Chapter 2: Strange Visions

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Meanwhile at the Hollow Earth, 3 agents at Monarch Outpost 1 was monitoring the area and watching Scylla returning back to South America, while Simon returned back to the sea and monitoring Ruby and Earl as well.

Monarch agent 1: Earl's heading in for the night. Looks like it was another rough day.

Monarch agent 2: That's the farthest he's gone yet.

Monarch agent 1: Maybe he was looking for a date.

Monarch agent 3: Good luck with that, I hope he's up for some romance with other species.

Then all of a sudden, the screen showed a red light where Ruby and Earl's trap on the Wart Dogs were.

Automated Voice: Sinkhole detected in Sector 5.

Monarch agent 2: That's Ruby and Earl's hunting ground.

A sinkhole appeared from the trap, causing the carcasses of the Wart Dog pack to fall into the abyss. At the outpost, the monitor showed that there was a new uncharted area from the sinkhole. Then the monitors showed 3 electrical anomalies shaped like the pyramids and the seismometer than showed the same 3 pyramid spikes.

Monarch agent 1: We'll we should tell Director Hampton and Mr. Tompson.

Monarch agent 2: {Sighs} I'll type it up, this whole place is an anomaly.

On the surface, The Hollow Earth Access Point station was located in Barbados. Where everyone monitored the portal. Tyler Tompson the new director for Monarch since 2019 and Inja his new wife and Kira's stepmom, and Holley were telling an agent about Godzilla who was returned to Monster Island with his new found family.

Tyler/Inja: Okay, just tell the Italian Military that Rome would have been flatted by those Skullcrawlers had Simon and Scylla not come to the rescue.

Holley: They can threaten him all they want, just tell them to find another scapegoat plus we still need to figure out why those Skullcrawlers had red handprints on their faces.

Inja: Director Hampton, what's up?

Hampton: Well Outpost 1 is still a nightmare, and they sent this over. I thought you 3 might want to take a look.

She shows them the seismometer chart.

Holley/Tyler: Is this from the sensor array?

Hampton: Yeah, we've been getting some pretty weird spikes. I mean, it could just be regular interference.

Inja: Yeah, but it keeps happening. We should prep a survey team just in case.

Tyler: And what about Simon?

Hampton: Oh he's still sleeping with his family.

Holley: I would say more like a cat, considering that he's sleeping position is a like a cat, but let's hope it stays that way.

Inja: Ah well, at least Big S now has time to rest for a little bit.

Meanwhile at the Monarch Base Academy, students were heading to their classes to learn about Titans, Superspecies, and many more. Ben and Kira Tompson (Who is now 17 years old) were both heading to their class. Ben and Kira had met not long after the Hong Kong event three years prior, and the two have an older and little sister bond. Thanks to Ben, Kira could now use sign language to talk to her and just like him, she had a psychic connection (This was when she saw a vision of Mobil during the Battle of Boston meaning that she can communicate with Simon and other Titans whenever they were far away).

The 2 arrived that their class learning about marine creatures, then all of a sudden the 2 then saw visions of past & future events. For Ben she saw her past back on Monster Island, and Kira saw what happened during the battle of Boston and Hong Kong until they saw glimpses of future events that will occur later. The 2 kids were snapped out of it by their teacher and on their desk and papers were 3 spikes that were the same as the ones at Monarch. Tyler, Inja and Holley were called by the teacher to tell them what happened.

Teacher: You're kids are intelligent, but their not engaged anymore. Their grades are slipping, and their not interacting with their friends, and these problems aren't going away, Ms. Shiftwell and Mr. and Ms. Tomspon. They've been getting worse. The teacher then showed them their daughters papers.

Naturally Holley, Tyler and Inja were shocked by the fact the paper had the same 3 triangles as they had saw on the seismometer chart.

Holley: Okay, We're sorry. My daughter is still adjusting to our world.

Tyler: Yeah, plus Kira is still getting used to being an adult right honey?

Inja: Yeah you are right dear, becoming an adult is hard.

Teacher: I understand that, but we have a number of students who are culturally displaced and seniors who haven't gotten used to becoming older.

Holley: Sure but my daughter's culture's is not displaced, she is her culture. She's one of the living member of the Iwi tribe of Monster Island.

Tyler/Inja: And our daughter has psychic abilities and with her becoming an adult it's hard for her now but we're helping her with it right now.

Teacher: We're just trying to reach them.

All 3 parents: We know. Join the club.

Ben and Kira finished cleaning up their desk, and Kira notices that Ben was upset.

Kira: *signs* "Hey Ben, don't worry about happened you're a great person. I'm experiencing a similar thing too, you're not alone" 😊.

Ben: *signs* "Thanks Kira, I feel a little bit better now" 🙂.

After that, Ben and Kira were watching both the simblings on their monitoring tablets until their parents arrived and asked them what's happened at school.

Tyler/Inja/Holley (Using sign language to talk to Ben): "Hey you two what's going on right now?"

Kira: Well it's just that me and Ben had visions and I'm worried right now.

Ben: *signs* "We're worried for Simon, Ruby and Earl."

All 3 parents: Did you 2 draw these.

And they showed the three pyramid shaped pikes that the two kids drew on their papers.

Kira and Ben: Can we go.

All 3 parents: Look at us, just tell us what's going on.

Ben: *signs* "I feel like I don't belong here and don't belong anywhere else."

Kira: I don't feel normal anymore ever since Mobil gave me psychic powers.

Holley: *signs* "You belong with me and I belong with you."

Tyler: Kira, you are normal you just have a new ability and that makes you unique.

Inja: Me and my sister Ling have psychic powers too Kira, Mobil gave you a gift.

This made Kira and Ben a little better and the 2 went into the car so that they can go back home. That night, Tyler, Holley and Inja were watching a documentary about the Iwi on Monster Island until when a storm was brought by a bat Titan named Camazotz back in 2020 and the changing storm patterns nearly destroying the Island. The documentary showed footage of when Ruby saved Ben from the storm. The 3 then noticed how the drawings on their daughters paper were the exact same as the ones on the seismometer.

Meanwhile at the Hollow Earth, the 3 agents there were fast asleep but foot stomps were heard and on the monitor, came a hoofed foot and blue evil looking eyes looked into the monitor and scowled at it before destroying the facility. Then Ben and Kira had another vision but this one had an albino quadrupedal reptilian Titan and it's eyes glowed blue from a lava cave, and appeared it was a female but had bone chains around it's neck and legs, and roared in pain calling for help.

???: HEELLPP MEEEEE!

Ben and Kira woke up from the vision and were horrified that they saw a Titan in pain and calling for help.

Tyler, Inja and Holley went to their daughters room to check on them and as they came in, they saw the 2 hugging each other for comfort, they then told their parents what they saw.

Kira/Ben: We saw a Titan, she looked albino and was in pain and was calling for help.

Then Ben told her mom about her feelings.

Ben: *signs* "I'm sacred mom, something is wrong with me."

Holley: *signs* "There is nothing wrong with you. You're perfect."

Ben: *signs* "I feel like me and Kira are going crazy."

Then Ben and Kira started to cry, and their parents hugged their kids telling them that everything will be okay.

Tyler, Inja, Holley and Kira realized that there was man who could help figure out the patterns by thinking outside the box, and that man was Titan Truth Podcast host. Mikey Charles.