GODZILLA X MEGASHOKILAS; THE PARASITE PLAGUE
(Somewhere in the pacific ocean: 12:25pm: June 7th, 1996)
It was a beautiful, sunny day, and the ocean was crystal blue. As the waves softly crashed against the side of the boat, a young man in sunglasses and a Hawaiian T-shirt looked over his shoulder to see another man walking towards him.
"Hey, how far are we from Japan? He asked.
The second man laughed. "We're only a couple miles away from Tokyo Bay, stupid. He slapped the young man across the back of his head and his sunglasses fell off. He was angered, and got up out of his seat.
They began to pick on each other, playfully, when suddenly a beeping sound came from the control room of the small boat. They heard the sound and slowly walked in, to see what was going on.
They looked at a small, sonar screen, and the older man said, "There's a big object coming towards us."
The younger man also saw it, and he gasped. The thing was atleast 140 meters long, if not, bigger, and it was coming in fast. Terrified, they both ran outside to see what it was, but there was nothing in sight. The older man ran back into the control room, and looked at the sonar screen again.
It was gone. He sighed with relief, and told the younger man that it was gone. They both sighed, the young man leaning against the wall.
Just then, the young man heard a thump, as if something had just plopped on deck. He walked outside to see what it was, and he saw nothing, except for a trail of water and some sticky substance that led from the edge of the ship to the wall of the control room. He followed the trail of water, until he saw it disappear over the top of the boat. Trying to peer over with curiosity, he heard a squeak sound, and saw a strange creature appear from over the top. He smiled, fascinated. Then he screamed, "Hey, Yoshi! You've got to come and see this! You'll never believe your-
He was cut off by something. The older man, Yoshi, got up and hurried outside. Before he could see what it was, he heard the young man scream. He found the young man, and what he saw made him scream in fright, and then there was silence.
(Tokyo, Japan: 5:34pm: June 7th, 1996)
The sun was setting in Tokyo, and Yumi was getting dressed for the night, eating a bowl of ice cream. She turned on the news, and big letters appeared on the front of the screen, "Breaking News…Men found dead in boat near Tokyo Bay." Yumi turned up the volume and watched intently, her focus completely on the television, not paying any attention to the ice cream dripping onto her shirt.
The news broadcaster said, "This just in. A few hours ago, a boat that had been borrowed by two young men by the names Yoshi and Ryuhei, and they didn't return their boat passed its time limit. When the rescue team came out to look for them, the two men were found dead on board." Yumi saw a picture of a strange, sticky substance, and a green creature, about two feet long, that looked similar to a tick. The news broadcaster continued. "They had been mutilated by a strange creature. The large insect-like animal was found onboard, underneath a desk in the control room. The rescue team captured it and brought it back to the Tokyo Scientific Research Facility. It is believed to be a shokilas, a recently discovered species of sea lice that was first found back in 1985 when Godzilla attacked for the second time since 1954…" Yumi's eyes grew wide. She couldn't believe it. A species of sea lice…only found on Godzilla? She quickly got dressed and headed down for the harbor where the news was going on.
Yumi was a specialist in marine biology, and she had been working with Tokyo's finest biologists for four years, ever since she left college. When she got dressed and drove down to the harbor, she noticed that the news was already packing up and leaving. Now was her chance. She had to get her hands on the remains of the suspect, and she would do anything to get it.
When everyone had left, she parked her car and slowly walked over to the boat that was covered in "caution" tape. She was careful not to step on the tape, showing any sign of entrance. Once she got in, she found some of the slime that covered the floor, underneath the control room's desk. She pulled out a small testing tube, and, using tweezers, put some of the substance in the tube. After she had gathered enough, she headed back for her house, for more scientific study.
(Yumi's house: 7:36pm: June 7th, 1996)
That night, no new news had come out about the shokilas that attacked the two young men. Yumi was working hard in the basement of her house, trying to figure out what made this species of sea lice so big, and so aggressive. While looking at the strands of ooze through a microscope, she got a call from the Tokyo Scientific Research Facility. They wanted her to come and help them on figuring out the strange behavior of the shokilas. Yumi couldn't be happier. She immediately agreed to join, and went to sleep that night, leaving the ooze sample downstairs, untouched.
The next morning, it was gone.
(Tokyo Scientific Research Facility: 7:54am: June 8th, 1996)
Yumi got out of her car, waiting by it for the biologists to meet with her. All the time, she couldn't figure out what had happened to her shokilas sample. She knew no one could have gotten in the house, or so she thought.
Just then, a young man in a black suit with black hair and sunglasses walked over to her, with a smile on his face and a briefcase in his hand.
"Hi, my name is Shota." He said, holding out his hand for a shake. Yumi finally looked up.
"Oh!" she said, not even knowing he was there; she was too busy thinking about that missing ooze sample. "I'm sorry. My name's Yumi."
They began walking. Shota was explaining how they were both in charge for finding out the strange behavior of the shokilas.
Once they got to the facility, Yumi asked, "Is there anything new that's come out about the shokilas? Anymore sightings?"
Shota looked at her, immediately responding. "No," he said, "but we should be expecting anything soon."
Yumi looked puzzled. She stopped. "Why do you say that?"
Just then, after entering the facility, an announcement came up saying, "More shokilas' are being reported to attacks on boats. Recent attack spotted at the West Coast of Tokyo Harbor."
Shota got a look of surprise on his face. "We must go!" he said, grabbing Yumi by the arm. Before she could ask what was going on, they were in a van, filled with strange equipment, as if to use for marine biology analysis. Shota was driving twenty miles over the speed limit. He was in a hurry to get to the harbor. Yumi turned on the small TV that sat between them, and supported it on her knee, for Shota to see as well. When she turned on the TV, the first thing she saw made her gasp. It showed a TV broadcaster, and behind her were hoards of shokilas' slowly covering the beach. Shota looked at the screen, and the same look ran over his face. "My god…" he said.
He wasn't watching where he was going, and Yumi screamed, "Look out!" A semi-truck was coming straight at them. Shota was on the wrong side of the road. Acting quickly, he swerved the van into a ditch by the highway, and the van toppled over. A few seconds passed, and they both got out of the vehicle.
"Damn," Shota said, wiping the dirt off his pants, "What do we do now?"
Suddenly, he heard the sound of his walky-talky, and picked it up from out of the van, which was now filled with smoke.
"Hello?" he answered. Yumi was watching him, wondering what the conversation was about over his walky-talky. "Yes, yes…Ok, thank you. We will be over in just a short while." Shota put his walky-talky on his pants, and began to walk up onto the side of the highway. Yumi followed.
"Who was that?" she asked, trying to catch up with him.
"That was the boss. He said to meet him at the beach…it should be just a few yards from here. Anyway, he wants us to see what's going on up there, and he says he can give us a ride back."
A few minutes later, they finally got to a short cut from the highway that led to the beach, and when they got there, millions of shokilas' were already on the beach and crawling towards the city. Just a few feet away, Shota could see a man in a business suit, with greased-back hair and a red tie: the tie seemed to be swaying from the gust of wind that had just picked up. He was waving to them, and beckoning them over with his hands.
"There he is." Shota said, pointing the man out for Yumi.
"Is that the boss?" she asked.
"Yeah," Shota replied, "we need to get over there and get into that car. He can get us out of here."
Yumi looked at Shota with eyes wide-open. "Are you nuts?! I'm not walking through that blanket of shokilas! We'll be killed!"
Shota looked over to her with a grim look. "That's why we're not walking," he said, grabbing her arm, "we're running..."
"Running? Are you crazy?!"
Before she could say another word, they were running across the beach, jumping over the squealing shokilas' that were now very aware of their presence, and were jumping at them, trying to sting them with their needle-like suckers. One grabbed hold of Yumi's leg, and wouldn't let go. She screamed. Shota immediately yanked it off, but one after another, they were surrounding the two of them. Just then, they heard gunshots, and some of the shokilas' were exploding in bursts of green blood right in front of their eyes. It was one of the men who were with the "the boss" at the top of the hill on the beach. They were taking out the shokilas', giving Shota and Yumi time to run away.
As they made their way up the hill, Shota said, "Thanks, Goro…" as he tried to catch his breath. "You gave us the breather we needed."
Shota and Yumi got into the car with Goro, while "the boss" sat in the back with them.
"We need to get back to the lab, we've discovered something very important about the shokilas' migration patterns," the boss said.
"I'm sorry I didn't introduce you to Yumi, Boss. She is the one you wanted to see about the shokilas' strange behavior. Yumi, this is Mr. Morohita." She shook hands with Mr. Morohita, and noticed something out of the corner of her eye. It was a sonar picture of what appeared to be a large creature around 300 ft or bigger.
"What's that?" she asked, pointing to the picture hanging out of Mr. Morohita's briefcase. "That's nothing." He said, quickly shoving the paper back inside.
(Tokyo Scientific Research Facility: 8:49am: June 8th, 1996)
Within a few minutes, they were back at the facility, and they entered a small, white testing room. It had super computers on the walls, and in the front of the room was a shokilas in a tank.
"This is the specimen we will be testing to find out the reason they're acting so violent," Shota said, slowly opening the top of the tank. "The specimen isn't dead, it's merely sleeping," he said, taking out the shokilas and placing it on a tray.
"Did you tranquilize it?" Yumi asked, watching nervously as Shota toppled the shokilas over, as if it were a plastic toy. "Yes," he said, "but we need to study its brain thinking when it wakes up."
After it had woken up a few hours later, Yumi and Shota got to work on studying the way the shokilas reacted to certain objects and specimens.
"Hmm, that's strange…" he said, pausing as he watched the shokilas carefully, the shokilas working hard to move certain objects across the room, "it seems to have the same behavioral features as an ant more than a sea lice." Yumi also noticed this.
The door behind them swung open, and Mr. Morohita came in, watching the shokilas through the glass as it picked up a giant piece of meat, and moved it to a tunnel in the room. "I see you two are still studying the shokilas. Anything new?"
Shota picked up the paper-holder that contained information they had been writing down. Mr. Morohita quickly took it from him, placing it in his coat.
"Very good," he said, smiling eerily. "Your work is done here."
Shota turned to Yumi. "It was nice working with you," he said.
Mr. Morohita laughed. "Oh no, I meant both of you are done working here."
They both got a look of surprise on their faces. "What? What do you mean, boss?"
Mr. Morohita walked out of the dark room, walking into the front of the lab. Yumi and Shota followed.
"What is going on here?" Shota asked as they stepped into the large, white room filled with super computers busy at work. Mr. Morohita turned to face both of them. He then turned on the TV on the desk in front of them to see the shokilas' stirring through the city. Mr. Morohita grew a smile on his face.
"I asked you a question, Morohita."
Mr. Morohita turned to Shota; his face changed to a disgusted look. "I don't need you anymore. We don't need you anymore."
"What are you talking about?" Shota asked, still surprised.
"Don't you see?" Mr. Morohita said, spreading his arms to the whole room. "I only wanted you to tell me what they are doing, so that we can use this." Mr. Morohita pointed to a blueprint on the wall showing tunnels leading all over the city. "This is the system we'd like to call, 'the final solution.' This maze of tunnels will help the shokilas' navigate through the city." Shota seemed even more confused, but Mr. Morohita continued.
"These shokilas' are the answer to all of our problems. People in Tokyo don't know how to run a city. This is where I come in." Mr. Morohita walked over to the Television. "I will be able to run this city better than anyone can, and all I have to do is start things new. I will become the Prime Minister of Tokyo!"
Shota understood what Mr. Morohita was talking about now, and his look of confusion changed to a look of anger, as tears came into his eyes.
"You're mad." Shota said.
Mr. Morohita chuckled, "You know what they say. To create, we must destroy…"
Now Yumi understood this, and ran over to him. He grabbed her by the wrist. "…smash a glass and cry." He grinned, then through her to the ground. Shota ran over to Yumi, and helped her up.
Suddenly, Goro walked in. "Goro! Mr. Morohita has gone mad! You must-
Goro had a grim look on his face. "I'm sorry," he said, lowering his head down from Shota. "This was planned all along."
Shota's look became even more upset. "What are you saying? Are you in on this, too?"
Mr. Morohita smiled. Shota walked over to Goro, but Goro took a step back.
"He has good plans for the future of Tokyo." Goro said, now stopping. "Please, just go."
Shota put his hand out, as if to catch something that wasn't there. "But, Goro-
"Please, Shota. Just take Yumi with you…and go."
Shota took a step back, and felt Yumi behind him. He grabbed hold of her hand. Still watching Goro, he slowly walked back, "Let's go, Yumi. We can take your car."
As they ran down the hallway to the exit, Yumi could hear Mr. Morohita yell, "By the way, I'm the one who took your precious sample, Yumi." He was still yelling at her, but it was faint as they ran out of the facility. After that, they ran over to her car in the parking lot. They both jumped in, and Yumi started up the car.
"We need to get back to my place," she said.
As soon as they were on the highway, they panicked at the sight of the thousands of shokilas' covering the road. Some were jumping up onto cars, and some cars were toppling over; people scurrying out of their cars, screaming as the shokilas' swarmed all over them. Yumi and Shota could feel the shokilas' squishing under the car, as they tumbled over them. Eventually, they got passed the shokilas', and made it to Yumi's house, where they quickly turned on the TV. On the news, they could see millions of shokilas' as they stormed the city: crawling over buildings and cars, leaping on any person out in the open.
Just then, Shota thought he heard faint sounds come from outside. He looked out the window, and noticed a group of fighter jets flying over the ocean; firing down on the shokilas' as more crawled on to land. But Shota noticed something else they were after, something much bigger. Shota immediately headed for the door.
"What are you doing?" she asked as Shota walked outside to see what was going on. She followed him out the door, and they were watching the fighter jets dropping bombs into the water.
"We need to go out there," he said. Yumi look at him, hoping he was just kidding…he wasn't.
"You can't be serious."
Shota asked for the keys, but Yumi refused. "Fine then," he said, "I'm walking down there." He ran down the road, making his way to the dock. Yumi sighed, and decided to follow.
(Tokyo Harbor: 1:08pm: June 8th, 1996)
As soon as they made it to the dock, Shota made his way to the company's deep-sea exploring ship. Yumi got in as well, and they made their way out to sea. The sky was a burning orange, and the bombs and fire that floated up from the city only made it more orange. When they were far enough away from the jets, they turned on the sonar system in the control room, and were shocked by what they saw. On the screen were hundreds of green dots that showed the shokilas' that covered the ocean floor.
They continued to head out to sea, until they saw what really shocked them. It was a giant luminous form, around 150m long, that seemed to be heading the same direction as the shokilas', straight towards Tokyo! Yumi gasped. It was right underneath them and they noticed it creating waves that came crashing into the boat. After it passed underneath, and the waves came back to a calm ripple, they noticed a helicopter had spotted them in the water; it hovered above them, preparing to lower a safety harness to pick them up. Once they were in the helicopter, they told them that they needed to tell the military to find Godzilla. They told them what they had seen on sonar, and that Godzilla would be the only thing to help save them.