CHAPTER 2 - AMAMI:
It had been two years since San Francisco, since this thing had taken her son. Emma looked around the cramped interior of the Osprey. Mark was next to her, rapidly typing something into his laptop. She looked forward, Sam was sat there nervously muttering under his breath. Foster stood up at the front and suddenly everybody went silent.
She inhaled a deep breath and began to speak. "We have an estimated 44,000 civilians down there. Evacuations have already begun but they won't make it out in time. Let the Japanese forces deal with that, our priority is Godzilla. Doctor Stanton, is the bomb complete?"
Stanton looked over at the heavy device, with its capsule. He turned back to face the others and for the first time gave a quick reply, "Yes".
Foster nodded and continued. "Three other strike teams are currently on the island, with nuclear warheads placed at strategic points across the island away from civilisation. We are hoping that Godzilla will be attracted to these warheads reducing civilian casualties."
"What if it isn't?" Emma quietly asked, almost nervous to say it.
"Unfortunatly if it isn't, we must continue with the mission."
Emma sat back in her seat, she knew what she had to do. She remembered what this thing could do. Emma felt a hand on her leg, she looked to her right and remembered Mark was there.
"Its going to be ok." He whispered softly into her ear. As he did he placed a light kiss on her cheek, she smiled only for a second forgetting about what they might have to do.
The osprey bolted around the air as windspeeds picked up. Emma grabbed onto Marks arm as he continued to type into laptop. She looked out the window behind her, the island was only small. She thought to herself is 40,000 people small?
"Sergeant Major Foster? Do you copy?"
"I read you Corporal."
"Godzilla has ignored the warheads, it's heading for the city!"
"Shit! Copy that, get back into the air and prepare to cover us while we plant the destroyer on the pier!"
The osprey began to lower, it would move down then go back up slightly. Emma continued to hold Mark who had finally closed his laptop. With a thud the aircraft hit the ground. The soldiers picked up the destroyer and began to carry it out. The wooden pier was big enough for the bomb, but she didn't know how much time they had. The oxygen destroyer had used research from Serizawa but designed by Stanton. The devices uses a toxic chemical reaction that will isolate oxygen molecules in the water, causing Godzilla to suffocate.
"Stanton how long until that things ready!" Sam asked worryingly.
"Just another minute!" Stanton replied.
"I dont think we have another minute..."
Emma walked past Mark and towards the end of the pier. She could see waves splitting apart, a large creature was moving inbetween them. She looked down at the destroyer, it wouldn't be ready in time.
Foster stepped forward until she was beside Stanton. "We have to detonate that thing today."
Stanton raised his head so he was looking at her, "It could destroy most of this island..."
"What choice do we have! This island or the rest of the goddamn world!"
"Foster you can't do this!" Mark shouted
"Is now the time for this! Stanton get that bomb ready to drop onto the city!"
"Its getting closer!" Sam roared over the arguing.
Emma thought about everything, about her son, about what Godzilla can do. She walked back and crouched next to the bomb. She asked Stanton, "Isn't there a way to speed up the detonation?"
"Yes, but it will have to be a manual detonation, it'll kill you."
Emma paused, "I know."
Stanton turned to face Mark and quickly turned back, "You see this?" He began to explain how to detonate the destroyer.
"Everybody onto the osprey now!" Foster shouted.
The others ran on, Stanton whispered something to the soldiers and then ran back to the osprey.
Foster looked at them boarding, "Why don't you have that bomb!"
One soldier replied, "They figured out a way to detonate it!"
Emma could feel water on her face, Godzilla was close. She looked up again at Stanton, "Tell him I love him" She whimpered as tears streamed down her face.
Stanton nodded and ran back to the osprey. He looked at Foster and nodded.
"Lets get out of here!" Foster shouted to the pilots.
"WAIT!", Mark quickly stood up and ran towards the ramp of the osprey as it began to shut. "SHE'S STILL THERE!" he screamed.
Emma began to drag the bomb towards the water, she turned back one last time to see Marks face, but it was gone. She heard a large noise as water flooded the pier. Towering over her stood Godzilla. Its body was blocking out the sun, she wouldn't be able to detonate the bomb in the water. She leaned down, and did it.
USS Oracle:
Mark woke up. The dimly lit room was small, but at least he had it too himself. He folded the sheets of the single bed and began to get changed. Once he was ready he opened the hatch and left. He checked the watch on his wrist, 2:45 am. Mark heard talking from a large room and entered, it was a lab.
Serizawa was stood there, half asleep inspecting a board. A projector was displaying an image of Godzilla, he seemed to be lost in thought looking at it, he was so focused he never noticed Mark walked in.
"You're up early." Mark said as he walked towards the large table in the corner of the room and began to pour himself a coffee.
Serizawa jumped when he noticed Mark was here. He dragged two small office chairs towards Mark and they sat down.
"You sure your plan is going to work?" Mark asked him.
"It would if I had your support." The doctor replied.
"I'm here to do the same thing as you, finding Godzilla."
"I know you blame me."
"I blame it."
"She chose to detonate the destroyer."
Mark quickly regained his energy and stood up, "A destroyer you made!"
Serizawa stayed calm and continued sitting, "I wanted to destroy my research but they took it. You think I knew about the plan? Brody and I were sent on some mission that took us to the otherside of the world."
Mark sat down, the red slowly draining from his cheeks. "If you think Godzilla is so good, why did he try to attack that city?"
Serizawa stared at him for a second, "Why do men start wars? Power? Aggresion? Or to reclaim what was his? The Titans used to exist on this Earth before us."
"So you're saying it's right that he attacks cities?"
"I'm saying we have to try to find a way to co exist with Godzilla."
"What about the others? How many of them are there?"
Serizawa once again paused, this time for longer. "17, that we can identify."
Brody exhaled for a couple of seconds, "You think we can live with 17, or fuck maybe more of those things!"
"I think that if we achieved balance we could!"
"And what is balance?"
"I don't know..." Serizawa said as he looked down towards the table.
"We've got an unknown Titan out there that has the power to destroy a ship like this, possibly more and you want to let them live?"
"What do you think we should do?"
"I...don't know."
Serizawa smiled, "We can't control them, we can't make the balance but they can. If there was one Titan, one who was stronger then the others, one that could control them then maybe we have a chance for peace. Godzilla defended San Fransico not because he was helping us but because the MUTO's were damaging the food chain. If Godzilla did that then, he should do it no-"
Serizawa looked up and saw Mark was redder then before, "Defended San Fransico! HE DEFENDED IT!"
"Mark...I...I didn't mean to-"
"HE DESTROYED A CITY AND WAS GOING TO DESTROY MORE! YOUR ACTING LIKE HE WANTS TO PROTECT THIS EARTH, LIKE HE'S SOME SORT OF KING THAT CAN BRING PEACE BETWEEN MAN AND TITANS! YOU THINK THERE WAS A MONSTER ON THAT ISLAND! BECAUSE I DIDN'T SEE ONE!"
Mark dropped his coffee, stood up and stormed out of the lab, holding back tears until he could reach his room. Serizawa sat there, thinking of the things Mark said, what if he was right? Once again he jumped at a sound, but this time it wasn't a voice. He moved over to the tablet near his computer. He picked it up and inspected the screen, a distress signal, from the Arizona base.