Digging in the Darkness
WHAP! The sound of the pointer stick against the film screen captured the attention of everyone in the room.
"Geeze Teshima! What's your problem?" Yawned Victor Barlem One of the four ex- pilots of the Mecha-Godzilla.
"My problem is you Barlam." Shouted General Teshima, "…and this pitiful excuse for military personnel. With the exception of Captain Marou Kojima, this has to be the worst team I've ever had the displeasure of working with!"
Genjo Asana, a tall black haired Japanese man, raised his hand. Teshima sighed, "Yes Genjo? What is it?"
" Well, I for one sir, find your lecture most riveting and informative, and if I may be so bold as to say I am humbled to be briefed by one so great as yourself."
"Teachers pet." muttered victor.
"Class clown" Genjo snapped back.
Teshima slapped his own face, muttering about how he was going to retire to some tropical island far, far away from these morons.
Teshima gathered himself together, "Okay." He said, his voice strained, "Now as I was sayi….where is Iko?
Victor and Genjo looked around the room when the door burst open and in waltzed Iko Hamamoto carrying five takeout bags, two in each hand and one in her mouth. The bags had the burger palace clown king on the front and a cartoon picture of Godzilla on the back, advertising the all grown up kids meal toys that sponsored the new Monster March on Tokyo movie.
Iko dropped the bags on a counter, being completely ignorant of the fact that she had walked out on Teshima's lecture to get a snack, "Okay! I got the El Arana grandee burrito for victor, the triple Ghidorah burger for Genjo, and I wasn't sure what the Captain and General Teshima wanted so I just got some rodan nuggets and figured you guys could share."
Victor dug into his bag and pulled out a small plastic El Arana, "This thing is awesome!" Victor tore open the lid of his soda cup and placed the toy inside, sucking in the caffeinated beverage.
"Hey, Genjo! Look out it's the ishra beam!" Victor squeezed the plastic spider's abdomen and sprayed Genjo full of cherry coke.
Genjo wiped the sticky substance off of himself, rage encroaching upon his face, "Victor I'm going to kill you!"
Genjo got up and was about to throw the nearest object at victor when another WHAP filled the room.
"Sit down! Now! Or so help me I'll make sure there is a court marshal waiting for each one of you when we leave this room!"
Captain Marou Kojima just sunk into his chair wishing he could just disappear, 37 years of service to the Japanese Self Defense Force and what do they do? They pull him out of retirement to baby-sit three unruly children while they got to play with the military's most expensive toys.
"Now, as I was saying." General Teshima began again. "Due to recent events the Japanese Government has decided that it would be unwise to depend on further trade with Ataru Walker for the Ishrakaneil diamond. We must find our own source of Ishrakaneil."
Teshima sighed as he watched Genjo, victor, and Iko engage in a game of tic-tac-toe.
"Lights off" Teshima shouted taking great pleasure in the groaning of the trio as he ruined their game. "Now if you will all turn you attention to the screen."
The whirring of the rooms built in projector cut through the silence while a video of a desolate city came on the screen. " An underground probe sent by the S.K.M.C ( Subterranean Kaiju movement Center) to try an relocate Anguirus after the Bagan incident found this, the remains of an unknown city believed to be Atlantis."
Victor yawned again, "So? What do you want us to do?"
"The ex- crew of the Mecha-Godzilla will go to this location and scope out the landscape to see if there is any Ishrakaneil available to be mined. You will look for the diamond and only the diamond, this is not a vacation. Do I make myself clear?"
"Crystal" said Genjo "But last time I checked we've been replaced by Kiryu, so unless you're decommissioning the cyborg and giving us are robot back."
Teshima shook his head, "No, all of you are still forbidden from ever setting foot inside a Mecha-Godzilla ever again!"
"Geeze" victor grumbled under his breath, "We only grazed the diet building, it's not like we blew it up or anything."
Teshima rubbed his eyebrow, "That Graze cost the Japanese government over 2 million yen in property damage over what was supposed to be routine exercise." Teshima stopped then added sarcastically, "But then again nothing is routine with any of you!"
"But then nothing is routine with any of you!" Victor mumbled mocking the general.
General Teshima took no notice and continued to debrief the Former Mecha-Godzilla pilots, "While you will not be allowed to pilot the Mecha-Godzilla You will be given the reigns to M.O.G.E.R. A., well half of him anyway. Your orders are simple you will Pilot Land M.O.G.E.R.A. deep into the earth until you arrive at the coordinates given to you. You will then make a routine survey of the area, collect a few samples and return here, without incident!"
Teshima looked over the three pilots and felt truly sorry for Captain Marou Kojima.
Teshima thought for a moment as Victor, Genjo and Iko were once again arguing about some trivial matter, he then said aloud, "I am also assigning Doctor Falon Seiryuu of the Kaiju research center to this expedition, and I will shoot the first person who decides to complain about it."
"I wasn't going to say anything." victor said defensively, "Were you going to say anything Genjo?"
Genjo shook his head "Not I, what about you Iko?"
Iko allowed a small smirk creep across her face, "Well, I did have a question."
Teshima sighed, "What?"
"Well." Iko said, "I just wanted to know if there were any bathrooms on board Land M.O.G.E.R.A., it's that time of the month and I have been getting these terrible cramps and."
Iko left off on purpose as Genjo and victor did their best to stifle the intense laughter that they felt rising up from inside them, but they ended up making snorting noises as the laughter seeped out through every other part of their face except their mouth. Iko smiled as she saw General Teshima turn beet red, she had won Victor and Genjos silly bet, General Teshima was about to blow his stack.
Teshima Exploded his patients taxed to their most agonizing limit, "Get out!" he screamed causing the rag tag Mecha crew to scramble out the door.
