Roboshark Page #3

Yeah, totally.

That's it. End of the line.

I'm gonna hand her the keys.

What? No, we have to finish the story.

No, it's over, Louie. It's been fun.

God, it stinks! What is that smell?

Hey, Mel!

Melody, what are you doing here?

Hey, Louie. Hey, Mom.

Oh, God, it stinks! Let's get out of here.

What the hell?

How did you get here?

How did you know where I was?

I got you on Phone Tracker. Can we go now?

Oh, God, she's here.

Yeah, she is.

Okay, so what's the next step?

We take you back to school.

Veronica's got the story.

Besides, we have no way of knowing

where Roboshark's gonna hit next.

Mom, this is what I've been telling you.

You need me.

Really? And how are you gonna help?

Dad's the only one who can do that

by tracking the water outages

as it travels through the city.

Wait, Dad said it's messing up the water?

Well, we can search for tweets

about water outages by time stamp

and then map them.

Hold on.

How's this? Looks like

something's happening at the Pacific Mall.

That's actually pretty good.

Okay, can we go now? It seriously stinks.

Okay.

Hey! Hey, that's my news van, damn it!

- Listen, we're still live.

- That's my news van!

Run! Run! Run!

Roboshark. This way.

Target's dead ahead. Fire at will.

Fall back!

Okay, you stay here.

No way, Mom. That's like the dumbest thing

to do in the movies.

Like, "Oh, yeah, let's leave the girl

in the car to protect her.

"Oh, wait, the monster's going

towards the car! Oh, no, let's save her!"

I'm coming with you

and keeping you from doing anything dumb.

Really?

Besides, it's freezing out here.

Let's go, come on!

Fine, but you stay right next to me

and you do as you're told.

Come on, Louie! Come on!

Louie, go!

Okay, we're going live.

Two.

We are live on the scene

as what has been named Roboshark

has apparently attacked the Pacific Mall.

I don't think this is a good idea.

- Mom, someone's got to get the story out.

- Only if they survive.

Come on!

If we go around that corner,

we'll have a shot.

- Let's go, come on.

- Come on.

Okay, stay close.

Get down.

Oh, my God!

Mom, did you see that?

I know.

It just ate that man.

Run!

Mom, we've got to get the word out.

Yeah, Trish, I got it all.

Call the big D.

Right.

You're about to witness

the power of television.

Hello? Hey, can you put Dan on?

He's not... Conference call?

This is breaking news. This is big.

This is the oil spill disaster

and the '89 flood rolled into one huge...

Sure, have him call me back.

He's gonna call me back, so...

Okay, so?

- Let's put it online.

- Yes!

No, no.

Right there.

Yes, that's good.

Hey, Mom.

Good!

We're at the Pacific Mall.

What? What are you doing there?

Are you okay?

I've got red lights all over that place.

We're fine. I got Melody with me.

Melody? What the hell?

Why isn't she in school?

Rick, there's a giant robot shark

tunneling under the city,

eating everything in its path.

Melody's helping us get the word out.

- She's incredible.

- Giant robot shark?

What, did Melody just use her years

of robot-shark-fighting experience

to save us?

Trish, are you out of your mind? She's 15!

I'm not a kid anymore, Dad.

Besides, my Instagram account

has over 11,000 followers.

Melody. So I'm on speakerphone.

What does your Insta account

have to do with anything?

Okay. Sorry, we're gonna get cut off here.

Why?

I've got Navy guys here

making me look for the shark.

- Roboshark, Dad. Roboshark.

- Roboshark, whatever.

Who are they, Rick? What can you tell me

about what's going on?

I'm sorry, baby. I can't tell you that.

Dad, have you

changed your password lately?

What? No.

You know my password?

I hung up...

The Admiral will clear

all calls, in or out.

Cool!

The Navy? That sounds like

some kind of top-secret weapon.

They lost control of it,

it's here and it's hungry.

Louie, stop with the conspiracy theories.

We're supposed to report the news,

not write it.

You're not gonna use that?

What's this about your dad's password?

Seriously, Mom? Please!

So we can listen in, obviously.

No, I'm sorry. Admiral!

Excuse me.

That was my wife and kid

I was talking to in there.

They're sort of

in the middle of this thing,

and you can't just cut me off like that.

- Rick, right?

- Yeah, sir.

You need to understand

there's a lot at stake here, Rick.

Don't test me.

I'm not trying to test you, sir.

It's my wife and kid.

Let's go in your office.

What I'm about to tell you,

you cannot reveal to anyone.

If you do, well, we'll

just have to kill you.

You're serious.

U.S. Navy wouldn't kill you, Rick.

You're American.

We'll just destroy your credibility.

IRS would seize all your assets.

And after you lost your job,

your wife, your family,

you'd kill yourself.

- This guy's a douche!

- Melody!

Sorry, Mom.

- Classic douche.

- I know, right?

Okay, then maybe you guys

shouldn't tell me anything.

You're already in, Rick. Deep.

- Deep? Deep?

- Deep.

You heard of force majeure?

Well, force majeure, Rick, is when

you get Intel that an alien starship...

That's right.

An alien starship

has launched something at us.

And that thing has taken out

a United States nuclear submarine.

One hundred and sixty-eight men,

gone.

And that's what we're here to destroy.

Are you sure?

Dead sure.

We're the United States Navy.

We don't make mistakes.

We're gonna kick its alien shark's ass

back to whatever damn planet it came from.

Sir.

Yes?

Yes, sir.

Yeah...

But, sir, we're quite...

Yes, understood, sir.

Yes, he'll have our full cooperation.

Yes, sir.

Well, thank you, sir.

When will he be here?

Any second.

Who? Who? Who? Who? Who was that?

The most powerful man in the world.

Cool. The President?

No. Someone with real power.

Please. Enough, XO.

Sorry, Admiral.

Hi, I'm Bill. Hi.

Hi, I'm Bill.

Hi, I'm Bill.

- I'm Rick, you're Bill.

- Yes, I'm Bill.

Nice to meet you.

You're in my office.

- Yes, it looks like that, Rick.

- It's my office.

Admiral, it's good to see you, too.

Bill, it's been a while.

We were trying to sell the army

electric tanks.

Yeah, that didn't go off too well, did it?

No. Electric tanks, who would've thought?

Oh, boy.

Well, I have a solution to our problems.

Alien technology.

Belinda and I feel that we can solve

poverty and diseases...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. We get it.

You're gonna save the world.

Let's cut to the chase, Bill.

How the hell are you gonna deal

with Roboshark?

Admiral, I'm glad you asked that question.

How does one communicate

with alien intelligence?

Music and math.

The first thing we do

is we establish

a common communication language.

And then we use this.

The MS-Drone.

We develop a musical rapport.

We work on understanding

its operating system.

We shut it down.

We reverse engineer it.

And then bingo! We own that market, too.

- That's...

- So, now,

I understand you know where Roboshark is.

Yes, sir.

Well...

Billionaires, always screwing around

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