“What would a scientist want with my city? Do you have a death wish, pathetic mortal?” Black Hat hissed lowly, his eye narrowed down at him. “You must be an idiot if you dare speak to me in such a familiar manor.”
“I just told you, I’m searching for an energy source that my instruments are picking up,” Carlos explained. “And I’m not being familiar – I’m being polite. You’re the one who’s leaning into my personal space, however.”
Carlos got the antennae back in both hands and looked down at his machine. It had been beeping rather aggressively at him for a little bit… he must be close. Though glancing at his danger meter Carlos could see that the needle was steadily moving further into the red zone, well on its way to the red zone. He hummed to himself – the energy source must be very unpredictable, he thought.
Black Hat began to exude some sort of dark energy. “You must be stupid if you aren’t shaking in your pathetic skin.” He smirked much wider than any human should be able to do, revealing razor sharp, acid green teeth.
Carlos looked back up at the other being, and seeing his smile he gave a startled shudder. “I… wow… nice teeth. I knew a guy who smiled like that. His, uh… his name was Kevin.” Carlos cleared his throat slightly. God, this was getting very awkward. “Look, pal, I’m not going to hurt anything, I promise. I just have questions that I wanna answer… that’s the whole basis of science. I… Are you familiar with science at all?”
“No. That is why I hire a scientist.” He growled softly. “Get you business done with and leave my island, before you mysteriously vanish off of this earth.” He smirked sadistically and turned on his heal, striding back towards his manor.
Carlos watched him leave, confused by his demeanor. “Um… alright,” he said, and he turned away to keep walking.
However, when he did the beeping from his machine suddenly slowed and the numbers dropped. Meanwhile, the danger-meter needle was stuck between orange and blood-orange. Curious, Carlos turned back toward the hat-shaped mansion and the retreating humanoid, and immediately the machine’s beeping picked up again.
“Oh… oh, interesting…”
The Perfect Scientist 