The Abyss: DNA

A Story by Abishai100

Navigation-One is an underwater expedition sent to the deep 'Abyss' of the Pacific and confronts a destroyer-entity.

A fun fanfiction-opus about dangerous science, inspired by one of my favorite American films, The Abyss. Enjoy (and stay safe),

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"Washington was on the dawn of a new era of underwater exploration. Because of the Plague, human scientists sought more knowledge about survival and evolution on Earth, as it pertained to the mysterious and mostly unexplored 'Abyss' of Earth's ocean systems and ocean-floors. There were numerous committee meetings in DC to determine what kinds of human soldiers and 'ninjas' could be sent to the 'Abyss' to extract potentially volatile items of knowledge. DC was suddenly a pace of great historic events."

"The committee chose scientists, Navy men from the USA, explosives experts, army generals, and underwater divers and photographers for the special exploration crew of the 'Abyss' which would be called Navigation-One ['NO']. One of the members, a man chosen for his unusual infiltration skills regarding highly-acrobatic thefts of banks, a job he did for Interpol to intercede movements of blood diamonds or conflict diamonds mined for warlords used to finance terrorism. This pirate-ninja, Isaac Satan, was considered the ultimate diving pirate and was considered the most eccentric member of Navigation-One."

ISAAC SATAN: I don't care what's down there in this 'Abyss' or what, but I do want to come out alive and sane!

"The committee was then satisfied that it'd selected the very best representatives and 'acrobats' for this Abyss mission, which would begin in the deep Pacific by the West Coast (USA). The committee was then endorsed and funded by the Weyland underwater science group, headed by the ambitious capitalism-baron Jennifer Cone ('JC'). JC was somewhat opposed to the selection of Isaac Satan for Navigation-One, given his apparent predilection for rogue ninja individualism. Nevertheless, Navigation-One considered 'JC' and the Weyland company a vital resource for general psychological preparations!"

COMMITTEE: We're proud of Navigation-One and Weyland's participation and remain confident the Abyss will be charted.

The underwater station in the deep Pacific was erected within 2 years. Navigation-One was sent down there and began training on the use of all the facilities and weaponry and scientific tools. Isaac Satan joked it felt like the Devil's version of Martha's Vineyard.

ISAAC: You must be real excited about this whole adventure, young lady.

LARA: We're all equal members of this exploration-crew, Satan, and you're not the lone star!

ISAAC: Sorry, I didn't know that'd touch a real nerve.

LARA: Here I thought you might be an interesting exploration diplomat.

ISAAC: Why...did you have a crush on me or something?

LARA: Right; well, let's just try to get on professionally.

Despite some whimsical attitudes and early tensions, the Navigation-One team began doing their diligent work and reporting predictably back to DC and to Weyland and American TV networks. Audiences remarked this was as landmark as the Apollo moon mission. The information collected in the Abyss was so far normal.

ISAAC: I get the eerie feeling we're not alone down here, and I think I'll explore the abyss in a lone-vessel in secret.

Two of the explorers discovered a strange abandoned Russian sub with crushed human Russian underwater explorers comprising some sort of secret/confidential USSR mission never reported to the public or to Weyland. The two explorers also found a very strange drawing made by one of the crushed Russian explorers depicting a human contact with a metaphysically jarring underwater entity. The explorers nevertheless toasted their special discovery.

ISAAC: This drawing gives me the creeps!

LARA: You're so cynical, Satan.

ISAAC: It might be some omen of discovering something not meant to be touched, Lara.

LARA: We have to remain optimistic.

ISAAC: Well, it seems to me a drawing of panic...or raw fear.

ISAAC: I'm going down into the Abyss on my own, since no one's taking that eerie drawing seriously.

Isaac took a sub-vessel off the underwater station and parted with the other members of Navigation-One to explore the Abyss on his own! He was confident he had the only requisite 'ninja' skills to deal with whatever the hell was down there that compelled that crushed Russian underwater explorer to render an artistic image of raw fear. Isaac believed he was the only member with the right sort of absolute objectivity for this encounter with potential fear, and he didn't want Lara to follow him down there for this one.

Isaac first saw an indentation on the cliff-walls of the Abyss with moving organic tentacle creatures horrifyingly made of some kind of sand-substance, rendering it capable of shifting shapes and writhing around like a snake-head. He called this abomination the Sand-Creature ('SC').

Isaac then saw another SC ('Sand-Creature') which seemed to have flipper like limbs and a developing jaw-like facial area, all from shape-shifting sand! Isaac didn't report any of this back to the station or Navigation-One team members and just proceeded to take photos with his sub-vessel power-camera.

What Isaac saw then was really terrifying. It was yet another Sand-Creature ('SC') but this one exhibited layered scale-like indentations and a creeping movement along the walls of the Abyss cliffs, almost as if it was developing some kind of moving adaptation consciousness! He was really worried now.

Then, lo and behold, Isaac confronted the first intelligent 'Sand-Creature diplomat' of sorts. This face-conscious toothed mad being was also comprised of sand but had the morphing structure to be a rather shapely monstrous engagement entity, like a Godzilla of the water, but with a menacing inquisitiveness.

ISAAC: What the hell are you?
SAND-CREATURE: I'm the chameleon.

ISAAC: What the hell does that imply to me?
SAND-CREATURE: I exist as a phenomenon of sand-shifting mega-intelligence.

ISAAC: What's your intention?

SAND-CREATURE: Well, I ward off foolish vain curiosity by humans!

ISAAC: Is that why those Russian were crushed in their Soviet sub?

SAND-CREATURE: They failed to defer to the magnanimity of morphing darkness!

ISAAC: What's so 'dark' about sand, dude?

SAND-CREATURE: My chameleon signature is one of raw death.

Isaac now knew he was confronting the real scales of an underwater leviathan. This Sand-Creature ('SC') was some abominable metaphysical intelligence, comprised completely of shape-shifting sand, meant to ward off foolish explorers dum enough to probe dangerously into the mysteries of uncategorized dynamic evolution on Earth.

Isaac wanted to remember his days above-ground suddenly and why'd he get so involved in masked infiltration vigilante work as a government-oriented 'specter' or ninja. He wished he was transported back to his younger days of piracy and espionage and thought of his lovely fanfare with political intelligence themed patriotic comics on Earth. He thought of his days as a regular fighting American!

ISAAC: I'll tell the humans you're some being of omen-caliber!

SAND-CREATURE: Don't alarm them about the raw presence of anarchic madness.

ISAAC: Right; I'll tell my team-mates his was a discovery about the chaos of evolution!

SAND-CREATURE: Excellent; you may share the images/photos I've supplied your sub-vessel.

ISAAC: If I did something untowards or crude, what'd be your response (if I may ask)?
SAND-CREATURE: We'd have sent a sand-man behemoth to destroy your Earthly cities.

ISAAC: Jesus, what should I tell my government?

SAND-CREATURE: Tell them Navigation-One received a goodly warning about over-speculation!

ISAAC: Right, and I won't fear invasion by some kind of large Sandman.

ISAAC: That was some exploration, Lara.

LARA: What the hell were you thinking?
ISAAC: Don't ask!

LARA: Well, at least you brought back those digital images.

ISAAC: I saw raw darkness down there!

LARA: This was a human trophy, Isaac.

ISAAC: Well, maybe I'll just remember our time flirting dangerously with each other, Lara.

LARA: You need to forget about the memory of the leviathan-behemoth, dude.

ISAAC: Right!

What Isaac didn't know what that the Sand-Creature exhibited a rather magical intention to always serve as an Abyss defender or guardian of false knowledge, to any foolish human explorers willing to risk public welfare for privatized scientific experiments! Overall, Isaac would remember his encounter in the Abyss as one of pure design.

When Navigation-One returned above-surface from the mysterious 'Abyss' with the renowned imagery, Weyland and DC congratulated them as triumphant explorers. Meanwhile, comic book artists rendered Isaac Satan as the idealized 'Hydro-Man' of the Abyss, a solitary ninja who'd faced the eerie Sand-Creature ('SC') and was willing to use the imagination of watery intelligence to counter any dark idea about pure degradation. Isaac was celebrated as the comic book wonder-hero 'Hydro-Man.'