The Meg (Jonas x reader)

Chapter 2

"Now, this is shaping up to be an eventful Tuesday evening."
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Mac gets to the conference room with the team.

"Gather around people. Options." He say, looking around at them.

"Not great." Jax announces.

"We know they're alive. I've still got telemetry on their vitals." Heller informs.

"How long do they have?" Morris asks him.

"Maybe 18 hours." He answers.

"Ballast valves are jammed, which means it can't rise by itself. If we attempt to tow it, it's fifty-fifty the tanks will explode, and breach the capsule." Jax tells them.

"Can't we go hatch-to-hatch?" Mac asks.

"Not a chance." Dj tells him.

"The external camera is showing severe hatch damage." Jax says.

"We have to try something." Suyin says, worried about her friends.

"They're six miles down and no one has ever attempted a rescue at that depth." Jax tells her.

"Well, that's not exactly true." Mac tells her, looking at Heller.

"No. No way." Heller shakes his head.

"We can handle this." Suyin interrupts.

"Not at 11,000 meters, you can't." Mac disagrees.

"We've gone 5,000 meters, 8,000 meters. At some point it just becomes a number." Dj says.

"Why don't you try this number. Three. That's how many people have actually attempted a rescue below 10,000 meters. And the number one. That's how many are left alive to talk about it. One man. Jonas Taylor." He says, already getting his jacket from the chair to go retrieve him.

"And look what happened to that one man the last time he went to these depth." Heller tells him.

"He saved 11 people including you, Heller. That's what happened." Mac says, annoyed with him.

"He left our friends there to die! Because he had pressure-induced psychosis." He says, standing up.

"Come on, Heller. That was your diagnosis. Jonas said something attacked them. Something big enough to take out a nuclear submarine." Mac tells him.

"He's a drunk." Heller states.

"You're not listening!" Mac shouts as Heller starts shouting too.

"He's washed up on a beach in Thailand." Heller exclaims.

"Did you hear what Yn said?" Mac asks.

"I'm listening. I heard it." "We're you there?" They're bickering angrily at each other.

"That's enough." Zhang stops them. "We all heard Yn's last transmission. We have to consider that the Origin may have encountered something similar to what Jonas Taylor described. Something he was able to escape from."

"Ba! Please, we don't have time to wait to get him, let me do this." Suyin tells her father, wanting to save her friends.

"Prep the helicopter. We must go to Thailand." Zhang say.

...

"Now, this is shaping up to be an eventful Tuesday evening." Jonas says walking into his apartment, hanging up his hat. Zhang and Mac already inside, waiting for him.

"You know i like to make an entrance." Mac says, walking over to his friend.

"Hell, Mac, after this long, just showing up is making an entrance." Jonas tells him.