Imagine that you Caught El Gran Majá from the Ocean…PART 2

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Imagine the first battle [music] with Bloop was only the beginning. We returned to the impossible laboratory once again the day after the fight.

[00:00:07]Bloop disappeared beyond the horizon [music] and the simulation shows all is calm. But Maya doesn't eat, doesn't swim up, and doesn't look at me.

[00:00:17]And all night he stared at the ocean.

[00:00:19][music] An ordinary evening, a VR headset is on the table. Today we will once again find ourselves in the impossible laboratory.

[00:00:28]The screen goes dark.

[00:00:30]Loading. The simulation continues. The day after the battle with Bloop.

[00:00:36]The yard, the pool, a sunny morning.

[00:00:39]The day after the battle. Everything is calm. Maya is in the pool. He is standing in the center.

[00:00:47]Lately, he's been acting strange.

[00:00:51]Something is wrong. Maya is looking west.

[00:00:56]I noticed it right away. He wasn't looking at me.

[00:01:01]As usual, I brought two buckets of fish.

[00:01:04]But he didn't eat anything.

[00:01:09]I thought I should stay close.

[00:01:13]I sat next to him. He didn't swim over.

[00:01:16]He just stood there staring at the horizon.

[00:01:20]All night. When I came back in the morning, he was still there.

[00:01:27]For some reason, the water was bubbling.

[00:01:31]The pool water is hot as if it's boiling from the inside.

[00:01:36]The cardboard metal is lying on the edge of the pool.

[00:01:40]For the first time, he took it off himself.

[00:01:44]All this time, he had never taken it off.

[00:01:48]What happened to him?

[00:01:52]He didn't turn around. That was the worst part.

[00:01:57]I set up a camera to watch him.

[00:02:03]In the morning, I check the cameras.

[00:02:09]On the recording at 3:00 in the morning, Masha was sending out a signal.

[00:02:14]Not a normal one.

[00:02:16]Pulsing.

[00:02:17]Low.

[00:02:19]And a few seconds later, from beyond the horizon, a quiet response.

[00:02:25]Bloob. Alive.

[00:02:28]And he was already very close.

[00:02:32]Preparation.

[00:02:34]Masha finally turns around.

[00:02:39]All six eyes fixed straight on me.

[00:02:42]Bright.

[00:02:43]Ready.

[00:02:46]I'd only seen them like that once before, before the first battle.

[00:02:51]Masha starts eating a lot, fast.

[00:02:58]At noon, he suddenly started eating.

[00:03:01]Not just eating, devouring.

[00:03:05]I could barely keep bringing him fish fast enough.

[00:03:09]In 2 hours, a week's supply.

[00:03:12]I understood right away.

[00:03:14]This wasn't hunger.

[00:03:17]This was preparation for battle. Masha in the pool starts moving sharply, quickly.

[00:03:23]Water is spilling over the edge. The whole yard is flooded.

[00:03:29]I stood there completely soaked, just watching.

[00:03:35]He was practicing maneuvers specific, repetitive ones.

[00:03:41]He remembered the first battle.

[00:03:43]And he was preparing for the second.

[00:03:46]The evening before the battle, sunset, Masha swims over and rests his head on the edge.

[00:03:56]We both stayed silent.

[00:03:59]We both knew tomorrow would be loud.

[00:04:04]Night. I can't sleep. I'm looking out the window at the pool.

[00:04:10]Dawn. I step out into the yard.

[00:04:14]Maja is already standing at the edge of the pool looking out at the ocean.

[00:04:24]I stand beside him.

[00:04:26]We both look at the horizon.

[00:04:30]Out there, the surface of the water was already rising.

[00:04:34]Bloob was close.

[00:04:36]From beyond the horizon, a loud bloob.

[00:04:39]The windows in the house begin to rattle. Maja answers with his own sound loudly.

[00:04:44]For the first time, that loudly.

[00:04:50]My ears pop.

[00:04:52]Birds burst from the trees. Maja turns to me saying goodbye.

[00:04:59]I place my hand on his face.

[00:05:02]I hang the metal on him.

[00:05:04]Maja looks at the metal.

[00:05:06]Then he looks at me.

[00:05:09]He goes into the water fast, faster than the first time.

[00:05:14]He was in a hurry.

[00:05:16]I couldn't leave him.

[00:05:18]I ran toward the shore.

[00:05:21]I reached the edge of the cliff.

[00:05:26]The ocean is already boiling.

[00:05:29]Two massive shadows are beneath the water.

[00:05:34]Bloob is much bigger.

[00:05:36]Its shadow covers half the horizon.

[00:05:39]40% intensity, that was putting it mildly.

[00:05:43]The surface explodes a 20-m column of water.

[00:05:50]The wave crashes into the shore.

[00:05:53]I hold on to the rock.

[00:05:55]Shadows flash beneath the water, fast and sharp. Round two has begun.

[00:06:02]The shadows slow down.

[00:06:04]One is pinned, not moving.

[00:06:07]Bloop is holding him and changing the pressure of the water around them.

[00:06:12]The surface above them is being pushed downward.

[00:06:17]Maja can't break free.

[00:06:20]30 seconds.

[00:06:21]40.

[00:06:23]I was nervous and clenched my fists against the rock.

[00:06:28]I shouted from the shore his name, loudly. Maja!

[00:06:32]The waves drowned out my voice.

[00:06:35]I shouted again.

[00:06:37]Under the water, a flash.

[00:06:39]White light.

[00:06:41]Six points at once, brighter than ever.

[00:06:48]Blue light is visible through the depth of the water.

[00:06:53]Bloop's pressure drops instantly.

[00:06:57]Maja breaks free with lightning speed.

[00:07:01]He turns around.

[00:07:03]Now he's chasing Bloop.

[00:07:06]The shadows switch places. Bloop retreats. Maja goes after him. The final strike, a massive column of water.

[00:07:14]The wave completely covers the shore.

[00:07:19]It knocks me off my feet. I fall.

[00:07:23]I stand up, completely soaked.

[00:07:26]I look at the ocean. Silence. One shadow goes deep and disappears. The other one rises to the surface.

[00:07:37]Maja surface. Six blue eyes. Around his neck, the cardboard medal.

[00:07:44]Wet.

[00:07:45]Crumpled. I don't know why exactly that broke me.

[00:07:49]After the battle, at home, Maja is in the pool.

[00:07:54]Beside him, on the ground. We stayed silent for a long time. Sometimes, you don't need words. I go into the house.

[00:08:03]I come back with a new medal. I take off the old one. I put on the new one. Maja looks at it. Like always.

[00:08:11]Like from the first day. Sunset. [music] Quiet. The simulation screen fades out.

[00:08:18]Simulation complete.