Commander's POV
I gazed out over the command center, watching my officers patrolling each exit and entryway. Only those called to or those obligate with authorization are allowed here, namely my military staff. The technicians type and adjust their screens that connect to the whole colony. They keep all functions of the colony's engines and passengers in check at all times.
I don't work them to death, they take turns every twelve hours with another then get some sleep or whatever they have planned. I never miss sight of the Earth. We are in contest orbit with it alongside the moon only we don't rotate on an axis. Nevertheless, even looking out at our blue marble at this pinnacle, I can't witness the dreadful suffering and horror happening on the surface. But we haven't abandoned them and we never will.
From the time, this epidemic started my soldiers and military scientists formulated a plan that would ultimately save us all. Project: Legacy began months ago in hopes of retrieving DNA and cloning the King of Monsters, although our results have been less than ideal we still hold out for the chance. And I think we're about to caught the break we've needed. While I sit in chair stationed above my men, my Sergeant arrives to deliver important news concerning the project.
"Sergeant Yusuki, what do you have to report?" I ask her. Yusuki has been my Sergeant since we first enlisted right out of school and is my dearest companion. She's a powerful women tall, strong, short black hair that curls inward, and wears the standard military uniform. She sees herself more as follow male soldier then a young woman, which is probably the reason she choose the uniform pants and not the long skirt. She salutes proudly and informs. "Yes sir, our team at the site has found viable samples and will begin extraction immediately." She answers. "The other samples you requested are being brought back as we speak."
Yusuki lowers her arm and continues to notify me on other matters. "Sir I would also like to remind you about Dr. Hakari and his teams' work on the cyborg found in the city." She adds. "Ah yes, I originally gave him a week to finish his repairs." I reply. "He's two weeks overdue. Sergeant, would you please call the Doctor down here?" Yusuki nods and turns to the control panel. She picks up the mouthpiece and talks into the PA system wanting Dr. Hakari to center at once. Three minutes later Dr. Hakari reaches the top of the command center and he seems rather happy. He bows respectfully to us and we bow back. "Doctor you do realize you superseded the prior amount of time I permitted you? Care to explain the postponement?" I ask firmly.
"Yes commander." He responds. "We would've completed the repairs faster but we run into many technical difficulties and I know that's no excuse. However, in the time we used I assure you it was well worth it. Care for a demonstration?" I gesture my head in a yes motion letting him proceed. He strolls to the railing and calls to a large figure lingering in the shadows. "Gigan." Hakari shouts to it and slowly reveals itself to us, it kneels and folds its hooked arms over its knee and lowers its head.
"His circuits rebuilt from the ground up, memory intact but harbor no revenge, and encrypted software that permits only us to use it. He's absolutely loyal to us and no one else." Hakari clarifies. "Give him an order." I'm somewhat surprised by this, he reprogrammed this robotic creature to heed only my warnings. "Um… Gigan." I trip over my own words. His bird like head lifts and in a metallic crackling voice, he replies, "Yes commander?" Dr. Hakari is pleased with himself as am I, "Gigan, continue to assist Dr. Hakari in his work and if there is any new information report to me at once." I finish. "As you wish commander." Gigan says.
"My apologies doctor, I was unaware of the task I pained you with." I express my guilt feelings. "All is forgiven commander, I'd furthermore like to tell you that the other scientists have the required DNA samples and are ready for cellular replication." He concludes. Excitement rushes over me now that I know that the project can officially get underway. "Excellent, I know doctor that you are more than capable of carrying out this duty." Dr. Hakari bows and departs for his laboratory.
Gigan follows but not before, I give him one last order. "Gigan, I want a status report every week on the doctor's progress understood?" I comment lastly. He answers yes again then trails after Hakari. I sit myself back on my chair and dismiss Yusuki from my presence. It's not an hour later when another message comes in, my first officer reads it to me in person. The more he reads the more anguish I feel for the people seeing this dread and dismay every single day.
I grab my face and shake my head not wishing to hear the rest of it. When I ask for the death toll, I'm not shocked just distraught at how many have been lost. The number seven thousand dead and that's from kaiju activity alone no military interference. I mutter to him to simply file all incoming messages on the attacks and not to me. Here above the planet it's peaceful and silent while below its tragedy never ceases.
A month passes when a message is attained from Dr. Hakari labs. I open the intercom on my control panel and speak to Gigan who seems anxious to update me on current situations. "Oh greetings sir, I hope I'm not interrupting you." Gigan says nervously. "Not at all my friend, what do you have to tell me on Dr. Hakari's development?" I inquire. Gigan alters the camera's angle to direct it on the working scientists. A large stone like mass sits on the exanimating table.
The scientists are clothed in white gowns, caps, and masks, one of them holds a drill of sorts. As they push it deeper, sparks and embers fly out and extinguish themselves. "As you can very well see the team is attempting to excavate the crystal and acquire the DNA inside. The doctor said duplicating won't be a problem, but retrieving it is they're hoping not to damage the stone too much in the meantime. The other embryos were placed in cryogenic storage, they're ready to start growing. However Dr. Hakari wanted them to on the same track of development."
"In that case then tell the Dr. Hakari that there's no need to rush, commander out." I say to Gigan. The screen goes blank and apprehensive joy rides through my system, I decide to take a little stroll to throw off my jitters. As I make my leave, Sergeant Yusuki quietly joins me. We say not a word to each other for the first ten minutes, it's only when we reach promenade deck do I speak up. "Need to clear your head?" I stare down at her. She says nothing for several seconds, probably organizing her thoughts.
Then she begins to exchange the terms from her mind. "The air in the command center is stale, I ran out before I suffocated." She replies sternly. "Is that the only reason?" I say pushing the point. She seems almost too stubborn to answer. "I-I'm merely unsure whether or not this will work." She relents. I laugh to myself Yusuki has often been uncertain about things. "Have a little faith, we've come this far there's no reason to stop." I tell her. Underneath her uniform cap, the tension grows on her face until finally it bursts.
"I've always had faith in you! Ever since the beginning of our military career. Don't ever doubt my trust!" She snaps bitterly. "I stood by you in all your choices since day one! And if I didn't like it, I still followed you in whatever you'd go." She sprints ahead in a fury as you might have guessed I went after her. I quickly cut her off and block any exits she can try and find. Frustrated she collapses to her knees there's no sobbing just tears.
Confused and not wanting to make a scene, I drop to a fallen level and consul her. "Yusuki, I've never doubted your loyalty and always have I valued your opinions." I murmur softly wiping her tears. "You are the most important person to me both my closest friend and fellow soldier." These tears are not from present stresses of the war, rather from an unresolved matter. I tilt her face to mine and gaze into her gray eyes, which hold a faded yellow semi-circle.
She rises to her feet and resumes her straight tone, "I'm sorry." She coughs. "Don't be." I whisper to her. "We're only human." That gets us both laughing because there's a great irony to my statement. As I look up and out one of the various windows on the deck, I notice that we're turning away from the sun. Then the colony's automatic interface alerts us, "It is now ten o'clock, all colonists return to home quarters for required curfew thank you." I put my attention back to Yusuki. "It's late, you've had long day you should get some sleep." I suggest.
She salutes me then marches back to her private quarters, I trek to the command center and recline back in the chair. Most of the center is going into transition and technicians switch out for R&R. The room is clear for about five minutes, I try in the moment to rest my eyes. When I sleep I don't have dreams, I used to but those days they've come and gone.
Soon enough I'm woken up by the noise of clicking keyboards and fast chatter. My officer tells me it's after midnight, and that I can retire until noon of the next day. I heave myself out of the chair and drag myself to my chambers. Unlike the other soldiers rooms mine isn't connected to the main chain of rooms. The rooms are often colorless and have only the basics, like a dresser, nightstand, lamp, and a bed.
I slowly settle in on the tender fabric, I move the firm pillow under my head and clock out for the time pending to noon. I press a combination of numbers on the bedside to activate the built in heater. The warmth spreads to the entire mattress in a few minutes, I lay there motionlessly and awake. My thoughts surging in my mind agitatedly, yet in the next second I'm gone in my subconscious. If I do dream tonight, I wish to find the end to this careless war. But it's only a thought, one I intent to make reality.
The following morning I help my chief mechanics in deciding what weapons to fashion for the war campaign. Blueprints are laid out and the debate begins on what to use and how to design it. When the conversation is at its peak the sound of crashing metal and yelling distracts me. "Commander, Commander Sir I have wonderful news for you!" Gigan hollers while smashing tanks and army vehicles in his path. "Clumsy oaf." One of my mechanics snipes.
"What is it Gigan?" I say rather patiently. I step away from my men and consulate with the cyborg aviary. "Dr. Hakari is ready to transfer the embryos in the amniotic tanks! Isn't this wonderful!" He finishes. I hurry to Dr. Hakari lab, Gigan in tow behind me. The doctor leads to what he calls the "arena theater", inside there are five large tanks filled with a bright orange fluid. We watch from the ground as his scientists carefully place the micro-sized life forms into the tanks.
"The fluids contain the growth accelerant and the genetic altercations you asked for were made prior to cellular mitosis." Dr. Hakari comments. "By what time will they be ready?" I ask amazed at his work. "Well, considering that Godzilla was a dinosaur that exposed to high levels of radiation and seeing that lizards and birds share the dinosaur ancestry. Young hatch at times of several weeks to several months and since the DNA is crawling with radiation, I'm not sure how long it'll take. Simply a waiting game." Dr. Hakari describes.
A heavy feeling of gloom washes over me and rub my hand to forehead. Gigan notices this quickly "Sir, are you alright?" He asks concerned. "No, no…We've waited many years I guess we can wait a little longer." I sigh aloud. I turn away and tread off to the command center. "But doctor, isn't there anything we can do in the meantime?" I hear a vexed Gigan whisper to Hakari. "I'm sorry my friend, all things need time and this is no different." Hakari moans. Ah…Time I wish we had more of it.
2 months later
The final touches are being made to the fireproof tanks, once completed they'll be sent to Earth to aid in the war. A convoy will escort at maximum one hundred tanks to Earth. I sit in my chair in the command center set to give the green light to the convoy pilots. "Berlin 08, you are clear for departure from Grando Imperium." I conform to the ship. "Roger that Grando Imperium, Berlin 08 igniting thruster and detaching from hanger port 3." The pilot replies.
The convoy ship rockets toward the Earth at incredible speed, in only minutes they'll land, deliver the tanks to military outposts then return to the colony. Staying for too long may grab the kaiju's attention. Suddenly I'm distracted by an incoming message from the labs. "This is the command center what do you have to report?" I ask. At first, I hear nothing then Gigan's flamboyant and crackling voice. "Commander you must come to the arena at once, you need to see what's transpired!" He screams joyously.
Apparently it's important, I hurry to the labs Yusuki following me. When we arrive, we're both nearly out of breath, "What is so crucial that we had to run down here for?" Yusuki gasps. No need for him to explain I see it perfectly fine. Inside the tanks instead of tiny black two-inch long piece of tissue, I see creatures grown to at least five feet and resemble their adult counter parts. "Remarkable, Hakari truly remarkable." I mumble. I press my hand to the tank and feel the heartbeat of the unborn Godzilla.
I glance at the others to the right of the Godzilla is the unborn Anguirus and Rodan. Anguirus and Rodan spiky features are round and smooth. To the left were some of his greatest adversaries Spacegodzilla and Destroyah. Destroyah was the last thing Godzilla ever saw, originally created from a prehistoric crustacean. He's currently in his juvenile stage, his head is shaped like a bat's wings, large tusks, and six sharp legs.
Now last I checked he had multiples of this stage running around, Hakari happily explains. "Knowing that would occur we decide on the vanishing twin effect. This happens when in cases of multiples, some are too weak to survive and are absorbed by the stronger one." I have to admit the Destroyah juvenile is very frightening and intimidating. The same can be said for the Spacegodzilla infant, as Gigan goes to see he's left with a shock.
"AH! Great Gatsby is that supposed to be happening?" He says terrified by the creature's back crystals. Being Godzilla stellar copy and born from a blackhole the coldness of space harden his appearance resulting in this bizarre crystal eruptions on his body. "Oh and commander I almost forgot we've been filtering the levels of corticosteroids in both their bodies, so we have better control over them." Hakari includes.
"And as you asked they could be awake but we're keeping them on thick sedatives along with mind blockers." When saying this Gigan, Yusuki, and myself are confused by this term. "A mind blocker is a drug that is meant have them unable to remember if they were to become conscious." I nod my head in exultant to Hakari. The wait wasn't as long as I intended. The hardest part is done, now we just wait for them to get a bit older and the real battles can end.