point.

"The whale?" Patricia wondered aloud.

"No, not a whale! They're bigger than whales! Uh, were bigger!" Satoshi rattled on excitedly. "Way heavier than one too!"

"Uhhhh... sure." This wasn't the right time to rein in Satoshi's overactive imagination, as far as she was concerned. Besides that, it wasn't like she had ever seen a whale—not in person at least. As the two of them approached, they brought their arms slightly closer and backwards, allowing their winged arms to close slightly, diving closer towards the ocean to get a better look.

Auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... There was a haunting cry coming from the seaborne creature, broken up by crashing waves. It lashed its tail back and forth, shaking its head repeatedly.

"Why's it thrashing about like that?" Patricia grimaced.

"I think it's hurt, Patty!" Satoshi called out. "It's acting funny..."

"No kiddin'... at least it's all the way out here, away from-"

CRASH!!! From the waters, the massive whale-like creature emerged from the waves with a mighty leap, cutting through the pair; its finned tail rose, and then smacked them down to earth, bringing them down into the water.

The two of them cried out in surprise as they crumpled up and tumbled into the water, dazed and disoriented. Patricia was the first to react, panickedly looking for Satoshi; spotting him quickly, she swam towards him (flattening her hands and feet into fin-like protrusions as she breast-stroked). She outstretched her right arm, looping it around her brother's chest and brought him closer to her. She took a deep breath as her body ripped...

As she filled herself with air, the two of them shot to the surface. Satoshi must've inhaled a lot of seawater; it gushed from his mouth like a faucet. Patricia, morphing her entire body into a bouncy inflatable boat. Patricia grimaced, being rocked wildly by the waves.

"Orrgrh..." Patricia groaned. "You okay, bro?"

"F-Fine... I'm fine..." Satoshi spat the last mouthful of seawater.

"Think we found our sea monster... let's teach it a thing or three." Patricia steeled her focus, watching as the sea monster was swimming off. Satoshi went quiet for a spell; he didn't particularly want to hurt the perucetus, but there was something off about it.

He nodded and dove into the water; Patricia morphed into a more bipedal form and swam after him. Before long, as they dove deeper under the surface, they morphed their lower bodies into mermaid-like fins, their legs merging and feet flattening out to improve their swimming ability.

As they approached the creature from behind, the powerful water currents being kicked up from its tail pushed the pair back. They winced, yielding.

"Hold still you giant hunk of blubber!" Patricia shouted, outstretching her arms through the water. The hands and forearms swelled in size as her arms rapidly stretched out in length; they looped around the whale over and over and over, clutching its fins for grip. Her body went taut as she was stretched out by the power of the currents, with Satoshi pressed against her chest in turn. Patricia, somehow, was slowing down the beast...

...But it was heading for the surface again. Satoshi noticed this, and repositioned himself against Patricia.

"SATOSHI!!" Patricia yelped. "Don't step on my chest!! I'm in the middle of something!!"

"I know!! I know, sorry!" Satoshi blurted. "Just need to- grrgh, no time, hold on!!"

FWOOOOOOOOOOOSH! The perucetus leapt through the water again and Patricia's stretched-taut arms sprang her body forward, launching Satoshi over the massive length of the creature's body like a pellet from a slingshot. Satoshi hoped to get the creature's attention from the front; if it was a whale, it was maybe intelligent to listen to his pleas for peace! Hopefully...

...That frazzled train of thought was interrupted as he neared the head of the creature, noticing a weird contraption on its head. It sort of resembled a headset... it looked out of place. He outstretched his arms and reached for the neck, pulling himself over to examine it closer.

There were cables connecting two speakers on either side of the head, connecting to a small metal box. There was an exposed panel... there were coloured wires, they didn't match at all! And the speakers were producing a terrible staticy noise!

"Aghhh..." Satoshi winced at the cacophony. He worked quickly to sort out the cables, fingers zipping over each other. The box crackled, and the speakers gave out a low hum.

The creature... slowed down to a careful, cautious paddle. It was enough for Patricia to catch up from behind, just in time to catch Satoshi closing the panel.

"Little bro?" Patricia cocked her head to the side as her mermaid tail shifted behind her.
"What'd you do??"

"I, uh, fixed something." Satoshi murmured. "It was kinda like a puzzle! And I think it calmed the perucetus down a bit-"

[HELLO? HELLO??]

Satoshi's train of thought was cut off by the crackling of a speaker. A voice with an oddly robotic tenor player, pitching oddly.

"Uh, sis?" Satoshi blinked. "That wasn't your voice was it?"

"Definitely not!" Patricia grit her teeth. "Um, helloooo??"

[HUMANS! PLEASANT GREETINGS!!]

The pair of elasticine superheroes was bumped off the back of the sea creature as it suddenly stirred, swimming in a broad arc as it turned to face them. Its eyes widened as it surveyed the pair, and their morphed mermaid tails.

[FISH HUMANS? VERY STRANGE! YOU TWO ARE STRANGE!] The robotic voice rattled again. Satoshi and Patricia seemed to be connecting the dots now; this creature seemed to be studying them closely, their eyes sparkling with intelligence.

"Is that you talking, Ms. Perucetus?" Satoshi asked aloud.

[YES! MY DESIGNATION IS "BLIMP"; HUMANS IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FASHIONED THIS DEVICE FOR ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER HUMANS! BUT IT WAS EXPERIENCING SEVERE MALFUNCTIONS; THANK YOU FOR TROUBLESHOOTING THE ISSUE!]

"Blimp?" Patricia tried to stifle a smirk. "Not the most flattering name..."

"A real talking dinosaur, though!!" Satoshi's eyes lit up. "Blimp, where'd you come from anyway? Can you tell us? Are there more just like you??"

[INFORMATION IS CLASSIFIED!] Blimp rattled off again, before lazily tumbling into a barrel-roll.

"Au..." Satoshi pouted.

"So you've just been thrashing about everywhere because your, uh, communicator there was on the fritz?" Patricia tilted her head. "Y'know you were freakin' a whole lotta people out."

[I APOLOGIZE PROFUSELY! THE STATIC WAVES WERE GIVING ME A TERRIBLE MIGRAINE!] Blimp explained in that robotic, overly familiar and cheery tone. [WOULD IT BE OF ASSISTANCE IF I WERE TO APOLOGIZE?]

"Apologize? Hmmm... it would get the beach re-opened..." Patricia was always thinking of what to do with Blimp; Satoshi, however, was way ahead of her.

"We'll forgive you if you let us ride you aaaaaaall the way back to land!" Satoshi beamed.

[I WILL ASSIST! HOP ON MY BACK!]

Blimp surged forward, seemingly with little regard as to who she bumped into. She seemed the sort who expected whoever to simply... get out of the way.

"WhooOOAAA!" Satoshi and Patricia cried out in unison, extending their limbs to wrap around Blimp's fins. It was taking all their strength just to hang onto the rapidly surging prehistoric sea creature.

"How fast is she going, Patty??" Satoshi's eyes lit up excitedly.

"TOO FAST!" Patty wailed. She had half a mind to spread her lower body into a parachute just to slow Blimp down!

Today turned out to be a lot more exciting than either of them anticipated. There would surely be relaxation to be had on the beach after all this hubbub... unfortunately, the media circus that Blimp brought about upon arriving to the shore crowded up the beach all over again, and Patricia and Satoshi were forced to go on home; their mom would be home before long, and Satoshi had a curfew to adhere to.

Maybe another day, they'd go on another adventure with Blimp. Maybe the scientists at R&D could even point them in the right direction, wherever that gentle(?) giant swam off to.