We need a distraction!

"We screwed up and made the Internet shoot out. Everyone is clicking on their smartphones with no connection, not even data! We messed up! Please help us create an interesting distraction! We need people to say this happened because of aliens or whatever!" Sharren Cruiser of space engineering has contacted Martie Weethers a marine biologist for ideas.

"Fart on a rock and put it into a freezer, Sharren. That's all space is, gas, dust, and ice, yet you all gain more money on average for trying to find aliens on a place with no life while people have thought there is no life past a certain point in the sea and yet there is always more!" Martie replies.

"We will pay you, don't worry! Do you think you could maybe bring a creature from underwater and we transport some of those to space. Is there a new discovery under there you haven't shared yet?" she begs.

"We have been studying a fish first before saying anything, yes. We can try and see if some survive in displaced waters. We will need a dark tank and choose dark waters to place them in," she nods and is sent to to work. The recent discovery made is of mimic fish that are a mix between a snail fish with no scales and a mimic octopus. Basically an amorphous blob that can become anything else they want to be in the ocean.

"Why do you think they only mimic if they can become anything?" Sharren asks while being handed the tank.

"They see a creature doing well and surviving strongly and they want to become like that. We are going to create a blob puppet one of your astronauts will show around the fish if any are still surviving on the planets. They can create a showing of it getting plenty and living well. The fish will become that and you have your alien." The rocket used to transport the fish up looked a mixture of a rocket and a boat on the sea called space ship ice dust.

"An ode to you all. I will be sure to mention the modeling after you mariners. Should help with recognition," Sharren thanks Martie.

Martie laughs at the name, "from one ship to another, go on my wonderful salt water loves," she sighs as she pushes her discovery off to become another.

They send the blob fish up with an astronaut. A few fish make it while some pass away because of not enough salt while the astronaut struggles to keep the water like the sea. The puppet showing begins and it works while the blobs form to become similar to the puppet. The footage is shown and becomes the talk of Earth while the destroyed data connections are becoming fixed.

It is known from then on the reason all smartphones were not of use during that time was because the aliens short circuited it. It never became the fault of the people who really messed up. The ruse worked and it become a great distraction topic before Internet was back. Martie shook her head and used the extra money to pay mariners more closely to what space engineers make.

Martie felt a bit frustrated it was by the hands of the ocean to make space exploration look better, but what else can you do in this world where someone decided who has more of the money while performing near the same work. She will just have to cringe a bit every time hearing it, but at least she mostly stays to her boat and is only around people's trends with some family visits and shopping, that way holding her tongue can work better. Plus when a crowd is told to believe something the truth coming out sounds crazy, so be it with more in the ocean to discover and knowing that's the end of the space peoples rope needing the marine scientists so much.