They Didnt See It Beneath Them Chapter # 9 (Original Story)

Chapter 9: An Easy And Helpless Meal

At this point in time, Gary, Trevor and Scott were beyond speechless. Their boat, along with the other clusters of boats around them, had been pushed aside by the massive head and body of the 68-foot Megalodon shark.

There was nothing more that they could do as they watched the Navy’s fleet of military ships close in around the massive shark, shining more and more bright lights in its direction and sounding off their large horns.

Everyone on the smaller fishermen boats, including the news reporters, had given up trying to capture the footage with their video camcorders and cell phone recorders. It was time to leave the area as quick as possible, so that no one would be injured or put in serious danger. All the boats began to quickly head back towards the shore while being escorted by the Naval Coast guard in the front of the boats, and supervised by the two police boats tailing behind all the rest of the boats from the back of the formation. Gary, Scott and Trevor would have to find out what happened on the news like everyone else, because the ocean area was now restricted from all people who were not authorized nor legally allowed to be in the area without documented consent and approval from the Navy’s military personnel. The Megalodon was darting and dashing left and right with swift agility, easily out maneuvering the submarines beneath the ocean’s surface. The Megalodon avoided the tranquilizer dart missiles whizzing passed its body, and as it was swimming away to avoid more darts coming up ahead, it noticed smaller flashlights and spotlights focused on the bottom area of a nearby submarine.
The Megalodon caught sight of ten trained Navy Seal scuba divers tying and securing ropes and hooks around the now tranquilized and sleeping Dunkleosteus. They were also guiding chains that were holding the Dunkleosteus to be lifted up into the lower sliding door underneath the belly of the submarine. The specially trained diving team planned for the monster fish to be taken up safely into the submarine for scientific evaluation and military research. The Megalodon immediately sensed the Dunkleosteus’s inability to move and wanted to seize this opportunity without delay. The shark paid no attention to the other nearby mini submarine drones, which were armed with more tranquilizer darts, which were pursuing the shark. The massive shark gained speed and accelerated with a burst of tremendous power like a streamlined torpedo shot from the barrel of a battle warship. Its jaws opened wide and its eyes slid back beneath a protective layer of skin that covered its eyes’ surface.

The scuba divers saw the Megalodon charging their direction and screamed muffled screams releasing bubbles into the ocean. They swam immediately away from the tranquilized Dunkleosteus as fast as possible, dropping their equipment at will and letting go of the chains and ropes. They headed towards the closest nearby protection cage. One diver saw his life flash forward before his eyes as he imagined himself being devoured alive by the ferocious Shark.

Another scuba diver daringly reached out to touch the massive shark's fin as it rushed passed them in a fury.

Milliseconds later, the Megalodon’s jaws slammed into the right side body of the gigantic fish, pulling with it the chains and ropes, all of which snapped immediately from the shark’s brute force. If the chains and ropes hadn’t been broken, the Megalodon would have dragged the 100-foot long submarine down with it. The shark opened its mouth widely and slammed into the monster fish.

Now it had the Dunkleosteus deep in its mouth and it bit down so hard and fast with such force, the Dunkleosteus snapped into two small remaining pieces. Chunks of fish flesh, skin, blood and air bubbles swirled about as the shark’s jaws had clamped shut. The Megalodon, in one swooping bite, swallowed the Dunkleosteus’s entire midsection. Only the head and tail were floating slowly downward to the bottom of the ocean. The remains of the fish scattered everywhere, while painting the whole underwater scene into a murky-pinkish color in the spotlight beams from the submarines nearby. The armor-plated head of the Dunkleosteus was much heavier than its tail, therefore the head sunk toward the ocean’s floor at a faster rate. The Megalodon made a quick U-turn and snapped up the falling rear tail portion of the Dunkleosteus with its hundreds of serrated teeth. The bite force of the jaws closing downward made a booming sound akin to a dynamite explosion underwater. Without question, the Megalodon was the top predator of the ocean and the ancient Dunkleosteus,
as fearsome as it once was,

was no more.

The Navy fleet ships, above the surface, were giving orders to the submarines beneath them to release two more miniature submarine drones to intercept the Megalodon. Two green-blue drone machines with neon yellow lights were released from the side sliding door panels from the submarine that was closest in range of the Megalodon. Each drone was equipped with a tracking device launcher that it needed to inject inside the Megalodon, so that the Navy could gain information on the massive shark’s location at all times. The remote controlled drones propelled forward with their double-propeller fanned engines and quickly located the shark nearby. They had their lights directly on the powerful back tail of the Megalodon. The shark rushed towards a protective cage holding one of the divers as it charged and bit the cage and swam another direction.

The diver inside was absolutely terrified and was lucky to survive.

Drone number 1 accelerated and extended a mechanical arm on the left side of the Megalodon’s lower midsection, attempting to implant a GPS tracking chip inside the shark’s skin. The Megalodon, unaware of the drones pursuing it from behind, pushed forward with its tail swinging left to right, and its mighty tail smacked drone number 1 into a circling spiral, causing the drone to lose control, and breaking its mechanical arm into small pieces. Drone number 2 was now on the upper right side of the Megalodon’s midsection, near its swimming fin. The drone’s mechanical arm shot forward a tubular, needled dart containing the tiny tracking device chip and penetrated into the shark’s waistline.

The Megalodon reacted to the sharp pain on its side and turned to face Drone number 2. Without a second to waste, the shark turned, rushed forward, and smashed the tiny machine inward with a swift and crushing bite.

Pieces of the machine glittered and sparkled under the spotlights from the nearby submarines. At first the shark rushed to the surface trying to escape the pain in its side and broke through the top of the ocean in a leap of agression and anger as if it were piercing the underbelly of an unsuspecting seal.

The nearby boats sounded off more horns as they spotted the massive shark. The Megalodon was very agitated from all the bright lights, loud sounds and strange, metallic machinery that the Navy had used against it, so it began to plunge and dive deeper into the depths to escape the chaos.

After losing visual sight of the shark, the Navy’s ships and submarines were ordered to return to base and regroup for a new strategy. They got exactly what they had wanted. The Megalodon had been chipped with the designated tracking device, and they could see on their radar how deep the shark was swimming, its body temperature, its heart rate, as well as the exact location it was at any given time. The radar read that the Megalodon had plunged to a depth of 8,600 feet in pitch-black darkness, where sunlight was nonexistent.

The Megalodon could no longer feel the tracking device that was embedded within its waist. It swam around in the darkness at a casual, slow pace, almost gliding and drifting with the underwater current. The shark was partially full in the stomach with the Dunkleosteus digesting inside. It just wanted peace and quiet to enjoy and digest its meal.

As the ocean around the shark seemed to stand still, the Megalodon went into resting mode, slowing its heart rate, slowing its breathing, and almost floating in one position. The tracking device sent all of this current information to the Navy’s headquarters, its military personnel and its scientists, who were drawing out another plan on how to capture the ocean’s biggest predatory shark the world had ever seen.